Three of the last four locations I've lived couldn't actually deliver what the speed test showed
The speed test works by timing a download/upload from your machine, by default it can only report slower speeds than the link is cpable of (it can be thrown off by other downloads or simultaneous traffic). If one were clever, I guess you could "fool" the test (proxy the test file so its local, use QoS to prioritize speed test traffic), but that would be pretty out there.
I remember the argument I read in the 80's regarding using the Shuttle vs Large Soviet-type rockets to launch the components for the space station, that went something like this: If the goal is to get chunks of this thing into orbit, why build the most complicated machine known to man, with myriads of potential points of failure, when you can use something big and stupid to man-handle stuff into LEO?
1. National Politics. The Shuttle was ours, we had fallen behind on behemoth launchers, and if I recall, efficiency and safety was not a strong point of the Soviets designs. The Soviets assigned a much lower cost to human life, most safety systems were there to avoid embarassment to senior party officials rather than out of concern for Cosmonauts lives
2. The main goal was to get stuff up there, but if you needed someone nearby to do any work with it, then having a shuttle handy is very useful. It also includes a safety aspect, putting something in close orbit to the ISS is the most dangerous time, having the shuttle around for emergencies is handy.
You know, what the poster is trying to say is that after 35+ years of designing, building and launching space vehicles, we should have a high level of mastery of the subject.
And I was pointing out technical mastery of a subject does not equate to success. I have the physics of the slam dunk down, that helps me very little when it comes time to put the ball through the hoop. These guys knew how fast the rocket should rotate, but whatever system(s) they built to control that rate failed when exposed to the heat/vibration/pressure/other forces that the rocket actually generated. They'll now analyze the data to see if a weld broke, the software failed, or whatever triggered the the problem so they can adjust. Mistakes lead to progress. If we always listened to your type we'd still be throwing rocks and hoping to scrape together enough food to survive another week. Farming is an enormously complicated thing versus wandering about gathering berries, too.
Haven't we been sending rockets up into space for quite some time now. I'd think the fundementals should be down pretty pat now, the time for spectacular failures has past.
And yet we've lost two Space shuttles in recent memory. Space is not easy, rockets are enormously powerful devices that require light weight and experience a vast array of environments. Here a relatively minor thing went wrong, too much rotation, and the whole thing is now gone. Knowing how to do something and actually doing it are radically different things...
There exists a set of people who either use or intend to use RHEL. I imagine a subset of these are the ones likely to be waiting.
Actually, I imagine we'll still be waiting after March 14th. Now that RHEL5 is official, we will start waiting for vendor support, Oracle, EMC, IBM, etc. Making it official is just step 1. People who use RHEL don't rush to update.
The bad news is now my RHCE, earned under RH v8, is officially expired:(
But the words on the page would clearly be parodied otherwise what's the point of using a parodied version of the slogan?
I think the general interpretation is that if you have to read the site to realize its a paraody, it fails the obvious test. SNL skits are presented in a framework of a comedy show, Weird Al songs feature a prominent accordian or other musical changes to make their parody status "obvious" (Though Al also always gets permission in general to be safe). Message content alone is not enough.
Sounds like you could use layout, and graphics to me. Ive been thinking of starting a parody website. I thought I would be invincible legally here in the US.
It has to be clear that the site is a parody, and not the actual site. If a typical user could not tell the site is a parody, then it is on shaky ground. My guess is the original site very closely aped teh original, having done that they are given far less leeway on subsequent go-rounds. So you can mock their slogan if the rest of the site is different, but if layout, graphics, are identical while teh slogan is similar, it will get shutdown in the US too. Parody i snot the "get out of jail free" card some folks think it is.
I used to have a pair of old Apple II hard drives that cost an airline $5,000 each. So the cost was $1,000 a MB (thats right, they were a whopping 5Mb (in an age where the average PC had 16k and maxed at 64k (the glories of 8 bit computing), that was serious storage. So in a few short years (ok, maybe 10:), your solid state storage had 25x more capacity at half the cost per MB.
