When the sun shines directly on my old WRT54G it seems to hang. I moved it to an always shady spot and put a bit more space around it and it's been stable ever since.
By releasing the code when it goes out of support, any customers who depended on the product can hire someone to do a code-review/security-audit rather than continue using it with the holes in place.
Shouldn't the ISP deliver my bits regardless of what they are?
If someone knocks on my door and asks to borrow my telephone, I don't need the phone company's permission.
If I type an email on behalf of a friend without a computer, my ISP doesn't get to complain that those weren't "my" bytes.
But if you're that concerned, just route the guest traffic through TOR and at least through packet sniffing they won't be able to distinguish the guest traffic from your own. All they'll see is encrypted traffic which could be to/from anyone on the tor network.
>... you know that binding agreement you enter into that you and your family will be the only users on that connection. It then gives my ISP the right to revoke my connectivity because I broke that TOS agreement and they are not obligated to provide me with Internet connectivity.
Last time I checked, there were also a few clauses that basically say that you may not pretend to be an ISP, resell bandwidth, or sublet bandwidth, should you be a Verizon/Charter/Clearwire/whoever Internet subscriber.
Speakeasy will operate as part of the Best Buy for Business division, which caters to small and medium-sized businesses. Speakeasy’s existing customer policies, such as the liberal bandwidth-sharing policy, will remain in place
And most of us still have analog phone line wires on the side of our house that some sneaky person could connect a modem to, or use a phone to call in a threat. But everyone's paranoid about wifi and ignoring those phone lines.
I'm surprised that when they launched different Regions they didn't advocate them for High Availability -- if only to protect from tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorists, etc that can wipe out a whole state's infrastructure.
If they should be most embarrassed of one thing, I'd say that not spinning Regions into their High Availability PR would be the biggest one.
(Where this is a problem is if you're a small shop with a single DB server, and the zone holding your DB server goes down-- in that case you're kind of SOL.)
IMHO the main beauty of a cloud is that you're NOT SOL.
For one of the sites I manage, I am a small shop.
The beauty of a cloud is that with Amazon's $0.02/hr micro instances, and $0.007 spot-priced micro instances I can *still* do things right (failover to remote data center, backups in different data center), even for clients that can only afford under $50/month in hosting.
Just using Amazon West as well as Amazon East would have saved customers from this outage.
I think Amazon actually does great at covering all the technological single-points-of-failure.
The only reason I'd want a second cloud vendor is for the sales/account related single-point-of-failure of the Amazon Account being frozen due to a sales miscommunication or a MPAA/RIAA takedown notice,etc.
But how can this be possible? It's The Cloud . This sort of this simply doesn't happen.
To be fair to Amazon - on a good cloud (incl. Amazon's) you can launch instances in completely different data centers, so your most critical services have somewhere to fail over to.
Though, personally I'd feel even better if my nodes were distributed across two different clouds; to avoid the single-point-of-failure of the Amazon account itself. For example, despite running in both their East and West data centers, I'm still vulnerable to a sales/billing miscommunication that freezes my whole account.
XP is dog-eared shit. It's so long in the tooth, that it regards SATA as an exotic technology.... Try installing from a CD onto a piece of post '04 hardware. It will often refuse to recognise disks, displays, and any network devices.
Well,that sounds like piss poor support for a supposedly "supported" product.
Why can't they do a point release with the appropriate drivers.
Their support for their supported OS is actually *worse* than linux support for the out-of-support OS's (where many professionals on mailing lists from Red Hat to IBM will help you even after something's out fo support).
> they are doing a helluva lot better then linux on the desktop.
In sales revenue for desktop software, sure.
But that's like analyzing the breathable-gas market and claiming tobacco smoke is a more valuable breathable gas than fresh air because one has tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue, while the other has ~$0.
