welp, looks like people will be pushing to take control away from ICANN even further. I knew people were working on a replacement DNS system but way to push that along even faster.
Aaaand this is why you never go proprietary. They can stop an application in it's entirety without anyone being able to pick it up and continue the work.
The person you replied to didn't really say they should be able to take away the computer, he was providing the arguments both for and against the issue to point out the issue at hand:
Should the judge enforce more investigation, or should he rubber stamp the subpoenas for name and address, knowing that it's not leading to greater investigation?
Having an IP address is not probable cause for a subpoena. Where do you make that up? this isn't about emotions, like you think, this is about fact. an IP address will not ever identify a specific person (frequently you are full of shit). An IP address could, possibly, depending on the scenario, identify a single MODEM. It will never identify a person, dumbass. It doesn't even identify a computer since with IPv4 the IP address is not a mac address.
This is 100% about facts, and the fact is, suing to obtain an IP address without actual proof of infringement (aka: having downloaded enough data to prove infringement from that IP, validating that it's a legitimate IP) is a fishing expedition and has nothing to do with a courtroom and isn't fact. Here's the issue: how can you prove you obtained a full copy of a document from a single IP address via a bittorrent? There is no "partial infringement" if you downloaded 500k of a 50MB file.
none of it is valid. It is an extrapolation on misleading done by a fucking math major making legal analysis with generally no idea what he's even talking about. It doesn't even have the "I AM NOT A LAWYER" disclaimer, or explaining who the hell this guy is. There are big issues there.
There is actual established caselaw and plenty of actual things that don't even remotely support his position. The disclaimer should be on the first line saying : "THIS IS AN EDITORIAL AND HAS NO FACTUAL BASIS" because that would be far more honest and accurate.
He's also full of shit, not a lawyer, and attempting to imply legal analysis.
This is just as bad as listening to legal analysis from Florian Mueller.
This is a giant step in shooting down subpoena lottery, and they want it to be labeled as an error, a once in a lifetime thing, surely it won't happen again. Sounds nice, but reality is, that subpoenas are fairly regularly shot down, and this is hard evidence on the why part. That is a very strong argument.
yeah, I thought it was a bad idea, but I wanted to confirm. I remember there was something that *was* okay to daisy chain onto a UPS then, maybe it was that you can connect a power strip to a UPS.
Underpaid, underappreciated and overworked? Get back to work!
Network admins, unless they are basically amazing, are in for a typically rough ride through trying to get things to work, as things perceived as small changes can have enormous impact on network stability. Then you get to things like bad password policies, bad hardware policies, bad security policies, bad corporate policy and a good portion of the time network administration is just not worth the time.
If it were $75-90k a year maybe, but otherwise definitely not worth more stress than pretty much any job that exists today including hard sales.
Things to do: buy enterprise grade hardware, do not ever compromise on best buy/off the shelf hardware, restrict access as much as possible (and lock down ports as much as possible), make sure all devices go through a firewall (outbound) and all inbound connections go through their own separate firewall (inbound). Make sure that all requests inbound have to be requested from internal. Make sure that as much of inbound connections as possible are over a vpn if external.
Basics: make use of forwarding, proxies, reverse forwarding, nat. Make sure that all of your DNS addresses which are assigned to computers point to internal DNS only, and that the same applies to the servers. No server should have any DHCP or DNS assignments from the local ISP.
Redundancy: You must have it. At all levels. Check for cable backups, keep spare parts for everything - power supplies, cables, extra routers, extra server ISO's and images, extra copies of VM's, etc. Make sure you have redundant UPS's. Do not daisy chain UPS's (or maybe you can, someone else will comment- I'm no UPS genius).. Make sure things are not physically linked in a way that when one thing fails, so cascades the rest. This means UPS's with hot swappable batteries. Make sure you have multiple switches and all servers have at least 2 NICs for both load balancing and additional fallover.
Check for shit people don't think of - check where the servers are located, what cables are running overhead, dust situation, etc. Make sure that the cooling for the server rooms is appropriate and is set up such that if the leak plate (forgot the proper term) floods it won't drip directly on the servers. Check for maintenance schedules, physical and software, check for licensing being followed, check for PCI compliance. Check security requirements for the server room, for the pcs.
