Alot of folks just don't understand the frustration that the liberalists create by basically saying we can't say anything bad about anything. We don't live in a happy utopia where everything is perfect.
The United States is a melting pot of cultures and religions. Some of those cultures and religions don't mix very well, so there's going to be friction.
By trying to pretend there isn't and trying to put a lid on it, is just going to cause it to boil over. If you can't talk about it, then there's never going to be resolution, just conflict and friction in perpetuity
he termination of CloudFlare's CDN services would have no impact on the existence and ability of these allegedly infringing websites to continue to operate
If it would make now impact, why are they in business? Kind of hard to get people to buy a service that doesn't do anything.
There is a difference between impacting ability to operate and impacting ability to operate at a given service level.
Cloudflare is absolutely correct. If they kick off sites that are being accused of copyright infringement, it doesn't make those sites go away. It's just more cost effective for the alleged criminal enterprise to use a CDN service, not necessarily cost prohibitive to not use one.
Cloudflare is being asked to chop off revenue streams based on a flawed premise. If it actually would make a difference, I'd say yeah, they should boot 'em, but since it doesn't, I kind of see their point and I'd probably say 'screw that' if I were in similar circumstances
everyone thinks that if this is specifically outlawed, everyone will be cool with it, and the landlords won't do anything to recoup the lost income like, oh, say, raise rents
I adopt the xkcd method for passwords I might need to use frequently. This is for things like my google account, my NT login, and my password managers master password.
For anything else, yeah, it gets tossed into a password manager. I generate a unique password for every site. I don't need to remember the password for everything, I just need to remember the password for my password manager. The vast majority of my passwords, I've never actually seen them.
My password database is stored only on devices where data storage is fully encrypted. I keep it in sync by using a private cloud sync setup (not something public like Google Drive or Dropbox). If I need to update the password database while mobile, I just VPN into my home network to get access to the cloud sync.
I also enable 2 factor wherever I can. Lots of stuff supports the NTOP protocol now, so using something like Google Authenticator is quick and easy.
I do not let my browser save passwords. I do not store credit card information online anymore (with the exceptions of Apple and Amazon).
While it has made logging into some things a bit more of a pain in the ass, the data breaches that have occurred on sites I used (including one that led directly to an identity theft incident) have left me with the feeling that I should do everything I can on my side to protect my information. The irritation of having to pull a password out of a password manager to login is a trifle compared against limiting the extent of a data breach can have on me.
I've also made it a practice to stop frequenting sites which have let my data out in the open, especially if there's a monetary relationship.
Now, we have so much data and fast bandwidth is so expensive, that transferring data to another site physically is actually a consideration.
Was there ever a time this wasn't true?
Sure there was. I remember a time when having physical media was a big deal. One, because storage was still an issue, Two because downloading crap took a long time. It you had physical media, it was faster to install from CD than to download and run an executable. Then storage caught up, and bandwidth increased. To the point where I haven't actually used physical media in quite a long time. Need to install an ISO? Flash a thumb drive and boot. I'm actually pretty happy I don't have stacks of game boxes I need to keep track of anymore for my PC games. The DVD and BluRay collection? Ripped to the NAS, served up to the Roku, the cases in storage in the basement, not taking up space in my living room.
However, with storage getting big and cheap, data tends to grow to accomodate available disk space. Consumer bandwidth, on the other hand, has not grown in kind.
Case in point - I have close to 12TB of used space on my NAS. It's a RAID6, so I can sustain some drive loss, but I've learned the hard way that RAID is not a back up. Now, given that Amazon has Unlimited Cloud storage for 60 bucks a year, I'd like to take them up on it and use it to backup my NAS. Problem is the fastest Internet I can get in my area without paying construction fees to get a fiber run and then paying a ridiculous amount of money each month for the bandwidth is 5mbps upstream. When I calculated that out, it would take ~300 days just to do the initial backup assuming I ran my upstream at full load 24/7. Right now, I'm relegating backup duties to a bunch of external drives instead, and seriously considering building out a second NAS just to backup the first one. Still doesn't solve my problem of having a secure offsite backup in case the house burns down, shit gets stolen, etc.
So in some regards, I've managed to nix physical media needs, but that unfortunately has created a situation where physical media is needed for other things, and it's solely because of the lack of bandwidth.
