Why not just use one of the GPS systems. The problem with oversimplifying like this (as idealists tend to do) is they rarely reflect the reality of actual routing, like, "Gee, it's only 12 miles 'as the crow flies'", yet the route in question winds all over the place.
The real answer is that GPS wouldn't make any money for NAC Geographic Products, whereas this proprietary system would, through licensing to various governments around the world.
But, the fact of the matter is that the U.S. Postal Service likes its system just fine and will not change it to someone elses liking. Kinda like the metric system. Even if the new system is better. The same is true for the Royal Mail. We already saw how quick England was to jump on the EC bandwagon and adopt the Euro. Indeed far too many countries will be unwilling to change for this system to go global.
I'd have to sayto NAC Geographic Products; nice try but, no money for you.
That's true, and it is better than nothing. But, wouldn't it be a lot nicer if all of these companies that sell/share your data had an Opt-In policy instead. That way, maybe, your data could be private by default rather than having to call and send letters to all these different organizations in order to "Opt-Out"
Having looked at the how it works section it becomes apparent that this is not the answer. Individual letters are "typed" by chord like movements of both hands. Some what akin to using two joysticks to type. This is neither easy nor intuitive. And that is the biggest sticking point.
Input devices such as keyboards and mice need to be intuitive and easy to use. Keyboards are very intuitive, a panel full of labeled buttons is presented. Pressing one of the buttons prints the label on the screen. Even very young children have no problem figuring out how to use a keyboard. Indeed the only thing you need to "learn" about using a keyboard is the actual key placement as a QWERTY is not intuitive key placement for the uninitiated. Just watch a five year old at the keyboard and you will know what I mean. Then imagine th same five year old trying to figure out the OrbiTouch.
I'm afraid to say that we cannot expect further advancement beyond the regular keyboard. It has been advanced to the fullest useful level possible. To get to the next level a totally different input device will be required, not a keyboard at all. The last such step that we have seen in input devices was the mouse, now >30 years old. The next step in input devices will be either voice recognition or some form of direct mind-to-pc interface. Right now, voice recognition seems to be the closest to reallity but, given its imaturity, it is still a few years off.
Snort in and of itself is not capable of "cleaning" traffic, as you call it. But, as stated in the article, it can't send email alerts by itself either. However, by combining Snort with other applications it becomes increasingly powerful. If you want email alerts, you use swatch and mailx.
If you want your traffic "cleaned" then you must use Snort in combination with IPTables as an inline firewall. This allows Snort to drop, block, reroute, malicious traffic. At this point, Snort is no longer an IDS but, is instead an Intrusion Prevention System(IPS), the latest buzzword acronym to infest the IT world.
Rather than saying that 802.11x is analogous to a network, think of it as being analogous to an RJ-45 wall jack. If you placed a wall jack in a public area of your local shopping mall you would realize that it is insecure and is exposing your network to the world. Knowing this you would take some action to secure that wall jack. You might disable the port at the switch or you may have a firewall set up to allow the wall jack to be used but prevent unauthorized access to your private network.
The same procedure should be used with wireless. Setting up an access point is the same as placing that RJ-45 jack in the shopping mall. You need to isolate the traffic to and from the wireless access point. A firewall could be used for this but, perhaps the best way would be to establish a VPN server between the access point and your private network. This way, unathorized access can only see the front facing VPN server and nothing else on your network.
Don't look for security in 802.11x, it isn't there. At the same time, Cat5e by itself offers no security. The security that you associate with Cat5e comes only from the physical security surrounding the wall jacks and switches. If you expose the wall jacks, it's a whole new ball game.
Frankly, this only proves that the "statistics" about the internet that are constantly being bandied about are pure SWAG (Some Wild Ass Guess) cooked up to support the agenda of the reporter. In recent articles, sorry I'm too lazy to get the links, we have heard that spam accounts for 60% of internet traffic. We have also heard that porn accounts for 60% of internet traffic. Now we hear that p2p accounts of 60% of internet traffic. At 180% one must wonder how there could possibly be any other type of traffic on the internet.
