This is easy and I recommend looking at a very inexpensive service called Tunnelr. Tunnelr offers SSH and OpenVPN tunnels and is located primarily in the United States. Tunnelr also uses the most secure OS on the planet, OpenBSD, so you are fairly safe. However, I would be very careful because the last thing that you want to do is end up in a Turkish prison.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
Encryption won't work. The MAFIAA gets your IP address from the tracker, or by joining the torrent swarms for files they considering to be infringing. Then they make the ISP correlate the IP address to your account.
You'd need a VPN proxy network to obscure your IP address from the tracker and the other members of the torrent swarm.
Simple enough. Find a provider that will give you some server space with shell access and install OpenVPN. Then use OpenVPN to obscure your IP address.
I am surprised at the arrogance of VMWare! It is not as if there is not an extremely viable, free/open source alternative to VMWare, i.e. Xen. I would have thought the executives would be concerned about competition from a free product. There is also KVM/QEMU and I know of a few enterprises that use it.
Guys, don't get your hopes up for an ISP-bucking peer to peer revolution in network topology. We're still gonna have a top down hierarchy and centralized control.
The IEEE, together with the FCC, is pursuing a centralized approach for available spectrum discovery. Specifically each Base Station (BS) would be armed with a GPS receiver which would allow its position to be reported. This information would be sent back to centralized servers (in the USA these would be managed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)), which would respond with the information about available free TV channels and guard bands in the area of the BS.
This news is most welcome! It has the potential to level the ISP playing field again and harkin back to the times when mom and pop ISPs existed. How? Small start-up ISPs can now offer competing broadband to the likes of AT&T and offer the service at an unlimited tier. Thus, AT&T will be forced to remove its service caps. Companies will be able to build their own MAN's without having to pay Verizon/AT&T/CenturyLink leases for the lines. I will be following this with some excitement especially because I would love to run my own small ISP.
+1 - Especially because a sarcastic review is decidedly NOT positive. I guess it is wholly possible to modify the search criteria of Cornell's engine to look for review spam that trashes products. I am sure that practice is just as wide spread as overly positive reviews.
I like the idea very much. The article showed an example of two comments: one on the left and one on the right. This example is only easily spotted for folks familiar with SEO and web dev stuff. The review on the right hand side was clearly spam because the name of the product was used several times in the comment to pad a search engine. My guess is that, for a laymen, it isn't that obvious. Signs to look for are: (1) excessive use of capitol letters and punctuation marks, (2) excessive use of the product/service name, (3) Excessive grammar errors (can indicate a user paid to post but not necessarily so.), and (4) reviews that appear to be almost identical between products with simply the name switched out which could indicate a script doing the review.
Think of the year around electrical cost to run the servers. It is hardly worth it. If companies are worried about heat, build a damn data center at the poles and use the waste heat as part of the power generation, if possible. You could also harness the wind for power as well. This clearly wouldn't work for desert dwellers like me or indeed much of the United States, because, it gets awfully hot during the summer as recent records are being broken. Your air conditioning bill would go through the roof.
Another pearl of wisdom from Merrill: 'the more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.'"
This is very poor advice. More often than not, I have seen poorly managed projects meet with less success. A properly planned project means that you have the cooperation of your customers and all departments involved. A properly planned project is one in which you have the trust and confidence from your customer.
I was hoping that Americans Elect would be more for issue-dependent voters like myself. The questions on the survey were still geared towards Blue and Red. I believe that the rug should be pulled out from under the Health Insurance companies, abolishing pre-existing conditions clauses and lifetime caps. I believe in the right to own firearms. I believe the government has no business regulating natural drugs like marijuana. I believe in deporting illegal immigrants (with notable exception of political asylum) because our country was founded on legal immigration. Political asylum is something that should be announced upon arrival on our borders. I don't fall into the typical voter category.
As a political party (for lack of a better word), I think Americans Elect is doomed to failure. I took the survey that was offered upon sign-up and I found the answers to the questions to be very limiting and, in some cases, black and white when few issues are as such. For example, the immigration issue had no answer that really matched my feelings so I had to answer Unsure. Also, when it came to renewable energy, the survey used the fad buzzwords like wind and solar. Wind and solar are, at best, inefficient. I would sooner put money into hydrogen fuel cell technologies. Another example: Education. Not one question asked whether politics should be totally left out of education. Politics should play no role in education whatsoever considering that I question the value of the education many of our politicians have recieved. The survey was worded almost so that it would "trap" the same kinds of candidates: red or blue/democratic or republican. Based on these survey questions, I fail to see how Americans Elect will effect any real change.
This angers me beyond belief! We have plenty of development talent here in the United States. I am so sick of the erroneous belief that Indians make better programmers. It is simply not true. Too often I have seen an inferior product. If a large sector of America is unemployed, why are we importing labor? I thought that Clinton and Obama were against H1B visas. Fucking politicians.... Promise one thing and do another.
Well, as much as I love OpenBSD, not much has changed on the mailing list. The misc@ list has a very low tolerance of people whom they percieve as stupid or even newbies. Remember, we were all newbies once.
