Merchant services have been aware of this type of fraud for a decade or more, this type of fraud is now on an uptick. Thats all.
I remember back in 1996 when I was setting up my company to process credit cards, they had to come and photograph our business, photograph myself, just to PROVE that we were a legit business that would process cards, and all this was sent in with our applicaiton by a trusted THIRD PARTY.
This type of scam was around before identity theft was huge because all the criminals needed was stolen credit card numbers, which have always been plentiful. Next they upped the ante to steal entire identities and went on shopping sprees, then sold the stuff on eBay. Now, they're combining the two scams.
I am a professional speaker, and I am also a security auditor. I get paid to give people an honest opinion of what I think. Even then, I will still ask the parties with whom I am going to speak for input on what they want to get out of a meeting with their group.
It would be silly to think that the US Government didn't have input into Allawi's speech. I believe that all of what was said was true because I do not believe that Allawi would take a script and stand and lie to the congress. He is not a puppet, he is one tough sucker. I believe that ALL the major media outlets ARE NOT being fair on their coverage on how well things are actually going out there.
That being said. Allawi may not be a public speaker and he's about to give the most important speech of his life. It would be silly to think that he didn't practice the test in front of folks that could give some meaningful feedback.
Actually, it posts the pure, unvarnished truth that most people can't handle.
I challenge you, or anyone for that matter to dispute the facts of any article that is posted on the front page.
The truth scares a lot of people, and is scares nobody more than it does the hard-core lefties who label the truth as being 'hate speech' and true hate speech gets labeled as 'passionate dialog'.
If you can't handle the truth, that Islam is being hijacked by Militant Suicide Death Cults, then you're the one with the problem. Does that mean that ALL of Islam is bad? Of course not - but mainstream media refuses to address the truth, that terrorism is pure evil, and Islam has been hijacked by people who practice pure evil under the guise of religeon.
LGF simply puts out the pure, unvarnished truth. If you can't handle the truth, then you must be a leftie.
Hey moderators: Go ahead and mod me down if you can't handle the truth either.
I like reading http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog
The left HATES that site, simply because there is nothing to dispute on it. They don't state any opinion on its main page, they just post articles that relate to national security. They don't spin things there, they just give pure, uncut truth - which also drives the lefies nuts. Every time the lefties call LGF on the carpet, claiming they're racist or homophobic or whatever, when asked for proof all they can retort with is what someone posted as a comment to a story. Thats like saying Cowboy neal is a communist because a commie made a post on slashdot. Gimme a break.
They were key in pointing out the Dan Rathergate forgery scandal, wilst the moonbat lefties whailed and gnashed their teeth professing that the memos are bona fide accurate.. only to get the ol' pie-in-their-face once CBS fessed up to the fraud it tried perpetrating on the public and now claims to be a victim too (yeah right, if they were a victim they would have said so on day 1 of the scandal when it became painfully obvious that the memo was typed in MS Word)
Notice how I don't call lefties Liberals? Trust me, I know the difference. Lefties that call themselves liberals are doing an injustice to the term. Liberal: tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others -- When it comes to conservative thought, lefties are anything but liberal.
Just the sound of chambering a round causes criminals to think twice about what they're doing. After making the purchase, I went to gunbroker.com and purchased some pepper blast and rubber ball ammo. The pepper blast is simply red chili pepper loaded into a shotgun shell that will incapacitate anyone in the vacinity where it is shot.
Rubber ball ammo is the same stuff that police use to disperse rioters, you can shoot people directly, or bounce it off the ground and hit people. Either way, it hurts like hell.
If you've got motion lights and a car alarm, and neither did the trick then I would say that more persuasive tactics should be used.
Car air fresheners, baby. You ever seen the movie Seven? Hang 'em all over the room and put one in front of each blower fan... you'll be able to mask the odors in no time.
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Rebates aside - Best Buy owes me some cash, but I have a bigger point.
People "recycling" hardware.
Best Buy is not taking used products and putting it on the shelf, the customer is.
Allow me to explain.
