A failure of the deal puts T-Mobile in a difficult position. It's struggling to compete with the larger carriers, and owner Deutsche Telekom AG has said it's not willing to invest more in the venture.
However, AT&T has promised T-Mobile $3 billion in cash if the deal doesn't go through, plus spectrum rights and agreements that could be worth billions more.
Huh? If the deal DOESN'T go through, AT&T is giving T-Mobile money and spectrum?
I don't get it.
Usually its in exchange for immediately ceasing to market directly or indirectly against them, giving them all the details of their internal organization, design, plans, supplier contact information, and procedures.
If these agreements were not standard, then legal corporate espionage would kinda exist sorta... MS could "plan" to buy Apple, examine every tiny little detail of Apple, and when the govt laughs at the idea, they laugh back because they got $Billions worth of information. As they do exist, its kinda weirder yet, if you have a terminally ill company (t mobile?) then you can try to sell its information for frankly more than its worth.... and/or if it turns out your new purchase is a lemon you can save face, by making the govt, make you stop.
Standard/. car analogy is you're usually stuck buying your date dinner regardless if you get some in the back seat of the car later on. Maybe not my greatest moment of/. car analogies; but at least I tried.
Actually, the people most at risk are those who cannot be vaccinated:... those with weak immune systems.
That's my son... It makes the whole debate frankly rather annoying. Like it or not, you have to have to trust your Dr. If Dr. says you should take it, you should probably take his advice and ignore the babble of an actress interviewed on Oprah. If Dr says based on past negative reaction toward vaccine not to try it again and see if next time is even worse, like my son, well then don't.
Its annoying like listening to a debate about the moral ethical and religious purity of amoxicillin antibiotic... I'm allergic to it, I don't really care about its impiety toward the earth mother-goddess or whatever.
Asking actresses for medical advice as intelligent as asking MDs for carpentry advice.
In the big picture, dumb people are always going to find a way to kill themselves and others. Trying to stop them is like herding cats. Don't waste your time.
The other problem, which is never discussed for political reasons, is my locality has about 5 percent illegal alien population. They don't care about laws, not immigration, not labor, not identity theft... not vaccination... its not just flakes who are unvaccinated, but also the illegals. And the numbers of illegals dramatically swamp the numbers of flakes. Eliminating the flakes won't change the spread of the disease in the population, its just that according to the journalistic "missing white woman syndrome" we'll only hear about middle to upper class white kids, not the illegal kids.
Unfortunately sometimes #1 and #2 is seen as possible business advantage.
If I worked for a software company making a semi-competing product, which I luckily never have.
It's very hard to convince beancounters that something extraordinarily distant from the corporate core competency is somehow vital to the company, its practically like publicly arguing the CEO has no idea what he's doing. "yes yes I know we're supposedly the third largest stock market financial services company in the US, but little do those execs know, that we're actually a statistical analysis report formatting software help desk"
Try the same argument style in any other scenario of convincing beancounters to spend money on something unrelated to the business, like say, a foozball table.
Also once you get into the intricacies of a bug in the apache mod-rewrite regex code, their eyes glaze over and they just want that responsibility removed... it burns... make it go away... put it in line 3 and be done with it.. if its not directly involved in our core competency, get rid of it. Outsourcing can mean giving patches / new code back to the FOSS community, not just sending your job to India...
"Mr beancounter, if I'm hit by a truck, line #1 will cost $10 per line for my successor to reverse engineer and figure out how to apply to new versions, etc. Line #2 will cost $1 per line for my successor to grok as he trains up, assuming he's not a complete idiot. Line #3 will cost exactly nothing because everyone knows industry standard apps and code. Now Mr beancounter, the current liability to the company at this moment in line #1 is $10K. I can move all of that to line #3 and eliminate $10K of corporate liability for free, since I'm salaried. Should I do that?"
I was assuming they wished to distribute their project, otherwise the GPL would not have been an obstacle.
If the project is undistributed, then it's neither "free" nor "non-free" since those terms refer to who you allow to distribute it and what they're allowed to do with it.
Exactly my point. I believe the number of hours spent on non-distributable projects vastly exceeds the number of programming hours spent on distributed projects. Frankly for most people using FOSS in a business, most of the time, redistribution simply doesn't matter.
Here's how I rammed contributing patches thru at a former employer.