'Once it arrives, attach the appliance to your local network, download and run the Snowball client to establish a connection, and then use the client to select the file directories that you want to transfer to the appliance. The client will then encrypt and transfer the files to the appliance at high speed.'
So unless the client is absolute crap, it's a pretty good solution
The boxes in which these hard drives ship will be obvious that they're from Amazon. It's an invitation to thieves to steal the boxes and the data on the hard drives. I can't understand why ANYONE would ship data of any value in this manner.
It's not like their shipping you bare OEM drives with some air puffs. The box is a self contained appliance. I'd be very surprised if the copy to the drives in the box didn't leave the data encrypted, it'd be foolish of Amazon to do it any other way
For starters, assuming you fall prey to this, all you lose is the configuration of a single switch. If losing a single fixed configuration 1U switch causes your entire datacenter to go down, your datacenter is badly designed.
Second, this requires a particular style of booted cable, not just any booted cable. Most datacenters I've worked in don't use booted cables in their switch ports. Their cables are cut to length and crimped by hand. Booted cables can be a bitch to get out of the port, especially on 1U 48 port switches. Fiddling with a boot in a cramped cage or rack is a great way to take collateral links down.
Third - no good network engineer leaves the mode button enabled on a production switch, whether it's one of the express setup ones, or just the regular old boot to rommon ones.
Fourth - yeah, this is a shitty design choice by Cisco, normally the mode button is off to the side.
In no universe are Synology, QNAP or Drobo anything more than consumer toys.
That's a cute sentiment, but I know quite a few small and medium sized businesses that would disagree with you. The higher end units are perfectly capable of performing, they're easy to setup and deploy, and you don't need to keep someone on staff or retainer to perform sysadmin duties for you.
On the other hand, anyone who expects a hard drive in a cheap enclosure that offers network services to have a focus on security is a little whacko. If you're serious about network storage, you buy bare drives and put them in something like a Synology, QNAP, or Drobo. I stopped buying external drives with embedded software that I couldn't wipe awhile ago. RIght now, the only external drives I use are WD Elements because they provide what I'm looking for in an external drive - storage on a USB cable and nothing else
An architect (and one that is trying to be forward thinking and implement all sorts of fascinating new gear) is wasting time learning the admin interface for every box he/she specifies.
And if an architect is having trouble getting away from daily ops, not having any access to the boxes at all will help with that transition. (Not to mention that the architect will inevitably get pulled into ops problems, leaving less time to do the actual job.)
Well, for his situation, I think he needs it. The scene he sets is that of someone new to the job, the currently architected system held together with bale wire and duct tape, and a staff that's resistant to change. In that kind of situation, it's not unreasonable to insist on sneak and peek access to everything. The alternative is having to work harder to get information you need, the risk of that information being incomplete or inaccurate, and the only recourse is to blame other people. That is not going to impress the folks offering the position, nor is it going to lead to a harmonious working relationship with the ops staff.
I did read that the secretary of state considered that the records aren't subject to the Kansas open records act. In my eyes any such avoidance of disclosure means that there's something to hide.
If the disclosure of voting records is specifically prohibited by statute, as the summary would seem to indicate, that is not indicative of any kind of coverup in and of itself. Non-federal government officials who ignore the dictates of the legislature tend to not fare well. The first step would be to get the legislature to amend or repeal said statute in order to legally make the records able to be disclosed. If they still refused, then it would be a matter of whether or not a coverup was happening
I don't want leadership, management or anyone with any kind of oversight responsibility making changes on the live gear. That's the entire point of having an operations staff.
However, I see absolutely nothing wrong with read only access. The ability to change things - Not Good. The ability to gather information, that I would deem to be necessary for someone who's going to handle the care and feeding of the system going forward.
It also sounds like you need to clean house if your ops staff is pushing back at designed changes, however. Putting in a competent staff that will follow your dictates and provide you with the information you need would go along way to making access to the actual gear unnecessary
Martin is, essentially, writing historical fiction. The themes borrow very heavily from the War of the Roses, with some high fantasy elements thrown in.
Now, I don't know if you've ever taken a look at how people have historically treated each other, but what happens in the books and whats shown on TV is pretty lightweight compared to some historical shit. From crucifixion, to the auto da fe, to the rack, humans have been doing nasty shit to each other all throughout history. I don't think they're really going for sensualization of the content, merely accuracy within the context of the story.
