But those are hacks, not virusses and usually require quite a bit of intervention and targetting by the perpetrator. If you open a service and don't update your system, you can expect to be hacked by a script kiddie but that's still not a virus. LTS'es are (or should be - I'm looking at you Ubuntu) hardened for server usage and sometimes even run old versions of kernels that have been proven and certain patches are backported and don't even require restarts. Red Hat has by default in their server systems SELinux and other defense mechanisms so that even if your system is exploited the damage remains limited.
Virusses are self-replicating pieces of software and usually target the core of Operating Systems or other monocultures.
Mac OS X has a built-in antivirus for the few Mac OS X virusses that actually exist and work, proof is in a patch a little while ago where the signatures got updated. This keeps the overhead to a minimum. Linux has the same thing going on - if a virus exploits the kernel, the kernel gets patched quickly and the virus is no longer a threat.
In Sweden a beer is easily $10. It's not because the cost of living is lower that the cost of developing technology gets lower, in the Baltic states the companies still need to put in fiber to several areas and copper cables to the home and are working hard to get their customers business, the US is already fully wired and continues to be funded by your taxes and your phone bills.
Comparatively Sweden and Norway pays a LOT less than we do, adjusted for the cost of living I would say with the current economy that would mean we can get the same Internet for $20 or $30 in the boonies.
And those economies are capitalizing on the Internet. Ever heard of AstraZeneca, Electrolux, Ericsson, Nokia, Securitas, Volvo, Trolltech (QT, KDE), Frictional Games (Amnesia), Mojang AB (Minecraft)? Volvo has their facilities from Sweden throughout Europe and Asia wired over the Internet - their products are made to order and all parts arrive in order of assembly to the second without downtime - really magnificent if you ever get to visit one of their factories.
He said there was a 100/10Mbps limit with a guaranteed 60Mbps. There are NO limits in data transfer ANYWHERE, they're artificial constructs made to extract more money for less service. The only physical limit there is is bandwidth, the amount of signals you can push through a cable before it starts distorting, with fiber there are a nearly infinite number of signals you can push through theoretically (the whole light spectrum), the limit is currently only in the transceivers. If a provider buys a certain amount of bandwidth at certain locations (the really big peering centers charge something like $20,000/year per Gbit) they can then oversell that to their customers - all they have to do is maintain the connection to their customer which is very inexpensive (when was the last time you've seen a switch die?) and those are likewise relatively cheap ($1M will buy you a really nice core switch, the endpoint switches for a neighborhood can be done as cheap as $10k).
They already do, don't worry. The main problem is partly in the article - no code reviews only recently have some of them started using version control systems. The other problem is that you have PhD's in whatever scientific field writing software with minimal knowledge of Computer Science. I work in the field with grants from NIH but the software quality is simply awful because no-one has the slightest clue about good coding practices.
Why don't you get a pro video card if you need that? For games you don't need much more than 1GB these days (data for a couple of frames of 1080p just aren't that big). If you need to visualize anything better, you usually go with a Quadro or a Tesla (up to 6GB per card, up to 4 per computer), a Quadro Plex (12GB in an external device) or a rack-based GPU solution (however much you can put in your rack).
Sybase lost a lot of business when they were duped by Microsoft to sharing the code after they didn't get any revenue sharing from Microsoft and Microsoft later undercut them for the EXACT SAME PRODUCT. They were actually going down the crapper until recently when they expanded their business into the mobile space.
Citrix is one of the few that survived because they held their ground and held true to their products and customers. Microsoft was never able to make inroads into Citrix's business because they built their own Terminal Services instead of buying/licensing it from Citrix and it was (and still is) way inferior to Citrix's solution.
What's the difference with the US? Except that the US Government owes China and the US values it's currency based on oil and by forcing other economies to use it.
The US-ians are also viciously capitalistic, they'll even forgo Universal Health Care as long as it doesn't impact them. They live under an oppressive government that claims to be democratic but are actually just an abusive bunch of politically incestuous control freaks.
So some clever US people realized that they are pretty much "untouchable" and have decided to perform criminal acts across it's own and other economies. They also know they are likely not to get punished as long as they pay off the right officials in the process. It's how their game is played.
But China is not held back by politicians that only want to do good for THEIR voters or the people that they get bribed from. They have less red tape to go through when doing stuff - they just use the debt we own to improve their country and they do it well. They're basically the US right after the Depression, they get access to unlimited funds to build stuff which in turn generates jobs and a flourishing economy because the value of their country goes up.
