You apparently feel that a corporation has an obligation to "give back", whatever that means. Let's be clear: beyond paying the taxes required by the state in which an organization conducts it business, there is no further obligation of the company to the state. Apple and other dozen or so large tech companies that have setup similar subsidiary businesses in NV are paying taxes according to NV state law. Just because that equals zero in NV does not mean they owe something to California for business transactions that were not conducted in CA.
That aside, combined with the other tech companies that run their transactions through NV, constitue about 500 well-paid employees in Reno. If other states figured out how to get out of the way of business and stop trying to create jobs, then other state economies might be doing better.
Why is that reasonable? Micorsoft Licensing GP is a wholly owned subsidiary. All of their licensing servers are located in Nevada and all electronic licenses are fullfilled from outside Washington. Just because they write code in one state doesn't mean they have to sell it there. It's the same as a book being written in one state and then sold by a publisher in another.
Microsoft employs a few hundred in Reno. While not much compared to their global operations, that number continues to grow. It's interesting to see the number of companies relocating to NV. Washington and California are taxing, social entitling, and regulating themselves to death. It is not due to NV pursuing some "unfair" tax policy.
FYI, the Apple office in this article is less than a mile from my own. People do work there and many other companies are doing this same thing. IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and others all have offices here that handle their finance and treasury activities. Due to this concentration, Reno has become a unique hub of financial managers, accountants, lawyers, and technology companies. Know what these all have in common? Good paying jobs. So while one place suffers due to poor govnernment, NV is thriving.
This has been an open topic for some time....but the problem is that in order to implement it, you'd have to eventually upgrade the OS of every BGP router in the world. From the IP Journal,
As of early 2003, an implementation of S-BGP has been developed and demonstrated on small numbers of workstations representing small numbers of ASes. We also developed software for a simple repository, and for NOC tools that support secure upload and download of certificates, CRLs, and AAs to and from repositories, and for certificate management for NOC personnel and routers. This suite of software, plus CA software from another Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program, provide all of the elements needed to represent a full S-BGP system. All of this software is available in open source form.
Summary
S-BGP represents a comprehensive approach to addressing a wide range of security concerns associated with BGP. It detects and rejects unauthorized UPDATE messages, irrespective of the means by which they arise; for example, misconfiguration, active wiretapping, compromise of routers or management systems, etc. S-BGP is not perfect; it has a few residual vulnerabilities, but these pale in comparison to the security features S-BGP provides, and removal of these vulnerabilities would require more fundamental changes to BGP semantics.
The S-BGP design is based on a top-down security analysis, starting with the semantics of BGP and factoring in the wide range of attacks that have or could be launched against the existing infrastructure."
You can use more than TCP/UDP ports to block certain types of traffic these days. Cisco routers, for example, have NBAR, which can look into the application layer and find out what is using port 80, then take action on it. Pretty cool.
Ummm.. How about load balancing, or clustering? Do you really think the root servers are each running on a single Dell 2800 PowerEdge or Sun Box? I'll bet there's several very boxes connected behind a load balancer with a virtual IP on it.
...unfortunately, I suspect that the government agencies in particular tasked with these responsibilities probably don't keep it at the very top of their priority lists when allocating resources and funding
You'd be surprised...they have the money. I've been in a very large co-lo facility in northern California and seen a 3000sq. ft. cage for a government agency that had 6 Cisco Catalyst 6513 switches (approx. $125k ea.), sitting idle...for over a year. There was nothing else in it, no servers, just empty racks and switches with nothing plugged in. Let's see, at approx. $75 per sq.ft./mo., that's a HUGE waste of money. Sheesh.
Unfortunately, I disagree that we always have more than the 2-party canidates to choose from. I believe that in most cases that's only true during primaries, after which the most well funded (read: Dem's and Rep's) canidates will continue. In my state, there weren't really aren't to many canidates to choose from besides the Blue and Red ones. Like in South Park, choose between a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Sigh.
You like making calls on your cell phone to people on land lines? Guess who provides the connection to/from all those cell towers to the rest of the telephone network? Telcos do.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like this ruling much either, but applying market pressure by switching to cell phones is misguided. Besides, the largest three cell providers (Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile) are all the results of mergers by either the Baby Bells or MCI, GTE. So in essence, if you boycott land lines, you move money from one funnel to the next, which all end up in the same pockets.
Yes you can, if you own static IP's and have a router that can support a subnet of static's. Then you can forward the same port based on the requested external IP.
As far as UPnP, I am not very comfortable with the idea of software changing my firewall settings without my explicit permission.
This OS is not intended for a business environment, hence the name "starter edition". Any business that uses Windows would be using XP Pro specifically because it is the only one of the XP based OS's that support domain login.
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It's not that they have more money, it's that the nuclear power plants are all subsidized by the government. Congress has budgeted over 16 Billion for the development and construction of 6 plants by 2014. Substantial private investment in this industry doesn't exist, so the govt pays for it. Now tell me why they don't get fined? Because the govt doesn't fine itself very much, or very often.