Martin writes characters that feel real, and as such, it makes you feel. Whether you love a character or hate them, you're engaged, and that's the hallmark of a good entertainer. Because of the shit that Ramsey did to Theon and Sansa, I will enjoy it all that much more when he's given the opportunity to say what up to Joffery in the afterlife
Network speeds aren't measured in bytes, not on the network gear anyway. You can safely assume that the speeds ISP's offer are in bits per second, not bytes per second
Actually, they don't compete with Time Warner Cable and never did.
This is about holding GOOGLE at bay. So you can expect this everywhere that Google might open while the others will be mostly ignored.
Actually it's about holding AT&T at bay. Google is not a big enough player yet to be concerned about.
On the other hand, Comcast competes with AT&T pretty much everywhere, and AT&T has made a big deal about the billions they're sinking into their network. Their acquisition of DirectTV just makes them that much more of a competitor. They're the enemy, not Google, or TWC, or Cox, or Charter
I use my ISP provided modem/router only as a gateway. They have no access or control over my wifi network. They have no need to know which or how many devices I have connected to my network. They are only the gateway. If I used their router they would have a presence on my wifi's subnet.
I take it a little bit further. The router connected to my cable modem is only a border router/firewall. It connects back to my central switch, which handles all the internal routing. The only packets it will ever be possible for them to see is ingress/egress WAN traffic, and as much of that is encrypted as possible.
On the other hand, my home network is just a wee bit bigger and more complex than your average home users.
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That wouldn't fix the problem. It'd just get rid of the camouflage for us 400lb nerds who were smart enough to move out of our mothers basement
I wish I had mod points to push this up to +5.
Alot of folks just don't understand the frustration that the liberalists create by basically saying we can't say anything bad about anything. We don't live in a happy utopia where everything is perfect.
The United States is a melting pot of cultures and religions. Some of those cultures and religions don't mix very well, so there's going to be friction.
By trying to pretend there isn't and trying to put a lid on it, is just going to cause it to boil over. If you can't talk about it, then there's never going to be resolution, just conflict and friction in perpetuity
Of course they're lying. Quote
he termination of CloudFlare's CDN services would have no impact on the existence and ability of these allegedly infringing websites to continue to operate
If it would make now impact, why are they in business? Kind of hard to get people to buy a service that doesn't do anything.
There is a difference between impacting ability to operate and impacting ability to operate at a given service level.
Cloudflare is absolutely correct. If they kick off sites that are being accused of copyright infringement, it doesn't make those sites go away. It's just more cost effective for the alleged criminal enterprise to use a CDN service, not necessarily cost prohibitive to not use one.
Cloudflare is being asked to chop off revenue streams based on a flawed premise. If it actually would make a difference, I'd say yeah, they should boot 'em, but since it doesn't, I kind of see their point and I'd probably say 'screw that' if I were in similar circumstances
everyone thinks that if this is specifically outlawed, everyone will be cool with it, and the landlords won't do anything to recoup the lost income like, oh, say, raise rents
Everything has a unique login.
I adopt the xkcd method for passwords I might need to use frequently. This is for things like my google account, my NT login, and my password managers master password.
For anything else, yeah, it gets tossed into a password manager. I generate a unique password for every site. I don't need to remember the password for everything, I just need to remember the password for my password manager. The vast majority of my passwords, I've never actually seen them.
My password database is stored only on devices where data storage is fully encrypted. I keep it in sync by using a private cloud sync setup (not something public like Google Drive or Dropbox). If I need to update the password database while mobile, I just VPN into my home network to get access to the cloud sync.
I also enable 2 factor wherever I can. Lots of stuff supports the NTOP protocol now, so using something like Google Authenticator is quick and easy.
I do not let my browser save passwords. I do not store credit card information online anymore (with the exceptions of Apple and Amazon).
While it has made logging into some things a bit more of a pain in the ass, the data breaches that have occurred on sites I used (including one that led directly to an identity theft incident) have left me with the feeling that I should do everything I can on my side to protect my information. The irritation of having to pull a password out of a password manager to login is a trifle compared against limiting the extent of a data breach can have on me.
I've also made it a practice to stop frequenting sites which have let my data out in the open, especially if there's a monetary relationship.
