Yes, there is a very real reason: POLITICS. The traditional telecom marketplace -- worldwide -- is and has been very heavily regulated and policed. Tarrifs control the costs of calls around the globe and even around the US -- there are tarrifs and regulations w.r.t. crossing LATA boundries; lots of them.
VoIP, being data nearly 100% of the end-to-end trip, isn't bound by these regulations. YET. Believe me, the industry will kill to get VoIP under the same regs. Because they cannot compete otherwise.
The term you're searching for is "TDM". That's the way traditional (well, in my lifetime at least) way voice networks have been switched. Digitize and pass around as packets. (A single timeslice on a T1 is 8KB -- 'tho in voice applications (D4/AMI, "robbed-bit signalling"), you get to use all of those bit.)
ATM is not proprietary. It was designed by committee, and therefore broken from the start -- the 53byte cell size (note, no where near a power of 2) was a compromise to level the field and give no one a market advantage; everyone had to retool their hardware... some had 48byte cells, others 64bytes (or something like that.) There were a number of proprietary "vendor standards" prior to the adoption of industry-wide standards [see also: "designed by committee"] (e.g. Ascend's VNN pre-dates PNNI.) ATM is ok for voice, but unbeleivablly inefficient for data. [see also: "atm cell tax"]
It's cheaper to run one network than it is to run two. A converged voice/data network is a tough nut to crack at first, but is becoming much easier.
Isn't that a little illegal... they cease to be a "common carrier" as soon as they begin filtering traffic. (proxying traffic is different.) 'tho I'd bet they put verbage in your service contract.
Actually the RIAA was the one who claimed it was ok to make copies of CDs to give away to your friends. To do so on a scale that Napster was able to make possible made them change their position. The RIAA was the one who changed the rules here.
Actually, they didn't. They said they couldn't police such small scale sharing and thus wasn't going to even try. Read the actual copyright notice on your CDs; most will explicitly prohibit even loaning the physical disc to anyone else.
Napster was not sharing to one's friends. It was sharing with anyone and everyone who asked without restriction or limit. There is a line, and Napster was out arround Pluto beyond it.
Second, this wasn't a prospective employer doing a background check. It was a comment to reporter(s). Reporters most likely drawn to the event by the guy who was fired. It's not like the agency published a press release about firing this guy.
(The only fishy part is his age... 63. This wouldn't be a ploy to avoid paying retirement would it?)
SETI@home uses the computer only when it doesn't work otherwise... while SETI@home software doesn't use the CPU when other apps need it
Every process on the system gets CPU time - PERIOD. It might not get much, and might yield access immediately, but every process in the table gets CPU time. (Processes that never get CPU time cause resource starvation and deadlocks.)
If you'd read the article(s), you should've read the word "SERVER" at least once. This was not some lame windows desktop in a cube farm. It's a server. You won't find many people running IE on a server. And there's no idication it was a windows server -- it could've been a *NIX system.
The fact is, he ran unauthorized software on one of the company's servers. He didn't cause any problems, that we know of. But he could have. And there's a non-zero chance this could be of issue to various service contracts.
1200W. The standard, tiny, 1/2 cubic ft. toaster oven -- available almost everywhere for $29.95 *grin*. I very rarely have need of the full sized oven.
My entire "cluster" consumes less than 600W (554 "idle" -- 575 gaming.) That's 1 x dual Opteron 240, 1 x dual PIII 850, 1 x dual PII 333 (dual Voodoo2 in the thing), 7 x 146G FC drives in a Eurologic FC7 shelf, cable modem, Cisco 1760, Sony LCD monitor, unmanaged ethernet switch, etc. That comes to, on average, 352$ per year. [~30$/month]
I spend more per year using the kitchen toaster than all of the computer hardware combined.
Just because you have a 500W power supply in the PC does not mean it consumes 500W.
Nobody is giving a complete, true, timeline. We don't know when they wanted a database. They certainly could not have had a real Oracle on Linux system 9 years ago. By the time Oracle was making a Linux version, there were many other database options (postgres, mysql, and sybase for three -- all free I will add.) And they would not have been constrained to a database instance running on Linux. I have Linux applications (perl and php) that access Oracle db's running under linux, solaris, and windows. (dating as far back as mid-97.)
The only conclusion one can draw -- and I'm not the only one posting this -- is that most, if not all, of the constrants of this "linux" system is due to the HOSTING PROVIDER and the APPLICATION(s) they used. One can have crap applications on windows, too. Remember the Navy had a ship dead-in-the-water after a windows NT application tried to divide by zero? (The crappiness of the application is generally not a function of the OS.)
The database was limited to the platform, as I understand it. The ISP/Host used Linux. Thus, any "enterprise" database would have to be one available on Linux. Oracle is not, now, the only database available for linux. It wasn't the only database available in 1995 either.
There's a deeper piece of FUD there: Oracle on Linux "about 9 years ago"? Oracle was not available on Linux 9 years ago (that being 1995.) The SCO version of Oracle could be hacked into working under linux using ibcs, but it's far from optimal or stable. The first native versions of Oracle started rolling out for linux in the '97-'98 time frame.
