Riders are allowed because if you can only do one thing per vote, the Federal Budget alone will require thousands of votes for each provision it contains...
Y2K was uneventful because everybody heard the warning, fixed their apps, and we moved on. The claims of what COULD go wrong were right, and served as a list of what needed to be checked and fixed.
You don't kill the entire Internet with one button press because if you do, you down the Internet and that causes more problems than it solves.
The only truly secure computer isn't plugged in at all, but what service does that provide?
The problem is that the rights to the cell tower frequencies belong to the telco companies, and they're not going to surrender their rights just because they're down, they don't want anybody else using their frequencies when they bring them back up.
So, you're dreaming if you think there's any part of the wireless frequencies that are available for sudden use by the power companies, pizza companies, taxi companies... who gets to go first, power, food, transportation?
So you'd like to trade your 3G/4G network away? The telcos bought most of those frequencies (after a bluff of a bid from some little company called Google raised the price) and are providing the consumer services you get today. FloTV didn't exist until all the Channel 55s were off the air.
The FCC is basing all new frequency allocations based on an auction system so the most profitable venture rules. As a result, it's much cheaper to rent a little time on the cell phone network than it is to get a dedicated channel for yourself.
We already have laws about software that break networks... we just have problems enforcing them. Again, we don't need a central shutdown as we need a killbit in operating systems. Clean up the bad code, everything fine, we can resume normality.
Unencrypted radio for private communications is pretty much dead. Anything the public can transmit on is subject to a simple false information attack. Police/Fire radios have all gone encrypted and they're rolling out new frequencies for their use only reclaimed in the VHF 2-6 television shutdown. Frequencies are a use-or-lose situation... and power companies have moved to the public networks.
You're defending from the wrong threat. There was no IT attack on the power grid, there were conventional bombs along the power grid which is usually a simple problem to solve, but nobody knew where it happened because the government had activated the kill switches on public communication.
Downing the entire Internet just makes a bad situation worse.
When power goes out, the utility depends on customers picking up the phone and telling them they're out so they can plot the reports on a map and tell what areas are out. They ask callers if they see a problem out their window, because if they see the fault that's a hole-in-one because they now know where to send a crew.
If nobody knows where the fault is, then the people have to go looking for the downed line, and when it's spotted call the needed crew to clear out traffic, etc. If they don't have their cell phones working... how's the site going to get relayed back to the dispatchers?
PCs can run anything the user wants too... but that's why we have Antivirus and Antimalware products that we tell know-nothings they have to run... which stops programs based on suspicious behaviors and a definition list of programs to kill.
So, the solution to Blackberry and Palm devices is to distribute such programs for them.
The problem was that a conventional attack that would be a small problem on a normal day becomes a big problem when the Internet, cell phones, regular phones, are already down. Without any way to tell the oil truckers which hospital bought their load, generators fail too.
Shutting down the Internet just makes a bad problem worse. The correct answer was to killbit the March Madness app in round one.
We can even extend our "intranet" to remote (non-local) locations through the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs.
A VIRTUAL Private Network pretends that you're on the same LAN by opening an encrypted conversation that travels over THE INTERNET. You seem to have that confused with a true Private Network.
Did we learn nothing from Ken Basin's $475,000 mistake on Millionaire? LBJ installed four buttons to order soft drinks in his desk. (And despite using the same desk, Bush wasn't sure what they were for.)
Basically, the way to solve a power outage is to send people out looking for the problem, then swarming around the problem to fix it. It's a rather simple process when cell phones are up... but what do they do when there's not only no power, but no cell phone network too?
The Internet is the cheapest available method to move bits from one place to another. Is there a another network that does the job well enough to be considered a competitor?
CNN a few years ago ran a special were they told the story of a possible an IT attack and had former government officials try to figure out how to save the day.
The story was that people had downloaded a March Madness smartphone app that delivered scores and such in March, but now its April and it's sending out large amounts data, and making useless calls, that's overwhelming the cellular networks and running up people's bills. Round two was that this unknown data was actually waking up a bot net, and now the Internet's overloaded. Round 3... an explosion at a power station has downed power on the East Coast. However, nobody knows where the problem is to fix it, because their smartphones are dead and so is the Internet and phone systems.
