Dude, you've obviously never dealt with Internal Audit folks before! If they had an internal audit and never reported that would be one thing, but unless something is seriously wrong with a company I tend to trust internal auditors, they are brutal. If you have anything to do with SOX or HIPPA you know what I mean.
480P is HDTV, huh? 480P is EDTV not HDTV. Sure some scummy companies market EDTV sets as "HDTV compatible" but I'd hardly call them HDTV's. The fact is the majority of the sets on sale for the last two years have been 720P sets, and you can get 1080i sets for well under $1K today and 1080p sets for around $2K if you shop smart. Maybe it's the places I hang out, but at this stage I don't think it's the displays keeping out of HDTV, it's the players, content, and uncertainty of how the format wars and DRM will play out thats keeping people on the sidelines.
The problem with selective enforcement of the law is that it almost always leads to abuse of power by the authorities. Look at things like the term "driving while black", by making common activities illegal (say by lowering the speed limit) and then enforcing the law against only those elements of society that the authorities or their agents deem undesirable you have setup a system ripe for abuse. Another example is the case of Genarlow Wilson. This young gentleman went to a party where a 17 year old girl was impaired and had sex with a number of young men, the prosecutor charged them with rape. Genarlow was acquitted on the rape charge, so the prosecutor came back and charged him with Aggravated Child Molestation for receiving oral sex from a sober, consenting 15 year old girl. This young man now faces 10 years in prison for a common act which harmed no one. The fact that the legal code in any given state, let alone the country or the case/common law, is too large for anyone to learn in an entire lifetime means that there are many, many ways that the system can be abused if you are targeted by the officials. I personally think we need to drastically reduce the size of both the tax and legal code to the point where an average adult can understand them with a decent investment in time, but I know that will never happen because there are large sections of entrenched professionals in both fields who rebel whenever the concept is even discussed.
Actually, if they are title keys then it probably is NOT enough to finger the player. The player key is used to decrypt the title key, which is used to decrypt the content. The content is only encrypted with one title key, and has no relation to the player key. So as long as you only release title keys there is no way for them to know what player(s) have been compromised. Of course most hackers will probably release their findings as cracks to the software program, but eventually a smart one will simply setup a CDDB style database with title keys and any program will be able to read the media ID, download the title key, and use the reference decoder implementation to decrypt the content. THAT is how you get around key revocation =)
Nope, unlike CSS keys AACS keys are revocable, so the keys for the cracked version of PowerDVD (or whatever player has been compromised) can be denied by new media. Basically they encrypt the media's decryption key with the public keys of all of the licensed devices and once a player has been compromised they no long use that tainted key (It's actually kind of the reverse of this process, but it gives you an idea of what they accomplish and the general idea of how). Of course if many players are compromised it is unlikely that the content companies will be able to revoke all of their keys, because that would lead to a backlash against the format as consumers devices suddenly stop playing new titles. What I'm personally waiting for is an industrious hacker to expose the key of a popular hardware player, forcing an upgrade of a software player is one thing, requiring naive users to upgrade the firmware of their hardware player is going to be labor intensive. Either they will need lots of helpdesk type staff, or lots of depot technicians to actually do the upgrades for the users. Either way lots of users won't figure out what the problem is and will simply blame the hardware vendor/format.
I detest the assumption that I am a criminal. They can damn well work like every other retail outlet before that stupid practice took hold and hire competent security professionals to canvas the store for suspicious activity. Just because it is more convenient, and cheaper, for the company to assume all customers are potential criminals does not make it right. I have only ever been rude to employees who assume they have some kind of power, and let it get to their head, and attempt to physically detain me. Other than a peace officer with a reasonable suspicion, no one has the right to invade my personal space, and I WILL defend myself if attacked.
Hehe, I love those guys. If they try to detain me I tell them they better have proof of theft or they are going to jail for false imprisonment. If they grab me I tell them they have one second to release me before I respond with force and have them arrested for assault. They have no legal right to stop you, and if they do without proof of theft they are almost always breaking the law. Just be sure to be calm and collected because otherwise you might get in trouble for disturbing the peace. I haven't stopped for those idiots in years, makes leaving the store much faster during the holidays =)
I heard on NPR this morning that there were two assassination attempts against Ford. One of them was a result of a local paper publishing his complete travel itinerary when he was in town, when this was discussed with Ford not long ago he remarked that he was not aware that the paper had published that information! It's interesting that the attempt against Regan that injured Brady gets so much notoriety but the two attempts against Ford are never talked about.