Additional: prepare for hilariously large amounts of fucker trying to deal with authentication between linux and windows. Linux is well documented and complicated. Windows is well documented and complicated.
Lastly: Keep at least 3-6 full bottles of hard alcohol on hand, a 2 week resignation notice, and a mini-fridge full of beer in addition, and depending on the state you're working in, maybe keep a gun on hand if you're licensed and it's legal.
Oh and don't forget, being a network administrator has basically NOTHING to do with being a network administrator. It's more like managing a circus of crying babies who have no idea what the fuck they're doing.
oh no, this gets better. Not only will we have a gas tax, this will be in addition to it probably!
Mass tax would kill business vehicles (trucks, which already pay a toll by weight by state), mileage tax would disincentive fuel efficient vehicles, gas tax disincentives using fuel in the first place.
I say stick with the gas tax so that people realize we need to stop using gasoline, and start cracking down on companies that manufacture assloads of plastic products and use drastically more oil than cars (read: probably 3/4 of the world's manufacturing companies).
considering that apache is pretty openly documented, subpoena'ing them is probably mostly useless. I mean they could probably point Oracle to their own wiki.
You can buy a dual core graphics card which has around 5 Tflops but the PS3 does not come near that. PS3 is also 8 specialized cores in a more efficient package though. If AMD or Nvidia decided to make card purely for FLOPS it'd beat any other technology designed for computational power by a large margin.
Why am I an internet tough guy? That is quite a non sequitur. They have had abhorrent policies and generally treat the public like shit for years. I don't do business with sony in any way. I do not buy sony products.
In reality, companies who have total access cut off for more than 3 days are extremely likely to go out of business (>90%). This is a well studied economic issue, and in this case while it is not all business with the company, it is substantial. A week's worth of PSN revenue is not small by any stretch of imagination for a company that relies on it, and neither will the penalties from lawsuits and regulations that come out of this.
astaro's firewall is about as secure as having a checkbox for DMZ on your router. A Router with a firewall on it is a product with the real purpose of the firewall (access control/security) gone immediately by having both on the same device.
No, the range is more like the way they set up mimo properly. The devices of which I have seen drastic range improvements have been on wireless G. I actually had a buffalo WHP-HR-GN (the non chinese version) I believe, and the thing had absolute shit reception.
This is a single file that sony "magically" came up with after the fact. This is more than a week later, and there's nothing they're showing to substantiate their claim. If there was an actual anonymous attack plan stating "let's steal sony's credit card info" prior to this event, then we might have a finger to point at anonymous.
Instead, I'd bet my life savings that Sony planed this "anonymous framing document" themselves.
There are plenty of reasons to get the enterprise product, and better quality + better warranty being just the beginning of those obvious things.
An E2000 is only $70 less than a WRVS4400N, and also has fairly shit range in comparison. I can go through 4 brick walls and about 500 feet between them all and still get decent signal on the WRVS4400N. Don't think the E2000 even comes close like that.
Separate VLANs and don't buy a shitty "home router" that has no options which enable you to keep your connection running smooth while giving people the option of wifi. 99% of the problem is buying a $20-40 router which you end up replacing after 5 years when it falls apart.
I would strongly suggest a Cisco WRVS4400N - you can have up to 5 SSID's, separate VLAN's, encrypt your own with a public one unencrypted, and bandwidth controls so that WIFI can't eat all your bandwidth. It's also pretty much set up out the box with good options. Sure, it's more than the $50 router, but it also has a warranty and works well, and allows complete (and secure) remote management, not the "hey anyone can guess my password and log into my router" garden variety shit.
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LOL! you think they're going to leave Mac support?
you do realize it's entirely possible that they could close shop on skype entirely, right? Skype is far from profitable.
welp, looks like people will be pushing to take control away from ICANN even further. I knew people were working on a replacement DNS system but way to push that along even faster.
goddamn.
This is hilarious.
I'd give it about 3 days to 3 weeks if skype is acquired by microsoft before they withdraw the linux support.
Aaaand this is why you never go proprietary. They can stop an application in it's entirety without anyone being able to pick it up and continue the work.
