> LTE Direct uses licensed spectrum, allowing mobile operators to employ it as a way to offer a range of differentiated applications > and services to users.
Well said. Perimeter security controls such as firewalls are so 20th century. Defense in depth and individual device risk assessments right up through the OSI stack and beyond are the only modern best practices. Trust is an often misunderstood word and single points of failure (misconfiguration, yet to be publicised vulnerabilities, and just plain wrong assumptions) kill kittens and invalidate the expense of deploying security controls in the first place.
Indeed, in fact IIRC there were IP over SMS experiments done in earlier GSM network days - when SMS was seen as more of a free test function than the profitable social phenomenon it is today. As were IP over SMTP mail headers of store-and-forward networks such as UUCP or FidoNet - sure latency was horrific, but as an obscure side channel it was workable. What irks me is that in modern times byte-for-byte SMS is often quoted as one of the most expensive forms of digital transmission, so to quote it as an appropriate channel for developing nations seems a little weird.
The form of 'metadata' stretched out on top of both these distributions are what make them unique.
portage for Gentoo & bitbake for OpenEmbedded
With each, a (usually) high degree of control is given in how to shape the distribution's function and attributes. And this is repeatable from "first principles" compilation of source code (from tool chain onwards).
What is needed is research and standardisation in the ontology of this metadata and it is for this I believe Gentoo can still play an essential role.
Anyone who has spent a lot of time tweaking parts of their application, OS space, kernel and boot methods would certainly appreciate the ability to reproduce that work from scratch if need be.
To publish and share this metadata distribution 'state' is to fine tune the virulence of GNU/Linux beyond the GPL and into the real (and virtual) system space.
Does corporal punishment apply to corporate entities?
Corporate death penalties can only be carried out in certain analogous ways. This punishment then affects real people from general employees to CEOs - all with varying degrees of responsibilities for the 'crime'.
As is applicable with online games, laws and punishments for transgressions can have tangible impacts on real people. Perhaps not directly and perhaps even not intended, but certainly possible.
I hope any implemented virtual 'legal' system takes such impact into account.
Re: Australia, I'm guessing you're not an indigenous Australian - doubly not a full blood from Tasmania.
I really believe your statements are either deliberately provocative (read troll), or staggeringly ignorant of Australia's current delicate degraded environmental state.
European introduction of rabbits (for sport no less), cane toads (for pest control for introduced sugar cane crops), cattle, sheep, and feral cats have done *vast*, untold damage to the Australian environment.
We have a land mass of continental US but a tenth of the population, and close to our limit due to scarcity of water, yet we still support artificial irrigation of citrus and rice crops, increasing salinity and a whole host of other problems.
With so many lies of European colonisation gently "co-existing" with "the noble [nomadic] savage (believe it or not there was civil war and centuries of cultural exclusion and destruction), plus radical decline of many native flora and fauna, I'm absolutely stunned you can cite Australia again in such a context.
I don't know where you concept of "balance" comes from, except from a revisionist view looking at current numbers and diversities (or lack thereof) and thinking this is a static natural and acceptable present result. This view could only arise from an unresearched (ignorant), "white" (ignorant of indigenous plight), urban (and uneducated) perpective.
Please do your research thoroughly before citing Australia as the "lucky country" in such a context.
And to run a wiki over more manageable species of CMS systems without understanding the risk landscape is at best ignorant, at worst culpable, and they could perhaps be accused of marketeering n terms of just wanting to publicise that they are one of the first major traditional media outlets to run a wiki.
Sounds like short sighted opportunism, not a worthy, well thought out IT project.
I thought netbeui was the name of the native ethernet protocol that netbios rode on top of, until, as you say, some fool decided it would be a good idea to encapsulate it in TCP/IP.
Technology is Political - we've known this since McLuhan & Chomsky. Economic global systems (the military-industrial complex's bastard son) feeds on the human impression of empowerment that technology brings. In a sense, digital convergence is a political statement - it says no matter what the merit of your social viewpoint, you can still be broken down to 1's and 0's. Your view can be seen in the same basis as every other politcal view, no matter how ordsinary, beneficial or vile.