But regarding Windows and this anti-virus software? C'mon - you can pretty much bet that every country in which Microsoft has software developers already has their own back doors (disguised as accidental security bugs). How else can you explain that OS having so many more QA resources than comparable scale OS's (linux, bsds, unixes, etc) but having so much worse a security reputation.
Those who charge for bandwidth love piracy - since if the cost of the content goes to zero, all the profit in home-viewing of movies will go to the telcom companies & ISPs.
Also, telcom companies are known to be at least as skilled and powerful at lobbying than the copyright groups.
And the last thing ISPs want is to start having to filter content and therefore potentially become legally responsible for every wikileak and drug deal done through their network.
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Is it overheating?
When the sun shines directly on my old WRT54G it seems to hang. I moved it to an always shady spot and put a bit more space around it and it's been stable ever since.
Ok - but say I actually wanted location-based services, but not necessarily for the location I'm in.
Like I work in the south-east bay but live in, and expect to have dinner in, and do most of my shopping in San Francisco.
It'd just about always be more useful for me if my phone thought I'm near where I live than where I work.
Is there an android app where I can make my phone report a location of my choosing, rather than where I really am?
Wanted: an app that makes my iPhone report fictitious location info of my choosing instead of real info.
Does that exist?
How about for android?
Sounds like a feature rather than a bug.
By releasing the code when it goes out of support, any customers who depended on the product can hire someone to do a code-review/security-audit rather than continue using it with the holes in place.
But again - why should they be allowed to prevent that?
Am I prohibited from reselling water I get from my tap?
Am I prohibited from charging a battery in my outlet and charging someone for that power?
When I lived in an apartment in SF, I was able to (and did) provide free wireless to the coffee shop at the end of the block.
In the casual monitoring I did (bandwidth graphs) no one seemed to abuse it.
Shouldn't the ISP deliver my bits regardless of what they are?
If someone knocks on my door and asks to borrow my telephone, I don't need the phone company's permission.
If I type an email on behalf of a friend without a computer, my ISP doesn't get to complain that those weren't "my" bytes.
But if you're that concerned, just route the guest traffic through TOR and at least through packet sniffing they won't be able to distinguish the guest traffic from your own. All they'll see is encrypted traffic which could be to/from anyone on the tor network.
Route all the guest traffic through tor, and they won't (practically) be able to track those packets to your network.
Heck, for that matter run a tor exit node too, to really confuse the courts if they every go after you anyway. :)
> ... you know that binding agreement you enter into that you and your family will be the only users on that connection. It then gives my ISP the right to revoke my connectivity because I broke that TOS agreement and they are not obligated to provide me with Internet connectivity.
Then pick a better ISP. Even Best Buy's ISP allows bandwidth sharing ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/best_buy_swallo/ ).
Your ISP should sell you bandwidth.
Not dictate how you're "allowed" to use your bandwidth.
Last time I checked, there were also a few clauses that basically say that you may not pretend to be an ISP, resell bandwidth, or sublet bandwidth, should you be a Verizon/Charter/Clearwire/whoever Internet subscriber.
That just depends on how badly your ISP sucks.
Even corporate giant Best Buy's ISP allows bandwidth sharing: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2007/03/best_buy_swallo/
Speakeasy will operate as part of the Best Buy for Business division, which caters to small and medium-sized businesses. Speakeasy’s existing customer policies, such as the liberal bandwidth-sharing policy, will remain in place
And most of us still have analog phone line wires on the side of our house that some sneaky person could connect a modem to, or use a phone to call in a threat. But everyone's paranoid about wifi and ignoring those phone lines.
> Thank you for having the vision, the money, and the balls to do these great things. ... Geeks everywhere.
I thought Musk ended up getting in fights and/or lawsuits with many of the geeks he's worked with. (Eberhard of Tesla; Thiel and
Levchin of Paypal)
http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2009/06/22/tesla-founders-feud-a-cautionary-tale/
And didn't he recently announce he was broke?
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/30/teslas-elon-musk-says-hes-broke/
Hope he doesn't fly the geeks to Mars and then charge them extra to bring them back.
