I'm not saying that the government shouldn't enforce contracts, just that I don't think we need a bunch of new laws telling cloud start-ups how to run their business. Seeing as how they're all burning out anyway, it seems like a moot point.
People ought to be responsible for the contracts they enter into and who they enter into them with. To stay on topic with the situation post in the article summary, If a company closes it's doors, there's nobody to hold accountable to the other side of the contract anyway. At that point, all you can do is sue, and you might get a judgement, but you won't get your data back.
Currently, there is no direct way to migrate data to another provider, and there are no government rules or regulations specific to data managed by cloud storage providers.
Why is it that recently, people seem to think the answer is in government regulation, when in the past, people would choose a vendor based upon reputation and quality of service. I guess if it's a regulated industry, you can blame your shitty decision-making on the government.
To respond the concern about lost data, just because it's "in the cloud" doesn't mean that you don't have to back your stuff up. Data backup has always been and always will be a "best practice". From personal experience, a friend of mine ran a local ISP back in the late 90s. Shell accounts with storage were included with the flat access subscription rate. When he finally pulled the plug on it, he had 3 or 4 boxes just full of crap people put on there. We just went though it and made copies of the interesting stuff. I imagine the attitude of a startup wouldn't be much different than that. New technologies are tough, and tougher when you decide you want to embrace something like cloud computing, and see a bunch of companies you've never heard of competing for your business. You either go with Amazon, Google, IBM, or someone who might disappear in a year.
On a personal note, I think people should think very carefully about the decision to not host their own data, especially if it's of a sensitive nature. It's like paying someone to hold on to your vertical file for you and trusting that they won't tamper with it or make copies of your documents.
An interesting notion just occured to me though - people have trusted banks with things they put in safety deposit boxes for a long time so you have reputation to go by, would you trust a bank to host your datacenter?
I have been a huge fan of Bioware games since Baldur's Gate and they continue to churn out awesomely produced games in spite of the current gaming economy.
Basically, it's your everyday snooping software, that will monitor all internet traffic, including searching through files on your computer, and checking the router configuration
Going lower than this is silly. The OP is asking about iOS and Andriod phones specifically. If were going to talk about the newest hardware, I'm not sure about the iPhone 4, but the HTC Evo and the Moto Droid X both support 720p video. HTC Just recently announced a new phone where they plan to support 1080, although it seems like overkill for such a small screen, I think they are thinking more people will use the hdmi outputs available on those phones.
Maybe consider doing 720p and 360p versions if you decide to do 2 encodes instead of just one.
In the first action carried out as part of the initiative, authorities executed seizure warrants against nine domain names of Web sites that were offering first-run movies
A seizure warrant against a domain includes what exactly ? The host, the registrar, the technical contact's residence ?
I understand warrants for physical locations, but this seems a bit wrong. Maybe its just a poor choice of wording by the original author....
It was unclear whether or not the federal agencies actually seized and confiscated the servers hosting and streaming the pirated content, although the ICE said that it had worked with officials in the Netherlands to execute search warrants for some of the domain names and content.
This article is completely silly. It sensationalism based upon speculation. Do real journalists exist anymore ?
The desktop OS is besieged from all sides: More and more of our applications now run on the Web, and the idea of running huge, complex, and expensive personal systems will, in time, seem strange.
Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about. What's the reality here ?
A co-worker of mine recently had his service terminated because he had exceeded 1TB of downloading in a month. I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but that seems like a really high cap. Ultimately, he called them and the solution was to upgrade to a business class connection. It ended up costing him an additional $20 (iirc) a month, but he now has a higher upstream and a static IP. He was cool with that as it seems this works out better for him anyway, but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.
Paying people to make these calls can be pretty costly. The article also states that by automating the process, they'll be able to reach out to more customers. I assume this means they will lessen the existing threshold for "evil traffic" notification.
If they are running some sort of IDS, and they are able to help people become aware of infections/backdoors/etc., they can probably salvage a good deal of bandwidth from garbage/unwanted traffic.
There are plenty of security concerns with an unencrypted network.>While FON looks like it may be interesting to some people, I need all my bandwidth for my porn.
On a more serious note, many providers in the US will cancel or severely cripple your service if you use so much bandwidth in a month or other predefined timespan. There are other factors to consider.
