Tell that to the numerous OC-192's coming into 401 N. Broad (the local telecom hotel) from various different carriers - that none of them would ever in their wildest dreams pull up to Wilkes Barre.
The reason why it sends info about other applications (and third party drivers for that matter) is so that they can attempt to be a single-source vendor of patches if needed.
While the intentions may not be all that honest, it's not a horrible idea. I've noticed numerous times when running Windows Update that it's offered to upgrade my Cisco Wireless LAN software as well as my Epson print drivers. Kind of nifty and not all that bad, if you ask me.
It also does this because if it did encode before storing, you would end up with a crappy recording - double MPEG compression sucks, just with any non-lossless compression algorhythm.
So they'd have to package two TiVo's in one box and it's probably not worth the effort for them to do so when you can already get most metro markets broadcast channels over DirecTV.
Not all ISP's peer for free with other ISP's. In a lot of cases, they have to "settle up" for their peering costs at the end of the month, per megabyte, with their peers. UUNet is big on doing this with their peers and it's where they make 50% of their income...
Cogent and AOL just had a fallout about this - Cogent felt that they should have free peering with AOL but AOL felt Cogent should pay for usage because most of the traffic going to AOL was for Cogent customers and not vice versa.
So yes, the short answer is that upstream ISP's do pay per Mb in a good amount of instances if they aren't a huge transit hub. Obviously some ISP's aren't subject to this and just charge by the MB figuring the more traffic you're getting, the more money you're making from their connection.
Except that only affected you. Your money. Your wallet. Your identity, by chance. And chances are there's a lot more information in these files than what's in your wallet.
That's right. That bastard mugger affected your wallet, not the wallets of 500,000 other people.
Get real. People and corporations need to be held accountable for their actions - otherwise why would something like HIPAA exist in the first place? Yes, the people who stole it are deplorable and need to be punished - but the people who allowed it to be stolen so carelessly hold accountability, too.
That wasn't Kroger's idea. That was the credit card issuing banks' idea, starting to be instituted in a wider arena.
If you live in a state that has Pay At The Pump gasoline, you know what I'm talking about - no signature needed, just swipe the card. Nowadays with instant verification, the fact that you have the physical card is generally enough to verify that you should be using that card. Signatures are too easy to fake for someone who *wants* to, and again, do you trust that "minimum-wage earning kid" to verify the signature exactly? No.
Signatures were the only way a small retailer could verify a credit card transaction ~10-15 years ago without actually calling the issuing bank. That's why you don't see imprinters anymore.
That's why a lot of stores (Home Depot and Lowes come to mind) don't even bother checking the signature panel on your card anymore - and let you swipe it yourself. Biometrics (fingerprints) are the next logical step in combating fraud.
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You would have to use a card by Winnov or OptiBase - then you could get your MPEG encoding done for you.
You don't need mass storage. You need a reliable, *bootable* flash memory solution, then. RAID5 on magnetic media is obviously impractical management wise if you have hundreds of these.
Because Cisco is very California-centric, and the fact is that when it comes to their switching and routing gear, there is very little "hardware" that you can bring in to troubleshoot that's little more than commodity software loaded onto a commodity PC.
The best thing they had was the input of (hopefully) knowledgeable Cisco engineers. God knows if they relied on Cisco TAC Level 1 support they'd still be down today.
A) A campus could afford to do Layer 3 at every closet switch
or
B) Live without Layer 2 redundancy back to the Layer 3 core.
I'm sure in a healthcare environment, neither is an option. The first is too expensive (unless you buy cheap, and hence unreliable equipment) and the second is too risky.
Spanning tree didn't cause the problem here. Mis management of spanning tree sounds like it caused the problem.
Except that that user, by license via the ISP, has the right to use the ISP's resources to download that movie (MPAA concerns aside)... or, his favorite Linux distro, or whatever it may be.
Conversely, the spammer has no right to use the destination user's ISP network for something against their terms of service if they have explicitly stated it's not allowed (and even moreso now that there are laws protecting this in some states/countries).
I just read the Ask Slashdot you referred to at -1 (I missed it the first time around...) and don't find any "racist" comments whatsoever.
All I see is a few posts from people griping about H1B Visa workers. While you may have assumed (incorrectly) that all H1B Visa holders come from India (I'm presuming that's why you posted the comment in this story), plenty come from countries such as England, Russia and the Asia-Pac Rim. No one specifically mentioned any race, creed, or religion in any demeaning term.
People are obviously upset about the proliferation of H1B workers in America. It wouldn't have made it to Congress and the mainstream media if there wasn't widespread sentiment about it.
There's a difference between racism and criticism, and I think you need to be a little less defensive unless you feel guilty of something yourself.