Solid state has been around for a while, and has slowly been reaching into the mainstream. While it will be 20-30 years before it replaces disk for primary storage, its come from the stratosphere of the high end to replace floppy, Zip, Jazz, and other portable disk technolgies, and will soon embed itself into the hard drive as a cache for your boot OS. How soon until we just have a 20GB Flash C: drive and a spinning disk TB class D: drive for the rest of your data? The capacity of spinning disk drives is racing past the utility point for the majority of users, honestly my corporate desktop users would be fine with a 10GB disk partition.
It may take _that_ long on a sparc box, but stick some nice amd opterons in there and you'll never even notice.
Thats nice and all, but I believe the GP was referring to systems w/ embedded processors, where thast not an option, and I also think he was whining about the initial key gereation (that first time you set it up process), which can take a bit of time on embedded processors. As an example, the Pix 515 has a lowly Pentium 166 at its core, the heavy math of calculating big primes can take a while. Then again, there's still some equipment out there that doesn't support SSH, only telnet.
None of which applies to TFA, which deals with using Telnet to access SUN servers/workstations, I agree there no reason that should be left on and it mystifies me that it continues to be the default for the big commercial Unixes (Both AIX and Solaris seem to want to use it by default, you have to enable SSH and turn off Telnet intentionally.
So, Jobs says "it's no technologically possible", their response is "we're sure they can do it".
Jobs said "it's not technologically possible" with qualifiers. Jobs' point is that DRM itself is "not technologically possible", that there's always going to be a way and someone will find it. Licensing Fairplay is "not technologically possible" because they can't "protect the protection" to the limits stipulated in their existing contracts if they license it.
The art of negotiation. Get the opponent to demand you give them what you want to give them. By advocating for removing DRM, the record companies will now demand Jobs open Fairplay DRM to others. Jobs will accomodate their demands by rewriting the contracts to reduce his responsibility for problems.
Now if Steve had started by asking to rewrite the contracts, the record company would have responded by demanding a share of all iPod sales, higher per song prices, etc. Now he has them demanding they rewrite the contracts so he CAN license Fairplay.
Instead, build the security from the ground up, paired with each node.
When you infrastructure already exists (and might date back 10 or more years in parts), building from the ground up is not an option. And I'd bet the poster isn't planning on going out and buying the "Securalizer 5000", but rather talking about an investment in updated firewalls, spam filters, SSL gateways, network infrastructure, etc. In some shops $1 million might buy port level authentication in a new chassis Gigabit infrastructure with loads of redundnacy, in others it might buy a new set of firewalls, so its hard to say where he would spend it.
If I was looking to generate an ROI, I'd focus on the problem I was going to solve. Whats the chance of a break in, times the cost of a break in in recovery time, lost corporate images & data, etc. Or what productivity do you gain by having a secure two factor VPN solution that you can roll out to everyone, allowing work from home, after hours, on the road, internet cafes, etc. You know you need security, think about the details, look for numbers (with the spread of worms, viruses, and botnets, you likely get attacked several times a minute) How many 0 day worms last year? How many MS Updates needed to be applied?
Security covers such a wide range, I have my ITIL stack on my wall and security is a bar that covers everything from protocols to office space (power, HVAC, doors,...) Focus on the task you hope to solve, the biggest threat you see, and let the ROI flow. Don't look for security specific examples, look at how the ROI for that CRM system was calculated, once you see how bogus many are you'll feel better about your own numbers.
Which is why I run CentOS whenever I introduce Linux to a new company. None of the licensing headaches of RHEL, all the stability and excellent training and web resources. And when the Comercial software comes that demands RHEL, no retraining of staff (Now those config files are here, This version of Samba does it this way, etc.) And if I need to get someone up to speed, I still think the RHCE training program is one of the best in the industry and is 100% applicable to CentOS aside from teh need to use "system-config-network" in place of "redhat-config-network"
Then you get users onto it and now you only have X-1.5 years of support. On Fedora, this means practically no time is left.
