If i give you permission to use my cell phone in a private matter, sure. If i don't give you permission, then no. And chances are, they did not give her permission to do that sort of thing.
You're brain dead. Think about your statement for a minute and then tell us the error in your logic. Hint: you're loaning me your cell phone. What are the chances the call ISN'T a private matter? Are you assuming I'm ordering a pizza or phone sex? If someone asks to borrow your cell phone it's probably going to be a relatively private matter. Are we now going to debate what is a "private matter" and what is not?
a company did not have the right to read emails from an employee's personal account even through the account was accessed on a company computer.
I agree with the general principle - if someone doesn't use the company account there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy for a personal webmail account. However she still may be violating company policy about using work assets for personal affairs. The computer is owned by the company and they have every right to reprimand her for making the emails regardless of the content.
Do "work assets" include her telephone? So, if she calls her psychiatrist to or gynecologist to reschedule an appointment, does that give the employer the right to record and listen to those personal calls? Better example: I'm pretty sure I'd be correct in saying that if the employee got hold of an employer recording of her briefly and discretely discussing her vaginal bleeding with her OBGYN that she'd automatically win at least a $1 million judgment if the case went to trial. It probably wouldn't. What would happen is the employer's attorney knowing which way the wind blows would instantly offer $500K to settle with the standard no fault language.
More examples. An employee's time at work is an employer asset. By your logic, an employee has no right whatsoever to conduct any personal business while "on the clock". This simply is not possible in modern America, or many countries. If you work from 8 to 5 and your doctor, dentist, etc have the same hours, you'd never be able to make an appointment. "Call on your lunch break" you say? What if you got voicemail and they're returning your call? Can you take the call? Now, here's the kicker: if have kids in K-12. Your kid beat the crap out of some other kid, or was caught smoking in the boys room. Can you take that call?
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure there have already been decisions handed down that enunciate certain employee rights in situations like this for which employers cannot legally take any kind of punitive action against the employee.
Splicing two 1500 uF caps inline on the 5v and 12v PSU lines respectively would be cheaper, more effective, and safer that attempting surgery on this little PCB. It won't void the warranty, and it'll provide significantly more reserve current than the tiny cap normally soldered to that pad. And it will power the entire SSD drive for moments after the cord is ranked, so you won't have to worry about whether soldering a tiny cap to that pad required a drive firmware update as the reserve "lights out" current is provided upstream of the drive.
This is all academic anyway, as any intelligent individual is going to have his/her PC or datacenter plugged into an appropriately sized and managed UPS, with auto shutdown software on the hosts.
Why the fuck is Kevin Smith flying "coach" on the cheapest airline in the US? Haven't his movies made him enough for his own private jet yet, or at least a lease sharing arrangement on one? Oh, wait, forgot, he's spent all his money on twinkies.
Maybe Mozilla's done the user research and they know that they're not dropping many users, but just from reading the comments in this Slashdot thread, I think they may be dropping more users than they realize.
Is this what happened when Mozilla announced rather loudly quite a while back that Windows 2000 would not be supported by FF 3.5 and beyond? I'm very pleased that they pulled an about face (with little/zero public notification): one day I just saw in the tray that an update was available, and it was 3.5. I installed it and it works fine. Somebody had second thoughts (and they were the correct thoughts).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Yes, the "beauty of open source" is that people waste time and energy on an obsolete product. Reminds me of Microsoft.
From Webster's, "obsolete": 1 a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current : old-fashioned
Whilst Apache 1.3 may very well fit the second definition, it certainly doesn't fit the first. It it still useful for a great many people, particularly those who serve static content for a single domain. They have no use for virtual directories and multiple domain hosting, or many of the Apache 2 features that have caused so much bloat and resource consumption.
I dare say that Lighttpd does everything Apache 1.3 does, and a whole lot more, and is superior to Apache 1.3 WRT to the features, footprint, etc that make Apache 1.3 still appealing to many. At one point Debian stopped offering Apache 1.3. I didn't want to install it from source or an RPM to deb conversion. I went searching and found Lighttpd, and I'm oh so glad I did. Lighttpd is a natural progression for those needing/wanting to migrate away from Apache 1.3 but who abhor the complexity and bloat of Apache2.