Role model or not, Mitnick was rather dumb. It's unwise to continue commiting the same crime(s) and flaunting your exploits before the very people tacking your ass down. He was more ego than brains. Several years locked in a tiny box was some wonderful theropy.
Then they download the necessary tools from one of their hacker buddies. These people are not discovering holes; they are driving their RC cars through holes others have pointed out. And a lot of the hacks are just recycled junk -- variations of stuff anti-virus software already blocks.
from the uranium used in it's construction. Back then, they really didn't know better than to use uranium (which is pretty tough stuff -- that's why we use it in artillery shells today) as a building material. Just think what future generations will think of us and all our plastics trashing the world. (granted, plastic is not usually radioactive:-))
The military has said over and over again, the weapon was not "hot". It was in a training configuration.
At any rate, people shouldn't be worried about the nuke. They should be very worried about the 400 pounds of, now, 50 year-old conventional explosives sitting there. That shit will be very unstable today (possible salt-water denaturing aside.)
I was gonna mention that (Ka/Ku is close to the vibration frequency of H2O, add in the scatter from lots of water droplets...) but I didn't want to get overly technical:-) I'll add, C band signals are encoded different than (DTV) K band stuff.
(DTV/DISH dishes larger than 18" are available -- up to 35" as I recall. But the aiming sensitivity makes them less desirable for general use.)
C band hardware doesn't have a problem with rain fade because the dish is over a meter wide. If you aimed a 1.8m dish at one of the DTV birds, you wouldn't have a problem with rain fade either. (you'd have a bigger problem keeping it properly aimed, btw.)
30sec with a screw driver and that password is history. You'll need a real lock (not the BS manufacturers tend to put on there) to keep that screw driver at bay. Heh, then it'll take a few minutes with a paperclip and a screw driver *grin*
"Isolation" MAYBE. It certainly isn't secure. 6mi off the coast of England is within weapons range of things even a private citizen can find. ('tho not likely legal in the UK:-)) One nut with a boat full of TNT and Sealand will fall into the North Sea. Note, salt water and computers do not get along.
There's about a 99% chance none of that hardware is even functional anymore. LEA's are well known ("world famous") for destroying seized hardware besides simply holding on to it well beyond any usable lifetime.
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Yes, there is a very real reason: POLITICS. The traditional telecom marketplace -- worldwide -- is and has been very heavily regulated and policed. Tarrifs control the costs of calls around the globe and even around the US -- there are tarrifs and regulations w.r.t. crossing LATA boundries; lots of them.VoIP, being data nearly 100% of the end-to-end trip, isn't bound by these regulations. YET. Believe me, the industry will kill to get VoIP under the same regs. Because they cannot compete otherwise.
The term you're searching for is "TDM". That's the way traditional (well, in my lifetime at least) way voice networks have been switched. Digitize and pass around as packets. (A single timeslice on a T1 is 8KB -- 'tho in voice applications (D4/AMI, "robbed-bit signalling"), you get to use all of those bit.)
ATM is not proprietary. It was designed by committee, and therefore broken from the start -- the 53byte cell size (note, no where near a power of 2) was a compromise to level the field and give no one a market advantage; everyone had to retool their hardware... some had 48byte cells, others 64bytes (or something like that.) There were a number of proprietary "vendor standards" prior to the adoption of industry-wide standards [see also: "designed by committee"] (e.g. Ascend's VNN pre-dates PNNI.) ATM is ok for voice, but unbeleivablly inefficient for data. [see also: "atm cell tax"]
It's cheaper to run one network than it is to run two. A converged voice/data network is a tough nut to crack at first, but is becoming much easier.
Isn't that a little illegal... they cease to be a "common carrier" as soon as they begin filtering traffic. (proxying traffic is different.) 'tho I'd bet they put verbage in your service contract.
- Actually the RIAA was the one who claimed it was ok to make copies of CDs to give away to your friends. To do so on a scale that Napster was able to make possible made them change their position. The RIAA was the one who changed the rules here.
Actually, they didn't. They said they couldn't police such small scale sharing and thus wasn't going to even try. Read the actual copyright notice on your CDs; most will explicitly prohibit even loaning the physical disc to anyone else.Napster was not sharing to one's friends. It was sharing with anyone and everyone who asked without restriction or limit. There is a line, and Napster was out arround Pluto beyond it.
First, what law? (and in what state(s))
Second, this wasn't a prospective employer doing a background check. It was a comment to reporter(s). Reporters most likely drawn to the event by the guy who was fired. It's not like the agency published a press release about firing this guy.
(The only fishy part is his age... 63. This wouldn't be a ploy to avoid paying retirement would it?)
- SETI@home uses the computer only when it doesn't work otherwise
... while SETI@home software doesn't use the CPU when other apps need it
Every process on the system gets CPU time - PERIOD. It might not get much, and might yield access immediately, but every process in the table gets CPU time. (Processes that never get CPU time cause resource starvation and deadlocks.)If you'd read the article(s), you should've read the word "SERVER" at least once. This was not some lame windows desktop in a cube farm. It's a server. You won't find many people running IE on a server. And there's no idication it was a windows server -- it could've been a *NIX system.
