Two computers in this house on either Netflix or Hulu, maybe Pandora, VoIP et al.
No net monitoring tools available from Cox. But my estimate is that we use about 103GB a month. I do subscribe to the premium plan so I guess that is why Cox hasn't dinged me yet.
TWC is playing an interesting and very transparent game. They cannot compete with online video and voice services so they implement caps or cutoff users for excess usage. Naughty naughty.
Cox here in RI is a bit more sensitive to the fact that Verizon has cabled up the entire city with FiOS. Competition is good.
Pretty easy to take out public safety trunked systems too. All you need is a hammer and some nails.
In my city the repeaters are on telephone poles. Just punch a hole through the feedline. If the repeater designer knew their shit they'll detect the high SWR an shut down the oscillator and amplifiers. But I can tell you, I've seen lots of gear that has no such SWR protection.
You don't even have to go that far. A little conductive grease, or even water in a connector will also reflect lots of RF power back to the emitter.
It is virtually impossible to protect any given communication medium. You must have several independent means of communication.
The power to tax across interstate boundaries is reserved exclusively for the fed. I see that they're covering that base and I'll be writing my congressional delegation saying that this is an overreach.
Having been peripherally involved with a state investigative team I can tell you that beyond duplicating the hard drive and other devices with EnCase they really have no clue about computers.
I do so, but then finding an alternative hosting service incurs expense on my part. I've worked with government investigative teams in the past, they're not the most discriminating types. If they can't figure out where the offending content is, they just take EVERYTHING.
I use virtual hosting too and I have a certain fear that someday my business website will be taken down because someone uploaded a copyrighted work on the same server my legitimate site is on.
Not to mention the desert areas of the U.S. that would be prime for solar power as they're doing in Spain at this very moment.
Do it this way, wind for the eastern half of the country, solar for the western half.
But it has to go further. We need to push the government to fund research into energy storage technology for vehicles. We already have the motors and controllers down, what we need is for the same vehicles to get 150 to 200 miles per charge, and to charge in minutes vs. hours. Super-Capacitors look like they'll meet some of the requirements.
Then we can stop buying oil and natural gas from the middle east. With no money their insane brand of Islam doesn't spread very far.
In addition to funding research we also need to have very steep subsidies to make electric vehicles affordable for the first decade, until production changes to all electric drive vs. internal combustion drive.
In my last job I worked for the state. We had public computers in the state library, the public information division, and in the elections division.
First we just put Ubuntu on all the public computers. Then we decided to reduce the number (1 per office) and instead throw WAPs in place. I did insist that we bandwidth throttle so we built Linux based routers that restricted the inet port bandwidth to 384kbps. No porn watching! Also had Dan's Guardian and Squid Proxy running too.
I'm so glad that I'm a) male and b) went to school before all this zero tolerance crap hit the fan.
Put it this way, had my all boys Catholic HS tried to strip search me back in the day they would have broken bones. Didn't take those Akido lessons for nothing you know.
This is why I find zero tolerance rules so ridiculous. When I was in school if you got yourself in trouble your first visit was with the Vice Principal in charge of discipline. If the infraction was bad enough your guidance counselor would be there.
Now it's just zip, boom, bang, guilty!
A good friends daughter has behavioral problems and so my friend filed both the IEP and behavioral plan with the school. One day she gets a call, her daughter bit a teacher.
Thing is, the IEP and behavioral plan dictate that my friend was to be called immediately. Instead the school resource officer aka cop, was going to arrest the daughter.
What the school didn't count on was that my friend works for the state child advocacy office. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for that one.
But even after the school got its ass handed to it by the advocacy the cop decided on his own to talk to my friends daughter. Last I knew the police department was still licking its wounds over that one.
I now have my own consulting company and yes, I push OSS. The problem is one OSS productivity suite, Open Office 3.0. Try doing a document merge. It doesn't work.
As has been shown, it's never a good idea to hand over a government function to a private corporation.
The minute the motive becomes profit over public safety you just know the shenanigans will start. The primary method is reducing yellow light times below 3 seconds.
If you really want to enhance safety, lengthen yellow time to 4 to 5 seconds.