The fact of the matter is that due to the distributed nature of the internet, no one knows what the actual usage breakdown is. Even if you were able to classify all of the traffic that passes through MAE East and West, it still would not be an accurate reprisentation of all internet traffic.
As a few posts have already descibed, VoIP is not the same as voice over the internet. The VoIP that Telus is using is actually being carried over dedicated data circuits which offer, not only high speed (OC-12 +), but also end to end Quality of Service control. Indeed, these dedicated data circuits may well carry some internet traffic as well, but Telus is able to run the voice traffic at a higher priority than the less time sensitive data.
In fact, this is already being done by several carriers including Sprint, MCI, Intermedia, Verizon and probably others.
I have also installed numerous private networks utilizing Nortel or Cisco equipment to carry VoIP over dedicated private networks, usually frame-relay WANs. These VoIP calls are 100% reliable and are perfectly clear.
In two cases standard internet connections (cable, xDSL, frame-relay) were used to carry calls between several different offices in the United States, Canada, Europe and Mexico. These connections are not always as clear as those running on private WANs but, they have proven to be 98% reliable and are indistinguishable from regular land lines, in terms of clarity, 85% of the time.
It is great that they are putting the source online, if they actually do it. But, the fact of the matter is that they are only doing this after being called on the carpet by the FSF. They had no intention of doing this before. That means that they were intentionally or inadvertantly defrauding their customers and the original developers of the code. This then leads to the question of damages. Actually, there is no question of damages but, rather a question of how much and to who?
As a final note cases such as these serve as a warning to any other potentially unscrupulous individuals that may have considered stealing GPL code. Put simply, such a law suite will further legitimize the GPL from a legal perspective and ease future GPL enforcement efforts. Assuming the FSF wins, that is.
It's all about the money. People seem to be unwilling to accept that Linux is such a tiny segment of users, that it is simply not worth the effort for a hardware manufacturer to develop a Linux driver, let alone multiple drivers for Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, etc. with kernel versions 2.4.1, 2.4.8, 2.4.12, 2.4.18, 2.4.21 etc.
These same poeple also refuse to see that the chip manufacturers make their money by selling the chips and the software that drives them. Releasing the chip specs, in many manufacturer's minds, gives their competition an advatage because said competition will have access to the specs too. Theoretically, the competition could then build a similar chip for less or even a better chip without as much expenditure for R&D.
Regardless of the truth on this matter there is simply no economic incentive for the manufacturer to release the specs. It has nothing to do with military secrets or national security or anything else, it is simply a matter of economics. But, all is not lost. As Linux continues to grow and its "market share" increases the economic incentive will increase for manufacturers to develop the drivers or release the specs.
For the low budget solution that you request, I'd say to build your own. Further, I feel that you should use a small "log cabin" design so that it is environmentally friendly, or at least asthetically pleasing. You could build your log cabin out of these inexpensive logs and if the weather gets too cold, just put a match to it.
But, this was a concern when the whole TLD split-up was initially suggested. I'm no fan of Verisign but, Network Solutions and Verisign ran a tight ship. This type of thing just didn't happen. ICANN made a big mistake with their breakup of the registrars and this is likely to become a frequent problem.
The worst part is, with the way the resgistrars are distributed now, the blame game is going to be rediculous with everyone pointing at the other guy. In the past there was no question as to who was responsible for any issues.
You guys want your cake and eat it too. You piss and moan everyday about the "evil gubmint" and their excessive involvement in everything. Then you get your own pork project on the governments radar, in this case spam, and you are overjoyed.
Now the government is starting to look at the spam problem and, if they address it at all, they will deal with it in the typical screwed up clueless and heavy handed fashion that you so love to bitch about.
Make up your minds. If the government is so bad and should keep its hands off the internet then it should keep out of all aspects of the internet. You can't expect to use the government for your own bidding while at the same time keeping them out of your business. After all, that's what everybody else does and you've been bitching about it for years.
