At least in America there is/CHOICE/ in the affordable broadband market sector.
In.au, we have ONE carrier providing something in the order of 90% of the broadband connections' layer 1/2 infrastructure (with some smaller DSLAM operators and two other cable cos, one of whom is regional only).
Additionally, nobody LIKES this one carrier, who up until just recently were actually charging their wholesale customers (ISPs who lease DSLAM ports via PPPoA/L2TP) more per connection than their retail customers. This ended when the ACCC (.au equivalent of the US FTC) served them with a competition notice, which they are now currently trying to work their way out of.
Yes, America has it good, comparatively. And, unlike Korea, they're not responsible for ~5/6 of all reported open proxy hosts.
It would be nice, now, if somebody wrote some SIP software that could take advantage of this hack. A Treo would make a sexy as hell cordless phone, which presumably would then be able to roam onto GPRS/GSM if and when the wifi network is unavailable.
One would hope that if somebody actually took the initiative in installing Firefox, or similar, that they would know that the MS tool is, in fact, lying.
That said, dollars to donuts that nobody who'd install FF or its ilk would pay Microsoft for something they can get for free off Lavasoft/Spybot.
The all-seeing eye controls a lot of these satellites. They're used for missions such as the illuminati's plot to blow up Houston, TX on December 27 (which was aborted due to the tsunami/earthquake overshadowing any media circus this would have attracted) in order to justify invading Iran.
At least, that's what my friendly local conspiracy nut tells me, so it must be true.
Why not? Other animals kill other animals all the time. Even their own species. Heck some animals eat their own young. What makes us different? Why do we have a natural right to life, and those other species do not?
Quite simple. If you posit that you have any rights whatsoever (and that is a simple, deep structures within the brain assumption), then it must be inferred that I have the same rights. Essentially, a zero-sum calculus exists whereby we may all exist within an equilibrium. The big difference between ourselves and lesser beings which do, in fact, eat themselves is merely a cognitive one; we are one of the only species which is cognizant of its own right to exist. "I am here, I am a thinking thing, I wish to maintain this state." (to paraphrase Rene Descartes). If I wish to maintain this state, it is natural to assume that you, likewise, wish to do so.
Natural rights come from God if we're religious, and are a figment of our imagination if we are not. And we know this for the very pragmatic reason that they must be enforced by society, usually through government, if they are to have any value.
Natural rights may, in fact, be handed down from Rod if we believe in him. Those of us who are less certain prefer to rely on the fact that we know that WE exist, and it is simply a matter of invoking Occam and his Gillette to assume that others do, also.
The only reason that you don't have a natural right to murder, rape, steal from or enslave me, is because I have a natural right NOT to be killed, raped, burgled or enslaved. No other reason.
There is no morality inherent in that statement, and no need to invoke religion, morality or ethics in order to justify the sensible laws against such things which exist within society.
Where peoples' screwball senses of morality come into the picture is for more borderline issues such as the 'war on drugs' (which IMO is a complete sham.) All of a sudden, something which I do in the privacy of my home, for instance, becomes a criminal offense. I haven't violated anybody else's natural rights within the process, so it's not a natural logical leap to presuppose that drugs SHOULD in fact be proscribed. Thus, the State invokes morals and attempts to justify the war on drugs in those terms.
If the church and the state had been kept completely separate within western society from day one, there would likely BE no war on drugs.
Curiously enough, though, abortion is a great example of an issue which has become a moral issue, but is not fundamentally one. Since the answer to the question 'is a 10 week old foetus old enough to be considered an entity unto itself?' generates only pointless conjecture from both sides of the debate, there is no amoral way to justify either standpoint.
I have a second trimester pregnant girlfriend I would like to introduce to your open source surgeon.
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<quoth the poster>After all, if you use dialup, the first hop of your connection is typically TCP or UDP over PPP (Point to Point Protocol) and the ISP acts as a gateway from the PPP to the IP semantics.</quoth>
No. Your connection to your ISP is IP encapsulated in PPP frames. PPP is a session-based, authenticated layer 2 framing type, loosely based on HDLC. The PPP frames are discarded at the ISP's NAS/LNS, which then forwards the inner IP goo to the correct destination (usually its default route.)
What's needed is every ISP having a consistently responsive abuse department. From what i've seen, everbody except the largest tier-1 ISPs do, with most of them having a substantive presence on abuse and anti-spam lists, and responsive to complaints.
It's the major.us tier-1 ISPs and most of.cn/.kr that are seriously culpable these days; from what I've seen working in the anti-spam arena these last six months, uu.net/MCI and their peers don't give a shit because, well, nobody's going to refuse to peer with them if they host spammers. Same thing in.cn/.kr, their broadband industries net the larger.us providers large $ over the longer term, and it's not in their best interests to be overly proactive.
