"IPv6 makes routing much easier because most of those addresses won't be allocated to anything"
How droll. Do you realize what you've said in justification? Have you done router tables, ever?
Then, you say:
"They serve to keep the address space non-fragmented, so routers will have much smaller routing tables"
Sure. A lot smaller. The number of devices needing unique addresses will shrink and that's why IPV4 is "....about ugly, look at NAT and CIDR and the hack.." In fact, using NAT and CIDR blocks works charmingly-- any number of times, depending on custom and internal whimsy.
The Internet won't be glued together, address-wise, differently in IPV4 v. IPV6. For a while, there'll be nice and cute sorts of blocks doled. Then it will go to hell again, and tables will need to be done that cycle away dirty cache just as is done today. ARP works with both, and therefore can be messy with both (although admittedly, it's tougher to screw up in code w/IPV6).
"...things nicer and cleaner" comes with a beyond-exponential increase in the size of the addressing space. It is without a doubt in my mind, ludicrous. The special place in hell reserved for the numbskulls that wrote the spec will become historical.
First, let's take a look at Vista uptake and adoption: not too fast.
Secondly, let's take a look at how many sites are IPV6 now: not too many, in fact, darn few at all.
Thirdly, let's see how many routers are enabled to do IPV6: gosh, nearly all of them. Jolly good, that.
Fourthly, let's see how DNS calls work, whether IPV4, or that gnarly IPV6 stuff: generally, calls are routed to a local segment DNS server. That silly little server actually does something called (yes, that's right!) cacheing addresses, only going upstream to get new stuff! Great! A little binary tree code goes in and looks things up for us; it's nice, really.
Let's say you're a consumer on an ISP network-- say Comcast. The old Comcast people will have to put up a little hardware to do the DNS work. Jolly nice of them, eh? Perhaps you're at a desk in a megacorp-- well you're likely using that Microsoft Stuff to do your DDNS work; in turn, it goes upstream, too. Perhaps you don't use that silly Active Directory stuff and you do BIND. Clever you-- you're already there and it's been working all along.
And IPV6 is simply insane, no matter how measured. Yet we can deal with it because some unbelievably stupid twit said that we can't NAT anymore. This person's place in hell is already reserved. The IETF..... oh, let's don't go there.
IPV6 is among the most insipid and stupid inventions of all time, allocating a specific address for each atom in the universe (ok, not quite, but close) and does make things ugly. But even with its too-many-octet queries, it's not going to do much damage. Most queries are for LOCAL NETWORK information only. The rest get cached before a demarc point or a tie point.
So, this is much ado about nothing. And Vista isn't a culprit in any event (although I wish I could say it was)-- instead, it's the TWITS THAT BELIEVE THAT IPV6 is a savior.
These are cookie cutter devices. Their deltas are uber-thin. You'd need to resolve various characteristics to the femto-side of things. I'm sure that there's a lot of demand for high-resolution characterization gear out there that will slice things into ultra-tiny pieces, then have the ability to keep them in a useful db, then use that db to effectively serve as the gate of admittance control.
I don't think so.
Instead, a few little twigs will be used, and those twigs will define what's going on. Call it engineer SLOTH. Tolerances will be widened so that customer support problems don't occur. Once the routines are discovered (and it won't take long), then they'll be abused.... oops I mean cracked. The software that initially characterizes will need to be plenty smart to be able to prevent the same aforementioned customer service problems, and so it'll have slop, too. Add the slops together, and there's a hole. The 95% citation seems more like a salesperson's view of things. I'm far more skeptical. Look at how APs have evolved, as well as the chipsets for WiFoo (and read the book by the same name).
Go to Taiwan Inc and take a spectrum analyzer with you. I have. Throw a high-rate sampling scope and look at the waveforms. Now add in some heat. User positioning. Skew it with some general and contentious noise to slop it up. Tell me you can get that kind of accuracy then tell me that I can't take a similar chipset card and foo it up to make it fool some bozo pseudo-NSA sampler. Bah.