Each piece of software we use has a centrally stored patch set. Patches are an unholy pain to deal with compared to regular self developed software, let say a labor cost ten times higher. unpatched code is for all intents and purposes practically free per line. Beancounters seem to believe all of this. It does sound reasonable. Or put in tabular format
Line 1 ) $1 per line of patch per year Line 2 ) 10 cents per line of self developed code per year Line 3 ) zillionth of a cent per line of upstream code per year
"Hey Mr Beancounter, I can move a line of code from #1 at $1/year to #3 at free per year, at a one time cost of nothing since I'm salaried anyway. Should I do it?"
Mr Beancounter, unsurprisingly, said heck yes, and can I move some of line #2 to line #3 while I'm at it?
The danger of this is Mr Beancounter inevitably wants a report of how much money you're wasting for the company by maintaining local patches and local customizations and local non-default configurations, and why those lines-of-code have not been contributed upstream to save big $ for the company.
You can't use it to develop non-free projects. Good.
Major misconception. You just can't redistribute the non-free project in any way. Use it all you want internally, as long as its never released into the wild.
All the GPL really does is get in the way. The viral licensing, must-include-source rubbish just means I can't use it to develop other projects
Slight correction, it means you can't include GPLed source code in the source code of your redistributed closed source projects. It hardly means you "can't use it".
I use GPLed stuff in closed source projects at work for nearly 20 years now. I am not allowed to distribute those projects I've developed under stacks of NDAs, confidentiality agreements, and criminal laws. Since the intent was to actually use the project in-house rather than to sell it or redistribute it, no problemo. Copyright notices are properly included and everything, don't worry. The point being I'd be in the slammer for a long time if it was redistributed, but not because of the GPLed stuff.
Another thing is I can develop anything I want using GPLed tools, as long as the source of the tools never enters the source of the product. Editors, version control systems, file servers that hold source code, more or less any support stuff is OK. Also I can do anything I want with unmodified GPL tools that tag along for the ride. I can use GNU Octave for mathematical simulations using secret / classified data, without making any of the data public.
The only thing I can't do is steal other peoples work, hide it inside my product, and sell/redistribute it. I can live with that frankly minor restriction.
And I'd be shocked if that didn't include the transatlantic lines as well.
They're all lit all the time. Maybe just by second string "if we lose a strand, your strand becomes their protection ckt" but they'll be lit. I used to be in the telecom business.
Where you find dark fiber is on shorter local hops where there simply isn't the current demand, at any reasonable cost.
You'll never completely satisfy demand between stateside US-HI. You can supersaturate demand to the point of dark fiber between little-city and cow-village.
> The service then uses your geolocation data to make sure that the resource you’ve requested is delivered by a local cache
This will make censorship much easier. No more corrupt foreign data in [your favorite oppressive country].
If my assumption is correct that they're basically using cnames to generate geo-locatable new host names, you could just distribute the knowledge than in Afghanistan / GB / GER, you simply need to visit 4.4.4.youtube.com to gain "usa" access to youtube.
Speaking of squid, its 2011, is squid ever gonna support ipv6? There's not much software out there that doesn't support v6, and squid is probably the most famous.
I realize that IPv4 is going to be with us for quite some time, but is this going to be worth the effort? It requires a bit of jiggery-pokery to repoint your DNS, the kind of thing that appeals to the Slashdot crowd but which your grandma will never, ever pull off. ISPs could help, but will they do so before IPv6 makes it irrelevant?
Its done on their side. I'm reading between the lines and trying to unfilter the dumbed down journalist-speak, but I think I could implement the same thing by configuring about 16 million bind "views" for each of a.b.c in the source ip address range a.b.c."whatever". Then bind gives a different cname for the domain inside each view, like if my src addrs is 1.2.3.4 then their bind server barfs out a cname of 3.2.1.www.whatever.com whenever someone asks for www.whatever.com and some other sorta thingy decides where each of the 16 million c.b.a.www.whatever.com domains resolves to geographically, perhaps even somewhat automatically.
With ipv6 its somewhat simpler, if you (ISP) get a/40 or/32 or whatever, thats probably all you'll ever get. So you don't need to map out individual end user/64s, at least hopefully/probably not.
The problem with caching is random access drive speed etc has not been increasing as fast as bandwidth used. So where a slightly tuned up desktop made a decent tolerable usable cache around 2000, around 2010 to make the cache better than directly access, you need monsterous gear and complicated setups. Rapidly it becomes cheaper to buy more bandwidth.
