Uh, the ION does hardware MPEG decoding, it's just not possible that you had "hiccups" in that configuration. Something was wrong. I have a ION-based HTPC, under Ubuntu as well, and I can play 1080i videos and DTS audio (that's more than 20 Mbps of data) with absolutely no problem. My Raspberry can do the same for the same reason, although the rest of XBMC is kind of slow because there's no acceleration there.
Pretty sure Windows 8 SP1 will get rid of the "don't call me Metro" UI. What else is the problem with W8? What's wrong with Windows Phone for that matter (except that it's not iOS or Android) ? It's just seems trendy to say Microsoft is going to crash and burn, while what I'm seeing is they got a kick ass Cloud platform, they are more and more involved in open standard (MPEG-DASH for instance) and projects (libgit2 or jquery), and they are more and more interoperable. I mean, seriously, what is the problem except they are not the Linux Foundation?
Netflix uses Adaptive Bitrate, which is based on HTTP (and therefore on TCP). Latency is not the issue, since all the video are chunked into fragments of 2-10 seconds and there is buffering on the client side. Note: Less latency is obviously desirable, as it improves throughput (smaller RTT), but the root of the issue is the sheer throughput.
Google and Facebook don't make money "collecting personal information" ? Are you being serious ? That's their main goal. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all of the seemingly free features Google give me, but their goal is to make money by analyzing - and sell in some form or another - what I do with the said 'free services.'
For computers I'll stick to MSSE - if they have a catch rate of 100% of known signatures without a big performance hit, it matches my need. For the rest I use an UTM (Fortigate, but it could be another kind - I just want the detection engine to be different than the heavy client on the computers).
People should know that you just cannot avoid a targeted attack - if RSA and their best-in-class network security can get infected because they were a specific target, you will too. If a Nuclear Power Plant (Narantz) can get fucked up by clever malware, you will too. It all comes down to mitigating the impact of being infected, and being able to tell very efficiently how, when and what leaked out of your network (most malware are used for data leaking).
Protecting against 0-day is very hard, and there should be reasonable effort for that. But if at least companies would patch their vulnerabilities in a timely fashion (hello Oracle/Adobe) we'd have to rely less on 0-day detection - they would be mostly for targeted attack, and you need a whole different kind of protection against that.
Then you don't know what you're talking about, I'm sorry to say. CGNAT is done typically by a Check Point 61000, a Fortigate 5000 or similar UTMs. A Cisco router doesn't do NAT, unless you have a firewall blade inside.
Just for the record, routers don't NAT. Firewalls do. To do NAT you have to be stateful (TCP or UDP aware), and routers aren't. If a router does NAT, that means it's got firewall features. Note that firewalls can route too (if only based on IP, if not on OSPF or even BGP) so maybe you just used too broad a term.
Something I don't understand is why they have to limit that to a zone/planet, and not make it a client-side setting. If player A sends a flirty emote to, ohmygod, player B who is the same gender, I could choose to set my client so that it doesn't relay that emote. That doesn't seem to hard to code. I mean, if I can disable shouts and out of character channels, why not "gay emotes" ? Not that I would do it, but Bible Belt Jedi Mum might want to.
It's kind of sad this is a problem in the first place, but the solution seems simple.
What was the last ASP.NET vulnerability? Padding oracle _if_ you didn't know how to code. I think that's quite acceptable compared to a SQL Injection you can't do much about.
Anybody thinking Facebook is more relevant than Microsoft is really, really wrong. Market capitalization doesn't mean much either when investors are creating a bubble. If FB is still worth a few billions in 10 years, then I might change my opinion.
I always figured that an engineer is somebody who intrinsically understand what he does, and how it's done, all the inner workings of a technology. I don't think this applies to most IT departments.
That'll be in a Terms of Service or EULA. Larger companies will have lawyers review those, not the average developer or citizen.
Amazon and Microsoft must love how that part of the Patriot Act fucks their business up. Many European companies, and 100% of the governments, won't subscribe to their service just because US can seize the content. Thanks for boosting our local economies by making it worthwhile for European companies (Thales, Dassault, Bull, Orange) to build their own cloud with no competition from the US.
You people thinking you are safe from using Linux are both right and wrong. Just wait until Linux gets a noticeable market share in the desktop environment, and you'll see viruses and exploits for it. This used to be the case of Macs, and now they are under attack too, just because it's now worth writing code for this platform. Anyone who worked in network security will tell you that no system is safe. It's just a matter of finding a reason.