A botnet attack? But then the activity shouldn't be concentrated by country, but spread around the world about evenly.
Or it could be that someone's seeding a torrent from behind the firewall. That would explain the suddenly starting continuous activity. It might also explain the concentration by country (language or timezone). It would help if the graph could be organized by such factors.
You people have lost your damn minds. The highest "peak" was ~350 packets PER HOUR. Not per second, but PER HOUR the narrator said. That's so low I'm guessing this probably is router-router traffic, BGP updates or similar. 350 packets isn't even a meg. It's slightly over 512KB assuming ethernet frame size of 1514 bytes. There is so little traffic described here it's not worth analyzing. Seriously. The guy who came up with this is a loser.
It's worth noting that this is entirely different from the so-called "Roundup Ready" crops which by definition encourage the farmer to use potentially toxic doses of the herbicide.
Obviously you have zero experience with crop production. Herbicides are *expensive*. The more one uses, the lower the profit per bushel and per acre. Crop farming is all about profit per bushel and per acre. Because of this, farmers choose to use *as little as possible* of Roundup, Prowl, Pursuit, Buctril, etc and still get the desired weed killing result.
Contrary to your flawed, uneducated viewpoint, a farmer who over treats with herbicides and pesticides for more than a season or few is no longer a farmer, as he's bankrupt. I grew up in a rural farming community of ~2000 people. I worked in an AG spraying business for two summers during college. I invoiced the chemicals coming in. Dealer cost on the "elite" herbicides was something like $800/gallon and we sold it for $1300/gallon, IIRC. The "cheap" stuff was $50/gallon. Some of it would treat 1 acre/gallon, some a few acres. Typically the more expensive stuff did more acres. Even with the $50/gallon "cheap" stuff at 1 gallon/acre that's $100,000 for just one chemical to treat 2,000 acres. That's just the herbicide. Add in a pesticide at the same cost and you're at $200,000. And that doesn't include application fees, which can run anywhere from $50/acre to well over $100/acre depending on whether you choose aerial crop dusting or spraying via ground vehicles such as TerraGators.
Calling seed "Roundup ready" is not an invitation to over treat one's crops. Pull your nose outta your books and your head outta your ass city boy.:-)
I don't buy that, an OC-768 module doesn't cost that much and the $300M cost for the 5 pair "Unity" cable shows a capital cost of about 1.5M per gbps of transpacific bandwidth or about 100GB/$ over a 5 year cable life and that's the most expensive backhaul bandwidth out there.
Why the fuck would anyone run an ocean floor cable over hundreds or thousands of miles with only 5 pair for $deity's sake?!!!! $300 Million USD? Run a fucking 50 pair cable, minimum. I find it hard to believe any company would be stupid enough to invest that kind of jack on a 5 pair oceanic cable.
Has been for a looong time. Thus, I switched to Lighttpd. Apache2 is too bloated for me, sucks too much memory by default, and is too difficult to configure for small simple sites (last I tried anyway, which was a looong time ago).
The only way to make tritium dangerous is to drink large amounts of it.
This is how I acquired, and retain, my Superpowers. I have a glass of Tritium every day. In addition to keeping up my Superpowers, it keeps me regular (and it tastes much better than prune juice).
And this is why Intel, AMD, and other large players get away with the exact behavior that got these little guys kicked out of their hotel rooms. I've read on various hardware sites over the years of Intel and AMD specifically taking key clients to hotel rooms for private demonstrations of beta hardware platforms. The only reason CEA (and thus the hotels) lets this slide is because they (Intel and AMD) have massive booths on the floor as well. So, if you have a booth, you can also do whatever the fuck product demos you want to in as many hotel rooms as you want, as long as you have paid for floor space at the show. As always, follow the money.
I'm tired of the Firefox behavior of loading and processing a web page sequentially, pausing every time it hits an embedded image or other URL where the server these things are hosted on is slow or not responding. Doing this needlessly holds up the entire rest of the page load. Usually these are adds and crap on remote domains. If the devs really want to speed up Firefox, they'd download an entire web page, scan all the URLs, and then grab the remote content in parallel, so that a single slow server doesn't bring the entire show to a crawl.
Or, does this feature already exist, but is hidden from the average user in about:config?
