1/2 the comments in the thread just unscore the need for such a law on the books.
Watch Ben Stien's Expelled documentary if you want to get a better perspective on it, or read "calculating god".
There is also a difference between how life came about and how it evolved and they really shouldn't even be compared together they way they constantly are.
Here is my speculation. ISP pay each other if/when they enter private peering agreements. And the terms involving how much traffic you are sending out of your network to other networks. So in the past Comcast was making out like a bandit, they charge the user for Internet, the user downloads a lot and didn't send a lot, hence the asynchrous rates (huge download/small upload). And they get money from the ISP's to get their traffic to the comcast eyeballs (users on the end of a cable modem).
Now enter bit torrent, suddenly users are sending out data, at a slower rate mind you, but we all know these bits add up when your bitorrent client is an icon in the taskbar steadily uploading 384kbits second.
Suddenly Comcasts ratio of traffic with peers is changing and it's not making money hand over fist anymore. And it has to increase it's bandwidth rates in competition with other services like FIOS, which is getting pretty popular in the DC metro area (my home).
If you look back something like 75% of the Soviets nuclear weapons were non/slow moving land based missile batteries. And the other 25% was based on subs, boats and planes. The US's have something like only 25% of it's nuclear weapons based on slow/non moving land missile batteries. It was completely feasible that the US could wipe a good portion of the Soviet nuclear systems because they were stationary. So if a nuclear war ensued there was no way the USSR could have kept up a war as we had the ability to move and hide 75% of our weapons around the globe.
I have read interviews with US military officails of the cold war era and if you ask them if they would have rather had the russian military capabilies rather than the US they wouldn't even consider it. The US has a superior military and we had the economy to keep it up,running and advancing. The Soviets just didn't have the economy to keep up so I don't think they flinched so much as just collapsed under their own wieght. What Stalin did was azaming (take a country and forcing it in modernization and industry so fast) but they they paid the price in lives and it could sustain itself forever.
Do people see the entire Tech Sector as IT workers? I work for an ISP doing network and security and I see myself as a lot different to the off shore phone support workers. I guess if you consider reading off a tech support script an IT worker then we are in pretty sad shape. I think American and 'IT' workers from other countries (EU, ect) offer a lot more workers from developing nations. I guess the definition of IT needs a bit of clarification.
VoIP isn't as secure as a circuit switched PSTN. Many experts agree that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy over a POTS line that doesn't exist in any shared (unencrypted) network like the Internet. I bet if you did a trace to your VoIP providers network you would pass over quiet a few network before you get to your destination. All it takes is one owned box on either end to start sniffing all that traffic. VoIP add complexity and technology to solve the problem of end to end voice communication and with that complexity comes more chance for insecurity.
When you buy a car it has a sticker on they tag telling you the features of the car. If the features said it had a 240 HP V8 and it really had a 240 HP V6 that would be wrong. A V8 is one thing and a V6 is another thing. If the dealer said oh it has the same proformance tough luck, I would tell them to shoove it where the sun don't shine.
..thats sure to increase CD sales and profits. How many people rip cd's and put then on their I-POD like devices or into mp3 format. I take my CD's and rip them to an MP3 CD so I can make my in-dash player like a 10 cd changer. I don't even own a "Disc Man" or a typical CD player.
Silly gooses, how long until they realize they need to change their business model for the times.
cause if you want a computer you definetly don't have to buy an apple. If you want a CD it pretty much have to buy a RIAA sponsered CD, well you could download it online for free. All sorts of stuff is price fixed.
The project manager can suck and the project can still suceed. Plus project managers need communication skills to interact with management. And lets be honest, outsource coders in another country don't have those skills *YET*
How about Concord Network Health, it blow MRTG out of the water and it runs on NT/Solaris/HPUX. HP Openview, Ciscoworks, NetIQ, they are all 100% better than a stupid little MRTG graph. Can you pick different time intervals on the fly? Can you device bits/sec by frame size to see if your getting dos attacked? Seriously freeware isn't all it's cracked up to be and they don't offer a good solution for every probelm. Seriously you going to us MRTG to do bill and accounting on 3,000 customer connections? Can you record just about every mib on a router without pointless hours of scripting out a.cfg file? When it doesn't work who are you going to ask for help?
Never applied, I went to RIT (www.rit.edu.) Great school, great fellow geek population and great professors and classes. I don't need to have a school name behind me cause I put my reputation there.
Outsourcing your hopsitals IT systems might not be such a bad idea. IANAL however I am a security consultant who specializes in HIPAA and specifically the Security portion of the regulation. I have a bit of experience with the privacy part. HIPAA basically has 3 parts, code sets/EDI, privacy and security. Security has been approved but still isn't enforcable, privacy is enforcable now and codes sets will soon if it isn't already. HIPAA is meant to force healthcare orgs to work together (code sets and transactions so their computer systems work together), keep your infomation private (privacy regs) and keep the systems secure (security).