Which is why IT Pros prefer Red Hat Linux or its unencumbered variants link CentOS, White Box, and Scientific. Better testing up front thanks to the Red Hat gang, and longer shelf life. Which is why most commercial software chooses to support it first, it provides a stable base.
I'm pretty sure The Disney Company researched this before they set out those hundreds of penny mutilation machines at Disney World.
Actually, they are criminal, but the scale is such that no one cares. They are not trying to remake it into a different value coin, nor trying to recover the metal value (except as Jewelry). The governement has investigated this (too lazy to find the reference) at the "coin mutulation machine manufacturer" level, and decided to allow them to continue.
So a lot of them will fall for that kind of thing whatever you put in the address bar.
And in some cases its possible to overwrite the address bar. In others its possible to corrupt DNS caches. There are subtle mispellings that are tricky to catch, and new domain names that look legit but aren't, like www.paypalsecurity.com (PayPal pays companies like Cyveillance to monitor for such bogus registrations). And whule it hasn't happened yet to my knowledge, the real coup will be gaining control of the DNS records themselves and adding an unused host ident.payapl.com that won't be noticed.
Claims the users are responsible for what happens to them amount to blaming the victim. She should have known not to walk the public streets at night. He should have read the documents in the basement of City Hall explaining that Pianos were going to be falling on 5th street today.
it's because it forces you to use specific hardware.
You can use the Nano, the Shuffle, the Mini, the Photo, the Video, etc. And not just Apple iPod's, but Hp iPod's too. Not to mention bot PC's and Mac's, which Plays4Sure can't. What is specific about that?
Just because you can't doesn't mean your ancestors couldn't. Humans chase down prey largely by endurance, sure, a cheetah can run 60Mph for a few hundred yards, but he won't recover enough to repeat that dash when the 10 "cave men" catch up. Humans are pack hunters like many others, and humans, like many other hunters, use cammaflauge and stealth to get close enough to the prey to kill. And besides,.1% of anaimals is a pretty wide variety of animals compared to the 10 or so varieties we depend on today as food sources. The survivors of the Ice Age that killed off almost all Homo Sapiens all those Millenia ago were known to be huge meat eaters, dining on the wicked fast shellfish that gathered on the shores of ancient Africa (HUGE piles of proto-oyster shells are ample evidence of the evolutionary presence of meat in our diets). Insects were likely another mainstay (termite mounds keep several African villages alive as I recall). Small rodents and infants of other species could be easily captured by humans working in groups. You think we just happened uppon domesticated sheep one day?
Any thoughts you have that proto man had a concious and would choose death over killing are comical. Our ancestors were brutal survivors living on the edge, domestication of animals is one of the things that gave us the spare calories to invent things like morals.
Now Microsoft was fairly nice to the RIAA and even paid them a royalty per MP3 player and now the Zune's most vaunted feature, their crippled wireless, can't even be utilized correctly.
Universal is trying to psyche itself up to standing up to Steve Jobs and iTunes by demanding a cut of every iPod, I suspect this was part of the reason MS rolled over for Universal in the first place, 1% of every iPod is a fortune, 1% of every Zune is a pitance. When ever pressed, they stop short of saying they will pull their music from iTunes, I think they are well aware of the bottom line impact NOT being on iTunes would have, the ready to buy iPod owner will happily plunk down $.99 for a non-Universal artist that IS available, then blame the Artist for shunning them; killer recipie for popularity.
Compare that to the risk of not being available to Zune owners, or rather potential Zune owners who check store selection before buying a player. MS didn't do this out of the kindness of their hearts, the did it out of a desperate need to be competitive, the fact that it might hurt the other guy more than it hurt them is a footnote.
Negotiations are probably still ongoing. Cisco is releasing this announcement in hopes of putting pressure on Apple to settle for their terms
Which would be phenominally dumb on Apple's part. So long as they haven't announced, Apple could announce under a different name, once they announce they "need" the name far more, meaning Cisco can raise their price. Wrestling a trademark they have been negotiating for would be next to impossible, it means they were fully aware and saw the need.