They could block him with a custom HOSTS file.
Oh, how I wish I hjad mod points right now
Now, we have so much data and fast bandwidth is so expensive, that transferring data to another site physically is actually a consideration.
Was there ever a time this wasn't true?
Sure there was. I remember a time when having physical media was a big deal. One, because storage was still an issue, Two because downloading crap took a long time. It you had physical media, it was faster to install from CD than to download and run an executable. Then storage caught up, and bandwidth increased. To the point where I haven't actually used physical media in quite a long time. Need to install an ISO? Flash a thumb drive and boot. I'm actually pretty happy I don't have stacks of game boxes I need to keep track of anymore for my PC games. The DVD and BluRay collection? Ripped to the NAS, served up to the Roku, the cases in storage in the basement, not taking up space in my living room.
However, with storage getting big and cheap, data tends to grow to accomodate available disk space. Consumer bandwidth, on the other hand, has not grown in kind.
Case in point - I have close to 12TB of used space on my NAS. It's a RAID6, so I can sustain some drive loss, but I've learned the hard way that RAID is not a back up. Now, given that Amazon has Unlimited Cloud storage for 60 bucks a year, I'd like to take them up on it and use it to backup my NAS. Problem is the fastest Internet I can get in my area without paying construction fees to get a fiber run and then paying a ridiculous amount of money each month for the bandwidth is 5mbps upstream. When I calculated that out, it would take ~300 days just to do the initial backup assuming I ran my upstream at full load 24/7. Right now, I'm relegating backup duties to a bunch of external drives instead, and seriously considering building out a second NAS just to backup the first one. Still doesn't solve my problem of having a secure offsite backup in case the house burns down, shit gets stolen, etc.
So in some regards, I've managed to nix physical media needs, but that unfortunately has created a situation where physical media is needed for other things, and it's solely because of the lack of bandwidth.
Yeah, it's 200 bucks + 3 cents a gig if you want them to ship the data to you, which isn't terribly unreasonable
And yes, excerpted directly from the service web page found at https://aws.amazon.com/importe...
'Once it arrives, attach the appliance to your local network, download and run the Snowball client to establish a connection, and then use the client to select the file directories that you want to transfer to the appliance. The client will then encrypt and transfer the files to the appliance at high speed.'
So unless the client is absolute crap, it's a pretty good solution
The boxes in which these hard drives ship will be obvious that they're from Amazon. It's an invitation to thieves to steal the boxes and the data on the hard drives. I can't understand why ANYONE would ship data of any value in this manner.
It's not like their shipping you bare OEM drives with some air puffs. The box is a self contained appliance. I'd be very surprised if the copy to the drives in the box didn't leave the data encrypted, it'd be foolish of Amazon to do it any other way
In the beginning, networking was developed so that folks wouldn't have to shuttle data back and forth via locomotion.
Now, we have so much data and fast bandwidth is so expensive, that transferring data to another site physically is actually a consideration.
Is when the average Cuban has better bandwidth than the average US Citizen because they actually decided to build infrastructure
For starters, assuming you fall prey to this, all you lose is the configuration of a single switch. If losing a single fixed configuration 1U switch causes your entire datacenter to go down, your datacenter is badly designed.
Second, this requires a particular style of booted cable, not just any booted cable. Most datacenters I've worked in don't use booted cables in their switch ports. Their cables are cut to length and crimped by hand. Booted cables can be a bitch to get out of the port, especially on 1U 48 port switches. Fiddling with a boot in a cramped cage or rack is a great way to take collateral links down.
Third - no good network engineer leaves the mode button enabled on a production switch, whether it's one of the express setup ones, or just the regular old boot to rommon ones.
Fourth - yeah, this is a shitty design choice by Cisco, normally the mode button is off to the side.
In no universe are Synology, QNAP or Drobo anything more than consumer toys.
That's a cute sentiment, but I know quite a few small and medium sized businesses that would disagree with you. The higher end units are perfectly capable of performing, they're easy to setup and deploy, and you don't need to keep someone on staff or retainer to perform sysadmin duties for you.
