I disagree. The cheap batteries that you can get from over seas generally don't hold up very well long term(accepting the fact that almost all LiPo batteries are actually made in China). Just go to rcgroups.com and do some searches there for battery discharge graphs. The top of the line LiPo cells so far are ThunderPower G3 40C which have a very impressive discharge graph. They hold the same voltage as they age during load for 80% of the discharge. After 200+ flights the only thing that changes is the falloff curve at the very end which gets brought in close(less mah over 200+ cycles).
I personally use Hyperion G3 35C batteries because ThunderPower doesn't make the 6s 6500mah batteries I want(only up to 5000mah). Hyperion is still very good discharge graphs but the whole discharge curve does slightly go down with age. Hyperion do a very good job of holding voltage during extreme loads like the ThunderPower. If you compare Zippy or any of the other very cheap batteries(1/3 the cost of Hyperion or ThunderPower) you will see there is a big difference between them especially after 50 cycles on them.
I noticed that right away. I was looking at the wallpaper bounce away from the wall thinking why didn't the paper just fall off? You can see that it moves away from the wall(adhesive lets go). Sure enough it is secure at both ends. How many people secure their wallpaper at both ends with a metal bar? Thanks for bringing this up.
Please mod parent up.
I tried for a month or so to get the latest source for the Linux kernel that Checkpoint distributes with their NGX/Splat product but all I got was statements that they don't do that. After some research and digging on their site I found a very old version that they didn't even know about. Since they do not update it. It is useless. I was trying to help diagnose an issue that I was sure was a driver related problem.
I observed one of these data/source collections for a court case at a previous company I worked for. I have seen where the *security experts* that come to collect the data want to leave with an unencrypted hard drive that would sit in their back seat with all data, and then claim to need to put it available online(simple user name and password protection) so the attorneys, etc can access the data. But don't worry it is secure they said (yea right).
Without arguing with the *security expert* that is precisely what would have happened in that instance. They agreed to make sure the source was not available online but once it is out of your hands who really knows what happens to the data.
The problem becomes when good free open alternatives are available but the major players do not use them. For years I used to rip all my CDs to flac format and ogg format. I use the flac for my home entertainment playing through the PS3 and ogg I used for mobile/laptop playing. But of course I also had to start storing a third mp3 copy for devices that don't support ogg(which is most). I finally stopped using ogg because I need the mp3s more often. I now just keep flac and mp3.
PNG did catch on though. The proprietary police seemed to have let that slip through some how.
If Apple and Microsoft added ogg support I would convert back to it in a heartbeat. Since microsoft and apple want to encourage their own formats though they will never end up doing that. The only reason they allow mp3 is because it is the majority format right now. They would not want to give users yet another non-DRM alternative.
I'm happy to hear that AT&T is looking at upgrades. Personally, I have run into almost no issues, but my area is a pretty recent recipient of 3G.
I haven't seen any issues with the network either for the few months I have owned an iPhone. Must be the area I guess. Speeds are very fast for me anyway.
The only time I had network issues with the iphone was when using iphone battery cases like the Incase Power Slider Battery Backup or Mophie Juice Pack Air. For some reason they randomly caused network signal strength issues. It was weird too. I would have 4 bars. Take the case off and I still have 4 bars. Then other times I would have 5 bars and then nothing(no service or searching). As soon as I took the case off I got 5 bars again.
Just don't use youtube streaming on the iphone to give an indication of network speeds. Even on wifi, youtube viewing is usually very slow to buffer the stream. If I switch to another video streaming app and the network is fast. The iphone youtube feature is flawed somehow. I just hope they update it at some point to fix the streaming issues.
It is apparent to me that you have never evaluated an iphone for a few days. I was 100% blackberry for the past several years with it's physical keyboard. I smirked at people when they got out their iphones. I always commented that they can have their touchy feely screen. Give me a physical keyboard for my phone. That is until 2 weeks ago.
I had to evaluate/test one for exchange integration at work. While yes there are some issues where blackberry can be faster(get to the email screen quicker with blackberry for example), The interface is a joy to use on the iphone though. The built in apps for it are very intuitive and easy to use. I have since converted over to one and even bought my wife one. We really enjoy using them where with the blackberry it just wasn't that useful except for emails IMHO. There are truly some innovative apps on the appstore too.