But wait - there's more. Politcal systems of course adapt to their environment. They have adapt ed to converge on a single meta-politcal level, and that is that politcal content & integrity no longer matters, just preservation of a system they get to exploit cyclically with their partners (the parties that lost the last election) in the crime of subverted democrazy.
The real issue that stands before us is changing the politics of technology so that it benefits the politics of the human social and cultural world.
All bits are NOT equal - some mean more than others.
I think that on the whole both sides would agree that the interplay between NGO-style activity and business development is a critical one.
When affected people can directly see the benefit to their quality of life (nourishment, political situation, etc) through activist networked communication, it doesn't take much to gain an enthusiasm to apply it further for sustainable business uses.
Conversely, having a profitable networked business and the skills to use and build it allows a quality of life that can afford to use those skills in other socially constructive ways.
It could be mutually benefical for geekcorps to work more closely with such groups than linking to web pages.
Geekcorps seems like an interesting project, concentrating on assisting "small to medium sized businesses" bridge the tech divide.
Without criticizing Geekcorp's intent or integrity, I want to point out organisations who have been doing this and more to assist not-for-profit NGOs and humanitarian groups for years. Most people know the story - this technology represents to many groups in developing or strife-torn countries the cheapest (and sometimes the safest) way of communicating to the outside world.
The APC has been assisting communication, networking and training in developing countries for well over 10 years.
Especially in Africa, people such as Karen Banks (amongst many others) from GreenNet have been working with African groups with internetworking (or UUCP/Fidonet when the comms infra has not been available or appropriate) for many years.
There is little sign on the Geekcorps' site that they are aware of these and many other efforts (except for AOL), but I would hope that communication with these groups would further their goals through coordination of efforts (or at least of being aware of what others have been doing for many years before them).
Efforts to stop denial of services attacks remind me of efforts to stop software piracy, spam mail, and even to stop hackers (sic) breaking in to networked systems. Dynamic IDS-style DOS detection that changes routing will probably only up the ante in DOS attacks in terms of granularity of the sources and the timing and nature of such attacks.
You either offer a service professionally or you don't.
If a service provider has a well organised incident response team, then this is likely the best way to deal with (usually short term DOS incidents.
Consume is still a myth. No interoperating infrastructure exists. Just a couple of geeks who have worked out how to boot the wlan drivers under u*nix and to boot ISC's dhcpd.
The hard problems still to settle are
how to negotiate access point intercommunication - will it be IPIP, IPSEC, PPTP, mobileIP?
How to perform routing? OSPF over VPN's? Mobile IP tangles?
When cooperation gets beyond tech egos, and decisions made mean ubiquity of connection, it might just have a chance.
"Mainstream" media has a long history of appropriation and exploitation by reselling alternative information sources. It adapts this way to survive. Rightly or not, this is also part of/.'s MO.
But think of it this way too... Andover is profiting by valuing its IPO at least in part through the (perceived) quality of being a VAR of net trawled information together with its moderation of a community who adds to this concentrated source with its own valuable comments.
By doing this, Andover is profiting (deservedly most would argue - IMO more power to them...) by promting the entry of/. into mainstream media itself (albeit a special interest segment). However/. has to do this in a way that won't alienate the community that adds to its value. Romantic us (/.) vs. them (everyone else - especially mainstream media) feelings seem terribly antiquated to me, given the environment.
/.'ers, like open source contributers, should realise (and be happy with the fact) that any information that they concentrate or contribute is open to further use for profit in one form or another.
I fervently hope this will not dissuade them or others to contribute further in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Peers with spectrum licences only. Move along ...
From TFA:
> LTE Direct uses licensed spectrum, allowing mobile operators to employ it as a way to offer a range of differentiated applications
> and services to users.
Well said. Perimeter security controls such as firewalls are so 20th century. Defense in depth and individual device risk assessments right up through the OSI stack and beyond are the only modern best practices. Trust is an often misunderstood word and single points of failure (misconfiguration, yet to be publicised vulnerabilities, and just plain wrong assumptions) kill kittens and invalidate the expense of deploying security controls in the first place.
shine brightly, .vortex
Indeed, in fact IIRC there were IP over SMS experiments done in earlier GSM network days - when SMS was seen as more of a free test function than the profitable social phenomenon it is today. As were IP over SMTP mail headers of store-and-forward networks such as UUCP or FidoNet - sure latency was horrific, but as an obscure side channel it was workable. What irks me is that in modern times byte-for-byte SMS is often quoted as one of the most expensive forms of digital transmission, so to quote it as an appropriate channel for developing nations seems a little weird.
shine, .vortex
The form of 'metadata' stretched out on top of both these distributions are what make them unique.