Nope, pardoning Nixon was the single greatest thing the man accomplished, and it cost him a lot both politically and personally. Most historians agree that the nation would have been much worse off with the protracted political fight that would have resulted from the trial. Sure there are many who think he should have been punished, but I think resigning in shame and having that as his legacy is probably one of the greatest punishment for a man with the drive to become president. Look at the guys involved with Iran-Contra, they served their piddly sentences for much worse crimes, and today are back serving in the highest reaches of government.
Remember, you will need two datacenters, whether you build them yourself or outsource you need two. One to be your main site and the other for DR. Depending on your requirements and the available technology in your current/planned solutions you might need as much space in the DR site, or quite a bit less, than in your main site. Failing to plan for DR now will cause you no end of headaches down the road when someone realizes this important piece of the puzzle was left out.
The thing that makes this and all deep linking cases STUPID is that there is a simple technology solution, simply redirect traffic from referer's other than your own site to your main page! It's a 3 minute httpd.conf rule if you've ever written an Apache rule, otherwise it might take you an hour or two. The other possibility is to lock up your content behind a membership frontend, either pay-for or simple signup. If you don't use these type of methods of limiting access and you have a publicly available website then anyone is within their rights to link to you however they choose.
Bullshit, it's called the common good. We have been paying a universal cost recovery fee to the telco's for most of a century so they can build up their infrastructure, maintain it, etc. Yet the fund has mostly been a profit center for the telco's. It's time they use those billions we have been paying to make sure that a segment of the population isn't left out of the 21st century. Telecom isn't a purely capitalist venture because it is a natural monopoly that needs to be regulated by the state, and one of the goals of the state is to insure that all people have at least a shot at bettering their life. In the decades to come high speed two way access will essentially become necessary to function in society and so the telco's should be required to keep up the promise of universal access.
Franchise agreements were the only thing that ensured that I eventually got cable modem service at my last apartment. Adelphia was too busy giving all its money to the founders to spend it on the local digital buildout and it was only the local cable board bringing out the fines for missing the project completion date (which was possible due to franchise agreements) that finally got them off their duff. They were still almost a year late finishing the project, but at least I eventually able to get service. Without the agreement that area would probably still not have highspeed 4 years later.
This flies in the face of the century old concept of universal access whereby we pay slightly higher rates to insure that everyone has an equal opportunity to take advantage of the telephone system. I'm not so worried about the idea of IPTV not being available in the sticks as there are alternatives, but no FIOS means that they are shut out of the infrastructure that will power the 21st century.
If the pilot light is out then the thermocouple should have cut off the gas supply! If you were getting gas leaking because the pilot went out something was SERIOUSLY wrong and the unit should have been replaced. Every gas appliance since forever has required the gas be manually opened in order to relight the pilot.
That would be Iometer, originally an Intel product, now an open source project. It actually runs on a number of platforms including Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Netware.
Limiting a volume to 16TB doesn't matter a lick for Exchange, no single DB should be anywhere NEAR that big, past a couple tens of GB you can't do maintenance on the DB within any reasonable maintenance window. I have known some Exchange admins that say to just use a scratch DB and move the users then drop and recreate the DB, but that is simply masking the problem, and possibly taking the corruption with the moved data. I have seen some spectacular failures with the extremely large single cluster model of Exchange design and so I would not recommend it to anyone who values their job.
Not sure what Linux distro you are using but when implementing Rehdat 8/9 at Cisco I used our Solaris install as the reference for things like NFS+ configuration and had little trouble translating between the two systems. Config files were generally in the same place, or close enough that figuring it out wasn't that hard. Perhaps things have changed since Solaris 8/9 and RH 8/9 but at that time the differences were fairly minimal for someone with a passing understanding of each.
We haven't used this new bypass procedure to save more than a couple lives, it will never work!
My giving $10,000 only feeds.0000001% of the African population for a year, I should buy another plasma!
etc.
Just because we haven't done much of something does not mean we should not do more of it, and just because a solution does not solve the whole problem does not mean you shouldn't try to make it part of the solution.
All but the worst solar cells will repay their manufacture and transportation energy costs in significantly less than their design lifetimes in all but the worst environments (I happen to live in one of the few places in the continental US where this is not true, NE Ohio). The best economically feasible solar cells on the market repay their energy cost in ~7 years (on average) vs a 20-30+ year design life. As this wiki article mentions thin film cells currently in development achieve a return of ~50x their manufacture cost over the lifetime of the cell.
