That's what anycast addresses are for. Multiple machines get the same anycast IP address, and the internet routes your traffic to the "closest" appropriate server.
Works great with, say, a DNS root server in every country. Not so good at a single physical site.
Peak Oil will hit in 2005 they told us, but that year came and went. They should have used a more conservative estimate and said 2030 will be the year, instead of going with worst case.
Peak oil is an interesting example. You see, peak oil in the USA was in something like 1967. Mexico has been in oil production decline since 2006.
Similarly, it will be interesting to watch ipv4 addrs run out. Perhaps ARIN will run out before APNIC, or vice versa. That will be an interesting time to watch.
Require NAT? As in *REQUIRE* and be the absolutely non-optional best-if-not-only way to do something? Would you mind naming a few of such scenarios?
Amongst the clueless, the answer usually revolves around "statefull firewalls can only be implemented by using NAT" or often some variety of security thru obscurity.
Amongst the clueful, the answer usually revolves around mobile vehicles with substantial LANs that want to talk to numerous fixed station networks, don't want to talk BGP, and don't want to do the proxy server thing. Another clueful application, although in my opinion generally misguided, is some pretty strange cluster based load balancing designs, although if it makes you feel better you can call your NAT box a "load balancer" instead of a NAT box, they are trying to do their load balancing directly at layer 3 instead of a proxy layer 7 solution or a DNS solution.
Which is why these types of exercises are very carefully framed and preplanned to get the desired result.
Don't forget, carefully planned and orchestrated failure, resulting in a live-fire FUD attack against the general public with the aid of some friendly journalists, might be the goal. Especially if the "ideal solution" happens to be taking away our rights, more laws, more regulation, etc.
Might be an opportunity for a micro-payment level subscription service here...
I can't read their minds nor speak for them, but I always figured their business plan revolved around the only thing more important / monetizable than what people search for, is what people find and decide to keep.
Probably the synergy of their bookmark data with a search engine would have been great. As an example, I've bookmarked "the next hope" (NYC 2600 conference, etc etc) so that URL is probably the most relevant answer to a search of the words "the next hope".
My guess is their game plan was to find a search engine with some bucks and sell out. Once everyone says no thanks, may as well pull the plug and try the next startup idea.
It's a lot like preparing for a D&D game and having the players ignore half the story/encounters you wrote up.
Oh, there's several ways around that, for sure:
"Despite all agreeing not to open the trapdoor to the dungeon, you have an uncontrollable urge and open it anyway."
"As you step away from my favorite trapdoor, you spy a giant, angry, immortal dragon heading your way. Care to reconsider that trapdoor?"
etc etc. I suspect the whole thing has been scripted out. Basically "high school musical" for nerdy govt MBAs, probably with less dancing and music. I hope.
I can guess the results in advance of this pointless "test".
We did well enough that none of us should be fired. Or we selected a fall guy months ago whom is not playing along, and I guess with "great shock" at the result its time for him to "spend more time with his family".
We did poorly enough that we all need more money. Conveniently I happen to have a brother-in-law in sales at a contractor that provides a magic bullet that claims to do everything we need...
There has never been a public "test" like this with any other result. Therefore its not even "news".
I have participated in things like this (not in this situation or field) and the primary reason they occur is someone wants to send cash to a buddy at a contractor, and everyone else wants a day off eating catered food and enjoying some business travel.
Serious question, even if it's not the smartest, but isn't gold malleable enough that you could pound or buff the serial number out of a bar instead of melting it down?
I can't imagine a legit coin dealer / jeweler buying a couple ingots that have been carefully defaced in that way. Admittedly it would make the cops job much harder.
ATM's what? As in, what is a component of the ATM, or what belongs to the ATM?
Oh, they meant ATMs. Plural. Gotcha.
Well, at least they didn't say "ATM machine" in the summary, so I guess it's not all bad.
The worst part is its not even an "ATM" its merely a Japanese style vending machine. (Japanese style as in sells high value items, as opposed to USA style that mostly sells junk food and postage stamps)
When it's effectively stolen gold, being able to dump it quickly is far more important than getting full market value out of it, just like any other stolen property.