More likely, this is grandstanding by Cisco to steal Apple's thunder and point out their "iPhone" was first. Alternatively Apple signed the contract yesterday morning and its "In the mail" figuratively, meaning the terms are set and agreed to.
Sure, once they experience one of these nitwit's installs they'll believe Microsofts line of BS about TCO. The article rants mostly about the cheap Promise RAID controller he bought, and reveals his complete lack of experience in this work. He says "Oh, I do this all the time, it will be a cake walk" yet it sure sounds to me like its the first time he's seen these issues. If I was the small business owner I'd be pissed, looks like he lucked out and the owner doesn't know enough to be upset that his contractor was unable to do the job he paid for. This sounds liek the first production use of Ubuntu for our author, he's clueless about the potential issues the small business owner may run in to.
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The speed test works by timing a download/upload from your machine, by default it can only report slower speeds than the link is cpable of (it can be thrown off by other downloads or simultaneous traffic). If one were clever, I guess you could "fool" the test (proxy the test file so its local, use QoS to prioritize speed test traffic), but that would be pretty out there.
1. National Politics. The Shuttle was ours, we had fallen behind on behemoth launchers, and if I recall, efficiency and safety was not a strong point of the Soviets designs. The Soviets assigned a much lower cost to human life, most safety systems were there to avoid embarassment to senior party officials rather than out of concern for Cosmonauts lives
2. The main goal was to get stuff up there, but if you needed someone nearby to do any work with it, then having a shuttle handy is very useful. It also includes a safety aspect, putting something in close orbit to the ISS is the most dangerous time, having the shuttle around for emergencies is handy.
You know, what the poster is trying to say is that after 35+ years of designing, building and launching space vehicles, we should have a high level of mastery of the subject.
And I was pointing out technical mastery of a subject does not equate to success. I have the physics of the slam dunk down, that helps me very little when it comes time to put the ball through the hoop. These guys knew how fast the rocket should rotate, but whatever system(s) they built to control that rate failed when exposed to the heat/vibration/pressure/other forces that the rocket actually generated. They'll now analyze the data to see if a weld broke, the software failed, or whatever triggered the the problem so they can adjust. Mistakes lead to progress. If we always listened to your type we'd still be throwing rocks and hoping to scrape together enough food to survive another week. Farming is an enormously complicated thing versus wandering about gathering berries, too.
And yet we've lost two Space shuttles in recent memory. Space is not easy, rockets are enormously powerful devices that require light weight and experience a vast array of environments. Here a relatively minor thing went wrong, too much rotation, and the whole thing is now gone. Knowing how to do something and actually doing it are radically different things...
If they could be interpreted as Cybersquatting, yes. If you host your parody site at http://user.aol.com/~Coward/MSSucks.html; no. http://www.microshaft.com/ might have an issue (clearly parody, but only a 2 letter delta). http://www.microsoftsucks.com/ might get a letter, but clearly has a legitimate defense.
Yes, Google should hold Viacom sites hostage until they give up their legal rights. I for one welcome our new Google overlords.
Actually, I imagine we'll still be waiting after March 14th. Now that RHEL5 is official, we will start waiting for vendor support, Oracle, EMC, IBM, etc. Making it official is just step 1. People who use RHEL don't rush to update.
The bad news is now my RHCE, earned under RH v8, is officially expired :(
I think the general interpretation is that if you have to read the site to realize its a paraody, it fails the obvious test. SNL skits are presented in a framework of a comedy show, Weird Al songs feature a prominent accordian or other musical changes to make their parody status "obvious" (Though Al also always gets permission in general to be safe). Message content alone is not enough.
It has to be clear that the site is a parody, and not the actual site. If a typical user could not tell the site is a parody, then it is on shaky ground. My guess is the original site very closely aped teh original, having done that they are given far less leeway on subsequent go-rounds. So you can mock their slogan if the rest of the site is different, but if layout, graphics, are identical while teh slogan is similar, it will get shutdown in the US too. Parody i snot the "get out of jail free" card some folks think it is.