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That's indeed part of the problem. MS used secret API's in Word that made it work much faster (you know, back in the day when everything was optimized in order to be able to run acceptably) than WordPerfect. It also happened that if you installed a version of Word, WordPerfect would start crashing because of a missing or replaced DLL.
But WordPerfect was not without fault either, they made mistakes marketing, they made mistakes programming, they basically pulled a Vista. They had (and still have) a much better word processor than Word and it's continuing to be used although they're not the cash cow they once were.
There are other ways, most of them are common knowledge to your average hacker that read Phrack back in the day. Since most cell phone systems rely on very old, insecure, fixed key cryptography it is fairly trivial to hack a cell phone transmission, impersonate a cell tower or do any number of things with a cell phone system without requiring the cell phone company.
What is required of the phone company is widespread, warrantless wiretapping the central hubs where all communications flow. This is likewise a trivial task but requires some minimal cooperation (even though it may not be acknowledged or detectable by everyone involved on either side).
It's just easier and more convenient to wiretap however you're communicating that way. It's not impossible to do it the "Hollywood Style" (get close to the subject and put a probe in or around the cable) or "The Old School Way" (which involves those pesky judges).
Knee-jerk reaction of the Tea Party Troll. The Fed Gov'ment should PROTECT us, not make people ATTACK us because we wronged them. Keeping our guys safe would be easier if you kept them at home, not killing and raping civilians. It's war, people die on both sides, otherwise it would be genocide so protecting them is not really of importance, they're just cannon-fodder for the most part.
Maybe studying cow-farts will allow us to survive a few years longer on this planet instead of blowing us all to a nuclear contaminated stone age.
Yes, the deficit is not caused however by funding scientific research. You can easily double that budget and not even make a blimp on the current budget. We're currently directly the cause of 4 unnecessary wars: The South-American drug war (they're winning), Iraq (the terrorists won), Afghanistan (they're winning a war of attrition) and Libya (we're showing muscle by flying $100,000/hour planes and $10M/day ships but are not actually DOING anything like liberating or oppressing anybody). Cut 2 of those wars (you can say the drug war and Libya have some merit) and fund some scientific research instead of funding Halliburton and Shell.
If you read the fine article, it seems that this price is based on an automatic price-fixing scheme. If they raise their prices, I can raise mine too etc. etc. until their books are astronomical in cost. In a good market, this would be the other way around where prices automatically go down until it gets to break-even prices as competitors race to get customers. But in a monopoly or duopoly market (as books, music, movies, cable, internet and other media often is) the prices go higher and higher in order to maximize profit for both competitors since neither is working to get a share in the market as they already have a share of the market that keeps them in business.
There are not too many PhD's, there are too few grants (money) that are provided by our tax moneys. There's more job openings and research funded in the industrial military complex than in all the scientific research areas combined.
Really? The cops are getting more deadlier with time and getting away with it more and more because they call the weapons 'less than lethal' and come away scott-free.
The best criminals (Mexican drug gangs) are usually equipped with an automatic handgun or 2 and at best have an AK-47 or a shotgun and 2 clips of ammo. They can just sit outside the house shooting in canisters of gas until he starves to death or gives up. If it really gets bad and they actually encounter an armed militia in a large compound once in a decade, they just use military force (Waco, TX).
You also have to think about the deployment features of an iOS device. They are very easily and very efficiently managed and can be imaged and deployed with all necessary content and apps in a matter of minutes. Apple even has free courses and seminars on this specifically for the educational field. I can't get an Android to even properly encrypt and remote wipe uniformly across different devices with the same OS version (some devices don't even support encryption!).
They made $3.5B last quarter (net profit). If they only invested half of that, maybe their network wouldn't be under so much strain and the economy would prosper. How much people can YOU employ for $2B? I would say at least 40,000 people that would then be able to reinvest their money in you know, $500 cell phones and $120/mo data services.
I would LIKE a streaming/downloading service for $10/month or even $20/month but so far, no legal alternatives have been offered in my region. Rhapsody (REAL *shudder*) and some other minor players have SOME streaming music but it's tightly locked down so I can't play the stream without either Flash or THEIR software. I rather have an OGG/MP3/AAC stream which I can freely download to my system on my terms. Don't treat me as a pirate and I won't need to be a pirate.