On the other hand, anyone who expects a hard drive in a cheap enclosure that offers network services to have a focus on security is a little whacko. If you're serious about network storage, you buy bare drives and put them in something like a Synology, QNAP, or Drobo. I stopped buying external drives with embedded software that I couldn't wipe awhile ago. RIght now, the only external drives I use are WD Elements because they provide what I'm looking for in an external drive - storage on a USB cable and nothing else
An architect (and one that is trying to be forward thinking and implement all sorts of fascinating new gear) is wasting time learning the admin interface for every box he/she specifies.
And if an architect is having trouble getting away from daily ops, not having any access to the boxes at all will help with that transition. (Not to mention that the architect will inevitably get pulled into ops problems, leaving less time to do the actual job.)
Well, for his situation, I think he needs it. The scene he sets is that of someone new to the job, the currently architected system held together with bale wire and duct tape, and a staff that's resistant to change. In that kind of situation, it's not unreasonable to insist on sneak and peek access to everything. The alternative is having to work harder to get information you need, the risk of that information being incomplete or inaccurate, and the only recourse is to blame other people. That is not going to impress the folks offering the position, nor is it going to lead to a harmonious working relationship with the ops staff.
The District Court that ruled in favor of the state was ruled on by an elected official.
http://www.dc18.org/judges/judges.shtml
Seems maybe like a conflict for an elected official to rule for or against a case that deals with elections results, no?
As opposed to an appointed official? Likely appointed by an elected one? That could potentially be an even larger conflict
I did read that the secretary of state considered that the records aren't subject to the Kansas open records act. In my eyes any such avoidance of disclosure means that there's something to hide.
If the disclosure of voting records is specifically prohibited by statute, as the summary would seem to indicate, that is not indicative of any kind of coverup in and of itself. Non-federal government officials who ignore the dictates of the legislature tend to not fare well. The first step would be to get the legislature to amend or repeal said statute in order to legally make the records able to be disclosed. If they still refused, then it would be a matter of whether or not a coverup was happening
I don't want leadership, management or anyone with any kind of oversight responsibility making changes on the live gear. That's the entire point of having an operations staff.
However, I see absolutely nothing wrong with read only access. The ability to change things - Not Good. The ability to gather information, that I would deem to be necessary for someone who's going to handle the care and feeding of the system going forward.
It also sounds like you need to clean house if your ops staff is pushing back at designed changes, however. Putting in a competent staff that will follow your dictates and provide you with the information you need would go along way to making access to the actual gear unnecessary
Auto da Fe? What's the Auto de Fe?
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway
Martin is, essentially, writing historical fiction. The themes borrow very heavily from the War of the Roses, with some high fantasy elements thrown in.
Now, I don't know if you've ever taken a look at how people have historically treated each other, but what happens in the books and whats shown on TV is pretty lightweight compared to some historical shit. From crucifixion, to the auto da fe, to the rack, humans have been doing nasty shit to each other all throughout history. I don't think they're really going for sensualization of the content, merely accuracy within the context of the story.
Martin writes characters that feel real, and as such, it makes you feel. Whether you love a character or hate them, you're engaged, and that's the hallmark of a good entertainer. Because of the shit that Ramsey did to Theon and Sansa, I will enjoy it all that much more when he's given the opportunity to say what up to Joffery in the afterlife
Network speeds aren't measured in bytes, not on the network gear anyway. You can safely assume that the speeds ISP's offer are in bits per second, not bytes per second
Actually, they don't compete with Time Warner Cable and never did.
This is about holding GOOGLE at bay. So you can expect this everywhere that Google might open while the others will be mostly ignored.
Actually it's about holding AT&T at bay. Google is not a big enough player yet to be concerned about.
On the other hand, Comcast competes with AT&T pretty much everywhere, and AT&T has made a big deal about the billions they're sinking into their network. Their acquisition of DirectTV just makes them that much more of a competitor. They're the enemy, not Google, or TWC, or Cox, or Charter
.... to get people to stop pirating Windows. Make it spy on the pirates!
I use my ISP provided modem/router only as a gateway. They have no access or control over my wifi network. They have no need to know which or how many devices I have connected to my network. They are only the gateway. If I used their router they would have a presence on my wifi's subnet.
I take it a little bit further. The router connected to my cable modem is only a border router/firewall. It connects back to my central switch, which handles all the internal routing. The only packets it will ever be possible for them to see is ingress/egress WAN traffic, and as much of that is encrypted as possible.
On the other hand, my home network is just a wee bit bigger and more complex than your average home users.