Joe Q. Customer has an sound card he wants to replace. So, he goes to his local Best Buy and gets a brand new sound card - carefully opens the box, using Un-Do to release the adhesive on the tape, pulls out the new card and puts his old one back in its place. He glues the box shut, re-applies the tape to hold the flap shut, takes it and has it shrink-wrapped at the local Kinkos and then puts the labels back on the shrink wrapping. Looks like a new box.
Then, Joe Q. Customer takes the box back and returns it. The customer service rep doesn't open it up because its "factory sealed". It goes back on the shelf.
Best buy isn't the one ripping you off, they're the victim. The perp counts on you buying the old technology, being the victim and its left to YOU to explain it to Best Buy.
A number of years ago I went to return a factory sealed package of Office 97 software at an office supply store, our office didn't need it. I watched as the Customer Service Manager broke the factory seal and checked all the contents of the package. This was back when a heafty printed manual was included with software.
When I asked what she was doing, she stated that she had customers buying software opening it, taking the CD and Manuals out and replacing it with campbells soup cans, then returning it.
Now that you know, if it happens to you, you can inform the Best Buy weenies that both of you have been scammed.
This is why manufacturers of prodcuts put them in see-through plastic so you can see the product you're buying, and you must destroy the packaging to get the item out.
Lesson: Always pay with a credit card because then you can dispute the charge if the merchant is unwilling to work with you.
The one thing that drove me nuts about setting Joe SixPack, Computer Luser, up on a software based firewall is that it would check with them each time their computer tried making an outbound connection to anything. This happens a lot when the software first gets installed; but a dangerous thing happens.
People get rapidly conditioned to click the yes button, to permit the traffic to pass, because they quickly find out that if they click no, something breaks (i.e. IM Client).
What happens is that users become afraid to click no, for fear of breaking something - which effectivly negates the integrity of the firewall.
It appears that MS has integrated it pretty well into windows (duh, would you expect anything else?), to allow dynamic opening and closing of ports without having to confirm each connection with the user.
No longer does the axiom hold true that states: If you have an infinite number of monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters, given an infinite amount of time, sooner or later one of them will start writing Shakespeare.
According to this study, they will wait to the last possible moment before writing Shakespeare, and if given the magic drug, you only need... what shall we say, half an infinite supply of monkeys?
Just think of the paradigm shift this will cause in those HR types could be very disturbing...
(Are there any mathemeticians out there that can tell me what infinity x.5 equals? I could probably figure it out myself but I don't need the answer till later, and it'll probably only take me 5 minutes to figure out.)
Right now I am typing with both hands on my laptop, in the dark. I cannot see the keys. Sometimes I choose to type with one hand, albeit slowly, but it works when your other hand is holding a kid, or eating ice cream. Other times I stand up and key in letters one at a time using a single finger.
This keyboard offers none of this flexability. Obviously someone thought this to be a good idea, but didn't realize that it should be left at that. They need to meet up with the No Hands Mouse people. http://www.footmouse.com/
Why would I want to go from xx WPM down to 0 when my only option is to use both hands.
You're supporting my point, where no single server can handle 10Gbps, you only see that type of traffic at network aggregation points.
See, routers only look at layers 3&4 information when making a routing decision. The computing end-point, be it a server or a workstation needs to analyze each of the seven OSI layers once it receives the packet. That is far more work than a router has to do, work that on a computer is done by the CPU, controlled by the operating system.
If you want to offload the processing power to a high end network card in an effort to attain 10gb on the server side, then that network card would have to have its own CPU, much like the high-end graphics cards of today - except that graphics cards are much, much simpler. Video cards process exactly what they receive from the machine, then puke it out to the monitor. They do not necessarily send data to the CPU for processing, unless you're doing video capture.
The network card is bi-directional. That CPU on the network card must be able to communicate with the OS as it is fetching and processing information independant of the Core CPU. On top of all this, the PCI bus speeds cannnot even support 10gpbs...
I'm not saying its not gonna happen, I'm just saying that even with todays network connection speeds 99% of people are rolling a marble down a sewer pipe as it is. People that think the answer is 10gbps to the desktop is the answer don't know what the hell they're talking about.
