I would now like to direct you to my large DVD collection.
THe point being that those downloads may not have been illegal, but an easier way to get the content in a different format?
I posted above about this, but maybe I want the dang thing in DivX/Xvid format, for my PS2 that I can stream it to from my file server so I don't have to load the disk when I want to watch it. I just browse to one of the movies I ALREADY own and watch it. No fuss no muss, and, NOT ILLEGAL!!!
Who would have thought that downloading something just might NOT be illegal, I certainly wouldn't have pondered that idea...it's amazing what the law's don't cover and what we can get away with even when we have no right to obtain that search warrant due to "no probable cause". Since when did downloading == probable cause? So I download something, I MUST certainly be stealing it. When did our legal system lose our right to privacy and fair use and go straight for the two dollars that the industry "lost". The money they are losing is their own fault. But I digress, and go back to reading my tech books instead of watching/listening to the mindless drivel pumped out of the "entertainment" industry.
I will freely admit one thing, in general, the best entertainment I have been provided as of late is watching the "entertainment industry" die a slow death of their own greed and causal. (Notice I Said in general? Yes I do enjoy some of it, but very little...)
It goes so much deeper than that, since the assumption is ALWAYS that it is also illegal to download something.
Since when was it illegal to download something?
Just because it is on the net it is automatically ASSUMED that it's illegal to download it. Well news flash, but if I already OWN the film/work, then I have the COPYRIGHT to download it all I like.
This is not nor ever has been a black and white argument nor is the world ever black and white.
Both the greedy B@$T@RD$ that @$$ume that it's illegal to download anything as well as the cheap SOB's that leech everything need to shut up.
But as we should all know right now that if we paint it black and white we all fit into one of the two categories.
So which are you?
an SOB or an @$$?
I on the other hand fit right in the middle. Why do I download the few I have, because I already have them, but I would like to put them onto my server to stream them over my network onto my PS2 when I want instead of having to get up and put in the damn disk.
And why don't I rip them myself?
Because every one I have ripped doesn't work but every one I have D/L'ed has. I am still trying to figure out how to Rip my DVD's to Divx, until then, I'll D/L and be glad to ignore the rest of the ignorant one's that assume everything is illegal along with the greedy one's that want my money 4 times for the same stuff.
But you can both answer me this, why is it if you have your way I have to buy a movie 4 times to get it in all the formats I want it in? Can someone tell me that one?
GET REAL, Copyright is what it is, get off your pocketbooks and get onto a real revenue model, or go broke, I could care less. I'll stick with my books over the crap that the Hollywood/Music industry's are pushing out these days.
Now that takes talent to be the first post and be modded redundant.
But on another note, Oracle (among others) really is accused routinely of being slow on vulnerability fixes. What I would like to know is how many people think this is possibly because of one of three factors.
A) Their code is all undocumented spaghetti code Or B) They are taking the time to research and do it right Or C) They really are just blowing it off because it's not making them money so why put money into it
What do others think about this? How do the rest of you feel this is either true or untrue?
Your partially right however SIP is making large inroads to "cell" coverage capabilities and secondly WiMax is much like WiFi in that it all depends on how it's put together. It is very possible to go from WiMax area A, to WiMax area B and maintain the same IP, as it is also a SIP Proxy's position to assist in those "move's" of IP's.
Cisco's AVVID "could" do more along those lines and in some ways does with SRST and call preservation features but it's a long ways from the same since it does require some somewhat specific circumstances to work. The main feature with them is in the case of loss of control traffic, which is rarely the root cause of failure in a properly designed VoIP network if it is at all critical.
All that being said VoIP does need more work, but it is out there.
I applaude your comments and agree entirely, but I fear aside from your analogy to the drunk teen's that it's much better summed up in one simple sentence.
Law does not dictate behavior nor impose common sense.
We may be "able" to legislate morality but that doesn't mean it's controllable. Far from it since the majority of the laws themselves don't hold any common sense by the time they are actually passed.