I already hold a broader patent for breathing in general which obviously encompasses you paltry attempt to hijack my IP. You better just fork over all your money before I go totally SCO on you and cut off your air.
Until I receive your check, you are here by ordered to cease and desist all repiratory acts!
Perhaps you should read before posting too. From the CBS article "with a 28 percent gain in sales of its tax-preparation software". That is the retail version of Turbo Tax. The 11% referrence that you make is about online tax preparation software. That is their web based tax prep service.
I think you may be a little confused. Your quote regarding an 11% gain and lower than analyst expectations is referring to online tax software. That is their web based tax preparer. However if you re-read the first line in the CBS story you will see "with a 28 percent gain in sales of its tax-preparation software". This is their retail version of Turbo Tax.
I'm shocked that the so called backlash has caused Intuit to do this. It flies in the face of yesterday's earnings news. According to the news Intuit sales on its tax preparation software increased dramatically over the same period last year. My assumtion being that the copy protection was indeed effective and caused many more people than usual to fork out their $14~$35.
This Slashdot story comes as a real shock after yesterdays market news. I'd really like to know some more accurate details on the decision.
I'd say that you should probably talk to JW Smythe. He posted on an article, not too long ago, on bandwidth and porn. From his post he seems like someone who would be able to help you with your question.
Frankly, I don't think that even Slashdot gets as many page views per day, as you do.
when in the end, getting used to a new filesystem is not a hard thing,
Why is it really necessary to "getting used to a new filesystem"? Do you really want to waste time doing this?
At first I was hesitant about the idea of changing the file system but when I saw that they had sym links to the old names for compatibility I said, great. It shouldn't require "getting used to", it is simply an ordered storage system. Anyone should be able to easily navigate the file system and be able to easily determine where they are and what the function is. You realize how important it is when you start working with many different systems. Microsoft, Novell, Linux, AIX, OS X, and many more all have different directory structures and when you are moving from one to the other it becomes a bother to figure out whether you need sys:public\mgmt\c1\1.2 or/usr/local/sbin or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc or what ever. Most especially as people are using graphical interfaces more and more and typing is becoming less critical, descriptive names and files organized by function are a good idea. Sure, it sucks to have to type "c:\documents and settings\administrator\" but is there any question as to what is supposed to be in there? But, I know you'd rather see "/root ", that's descriptive or better yet ~
Wow! $25,000 for 16 GB of RAM disk seems a tad high or widespread adoption.
It's also interesting to note that Microsoft was going to release what they called In Memory Database(IMDB) support in Windows 2000. However, this feature was removed after Windows 2000 RC2 due to technical issues.
Of course it is possible but, the probability is very low, in my opinion. It is already possible for most modern mail clients to automatically encrypt and decrypt mail, making them secure. Yet very few people use PGP or S/MIME. It is already possible for most MTAs to use SSL and/or TLS to encrypt their communications, yet most still do not use this feature. It is already possible for most POP3 and IMAP4 servers to encrypt their communications using SSL and/or TLS as well as having four or more secure authentication options available, yet most still do not use this feature.
It is possible to redesign and rebuild the email infrastructure of the internet in such a way as to completely eliminate spam and forged addresses, it is howeber improbable that good old insecure and vulnerable SMTP will be abandoned. Prior to the internet and standardization on SMTP, there were many secure mail systems around the world. There was also an inability for them to communicate with each other. This is the problem with a new system. In order for it to work and for email to remain a useful tool, everyone will have to switch and everyone will have to do it at the same time. This is highly improbable.
They may well come up with some "standard" for a new internet email system but, nobody is going to use it. Hell ESMTP has been out for years and it still isn't supported by more than half the systems that are on the net.
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Why not just use one of the GPS systems. The problem with oversimplifying like this (as idealists tend to do) is they rarely reflect the reality of actual routing, like, "Gee, it's only 12 miles 'as the crow flies'", yet the route in question winds all over the place.