The person you replied to didn't really say they should be able to take away the computer, he was providing the arguments both for and against the issue to point out the issue at hand:
Nice, you failed in every sentence.
Having an IP address is not probable cause for a subpoena. Where do you make that up? this isn't about emotions, like you think, this is about fact. an IP address will not ever identify a specific person (frequently you are full of shit). An IP address could, possibly, depending on the scenario, identify a single MODEM. It will never identify a person, dumbass. It doesn't even identify a computer since with IPv4 the IP address is not a mac address.
This is 100% about facts, and the fact is, suing to obtain an IP address without actual proof of infringement (aka: having downloaded enough data to prove infringement from that IP, validating that it's a legitimate IP) is a fishing expedition and has nothing to do with a courtroom and isn't fact. Here's the issue: how can you prove you obtained a full copy of a document from a single IP address via a bittorrent? There is no "partial infringement" if you downloaded 500k of a 50MB file.
The only one who is wrong here, is you.
none of it is valid. It is an extrapolation on misleading done by a fucking math major making legal analysis with generally no idea what he's even talking about. It doesn't even have the "I AM NOT A LAWYER" disclaimer, or explaining who the hell this guy is. There are big issues there.
There is actual established caselaw and plenty of actual things that don't even remotely support his position. The disclaimer should be on the first line saying : "THIS IS AN EDITORIAL AND HAS NO FACTUAL BASIS" because that would be far more honest and accurate.
He's also full of shit, not a lawyer, and attempting to imply legal analysis.
This is just as bad as listening to legal analysis from Florian Mueller.
This is a giant step in shooting down subpoena lottery, and they want it to be labeled as an error, a once in a lifetime thing, surely it won't happen again. Sounds nice, but reality is, that subpoenas are fairly regularly shot down, and this is hard evidence on the why part. That is a very strong argument.
yeah, I thought it was a bad idea, but I wanted to confirm. I remember there was something that *was* okay to daisy chain onto a UPS then, maybe it was that you can connect a power strip to a UPS.
Underpaid, underappreciated and overworked? Get back to work!
Network admins, unless they are basically amazing, are in for a typically rough ride through trying to get things to work, as things perceived as small changes can have enormous impact on network stability. Then you get to things like bad password policies, bad hardware policies, bad security policies, bad corporate policy and a good portion of the time network administration is just not worth the time.
If it were $75-90k a year maybe, but otherwise definitely not worth more stress than pretty much any job that exists today including hard sales.
Things to do: buy enterprise grade hardware, do not ever compromise on best buy/off the shelf hardware, restrict access as much as possible (and lock down ports as much as possible), make sure all devices go through a firewall (outbound) and all inbound connections go through their own separate firewall (inbound). Make sure that all requests inbound have to be requested from internal. Make sure that as much of inbound connections as possible are over a vpn if external.
Basics: make use of forwarding, proxies, reverse forwarding, nat. Make sure that all of your DNS addresses which are assigned to computers point to internal DNS only, and that the same applies to the servers. No server should have any DHCP or DNS assignments from the local ISP.
Redundancy: You must have it. At all levels. Check for cable backups, keep spare parts for everything - power supplies, cables, extra routers, extra server ISO's and images, extra copies of VM's, etc. Make sure you have redundant UPS's. Do not daisy chain UPS's (or maybe you can, someone else will comment- I'm no UPS genius).. Make sure things are not physically linked in a way that when one thing fails, so cascades the rest. This means UPS's with hot swappable batteries. Make sure you have multiple switches and all servers have at least 2 NICs for both load balancing and additional fallover.
Check for shit people don't think of - check where the servers are located, what cables are running overhead, dust situation, etc. Make sure that the cooling for the server rooms is appropriate and is set up such that if the leak plate (forgot the proper term) floods it won't drip directly on the servers. Check for maintenance schedules, physical and software, check for licensing being followed, check for PCI compliance. Check security requirements for the server room, for the pcs.
Additional redundancy: virtualize wherever possible, hardware permitting. Offsite backups, offsite hardware backups.
Additional: prepare for hilariously large amounts of fucker trying to deal with authentication between linux and windows. Linux is well documented and complicated. Windows is well documented and complicated.
