Actually, after the case was remanded the copyright office said that while they were a CATV system they could not just pay the compulsory licensing fees for some reason, it was a bizarre Catch 22 situation where they were a cable system for purposes of public retransmission under copyright law, but not for licensing purposes. Frankly it struck me as yet more proof of how corrupt and dysfunctional the system is.
Would governments be the only clients that private clouds truly make sense for?
Nah, we're on the small side of the S&P 500 and our "private cloud" has enough spare capacity to bring entire new projects online, spin up testing instances, provide an entire parallel Citrix farm (we're upgrading and want to have the old farm available for fallback in case we hit a critical bug), and still provide for the failure of up to two hosts without any overprovisioning. Infrastructure hardware and operating costs are less than 5% of our annual IT budget. For most companies that aren't doing massive public websites people and software costs will dominate over the cost of infrastructure.
I installed it last night on all domain controllers after testing it in my isolated testing network. It's not really optional since it allows any domain user to become domain admin and the only resolution to that is a domain rebuild or authoritative restore. It's also already been seen in attacks in the wild so you can assume the next client to get driveby malware will be going for domain admin.
Interesting, this page is the one I went on for the 13th by metro area. I guess you'd have to look into the links and figure out what stats they're each basing their rankings on.
No, the TLS flaw was MS14-066 and it affects XP as well but there is no generally available fix for it since XP is out of extended support. If you care at all about security you're no longer using XP so the fact that there is another critical flaw isn't going to significantly change the situation.
Check out this map for an idea of minimum safe frost depths across the country, plenty of populated places are well below 4', and even those that are close to 4' probably have competing uses for that space just below the frost line. Then again with a horizontal bore cable layer it doesn't really matter whether it's 2' or 8' deep, the impact at the surface is all in the weight of the machine and the footprint of its treads.
my internet bill has not increased since 1999 and my service is 7 times faster than it was in 1999
So? As you can see from graph 4 on this page wholesale bandwidth prices fell 700% in 5 years, you're 3 fold below that drop in price which is only possible because the last mile is a minimally competitive market (oligopoly).
You don't have to be a tech wiz to manage an IT department. In fact my bosses boss is a business degree guy who managed malls before being thrust into IT management (he had run his own skunkworks IT group at a previous employer because their central IT was so horrible, new CEO came in, got wind of what he was doing and promoted him to CIO). What he DOES do is listen to both the business people AND his technical people. He won't force a solution that doesn't work for both sides and he won't promise anything to the business that we technically can't deliver. He's by far the best IT manager I've ever worked under. My direct supervisor is technical, and I'm a technical manager, but the guys running the show don't have to be tech guys for things to run correctly, they need to be good managers.
I never worry about going home, my array has plenty of spare capacity to handle rebuilds, we schedule the technician when it's convenient to us, not when it's convenient for them or the array. When you have guard space for at least 4 disk failures (out of a few hundred) you deal with replacements in a less urgent manner than a traditional small RAID5 array in a standalone server. Within ~30 minutes of a failure or a predictive failure my arrays are back to 100% resiliency with slightly less guard space. It's one of many reasons why I only buy wide striped arrays.
Those 5 SMART stats match up exactly with what I habitually look at on the job monitoring lots of RAID arrays' drives
Really? At my job I get notified that the array is ejecting a drive based on whatever parameters the OEM uses, it's already started the rebuild to spare space on the remaining drives, and a ticket has been dispatched to have a technician bring a replacement drive. If it's a predictive fail it generally doesn't notify until the rebuild has completed as it can generally use the "failing" drive as the source of the rebuild. Are you doing operations for a web scale company or something?
PostgreSQL lacks a lot of features needed to compete with Oracle, things like online index rebuilds and multiple active instances for HA are critical for many businesses where the option to take down the database or a table for maintenance isn't acceptable. Even MS SQL hasn't really been a competitor for many of these mission critical installs until SQL 2012 where finally MS is at near feature parity with Oracle, but they've stuffed up their licensing enough that there's now little incentive to move given all the costs associated with changing anything in such environments.
Ok, from this pdf from the city of Sunnyvale the land cost per acre for development is $3-5 million, still high enough that getting access to even a fraction of the 1,000 acres easily pays for the lease cost.
Well, it's going to depend on the use as to whether a release is needed, news organizations are generally given very broad latitude in their use of likeness so long as the use is deemed in the public interest, even if the use is commercial. Now, is a random youtube poster who is obtaining recordings under open records laws going to be given the same treatment, that's probably unknowable until it's fully litigated, but unless the persons postings are deemed in the public interest it's unlikely they will receive the same limited immunity.
In cryptography old is good as long as the cypher strength is still sufficient to thwart expected attacks. The only weakness in EMV I'm aware of is a man in the middle attack against chip-n-pin where you can send a pin not required signal to the terminal if you can get between the card and the terminal. Since most US banks will be doing chip and signature, not chip and pin that's moot. If you're aware of another attack on EMV then please enlighten me.
