Actually, having been an overworked admin, the overworked admin would see "April 19" and say, "I don't need to worry about that for awhile" and promptly drop it in the calendar for April 16 (friday) or 19 (monday). And get right back to whatever. Plus, the message tells you exactly where to go to see the complete list of addresses that's supposed to be used, so that's where I'd go for the "complete list" instead of some random email. (plus, I have scripts that generate firewall configurations... copy, paste, done.)
Name, address, etc. are not exactly private information to begin with. The only thing they want ("need") hidden is their association with a domain. One court order and it's not hidden anymore. One hack, and none of them are hidden. In most respects, if they don't want to be associated with what they're doing, they probably shouldn't be doing it. (or should find some other venue.)
And for the record, I don't know of any registrar who looks very closely at the registrant data. (even when it's pointed out to them.)
Domain registration doesn't ask for anything that isn't public knowledge already. All proxy services do is hide who actually uses the domain. By ICANN rules, the proxy owns the domain; they are the registrant. They can do whatever they please with "your" domain and you have little power to stop them. And of course, you have to pay for the service.
I've had domains registered in public for many years. I get almost NONE of what you whine about. Yes, I've received some postal mail over the years -- mostly Register.com bullshit trying to scam away one's domain registration. I've received many orders of magnitude more junk mail (postal mail) from "mortgage insurance" crap, car warantee crap, various retirement related shit, credit card offers, and so on. Spam is next to nothing even though it's in the whois data and dozens of archived, searchable email lists. (I receive more spam at addresses that nothing should know exists.)
And the internet has changed a great deal over those 12 years. I've been around the internet for ~20 years... before there were firewalls, back when spam was a caned meat product. The internet didn't consist of millions of complete morons trying to make a buck (which is where SPAM came from), bored teens out to break other peoples stuff, or thugs, gangs, and other criminal organizations out to steal and extort money from anything they can find. (phishing, fake websites, botnets, trojan keyloggers, etc.)
Simply plugging a Windows computer (pretty much ANY version, patched or not) directly into the internet is bad enough. Having inexperienced, non-admins setting up mail servers, dns servers, web servers, forum software, blog software, etc., etc. makes just as big a mess. (if not worse since they lack the skills to secure and harden their installations, assuming they realize they've been hacked -- the "windows problem" is simple enough: hide it behind a NAT box.)
And when will people learn there is no such thing as "anonymous"? Esp. online.
If you don't want your name associated with your (home) address linked to a domain name -- which is yet another public record -- then don't register a domain in your name with your home address.
If authorities need to contact the domain owner or know who it is, registrars will give them the info.
Yes and no. At any rate, it's no where near as simple as you make it sound. The proper, legal, paperwork littered path takes weeks if not months. And there's no way to know if the information given to the proxy is bogus or not. There are thousands of public registered domains with BS contact records. (and many are immediately obvious) I'm pretty sure bogus information is given to Domains By Proxy as well.
Not true. I've never seen a Tivo lose sync on anything it's recorded -- which is what's being talked about: "fast-forwarding or rewinding". Even on an old S1 that couldn't keep up; it'll alter the audio playback speed and drop video frames to keep things in sync. (for normal shows, it's unnoticable. but for a concert, it's very annoying.)
If it were in the transmission stream, then it'd be out of sync during normal/live playback.
- Whoever worked out how to fit an Ethernet card in a Series 1 TiVo
That'd be Tivo, Inc. The tivo hacking community improved upon the idea -- first with the TivoNet ISA card "hack" and then the amazing Turbonet board. Both of which run circles around what Tivo's design can do.
- Whoever worked out which bytes to poke in the encoder chip driver to enable it to record in the undocumented higher res Mode 0, without the distracting offset.
That'd be tridge. And he has(had) the full Sony provided documentation for the encoder chip.
Ok. Bombs are not made of wires. They're made of explosive materials. It's pretty damned easy to look at something and tell if it contains anything that could be an explosive or just a plastic bottle with wire wrapped around it.
A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful...
Luque [SDFD] said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.
So, what we have here is a complete idiot Vice Principal thinking, in passing, the kid has a bomb.
With idiots like this in charge, I'd've ended up in prison with the odd things I built as science projects when I was in school. Thank God people weren't so paranoid and stupid 30 years ago. And for the record, my high school had infinitely more dangerous stuff in the chemistry supply room. (that actually did require the bomb squad for safe disposal... a bottle of nitroglycerin and a bottle of bromide in an asbestos lined can.)
