I have a 2015 F-150 Lariat. The rest of the truck is awesome. Truly I really love the rest of the truck. Engineering masterpiece and so many details right plus great gas mileage. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars....except the &$-)1#^!! My Ford Touch! I hate it! I am not a person to get too upset over things, but I had to pay $1,500 extra for something that doesn't work well and never will because Ford and MSFT stopped development on it. Also according to Ford there is no upgrade path except to buy a new truck some year in the future. When I turn my truck on it automatically connects via Bluetooth and plays something random....it grabs anything up on iCloud. I've had rap music, kid pop, French language lessons, metal,....it's always a surprise. The navigation system is comical and pathetic circa late 1990's or early 2000's tech. I will just stop writing right here on this because I am already getting mad thinking about it.
I will never buy another Ford (or other make) without fully testing the infotainment system. Mobile device integration is too important in this day and age. It has to fully support Apple CarPlay and/or Andriod Auto or won't be considered.
I really dislike Ford for also not taking care of recent customers. $1,500 for something flawed and dead ended while my iPhone is half the cost and infinitely better plus getting updated all the time.
Buyer beware! Test it yourself fully before buying. Don't get a Ford until Apple Car Play comes standard (and not by a software update which may never come).
Google could have archived all that data like no one else on the planet. Canadian universities and libraries should have called them in before the obviously incompetent people showed up (or maybe save places not visited yet). Reminds me of the phrase: "We are from the government and we are here to help you."
Sad to see the USPS getting worse and worse over the years. It has been a very successful least common communications denominator for over 200 years. It delivers all over the world and does a great job doing so. I would have been using them almost exclusively all along if they would have had a package tracking system like the other guys. USPS keeps rural areas connected to everything else. It is still amazing to me that I can be in such far off places as Hawaii, Guam, or Palau and for less than 50 cents send a letter or postcard to someone living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon or middle of Maine and almost never fail it gets there and quickly (3-5 days). This is definitely not the case in some other countries. Of course I know the Internet has changed things (been using Internet since 91), but still things such as legal contracts, business with governmental departments, shipping of precious metals, etc are still done largely via US Postal service because of its reliability and legal protections.
I think the USPS is a public good and an important part of keeping such a large country with spread out citizens on more equal level. Does this mean they need to find ways to be more efficient? Sure! Does this mean they need to compete with fully private companies? Sure! But I think we need them to stay around and be healthy. This means tax payer money needs to added in because some parts of the business will never be very profitable. Someone needs to deliver the things to people who do not live in high populated areas and the letters to Santa.
I have been reading and a part of the community since 1998 (or 99?) when I worked for the University of Georgia in computer services. The articles and comments were the best and most up to date on tech and open source information out there for years. I checked the site multiple times a day and sometimes still do. Thank you again for helping create Slashdot and democratizing information plus helping gives others a voice (that said, sometimes the high school kids were a bit much;) ).
No matter what you can always remember fondly of the term that was spawned from the success of your creation: the dreaded Slashdotting of websites!
Thank you again and I wish you all the best in whatever you endeavor to do!
I lived in the Osaka area for about a year to year and half total. I only had 2 instances of jerky people (maybe 3?). Pretty good considering I also traveled all around Kansai, Shikoku, and parts of Kyushu. I do not know much about you personally or present day Tokyo guys to be honest. Tokyo is a big city so probably just like many there are a lot more snobs or it could be how you act towards others? I had a good experience and have been back to the Kansai area many times since living there and continue to enjoy myself.
I did know about the freaking out and hoarding at the grocery stores. Panic makes people do things like that. My friends who live in the Tokyo area sent Facebook updates. That same type of stuff happens in US when a snowstorm or hurricane might be coming. Compare after an actual disaster like Katrina, and you see the real difference with the way Japanese citizens reacted.
Thank you for your reply and stay safe! (and enjoy living in Japan if you can--of course there are some jerks like everywhere, but lots of good people too)
Japan is a great country and the Japanese wonderful people. I lived there in the 90's and loved it. They are showing tremendous resolve and strength during a natural disaster that just keeps on going. It seems like almost everyday I see a headline of yet another 7.x aftershock. Yet they are repairing their infrastructure at an incredible rate and keeping as much control over what they can better than anyone.
