The duplicity backend is for their B2 service, which is cost per GB. The unlimited backup is for the personal plan, 5$/month per computer, and there's no Linux client for that
I'm actually wondering if this is a red herring. If I see them remove the PlexPass Lifetime subscription and then offer to let PlexPass users still opt out of the collection, then I know it is.
If I'm understanding things right, what they're doing is basically pulling some features out of Free and making them Premium only (I'm ok with this), but they're doubling the price of Premium without actually adding any additional benefit to the users.
I cancelled my Netflix account when they tried this same stuff lo those many years ago. I understand the need to raise prices, but generally speaking, a naked money grab doesn't tend to go over well with users, A moderate raise in the yearly price, ok, not that big of a deal, but when you mark up 100% without adding any benefit, yeah, thanks, but no.
Thankfully, I've had my solution in place for years. KeePass is also multi platform and I just sync the database among my devices (started out with Dropbox, then Google Drive, now I use the Synology Cloud Sync stuff on my NAS in order to keep all my Cloud Synced stuff private)
While I certainly agree with you, there's not much they can do about cellular capacity. I had the same issue (in the Chicago area, ironically enough) at a music festival a few weekends ago. It's depressing to see full bars and no throughput
I mean I guess they could have probably tried to arrange to get the carriers to install some picocells for the event, but given the number of carriers, that's a logistical nightmare.
Personally, I would have tried to get a temporary internet circuit out there, and hit up one of the WiFi players (Ubiquiti maybe?) to see if they could provide some temporary wireless gear for the event in exchange for some advertising.
That's the entire question. We'll find out if Nintendo can learn from their mistakes.
That being said, I won't be nearly as annoyed if I don't get one of these as I was about the NES Classic. I already have most of those games loaded on the RetroPi I built when I couldn't get the NES Classic. The only thing I'd miss out on would be StarFox 2, and I figure it'll take less than a week for a ROM of it to show up
You'd actually be surprised at what small ISP's will charge.
When I moved to rural SC 4 years ago, I had 2 options. AT&T DSL at 256kup/3mbs down, or the local cable provider, 2mbs up/24mbps down. The DSL cost $70/month, the cable cost $99.95/month.
The cable company has since deployed 10mb up/100mb down, keeping the $99.95 price point, while the 2/24 is 'only' $59.95/month. Same shitty DSL still costs $70/month
The thing you need to understand about Comcast is that it's not one big unified corporate entity. It's comprised of a bunch of region and markets that happen to share the same branding. The way things are done in Chicago are not the same way things are done in Florida, for example.
It's also a very sales driven company. In a metro area, yeah, 229 wouldn't be that much to care about. In a smaller market? 229 is a big deal
So it depends on what kind of UPS you're employing. If it's the really big ones, you know, the ones the size of generators, then you don't plug stuff directly into them. They tend to be centralized and distribute power to PDU's that are in the racks themselves. The servers plug into the PDU's in the racks, and those PDU's have on/off switches. My fat ass has bumped the power switch on PDU's more than once trying to squeeze into tight spaces between racks. UPS's aren't employed to protect against human error, they're designed to protect against loss of main power.
If you're data center is small enough, you can get away with UPS's mounted in the rack and plug your servers directly into them, but when you're talking about scale, that's just not feasible or cost effective.
Somehow I doubt British Airways data center is of the 'couple cabinents in a colo variety' and they've probably got the big UPS setup
Most likely the fault lies with whomever architected the data center. I'll bet either there's very little room between the racks, or the PDU's are mounted in a way they can be accidentally bumped (probably either mid rack or at the bottom). I personally have taken to mounting PDU's at the top of the rack on the backside just to minimize any potential human contact with them.
This is pretty much it. If an ISP is snarfing up your information as it crosses their wire, you'll never know it unless they admit to it.
Of course then the question morphs into what VPN provider can I trust, since they'd be the ones to see the unencrypted stuff egress and ingress to the tunnel.
Though I suppose VPN providers do have a more vested interest in keeping their customers data private, since privacy and getting around region locks are the primary use cases for most consumers that employ VPN in a non-work capacity
I didn't say it would create new jurisdictions, just new patent troll friendly ones. When cases start getting shifted to Delaware and Nevada courts, you can bet your ass that money will start flowing in those directions to in order to grease the wheels.