Postgres is a freaking enterprise database. Its documentation is so good, it makes every other framework in my development stack look bad. But people complain because they'd rather have the easy things be trivial, without caring about the difficulty of the not so easy things.
Some people just want their sql enabled php/java webmail app to be able to store and retrieve address book entries and what not. Should we have to become db gurus just to support such a tiny function of one of our applications? Or just to run a BBS, ahem, sorry, I mean *forum*?
There is a finite amount of time in a lifetime. If all of us had to become an expert on every god damn piece of software we ever touch, we'd all be broke, starving, and near death. Some software, especially support software (which is what all dbs are), needs to be "drop in an go" in many cases, with little to no configuration required.
You can't take an entity the size of (for example) IBM and have them compress their address use into a/12 to free up 240 new/24's without it being a very significant cost in terms of effort and downtime -- particularly when they have absolutely no incentive to do so. Nobody in their right mind would spend the necessary amount of money to make it worth their time and effort, when they can get millions of addresses in IPv6 for next to nothing.
You state that transition costs are the reason for these companies to avoid reorganizing their IPv4 space and giving back what they don't need. Then you state the cost of transitioning to IPv6 as "next to nothing".
You didn't even realize you killed your own argument. Reorganizing IPv4 is peanuts compared to rolling out IPv6. The cost ratio is at least 10:1 in favor of sticking with IPv4 and reorganizing device numbering to free up space. All your devices already support IPv4. To transition to IPv6 not only incurs more labor costs (due to learning curve), it also requires substantial investment in new devices. How many network printers over 5 years old, that still have 10 years of good life in them, have an IPv6 enabled NIC inside? Very few to none. So, in IBM's case, they'd have to replace the NICs in around 20-30,000 network printers. How about ethernet security cameras? Again, none of the installed base of these devices supports IPv6. The list goes on and on.
The entities mentioned above holding the/8s will be the *VERY LAST* orgs to move to IPv6, for the exact same reason they aren't reorganizing their networks to free up IPV4 space. *Too damn many man/hours/dollars involved in any such conversion*
Surely everybody on Slashdot is old enough to remember 386s? What about 286s? I even remember a 186... It scared me that where I worked recently with a lot of Gen Y's, some of them may not have ever used a single-tasking OS like MS-DOS or CPM.
I seem to recall the Tandy 1000 used the 80186 processor. This processor came in two flavors, the 80186 and the 80188, same as the 8086/8088. I believe the 80188 had the same modification as the 8088 . . . it had an 8-bit external data bus whereas the 80186 had a 16-bit external data bus.
Heh, the CPU in my SMC 7008ABR SOHO router (circa 2003/4) is a "modern" 80C186 (I don't recall the clock speed), running VxWorks.
I too recall the Tandy 1000. In addition to the odball 80186 it had an odball single-sided floppy drive, a 5.25" but storing 720KB instead of the standard 360KB. So, not only did one have a non-standard version of MS-DOS running on the T1000 beast, you had to buy special diskettes which cost 3x the normal 5.25" disks. Did I forget to mention is wasn't compatible with any off the shelf IBM PC/XT software? You could only get software for it from Tandy. You could get all the same software, from Wordperfect to VisiCalc to dBaseIII Plus, but it was all 25-35% more expensive than the IBM counterparts. This one factor led me to buy a Kaypro PC, an IBM XT clone, instead. I was heavily looking at the T1000 because of the hardware specs, but the compatibility issues turned me away.
I later dropped an Intel Inboard 386/PC full length ISA board into the Kaypro, in essence turning it into a 16MHz 80386DX with 1MB DRAM. That was one of the absolutely wildest "CPU upgrades" every devised: A full length ISA board containing a complete 386 system including CPU, memory, memory controller, 387 socket, RTC chip, all the necessary TTL, and a ribbon cable that plugged into the original 8088 socket. The freaky part is that the system still booted the original Phoenix 8088 BIOS and all the option ROMs on the RLL disk controller and 8 bit VGA card (yes you read that right, 8 bit ISA VGA card). Ahh, the good ol days...
I think this is for the command and control servers, not for the spam spewers.