1. Amplitude 2. Phase shift 3. Signal cadencing... e.g. micro-sliced events 4. Parasitics 5. Encoding profiling.
And the success is 95%. That's wonderful. Bring it on.
In terms of your supposition that it would have to be "100 percent atom for atom identical" is pure hubris. You obviously have little engineering training. Try again.
1) MAC addresses are easily cloned; it's child's play 2) Spoofing above the MAC layer is difficult 3) This methodology produces no false positives 4) The hacker community will find what the characterizations are then 5) Find nice and easy ways of memorizing the characterizations so that 6) They can continue to spoof whatever they want, whenever they want.
So, yes, there is are additional authentications that make things easier to secure-- but changing the character of a card isn't difficult to do as today, there are less than a dozen chipsets doing 98% of all WiFi, from 802.11abgn and 'turbo'/speed-enhanced non-standard variations.
So, Fi. Gimme 30 seconds with the analyzer to characterize what they're looking for, and I'll be pleased to embarrass your WEP-loving CTO.
Or elephants through keyholes.
Even with tasty, high-efficiency/low-loss codecs, you cannot do 802.11g distribution of HD. Part of it has to do with QoS and the rest with the time domain of the duty cycle of the raster generation.
In English: it's a shared space, like the 'collision detecting' part of Ethernet's CSMA/CD media access later. Only one device talks to the AP at a time successfully, unless you use two cards and two non-inteferring channels (which does happen if purposefully constructed in real life, but not from Best Buy or Fry's on a good day).
Add into the mix, someone who's also sharing that AP (or random noise confusing the situation). Then the effective throughput goes down further. 802.11n uses two antennae for differential signal addition to improve speed. It's subject to the same problems, although it does potentially go faster-- except that it's not even a 1.0 standard until perhaps 2008-- despite all the equipment arriving into the big box stores that's non-standard and worse, having compatibility issues.
Don't think that muni-WiFi, home WiFi, or any other WiFi or even whymax will work for you in HD distribution. Not yet, and not in this decade. Use fiber where you can; copper after that; the air after that for your MAC layer fun.
Then discover that it still involves raising beef, then slaughtering them. In the meantime, they'll also be living on feed lots, and pumped full of hormones and anti-biotics just like they are now. Wonder why you've got nice tits, big boy?
Vegetarians will have great problems with this. If you grow meat in a vat, it's not going to work. You need to have muscle, and that muscle has to be worked. Are you going to run it via an old Compaq running Windows 98? Here: have some of this stuff, we used the 2.6.16 kernel as its muscle exerciser. See how good it tastes on the barbie?
And the first one in a particular market segment that does it right gets a heavy share. Look at the iPlod.... My(gonad)Space... and many other interesting ideas.
The problem: no revenue model for it yet. The great thing: easily understood and manipulated. Now there are many knock-offs, including PornoTube, and so on.
What's it worth? With little intellectual property, not much except in future revenue potential. Some aging media king, like Sony, ought to buy them and lose lots of money on them, like TW did with AOL.
Seriously folks, until a revenue model appears, it's just cool, not worth much
The Viet Nam war was the wrong thing to do for the right reasons, just as invading Iraq seemed to be the right thing at the time. In both cases, the reasons have been long invalidated.
But how you can seemingly permit the tyrany of searches without probable cause goes far beyond what my forefathers fought for.
And the leap to believing that I think that Geo Bush is an enemy defies all logic. He's very inept, a bad planner, and skates over the constitution like he owns it. We own it, not George. Your fear of terrorists amounts to narcissistic paranoia. Bush has actually aided the orthodoxy by polarizing them against us. They were crude and inept before. Now they're organized and much better funded, while world opinion of the US has waned significantly as they see our purported values thrown out the window when the first smell of trouble comes. This isn't bravery, it's a mockery of the courage of our forefathers.
I can't convince you of any of this, I'm thinking. Your black and white, us or them world won't allow it. It's not that easy, and not that simple. Without civil liberty, we lose.