This does not mean that I am happy with the AppStore situation though. I do not like all the control that apple is placing on the appstore. For me the usefulness of the iphone and the apps that are available tip the balance toward toleration for me. Should I make a stand and just say no to iphones. Probably. Will I.. No:).
The call still gets initiated from the phone over the AT&T voice service(same with SMS over GV). GV just becomes a switching service that reroutes the call. GV is NOT a Voice-Over-IP app that sends the voice calls through the data IP plan of the iphone. It might get around international calling rates though since the call is really to GV and not to the direct party(I don't know about that part).
Where strong passwords help is in case a vulnerability is discovered in the restricted password guesses or if someone finds a way to get your password hashes(corp network) and they take them home to try and brute force them.
Defense in depth. Not any one solutions solves all problems. You need multiple protections in place. Each one itself is just as important as the others.
At the same time though... South Korea could just be thrown in the the mix just to confuse the issue of who is doing it. It is fairly easy to get people to place blame based on who is affected by something.
We can not place blame based just on who is affected by something.
It is highly recommended to put webservers on dedicated/restricted networks to segment them from your internal LAN. It is also highly recommended to put a transaction layer between that web server and another server that hosts the important/private data. This puts one more layer that the hackers would need to get past before your data is compromised. Unfortunately this is not an easy or consumer friendly practice.
The truth is though that this is just another hole of many that are already opened up on most desktop systems nowadays. Developers/companies have been pushing apps that automatically open up holes from the internet to your desktop thanks to routers that support UPNP. Yes a web server is more visible because it is well known to the average user how to access it but there are many applications that most people use that already open up connections directly to your desktop from the internet. You just have to look at the many peer-to-peer apps, chat applications, voip applications, etc to realize how bad it has become. Thanks to the wide availability of home routers/wannabefirewalls with UPNP capability, Developers have an easy way to open up holes in your network from the internet. Hopefully tech savy people know the risks but I have a feeling the average PC user does not. Do they really know that a vulnerability in the app could be exploitable from the general internet directly to thier PC? Probably not.
The video demo that was linked to on a previous slashdot article shows a guy waving his arms up and down(not very fast). The display was not able to follow his movements very quickly. It showed his arms as up when they were already down. If you look at the PS3 video demo they were able to quickly move the wands back and forth VERY quickly and the wand appeared to track the movement without any apparent latency.
I can see admins trying to install a new server and accidentally dropping one of the mounting screws into the rack. Poof! Admins would probably just try to RMA the unit. I see this costing HP some money because of that.
The latency on Sony's input method vs what Microsoft just showed is much better. I was getting worried because a previous article showed the microsoft xbox solution had a pretty bad lag when a guy was moving his arms up and down. The microsoft video showed his arms up when they were already down. The video linked to in this article shows that there is no noticeable latency in the PS3 motion sensor. I am now excited about future games for the Sony solution.
But by putting a bunch of services on one box the avenues of exploitation of that device increases. If the Intrusion Detection and virus scanning were on another system then you reduce your chances of the firewall itself being compromised.
"HMD does nothing additional other than give you headache."
After my experiences with the virtual i/o glasses back in 1995 I disagree with your statement. Head tracking and virtual head glasses are the future IMHO. Why mount a monitor in front of you which is static when you could have a virtual monitor in front of you that rotates your view as you look around. Instead of just a monitor in front it would seem like you have a 360 degree monitor in all directions.
Some of the best VR I experienced was with the game that actually came with it that was very low res and no shading on the polygons (even for its time it was low res). But the immersion into that world was just fantastic and made up for it.
I look forward to a day when a 3d desktop if available in a VR headset with head tracking. A bonus for me would be with some kind of 3d input device. Compiz fusion on X is starting to get some effects that might indicate that direction (3d cube desktop) but there is quite a bit to go before we can use a 3d VR headset with head tracking.
"The SSL accelerator in front of the servers takes the incoming SSL transactions, decrypts them, and then forwards them on to the servers as HTTP. This is still secure as the connection between the SSL accelerator and the servers is a private local network, there is no unsecured transaction going over the public Internet."