I think it's fairly obvious by now that my experience lies primarily in the corporate environment with database servers and the like.
I do have experience in internet convergence points, but not as much with ISP's serving up video files, or rather the same video again and again. When I think of data transfers, I think of hauling bits from server to workstations, or servers to servers where sustained transfer rates would kill a server - much as you stated; drive access == death.
On servers that can handle 1 gig throughput, as you stated, the CPU is at or near 100%, ad a second CPU, plug in another gigabit uplink and team them. Even still, disk access==death. Its kinda like the indy 500: at 200+ MPH, touch wall==race over.
I'm just saying that even at today's CPU speeds, with huge chunks of ram, trying to handle speeds like this at the server level creates serious scalability problems.
As a CCIE, I have been designing networks for years. I have analyzed traffic to/from desktops and watched traffic to the average desktop never even get above 27mbps. This is due to the average file size of the transfer which is rarely above 10 megabytes. At 10 megs, it only takes a few seconds to get it transfered and it only has a few seconds to get up to speed, by the time it gets all revved up, the file transfer is complete.
High-end workstations such as CAD with gigabit connections, working with 500 mb files, or multi-gigabit video files will occasionally reach 500 to 600 mbps, and even then only for a couple of seconds. At these speeds, power users can use that network connection as if it were a local drive, because at those speeds you are matching the speed at which you're reading/writing data to your local hard drive.
The only time I've ever seen near gigabit traffic at a steady pace was at network servers, where traffic can reach a steady 600mbps on a single gig link - which is maxing out the speed at which the server drive can read/write data to its hard drive. Think of it this way, a 1 gigaBIT link can transfer a 1 gigaBYTE file in about 10 seconds, that's FAST! Conversely, it takes nearly 20-30 seconds just to write that large a file to the hard drive.
Now, on a Cisco 6500 core switch, or a Cisco GSR 12000 where traffic is aggregated, these are the only places where I've actually seen multi-gigabit traffic rates, and that was across the switch fabric - not all directed to a single interface.
The 12000 GSR already has a 10gb interface, it is a single line card that takes up a full slot. It sells for about $60,000 and is used to move data from the switch fabric of one GSR to another GSR, which means you need to put in 2 of them at a mere $120,000 to get the two connected.
Moving to optical links, you can get up to 36Gbps using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing on multimode fiber. This uses several colors of laser light to transmit multiple 'channels' across a single fiber link.
Even at these tremendous speeds, they are only used at traffic aggregation points, again because any network device, even a turbocharged SAN couldn't handle reading/writing at those speeds for anything longer than a quick burst.
I say this: If you think that 10gig/sec is your answer, you're looking at the wrong problem. You can get the performance you need at gigabit rates.
I'm not saying that we'll never need 10gigabit to the desktop, just not until we solve the hard drive bottleneck. Solid state storage could solve the problem, but we'd need to have solid state drives that store 100gb of data in order to match the throughput of the network.
For a long time, outside of academia, Mac's were a rarity. Business' use PC's. MACs were used in multimedia and little else.
What has happened is that Technical colleges have been turning out students that prefered to use the easier mac to get work done -- once they tried entering into the workplace, they were essentially worthless unless re-trained how to use pc's.
By law, in order to get federal funding for student loans, a certain percentage of graduates must get a job in the career that they studied for, otherwise the college would become unavailable for federally backed student loans. With students graduating and being unable to find work, the feds and the business communities came out and said "If you don't teach these students PC's, we won't hire them... if you don't teach them real world skills, you lose federal funding for student loans."
When money talks, people listen. Keep in mind, this is not a debate on which is better. I firmly believe that the Mac is a better machine, especially since OS X came out.
I never said it was odd. Those are your words. Funny? Yes. Necessary? Yes.
What you've stated is exactly how I've recommended they structure their organization. That is to trust the students less than they do the general public.
I agree, we should't outsource American jobs to any country whose populace is unable to engage in critical thinking and thinks that we send our troops of to war "just for fun".