1. If you buy 802.11n products, your AP needs to have easy firmware updates, because there is no standard, and you WILL want to update the firmware when the standard is ratified plus three months, meaning the summer of 2008.
2. 802.11n is faster than 802.11a,b, and g. But you need to buy everything from the same vendor, because that'll ensure it works together as compatibility is iffy. You can't do as nifty antenna tricks with 802.11n as you can with b and g. The 802.11a rules in the US currently prohibit antenna tricks. So, flexibility with standards means 802.11g.
3. If you use any 802.11 product, use WPA, or upgrade to it, and keep checking for firmware upgrades every few months, then do it.
4. Currently, the fastest *standardized* method is 802.11g. There are various turbo modes that may or may not allow you faster downloads, but most APs are inhibited by upstream throttle-back anyway. And for this reason, you might like it for home use but don't use it on mobile machines as hotspots sometimes have trouble with cards that are in 'auto-turbo' mode.
5. Unless you have backhaul that's faster than the WiFi transport, it's useless to buy anything faster because it will make no difference in speed. If you have a crappy DSL connection, the speed will still be crappy DSL speed. It's nice to have your WiFi router speed as the fastest common denominator because DSL and cable and other transports keep getting faster and faster. If you have asymetrical backhaul, that won't change no matter what you do (example: 3MB/s down, 750KB/s up).
WPA secures at minimum. Using AES with TLS is thought to be the most solid method. Having a temporal key is important as key life had a bearing on breaking the key. Currently, no one will sit around and wait for long keys to be broken unless THEY REALLY WANT YOU. If they do, they'll do something smarter. All WEP can be broken in under 22minutes, period.
For better paranoia, read WiFoo-- currently the most interesting hacker cookbook I've found.
Kennedy could have stopped it. Eisenhower could have stopped it. Johnson could have stopped it. But the escalation, illegal bombing, and the whole gut-it-out era came with Nixon. If you chart the years vs the presidency, Nixon had them by far.
That's not to count the number of dead Indonesian communists (>1million) that we influenced with Suhkarto and Suharto as we allowed Indonesia to soak up 1/15th of the world's population into a single governance.
And there are more atrocities foised by the unbelievably paranoid American presidents. So let's tie that back to Nixon. Yes, he went and opened China. Now China owns the United States in terms of balance of trade. Now that the yuan floats, we're in deep shit. And it won't get better because our export economy requires cheap fuel, and we can't get it. See Thomas Friedman's column on one aspect of this today in the NYT.
Further, we've blown the terrorist threat by throwing kerosine, instead of non-flammable foam on it. Our allies (the few that are left) are caught up in the no-diplomacy government of ours that favors end-time rapture rather than cogent foreign policy.
Killing is not the solution. Religious hatred is the enemy. Religious orthodoxy will kill us all if we're not careful. And to tie this back to the original treatise, the current administration, much like the Nixon administration (yes, they're all guilty to one degree or another) usurps the rights of the people in favor of those in control in the government, who in turn are bought off lock-stock-and-barrel by the legislative bribery we have today.
It's ugly. It's sad. It's greedy. It's banal. It's going to be paid for by subsequent generations, where my father fought to prevent that.... as did his.... etc.
The Viet Nam war was setup by Eisenhower, pushed in by Kennedy, pushed along even further by Johnson, then rammed down our throats by Nixon. I was alive starting before Eisenhower.
My numbers on Iraq are those from the US Government. Saddam Hussein is undoubtedly evil, but didn't kill as many Kurds or anyone else (save for Iranian/Shiites) as we have in the past fifteen years. Your cognizance of the wiretapping is also hideously in error. Please read what the administration has testified before Arlan Spector's committee, starting with A Gonzales. You're woefully mistaken.
Your chosen 'experts' face a Supreme Court that's already handed Bush and his fascist paranoid government their heads on a platter on these issues of separation of powers on several occasions. You must get outside and stop watching Fox News for a while.
The authority that the President cites IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION. Here, let's review the Fourth Amendment:
Amendment IV - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V also applies here:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Please research what you're talking about prior to accusing one of being half cocked and not knowing the issues. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're wrong.
