but they also allow people to work together. What if you had to learn a different TCP/IP stack everytime you changed jobs? Wouldn't be any fun now, would it? Even in the middle ages, people used standards. Stone masons had standard measuring units (don't remember what they were though. Any ideas?) that enabled them to travel across the country and find work. Sure, there will alway be differences, but minor ones.
Besides, everything new starts out with not being a standard. Inventors work to create standards so that their product can be used by as many people as possible.
but what are the odds that the customers will get a rate decrease? They say they will cut costs by 20%+, but where will those savings go? Right into their CEO's paycheque.
OTOH, by lower prices, they will force other telcos to lower their prices. Which will put them out of business. Which will tie us customers into a single telco. Great. Its not like their customer service didn't suck already, now we won't even have a chance to leave.
We're screwed.
Exactly. Engineering did the same thing years ago. It used to be just a general degree, but it had transformed into many different degrees (Mechanical, Chemical, PetroChemimal, etc). Why become just a generalist when you know what it is you want to do?
and I have my own ideas as to why there are fewer CS students. Downturn in the economy? Yes, that's one reason. But not the only one. People who want to get into computers are discovering that there are many fields to get into. I'm taking a 1/2 business, 1/2 CIS degree, and I love it. I don't want to be just a programmer for the rest of my life. I want to work with servers, networks, databases, etc. You don't need to be a CS grad to do that. The CS students at my school work with assembly, do circuit design, etc. I get to learn various languages, different problem solving techniques, etc.
The bubble may have flattened out, but when it did, it got wider at the base.
Then it would cut down on the unintentional blocking of innocent emails. It is a sad fact that when an open relay gets blacklisted, innoncent users of said relay are suddenly unable to send email. I understand why people use blacklists, and in some ways I agree with it. If your ISP got blacklisted because of an open relay, would you call and complain/take your business elsewhere? Blacklists hurt the companies where it hurts, the bottom line.
By sending out those letters, I think that it would bring admins to attention. It always astounds me the number of clueless admins out there, and I'm sure that some of those open relays are accidental. That letter might cause them to wake up and do their job the way their supposed too. There will always be some open relays, but more and more of those will just get blacklisted at an ever increasing rate as their numbers shrink.
Worst comes to worst, we can always send in the Marines and take them over.
As networks become more complex, and hackers become more sophisticated, how do you see the use of honeypots evolving? Do you think they will have to become mini-networks that can actually be used in-order to prevent them from being detected as honeypots? Or do you think the use of honeypots will just be phased out like many other security tools in the past?
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but they also allow people to work together. What if you had to learn a different TCP/IP stack everytime you changed jobs? Wouldn't be any fun now, would it? Even in the middle ages, people used standards. Stone masons had standard measuring units (don't remember what they were though. Any ideas?) that enabled them to travel across the country and find work. Sure, there will alway be differences, but minor ones. Besides, everything new starts out with not being a standard. Inventors work to create standards so that their product can be used by as many people as possible.
but what are the odds that the customers will get a rate decrease? They say they will cut costs by 20%+, but where will those savings go? Right into their CEO's paycheque. OTOH, by lower prices, they will force other telcos to lower their prices. Which will put them out of business. Which will tie us customers into a single telco. Great. Its not like their customer service didn't suck already, now we won't even have a chance to leave. We're screwed.
Exactly. Engineering did the same thing years ago. It used to be just a general degree, but it had transformed into many different degrees (Mechanical, Chemical, PetroChemimal, etc). Why become just a generalist when you know what it is you want to do?
and I have my own ideas as to why there are fewer CS students. Downturn in the economy? Yes, that's one reason. But not the only one. People who want to get into computers are discovering that there are many fields to get into. I'm taking a 1/2 business, 1/2 CIS degree, and I love it. I don't want to be just a programmer for the rest of my life. I want to work with servers, networks, databases, etc. You don't need to be a CS grad to do that. The CS students at my school work with assembly, do circuit design, etc. I get to learn various languages, different problem solving techniques, etc. The bubble may have flattened out, but when it did, it got wider at the base.
Then it would cut down on the unintentional blocking of innocent emails. It is a sad fact that when an open relay gets blacklisted, innoncent users of said relay are suddenly unable to send email. I understand why people use blacklists, and in some ways I agree with it. If your ISP got blacklisted because of an open relay, would you call and complain/take your business elsewhere? Blacklists hurt the companies where it hurts, the bottom line. By sending out those letters, I think that it would bring admins to attention. It always astounds me the number of clueless admins out there, and I'm sure that some of those open relays are accidental. That letter might cause them to wake up and do their job the way their supposed too. There will always be some open relays, but more and more of those will just get blacklisted at an ever increasing rate as their numbers shrink. Worst comes to worst, we can always send in the Marines and take them over.
As networks become more complex, and hackers become more sophisticated, how do you see the use of honeypots evolving? Do you think they will have to become mini-networks that can actually be used in-order to prevent them from being detected as honeypots? Or do you think the use of honeypots will just be phased out like many other security tools in the past?