We don't need Canada, Canada needs us. Don't get angry aboot this simple fact, I resent it too.
I've audited everything from banks to schools and I must say that a College campus network environment is by far the most unique environment that I've ever audited.
Corporations, banks, etc all work to protect themselves from the internet, whereas colleges need to protect the internet from their internal users. Its a very interesting paradigm shift.
I've seen universities that literally connect the internet to the DMZ interface on their firewall, and then connect the residential dorm network to the external interface. (Thereby trusting their students less than they do the entire internet.)
That being said; Kids are curious, and they're learning about computers and exploring their environment. If the network admin's have done nothing to protect their network then I say they're at fault, but I highly doubt that is the case. I've worked with all types of educational institutions, from catholic girls schools to Ivy League institutes and none of them were irresponsible when it came to their security.
Nobody is saying that they need to completely lock down the entire network and turn it into a prison camp, they simply need to perform their due-dilligence to protect their network.
The three pilars of computer security consists of Accessability, Availability, and Integrity. For the college, integrity is the most important. You don't want kids creating, modifying, or deleting their attendance information. You want to make sure that information is available to the users and that access to that information is accessable by those whom are authorized to access it.
Yes, it is possible to hack any network and perform arp cache poisoning (just check out the tool Cain & Able @ www.oxid.it) and you can see how powerful these hacking utilities are and how easy it is to capture data like this - intercept IM conversations, decrypt passwords and create a whole lot of problems for responsible admins.
From the sounds of this article, it looks like they came across this Cain&Able utility, played with it, and wrote an article saying that university staff was incompetent when in fact there is little to nothing that an administrator can do to protect against such an attack short of creating a prison camp of a network.
I say that they should make an example of these script kiddies.
Ok fuckstick, I'll make it plain and simple for you so that you can understand it.
I have come to accept the fact that you liberals are impervious to facts and irrefutable evidence. Every single time you are faced with them, you change the subject and/or start calling the person names and placing personal attacks because you CAN'T argue against the facts. (So go ahead, and call me names - change the subject and prattle on, I've come to expect nothing more from you sheeple).
The fact is that there have been 0, that is zero, as in one minus one attacks on America since September 11. Since 9/11 we have rounded up all the shitskins that worship the laughable "religion of peace" and questioned them, detained them when necessary, deported those that weren't here legally and by all evidence prevented all terrorist attacks to this date. With this facutal evidence, what civil liberties have you lost? How many times have you been stopped and quesitoned by the GWB SS troops? I know the answer and I'll give it to you. NONE you dumbfuck, NONE!
The fact is is that we've targeted the terrorists and we're cleaning up and taking out the trash. The fact that it's a republican doing this as opposed to your uber allis drives you fucking nuts.
Get over it...
Go ahead and mod me down, you commie pinko liberal asshole mods, I've got karma to burn.
Twice a year up in Princeton, Minnesota they have a machine gun shoot (www.tankrides.com). Now, regardless of what your opinion of guns are - pulling off 100 rounds from an M-60, AK-47 or an M-16, I tell you, nothing compares.
I stockpile old computer equipment to take up to the shoot so I can put a few rounds of.50 cal through it.
There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.
FuckYou@Asshole.com is the address I use for folks that require one where it doesn't need to be verified.
For verification sites, I use my Hotmail address where only the messages from sites I have selected come through. If you aren't on my allow list then it goes bye-bye.
Now, for compulsory sites like NY Times that requre me to sign up, that requre a username and password to access the news, that verify your information when you do sign up - I use www.BugMeNot.com.
This site gives you valid unames/passwords so you can read online newspapers without having to disclose everything about yourself.
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Merchant services have been aware of this type of fraud for a decade or more, this type of fraud is now on an uptick. Thats all.
I remember back in 1996 when I was setting up my company to process credit cards, they had to come and photograph our business, photograph myself, just to PROVE that we were a legit business that would process cards, and all this was sent in with our applicaiton by a trusted THIRD PARTY.
