Purchasing a competing version of everything that already exists sounds more like IBM in its doldrums than Microsoft in its heyday. They'd be best served by choosing a core competency and sticking to it.
Microsoft today is more evil than when Ballmer was running things into the ground.
Yes, I know, let's get the jokes out of the way first.
Now, seriously, EHF is going to be seriously attenuated by windows and walls, being pure line of sight communication. I suppose the assumption is that people would use wifi for anything indoors? What if your windows don't face a local tower? Multiplicity of towers to avoid that situation? Increased infrastructure costs associated with this?
Combine the two, and a smaller botnet is sufficient to accomplish your goal. Regardless, it's still another threat that we didn't need. If the RFC were unimplemented, we'd be better off.
The DOS possibilities are ignored by you. This is a significant problem. Why bother with a DDOS via a botnet when you can do this kind of thing from a single host?
I remember that the old trade magazines for the computer industry (pre-WWW) used to have those kind of checklist sheets for types of advertising, and were careful to only allow ads for stuff that their clients would find useful.
I think you made a "who" a "what". And I understand entirely what a DMZ is. It's exactly where a device like this belongs, with carefully defined ability to communicate with particular hosts - and assuredly with no inbound access to the internal network. If you can't clearly define what communications it needs, it's getting removed from the network.
I shove anything like this on a DMZ with limited access. If it doesn't work without unfettered access to the Internet, I return it. Then again, I consider all devices untrusted unless I have complete control, including the ability to flash them to an arbitrary firmware.
The IoT isn't going to make much progress with me.
Of course it's the MBAs fault. Their very raison de etre is calculating the costs of additional redundancy, and comparing that against the costs of a global operations failure and the ensuing loss of business due to carrier unreliability. Then, presenting this data to a decision maker for action.
There are only two ways that they can get off. One way is if the decision maker chose to accept the risk, knowing it fully. The other way is that if the IT department didn't advise them of the risk. I evaluate the chances of the IT department being dumb enough to not know what would happen as near zero.
You're left with MBAs who failed to present the business case properly or a CEO who is a retard. Choose one.
I came here to basically say this. I mean, i've been around this block once or twice. Actual trolls are unaffected by the ban hammer. They'll make new accounts and create lots of duplicate accounts from different proxies and such to accomplish their goals.
The interesting part is that this isn't trolling, really, at least not in the Bartle sense of sociopathic "killer" personalities effectively destroying a social environment. This is a political problem more than anything else. It seems that it revolves around the alt-right, which is in itself a reaction to modern leftism. It seems obvious, now, that the reaction to the moral certitude of the modern Left that it has dominance would result in a Right that doesn't care about your morals. Essentially, the people that Twitter wants to keep as users are offended by the presentation of the alt-right point of view.
I believe the use of the ban hammer in this way is just as useless as trying to get rid of trolls with it, but there is a bit of nuance here. I think this is more evidence of the ultimate doom of the current constitution of modern leftism - its inability to tolerate dissent.
Watching Milo and people like Cernovich in action on Twitter was the only reason I even had an account. They are in fact the most interesting thing on Twitter, ironically enough.
True, most people have trouble putting their shoes on in the morning and find talking about other people's sports exploits to be enjoyable. But they can code.
The interesting part is that doing that results in the pricing of the units being reduced due to the fact that people with money don't want to live next to the riffraff. Also, it assures that in certain areas, the permits won't get issued for the construction.
I say this as a former comic book fan in my youth, but it tickles my fancy nowadays to hear people getting all uptight about the quality of either the comic books themselves or the movies based on them. Look back on it in 30 years and it's pretty much all shit. Even the things I loved like Jim Starlin's Metamorphosis Alpha/Dreadstar haven't aged very well. The Claremont/Byrne X-Men are mediocre at best, and we thought they were so great back in the 80s.
Another thing to consider is representation as a percentage of the population where Apple has facilities. For instance, Baltimore has a lot of black people. But Apple, to my knowledge, only has one Apple Store in the metro area. So even if they pack the Towson Apple Store with 90% black people (an over-representation, to be sure), that still doesn't fix their overall numbers, which probably have a lot to do with having facilities in places like Cupertino, which is something like 60% Asian and 29.3% white, with a mere 0.6% black.
I wonder if people are advocating busing in people from remote locations to "fix" the balance?
It's a depressing thought, but after a couple marriages and lots of women, I only have fond feelings for motherhood, not women as a whole. I was a cast-iron asshole in my 20s, but the women were probably a notch or two worse in many cases. A lot worse in one or two. Now i'm 47 and the hormone cloud has dispersed, and I have a hard time (ha) getting interested in a conversation with most women. The occasional bright one still brings out some mild interest but the vast majority are boring as hell, because I know where it ends, and it isn't pretty at all.
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I don't know why this is downmodded. The AC is right.
Thanks for the correction!
Purchasing a competing version of everything that already exists sounds more like IBM in its doldrums than Microsoft in its heyday. They'd be best served by choosing a core competency and sticking to it.
Microsoft today is more evil than when Ballmer was running things into the ground.
Yes, I know, let's get the jokes out of the way first.
