I wonder if that track really is in the public domain, there's a good chance that the recording on iTunes and Amazon has been digitally remastered. I know I was listening to Science Friday some time ago and they had a guy on who was a world class scientist in signal analysis and some label had approached him to come up with a way to recover the only know live (wire) recordings of Woody Guthrie. While that performance would not be out of copyright is the US anyways (damn Disney) the technical and creative masterpiece of recovering and remastering it probably deserves some coverage as a creative work in and of itself. You can read a bit about it here or listen to the interview here.
Tell me, what do YOU think will need more than 444 Mb/s? I have a datacenter with 1,000 users and our peak bandwidth in and out of the server vlan for the last year was 547/401, this on a network with 10Gb pipes in the core. The fact is the proposed alternative is only 100Mbps FTTH so cable is more than keeping up so long as node size is controlled (typical greenfield installs in the US have node sizes in the dozens of users).
Uh Euro DOCSIS 3 is either 222/122 or 444/122 depending on the number of channels, so significantly faster than 100Mb. As long as node sizes are kept reasonable DOCSIS 3 really is fast enough for just about all home applications I can think of for the next 5 or so years and with future extensions to allow for more channel bonding it is projected to reach gigabit speeds.
Hell even a lot of high end products didn't do things correctly until patches were released in response to the DNS issue. We run one of the big 3 at work and ours did not do port randomization correctly so we forwarded all requests to a properly patched 3rd party without an affected firewall because AT&T at the time also did not have the correct solution in place. We are going to go to a direct resolver configuration when we upgrade our firewalls later this year which will give us a slight increase in performance but due to having a working solution it hasn't been a priority. Have you verified that your version of IOS does port randomization correctly by testing your resolver? The easiest way to test correctly is documented here.
Are you behind a consumer grade firewall appliance ala Netgear or Linksys? If you are then you are almost 100% guaranteed to be more at risk running your own resolved than you are forwarding to a decent ISP run setup. The reason is that none of the consumer grade firewalls support source port randomization meaning you are very vulnerable to DNS cache poising attacks.
The way to fix it would be egress filtering where all consumer class lines were barred from directly querying the root servers. Would suck greatly for anyone who wanted or needed to run their own resolver, and would break the original end to end design of the internet, but it would be the most likely response to the threat. The ISP's would love it too since it would allow them to have a captive audience for their ad laden DNS servers.
Hmm, since the launch was pre-announced it would seem that the possibility of a shootdown are far from zero. I imagine this was potentially the perfect demo platform for the US ABM COIL laser =)
Which just makes it more insignificant, ~600 cubic miles for the Wilkins ice shelf vs 329 million cubic miles for the oceans. The west antarctic ice shelf on the other hand is 700K cubic miles which is kind of significant.
Hahahaha, yeah like the designers of modern turbines haven't designed them to withstand the occasional storm, not. GE's least sturdy models the 1.5xle or 2.3 are rated for a Ve50 of 52.5 m/s (117.5 mph). They even have the 1.5se which is rate to 70m/s (156.5 mph) which is a mid strength EF3 tornado or a Category 5 hurricane.
No, I live in the midwest. My estimate wasn't far off as I said below, 50% of the US population lives in coastal counties, if you expand that out to a 100 mile radius you probably capture a further 10-25% of the population. I've visited half of the states in our great union and through no accident most people live near water, the oceans and Great Lakes are of course large navigable waterways. I left out the Mississippi and a few other large rivers, but I correctly figured they weren't much more than 20-25% of the population.
Dude, GSM datarate is 13Kbps, ulaw which is what better VoIP handsets use is 64Kbps. Bandwidth is NOT the issue, the loss of stupid per minute revenue is.
What's the alternative? Uranium will run out eventually, so will the rare earth elements used to dope solar cells, fossil fuels certainly will. Ultimately we have to come up with a way to harness the only nearly unlimited fuel source we have, the big fusion reaction in the sky. Thermal stored solar and wind with energy storage are the only two solutions I have seen that are scalable and sustainable. In the long run we will have to face the facts that energy is going to get more expensive, it makes sense to do it sooner rather than later because the curve is far from linear and some of the energy sources we are using today have MUCH better alternative uses (lubricants, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Hmm, according to NOAA ~50% of the population will live in counties adjacent to US coastlines (including the Great Lakes) by 2015, so my value might be high but it's probably in the right ballpark.
The North coast, you know the Great Lakes region. There are no large cities along the northern border that are more than 100 miles from the Atlantic or Pacific or Great Lakes (well perhaps Minneapolis, but it's close at 150 miles according to Google maps).
I bet ~80% of the US population lives within 100 miles of a coastline with significant wind power potential, the east, west, gulf, and north coasts account for almost every urban area.
Tens of thousands of windmills over thousands of miles of coastline an easy target? Against the country with the only deepwater navy and more subs then every other country combined? Yeah, not so much.
IBM only sells servers now, they discontinued the workstation line. The most frequent comment I heard was, big deal I run everything on the server anyway.
I was thinking about surround sound, having the surround being an actual field instead of a point source with simulated field effects would be awesome. You could have front and rear subwoofers for the low end and LFE.
Light users get poor service because they refuse to buy more transport or to segment heavily oversubscribed nodes. You could argue that the heavy users are using too much for what they are paying, but I think you will find that's laughable since 40GB of transport costs maybe $4 at wholesale. Comcasts plan is MUCH better than TW's for just about everyone.
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I wonder if that track really is in the public domain, there's a good chance that the recording on iTunes and Amazon has been digitally remastered. I know I was listening to Science Friday some time ago and they had a guy on who was a world class scientist in signal analysis and some label had approached him to come up with a way to recover the only know live (wire) recordings of Woody Guthrie. While that performance would not be out of copyright is the US anyways (damn Disney) the technical and creative masterpiece of recovering and remastering it probably deserves some coverage as a creative work in and of itself. You can read a bit about it here or listen to the interview here.