The sad thing is that you WILL pay for it, whether you choose to or not..
Do you think $500billion+ goes unnoticed in our economy? Thanks to the bankruptcies of Global Crossing and WorldCom, at the least, you'll be paying more day to day for your telecomm services - from cellphones to internet access to dialup lines... That money came from somewhere, and went somewhere.
I looked at what you linked to, and you're partially correct - however there are many more references to MS "restructuring" and "disbanding" the UltimateTV unit than you lead on to.
There was this in DotCom Scoop, pointing to an article in the SJ Mercury. Unfortunately the article has been archived and they charge to see archives, but the beginning states: "Source: KRISTI HEIM, Mercury News Seattle Bureau Microsoft plans to cut more than 150 positions in a major restructuring of its troubled television business based in Mountain View, sources close to the company said Monday.The reorganization will eliminate Microsoft's UltimateTV division in Silicon Valley, which has about 500 employees. About two-thirds of those employees will be consolidated automatically into other Microsoft groups. The remaining 168 employees will be given three months to find other jobs within Microsoft or face"
That certainly sounds like they're doing away with it to me. As well, a search on buy.com yielded no results for UltimateTV and amazon.com has three matches that all read "This item is not stocked or has been discontinued.". Tweeter.com stocks no UltimateTV devices, yet they were listed along with the Tivo receivers last year during X-mas.
So, before you cast stones, check your facts. It's obvious that MS has canned the current Ultimate TV platform as we know it.
The last press release on the Ultimate TV site is from Jan 7, 2002... They knew they were in for it when DirecTV officially partnered with Tivo because satellite was their biggest market.
Maybe a little bit more research was warranted other than going to the UltimateTV.com website before countering - if we all believed what manufacturers had on their websites, we'd all have 100% Herbal Viagra + Huge penises.
Part of the reason why this isn't exactly true is because Microsoft announced it is completely dropping UltimateTV now that TiVo has partnered with DirecTV officially (and dropped the DirecTiVo monthly price to $4.99, which MS can't compete with)
Paul may piss off the people working on the X-Box, but he's not going to affect UltimateTV one iota.
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He just phrased it a little off.
The way it works is for every $100 a customer deposits, SOMEONE walks away with $100. ie - you may walk away with $5, but someone who bet $5 may walk away with $105.
FYI, it's closer to $.98 than $1.00, but it depends on the casino and jurisdiction.
It doesn't matter anyways...
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When the change was announced, they noted specifically that the current J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET will stay in existance with it's current IP (just no direct DNS entry) and the new one has been moved to a different IP block for DoS protection... The current one will exist for awhile to come.
I think I remember what you're thinking of, only it's a bit different... Back then, most mobile carriers only had local #'s in a couple of exchanges/rate centers per area code - instead of having local #'s (or in the case of a lot of telcos in larger cities, "metro" #'s), most calls to cellphones were local toll calls - hence both people got nailed pretty good.
(local toll being more expensive generally than LD, though back then it was a little different)
Unfortunately, right now, thanks to the FCC they just don't have the bandwidth to do it. Hopefully if someone shows it's a viable business model the FCC will loosen up - but as of right now they're squeezing every last drop of bandwidth out of their spectrum to provide what they are now - there'd be no way for them to add more "free" channels...
Though, maybe they could select a few of the existing and make it like "basic" and "premium" cable... $3/month gets you channels with commercials, $12 gets you Skinemax.:-)
I'm sorry, I may have mis-phrased what I said above. I meant that that's what we get from XM - exposure to new stuff - and that FM is commercial laden crap (Britney, NSync) that gives us nothing new or interesting..
True, but 200,000 customers = $2,000,000 a month in revenue + the additional ad revenue from the channels that have advertisements (and the ability to target your advertising to a niche market is worth a lot more on print/radio/tv advertisements) - I would be suprised if a channel like Z-100 in NYC makes much more than that a month.
But you're forgetting about the exposure to new music factor... Sure, we can all program what we like to listen to in the car - burn some CD's and we're set...
But, if we stop listening to FM radio because everything on there is commercial-laden crap, then the terrorists have already won! er, then we're not as exposed to new and upcoming music (XM has a *lot* of indie stuff, as well as stuff that'll never get signed) - I've never heard so much Wilco in one place.
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I'm guessing you're from the UK...
:-)
In the US cell phone theft isn't a big problem at all due to the fact that our phones don't use SIMs and therefore are tied to a specific network.
Steal a phone, and the carrier will never activate it again - making it pretty much useless (aside from reselling the battery).