War is evil. There is no justifiable war except defense. The defense posed by the administration were a chain of lies and deceipt. Bush didn't wait for diplomacy. Instead, he went off-- half cocked as you would call it-- without a plan, without the money, and without the justifcation and help from the international community that even his father solicited.
Were I to place a bet, I believe you would lose your expostulation. This one is a breach of many things that America stands for. Privacy and self determination without governmental snooping is high on the list. We don't have to like the government; it just has to tolerate us. The phrase "We the people..." mean anything to you?
It's tough enough to get people interested in geometry and trig than to bloody some poor prof's attempt at unifying disciplines. It's nice that his review must demonstrate his various vocabularies and distainful lack of surprises..... yet conveying information about the actual content of the book is betrayed while the reviewer stands up and barks like a dog for a pet. Look! I killed this helpless little thing. Aren't I a good boy? Gotta bone.
The review, for its content, is perhaps as useless as the book he's trying to describe-- it doesn't get beyond a sense of hopelessness. If hopelessness is the message then it should be stated, not a long sewn-together set of moans and oh-gawd-is-he-awful's.
There are some of us that get it. Others don't get it. He's obviously not the audience-- and his barbs at perceived accuracy shows how unbending Halprin is. Yes, math demands accuracy and rules, yet understanding trig, linear geometry, and other non-algebraic disciplines isn't a droll matter of lumping proofs after proof.
And you might imagine that the Supremes, having spanked the Bush Admin in these areas before, will do it again. Until then, the NSA is enjoined. Read the decision. It's encouraging to all but the fascists and paranoids.
She did what she had to do. The Bush administration has walked over the constitution in so many ways, and it's delightful to see that the judiciary backs up the rights of the people to go about their business unfettered by the government's oversight of their private conversations-- without a constitutional warrant.
The implementations between OpenSUSE 10.1 and the new SLES are different, and neither work. In OpenSUSE, the scripts are wrong, leading to difficulties in getting GRUB to boot it. Go past that and we could only get two paravirtualizations to work concurrently, this on very seriously built hardware (Athlon 64 with 12GB DRAM at 3.2GHZ). We tried it on other servers in the shop and had similar problems. Occasionally, instances would go incommunicado-- that's right, living but deaf and dumb to the point where we had to scrape them because (we believe) the hypervisor lost its place.
No one we know has been able to get SUSE's version to work. It seems to be a branch of Xensource's work, but we can't get the source to try and hammer it out.
We're neither Red Hat or SUSE lackeys, but it would have been nice to have a kewl distro that allowed something beyond SELinux, which has its own heartburn problems.
If the logic bomb is unrevealed to a client, e.g. the client is unaware that there is a remedy outside of the contract for damages, then it *might* be fraudulent or even extortive to have placed the logic bomb in the code. If however, the contract stipulates unrevealed or nebulous recourse (e.g. all kinds of things could happen including the software's functionality ceasing) then the signatories are obligated to the terms and the remedies expressed for breach of those terms.
In other words, unrevealed as a possible remedy, there's a problem. An ambiguous (e.g. non-tort or non-mediated) settlement for breach permits a logic bomb. This is how it works under federal law, your mileage might vary in New Jersey; I'm not familiar with NJ tort law, or even coding there.
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Let's see. You say:
"IPv6 makes routing much easier because most of those addresses won't be allocated to anything"
How droll. Do you realize what you've said in justification? Have you done router tables, ever?
Then, you say:
"They serve to keep the address space non-fragmented, so routers will have much smaller routing tables"
Sure. A lot smaller. The number of devices needing unique addresses will shrink and that's why IPV4 is "....about ugly, look at NAT and CIDR and the hack.." In fact, using NAT and CIDR blocks works charmingly-- any number of times, depending on custom and internal whimsy.