Now, seriously, EHF is going to be seriously attenuated by windows and walls, being pure line of sight communication. I suppose the assumption is that people would use wifi for anything indoors? What if your windows don't face a local tower? Multiplicity of towers to avoid that situation? Increased infrastructure costs associated with this?
This doesn't sound likely in the near term.
"cycles" for dummies.
Combine the two, and a smaller botnet is sufficient to accomplish your goal. Regardless, it's still another threat that we didn't need. If the RFC were unimplemented, we'd be better off.
The good idea fairy(tm) strikes again.
The DOS possibilities are ignored by you. This is a significant problem. Why bother with a DDOS via a botnet when you can do this kind of thing from a single host?
Have you cleaned the fan out lately? It'll probably help, and you'll find crud in there that you hardly imagined possible.
I remember that the old trade magazines for the computer industry (pre-WWW) used to have those kind of checklist sheets for types of advertising, and were careful to only allow ads for stuff that their clients would find useful.
So what were you on about?
I have no interest in your ads, so therefore I will block them using the numerous technical means available.
I'm sure everyone's going to be falling all over themselves feeling sorry for him.
At least now Oracle has something to spend those exorbitant license fees on.
I think you made a "who" a "what". And I understand entirely what a DMZ is. It's exactly where a device like this belongs, with carefully defined ability to communicate with particular hosts - and assuredly with no inbound access to the internal network. If you can't clearly define what communications it needs, it's getting removed from the network.
Even more than the name Hulu did.
I suppose Verizon will learn this the hard way.
Meanwhile, the tards are out putting firecrackers in frogs' mouths and kicking the dog.
(yes, propensity to violence is negatively correlated with intelligence, surprise surprise)
I shove anything like this on a DMZ with limited access. If it doesn't work without unfettered access to the Internet, I return it. Then again, I consider all devices untrusted unless I have complete control, including the ability to flash them to an arbitrary firmware.
The IoT isn't going to make much progress with me.
Of course it's the MBAs fault. Their very raison de etre is calculating the costs of additional redundancy, and comparing that against the costs of a global operations failure and the ensuing loss of business due to carrier unreliability. Then, presenting this data to a decision maker for action.
There are only two ways that they can get off. One way is if the decision maker chose to accept the risk, knowing it fully. The other way is that if the IT department didn't advise them of the risk. I evaluate the chances of the IT department being dumb enough to not know what would happen as near zero.
You're left with MBAs who failed to present the business case properly or a CEO who is a retard. Choose one.
I came here to basically say this. I mean, i've been around this block once or twice. Actual trolls are unaffected by the ban hammer. They'll make new accounts and create lots of duplicate accounts from different proxies and such to accomplish their goals.
The interesting part is that this isn't trolling, really, at least not in the Bartle sense of sociopathic "killer" personalities effectively destroying a social environment. This is a political problem more than anything else. It seems that it revolves around the alt-right, which is in itself a reaction to modern leftism. It seems obvious, now, that the reaction to the moral certitude of the modern Left that it has dominance would result in a Right that doesn't care about your morals. Essentially, the people that Twitter wants to keep as users are offended by the presentation of the alt-right point of view.
I believe the use of the ban hammer in this way is just as useless as trying to get rid of trolls with it, but there is a bit of nuance here. I think this is more evidence of the ultimate doom of the current constitution of modern leftism - its inability to tolerate dissent.
Watching Milo and people like Cernovich in action on Twitter was the only reason I even had an account. They are in fact the most interesting thing on Twitter, ironically enough.
It's a true statement. You obviously haven't had to maintain any of that "code" you speak of.
True, most people have trouble putting their shoes on in the morning and find talking about other people's sports exploits to be enjoyable. But they can code.
RIM shot...i'll be here all week.
The interesting part is that doing that results in the pricing of the units being reduced due to the fact that people with money don't want to live next to the riffraff. Also, it assures that in certain areas, the permits won't get issued for the construction.
I say this as a former comic book fan in my youth, but it tickles my fancy nowadays to hear people getting all uptight about the quality of either the comic books themselves or the movies based on them. Look back on it in 30 years and it's pretty much all shit. Even the things I loved like Jim Starlin's Metamorphosis Alpha/Dreadstar haven't aged very well. The Claremont/Byrne X-Men are mediocre at best, and we thought they were so great back in the 80s.
Worked for Rachel Dolezal...
Another thing to consider is representation as a percentage of the population where Apple has facilities. For instance, Baltimore has a lot of black people. But Apple, to my knowledge, only has one Apple Store in the metro area. So even if they pack the Towson Apple Store with 90% black people (an over-representation, to be sure), that still doesn't fix their overall numbers, which probably have a lot to do with having facilities in places like Cupertino, which is something like 60% Asian and 29.3% white, with a mere 0.6% black.
I wonder if people are advocating busing in people from remote locations to "fix" the balance?
It's a depressing thought, but after a couple marriages and lots of women, I only have fond feelings for motherhood, not women as a whole. I was a cast-iron asshole in my 20s, but the women were probably a notch or two worse in many cases. A lot worse in one or two. Now i'm 47 and the hormone cloud has dispersed, and I have a hard time (ha) getting interested in a conversation with most women. The occasional bright one still brings out some mild interest but the vast majority are boring as hell, because I know where it ends, and it isn't pretty at all.