If and when the US has another natural disaster, I hope we can come somewhere close to what they are doing. The Japanese people's efforts are not only helping Japan, but much of the world. Many critical components and products for many industries are made or flow through Japan. If Japan were to stop or slow down noticeably, it would seriously affect economies all over the world including the US.
When I was searching for a DIY home security system I turned to Slashdot too. Reading through the comments I found some possible companies to go with. I settled on Ingrid, who has since changed their name to LifeShield. I installed everything myself and have been happy with the service for over 3 years.
www.lifeshield.com (used to be ingridhome.com)
I just went to their site and was surprised to see Dan Marino pop out and endorse the system. Maybe that is to drum up sales in Florida? LOL
You have to admit though, that was a high quality spoof. They did a great job making the fake product and making it look like it works. As well as the surrounding expo looking backdrop.
The article is just stating current events and the author's own current likes and dislikes. More than likely many of the companies and items mentioned will be different by 2029. Especially since the rate of change is increasing. Where was Google and Yahoo 22 years ago or many of the technologies we use today? Not even on the radar back in 1985. Many of the Slashdot readers may not have even been alive yet or were still in diapers.
The only thing you can accurately predict is people will be fundamentally the same, only the tools they use will be different.
NATing was a temp stop gap. Also, if you just look around, almost every home with broadband uses NAT, every company uses NAT and many companies have the operation hell of traffic being NATed multiple times throughout an Enterprise. So wide spread adoption of NAT already happened. NAT is not the answer. For a home user with a dinky network, it works. If you have a huge network with MILLIONS of endpoints, it just does not from an ROI perspective. Try tracing and capturing packets whose addresses change multiple times in both directions on a global network for an application that is not functioning and your company is losing money for every minutes (second) it is out.
Remember that there are billions of people with millions coming online in some form or fashion for the first time every year with many new companies springing up to serve them. A simple thing like an address gets important. The more private addressing you use, the less interoperable and supportable things become. Just something to think about as you play with the hair on your arm.
To the point of address exhaustion; here is a quote from an ARIN meeting last October 2006:
"....And then you see each of the RIRs, the amount of space that we currently have in/8s, ARIN having at this point the most IPv4 blocks from the IANA and, of course, the available space. It says the IANA reserved is right now 59/8s. That number changed last week. There are now 55/8s remaining. ARIN was issued four/8 blocks by the IANA last week, last Wednesday I think. So there really are 55/8s remaining in the entire v4 space pool...."
I have seen estimates of practical allocatable address exhaustion in 2008 or 2009. Pretty darn soon! This does not mean the Internet or commerce will stop. Just new services and deployments will increasingly need to use IPv6 because there will not be IPv4 addresses for them.
Getting back to IPv6 in space.....it is good it is being tested now in space because it will certainly be used in the future. Also, I hope every router in space is Cisco, then they should work.:-)
Ever use a new cell phone? Want to watch TV? The truth is IPv4 addresses are almost gone. Not the number of hosts, but amount of allocatable new address are almost gone. Companies do not usually give back allocated addresses even when they are acquired or merge plus of course the number of hosts are ever increasing.
The practical number of usable IPv4 addresses is about 250 million. Remember there is at least one host address AND THEN gateway and broadcast when provisioning new Internet services. This is very inefficient and one reason why there is not the notion of broadcast domain in IPv6. Also companies especially early on were given large blocks of addresses. So yes there are addresses out there which can be reused, but are you going to start calling up companies and universities and ask them for addresses? Not very realistic.
It should only take just a couple of examples to see why companies already have and will have to move to IPv6:
Remembering there are about 250 million usable addresses, what if you want to IP enable 80 million cell phone customers for web, video, IM, e-mail and other services? Where are you going to get all of those addresses? How will you get about 30% of the world's useable IPv4 addresses so you can make money from the new services? You can not. This is why NTT moved to IPv6 about 4-5 years ago.
Another example could be a US cable service provider (no names - protecting the innocent) who has 40 million customers and wants/needs to roll out new IP enabled digital set top boxes so they can provide video (1 address), VoIP (1 address), and Internet data (1 address). If each customer bought all three services the ISP would need 120 million address. Do you think anyone will give up their addresses so this one provider can have about half (120 million) of all of the useable IPv4 address in the world? No. IPv6.