Why should students in the NCAA be any more monitored than regular students? (As in, why at all?). As is, the NCAA athletes often bring in major revenue to schools (for football programs at least) and are not allowed to benefit from it at all, does the NCAA consider them their slaves?
Simple, we are moving more and more towards a police state.and away from freedom of the press. The NCAA does not want to be publicly criticized when it is anyone's legal right to criticize them. Heaven forefend should a player criticize the holy NCAA!
Landlines are going by the wayside as they are just cost prohibitive in the current atmosphere. Verizon wants to encourage people to go with VoIP or wireless service. I believe Verizon's wireline division just went through massive cutbacks in personnel not too long ago. Personally, I don't see a need for a landline anymore and I haven't had one since 2001.
Why does he have to spread crap like this around? Really, there should be cooperation between the Linux and BSD camps. They interoperate very well because, for the most part, they share some common userland tools and are also semi-POSIX compliant. One of Sun Tzu's principles in the Art of War is to divide and conquer. When FUD gets spewed from the OS camps, it simply shows how divided Open Source really is and makes it easier for proprietary OSes to gain inroads.
For security, stability, and reliability, I will take OpenBSD over Linux any day of the week. I can look at my logs and most would-be intruders give up after doing an OS fingerprint on my gateway machine. They see that it is OpenBSD and quit while they are "NOT ahead."
It has the sleek coolness factor of the bat mobile but totally has no stealth whatsoever. You can probably hear that thing coming from a mile away! Nevertheless, I am glad to see that America still has some engineers!
One commenter in the article mentioned that Red Box is looking "better and better these days." I would happen to agree except for the convenience factor. Let Netflix raise their prices. Competition is in the works that will make Netflix somewhat sorry they made a move like this. What might be good for stockholders is not good for Americans as a whole. We have learned this lesson a thousand times over.
For a corporate device, nothing beats the speed and efficiency with which you can use the BlackBerry. I have an Android device and a BlackBerry and I can still respond to email/text messages faster on the BlackBerry. I will give Mike the benefit of that one. It's battery life is also incredible and I do appreciate that feature. That much said, outside of the corporate/government arena, the BlackBerry is pretty well useless. The Android wins hands down for features of web browsing and social networking. I like both of the devices. RIM builds a device that is a workhorse, not full of bling. I think RIM could begin a comeback by not requiring carriers to use their NOC and opening the device up just a little bit.
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This is easy and I recommend looking at a very inexpensive service called Tunnelr. Tunnelr offers SSH and OpenVPN tunnels and is located primarily in the United States. Tunnelr also uses the most secure OS on the planet, OpenBSD, so you are fairly safe. However, I would be very careful because the last thing that you want to do is end up in a Turkish prison.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I think it is fair to expect Verizon's union workers to contribute money towards their healthcare costs. Just about every other employer makes their employees do so.
Encryption won't work. The MAFIAA gets your IP address from the tracker, or by joining the torrent swarms for files they considering to be infringing. Then they make the ISP correlate the IP address to your account.
You'd need a VPN proxy network to obscure your IP address from the tracker and the other members of the torrent swarm.
Simple enough. Find a provider that will give you some server space with shell access and install OpenVPN. Then use OpenVPN to obscure your IP address.
I am surprised at the arrogance of VMWare! It is not as if there is not an extremely viable, free/open source alternative to VMWare, i.e. Xen. I would have thought the executives would be concerned about competition from a free product. There is also KVM/QEMU and I know of a few enterprises that use it.
Guys, don't get your hopes up for an ISP-bucking peer to peer revolution in network topology. We're still gonna have a top down hierarchy and centralized control.
The IEEE, together with the FCC, is pursuing a centralized approach for available spectrum discovery. Specifically each Base Station (BS) would be armed with a GPS receiver which would allow its position to be reported. This information would be sent back to centralized servers (in the USA these would be managed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)), which would respond with the information about available free TV channels and guard bands in the area of the BS.
I am sure folks will find ways around this one.
This news is most welcome! It has the potential to level the ISP playing field again and harkin back to the times when mom and pop ISPs existed. How? Small start-up ISPs can now offer competing broadband to the likes of AT&T and offer the service at an unlimited tier. Thus, AT&T will be forced to remove its service caps. Companies will be able to build their own MAN's without having to pay Verizon/AT&T/CenturyLink leases for the lines. I will be following this with some excitement especially because I would love to run my own small ISP.
+1 - Especially because a sarcastic review is decidedly NOT positive. I guess it is wholly possible to modify the search criteria of Cornell's engine to look for review spam that trashes products. I am sure that practice is just as wide spread as overly positive reviews.
I like the idea very much. The article showed an example of two comments: one on the left and one on the right. This example is only easily spotted for folks familiar with SEO and web dev stuff. The review on the right hand side was clearly spam because the name of the product was used several times in the comment to pad a search engine. My guess is that, for a laymen, it isn't that obvious. Signs to look for are: (1) excessive use of capitol letters and punctuation marks, (2) excessive use of the product/service name, (3) Excessive grammar errors (can indicate a user paid to post but not necessarily so.), and (4) reviews that appear to be almost identical between products with simply the name switched out which could indicate a script doing the review.