Apparently you've never heard of snowshoe spamming. Botnet spam is easy to block with automation because it comes from easily identifiable residential broadband IP space. The CBL is expert at this, and even simple FQrDNS checks within your MTA stop most of it. Snowshoe spam is not easy to block because until you get hit with the first run from a given/27 or/24 you have no idea of the reputation of those netblocks, because most dnsbls don't target them. Until Spamhaus recently started a snowshoe specific block list, the only dnsbl doing a good job of catching snowshoe IPs was Invaluement. And content filters ala Spamassassin are just as effective in catching snowshoe as botnet spam. Spam content is spam content regardless of origin IP. It's all selling pills and enlargement and/or attempting a 419.
Spam spewing servers account for an extremely large amount of U in US datacenter racks. I've got a local cidr block list with almost 1000 entries that contains the names and cidr of each registrant and/or upstream.
If Childs' boss WAS authorized for the information by policy, and Childs honestly felt the boss would misuse the information for something illegal and/or was gunning for Childs, then his actions may or may not be justifiable in this case - he's going to have to produce some proof that his boss had an illegitimate purpose. That could be tough.
Especially considering the City and his (former?) colleagues have had 18 months to doctor and erase the actual evidence that would vindicate Child's. I hope he had copious copies of relevant information tucked away off site.
When did they supposedly realize this? Was this when they created 17 different versions of Vista and charged $500 for the "Ultimate" version, and then never shipped the programs that supposedly made it ultimate? How many customers were asking Microsoft to charge them an extra $300 for vaporware?
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If i give you permission to use my cell phone in a private matter, sure. If i don't give you permission, then no. And chances are, they did not give her permission to do that sort of thing.
You're brain dead. Think about your statement for a minute and then tell us the error in your logic. Hint: you're loaning me your cell phone. What are the chances the call ISN'T a private matter? Are you assuming I'm ordering a pizza or phone sex? If someone asks to borrow your cell phone it's probably going to be a relatively private matter. Are we now going to debate what is a "private matter" and what is not?
a company did not have the right to read emails from an employee's personal account even through the account was accessed on a company computer.
I agree with the general principle - if someone doesn't use the company account there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy for a personal webmail account. However she still may be violating company policy about using work assets for personal affairs. The computer is owned by the company and they have every right to reprimand her for making the emails regardless of the content.
Do "work assets" include her telephone? So, if she calls her psychiatrist to or gynecologist to reschedule an appointment, does that give the employer the right to record and listen to those personal calls? Better example: I'm pretty sure I'd be correct in saying that if the employee got hold of an employer recording of her briefly and discretely discussing her vaginal bleeding with her OBGYN that she'd automatically win at least a $1 million judgment if the case went to trial. It probably wouldn't. What would happen is the employer's attorney knowing which way the wind blows would instantly offer $500K to settle with the standard no fault language.
More examples. An employee's time at work is an employer asset. By your logic, an employee has no right whatsoever to conduct any personal business while "on the clock". This simply is not possible in modern America, or many countries. If you work from 8 to 5 and your doctor, dentist, etc have the same hours, you'd never be able to make an appointment. "Call on your lunch break" you say? What if you got voicemail and they're returning your call? Can you take the call? Now, here's the kicker: if have kids in K-12. Your kid beat the crap out of some other kid, or was caught smoking in the boys room. Can you take that call?
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure there have already been decisions handed down that enunciate certain employee rights in situations like this for which employers cannot legally take any kind of punitive action against the employee.
You've never looked at a periodic table?
Francium, 87, Fr
Americium, 95, Am
Splicing two 1500 uF caps inline on the 5v and 12v PSU lines respectively would be cheaper, more effective, and safer that attempting surgery on this little PCB. It won't void the warranty, and it'll provide significantly more reserve current than the tiny cap normally soldered to that pad. And it will power the entire SSD drive for moments after the cord is ranked, so you won't have to worry about whether soldering a tiny cap to that pad required a drive firmware update as the reserve "lights out" current is provided upstream of the drive.
This is all academic anyway, as any intelligent individual is going to have his/her PC or datacenter plugged into an appropriately sized and managed UPS, with auto shutdown software on the hosts.
Why the fuck is Kevin Smith flying "coach" on the cheapest airline in the US? Haven't his movies made him enough for his own private jet yet, or at least a lease sharing arrangement on one? Oh, wait, forgot, he's spent all his money on twinkies.
