Uhm, my CABLE PROVIDER has MULTIPLE PHYSICAL NETWORKS that serve its service area.
Did you read that correctly? My provide alone has multiple big fat ass pipes and they aren't reliant on their own pipes 100%, they have backup routes with peers and they work just fine.
Sure, they prefer their own pipes for cost reasons, but cut one of the fibre trunks and I see about 5 minutes of disruption while everything settles into place. Its happened. Hell in our town they have fibre on BOTH SIDES of the main street so just doing something stupid on one side of the street can be routed around.
Look at any network map of the US, nuke any major city or even a few of them, all you'll lose is speed.
I'm not sure what area you live in, but in the US There is plenty of routes to deal with issues such as a few cities getting nuked.
Thats not what will happen though, when the nukes fly, it'll be other infrastructure that fails causing me to not give a shit about the Internet and be far more concerned with trucking my ass to the lake to get some water and hunting.
Even your network providers that provide you with that T1 have ToS that probably prevent that sort of shit. I know most providers in America will cut your ass off for spam. There are a few that don't, and the best part about them is I can block anything bouncing through their AS and call it a day.
My Windows Media Center PC With HDHomeRun Prime does 6 streams of HD recording over GBit ethernet. Just for safety I put another nick in for the clients to connect on, which is 5 XBoxes at most, normally only one or two. Its not an HDD problem unless you have shitty HDDs.
While I'd never work for someplace that even threatened to hold who I vote for against me there are a couple things to note here:
There are other places to work.
You don't have to publicly broadcast your political agenda.
You can lie about who you voted for.
Those last two are made so intentionally by the fact that voting is not tied to you, its 'anonymous' as far as what YOU actually selected, they only know that you voted. Its built into the system to prevent the Koch bothers from doing that... if you turn around and tell them, or Facebook, or any other PUBLIC SITE then its your own fault for being so retarded. You probably shouldn't be voting in the first place you clearly aren't smart enough to make intelligent decisions if you're worried about people knowing who you vote for and then make that info public and bitch about potential aftermath.
How does Google FORCE you to do anything, do they come and put a gun to your head and make you use their services? If so thats a new one on me, otherwise by 'force' you mean 'they log me when I use their services'...
Exactly like your credit card and bank transactions yet you seem to ignore that fact... you do realize that data is sold as well right? And that Google doesn't actually sell the data to anyone else, they just use it to make their services work better for their customers (advertisers). The advertisers NEVER get your data.
Well, before, Google had a different privacy policy for every product. This resulted in your YouTube browsing habits not being able to be shared with your GMail history, Google homepage not being able to search your e-mail or possibly throwing up your email search results when you search, etc.
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No it didn't, they still tracked it and tied it together as needed. Why SHOULDN'T they be allowed to. You have to actively provide them with information in order for them to get it. They don't come into your home and read your mail, you give them your mail and your search queries and everything else.
If you don't want people to know what you are doing, don't let them know you are doing it. This may mean you have to make sure your browser doesnt' tell them anything but its really stupid to get all uppity about something you hand over willingly. When gets info that you don't give to them through your own action of using their services (even indirectly via things like recaptcha) then you can talk, until then you're just being selfish and acting like your entitled to have your cake, eat it, and have Google's cake too.
If I were Google I'd simply turn off services in France, see how long that lasts.
You can go fuck yourself if you think I'm not going to use my web server logs to correlate everything I possibly can from your activities.
Stories posted by timothy almost always have low counts, most people with a clue have ignored him on the front page. I only got caught because I wasn't logged in.
He's a moron who posts ignorant crap so most of slashdot knows better.
Do not access the camera. Do not do key logging Do not do password sniffing.
Those are NOT remote admin tools, those are spyware. There is no administrative reason to do those things. Doing them is flat out spying regardless of who is doing it. You might make the claim that those things are good for theft-recovery purposes, but they have no business being included in remote admin tools what so ever.
Developers aren't stupid. They develop for the people - and today's business is in a huge paradigm shift called "BYOD" (Bring your own device).... and nobody is bringing their own desktop....
Sigh, another 17 year old telling us how its going to be.
BYOD fads aren't new, and as soon as a few high profile fuckups happen they go away again. You won't find many large companies that 'support' BYOD, though many will let you check your email thats about where it ends and thats the way it will stay.
Your device is insecure. Its insecure not because of what it is, but because you'll let your kids fuck with it. You'll take it home and drop it in a bowl of soup. You'll do all kinds of stupid shit to it that will result in you being unable to use it for work or using it for work in a way that work doesn't like... such as when your kid emails private info to her friend and it gets plastered all over facebook.
