Interesting, never realised such a site existed... It says that i have "global unicast" address type, no 6to4 mapping, and it even tells me my mac address that was used to calculate the v6 address...
The speedtest also indicates that both protocols are roughly the same speed, and my machine defaults to v6 if it can.
The meter maid should be there as a deterrent as much as anything else, they should be encouraging people not to break the law, rather than waiting for them to do it and then pouncing.... But everyone following the law is not in their interest at all.
Well they could act as a deterrent, but it's more in their interest to hide and allow someone to park illegally, wait for them to leave the vehicle and then ticket them.
When must the sign be legible? They have been known to put plastic bags over the signs etc, and remove them later...
Also they could use discretion more, many parking meters only take coins and people don't always have a huge stack of coins with them... I've seen people get ticketed in the couple of minutes it took them to get change.
And i hate prepay parking, the ones where you pay on exit are much fairer - you don't end up spending much more than you needed to because there was a shorter then expected line in the bank, or having to go back to the car and refill the meter (thus losing your place) because the line was longer than expected.
Out of interest, i know someone who runs an ISP which supports IPv6... And just for fun we looked the systems where ADSL connections terminate... Of just under 5000 active connections, 5 of them had IPv6 active - one of them was me, one was his testbox...
It's a sad state of affairs when even geek oriented sites like slashdot don't support IPv6...
No, they won't unless a large number start demanding it...
Even ISPs like A&A who actually support v6, combined with customers running OS which support it, will probably have routers which don't support it rendering it useless...
What needs to happen, is for government to step in... Require that any provision of internet connectivity supports both v4 and v6 on an equal footing, and that all equipment sold does too. Once every site and every user is running on v6 then v4 can gradually be phased out. Look at TV, every TV sold in the last few years has been capable of receiving both analog and digital signals.
Hackers targeted IE because everyone used it, if 4 browsers each have 25% share it becomes a far less appealing target... Hackers will instead target something else that has close to 100% market share such as adobe flash plugin.
It's a bait and switch, they won't do anything right now because they want to get h.264 as widespread as possible. Once people are well and truly locked in, thats when they will screw everyone... Expect them to come after all these thousands of people demanding huge royalty payments. They'd also probably win because their actions although morally questionable are still within the law.
However, bonus schemes in many cases are inherently flawed and encourage people to cut corners or do their job in a known inefficient way in order to maximize the bonus.
Look at traffic wardens who are supposed to be enforcing parking regulations, but are rewarded based on the number of tickets issued. So now it becomes in their interest to maximize the amount of regulation breaking so they can hand out tickets. Some police forces are rewarded based on number of arrests, so its in their interest to make no effort to prevent crime, wait for crimes to be committed and then arrest all the petty criminals who are a much easier target than serious or organized criminals.
I have 2 accounts, one with a 6 digit uin and another with 8 digits - only the shorter one seems to get spammed... Using numbers its trivially easy to spam, simply increment then number to work out addresses... Perhaps they don't bother going all that high.
I believe Gnash is based on reverse engineering, and is not written based off the published spec, you can't violate the terms of the spec if you haven't read it... But that results in slow progress.
Because vmware player has all kinds of arbitrary artificial restrictions...Mainly because they want to force you to buy the expensive version. It's also extremely annoying having to recompile its kernel drivers each time you update the kernel (all the drivers kvm requires are built in to the kernel).
Anything that uses VT-x seems to prevent you using it for anything else, it seems to be how VT works..
I have a few servers running several KVM images each, it seems to work a lot better than vmware especially for non-typical linux images.
Except in some countries there is no such thing as the DMCA, and EULAs are not always binding, especially when you can buy a copy of OSX over the encounter without having to agree to it first. In which case running OSX in this way is "unsupported" rather than "illegal"... If the software requires to check a chip in order to function, then any complete emulation would need to emulate that chip, emulators for all kinds of other systems already do exactly this.
Domestic publishers could insert backdoors too... The government should be demanding source code for review in all cases, and verifying that the devices they get are actually running the source they've seen.
Not just backdoors, i have seen implementations of encryption with serious weaknesses...
I saw a commercial encryption product which used an off the shelf 128-bit AES implementation (and their marketing literature made a big point of saying it used AES), but due to the way it derived a key from your entered passphrase there were only 2^21 possible keys making it trivially easy to brute force.