Which is a shame; KISA (.kr equivalent of the FCC/ACA/etc) have got a great early-warning system set up, which shows transit traffic between.kr ASs in real time; we were given a demo at AusCERT 2004. The fact that they won't use this more proactively is depressing.
About 40% of my current spam corpus is from korea, the other 60% is about 30/30/40% china, uu.net, and comcast/verizon open proxies.
There actually is a slight cost differential there for providing a faster port: ATM bandwidth between the MUX and the Telstra LAC, and again on the AGVC between the LAC and the ISP's LNS. Admittedly, the ISP winds up paying to subsidise some of this in per-megabit AGVC fees, but the MUX->LAC ATM cloud has a finite bandwidth, which needs to be kept below a certain level of contention.
ISPs aren't going to have a choice. The bottom-level object in the IPv6 hierachy is the/48. This is what is meant to be handed out to end users. You get 16 bits of subnets, and 64 bits of (usually EUI64) host per subnet.
Sure, ISPs can allocate you a dynamic/128 every time you connect, and attempt to charge you for a/64 (realistically the smallest block you can treat as its own entity,) but other ISPs will give out/48s for free because it isn't costing them anything, and the free market will reassert itself.
IPv6 is necessary, and it IS being rolled out, albeit incrementally. How much further along is IPv6 connectivity now than it was even 18 months ago?
This is the crux of it, though. You would think that anybody smart enough to do this would be smart enough to realise the consequences of their actions.
Especially in the wake of Blaster (03/08) and Sapphire (03/02,) both of which caused untold network problems and bitching from all sections of industry and government. Sasser was designed, from the ground up, to be fundamentally similar in effect, if not in exploit (the LSASS exploit is a lot less fundamental than the RPC one; a system must have RestrictAnonymous set to 1 or lower for it to even work without the patch.)
At the end of the day, though, people prove time and time again that being brilliant in one area does not an intelligent, rounded mind make.
If by 'UNIX' you mean Operating Systems that have been audited to comply with TOG's Single UNIX Specification, then they're probably right.
I mean.. They have OpenServer, Unixware; Sun has Solaris Intel (and Solaris Hammer in development, Hammer counts as AMD for the purposes of this comparison,) there's Coherent, and then there's Xenix.
If by 'UNIX' you mean genetic descendents, then i'm sure NetBSD and likely other BSDs have got SCO eclipsed by many orders of magnitude.
The punctuation in the first paragraph is shot. There is a comma where there shouldn't be.
Big companies (especially big companies owned by Scientology, such as earthlink) generally hire copy-writers and policy-analysts to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen.
Few jobs ago we had the misfortune to have incompetent management purchasing about 50 HP e-Vectras for staff without high-end computing requirements. (The e-vectra, in case you were unaware, was really small, and one of the space-saving considerations was moving the power supply outside the case, and putting a round DC jack on the back to accept power from a power brick.)
Fair enough, except that every employee also had a Cisco 7960 with a -48V power supply.
You can see where this is going. One of the not-so-tech-savvy office-admin types was moving desk, and decided to plug everything in herself instead of ringing the 'desk. Nice move.
When I opened the case after one of the desktop guys went and collected it, there was shredded condensor guts all through it (it looked kind of like metallic confetti.) By all accounts, every single capacitor on the entire motherboard had smoked.
I still have the motherboard as a souvenir. HP didn't want it back, and just charged us for a new one (they were only about $A500 at the time by virtue of being so crappy.)
The phone obviously didn't _work_ at 9V, but there didn't appear to be any damage to it either.
Sparcstation 4, 128MB ram, 4.3GB HP SCA disk. Bought it for $40 off some dude on ebay, put NetBSD on it, never needed to be touched except to patch libssl a couple of times when SSH vulnerabilities surfaced.
WHICHEVER FUCKING FAGGOT MODs rated this -1 have obviously never had to deal with an abused public utility system crawling up the walls for funding and subsidies when there's been no money for real budget items.
Most weather stations in.au already provide data which is accessible via IP utilising some global code or other which they obtain from some aviation body (most decent weather stations are collocated at major airports.)
The fact that people are bitching and moaning about having to pay for weather data means one of two things
1. They're in aviation, and they're cheapskates 2. They're not in aviation. They can't be fucked opening the curtains and glaring at the day outside.
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At least in America there is /CHOICE/ in the affordable broadband market sector.
.au, we have ONE carrier providing something in the order of 90% of the broadband connections' layer 1/2 infrastructure (with some smaller DSLAM operators and two other cable cos, one of whom is regional only).
In
Additionally, nobody LIKES this one carrier, who up until just recently were actually charging their wholesale customers (ISPs who lease DSLAM ports via PPPoA/L2TP) more per connection than their retail customers. This ended when the ACCC (.au equivalent of the US FTC) served them with a competition notice, which they are now currently trying to work their way out of.