That's because your browser is pre-downloading the content from those sites, so yeah they are going to send their normal cookies. Turn off the preload feature and problem solved.
That's funny because in the real world where things like cache hit ratio matter it's been shown that a CISC front end with a rather inexpensive decode stage and a RISC multicore execution stage is the way to go. In that way modern AMD/Intel x86 CPU's are closer to the PPC970 then the PPC970 is to a classical RISC chip. Both CISC and RISC won, the two were married and each is used where most appropriate =)
The problem is that just considering power is stupid. I figure power used x3 when designing because between inefficiencies, heat load from UPS's, AC, etc that's about what you end up at. So 365 days *24Hrs * 300W/1,000(WHrs/KWHr) = 2628KWhrs * 3 = 7884 * $.12/KWhr (realistic for most of the country when you include delivery charges) = $946.08/year. Then add in the amortized cost per KW of your UPS and generator and it almost doubles that figure so say $2K/year. Over the useful lifetime of the typical server it cost about as much to run as it does to purchase. Add in IT time and it cost about triple the purchase price without considering software licenses! TCO can be hard to figure out in many organizations but this is a good rough guideline for back of the envelope calculations.
Power at idle is VERY important for many datacenters because unless you are running VMWARE ESX with a very tight farm the majority of your servers probably spend a fair percentage of their day idle or nearly so. Personally I am using Dual Core Opterons for many of my n-tier boxes with Xeon's being used for the Citrix farm, each is the platform best suited for the type of work it is doing and the typical power profile. I think IT that simply plops one solution in for all needs is not taking best advantage of the available technology. My environment has grown over 50% in the last 6 months yet our power usage has only grown 30%, that's smart use of the available technology =)
Yep, I (re)learned C and C++ from Dietel & Deitel books as a high school student taking college courses, we had a number of high school kids in my class and none of them got overwhelmed. I attribute this to a good professor and the approach of the books. We even completed about 120% of the course in the C class because the approach allowed people to learn in such a way that there was little need for reexplaining concepts which was not true with the text the course was originally designed around.
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Dude, you've obviously never dealt with Internal Audit folks before! If they had an internal audit and never reported that would be one thing, but unless something is seriously wrong with a company I tend to trust internal auditors, they are brutal. If you have anything to do with SOX or HIPPA you know what I mean.
480P is HDTV, huh? 480P is EDTV not HDTV. Sure some scummy companies market EDTV sets as "HDTV compatible" but I'd hardly call them HDTV's. The fact is the majority of the sets on sale for the last two years have been 720P sets, and you can get 1080i sets for well under $1K today and 1080p sets for around $2K if you shop smart. Maybe it's the places I hang out, but at this stage I don't think it's the displays keeping out of HDTV, it's the players, content, and uncertainty of how the format wars and DRM will play out thats keeping people on the sidelines.
The problem with selective enforcement of the law is that it almost always leads to abuse of power by the authorities. Look at things like the term "driving while black", by making common activities illegal (say by lowering the speed limit) and then enforcing the law against only those elements of society that the authorities or their agents deem undesirable you have setup a system ripe for abuse. Another example is the case of Genarlow Wilson. This young gentleman went to a party where a 17 year old girl was impaired and had sex with a number of young men, the prosecutor charged them with rape. Genarlow was acquitted on the rape charge, so the prosecutor came back and charged him with Aggravated Child Molestation for receiving oral sex from a sober, consenting 15 year old girl. This young man now faces 10 years in prison for a common act which harmed no one. The fact that the legal code in any given state, let alone the country or the case/common law, is too large for anyone to learn in an entire lifetime means that there are many, many ways that the system can be abused if you are targeted by the officials. I personally think we need to drastically reduce the size of both the tax and legal code to the point where an average adult can understand them with a decent investment in time, but I know that will never happen because there are large sections of entrenched professionals in both fields who rebel whenever the concept is even discussed.