Another package i saw used OpenSSL to handle encryption, which seems sensible - use a known good set of algorithms... Only they initialized a pseudo-random generator with a static value...
Google's services aren't running on windows, but their office staff are and that's where the point of entry was... Once you start keylogging workstations it doesn't really matter how secure other servers are.
So India is worried about backdoors in products from China, but is not worried about backdoors being present in products from other countries? They should be worried about any proprietary products from any country... China isn't the only country that might want to spy on India.
Flash is a target because it's a monoculture... People could be running any one of several browsers today but they're likely to be running the exact same flash plugin. Lack of diversity makes flash a very appealing target for malware.
The web should be open.. What you use to access it doesn't necessarily need to be open, so long as there are open choices available alongside the closed ones.
The internet runs on TCP/IP, an open protocol, there are many implementations of TCP/IP some of which are open (linux, bsd etc) and some of which are closed. The fact that closed implementations of TCP/IP exist doesn't change the fact that it's an open standard and you are free to use whichever implementation you want.
Apple provide a closed device that allows you to use open protocols... If you don't like it, noone is forcing you to use it, you are free to acquire an open device or a different closed device and that is the beauty of open standards.
Look at it another way, is your TV an open device? Can you hack it and install software on it? I doubt many TV sets allow that, and yet all of those sets will display content fed to it through a multitude of open standards.
The flash spec is available for anyone to read, but it's not open... Last i heard you can use the spec to create a program that outputs flash files, but you cannot use it to make a program that displays them... Thus you're stuck with adobe's crufty plugin...
Contrast this to pdf, which adobe have opened fully... Adobe's pdf viewing apps really really suck, so apple went and wrote their own which is orders of magnitude better. I would never install adobe's reader on any box and cringe when i see someone using it.
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Interesting, never realised such a site existed...
It says that i have "global unicast" address type, no 6to4 mapping, and it even tells me my mac address that was used to calculate the v6 address...
The speedtest also indicates that both protocols are roughly the same speed, and my machine defaults to v6 if it can.
The meter maid should be there as a deterrent as much as anything else, they should be encouraging people not to break the law, rather than waiting for them to do it and then pouncing.... But everyone following the law is not in their interest at all.
Well they could act as a deterrent, but it's more in their interest to hide and allow someone to park illegally, wait for them to leave the vehicle and then ticket them.
When must the sign be legible? They have been known to put plastic bags over the signs etc, and remove them later...
Also they could use discretion more, many parking meters only take coins and people don't always have a huge stack of coins with them... I've seen people get ticketed in the couple of minutes it took them to get change.
And i hate prepay parking, the ones where you pay on exit are much fairer - you don't end up spending much more than you needed to because there was a shorter then expected line in the bank, or having to go back to the car and refill the meter (thus losing your place) because the line was longer than expected.
Out of interest, i know someone who runs an ISP which supports IPv6... And just for fun we looked the systems where ADSL connections terminate... Of just under 5000 active connections, 5 of them had IPv6 active - one of them was me, one was his testbox...
It's a sad state of affairs when even geek oriented sites like slashdot don't support IPv6...
No, they won't unless a large number start demanding it...
Even ISPs like A&A who actually support v6, combined with customers running OS which support it, will probably have routers which don't support it rendering it useless...
What needs to happen, is for government to step in... Require that any provision of internet connectivity supports both v4 and v6 on an equal footing, and that all equipment sold does too. Once every site and every user is running on v6 then v4 can gradually be phased out. Look at TV, every TV sold in the last few years has been capable of receiving both analog and digital signals.
Hackers targeted IE because everyone used it, if 4 browsers each have 25% share it becomes a far less appealing target... Hackers will instead target something else that has close to 100% market share such as adobe flash plugin.
Also google has been quite heavily advertising Chrome...
It was the Mac version of IE (5.x i believe) which had the best standards support of the time, the windows version was always woefully behind...
And it wasn't owned by HP back in those days when it was quite popular...
Also their handhelds didn't run HP software...
It's a bait and switch, they won't do anything right now because they want to get h.264 as widespread as possible.
Once people are well and truly locked in, thats when they will screw everyone... Expect them to come after all these thousands of people demanding huge royalty payments. They'd also probably win because their actions although morally questionable are still within the law.