The standard/. car analogy is much like the simplest cheapest and most reliable way to get 1000 horsepower is to buy a 1000 HP engine, not to fancy up a stock 100 HP civic engine. Or a better analogy might be if you wanna drive your car 400 miles across the desert, its probably a hell of a lot better engineering to install a 400 mile equivalent aux fuel cell/tank, than to deploy multiple "just-in-time" fuel caches using autonomously guided GPS equipped saturn 5 rockets along the route, although either technically would work, and the saturn 5 deployment would be very exciting and photogenic.
Description seems a little simplified. Sounds like an Akami presentation from over a decade ago.
So is this a commercial competitor to Akami, or a non-commercial competitor, or a freeware / public competitor, or is it something somewhat different, like a squid proxy set up for transparent caching from 2002 or so?
Speaking of squid, its 2011, is squid ever gonna support ipv6? There's not much software out there that doesn't support v6, and squid is probably the most famous.
I've heard that one possible reason why the incidence of asthma has soared in the developing world is because children no longer play so much in dirt and get exposed to the bacteria there. Then, their immune systems become hyperactive.
Hmmm. I donno about that. Went thru quite a bit of contaminant analysis when my son had "an allergy" but we couldn't figure out what. (turned out to be wheat, verified via blood test; why they couldn't run the blood test first before analyzing our environment mystifies me) Look at what spews out of a smokestack, or a decrepit diesel bus exhaust, or the literal stench of curing plastic inside a new particle board kitchen, then get back to me on the environment being too clean. The air inside an average house, or even outside a non-rural house, is pretty stinking filthy compared to a rural environment a century ago...
Add in plenty of "intentional" contaminants like unventilated kitchens, spray paint, smoking various substances, strange paint chemistries that didn't exist just decades ago...
Another example, I think I inhale more plasticizer fumes in a day, than people did in a lifetime just a century ago.
Even more scary is the possibility that [requiring all applications to have been digitally signed by a device's manufacturer] could become the model for not just tablets, but also PC's in the future.
Then how would computer science education work? Would schools be able to afford $99 per platform per student per year "programmer's licenses", or would schools switch to a model preferred by E. W. Dijkstra in which all programming assignments are done on paper?
All taught thru something like tryruby.org, or done entirely in javascript in a browser.
"Recently" I've heard of two classes being taught by logging into servers and working there. I took an advanced COBOL debugging class on a AS/400 and never used COBOL again, and a friend took a C++ class where he ssh'd into a department linux server. I believe they logged heavily to detect cheaters (hmm, this guy matches that guy, and that guy spent a total of 4 hours and 100 invocations of vim and g++, and the other guy spent 30 seconds running vim and his only keystroke was a ctrl-V and he only ran g++ once.....) Both situations certainly avoided the inevitable "desktop support problems" noob CS classes seem to have. From memory, the c++ class "submitted projects" by locking down the GIT server via a cron job at a certain date and time.
Um, I have to jailbreak an Apple device that *I* own to do what *I* want with it? This is like saying "To make sure you don't electrocute yourself or burn down the house you bought, the local authority is going to control what you plug in to any given 15 amp socket."
They do, via "UL Listing" and innumerable safety and electrical code requirements. Its just not overly draconian.
Well, I too would prefer to read a transcript, but the video takes 1 minute and 24 seconds to watch. It's hardly worth the trouble of asking for it, I would have thought.
I assumed the "AI" didn't generate analog VGA signals or NTSC directly as output, and the video was merely the result of running the transcript thru animation software for the Lulz, for the youtube crowd. Someone out there has the original transcript, surprising it wasn't released w/ the video.
You don't have the patience to sit through a video that is 1 minute and 24 seconds long?
That's all there is? I assumed it was like 30 minutes long given the mega-hype this has gotten in other venues... what kind of "conversation" is 1 minute and 24 seconds long? I've had longer "conversations" with supermarket cashiers, post office clerks, and panhandlers.
Are they chattering extremely quickly? 90 seconds is barely long enough to get past cliche introductions.
I don't have patience with videos. Too much of my experience is hour long TV documentaries that somehow contain less information than a one screenful wikipedia article. A video presentation of fundamentally textual data is the modern equivalent of those 80s era memos when desktop publishing was new and all casual notes stylistically required 7 fonts and minimum three pale ribboned dot matrix colors, solely to show that you could and you had the time to do it. If its a video, its almost certainly not worth viewing. At some point in the future an extremely expensive smell-o-vision device will be invented and we'll have to sniff thru a fifteen minute smell-o-scape instead of glancing for fifteen seconds at a graph.