Facebook? Seriously? What technology do they 'lead'? Just because they have a big dataset doesn't mean they are leading anything. Just because they use a bunch of technology doesn't make them leaders.
Amazon? A tech leader? No. No more than Walmart or UPS are. Just because they found a way to sell their infrastructure doesn't make them leaders, its not like IBM wasnt' doing the same thing 30 years ago, just not on the same scale.
Just because they are big and use tech doesn't make them leaders. They aren't doing anything new, they just do the same old thing on bigger datasets than most people will ever see, thats it. They don't produce anything 'innovative'. Name one thing that Amazon does that wasn't done somewhere else, better (technologically) first. None of their services are new or done better than someone else, they are only done on are large scale.
Name one thing Facebook does WELL other than sell your soul.
Reminds me of a story my boss likes to use when talking to stupid people about stocks and their value based on revenue.
High amounts of Revenue are not impressive. You want high revenue? Put a vending machine in a popular location. You put in a dollar bill, it gives you 2 back. You'll have a MASSIVE amount of revenue, and you'll also be out of business overnight.
Revenue doesn't mean shit.
The same applies here. Just because they are big doesn't mean they are actually doing anything special.
MasterCard has every right to choose its customers just like customers can choose someone else. He has nothing to sue over. They dont' want his business, end of story, period.
There is no 'passable design' when you say 'decentralised'.
You can not provide one single instance of a 'decentralized' service that people use.
Without a central authority to weed out the bad guys and the guys who dont' want to play be the same rules for other reasons you will never get anywhere but a niche. There is no service on the planet that is both decentralized and main stream. Get over the retarded idea that you can do it. You can't. Everyone in these 'decentralized' systems wants to do it 'their way' and the end result is something like Linux. 50 ways to do the same thing that no one supports. Parts of it are good, parts of it are great, but they never go main stream because they all end up as incompatible parts while people fight over control.
Computers can do decentralized fine, the people that own them won't have it that way though.
You do realize that to the rest of us you just seem like someone who is upset because his father died and looking for someone to blame, right?
The only people I've ever seen bitch about the VA are the type of people that need to place blame on someone else so they can cope with the situation.
My father also died under VA care... After years of them helping him when he could afford no other care, right down to the end they took care of him off and on for over 60 years after his service time ended. That included even hospice and burial services at Arlington.
Everyone dies. Deal with it, you'll live a much better life when stop trying to blame everyone else for reality.
Your definition of useful is probably retarded to say the least. If those machines from the PPC era are on any length of time you probably spend more money each year on power than the cost of a new machine.
' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."
As someone who works in cryptography (no, I'm nothing like these guys, never will be) there are a limited number of people in the world qualified to design these algorithms. They are ALWAYS going to be the ones involved in the design process. Bruce Schneier is another person who is ALWAYS going to be in these sorts of competitions. There may be a new guy come in and an old guy go out over time but in general its going to be a select few people that have the type of mind to work with this sort of stuff.
Its trivial to compete with those costs, ask any major manufacture on the planet with a robotic assembly line.
Ask car manufactures who only pay more than that because of unions.
This is way manufacturing leaves America, because people like you have no concept of how cheaply something can be done and why you would never pay the ridiculous unionized wages demanded by American manufacturing workers.
Go on to top it off that those people in china are HAPPY TO HAVE INCOME AT ALL. They don't pay the same ridiculous prices you pay in america, land of the supersize me.
The problem is not that it only costs $8 in china. The problem is that you think its worth more than that.
300% markup over BOM cost is pretty much the STANDARD MARKUP for every product on the planet. BoM doesn't include advertising, assembly, delivery, warehousing, Point of Sale costs and millions of other little things that end up driving the cost up.
If you think handing someone a bag of parts (thats what the BoM is, just the cost of the bag of parts) is anything like an assembled finished product sitting on a store shelf then you have absolutely no concept of how the real world works.
You do realize that their definition of pirate is absolutely nothing like your version of it right? Theres doesn't actually involve blatant theft and ignoring the law. I know a bunch of replies will happen telling me how wrong I am, but before you write that reply, find a quote from them to back up your claim.
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Uhm, my CABLE PROVIDER has MULTIPLE PHYSICAL NETWORKS that serve its service area.
Did you read that correctly? My provide alone has multiple big fat ass pipes and they aren't reliant on their own pipes 100%, they have backup routes with peers and they work just fine.