The governmental instinctive reaction is to shut it all down... but you don't need to shut down the Internet, this could have been solved in round one by asking Apple, Google, even Cydia and the other responsible app stores to kill the app. What is needed is a granular control (that the app stores already have) to say when an app is causing trouble, we'll pull it off the smartphones that have it. If there's a server running a botnet, kill it, not the entire Internet.
The panel lost the game, and was punished with a postgame interview by Wolf Blitzer.
Best Buy and Amazon are both selling Intel's 40 GB flash drive for just under $100 this week... I'm building a server based around it and will likely later post on how that goes. Intel recently announced that they're upping the sizes so you're likely going to see the 40 GB model in the clearance bin soon.
It's here, it's ready... and when you don't have a TB of data to store they're a great choice, especially when you read much more often that you write.
Glenn Beck is a national talk show host, trying to encourage out-of-towners to go to his rally this weekend. That's why this Google flaw is relevant to geeks nationally... it's showing how a political event can be disrupted by those who disagree with the event's sponsor with a simple misinformation attack on Google Maps.
Google doesn't have that accurate a source of landmarks, so they've left them as Wiki-style editable. With such a politically charged event scheduled for tomorrow, it doesn't take that many Beck-dislikers to toy with navigation... anybody trying to find the rally with an iPhone will get the wrong directions if this is allowed to stand.
Game Show Network (now going by the name "GSN") had an uproar on their boards as they slowly cut back their black and white game show programming eventually to zero. It started as a Saturday Night block, then was moved to 7 days a week but in the early morning hours, and then was shrunk by infomercials and eventually canceled. It its place is "Wayback Playback" where they show game shows from the 70s and 80s... 90s and 00s game shows dominate the rest of the schedule with an occasional airing of Match Game being the only show that is still in prime position despite being old.
Yeah, people would rather see content from before they were born, even if it's before color TV, than a replay of what they've already seen enough of. TV Land, Nick at Nite, This TV, Retro Television Network and others are all proving there's enough old content to go around.
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Riders are allowed because if you can only do one thing per vote, the Federal Budget alone will require thousands of votes for each provision it contains...
Y2K was uneventful because everybody heard the warning, fixed their apps, and we moved on. The claims of what COULD go wrong were right, and served as a list of what needed to be checked and fixed.
You don't kill the entire Internet with one button press because if you do, you down the Internet and that causes more problems than it solves.
The only truly secure computer isn't plugged in at all, but what service does that provide?
The problem is that the rights to the cell tower frequencies belong to the telco companies, and they're not going to surrender their rights just because they're down, they don't want anybody else using their frequencies when they bring them back up.
So, you're dreaming if you think there's any part of the wireless frequencies that are available for sudden use by the power companies, pizza companies, taxi companies... who gets to go first, power, food, transportation?
So you'd like to trade your 3G/4G network away? The telcos bought most of those frequencies (after a bluff of a bid from some little company called Google raised the price) and are providing the consumer services you get today. FloTV didn't exist until all the Channel 55s were off the air.
The FCC is basing all new frequency allocations based on an auction system so the most profitable venture rules. As a result, it's much cheaper to rent a little time on the cell phone network than it is to get a dedicated channel for yourself.
We already have laws about software that break networks... we just have problems enforcing them. Again, we don't need a central shutdown as we need a killbit in operating systems. Clean up the bad code, everything fine, we can resume normality.
Let me know when this reaches my neighborhood. You're rolling it out, it isn't everywhere yet.
The panel took the telco wireline network down in a power grab... which proved to be a mistake.
The ISPs would have helped, if they were asked. Again, power grab... they went for downing the whole thing.
Unencrypted radio for private communications is pretty much dead. Anything the public can transmit on is subject to a simple false information attack. Police/Fire radios have all gone encrypted and they're rolling out new frequencies for their use only reclaimed in the VHF 2-6 television shutdown. Frequencies are a use-or-lose situation... and power companies have moved to the public networks.
You're defending from the wrong threat. There was no IT attack on the power grid, there were conventional bombs along the power grid which is usually a simple problem to solve, but nobody knew where it happened because the government had activated the kill switches on public communication.
Downing the entire Internet just makes a bad situation worse.
Here's a dangerous feedback loop situation....
When power goes out, the utility depends on customers picking up the phone and telling them they're out so they can plot the reports on a map and tell what areas are out. They ask callers if they see a problem out their window, because if they see the fault that's a hole-in-one because they now know where to send a crew.