Not saying the technology is better, it just isn't a problem here
Tell that to the numerous OC-192's coming into 401 N. Broad (the local telecom hotel) from various different carriers - that none of them would ever in their wildest dreams pull up to Wilkes Barre.
Smoking crack, I tell ya'.
The reason why it sends info about other applications (and third party drivers for that matter) is so that they can attempt to be a single-source vendor of patches if needed.
While the intentions may not be all that honest, it's not a horrible idea. I've noticed numerous times when running Windows Update that it's offered to upgrade my Cisco Wireless LAN software as well as my Epson print drivers. Kind of nifty and not all that bad, if you ask me.
Well, of course, so long as they have Old Glory Robot Insurance . Endorsed by Sam Waterston!
It also does this because if it did encode before storing, you would end up with a crappy recording - double MPEG compression sucks, just with any non-lossless compression algorhythm.
So they'd have to package two TiVo's in one box and it's probably not worth the effort for them to do so when you can already get most metro markets broadcast channels over DirecTV.
Not all ISP's peer for free with other ISP's. In a lot of cases, they have to "settle up" for their peering costs at the end of the month, per megabyte, with their peers. UUNet is big on doing this with their peers and it's where they make 50% of their income...
Cogent and AOL just had a fallout about this - Cogent felt that they should have free peering with AOL but AOL felt Cogent should pay for usage because most of the traffic going to AOL was for Cogent customers and not vice versa.
(see 'Peering' Dispute With AOL Slows Cogent Customer Access and Paid Peering )
So yes, the short answer is that upstream ISP's do pay per Mb in a good amount of instances if they aren't a huge transit hub. Obviously some ISP's aren't subject to this and just charge by the MB figuring the more traffic you're getting, the more money you're making from their connection.
Except that only affected you. Your money. Your wallet. Your identity, by chance. And chances are there's a lot more information in these files than what's in your wallet.
That's right. That bastard mugger affected your wallet, not the wallets of 500,000 other people.
Get real. People and corporations need to be held accountable for their actions - otherwise why would something like HIPAA exist in the first place? Yes, the people who stole it are deplorable and need to be punished - but the people who allowed it to be stolen so carelessly hold accountability, too.
That wasn't Kroger's idea. That was the credit card issuing banks' idea, starting to be instituted in a wider arena.
If you live in a state that has Pay At The Pump gasoline, you know what I'm talking about - no signature needed, just swipe the card. Nowadays with instant verification, the fact that you have the physical card is generally enough to verify that you should be using that card. Signatures are too easy to fake for someone who *wants* to, and again, do you trust that "minimum-wage earning kid" to verify the signature exactly? No.
Signatures were the only way a small retailer could verify a credit card transaction ~10-15 years ago without actually calling the issuing bank. That's why you don't see imprinters anymore.
That's why a lot of stores (Home Depot and Lowes come to mind) don't even bother checking the signature panel on your card anymore - and let you swipe it yourself. Biometrics (fingerprints) are the next logical step in combating fraud.
You would have to use a card by Winnov or OptiBase - then you could get your MPEG encoding done for you.
You'd pay about $400 for the card alone, though.
You don't need mass storage. You need a reliable, *bootable* flash memory solution, then. RAID5 on magnetic media is obviously impractical management wise if you have hundreds of these.
Know of any?
Because Cisco is very California-centric, and the fact is that when it comes to their switching and routing gear, there is very little "hardware" that you can bring in to troubleshoot that's little more than commodity software loaded onto a commodity PC.
The best thing they had was the input of (hopefully) knowledgeable Cisco engineers. God knows if they relied on Cisco TAC Level 1 support they'd still be down today.
This would imply that either:
A) A campus could afford to do Layer 3 at every closet switch
or
B) Live without Layer 2 redundancy back to the Layer 3 core.
I'm sure in a healthcare environment, neither is an option. The first is too expensive (unless you buy cheap, and hence unreliable equipment) and the second is too risky.
Spanning tree didn't cause the problem here. Mis management of spanning tree sounds like it caused the problem.
Spanning tree is our friend, when used properly.
Except that that user, by license via the ISP, has the right to use the ISP's resources to download that movie (MPAA concerns aside)... or, his favorite Linux distro, or whatever it may be.
Conversely, the spammer has no right to use the destination user's ISP network for something against their terms of service if they have explicitly stated it's not allowed (and even moreso now that there are laws protecting this in some states/countries).
Ok, I'll bite.
I just read the Ask Slashdot you referred to at -1 (I missed it the first time around...) and don't find any "racist" comments whatsoever.
All I see is a few posts from people griping about H1B Visa workers. While you may have assumed (incorrectly) that all H1B Visa holders come from India (I'm presuming that's why you posted the comment in this story), plenty come from countries such as England, Russia and the Asia-Pac Rim. No one specifically mentioned any race, creed, or religion in any demeaning term.