Sure, they prefer their own pipes for cost reasons, but cut one of the fibre trunks and I see about 5 minutes of disruption while everything settles into place. Its happened. Hell in our town they have fibre on BOTH SIDES of the main street so just doing something stupid on one side of the street can be routed around.
Look at any network map of the US, nuke any major city or even a few of them, all you'll lose is speed.
I'm not sure what area you live in, but in the US There is plenty of routes to deal with issues such as a few cities getting nuked.
Thats not what will happen though, when the nukes fly, it'll be other infrastructure that fails causing me to not give a shit about the Internet and be far more concerned with trucking my ass to the lake to get some water and hunting.
Don't talk to him like a noob, people. Bennett has been around a very, very long time.
Me too, longer actually, and that has absolutely no effect what so ever on how much of a douche I am.
Even your network providers that provide you with that T1 have ToS that probably prevent that sort of shit. I know most providers in America will cut your ass off for spam. There are a few that don't, and the best part about them is I can block anything bouncing through their AS and call it a day.
And how long do you think it took before someone that manages those filters signed up to his mailing list?
My Windows Media Center PC With HDHomeRun Prime does 6 streams of HD recording over GBit ethernet. Just for safety I put another nick in for the clients to connect on, which is 5 XBoxes at most, normally only one or two. Its not an HDD problem unless you have shitty HDDs.
While I'd never work for someplace that even threatened to hold who I vote for against me there are a couple things to note here:
There are other places to work.
You don't have to publicly broadcast your political agenda.
You can lie about who you voted for.
Those last two are made so intentionally by the fact that voting is not tied to you, its 'anonymous' as far as what YOU actually selected, they only know that you voted. Its built into the system to prevent the Koch bothers from doing that ... if you turn around and tell them, or Facebook, or any other PUBLIC SITE then its your own fault for being so retarded. You probably shouldn't be voting in the first place you clearly aren't smart enough to make intelligent decisions if you're worried about people knowing who you vote for and then make that info public and bitch about potential aftermath.
How does Google FORCE you to do anything, do they come and put a gun to your head and make you use their services? If so thats a new one on me, otherwise by 'force' you mean 'they log me when I use their services' ...
Exactly like your credit card and bank transactions yet you seem to ignore that fact ... you do realize that data is sold as well right? And that Google doesn't actually sell the data to anyone else, they just use it to make their services work better for their customers (advertisers). The advertisers NEVER get your data.
Well, before, Google had a different privacy policy for every product. This resulted in your YouTube browsing habits not being able to be shared with your GMail history, Google homepage not being able to search your e-mail or possibly throwing up your email search results when you search, etc.
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No it didn't, they still tracked it and tied it together as needed. Why SHOULDN'T they be allowed to. You have to actively provide them with information in order for them to get it. They don't come into your home and read your mail, you give them your mail and your search queries and everything else.
If you don't want people to know what you are doing, don't let them know you are doing it. This may mean you have to make sure your browser doesnt' tell them anything but its really stupid to get all uppity about something you hand over willingly. When gets info that you don't give to them through your own action of using their services (even indirectly via things like recaptcha) then you can talk, until then you're just being selfish and acting like your entitled to have your cake, eat it, and have Google's cake too.
If I were Google I'd simply turn off services in France, see how long that lasts.
You can go fuck yourself if you think I'm not going to use my web server logs to correlate everything I possibly can from your activities.
Stories posted by timothy almost always have low counts, most people with a clue have ignored him on the front page. I only got caught because I wasn't logged in.
He's a moron who posts ignorant crap so most of slashdot knows better.
Remote Admin Tools ...
Do not access the camera.
Do not do key logging
Do not do password sniffing.
Those are NOT remote admin tools, those are spyware. There is no administrative reason to do those things. Doing them is flat out spying regardless of who is doing it. You might make the claim that those things are good for theft-recovery purposes, but they have no business being included in remote admin tools what so ever.
Developers aren't stupid. They develop for the people - and today's business is in a huge paradigm shift called "BYOD" (Bring your own device).... and nobody is bringing their own desktop....
Sigh, another 17 year old telling us how its going to be.
BYOD fads aren't new, and as soon as a few high profile fuckups happen they go away again. You won't find many large companies that 'support' BYOD, though many will let you check your email thats about where it ends and thats the way it will stay.
Your device is insecure. Its insecure not because of what it is, but because you'll let your kids fuck with it. You'll take it home and drop it in a bowl of soup. You'll do all kinds of stupid shit to it that will result in you being unable to use it for work or using it for work in a way that work doesn't like ... such as when your kid emails private info to her friend and it gets plastered all over facebook.