.vortex
portage for Gentoo & bitbake for OpenEmbedded
With each, a (usually) high degree of control is given in how to shape the distribution's function and attributes. And this is repeatable from "first principles" compilation of source code (from tool chain onwards).
What is needed is research and standardisation in the ontology of this metadata and it is for this I believe Gentoo can still play an essential role.
Anyone who has spent a lot of time tweaking parts of their application, OS space, kernel and boot methods would certainly appreciate the ability to reproduce that work from scratch if need be.
To publish and share this metadata distribution 'state' is to fine tune the virulence of GNU/Linux beyond the GPL and into the real (and virtual) system space.
shine,
Does corporal punishment apply to corporate entities?
Corporate death penalties can only be carried out in certain analogous ways. This punishment then affects real people from general employees to CEOs - all with varying degrees of responsibilities for the 'crime'.
As is applicable with online games, laws and punishments for transgressions can have tangible impacts on real people. Perhaps not directly and perhaps even not intended, but certainly possible.
I hope any implemented virtual 'legal' system takes such impact into account.
> any random fool with a PhD
.vortex
Not so sure about "random fool", perhaps read "qualified fool".
shine,
Re: Australia, I'm guessing you're not an indigenous Australian - doubly not a full blood from Tasmania.
.vortex
I really believe your statements are either deliberately provocative (read troll), or staggeringly ignorant of Australia's current delicate degraded environmental state.
European introduction of rabbits (for sport no less), cane toads (for pest control for introduced sugar cane crops), cattle, sheep, and feral cats have done *vast*, untold damage to the Australian environment.
We have a land mass of continental US but a tenth of the population, and close to our limit due to scarcity of water, yet we still support artificial irrigation of citrus and rice crops, increasing salinity and a whole host of other problems.
With so many lies of European colonisation gently "co-existing" with "the noble [nomadic] savage (believe it or not there was civil war and centuries of cultural exclusion and destruction), plus radical decline of many native flora and fauna, I'm absolutely stunned you can cite Australia again in such a context.
I don't know where you concept of "balance" comes from, except from a revisionist view looking at current numbers and diversities (or lack thereof) and thinking this is a static natural and acceptable present result. This view could only arise from an unresearched (ignorant), "white" (ignorant of indigenous plight), urban (and uneducated) perpective.
Please do your research thoroughly before citing Australia as the "lucky country" in such a context.
shine brightly,
Absolutely!
.vortex
And to run a wiki over more manageable species of CMS systems without understanding the risk landscape is at best ignorant, at worst culpable, and they could perhaps be accused of marketeering n terms of just wanting to publicise that they are one of the first major traditional media outlets to run a wiki.
Sounds like short sighted opportunism, not a worthy, well thought out IT project.
shine.
3328 rot-13's work for me...
plus as an added bonus, you can preview the encrypted message for spelling errors before you post it!
shine,
Please at least get it right.
It was a radio series, then a book, then a TV mini series.
We caught the deluge pretty quickly & we're tuning the host as best we can. Please bear with us.
free2air.org
I thought netbeui was the name of the native ethernet protocol that netbios rode on top of, until, as you say, some fool decided it would be a good idea to encapsulate it in TCP/IP.
.vortex
--
> This is all using TCP/IP and SMB. No NetBIOS that I'm aware of.
/. 'ers posting funny comments? %^}
.vortex
I was under the impression SMB was just a subset of the ever evolving nasty 3-port 'netbios' application protocol suite.
Even if I slipped up, since when did facts stop
--
Dear Microsoft,
... ;-)
.vortex
Please cease and desist the use of netbios immediately, because it is used to transfer copyrighted material some of which are owned by our members.
Yours mercilessly,
RIAA
Could this spell the end of one of the most ugly MS TCP/IP protocol hacks?