Outsourcing your systems to a health care specfic IT outsourcer might not be such a bad idea. They take care of some of the more daunting tasks that I see as role based access control and user management as a whole which hospitals tend to handle very poorly (group logins and lack of procedures and standards) and auditing and audit review. Don't get me wrong, I think outsourcing to overseas SUCKS! But we should be able to outsource things to US companies. A ton of hospitals oursource some of their main application because they are SO huge and it's hard to employee an entire staff to maintain an application when you can outsource it to experts. I have seen systems setup where every employee is admin on the mainframe because thats the only way someone could get it to work.
Privacy is very imporant. And security is very imporant. Chances are your medical records are more accessable than you think. Go into an hospital and plug in your wireless and I bet you can log into the network. Hell put on a suit, go into a hospital and walk into a conference room and jack INTO the network. Hospitals may encrypt the PHI traffic, but I bet the application is runnning on an unpatched windows 95 box.
I also think that there are criminal laws involving copyright infringement that are prosecuted by the US gov't. RIAA is realy suing for Royality loses.
But I am not a Lawyer, but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.
I am gonna open a pawn shop next to the school. Probaly can make a good profit selling the PC's back to microsoft. Of course they will only come with Linux installed and the license will be $52.
I can't even imagine all the BW wasted by things like spam and MS based worms. These are malcious, this seems like a simple mistake.
Probably caused by and overworked programmer who needed to get the product out the door and didn't have time to code the NTP portitions of the firmware correctly. I am sure the QA didn't cover things like checking the NTP code make sure it was robust enough. When I worked at an ISP a few years back you wouldn't believe the DOS attacks I would see on a weekly basis (60-70kpkts/sec). I am sure it sucked, but it's just a mistake and it's fixed now.
Glad I only post porn on Kazaa. Seriously I bet those are the heavy hitters on kazaa with gigs shared, they worst part is it's probaly the most clueless. I never share anything music related on Kazaa and luckily the porn industry doesn't have a top heavy, oppressive corporation fighting for it.
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1/2 the comments in the thread just unscore the need for such a law on the books.
Watch Ben Stien's Expelled documentary if you want to get a better perspective on it, or read "calculating god".
There is also a difference between how life came about and how it evolved and they really shouldn't even be compared together they way they constantly are.
Here is my speculation.
ISP pay each other if/when they enter private peering agreements. And the terms involving how much traffic you are sending out of your network to other networks. So in the past Comcast was making out like a bandit, they charge the user for Internet, the user downloads a lot and didn't send a lot, hence the asynchrous rates (huge download/small upload). And they get money from the ISP's to get their traffic to the comcast eyeballs (users on the end of a cable modem).
Now enter bit torrent, suddenly users are sending out data, at a slower rate mind you, but we all know these bits add up when your bitorrent client is an icon in the taskbar steadily uploading 384kbits second.
Suddenly Comcasts ratio of traffic with peers is changing and it's not making money hand over fist anymore. And it has to increase it's bandwidth rates in competition with other services like FIOS, which is getting pretty popular in the DC metro area (my home).
Hey check out this photo of a guy I hit cause I was too busy talking on my cell phone. Man camera phones are cool.
now I can open a bash shell over a graphical (X) terminal server. Oh wait I could already do that.
Rob
If you look back something like 75% of the Soviets nuclear weapons were non/slow moving land based missile batteries. And the other 25% was based on subs, boats and planes. The US's have something like only 25% of it's nuclear weapons based on slow/non moving land missile batteries. It was completely feasible that the US could wipe a good portion of the Soviet nuclear systems because they were stationary. So if a nuclear war ensued there was no way the USSR could have kept up a war as we had the ability to move and hide 75% of our weapons around the globe.
I have read interviews with US military officails of the cold war era and if you ask them if they would have rather had the russian military capabilies rather than the US they wouldn't even consider it. The US has a superior military and we had the economy to keep it up,running and advancing. The Soviets just didn't have the economy to keep up so I don't think they flinched so much as just collapsed under their own wieght. What Stalin did was azaming (take a country and forcing it in modernization and industry so fast) but they they paid the price in lives and it could sustain itself forever.
Do people see the entire Tech Sector as IT workers? I work for an ISP doing network and security and I see myself as a lot different to the off shore phone support workers. I guess if you consider reading off a tech support script an IT worker then we are in pretty sad shape. I think American and 'IT' workers from other countries (EU, ect) offer a lot more workers from developing nations. I guess the definition of IT needs a bit of clarification.
VoIP isn't as secure as a circuit switched PSTN. Many experts agree that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy over a POTS line that doesn't exist in any shared (unencrypted) network like the Internet. I bet if you did a trace to your VoIP providers network you would pass over quiet a few network before you get to your destination. All it takes is one owned box on either end to start sniffing all that traffic. VoIP add complexity and technology to solve the problem of end to end voice communication and with that complexity comes more chance for insecurity.