No. Traditionally, corporations are governed by the laws of the states that they're incorporated in, even if they do business in multiple states.
The reason for this is that states may have conflicting laws which would make it impossible for a corporation to legally be in compliance with the laws of every state that they do business in. Hence, why only the state of incorporation is considered.
This is why there are so many companies incorporated in Delaware and Nevada. They've got the most corporate friendly laws
Now this is for civil violations, like patent infringement. Anything that's actually criminal would be the jurisdiction of where the crime was committed
This is why Cisco isn't bothering to innovate on SDN anymore and they're just buying folks up. The Viptella acquisition is a good move for them, since it's packet-centric (as opposed to application-centric) just like most of Cisco's offerings.
Don't forget that they're also adding headcount with all the acquisitions they're making as well.
For kids it's a no brainer. They don't legally possess property, and they can't legally enter into a contract with a phone provider, which means they need someone else to obtain the device and access to use it for them. As such, just because they happen to use it, doesn't mean they own it, and the owner can do with their property as they see fit.
Same goes for the computers in the house. The kids have their own computers, but I have them heavily locked down in what they can do, both at the individual host level, and the network level.
Once they come of age, I will officially transfer ownership of their devices to them and remove any restrictions or monitoring on them (provided, of course, that they obtain their own cell phone contracts).
Now, if I were to slip some spyware onto my wifes computer or phone, or my mother in law's when she visits, or that deadbeat cousin who crashes with us for a few months before he finds another job, then I'm probably in violation of doing anything to their devices. Their network traffic is still fair game though, since I own and administer the pipes they're using while in my house.
Apple is building the rep that they only contract with you long enough to get a good hands on with your parts, then abruptly cutting ties and making it themselves.
I'm not sure why so many folks think that a business relationship is the same thing as a lifelong blood oath. If you can get the same or better performance out of chips by sourcing them in house, and it's cheaper, it only makes sense to do so, and would practically be demanded as part of their fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders.
I had the same problem, couldnt find one in retail stores, still cant, and I've checked in many different states (I'm a road warrior).
So I finally said screw it, got myself a Raspberry Pi, installed RetroPi, and it was so stupidly simple I wondered why I'd bothered worrying about the NES Classic. I ended up building a second one to take on the road with me, since my wife and kids enjoy the first one so much that they'd slit my throat if I tried to take the first one with me for weeks at a time
You're missing part of the point of the XKCD. It's not just about choosing four random words, it's also about constructing a mnemonic to remember that password. That's what the image with the horse is all about.
And it works.
The day I read the XKCD, I changed my home domain password policy. I pulled out all the annoying requirements like must have upper case, special character, number, etc, and extended the length requirement one to 20 characters. That's it. I then showed my family the xkcd and made sure they understood what I was after. They grumbled. The excuse I heard from every one of them was 'I suck at choosing passwords'. I helped them through that, and after they got used to it, they didn't grumble anymore. Sadly, I've had quite a bit more difficulty getting them to use password managers, though I hope that my dire threats of doom and revoked network access have made it clear that they don't use their home domain password for anything else.
Professionally, I've tried to get my companies to see the light, but they remain stubborn and insist that the special character requirement is good enough, and about the only way I could disprove that would be to launch an attack to prove otherwise. Since that is likely to be a resume generating event, I have so far declined that option.
I think the most irritating work password experience I had was when I started using long passwords, routinely over 20 characters.... until I ran into an internal app that, despite using Active Directory for authentication, restricted the password field to 12 characters. Apparently web developers don't understand the logic of 'if you're going to use AD, and AD accepts longer passwords, your app should to'. That's when I wrote my own damn app to mimic the same functionality.
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The duplicity backend is for their B2 service, which is cost per GB. The unlimited backup is for the personal plan, 5$/month per computer, and there's no Linux client for that
I'm actually wondering if this is a red herring. If I see them remove the PlexPass Lifetime subscription and then offer to let PlexPass users still opt out of the collection, then I know it is.
Doesn't Kodi have a Plex plugin? That should say something by itself about the quality of Kodi
Or, you know, just pi-hole their telemetry domain (metrics.plex.tv)
I've found that using a Pi-hole and adding the domains they're trying to call to the blacklist to be useful.