If nobody knows where the fault is, then the people have to go looking for the downed line, and when it's spotted call the needed crew to clear out traffic, etc. If they don't have their cell phones working... how's the site going to get relayed back to the dispatchers?
You named two government projects. Who does such a network for business interests?
PCs can run anything the user wants too... but that's why we have Antivirus and Antimalware products that we tell know-nothings they have to run... which stops programs based on suspicious behaviors and a definition list of programs to kill.
So, the solution to Blackberry and Palm devices is to distribute such programs for them.
The problem was that a conventional attack that would be a small problem on a normal day becomes a big problem when the Internet, cell phones, regular phones, are already down. Without any way to tell the oil truckers which hospital bought their load, generators fail too.
Shutting down the Internet just makes a bad problem worse. The correct answer was to killbit the March Madness app in round one.
Fail... Satellite phones link back to the PSTN to complete the call. If that network isn't there, you're out of luck.
We can even extend our "intranet" to remote (non-local) locations through the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs.
A VIRTUAL Private Network pretends that you're on the same LAN by opening an encrypted conversation that travels over THE INTERNET. You seem to have that confused with a true Private Network.
Only a DOS (Denial of Service) can stop a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack? Think of the poor services!
Did we learn nothing from Ken Basin's $475,000 mistake on Millionaire? LBJ installed four buttons to order soft drinks in his desk. (And despite using the same desk, Bush wasn't sure what they were for.)
Basically, the way to solve a power outage is to send people out looking for the problem, then swarming around the problem to fix it. It's a rather simple process when cell phones are up... but what do they do when there's not only no power, but no cell phone network too?
The Internet is the cheapest available method to move bits from one place to another. Is there a another network that does the job well enough to be considered a competitor?
CNN a few years ago ran a special were they told the story of a possible an IT attack and had former government officials try to figure out how to save the day.
The story was that people had downloaded a March Madness smartphone app that delivered scores and such in March, but now its April and it's sending out large amounts data, and making useless calls, that's overwhelming the cellular networks and running up people's bills. Round two was that this unknown data was actually waking up a bot net, and now the Internet's overloaded. Round 3... an explosion at a power station has downed power on the East Coast. However, nobody knows where the problem is to fix it, because their smartphones are dead and so is the Internet and phone systems.
The governmental instinctive reaction is to shut it all down... but you don't need to shut down the Internet, this could have been solved in round one by asking Apple, Google, even Cydia and the other responsible app stores to kill the app. What is needed is a granular control (that the app stores already have) to say when an app is causing trouble, we'll pull it off the smartphones that have it. If there's a server running a botnet, kill it, not the entire Internet.
The panel lost the game, and was punished with a postgame interview by Wolf Blitzer.
Best Buy and Amazon are both selling Intel's 40 GB flash drive for just under $100 this week... I'm building a server based around it and will likely later post on how that goes. Intel recently announced that they're upping the sizes so you're likely going to see the 40 GB model in the clearance bin soon.
It's here, it's ready... and when you don't have a TB of data to store they're a great choice, especially when you read much more often that you write.
Google tries to stay out of politics. Glenn Beck is getting the message not to piss off those who contribute to Wikis.
Glenn Beck is a national talk show host, trying to encourage out-of-towners to go to his rally this weekend. That's why this Google flaw is relevant to geeks nationally... it's showing how a political event can be disrupted by those who disagree with the event's sponsor with a simple misinformation attack on Google Maps.
Google doesn't have that accurate a source of landmarks, so they've left them as Wiki-style editable. With such a politically charged event scheduled for tomorrow, it doesn't take that many Beck-dislikers to toy with navigation... anybody trying to find the rally with an iPhone will get the wrong directions if this is allowed to stand.
Game Show Network (now going by the name "GSN") had an uproar on their boards as they slowly cut back their black and white game show programming eventually to zero. It started as a Saturday Night block, then was moved to 7 days a week but in the early morning hours, and then was shrunk by infomercials and eventually canceled. It its place is "Wayback Playback" where they show game shows from the 70s and 80s... 90s and 00s game shows dominate the rest of the schedule with an occasional airing of Match Game being the only show that is still in prime position despite being old.
Yeah, people would rather see content from before they were born, even if it's before color TV, than a replay of what they've already seen enough of. TV Land, Nick at Nite, This TV, Retro Television Network and others are all proving there's enough old content to go around.