It is designed with ease of use in mind."Wireless has always been such a pain, but now even a child can compromise...err connect to your laptop and extort...err ummm allow you to surf the web with little to no patching...errr uh, configuration."
I think you mean normal...as any "reasonable" employer filters on talent and interviews with the degree being a tie breaker at best. A smart employer knows that not everyone that has talent went to college and thus will not filter their selection based solely on such. This statistic is often skewed since many who have no skills (Read: criminals, gangmembers, and others who expect the world to supply them an endless line of handouts or similar) get filtered when the last job they held was at the County Jail making Lic. plates.
And yes I know still some do get passed over, but it's not as common as many would believe.
I for one haven't been to more than about 6 college classes, have been in IT for going on 10 years now and make a rather nice "wage" until I can get the rest of my ventures to maintain my standard of living.
Ironically I could have my degree despite all of this in around a year according to the university I talked to since my past has enough credential in it to qualify for credit. I will likely get it in my own due time, but I for one will never hold it as equal to a person that has motivation and desire and neither will many others in hiring positions.
Degree's != Exceptional employee's
Any employer that can't find that is either too large to care or is more likely to be saddled with mediocrity instead of superiority.
DAMN!!! Any one with mod points had better mod this up...something this funny is a shame to go to waste...
In any case glad to see you have a sense of humor in it all.
As for the filesystem, love the Reiser filesystem, and thinking it should help a bit to reincarnate my now smoked linux box. (Proc blew up I think since it won't even post now.)
Think of it this way, I love linux and it's concepts and principles, but a lot of the "discrediting" it does need lies within the open community is uses.
What needs to happen is the open community needs to have something to kindle the fire still, as well as something to unite them a bit more into generating app's that don't have to be compiled to be run. While I know there are some of those what is still lacking is for common users to be able to do this as well.
I know linux isn't "after" the commoner crowd however in it I see the largest "mind pool" that in my mind should be able to find ways to make things work in such a manner, make it easier and more intuitive to secure, and make it work with minimalistic user requirements.
Bear in mind that those minimalistic requirements may be a small amount more than current windows usage requirements but usage and maintenance have a huge difference in that most users want to just use the computer, therefore maintenance takes a back seat.
In short if it has a way of igniting some innovation into the community, BRING IT ON, otherwise, glad for him that he got a job, and hope him the best.
And yet this is probably the first topic I have seen in a while that nobody will reply with the tired old/. addage of "I embrace our new {insert M$ cliche here} overlords."
Or is there really someone here that still has a sense of humor to poke a little fun at the linux crowd?
mafia poker. what does the house get when there are two houses?
I can see the commentary now:
And program one, dubbed guido, pulls into the lead as program 4, dubbed vinnie, goes all in on a lousy full house.
Madden esque voice: I still say that somehow they have found a way to pull binary cards from their sleeve's.
Gruden esque voice: What they are doing is a standard bit swap in the packet back to the dealer server tricking it into thinking it didn't really know what it dealt to the player client in question. It's a rather common method of attack.
So your saying that electromagnetics is flawless and our current engineering is as well? Well then why would we make things like checksums and the like? why would we put in the ability to verify the file if it was a given that it was known good once it was on the disk?
Lastly how often have you seen that particular result? I question this because frankly given what your implying every conceivable possible data return from a failure is known as well and that M$ and or even the vast linux community has already programmed for such.
Anything is possible, rule nothing out, especially with broad generalizations. Metal in a hard drive (or any other component for that matter) is no less prone to problems than another and "bit flipping" could as easily be cause by an errant spike in voltage to the read arm as it passes over a sector as it could from a minor corrosion pit forming inside the platter. (Since corrosion itself is an electric like process).
I would have to agree with a post above that was put forward that most anything is possible, and someone that is in the field of data recovery would have seen (as I know I have) many more things that defy logic much more than a data fragment injecting a random artifact into an MP3 stream.
Just my 2
That was because there wasn't until recently a formal roaming agreement between TMo and AT&T Wireless. However this is now not the case since TMo does have an agreement in place now and roaming onto most all of Cingular (there are still a handfull of towers that aren't working as of about 2 weeks ago) is working very well.