They will probably advocate the use of ANY antivirus. But I would bet that if MS bundles their AV into the system (and you know they will), then that should be recommened because of the "ease of use" factor for most users. Given that, I would not rely strictly upon the MS offering for my AV protection.
The problem is that the actual manual (at least for LinkSys) and the quickstart sheet specifically specify NOT to enable WEP
No it doesn't. It says to setup your AP without WEP to verify connectivity, then turn on WEP once you know that your signal is working. It's the same reason that you don't test a VPN before you have a connection, then wonder why you can't connect. It's called start simple, then add layers of complexity once you know that each previous level is working properly.
FTA: "I don't see open-source routing replacing high-end routers in enterprise or service provider networks," said Dave Passmore, an analyst at Burton Group. "But in the real low end, like in the D-Link and Linksys category of product, free software could be very useful."
Useful, yes. But to how many? I'm not sure that Joe Sixpack could configure a router through a command line. In order to compete with Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link, they will also have to include a real stateful firewall and DynDNS support (which is something that is being included in most retail firewalls now).
Also, if you have to setup a dedicated PC to run this, your average small business or home user isn't going to be interested when they can go to the local superstore and pickup a $59 Linksys that's ready to go, quiet, and small. Unfortunately, this software will not make it to the point where it would be a threat to any appliance-based router builder.
I'm a computer engineering student and am an IT consultant. When I'm not doing homework or fixing someone's network, I play with my FreeBSD or Cisco boxes and build the skills that the school doesn't teach, but will be valuable later on.
I bet that this is how many self employed programmers and network admins learn, by playing around with stuff in their off time. Very often the customer isn't willing to pay $$$ for all of our on-the-job training, so we are forced to learn it on our own.
From their website: "Today's global trade market should allow for real time, secure and efficient transactions. However, due to the lack of a standardized international system, trade still relies on a complex yet antiquated system that presents major if not impossible barriers for most individuals and businesses."
Wow, some people have been living in a closet for a while if they haven't figured out that this sort of thing WAS standardized quite a few years ago. It's called Internet Protocol. Maybe someone should send them a letter and let them know, since they probably don't get email yet either.
You don't need windows update if you apply updates via group policy and lock users out of manual updates. Of course this requires a domain model (something any self respecting business should have.
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You apparently feel that a corporation has an obligation to "give back", whatever that means. Let's be clear: beyond paying the taxes required by the state in which an organization conducts it business, there is no further obligation of the company to the state. Apple and other dozen or so large tech companies that have setup similar subsidiary businesses in NV are paying taxes according to NV state law. Just because that equals zero in NV does not mean they owe something to California for business transactions that were not conducted in CA.
That aside, combined with the other tech companies that run their transactions through NV, constitue about 500 well-paid employees in Reno. If other states figured out how to get out of the way of business and stop trying to create jobs, then other state economies might be doing better.
Why is that reasonable? Micorsoft Licensing GP is a wholly owned subsidiary. All of their licensing servers are located in Nevada and all electronic licenses are fullfilled from outside Washington. Just because they write code in one state doesn't mean they have to sell it there. It's the same as a book being written in one state and then sold by a publisher in another.
Microsoft employs a few hundred in Reno. While not much compared to their global operations, that number continues to grow. It's interesting to see the number of companies relocating to NV. Washington and California are taxing, social entitling, and regulating themselves to death. It is not due to NV pursuing some "unfair" tax policy.
FYI, the Apple office in this article is less than a mile from my own. People do work there and many other companies are doing this same thing. IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and others all have offices here that handle their finance and treasury activities. Due to this concentration, Reno has become a unique hub of financial managers, accountants, lawyers, and technology companies. Know what these all have in common? Good paying jobs. So while one place suffers due to poor govnernment, NV is thriving.
This has been an open topic for some time....but the problem is that in order to implement it, you'd have to eventually upgrade the OS of every BGP router in the world. From the IP Journal,
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_6-3/securing_bgp_s-bgp.html
"Status:
As of early 2003, an implementation of S-BGP has been developed and demonstrated on small numbers of workstations representing small numbers of ASes. We also developed software for a simple repository, and for NOC tools that support secure upload and download of certificates, CRLs, and AAs to and from repositories, and for certificate management for NOC personnel and routers. This suite of software, plus CA software from another Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program, provide all of the elements needed to represent a full S-BGP system. All of this software is available in open source form. Summary
S-BGP represents a comprehensive approach to addressing a wide range of security concerns associated with BGP. It detects and rejects unauthorized UPDATE messages, irrespective of the means by which they arise; for example, misconfiguration, active wiretapping, compromise of routers or management systems, etc. S-BGP is not perfect; it has a few residual vulnerabilities, but these pale in comparison to the security features S-BGP provides, and removal of these vulnerabilities would require more fundamental changes to BGP semantics.
The S-BGP design is based on a top-down security analysis, starting with the semantics of BGP and factoring in the wide range of attacks that have or could be launched against the existing infrastructure."