Despite being the ILEC/RBOC over almost all of the Southeast, AT&T has far fewer towers. So, where you are, and what direction you're facing makes all the difference. Also, you'd be amazed the difference a real antenna makes.
And to be fair, the GSM networks in the US don't run on the same frequencies as those in other parts of the world. (Remember, we have to have our own standards... radio, tv, HD, PSTN, data comm, etc., etc., etc. Of course, we cannot make anything that's actually better.)
There are phones that can do both. I don't know how well any active calls would roam from network to network, but seeing how a lot of problems pop up simply moving from tower to tower, I'd guess "not good".
Yes, I'm aware of the Pix. Are you aware the pix is not a Cisco creation, but an acquisition? The only thing that makes a Pix a "pix" is the flash card. Almost any PC hardware can run the software.
It wasn't until the (cisco designed) 525/530 that specialized hardware started being integrated. All models of the modern ASA's have assisting hardware -- internal switch(s), crypto chip(s), ASIC(s), etc.
(BTW, the ASA runs Linux. The part you're paying for is the application running within that Linux.)
We use a 2851 with a full DS3, and it'll move full rate traffic without a problem. However, if I config it do everything the pix does (i.e. NAT), it'll fall over and die at about 20mbps-ish. Pure routing, it'll sling line rate between it's gig interfaces. Anything that requires CPU will suffer. (it's designed to move packets, not fiddle with them in the process.)
Bull. One well loaded Cisco 10k costs more than the 5 year contract lease for our (class A) office space.
Google is the only organization I'm aware of that actually owns and builds their own facilities -- buys land, builds buildings, puts computers in them, and hires people to manage everything. Even major ISPs (level3, MCI/Worldcom/UUNet/et.al.) and data center providers around here (RTP NC) don't own their facilities. The smart ones are in converted warehouses. Others are in flex office space.
I have... since we were asked for power consumption figures for our hardware (3U dual amd opteron server... standard off-the-shelf crap.) It has a "760W" power supply in it, but even at full load, we use less than half that. (300W) The difference between "totally idle" and "totally active"? 52.8W. Which over 10 years does add up to over a million in power costs. Obviously, their numbers will be different as they won't be working with 5000 3U rack mount servers.:-)
(And yes, idle means the cpu is in it's lowest power mode.)
Not "none"; just not enough to matter. The TC of concrete is no match for the rate of heat generation in even a small data center. Take my little ~400sq.ft. data center... With the current hardware, the temp. rises 1F per minute that the compressor is off. That's with 2900ft^3/min of air flowing across the concrete floor (beneath the DC flooring.) Concrete simply cannot move that much heat fast enough.
From a civil engineering point of view, it's an important consideration in any building design. A house or office complex will definitely see a difference due to the concrete. But their heat loads are significantly less. Just look at my townhouse sitting on a ~900sq.ft. slab (the entire community is built on slabs) -- approx. 2ft thick. In the winter, it's next to impossible to heat the place -- esp. with the hippie inspired crap hot water heating system [Apollo HydroHeat(tm)]. In the summer, it's hard to cool it. Yet in my former apartment, with wood flooring, it was trivial to heat and cool -- in fact, a half dozen computers kept the place warm as long as it was above freezing outside.
Unless you're running water pipes through the floor, a few tones of concrete isn't going to do jack for data center. The reason for concrete floors is entirely engineering... cheap, strong, durable, and very easily built. It makes next to no dent in heat load. (what's the specific heat and thermal conduction rate for concrete?)
Not for the cost ($$$) and power consumption. Plus, it doesn't need a super fast processor as most of the work is done with dedicated hardware (MPEG encoder, decoder, and audio processor.)
Actually, the S1 has a 25MHz CPU. It can be overclocked to 33. (or is it 33/66?)
The issue sans-Tivo, is the lack of any driver at all for 90% of the hardware... IBM CS22 MPEG decoder used to be about the only thing that was openly documented. The Sony MPEG encoder is not publicly documented -- 'tho they did screw up an give tridge a copy:-) The Tivo ASIC at the heart of the machine is not, and never will be documented. Just using the Tivo drivers still leaves a HUGE amount of work to make anything remotely usable.
And just for the record, the hardware doesn't support MP3. You'd have to re-encode everything to MP2 first. (which it's CPU is not capable of doing.)