My guess is serial numbered bars, and faxes to the usual places.
Yes, lets test that. I haven't watched the infotainment agitprop "news" in quite awhile. But lets test that.
"allegedly, according to the scoreboard, the red sox might have lost 0 to 6, although some fans disagree".
"According to the US Govt national weather service report, the local airport air traffic controller claims it is raining outside, although further research funding is necessary, and other scientists have a completely different conclusion about this 'water from the sky' phenomenon."
I'm not seeing/hearing it... except in science reporting.
it's the complete lack of personal engagement in a piece,
Its also a complete lack of judgment, to the point of appearing moronic, especially when giving equal coverage to all parties.
"According the geology professor Ms Blah, the earth might be round, although more study grants are necessary. However, Mr. SoAndSo, the president of the flat earth society, disagrees."
Second only to my favorite, trying to "middle school drama up" something professional or irrelevant.
Because of our great spelling skills, and furthermore we're the best at rishathra, or so I read. If that woman ever reads the ringworld books, its gonna be awkward.
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Rather than tell stories like a real RPG, MMORPGs keep people playing by grinding. In the DS9 universe, what could they grind?
A situation with replicators in every cafeteria is going to make grinding pretty difficult.
Quest - "Go to the replicator and fetch me ten cups of racktageno."
That's what anycast addresses are for. Multiple machines get the same anycast IP address, and the internet routes your traffic to the "closest" appropriate server.
Works great with, say, a DNS root server in every country. Not so good at a single physical site.
What's wrong with the clueful using migratory endpoints via ... NEMO?
Pre version 12.4(20) or 15.0 IOS cisco routers?
Its always possible to add an endless number of requirements till "it just won't work without NAT".
I want to see NAT go away as much as everyone else (except for large NAT box vendors, which is probably why we have to hear all this).
Peak Oil will hit in 2005 they told us, but that year came and went. They should have used a more conservative estimate and said 2030 will be the year, instead of going with worst case.
Peak oil is an interesting example. You see, peak oil in the USA was in something like 1967. Mexico has been in oil production decline since 2006.
Similarly, it will be interesting to watch ipv4 addrs run out. Perhaps ARIN will run out before APNIC, or vice versa. That will be an interesting time to watch.
Require NAT? As in *REQUIRE* and be the absolutely non-optional best-if-not-only way to do something? Would you mind naming a few of such scenarios?
Amongst the clueless, the answer usually revolves around "statefull firewalls can only be implemented by using NAT" or often some variety of security thru obscurity.
Amongst the clueful, the answer usually revolves around mobile vehicles with substantial LANs that want to talk to numerous fixed station networks, don't want to talk BGP, and don't want to do the proxy server thing. Another clueful application, although in my opinion generally misguided, is some pretty strange cluster based load balancing designs, although if it makes you feel better you can call your NAT box a "load balancer" instead of a NAT box, they are trying to do their load balancing directly at layer 3 instead of a proxy layer 7 solution or a DNS solution.
Which is why these types of exercises are very carefully framed and preplanned to get the desired result.
Don't forget, carefully planned and orchestrated failure, resulting in a live-fire FUD attack against the general public with the aid of some friendly journalists, might be the goal. Especially if the "ideal solution" happens to be taking away our rights, more laws, more regulation, etc.
It used to be called, Mozilla Weave and was an add-on, which will now be included in Firefox 4 proper.
Changed your "not" to "now".
As per
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/sync/
Might be an opportunity for a micro-payment level subscription service here...
I can't read their minds nor speak for them, but I always figured their business plan revolved around the only thing more important / monetizable than what people search for, is what people find and decide to keep.
Probably the synergy of their bookmark data with a search engine would have been great. As an example, I've bookmarked "the next hope" (NYC 2600 conference, etc etc) so that URL is probably the most relevant answer to a search of the words "the next hope".
My guess is their game plan was to find a search engine with some bucks and sell out. Once everyone says no thanks, may as well pull the plug and try the next startup idea.
I'd gladly have paid for the service - but they never asked or proposed it.
They had a 99 cent ipod app that worked quite well.