I personally would have to disagree, with a caveat that in actual data I think the article is correct, in capacity, an exabyte is easy to see as realistic.
All that aside though does anyone think that may be a bit excessive? Especially for a company starting to delve into RFID and likely not only tracking what is bought but with that kind of data store I would guess it's tracking your debit/credit card purchases against you and also knows not only that you like those pop tarts but your underwear size as well.
Anyone happen to think like me that this is a bad thing?
It's not that it's a "flash in the pan" as you put it. It's a step in the right direction. Voip providers (or at least the one I engineer for) aren't concerned with PSTN other than for now it's a nessesary evil and temporary source of very modest revenue. No what you say is true but what you miss is that a Voip provider brings a much bigger piece to the puzzle. How many other companies can make this work? VERY FEW, and the reason behind that is that they can't find the right mix of technology, and business. Voip isn't a poor mans game, nor is it the "free ride" everyone paints it to be. When you go VoIP you pay for someone to implement or manage it or both. Your also buying into a theoretical long term investment. The advantage to voip is that it puts you into a framework that can grow to new heights faster and better than the PSTN because of it's nature.
Now on to the one other noteworthy post I wanted to add to.
"What will further delay VoIP from entirely killing the PSTN, smong other things, are (1) The vendors (bad vendors!) are doing a Microsoft-like embrace-and-extend of SIP (the session initiation protocol used to set up a VoIP call) (2) Meeting regulations like CALEA (the law enforcement act that gives the government the power to tap the phones) (3) Truly connecting Voice Over IP "islands"... because how to you share IP addresses of phones and maintain privacy (like suppressing caller ID)... and the best savings come when you can remove the PSTN (public switched telephone network) entirely."
First off how are the vendors bastardizing sip by embracing and extending a standard that encourages and has built into it (at least for the most part) a systematic way to replace the PSTN and keep phones predominately the same? Also I challenge you to tell me of a better standard. What VoIP needs is a standard to indeed rid us of the islands you mention.
Secondly how does CALEA slow down VoIP? A provider of VoIP has a much easier time providing for "tapping" than a traditional LEC does in many ways. Cisco's Span Sessions for instance, need I say more?
Thirdly, you talk about connecting these islands, yet you talk down to adoption of Sip? And how does sharing IP's come into the picture? How do you share and IP unless of course you mean via NAT. And even if that is the case then you haven't looked into how SIP works have you? Sip is in basic terms simply a proxy device and a setup protocol similar to how DNS doesn't carry the data, it's a pointer to it and a middle man to the conversation as a control element. Sip has control of the caller id, you can at that point much more easily "mask" caller id with NAT because at that point the last true remaining indicator of who you really are is your IP address, not your caller ID.
Now do I want everyone to think that i am trying to shoot down or flame someone? not at all. But we can all think this through for ourselves.
Being the Senior Engineer for a Managed VoIP Solution provider offers me a unique glimpse into the future of this and as such I think you shall all be shocked. More so than you might think with the suprise waiting around the bend for the backbone providers to unleash. Beware, they are no where near done with the bumps in the road yet. But those bumps will make for an incredibly good path to the future.
It's not about it being mandatory now...it's that everyone jumps on board thinking its a great medical idea then the government gives it some thought and wow look at this we found a replacement for the Social Security Number and it's wonderful. Now that one identifier just became your life and now your tracked anywhere you go. No detail about your life goes unknown, and not a single item you purchase or use goes unnoticed. The slippery slope arguement applies to anything but in my mind nothing can come close to how applicable it is in this type of instance.
Social Security numbers are abused daily and are linked to everything about you, what happens when someone finds a way to do the same with this? Everyone knows this is inevitable as it is almost never a question of if but when someone will figure it out.
Think about it and we'll all be better off.