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Actually, having been an overworked admin, the overworked admin would see "April 19" and say, "I don't need to worry about that for awhile" and promptly drop it in the calendar for April 16 (friday) or 19 (monday). And get right back to whatever. Plus, the message tells you exactly where to go to see the complete list of addresses that's supposed to be used, so that's where I'd go for the "complete list" instead of some random email. (plus, I have scripts that generate firewall configurations... copy, paste, done.)
Name, address, etc. are not exactly private information to begin with. The only thing they want ("need") hidden is their association with a domain. One court order and it's not hidden anymore. One hack, and none of them are hidden. In most respects, if they don't want to be associated with what they're doing, they probably shouldn't be doing it. (or should find some other venue.)
And for the record, I don't know of any registrar who looks very closely at the registrant data. (even when it's pointed out to them.)
No, it is not. Back that up with the actual law there Anonymous Coward.
Domain registration doesn't ask for anything that isn't public knowledge already. All proxy services do is hide who actually uses the domain. By ICANN rules, the proxy owns the domain; they are the registrant. They can do whatever they please with "your" domain and you have little power to stop them. And of course, you have to pay for the service.
I've had domains registered in public for many years. I get almost NONE of what you whine about. Yes, I've received some postal mail over the years -- mostly Register.com bullshit trying to scam away one's domain registration. I've received many orders of magnitude more junk mail (postal mail) from "mortgage insurance" crap, car warantee crap, various retirement related shit, credit card offers, and so on. Spam is next to nothing even though it's in the whois data and dozens of archived, searchable email lists. (I receive more spam at addresses that nothing should know exists.)
And the internet has changed a great deal over those 12 years. I've been around the internet for ~20 years... before there were firewalls, back when spam was a caned meat product. The internet didn't consist of millions of complete morons trying to make a buck (which is where SPAM came from), bored teens out to break other peoples stuff, or thugs, gangs, and other criminal organizations out to steal and extort money from anything they can find. (phishing, fake websites, botnets, trojan keyloggers, etc.)
Simply plugging a Windows computer (pretty much ANY version, patched or not) directly into the internet is bad enough. Having inexperienced, non-admins setting up mail servers, dns servers, web servers, forum software, blog software, etc., etc. makes just as big a mess. (if not worse since they lack the skills to secure and harden their installations, assuming they realize they've been hacked -- the "windows problem" is simple enough: hide it behind a NAT box.)
And when will people learn there is no such thing as "anonymous"? Esp. online.
If you don't want your name associated with your (home) address linked to a domain name -- which is yet another public record -- then don't register a domain in your name with your home address.
Yes and no. At any rate, it's no where near as simple as you make it sound. The proper, legal, paperwork littered path takes weeks if not months. And there's no way to know if the information given to the proxy is bogus or not. There are thousands of public registered domains with BS contact records. (and many are immediately obvious) I'm pretty sure bogus information is given to Domains By Proxy as well.
Not true. I've never seen a Tivo lose sync on anything it's recorded -- which is what's being talked about: "fast-forwarding or rewinding". Even on an old S1 that couldn't keep up; it'll alter the audio playback speed and drop video frames to keep things in sync. (for normal shows, it's unnoticable. but for a concert, it's very annoying.)
If it were in the transmission stream, then it'd be out of sync during normal/live playback.
That'd be Tivo, Inc. The tivo hacking community improved upon the idea -- first with the TivoNet ISA card "hack" and then the amazing Turbonet board. Both of which run circles around what Tivo's design can do.
That'd be tridge. And he has(had) the full Sony provided documentation for the encoder chip.
Or in other words... "We paid THX a lot of money for this Logo." (which is what we Tivo Series3 owners have always said.)
Ok. Bombs are not made of wires. They're made of explosive materials. It's pretty damned easy to look at something and tell if it contains anything that could be an explosive or just a plastic bottle with wire wrapped around it.
So, what we have here is a complete idiot Vice Principal thinking, in passing, the kid has a bomb.
With idiots like this in charge, I'd've ended up in prison with the odd things I built as science projects when I was in school. Thank God people weren't so paranoid and stupid 30 years ago. And for the record, my high school had infinitely more dangerous stuff in the chemistry supply room. (that actually did require the bomb squad for safe disposal... a bottle of nitroglycerin and a bottle of bromide in an asbestos lined can.)
s/non-existent/limited/
Despite being the ILEC/RBOC over almost all of the Southeast, AT&T has far fewer towers. So, where you are, and what direction you're facing makes all the difference. Also, you'd be amazed the difference a real antenna makes.