If I'm understanding things right, what they're doing is basically pulling some features out of Free and making them Premium only (I'm ok with this), but they're doubling the price of Premium without actually adding any additional benefit to the users.
I cancelled my Netflix account when they tried this same stuff lo those many years ago. I understand the need to raise prices, but generally speaking, a naked money grab doesn't tend to go over well with users, A moderate raise in the yearly price, ok, not that big of a deal, but when you mark up 100% without adding any benefit, yeah, thanks, but no.
Thankfully, I've had my solution in place for years. KeePass is also multi platform and I just sync the database among my devices (started out with Dropbox, then Google Drive, now I use the Synology Cloud Sync stuff on my NAS in order to keep all my Cloud Synced stuff private)
While I certainly agree with you, there's not much they can do about cellular capacity. I had the same issue (in the Chicago area, ironically enough) at a music festival a few weekends ago. It's depressing to see full bars and no throughput
I mean I guess they could have probably tried to arrange to get the carriers to install some picocells for the event, but given the number of carriers, that's a logistical nightmare.
Personally, I would have tried to get a temporary internet circuit out there, and hit up one of the WiFi players (Ubiquiti maybe?) to see if they could provide some temporary wireless gear for the event in exchange for some advertising.
Leave it to the NSA to co-opt a QoS term for what is, in essence, an MitM technique
This sounds like they're just not going to be selling stuff directly anymore outside of Safari.
If I can still purchase individual titles via Amazon, especially for Kindle, then I can honestly say this is non-news to me
That's the entire question. We'll find out if Nintendo can learn from their mistakes.
That being said, I won't be nearly as annoyed if I don't get one of these as I was about the NES Classic. I already have most of those games loaded on the RetroPi I built when I couldn't get the NES Classic. The only thing I'd miss out on would be StarFox 2, and I figure it'll take less than a week for a ROM of it to show up
You'd actually be surprised at what small ISP's will charge.
When I moved to rural SC 4 years ago, I had 2 options. AT&T DSL at 256kup/3mbs down, or the local cable provider, 2mbs up/24mbps down. The DSL cost $70/month, the cable cost $99.95/month.
The cable company has since deployed 10mb up/100mb down, keeping the $99.95 price point, while the 2/24 is 'only' $59.95/month. Same shitty DSL still costs $70/month
The thing you need to understand about Comcast is that it's not one big unified corporate entity. It's comprised of a bunch of region and markets that happen to share the same branding. The way things are done in Chicago are not the same way things are done in Florida, for example.
It's also a very sales driven company. In a metro area, yeah, 229 wouldn't be that much to care about. In a smaller market? 229 is a big deal
Not entirely true...
So it depends on what kind of UPS you're employing. If it's the really big ones, you know, the ones the size of generators, then you don't plug stuff directly into them. They tend to be centralized and distribute power to PDU's that are in the racks themselves. The servers plug into the PDU's in the racks, and those PDU's have on/off switches. My fat ass has bumped the power switch on PDU's more than once trying to squeeze into tight spaces between racks. UPS's aren't employed to protect against human error, they're designed to protect against loss of main power.
If you're data center is small enough, you can get away with UPS's mounted in the rack and plug your servers directly into them, but when you're talking about scale, that's just not feasible or cost effective.
Somehow I doubt British Airways data center is of the 'couple cabinents in a colo variety' and they've probably got the big UPS setup
Most likely the fault lies with whomever architected the data center. I'll bet either there's very little room between the racks, or the PDU's are mounted in a way they can be accidentally bumped (probably either mid rack or at the bottom). I personally have taken to mounting PDU's at the top of the rack on the backside just to minimize any potential human contact with them.
This is pretty much it. If an ISP is snarfing up your information as it crosses their wire, you'll never know it unless they admit to it.
Of course then the question morphs into what VPN provider can I trust, since they'd be the ones to see the unencrypted stuff egress and ingress to the tunnel.
Though I suppose VPN providers do have a more vested interest in keeping their customers data private, since privacy and getting around region locks are the primary use cases for most consumers that employ VPN in a non-work capacity
I didn't say it would create new jurisdictions, just new patent troll friendly ones. When cases start getting shifted to Delaware and Nevada courts, you can bet your ass that money will start flowing in those directions to in order to grease the wheels.