Think of the year around electrical cost to run the servers. It is hardly worth it. If companies are worried about heat, build a damn data center at the poles and use the waste heat as part of the power generation, if possible. You could also harness the wind for power as well. This clearly wouldn't work for desert dwellers like me or indeed much of the United States, because, it gets awfully hot during the summer as recent records are being broken. Your air conditioning bill would go through the roof.
Another pearl of wisdom from Merrill: 'the more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.'"
This is very poor advice. More often than not, I have seen poorly managed projects meet with less success. A properly planned project means that you have the cooperation of your customers and all departments involved. A properly planned project is one in which you have the trust and confidence from your customer.
Nelson saying "hehe!"
I was hoping that Americans Elect would be more for issue-dependent voters like myself. The questions on the survey were still geared towards Blue and Red. I believe that the rug should be pulled out from under the Health Insurance companies, abolishing pre-existing conditions clauses and lifetime caps. I believe in the right to own firearms. I believe the government has no business regulating natural drugs like marijuana. I believe in deporting illegal immigrants (with notable exception of political asylum) because our country was founded on legal immigration. Political asylum is something that should be announced upon arrival on our borders. I don't fall into the typical voter category.
As a political party (for lack of a better word), I think Americans Elect is doomed to failure. I took the survey that was offered upon sign-up and I found the answers to the questions to be very limiting and, in some cases, black and white when few issues are as such. For example, the immigration issue had no answer that really matched my feelings so I had to answer Unsure. Also, when it came to renewable energy, the survey used the fad buzzwords like wind and solar. Wind and solar are, at best, inefficient. I would sooner put money into hydrogen fuel cell technologies. Another example: Education. Not one question asked whether politics should be totally left out of education. Politics should play no role in education whatsoever considering that I question the value of the education many of our politicians have recieved. The survey was worded almost so that it would "trap" the same kinds of candidates: red or blue/democratic or republican. Based on these survey questions, I fail to see how Americans Elect will effect any real change.
In many states, there is an unemployment tax already which goes to fund Unemployment Compensation.
This angers me beyond belief! We have plenty of development talent here in the United States. I am so sick of the erroneous belief that Indians make better programmers. It is simply not true. Too often I have seen an inferior product. If a large sector of America is unemployed, why are we importing labor? I thought that Clinton and Obama were against H1B visas. Fucking politicians .... Promise one thing and do another.
We are moving at an avalanche pace towards a police state!
Well, as much as I love OpenBSD, not much has changed on the mailing list. The misc@ list has a very low tolerance of people whom they percieve as stupid or even newbies. Remember, we were all newbies once.
Why should students in the NCAA be any more monitored than regular students? (As in, why at all?). As is, the NCAA athletes often bring in major revenue to schools (for football programs at least) and are not allowed to benefit from it at all, does the NCAA consider them their slaves?
Simple, we are moving more and more towards a police state.and away from freedom of the press. The NCAA does not want to be publicly criticized when it is anyone's legal right to criticize them. Heaven forefend should a player criticize the holy NCAA!
Landlines are going by the wayside as they are just cost prohibitive in the current atmosphere. Verizon wants to encourage people to go with VoIP or wireless service. I believe Verizon's wireline division just went through massive cutbacks in personnel not too long ago. Personally, I don't see a need for a landline anymore and I haven't had one since 2001.
Why does he have to spread crap like this around? Really, there should be cooperation between the Linux and BSD camps. They interoperate very well because, for the most part, they share some common userland tools and are also semi-POSIX compliant. One of Sun Tzu's principles in the Art of War is to divide and conquer. When FUD gets spewed from the OS camps, it simply shows how divided Open Source really is and makes it easier for proprietary OSes to gain inroads.
For security, stability, and reliability, I will take OpenBSD over Linux any day of the week. I can look at my logs and most would-be intruders give up after doing an OS fingerprint on my gateway machine. They see that it is OpenBSD and quit while they are "NOT ahead."
It has the sleek coolness factor of the bat mobile but totally has no stealth whatsoever. You can probably hear that thing coming from a mile away! Nevertheless, I am glad to see that America still has some engineers!
One commenter in the article mentioned that Red Box is looking "better and better these days." I would happen to agree except for the convenience factor. Let Netflix raise their prices. Competition is in the works that will make Netflix somewhat sorry they made a move like this. What might be good for stockholders is not good for Americans as a whole. We have learned this lesson a thousand times over.
For a corporate device, nothing beats the speed and efficiency with which you can use the BlackBerry. I have an Android device and a BlackBerry and I can still respond to email/text messages faster on the BlackBerry. I will give Mike the benefit of that one. It's battery life is also incredible and I do appreciate that feature. That much said, outside of the corporate/government arena, the BlackBerry is pretty well useless. The Android wins hands down for features of web browsing and social networking. I like both of the devices. RIM builds a device that is a workhorse, not full of bling. I think RIM could begin a comeback by not requiring carriers to use their NOC and opening the device up just a little bit.
Wow, now that is the pot calling the kettle black!