I filter the routes I accept from upstream and downstream. I have gone blue with a provider about the fact they were accepting private network advertisements from customers. Needless to say, we're not with that provider anymore. I do monitor odd advertisements from networks we're not directly peered with. Any ISP not monitoring routes is either overworked or slack
Another day, another announcement of an old hack which any serious network admin would have filtered by now. The fact this is happening at ISP/carrier level is extremely disheartening.
SteamPlay has been in existence for a while. Family Access to the "Gamer PC"'s library from a console is the final piece for people to reuse their existing purchases on a SteamBox. Family Access is a newish feature, and I believe it was a final hurdle to allow a large library of games to play on SteamBox on launch day.
(I've even bought Mac Steam games through deals where the PC version isn't discounted. I'm a fan of SteamPlay)
SP are much faster, more efficient and flexible than fixing up the third party's munted Tomcat application. This bloated rubbish is one of the only applications that fulfils the brief but there is absolutely no stored procedures or views, making it a slobbering mess speed wise.
Of course the business logic is better hidden, which is why I believe they did it that way.
You missed the point... it's not somebody thinking of the kids. It's so school legal can say "won't somebody think of the kids, because we did our best" and deny parents financial recourse. Once the kids surf porn via 3G it's a pastoral care issue, and responsibility can be shared with the parents or guardians. "Those" kids also end up usually blowing their data plan which then becomes the financial issue for the carers.
So why are schools using them for "Duty of Care" to cover their arses from "my kid surfs porn during school days and it's your fault"? So why are web companies putting reverse proxies in front of farms to speed up all those new cable and FTTN connections world wide? So why are companies with offices in remote areas using them on their GPRS- or satellite-based internet connections?
While you have a nice 20Mb connection mum or work pays for, not every-one else has the luxury.
There's the core market that take whatever dross is shovelled to them under a certain brand. They get sucked in to buying all the DLC even if it's just cosmetic or even maps from the last revision (no, they don't qualify as versions anymore).
There's enough mindless COD sheep to keep the new consoles going for quite a while, meaning this will not go away this coming console generation or next.
"The Telco" has little idea. In Australia, each ISP takes turns to install equipment in the Exchange. The previous and next ISPs will detail exactly how many ports they're installing, but it will be for the whole exchange, not for a particular street run or RIM. The port (and rack) count is to organise Exchange space, cooling, power, etc so it all stays within spec.
His street may have all been on ISP#3's waiting list, but ISP's #1 and #2 don't know that. They see 10 ports on a RIM free from last time someone spoke to them about installs, and once ISP#3 comes in and take all 10, it's back to planning for more cables - something unlikely with a pure fibre NBN being rolled out. Of course that's all up for grabs again once we change government and the RIM gets replaced by a FTTN cabinet. (urgh!)
A session cookie is just like a case number, it may be used to speed up communication between departments or sections of your website. Whenever I'm in a queue, there's always a ticket I hold to identify where I am in the queue, what my wait time is, possibly referenced by their third party SLA/QA company, and it could be tied to my Account Number when I get to the counter. It's stomached in real life, because it brings order to what could be chaos, and makes our lives that little bit simpler.
Secondly you must be rather naive to think permission is required to monitor your *every* activity. Through various laws, mutual sharing agreements, and straight greed, there's a wealth of information for people to gather and misuse. While they limit "personally identifiable" information, they gather everything they can and assign it their own ID. It then only takes a little homework to link the ID and your real ID together, and its just this last step which is prohibited in these privacy clauses.
Haven't most of these points been argued to death before, like why everyone attacks the AT-ATs from in front?
Why not flank them and attack from behind or from the sides? The trip cables don't care which part of the body they start from, and you're less likely to be shot with cannons that only shoot in the front quadrant...
Seriously, you argue The iOS device cable's price, while leaving alone the myriad of other proprietary interoperability technologies, and eloquently neglect to mention that Lightning adapters are patent encumbered for anything other than dumb charging. (darn, pesky facts!) Sure I can buy third party 30-pin adapters, but I can also buy floppy drives, DB15 video cards, and IDE cables but they're obsolete now. Unless I buy a $29USD, no lets round to $30, 30-pin to Lightning adapter.
Lastly, Apple's Lightning to USB cables may be $19 in the US, but it's $25AUS ($25.80USD) even though our dollar is stronger and China is closer to us. Since a currency wasn't specified, I can only assume you both meant USD, as here $25 is closer to $30 than to $19...
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My point exactly.
I filter the routes I accept from upstream and downstream. I have gone blue with a provider about the fact they were accepting private network advertisements from customers. Needless to say, we're not with that provider anymore. I do monitor odd advertisements from networks we're not directly peered with. Any ISP not monitoring routes is either overworked or slack
*sigh*
Another day, another announcement of an old hack which any serious network admin would have filtered by now. The fact this is happening at ISP/carrier level is extremely disheartening.
Is Jones_supa really #4 from Ctrl-Alt-Del?
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20131115
Even linked to kotaku ^_^
Was the sound from "Metal Machine Music"?
Dammit! No Funny mod points to give :(
Oh, and lens flare. I think there were even a few lens flares from the lens flare...