People are still leery about keeping important data on a thumb drive for long periods of time, either due to ease of loss or possible read/write problems down the road (cue the know-it-all slashdotter telling me that they've solved all those problems despite continued miniaturization throughout the last half-decade.)
More like, for the last decade (not half decade), on roughly 3 month intervals, alternate between stories about how they fail at the drop of a hat, and stories about how they've fixed all the problems and they'll never fail again in the future nope never again.
So who are these for? Eventually the 2TB thumb drives are going to... be mass produced for $99 or less
Sneaker-net once again becomes faster and more convenient than trading online. Imagine every star trek episode and movie from any series and all 12 hours of LotR and the Matrix movie (2+3 never happened, right?) and all the SW, indiana jones, and james bond movies all on a tiny keyring...
At this stage, blackhat activity would lead that project to a negative conclusion
What if they narrowed their project to an admittedly database killing subset of only counting +1s from people in your circles?
I don't have any blackhats in my circles. Err, let me rephrase that, I don't have any SEO blackhats in my circles, so far as I know.
If they tried that, aside from vaporizing their DBMS, the blackhats can +1 the entire world of spam for all I care, no one will ever see them.
They could alternatively only pay attention to +1s from "celebrities". I read posts on G+ from Linus all the time, if he +1'd the world's best git tutorial, I wanna know about it.
Sounds like the lower your UID the more full of yourself you are. If you had just linked the right 2600 podcast I would have modded you up just as I did the parent; but since you couldn't be bothered to link it while presenting yourself as a better community member, all you get is this AC post calling you an idiot. Congrats.
LOL. Get offended over nothing much? Possibly true, but not directly related to this. Its simply an age thing. 20+ years of experience means you've probably run across 2600 / off the hook. 10+ years of experience means you probably were introduced to uncle Leo and tech tv, later founder of the TWiT media empire. Colbert report viewer age statistics supposedly indicate I was a Z80 hacker more than a decade before colbert viewers were born (and I'm not even that old) aka noobs. With all the obvious UID implications.
Kevin got interviews on shows of all age / experience levels, not just the noobs.
Meaning if we have a network of linux, windows, mac, etc machines all served by a LDAP backend run on Lion, then I can login as you.
Yeah that's exactly what I meant, I didn't know anyone did that. Currently and always LDAP for directory stuff (full name, uid, home dir) and kerberos for password auth everywhere I've ever been. Never seen a place with just ldap deployed, but then I've pretty much avoided hard core microsoft areas, per posts above thats just how those guys roll. I would imagine doing password auth over ldap is kinda like serving up web pages on the internet over nfs instead of http, I mean you could do it, but isn't it... just wrong? I mean outta the box, ldap isn't even authenticated and encrypted itself, is it? Is ldap even theoretically capable of preventing a MITM attack (maybe using SSL?) Use the right tool for the job and do auth in kerberos...
ah ha. I'd never used LDAP / kerberos / AFS on a microsoft platform. Sounds like they built themselves a mighty single point of failure there... login history via ldap? Geeze.
I guess you could learn my cellphone number, but seeing as its somewhere in between 000-000-0000 and 999-999-9999 its not top secret. I suppose you could change my home directory to/tmp, just to piss me off, at least for a little while. You could delete my ldap account, now that would thoroughly annoy me until I restored the ldap server data from its backup...
Part of the problem is I've never seen a LDAP deployment without its buddy kerberos doing the password stuff. I guess its possible to use LDAP to do passwords, but I've never done it. I would think it would be kind of awkward, like using cfengine to do moves/adds/changes inside your passwd file. Maybe there exists a linux PAM module to change passwords etc inside LDAP, creating ldif files and running ldapmodify to change my password would get old real quick. I would guess the testers probably didn't even set up to do something that weird, assuming everyone would use kerberos with ldap.
I suppose if you consider nuclear missile launch codes to be "directory information" and thus keep them in your ldap, or more realistically keypad door combinations, then you could be in big trouble. Medical records at a hospital in a LDAP?
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A failure of the deal puts T-Mobile in a difficult position. It's struggling to compete with the larger carriers, and owner Deutsche Telekom AG has said it's not willing to invest more in the venture.
However, AT&T has promised T-Mobile $3 billion in cash if the deal doesn't go through, plus spectrum rights and agreements that could be worth billions more.
