In addition, when you are using your phone for data, the phone cannot also work. This means that if you are using the data and your phone rings, the data gets cut off to answer the call. At least thats how AT&T's Edge works.
The goal is to stop the squatters from registering and then abandoning the domains that dont generate revenue. When they register the domains, they point them all to the same ad-filled page on their website. At the end of the "trial" period, if the domain has not generated enough revenue to justify keeping the domain, then they return the domain. The ones that do generate ad revenue, they keep and leave up the ads.
Make it a buck.
If they do that, that will end up raising the price of the domain registration. The (legitimate) registrars would not want to have to pay for the cost of this in the event of a normal user/company returning a domain, so they are going to tack that onto the price of all domain registrations. They will likely add the 20 cents on anyway.
I think you are right about this. The smaller drive has the data packed more tightly, so even at 5400 RPM, the data transfer rate is still pretty good.
I saw a SATA/SAS backplane unit at Fry's that looked pretty cool. It was a hot-swappable drive bay that holds 4 2.5" drives in a single 5 1/4" drive bay. You could get a lot of drives packed in a server that way.
Most (large) corporate businesses probably have a site license for XP and they usually have premade images for their machines too. So as far as businesses are concerned, who cares what OS is preinstalled, since they are going to image it as soon as they get it anyway?
I was just going to comment on that also. I think he meant patch support, but I believe that software vendors are required to still support "retired" operating systems for at least a few years after they end-of-sale them.
Agreed. I always turn off bluetooth on my laptop and phone unless I am actually using it. The only time I use bluetooth on my phone is if I am going to be driving a long distance and do not want to fiddle with holding the phone if I get a call.
If that's the case, then all you need to do is put the drive in another computer without a boot password, and it boots. Pretty useless.
Even if the boot password is the way they do it, then you are still subject to people putting in weak passwords for the boot password, which again, defeats the purpose.
What they might do, is some sort of pairing with the laptop that it's installed in, and it will only be able to decrypt if it is in the original laptop. This would still require some sort of user-entered password to prevent a stolen laptop from being booted.
I think the reason why the oil companies wont invest in renewable energy, is because if they do, they loose their constant revenue.
Yes, they may be able to manufacture the solar/wind/water hardware to sell to the consumer, but once thats done, they don't make any money. I suppose the counter to that would be that once everyone has version 1.0 of the "free energy" system, they will develop version 2.0 to sell you that produces even more energy, and they could sustain themselves that way. But I do agree that it is too profitable for them to make oil, than to invest in a renewable energy technology.
I agree. They should have to be able to prove that you were using the network for an extended period of time (weeks or months) and that you had been asked to stop and still continued to use it.
It should only be a criminal offense if you "hack" into the wireless network. And by hack, I mean circumvent the owner's attempt to secure their wireless network. If you enable WEP/WPA on your wireless network, and someone cracks the keys and uses your wireless, that should be a criminal offense. If you buy a wireless router and don't put on the encryption, then it's your fault.
I partially agree with your statement, that it should be the responsibility of the wireless AP manufacturers to enable some security by default, even if it is only WEP. You should make the user have to disable WEP, if they want an open network.
The manufacturer's argument to that, would be that the common user probably does not know how to use WEP. This would therefore cause an increase in support calls when their new wireless router does not work. The manufacturer should have to deal with that, or make it extremely simple and obvious to the user how to use the security features.
Uhh, yes, they do. While, unless you're using a standard P2P port.
They don't need to read the packets, because they can tell based on number of connections. A "normal" web connection to a website will probably only get you maybe 5-10 different IP destinations, depending on where and how many banner ads and images are on the site. They are also started and finished fairly quickly, so the total amount of traffic is not alot. All they need to do is look for a constant high amount of bandwidth from a single IP address to more than, say, 30 hosts, and they can be pretty sure that it is some sort of P2P traffic. All they do then is QoS that source IP, and you're throttled.
From FTA: "You only need to deploy [antivirus] if you engage in risky behavior, need to protect friends on Windows, or comply with corporate policies."
This includes 98% of all Mac users. Unless 100% of the people you communicate with are also Mac users, then you should use an AV system to help protect them.
"Oh, and by the way, Mr End user, I'll also need to remote control your computer to update your VPN software". Now I know what type of VPN you use, and the IP address of your VPN device. I have free reign inside of your network. I'm free to browse your file servers, internal intranet websites, and everything that user has access to. I can also install trojans on whatever devices are left unpatched, and in a large corporate environment, that is usually a LOT of PCs.
isn't it the company's responsibility to control their network?
It's also about educating the employees more than anything IT can do to protect the network. If I can call one of your employees and pretend to be the remote helpdesk, and say that I need your password so I can install some software on your computer, and they give me the password, I am in your network.
It's called social engineering, and if you are good at it, you can get past ANY network or software based systems.