Wrong, the reason we don't have EMV in the US is the retailers didn't want to pony up the cash to upgrade their POS systems. The banks finally put their foot down about 18 months ago and set a deadline that shifts the liability for non-EMV transactions to the retailer starting 9/2015.
They just got 1,000 acres in SF for $1.3B, that probably represents pennies on the dollar compared to the retail value of the land. My guess would be they put two office buildings on the periphery of the site and that easily justifies the expense.
We use 802.1x on WiFi, in fact that's the most secure method as it provides for mutual authentication between client and AP. Cellphones are easy since the SIM standard already allows for secure digital certificate storage.
Within a country it's easy to accomplish, all you do is require all ISPs offering service within the country to require it, and if you tie the license to an x.500 cert and use 802.1x at all end user access points then you can effectively require that users within that country are not anonymous. The downfall of the plan is that it's the Internet, a connection of networks ruled only by the protocols that are used to establish communications, so if you expect to be able to track an IP in Moscow to an individual, good luck with that unless you work for the FSB.
The fact that it is only nine fold is pretty impressive, really.
Agreed! The fact that a 1950's two stroke without emissions controls is only 9x higher on VOCs than an average 2007 highly engineered engine with ~$2000 worth of emissions control equipment and another $1000 or so worth of electronics to minimize emissions production is pretty amazing.
Banks typically bring in their own auditors for any large loan, we routinely deal with just about all the major auditors and we're only a $7B company, plus our joint venture partners bring in their auditors whenever we're doing a joint deal. It's not like any company with $3B in loans should have just one set of eyes looking over their books.
The mid level managers were making $55-66k per year and that was enough for them to be silent about a massive fraud?!? I don't get that, it doesn't seem like enough money to have a permanent black mark on your resume.
But in 1995, as promised, it was available to private companies for consumer applications
Say what? There were consumer GPS receivers in the late 1980's, in fact in the first Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) many soldiers used commercial units purchased from US retailers because the crypto hardened milspec units were in such short supply. In fact I'm not sure what they're referring to with the 1995 date, since the biggest change wrt consumer use was Clinton's order to permanently disable selective availability, but that wasn't until 2000.
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Actually, after the case was remanded the copyright office said that while they were a CATV system they could not just pay the compulsory licensing fees for some reason, it was a bizarre Catch 22 situation where they were a cable system for purposes of public retransmission under copyright law, but not for licensing purposes. Frankly it struck me as yet more proof of how corrupt and dysfunctional the system is.
Would governments be the only clients that private clouds truly make sense for?
Nah, we're on the small side of the S&P 500 and our "private cloud" has enough spare capacity to bring entire new projects online, spin up testing instances, provide an entire parallel Citrix farm (we're upgrading and want to have the old farm available for fallback in case we hit a critical bug), and still provide for the failure of up to two hosts without any overprovisioning. Infrastructure hardware and operating costs are less than 5% of our annual IT budget. For most companies that aren't doing massive public websites people and software costs will dominate over the cost of infrastructure.
I installed it last night on all domain controllers after testing it in my isolated testing network. It's not really optional since it allows any domain user to become domain admin and the only resolution to that is a domain rebuild or authoritative restore. It's also already been seen in attacks in the wild so you can assume the next client to get driveby malware will be going for domain admin.
Interesting, this page is the one I went on for the 13th by metro area. I guess you'd have to look into the links and figure out what stats they're each basing their rankings on.
It's the 4th largest by city proper population after mexico city, new York, and LA, but 13th largest by metro area.
No, the TLS flaw was MS14-066 and it affects XP as well but there is no generally available fix for it since XP is out of extended support. If you care at all about security you're no longer using XP so the fact that there is another critical flaw isn't going to significantly change the situation.
Chrome not properly handling some TLS1.2 cyphers is hardly an MS bug, though they do have a workaround for compatibility if you need it.
Check out this map for an idea of minimum safe frost depths across the country, plenty of populated places are well below 4', and even those that are close to 4' probably have competing uses for that space just below the frost line. Then again with a horizontal bore cable layer it doesn't really matter whether it's 2' or 8' deep, the impact at the surface is all in the weight of the machine and the footprint of its treads.
my internet bill has not increased since 1999 and my service is 7 times faster than it was in 1999
So? As you can see from graph 4 on this page wholesale bandwidth prices fell 700% in 5 years, you're 3 fold below that drop in price which is only possible because the last mile is a minimally competitive market (oligopoly).