Just my 2
Not quite correct in many ways, your point about requiring IPv6 missed entirely, I have run entire companies off of a single IP, Nat/Pat to the rescue. Also you do not need a router between each switch, you only need a routed interface per VLan segment if you did indeed want seperate segments. In what you describe this isn't enirely needed nor wanted so long as each had it's own switch/router or the like. No need to even read up on RFC's that are coming down the line if you can't use the space you have already in the correct manner. I say this not to be pompous but more along the lines of that I currently run an ISP responsible for over 130 Companies and over 100 of them have web services and other services in which I use less than a class C internet address space to service. IPv6 is coming, but not because of address space abuse or that we are going to usurp it all. We could implement better networks and make that a non issue for a long time. In fact it will be here because of improvements in services and implementation as well as long term address space concerns that may not even surface.
Just my 2
How is it that almost everyone here feels this is meant for strictly one pc and tends to whine about Hard Drive speeds and bus speeds in a single PC not being able to keep up? Has so few here remembered or just not used Voice over IP? What about video conferencing devices? And the days ahead when you just may get your Television feed through your internet connection? The power of the internet is we are leveraging it to do everything we want it to do and coming up with more it can do daily. That is where both cost savings and innovation are most prominent at, and it's why we should encourage it most. Incidentally, one of the greatest innovations to date, and yet misunderstood is still Voice over IP, as it was the next logical step to fostering and encouraging still developing nations to partake in a global environment. But I digress, lets lose the ideals of Hard drives for a moment and think about the jealousy we should feel here in the states (for those of us living here) and remember, it must be nice to live on a tiny island at times. All joking aside this should allow us to focus on trying to encourage the same elsewhere and to try to think of more useful ways we could indeed use a connection such as that aside from surfing porn and the like. Not that having a passtime is so bad either;-)...
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I would now like to direct you to my large DVD collection.
THe point being that those downloads may not have been illegal, but an easier way to get the content in a different format?
I posted above about this, but maybe I want the dang thing in DivX/Xvid format, for my PS2 that I can stream it to from my file server so I don't have to load the disk when I want to watch it. I just browse to one of the movies I ALREADY own and watch it. No fuss no muss, and, NOT ILLEGAL!!!
Who would have thought that downloading something just might NOT be illegal, I certainly wouldn't have pondered that idea...it's amazing what the law's don't cover and what we can get away with even when we have no right to obtain that search warrant due to "no probable cause". Since when did downloading == probable cause? So I download something, I MUST certainly be stealing it. When did our legal system lose our right to privacy and fair use and go straight for the two dollars that the industry "lost". The money they are losing is their own fault. But I digress, and go back to reading my tech books instead of watching/listening to the mindless drivel pumped out of the "entertainment" industry.
I will freely admit one thing, in general, the best entertainment I have been provided as of late is watching the "entertainment industry" die a slow death of their own greed and causal. (Notice I Said in general? Yes I do enjoy some of it, but very little...)
It goes so much deeper than that, since the assumption is ALWAYS that it is also illegal to download something.
Since when was it illegal to download something?
Just because it is on the net it is automatically ASSUMED that it's illegal to download it. Well news flash, but if I already OWN the film/work, then I have the COPYRIGHT to download it all I like.
This is not nor ever has been a black and white argument nor is the world ever black and white.
Both the greedy B@$T@RD$ that @$$ume that it's illegal to download anything as well as the cheap SOB's that leech everything need to shut up.
But as we should all know right now that if we paint it black and white we all fit into one of the two categories.
So which are you?
an SOB or an @$$?
I on the other hand fit right in the middle. Why do I download the few I have, because I already have them, but I would like to put them onto my server to stream them over my network onto my PS2 when I want instead of having to get up and put in the damn disk.
And why don't I rip them myself?
Because every one I have ripped doesn't work but every one I have D/L'ed has. I am still trying to figure out how to Rip my DVD's to Divx, until then, I'll D/L and be glad to ignore the rest of the ignorant one's that assume everything is illegal along with the greedy one's that want my money 4 times for the same stuff.