The Internet won't be glued together, address-wise, differently in IPV4 v. IPV6. For a while, there'll be nice and cute sorts of blocks doled. Then it will go to hell again, and tables will need to be done that cycle away dirty cache just as is done today. ARP works with both, and therefore can be messy with both (although admittedly, it's tougher to screw up in code w/IPV6).
"...things nicer and cleaner" comes with a beyond-exponential increase in the size of the addressing space. It is without a doubt in my mind, ludicrous. The special place in hell reserved for the numbskulls that wrote the spec will become historical.
And that time will happen in the year 19202 if expansion parallels population growth.
Really. DO THE MATH. IPV6 IS INSANE!!!!
First, let's take a look at Vista uptake and adoption: not too fast.
Secondly, let's take a look at how many sites are IPV6 now: not too many, in fact, darn few at all.
Thirdly, let's see how many routers are enabled to do IPV6: gosh, nearly all of them. Jolly good, that.
Fourthly, let's see how DNS calls work, whether IPV4, or that gnarly IPV6 stuff: generally, calls are routed to a local segment DNS server. That silly little server actually does something called (yes, that's right!) cacheing addresses, only going upstream to get new stuff! Great! A little binary tree code goes in and looks things up for us; it's nice, really.
Let's say you're a consumer on an ISP network-- say Comcast. The old Comcast people will have to put up a little hardware to do the DNS work. Jolly nice of them, eh? Perhaps you're at a desk in a megacorp-- well you're likely using that Microsoft Stuff to do your DDNS work; in turn, it goes upstream, too. Perhaps you don't use that silly Active Directory stuff and you do BIND. Clever you-- you're already there and it's been working all along.
And IPV6 is simply insane, no matter how measured. Yet we can deal with it because some unbelievably stupid twit said that we can't NAT anymore. This person's place in hell is already reserved. The IETF..... oh, let's don't go there.
Double the DNS queries are going to do: nothing.
IPV6 is among the most insipid and stupid inventions of all time, allocating a specific address for each atom in the universe (ok, not quite, but close) and does make things ugly. But even with its too-many-octet queries, it's not going to do much damage. Most queries are for LOCAL NETWORK information only. The rest get cached before a demarc point or a tie point.
So, this is much ado about nothing. And Vista isn't a culprit in any event (although I wish I could say it was)-- instead, it's the TWITS THAT BELIEVE THAT IPV6 is a savior.
Ok, I'm better now.
These are cookie cutter devices. Their deltas are uber-thin. You'd need to resolve various characteristics to the femto-side of things. I'm sure that there's a lot of demand for high-resolution characterization gear out there that will slice things into ultra-tiny pieces, then have the ability to keep them in a useful db, then use that db to effectively serve as the gate of admittance control.
I don't think so.
Instead, a few little twigs will be used, and those twigs will define what's going on. Call it engineer SLOTH. Tolerances will be widened so that customer support problems don't occur. Once the routines are discovered (and it won't take long), then they'll be abused.... oops I mean cracked. The software that initially characterizes will need to be plenty smart to be able to prevent the same aforementioned customer service problems, and so it'll have slop, too. Add the slops together, and there's a hole. The 95% citation seems more like a salesperson's view of things. I'm far more skeptical. Look at how APs have evolved, as well as the chipsets for WiFoo (and read the book by the same name).
Go to Taiwan Inc and take a spectrum analyzer with you. I have. Throw a high-rate sampling scope and look at the waveforms. Now add in some heat. User positioning. Skew it with some general and contentious noise to slop it up. Tell me you can get that kind of accuracy then tell me that I can't take a similar chipset card and foo it up to make it fool some bozo pseudo-NSA sampler. Bah.
Here's what you can make in terms of a signature:
1. Amplitude
2. Phase shift
3. Signal cadencing... e.g. micro-sliced events
4. Parasitics
5. Encoding profiling.
And the success is 95%. That's wonderful. Bring it on.
In terms of your supposition that it would have to be "100 percent atom for atom identical" is pure hubris. You obviously have little engineering training. Try again.