This type of scam was around before identity theft was huge because all the criminals needed was stolen credit card numbers, which have always been plentiful. Next they upped the ante to steal entire identities and went on shopping sprees, then sold the stuff on eBay. Now, they're combining the two scams.
(I HAVE read the article)
I am a professional speaker, and I am also a security auditor. I get paid to give people an honest opinion of what I think. Even then, I will still ask the parties with whom I am going to speak for input on what they want to get out of a meeting with their group.
It would be silly to think that the US Government didn't have input into Allawi's speech. I believe that all of what was said was true because I do not believe that Allawi would take a script and stand and lie to the congress. He is not a puppet, he is one tough sucker. I believe that ALL the major media outlets ARE NOT being fair on their coverage on how well things are actually going out there.
That being said. Allawi may not be a public speaker and he's about to give the most important speech of his life. It would be silly to think that he didn't practice the test in front of folks that could give some meaningful feedback.
Actually, it posts the pure, unvarnished truth that most people can't handle.
I challenge you, or anyone for that matter to dispute the facts of any article that is posted on the front page.
The truth scares a lot of people, and is scares nobody more than it does the hard-core lefties who label the truth as being 'hate speech' and true hate speech gets labeled as 'passionate dialog'.
If you can't handle the truth, that Islam is being hijacked by Militant Suicide Death Cults, then you're the one with the problem. Does that mean that ALL of Islam is bad? Of course not - but mainstream media refuses to address the truth, that terrorism is pure evil, and Islam has been hijacked by people who practice pure evil under the guise of religeon.
LGF simply puts out the pure, unvarnished truth. If you can't handle the truth, then you must be a leftie.
Hey moderators: Go ahead and mod me down if you can't handle the truth either.
I like reading http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog
The left HATES that site, simply because there is nothing to dispute on it. They don't state any opinion on its main page, they just post articles that relate to national security. They don't spin things there, they just give pure, uncut truth - which also drives the lefies nuts. Every time the lefties call LGF on the carpet, claiming they're racist or homophobic or whatever, when asked for proof all they can retort with is what someone posted as a comment to a story. Thats like saying Cowboy neal is a communist because a commie made a post on slashdot. Gimme a break.
They were key in pointing out the Dan Rathergate forgery scandal, wilst the moonbat lefties whailed and gnashed their teeth professing that the memos are bona fide accurate.. only to get the ol' pie-in-their-face once CBS fessed up to the fraud it tried perpetrating on the public and now claims to be a victim too (yeah right, if they were a victim they would have said so on day 1 of the scandal when it became painfully obvious that the memo was typed in MS Word)
Notice how I don't call lefties Liberals? Trust me, I know the difference. Lefties that call themselves liberals are doing an injustice to the term. Liberal: tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others -- When it comes to conservative thought, lefties are anything but liberal.
Are you telling me that I can now contract a virus just by LOOKING at Porn?!!!
Just the sound of chambering a round causes criminals to think twice about what they're doing. After making the purchase, I went to gunbroker.com and purchased some pepper blast and rubber ball ammo. The pepper blast is simply red chili pepper loaded into a shotgun shell that will incapacitate anyone in the vacinity where it is shot.
Rubber ball ammo is the same stuff that police use to disperse rioters, you can shoot people directly, or bounce it off the ground and hit people. Either way, it hurts like hell.
If you've got motion lights and a car alarm, and neither did the trick then I would say that more persuasive tactics should be used.
Car air fresheners, baby. You ever seen the movie Seven? Hang 'em all over the room and put one in front of each blower fan... you'll be able to mask the odors in no time.
Rebates aside - Best Buy owes me some cash, but I have a bigger point.
People "recycling" hardware.
Best Buy is not taking used products and putting it on the shelf, the customer is.
Allow me to explain.
Joe Q. Customer has an sound card he wants to replace. So, he goes to his local Best Buy and gets a brand new sound card - carefully opens the box, using Un-Do to release the adhesive on the tape, pulls out the new card and puts his old one back in its place. He glues the box shut, re-applies the tape to hold the flap shut, takes it and has it shrink-wrapped at the local Kinkos and then puts the labels back on the shrink wrapping. Looks like a new box.