Yeah lots of nuclear reactions require huge amounts of energy to start and maintain the reaction. So this is signifigant.
"If the wookie is from endor than the 9000 series GPU is not a 9200 series GPU."
Rob
When you buy a car it has a sticker on they tag telling you the features of the car. If the features said it had a 240 HP V8 and it really had a 240 HP V6 that would be wrong. A V8 is one thing and a V6 is another thing. If the dealer said oh it has the same proformance tough luck, I would tell them to shoove it where the sun don't shine.
Rob
..thats sure to increase CD sales and profits. How many people rip cd's and put then on their I-POD like devices or into mp3 format. I take my CD's and rip them to an MP3 CD so I can make my in-dash player like a 10 cd changer. I don't even own a "Disc Man" or a typical CD player.
Silly gooses, how long until they realize they need to change their business model for the times.
ZiN
Yeah next XP service pack won't install because you have a corrupt OS file (due to an unauthorized patch).
cause if you want a computer you definetly don't have to buy an apple. If you want a CD it pretty much have to buy a RIAA sponsered CD, well you could download it online for free. All sorts of stuff is price fixed.
The project manager can suck and the project can still suceed. Plus project managers need communication skills to interact with management. And lets be honest, outsource coders in another country don't have those skills *YET*
How about Concord Network Health, it blow MRTG out of the water and it runs on NT/Solaris/HPUX. HP Openview, Ciscoworks, NetIQ, they are all 100% better than a stupid little MRTG graph. Can you pick different time intervals on the fly? Can you device bits/sec by frame size to see if your getting dos attacked? Seriously freeware isn't all it's cracked up to be and they don't offer a good solution for every probelm. Seriously you going to us MRTG to do bill and accounting on 3,000 customer connections? Can you record just about every mib on a router without pointless hours of scripting out a .cfg file? When it doesn't work who are you going to ask for help?
Never applied, I went to RIT (www.rit.edu.) Great school, great fellow geek population and great professors and classes. I don't need to have a school name behind me cause I put my reputation there.
Maybe they don't post the bad reviews. Who cares about the book you don't wanna read right?
Celeberity X gets in a vehicle accident on friday night in LA. Guess how many times the lab report on that test is hit on monday morning?
If your in California your required by law to report this incident as of July 2004.
Outsourcing your hopsitals IT systems might not be such a bad idea. IANAL however I am a security consultant who specializes in HIPAA and specifically the Security portion of the regulation. I have a bit of experience with the privacy part. HIPAA basically has 3 parts, code sets/EDI, privacy and security. Security has been approved but still isn't enforcable, privacy is enforcable now and codes sets will soon if it isn't already. HIPAA is meant to force healthcare orgs to work together (code sets and transactions so their computer systems work together), keep your infomation private (privacy regs) and keep the systems secure (security).
Outsourcing your systems to a health care specfic IT outsourcer might not be such a bad idea. They take care of some of the more daunting tasks that I see as role based access control and user management as a whole which hospitals tend to handle very poorly (group logins and lack of procedures and standards) and auditing and audit review. Don't get me wrong, I think outsourcing to overseas SUCKS! But we should be able to outsource things to US companies. A ton of hospitals oursource some of their main application because they are SO huge and it's hard to employee an entire staff to maintain an application when you can outsource it to experts. I have seen systems setup where every employee is admin on the mainframe because thats the only way someone could get it to work.
Privacy is very imporant. And security is very imporant. Chances are your medical records are more accessable than you think. Go into an hospital and plug in your wireless and I bet you can log into the network. Hell put on a suit, go into a hospital and walk into a conference room and jack INTO the network. Hospitals may encrypt the PHI traffic, but I bet the application is runnning on an unpatched windows 95 box.
I also think that there are criminal laws involving copyright infringement that are prosecuted by the US gov't. RIAA is realy suing for Royality loses.
But I am not a Lawyer, but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.
I am gonna open a pawn shop next to the school. Probaly can make a good profit selling the PC's back to microsoft. Of course they will only come with Linux installed and the license will be $52.
I can't even imagine all the BW wasted by things like spam and MS based worms. These are malcious, this seems like a simple mistake.
Probably caused by and overworked programmer who needed to get the product out the door and didn't have time to code the NTP portitions of the firmware correctly. I am sure the QA didn't cover things like checking the NTP code make sure it was robust enough. When I worked at an ISP a few years back you wouldn't believe the DOS attacks I would see on a weekly basis (60-70kpkts/sec). I am sure it sucked, but it's just a mistake and it's fixed now.
Is this how Sky Net got started, with Quake 2 Bot AI's? I never could keep up with the hurt me plenty level bots. Please help us John Conner!
Glad I only post porn on Kazaa. Seriously I bet those are the heavy hitters on kazaa with gigs shared, they worst part is it's probaly the most clueless. I never share anything music related on Kazaa and luckily the porn industry doesn't have a top heavy, oppressive corporation fighting for it.