Well, the original poster said "cramp LOADS of those things in a small space", which I would interpret to be more than 8 at least. Plus, the price doesn't account for the numerous nice things blades get you over a shelf full of minis, like a backplane instead of individual cables all over, organization, remote console, more efficient energy use, hot swap stuff...
You're going to keep putting up with this for nearly a year? Doesn't some part of the contract kind of imply that they'll actually give you the service you're paying for? Seems like it has been broken already.
The argument would be different if it were physical infrastructure, where having ten network providers and ten sets of cables to every house would clutter everything up.
And it doesn't require physical infrastructure? How does data transmitted by your cell phone make it to the other side of the planet if you want it to? And also, the radio waves can be cluttered up in much the same way physical land can. There's only so much room "in the air" for so many phone companies as well.
what a company does with its own property
"Their own property"? What are you talking about? As I look out the window right now I can see telephone poles all over other people's land. They've got lines running across the back of my house to other buildings. Just a few weeks ago they were blocking a lane of traffic and working on something under the street - a street they don't own. They've got some sort of green box sitting on the lawn of a restaurant across the street. Then there are the cell towers.
The only reason any phone can exist at all is BECAUSE OF government regulation... the regulation allowing them to put all this equipment on anyone's property and making it illegal anyone else to touch it, and the regulation allowing them and only them to emit certain kinds of RF energy.
Well if you didn't bother to twiddle that setting then accessing that is actually pretty simple for anyone on the same logical subnet on the outside of your router (other broadband customers in your area, perhaps), or anyone with access to your ISP's routers.
Personally, I'd say that it does a little more. As long as your router drops incoming requests on the floor instead of forwarding them, it protects your LAN
Microsoft isn't killing vmware, vmware is killing vmware. Have you tried using VMWare Server 2 lately? They replaced the decent standalone executable admin application in version 1 with a web interface which is excruciatingly slow, buggy, and painful to use. Its one of those web apps where the idiot designers inexplicably decided to write their own crappy windowing system in Javascript. And of course, you still need an executable to use the console of the VMs, so the web interface was pointless to begin with.
4) How difficult is it to create a script that takes screenshots - how difficult is it to create a script that captures keyboard entry as well. Answer: the first can be done in userspace (and in the hands of an experienced script kiddie would be unnoticed), the latter usually has to go as a request to a driver, kernel or other layer that requires admin rights. This is true for Windows, Mac and (depending on your GUI) Linux
For the vast majority of non-techie Internet users, a simple D-Link, Linksys, etc... firewall/router with its fairly transparent PATing is a nice bit of security that they have even if they don't understand it.
Those things can provide just as good of security some time even without complexity of NAT. Try setting up a machine outside your NATing router/firewall and add a route to the private network via that firewall/router. Notice how the packets still don't make it in even though you've just negated the obscurity of NAT...
Yeah....it must be the unions. Can't have anything to do with the fact that on the whole, non-americans consider cars made by GM, Chrysler etc. to be big ugly unreliable inefficient heaps of crap.
Yeah, and that can't have anything to do with the fact that on the whole, american cars are in fact big, ugly, unreliable inefficient heaps of crap? Read Consumer Reports' used car reviews sometimes. My personal experience agrees 100%. I've owned 3 fords and one chrysler all of which had major problems (multi-thousand-dollar throw the car away and buy a new one problems) before they had 130k miles on them (I think the neon made it to 131k before the head gasket failed). The past few years I've had a corolla which has 225k on it, still runs amazingly well, and I would estimate has needed fewer than $2000 worth of repairs its entire life time. What kind of car do you suppose I'll be buying next....
Can you keep your PC secure from a threat you're not aware of?
No.
Sure you can. Its why you keep your machines behind firewalls even if they are fully patched. Its why you don't download and run random executables no matter what some antivirus programs says. Its why you run services with least privilege. They're all safeguards against the next vulnerability.
What kind of connection do you need to have to get away with several terabytes of data before someone notices? Users on my network get pissy when someone downloads a few dozen megs.
A well-run connection. I.E. with QoS to prevent users from getting pissy when someone downloads a few dozen megs.
The law should keep you from being harmed by someone else's actions. But why should it keep you from doing someting stupid and suffer yourself from it?
It is necessary to protect the stupid from themselves because they're not just going to sit there and quietly starve to death and leave the rest of us alone if they can no longer buy food or shelter. Have you ever noticed how many stupid people there are on this planet? Enough to quickly over throw any ideal libertarian government, I think. That's why a nanny state is necessary. Far too many people in this country depend on one.
I may be full of crap, but if I read correctly, Cydia requires you jailbreak the phone first. And if I understand correctly, apple doesn't like this and tries to reverse it or prevent you from doing it in subsequent versions of the phone OS or whatever.
