Same old same old - whilst this will undoubtedly be technically better than anything Diebold can come up with, politcal motives will bury this initiative I fear.
Also, Diebold probably has a far higher bribery, oops, I meant "lobbying" budget than the Open Voting Consortium.
And didn't most of the terrorist in the 9/11 attack have american or european citizenship ?
From what I have read - no. The majority apparently had Saudi passports, but since passports can be stolen or falsified, then it is very difficult to determine the actual nationalities.
This was a useful link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1553754. stm
Here are some facts from "A Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin" at http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/facts/:
"He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children."
"Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling."
"Upon release from jail, James was not grateful to Ben for keeping the paper's going. Instead he kept harassing his younger brother and administering beatings from time to time. Ben could not take it and decided to run away in 1723. Running away was illegal."
"Franklin was a better printer than the man he was working for, so he borrowed some money and set himself up in the printing business. Franklin seemed to work all the time, and the citizens of Philadelphia began to notice the diligent young businessman. Soon he began getting the contract to do government jobs and started thriving in business."
Yes, he lived in different times, but he was an idealist because he was a self made man who honestly and successfully improved his live, the lives of his contemporaries, and our lives.
Please try to engage your mind before your mouth (or hands) next time you post.
I worked at the Qwest Customer NOC (now closed) in Arlington, Virginia for a while; one day, a ticket came to me where an entire OC-48 from New York, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands was down and no one knew who to contact. This ticket was passed to me from the Backbone NOC (BBNMC), where it had been languishing for two days! I looked up everything we had on this circuit and drew blanks. Finally, I was able to determine that this was a backbone OC-48 between Qwest and KPN/Qwest (it originally belonged to Ebone). I called the KPN/Qwest NOC in the Netherlands 6 or 7 times each half hour and got no answer. It turns out the entire KPN/Qwest NOC literally walked away and turned out the lights.
Cars and computers are very different since a computer is a generic device that can accomplish a lot of different tasks. It has to be able to have BOTH the "regular" user way and the "techno-guru" way.
Yes, you may want to only type a letter, but someone else may want to use that same computer to model animal populations in the Serengeti, and someone else may want to set user permissions to keep everyone from messing up each other's work.
Just as a side note, I looked up "psychoacoustical" on dictionary.com. This is the adjective for psychoacoustics - the scientific study of the perception of sound."
I agree that this will be bypassed. Unless there is a mandate for all ISPs to filter everything coming into the US using these "psychoacoustical filters", then music and movie swapping will continue.
Also, I claim a patent on the "psychoacoustical filter router module". Cisco and Juniper can contact me for terms.
Aren't the internet arm of Worldcom anyway? You see where they get their code of ethics.
Please don't assume that UUNet (now MCI) somehow inherited WorldCon's ugly behavior. I used to work in the UUNet NOC and we hated what WorldCon did to UUNet, MCI, Brooks Fiber, MFS, and all of the other good companies that were poorly assimilated.
The most likely reason that UUNet/MCI is accounts for so much spam is simply that they are so large and interconnected that they make an easy target for spammers. Here is the current AS Internet graph showing AS 701 as the most globally connected AS.
When you take into account the size of and scope of UUNet, the downsizing that has gone on for 4 years now, and the number of UUNet/MCI customers who may have compromised networks, then the degree of malice is not that great. Yes, I agree that it does take a long time for UUNet to pull the plug on a misbehaving customer, but it also takes a long time for other ISPs to do the same (I also worked for Qwest, so I know.)
The costs of transmission will decrease for every new technology as it is used and matures. However, it isn't cheap to maintain a large network since it becomes less expensive, but it never becomes cheap.
Technology is only one variable; people, law, markets, etc. all have to be factored in. It isn't so easy to predict the death of an organization since it has options for staying alive that you didn't consider. As much as I don't like Verizon either (especially the old Nynex part), they have managed to stick around.
Being a content provider is no guarantee of success. There have been more than a few spectacular failures of media companies (Vivendi comes to mind as a recent one).
On a side note, I have always wondered why the 5 or 6 largest ISPs never tried to build a true cartel (aside from the law).
I agree with your post overall and I learned a bit from it, so first I want to thank you for a very good post. However, I think the last paragraph is off the mark.
No wonder India can produce so many good programmars. For some, programming is something similar to what they have been doing for a couple of thousand years.
There are a few problems with these statements, aside from the purposeful misspelling of "programmers", here.
India can produce good Programmers in the same way that any nation can, by teaching Computer Science and enforcing intellectual discipline. I don't agree that there is a cultural predisposition involved.
What do you mean by "so many"? You can't assume that India produces more good Programmers as compared to the total population than other countries. Maybe they do have a higher percentage, or maybe they just have a lot of people, period (over 1 billion).
Every culture has been using reason and mathematics for thousands of years, and mathematics is the basis of programming.