The problem with that statement is private does not always stay private when web servers are involved. If any one of the web servers on the lan between the webservers and the SSL decryption server get compromised then getting the unencrypted data from other servers on the same lan is very easy to do since all the SSL traffic is plain text on the web server lan. Hopefully the backend traffic is also encrypted too.
If you are just running one website then you could argue that if one server is compromised then the attackers would only get data from that one website but just more of it. I have a feeling most people who implement this type of solution would have multiple sites being decrypted on the same lan though.
You could reduce this risk by making sure that every site has it's own dedicated lan between the web servers and the decryption server.
I know this method would not be acceptable at our company. Different companies have different ideas about acceptable risk though.
I see this a different way. Since most users barely use their connection they should get a discount... not the other way around.
In other news... Ford has found out that most people only go on average 35mph during a month. Since nobody needs to go much faster than that Ford has decided to put smaller engines in all cars by default that only go 40 mph at the same price as existing models. If you want to go faster you will need an upgraded engine at a premium.
I think you will be saying this forever because DirectX is always getting newer versions and wine based products will always be a step behind. Just replace DirectX 10 with DirectX 11 in a year or two.
If you want to get rid of windows just do it. There are plenty of games that work under Linux now to keep you entertained. This will save you money too since you won't rush out to buy the latest game that comes out... you will need to wait until it works under Linux and by that time the price is usually much lower.
We are already very close to that. PSN, XBLA, etc. Time limits are only thing remaining. I am 100% sure the game companies would love for everything to go that route because it locks the games up in their DRM.
It is nice how convenient downloading games on PSN are but knowing that they have no resell value is a huge disadvantage. As long as they sell the games on PSN for a much reduced price (Currently they do not) it would help offset this downside to me though.
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I disagree. The cheap batteries that you can get from over seas generally don't hold up very well long term(accepting the fact that almost all LiPo batteries are actually made in China). Just go to rcgroups.com and do some searches there for battery discharge graphs. The top of the line LiPo cells so far are ThunderPower G3 40C which have a very impressive discharge graph. They hold the same voltage as they age during load for 80% of the discharge. After 200+ flights the only thing that changes is the falloff curve at the very end which gets brought in close(less mah over 200+ cycles). I personally use Hyperion G3 35C batteries because ThunderPower doesn't make the 6s 6500mah batteries I want(only up to 5000mah). Hyperion is still very good discharge graphs but the whole discharge curve does slightly go down with age. Hyperion do a very good job of holding voltage during extreme loads like the ThunderPower. If you compare Zippy or any of the other very cheap batteries(1/3 the cost of Hyperion or ThunderPower) you will see there is a big difference between them especially after 50 cycles on them.
I noticed that right away. I was looking at the wallpaper bounce away from the wall thinking why didn't the paper just fall off? You can see that it moves away from the wall(adhesive lets go). Sure enough it is secure at both ends. How many people secure their wallpaper at both ends with a metal bar? Thanks for bringing this up. Please mod parent up.
I tried for a month or so to get the latest source for the Linux kernel that Checkpoint distributes with their NGX/Splat product but all I got was statements that they don't do that. After some research and digging on their site I found a very old version that they didn't even know about. Since they do not update it. It is useless. I was trying to help diagnose an issue that I was sure was a driver related problem.
I observed one of these data/source collections for a court case at a previous company I worked for. I have seen where the *security experts* that come to collect the data want to leave with an unencrypted hard drive that would sit in their back seat with all data, and then claim to need to put it available online(simple user name and password protection) so the attorneys, etc can access the data. But don't worry it is secure they said (yea right).
Without arguing with the *security expert* that is precisely what would have happened in that instance. They agreed to make sure the source was not available online but once it is out of your hands who really knows what happens to the data.
The problem becomes when good free open alternatives are available but the major players do not use them. For years I used to rip all my CDs to flac format and ogg format. I use the flac for my home entertainment playing through the PS3 and ogg I used for mobile/laptop playing. But of course I also had to start storing a third mp3 copy for devices that don't support ogg(which is most). I finally stopped using ogg because I need the mp3s more often. I now just keep flac and mp3.