The fact that you do not understand how to subnet IPv6 or understand how it works is irrelevant. It is needed because of the scale of IP enabled devices and services. Should people in developing counties do without the Internet revolution because Americans have most of the addresses and we are fat, dumb, and happy (it is phase meaning complacent) because we already have the lions share of the IPv4 addresses and as such many of the services already? --Yes I know we have fallen way behind Asia and Europe in many areas.
Also, IPv6 is needed to enable more interactive use of IP enabled technologies. Sitting behind NAT devices inhibits accessibility. (I know most are saying..well duh...) But networks should be secure and accessible. Think of talking to your friend on a mobile phone and then sharing/watching with him on your and his mobile phones some of the highlights of a sports game you watched last night and are being streamed from home your home server --of course taunting him while watching because your team won.
Of course some of this can be done now, but it is more male geeks doing it manually. When it can be seamless and by the main stream, then things will really be different. We will live in a much more collaborative society. One where using technology will not create social misfits who do not know how to interact with real people anymore, but one that uses technology TO interact socially with people. When you can video conference from your mobile, PC, work, school, or living room and the clarity of visual and sound are so good it seems like the people are there, you will not longer have to do ";-):-):-S:-( lol " which are poor substitutes for seeing and hearing actual emotion and reacting to it.
I watched it last Friday without a hitch. It was great.
So I am not sure if it is a hardware or firmware series having issues or not. The XBox 360 and attached HD-DVD player (and of course my 40 inch 1080p TV) worked as advertised.
Also, if we are going to do away with legislation, we should ask them to pay the 200 BILLION (!) in tax breaks/credits given to them (Verizon, SBC, Bellsouth) in the last 6 years or so to help with the build out. This is the last number I had heard, I assume it is actually larger as time goes on. So basically US tax payers paid for the FiOS infrastructure and now Verizon wants to just get the juiciest most profitable areas. I say sure, just pay your back taxes.
That 200 BILLION could have been much better spent making a national infrastructure that any provider can utilize. The idea of cable TV and telephone companies has passed. It is all data and services running over IP.
If the traditional telco's took money from us, then there should be some stings attached. If they try to renig on the deal, then pay the money back with penalties. It is the only way to keep them honest.
Government is supposed to look out for the best interest of citizens. If the regulations are too much of a burden and need to be removed, then do not come knocking asking for more handouts.
If there are new laws made to plug it, the rich have plenty of well paid type A professionals with accounting and law degrees or can hire firms who will figure out ways around the new laws. That is why they stay rich and do not have to pay those pesky taxes. Also, as stated in other posts, if the company is the one officially making all the money, the company has to worry about paying taxes not Jeff. Of course the company will have many expenses (like the 1.1 million in security for Jeff) which will cancel out income.....so the company (and Jeff) will not have to pay taxes. Most corporations (around 95%??) do not pay corporate federal income tax because they can bring the tax that they owe down to 0% legally. I guess the other 5% do not have good accountants working for them?:-)
This is the way rich stay rich; have a company they control officially make all the money and spend all the money on them. That way it never shows up as their personal income or expenses so the tax man stays away would be litigators do not have much to try to sue for.
That is the way the smart rich people do it. Middle and low class lamers (me included) make all their income as salary and so are taxed on everything we make. Also, if we are sued we could lose everything we have.
There must be some tax advantage reason for the dollar amount get gets in salary.
So don't fault Jeff, he is just using the American system to his advantage.
My wife is Japanese and wants to move back to Japan. I told her a few years ago that so long as I have fast Internet access, I will be happy. We have gone back a bunch of times and I have been watching the changes in Japan. In the mid 90's I used to make fun of Japan, but now, like all G7 countries, they kick our butt with regards to broadband services.
HHhhhmmmmm......I don't have any more excuses of why not to move to Japan.....I used to complain about housing prices as well as Internet. Prices are about the same as Japan where I live now.
I am too lazy to look up a link, but news of 1 Gigbit service through coax cable (ie cable modem) service is already being rolled out somewhere in Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan. Cisco Systems is the network hardware vendor.
The author of the article must have been stiffing something when he said that 1 Gb serivce only works in areas that have Cat5 cable between buildings - how about Cat5e or Cat6. Fiber?? (FiOS), Cable?? MetroEthernet??