The real answer is that GPS wouldn't make any money for NAC Geographic Products, whereas this proprietary system would, through licensing to various governments around the world.
But, the fact of the matter is that the U.S. Postal Service likes its system just fine and will not change it to someone elses liking. Kinda like the metric system. Even if the new system is better. The same is true for the Royal Mail. We already saw how quick England was to jump on the EC bandwagon and adopt the Euro. Indeed far too many countries will be unwilling to change for this system to go global.
I'd have to sayto NAC Geographic Products; nice try but, no money for you.
That's true, and it is better than nothing. But, wouldn't it be a lot nicer if all of these companies that sell/share your data had an Opt-In policy instead. That way, maybe, your data could be private by default rather than having to call and send letters to all these different organizations in order to "Opt-Out"
Deregulation, improved customer service. No way! Customer Service sucks. Deregulation has improved pricing and available features.
"We're the phone company. We don't have to care."
Just wait till Bill and Steve hear that their engineers are recommending Linux instead of Windows 2003 Server.
Having looked at the how it works section it becomes apparent that this is not the answer. Individual letters are "typed" by chord like movements of both hands. Some what akin to using two joysticks to type. This is neither easy nor intuitive. And that is the biggest sticking point.
Input devices such as keyboards and mice need to be intuitive and easy to use. Keyboards are very intuitive, a panel full of labeled buttons is presented. Pressing one of the buttons prints the label on the screen. Even very young children have no problem figuring out how to use a keyboard. Indeed the only thing you need to "learn" about using a keyboard is the actual key placement as a QWERTY is not intuitive key placement for the uninitiated. Just watch a five year old at the keyboard and you will know what I mean. Then imagine th same five year old trying to figure out the OrbiTouch.
I'm afraid to say that we cannot expect further advancement beyond the regular keyboard. It has been advanced to the fullest useful level possible. To get to the next level a totally different input device will be required, not a keyboard at all. The last such step that we have seen in input devices was the mouse, now >30 years old. The next step in input devices will be either voice recognition or some form of direct mind-to-pc interface. Right now, voice recognition seems to be the closest to reallity but, given its imaturity, it is still a few years off.
Snort in and of itself is not capable of "cleaning" traffic, as you call it. But, as stated in the article, it can't send email alerts by itself either. However, by combining Snort with other applications it becomes increasingly powerful. If you want email alerts, you use swatch and mailx.
If you want your traffic "cleaned" then you must use Snort in combination with IPTables as an inline firewall. This allows Snort to drop, block, reroute, malicious traffic. At this point, Snort is no longer an IDS but, is instead an Intrusion Prevention System(IPS), the latest buzzword acronym to infest the IT world.
Rather than saying that 802.11x is analogous to a network, think of it as being analogous to an RJ-45 wall jack. If you placed a wall jack in a public area of your local shopping mall you would realize that it is insecure and is exposing your network to the world. Knowing this you would take some action to secure that wall jack. You might disable the port at the switch or you may have a firewall set up to allow the wall jack to be used but prevent unauthorized access to your private network.
The same procedure should be used with wireless. Setting up an access point is the same as placing that RJ-45 jack in the shopping mall. You need to isolate the traffic to and from the wireless access point. A firewall could be used for this but, perhaps the best way would be to establish a VPN server between the access point and your private network. This way, unathorized access can only see the front facing VPN server and nothing else on your network.
Don't look for security in 802.11x, it isn't there. At the same time, Cat5e by itself offers no security. The security that you associate with Cat5e comes only from the physical security surrounding the wall jacks and switches. If you expose the wall jacks, it's a whole new ball game.
Frankly, this only proves that the "statistics" about the internet that are constantly being bandied about are pure SWAG (Some Wild Ass Guess) cooked up to support the agenda of the reporter. In recent articles, sorry I'm too lazy to get the links, we have heard that spam accounts for 60% of internet traffic. We have also heard that porn accounts for 60% of internet traffic. Now we hear that p2p accounts of 60% of internet traffic. At 180% one must wonder how there could possibly be any other type of traffic on the internet.