In the case there are not enough peers to fill your tube it will work the same as P2P
This is true, but if 80% of your P2P bandwidth is going within your ISP's local network, then only 20% is going out their interconnect links, which is better than 95% that would happen normally. And by better, I mean better for the ISP. If you have less traffic going out their interconnect links, that is more available bandwidth for other non-P2P traffic. I think their goal is to allow P2P to happen with having the minimal impact on the non-P2P customers.
It isn't really a monopoly. Yes, they have the right to be the cable provider for a particular area, but that is not a monopoly for Internet and television service.
You don't like Comcast cable Internet? Switch to DSL or wireless(if it's available).
You don't like Comcast cable television? Switch to Satellite.
I do believe, however, that Cable companies should not be able to be the exclusive provider for cable access for any area.
I could not agree with this more. I used to work in tech support, and almost daily I was educating our customers on technologies that a skilled network administrator should know how to do.
People, all drugs are not legal in Amsterdam. Only Marijuana and hash are legal, and they are very tightly controlled by the government. They control how many shops are allowed to sell it, and where they are placed. Companies that are licensed to sell weed and hash are also limited to 30 grams on hand at any one time.
They also make a very distinct differentiation between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Weed and hash are considered soft drugs, while cocaine and heroine are hard drugs, and are definitely illegal. But, the Dutch government does make a big attempt to help people with drug problems, including giving free methadone to the hardcore junkies, in the attempts to help them clean up.
And regarding the comment about number of drug addicts in Amsterdam compared to the U.S., the Netherlands has about 16 million people. U.S. has about 300 million. Of course with that many more people, there is going to be a larger number of drug addicted people.
if government-owned mailing lists were locked down, people would just use different ones. Alt roots, darknets, whatever..
If they wanted to attempt this, they would have to require that all online forum sites only allow registration from "official" registered email addresses. Again, this is unenforceable due to the thousands of websites out there, and the limited resources of people to track them all down and enforce the law.
discovering what could possibly occur in "hundreds of thousands of years" and instead started focusing on what could possibly occur in 1000 years
They're not talking about what could happen in a few hundred thousand years. The stars are 8000 light years away, which means that we are looking at the stars as they were 8000 years ago. This means that the stars could have gone supernova 7999 years ago, and it's 1 year until that radiation hits Earth.
Another interesting thing: If the stars are 8000 light years away, and a gamma burst from 6500 light years is enough to damage the ozone layer, is that extra 1500 light years of distance enough of a buffer that we would be safe?
Between his large house (high electricity usage), usage of multiple fuel-ineffecient vehicles (gas guzzlers), and frequent usage of commercial airliners
According to the wikipedia page on Al Gore, his family drives hybrid cars, and he purchases a carbon offset every time he flies in an aircraft.
Yes, I know that wikipedia is not always a 100% accurate information source, but I'm pretty sure that a big environmental activist like him is NOT going to "do as I say, not as I do"...
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In addition, when you are using your phone for data, the phone cannot also work. This means that if you are using the data and your phone rings, the data gets cut off to answer the call. At least thats how AT&T's Edge works.
The goal is to stop the squatters from registering and then abandoning the domains that dont generate revenue. When they register the domains, they point them all to the same ad-filled page on their website. At the end of the "trial" period, if the domain has not generated enough revenue to justify keeping the domain, then they return the domain. The ones that do generate ad revenue, they keep and leave up the ads.
If they do that, that will end up raising the price of the domain registration. The (legitimate) registrars would not want to have to pay for the cost of this in the event of a normal user/company returning a domain, so they are going to tack that onto the price of all domain registrations. They will likely add the 20 cents on anyway.
I think you are right about this. The smaller drive has the data packed more tightly, so even at 5400 RPM, the data transfer rate is still pretty good.
I saw a SATA/SAS backplane unit at Fry's that looked pretty cool. It was a hot-swappable drive bay that holds 4 2.5" drives in a single 5 1/4" drive bay. You could get a lot of drives packed in a server that way.
Most (large) corporate businesses probably have a site license for XP and they usually have premade images for their machines too. So as far as businesses are concerned, who cares what OS is preinstalled, since they are going to image it as soon as they get it anyway?
I was just going to comment on that also. I think he meant patch support, but I believe that software vendors are required to still support "retired" operating systems for at least a few years after they end-of-sale them.
Agreed. I always turn off bluetooth on my laptop and phone unless I am actually using it. The only time I use bluetooth on my phone is if I am going to be driving a long distance and do not want to fiddle with holding the phone if I get a call.
If that's the case, then all you need to do is put the drive in another computer without a boot password, and it boots. Pretty useless.
Even if the boot password is the way they do it, then you are still subject to people putting in weak passwords for the boot password, which again, defeats the purpose.
What they might do, is some sort of pairing with the laptop that it's installed in, and it will only be able to decrypt if it is in the original laptop. This would still require some sort of user-entered password to prevent a stolen laptop from being booted.
The first rule of hacker code is - you don't talk about hacker code.
I think the reason why the oil companies wont invest in renewable energy, is because if they do, they loose their constant revenue.