But you can both answer me this, why is it if you have your way I have to buy a movie 4 times to get it in all the formats I want it in? Can someone tell me that one?
GET REAL, Copyright is what it is, get off your pocketbooks and get onto a real revenue model, or go broke, I could care less. I'll stick with my books over the crap that the Hollywood/Music industry's are pushing out these days.
Now that takes talent to be the first post and be modded redundant.
But on another note, Oracle (among others) really is accused routinely of being slow on vulnerability fixes. What I would like to know is how many people think this is possibly because of one of three factors.
A) Their code is all undocumented spaghetti code
Or
B) They are taking the time to research and do it right
Or
C) They really are just blowing it off because it's not making them money so why put money into it
What do others think about this? How do the rest of you feel this is either true or untrue?
Your partially right however SIP is making large inroads to "cell" coverage capabilities and secondly WiMax is much like WiFi in that it all depends on how it's put together. It is very possible to go from WiMax area A, to WiMax area B and maintain the same IP, as it is also a SIP Proxy's position to assist in those "move's" of IP's.
Cisco's AVVID "could" do more along those lines and in some ways does with SRST and call preservation features but it's a long ways from the same since it does require some somewhat specific circumstances to work. The main feature with them is in the case of loss of control traffic, which is rarely the root cause of failure in a properly designed VoIP network if it is at all critical.
All that being said VoIP does need more work, but it is out there.
I applaude your comments and agree entirely, but I fear aside from your analogy to the drunk teen's that it's much better summed up in one simple sentence.
Law does not dictate behavior nor impose common sense.
We may be "able" to legislate morality but that doesn't mean it's controllable. Far from it since the majority of the laws themselves don't hold any common sense by the time they are actually passed.
Same as with default admin rights arguments:
It is designed with ease of use in mind."Wireless has always been such a pain, but now even a child can compromise...err connect to your laptop and extort...err ummm allow you to surf the web with little to no patching...errr uh, configuration."
I think you mean normal...as any "reasonable" employer filters on talent and interviews with the degree being a tie breaker at best. A smart employer knows that not everyone that has talent went to college and thus will not filter their selection based solely on such. This statistic is often skewed since many who have no skills (Read: criminals, gangmembers, and others who expect the world to supply them an endless line of handouts or similar) get filtered when the last job they held was at the County Jail making Lic. plates.
And yes I know still some do get passed over, but it's not as common as many would believe.
I for one haven't been to more than about 6 college classes, have been in IT for going on 10 years now and make a rather nice "wage" until I can get the rest of my ventures to maintain my standard of living.
Ironically I could have my degree despite all of this in around a year according to the university I talked to since my past has enough credential in it to qualify for credit. I will likely get it in my own due time, but I for one will never hold it as equal to a person that has motivation and desire and neither will many others in hiring positions.
Degree's != Exceptional employee's
Any employer that can't find that is either too large to care or is more likely to be saddled with mediocrity instead of superiority.
DAMN!!! Any one with mod points had better mod this up...something this funny is a shame to go to waste...
In any case glad to see you have a sense of humor in it all.
As for the filesystem, love the Reiser filesystem, and thinking it should help a bit to reincarnate my now smoked linux box. (Proc blew up I think since it won't even post now.)
Have to say I have had similar thoughts.
Think of it this way, I love linux and it's concepts and principles, but a lot of the "discrediting" it does need lies within the open community is uses.
What needs to happen is the open community needs to have something to kindle the fire still, as well as something to unite them a bit more into generating app's that don't have to be compiled to be run. While I know there are some of those what is still lacking is for common users to be able to do this as well.
I know linux isn't "after" the commoner crowd however in it I see the largest "mind pool" that in my mind should be able to find ways to make things work in such a manner, make it easier and more intuitive to secure, and make it work with minimalistic user requirements.
Bear in mind that those minimalistic requirements may be a small amount more than current windows usage requirements but usage and maintenance have a huge difference in that most users want to just use the computer, therefore maintenance takes a back seat.