Maybe Mozilla's done the user research and they know that they're not dropping many users, but just from reading the comments in this Slashdot thread, I think they may be dropping more users than they realize.
Is this what happened when Mozilla announced rather loudly quite a while back that Windows 2000 would not be supported by FF 3.5 and beyond? I'm very pleased that they pulled an about face (with little/zero public notification): one day I just saw in the tray that an update was available, and it was 3.5. I installed it and it works fine. Somebody had second thoughts (and they were the correct thoughts).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Dear god, I hoped you were joking.
Slashdot's running on 1.3.41.
This was obviously a joke. Slashdot is still run by a mess of perl scripts. They've yet to drag themselves into early last decade.
It seems you are both correct, slashdot is hosted by Apache 1.3.41 and perl:
[12:33:43][me@me]/$ telnet www.slashdot.org 80
Trying 216.34.181.48...
Connected to www.slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
Location: http://slashdot.org/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Length: 297
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:35:42 GMT
X-Varnish: 785915486 785915484
Age: 0
Connection: close
Yes, the "beauty of open source" is that people waste time and energy on an obsolete product. Reminds me of Microsoft.
From Webster's, "obsolete": 1 a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current : old-fashioned
Whilst Apache 1.3 may very well fit the second definition, it certainly doesn't fit the first. It it still useful for a great many people, particularly those who serve static content for a single domain. They have no use for virtual directories and multiple domain hosting, or many of the Apache 2 features that have caused so much bloat and resource consumption.
I dare say that Lighttpd does everything Apache 1.3 does, and a whole lot more, and is superior to Apache 1.3 WRT to the features, footprint, etc that make Apache 1.3 still appealing to many. At one point Debian stopped offering Apache 1.3. I didn't want to install it from source or an RPM to deb conversion. I went searching and found Lighttpd, and I'm oh so glad I did. Lighttpd is a natural progression for those needing/wanting to migrate away from Apache 1.3 but who abhor the complexity and bloat of Apache2.
A botnet attack? But then the activity shouldn't be concentrated by country, but spread around the world about evenly.
Or it could be that someone's seeding a torrent from behind the firewall. That would explain the suddenly starting continuous activity. It might also explain the concentration by country (language or timezone). It would help if the graph could be organized by such factors.
You people have lost your damn minds. The highest "peak" was ~350 packets PER HOUR. Not per second, but PER HOUR the narrator said. That's so low I'm guessing this probably is router-router traffic, BGP updates or similar. 350 packets isn't even a meg. It's slightly over 512KB assuming ethernet frame size of 1514 bytes. There is so little traffic described here it's not worth analyzing. Seriously. The guy who came up with this is a loser.
Turn in your geek card. Only Monster Kill has the M-stutter preceeding it (and the echo following it). IIRC, the series is:
1. Double Kill
2. Multi Kill
3. Mega Kill
4. Ultra Kill
5. M-M-M Monster Kill Kill Kill
followed by, depending on whether it's UT or UT 2004:
6. Unstoppable! or
6. Ludicrous Kill
7. Holy Shit
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=M-m-m-monster%20Kill
It's worth noting that this is entirely different from the so-called "Roundup Ready" crops which by definition encourage the farmer to use potentially toxic doses of the herbicide.
Obviously you have zero experience with crop production. Herbicides are *expensive*. The more one uses, the lower the profit per bushel and per acre. Crop farming is all about profit per bushel and per acre. Because of this, farmers choose to use *as little as possible* of Roundup, Prowl, Pursuit, Buctril, etc and still get the desired weed killing result.
Contrary to your flawed, uneducated viewpoint, a farmer who over treats with herbicides and pesticides for more than a season or few is no longer a farmer, as he's bankrupt. I grew up in a rural farming community of ~2000 people. I worked in an AG spraying business for two summers during college. I invoiced the chemicals coming in. Dealer cost on the "elite" herbicides was something like $800/gallon and we sold it for $1300/gallon, IIRC. The "cheap" stuff was $50/gallon. Some of it would treat 1 acre/gallon, some a few acres. Typically the more expensive stuff did more acres. Even with the $50/gallon "cheap" stuff at 1 gallon/acre that's $100,000 for just one chemical to treat 2,000 acres. That's just the herbicide. Add in a pesticide at the same cost and you're at $200,000. And that doesn't include application fees, which can run anywhere from $50/acre to well over $100/acre depending on whether you choose aerial crop dusting or spraying via ground vehicles such as TerraGators.