However, bonus schemes in many cases are inherently flawed and encourage people to cut corners or do their job in a known inefficient way in order to maximize the bonus.
Look at traffic wardens who are supposed to be enforcing parking regulations, but are rewarded based on the number of tickets issued. So now it becomes in their interest to maximize the amount of regulation breaking so they can hand out tickets.
Some police forces are rewarded based on number of arrests, so its in their interest to make no effort to prevent crime, wait for crimes to be committed and then arrest all the petty criminals who are a much easier target than serious or organized criminals.
I have 2 accounts, one with a 6 digit uin and another with 8 digits - only the shorter one seems to get spammed...
Using numbers its trivially easy to spam, simply increment then number to work out addresses... Perhaps they don't bother going all that high.
Vmware player doesn't use VT except under certain circumstances..
Virtualbox can use it, but it's a configurable option...
KVM always uses VT...
I believe Gnash is based on reverse engineering, and is not written based off the published spec, you can't violate the terms of the spec if you haven't read it... But that results in slow progress.
Because vmware player has all kinds of arbitrary artificial restrictions...Mainly because they want to force you to buy the expensive version. It's also extremely annoying having to recompile its kernel drivers each time you update the kernel (all the drivers kvm requires are built in to the kernel).
Anything that uses VT-x seems to prevent you using it for anything else, it seems to be how VT works..
I have a few servers running several KVM images each, it seems to work a lot better than vmware especially for non-typical linux images.
Except in some countries there is no such thing as the DMCA, and EULAs are not always binding, especially when you can buy a copy of OSX over the encounter without having to agree to it first. In which case running OSX in this way is "unsupported" rather than "illegal"...
If the software requires to check a chip in order to function, then any complete emulation would need to emulate that chip, emulators for all kinds of other systems already do exactly this.
Domestic publishers could insert backdoors too... The government should be demanding source code for review in all cases, and verifying that the devices they get are actually running the source they've seen.
Not just backdoors, i have seen implementations of encryption with serious weaknesses...
I saw a commercial encryption product which used an off the shelf 128-bit AES implementation (and their marketing literature made a big point of saying it used AES), but due to the way it derived a key from your entered passphrase there were only 2^21 possible keys making it trivially easy to brute force.
Another package i saw used OpenSSL to handle encryption, which seems sensible - use a known good set of algorithms... Only they initialized a pseudo-random generator with a static value...
Google's services aren't running on windows, but their office staff are and that's where the point of entry was... Once you start keylogging workstations it doesn't really matter how secure other servers are.
However the Chinese also have the source code to Linux, BSD, Solaris etc but they still targeted windows.
So India is worried about backdoors in products from China, but is not worried about backdoors being present in products from other countries?
They should be worried about any proprietary products from any country... China isn't the only country that might want to spy on India.
Flash is a target because it's a monoculture... People could be running any one of several browsers today but they're likely to be running the exact same flash plugin. Lack of diversity makes flash a very appealing target for malware.
Flash doesn't do hardware acceleration on linux either, despite there being apis present on linux for using this...
The web should be open..
What you use to access it doesn't necessarily need to be open, so long as there are open choices available alongside the closed ones.
The internet runs on TCP/IP, an open protocol, there are many implementations of TCP/IP some of which are open (linux, bsd etc) and some of which are closed. The fact that closed implementations of TCP/IP exist doesn't change the fact that it's an open standard and you are free to use whichever implementation you want.
Apple provide a closed device that allows you to use open protocols... If you don't like it, noone is forcing you to use it, you are free to acquire an open device or a different closed device and that is the beauty of open standards.
Look at it another way, is your TV an open device? Can you hack it and install software on it? I doubt many TV sets allow that, and yet all of those sets will display content fed to it through a multitude of open standards.
The flash spec is available for anyone to read, but it's not open... Last i heard you can use the spec to create a program that outputs flash files, but you cannot use it to make a program that displays them... Thus you're stuck with adobe's crufty plugin...
Contrast this to pdf, which adobe have opened fully... Adobe's pdf viewing apps really really suck, so apple went and wrote their own which is orders of magnitude better. I would never install adobe's reader on any box and cringe when i see someone using it.