Wait... You claim you can find an insurance policy that cover your files or server so completely that they would need to invoke the "act of war" clause to deny you coverage for damages caused by hackers ?
I'm curious to see who would actually offer that kind of coverage.
I mean, coverage against flood or fire I can believe, but coverage against hacked password,software security holes and DDoS ???
And even though, if you could have as much fun, and be equally happy, but make more money, what would you pick ?
I'll take rich and happy over poor and happy any day.
Now obviously, "fun" and "projected happiness level" is hard to evaluate... So I would assume that most people also base their decision on money.
I'm not talking about somebody going to work for "Evil-Empire-Co" instead of "Do-No-Evil-Co" for an extra 5K. But maybe people trying their luck with some other company where they see they "project happiness level" to be about the same.
If you read the disciplinary notice linked in the article, you'll see that the Acceptable Use Policy of this particular school indeed forbid Unsolicited, Bulk emailing (which the school calls "spam").
Per the school policy, what she did was forbidden. Her defense is not about her interpretation of the policy (she knows what she did is a violation of the policy), but about the fact that this policy should be illegal.
How much the Networks, Cable News Channels and Newspapers are making on ads revenues as a result of government actions ?
Geez, how much did they make thanks to the iraq war news coverage ?
Why should we care if YouTube if making a buck out of a *Service* they are rendering to you as a citizen (making it easy to find information about what your governement is doing) and as a taxpayer (making it easy and cheap for the government to publish) ?
And Cogent knew the impact... so clearly Sprint was stupid, and no matter how reassuring their CEO appears in their commercial, they didnt know how to take care of their customers.
I assume Cogent knew exactly the impact on their customers, which where undoubtedly big on the server side... apparently though, it was worth the risk for them. They were ready for it too, with press release etc...
And now the result is that everybody get better service. And lets face it, its going to cost sprint much more in lost customers than it would have cost them to operate those 10 peering points.
So Cogent might be a bully, but what the heck, I'm just happy if the Sprint customer are getting their own tubes and not clogging everybody else's when connecting to youtube...
So basically, you want to have a black-box within the set top box that does the following: - store some keys - enforce DRM rules (eg: for online renting) (That would probably include to handle a secure communication channel to a server) - decrypt the content - decode content - output the content through some protected video interface such as HDMI/HDCP (if the content was protected)
Guess whats inside the netflix box: a chip that can do all that, by running an OS, called Linux.
So, whats left to do outside the black box, in the open source part of the box ? Not much. Drivers to handle network connection, storage device and User Interface. When you already have a CPU running linux to do all the black box stuff, you dont want to add cost by adding another CPU when you have one that can do that and is already running linux....
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True,
But still the Management Company does not own anything, unlike Comcast.
So, it would be much easier for another Management Company to compete.
The point is that the homeowners (as a whole) would have more choice -- at least for the Management Company.
But off course, individually, the homeowner will loose some his individual choice and be subject to his neighbors wishes.
And, most importantly it will remain to be seen if your "tails" will be able to connect to more than one ISP. If not then I doubt there will be any benefits.
You are at a pedestrian crossing, your light is green, the timer say you still have 30 seconds to cross and it would only take you 5. You can hear and can see a sports car driving really fast your way, swerving around badly as if the driver is drunk, showing no signs its going to stop. You decide to cross anyway, because it will be his fault. (And you will be dead).
Less obvious form of this are actually pretty common in driving. For example, you are driving on the right lane. Some guy is trying to merge from the on-ramp, he is kind of slow, obviously not very good at merging, and it looks like he is going to run out of space and collide into you unless he brakes really hard at the last minute, go off road, or you let him go. Legally, you dont have to let him go or do anything to help him. Legally if he collides with you its 100% his fault, not yours. So some of you are going to risk the accident rather than slow down to let the guy go.
Those of you who do are stupid. And I will say I've been known to be stupid from time to time.
It seems like Sprint connects a lot of Consumers, and that Cogent connect a lots of Businesses (aka Content Providers).
So, obviously, the traffic is going to flow mostly from Contents to Eyeballs.
Now, the Consumers pay a lot of money (to Sprint)just to get Content "in" their computers, and the Businesses pay a lot (to Cogent) to get their Content "out" to consumers.
So when Cogent and Sprint connect, who pays for what ? Should Cogent pay for data "out" to Sprint? Or should Sprint for data "in" from Cogent ?
Now, Consumers usually pay flat-rate for unlimited content, but Content Providers pay by the amount of data they send. There is probably a good reason that it has become this way. So in a sense, it would seem logical that Cogent pay as volume increase.
I see your point: How come the (dumb) Americans cannot solve those issues that us (smart) Europeans do not seem to have.
I'm not American, but I'm still going to try and explain it to you and the rest of the class:
In America, you are also automatically eligible to vote when you turn 18, just like in your country. Sure you need to get your name on a list of voter, but so do people in your country. Its not automatic if you have to register with your municipality in the first place.
In the US state where I live, you keep receiving your voting packet every year without needing to register again. You only need to register when you move or change your name. Just like in your country.