It's a lot like preparing for a D&D game and having the players ignore half the story/encounters you wrote up.
Oh, there's several ways around that, for sure:
"Despite all agreeing not to open the trapdoor to the dungeon, you have an uncontrollable urge and open it anyway."
"As you step away from my favorite trapdoor, you spy a giant, angry, immortal dragon heading your way. Care to reconsider that trapdoor?"
etc etc. I suspect the whole thing has been scripted out. Basically "high school musical" for nerdy govt MBAs, probably with less dancing and music. I hope.
I can guess the results in advance of this pointless "test".
We did well enough that none of us should be fired. Or we selected a fall guy months ago whom is not playing along, and I guess with "great shock" at the result its time for him to "spend more time with his family".
We did poorly enough that we all need more money. Conveniently I happen to have a brother-in-law in sales at a contractor that provides a magic bullet that claims to do everything we need...
There has never been a public "test" like this with any other result. Therefore its not even "news".
I have participated in things like this (not in this situation or field) and the primary reason they occur is someone wants to send cash to a buddy at a contractor, and everyone else wants a day off eating catered food and enjoying some business travel.
Any chance to see mysql freed from Oracle as well?
Yeah, they're rebranding as "Postgresql"
(Just kidding! Just kidding!)
Serious question, even if it's not the smartest, but isn't gold malleable enough that you could pound or buff the serial number out of a bar instead of melting it down?
I can't imagine a legit coin dealer / jeweler buying a couple ingots that have been carefully defaced in that way. Admittedly it would make the cops job much harder.
It was never illegal to sell gold to the public. Jewelers, dentists, and electronic connector manufacturers would have pitched a fit.
What was illegal was ownership of non-artistic non-numismatic gold beyond a certain rather minimal level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
The real target market for these is people about to file bankruptcy who haven't maxed out their credit cards yet...
Clawback unless you wait six months. Doesn't work that way.
Real target is people who've obtained someone else's CC. Divorcing wife, thief (but I repeat myself?), etc.
Probably about as likely to succeed as trying to change the ATM currency exchange rates in civilized areas (europe, etc)
Being able to get 1000 euros for every dollar I withdrew from that ATM in Ireland would have been quite handy.
ATM's what? As in, what is a component of the ATM, or what belongs to the ATM?
Oh, they meant ATMs. Plural. Gotcha.
Well, at least they didn't say "ATM machine" in the summary, so I guess it's not all bad.
The worst part is its not even an "ATM" its merely a Japanese style vending machine. (Japanese style as in sells high value items, as opposed to USA style that mostly sells junk food and postage stamps)
When it's effectively stolen gold, being able to dump it quickly is far more important than getting full market value out of it, just like any other stolen property.
My guess is serial numbered bars, and faxes to the usual places.
then sell it for $300 an ounce
Uhhh, you haven't checked the price of gold in a while, have you?
This is the same guy whom thought gold ownership was illegal... not exactly the most up to date...
Here I insert a reference to the parent's 6-digit ID number, with obligatory "get off my lawn" parallelisms.
You make it sound like working in I.T.. Its not that bad.
Let's test that...
Yes, lets test that. I haven't watched the infotainment agitprop "news" in quite awhile. But lets test that.
"allegedly, according to the scoreboard, the red sox might have lost 0 to 6, although some fans disagree".
"According to the US Govt national weather service report, the local airport air traffic controller claims it is raining outside, although further research funding is necessary, and other scientists have a completely different conclusion about this 'water from the sky' phenomenon."
I'm not seeing/hearing it... except in science reporting.
it's the complete lack of personal engagement in a piece,
Its also a complete lack of judgment, to the point of appearing moronic, especially when giving equal coverage to all parties.
"According the geology professor Ms Blah, the earth might be round, although more study grants are necessary. However, Mr. SoAndSo, the president of the flat earth society, disagrees."
Second only to my favorite, trying to "middle school drama up" something professional or irrelevant.
The original articles usually are PDFs without advertisements.
Why would aliens intrinsiclly meet with humans?
Because of our great spelling skills, and furthermore we're the best at rishathra, or so I read. If that woman ever reads the ringworld books, its gonna be awkward.