Lastly:
Keep at least 3-6 full bottles of hard alcohol on hand, a 2 week resignation notice, and a mini-fridge full of beer in addition, and depending on the state you're working in, maybe keep a gun on hand if you're licensed and it's legal.
Oh and don't forget, being a network administrator has basically NOTHING to do with being a network administrator. It's more like managing a circus of crying babies who have no idea what the fuck they're doing.
oh no, this gets better. Not only will we have a gas tax, this will be in addition to it probably!
Mass tax would kill business vehicles (trucks, which already pay a toll by weight by state), mileage tax would disincentive fuel efficient vehicles, gas tax disincentives using fuel in the first place.
I say stick with the gas tax so that people realize we need to stop using gasoline, and start cracking down on companies that manufacture assloads of plastic products and use drastically more oil than cars (read: probably 3/4 of the world's manufacturing companies).
I see nothing about communications between apache and IBM, in fact IBM isn't even referenced in the subpoena. Where do you come up with that?
They want to see communications between apache and the OHA.
considering that apache is pretty openly documented, subpoena'ing them is probably mostly useless. I mean they could probably point Oracle to their own wiki.
You can buy a dual core graphics card which has around 5 Tflops but the PS3 does not come near that. PS3 is also 8 specialized cores in a more efficient package though. If AMD or Nvidia decided to make card purely for FLOPS it'd beat any other technology designed for computational power by a large margin.
yes, and/or equally like "we don't want to do what would be a best practice, we'd rather make good short term decisions than long term ones".
Why am I an internet tough guy? That is quite a non sequitur. They have had abhorrent policies and generally treat the public like shit for years. I don't do business with sony in any way. I do not buy sony products.
In reality, companies who have total access cut off for more than 3 days are extremely likely to go out of business (>90%). This is a well studied economic issue, and in this case while it is not all business with the company, it is substantial. A week's worth of PSN revenue is not small by any stretch of imagination for a company that relies on it, and neither will the penalties from lawsuits and regulations that come out of this.
astaro's firewall is about as secure as having a checkbox for DMZ on your router. A Router with a firewall on it is a product with the real purpose of the firewall (access control/security) gone immediately by having both on the same device.
No, the range is more like the way they set up mimo properly. The devices of which I have seen drastic range improvements have been on wireless G. I actually had a buffalo WHP-HR-GN (the non chinese version) I believe, and the thing had absolute shit reception.
Wha? Why would it have to go that far?
This is a single file that sony "magically" came up with after the fact. This is more than a week later, and there's nothing they're showing to substantiate their claim. If there was an actual anonymous attack plan stating "let's steal sony's credit card info" prior to this event, then we might have a finger to point at anonymous.
Instead, I'd bet my life savings that Sony planed this "anonymous framing document" themselves.
I really hope this puts sony out of business.
wha? he was exactly right. NTFS isn't innovative, it's deliberately not cross-compatible.
the sad thing is you have a more accurate reply than the article. what a joke.
Hey, can we get that sentence in english?
Meanwhile, this fits every smartphone carried by verizon, from android to microsoft to apple. surprise?
That's because people are retarded and somehow don't know how to, oh, configure something that self configures itself out of the box.
Yes, it is a mystery, but that's newegg for ya.
There are plenty of reasons to get the enterprise product, and better quality + better warranty being just the beginning of those obvious things.
An E2000 is only $70 less than a WRVS4400N, and also has fairly shit range in comparison. I can go through 4 brick walls and about 500 feet between them all and still get decent signal on the WRVS4400N. Don't think the E2000 even comes close like that.
The answer is seriously very very simple.
Separate VLANs and don't buy a shitty "home router" that has no options which enable you to keep your connection running smooth while giving people the option of wifi. 99% of the problem is buying a $20-40 router which you end up replacing after 5 years when it falls apart.
I would strongly suggest a Cisco WRVS4400N - you can have up to 5 SSID's, separate VLAN's, encrypt your own with a public one unencrypted, and bandwidth controls so that WIFI can't eat all your bandwidth. It's also pretty much set up out the box with good options. Sure, it's more than the $50 router, but it also has a warranty and works well, and allows complete (and secure) remote management, not the "hey anyone can guess my password and log into my router" garden variety shit.