Facebook? Seriously? What technology do they 'lead'? Just because they have a big dataset doesn't mean they are leading anything. Just because they use a bunch of technology doesn't make them leaders.
Amazon? A tech leader? No. No more than Walmart or UPS are. Just because they found a way to sell their infrastructure doesn't make them leaders, its not like IBM wasnt' doing the same thing 30 years ago, just not on the same scale.
Just because they are big and use tech doesn't make them leaders. They aren't doing anything new, they just do the same old thing on bigger datasets than most people will ever see, thats it. They don't produce anything 'innovative'. Name one thing that Amazon does that wasn't done somewhere else, better (technologically) first. None of their services are new or done better than someone else, they are only done on are large scale.
Name one thing Facebook does WELL other than sell your soul.
Reminds me of a story my boss likes to use when talking to stupid people about stocks and their value based on revenue.
High amounts of Revenue are not impressive. You want high revenue? Put a vending machine in a popular location. You put in a dollar bill, it gives you 2 back. You'll have a MASSIVE amount of revenue, and you'll also be out of business overnight.
Revenue doesn't mean shit.
The same applies here. Just because they are big doesn't mean they are actually doing anything special.
Seriously, stop trying to make things out to be a bigger deal than they are.
Seriously? Biometrics for other shit but still using cards? Please don't consider yourself a science fiction writer, you aren't.
Qemu will happily simulate far more cores than are actually in the machine its running on.
MasterCard has every right to choose its customers just like customers can choose someone else. He has nothing to sue over. They dont' want his business, end of story, period.
No, they couldn't.
There is no 'passable design' when you say 'decentralised'.
You can not provide one single instance of a 'decentralized' service that people use.
Without a central authority to weed out the bad guys and the guys who dont' want to play be the same rules for other reasons you will never get anywhere but a niche. There is no service on the planet that is both decentralized and main stream. Get over the retarded idea that you can do it. You can't. Everyone in these 'decentralized' systems wants to do it 'their way' and the end result is something like Linux. 50 ways to do the same thing that no one supports. Parts of it are good, parts of it are great, but they never go main stream because they all end up as incompatible parts while people fight over control.
Computers can do decentralized fine, the people that own them won't have it that way though.
Google wave wasn't 'social networking' it was 'IM gone silly with features 1 person wanted'
You do realize that to the rest of us you just seem like someone who is upset because his father died and looking for someone to blame, right?
The only people I've ever seen bitch about the VA are the type of people that need to place blame on someone else so they can cope with the situation.
My father also died under VA care ... After years of them helping him when he could afford no other care, right down to the end they took care of him off and on for over 60 years after his service time ended. That included even hospice and burial services at Arlington.
Everyone dies. Deal with it, you'll live a much better life when stop trying to blame everyone else for reality.
Your definition of useful is probably retarded to say the least. If those machines from the PPC era are on any length of time you probably spend more money each year on power than the cost of a new machine.
' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."
As someone who works in cryptography (no, I'm nothing like these guys, never will be) there are a limited number of people in the world qualified to design these algorithms. They are ALWAYS going to be the ones involved in the design process. Bruce Schneier is another person who is ALWAYS going to be in these sorts of competitions. There may be a new guy come in and an old guy go out over time but in general its going to be a select few people that have the type of mind to work with this sort of stuff.
Its trivial to compete with those costs, ask any major manufacture on the planet with a robotic assembly line.
Ask car manufactures who only pay more than that because of unions.
This is way manufacturing leaves America, because people like you have no concept of how cheaply something can be done and why you would never pay the ridiculous unionized wages demanded by American manufacturing workers.
Go on to top it off that those people in china are HAPPY TO HAVE INCOME AT ALL. They don't pay the same ridiculous prices you pay in america, land of the supersize me.
The problem is not that it only costs $8 in china. The problem is that you think its worth more than that.
300% markup over BOM cost is pretty much the STANDARD MARKUP for every product on the planet. BoM doesn't include advertising, assembly, delivery, warehousing, Point of Sale costs and millions of other little things that end up driving the cost up.
If you think handing someone a bag of parts (thats what the BoM is, just the cost of the bag of parts) is anything like an assembled finished product sitting on a store shelf then you have absolutely no concept of how the real world works.
Have you seen a hydrogen filled ballon ignite? That is NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT AROUND KIDS and its pretty easy to cause ignition.
You do realize that their definition of pirate is absolutely nothing like your version of it right? Theres doesn't actually involve blatant theft and ignoring the law. I know a bunch of replies will happen telling me how wrong I am, but before you write that reply, find a quote from them to back up your claim.