I guess not. But the thought made me smile
--
It seems it could involve io busses, not necessarily BIOS code.
see posting AVIP - Phoenix's CPRM in IO busses??
.vortex
An 18 month old Phoenix press release
talks about 'Audio Visual Intellectual Property technology'
AVIP looks dusty and looks as though would require wide industry support from hardware manufacturers and it doesn't yet have that...
While trawling through Phoenix's site, do be sure to check out the link to inSilicon %^/
.vortex
Beyond Katz's enjoyable article is:
Technology is Political - we've known this since McLuhan & Chomsky. Economic global systems (the military-industrial complex's bastard son) feeds on the human impression of empowerment that technology brings. In a sense, digital convergence is a political statement - it says no matter what the merit of your social viewpoint, you can still be broken down to 1's and 0's. Your view can be seen in the same basis as every other politcal view, no matter how ordsinary, beneficial or vile.
But wait - there's more. Politcal systems of course adapt to their environment. They have adapt ed to converge on a single meta-politcal level, and that is that politcal content & integrity no longer matters, just preservation of a system they get to exploit cyclically with their partners (the parties that lost the last election) in the crime of subverted democrazy.
The real issue that stands before us is changing the politics of technology so that it benefits the politics of the human social and cultural world.
All bits are NOT equal - some mean more than others.
.vortex
Thanks for the response.
I think that on the whole both sides would agree that the interplay between NGO-style activity and business development is a critical one.
When affected people can directly see the benefit to their quality of life (nourishment, political situation, etc) through activist networked communication, it doesn't take much to gain an enthusiasm to apply it further for sustainable business uses.
Conversely, having a profitable networked business and the skills to use and build it allows a quality of life that can afford to use those skills in other socially constructive ways.
It could be mutually benefical for geekcorps to work more closely with such groups than linking to web pages.
.anom
Without criticizing Geekcorp's intent or integrity, I want to point out organisations who have been doing this and more to assist not-for-profit NGOs and humanitarian groups for years. Most people know the story - this technology represents to many groups in developing or strife-torn countries the cheapest (and sometimes the safest) way of communicating to the outside world.
The APC has been assisting communication, networking and training in developing countries for well over 10 years.
Especially in Africa, people such as Karen Banks (amongst many others) from GreenNet have been working with African groups with internetworking (or UUCP/Fidonet when the comms infra has not been available or appropriate) for many years.
Also, ISOC (Internet Society) have a sustainable education/training project open to all in developing countries.
There is little sign on the Geekcorps' site that they are aware of these and many other efforts (except for AOL), but I would hope that communication with these groups would further their goals through coordination of efforts (or at least of being aware of what others have been doing for many years before them).
shine brightly
Efforts to stop denial of services attacks remind me of efforts to stop software piracy, spam mail, and even to stop hackers (sic) breaking in to networked systems. Dynamic IDS-style DOS detection that changes routing will probably only up the ante in DOS attacks in terms of granularity of the sources and the timing and nature of such attacks.
... %^)
You either offer a service professionally or you don't.
If a service provider has a well organised incident response team, then this is likely the best way to deal with (usually short term DOS incidents.
e-commerce is a four letter word
anomynous coward
Consume is still a myth. No interoperating infrastructure exists. Just a couple of geeks who have worked out how to boot the wlan drivers under u*nix and to boot ISC's dhcpd.
The hard problems still to settle are
how to negotiate access point intercommunication - will it be IPIP, IPSEC, PPTP, mobileIP?
How to perform routing? OSPF over VPN's? Mobile IP tangles?
When cooperation gets beyond tech egos, and decisions made mean ubiquity of connection, it might just have a chance.
coward@free2air.net
But think of it this way too
By doing this, Andover is profiting (deservedly most would argue - IMO more power to them
Romantic us (/.) vs. them (everyone else - especially mainstream media) feelings seem terribly antiquated to me, given the environment.
/.'ers, like open source contributers, should realise (and be happy with the fact) that any information that they concentrate or contribute is open to further use for profit in one form or another.
I fervently hope this will not dissuade them or others to contribute further in the future.
Just Be aware. We need more warez.
.abulafia
They already have ported it to a flavour of BSD, the Nokia 'appliance' box runs CP FW-1 under IPSO, a variant of BSD.