Actually, if they are title keys then it probably is NOT enough to finger the player. The player key is used to decrypt the title key, which is used to decrypt the content. The content is only encrypted with one title key, and has no relation to the player key. So as long as you only release title keys there is no way for them to know what player(s) have been compromised. Of course most hackers will probably release their findings as cracks to the software program, but eventually a smart one will simply setup a CDDB style database with title keys and any program will be able to read the media ID, download the title key, and use the reference decoder implementation to decrypt the content. THAT is how you get around key revocation =)
Nope, unlike CSS keys AACS keys are revocable, so the keys for the cracked version of PowerDVD (or whatever player has been compromised) can be denied by new media. Basically they encrypt the media's decryption key with the public keys of all of the licensed devices and once a player has been compromised they no long use that tainted key (It's actually kind of the reverse of this process, but it gives you an idea of what they accomplish and the general idea of how). Of course if many players are compromised it is unlikely that the content companies will be able to revoke all of their keys, because that would lead to a backlash against the format as consumers devices suddenly stop playing new titles. What I'm personally waiting for is an industrious hacker to expose the key of a popular hardware player, forcing an upgrade of a software player is one thing, requiring naive users to upgrade the firmware of their hardware player is going to be labor intensive. Either they will need lots of helpdesk type staff, or lots of depot technicians to actually do the upgrades for the users. Either way lots of users won't figure out what the problem is and will simply blame the hardware vendor/format.
I detest the assumption that I am a criminal. They can damn well work like every other retail outlet before that stupid practice took hold and hire competent security professionals to canvas the store for suspicious activity. Just because it is more convenient, and cheaper, for the company to assume all customers are potential criminals does not make it right. I have only ever been rude to employees who assume they have some kind of power, and let it get to their head, and attempt to physically detain me. Other than a peace officer with a reasonable suspicion, no one has the right to invade my personal space, and I WILL defend myself if attacked.
Hehe, I love those guys. If they try to detain me I tell them they better have proof of theft or they are going to jail for false imprisonment. If they grab me I tell them they have one second to release me before I respond with force and have them arrested for assault. They have no legal right to stop you, and if they do without proof of theft they are almost always breaking the law. Just be sure to be calm and collected because otherwise you might get in trouble for disturbing the peace. I haven't stopped for those idiots in years, makes leaving the store much faster during the holidays =)
I heard on NPR this morning that there were two assassination attempts against Ford. One of them was a result of a local paper publishing his complete travel itinerary when he was in town, when this was discussed with Ford not long ago he remarked that he was not aware that the paper had published that information! It's interesting that the attempt against Regan that injured Brady gets so much notoriety but the two attempts against Ford are never talked about.
Nope, pardoning Nixon was the single greatest thing the man accomplished, and it cost him a lot both politically and personally. Most historians agree that the nation would have been much worse off with the protracted political fight that would have resulted from the trial. Sure there are many who think he should have been punished, but I think resigning in shame and having that as his legacy is probably one of the greatest punishment for a man with the drive to become president. Look at the guys involved with Iran-Contra, they served their piddly sentences for much worse crimes, and today are back serving in the highest reaches of government.
Remember, you will need two datacenters, whether you build them yourself or outsource you need two. One to be your main site and the other for DR. Depending on your requirements and the available technology in your current/planned solutions you might need as much space in the DR site, or quite a bit less, than in your main site. Failing to plan for DR now will cause you no end of headaches down the road when someone realizes this important piece of the puzzle was left out.
The thing that makes this and all deep linking cases STUPID is that there is a simple technology solution, simply redirect traffic from referer's other than your own site to your main page! It's a 3 minute httpd.conf rule if you've ever written an Apache rule, otherwise it might take you an hour or two. The other possibility is to lock up your content behind a membership frontend, either pay-for or simple signup. If you don't use these type of methods of limiting access and you have a publicly available website then anyone is within their rights to link to you however they choose.
Bullshit, it's called the common good. We have been paying a universal cost recovery fee to the telco's for most of a century so they can build up their infrastructure, maintain it, etc. Yet the fund has mostly been a profit center for the telco's. It's time they use those billions we have been paying to make sure that a segment of the population isn't left out of the 21st century. Telecom isn't a purely capitalist venture because it is a natural monopoly that needs to be regulated by the state, and one of the goals of the state is to insure that all people have at least a shot at bettering their life. In the decades to come high speed two way access will essentially become necessary to function in society and so the telco's should be required to keep up the promise of universal access.
Franchise agreements were the only thing that ensured that I eventually got cable modem service at my last apartment. Adelphia was too busy giving all its money to the founders to spend it on the local digital buildout and it was only the local cable board bringing out the fines for missing the project completion date (which was possible due to franchise agreements) that finally got them off their duff. They were still almost a year late finishing the project, but at least I eventually able to get service. Without the agreement that area would probably still not have highspeed 4 years later.
