Call centers in general have a pre-recorded message before even getting anywhere that states something like "this call may be recorded and monitors for training and administrative purposes" - So the bot doesn't even need to consent, the automated systems ALREADY do this today and have done it for countless years.
Their metric specifically mentions redirecting. One of the sites that I manage is an antique auto parts store. There is still a large fraction of our customers using Windows 98 era PCs. Due to this, automatic redirects from HTTP to HTTPS are disabled, so they can still browse the catalog and call us on the phone to order. Bots testing this site would notice the lack of redirection. However, modern browsers pass in some new additional headers which mention some HTTPS capabilities, and *IF* these headers are available, automatic redirection happens (since we know the client will be on a browser which supports the proper TLS version)
I'm sure several of these other sites are using a similar approach. I just personally tested FedEx.com, and it is properly redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS in an up-to-date browser. So odds are that these bots testing these sites are not fully supplying all the same headers that browsers do.
The entire point of "prime day", which actually started many years ago with a massive sale selling XBox consoles for $100/ea, is to test out their infrastructure. They can test using simulated connections, but that only goes so far. They need to be able to test AWS with massive demand on unpredictable pages, and have the system scale appropriately. What better way to do this than to shove a few "sales" at a bunch of products, and then contact literally every media outlet in the country to promote it. Seriously, name a local news channel NOT hyping the prime day event. This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
All he had to do was reply with a text with "Stop" in the body to disable the SMS service. Pretty much every single SMS subscription service supports this and other similar commands to a normal text console. Sending a message of "Help" will list this and various other commands. This was figured out from a quick 5 second Google search. There is no need to even log into the account to disable these notifications.
And they are not the only ones, at this scale it is normal. Facebook worked with Intel to create teh Xeon-D processor (which is now available on the normal market as a SoC ITX board) https://code.fb.com/data-cente...
A pilot's license doesn't make someone an active commercial pilot. I work with a bunch of guys in their 60's who in their youth were hobbyist pilots that would just go and fly for fun out of local airfields. ALL of these airfields are now gone, and the cost to take up a small plane just isn't feasible for a hobbyist anymore.
First, the connection isnt one-to-one, it is one-to-many. Using time-division-multiplexing (TDM), this bandwidth is shared between several client devices (cell phones, tables, etc) per radio channel. Next, as you increase bandwidth, you can decrease the length of real-time used for each time slice within a TDM system, and with a lower time slice, latency is reduced.
So, while YOU as an INDIVIDUAL may not need 10gbps on your personal cell phone, when you're in a building with 50,000k other people (sporting event, large convention), it becomes highly worth it to have the additional bandwidth to share among the multitude of devices around.
"I've never seen a real server that surfs the web using any browser"
There are countless web based resources that include web page screen shots. These screen shots are not made on client machines by hand, they're made using automated tasks with web browsers running on the servers.
A large part of this is due to the fact that the switch over to ATSC, there was a lot of confusion. Most people think that OTA TV doesn't even exist anymore now that analog TV is gone. My peers, even tech ones, are shocked to find out that I have a network attached ATSC tuner for my house and can stream live TV on every device in my house from it.
You should not have ANY one single point of failure.
Only 1 card holder? Single point of failure.
More importantly: Only 1 cloud provider? Single point of failure.
If you're running that level of cash, and still insist on outsourcing infrastructure, then fucking distribute it. Mirror the infrastructure between AWS, GCloud, and Azure. Even these companies themselves know this. Look up Amazon's DNS providers. Hint, its not JUST AWS, but they outside their own shit too *JUST IN CASE* their servers go offline.
Why do I get the feeling this is less about Google doubling-down on Open Source / Linux, and has more to do with the fact they don't want to be out-done by Microsoft, who is already a Platinum level member. This is just more of a corporate pissing contest.
Some of these buildings have multiple tenants inside of them. The Seattle building is owned by Qwest Communications, part of CenturyLink now (which also owns Level3). The building is a peering location, with AT&T being one of the major peers.
How do they know the number of users if consent is required? If they said "don't participate", and Canonical KNOWS this, that means data was sent back to them regardless of consent!
Twitter didn't get better. Facebook got worse. This is what really happened. With the privacy controversy surrounding Facebook, and no other real social media contender at a similar scale, investors switched their portfolios from Facebook to Twitter by default.
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Call centers in general have a pre-recorded message before even getting anywhere that states something like "this call may be recorded and monitors for training and administrative purposes" - So the bot doesn't even need to consent, the automated systems ALREADY do this today and have done it for countless years.
