Yes, I'd love to watch some of the stuff available on Hulu, but no... due to "Copyright" it's not available in my country.
Wait... what? There is no technical limitation, there's no financial limitation, there's no business limitation... unless the company behind Hulu is extremely dense or has absolutely no clue about marketing.
Or do you want to get into the fact that shows on Sky and Virgin media or other satellite/cable providers in the UK & Europe are shown as little as 3 months after, is this all about a gentlemans agreement to keep a monopoly profitable when it should've died years ago?
When marketing & politics get involved, especially in issues like this, expect the fucking worst.
By the time Hulu gets around to allowing Europeans to view stuff we'll have to not only pay a fee, but also sit through 5-10% in duration of advertising for local Cable/Satellite companies which offer a worse service.
Anyway, I have to go change the proxy settings in Firefox so I can watch some stuff on Hulu, brb.
I find very little of the porn produced by Playboy to be either erotic or arousing. I do find it tedious & sometimes hilariously bad when they try too hard (which is often).
It seems like so much mainstream porn today isn't porn, it's a parody of porn full of big breasted woman who moan non-stop as soon as the camera starts rolling. There are some great pornographers like Bang Bros and Abby Winters, but they're as far away from Playboy as you could imagine, in fact most shops in the UK sell magazines on-par with Playboy, like FHM or Nuts, in the middle shelf.
The Thunder n6550EX has 8 DDR2 sockets per processor (4 of them), yes... 32 memory slots. Filling this thing up with 64GiB of 2GiB chips... just over $1000 at retail prices.
However each quad core processors will set you back nearly $3k a piece.
However many other hosting companies can quite easily handle large amounts of bandwidth.
One of my hosts is HostGator, they're not really the best out there, but they seem to be able to handle large traffic sites very well. One site of mine has been averaging about 7 or 8mbit, peaking at 20-30mbit. Last month we transferred just 5tb of data across all the sites hosted on the same account, with one site taking 11 million hits.
Sure, we use more resources than most customers, but at the same time we're on a $14 a month "Business" plan which is advertised as Unlimited across the board. I don't see us getting kicked off until we're using perhaps twice as much as now, even then... they'd probably put us on a Reseller plan at twice the price so it's no big deal.
Actually it's infinitely more reliable than XFS, no chance of data corruption or hard disk failure, not to mention the code is so simple it's pretty easy to provide a formal proof that it contains no bugs.
I'm on 50mbit cable in the UK, it costs £38 per month. Apart from electricity, water and gas, this is the only other "house" service we pay for; no phone line, no cable TV. Are the speeds as good as advertised? http://imgur.com/0IyyR.png (screenshot of an average download, a ~1.4gb movie split into 200mb segments). Yes, I'm very happy with their service so far, although I only get 180 kilobytes/s upload which is significantly slower than the download speeds it's... enough for my purposes. It handles large Skype conferences easily, although transferring large files (backing up my work laptop to LiveDrive) isn't really an issue if left overnight.
One scary thing is that although your concerns are entirely valid, your suggestions are informed and well thought out... the technical details of the card scheme haven't been released to the public, given that the public consists of many thousands of extremely highly skilled security professionals, some of which will be the ones attempting to break the system after (for academic & nefarious reasons), an extra thousand pairs of highly trained eyes would have stopped any stupid shit like this happening in the first place.
Rule #1: don't trust security evaluations from security professionals hired by the company bidding to be paid a huge amount of money, these formal reviews usually aren't worth a damn and are likely skewed in the favor of the company about to get the multi-billion £££ contract.
Why isn't the data on the card encrypted with a government private key? So to even read it you'd need a public key, and modifying it would be impossible.
Simply signing the (publicly readable) data isn't enough IMO.
Back when I was managing SuSE systems we had our own local mirror of the main updates repository, and another repository of custom packages rolled in-house. The documentation ( http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Installation_Sources ) covers this pretty well.
Either way there's no excuse to be compiling packages on each server and managing the usual/usr/local &/opt mess, not to mention with autoyast iirc you can configure it to update packages at specific times of the day unless there's a reboot necessary (and even to reboot automagically for new kernels)
The last place I lived at had 16 wifi networks visible, mostly on channel 11 or 6 depending on the brand/provider of the wifi router, all of them were set to maximum signal strength. Of the 16 wifi networks, most of them were 20% signal and presumably they were upto a few streets away.
One place I worked was full of businesses with only a few employees each, mostly being non-technical and had their own ADSL line with wifi router rather than just cabling their 10 or 20ft square office. The business I was working at did exactly the same thing, everybody complained about poor signal even though they were sitting within 3-4m of the wifi router.
This is what happens when every ISP ships a wifi router for "great signal anywhere in the house or garden" configured on the same default channel: cross-talk galore.
What you did was the sensible thing to do, personally I'd like to see home wifi routers configured by default with low signal strength and some wifi repeaters linked to that hub only to place around their houses where it's really needed. Either that or have those electric plug network extenders provide a low-power wifi network.