And here is a very important quote from that same article,
"The bill doesn't tell agencies they can't issue regulations that violate people's privacy rights," Nojeim said. "It simply tells them they must consider alternative, privacy-sensitive regulations. They don't have to adopt those, however."
Which translates as, "We may be just window-dressing here."
There is an inherent conflict between privacy and security, and it is good to see that this is at least being revisited. Election years are good times to review policies, so maybe there is a serious intent to protect everyone's privacy in the US, but I have doubts.
In the United States, slavery was ended when one ruling class exercised military power to deprive another ruling class of their political and economic power. That "trick" is called the American Civil War.
This concludes your history lesson for today. Thank you, I'll be playing here all week.
Do you think that the people who are in charge of rolling this out are aware of WiMax? Were they 6 months ago? This effort has probably been in the works for about 6 months (that's a SWAG based on what I can remember about the abandoned data wireless rollout at UUNet/WCOM in 2000).
I really hope they are training the Tier 1 and 2 support staff on this before they roll it out (which is something that tends to be overlooked).
Overall, I agree that limiting SSH and HTTPS connections makes sense. However, if you are in a NOC or any other environment where engineers or technicians access routers and other equipment using SSH instead of telnet, then you have to be careful about this. Even with RADIUS and TACACS, many organizations prefer to use SSH instead of telnet for remote access. This is an unusual case since it applies to ISPs and other companies managing networks.
"Going the military route will also help you to land jobs in the defense industry. Jobs that will not be outsourced to India any time soon."
Exactly - I am a Network Engineer with a DoD contractor. I am still employeed while most of my friends at Qwest and UUNet/WorldCon/MCI are employeed or soon will be.
The BS degree alone will NOT guarantee employment, but it will open a LOT of doors for you and the Security Clearance will do the same.
A BS DEGREE AND A TS CLEARANCE WILL KEEP YOU EMPLOYEED AT A DECENT SALARY DURING LEAN TIMES.
1. Choose a military occupation in Military Intelligence or Communications to get your clearance.
2. Save your money during your enlistment (DON'T DRINK).
3. Take college classes if they are available.
4. Stay alive.
5. Get out, go to college, get a decent job.
For about 3 months at that rate, you can buy your own mini-dish system that allows you to scan a considerable number of satellites for Free to Air (FTA) channels. Since I currently live in Italy, I can pick up RAI1, 2, and 3, TVE, BBC World, and a host of other channels on Hotbirds1-5 and Telecom2C. Yes, the programming is limited, in many different languages, and a lot of it is pure junk, but there is an option.
Then again, decoding that signal just might give us a very good idea of what direction to run away from!
Actually, I prefer a nice, empty universe that is all ours. We have enough conflicts with each other; we don't need more complications.
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Also, Diebold probably has a far higher bribery, oops, I meant "lobbying" budget than the Open Voting Consortium.
From what I have read - no. The majority apparently had Saudi passports, but since passports can be stolen or falsified, then it is very difficult to determine the actual nationalities.
This was a useful link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1553754. stm
Here are some facts from "A Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin" at http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/facts/ :
"He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children."
"Josiah intended for Benjamin to enter into the clergy. However, Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for one year and clergymen needed years of schooling."
"Upon release from jail, James was not grateful to Ben for keeping the paper's going. Instead he kept harassing his younger brother and administering beatings from time to time. Ben could not take it and decided to run away in 1723. Running away was illegal."
"Franklin was a better printer than the man he was working for, so he borrowed some money and set himself up in the printing business. Franklin seemed to work all the time, and the citizens of Philadelphia began to notice the diligent young businessman. Soon he began getting the contract to do government jobs and started thriving in business."
Yes, he lived in different times, but he was an idealist because he was a self made man who honestly and successfully improved his live, the lives of his contemporaries, and our lives.
Please try to engage your mind before your mouth (or hands) next time you post.
A tale from the Telecom crash -
I worked at the Qwest Customer NOC (now closed) in Arlington, Virginia for a while; one day, a ticket came to me where an entire OC-48 from New York, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands was down and no one knew who to contact. This ticket was passed to me from the Backbone NOC (BBNMC), where it had been languishing for two days!
I looked up everything we had on this circuit and drew blanks. Finally, I was able to determine that this was a backbone OC-48 between Qwest and KPN/Qwest (it originally belonged to Ebone).
I called the KPN/Qwest NOC in the Netherlands 6 or 7 times each half hour and got no answer. It turns out the entire KPN/Qwest NOC literally walked away and turned out the lights.
Hilarious.
Yes, you may want to only type a letter, but someone else may want to use that same computer to model animal populations in the Serengeti, and someone else may want to set user permissions to keep everyone from messing up each other's work.
I agree that this will be bypassed. Unless there is a mandate for all ISPs to filter everything coming into the US using these "psychoacoustical filters", then music and movie swapping will continue.