Given:
1) MAC addresses are easily cloned; it's child's play
2) Spoofing above the MAC layer is difficult
3) This methodology produces no false positives
4) The hacker community will find what the characterizations are then
5) Find nice and easy ways of memorizing the characterizations so that
6) They can continue to spoof whatever they want, whenever they want.
So, yes, there is are additional authentications that make things easier to secure-- but changing the character of a card isn't difficult to do as today, there are less than a dozen chipsets doing 98% of all WiFi, from 802.11abgn and 'turbo'/speed-enhanced non-standard variations.
So, Fi. Gimme 30 seconds with the analyzer to characterize what they're looking for, and I'll be pleased to embarrass your WEP-loving CTO.
Or elephants through keyholes. Even with tasty, high-efficiency/low-loss codecs, you cannot do 802.11g distribution of HD. Part of it has to do with QoS and the rest with the time domain of the duty cycle of the raster generation. In English: it's a shared space, like the 'collision detecting' part of Ethernet's CSMA/CD media access later. Only one device talks to the AP at a time successfully, unless you use two cards and two non-inteferring channels (which does happen if purposefully constructed in real life, but not from Best Buy or Fry's on a good day). Add into the mix, someone who's also sharing that AP (or random noise confusing the situation). Then the effective throughput goes down further. 802.11n uses two antennae for differential signal addition to improve speed. It's subject to the same problems, although it does potentially go faster-- except that it's not even a 1.0 standard until perhaps 2008-- despite all the equipment arriving into the big box stores that's non-standard and worse, having compatibility issues. Don't think that muni-WiFi, home WiFi, or any other WiFi or even whymax will work for you in HD distribution. Not yet, and not in this decade. Use fiber where you can; copper after that; the air after that for your MAC layer fun.
The Blue Earphone of Death!
RTFA.
Then discover that it still involves raising beef, then slaughtering them. In the meantime, they'll also be living on feed lots, and pumped full of hormones and anti-biotics just like they are now. Wonder why you've got nice tits, big boy?
Vegetarians will have great problems with this. If you grow meat in a vat, it's not going to work. You need to have muscle, and that muscle has to be worked. Are you going to run it via an old Compaq running Windows 98? Here: have some of this stuff, we used the 2.6.16 kernel as its muscle exerciser. See how good it tastes on the barbie?
No. Not soon, and not if RTFA.
And the first one in a particular market segment that does it right gets a heavy share. Look at the iPlod.... My(gonad)Space... and many other interesting ideas.
The problem: no revenue model for it yet. The great thing: easily understood and manipulated. Now there are many knock-offs, including PornoTube, and so on.
What's it worth? With little intellectual property, not much except in future revenue potential. Some aging media king, like Sony, ought to buy them and lose lots of money on them, like TW did with AOL.
Seriously folks, until a revenue model appears, it's just cool, not worth much
The Viet Nam war was the wrong thing to do for the right reasons, just as invading Iraq seemed to be the right thing at the time. In both cases, the reasons have been long invalidated.
But how you can seemingly permit the tyrany of searches without probable cause goes far beyond what my forefathers fought for.
And the leap to believing that I think that Geo Bush is an enemy defies all logic. He's very inept, a bad planner, and skates over the constitution like he owns it. We own it, not George. Your fear of terrorists amounts to narcissistic paranoia. Bush has actually aided the orthodoxy by polarizing them against us. They were crude and inept before. Now they're organized and much better funded, while world opinion of the US has waned significantly as they see our purported values thrown out the window when the first smell of trouble comes. This isn't bravery, it's a mockery of the courage of our forefathers.
I can't convince you of any of this, I'm thinking. Your black and white, us or them world won't allow it. It's not that easy, and not that simple. Without civil liberty, we lose.
Some people need more current and voltage.
Other people use clever designs.
That's how the 120mi+ Defcon 13 was done. Not with current, but with legal antennas.
It's like nuclear weapons: you don't have to be very accurate. However, with single xray pulse, knowing the right spot can be very effective.
1. If you buy 802.11n products, your AP needs to have easy firmware updates, because there is no standard, and you WILL want to update the firmware when the standard is ratified plus three months, meaning the summer of 2008.