Yes, the USA has fallen behind and getting more so. We just have a capitalist system and a government that does not push the issue and make it happen. Also, we are a pretty big country so comparisons between us and South Korea are not much of an apples to apples comparison. A better comparison might be France who was far behind the US and in only 2 years left us in the dust.
Just my 2 cents.
There are already a bunch of posts, so this one will probably nerver be read......
I have not heard of NAC supporting "Trusted Computing". Right now there is a software client that runs on the "Trusted PC's" called Cisco Trust Agent (CTA). That will communicate back through the network to an authentication server and what ever 3rd party servers there are (like Antivirus) to make sure everything is installed and up to date. Routers, switches, AP's just check to see if the CTA is installed and are configured what to do if it is not(ACL's, VLANS). Is it conceivable that customers might want to have the various vendors' "Trusted Computing" mechanisms? Sure, if customers want it and the hardware/software support is out there. Again though, I think this would be more for corporate users. ISP's can not tell what the heck OS's my computer's run in my home. I have a PIX firewall and just about everyone I know has some type of firewall (Lynksys) so I can not see major ISP's shifting to a Trusted Computing model in which each device has to authenticate to the ISP first. If my ISP sends me a nasty gram saying that I need to remove my firewall, I will either change ISP or get business class service. Also, if they did change to that model, I am sure you could be a device that would authenticate for you. It is always a cat and mouse game.
So if there is "Trusted Computing" support in NAC in the future, it will be just one of many things customers can key off of to make sure devices meet what ever spec is in their Security Policy. I really do not see what "Trusted Computing" buys you. Any terrorist can go out and buy a "Trusted Computing" computer. Since it is officially licensed CPU and OS, how does that make bad things the terrorist/hacker/cracker do with somehow not malicious? If the person wants to run Linux really bad, all he or she needs to do is install VMWare or VirtualPC.
-Andy
Just my 2 cents. I still say NAC is cool stuff.;-) BTW I do not think Cisco is turning into a security company. For one thing Cisco has been doing security for years (PIX??) and another is that routing and switching are Cisco's bread and butter. Cisco is doing a lot more VoIP and is really gaining ground, is Cisco a voice company then? Cisco is doing really well with SAN storage switching, is Cisco a storage company then? Cisco is Cisco. I love working there. Tons of cool technology and lots of awesome people!
Oh yeah and another thing. NAC is not a special router. It will be on every network device (router, switch, wireless access point, etc.) Right now the first phase has been released so it is availible on L3 devices (routers)only. Phase 2 should be out soon and that will include switches. Check Cisco's website for info and updates in the future.
Sorry, this is just conspiracy theory stuff. I work at Cisco and there is plenty of info out there on what NAC is. This is for corporate networks and yes it will deny access the unauthorized or non-standard devices that attempt to use a network. It is policy based so if there is a PC or Laptop that does not fit the bill, then that device will be put on a different VLAN which will either allow the user to update Service Packs or virus definition or just have bandwidth restricted Internet access (like a guest VLAN). So it is not an all or nothing thing. IT departments can set it up how they want. NAC is cool stuff. You can even have ACL's that are tied to a certain user or group for instance. Also it is open so other companies can make applications that work with it. If you have seen the "Self Defending Networks" advertisements, this is part of it.
So there is no grand plan to take over the world. Just help IT departments control what devices access the business critical network. Would you really want someone to stick an unpatched fresh out of the box Windows PC with no Anti-virus on your network? Now that many companies have voice on their network 3, 4, or 5 9's is not the goal anymore. Now it is 100% uptime (excluding change windows) so having as much centralization, standardization and automation is critical to getting to that 100%.
With NAC and related technologies, companies can be sure of who is on, what they are doing, and the device they are connecting with meets IT standards.
Regards,
Andy
PS If you want more info on NAC just search on the CCO.
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I would give you points if I could for the Blendtec reference. Those things rock and are tougher than Chuck Norris (action figures)!
