I hope not, because all our desktops use an internal ntp server.
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Because not everyone has multiple user accounts the feature is worthless? You don't think a lot of people would like to share the device? You think that would be abnormal? Really? You don't think everyone is going to want to touch/hold/play with the iPad when they see it? You sure about that? You wouldn't even want a "Guest" option? Nothing?
Really? Did you think this through at all?
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"and most developers NEVER EVEN TOUCHED THE DEVICE before releasing v1 of their ipad software."
are we pretending like there isn't an ipad sdk emulator? are we pretending like it doesn't run the same apps an iphone did, doubled in size? are you really trying to pretend like this is that big of a deal? I expected more like a million apps on launch day to be completely honest.
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As far as keyboard, you're missing the point. Do I carry a bluetooth keyboard with me everywhere and then whip it out when I need it? Or do I use the ipad in a dock all the time with the keyboard? Obviously not option B because then I'd have just bought a laptop. So you're little argument is cute but in reality and in practice it's ridiculous.
They do need to address the user thing. It doesn't have to require "leet sysadmin skills". In fact, Apple, in their usual fashion, needs to make it dead simple and visually compelling.
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It's about expectations. People expected a tablet computer to have more functionality than an iPhone, not just have a larger screen. And in that regard it's a little disappointing. It's a matter of perspective, really.
Except for the fact that 10 million zeus infected windows machines will be spewing spam and scanning all your publicly accessible hosts. Not to mention infecting your friends, family and coworkers and possibly even stealing thousands of dollars from your place of employment.
It's coming, there are several competing standards including one from Intel. Pretty soon you'll just beam it from your laptop/netbook/ipad/wristwatch/whatever to your television.
hey that sounds like me! mitsu hc1300 ceiling mounted with a 25' hdmi cable terminated on hdmi plates in the ceiling and wall near my onkyo receiver (which has I believe 5 or 6 HDMI inputs). Then just built a super cheap PC (less than $300) running XBMC on linux then ran a cat5 drop right behind it (actually 4, one for the pc, one for a cisco aironet and two spares). i've got a file server in a closet with all my video exported via samba. Plays 1080p h.264 over 100mb/s beautifully!
haha what? wow take off the tin foil hate dude. the chinese intercept dns requests. it's part of the great firewall of china. i.root-servers.net is one of the root servers and some ISP DNS servers in other countries query it (oh probably i dont know, 1 out of 13 times, give or take?). see where this is going? affecting anything outside of china was completely inadvertent, not that they care.
You just have to shut access to the Internet in China down for several hours a day every few days randomly. To use a car analogy - imagine if you had this car. It worked usually but randomly it stopped working for long periods of time. Eventually, even though it works SOMETIMES, it's not reliable enough to use or trust, so you just stop using it entirely.
You're using firewall in the literal sense. The "Great Firewall of China'" isn't a firewall in the truest sense - it's just a cute play on the name. It has a number of components one of which is modifying DNS responses. And yes, they were using a "sophisticated MiTM" attack which involved modifying clear text DNS requests coming from the i.root-server.net root name server. It probably took two or three teenagers several hours to concoct this diabolical system.
So when I put my ISPs name server in my resolv.conf and they (using the default bind configuration) query the i.root-server.net which is then filtered by the Chinese firewall - that's MY fault?
that's the best part -- all this wealth is in US debt. now if the US fails the Chinese lose trillions of dollars. The americans aren't dumb, they just sold the Chinese the greatest and most expensive insurance policy in history FOR THEMSELVES and the Chinese bought it:) pretty brilliant if you ask me.
That's stupid. Just let them setup their own name servers that query the ACTUAL roots and modify the data anyway they please. You don't fuck with critical internet infrastructure like a root name server.
i.root-servers.net (the root in China) is in the default root.hints file for BIND. Querying the Chinese root is the default configuration. Root servers are omnipotent deities you should always be able to trust them. If you can't trust one then some adjustment needs to be made. In this case removing the root from a location in which data could be intercepted and modified by a hostile government.
I agree completely. It's very simple to go into your DNS server root hints file and remove DNS servers you don't want to query. Pick your favorites, specifically ones near you, using anycast ideally, delete the rest -- problem solved.
I know it's easy to have the "nuke them from space" policy but honestly the Chinese government is just so fucked up they don't have the appropriate law enforcement or policies to police it. Then you've also probably got some level of government that's involved in a lot of the nasty shit going on. Yes, I realize most spam comes from the US. I don't know about you but the several thousand failed login attempts I see a day aren't coming from ARIN address space. It's all APNIC address space. And it's Chinese, specifically, on every single attempt. Now either the Chinese are totally incompetent at managing hackers living there, they turn a blind eye, or it's flat out state sponsored -- but it's largely irrelevant because none of those are acceptable.
Half of me would rather be wrong than naive, just cut them off and say "screw you" but the other half of me considers the probably billion or so Chinese people that use the Internet legitimately just like you and me.
And hard drives have "mean time to failure" ratings. That doesn't stop us from selling (or buying) them. You clearly have no concept of the actual limitation of writes on SSDs.
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Wow, modded insightful. Now funny -- that I would understand. Apparently no one has heard of QPI or SANs? Come on, guys!
I hope not, because all our desktops use an internal ntp server.