Here in Providence, RI we've got a few red light cameras. Not to mention almost 2,000 new parking meters. And of course parking enforcement has been turned over to a private corporation. Their enforcement guys are funny, they have this swagger that I just giggle at.
I'm rather encouraged by some actions in other parts of the world regarding traffic and signal cameras though. They've found the cameras burnt to a crisp, torn down, spray painted, etc.
Then of course the red light cameras, they use the cities MESH network which I'll tell you know isn't the most secure thing in the world. And as we've seen with the ITS signs on highways, it is only a matter of time before cyber attacks begin on the cameras.
You are right on point. Also be aware that the BSA first looks at company financials before they initiate a case against the company.
I had a former employer that played fast and loose with licensing rules. When I left the job I reported it to the BSA. The BSA got back to me and said "Sorry, they don't have deep enough pockets."
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Umm, I pay $7 a month to be an electric company customer, and another $6 a month for the privilege of natural gas service.
USPS works very well for my needs. But then most of my mail is #10 envelopes or packages via priority mail.
Two computers in this house on either Netflix or Hulu, maybe Pandora, VoIP et al.
No net monitoring tools available from Cox. But my estimate is that we use about 103GB a month. I do subscribe to the premium plan so I guess that is why Cox hasn't dinged me yet.
TWC is playing an interesting and very transparent game. They cannot compete with online video and voice services so they implement caps or cutoff users for excess usage. Naughty naughty.
Cox here in RI is a bit more sensitive to the fact that Verizon has cabled up the entire city with FiOS. Competition is good.
Pretty easy to take out public safety trunked systems too. All you need is a hammer and some nails.
In my city the repeaters are on telephone poles. Just punch a hole through the feedline. If the repeater designer knew their shit they'll detect the high SWR an shut down the oscillator and amplifiers. But I can tell you, I've seen lots of gear that has no such SWR protection.
You don't even have to go that far. A little conductive grease, or even water in a connector will also reflect lots of RF power back to the emitter.
It is virtually impossible to protect any given communication medium. You must have several independent means of communication.
No doubt, a judges specialty is the arcana of law. My specialty is the arcana of information science.
Non techies shouldn't be appointed to positions like this. I know I'll catch flak but who else to champion things like Net Neutrality?
You're not alone. I don't need to tell the world that I just farted. It's a waste of timer when you come right down to it.
The power to tax across interstate boundaries is reserved exclusively for the fed. I see that they're covering that base and I'll be writing my congressional delegation saying that this is an overreach.
I understand that, but this is an issue that's so simple that even a politician could understand it.
FACT: The banking and credit systems as they currently exist are insecure and our criminally negligent.
FACT: A debit card and credit card are two sides ot the same coin. They traverse the same networks, banks, etc.
I know my congressional delegation understands those two facts.
Until the banks get their collective shit together, why not legislatively fix this.
Make it so debit cards have the exact same protections as credit cards.
Having been peripherally involved with a state investigative team I can tell you that beyond duplicating the hard drive and other devices with EnCase they really have no clue about computers.
So very true. IT Directors always try to put their stamp on things. I should know, I was an I.T. Director once.
I do so, but then finding an alternative hosting service incurs expense on my part. I've worked with government investigative teams in the past, they're not the most discriminating types. If they can't figure out where the offending content is, they just take EVERYTHING.
I use virtual hosting too and I have a certain fear that someday my business website will be taken down because someone uploaded a copyrighted work on the same server my legitimate site is on.
Not to mention the desert areas of the U.S. that would be prime for solar power as they're doing in Spain at this very moment.
Do it this way, wind for the eastern half of the country, solar for the western half.
But it has to go further. We need to push the government to fund research into energy storage technology for vehicles. We already have the motors and controllers down, what we need is for the same vehicles to get 150 to 200 miles per charge, and to charge in minutes vs. hours. Super-Capacitors look like they'll meet some of the requirements.
Then we can stop buying oil and natural gas from the middle east. With no money their insane brand of Islam doesn't spread very far.
In addition to funding research we also need to have very steep subsidies to make electric vehicles affordable for the first decade, until production changes to all electric drive vs. internal combustion drive.
