You gave an example of NAT in the case of public daemons, but what about NAT/Masquerading a network behind a single IP? You think you can access private IP's (10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x, 192.168.x.x) without using a reverse connecting Trojan? There's inherent security in not being able to reach a host behind a NAT, without a single packet filter rule.
Listen to the hyperbole you are regurgitating about Chinese domestic policy, because after all, American news is never tainted, so relativistic crap is right!
While you spew about China, let's not overlook America's monetary hegemony, which makes the rest of the world fight for the USD so they can buy oil, exclusively sold in dollars, while America prints more bankrupt dollars free of charge.
The biggest threat to America is Europe/Euro which threatens the fiat petrodollar, and wars are declared on anyone that threatens the USD stronghold. The reason America is in Iraq is because of Saddams' food for oil program, sold in Euros, weakened the dollar. Economics has always been the premise for war, but where America eases its citizens' conscience through media, doesn't take away from the fact that the American standard of living is built on exploitation of every country in the world by just printing dollars and having a strong military to keep people in line.
Makes you raise an eyebrow as to what the real issues with Venezuela and Iran really are; are we policing 'rogue' hostile states, or are we imposing American imperialism and to maintain the global dominance of America's petrocurrency?
With anonymizing proxies such as The Onion Router (tor) and I2P that utilizes encryption and Bittorrent clients that are supporting decentralized trackers which make P2P unstoppable, good luck pinning the blame on ISPs. The ISPs already have a tough enough job trying to provide reliable connections and allocating bandwidth without customers complaining. Now clueless music labels think they're going to scare piracy out of existance by suing ISPs, the provider of the infrastructure. That's about as illogical as trying to sue the state for building roads everytime there's a drunk driving accident.
This is just a taste of what is heading over the horizon. The Internet with anonymizing protocols and encryption has opened up a Pandora's Box, and what's inside is a reflection of human nature itself.
Perhaps it is the evolution of our species to be interconnected and sharing ideas freely, instead of functioning at the same level of design as the laws that try to enforce an imaginary system of credit. This extends beyond the music and movie industry, and raises questions as to how governments are going to control the minds of its citizens in the age of a globally interconnected community.
Bittorrent is only a foreshadow of what is coming around the corner for our species' evolution, with humans interconnected via cybernetic implants, who decides what meme have the most value?
The amount of bandwidth for VoIP is practically negligable at roughtly ~12Kbps. I've used Skype on dial-up while surfing the net with no noticable side-effects.
Even if the ISP's want to prioritize their packets for their own VoIP protocol, unless Internet bandwidth starts shrinking, I can't really see how ISPs could effect the 'Quality of Service' of VoIP.
But thanks for FUD Cringley.
That's strange. I don't know what other astronmers are smoking but when I'm blazin' "hot gas embeeded in streams of material", I'm going much slower than normal. I guess that's the basis for the theory of relativity?
Carl Sagan can vouch for me.
"Most of the pictures are dated 2000. I suspect that in four years since those pictures, the project has made significant advances. However, those results and pictures are likely classified."
With a shortage of IT staff to program the laster guidance systems, I heard the 2004 version will support AIMBOT technology from Unreal Tournament 2004.
"That's Bill's ultimate goal: to squeeze Microsoft "technology" into every nook and cranny of your life until everything you do has some Microsoft code enabling it or making it inaccessible unless you pay Bill"
'Microsoft' condoms won't sell that well actually.
Sodium vapor lights in the basement? Porphyria my ass. Sounds like your friend has a clandestine hydroponic garden in her basement and she's using your LED's for fruiting.
You should ask her if its really for her glaucoma. *wink* *wink*
The support for the Nokia 7650 is STILL flaky. Everytime I try to use iSync with the phone, it says it can't establish a connection with the phone, even though the phone asks me if I want to allow the connection.
With the Bluetooth update, at least the phone works with the address book now (SMS, Voice Mail, Answer) everytime the phone rings, but unless iSync is fixed, it's rather pointless because I don't know WHO is calling without having to look on the phone in the first place (and that sort've defeats the purpose).
Astaro is a hybrid firewall (stateful packet filter, application proxy), with a bunch of other nifty features. I 'discovered' it a couple of months ago on freshmeat when I was about to put together my own security box. After playing with it, I am nothing short of impressed, and its FREE for home use. it is a refined product.
Engarde is a hardened linux distro; it's most practical use is turning it into a secure pubic server.
The two actually goes hand in hand, as they aren't competing products.