While some malware/botnet clients may escape anti-virus detection, the common trait is that they all have to connect to a command and control server. Many IDS products have signatures to detect this type of traffic.
For example, many "botnet-kits" will connect using IRC on a random high port. IRC usage audit signatures are good for detecting the more common botnet c&c traffic.
Prevention is key, but it's still not easy - trying to keep Joe User from playing that Michael Jackson video he got in his email from an unknown sender is quite a challenge.
Aside from the point of thinking that there will be more people playing games because of game availability for set-top boxes, The rest of what was said seemed a bit silly. I guess I'll look forward (not really) to getting a wiimote for my DVR.
My university was transitioning their mail back end to google shortly after I left. Good to know that they are considering it good enough to not be beta anymore.
Although parent is modded Troll, just a quick whois reveals that the domain was registered by some guy with a hotmail address using godaddy as a registrar (and likely the host as well.. It also uses godaddy DNS.
I would also question the authenticity of this website.
A whois to the IP shows that it's hosted by hopone.net.
Also, there is nothing on ASUS's website to indicate that they had anything to do with this.
Hokie may have been unclear, but his point is that those industries are government-regulated and are NOT truly free-market.
"Republican dogma" is typically against the government-regulation part.
If cable companies were able to openly compete, free of government regulation, then they would have overlapping markets, where consumers could choose between companies, and they would actually HAVE to be competitive. In theory this would mean more speed and lower costs.
Would a terrorist really take the time to get a library card in the first place ?
In my area, we have to fill out an application, then wait for them to mail it to us - my guess is for address verification. It seems to me that a terrorist would just buy a book anyway - but then who knows, its easier, but it costs money.
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Why would you assume that not making new laws regulating the cloud computing industry equates to "leave the government out completely".
I'm not saying that the government shouldn't enforce contracts, just that I don't think we need a bunch of new laws telling cloud start-ups how to run their business. Seeing as how they're all burning out anyway, it seems like a moot point.
People ought to be responsible for the contracts they enter into and who they enter into them with. To stay on topic with the situation post in the article summary, If a company closes it's doors, there's nobody to hold accountable to the other side of the contract anyway. At that point, all you can do is sue, and you might get a judgement, but you won't get your data back.
Currently, there is no direct way to migrate data to another provider, and there are no government rules or regulations specific to data managed by cloud storage providers.
Why is it that recently, people seem to think the answer is in government regulation, when in the past, people would choose a vendor based upon reputation and quality of service. I guess if it's a regulated industry, you can blame your shitty decision-making on the government.
To respond the concern about lost data, just because it's "in the cloud" doesn't mean that you don't have to back your stuff up. Data backup has always been and always will be a "best practice". From personal experience, a friend of mine ran a local ISP back in the late 90s. Shell accounts with storage were included with the flat access subscription rate. When he finally pulled the plug on it, he had 3 or 4 boxes just full of crap people put on there. We just went though it and made copies of the interesting stuff. I imagine the attitude of a startup wouldn't be much different than that. New technologies are tough, and tougher when you decide you want to embrace something like cloud computing, and see a bunch of companies you've never heard of competing for your business. You either go with Amazon, Google, IBM, or someone who might disappear in a year.
On a personal note, I think people should think very carefully about the decision to not host their own data, especially if it's of a sensitive nature. It's like paying someone to hold on to your vertical file for you and trusting that they won't tamper with it or make copies of your documents.
An interesting notion just occured to me though - people have trusted banks with things they put in safety deposit boxes for a long time so you have reputation to go by, would you trust a bank to host your datacenter?
I have been a huge fan of Bioware games since Baldur's Gate and they continue to churn out awesomely produced games in spite of the current gaming economy.
That is possibly a reference to this.
You seem pretty knowledgeable about this type of thing... you should check under your car for an illegal FBI GPS tracker!
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The obvious result is that your decision is to go to the restroom.
In my office, it's typical for someones workstation to be vandalized by employees if left unattended AND unlocked.
alias cd="you suck"
Of course people get much more creative. We had one guy get over 40 entries added to his local host file and his mouse buttons reversed.
Basically, it's your everyday snooping software, that will monitor all internet traffic, including searching through files on your computer, and checking the router configuration
This is enforced by a representative government?