Huh? If the deal DOESN'T go through, AT&T is giving T-Mobile money and spectrum?
I don't get it.
Usually its in exchange for immediately ceasing to market directly or indirectly against them, giving them all the details of their internal organization, design, plans, supplier contact information, and procedures.
If these agreements were not standard, then legal corporate espionage would kinda exist sorta... MS could "plan" to buy Apple, examine every tiny little detail of Apple, and when the govt laughs at the idea, they laugh back because they got $Billions worth of information. As they do exist, its kinda weirder yet, if you have a terminally ill company (t mobile?) then you can try to sell its information for frankly more than its worth.... and/or if it turns out your new purchase is a lemon you can save face, by making the govt, make you stop.
Standard /. car analogy is you're usually stuck buying your date dinner regardless if you get some in the back seat of the car later on. Maybe not my greatest moment of /. car analogies; but at least I tried.
Actually, the people most at risk are those who cannot be vaccinated: ... those with weak immune systems.
That's my son... It makes the whole debate frankly rather annoying. Like it or not, you have to have to trust your Dr. If Dr. says you should take it, you should probably take his advice and ignore the babble of an actress interviewed on Oprah. If Dr says based on past negative reaction toward vaccine not to try it again and see if next time is even worse, like my son, well then don't.
Its annoying like listening to a debate about the moral ethical and religious purity of amoxicillin antibiotic... I'm allergic to it, I don't really care about its impiety toward the earth mother-goddess or whatever.
Asking actresses for medical advice as intelligent as asking MDs for carpentry advice.
In the big picture, dumb people are always going to find a way to kill themselves and others. Trying to stop them is like herding cats. Don't waste your time.
The other problem, which is never discussed for political reasons, is my locality has about 5 percent illegal alien population. They don't care about laws, not immigration, not labor, not identity theft... not vaccination... its not just flakes who are unvaccinated, but also the illegals. And the numbers of illegals dramatically swamp the numbers of flakes. Eliminating the flakes won't change the spread of the disease in the population, its just that according to the journalistic "missing white woman syndrome" we'll only hear about middle to upper class white kids, not the illegal kids.
Unfortunately sometimes #1 and #2 is seen as possible business advantage.
If I worked for a software company making a semi-competing product, which I luckily never have.
It's very hard to convince beancounters that something extraordinarily distant from the corporate core competency is somehow vital to the company, its practically like publicly arguing the CEO has no idea what he's doing. "yes yes I know we're supposedly the third largest stock market financial services company in the US, but little do those execs know, that we're actually a statistical analysis report formatting software help desk"
Try the same argument style in any other scenario of convincing beancounters to spend money on something unrelated to the business, like say, a foozball table.
Also once you get into the intricacies of a bug in the apache mod-rewrite regex code, their eyes glaze over and they just want that responsibility removed... it burns ... make it go away... put it in line 3 and be done with it.. if its not directly involved in our core competency, get rid of it. Outsourcing can mean giving patches / new code back to the FOSS community, not just sending your job to India ...
Whoops almost forgot argument #2 which was:
"Mr beancounter, if I'm hit by a truck, line #1 will cost $10 per line for my successor to reverse engineer and figure out how to apply to new versions, etc. Line #2 will cost $1 per line for my successor to grok as he trains up, assuming he's not a complete idiot. Line #3 will cost exactly nothing because everyone knows industry standard apps and code. Now Mr beancounter, the current liability to the company at this moment in line #1 is $10K. I can move all of that to line #3 and eliminate $10K of corporate liability for free, since I'm salaried. Should I do that?"
I was assuming they wished to distribute their project, otherwise the GPL would not have been an obstacle.
If the project is undistributed, then it's neither "free" nor "non-free" since those terms refer to who you allow to distribute it and what they're allowed to do with it.
Exactly my point. I believe the number of hours spent on non-distributable projects vastly exceeds the number of programming hours spent on distributed projects. Frankly for most people using FOSS in a business, most of the time, redistribution simply doesn't matter.
Contributing back takes money
No, it SAVES money. Big money.
Here's how I rammed contributing patches thru at a former employer.