I have to pay taxes in two US counties, yet I am not eligible to vote in any of those because I'm not a citizen (or maybe because I am a convicted felon). So being taxed and eligible to vote are not related. Maybe in your country its different and they can use one registration for multiple purposes but not in the US.
The thing is in the US, people dont like to be "registered" by the various governments (Federal, State or Local). They dont even have a National ID. So you can forget about any database that would be used as cross purpose.
Cases of people being registered to vote in two places, or dead people voting are still known to happen in my Western European Country.
Maybe now you can explain to all of us how your country deals with purging the voters rolls when people move, people die or people become ineligible for various reasons ? Or how homeless people get their voting ticket ?
And then for next week, you might want to look at the difference between voter fraud and registration fraud, and share your finding with the rest of the class.
Why bother and waste time with a Standard that has proven that it is not usable ?
OpenID is a Standard, it maybe the only Standard, but its certainly not The standard, in the sense that The standard is what people use.
I have more OpenIds that sites to use them on. I never know how to use them. Its too complicated, urls are too long, or interfaces or confusing and varied. The only time I used it was when I saw the button "login with yahoo!".
And actually, Blogger, a Google service, accept OpenId logins for comments. I'm not sure what other major services actually accept OpenId logins ? Not Slashdot I think...
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I think you mean to say "SOA stands for....".
whether it "means" anything is still an open question i think...
Wait...
You claim you can find an insurance policy that cover your files or server so completely that they would need to invoke the "act of war" clause to deny you coverage for damages caused by hackers ?
I'm curious to see who would actually offer that kind of coverage.
I mean, coverage against flood or fire I can believe, but coverage against hacked password,software security holes and DDoS ???
Got to love the way they announce that... Announce both the bug and the fix at the same time so nobody freak-out.
What's the CERT Advisory number for the Sick Steve Bug ?
So, he is good at gaming the "pagerank" of the scientific community.
Maybe we should let Google recalculate the Impact Factor and come up with a better formula.
Funnily enough, you are probably a rarity...
And even though, if you could have as much fun, and be equally happy, but make more money, what would you pick ?
I'll take rich and happy over poor and happy any day.
Now obviously, "fun" and "projected happiness level" is hard to evaluate... So I would assume that most people also base their decision on money.
I'm not talking about somebody going to work for "Evil-Empire-Co" instead of "Do-No-Evil-Co" for an extra 5K. But maybe people trying their luck with some other company where they see they "project happiness level" to be about the same.
Do you think that knowing the truth will make you less depressed ? or more ?
As long as we just act like sheep, we will all be fine. Let the wolves fight it between them and kill each other...
The thing is many google employees/job candidates probably factor in the expected Christmas bonus when deciding to work for Google.
Google's salaries are reportedly lower than most competitors, but they make the difference with bonuses and other perks.
Now if the bonus disappear, its going to be easier for googlers to do a fair comparaison...
More likely its just some very good editing by the production team.
Thats why I have a "German" car .... full of Mexican made parts!
Damn you Volkswagen!
WARNING: Wireless Power does not protect against STDs.
(I see why those stupid warning labels are required now)
If you read the disciplinary notice linked in the article, you'll see that the Acceptable Use Policy of this particular school indeed forbid Unsolicited, Bulk emailing (which the school calls "spam").
Per the school policy, what she did was forbidden.
Her defense is not about her interpretation of the policy (she knows what she did is a violation of the policy), but about the fact that this policy should be illegal.
That would be Bruce Schneier not Chuck.
Chuck has another Fist under his beard.
Here are the Chuck Norris Facts: http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
And here are the Bruce Schneier Facts: http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/
Please dont get confused people!
And you think Virtualization (of any kind, hardware or software) comes for free ?
As far as the DRM part being easy... you obviously have no idea what kind of crap they put in DRM these days...
How much the Networks, Cable News Channels and Newspapers are making on ads revenues as a result of government actions ?
Geez, how much did they make thanks to the iraq war news coverage ?
Why should we care if YouTube if making a buck out of a *Service* they are rendering to you as a citizen (making it easy to find information about what your governement is doing) and as a taxpayer (making it easy and cheap for the government to publish) ?
And Cogent knew the impact... so clearly Sprint was stupid, and no matter how reassuring their CEO appears in their commercial, they didnt know how to take care of their customers.
I assume Cogent knew exactly the impact on their customers, which where undoubtedly big on the server side... apparently though, it was worth the risk for them. They were ready for it too, with press release etc...
And now the result is that everybody get better service. And lets face it, its going to cost sprint much more in lost customers than it would have cost them to operate those 10 peering points.
So Cogent might be a bully, but what the heck, I'm just happy if the Sprint customer are getting their own tubes and not clogging everybody else's when connecting to youtube...
I dont think it would be logical at all.
First, It would mean that each workload would require a different filesystem design.
Then it would also mean that you dont need synthetic benchmarks at all, just a run the expected workload as your "benchmark".
