The company I work for has a few dozen branch sites in the south east US. Lately we've been looking at increasing the broadband Internet service used to provide WiFi access to guests. When we rolled out the first broadband circuits there 5-7 years ago, our options were typically cable service at maybe 5-10Mb/s and DSL service at usually 3Mb/s. Now, most of these sites have 100Mb/s cable internet service available. Granted, it typically runs ~$200/mo for business class 100-150Mb/s internet service, but still, at least the options fucking available at this point.
I really feel like in the last couple years there has been an actual improvement in broadband speeds with the real push for DOCSIS 3. It's the one real improvement we'll see without replacing (too much of) the copper in the ground. Maybe I'm crazy but I really believe Google Fiber may have played more than a small part in this. Not actually being available everywhere, just the threat to the existing duopoly of cable/dsl providers that they may move in and provide some real competition.
Sure there is - a byte of information. The unit price on this commodity is small but it is measurable and it is consumable too. Information has value and it has cost to create and deliver.
Of course it does but the provider didn't CREATE it or provide it, only deliver it. Your power company GENERATES the power AND delivers it. It's not an accurate analogy at all.
You're forgetting about a whole host of variable other costs beyond simply the physical cost of delivery. There are interchange fees, content license costs, customer support, and more. Granted, the fixed costs dominate but that doesn't mean the variable costs here are negligible. The variable costs are relatively small but definitely not zero.
Those costs for the provider are paid by their customers (eg netflix subscribers). Why should the content provider pay them? They already paid for their access to the Internet on their end.
You cannot compare it to water, fuel or electricity. It's not a resource provided over the infrastructure that is consumable. In those examples someone produces something and then delivers it. In the case of tier 1 ISPs, they just deliver. There is no commodity they produce that is consumed. If the pipe sits dormant or if its working at capacity, there is no material difference in cost to the provider, other than the additional power required, which is minimal when you look at it as a percentage of total cost to run the network.
This was pretty interesting until you got to the part where America breaks up into different countries and I just bust out laughing. It was like the opening to some post-apocalyptic movie from the 1980s.
Just think of the most common way to compromise an executable: Buffer overflow.
You're asking the wrong question. The real question is what's the most common way to compromise a Windows COMPUTER. And that answer is to trick the user into running an untrusted piece of software, either from some web page (using some browser or extension bug, or convincing them to download it) or via an e-mail attachment.
Many verticals have a specific set of approved applications. Finance, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, etc. They don't need to randomly run anything they have a very small set of approved and vetted applications. Whitelisting works in a very large number of instances.
I think you have to consider the type of business. I work in healthcare and there are only a couple of applications they need to run. We lock down those applications on windows desktops using Software Restrictions.
Seriously consider, how often do you need to run a NEW application? Every 5 minutes? Really? Do you think most organizations don't have a list of approved applications that have been vetted through a security process and are maintained and updated by IT?
Don't you feel like the noise is a little too high using reddit and all those subs? I'm also a redditor and am considering this, would be interested to hear your feedback.
While I don't want to minimize that particular problem with the F-22, do you understand how amazing those jets are? And they have many, many successful missions. There were probably lots of other very scary, very real problems the F-22 had during development. It's kind of the nature of the beast. It's a stealth jet not a seesaw.
iPads and Android tablets are actually quite terrible from a productivity standpoint.
You should tell that to the executives who's job is email and reviewing spreadsheets. Or the thousands of nurses we employ using clinical applications with a touch based interface.
iPads are not general purpose computers. If you're using applications specifically designed for them, they're fantastically productive devices. They were not designed for spreadsheets. The sooner people realize that productivity is more than Microsoft Excel, the sooner we can get past this "tablets aren't any good for productivity" thing uneducated people seem to be stuck on.
Seems horrible, actually. The just launched a new console and an entirely new OS and these are the numbers they put up? Ouch. This is a bad, bad sign for Microsoft.
Everyone should have a dedicated server (or VPS). Find a couple friends, go in on a dedicated server, carve it up with Xen/KVM. Then just setup a reverse ssh session from home to your vps/guest and forward rdp and/or vnc ports.
If you use ZABBIX in a commercial context such that you profit by its use, we ask that you further the development of ZABBIX by purchasing some level of support.
And Apple still made more profit on their sales than Samsung did. When will people understand, Apple is a premium product. They don't ever expect to have the majority of the market. They don't make a "cheap" option for that reason.
Apple still rakes in the most mobile profits and just launched on China mobile, the biggest carrier in the world. Prior to that they were basically fighting with one hand behind their back.
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I'd say put at least two ethernet jacks in every room. It's not uncommon to have a cable fail. Pulling two cables is rarely any more difficult than pulling one. Buy yourself two boxes of cable, pull them out together, duct tape them together, then fish them through. Makes it very easy to pull two at once.
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The company I work for has a few dozen branch sites in the south east US. Lately we've been looking at increasing the broadband Internet service used to provide WiFi access to guests. When we rolled out the first broadband circuits there 5-7 years ago, our options were typically cable service at maybe 5-10Mb/s and DSL service at usually 3Mb/s. Now, most of these sites have 100Mb/s cable internet service available. Granted, it typically runs ~$200/mo for business class 100-150Mb/s internet service, but still, at least the options fucking available at this point.