Also, I claim a patent on the "psychoacoustical filter router module". Cisco and Juniper can contact me for terms.
Please don't assume that UUNet (now MCI) somehow inherited WorldCon's ugly behavior. I used to work in the UUNet NOC and we hated what WorldCon did to UUNet, MCI, Brooks Fiber, MFS, and all of the other good companies that were poorly assimilated.
The most likely reason that UUNet/MCI is accounts for so much spam is simply that they are so large and interconnected that they make an easy target for spammers. Here is the current AS Internet graph showing AS 701 as the most globally connected AS.
http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_net work/pics/ascoreApr2003.gif
When you take into account the size of and scope of UUNet, the downsizing that has gone on for 4 years now, and the number of UUNet/MCI customers who may have compromised networks, then the degree of malice is not that great. Yes, I agree that it does take a long time for UUNet to pull the plug on a misbehaving customer, but it also takes a long time for other ISPs to do the same (I also worked for Qwest, so I know.)
The costs of transmission will decrease for every new technology as it is used and matures. However, it isn't cheap to maintain a large network since it becomes less expensive, but it never becomes cheap.
Technology is only one variable; people, law, markets, etc. all have to be factored in. It isn't so easy to predict the death of an organization since it has options for staying alive that you didn't consider. As much as I don't like Verizon either (especially the old Nynex part), they have managed to stick around.
Being a content provider is no guarantee of success. There have been more than a few spectacular failures of media companies (Vivendi comes to mind as a recent one).
On a side note, I have always wondered why the 5 or 6 largest ISPs never tried to build a true cartel (aside from the law).
How would that be any different than what we've had for the last 20 years?
No wonder India can produce so many good programmars. For some, programming is something similar to what they have been doing for a couple of thousand years.
There are a few problems with these statements, aside from the purposeful misspelling of "programmers", here.
India can produce good Programmers in the same way that any nation can, by teaching Computer Science and enforcing intellectual discipline. I don't agree that there is a cultural predisposition involved.
What do you mean by "so many"? You can't assume that India produces more good Programmers as compared to the total population than other countries. Maybe they do have a higher percentage, or maybe they just have a lot of people, period (over 1 billion).
Every culture has been using reason and mathematics for thousands of years, and mathematics is the basis of programming.
Which translates as, "We may be just window-dressing here."
There is an inherent conflict between privacy and security, and it is good to see that this is at least being revisited. Election years are good times to review policies, so maybe there is a serious intent to protect everyone's privacy in the US, but I have doubts.
In the United States, slavery was ended when one ruling class exercised military power to deprive another ruling class of their political and economic power. That "trick" is called the American Civil War.
This concludes your history lesson for today. Thank you, I'll be playing here all week.
Then we should be asking ourselves how do we become a ruling class?
What means should we use to obtain and exercise political and economic power?
No flames here. I see that so far everyone agrees (yet somehow I'm still a 0 points - damn).
Do you think that the people who are in charge of rolling this out are aware of WiMax? Were they 6 months ago? This effort has probably been in the works for about 6 months (that's a SWAG based on what I can remember about the abandoned data wireless rollout at UUNet/WCOM in 2000).
I really hope they are training the Tier 1 and 2 support staff on this before they roll it out (which is something that tends to be overlooked).
With one exception - VLANs. That book has the most obscure explanations concerning VLANs that I can recall, but it has been 3 years since I read it.
The risk of seeing naked slashdotters makes me never want to go warspying.
Overall, I agree that limiting SSH and HTTPS connections makes sense. However, if you are in a NOC or any other environment where engineers or technicians access routers and other equipment using SSH instead of telnet, then you have to be careful about this. Even with RADIUS and TACACS, many organizations prefer to use SSH instead of telnet for remote access. This is an unusual case since it applies to ISPs and other companies managing networks.
Oh my God, an answer that shows an understanding of human psychology!
The BS degree alone will NOT guarantee employment, but it will open a LOT of doors for you and the Security Clearance will do the same. A BS DEGREE AND A TS CLEARANCE WILL KEEP YOU EMPLOYEED AT A DECENT SALARY DURING LEAN TIMES.
1. Choose a military occupation in Military Intelligence or Communications to get your clearance.
2. Save your money during your enlistment (DON'T DRINK).
3. Take college classes if they are available.
4. Stay alive.
5. Get out, go to college, get a decent job.
Retire.
For about 3 months at that rate, you can buy your own mini-dish system that allows you to scan a considerable number of satellites for Free to Air (FTA) channels. Since I currently live in Italy, I can pick up RAI1, 2, and 3, TVE, BBC World, and a host of other channels on Hotbirds1-5 and Telecom2C. Yes, the programming is limited, in many different languages, and a lot of it is pure junk, but there is an option.
Then again, decoding that signal just might give us a very good idea of what direction to run away from! Actually, I prefer a nice, empty universe that is all ours. We have enough conflicts with each other; we don't need more complications.