In my last job I worked for the state. We had public computers in the state library, the public information division, and in the elections division.
First we just put Ubuntu on all the public computers. Then we decided to reduce the number (1 per office) and instead throw WAPs in place. I did insist that we bandwidth throttle so we built Linux based routers that restricted the inet port bandwidth to 384kbps. No porn watching! Also had Dan's Guardian and Squid Proxy running too.
I'm so glad that I'm a) male and b) went to school before all this zero tolerance crap hit the fan.
Put it this way, had my all boys Catholic HS tried to strip search me back in the day they would have broken bones. Didn't take those Akido lessons for nothing you know.
This is why I find zero tolerance rules so ridiculous. When I was in school if you got yourself in trouble your first visit was with the Vice Principal in charge of discipline. If the infraction was bad enough your guidance counselor would be there.
Now it's just zip, boom, bang, guilty!
A good friends daughter has behavioral problems and so my friend filed both the IEP and behavioral plan with the school. One day she gets a call, her daughter bit a teacher.
Thing is, the IEP and behavioral plan dictate that my friend was to be called immediately. Instead the school resource officer aka cop, was going to arrest the daughter.
What the school didn't count on was that my friend works for the state child advocacy office. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for that one.
But even after the school got its ass handed to it by the advocacy the cop decided on his own to talk to my friends daughter. Last I knew the police department was still licking its wounds over that one.
I now have my own consulting company and yes, I push OSS. The problem is one OSS productivity suite, Open Office 3.0. Try doing a document merge. It doesn't work.
As has been shown, it's never a good idea to hand over a government function to a private corporation.
The minute the motive becomes profit over public safety you just know the shenanigans will start. The primary method is reducing yellow light times below 3 seconds.
If you really want to enhance safety, lengthen yellow time to 4 to 5 seconds.
Here in Providence, RI we've got a few red light cameras. Not to mention almost 2,000 new parking meters. And of course parking enforcement has been turned over to a private corporation. Their enforcement guys are funny, they have this swagger that I just giggle at.
I'm rather encouraged by some actions in other parts of the world regarding traffic and signal cameras though. They've found the cameras burnt to a crisp, torn down, spray painted, etc.
Then of course the red light cameras, they use the cities MESH network which I'll tell you know isn't the most secure thing in the world. And as we've seen with the ITS signs on highways, it is only a matter of time before cyber attacks begin on the cameras.
You are right on point. Also be aware that the BSA first looks at company financials before they initiate a case against the company.
I had a former employer that played fast and loose with licensing rules. When I left the job I reported it to the BSA. The BSA got back to me and said "Sorry, they don't have deep enough pockets."
Everywhere I've worked for the past decade never got more than a class C block, and in most cases, a single IP address.
You just took that and NAT'd all your traffic.
To go to IPv6 means the following:
Upgrade all operating systems to support IPv6
Upgrade all routers, switches, etc.
Upgrade all end point routers
You get the idea. It'll be fairly expensive to make the switch.
Let me preface this by saying I actually do have an I.T. degree, Information Science to be precise.
I've worked with people who degrees in oceanography, semiotics, physics, mathematics, accounting, etc.
I just think $1,500 for headphones is a bit out of my price range. One thing, Sennheiser isn't the only on that uses open donuts.
I opted for a $99 pair of Grado SR-80 headphones. They leak like no tomorrow but they sound sweet!
At my last job we in I.T. were getting deluged with requests that weren't normal help desk issues, like db design, web apps, etc.
One day when my director was lamenting this I asked if we could meet up later on.
I told him about project management. He seized on the idea and we put together a great process.
If a help desk ticket was to take more than 4 hours to resolve, it became a project. Project ID was the help desk ticket ID.
We then would go out and get the requirements and then develop from that. Tracked everything in dotProject.
More to the point we got senior management buy-in by letting them prioritize.
That all ended when a new administration came in, and I left 9 months later.
In essence they have to re-invent the wheel. A lot of the engineering docs for Apollo are lost to time.
Lets not even talk about the data. Though that is a problem of failing to make media transitions.