Ah, PokerStars. That company that runs two identical websites (pokerstars.net and pokerstars.com - one accepts real money the other is "free play") just to get around online gambling advertising restrictions. Pinnacle of honesty, they are.
Except that most of these services charge at minimum $250 for their "service" (shuffling papers).
I've considered doing this just to make it easier to get paid royalties on sales by US companies, since the W8 is a fucking bitch to fill out unless you're a local.
Cisco, not Linksys. IOS contains "Lawful Intercept" functionality which is what he's talking about. Also, not in routers, but switches. Whole different beast.
You know by implementing this, you actually made it technically unlawful for me to even use your products any more right? As an employee of a health sector company, I'm bound to very strict privacy regulations in terms of access to information that I'd be violating the instant I expose one of these routers to a data stream between me and (ironically) the Cisco VPN Concentrator we use for remote access. Did marketing even consider the fact that large swathes of customers can't legally use any products with this functionality?
HAHAHA. By which I mean, you do not work in a company with 78K employees. And if you do, you're an average grunt and have nowhere near enough authority to make a procurement or legal decision. After all, if you were, you'd know that you have a Preferred Supplier agreement for your router hardware (meaning changing vendoris an epic challenge requiring the equivalent of the passage of a government act, plus making all your network infrastructure team redundant and hiring new engineers proficient in your new brand), and you'd also know that a Cisco ASA neither has this functionality nor ever will have this functionality.
I've also sent an enquiry to New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner about this. I'd encourage everyone everywhere to bring this to the attention of their privacy protection organisation - Google has been slapped down for less, and this seems like the sort of thing every government loves to see for some quick win PR points.
Uh, there are fucking TONS of software companies that refuse security and critical bug fixes without a service contract. Some of them even backdate renewals to the time that the contract last expired (so to renew a two year expired contract you need to pay for the intervening two years). This is COMMON now.
I even have one router on hand (Linux based) that requires an active service agreement to use at all. (Mako Networks in case you're curious).
It's disallowed up until the Executive Branch of the US Government wedges a non-negotiable clause into a Free Trade Agreement forcing the target country to implement laws allowing it.
Even then, they aren't upgrading IOS devices to Cloud Crap anyway - that's for consumer shit. If you're running IOS, there's an expectation that you're a business/enterprise customer who tolerate all that shit.
Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 used XNA, which is not quite DirectX. Windows Phone 8 will allow DirectX directly. I think I saw OpenGL mentioned as well.
Now this might sound funny, till you realize that someone might play the game the other way, e.g. there are some places where homosexuality is a capital crime (Must been funny for the German foreign minister to decide if he should bring his partner for the state visit to Saudi Arabia,....),...
Hence Diplomatic Immunity. Saudi Arabi would have faced severe sanctions were they to try to enforce that law on a diplomatic mission without permission from the originating country.
Not true. I've seen closed captions on several Netflix shows. You need to look at newer shows to get it though, and you need to access it via the apps (I don't think it works via the web).
Cutting edge technologies? You mean they cobbled together already existing technology in a fashion that gives them better reliability than a service with no high availability. Linux, F5 Big-IP, that sort of thing. It all existed long before AWS, not cutting edge at all. And they do have outages, so it's not "entirely false" at all - you even admitted you had outages attributable to them.
Frankly, your core sales systems should not require a server half-way across the planet to function. You keep it in house, because I'd bet your consumer grade internet connection is the weak link in any structure.
So do what you do best, and the stuff you can reasonably expect to do well (but for gods sake don't outsource it). In this case, it means make food, and run a server or two that do the job - and keep backups.
The USA is not the world. Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Co-Op Interbank are a small, maybe even tiny, part of the worldwide banking network. You also have giant abominations like Bank of England, Royal Bank of Scotland, Westpac, etc (depending where in the world you are). The real solution, and the one Google took, is to get in with MasterCard or Visa, and leverage the PayPass/PayWave standards by means of a virtual MasterCard or Visa stored on the device, issued by the hardware vendor to the device owner, and loaded via a bank transfer, credit card topup, or maybe even a direct-debit link to a bank account.
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Ah, PokerStars. That company that runs two identical websites (pokerstars.net and pokerstars.com - one accepts real money the other is "free play") just to get around online gambling advertising restrictions. Pinnacle of honesty, they are.
Except that most of these services charge at minimum $250 for their "service" (shuffling papers).
I've considered doing this just to make it easier to get paid royalties on sales by US companies, since the W8 is a fucking bitch to fill out unless you're a local.
It's Linksys. Cisco IOS updates still require you secure the vacuum pipe to your company's IT budget.