The fact is, he ran unauthorized software on one of the company's servers. He didn't cause any problems, that we know of. But he could have. And there's a non-zero chance this could be of issue to various service contracts.
1200W. The standard, tiny, 1/2 cubic ft. toaster oven -- available almost everywhere for $29.95 *grin*. I very rarely have need of the full sized oven.
My entire "cluster" consumes less than 600W (554 "idle" -- 575 gaming.) That's 1 x dual Opteron 240, 1 x dual PIII 850, 1 x dual PII 333 (dual Voodoo2 in the thing), 7 x 146G FC drives in a Eurologic FC7 shelf, cable modem, Cisco 1760, Sony LCD monitor, unmanaged ethernet switch, etc. That comes to, on average, 352$ per year. [~30$/month]
I spend more per year using the kitchen toaster than all of the computer hardware combined.
Just because you have a 500W power supply in the PC does not mean it consumes 500W.
Nobody is giving a complete, true, timeline. We don't know when they wanted a database. They certainly could not have had a real Oracle on Linux system 9 years ago. By the time Oracle was making a Linux version, there were many other database options (postgres, mysql, and sybase for three -- all free I will add.) And they would not have been constrained to a database instance running on Linux. I have Linux applications (perl and php) that access Oracle db's running under linux, solaris, and windows. (dating as far back as mid-97.)
The only conclusion one can draw -- and I'm not the only one posting this -- is that most, if not all, of the constrants of this "linux" system is due to the HOSTING PROVIDER and the APPLICATION(s) they used. One can have crap applications on windows, too. Remember the Navy had a ship dead-in-the-water after a windows NT application tried to divide by zero? (The crappiness of the application is generally not a function of the OS.)
The database was limited to the platform, as I understand it. The ISP/Host used Linux. Thus, any "enterprise" database would have to be one available on Linux. Oracle is not, now, the only database available for linux. It wasn't the only database available in 1995 either.
There's a deeper piece of FUD there: Oracle on Linux "about 9 years ago"? Oracle was not available on Linux 9 years ago (that being 1995.) The SCO version of Oracle could be hacked into working under linux using ibcs, but it's far from optimal or stable. The first native versions of Oracle started rolling out for linux in the '97-'98 time frame.
(The article leaves more questions than answers.)
Use dry ice. It's far safer and more readily available. You can pick up dry ice in any cooler. N2 comes in tanks (like scuba and welding gear.)
I've heard of some grocery stores selling dry ice. The only place I've known of to get N2 was a welding supply house. (besides mail-order.)
Sorry. That'd be "h4x0r" :-)
Role model or not, Mitnick was rather dumb. It's unwise to continue commiting the same crime(s) and flaunting your exploits before the very people tacking your ass down. He was more ego than brains. Several years locked in a tiny box was some wonderful theropy.
Then they download the necessary tools from one of their hacker buddies. These people are not discovering holes; they are driving their RC cars through holes others have pointed out. And a lot of the hacks are just recycled junk -- variations of stuff anti-virus software already blocks.
various pieces of various versions, yes. However, I don't recall any 800MB archives of Cisco code floating around.
from the uranium used in it's construction. Back then, they really didn't know better than to use uranium (which is pretty tough stuff -- that's why we use it in artillery shells today) as a building material. Just think what future generations will think of us and all our plastics trashing the world. (granted, plastic is not usually radioactive :-))
[the story's a repeat, btw.]
The military has said over and over again, the weapon was not "hot". It was in a training configuration.
At any rate, people shouldn't be worried about the nuke. They should be very worried about the 400 pounds of, now, 50 year-old conventional explosives sitting there. That shit will be very unstable today (possible salt-water denaturing aside.)
I was gonna mention that (Ka/Ku is close to the vibration frequency of H2O, add in the scatter from lots of water droplets...) but I didn't want to get overly technical :-) I'll add, C band signals are encoded different than (DTV) K band stuff.
(DTV/DISH dishes larger than 18" are available -- up to 35" as I recall. But the aiming sensitivity makes them less desirable for general use.)
C band hardware doesn't have a problem with rain fade because the dish is over a meter wide. If you aimed a 1.8m dish at one of the DTV birds, you wouldn't have a problem with rain fade either. (you'd have a bigger problem keeping it properly aimed, btw.)
30sec with a screw driver and that password is history. You'll need a real lock (not the BS manufacturers tend to put on there) to keep that screw driver at bay. Heh, then it'll take a few minutes with a paperclip and a screw driver *grin*
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"Isolation" MAYBE. It certainly isn't secure. 6mi off the coast of England is within weapons range of things even a private citizen can find. ('tho not likely legal in the UKThere's about a 99% chance none of that hardware is even functional anymore. LEA's are well known ("world famous") for destroying seized hardware besides simply holding on to it well beyond any usable lifetime.
I don't see any compliance header in there anywhere. So, what it's supposed to be is anyone's guess.
- Each student is responsible for understanding and adhering to copyright laws
Ok, quick show of hands, how many Duke Freshmen have not violated US Copyright Laws (tm)? No, no, ever, not just day.I read it from View->Source (after ripping the sound card out of the PC.)