Each piece of software we use has a centrally stored patch set. Patches are an unholy pain to deal with compared to regular self developed software, let say a labor cost ten times higher. unpatched code is for all intents and purposes practically free per line. Beancounters seem to believe all of this. It does sound reasonable. Or put in tabular format
Line 1 ) $1 per line of patch per year
Line 2 ) 10 cents per line of self developed code per year
Line 3 ) zillionth of a cent per line of upstream code per year
"Hey Mr Beancounter, I can move a line of code from #1 at $1/year to #3 at free per year, at a one time cost of nothing since I'm salaried anyway. Should I do it?"
Mr Beancounter, unsurprisingly, said heck yes, and can I move some of line #2 to line #3 while I'm at it?
The danger of this is Mr Beancounter inevitably wants a report of how much money you're wasting for the company by maintaining local patches and local customizations and local non-default configurations, and why those lines-of-code have not been contributed upstream to save big $ for the company.
You can't use it to develop non-free projects. Good.
Major misconception. You just can't redistribute the non-free project in any way. Use it all you want internally, as long as its never released into the wild.
All the GPL really does is get in the way. The viral licensing, must-include-source rubbish just means I can't use it to develop other projects
Slight correction, it means you can't include GPLed source code in the source code of your redistributed closed source projects. It hardly means you "can't use it".
I use GPLed stuff in closed source projects at work for nearly 20 years now. I am not allowed to distribute those projects I've developed under stacks of NDAs, confidentiality agreements, and criminal laws. Since the intent was to actually use the project in-house rather than to sell it or redistribute it, no problemo. Copyright notices are properly included and everything, don't worry. The point being I'd be in the slammer for a long time if it was redistributed, but not because of the GPLed stuff.
Another thing is I can develop anything I want using GPLed tools, as long as the source of the tools never enters the source of the product. Editors, version control systems, file servers that hold source code, more or less any support stuff is OK. Also I can do anything I want with unmodified GPL tools that tag along for the ride. I can use GNU Octave for mathematical simulations using secret / classified data, without making any of the data public.
The only thing I can't do is steal other peoples work, hide it inside my product, and sell/redistribute it. I can live with that frankly minor restriction.
And I'd be shocked if that didn't include the transatlantic lines as well.
They're all lit all the time. Maybe just by second string "if we lose a strand, your strand becomes their protection ckt" but they'll be lit. I used to be in the telecom business.
Where you find dark fiber is on shorter local hops where there simply isn't the current demand, at any reasonable cost.
You'll never completely satisfy demand between stateside US-HI. You can supersaturate demand to the point of dark fiber between little-city and cow-village.
> The service then uses your geolocation data to make sure that the resource you’ve requested is delivered by a local cache
This will make censorship much easier. No more corrupt foreign data in [your favorite oppressive country].
If my assumption is correct that they're basically using cnames to generate geo-locatable new host names, you could just distribute the knowledge than in Afghanistan / GB / GER, you simply need to visit 4.4.4.youtube.com to gain "usa" access to youtube.
Speaking of squid, its 2011, is squid ever gonna support ipv6? There's not much software out there that doesn't support v6, and squid is probably the most famous.
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/IPv6
Thank you for researching that.
Hurray for squid-dy... I'll mosey on over to http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=squid and install it... Oh... I see.
Apparently ver 3.1 will probably be release with the next version of Debian, but not yet available, not even in unstable. Till then its 2.7..
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299706
I realize that IPv4 is going to be with us for quite some time, but is this going to be worth the effort? It requires a bit of jiggery-pokery to repoint your DNS, the kind of thing that appeals to the Slashdot crowd but which your grandma will never, ever pull off. ISPs could help, but will they do so before IPv6 makes it irrelevant?
Its done on their side. I'm reading between the lines and trying to unfilter the dumbed down journalist-speak, but I think I could implement the same thing by configuring about 16 million bind "views" for each of a.b.c in the source ip address range a.b.c."whatever". Then bind gives a different cname for the domain inside each view, like if my src addrs is 1.2.3.4 then their bind server barfs out a cname of 3.2.1.www.whatever.com whenever someone asks for www.whatever.com and some other sorta thingy decides where each of the 16 million c.b.a.www.whatever.com domains resolves to geographically, perhaps even somewhat automatically.
With ipv6 its somewhat simpler, if you (ISP) get a /40 or /32 or whatever, thats probably all you'll ever get. So you don't need to map out individual end user /64s, at least hopefully/probably not.
The problem with caching is random access drive speed etc has not been increasing as fast as bandwidth used. So where a slightly tuned up desktop made a decent tolerable usable cache around 2000, around 2010 to make the cache better than directly access, you need monsterous gear and complicated setups. Rapidly it becomes cheaper to buy more bandwidth.