Cisco, not Linksys. IOS contains "Lawful Intercept" functionality which is what he's talking about. Also, not in routers, but switches. Whole different beast.
You know by implementing this, you actually made it technically unlawful for me to even use your products any more right? As an employee of a health sector company, I'm bound to very strict privacy regulations in terms of access to information that I'd be violating the instant I expose one of these routers to a data stream between me and (ironically) the Cisco VPN Concentrator we use for remote access. Did marketing even consider the fact that large swathes of customers can't legally use any products with this functionality?
HAHAHA. By which I mean, you do not work in a company with 78K employees. And if you do, you're an average grunt and have nowhere near enough authority to make a procurement or legal decision. After all, if you were, you'd know that you have a Preferred Supplier agreement for your router hardware (meaning changing vendoris an epic challenge requiring the equivalent of the passage of a government act, plus making all your network infrastructure team redundant and hiring new engineers proficient in your new brand), and you'd also know that a Cisco ASA neither has this functionality nor ever will have this functionality.
Also illegal in New Zealand.
I've also sent an enquiry to New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner about this. I'd encourage everyone everywhere to bring this to the attention of their privacy protection organisation - Google has been slapped down for less, and this seems like the sort of thing every government loves to see for some quick win PR points.
Uh, there are fucking TONS of software companies that refuse security and critical bug fixes without a service contract. Some of them even backdate renewals to the time that the contract last expired (so to renew a two year expired contract you need to pay for the intervening two years). This is COMMON now.
I even have one router on hand (Linux based) that requires an active service agreement to use at all. (Mako Networks in case you're curious).
So, um, what are you going to do if they refuse to out the person who approved it and publicly states they won't do it again?
So what you're saying is that you aren't allowed to download porn with a Linksys router?
Yeah, that'll fly.
No. The ISP is the Second Party to your internet contract.
It's disallowed up until the Executive Branch of the US Government wedges a non-negotiable clause into a Free Trade Agreement forcing the target country to implement laws allowing it.
What software? It's the firmware on your router - it WILL have access to every URL you visit!
Even then, they aren't upgrading IOS devices to Cloud Crap anyway - that's for consumer shit. If you're running IOS, there's an expectation that you're a business/enterprise customer who tolerate all that shit.
Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 used XNA, which is not quite DirectX. Windows Phone 8 will allow DirectX directly. I think I saw OpenGL mentioned as well.
Windows Phone 8 allows sandboxed native code.
The American Taxpayer isn't paying for any of this. The New Zealand Taxpayer is, and the US Government has no intention of reimbursing it.
I believe Rapidgator died recently, and several other ones you mentioned now prohibit connections from the United States.
However, LARGE confirmed fatalities of the MU affair are:
MegaUpload
FileServe
FileSonic
Oron
Now this might sound funny, till you realize that someone might play the game the other way, e.g. there are some places where homosexuality is a capital crime (Must been funny for the German foreign minister to decide if he should bring his partner for the state visit to Saudi Arabia, ....), ...
Hence Diplomatic Immunity. Saudi Arabi would have faced severe sanctions were they to try to enforce that law on a diplomatic mission without permission from the originating country.
Not true. I've seen closed captions on several Netflix shows. You need to look at newer shows to get it though, and you need to access it via the apps (I don't think it works via the web).
Cutting edge technologies? You mean they cobbled together already existing technology in a fashion that gives them better reliability than a service with no high availability. Linux, F5 Big-IP, that sort of thing. It all existed long before AWS, not cutting edge at all. And they do have outages, so it's not "entirely false" at all - you even admitted you had outages attributable to them.
Frankly, your core sales systems should not require a server half-way across the planet to function. You keep it in house, because I'd bet your consumer grade internet connection is the weak link in any structure.
So do what you do best, and the stuff you can reasonably expect to do well (but for gods sake don't outsource it). In this case, it means make food, and run a server or two that do the job - and keep backups.
The USA is not the world. Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and Co-Op Interbank are a small, maybe even tiny, part of the worldwide banking network. You also have giant abominations like Bank of England, Royal Bank of Scotland, Westpac, etc (depending where in the world you are). The real solution, and the one Google took, is to get in with MasterCard or Visa, and leverage the PayPass/PayWave standards by means of a virtual MasterCard or Visa stored on the device, issued by the hardware vendor to the device owner, and loaded via a bank transfer, credit card topup, or maybe even a direct-debit link to a bank account.
Indeed. So it'll require an iTunes account and Apple will take 30% of all transactions for "bringing you more customers".
We are referring to the OS with a kernel jailbreak that could be activated by a webpage. You decide.