I have a 2015 F-150 Lariat. The rest of the truck is awesome. Truly I really love the rest of the truck. Engineering masterpiece and so many details right plus great gas mileage. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars....except the &$-)1#^!! My Ford Touch! I hate it! I am not a person to get too upset over things, but I had to pay $1,500 extra for something that doesn't work well and never will because Ford and MSFT stopped development on it. Also according to Ford there is no upgrade path except to buy a new truck some year in the future. When I turn my truck on it automatically connects via Bluetooth and plays something random....it grabs anything up on iCloud. I've had rap music, kid pop, French language lessons, metal, ....it's always a surprise. The navigation system is comical and pathetic circa late 1990's or early 2000's tech. I will just stop writing right here on this because I am already getting mad thinking about it.
I will never buy another Ford (or other make) without fully testing the infotainment system. Mobile device integration is too important in this day and age. It has to fully support Apple CarPlay and/or Andriod Auto or won't be considered.
I really dislike Ford for also not taking care of recent customers. $1,500 for something flawed and dead ended while my iPhone is half the cost and infinitely better plus getting updated all the time.
Buyer beware! Test it yourself fully before buying. Don't get a Ford until Apple Car Play comes standard (and not by a software update which may never come).
-Andy
Google could have archived all that data like no one else on the planet. Canadian universities and libraries should have called them in before the obviously incompetent people showed up (or maybe save places not visited yet). Reminds me of the phrase: "We are from the government and we are here to help you."
Sad to see the USPS getting worse and worse over the years. It has been a very successful least common communications denominator for over 200 years. It delivers all over the world and does a great job doing so. I would have been using them almost exclusively all along if they would have had a package tracking system like the other guys. USPS keeps rural areas connected to everything else. It is still amazing to me that I can be in such far off places as Hawaii, Guam, or Palau and for less than 50 cents send a letter or postcard to someone living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon or middle of Maine and almost never fail it gets there and quickly (3-5 days). This is definitely not the case in some other countries. Of course I know the Internet has changed things (been using Internet since 91), but still things such as legal contracts, business with governmental departments, shipping of precious metals, etc are still done largely via US Postal service because of its reliability and legal protections.
I think the USPS is a public good and an important part of keeping such a large country with spread out citizens on more equal level. Does this mean they need to find ways to be more efficient? Sure! Does this mean they need to compete with fully private companies? Sure! But I think we need them to stay around and be healthy. This means tax payer money needs to added in because some parts of the business will never be very profitable. Someone needs to deliver the things to people who do not live in high populated areas and the letters to Santa.
"Live Free of Die" is the great state of New Hampshire. Wisconsin is the "Eat Cheese or Die" state. ;-) http://www.eatwisconsincheese.com/wisconsin/default.aspx
CmdrTaco,
I have been reading and a part of the community since 1998 (or 99?) when I worked for the University of Georgia in computer services. The articles and comments were the best and most up to date on tech and open source information out there for years. I checked the site multiple times a day and sometimes still do. Thank you again for helping create Slashdot and democratizing information plus helping gives others a voice (that said, sometimes the high school kids were a bit much ;) ).
No matter what you can always remember fondly of the term that was spawned from the success of your creation: the dreaded Slashdotting of websites!
Thank you again and I wish you all the best in whatever you endeavor to do!
Best regards,
Andy
:-) Your other post did not get deleted. I actually just responded to it.
I lived in the Osaka area for about a year to year and half total. I only had 2 instances of jerky people (maybe 3?). Pretty good considering I also traveled all around Kansai, Shikoku, and parts of Kyushu. I do not know much about you personally or present day Tokyo guys to be honest. Tokyo is a big city so probably just like many there are a lot more snobs or it could be how you act towards others? I had a good experience and have been back to the Kansai area many times since living there and continue to enjoy myself.
I did know about the freaking out and hoarding at the grocery stores. Panic makes people do things like that. My friends who live in the Tokyo area sent Facebook updates. That same type of stuff happens in US when a snowstorm or hurricane might be coming. Compare after an actual disaster like Katrina, and you see the real difference with the way Japanese citizens reacted.
Thank you for your reply and stay safe! (and enjoy living in Japan if you can--of course there are some jerks like everywhere, but lots of good people too)
-Andy
Japan is a great country and the Japanese wonderful people. I lived there in the 90's and loved it. They are showing tremendous resolve and strength during a natural disaster that just keeps on going. It seems like almost everyday I see a headline of yet another 7.x aftershock. Yet they are repairing their infrastructure at an incredible rate and keeping as much control over what they can better than anyone.