Anything that means my poor laptop with an 802.11b chipset whaveon't to deal with half of it's capacity filled up by signals from their badly configured gear.
Yes, handling a few https connections is quite easy for your desktop computer, however on the server side you may have 300 SSL connections open, encrypting/decrypting on perhaps 100 of them at once ontop of the load generated by your web applications.
I'd like to see hardware crypto accelerators come as standard with all server chips, much like a math co-processor of years ago.
I'll take your Trusted Solaris and raise you with Linux + GRSecurity, yay for randomized address space and many other hardening and/or anti-exploitation techniques that Trusted Solaris doesn't have...
The American way is to 1) Charge for access, 2) Display adverts anyway, 3) Laugh at captive customer base, 4) Hike prices until customers start complaining more 5) Profit.
What's the phrase... "As high as the market will bare", oh yeah that's a good analogy for screwing customers because you can!
The difference between physical media and downloaded stuff has always confused me, for example the Amazon Kindle charges you the same amount for virtual books as it does for the dead-tree format, iTunes charges about the same for an album as my regular record-shop does.
I presume they want uniform pricing for the same product regardless of where you buy it, except I get kinda concerned especially where artists and authors are involved, about how much additional money is passed along to them, or more specifically where the money that once covered the physical distribution costs has gone to.
One upon a time places like FilePlanet would burn some stuff onto CD and send you the disc, when I was on 32kbit modem this was very handy as every month I could send off for a few hundred megabytes of stuff and have it arrive faster than I would've been able to download it. Today the average broadband connection you can get in the UK is 8mbit/s. I would've thought that the "get your game updates & shizzle" in-store would've been a nice business, perhaps getting a cut of sales made by Valve and partners as an alternative to buying physical media... except there's no reason to do that anymore.
It seems the game shops are going to die slowly, with the few exceptions being those that cater for everything from the NES to the PS3 (which given the audience may not be very profitable).
Also, wtf, the euro sign shows up blank here! Damnit you insensitive clods! I demand real UTF-8!
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Yes, I'd love to watch some of the stuff available on Hulu, but no... due to "Copyright" it's not available in my country.
Wait... what? There is no technical limitation, there's no financial limitation, there's no business limitation... unless the company behind Hulu is extremely dense or has absolutely no clue about marketing.
Or do you want to get into the fact that shows on Sky and Virgin media or other satellite/cable providers in the UK & Europe are shown as little as 3 months after, is this all about a gentlemans agreement to keep a monopoly profitable when it should've died years ago?
When marketing & politics get involved, especially in issues like this, expect the fucking worst.
By the time Hulu gets around to allowing Europeans to view stuff we'll have to not only pay a fee, but also sit through 5-10% in duration of advertising for local Cable/Satellite companies which offer a worse service.
Anyway, I have to go change the proxy settings in Firefox so I can watch some stuff on Hulu, brb.
It's also an environment in which you can simply ignore stuff. Somebody is sending hurtful stuff that I don't like? Blocked.
> Lawyering is best served cold.
I whole heatedly agree, the best lawyers are dead ones.
I find very little of the porn produced by Playboy to be either erotic or arousing. I do find it tedious & sometimes hilariously bad when they try too hard (which is often).
It seems like so much mainstream porn today isn't porn, it's a parody of porn full of big breasted woman who moan non-stop as soon as the camera starts rolling. There are some great pornographers like Bang Bros and Abby Winters, but they're as far away from Playboy as you could imagine, in fact most shops in the UK sell magazines on-par with Playboy, like FHM or Nuts, in the middle shelf.
The Thunder n6550EX has 8 DDR2 sockets per processor (4 of them), yes... 32 memory slots. Filling this thing up with 64GiB of 2GiB chips... just over $1000 at retail prices.
However each quad core processors will set you back nearly $3k a piece.
However many other hosting companies can quite easily handle large amounts of bandwidth.
One of my hosts is HostGator, they're not really the best out there, but they seem to be able to handle large traffic sites very well. One site of mine has been averaging about 7 or 8mbit, peaking at 20-30mbit. Last month we transferred just 5tb of data across all the sites hosted on the same account, with one site taking 11 million hits.
Sure, we use more resources than most customers, but at the same time we're on a $14 a month "Business" plan which is advertised as Unlimited across the board. I don't see us getting kicked off until we're using perhaps twice as much as now, even then... they'd probably put us on a Reseller plan at twice the price so it's no big deal.
Actually it's infinitely more reliable than XFS, no chance of data corruption or hard disk failure, not to mention the code is so simple it's pretty easy to provide a formal proof that it contains no bugs.
I'm on 50mbit cable in the UK, it costs £38 per month. Apart from electricity, water and gas, this is the only other "house" service we pay for; no phone line, no cable TV. Are the speeds as good as advertised? http://imgur.com/0IyyR.png (screenshot of an average download, a ~1.4gb movie split into 200mb segments).
Yes, I'm very happy with their service so far, although I only get 180 kilobytes/s upload which is significantly slower than the download speeds it's... enough for my purposes. It handles large Skype conferences easily, although transferring large files (backing up my work laptop to LiveDrive) isn't really an issue if left overnight.