This flies in the face of the century old concept of universal access whereby we pay slightly higher rates to insure that everyone has an equal opportunity to take advantage of the telephone system. I'm not so worried about the idea of IPTV not being available in the sticks as there are alternatives, but no FIOS means that they are shut out of the infrastructure that will power the 21st century.
If the pilot light is out then the thermocouple should have cut off the gas supply! If you were getting gas leaking because the pilot went out something was SERIOUSLY wrong and the unit should have been replaced. Every gas appliance since forever has required the gas be manually opened in order to relight the pilot.
That would be Iometer, originally an Intel product, now an open source project. It actually runs on a number of platforms including Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Netware.
Limiting a volume to 16TB doesn't matter a lick for Exchange, no single DB should be anywhere NEAR that big, past a couple tens of GB you can't do maintenance on the DB within any reasonable maintenance window. I have known some Exchange admins that say to just use a scratch DB and move the users then drop and recreate the DB, but that is simply masking the problem, and possibly taking the corruption with the moved data. I have seen some spectacular failures with the extremely large single cluster model of Exchange design and so I would not recommend it to anyone who values their job.
Not sure what Linux distro you are using but when implementing Rehdat 8/9 at Cisco I used our Solaris install as the reference for things like NFS+ configuration and had little trouble translating between the two systems. Config files were generally in the same place, or close enough that figuring it out wasn't that hard. Perhaps things have changed since Solaris 8/9 and RH 8/9 but at that time the differences were fairly minimal for someone with a passing understanding of each.
We haven't used this new bypass procedure to save more than a couple lives, it will never work! .0000001% of the African population for a year, I should buy another plasma!
My giving $10,000 only feeds
etc.
Just because we haven't done much of something does not mean we should not do more of it, and just because a solution does not solve the whole problem does not mean you shouldn't try to make it part of the solution.
All but the worst solar cells will repay their manufacture and transportation energy costs in significantly less than their design lifetimes in all but the worst environments (I happen to live in one of the few places in the continental US where this is not true, NE Ohio). The best economically feasible solar cells on the market repay their energy cost in ~7 years (on average) vs a 20-30+ year design life. As this wiki article mentions thin film cells currently in development achieve a return of ~50x their manufacture cost over the lifetime of the cell.
That's because your browser is pre-downloading the content from those sites, so yeah they are going to send their normal cookies. Turn off the preload feature and problem solved.
That's funny because in the real world where things like cache hit ratio matter it's been shown that a CISC front end with a rather inexpensive decode stage and a RISC multicore execution stage is the way to go. In that way modern AMD/Intel x86 CPU's are closer to the PPC970 then the PPC970 is to a classical RISC chip. Both CISC and RISC won, the two were married and each is used where most appropriate =)
The problem is that just considering power is stupid. I figure power used x3 when designing because between inefficiencies, heat load from UPS's, AC, etc that's about what you end up at. So 365 days *24Hrs * 300W /1,000(WHrs/KWHr) = 2628KWhrs * 3 = 7884 * $.12/KWhr (realistic for most of the country when you include delivery charges) = $946.08/year. Then add in the amortized cost per KW of your UPS and generator and it almost doubles that figure so say $2K/year. Over the useful lifetime of the typical server it cost about as much to run as it does to purchase. Add in IT time and it cost about triple the purchase price without considering software licenses! TCO can be hard to figure out in many organizations but this is a good rough guideline for back of the envelope calculations.
Power at idle is VERY important for many datacenters because unless you are running VMWARE ESX with a very tight farm the majority of your servers probably spend a fair percentage of their day idle or nearly so. Personally I am using Dual Core Opterons for many of my n-tier boxes with Xeon's being used for the Citrix farm, each is the platform best suited for the type of work it is doing and the typical power profile. I think IT that simply plops one solution in for all needs is not taking best advantage of the available technology. My environment has grown over 50% in the last 6 months yet our power usage has only grown 30%, that's smart use of the available technology =)
Yep, I (re)learned C and C++ from Dietel & Deitel books as a high school student taking college courses, we had a number of high school kids in my class and none of them got overwhelmed. I attribute this to a good professor and the approach of the books. We even completed about 120% of the course in the C class because the approach allowed people to learn in such a way that there was little need for reexplaining concepts which was not true with the text the course was originally designed around.