Yes, America has it good, comparatively. And, unlike Korea, they're not responsible for ~5/6 of all reported open proxy hosts.
Goatse O's?
Surely you mean Cheerioatses
It would be nice, now, if somebody wrote some SIP software that could take advantage of this hack. A Treo would make a sexy as hell cordless phone, which presumably would then be able to roam onto GPRS/GSM if and when the wifi network is unavailable.
One would hope that if somebody actually took the initiative in installing Firefox, or similar, that they would know that the MS tool is, in fact, lying.
That said, dollars to donuts that nobody who'd install FF or its ilk would pay Microsoft for something they can get for free off Lavasoft/Spybot.
The all-seeing eye controls a lot of these satellites. They're used for missions such as the illuminati's plot to blow up Houston, TX on December 27 (which was aborted due to the tsunami/earthquake overshadowing any media circus this would have attracted) in order to justify invading Iran.
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At least, that's what my friendly local conspiracy nut tells me, so it must be true.
(reference: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=25
Why not? Other animals kill other animals all the time. Even their own species. Heck some animals eat their own young. What makes us different? Why do we have a natural right to life, and those other species do not?
Quite simple. If you posit that you have any rights whatsoever (and that is a simple, deep structures within the brain assumption), then it must be inferred that I have the same rights. Essentially, a zero-sum calculus exists whereby we may all exist within an equilibrium. The big difference between ourselves and lesser beings which do, in fact, eat themselves is merely a cognitive one; we are one of the only species which is cognizant of its own right to exist. "I am here, I am a thinking thing, I wish to maintain this state." (to paraphrase Rene Descartes). If I wish to maintain this state, it is natural to assume that you, likewise, wish to do so.
Natural rights come from God if we're religious, and are a figment of our imagination if we are not. And we know this for the very pragmatic reason that they must be enforced by society, usually through government, if they are to have any value.
Natural rights may, in fact, be handed down from Rod if we believe in him. Those of us who are less certain prefer to rely on the fact that we know that WE exist, and it is simply a matter of invoking Occam and his Gillette to assume that others do, also.
The only reason that you don't have a natural right to murder, rape, steal from or enslave me, is because I have a natural right NOT to be killed, raped, burgled or enslaved. No other reason.
There is no morality inherent in that statement, and no need to invoke religion, morality or ethics in order to justify the sensible laws against such things which exist within society.
Where peoples' screwball senses of morality come into the picture is for more borderline issues such as the 'war on drugs' (which IMO is a complete sham.) All of a sudden, something which I do in the privacy of my home, for instance, becomes a criminal offense. I haven't violated anybody else's natural rights within the process, so it's not a natural logical leap to presuppose that drugs SHOULD in fact be proscribed. Thus, the State invokes morals and attempts to justify the war on drugs in those terms.
If the church and the state had been kept completely separate within western society from day one, there would likely BE no war on drugs.
Curiously enough, though, abortion is a great example of an issue which has become a moral issue, but is not fundamentally one. Since the answer to the question 'is a 10 week old foetus old enough to be considered an entity unto itself?' generates only pointless conjecture from both sides of the debate, there is no amoral way to justify either standpoint.
I have a second trimester pregnant girlfriend I would like to introduce to your open source surgeon.
<quoth the poster>After all, if you use dialup, the first hop of your connection is typically TCP or UDP over PPP (Point to Point Protocol) and the ISP acts as a gateway from the PPP to the IP semantics.</quoth>
No. Your connection to your ISP is IP encapsulated in PPP frames. PPP is a session-based, authenticated layer 2 framing type, loosely based on HDLC. The PPP frames are discarded at the ISP's NAS/LNS, which then forwards the inner IP goo to the correct destination (usually its default route.)
Yeh. 6346 is the Gnutella port.
You'll want to forward ports 6881 thru 6889 from your public IP through to the machine running BitTorrent.
I'll reiterate at this point that I was talking about the spam that I receive (at my .au address, which wasn't explicitly mentioned.)
.kr.
Additionally, whilst the US is sitting around 70%, the majority of US sourced spam is sent through bogus proxies, many of which are in
What's needed is every ISP having a consistently responsive abuse department. From what i've seen, everbody except the largest tier-1 ISPs do, with most of them having a substantive presence on abuse and anti-spam lists, and responsive to complaints.
.us tier-1 ISPs and most of .cn/.kr that are seriously culpable these days; from what I've seen working in the anti-spam arena these last six months, uu.net/MCI and their peers don't give a shit because, well, nobody's going to refuse to peer with them if they host spammers. Same thing in .cn/.kr, their broadband industries net the larger .us providers large $ over the longer term, and it's not in their best interests to be overly proactive.