In short if it has a way of igniting some innovation into the community, BRING IT ON, otherwise, glad for him that he got a job, and hope him the best.
And yet this is probably the first topic I have seen in a while that nobody will reply with the tired old /. addage of "I embrace our new {insert M$ cliche here} overlords."
Or is there really someone here that still has a sense of humor to poke a little fun at the linux crowd?
mafia poker. what does the house get when there are two houses?
I can see the commentary now:
And program one, dubbed guido, pulls into the lead as program 4, dubbed vinnie, goes all in on a lousy full house.
Madden esque voice: I still say that somehow they have found a way to pull binary cards from their sleeve's.
Gruden esque voice: What they are doing is a standard bit swap in the packet back to the dealer server tricking it into thinking it didn't really know what it dealt to the player client in question. It's a rather common method of attack.
Sounds like a truly aspiring prodigy for a PhD in BS...or was that a BS in PhD?
/sarcasm
I get them so mixed up.
Those who can, Do...Those who can't, get PhD's in BS and Teach...
Anyone notice the corrolation between botox usually being used near the frontal lobe and this article? Coincidence? The evidence points to Not...
or was that head assplode?
*Thinking to self*: That should do for my karma whoring for the day...
Oh shit...how you supposed to karma whore with topics like this?
*Doctor's reply*: Botox helps.
So your saying that electromagnetics is flawless and our current engineering is as well? Well then why would we make things like checksums and the like? why would we put in the ability to verify the file if it was a given that it was known good once it was on the disk? Lastly how often have you seen that particular result? I question this because frankly given what your implying every conceivable possible data return from a failure is known as well and that M$ and or even the vast linux community has already programmed for such. Anything is possible, rule nothing out, especially with broad generalizations. Metal in a hard drive (or any other component for that matter) is no less prone to problems than another and "bit flipping" could as easily be cause by an errant spike in voltage to the read arm as it passes over a sector as it could from a minor corrosion pit forming inside the platter. (Since corrosion itself is an electric like process). I would have to agree with a post above that was put forward that most anything is possible, and someone that is in the field of data recovery would have seen (as I know I have) many more things that defy logic much more than a data fragment injecting a random artifact into an MP3 stream. Just my 2
That was because there wasn't until recently a formal roaming agreement between TMo and AT&T Wireless. However this is now not the case since TMo does have an agreement in place now and roaming onto most all of Cingular (there are still a handfull of towers that aren't working as of about 2 weeks ago) is working very well.
I personally would have to disagree, with a caveat that in actual data I think the article is correct, in capacity, an exabyte is easy to see as realistic.
All that aside though does anyone think that may be a bit excessive? Especially for a company starting to delve into RFID and likely not only tracking what is bought but with that kind of data store I would guess it's tracking your debit/credit card purchases against you and also knows not only that you like those pop tarts but your underwear size as well.
Anyone happen to think like me that this is a bad thing?
It's not that it's a "flash in the pan" as you put it. It's a step in the right direction. Voip providers (or at least the one I engineer for) aren't concerned with PSTN other than for now it's a nessesary evil and temporary source of very modest revenue. No what you say is true but what you miss is that a Voip provider brings a much bigger piece to the puzzle. How many other companies can make this work? VERY FEW, and the reason behind that is that they can't find the right mix of technology, and business. Voip isn't a poor mans game, nor is it the "free ride" everyone paints it to be. When you go VoIP you pay for someone to implement or manage it or both. Your also buying into a theoretical long term investment. The advantage to voip is that it puts you into a framework that can grow to new heights faster and better than the PSTN because of it's nature.
Now on to the one other noteworthy post I wanted to add to.
"What will further delay VoIP from entirely killing the PSTN, smong other things, are (1) The vendors (bad vendors!) are doing a Microsoft-like embrace-and-extend of SIP (the session initiation protocol used to set up a VoIP call) (2) Meeting regulations like CALEA (the law enforcement act that gives the government the power to tap the phones) (3) Truly connecting Voice Over IP "islands"... because how to you share IP addresses of phones and maintain privacy (like suppressing caller ID)... and the best savings come when you can remove the PSTN (public switched telephone network) entirely."