SCADA systems were considered safe, fit for critical infrastructure use. Cue Stuxnet, and now everybody is freaking out that water treatment plants can be hacked.
You are correct, it's not really viable to setup a whole bunch of PCs for this. If only to aggregate the results. You need to use dedicated load generators for that kind of testing. The aforementioned CERN uses this card (http://www.spirent.com/Solutions-Directory/Spirent-TestCenter/HyperMetrics_mx_40-100) for this. I know because we sold it to them.
There are two answers that come to mind. A) Use a "middleware-network", like CloudFlare. As others have mentioned, they are specialized in DDoS mitigation, advanced heuristics to find bots, and cache content. Most of the service is free, and you can crank it up at any time (I believe) to get more serious features (like when you're under attack). Look into this.
B) Buy your own DDoS migitation device. Either go for a UTM and/or a WAF (Web Application Firewall) so you can also be protected from most of the HTTP exploits (oftentimes a DDoS is there just to sneak an actual exploit in by overloading the IPS). But those are costly, and it's costly to pick the right one (you'll need professional tools to test them under stress, like Spirent's Avalanche or Ixia's Ix Load, and their services cost like $10,000/week).
I guess there's a C), which would be a cloud-based host. I'm pretty sure their DDoS protection is built-in since they can't have one website under attack without impacting the rest of the architecture - you might want to check that.
I guess that's why Microsoft started their own Cloud-based document service then. And for what it's worth, I find it better than Google's when it comes to the features of the document editor.
To be precise, the criticism was based on the fact that the authors of the study didn't release all of their findings because they want to point out that the European Union didn't publish all the findings of the studies allowing GMO on the market.
And the author claims that a lot of the feedback is lobbying from Monsanto and others, but I can't objectively decide if that's true or not.
Do you have a source on that? According to this one and that one; the US were the largest contributor (90 planes), France was second (33 planes, from Crete, Sicily and the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier), UK was third (17 planes), Italy 4th (16 planes) and Canada 5th (11 planes).
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Talk for yourself. I like my sub-code to be curly-braced, not indented.
Uh, the ION does hardware MPEG decoding, it's just not possible that you had "hiccups" in that configuration. Something was wrong. I have a ION-based HTPC, under Ubuntu as well, and I can play 1080i videos and DTS audio (that's more than 20 Mbps of data) with absolutely no problem. My Raspberry can do the same for the same reason, although the rest of XBMC is kind of slow because there's no acceleration there.
And if I learned anything from Star Trek, is that the point is not to lie, but not say the same lie twice.
Pretty sure Windows 8 SP1 will get rid of the "don't call me Metro" UI. What else is the problem with W8? What's wrong with Windows Phone for that matter (except that it's not iOS or Android) ? It's just seems trendy to say Microsoft is going to crash and burn, while what I'm seeing is they got a kick ass Cloud platform, they are more and more involved in open standard (MPEG-DASH for instance) and projects (libgit2 or jquery), and they are more and more interoperable. I mean, seriously, what is the problem except they are not the Linux Foundation?
Netflix uses Adaptive Bitrate, which is based on HTTP (and therefore on TCP). Latency is not the issue, since all the video are chunked into fragments of 2-10 seconds and there is buffering on the client side. Note: Less latency is obviously desirable, as it improves throughput (smaller RTT), but the root of the issue is the sheer throughput.
Google and Facebook don't make money "collecting personal information" ? Are you being serious ? That's their main goal. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all of the seemingly free features Google give me, but their goal is to make money by analyzing - and sell in some form or another - what I do with the said 'free services.'
Sometimes "cost analysis" and "government" don't go well together. Not to mention the possibility of lobbies pushing for the more expensive solution.
For computers I'll stick to MSSE - if they have a catch rate of 100% of known signatures without a big performance hit, it matches my need. For the rest I use an UTM (Fortigate, but it could be another kind - I just want the detection engine to be different than the heavy client on the computers).
People should know that you just cannot avoid a targeted attack - if RSA and their best-in-class network security can get infected because they were a specific target, you will too. If a Nuclear Power Plant (Narantz) can get fucked up by clever malware, you will too. It all comes down to mitigating the impact of being infected, and being able to tell very efficiently how, when and what leaked out of your network (most malware are used for data leaking).
Protecting against 0-day is very hard, and there should be reasonable effort for that. But if at least companies would patch their vulnerabilities in a timely fashion (hello Oracle/Adobe) we'd have to rely less on 0-day detection - they would be mostly for targeted attack, and you need a whole different kind of protection against that.