Then, Joe Q. Customer takes the box back and returns it. The customer service rep doesn't open it up because its "factory sealed". It goes back on the shelf.
Best buy isn't the one ripping you off, they're the victim. The perp counts on you buying the old technology, being the victim and its left to YOU to explain it to Best Buy.
A number of years ago I went to return a factory sealed package of Office 97 software at an office supply store, our office didn't need it. I watched as the Customer Service Manager broke the factory seal and checked all the contents of the package. This was back when a heafty printed manual was included with software.
When I asked what she was doing, she stated that she had customers buying software opening it, taking the CD and Manuals out and replacing it with campbells soup cans, then returning it.
Now that you know, if it happens to you, you can inform the Best Buy weenies that both of you have been scammed.
This is why manufacturers of prodcuts put them in see-through plastic so you can see the product you're buying, and you must destroy the packaging to get the item out.
Lesson: Always pay with a credit card because then you can dispute the charge if the merchant is unwilling to work with you.
The one thing that drove me nuts about setting Joe SixPack, Computer Luser, up on a software based firewall is that it would check with them each time their computer tried making an outbound connection to anything. This happens a lot when the software first gets installed; but a dangerous thing happens.
People get rapidly conditioned to click the yes button, to permit the traffic to pass, because they quickly find out that if they click no, something breaks (i.e. IM Client).
What happens is that users become afraid to click no, for fear of breaking something - which effectivly negates the integrity of the firewall.
It appears that MS has integrated it pretty well into windows (duh, would you expect anything else?), to allow dynamic opening and closing of ports without having to confirm each connection with the user.
No longer does the axiom hold true that states: If you have an infinite number of monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters, given an infinite amount of time, sooner or later one of them will start writing Shakespeare.
.5 equals? I could probably figure it out myself but I don't need the answer till later, and it'll probably only take me 5 minutes to figure out.)
According to this study, they will wait to the last possible moment before writing Shakespeare, and if given the magic drug, you only need... what shall we say, half an infinite supply of monkeys?
Just think of the paradigm shift this will cause in those HR types could be very disturbing...
(Are there any mathemeticians out there that can tell me what infinity x
Right now I am typing with both hands on my laptop, in the dark. I cannot see the keys. Sometimes I choose to type with one hand, albeit slowly, but it works when your other hand is holding a kid, or eating ice cream. Other times I stand up and key in letters one at a time using a single finger.
This keyboard offers none of this flexability. Obviously someone thought this to be a good idea, but didn't realize that it should be left at that. They need to meet up with the No Hands Mouse people. http://www.footmouse.com/
Why would I want to go from xx WPM down to 0 when my only option is to use both hands.
This is good news, but the industry is still full of IT admins that suck ass that think they know what they're doing.
You're supporting my point, where no single server can handle 10Gbps, you only see that type of traffic at network aggregation points.
See, routers only look at layers 3&4 information when making a routing decision. The computing end-point, be it a server or a workstation needs to analyze each of the seven OSI layers once it receives the packet. That is far more work than a router has to do, work that on a computer is done by the CPU, controlled by the operating system.
If you want to offload the processing power to a high end network card in an effort to attain 10gb on the server side, then that network card would have to have its own CPU, much like the high-end graphics cards of today - except that graphics cards are much, much simpler. Video cards process exactly what they receive from the machine, then puke it out to the monitor. They do not necessarily send data to the CPU for processing, unless you're doing video capture.
The network card is bi-directional. That CPU on the network card must be able to communicate with the OS as it is fetching and processing information independant of the Core CPU. On top of all this, the PCI bus speeds cannnot even support 10gpbs...
I'm not saying its not gonna happen, I'm just saying that even with todays network connection speeds 99% of people are rolling a marble down a sewer pipe as it is. People that think the answer is 10gbps to the desktop is the answer don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Quite right, thanks for the reply.
I think it's fairly obvious by now that my experience lies primarily in the corporate environment with database servers and the like.