Calling seed "Roundup ready" is not an invitation to over treat one's crops. Pull your nose outta your books and your head outta your ass city boy. :-)
I don't buy that, an OC-768 module doesn't cost that much and the $300M cost for the 5 pair "Unity" cable shows a capital cost of about 1.5M per gbps of transpacific bandwidth or about 100GB/$ over a 5 year cable life and that's the most expensive backhaul bandwidth out there.
Why the fuck would anyone run an ocean floor cable over hundreds or thousands of miles with only 5 pair for $deity's sake?!!!! $300 Million USD? Run a fucking 50 pair cable, minimum. I find it hard to believe any company would be stupid enough to invest that kind of jack on a 5 pair oceanic cable.
You can't be "Allergic to wi-fi"
Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.
But, what if he can?
...Apache 1.3.x is dying
Has been for a looong time. Thus, I switched to Lighttpd. Apache2 is too bloated for me, sucks too much memory by default, and is too difficult to configure for small simple sites (last I tried anyway, which was a looong time ago).
The only way to make tritium dangerous is to drink large amounts of it.
This is how I acquired, and retain, my Superpowers. I have a glass of Tritium every day. In addition to keeping up my Superpowers, it keeps me regular (and it tastes much better than prune juice).
Well, the *most* embarrassing stuff does *not* require you to interact with girls...
Would that include being caught by your father whilst playing "solitaire", SolitaryMan?
And this is why Intel, AMD, and other large players get away with the exact behavior that got these little guys kicked out of their hotel rooms. I've read on various hardware sites over the years of Intel and AMD specifically taking key clients to hotel rooms for private demonstrations of beta hardware platforms. The only reason CEA (and thus the hotels) lets this slide is because they (Intel and AMD) have massive booths on the floor as well. So, if you have a booth, you can also do whatever the fuck product demos you want to in as many hotel rooms as you want, as long as you have paid for floor space at the show. As always, follow the money.
I'm tired of the Firefox behavior of loading and processing a web page sequentially, pausing every time it hits an embedded image or other URL where the server these things are hosted on is slow or not responding. Doing this needlessly holds up the entire rest of the page load. Usually these are adds and crap on remote domains. If the devs really want to speed up Firefox, they'd download an entire web page, scan all the URLs, and then grab the remote content in parallel, so that a single slow server doesn't bring the entire show to a crawl.
Or, does this feature already exist, but is hidden from the average user in about:config?
Postgres is a freaking enterprise database. Its documentation is so good, it makes every other framework in my development stack look bad. But people complain because they'd rather have the easy things be trivial, without caring about the difficulty of the not so easy things.
Some people just want their sql enabled php/java webmail app to be able to store and retrieve address book entries and what not. Should we have to become db gurus just to support such a tiny function of one of our applications? Or just to run a BBS, ahem, sorry, I mean *forum*?
There is a finite amount of time in a lifetime. If all of us had to become an expert on every god damn piece of software we ever touch, we'd all be broke, starving, and near death. Some software, especially support software (which is what all dbs are), needs to be "drop in an go" in many cases, with little to no configuration required.
You can't take an entity the size of (for example) IBM and have them compress their address use into a /12 to free up 240 new /24's without it being a very significant cost in terms of effort and downtime -- particularly when they have absolutely no incentive to do so. Nobody in their right mind would spend the necessary amount of money to make it worth their time and effort, when they can get millions of addresses in IPv6 for next to nothing.
You state that transition costs are the reason for these companies to avoid reorganizing their IPv4 space and giving back what they don't need. Then you state the cost of transitioning to IPv6 as "next to nothing".
You didn't even realize you killed your own argument. Reorganizing IPv4 is peanuts compared to rolling out IPv6. The cost ratio is at least 10:1 in favor of sticking with IPv4 and reorganizing device numbering to free up space. All your devices already support IPv4. To transition to IPv6 not only incurs more labor costs (due to learning curve), it also requires substantial investment in new devices. How many network printers over 5 years old, that still have 10 years of good life in them, have an IPv6 enabled NIC inside? Very few to none. So, in IBM's case, they'd have to replace the NICs in around 20-30,000 network printers. How about ethernet security cameras? Again, none of the installed base of these devices supports IPv6. The list goes on and on.