You don't have to be a tech wiz to manage an IT department. In fact my bosses boss is a business degree guy who managed malls before being thrust into IT management (he had run his own skunkworks IT group at a previous employer because their central IT was so horrible, new CEO came in, got wind of what he was doing and promoted him to CIO). What he DOES do is listen to both the business people AND his technical people. He won't force a solution that doesn't work for both sides and he won't promise anything to the business that we technically can't deliver. He's by far the best IT manager I've ever worked under. My direct supervisor is technical, and I'm a technical manager, but the guys running the show don't have to be tech guys for things to run correctly, they need to be good managers.
I never worry about going home, my array has plenty of spare capacity to handle rebuilds, we schedule the technician when it's convenient to us, not when it's convenient for them or the array. When you have guard space for at least 4 disk failures (out of a few hundred) you deal with replacements in a less urgent manner than a traditional small RAID5 array in a standalone server. Within ~30 minutes of a failure or a predictive failure my arrays are back to 100% resiliency with slightly less guard space. It's one of many reasons why I only buy wide striped arrays.
Those 5 SMART stats match up exactly with what I habitually look at on the job monitoring lots of RAID arrays' drives
Really? At my job I get notified that the array is ejecting a drive based on whatever parameters the OEM uses, it's already started the rebuild to spare space on the remaining drives, and a ticket has been dispatched to have a technician bring a replacement drive. If it's a predictive fail it generally doesn't notify until the rebuild has completed as it can generally use the "failing" drive as the source of the rebuild. Are you doing operations for a web scale company or something?
PostgreSQL lacks a lot of features needed to compete with Oracle, things like online index rebuilds and multiple active instances for HA are critical for many businesses where the option to take down the database or a table for maintenance isn't acceptable. Even MS SQL hasn't really been a competitor for many of these mission critical installs until SQL 2012 where finally MS is at near feature parity with Oracle, but they've stuffed up their licensing enough that there's now little incentive to move given all the costs associated with changing anything in such environments.
Ok, from this pdf from the city of Sunnyvale the land cost per acre for development is $3-5 million, still high enough that getting access to even a fraction of the 1,000 acres easily pays for the lease cost.
Well, it's going to depend on the use as to whether a release is needed, news organizations are generally given very broad latitude in their use of likeness so long as the use is deemed in the public interest, even if the use is commercial. Now, is a random youtube poster who is obtaining recordings under open records laws going to be given the same treatment, that's probably unknowable until it's fully litigated, but unless the persons postings are deemed in the public interest it's unlikely they will receive the same limited immunity.
In cryptography old is good as long as the cypher strength is still sufficient to thwart expected attacks. The only weakness in EMV I'm aware of is a man in the middle attack against chip-n-pin where you can send a pin not required signal to the terminal if you can get between the card and the terminal. Since most US banks will be doing chip and signature, not chip and pin that's moot. If you're aware of another attack on EMV then please enlighten me.
Wrong, the reason we don't have EMV in the US is the retailers didn't want to pony up the cash to upgrade their POS systems. The banks finally put their foot down about 18 months ago and set a deadline that shifts the liability for non-EMV transactions to the retailer starting 9/2015.
They just got 1,000 acres in SF for $1.3B, that probably represents pennies on the dollar compared to the retail value of the land. My guess would be they put two office buildings on the periphery of the site and that easily justifies the expense.
We use 802.1x on WiFi, in fact that's the most secure method as it provides for mutual authentication between client and AP. Cellphones are easy since the SIM standard already allows for secure digital certificate storage.
Within a country it's easy to accomplish, all you do is require all ISPs offering service within the country to require it, and if you tie the license to an x.500 cert and use 802.1x at all end user access points then you can effectively require that users within that country are not anonymous. The downfall of the plan is that it's the Internet, a connection of networks ruled only by the protocols that are used to establish communications, so if you expect to be able to track an IP in Moscow to an individual, good luck with that unless you work for the FSB.
The fact that it is only nine fold is pretty impressive, really.
Agreed! The fact that a 1950's two stroke without emissions controls is only 9x higher on VOCs than an average 2007 highly engineered engine with ~$2000 worth of emissions control equipment and another $1000 or so worth of electronics to minimize emissions production is pretty amazing.
Banks typically bring in their own auditors for any large loan, we routinely deal with just about all the major auditors and we're only a $7B company, plus our joint venture partners bring in their auditors whenever we're doing a joint deal. It's not like any company with $3B in loans should have just one set of eyes looking over their books.
The mid level managers were making $55-66k per year and that was enough for them to be silent about a massive fraud?!? I don't get that, it doesn't seem like enough money to have a permanent black mark on your resume.
Doesn't work with 4.4.2 on my S5 or 4.4.4 on my Nexus 7.
But in 1995, as promised, it was available to private companies for consumer applications
Say what? There were consumer GPS receivers in the late 1980's, in fact in the first Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) many soldiers used commercial units purchased from US retailers because the crypto hardened milspec units were in such short supply. In fact I'm not sure what they're referring to with the 1995 date, since the biggest change wrt consumer use was Clinton's order to permanently disable selective availability, but that wasn't until 2000.