Because not everyone has multiple user accounts the feature is worthless? You don't think a lot of people would like to share the device? You think that would be abnormal? Really? You don't think everyone is going to want to touch/hold/play with the iPad when they see it? You sure about that? You wouldn't even want a "Guest" option? Nothing?
Really? Did you think this through at all?
"and most developers NEVER EVEN TOUCHED THE DEVICE before releasing v1 of their ipad software."
are we pretending like there isn't an ipad sdk emulator? are we pretending like it doesn't run the same apps an iphone did, doubled in size? are you really trying to pretend like this is that big of a deal? I expected more like a million apps on launch day to be completely honest.
As far as keyboard, you're missing the point. Do I carry a bluetooth keyboard with me everywhere and then whip it out when I need it? Or do I use the ipad in a dock all the time with the keyboard? Obviously not option B because then I'd have just bought a laptop. So you're little argument is cute but in reality and in practice it's ridiculous.
They do need to address the user thing. It doesn't have to require "leet sysadmin skills". In fact, Apple, in their usual fashion, needs to make it dead simple and visually compelling.
It's about expectations. People expected a tablet computer to have more functionality than an iPhone, not just have a larger screen. And in that regard it's a little disappointing. It's a matter of perspective, really.
You're missing the point. Fault is irrelevant. We're beyond fault or assigning blame. We have millions of infected computers on the Internet today.
nice sig -- save for the fact that the "group" is composed of 90% men.
Except for the fact that 10 million zeus infected windows machines will be spewing spam and scanning all your publicly accessible hosts. Not to mention infecting your friends, family and coworkers and possibly even stealing thousands of dollars from your place of employment.
Freelance journalists would use free web based e-mail, possibly with their own domain.
It's coming, there are several competing standards including one from Intel. Pretty soon you'll just beam it from your laptop/netbook/ipad/wristwatch/whatever to your television.
hey that sounds like me! mitsu hc1300 ceiling mounted with a 25' hdmi cable terminated on hdmi plates in the ceiling and wall near my onkyo receiver (which has I believe 5 or 6 HDMI inputs). Then just built a super cheap PC (less than $300) running XBMC on linux then ran a cat5 drop right behind it (actually 4, one for the pc, one for a cisco aironet and two spares). i've got a file server in a closet with all my video exported via samba. Plays 1080p h.264 over 100mb/s beautifully!
haha what? wow take off the tin foil hate dude. the chinese intercept dns requests. it's part of the great firewall of china. i.root-servers.net is one of the root servers and some ISP DNS servers in other countries query it (oh probably i dont know, 1 out of 13 times, give or take?). see where this is going? affecting anything outside of china was completely inadvertent, not that they care.
You just have to shut access to the Internet in China down for several hours a day every few days randomly. To use a car analogy - imagine if you had this car. It worked usually but randomly it stopped working for long periods of time. Eventually, even though it works SOMETIMES, it's not reliable enough to use or trust, so you just stop using it entirely.
You're using firewall in the literal sense. The "Great Firewall of China'" isn't a firewall in the truest sense - it's just a cute play on the name. It has a number of components one of which is modifying DNS responses. And yes, they were using a "sophisticated MiTM" attack which involved modifying clear text DNS requests coming from the i.root-server.net root name server. It probably took two or three teenagers several hours to concoct this diabolical system.
So when I put my ISPs name server in my resolv.conf and they (using the default bind configuration) query the i.root-server.net which is then filtered by the Chinese firewall - that's MY fault?
ooooooooooookie dokie.
that's the best part -- all this wealth is in US debt. now if the US fails the Chinese lose trillions of dollars. The americans aren't dumb, they just sold the Chinese the greatest and most expensive insurance policy in history FOR THEMSELVES and the Chinese bought it :) pretty brilliant if you ask me.
they can "raff" all they want without their root server -- which just got yanked. suck it china!
That's stupid. Just let them setup their own name servers that query the ACTUAL roots and modify the data anyway they please. You don't fuck with critical internet infrastructure like a root name server.
i.root-servers.net (the root in China) is in the default root.hints file for BIND. Querying the Chinese root is the default configuration. Root servers are omnipotent deities you should always be able to trust them. If you can't trust one then some adjustment needs to be made. In this case removing the root from a location in which data could be intercepted and modified by a hostile government.
They are. Every modernized country does research in this area in anything from cloud seeding to haarp.
I agree completely. It's very simple to go into your DNS server root hints file and remove DNS servers you don't want to query. Pick your favorites, specifically ones near you, using anycast ideally, delete the rest -- problem solved.
I know it's easy to have the "nuke them from space" policy but honestly the Chinese government is just so fucked up they don't have the appropriate law enforcement or policies to police it. Then you've also probably got some level of government that's involved in a lot of the nasty shit going on. Yes, I realize most spam comes from the US. I don't know about you but the several thousand failed login attempts I see a day aren't coming from ARIN address space. It's all APNIC address space. And it's Chinese, specifically, on every single attempt. Now either the Chinese are totally incompetent at managing hackers living there, they turn a blind eye, or it's flat out state sponsored -- but it's largely irrelevant because none of those are acceptable.
Half of me would rather be wrong than naive, just cut them off and say "screw you" but the other half of me considers the probably billion or so Chinese people that use the Internet legitimately just like you and me.
So really, I'm on the fence.
And hard drives have "mean time to failure" ratings. That doesn't stop us from selling (or buying) them. You clearly have no concept of the actual limitation of writes on SSDs.
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