No. Traditionally, corporations are governed by the laws of the states that they're incorporated in, even if they do business in multiple states.
The reason for this is that states may have conflicting laws which would make it impossible for a corporation to legally be in compliance with the laws of every state that they do business in. Hence, why only the state of incorporation is considered.
This is why there are so many companies incorporated in Delaware and Nevada. They've got the most corporate friendly laws
Now this is for civil violations, like patent infringement. Anything that's actually criminal would be the jurisdiction of where the crime was committed
Same thing for Nevada
thinks that this will just create more patent infringement friendly jurisdictions, as the wealth gets.... redistributed
This is why Cisco isn't bothering to innovate on SDN anymore and they're just buying folks up. The Viptella acquisition is a good move for them, since it's packet-centric (as opposed to application-centric) just like most of Cisco's offerings.
Don't forget that they're also adding headcount with all the acquisitions they're making as well.
For kids it's a no brainer. They don't legally possess property, and they can't legally enter into a contract with a phone provider, which means they need someone else to obtain the device and access to use it for them. As such, just because they happen to use it, doesn't mean they own it, and the owner can do with their property as they see fit.
Same goes for the computers in the house. The kids have their own computers, but I have them heavily locked down in what they can do, both at the individual host level, and the network level.
Once they come of age, I will officially transfer ownership of their devices to them and remove any restrictions or monitoring on them (provided, of course, that they obtain their own cell phone contracts).
Now, if I were to slip some spyware onto my wifes computer or phone, or my mother in law's when she visits, or that deadbeat cousin who crashes with us for a few months before he finds another job, then I'm probably in violation of doing anything to their devices. Their network traffic is still fair game though, since I own and administer the pipes they're using while in my house.
Apple is building the rep that they only contract with you long enough to get a good hands on with your parts, then abruptly cutting ties and making it themselves.
I'm not sure why so many folks think that a business relationship is the same thing as a lifelong blood oath. If you can get the same or better performance out of chips by sourcing them in house, and it's cheaper, it only makes sense to do so, and would practically be demanded as part of their fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders.
I had the same problem, couldnt find one in retail stores, still cant, and I've checked in many different states (I'm a road warrior).
So I finally said screw it, got myself a Raspberry Pi, installed RetroPi, and it was so stupidly simple I wondered why I'd bothered worrying about the NES Classic. I ended up building a second one to take on the road with me, since my wife and kids enjoy the first one so much that they'd slit my throat if I tried to take the first one with me for weeks at a time
Or they'll realize that NES ROM's are really easy to find, and that building a RetroPi is stupidly easy
Comments like more women have Master's degrees than Men related to InfoSec skills how?
And it seems like they're talking discrimination at the management and above level. That's something that's hardly limited to InfoSec
You're missing part of the point of the XKCD. It's not just about choosing four random words, it's also about constructing a mnemonic to remember that password. That's what the image with the horse is all about.
And it works.
The day I read the XKCD, I changed my home domain password policy. I pulled out all the annoying requirements like must have upper case, special character, number, etc, and extended the length requirement one to 20 characters. That's it. I then showed my family the xkcd and made sure they understood what I was after. They grumbled. The excuse I heard from every one of them was 'I suck at choosing passwords'. I helped them through that, and after they got used to it, they didn't grumble anymore. Sadly, I've had quite a bit more difficulty getting them to use password managers, though I hope that my dire threats of doom and revoked network access have made it clear that they don't use their home domain password for anything else.
Professionally, I've tried to get my companies to see the light, but they remain stubborn and insist that the special character requirement is good enough, and about the only way I could disprove that would be to launch an attack to prove otherwise. Since that is likely to be a resume generating event, I have so far declined that option.
I think the most irritating work password experience I had was when I started using long passwords, routinely over 20 characters.... until I ran into an internal app that, despite using Active Directory for authentication, restricted the password field to 12 characters. Apparently web developers don't understand the logic of 'if you're going to use AD, and AD accepts longer passwords, your app should to'. That's when I wrote my own damn app to mimic the same functionality.