Didn't work well for the IBM TrackPoint...
http://xkcd.com/243/
SteamPlay has been in existence for a while. Family Access to the "Gamer PC"'s library from a console is the final piece for people to reuse their existing purchases on a SteamBox. Family Access is a newish feature, and I believe it was a final hurdle to allow a large library of games to play on SteamBox on launch day.
(I've even bought Mac Steam games through deals where the PC version isn't discounted. I'm a fan of SteamPlay)
You mean Steam Family access?
Sometimes, Oh hell yes...
SP are much faster, more efficient and flexible than fixing up the third party's munted Tomcat application.
This bloated rubbish is one of the only applications that fulfils the brief but there is absolutely no stored procedures or views, making it a slobbering mess speed wise.
Of course the business logic is better hidden, which is why I believe they did it that way.
Why not do everything through EoP? Once volume gets up, it'll be just as cheap, and it'll mean less RF interference.
I realise it doesn't work through different phases, some power boards, or surge filters, but it's less susceptible to outside access.
How can you patent it without adding "...with a phone"?
+1 Insightful
You can't cut funding to science programmes and not expect it to bite you in the arse
You missed the point... it's not somebody thinking of the kids. It's so school legal can say "won't somebody think of the kids, because we did our best" and deny parents financial recourse.
Once the kids surf porn via 3G it's a pastoral care issue, and responsibility can be shared with the parents or guardians.
"Those" kids also end up usually blowing their data plan which then becomes the financial issue for the carers.
MagicJellyBean says I can get the keys without asking IT...
Schools.
Duty of Care requires the school to at least *try* to block porn at school.
If they did nothing it'd be like a chip to seagulls when it hits the lawyers...
So why are schools using them for "Duty of Care" to cover their arses from "my kid surfs porn during school days and it's your fault"?
So why are web companies putting reverse proxies in front of farms to speed up all those new cable and FTTN connections world wide?
So why are companies with offices in remote areas using them on their GPRS- or satellite-based internet connections?
While you have a nice 20Mb connection mum or work pays for, not every-one else has the luxury.
But all my passwords are "correcthorsestaplebattery"!
Toss up between "urgh! TMI!!!" and "ooh, chance to quote 'Family Guy' " aaaaand...
"Stop Smiling. 90% of the people playing this [Angry Birds] are pooping."
There's the core market that take whatever dross is shovelled to them under a certain brand. They get sucked in to buying all the DLC even if it's just cosmetic or even maps from the last revision (no, they don't qualify as versions anymore).
There's enough mindless COD sheep to keep the new consoles going for quite a while, meaning this will not go away this coming console generation or next.
"The Telco" has little idea. In Australia, each ISP takes turns to install equipment in the Exchange. The previous and next ISPs will detail exactly how many ports they're installing, but it will be for the whole exchange, not for a particular street run or RIM. The port (and rack) count is to organise Exchange space, cooling, power, etc so it all stays within spec.
His street may have all been on ISP#3's waiting list, but ISP's #1 and #2 don't know that. They see 10 ports on a RIM free from last time someone spoke to them about installs, and once ISP#3 comes in and take all 10, it's back to planning for more cables - something unlikely with a pure fibre NBN being rolled out. Of course that's all up for grabs again once we change government and the RIM gets replaced by a FTTN cabinet. (urgh!)
A session cookie is just like a case number, it may be used to speed up communication between departments or sections of your website. Whenever I'm in a queue, there's always a ticket I hold to identify where I am in the queue, what my wait time is, possibly referenced by their third party SLA/QA company, and it could be tied to my Account Number when I get to the counter. It's stomached in real life, because it brings order to what could be chaos, and makes our lives that little bit simpler.
Secondly you must be rather naive to think permission is required to monitor your *every* activity. Through various laws, mutual sharing agreements, and straight greed, there's a wealth of information for people to gather and misuse. While they limit "personally identifiable" information, they gather everything they can and assign it their own ID. It then only takes a little homework to link the ID and your real ID together, and its just this last step which is prohibited in these privacy clauses.
Haven't most of these points been argued to death before, like why everyone attacks the AT-ATs from in front?
Why not flank them and attack from behind or from the sides? The trip cables don't care which part of the body they start from, and you're less likely to be shot with cannons that only shoot in the front quadrant...
Seriously, you argue The iOS device cable's price, while leaving alone the myriad of other proprietary interoperability technologies, and eloquently neglect to mention that Lightning adapters are patent encumbered for anything other than dumb charging. (darn, pesky facts!)
Sure I can buy third party 30-pin adapters, but I can also buy floppy drives, DB15 video cards, and IDE cables but they're obsolete now. Unless I buy a $29USD, no lets round to $30, 30-pin to Lightning adapter.
Lastly, Apple's Lightning to USB cables may be $19 in the US, but it's $25AUS ($25.80USD) even though our dollar is stronger and China is closer to us. Since a currency wasn't specified, I can only assume you both meant USD, as here $25 is closer to $30 than to $19...
Here's fragmentation's sub-par experience:-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=J2+Interactive
Then start on PowerVR Vs Tegra Vs Mali differences for some games...
nVidia have made a good sales pitch about finding Tegra-only games via their TegraZone app.