You can use more than TCP/UDP ports to block certain types of traffic these days. Cisco routers, for example, have NBAR, which can look into the application layer and find out what is using port 80, then take action on it. Pretty cool.
Ummm.. How about load balancing, or clustering? Do you really think the root servers are each running on a single Dell 2800 PowerEdge or Sun Box? I'll bet there's several very boxes connected behind a load balancer with a virtual IP on it.
You'd be surprised...they have the money. I've been in a very large co-lo facility in northern California and seen a 3000sq. ft. cage for a government agency that had 6 Cisco Catalyst 6513 switches (approx. $125k ea.), sitting idle...for over a year. There was nothing else in it, no servers, just empty racks and switches with nothing plugged in. Let's see, at approx. $75 per sq.ft./mo., that's a HUGE waste of money. Sheesh.
Unfortunately, I disagree that we always have more than the 2-party canidates to choose from. I believe that in most cases that's only true during primaries, after which the most well funded (read: Dem's and Rep's) canidates will continue. In my state, there weren't really aren't to many canidates to choose from besides the Blue and Red ones. Like in South Park, choose between a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Sigh.
You mean like this:
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http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?opt=go
You like making calls on your cell phone to people on land lines? Guess who provides the connection to/from all those cell towers to the rest of the telephone network? Telcos do.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like this ruling much either, but applying market pressure by switching to cell phones is misguided. Besides, the largest three cell providers (Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile) are all the results of mergers by either the Baby Bells or MCI, GTE. So in essence, if you boycott land lines, you move money from one funnel to the next, which all end up in the same pockets.
Yes you can, if you own static IP's and have a router that can support a subnet of static's. Then you can forward the same port based on the requested external IP. As far as UPnP, I am not very comfortable with the idea of software changing my firewall settings without my explicit permission.
This OS is not intended for a business environment, hence the name "starter edition". Any business that uses Windows would be using XP Pro specifically because it is the only one of the XP based OS's that support domain login.
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Main Entry: journalism
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c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest"
It's not that they have more money, it's that the nuclear power plants are all subsidized by the government. Congress has budgeted over 16 Billion for the development and construction of 6 plants by 2014. Substantial private investment in this industry doesn't exist, so the govt pays for it. Now tell me why they don't get fined? Because the govt doesn't fine itself very much, or very often.
They will probably advocate the use of ANY antivirus. But I would bet that if MS bundles their AV into the system (and you know they will), then that should be recommened because of the "ease of use" factor for most users. Given that, I would not rely strictly upon the MS offering for my AV protection.
lol. Is it just me, or is this the funniest first post ever?
I'm not sure if this post is news or what, but for more info, click here:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm
The problem is that the actual manual (at least for LinkSys) and the quickstart sheet specifically specify NOT to enable WEP
No it doesn't. It says to setup your AP without WEP to verify connectivity, then turn on WEP once you know that your signal is working. It's the same reason that you don't test a VPN before you have a connection, then wonder why you can't connect. It's called start simple, then add layers of complexity once you know that each previous level is working properly.
True, but in this case it does. Check out http://www.xorp.org/getting_started.html - It's all CLI.
FTA: "I don't see open-source routing replacing high-end routers in enterprise or service provider networks," said Dave Passmore, an analyst at Burton Group. "But in the real low end, like in the D-Link and Linksys category of product, free software could be very useful."
Useful, yes. But to how many? I'm not sure that Joe Sixpack could configure a router through a command line. In order to compete with Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link, they will also have to include a real stateful firewall and DynDNS support (which is something that is being included in most retail firewalls now).
Also, if you have to setup a dedicated PC to run this, your average small business or home user isn't going to be interested when they can go to the local superstore and pickup a $59 Linksys that's ready to go, quiet, and small. Unfortunately, this software will not make it to the point where it would be a threat to any appliance-based router builder.
I'm a computer engineering student and am an IT consultant. When I'm not doing homework or fixing someone's network, I play with my FreeBSD or Cisco boxes and build the skills that the school doesn't teach, but will be valuable later on.
I bet that this is how many self employed programmers and network admins learn, by playing around with stuff in their off time. Very often the customer isn't willing to pay $$$ for all of our on-the-job training, so we are forced to learn it on our own.
From their website:
"Today's global trade market should allow for real time, secure and efficient transactions. However, due to the lack of a standardized international system, trade still relies on a complex yet antiquated system that presents major if not impossible barriers for most individuals and businesses."
Wow, some people have been living in a closet for a while if they haven't figured out that this sort of thing WAS standardized quite a few years ago. It's called Internet Protocol. Maybe someone should send them a letter and let them know, since they probably don't get email yet either.
If you're wondering what to do with it, it's probably too late. The FBI has already knocked on his door by now.
You don't need windows update if you apply updates via group policy and lock users out of manual updates. Of course this requires a domain model (something any self respecting business should have.
Try not to get too into what FOX News tells you to. There are other things in the world to talk about besides terrorism and shit.