Anyway, that was my point - google sells a version of the phone fully expecting you to add whatever code you want to it without their approval and doesn't try to keep you from doing that.
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Well, the original poster said "cramp LOADS of those things in a small space", which I would interpret to be more than 8 at least. Plus, the price doesn't account for the numerous nice things blades get you over a shelf full of minis, like a backplane instead of individual cables all over, organization, remote console, more efficient energy use, hot swap stuff...
These 379 dollar ones: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/3709945-3709945-3328410-241641-3722790.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_server
You've seen offices that don't have 20 whole square feet of closet to put phone equipment, modems, wiring, punch down panels? Really?
http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/desktops/desktop-optiplex-160/pd.aspx?refid=desktop-optiplex-160&s=bsd&cs=04
You're going to keep putting up with this for nearly a year? Doesn't some part of the contract kind of imply that they'll actually give you the service you're paying for? Seems like it has been broken already.
And it doesn't require physical infrastructure? How does data transmitted by your cell phone make it to the other side of the planet if you want it to? And also, the radio waves can be cluttered up in much the same way physical land can. There's only so much room "in the air" for so many phone companies as well.
"Their own property"? What are you talking about? As I look out the window right now I can see telephone poles all over other people's land. They've got lines running across the back of my house to other buildings. Just a few weeks ago they were blocking a lane of traffic and working on something under the street - a street they don't own. They've got some sort of green box sitting on the lawn of a restaurant across the street. Then there are the cell towers.
The only reason any phone can exist at all is BECAUSE OF government regulation... the regulation allowing them to put all this equipment on anyone's property and making it illegal anyone else to touch it, and the regulation allowing them and only them to emit certain kinds of RF energy.
Well if you didn't bother to twiddle that setting then accessing that is actually pretty simple for anyone on the same logical subnet on the outside of your router (other broadband customers in your area, perhaps), or anyone with access to your ISP's routers.
And how do you know if a binary that claims to be from one of those cracking groups really came from them?
Why? "Because it just is!!" ?
NAT does not drop anything.
Microsoft isn't killing vmware, vmware is killing vmware. Have you tried using VMWare Server 2 lately? They replaced the decent standalone executable admin application in version 1 with a web interface which is excruciatingly slow, buggy, and painful to use. Its one of those web apps where the idiot designers inexplicably decided to write their own crappy windowing system in Javascript. And of course, you still need an executable to use the console of the VMs, so the web interface was pointless to begin with.
This why a browser which can remember passwords is nice.
Sure. Why not? There are all plenty of examples of examples of similarly risky jobs.
Not really: http://www.deter.com/unix/software/xkey.c
Who is "giving" you air?
Those things can provide just as good of security some time even without complexity of NAT. Try setting up a machine outside your NATing router/firewall and add a route to the private network via that firewall/router. Notice how the packets still don't make it in even though you've just negated the obscurity of NAT...
No. 2^128. Indescribably more. It seems you are the one who doesn't understand a few things.
Yeah, and that can't have anything to do with the fact that on the whole, american cars are in fact big, ugly, unreliable inefficient heaps of crap? Read Consumer Reports' used car reviews sometimes. My personal experience agrees 100%. I've owned 3 fords and one chrysler all of which had major problems (multi-thousand-dollar throw the car away and buy a new one problems) before they had 130k miles on them (I think the neon made it to 131k before the head gasket failed). The past few years I've had a corolla which has 225k on it, still runs amazingly well, and I would estimate has needed fewer than $2000 worth of repairs its entire life time. What kind of car do you suppose I'll be buying next....
Sure you can. Its why you keep your machines behind firewalls even if they are fully patched. Its why you don't download and run random executables no matter what some antivirus programs says. Its why you run services with least privilege. They're all safeguards against the next vulnerability.
A well-run connection. I.E. with QoS to prevent users from getting pissy when someone downloads a few dozen megs.
It is necessary to protect the stupid from themselves because they're not just going to sit there and quietly starve to death and leave the rest of us alone if they can no longer buy food or shelter. Have you ever noticed how many stupid people there are on this planet? Enough to quickly over throw any ideal libertarian government, I think. That's why a nanny state is necessary. Far too many people in this country depend on one.
I don't think the point is to destroy the data...
I may be full of crap, but if I read correctly, Cydia requires you jailbreak the phone first. And if I understand correctly, apple doesn't like this and tries to reverse it or prevent you from doing it in subsequent versions of the phone OS or whatever.
Anyway, that was my point - google sells a version of the phone fully expecting you to add whatever code you want to it without their approval and doesn't try to keep you from doing that.
Use a less crappy DVD player. When I play DVDs with mplayer ('mplayer dvd://') it jumps straight to the thing I actually want to see.