I have the same feeling about the agile (or any other scrum-based process). It's great for large teams where there are lots of code monkeys that haven't learned to write proper code yet (such as most video games and large software suites these days) but for smaller teams that actually need to deliver a fully working product (in contrast to the company needing to deliver a fully working product) it's much better to cut the overhead and boring meetings, compensate them properly and just rely on the impromptu meetings and conversations along the work table - if somebody doesn't pull their weight (lots of interrupting others, requesting unnecessary meetings, slow delivery) just cut them.
Actually, when you're on TWC you might get BETTER performance with OpenDNS than with their own DNS. When using the TWC DNS I can't get a 1080p without 10m of loading time or even a non-stuttering 720p stream from YouTube or Netflix. With OpenDNS or Google DNS I get much better performance. Also, if you're an AT&T Business customer, OpenDNS works much better with DNS-based RBL's like Spamhaus which AT&T blocks.
Quote: installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket Quote: $2.9M in revenue
If I were a vendor I would be ticketing everybody that came through as well - 1 cool million per year just for a 1 time investment installing $100,000 worth of camera's and metal on top of the money the government already paid to get them built and installed. Even if half of them go through court unsuccessful you got a nice racket going on.
Yup, if you have large enough needs for it, it's better to roll your own. "Clouds" (hosted, virtual services for the rest of us) are great for small companies and single-man businesses. You put an instance in the cloud and only pay for what you use. As long as it's cheaper than 1 or 2 servers and a part-time sysadmin you're good to go.
As soon as you NEED your system to be up and RELY on it you need something more expensive and even in the cloud the price goes up quickly. Pull a couple of TB's out of Amazon or require more than 2 full time processors and you'll see how quickly it adds up. After all, those people need to invest in the same tech you should've invested in AND they need to make a healthy profit.
Funny you mention EBS block storage. I tried an instance using ZFS and it seems you may not get a cleanly separated iSCSI target. More than once in a 3 months period they sent an e-mail that "oops - one of our storage modules wiped out and we don't have a backup" and ZFS reported errors across multiple targets even though they were 'promised' by the sales person (but not in writing) that each instance is on a different physical device.
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But those are hacks, not virusses and usually require quite a bit of intervention and targetting by the perpetrator. If you open a service and don't update your system, you can expect to be hacked by a script kiddie but that's still not a virus. LTS'es are (or should be - I'm looking at you Ubuntu) hardened for server usage and sometimes even run old versions of kernels that have been proven and certain patches are backported and don't even require restarts. Red Hat has by default in their server systems SELinux and other defense mechanisms so that even if your system is exploited the damage remains limited.
Virusses are self-replicating pieces of software and usually target the core of Operating Systems or other monocultures.
The US Military went over it's bandwidth cap with AT&T and was confined to 56k for all their web traffic.
Mac OS X has a built-in antivirus for the few Mac OS X virusses that actually exist and work, proof is in a patch a little while ago where the signatures got updated. This keeps the overhead to a minimum. Linux has the same thing going on - if a virus exploits the kernel, the kernel gets patched quickly and the virus is no longer a threat.
Here in NY I'm getting 8/1 mbit Internet for about $100, HDTV and phone bring it up to $150.
In Sweden a beer is easily $10. It's not because the cost of living is lower that the cost of developing technology gets lower, in the Baltic states the companies still need to put in fiber to several areas and copper cables to the home and are working hard to get their customers business, the US is already fully wired and continues to be funded by your taxes and your phone bills.
Comparatively Sweden and Norway pays a LOT less than we do, adjusted for the cost of living I would say with the current economy that would mean we can get the same Internet for $20 or $30 in the boonies.
And those economies are capitalizing on the Internet. Ever heard of AstraZeneca, Electrolux, Ericsson, Nokia, Securitas, Volvo, Trolltech (QT, KDE), Frictional Games (Amnesia), Mojang AB (Minecraft)? Volvo has their facilities from Sweden throughout Europe and Asia wired over the Internet - their products are made to order and all parts arrive in order of assembly to the second without downtime - really magnificent if you ever get to visit one of their factories.