The entities mentioned above holding the /8s will be the *VERY LAST* orgs to move to IPv6, for the exact same reason they aren't reorganizing their networks to free up IPV4 space. *Too damn many man/hours/dollars involved in any such conversion*
Surely everybody on Slashdot is old enough to remember 386s? What about 286s? I even remember a 186 ... It scared me that where I worked recently with a lot of Gen Y's, some of them may not have ever used a single-tasking OS like MS-DOS or CPM.
I seem to recall the Tandy 1000 used the 80186 processor. This processor came in two flavors, the 80186 and the 80188, same as the 8086/8088. I believe the 80188 had the same modification as the 8088 . . . it had an 8-bit external data bus whereas the 80186 had a 16-bit external data bus.
Heh, the CPU in my SMC 7008ABR SOHO router (circa 2003/4) is a "modern" 80C186 (I don't recall the clock speed), running VxWorks.
I too recall the Tandy 1000. In addition to the odball 80186 it had an odball single-sided floppy drive, a 5.25" but storing 720KB instead of the standard 360KB. So, not only did one have a non-standard version of MS-DOS running on the T1000 beast, you had to buy special diskettes which cost 3x the normal 5.25" disks. Did I forget to mention is wasn't compatible with any off the shelf IBM PC/XT software? You could only get software for it from Tandy. You could get all the same software, from Wordperfect to VisiCalc to dBaseIII Plus, but it was all 25-35% more expensive than the IBM counterparts. This one factor led me to buy a Kaypro PC, an IBM XT clone, instead. I was heavily looking at the T1000 because of the hardware specs, but the compatibility issues turned me away.
I later dropped an Intel Inboard 386/PC full length ISA board into the Kaypro, in essence turning it into a 16MHz 80386DX with 1MB DRAM. That was one of the absolutely wildest "CPU upgrades" every devised: A full length ISA board containing a complete 386 system including CPU, memory, memory controller, 387 socket, RTC chip, all the necessary TTL, and a ribbon cable that plugged into the original 8088 socket. The freaky part is that the system still booted the original Phoenix 8088 BIOS and all the option ROMs on the RLL disk controller and 8 bit VGA card (yes you read that right, 8 bit ISA VGA card). Ahh, the good ol days...
I think this is for the command and control servers, not for the spam spewers.
Apparently you've never heard of snowshoe spamming. Botnet spam is easy to block with automation because it comes from easily identifiable residential broadband IP space. The CBL is expert at this, and even simple FQrDNS checks within your MTA stop most of it. Snowshoe spam is not easy to block because until you get hit with the first run from a given /27 or /24 you have no idea of the reputation of those netblocks, because most dnsbls don't target them. Until Spamhaus recently started a snowshoe specific block list, the only dnsbl doing a good job of catching snowshoe IPs was Invaluement. And content filters ala Spamassassin are just as effective in catching snowshoe as botnet spam. Spam content is spam content regardless of origin IP. It's all selling pills and enlargement and/or attempting a 419.
Spam spewing servers account for an extremely large amount of U in US datacenter racks. I've got a local cidr block list with almost 1000 entries that contains the names and cidr of each registrant and/or upstream.
What role does CREDIT RATING play in the life of UK citizens? In the US, your credit rating pwns you.
If Childs' boss WAS authorized for the information by policy, and Childs honestly felt the boss would misuse the information for something illegal and/or was gunning for Childs, then his actions may or may not be justifiable in this case - he's going to have to produce some proof that his boss had an illegitimate purpose. That could be tough.
Especially considering the City and his (former?) colleagues have had 18 months to doctor and erase the actual evidence that would vindicate Child's. I hope he had copious copies of relevant information tucked away off site.
When did they supposedly realize this? Was this when they created 17 different versions of Vista and charged $500 for the "Ultimate" version, and then never shipped the programs that supposedly made it ultimate? How many customers were asking Microsoft to charge them an extra $300 for vaporware?