Cher is a congresswoman now?
Solid state has been around for a while, and has slowly been reaching into the mainstream. While it will be 20-30 years before it replaces disk for primary storage, its come from the stratosphere of the high end to replace floppy, Zip, Jazz, and other portable disk technolgies, and will soon embed itself into the hard drive as a cache for your boot OS. How soon until we just have a 20GB Flash C: drive and a spinning disk TB class D: drive for the rest of your data? The capacity of spinning disk drives is racing past the utility point for the majority of users, honestly my corporate desktop users would be fine with a 10GB disk partition.
Seriously, even my 15.4" laptop is sporting 1920x1200, and I've had it on my desktop for 2 years now. Its always better to scale down than up...
Welcome to the Itunes Euro. All songs .01 Euros with a .98 Euro delivery charge
Thats nice and all, but I believe the GP was referring to systems w/ embedded processors, where thast not an option, and I also think he was whining about the initial key gereation (that first time you set it up process), which can take a bit of time on embedded processors. As an example, the Pix 515 has a lowly Pentium 166 at its core, the heavy math of calculating big primes can take a while. Then again, there's still some equipment out there that doesn't support SSH, only telnet.
None of which applies to TFA, which deals with using Telnet to access SUN servers/workstations, I agree there no reason that should be left on and it mystifies me that it continues to be the default for the big commercial Unixes (Both AIX and Solaris seem to want to use it by default, you have to enable SSH and turn off Telnet intentionally.
Jobs said "it's not technologically possible" with qualifiers. Jobs' point is that DRM itself is "not technologically possible", that there's always going to be a way and someone will find it. Licensing Fairplay is "not technologically possible" because they can't "protect the protection" to the limits stipulated in their existing contracts if they license it.
The art of negotiation. Get the opponent to demand you give them what you want to give them. By advocating for removing DRM, the record companies will now demand Jobs open Fairplay DRM to others. Jobs will accomodate their demands by rewriting the contracts to reduce his responsibility for problems.
Now if Steve had started by asking to rewrite the contracts, the record company would have responded by demanding a share of all iPod sales, higher per song prices, etc. Now he has them demanding they rewrite the contracts so he CAN license Fairplay.
When you infrastructure already exists (and might date back 10 or more years in parts), building from the ground up is not an option. And I'd bet the poster isn't planning on going out and buying the "Securalizer 5000", but rather talking about an investment in updated firewalls, spam filters, SSL gateways, network infrastructure, etc. In some shops $1 million might buy port level authentication in a new chassis Gigabit infrastructure with loads of redundnacy, in others it might buy a new set of firewalls, so its hard to say where he would spend it.
If I was looking to generate an ROI, I'd focus on the problem I was going to solve. Whats the chance of a break in, times the cost of a break in in recovery time, lost corporate images & data, etc. Or what productivity do you gain by having a secure two factor VPN solution that you can roll out to everyone, allowing work from home, after hours, on the road, internet cafes, etc. You know you need security, think about the details, look for numbers (with the spread of worms, viruses, and botnets, you likely get attacked several times a minute) How many 0 day worms last year? How many MS Updates needed to be applied?
Security covers such a wide range, I have my ITIL stack on my wall and security is a bar that covers everything from protocols to office space (power, HVAC, doors, ...) Focus on the task you hope to solve, the biggest threat you see, and let the ROI flow. Don't look for security specific examples, look at how the ROI for that CRM system was calculated, once you see how bogus many are you'll feel better about your own numbers.