Then you don't know what you're talking about, I'm sorry to say. CGNAT is done typically by a Check Point 61000, a Fortigate 5000 or similar UTMs. A Cisco router doesn't do NAT, unless you have a firewall blade inside.
Can you name a (ancient) device which sole role was to do NAT? I'm genuinely interested.
AFAIK this NAT always been a function of firewalls, even if it's not fire-walling per say, it's an expected feature.
Just for the record, routers don't NAT. Firewalls do. To do NAT you have to be stateful (TCP or UDP aware), and routers aren't. If a router does NAT, that means it's got firewall features. Note that firewalls can route too (if only based on IP, if not on OSPF or even BGP) so maybe you just used too broad a term.
Something I don't understand is why they have to limit that to a zone/planet, and not make it a client-side setting. If player A sends a flirty emote to, ohmygod, player B who is the same gender, I could choose to set my client so that it doesn't relay that emote. That doesn't seem to hard to code. I mean, if I can disable shouts and out of character channels, why not "gay emotes" ? Not that I would do it, but Bible Belt Jedi Mum might want to.
It's kind of sad this is a problem in the first place, but the solution seems simple.
What was the last ASP.NET vulnerability? Padding oracle _if_ you didn't know how to code. I think that's quite acceptable compared to a SQL Injection you can't do much about.
Anybody thinking Facebook is more relevant than Microsoft is really, really wrong. Market capitalization doesn't mean much either when investors are creating a bubble. If FB is still worth a few billions in 10 years, then I might change my opinion.
Because, clearly, stop eating salmon is not a solution.
I always figured that an engineer is somebody who intrinsically understand what he does, and how it's done, all the inner workings of a technology. I don't think this applies to most IT departments.
That'll be in a Terms of Service or EULA. Larger companies will have lawyers review those, not the average developer or citizen.
Amazon and Microsoft must love how that part of the Patriot Act fucks their business up. Many European companies, and 100% of the governments, won't subscribe to their service just because US can seize the content. Thanks for boosting our local economies by making it worthwhile for European companies (Thales, Dassault, Bull, Orange) to build their own cloud with no competition from the US.
You people thinking you are safe from using Linux are both right and wrong. Just wait until Linux gets a noticeable market share in the desktop environment, and you'll see viruses and exploits for it. This used to be the case of Macs, and now they are under attack too, just because it's now worth writing code for this platform.
Anyone who worked in network security will tell you that no system is safe. It's just a matter of finding a reason.
SCADA systems were considered safe, fit for critical infrastructure use. Cue Stuxnet, and now everybody is freaking out that water treatment plants can be hacked.
You are correct, it's not really viable to setup a whole bunch of PCs for this. If only to aggregate the results. You need to use dedicated load generators for that kind of testing. The aforementioned CERN uses this card (http://www.spirent.com/Solutions-Directory/Spirent-TestCenter/HyperMetrics_mx_40-100) for this. I know because we sold it to them.
How the hell is this parent moderated "insightful"?
There are two answers that come to mind. A) Use a "middleware-network", like CloudFlare. As others have mentioned, they are specialized in DDoS mitigation, advanced heuristics to find bots, and cache content. Most of the service is free, and you can crank it up at any time (I believe) to get more serious features (like when you're under attack). Look into this.
B) Buy your own DDoS migitation device. Either go for a UTM and/or a WAF (Web Application Firewall) so you can also be protected from most of the HTTP exploits (oftentimes a DDoS is there just to sneak an actual exploit in by overloading the IPS). But those are costly, and it's costly to pick the right one (you'll need professional tools to test them under stress, like Spirent's Avalanche or Ixia's Ix Load, and their services cost like $10,000/week).
I guess there's a C), which would be a cloud-based host. I'm pretty sure their DDoS protection is built-in since they can't have one website under attack without impacting the rest of the architecture - you might want to check that.
I guess that's why Microsoft started their own Cloud-based document service then. And for what it's worth, I find it better than Google's when it comes to the features of the document editor.
And the author claims that a lot of the feedback is lobbying from Monsanto and others, but I can't objectively decide if that's true or not.
Do you have a source on that? According to this one and that one; the US were the largest contributor (90 planes), France was second (33 planes, from Crete, Sicily and the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier), UK was third (17 planes), Italy 4th (16 planes) and Canada 5th (11 planes).
I'm also kind of tired of seeing C# being frowned upon just because it's tied to Microsoft. It's a kick ass language.