Yes, they may be able to manufacture the solar/wind/water hardware to sell to the consumer, but once thats done, they don't make any money. I suppose the counter to that would be that once everyone has version 1.0 of the "free energy" system, they will develop version 2.0 to sell you that produces even more energy, and they could sustain themselves that way. But I do agree that it is too profitable for them to make oil, than to invest in a renewable energy technology.
I agree. They should have to be able to prove that you were using the network for an extended period of time (weeks or months) and that you had been asked to stop and still continued to use it.
It should only be a criminal offense if you "hack" into the wireless network. And by hack, I mean circumvent the owner's attempt to secure their wireless network. If you enable WEP/WPA on your wireless network, and someone cracks the keys and uses your wireless, that should be a criminal offense. If you buy a wireless router and don't put on the encryption, then it's your fault.
I partially agree with your statement, that it should be the responsibility of the wireless AP manufacturers to enable some security by default, even if it is only WEP. You should make the user have to disable WEP, if they want an open network.
The manufacturer's argument to that, would be that the common user probably does not know how to use WEP. This would therefore cause an increase in support calls when their new wireless router does not work. The manufacturer should have to deal with that, or make it extremely simple and obvious to the user how to use the security features.
They don't need to read the packets, because they can tell based on number of connections. A "normal" web connection to a website will probably only get you maybe 5-10 different IP destinations, depending on where and how many banner ads and images are on the site. They are also started and finished fairly quickly, so the total amount of traffic is not alot. All they need to do is look for a constant high amount of bandwidth from a single IP address to more than, say, 30 hosts, and they can be pretty sure that it is some sort of P2P traffic. All they do then is QoS that source IP, and you're throttled.
From FTA: "You only need to deploy [antivirus] if you engage in risky behavior, need to protect friends on Windows, or comply with corporate policies."
This includes 98% of all Mac users. Unless 100% of the people you communicate with are also Mac users, then you should use an AV system to help protect them.
"Oh, and by the way, Mr End user, I'll also need to remote control your computer to update your VPN software". Now I know what type of VPN you use, and the IP address of your VPN device. I have free reign inside of your network. I'm free to browse your file servers, internal intranet websites, and everything that user has access to. I can also install trojans on whatever devices are left unpatched, and in a large corporate environment, that is usually a LOT of PCs.
It's also about educating the employees more than anything IT can do to protect the network. If I can call one of your employees and pretend to be the remote helpdesk, and say that I need your password so I can install some software on your computer, and they give me the password, I am in your network.
It's called social engineering, and if you are good at it, you can get past ANY network or software based systems.
This is true, but if 80% of your P2P bandwidth is going within your ISP's local network, then only 20% is going out their interconnect links, which is better than 95% that would happen normally. And by better, I mean better for the ISP. If you have less traffic going out their interconnect links, that is more available bandwidth for other non-P2P traffic. I think their goal is to allow P2P to happen with having the minimal impact on the non-P2P customers.
It isn't really a monopoly. Yes, they have the right to be the cable provider for a particular area, but that is not a monopoly for Internet and television service.
You don't like Comcast cable Internet? Switch to DSL or wireless(if it's available).
You don't like Comcast cable television? Switch to Satellite.
I do believe, however, that Cable companies should not be able to be the exclusive provider for cable access for any area.
I could not agree with this more. I used to work in tech support, and almost daily I was educating our customers on technologies that a skilled network administrator should know how to do.
People, all drugs are not legal in Amsterdam. Only Marijuana and hash are legal, and they are very tightly controlled by the government. They control how many shops are allowed to sell it, and where they are placed. Companies that are licensed to sell weed and hash are also limited to 30 grams on hand at any one time.
They also make a very distinct differentiation between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Weed and hash are considered soft drugs, while cocaine and heroine are hard drugs, and are definitely illegal. But, the Dutch government does make a big attempt to help people with drug problems, including giving free methadone to the hardcore junkies, in the attempts to help them clean up.
And regarding the comment about number of drug addicts in Amsterdam compared to the U.S., the Netherlands has about 16 million people. U.S. has about 300 million. Of course with that many more people, there is going to be a larger number of drug addicted people.
If they wanted to attempt this, they would have to require that all online forum sites only allow registration from "official" registered email addresses. Again, this is unenforceable due to the thousands of websites out there, and the limited resources of people to track them all down and enforce the law.
They're not talking about what could happen in a few hundred thousand years. The stars are 8000 light years away, which means that we are looking at the stars as they were 8000 years ago. This means that the stars could have gone supernova 7999 years ago, and it's 1 year until that radiation hits Earth.
Another interesting thing: If the stars are 8000 light years away, and a gamma burst from 6500 light years is enough to damage the ozone layer, is that extra 1500 light years of distance enough of a buffer that we would be safe?
According to the wikipedia page on Al Gore, his family drives hybrid cars, and he purchases a carbon offset every time he flies in an aircraft.
Yes, I know that wikipedia is not always a 100% accurate information source, but I'm pretty sure that a big environmental activist like him is NOT going to "do as I say, not as I do"...
Dude, you need to upgrade your service to IP over carrier pidgeon with Quality of Service.
Haha. That was funny. Wish I had mod points.