He said there was a 100/10Mbps limit with a guaranteed 60Mbps. There are NO limits in data transfer ANYWHERE, they're artificial constructs made to extract more money for less service. The only physical limit there is is bandwidth, the amount of signals you can push through a cable before it starts distorting, with fiber there are a nearly infinite number of signals you can push through theoretically (the whole light spectrum), the limit is currently only in the transceivers. If a provider buys a certain amount of bandwidth at certain locations (the really big peering centers charge something like $20,000/year per Gbit) they can then oversell that to their customers - all they have to do is maintain the connection to their customer which is very inexpensive (when was the last time you've seen a switch die?) and those are likewise relatively cheap ($1M will buy you a really nice core switch, the endpoint switches for a neighborhood can be done as cheap as $10k).
They already do, don't worry. The main problem is partly in the article - no code reviews only recently have some of them started using version control systems. The other problem is that you have PhD's in whatever scientific field writing software with minimal knowledge of Computer Science. I work in the field with grants from NIH but the software quality is simply awful because no-one has the slightest clue about good coding practices.
Why don't you get a pro video card if you need that? For games you don't need much more than 1GB these days (data for a couple of frames of 1080p just aren't that big). If you need to visualize anything better, you usually go with a Quadro or a Tesla (up to 6GB per card, up to 4 per computer), a Quadro Plex (12GB in an external device) or a rack-based GPU solution (however much you can put in your rack).
Sybase lost a lot of business when they were duped by Microsoft to sharing the code after they didn't get any revenue sharing from Microsoft and Microsoft later undercut them for the EXACT SAME PRODUCT. They were actually going down the crapper until recently when they expanded their business into the mobile space.
Citrix is one of the few that survived because they held their ground and held true to their products and customers. Microsoft was never able to make inroads into Citrix's business because they built their own Terminal Services instead of buying/licensing it from Citrix and it was (and still is) way inferior to Citrix's solution.
What's the difference with the US? Except that the US Government owes China and the US values it's currency based on oil and by forcing other economies to use it.
The US-ians are also viciously capitalistic, they'll even forgo Universal Health Care as long as it doesn't impact them. They live under an oppressive government that claims to be democratic but are actually just an abusive bunch of politically incestuous control freaks.
So some clever US people realized that they are pretty much "untouchable" and have decided to perform criminal acts across it's own and other economies. They also know they are likely not to get punished as long as they pay off the right officials in the process. It's how their game is played.
But China is not held back by politicians that only want to do good for THEIR voters or the people that they get bribed from. They have less red tape to go through when doing stuff - they just use the debt we own to improve their country and they do it well. They're basically the US right after the Depression, they get access to unlimited funds to build stuff which in turn generates jobs and a flourishing economy because the value of their country goes up.
That's indeed part of the problem. MS used secret API's in Word that made it work much faster (you know, back in the day when everything was optimized in order to be able to run acceptably) than WordPerfect. It also happened that if you installed a version of Word, WordPerfect would start crashing because of a missing or replaced DLL.
But WordPerfect was not without fault either, they made mistakes marketing, they made mistakes programming, they basically pulled a Vista. They had (and still have) a much better word processor than Word and it's continuing to be used although they're not the cash cow they once were.
There are other ways, most of them are common knowledge to your average hacker that read Phrack back in the day. Since most cell phone systems rely on very old, insecure, fixed key cryptography it is fairly trivial to hack a cell phone transmission, impersonate a cell tower or do any number of things with a cell phone system without requiring the cell phone company.
What is required of the phone company is widespread, warrantless wiretapping the central hubs where all communications flow. This is likewise a trivial task but requires some minimal cooperation (even though it may not be acknowledged or detectable by everyone involved on either side).
It's just easier and more convenient to wiretap however you're communicating that way. It's not impossible to do it the "Hollywood Style" (get close to the subject and put a probe in or around the cable) or "The Old School Way" (which involves those pesky judges).
Knee-jerk reaction of the Tea Party Troll. The Fed Gov'ment should PROTECT us, not make people ATTACK us because we wronged them. Keeping our guys safe would be easier if you kept them at home, not killing and raping civilians. It's war, people die on both sides, otherwise it would be genocide so protecting them is not really of importance, they're just cannon-fodder for the most part.
Maybe studying cow-farts will allow us to survive a few years longer on this planet instead of blowing us all to a nuclear contaminated stone age.
Yes, the deficit is not caused however by funding scientific research. You can easily double that budget and not even make a blimp on the current budget. We're currently directly the cause of 4 unnecessary wars: The South-American drug war (they're winning), Iraq (the terrorists won), Afghanistan (they're winning a war of attrition) and Libya (we're showing muscle by flying $100,000/hour planes and $10M/day ships but are not actually DOING anything like liberating or oppressing anybody). Cut 2 of those wars (you can say the drug war and Libya have some merit) and fund some scientific research instead of funding Halliburton and Shell.