First off how are the vendors bastardizing sip by embracing and extending a standard that encourages and has built into it (at least for the most part) a systematic way to replace the PSTN and keep phones predominately the same? Also I challenge you to tell me of a better standard. What VoIP needs is a standard to indeed rid us of the islands you mention.
Secondly how does CALEA slow down VoIP? A provider of VoIP has a much easier time providing for "tapping" than a traditional LEC does in many ways. Cisco's Span Sessions for instance, need I say more?
Thirdly, you talk about connecting these islands, yet you talk down to adoption of Sip? And how does sharing IP's come into the picture? How do you share and IP unless of course you mean via NAT. And even if that is the case then you haven't looked into how SIP works have you? Sip is in basic terms simply a proxy device and a setup protocol similar to how DNS doesn't carry the data, it's a pointer to it and a middle man to the conversation as a control element. Sip has control of the caller id, you can at that point much more easily "mask" caller id with NAT because at that point the last true remaining indicator of who you really are is your IP address, not your caller ID.
Now do I want everyone to think that i am trying to shoot down or flame someone? not at all. But we can all think this through for ourselves.
Being the Senior Engineer for a Managed VoIP Solution provider offers me a unique glimpse into the future of this and as such I think you shall all be shocked. More so than you might think with the suprise waiting around the bend for the backbone providers to unleash. Beware, they are no where near done with the bumps in the road yet. But those bumps will make for an incredibly good path to the future.
It's not about it being mandatory now...it's that everyone jumps on board thinking its a great medical idea then the government gives it some thought and wow look at this we found a replacement for the Social Security Number and it's wonderful. Now that one identifier just became your life and now your tracked anywhere you go. No detail about your life goes unknown, and not a single item you purchase or use goes unnoticed. The slippery slope arguement applies to anything but in my mind nothing can come close to how applicable it is in this type of instance. Social Security numbers are abused daily and are linked to everything about you, what happens when someone finds a way to do the same with this? Everyone knows this is inevitable as it is almost never a question of if but when someone will figure it out. Think about it and we'll all be better off. Just my 2
Identity theft just got even more personal...
Not quite correct in many ways, your point about requiring IPv6 missed entirely, I have run entire companies off of a single IP, Nat/Pat to the rescue. Also you do not need a router between each switch, you only need a routed interface per VLan segment if you did indeed want seperate segments. In what you describe this isn't enirely needed nor wanted so long as each had it's own switch/router or the like. No need to even read up on RFC's that are coming down the line if you can't use the space you have already in the correct manner. I say this not to be pompous but more along the lines of that I currently run an ISP responsible for over 130 Companies and over 100 of them have web services and other services in which I use less than a class C internet address space to service. IPv6 is coming, but not because of address space abuse or that we are going to usurp it all. We could implement better networks and make that a non issue for a long time. In fact it will be here because of improvements in services and implementation as well as long term address space concerns that may not even surface. Just my 2
How is it that almost everyone here feels this is meant for strictly one pc and tends to whine about Hard Drive speeds and bus speeds in a single PC not being able to keep up? Has so few here remembered or just not used Voice over IP? What about video conferencing devices? And the days ahead when you just may get your Television feed through your internet connection? The power of the internet is we are leveraging it to do everything we want it to do and coming up with more it can do daily. That is where both cost savings and innovation are most prominent at, and it's why we should encourage it most. Incidentally, one of the greatest innovations to date, and yet misunderstood is still Voice over IP, as it was the next logical step to fostering and encouraging still developing nations to partake in a global environment. But I digress, lets lose the ideals of Hard drives for a moment and think about the jealousy we should feel here in the states (for those of us living here) and remember, it must be nice to live on a tiny island at times. All joking aside this should allow us to focus on trying to encourage the same elsewhere and to try to think of more useful ways we could indeed use a connection such as that aside from surfing porn and the like. Not that having a passtime is so bad either ;-) ...