The fact of the matter is that due to the distributed nature of the internet, no one knows what the actual usage breakdown is. Even if you were able to classify all of the traffic that passes through MAE East and West, it still would not be an accurate reprisentation of all internet traffic.
As a few posts have already descibed, VoIP is not the same as voice over the internet. The VoIP that Telus is using is actually being carried over dedicated data circuits which offer, not only high speed (OC-12 +), but also end to end Quality of Service control. Indeed, these dedicated data circuits may well carry some internet traffic as well, but Telus is able to run the voice traffic at a higher priority than the less time sensitive data.
In fact, this is already being done by several carriers including Sprint, MCI, Intermedia, Verizon and probably others.
I have also installed numerous private networks utilizing Nortel or Cisco equipment to carry VoIP over dedicated private networks, usually frame-relay WANs. These VoIP calls are 100% reliable and are perfectly clear.
In two cases standard internet connections (cable, xDSL, frame-relay) were used to carry calls between several different offices in the United States, Canada, Europe and Mexico. These connections are not always as clear as those running on private WANs but, they have proven to be 98% reliable and are indistinguishable from regular land lines, in terms of clarity, 85% of the time.
You mean something like MySQL?h tml
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-4.0.
Or do you mean like MS SQL?
It is great that they are putting the source online, if they actually do it. But, the fact of the matter is that they are only doing this after being called on the carpet by the FSF. They had no intention of doing this before. That means that they were intentionally or inadvertantly defrauding their customers and the original developers of the code. This then leads to the question of damages. Actually, there is no question of damages but, rather a question of how much and to who?
As a final note cases such as these serve as a warning to any other potentially unscrupulous individuals that may have considered stealing GPL code. Put simply, such a law suite will further legitimize the GPL from a legal perspective and ease future GPL enforcement efforts. Assuming the FSF wins, that is.
It's all about the money. People seem to be unwilling to accept that Linux is such a tiny segment of users, that it is simply not worth the effort for a hardware manufacturer to develop a Linux driver, let alone multiple drivers for Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, etc. with kernel versions 2.4.1, 2.4.8, 2.4.12, 2.4.18, 2.4.21 etc.
These same poeple also refuse to see that the chip manufacturers make their money by selling the chips and the software that drives them. Releasing the chip specs, in many manufacturer's minds, gives their competition an advatage because said competition will have access to the specs too. Theoretically, the competition could then build a similar chip for less or even a better chip without as much expenditure for R&D.
Regardless of the truth on this matter there is simply no economic incentive for the manufacturer to release the specs. It has nothing to do with military secrets or national security or anything else, it is simply a matter of economics. But, all is not lost. As Linux continues to grow and its "market share" increases the economic incentive will increase for manufacturers to develop the drivers or release the specs.
For the low budget solution that you request, I'd say to build your own. Further, I feel that you should use a small "log cabin" design so that it is environmentally friendly, or at least asthetically pleasing. You could build your log cabin out of these inexpensive logs and if the weather gets too cold, just put a match to it.
But, this was a concern when the whole TLD split-up was initially suggested. I'm no fan of Verisign but, Network Solutions and Verisign ran a tight ship. This type of thing just didn't happen. ICANN made a big mistake with their breakup of the registrars and this is likely to become a frequent problem.
The worst part is, with the way the resgistrars are distributed now, the blame game is going to be rediculous with everyone pointing at the other guy. In the past there was no question as to who was responsible for any issues.
You guys want your cake and eat it too. You piss and moan everyday about the "evil gubmint" and their excessive involvement in everything. Then you get your own pork project on the governments radar, in this case spam, and you are overjoyed.
Now the government is starting to look at the spam problem and, if they address it at all, they will deal with it in the typical screwed up clueless and heavy handed fashion that you so love to bitch about.