People are obviously upset about the proliferation of H1B workers in America. It wouldn't have made it to Congress and the mainstream media if there wasn't widespread sentiment about it.
There's a difference between racism and criticism, and I think you need to be a little less defensive unless you feel guilty of something yourself.
The sad thing is that you WILL pay for it, whether you choose to or not..
Do you think $500billion+ goes unnoticed in our economy? Thanks to the bankruptcies of Global Crossing and WorldCom, at the least, you'll be paying more day to day for your telecomm services - from cellphones to internet access to dialup lines... That money came from somewhere, and went somewhere.
I looked at what you linked to, and you're partially correct - however there are many more references to MS "restructuring" and "disbanding" the UltimateTV unit than you lead on to.
There was this in DotCom Scoop, pointing to an article in the SJ Mercury. Unfortunately the article has been archived and they charge to see archives, but the beginning states:
"Source: KRISTI HEIM, Mercury News Seattle Bureau
Microsoft plans to cut more than 150 positions in a major restructuring of its troubled television business based in Mountain View, sources close to the company said Monday.The reorganization will eliminate Microsoft's UltimateTV division in Silicon Valley, which has about 500 employees. About two-thirds of those employees will be consolidated automatically into other Microsoft groups. The remaining 168 employees will be given three months to find other jobs within Microsoft or face"
That certainly sounds like they're doing away with it to me. As well, a search on buy.com yielded no results for UltimateTV and amazon.com has three matches that all read "This item is not stocked or has been discontinued.". Tweeter.com stocks no UltimateTV devices, yet they were listed along with the Tivo receivers last year during X-mas.
So, before you cast stones, check your facts. It's obvious that MS has canned the current Ultimate TV platform as we know it.
The last press release on the Ultimate TV site is from Jan 7, 2002... They knew they were in for it when DirecTV officially partnered with Tivo because satellite was their biggest market.
Maybe a little bit more research was warranted other than going to the UltimateTV.com website before countering - if we all believed what manufacturers had on their websites, we'd all have 100% Herbal Viagra + Huge penises.
Part of the reason why this isn't exactly true is because Microsoft announced it is completely dropping UltimateTV now that TiVo has partnered with DirecTV officially (and dropped the DirecTiVo monthly price to $4.99, which MS can't compete with)
Paul may piss off the people working on the X-Box, but he's not going to affect UltimateTV one iota.
He just phrased it a little off.
The way it works is for every $100 a customer deposits, SOMEONE walks away with $100. ie - you may walk away with $5, but someone who bet $5 may walk away with $105.
FYI, it's closer to $.98 than $1.00, but it depends on the casino and jurisdiction.
When the change was announced, they noted specifically that the current J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET will stay in existance with it's current IP (just no direct DNS entry) and the new one has been moved to a different IP block for DoS protection... The current one will exist for awhile to come.
This isn't really news...
I think I remember what you're thinking of, only it's a bit different...
Back then, most mobile carriers only had local #'s in a couple of exchanges/rate centers per area code - instead of having local #'s (or in the case of a lot of telcos in larger cities, "metro" #'s), most calls to cellphones were local toll calls - hence both people got nailed pretty good.
(local toll being more expensive generally than LD, though back then it was a little different)
Unfortunately, right now, thanks to the FCC they just don't have the bandwidth to do it. Hopefully if someone shows it's a viable business model the FCC will loosen up - but as of right now they're squeezing every last drop of bandwidth out of their spectrum to provide what they are now - there'd be no way for them to add more "free" channels...
:-)
Though, maybe they could select a few of the existing and make it like "basic" and "premium" cable... $3/month gets you channels with commercials, $12 gets you Skinemax.
I'm sorry, I may have mis-phrased what I said above. I meant that that's what we get from XM - exposure to new stuff - and that FM is commercial laden crap (Britney, NSync) that gives us nothing new or interesting..
My bad.
True, but 200,000 customers = $2,000,000 a month in revenue + the additional ad revenue from the channels that have advertisements (and the ability to target your advertising to a niche market is worth a lot more on print/radio/tv advertisements) - I would be suprised if a channel like Z-100 in NYC makes much more than that a month.
But you're forgetting about the exposure to new music factor... Sure, we can all program what we like to listen to in the car - burn some CD's and we're set...
But, if we stop listening to FM radio because everything on there is commercial-laden crap, then the terrorists have already won! er, then we're not as exposed to new and upcoming music (XM has a *lot* of indie stuff, as well as stuff that'll never get signed) - I've never heard so much Wilco in one place.
I don't know, but if I were you I'd check with the mailman. :-)