Tell me, what do YOU think will need more than 444 Mb/s? I have a datacenter with 1,000 users and our peak bandwidth in and out of the server vlan for the last year was 547/401, this on a network with 10Gb pipes in the core. The fact is the proposed alternative is only 100Mbps FTTH so cable is more than keeping up so long as node size is controlled (typical greenfield installs in the US have node sizes in the dozens of users).
Uh Euro DOCSIS 3 is either 222/122 or 444/122 depending on the number of channels, so significantly faster than 100Mb. As long as node sizes are kept reasonable DOCSIS 3 really is fast enough for just about all home applications I can think of for the next 5 or so years and with future extensions to allow for more channel bonding it is projected to reach gigabit speeds.
Hell even a lot of high end products didn't do things correctly until patches were released in response to the DNS issue. We run one of the big 3 at work and ours did not do port randomization correctly so we forwarded all requests to a properly patched 3rd party without an affected firewall because AT&T at the time also did not have the correct solution in place. We are going to go to a direct resolver configuration when we upgrade our firewalls later this year which will give us a slight increase in performance but due to having a working solution it hasn't been a priority. Have you verified that your version of IOS does port randomization correctly by testing your resolver? The easiest way to test correctly is documented here.
I didn't say it was a great idea (in fact I pointed out the major drawback), it's just likely to be the real world response to such an attack.
Are you behind a consumer grade firewall appliance ala Netgear or Linksys? If you are then you are almost 100% guaranteed to be more at risk running your own resolved than you are forwarding to a decent ISP run setup. The reason is that none of the consumer grade firewalls support source port randomization meaning you are very vulnerable to DNS cache poising attacks.
The way to fix it would be egress filtering where all consumer class lines were barred from directly querying the root servers. Would suck greatly for anyone who wanted or needed to run their own resolver, and would break the original end to end design of the internet, but it would be the most likely response to the threat. The ISP's would love it too since it would allow them to have a captive audience for their ad laden DNS servers.
Hmm, since the launch was pre-announced it would seem that the possibility of a shootdown are far from zero. I imagine this was potentially the perfect demo platform for the US ABM COIL laser =)
Which just makes it more insignificant, ~600 cubic miles for the Wilkins ice shelf vs 329 million cubic miles for the oceans. The west antarctic ice shelf on the other hand is 700K cubic miles which is kind of significant.
Hahahaha, yeah like the designers of modern turbines haven't designed them to withstand the occasional storm, not. GE's least sturdy models the 1.5xle or 2.3 are rated for a Ve50 of 52.5 m/s (117.5 mph). They even have the 1.5se which is rate to 70m/s (156.5 mph) which is a mid strength EF3 tornado or a Category 5 hurricane.
No, I live in the midwest. My estimate wasn't far off as I said below, 50% of the US population lives in coastal counties, if you expand that out to a 100 mile radius you probably capture a further 10-25% of the population. I've visited half of the states in our great union and through no accident most people live near water, the oceans and Great Lakes are of course large navigable waterways. I left out the Mississippi and a few other large rivers, but I correctly figured they weren't much more than 20-25% of the population.
Dude, GSM datarate is 13Kbps, ulaw which is what better VoIP handsets use is 64Kbps. Bandwidth is NOT the issue, the loss of stupid per minute revenue is.
That's average sustained wind energy per square meter at 10m and 50m off the ground.
What's the alternative? Uranium will run out eventually, so will the rare earth elements used to dope solar cells, fossil fuels certainly will. Ultimately we have to come up with a way to harness the only nearly unlimited fuel source we have, the big fusion reaction in the sky. Thermal stored solar and wind with energy storage are the only two solutions I have seen that are scalable and sustainable. In the long run we will have to face the facts that energy is going to get more expensive, it makes sense to do it sooner rather than later because the curve is far from linear and some of the energy sources we are using today have MUCH better alternative uses (lubricants, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Hmm, according to NOAA ~50% of the population will live in counties adjacent to US coastlines (including the Great Lakes) by 2015, so my value might be high but it's probably in the right ballpark.
The North coast, you know the Great Lakes region. There are no large cities along the northern border that are more than 100 miles from the Atlantic or Pacific or Great Lakes (well perhaps Minneapolis, but it's close at 150 miles according to Google maps).
I bet ~80% of the US population lives within 100 miles of a coastline with significant wind power potential, the east, west, gulf, and north coasts account for almost every urban area.
Tens of thousands of windmills over thousands of miles of coastline an easy target? Against the country with the only deepwater navy and more subs then every other country combined? Yeah, not so much.
IBM only sells servers now, they discontinued the workstation line. The most frequent comment I heard was, big deal I run everything on the server anyway.
Only for the ancient UNIX-95 spec.
I was thinking about surround sound, having the surround being an actual field instead of a point source with simulated field effects would be awesome. You could have front and rear subwoofers for the low end and LFE.
24" for 1920*1200, hehe. Try a 42" 1080p lcd tv with a real home theater for surround sound effects, much more fun than a little PC monitor =)
Considering their ever increasing power efficiency and MIPS/Watt it's probably when it's no longer cost efficient to power the container.
Information IS energy, it is moving toward a more ordered universe and so must cost energy.
Light users get poor service because they refuse to buy more transport or to segment heavily oversubscribed nodes. You could argue that the heavy users are using too much for what they are paying, but I think you will find that's laughable since 40GB of transport costs maybe $4 at wholesale. Comcasts plan is MUCH better than TW's for just about everyone.