2. 802.11n is faster than 802.11a,b, and g. But you need to buy everything from the same vendor, because that'll ensure it works together as compatibility is iffy. You can't do as nifty antenna tricks with 802.11n as you can with b and g. The 802.11a rules in the US currently prohibit antenna tricks. So, flexibility with standards means 802.11g.
3. If you use any 802.11 product, use WPA, or upgrade to it, and keep checking for firmware upgrades every few months, then do it.
4. Currently, the fastest *standardized* method is 802.11g. There are various turbo modes that may or may not allow you faster downloads, but most APs are inhibited by upstream throttle-back anyway. And for this reason, you might like it for home use but don't use it on mobile machines as hotspots sometimes have trouble with cards that are in 'auto-turbo' mode.
5. Unless you have backhaul that's faster than the WiFi transport, it's useless to buy anything faster because it will make no difference in speed. If you have a crappy DSL connection, the speed will still be crappy DSL speed. It's nice to have your WiFi router speed as the fastest common denominator because DSL and cable and other transports keep getting faster and faster. If you have asymetrical backhaul, that won't change no matter what you do (example: 3MB/s down, 750KB/s up).
WPA secures at minimum. Using AES with TLS is thought to be the most solid method. Having a temporal key is important as key life had a bearing on breaking the key. Currently, no one will sit around and wait for long keys to be broken unless THEY REALLY WANT YOU. If they do, they'll do something smarter. All WEP can be broken in under 22minutes, period.
For better paranoia, read WiFoo-- currently the most interesting hacker cookbook I've found.
Kennedy could have stopped it. Eisenhower could have stopped it. Johnson could have stopped it. But the escalation, illegal bombing, and the whole gut-it-out era came with Nixon. If you chart the years vs the presidency, Nixon had them by far.
That's not to count the number of dead Indonesian communists (>1million) that we influenced with Suhkarto and Suharto as we allowed Indonesia to soak up 1/15th of the world's population into a single governance.
And there are more atrocities foised by the unbelievably paranoid American presidents. So let's tie that back to Nixon. Yes, he went and opened China. Now China owns the United States in terms of balance of trade. Now that the yuan floats, we're in deep shit. And it won't get better because our export economy requires cheap fuel, and we can't get it. See Thomas Friedman's column on one aspect of this today in the NYT.
Further, we've blown the terrorist threat by throwing kerosine, instead of non-flammable foam on it. Our allies (the few that are left) are caught up in the no-diplomacy government of ours that favors end-time rapture rather than cogent foreign policy.
Killing is not the solution. Religious hatred is the enemy. Religious orthodoxy will kill us all if we're not careful. And to tie this back to the original treatise, the current administration, much like the Nixon administration (yes, they're all guilty to one degree or another) usurps the rights of the people in favor of those in control in the government, who in turn are bought off lock-stock-and-barrel by the legislative bribery we have today.
It's ugly. It's sad. It's greedy. It's banal. It's going to be paid for by subsequent generations, where my father fought to prevent that.... as did his.... etc.
The Viet Nam war was setup by Eisenhower, pushed in by Kennedy, pushed along even further by Johnson, then rammed down our throats by Nixon. I was alive starting before Eisenhower.
My numbers on Iraq are those from the US Government. Saddam Hussein is undoubtedly evil, but didn't kill as many Kurds or anyone else (save for Iranian/Shiites) as we have in the past fifteen years. Your cognizance of the wiretapping is also hideously in error. Please read what the administration has testified before Arlan Spector's committee, starting with A Gonzales. You're woefully mistaken.
Your chosen 'experts' face a Supreme Court that's already handed Bush and his fascist paranoid government their heads on a platter on these issues of separation of powers on several occasions. You must get outside and stop watching Fox News for a while.
The authority that the President cites IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION. Here, let's review the Fourth Amendment:
Amendment IV - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V also applies here:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Please research what you're talking about prior to accusing one of being half cocked and not knowing the issues. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're wrong.