And to be fair, the GSM networks in the US don't run on the same frequencies as those in other parts of the world. (Remember, we have to have our own standards... radio, tv, HD, PSTN, data comm, etc., etc., etc. Of course, we cannot make anything that's actually better.)
There are phones that can do both. I don't know how well any active calls would roam from network to network, but seeing how a lot of problems pop up simply moving from tower to tower, I'd guess "not good".
Buy a network tap. Yes, they are insanely expensive, but they make taps for everything these days.
Actually, no one has manufactured a true "hub" in nearly a decade. Today, "hub" is just another name for "cheap, unmanaged switch."
Yes, I'm aware of the Pix. Are you aware the pix is not a Cisco creation, but an acquisition? The only thing that makes a Pix a "pix" is the flash card. Almost any PC hardware can run the software.
It wasn't until the (cisco designed) 525/530 that specialized hardware started being integrated. All models of the modern ASA's have assisting hardware -- internal switch(s), crypto chip(s), ASIC(s), etc.
(BTW, the ASA runs Linux. The part you're paying for is the application running within that Linux.)
We use a 2851 with a full DS3, and it'll move full rate traffic without a problem. However, if I config it do everything the pix does (i.e. NAT), it'll fall over and die at about 20mbps-ish. Pure routing, it'll sling line rate between it's gig interfaces. Anything that requires CPU will suffer. (it's designed to move packets, not fiddle with them in the process.)
Bull. One well loaded Cisco 10k costs more than the 5 year contract lease for our (class A) office space.
Google is the only organization I'm aware of that actually owns and builds their own facilities -- buys land, builds buildings, puts computers in them, and hires people to manage everything. Even major ISPs (level3, MCI/Worldcom/UUNet/et.al.) and data center providers around here (RTP NC) don't own their facilities. The smart ones are in converted warehouses. Others are in flex office space.
I have... since we were asked for power consumption figures for our hardware (3U dual amd opteron server... standard off-the-shelf crap.) It has a "760W" power supply in it, but even at full load, we use less than half that. (300W) The difference between "totally idle" and "totally active"? 52.8W. Which over 10 years does add up to over a million in power costs. Obviously, their numbers will be different as they won't be working with 5000 3U rack mount servers. :-)
(And yes, idle means the cpu is in it's lowest power mode.)
Not "none"; just not enough to matter. The TC of concrete is no match for the rate of heat generation in even a small data center. Take my little ~400sq.ft. data center... With the current hardware, the temp. rises 1F per minute that the compressor is off. That's with 2900ft^3/min of air flowing across the concrete floor (beneath the DC flooring.) Concrete simply cannot move that much heat fast enough.
From a civil engineering point of view, it's an important consideration in any building design. A house or office complex will definitely see a difference due to the concrete. But their heat loads are significantly less. Just look at my townhouse sitting on a ~900sq.ft. slab (the entire community is built on slabs) -- approx. 2ft thick. In the winter, it's next to impossible to heat the place -- esp. with the hippie inspired crap hot water heating system [Apollo HydroHeat(tm)]. In the summer, it's hard to cool it. Yet in my former apartment, with wood flooring, it was trivial to heat and cool -- in fact, a half dozen computers kept the place warm as long as it was above freezing outside.
Unless you're running water pipes through the floor, a few tones of concrete isn't going to do jack for data center. The reason for concrete floors is entirely engineering... cheap, strong, durable, and very easily built. It makes next to no dent in heat load. (what's the specific heat and thermal conduction rate for concrete?)
Not for the cost ($$$) and power consumption. Plus, it doesn't need a super fast processor as most of the work is done with dedicated hardware (MPEG encoder, decoder, and audio processor.)
Actually, the S1 has a 25MHz CPU. It can be overclocked to 33. (or is it 33/66?)
The issue sans-Tivo, is the lack of any driver at all for 90% of the hardware... IBM CS22 MPEG decoder used to be about the only thing that was openly documented. The Sony MPEG encoder is not publicly documented -- 'tho they did screw up an give tridge a copy :-) The Tivo ASIC at the heart of the machine is not, and never will be documented. Just using the Tivo drivers still leaves a HUGE amount of work to make anything remotely usable.
And just for the record, the hardware doesn't support MP3. You'd have to re-encode everything to MP2 first. (which it's CPU is not capable of doing.)