I do have experience in internet convergence points, but not as much with ISP's serving up video files, or rather the same video again and again. When I think of data transfers, I think of hauling bits from server to workstations, or servers to servers where sustained transfer rates would kill a server - much as you stated; drive access == death.
On servers that can handle 1 gig throughput, as you stated, the CPU is at or near 100%, ad a second CPU, plug in another gigabit uplink and team them. Even still, disk access==death. Its kinda like the indy 500: at 200+ MPH, touch wall==race over.
I'm just saying that even at today's CPU speeds, with huge chunks of ram, trying to handle speeds like this at the server level creates serious scalability problems.
As a CCIE, I have been designing networks for years. I have analyzed traffic to/from desktops and watched traffic to the average desktop never even get above 27mbps. This is due to the average file size of the transfer which is rarely above 10 megabytes. At 10 megs, it only takes a few seconds to get it transfered and it only has a few seconds to get up to speed, by the time it gets all revved up, the file transfer is complete.
High-end workstations such as CAD with gigabit connections, working with 500 mb files, or multi-gigabit video files will occasionally reach 500 to 600 mbps, and even then only for a couple of seconds. At these speeds, power users can use that network connection as if it were a local drive, because at those speeds you are matching the speed at which you're reading/writing data to your local hard drive.
The only time I've ever seen near gigabit traffic at a steady pace was at network servers, where traffic can reach a steady 600mbps on a single gig link - which is maxing out the speed at which the server drive can read/write data to its hard drive. Think of it this way, a 1 gigaBIT link can transfer a 1 gigaBYTE file in about 10 seconds, that's FAST! Conversely, it takes nearly 20-30 seconds just to write that large a file to the hard drive.
Now, on a Cisco 6500 core switch, or a Cisco GSR 12000 where traffic is aggregated, these are the only places where I've actually seen multi-gigabit traffic rates, and that was across the switch fabric - not all directed to a single interface.
The 12000 GSR already has a 10gb interface, it is a single line card that takes up a full slot. It sells for about $60,000 and is used to move data from the switch fabric of one GSR to another GSR, which means you need to put in 2 of them at a mere $120,000 to get the two connected.
Moving to optical links, you can get up to 36Gbps using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing on multimode fiber. This uses several colors of laser light to transmit multiple 'channels' across a single fiber link.
Even at these tremendous speeds, they are only used at traffic aggregation points, again because any network device, even a turbocharged SAN couldn't handle reading/writing at those speeds for anything longer than a quick burst.
I say this: If you think that 10gig/sec is your answer, you're looking at the wrong problem. You can get the performance you need at gigabit rates.
I'm not saying that we'll never need 10gigabit to the desktop, just not until we solve the hard drive bottleneck. Solid state storage could solve the problem, but we'd need to have solid state drives that store 100gb of data in order to match the throughput of the network.
For a long time, outside of academia, Mac's were a rarity. Business' use PC's. MACs were used in multimedia and little else.
... if you don't teach them real world skills, you lose federal funding for student loans."
What has happened is that Technical colleges have been turning out students that prefered to use the easier mac to get work done -- once they tried entering into the workplace, they were essentially worthless unless re-trained how to use pc's.
By law, in order to get federal funding for student loans, a certain percentage of graduates must get a job in the career that they studied for, otherwise the college would become unavailable for federally backed student loans. With students graduating and being unable to find work, the feds and the business communities came out and said "If you don't teach these students PC's, we won't hire them
When money talks, people listen. Keep in mind, this is not a debate on which is better. I firmly believe that the Mac is a better machine, especially since OS X came out.
I never said it was odd. Those are your words. Funny? Yes. Necessary? Yes.
What you've stated is exactly how I've recommended they structure their organization. That is to trust the students less than they do the general public.
I agree, we should't outsource American jobs to any country whose populace is unable to engage in critical thinking and thinks that we send our troops of to war "just for fun".
We don't need Canada, Canada needs us. Don't get angry aboot this simple fact, I resent it too.
Miss Thisslebottom, I didn't know you got onto Slashdot! ;-)
I actually knew that, but that's what I get when I post articles after midnight.