Which is why I run CentOS whenever I introduce Linux to a new company. None of the licensing headaches of RHEL, all the stability and excellent training and web resources. And when the Comercial software comes that demands RHEL, no retraining of staff (Now those config files are here, This version of Samba does it this way, etc.) And if I need to get someone up to speed, I still think the RHCE training program is one of the best in the industry and is 100% applicable to CentOS aside from teh need to use "system-config-network" in place of "redhat-config-network"
Which is why IT Pros prefer Red Hat Linux or its unencumbered variants link CentOS, White Box, and Scientific. Better testing up front thanks to the Red Hat gang, and longer shelf life. Which is why most commercial software chooses to support it first, it provides a stable base.
Actually, they are criminal, but the scale is such that no one cares. They are not trying to remake it into a different value coin, nor trying to recover the metal value (except as Jewelry). The governement has investigated this (too lazy to find the reference) at the "coin mutulation machine manufacturer" level, and decided to allow them to continue.
And in some cases its possible to overwrite the address bar. In others its possible to corrupt DNS caches. There are subtle mispellings that are tricky to catch, and new domain names that look legit but aren't, like www.paypalsecurity.com (PayPal pays companies like Cyveillance to monitor for such bogus registrations). And whule it hasn't happened yet to my knowledge, the real coup will be gaining control of the DNS records themselves and adding an unused host ident.payapl.com that won't be noticed.
Claims the users are responsible for what happens to them amount to blaming the victim. She should have known not to walk the public streets at night. He should have read the documents in the basement of City Hall explaining that Pianos were going to be falling on 5th street today.
Did you even read the summary?
that training users actually decreases their ability to detect attacks
With user training they are even more worthless!
You can use the Nano, the Shuffle, the Mini, the Photo, the Video, etc. And not just Apple iPod's, but Hp iPod's too. Not to mention bot PC's and Mac's, which Plays4Sure can't. What is specific about that?
Just because you can't doesn't mean your ancestors couldn't. Humans chase down prey largely by endurance, sure, a cheetah can run 60Mph for a few hundred yards, but he won't recover enough to repeat that dash when the 10 "cave men" catch up. Humans are pack hunters like many others, and humans, like many other hunters, use cammaflauge and stealth to get close enough to the prey to kill. And besides, .1% of anaimals is a pretty wide variety of animals compared to the 10 or so varieties we depend on today as food sources. The survivors of the Ice Age that killed off almost all Homo Sapiens all those Millenia ago were known to be huge meat eaters, dining on the wicked fast shellfish that gathered on the shores of ancient Africa (HUGE piles of proto-oyster shells are ample evidence of the evolutionary presence of meat in our diets). Insects were likely another mainstay (termite mounds keep several African villages alive as I recall). Small rodents and infants of other species could be easily captured by humans working in groups. You think we just happened uppon domesticated sheep one day?
Any thoughts you have that proto man had a concious and would choose death over killing are comical. Our ancestors were brutal survivors living on the edge, domestication of animals is one of the things that gave us the spare calories to invent things like morals.
Universal is trying to psyche itself up to standing up to Steve Jobs and iTunes by demanding a cut of every iPod, I suspect this was part of the reason MS rolled over for Universal in the first place, 1% of every iPod is a fortune, 1% of every Zune is a pitance. When ever pressed, they stop short of saying they will pull their music from iTunes, I think they are well aware of the bottom line impact NOT being on iTunes would have, the ready to buy iPod owner will happily plunk down $.99 for a non-Universal artist that IS available, then blame the Artist for shunning them; killer recipie for popularity.
Compare that to the risk of not being available to Zune owners, or rather potential Zune owners who check store selection before buying a player. MS didn't do this out of the kindness of their hearts, the did it out of a desperate need to be competitive, the fact that it might hurt the other guy more than it hurt them is a footnote.
Which would be phenominally dumb on Apple's part. So long as they haven't announced, Apple could announce under a different name, once they announce they "need" the name far more, meaning Cisco can raise their price. Wrestling a trademark they have been negotiating for would be next to impossible, it means they were fully aware and saw the need.
More likely, this is grandstanding by Cisco to steal Apple's thunder and point out their "iPhone" was first. Alternatively Apple signed the contract yesterday morning and its "In the mail" figuratively, meaning the terms are set and agreed to.