Make up your minds. If the government is so bad and should keep its hands off the internet then it should keep out of all aspects of the internet. You can't expect to use the government for your own bidding while at the same time keeping them out of your business. After all, that's what everybody else does and you've been bitching about it for years.
I already hold a broader patent for breathing in general which obviously encompasses you paltry attempt to hijack my IP. You better just fork over all your money before I go totally SCO on you and cut off your air.
Until I receive your check, you are here by ordered to cease and desist all repiratory acts!
Maybe you should /read/ the story before posting:
Perhaps you should read before posting too. From the CBS article "with a 28 percent gain in sales of its tax-preparation software". That is the retail version of Turbo Tax. The 11% referrence that you make is about online tax preparation software. That is their web based tax prep service.
I think you may be a little confused. Your quote regarding an 11% gain and lower than analyst expectations is referring to online tax software. That is their web based tax preparer. However if you re-read the first line in the CBS story you will see "with a 28 percent gain in sales of its tax-preparation software". This is their retail version of Turbo Tax.
The fact is that they did see sales growth. Try reading this.
Frankly, I cannot understand what their real motivation for removing the DRM is.
I'm shocked that the so called backlash has caused Intuit to do this. It flies in the face of yesterday's earnings news. According to the news Intuit sales on its tax preparation software increased dramatically over the same period last year. My assumtion being that the copy protection was indeed effective and caused many more people than usual to fork out their $14~$35.
This Slashdot story comes as a real shock after yesterdays market news. I'd really like to know some more accurate details on the decision.
I'd say that you should probably talk to JW Smythe. He posted on an article, not too long ago, on bandwidth and porn. From his post he seems like someone who would be able to help you with your question.
Frankly, I don't think that even Slashdot gets as many page views per day, as you do.
when in the end, getting used to a new filesystem is not a hard thing,
/usr/local/sbin or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc or what ever. Most especially as people are using graphical interfaces more and more and typing is becoming less critical, descriptive names and files organized by function are a good idea. Sure, it sucks to have to type "c:\documents and settings\administrator\" but is there any question as to what is supposed to be in there? But, I know you'd rather see "/root ", that's descriptive or better yet ~
Why is it really necessary to "getting used to a new filesystem"? Do you really want to waste time doing this?
At first I was hesitant about the idea of changing the file system but when I saw that they had sym links to the old names for compatibility I said, great. It shouldn't require "getting used to", it is simply an ordered storage system. Anyone should be able to easily navigate the file system and be able to easily determine where they are and what the function is. You realize how important it is when you start working with many different systems. Microsoft, Novell, Linux, AIX, OS X, and many more all have different directory structures and when you are moving from one to the other it becomes a bother to figure out whether you need sys:public\mgmt\c1\1.2 or
Wow! $25,000 for 16 GB of RAM disk seems a tad high or widespread adoption.
It's also interesting to note that Microsoft was going to release what they called In Memory Database(IMDB) support in Windows 2000. However, this feature was removed after Windows 2000 RC2 due to technical issues.
Of course it is possible but, the probability is very low, in my opinion. It is already possible for most modern mail clients to automatically encrypt and decrypt mail, making them secure. Yet very few people use PGP or S/MIME. It is already possible for most MTAs to use SSL and/or TLS to encrypt their communications, yet most still do not use this feature. It is already possible for most POP3 and IMAP4 servers to encrypt their communications using SSL and/or TLS as well as having four or more secure authentication options available, yet most still do not use this feature.
It is possible to redesign and rebuild the email infrastructure of the internet in such a way as to completely eliminate spam and forged addresses, it is howeber improbable that good old insecure and vulnerable SMTP will be abandoned. Prior to the internet and standardization on SMTP, there were many secure mail systems around the world. There was also an inability for them to communicate with each other. This is the problem with a new system. In order for it to work and for email to remain a useful tool, everyone will have to switch and everyone will have to do it at the same time. This is highly improbable.
They may well come up with some "standard" for a new internet email system but, nobody is going to use it. Hell ESMTP has been out for years and it still isn't supported by more than half the systems that are on the net.