Oh, and the word 'to' is spelled as written here, not as 'ti'.
I've audited everything from banks to schools and I must say that a College campus network environment is by far the most unique environment that I've ever audited.
Corporations, banks, etc all work to protect themselves from the internet, whereas colleges need to protect the internet from their internal users. Its a very interesting paradigm shift.
I've seen universities that literally connect the internet to the DMZ interface on their firewall, and then connect the residential dorm network to the external interface. (Thereby trusting their students less than they do the entire internet.)
That being said; Kids are curious, and they're learning about computers and exploring their environment. If the network admin's have done nothing to protect their network then I say they're at fault, but I highly doubt that is the case. I've worked with all types of educational institutions, from catholic girls schools to Ivy League institutes and none of them were irresponsible when it came to their security.
Nobody is saying that they need to completely lock down the entire network and turn it into a prison camp, they simply need to perform their due-dilligence to protect their network.
The three pilars of computer security consists of Accessability, Availability, and Integrity. For the college, integrity is the most important. You don't want kids creating, modifying, or deleting their attendance information. You want to make sure that information is available to the users and that access to that information is accessable by those whom are authorized to access it.
Yes, it is possible to hack any network and perform arp cache poisoning (just check out the tool Cain & Able @ www.oxid.it) and you can see how powerful these hacking utilities are and how easy it is to capture data like this - intercept IM conversations, decrypt passwords and create a whole lot of problems for responsible admins.
From the sounds of this article, it looks like they came across this Cain&Able utility, played with it, and wrote an article saying that university staff was incompetent when in fact there is little to nothing that an administrator can do to protect against such an attack short of creating a prison camp of a network.
I say that they should make an example of these script kiddies.
Ok fuckstick, I'll make it plain and simple for you so that you can understand it.
I have come to accept the fact that you liberals are impervious to facts and irrefutable evidence. Every single time you are faced with them, you change the subject and/or start calling the person names and placing personal attacks because you CAN'T argue against the facts. (So go ahead, and call me names - change the subject and prattle on, I've come to expect nothing more from you sheeple).
The fact is that there have been 0, that is zero, as in one minus one attacks on America since September 11. Since 9/11 we have rounded up all the shitskins that worship the laughable "religion of peace" and questioned them, detained them when necessary, deported those that weren't here legally and by all evidence prevented all terrorist attacks to this date. With this facutal evidence, what civil liberties have you lost? How many times have you been stopped and quesitoned by the GWB SS troops? I know the answer and I'll give it to you. NONE you dumbfuck, NONE!
The fact is is that we've targeted the terrorists and we're cleaning up and taking out the trash. The fact that it's a republican doing this as opposed to your uber allis drives you fucking nuts.
Get over it...
Go ahead and mod me down, you commie pinko liberal asshole mods, I've got karma to burn.
DOH!!! it's www.tankride.com (no 's')
Twice a year up in Princeton, Minnesota they have a machine gun shoot (www.tankrides.com). Now, regardless of what your opinion of guns are - pulling off 100 rounds from an M-60, AK-47 or an M-16, I tell you, nothing compares.
.50 cal through it.
I stockpile old computer equipment to take up to the shoot so I can put a few rounds of
There's nothing like pulling the trigger on a Barrett 50 cal sniper rifle and watching that old server that gave you years of grief explode.
It's beautiful.
On one hand he says that the TCO of a Windows server is lower because it requires fewer admins to manage/maintain.
Then he comes out and states with equal fervor that Open Source (read: Linux) causes the loss of jobs.
So, which is it, Mr. Billy Boy? You can't have it both ways.
FuckYou@Asshole.com is the address I use for folks that require one where it doesn't need to be verified.
For verification sites, I use my Hotmail address where only the messages from sites I have selected come through. If you aren't on my allow list then it goes bye-bye.
Now, for compulsory sites like NY Times that requre me to sign up, that requre a username and password to access the news, that verify your information when you do sign up - I use www.BugMeNot.com.
This site gives you valid unames/passwords so you can read online newspapers without having to disclose everything about yourself.