War is evil. There is no justifiable war except defense. The defense posed by the administration were a chain of lies and deceipt. Bush didn't wait for diplomacy. Instead, he went off-- half cocked as you would call it-- without a plan, without the money, and without the justifcation and help from the international community that even his father solicited.
Were I to place a bet, I believe you would lose your expostulation. This one is a breach of many things that America stands for. Privacy and self determination without governmental snooping is high on the list. We don't have to like the government; it just has to tolerate us. The phrase "We the people..." mean anything to you?
It's tough enough to get people interested in geometry and trig than to bloody some poor prof's attempt at unifying disciplines. It's nice that his review must demonstrate his various vocabularies and distainful lack of surprises..... yet conveying information about the actual content of the book is betrayed while the reviewer stands up and barks like a dog for a pet. Look! I killed this helpless little thing. Aren't I a good boy? Gotta bone.
The review, for its content, is perhaps as useless as the book he's trying to describe-- it doesn't get beyond a sense of hopelessness. If hopelessness is the message then it should be stated, not a long sewn-together set of moans and oh-gawd-is-he-awful's.
There are some of us that get it. Others don't get it. He's obviously not the audience-- and his barbs at perceived accuracy shows how unbending Halprin is. Yes, math demands accuracy and rules, yet understanding trig, linear geometry, and other non-algebraic disciplines isn't a droll matter of lumping proofs after proof.
There was burglary, theft, and perjury, not to mention numerous other items uncovered by Archibald Cox (and of course, others).
Oh yeah, and there were about 28,000 GIs killed in Viet Nam, not to mention about a quarter of a million Vietnamese.
I suppose those dead people didn't count in the indictments... nor the resignation of Spiro Agnew for tax fraud-- his vice president.
Now, between Bush Jr and Sr, we have about 600,000 Iraqis dead, 3,500+ of our troops.
So there's wiretapping incideous habeas corpus violations, and heavens knows what else in the Bush administration.
All the more reason to strike down the practice.
Please cite a source.
And you might imagine that the Supremes, having spanked the Bush Admin in these areas before, will do it again. Until then, the NSA is enjoined. Read the decision. It's encouraging to all but the fascists and paranoids.
And who put it to use? The paranoid Bush administration.
The New Hampshire Motto is right: Live free or die!
She did what she had to do. The Bush administration has walked over the constitution in so many ways, and it's delightful to see that the judiciary backs up the rights of the people to go about their business unfettered by the government's oversight of their private conversations-- without a constitutional warrant.
This is a hallowed day.
The implementations between OpenSUSE 10.1 and the new SLES are different, and neither work. In OpenSUSE, the scripts are wrong, leading to difficulties in getting GRUB to boot it. Go past that and we could only get two paravirtualizations to work concurrently, this on very seriously built hardware (Athlon 64 with 12GB DRAM at 3.2GHZ). We tried it on other servers in the shop and had similar problems. Occasionally, instances would go incommunicado-- that's right, living but deaf and dumb to the point where we had to scrape them because (we believe) the hypervisor lost its place.
No one we know has been able to get SUSE's version to work. It seems to be a branch of Xensource's work, but we can't get the source to try and hammer it out.
We're neither Red Hat or SUSE lackeys, but it would have been nice to have a kewl distro that allowed something beyond SELinux, which has its own heartburn problems.
If the logic bomb is unrevealed to a client, e.g. the client is unaware that there is a remedy outside of the contract for damages, then it *might* be fraudulent or even extortive to have placed the logic bomb in the code. If however, the contract stipulates unrevealed or nebulous recourse (e.g. all kinds of things could happen including the software's functionality ceasing) then the signatories are obligated to the terms and the remedies expressed for breach of those terms.
In other words, unrevealed as a possible remedy, there's a problem. An ambiguous (e.g. non-tort or non-mediated) settlement for breach permits a logic bomb. This is how it works under federal law, your mileage might vary in New Jersey; I'm not familiar with NJ tort law, or even coding there.