Awesome that Anon Coward at slashdot is among the more reliable sources of science information these days.
That's a good point.
I'm surprised that when they launched different Regions they didn't advocate them for High Availability -- if only to protect from tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorists, etc that can wipe out a whole state's infrastructure.
If they should be most embarrassed of one thing, I'd say that not spinning Regions into their High Availability PR would be the biggest one.
(Where this is a problem is if you're a small shop with a single DB server, and the zone holding your DB server goes down-- in that case you're kind of SOL.)
IMHO the main beauty of a cloud is that you're NOT SOL.
For one of the sites I manage, I am a small shop.
The beauty of a cloud is that with Amazon's $0.02/hr micro instances, and $0.007 spot-priced micro instances I can *still* do things right (failover to remote data center, backups in different data center), even for clients that can only afford under $50/month in hosting.
Just using Amazon West as well as Amazon East would have saved customers from this outage.
I think Amazon actually does great at covering all the technological single-points-of-failure.
The only reason I'd want a second cloud vendor is for the sales/account related single-point-of-failure of the Amazon Account being frozen due to a sales miscommunication or a MPAA/RIAA takedown notice,etc.
But how can this be possible? It's The Cloud . This sort of this simply doesn't happen.
To be fair to Amazon - on a good cloud (incl. Amazon's) you can launch instances in completely different data centers, so your most critical services have somewhere to fail over to.
Though, personally I'd feel even better if my nodes were distributed across two different clouds; to avoid the single-point-of-failure of the Amazon account itself. For example, despite running in both their East and West data centers, I'm still vulnerable to a sales/billing miscommunication that freezes my whole account.
XP is dog-eared shit. It's so long in the tooth, that it regards SATA as an exotic technology. ... Try installing from a CD onto a piece of post '04 hardware. It will often refuse to recognise disks, displays, and any network devices.
Well,that sounds like piss poor support for a supposedly "supported" product.
Why can't they do a point release with the appropriate drivers.
Their support for their supported OS is actually *worse* than linux support for the out-of-support OS's (where many professionals on mailing lists from Red Hat to IBM will help you even after something's out fo support).
> they are doing a helluva lot better then linux on the desktop.
In sales revenue for desktop software, sure.
But that's like analyzing the breathable-gas market and claiming tobacco smoke is a more valuable breathable gas than fresh air because one has tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue, while the other has ~$0.
Occasionally we document it when we do, like the NSA back door in Lotus Notes: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html
OTOH, sometimes we don't; like when we blew up the Soviet pipeline with software trojans: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-farewell-dossier
But regarding Windows and this anti-virus software? C'mon - you can pretty much bet that every country in which Microsoft has software developers already has their own back doors (disguised as accidental security bugs). How else can you explain that OS having so many more QA resources than comparable scale OS's (linux, bsds, unixes, etc) but having so much worse a security reputation.
Those who charge for bandwidth love piracy - since if the cost of the content goes to zero, all the profit in home-viewing of movies will go to the telcom companies & ISPs.
Also, telcom companies are known to be at least as skilled and powerful at lobbying than the copyright groups.
And the last thing ISPs want is to start having to filter content and therefore potentially become legally responsible for every wikileak and drug deal done through their network.
It'll be an interesting fight.
Sure it did:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/may96/tandmspr.mspx
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/product-review/mips-nt-allied-from-birth
I thought one of the biggest Windows / SQL Server computers in the world was the Nasdaq Tandem (now HP) MIPS computer.
http://news.cnet.com/Nasdaq-upgrades-HP-based-trading-system/2110-1010_3-5628950.html
though it seems Microsoft phased it out for other customers:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/oct96/mipspr.mspx
Asclepius in Greek myths could bring people back to life.
Practically everyone comes back from Valhalla.
And in Buddhism isn't practically every living thing reborn?
Seems to me returns from death have been one of the more common elements of fiction since recorded history.