3D exists in its present incarnation for one primary reason; it will drive the theater chains to move to digital projection, a process that has been stalled. 3D movies require digital projection. When Digital projection is more widespread then the studios and distributors can move to digital delivery and save the cost and headache of traditional release prints and shipping.
Once the theaters have been converted to digital the 3D push will fade out like the fad that it is.
This a very lame response to have taken 10 days for consideration. I think that if it happens again I would report it to Amazon at the very some time that I reported it to the FBI Cyber-crimes unit.
As I see it Amazon should be compelled to act. Failure for them to do so is in effect harboring a fugitive.
While there are ways to reduce the impact of the attack at your firewall that does not overcome the fact that it consumes all of the targets available bandwidth. You can protect your systems, but you remain cutoff from the rest of the world. It's a classic DOS attack just moving to the voip application space.
That this is not getting much attention is a travesty. Amazon needs to be a more responsible corporate citizen, or face the consequences. It's up to use to determine what those consequences might be. I for one have simply committed to boycot Amazon as I explained here: http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2010/04/amazon-you-got-some-splaining-to-do/
TurboNet is not a USB thing. It's a network interface that is installed inside the Tivo chasis and provides an RJ-45 connector. It's essentially a normal NIC on a slightly strange connector that mates to an edge connector on the motherboard. I have one in my Series 1 Tivo. It works better (faster) than the USB NIC on my Series 2 Tivo.
Fax and data services are not likely to work over an VOIP connection that doesn't truly support the t.38 standard...and essentially no ATA devices provide proper implementation of this standard.
Michael
Michael
The really silly part about this is that most calls through major carriers are VOIP based these days. There is a huge IP based build out going on as carriers migrate from TDM based networks to IP based backbone. What this study really addressed was common retail VOIP as a last leg delivery scheme. And that, by definition, means making calls through some form of ATA device provided by the carrier.
There are carriers and then there are carriers. Some provide VOIP over dedicated networks with end to end QOS (AT&T, Covad, Level 3) while most others provide lesser infrastructure.
Michael
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3D exists in its present incarnation for one primary reason; it will drive the theater chains to move to digital projection, a process that has been stalled. 3D movies require digital projection. When Digital projection is more widespread then the studios and distributors can move to digital delivery and save the cost and headache of traditional release prints and shipping. Once the theaters have been converted to digital the 3D push will fade out like the fad that it is.
This a very lame response to have taken 10 days for consideration. I think that if it happens again I would report it to Amazon at the very some time that I reported it to the FBI Cyber-crimes unit.
As I see it Amazon should be compelled to act. Failure for them to do so is in effect harboring a fugitive. While there are ways to reduce the impact of the attack at your firewall that does not overcome the fact that it consumes all of the targets available bandwidth. You can protect your systems, but you remain cutoff from the rest of the world. It's a classic DOS attack just moving to the voip application space. That this is not getting much attention is a travesty. Amazon needs to be a more responsible corporate citizen, or face the consequences. It's up to use to determine what those consequences might be. I for one have simply committed to boycot Amazon as I explained here: http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2010/04/amazon-you-got-some-splaining-to-do/
TurboNet is not a USB thing. It's a network interface that is installed inside the Tivo chasis and provides an RJ-45 connector. It's essentially a normal NIC on a slightly strange connector that mates to an edge connector on the motherboard. I have one in my Series 1 Tivo. It works better (faster) than the USB NIC on my Series 2 Tivo. Fax and data services are not likely to work over an VOIP connection that doesn't truly support the t.38 standard...and essentially no ATA devices provide proper implementation of this standard. Michael Michael
The really silly part about this is that most calls through major carriers are VOIP based these days. There is a huge IP based build out going on as carriers migrate from TDM based networks to IP based backbone. What this study really addressed was common retail VOIP as a last leg delivery scheme. And that, by definition, means making calls through some form of ATA device provided by the carrier. There are carriers and then there are carriers. Some provide VOIP over dedicated networks with end to end QOS (AT&T, Covad, Level 3) while most others provide lesser infrastructure. Michael