.kr ASs in real time; we were given a demo at AusCERT 2004. The fact that they won't use this more proactively is depressing.
It's the major
Which is a shame; KISA (.kr equivalent of the FCC/ACA/etc) have got a great early-warning system set up, which shows transit traffic between
About 40% of my current spam corpus is from korea, the other 60% is about 30/30/40% china, uu.net, and comcast/verizon open proxies.
There actually is a slight cost differential there for providing a faster port: ATM bandwidth between the MUX and the Telstra LAC, and again on the AGVC between the LAC and the ISP's LNS. Admittedly, the ISP winds up paying to subsidise some of this in per-megabit AGVC fees, but the MUX->LAC ATM cloud has a finite bandwidth, which needs to be kept below a certain level of contention.
Groundbreaking new robot crucified by Romans.
Film at Eleven.
ISPs aren't going to have a choice. The bottom-level object in the IPv6 hierachy is the /48. This is what is meant to be handed out to end users. You get 16 bits of subnets, and 64 bits of (usually EUI64) host per subnet.
/128 every time you connect, and attempt to charge you for a /64 (realistically the smallest block you can treat as its own entity,) but other ISPs will give out /48s for free because it isn't costing them anything, and the free market will reassert itself.
Sure, ISPs can allocate you a dynamic
IPv6 is necessary, and it IS being rolled out, albeit incrementally. How much further along is IPv6 connectivity now than it was even 18 months ago?
This is the crux of it, though. You would think that anybody smart enough to do this would be smart enough to realise the consequences of their actions.
Especially in the wake of Blaster (03/08) and Sapphire (03/02,) both of which caused untold network problems and bitching from all sections of industry and government. Sasser was designed, from the ground up, to be fundamentally similar in effect, if not in exploit (the LSASS exploit is a lot less fundamental than the RPC one; a system must have RestrictAnonymous set to 1 or lower for it to even work without the patch.)
At the end of the day, though, people prove time and time again that being brilliant in one area does not an intelligent, rounded mind make.
I think John Nash is the father of game theory.
In other news, 86% of slashdotters have no sense of humour what so ever.
If by 'UNIX' you mean Operating Systems that have been audited to comply with TOG's Single UNIX Specification, then they're probably right.
I mean.. They have OpenServer, Unixware; Sun has Solaris Intel (and Solaris Hammer in development, Hammer counts as AMD for the purposes of this comparison,) there's Coherent, and then there's Xenix.
If by 'UNIX' you mean genetic descendents, then i'm sure NetBSD and likely other BSDs have got SCO eclipsed by many orders of magnitude.
The punctuation in the first paragraph is shot. There is a comma where there shouldn't be.
Big companies (especially big companies owned by Scientology, such as earthlink) generally hire copy-writers and policy-analysts to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen.
Few jobs ago we had the misfortune to have incompetent management purchasing about 50 HP e-Vectras for staff without high-end computing requirements. (The e-vectra, in case you were unaware, was really small, and one of the space-saving considerations was moving the power supply outside the case, and putting a round DC jack on the back to accept power from a power brick.)
Fair enough, except that every employee also had a Cisco 7960 with a -48V power supply.
You can see where this is going. One of the not-so-tech-savvy office-admin types was moving desk, and decided to plug everything in herself instead of ringing the 'desk. Nice move.
When I opened the case after one of the desktop guys went and collected it, there was shredded condensor guts all through it (it looked kind of like metallic confetti.) By all accounts, every single capacitor on the entire motherboard had smoked.
I still have the motherboard as a souvenir. HP didn't want it back, and just charged us for a new one (they were only about $A500 at the time by virtue of being so crappy.)
The phone obviously didn't _work_ at 9V, but there didn't appear to be any damage to it either.
12:55PM up 618 days, 17:52, 15 users, load averages: 0.92, 0.93, 0.70
Sparcstation 4, 128MB ram, 4.3GB HP SCA disk. Bought it for $40 off some dude on ebay, put NetBSD on it, never needed to be touched except to patch libssl a couple of times when SSH vulnerabilities surfaced.
Oh shit.
/. when I'm pissed.
I should avoid posting to
Sorry everyone.
WHICHEVER FUCKING FAGGOT MODs rated this -1 have obviously never had to deal with an abused public utility system crawling up the walls for funding and subsidies when there's been no money for real budget items.
SCREW YOUR HEADS ON RIGHT!
This whole dialog is fucking retarded.
.au already provide data which is accessible via IP utilising some global code or other which they obtain from some aviation body (most decent weather stations are collocated at major airports.)
Most weather stations in
The fact that people are bitching and moaning about having to pay for weather data means one of two things
1. They're in aviation, and they're cheapskates
2. They're not in aviation. They can't be fucked opening the curtains and glaring at the day outside.
Either way, this is a non-issue.