Enjoyed reading post, A++++ slashdotter, would read again.
One scary thing is that although your concerns are entirely valid, your suggestions are informed and well thought out... the technical details of the card scheme haven't been released to the public, given that the public consists of many thousands of extremely highly skilled security professionals, some of which will be the ones attempting to break the system after (for academic & nefarious reasons), an extra thousand pairs of highly trained eyes would have stopped any stupid shit like this happening in the first place.
Rule #1: don't trust security evaluations from security professionals hired by the company bidding to be paid a huge amount of money, these formal reviews usually aren't worth a damn and are likely skewed in the favor of the company about to get the multi-billion £££ contract.
Why isn't the data on the card encrypted with a government private key? So to even read it you'd need a public key, and modifying it would be impossible.
Simply signing the (publicly readable) data isn't enough IMO.
Back when I was managing SuSE systems we had our own local mirror of the main updates repository, and another repository of custom packages rolled in-house. The documentation ( http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Installation_Sources ) covers this pretty well.
Either way there's no excuse to be compiling packages on each server and managing the usual /usr/local & /opt mess, not to mention with autoyast iirc you can configure it to update packages at specific times of the day unless there's a reboot necessary (and even to reboot automagically for new kernels)
What would stop them from building high-end scientific/medical/video/whatever Mac Pro workstations but using Power6 chips/boards straight from IBM?
Sure it'd be pricey, but there's a niche for this kinda stuff; SGI & Sun workstations come to mind
Based on your descriptions, what do you perceive the difference is between "libel" and "slander"?
16f. Have you ever lied on job application forms before?
16g. Are you lying now?
The last place I lived at had 16 wifi networks visible, mostly on channel 11 or 6 depending on the brand/provider of the wifi router, all of them were set to maximum signal strength. Of the 16 wifi networks, most of them were 20% signal and presumably they were upto a few streets away.
One place I worked was full of businesses with only a few employees each, mostly being non-technical and had their own ADSL line with wifi router rather than just cabling their 10 or 20ft square office. The business I was working at did exactly the same thing, everybody complained about poor signal even though they were sitting within 3-4m of the wifi router.
This is what happens when every ISP ships a wifi router for "great signal anywhere in the house or garden" configured on the same default channel: cross-talk galore.
What you did was the sensible thing to do, personally I'd like to see home wifi routers configured by default with low signal strength and some wifi repeaters linked to that hub only to place around their houses where it's really needed. Either that or have those electric plug network extenders provide a low-power wifi network.
Anything that means my poor laptop with an 802.11b chipset whaveon't to deal with half of it's capacity filled up by signals from their badly configured gear.
And not blowfish, sha256, sha512?
Yes, handling a few https connections is quite easy for your desktop computer, however on the server side you may have 300 SSL connections open, encrypting/decrypting on perhaps 100 of them at once ontop of the load generated by your web applications.
I'd like to see hardware crypto accelerators come as standard with all server chips, much like a math co-processor of years ago.
I'll take your Trusted Solaris and raise you with Linux + GRSecurity, yay for randomized address space and many other hardening and/or anti-exploitation techniques that Trusted Solaris doesn't have...
While drinking my ice-cold Pepsi Cola on my Samsung R100 "Lifestyle Media" laptop I thought your comment was insightful.
The American way is to 1) Charge for access, 2) Display adverts anyway, 3) Laugh at captive customer base, 4) Hike prices until customers start complaining more 5) Profit.
What's the phrase... "As high as the market will bare", oh yeah that's a good analogy for screwing customers because you can!
Or Alpha? The tech is all there, several [open source] operating systems still support it and presumably the tech wouldn't be too costly to license?
I thought LAR was slang for cannon fodder? Any life insurance with that job would be pretty costly.
Surely they should be promoting compulsive masturbating?
Nothing quite like a 10 minute wank several times a day to keep your heart healthy.
The difference between physical media and downloaded stuff has always confused me, for example the Amazon Kindle charges you the same amount for virtual books as it does for the dead-tree format, iTunes charges about the same for an album as my regular record-shop does.
I presume they want uniform pricing for the same product regardless of where you buy it, except I get kinda concerned especially where artists and authors are involved, about how much additional money is passed along to them, or more specifically where the money that once covered the physical distribution costs has gone to.
One upon a time places like FilePlanet would burn some stuff onto CD and send you the disc, when I was on 32kbit modem this was very handy as every month I could send off for a few hundred megabytes of stuff and have it arrive faster than I would've been able to download it.
Today the average broadband connection you can get in the UK is 8mbit/s. I would've thought that the "get your game updates & shizzle" in-store would've been a nice business, perhaps getting a cut of sales made by Valve and partners as an alternative to buying physical media... except there's no reason to do that anymore.
It seems the game shops are going to die slowly, with the few exceptions being those that cater for everything from the NES to the PS3 (which given the audience may not be very profitable).
Also, wtf, the euro sign shows up blank here! Damnit you insensitive clods! I demand real UTF-8!