If you read the fine article, it seems that this price is based on an automatic price-fixing scheme. If they raise their prices, I can raise mine too etc. etc. until their books are astronomical in cost. In a good market, this would be the other way around where prices automatically go down until it gets to break-even prices as competitors race to get customers. But in a monopoly or duopoly market (as books, music, movies, cable, internet and other media often is) the prices go higher and higher in order to maximize profit for both competitors since neither is working to get a share in the market as they already have a share of the market that keeps them in business.
There are not too many PhD's, there are too few grants (money) that are provided by our tax moneys. There's more job openings and research funded in the industrial military complex than in all the scientific research areas combined.
Really? The cops are getting more deadlier with time and getting away with it more and more because they call the weapons 'less than lethal' and come away scott-free.
The best criminals (Mexican drug gangs) are usually equipped with an automatic handgun or 2 and at best have an AK-47 or a shotgun and 2 clips of ammo. They can just sit outside the house shooting in canisters of gas until he starves to death or gives up. If it really gets bad and they actually encounter an armed militia in a large compound once in a decade, they just use military force (Waco, TX).
You also have to think about the deployment features of an iOS device. They are very easily and very efficiently managed and can be imaged and deployed with all necessary content and apps in a matter of minutes. Apple even has free courses and seminars on this specifically for the educational field. I can't get an Android to even properly encrypt and remote wipe uniformly across different devices with the same OS version (some devices don't even support encryption!).
They made $3.5B last quarter (net profit). If they only invested half of that, maybe their network wouldn't be under so much strain and the economy would prosper. How much people can YOU employ for $2B? I would say at least 40,000 people that would then be able to reinvest their money in you know, $500 cell phones and $120/mo data services.
I would LIKE a streaming/downloading service for $10/month or even $20/month but so far, no legal alternatives have been offered in my region. Rhapsody (REAL *shudder*) and some other minor players have SOME streaming music but it's tightly locked down so I can't play the stream without either Flash or THEIR software. I rather have an OGG/MP3/AAC stream which I can freely download to my system on my terms. Don't treat me as a pirate and I won't need to be a pirate.
I have the same feeling about the agile (or any other scrum-based process). It's great for large teams where there are lots of code monkeys that haven't learned to write proper code yet (such as most video games and large software suites these days) but for smaller teams that actually need to deliver a fully working product (in contrast to the company needing to deliver a fully working product) it's much better to cut the overhead and boring meetings, compensate them properly and just rely on the impromptu meetings and conversations along the work table - if somebody doesn't pull their weight (lots of interrupting others, requesting unnecessary meetings, slow delivery) just cut them.
Actually, when you're on TWC you might get BETTER performance with OpenDNS than with their own DNS. When using the TWC DNS I can't get a 1080p without 10m of loading time or even a non-stuttering 720p stream from YouTube or Netflix. With OpenDNS or Google DNS I get much better performance. Also, if you're an AT&T Business customer, OpenDNS works much better with DNS-based RBL's like Spamhaus which AT&T blocks.
Quote: installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket
Quote: $2.9M in revenue
If I were a vendor I would be ticketing everybody that came through as well - 1 cool million per year just for a 1 time investment installing $100,000 worth of camera's and metal on top of the money the government already paid to get them built and installed. Even if half of them go through court unsuccessful you got a nice racket going on.
Yup, if you have large enough needs for it, it's better to roll your own. "Clouds" (hosted, virtual services for the rest of us) are great for small companies and single-man businesses. You put an instance in the cloud and only pay for what you use. As long as it's cheaper than 1 or 2 servers and a part-time sysadmin you're good to go.
As soon as you NEED your system to be up and RELY on it you need something more expensive and even in the cloud the price goes up quickly. Pull a couple of TB's out of Amazon or require more than 2 full time processors and you'll see how quickly it adds up. After all, those people need to invest in the same tech you should've invested in AND they need to make a healthy profit.
Funny you mention EBS block storage. I tried an instance using ZFS and it seems you may not get a cleanly separated iSCSI target. More than once in a 3 months period they sent an e-mail that "oops - one of our storage modules wiped out and we don't have a backup" and ZFS reported errors across multiple targets even though they were 'promised' by the sales person (but not in writing) that each instance is on a different physical device.