The standard /. car analogy is much like the simplest cheapest and most reliable way to get 1000 horsepower is to buy a 1000 HP engine, not to fancy up a stock 100 HP civic engine. Or a better analogy might be if you wanna drive your car 400 miles across the desert, its probably a hell of a lot better engineering to install a 400 mile equivalent aux fuel cell/tank, than to deploy multiple "just-in-time" fuel caches using autonomously guided GPS equipped saturn 5 rockets along the route, although either technically would work, and the saturn 5 deployment would be very exciting and photogenic.
Description seems a little simplified. Sounds like an Akami presentation from over a decade ago.
So is this a commercial competitor to Akami, or a non-commercial competitor, or a freeware / public competitor, or is it something somewhat different, like a squid proxy set up for transparent caching from 2002 or so?
Speaking of squid, its 2011, is squid ever gonna support ipv6? There's not much software out there that doesn't support v6, and squid is probably the most famous.
I've heard that one possible reason why the incidence of asthma has soared in the developing world is because children no longer play so much in dirt and get exposed to the bacteria there. Then, their immune systems become hyperactive.
Hmmm. I donno about that. Went thru quite a bit of contaminant analysis when my son had "an allergy" but we couldn't figure out what. (turned out to be wheat, verified via blood test; why they couldn't run the blood test first before analyzing our environment mystifies me) Look at what spews out of a smokestack, or a decrepit diesel bus exhaust, or the literal stench of curing plastic inside a new particle board kitchen, then get back to me on the environment being too clean. The air inside an average house, or even outside a non-rural house, is pretty stinking filthy compared to a rural environment a century ago...
Add in plenty of "intentional" contaminants like unventilated kitchens, spray paint, smoking various substances, strange paint chemistries that didn't exist just decades ago...
Another example, I think I inhale more plasticizer fumes in a day, than people did in a lifetime just a century ago.
Even more scary is the possibility that [requiring all applications to have been digitally signed by a device's manufacturer] could become the model for not just tablets, but also PC's in the future.
Then how would computer science education work? Would schools be able to afford $99 per platform per student per year "programmer's licenses", or would schools switch to a model preferred by E. W. Dijkstra in which all programming assignments are done on paper?
All taught thru something like tryruby.org, or done entirely in javascript in a browser.
"Recently" I've heard of two classes being taught by logging into servers and working there. I took an advanced COBOL debugging class on a AS/400 and never used COBOL again, and a friend took a C++ class where he ssh'd into a department linux server. I believe they logged heavily to detect cheaters (hmm, this guy matches that guy, and that guy spent a total of 4 hours and 100 invocations of vim and g++, and the other guy spent 30 seconds running vim and his only keystroke was a ctrl-V and he only ran g++ once.....) Both situations certainly avoided the inevitable "desktop support problems" noob CS classes seem to have. From memory, the c++ class "submitted projects" by locking down the GIT server via a cron job at a certain date and time.
Um, I have to jailbreak an Apple device that *I* own to do what *I* want with it? This is like saying "To make sure you don't electrocute yourself or burn down the house you bought, the local authority is going to control what you plug in to any given 15 amp socket."
They do, via "UL Listing" and innumerable safety and electrical code requirements. Its just not overly draconian.
Well, I too would prefer to read a transcript, but the video takes 1 minute and 24 seconds to watch. It's hardly worth the trouble of asking for it, I would have thought.
I assumed the "AI" didn't generate analog VGA signals or NTSC directly as output, and the video was merely the result of running the transcript thru animation software for the Lulz, for the youtube crowd. Someone out there has the original transcript, surprising it wasn't released w/ the video.
You don't have the patience to sit through a video that is 1 minute and 24 seconds long?
That's all there is? I assumed it was like 30 minutes long given the mega-hype this has gotten in other venues ... what kind of "conversation" is 1 minute and 24 seconds long? I've had longer "conversations" with supermarket cashiers, post office clerks, and panhandlers.
Are they chattering extremely quickly? 90 seconds is barely long enough to get past cliche introductions.
I don't have patience with videos. Too much of my experience is hour long TV documentaries that somehow contain less information than a one screenful wikipedia article. A video presentation of fundamentally textual data is the modern equivalent of those 80s era memos when desktop publishing was new and all casual notes stylistically required 7 fonts and minimum three pale ribboned dot matrix colors, solely to show that you could and you had the time to do it. If its a video, its almost certainly not worth viewing. At some point in the future an extremely expensive smell-o-vision device will be invented and we'll have to sniff thru a fifteen minute smell-o-scape instead of glancing for fifteen seconds at a graph.