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You gave an example of NAT in the case of public daemons, but what about NAT/Masquerading a network behind a single IP? You think you can access private IP's (10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x, 192.168.x.x) without using a reverse connecting Trojan? There's inherent security in not being able to reach a host behind a NAT, without a single packet filter rule.
Listen to the hyperbole you are regurgitating about Chinese domestic policy, because after all, American news is never tainted, so relativistic crap is right!
While you spew about China, let's not overlook America's monetary hegemony, which makes the rest of the world fight for the USD so they can buy oil, exclusively sold in dollars, while America prints more bankrupt dollars free of charge.
The biggest threat to America is Europe/Euro which threatens the fiat petrodollar, and wars are declared on anyone that threatens the USD stronghold. The reason America is in Iraq is because of Saddams' food for oil program, sold in Euros, weakened the dollar. Economics has always been the premise for war, but where America eases its citizens' conscience through media, doesn't take away from the fact that the American standard of living is built on exploitation of every country in the world by just printing dollars and having a strong military to keep people in line.
Makes you raise an eyebrow as to what the real issues with Venezuela and Iran really are; are we policing 'rogue' hostile states, or are we imposing American imperialism and to maintain the global dominance of America's petrocurrency?
With anonymizing proxies such as The Onion Router (tor) and I2P that utilizes encryption and Bittorrent clients that are supporting decentralized trackers which make P2P unstoppable, good luck pinning the blame on ISPs. The ISPs already have a tough enough job trying to provide reliable connections and allocating bandwidth without customers complaining. Now clueless music labels think they're going to scare piracy out of existance by suing ISPs, the provider of the infrastructure. That's about as illogical as trying to sue the state for building roads everytime there's a drunk driving accident.
This is just a taste of what is heading over the horizon. The Internet with anonymizing protocols and encryption has opened up a Pandora's Box, and what's inside is a reflection of human nature itself.
Perhaps it is the evolution of our species to be interconnected and sharing ideas freely, instead of functioning at the same level of design as the laws that try to enforce an imaginary system of credit. This extends beyond the music and movie industry, and raises questions as to how governments are going to control the minds of its citizens in the age of a globally interconnected community.
Bittorrent is only a foreshadow of what is coming around the corner for our species' evolution, with humans interconnected via cybernetic implants, who decides what meme have the most value?
The amount of bandwidth for VoIP is practically negligable at roughtly ~12Kbps. I've used Skype on dial-up while surfing the net with no noticable side-effects. Even if the ISP's want to prioritize their packets for their own VoIP protocol, unless Internet bandwidth starts shrinking, I can't really see how ISPs could effect the 'Quality of Service' of VoIP. But thanks for FUD Cringley.
That's strange. I don't know what other astronmers are smoking but when I'm blazin' "hot gas embeeded in streams of material", I'm going much slower than normal. I guess that's the basis for the theory of relativity? Carl Sagan can vouch for me.
"Most of the pictures are dated 2000. I suspect that in four years since those pictures, the project has made significant advances. However, those results and pictures are likely classified."
With a shortage of IT staff to program the laster guidance systems, I heard the 2004 version will support AIMBOT technology from Unreal Tournament 2004.
Imagine the possibilities!
"That's Bill's ultimate goal: to squeeze Microsoft "technology" into every nook and cranny of your life until everything you do has some Microsoft code enabling it or making it inaccessible unless you pay Bill"
'Microsoft' condoms won't sell that well actually.
"And that's why such huge specs are needed."
Well, not for everyone. (Shows off size 12 shoes)
Anonymous Coward is incorrect:
"Die SCO Group GmbH" needs no translation.
Sodium vapor lights in the basement? Porphyria my ass. Sounds like your friend has a clandestine hydroponic garden in her basement and she's using your LED's for fruiting. You should ask her if its really for her glaucoma. *wink* *wink*
The support for the Nokia 7650 is STILL flaky. Everytime I try to use iSync with the phone, it says it can't establish a connection with the phone, even though the phone asks me if I want to allow the connection. With the Bluetooth update, at least the phone works with the address book now (SMS, Voice Mail, Answer) everytime the phone rings, but unless iSync is fixed, it's rather pointless because I don't know WHO is calling without having to look on the phone in the first place (and that sort've defeats the purpose).
Astaro is a hybrid firewall (stateful packet filter, application proxy), with a bunch of other nifty features. I 'discovered' it a couple of months ago on freshmeat when I was about to put together my own security box. After playing with it, I am nothing short of impressed, and its FREE for home use. it is a refined product. Engarde is a hardened linux distro; it's most practical use is turning it into a secure pubic server. The two actually goes hand in hand, as they aren't competing products.