If and when the US has another natural disaster, I hope we can come somewhere close to what they are doing. The Japanese people's efforts are not only helping Japan, but much of the world. Many critical components and products for many industries are made or flow through Japan. If Japan were to stop or slow down noticeably, it would seriously affect economies all over the world including the US.
-Andy
When I was searching for a DIY home security system I turned to Slashdot too. Reading through the comments I found some possible companies to go with. I settled on Ingrid, who has since changed their name to LifeShield. I installed everything myself and have been happy with the service for over 3 years.
www.lifeshield.com (used to be ingridhome.com)
I just went to their site and was surprised to see Dan Marino pop out and endorse the system. Maybe that is to drum up sales in Florida? LOL
-Andy
You have to admit though, that was a high quality spoof. They did a great job making the fake product and making it look like it works. As well as the surrounding expo looking backdrop.
Very funny.
-Andy
The article is just stating current events and the author's own current likes and dislikes. More than likely many of the companies and items mentioned will be different by 2029. Especially since the rate of change is increasing. Where was Google and Yahoo 22 years ago or many of the technologies we use today? Not even on the radar back in 1985. Many of the Slashdot readers may not have even been alive yet or were still in diapers.
The only thing you can accurately predict is people will be fundamentally the same, only the tools they use will be different.
Just my 2 cents.
-Andy
thegameiam,
Thank you for your educated insight. I appreciate and respect different views especially if they are thought out and articulated well.
Best regards,
Andy
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NATing was a temp stop gap. Also, if you just look around, almost every home with broadband uses NAT, every company uses NAT and many companies have the operation hell of traffic being NATed multiple times throughout an Enterprise. So wide spread adoption of NAT already happened. NAT is not the answer. For a home user with a dinky network, it works. If you have a huge network with MILLIONS of endpoints, it just does not from an ROI perspective. Try tracing and capturing packets whose addresses change multiple times in both directions on a global network for an application that is not functioning and your company is losing money for every minutes (second) it is out.
Remember that there are billions of people with millions coming online in some form or fashion for the first time every year with many new companies springing up to serve them. A simple thing like an address gets important. The more private addressing you use, the less interoperable and supportable things become. Just something to think about as you play with the hair on your arm.
To the point of address exhaustion; here is a quote from an ARIN meeting last October 2006:
"....And then you see each of the RIRs, the amount of space that we currently have in
http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XVIII/p
I have seen estimates of practical allocatable address exhaustion in 2008 or 2009. Pretty darn soon! This does not mean the Internet or commerce will stop. Just new services and deployments will increasingly need to use IPv6 because there will not be IPv4 addresses for them.
Getting back to IPv6 in space.....it is good it is being tested now in space because it will certainly be used in the future. Also, I hope every router in space is Cisco, then they should work.
Suggested links:
http://www.arin.net/
http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm
http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XVIII/p
Best regards,
Andy
Ever use a new cell phone? Want to watch TV? The truth is IPv4 addresses are almost gone. Not the number of hosts, but amount of allocatable new address are almost gone. Companies do not usually give back allocated addresses even when they are acquired or merge plus of course the number of hosts are ever increasing.
;-) :-) :-S :-( lol " which are poor substitutes for seeing and hearing actual emotion and reacting to it.
The practical number of usable IPv4 addresses is about 250 million. Remember there is at least one host address AND THEN gateway and broadcast when provisioning new Internet services. This is very inefficient and one reason why there is not the notion of broadcast domain in IPv6. Also companies especially early on were given large blocks of addresses. So yes there are addresses out there which can be reused, but are you going to start calling up companies and universities and ask them for addresses? Not very realistic.
It should only take just a couple of examples to see why companies already have and will have to move to IPv6:
Remembering there are about 250 million usable addresses, what if you want to IP enable 80 million cell phone customers for web, video, IM, e-mail and other services? Where are you going to get all of those addresses? How will you get about 30% of the world's useable IPv4 addresses so you can make money from the new services? You can not. This is why NTT moved to IPv6 about 4-5 years ago.
Another example could be a US cable service provider (no names - protecting the innocent) who has 40 million customers and wants/needs to roll out new IP enabled digital set top boxes so they can provide video (1 address), VoIP (1 address), and Internet data (1 address). If each customer bought all three services the ISP would need 120 million address. Do you think anyone will give up their addresses so this one provider can have about half (120 million) of all of the useable IPv4 address in the world? No. IPv6.