So basically, you want to have a black-box within the set top box that does the following:
- store some keys
- enforce DRM rules (eg: for online renting) (That would probably include to handle a secure communication channel to a server)
- decrypt the content
- decode content
- output the content through some protected video interface such as HDMI/HDCP (if the content was protected)
Guess whats inside the netflix box: a chip that can do all that, by running an OS, called Linux.
So, whats left to do outside the black box, in the open source part of the box ? Not much. Drivers to handle network connection, storage device and User Interface. When you already have a CPU running linux to do all the black box stuff, you dont want to add cost by adding another CPU when you have one that can do that and is already running linux....
True,
But still the Management Company does not own anything, unlike Comcast.
So, it would be much easier for another Management Company to compete.
The point is that the homeowners (as a whole) would have more choice -- at least for the Management Company.
But off course, individually, the homeowner will loose some his individual choice and be subject to his neighbors wishes.
And, most importantly it will remain to be seen if your "tails" will be able to connect to more than one ISP. If not then I doubt there will be any benefits.
Wrong analogy: The drivers are not criminal.
A better analogy:
You are at a pedestrian crossing, your light is green, the timer say you still have 30 seconds to cross and it would only take you 5.
You can hear and can see a sports car driving really fast your way, swerving around badly as if the driver is drunk, showing no signs its going to stop.
You decide to cross anyway, because it will be his fault. (And you will be dead).
Less obvious form of this are actually pretty common in driving.
For example, you are driving on the right lane. Some guy is trying to merge from the on-ramp, he is kind of slow, obviously not very good at merging, and it looks like he is going to run out of space and collide into you unless he brakes really hard at the last minute, go off road, or you let him go. Legally, you dont have to let him go or do anything to help him. Legally if he collides with you its 100% his fault, not yours. So some of you are going to risk the accident rather than slow down to let the guy go.
Those of you who do are stupid. And I will say I've been known to be stupid from time to time.
Wiki.gov thats what we really need...!
Imagine if the government could be as open as Wikipedia !
Imagine if the Congress put there bills on a Wiki, and the People! could directly edit and correct them!
Imagine... a beowulf cluster of Obamas....!
And the government would run Linux!
And the presidents speech would be available in ogg Vorbis or Theora codecs!
And CmdrTaco would be named the United States CTO
And CowboyNeal would be named head Sheriff of the CyberSpace!
Then we could use the power of Slashdot to bring down all the servers of our enemies!
Just Imagine!! Yes We Can!!
Is he arguing for OpenGL on X instead ?
Its just seem like those guys cant decide who should be on top...
It seems like Sprint connects a lot of Consumers, and that Cogent connect a lots of Businesses (aka Content Providers).
So, obviously, the traffic is going to flow mostly from Contents to Eyeballs.
Now, the Consumers pay a lot of money (to Sprint)just to get Content "in" their computers, and the Businesses pay a lot (to Cogent) to get their Content "out" to consumers.
So when Cogent and Sprint connect, who pays for what ? Should Cogent pay for data "out" to Sprint? Or should Sprint for data "in" from Cogent ?
Now, Consumers usually pay flat-rate for unlimited content, but Content Providers pay by the amount of data they send. There is probably a good reason that it has become this way. So in a sense, it would seem logical that Cogent pay as volume increase.
I see your point: How come the (dumb) Americans cannot solve those issues that us (smart) Europeans do not seem to have.
I'm not American, but I'm still going to try and explain it to you and the rest of the class:
In America, you are also automatically eligible to vote when you turn 18, just like in your country.
Sure you need to get your name on a list of voter, but so do people in your country.
Its not automatic if you have to register with your municipality in the first place.
In the US state where I live, you keep receiving your voting packet every year without needing to register again. You only need to register when you move or change your name. Just like in your country.
I have to pay taxes in two US counties, yet I am not eligible to vote in any of those because I'm not a citizen (or maybe because I am a convicted felon). So being taxed and eligible to vote are not related. Maybe in your country its different and they can use one registration for multiple purposes but not in the US.
The thing is in the US, people dont like to be "registered" by the various governments (Federal, State or Local). They dont even have a National ID. So you can forget about any database that would be used as cross purpose.
Cases of people being registered to vote in two places, or dead people voting are still known to happen in my Western European Country.
Maybe now you can explain to all of us how your country deals with purging the voters rolls when people move, people die or people become ineligible for various reasons ? Or how homeless people get their voting ticket ?
And then for next week, you might want to look at the difference between voter fraud and registration fraud, and share your finding with the rest of the class.
Bruce Facts:
Bruce has done the impossible. Twice.
Why bother and waste time with a Standard that has proven that it is not usable ?
OpenID is a Standard, it maybe the only Standard, but its certainly not The standard, in the sense that The standard is what people use.
I have more OpenIds that sites to use them on. I never know how to use them. Its too complicated, urls are too long, or interfaces or confusing and varied. The only time I used it was when I saw the button "login with yahoo!".
And actually, Blogger, a Google service, accept OpenId logins for comments. I'm not sure what other major services actually accept OpenId logins ?
Not Slashdot I think...