Anyone have a transcript? I don't have the patience to sit thru a video and I can read about 3 times as fast as I can hear.
People are still leery about keeping important data on a thumb drive for long periods of time, either due to ease of loss or possible read/write problems down the road (cue the know-it-all slashdotter telling me that they've solved all those problems despite continued miniaturization throughout the last half-decade.)
More like, for the last decade (not half decade), on roughly 3 month intervals, alternate between stories about how they fail at the drop of a hat, and stories about how they've fixed all the problems and they'll never fail again in the future nope never again.
So who are these for? Eventually the 2TB thumb drives are going to ... be mass produced for $99 or less
Sneaker-net once again becomes faster and more convenient than trading online. Imagine every star trek episode and movie from any series and all 12 hours of LotR and the Matrix movie (2+3 never happened, right?) and all the SW, indiana jones, and james bond movies all on a tiny keyring...
At this stage, blackhat activity would lead that project to a negative conclusion
What if they narrowed their project to an admittedly database killing subset of only counting +1s from people in your circles?
I don't have any blackhats in my circles. Err, let me rephrase that, I don't have any SEO blackhats in my circles, so far as I know.
If they tried that, aside from vaporizing their DBMS, the blackhats can +1 the entire world of spam for all I care, no one will ever see them.
They could alternatively only pay attention to +1s from "celebrities". I read posts on G+ from Linus all the time, if he +1'd the world's best git tutorial, I wanna know about it.
Sounds like the lower your UID the more full of yourself you are. If you had just linked the right 2600 podcast I would have modded you up just as I did the parent; but since you couldn't be bothered to link it while presenting yourself as a better community member, all you get is this AC post calling you an idiot. Congrats.
LOL. Get offended over nothing much? Possibly true, but not directly related to this. Its simply an age thing. 20+ years of experience means you've probably run across 2600 / off the hook. 10+ years of experience means you probably were introduced to uncle Leo and tech tv, later founder of the TWiT media empire. Colbert report viewer age statistics supposedly indicate I was a Z80 hacker more than a decade before colbert viewers were born (and I'm not even that old) aka noobs. With all the obvious UID implications.
Kevin got interviews on shows of all age / experience levels, not just the noobs.
They're using LDAP for authentication.
Meaning if we have a network of linux, windows, mac, etc machines all served by a LDAP backend run on Lion, then I can login as you.
Yeah that's exactly what I meant, I didn't know anyone did that. Currently and always LDAP for directory stuff (full name, uid, home dir) and kerberos for password auth everywhere I've ever been. Never seen a place with just ldap deployed, but then I've pretty much avoided hard core microsoft areas, per posts above thats just how those guys roll. I would imagine doing password auth over ldap is kinda like serving up web pages on the internet over nfs instead of http, I mean you could do it, but isn't it ... just wrong? I mean outta the box, ldap isn't even authenticated and encrypted itself, is it? Is ldap even theoretically capable of preventing a MITM attack (maybe using SSL?) Use the right tool for the job and do auth in kerberos...
ah ha. I'd never used LDAP / kerberos / AFS on a microsoft platform. Sounds like they built themselves a mighty single point of failure there... login history via ldap? Geeze.
Once we own an LDAP server we own everything
Uhhh, say what?
I guess you could learn my cellphone number, but seeing as its somewhere in between 000-000-0000 and 999-999-9999 its not top secret. I suppose you could change my home directory to /tmp, just to piss me off, at least for a little while. You could delete my ldap account, now that would thoroughly annoy me until I restored the ldap server data from its backup...
Part of the problem is I've never seen a LDAP deployment without its buddy kerberos doing the password stuff. I guess its possible to use LDAP to do passwords, but I've never done it. I would think it would be kind of awkward, like using cfengine to do moves/adds/changes inside your passwd file. Maybe there exists a linux PAM module to change passwords etc inside LDAP, creating ldif files and running ldapmodify to change my password would get old real quick. I would guess the testers probably didn't even set up to do something that weird, assuming everyone would use kerberos with ldap.
I suppose if you consider nuclear missile launch codes to be "directory information" and thus keep them in your ldap, or more realistically keypad door combinations, then you could be in big trouble. Medical records at a hospital in a LDAP?