The fact that you do not understand how to subnet IPv6 or understand how it works is irrelevant. It is needed because of the scale of IP enabled devices and services. Should people in developing counties do without the Internet revolution because Americans have most of the addresses and we are fat, dumb, and happy (it is phase meaning complacent) because we already have the lions share of the IPv4 addresses and as such many of the services already? --Yes I know we have fallen way behind Asia and Europe in many areas.
Also, IPv6 is needed to enable more interactive use of IP enabled technologies. Sitting behind NAT devices inhibits accessibility. (I know most are saying..well duh...) But networks should be secure and accessible. Think of talking to your friend on a mobile phone and then sharing/watching with him on your and his mobile phones some of the highlights of a sports game you watched last night and are being streamed from home your home server --of course taunting him while watching because your team won.
Of course some of this can be done now, but it is more male geeks doing it manually. When it can be seamless and by the main stream, then things will really be different. We will live in a much more collaborative society. One where using technology will not create social misfits who do not know how to interact with real people anymore, but one that uses technology TO interact socially with people. When you can video conference from your mobile, PC, work, school, or living room and the clarity of visual and sound are so good it seems like the people are there, you will not longer have to do "
So what does IPv6 enable? The future.
-Andy
Opps! Sorry for the title mess up. I addd in some words and then did not read it over again. :-(
-Andy
I watched it last Friday without a hitch. It was great.
So I am not sure if it is a hardware or firmware series having issues or not. The XBox 360 and attached HD-DVD player (and of course my 40 inch 1080p TV) worked as advertised.
-Andy
Also, if we are going to do away with legislation, we should ask them to pay the 200 BILLION (!) in tax breaks/credits given to them (Verizon, SBC, Bellsouth) in the last 6 years or so to help with the build out. This is the last number I had heard, I assume it is actually larger as time goes on. So basically US tax payers paid for the FiOS infrastructure and now Verizon wants to just get the juiciest most profitable areas. I say sure, just pay your back taxes.
That 200 BILLION could have been much better spent making a national infrastructure that any provider can utilize. The idea of cable TV and telephone companies has passed. It is all data and services running over IP.
If the traditional telco's took money from us, then there should be some stings attached. If they try to renig on the deal, then pay the money back with penalties. It is the only way to keep them honest.
Government is supposed to look out for the best interest of citizens. If the regulations are too much of a burden and need to be removed, then do not come knocking asking for more handouts.
Not a flaw. A loophole.
:-)
If there are new laws made to plug it, the rich have plenty of well paid type A professionals with accounting and law degrees or can hire firms who will figure out ways around the new laws. That is why they stay rich and do not have to pay those pesky taxes. Also, as stated in other posts, if the company is the one officially making all the money, the company has to worry about paying taxes not Jeff. Of course the company will have many expenses (like the 1.1 million in security for Jeff) which will cancel out income.....so the company (and Jeff) will not have to pay taxes. Most corporations (around 95%??) do not pay corporate federal income tax because they can bring the tax that they owe down to 0% legally. I guess the other 5% do not have good accountants working for them?
Andy
This is the way rich stay rich; have a company they control officially make all the money and spend all the money on them. That way it never shows up as their personal income or expenses so the tax man stays away would be litigators do not have much to try to sue for.
That is the way the smart rich people do it. Middle and low class lamers (me included) make all their income as salary and so are taxed on everything we make. Also, if we are sued we could lose everything we have.
There must be some tax advantage reason for the dollar amount get gets in salary.
So don't fault Jeff, he is just using the American system to his advantage.
--just some thing to think about.
Sincerely,
Middle Class Lamer
Hahahaha! You show him!
My wife is Japanese and wants to move back to Japan. I told her a few years ago that so long as I have fast Internet access, I will be happy. We have gone back a bunch of times and I have been watching the changes in Japan. In the mid 90's I used to make fun of Japan, but now, like all G7 countries, they kick our butt with regards to broadband services.
HHhhhmmmmm......I don't have any more excuses of why not to move to Japan.....I used to complain about housing prices as well as Internet. Prices are about the same as Japan where I live now.