PNG did catch on though. The proprietary police seemed to have let that slip through some how.
If Apple and Microsoft added ogg support I would convert back to it in a heartbeat. Since microsoft and apple want to encourage their own formats though they will never end up doing that. The only reason they allow mp3 is because it is the majority format right now. They would not want to give users yet another non-DRM alternative.
I'm happy to hear that AT&T is looking at upgrades. Personally, I have run into almost no issues, but my area is a pretty recent recipient of 3G.
I haven't seen any issues with the network either for the few months I have owned an iPhone. Must be the area I guess. Speeds are very fast for me anyway.
The only time I had network issues with the iphone was when using iphone battery cases like the Incase Power Slider Battery Backup or Mophie Juice Pack Air. For some reason they randomly caused network signal strength issues. It was weird too. I would have 4 bars. Take the case off and I still have 4 bars. Then other times I would have 5 bars and then nothing(no service or searching). As soon as I took the case off I got 5 bars again.
Just don't use youtube streaming on the iphone to give an indication of network speeds. Even on wifi, youtube viewing is usually very slow to buffer the stream. If I switch to another video streaming app and the network is fast. The iphone youtube feature is flawed somehow. I just hope they update it at some point to fix the streaming issues.
Now that the word is out of the capabilities everyone will just build 600 feet underground. Back to the drawing board bomb makers!
It is apparent to me that you have never evaluated an iphone for a few days. I was 100% blackberry for the past several years with it's physical keyboard. I smirked at people when they got out their iphones. I always commented that they can have their touchy feely screen. Give me a physical keyboard for my phone. That is until 2 weeks ago.
:).
I had to evaluate/test one for exchange integration at work. While yes there are some issues where blackberry can be faster(get to the email screen quicker with blackberry for example), The interface is a joy to use on the iphone though. The built in apps for it are very intuitive and easy to use. I have since converted over to one and even bought my wife one. We really enjoy using them where with the blackberry it just wasn't that useful except for emails IMHO. There are truly some innovative apps on the appstore too.
This does not mean that I am happy with the AppStore situation though. I do not like all the control that apple is placing on the appstore. For me the usefulness of the iphone and the apps that are available tip the balance toward toleration for me. Should I make a stand and just say no to iphones. Probably. Will I.. No
The call still gets initiated from the phone over the AT&T voice service(same with SMS over GV). GV just becomes a switching service that reroutes the call. GV is NOT a Voice-Over-IP app that sends the voice calls through the data IP plan of the iphone. It might get around international calling rates though since the call is really to GV and not to the direct party(I don't know about that part).
Unfortunately you don't need root privileges to get to private user data and launch trojans. My user data is the most important to me.
Unless they already got that from him. It might be strictly punishment.
I (37) still have a *tattoo* that my aunt gave me when she put cigarette ashes on a cut that I got when I was 6. Thanks a lot :/.
Where strong passwords help is in case a vulnerability is discovered in the restricted password guesses or if someone finds a way to get your password hashes(corp network) and they take them home to try and brute force them. Defense in depth. Not any one solutions solves all problems. You need multiple protections in place. Each one itself is just as important as the others.
At the same time though... South Korea could just be thrown in the the mix just to confuse the issue of who is doing it. It is fairly easy to get people to place blame based on who is affected by something. We can not place blame based just on who is affected by something.
It is highly recommended to put webservers on dedicated/restricted networks to segment them from your internal LAN. It is also highly recommended to put a transaction layer between that web server and another server that hosts the important/private data. This puts one more layer that the hackers would need to get past before your data is compromised. Unfortunately this is not an easy or consumer friendly practice. The truth is though that this is just another hole of many that are already opened up on most desktop systems nowadays. Developers/companies have been pushing apps that automatically open up holes from the internet to your desktop thanks to routers that support UPNP. Yes a web server is more visible because it is well known to the average user how to access it but there are many applications that most people use that already open up connections directly to your desktop from the internet. You just have to look at the many peer-to-peer apps, chat applications, voip applications, etc to realize how bad it has become. Thanks to the wide availability of home routers/wannabefirewalls with UPNP capability, Developers have an easy way to open up holes in your network from the internet. Hopefully tech savy people know the risks but I have a feeling the average PC user does not. Do they really know that a vulnerability in the app could be exploitable from the general internet directly to thier PC? Probably not.