Their metric specifically mentions redirecting. One of the sites that I manage is an antique auto parts store. There is still a large fraction of our customers using Windows 98 era PCs. Due to this, automatic redirects from HTTP to HTTPS are disabled, so they can still browse the catalog and call us on the phone to order. Bots testing this site would notice the lack of redirection. However, modern browsers pass in some new additional headers which mention some HTTPS capabilities, and *IF* these headers are available, automatic redirection happens (since we know the client will be on a browser which supports the proper TLS version)
I'm sure several of these other sites are using a similar approach. I just personally tested FedEx.com, and it is properly redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS in an up-to-date browser. So odds are that these bots testing these sites are not fully supplying all the same headers that browsers do.
The entire point of "prime day", which actually started many years ago with a massive sale selling XBox consoles for $100/ea, is to test out their infrastructure. They can test using simulated connections, but that only goes so far. They need to be able to test AWS with massive demand on unpredictable pages, and have the system scale appropriately. What better way to do this than to shove a few "sales" at a bunch of products, and then contact literally every media outlet in the country to promote it. Seriously, name a local news channel NOT hyping the prime day event. This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
When the user name is literally "cisco", who did they inherit that from?
Or how about a virtual machine hypervisor running within a Solaris zone? Because this is what SmartOS does for its hypervisor.
All he had to do was reply with a text with "Stop" in the body to disable the SMS service. Pretty much every single SMS subscription service supports this and other similar commands to a normal text console. Sending a message of "Help" will list this and various other commands. This was figured out from a quick 5 second Google search. There is no need to even log into the account to disable these notifications.
And they are not the only ones, at this scale it is normal. Facebook worked with Intel to create teh Xeon-D processor (which is now available on the normal market as a SoC ITX board) https://code.fb.com/data-cente...
I wonder how long until these "hackers" figure out how to call a company and steal my Yubikey authentication credentials...
A pilot's license doesn't make someone an active commercial pilot. I work with a bunch of guys in their 60's who in their youth were hobbyist pilots that would just go and fly for fun out of local airfields. ALL of these airfields are now gone, and the cost to take up a small plane just isn't feasible for a hobbyist anymore.
First, the connection isnt one-to-one, it is one-to-many. Using time-division-multiplexing (TDM), this bandwidth is shared between several client devices (cell phones, tables, etc) per radio channel. Next, as you increase bandwidth, you can decrease the length of real-time used for each time slice within a TDM system, and with a lower time slice, latency is reduced.
So, while YOU as an INDIVIDUAL may not need 10gbps on your personal cell phone, when you're in a building with 50,000k other people (sporting event, large convention), it becomes highly worth it to have the additional bandwidth to share among the multitude of devices around.
"I've never seen a real server that surfs the web using any browser"
There are countless web based resources that include web page screen shots. These screen shots are not made on client machines by hand, they're made using automated tasks with web browsers running on the servers.
And then there is Opera: most supported rendering engine (Blink), with the advantage of having ad-block and VPN built in without plugins.
A large part of this is due to the fact that the switch over to ATSC, there was a lot of confusion. Most people think that OTA TV doesn't even exist anymore now that analog TV is gone. My peers, even tech ones, are shocked to find out that I have a network attached ATSC tuner for my house and can stream live TV on every device in my house from it.
You should not have ANY one single point of failure.
Only 1 card holder? Single point of failure.
More importantly: Only 1 cloud provider? Single point of failure.
If you're running that level of cash, and still insist on outsourcing infrastructure, then fucking distribute it. Mirror the infrastructure between AWS, GCloud, and Azure. Even these companies themselves know this. Look up Amazon's DNS providers. Hint, its not JUST AWS, but they outside their own shit too *JUST IN CASE* their servers go offline.
In school I was taught to use a semicolon only after a command.
I couldn't have said it better myself! https://twitter.com/iamdevlope...
Why do I get the feeling this is less about Google doubling-down on Open Source / Linux, and has more to do with the fact they don't want to be out-done by Microsoft, who is already a Platinum level member. This is just more of a corporate pissing contest.
Now if only SCO could do the same...
Now if only Oracle could do the same...
They were thinking that not the entire world is English speaking.
Some of these buildings have multiple tenants inside of them. The Seattle building is owned by Qwest Communications, part of CenturyLink now (which also owns Level3). The building is a peering location, with AT&T being one of the major peers.
How do they know the number of users if consent is required? If they said "don't participate", and Canonical KNOWS this, that means data was sent back to them regardless of consent!
Twitter didn't get better. Facebook got worse. This is what really happened. With the privacy controversy surrounding Facebook, and no other real social media contender at a similar scale, investors switched their portfolios from Facebook to Twitter by default.
"Hack" - 2018 definition: nobody even fucking knows anymore, and this word is used and abused by everyone to mean anything they want it to mean.
"lazy consistency" sounds a hell of a lot like speculative reading/writing to me... And we already know Intel's track record in THAT department!
Ford Market Cap: 46.93B
Tesla Market Cap: 62.96B
Does THAT look like motivation to you?