-Andy
I am too lazy to look up a link, but news of 1 Gigbit service through coax cable (ie cable modem) service is already being rolled out somewhere in Tokyo or Yokohama, Japan. Cisco Systems is the network hardware vendor.
The author of the article must have been stiffing something when he said that 1 Gb serivce only works in areas that have Cat5 cable between buildings - how about Cat5e or Cat6. Fiber?? (FiOS), Cable?? MetroEthernet??
Yes, the USA has fallen behind and getting more so. We just have a capitalist system and a government that does not push the issue and make it happen. Also, we are a pretty big country so comparisons between us and South Korea are not much of an apples to apples comparison. A better comparison might be France who was far behind the US and in only 2 years left us in the dust.
Just my 2 cents.
There are already a bunch of posts, so this one will probably nerver be read......
Have a good one!
-Andy
I have not heard of NAC supporting "Trusted Computing". Right now there is a software client that runs on the "Trusted PC's" called Cisco Trust Agent (CTA). That will communicate back through the network to an authentication server and what ever 3rd party servers there are (like Antivirus) to make sure everything is installed and up to date. Routers, switches, AP's just check to see if the CTA is installed and are configured what to do if it is not(ACL's, VLANS). Is it conceivable that customers might want to have the various vendors' "Trusted Computing" mechanisms? Sure, if customers want it and the hardware/software support is out there. Again though, I think this would be more for corporate users. ISP's can not tell what the heck OS's my computer's run in my home. I have a PIX firewall and just about everyone I know has some type of firewall (Lynksys) so I can not see major ISP's shifting to a Trusted Computing model in which each device has to authenticate to the ISP first. If my ISP sends me a nasty gram saying that I need to remove my firewall, I will either change ISP or get business class service. Also, if they did change to that model, I am sure you could be a device that would authenticate for you. It is always a cat and mouse game.
;-) BTW I do not think Cisco is turning into a security company. For one thing Cisco has been doing security for years (PIX??) and another is that routing and switching are Cisco's bread and butter. Cisco is doing a lot more VoIP and is really gaining ground, is Cisco a voice company then? Cisco is doing really well with SAN storage switching, is Cisco a storage company then? Cisco is Cisco. I love working there. Tons of cool technology and lots of awesome people!
So if there is "Trusted Computing" support in NAC in the future, it will be just one of many things customers can key off of to make sure devices meet what ever spec is in their Security Policy. I really do not see what "Trusted Computing" buys you. Any terrorist can go out and buy a "Trusted Computing" computer. Since it is officially licensed CPU and OS, how does that make bad things the terrorist/hacker/cracker do with somehow not malicious? If the person wants to run Linux really bad, all he or she needs to do is install VMWare or VirtualPC.
-Andy
Just my 2 cents. I still say NAC is cool stuff.
Oh yeah and another thing. NAC is not a special router. It will be on every network device (router, switch, wireless access point, etc.) Right now the first phase has been released so it is availible on L3 devices (routers)only. Phase 2 should be out soon and that will include switches. Check Cisco's website for info and updates in the future.
Regards,
Andy
Sorry, this is just conspiracy theory stuff. I work at Cisco and there is plenty of info out there on what NAC is. This is for corporate networks and yes it will deny access the unauthorized or non-standard devices that attempt to use a network. It is policy based so if there is a PC or Laptop that does not fit the bill, then that device will be put on a different VLAN which will either allow the user to update Service Packs or virus definition or just have bandwidth restricted Internet access (like a guest VLAN). So it is not an all or nothing thing. IT departments can set it up how they want. NAC is cool stuff. You can even have ACL's that are tied to a certain user or group for instance. Also it is open so other companies can make applications that work with it. If you have seen the "Self Defending Networks" advertisements, this is part of it.
So there is no grand plan to take over the world. Just help IT departments control what devices access the business critical network. Would you really want someone to stick an unpatched fresh out of the box Windows PC with no Anti-virus on your network? Now that many companies have voice on their network 3, 4, or 5 9's is not the goal anymore. Now it is 100% uptime (excluding change windows) so having as much centralization, standardization and automation is critical to getting to that 100%.
With NAC and related technologies, companies can be sure of who is on, what they are doing, and the device they are connecting with meets IT standards.
Regards,
Andy
PS If you want more info on NAC just search on the CCO.