The video demo that was linked to on a previous slashdot article shows a guy waving his arms up and down(not very fast). The display was not able to follow his movements very quickly. It showed his arms as up when they were already down. If you look at the PS3 video demo they were able to quickly move the wands back and forth VERY quickly and the wand appeared to track the movement without any apparent latency.
Things usually have covers for a reason.
I can see admins trying to install a new server and accidentally dropping one of the mounting screws into the rack. Poof! Admins would probably just try to RMA the unit. I see this costing HP some money because of that.
The latency on Sony's input method vs what Microsoft just showed is much better. I was getting worried because a previous article showed the microsoft xbox solution had a pretty bad lag when a guy was moving his arms up and down. The microsoft video showed his arms up when they were already down. The video linked to in this article shows that there is no noticeable latency in the PS3 motion sensor. I am now excited about future games for the Sony solution.
But by putting a bunch of services on one box the avenues of exploitation of that device increases. If the Intrusion Detection and virus scanning were on another system then you reduce your chances of the firewall itself being compromised.
"HMD does nothing additional other than give you headache." After my experiences with the virtual i/o glasses back in 1995 I disagree with your statement. Head tracking and virtual head glasses are the future IMHO. Why mount a monitor in front of you which is static when you could have a virtual monitor in front of you that rotates your view as you look around. Instead of just a monitor in front it would seem like you have a 360 degree monitor in all directions. Some of the best VR I experienced was with the game that actually came with it that was very low res and no shading on the polygons (even for its time it was low res). But the immersion into that world was just fantastic and made up for it. I look forward to a day when a 3d desktop if available in a VR headset with head tracking. A bonus for me would be with some kind of 3d input device. Compiz fusion on X is starting to get some effects that might indicate that direction (3d cube desktop) but there is quite a bit to go before we can use a 3d VR headset with head tracking.
"The SSL accelerator in front of the servers takes the incoming SSL transactions, decrypts them, and then forwards them on to the servers as HTTP. This is still secure as the connection between the SSL accelerator and the servers is a private local network, there is no unsecured transaction going over the public Internet."
The problem with that statement is private does not always stay private when web servers are involved. If any one of the web servers on the lan between the webservers and the SSL decryption server get compromised then getting the unencrypted data from other servers on the same lan is very easy to do since all the SSL traffic is plain text on the web server lan. Hopefully the backend traffic is also encrypted too.
If you are just running one website then you could argue that if one server is compromised then the attackers would only get data from that one website but just more of it. I have a feeling most people who implement this type of solution would have multiple sites being decrypted on the same lan though.
You could reduce this risk by making sure that every site has it's own dedicated lan between the web servers and the decryption server.
I know this method would not be acceptable at our company. Different companies have different ideas about acceptable risk though.
I see this a different way. Since most users barely use their connection they should get a discount... not the other way around.
In other news... Ford has found out that most people only go on average 35mph during a month. Since nobody needs to go much faster than that Ford has decided to put smaller engines in all cars by default that only go 40 mph at the same price as existing models. If you want to go faster you will need an upgraded engine at a premium.
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Good luck with that.
I think you will be saying this forever because DirectX is always getting newer versions and wine based products will always be a step behind. Just replace DirectX 10 with DirectX 11 in a year or two. If you want to get rid of windows just do it. There are plenty of games that work under Linux now to keep you entertained. This will save you money too since you won't rush out to buy the latest game that comes out... you will need to wait until it works under Linux and by that time the price is usually much lower.
We are already very close to that. PSN, XBLA, etc. Time limits are only thing remaining. I am 100% sure the game companies would love for everything to go that route because it locks the games up in their DRM.
It is nice how convenient downloading games on PSN are but knowing that they have no resell value is a huge disadvantage. As long as they sell the games on PSN for a much reduced price (Currently they do not) it would help offset this downside to me though.