I really feel like in the last couple years there has been an actual improvement in broadband speeds with the real push for DOCSIS 3. It's the one real improvement we'll see without replacing (too much of) the copper in the ground. Maybe I'm crazy but I really believe Google Fiber may have played more than a small part in this. Not actually being available everywhere, just the threat to the existing duopoly of cable/dsl providers that they may move in and provide some real competition.
Sure there is - a byte of information. The unit price on this commodity is small but it is measurable and it is consumable too. Information has value and it has cost to create and deliver.
Of course it does but the provider didn't CREATE it or provide it, only deliver it. Your power company GENERATES the power AND delivers it. It's not an accurate analogy at all.
You're forgetting about a whole host of variable other costs beyond simply the physical cost of delivery. There are interchange fees, content license costs, customer support, and more. Granted, the fixed costs dominate but that doesn't mean the variable costs here are negligible. The variable costs are relatively small but definitely not zero.
Those costs for the provider are paid by their customers (eg netflix subscribers). Why should the content provider pay them? They already paid for their access to the Internet on their end.
So for only $1500 I get to shoot someone? Awesome!
You cannot compare it to water, fuel or electricity. It's not a resource provided over the infrastructure that is consumable. In those examples someone produces something and then delivers it. In the case of tier 1 ISPs, they just deliver. There is no commodity they produce that is consumed. If the pipe sits dormant or if its working at capacity, there is no material difference in cost to the provider, other than the additional power required, which is minimal when you look at it as a percentage of total cost to run the network.
The only thing they designed it for in the beginning was simple http.
No it wasn't. HTTP wasn't standardized until the late 80s or early 90s.
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Yeah I don't get it. I can have a conversation with the person next to me, but I can't make a phone call? Huh?
This was pretty interesting until you got to the part where America breaks up into different countries and I just bust out laughing. It was like the opening to some post-apocalyptic movie from the 1980s.
Seriously, it's built into every OS since, well, forever.
Just think of the most common way to compromise an executable: Buffer overflow.
You're asking the wrong question. The real question is what's the most common way to compromise a Windows COMPUTER. And that answer is to trick the user into running an untrusted piece of software, either from some web page (using some browser or extension bug, or convincing them to download it) or via an e-mail attachment.
Many verticals have a specific set of approved applications. Finance, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, etc. They don't need to randomly run anything they have a very small set of approved and vetted applications. Whitelisting works in a very large number of instances.
I think you have to consider the type of business. I work in healthcare and there are only a couple of applications they need to run. We lock down those applications on windows desktops using Software Restrictions.
Seriously consider, how often do you need to run a NEW application? Every 5 minutes? Really? Do you think most organizations don't have a list of approved applications that have been vetted through a security process and are maintained and updated by IT?
Don't you feel like the noise is a little too high using reddit and all those subs? I'm also a redditor and am considering this, would be interested to hear your feedback.
While I don't want to minimize that particular problem with the F-22, do you understand how amazing those jets are? And they have many, many successful missions. There were probably lots of other very scary, very real problems the F-22 had during development. It's kind of the nature of the beast. It's a stealth jet not a seesaw.
iPads and Android tablets are actually quite terrible from a productivity standpoint.
You should tell that to the executives who's job is email and reviewing spreadsheets. Or the thousands of nurses we employ using clinical applications with a touch based interface.
iPads are not general purpose computers. If you're using applications specifically designed for them, they're fantastically productive devices. They were not designed for spreadsheets. The sooner people realize that productivity is more than Microsoft Excel, the sooner we can get past this "tablets aren't any good for productivity" thing uneducated people seem to be stuck on.
So while all the iPad users end up putting in a service call every week because some app isn't working right
Either you're using a very buggy custom app or you're just flat out lying.
Yeah looks like Surface is going to crush the ipad any moment now: Microsoft lost money on each Surface sold last quarter.
Seems horrible, actually. The just launched a new console and an entirely new OS and these are the numbers they put up? Ouch. This is a bad, bad sign for Microsoft.
Everyone should have a dedicated server (or VPS). Find a couple friends, go in on a dedicated server, carve it up with Xen/KVM. Then just setup a reverse ssh session from home to your vps/guest and forward rdp and/or vnc ports.
It's more about NAT than the firewall. We won't need private addressing + NAT anymore once we move to IPv6.
If you use ZABBIX in a commercial context such that you profit by its use, we ask that you further the development of ZABBIX by purchasing some level of support.
Just fair warning.
I have 5 computers at home and one mobile phone.
And Apple still made more profit on their sales than Samsung did. When will people understand, Apple is a premium product. They don't ever expect to have the majority of the market. They don't make a "cheap" option for that reason.
Apple still rakes in the most mobile profits and just launched on China mobile, the biggest carrier in the world. Prior to that they were basically fighting with one hand behind their back.
I'd say put at least two ethernet jacks in every room. It's not uncommon to have a cable fail. Pulling two cables is rarely any more difficult than pulling one. Buy yourself two boxes of cable, pull them out together, duct tape them together, then fish them through. Makes it very easy to pull two at once.