Seriously?
Going lower than this is silly. The OP is asking about iOS and Andriod phones specifically. If were going to talk about the newest hardware, I'm not sure about the iPhone 4, but the HTC Evo and the Moto Droid X both support 720p video. HTC Just recently announced a new phone where they plan to support 1080, although it seems like overkill for such a small screen, I think they are thinking more people will use the hdmi outputs available on those phones.
Maybe consider doing 720p and 360p versions if you decide to do 2 encodes instead of just one.
Whats the difference between stripped-down Ubuntu and Debian ?
I've been seeing this fairly often lately and don't see why people strip down Ubuntu, it seems like extra work.
In the first action carried out as part of the initiative, authorities executed seizure warrants against nine domain names of Web sites that were offering first-run movies
A seizure warrant against a domain includes what exactly ? The host, the registrar, the technical contact's residence ?
I understand warrants for physical locations, but this seems a bit wrong. Maybe its just a poor choice of wording by the original author....
It was unclear whether or not the federal agencies actually seized and confiscated the servers hosting and streaming the pirated content, although the ICE said that it had worked with officials in the Netherlands to execute search warrants for some of the domain names and content.
This article is completely silly. It sensationalism based upon speculation. Do real journalists exist anymore ?
This could easily lead toward government subsidized data infrastructure. By moving away from pots, this would be the next logical step.
From the article:
The desktop OS is besieged from all sides: More and more of our applications now run on the Web, and the idea of running huge, complex, and expensive personal systems will, in time, seem strange.
Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about. What's the reality here ?
A co-worker of mine recently had his service terminated because he had exceeded 1TB of downloading in a month. I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but that seems like a really high cap. Ultimately, he called them and the solution was to upgrade to a business class connection. It ended up costing him an additional $20 (iirc) a month, but he now has a higher upstream and a static IP. He was cool with that as it seems this works out better for him anyway, but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.
Paying people to make these calls can be pretty costly. The article also states that by automating the process, they'll be able to reach out to more customers. I assume this means they will lessen the existing threshold for "evil traffic" notification.
If they are running some sort of IDS, and they are able to help people become aware of infections/backdoors/etc., they can probably salvage a good deal of bandwidth from garbage/unwanted traffic.
There are plenty of security concerns with an unencrypted network.>While FON looks like it may be interesting to some people, I need all my bandwidth for my porn.
On a more serious note, many providers in the US will cancel or severely cripple your service if you use so much bandwidth in a month or other predefined timespan. There are other factors to consider.
While some malware/botnet clients may escape anti-virus detection, the common trait is that they all have to connect to a command and control server. Many IDS products have signatures to detect this type of traffic.
For example, many "botnet-kits" will connect using IRC on a random high port. IRC usage audit signatures are good for detecting the more common botnet c&c traffic.
Prevention is key, but it's still not easy - trying to keep Joe User from playing that Michael Jackson video he got in his email from an unknown sender is quite a challenge.
It was also recently announced the Shadowbane is being shut down soon as well.
Aside from the point of thinking that there will be more people playing games because of game availability for set-top boxes, The rest of what was said seemed a bit silly. I guess I'll look forward (not really) to getting a wiimote for my DVR.
My university was transitioning their mail back end to google shortly after I left. Good to know that they are considering it good enough to not be beta anymore.
Although parent is modded Troll, just a quick whois reveals that the domain was registered by some guy with a hotmail address using godaddy as a registrar (and likely the host as well.. It also uses godaddy DNS. I would also question the authenticity of this website. A whois to the IP shows that it's hosted by hopone.net. Also, there is nothing on ASUS's website to indicate that they had anything to do with this.
Hokie may have been unclear, but his point is that those industries are government-regulated and are NOT truly free-market.
"Republican dogma" is typically against the government-regulation part.
If cable companies were able to openly compete, free of government regulation, then they would have overlapping markets, where consumers could choose between companies, and they would actually HAVE to be competitive. In theory this would mean more speed and lower costs.
Would a terrorist really take the time to get a library card in the first place ? In my area, we have to fill out an application, then wait for them to mail it to us - my guess is for address verification. It seems to me that a terrorist would just buy a book anyway - but then who knows, its easier, but it costs money.