You can't really have much competition in the cable and landline phone markets. That's because the entrenched players have been granted access to run their wires on poles and underground; it's not feasible to open up that market and it's way too expensive for new entrants.
Bell and Rogers are regulated (as they should be) because they are duopolies with control over critical infrastructure that needs to be managed for the national interest.
That means that next year, Facebook will be old enough to get a Facebook account, and the entire Facebook computing infrastructure will disappear in a burst of recursion...
OK. Your thought processes are not typical of businesses who are the largest share of the spam-filtering market. For the most part, the convenience of not having to run their own mail server far outweighs any concerns over the NSA.
Wait until the cloud craze is over in 4 or 5 years...
You think? I don't think it'll be over. I think it will continue to grow. For most businesses, running a mail server is a pain in the butt and not part of their core business.
One of the problems is, going with a large hosting provider, means your company no longer gets to set the operational policies
Most people don't care.
There are of course additional security risks, and by using a hosting provider, your mailboxes may be additionally subject to NSA interception through off-the-record provider cooperation or other espionage.
(1) most people don't care and (2) even if you run your own mail server, NSA can intercept anything they want. You have to work on the assumption that the NSA can intercept all traffic it cares to, and also that it can decrypt specific chunks of that traffic if it really sets its mind to it.
That is actually not true. We offer a hosted anti-spam service and the ratio of spam-to-ham coming in over IPv6 is still pretty high --- major providers such as Google and Comcast are using IPv6, so it's no longer a "filter-out-the-lusers" protocol.
The anti-spam market is small, mature and shrinking as more and more companies outsource their email to Microsoft or Google. While it can be profitable, the actual numbers are way too small to interest behemoths like Intel or Google.
I happen to run a small anti-spam company. We're doing extremely well, but that's because we have low overhead and can survive quite nicely on the little slice of market share we have. But I have no illusions that my company will be the next Facebook or Google or whatever... we'll chug along steadily for as long as we want to, and we'll make a very nice living at it, but that's about it.
A guiding principal in law is that rules should be interpreted the way a "reasonable person" would interpret them.
So a guy asking a female coworker out on a date is not harassment. If she says "no, thanks, and please don't ask me again because I'm not interested in you" and he keeps on going with unwanted invitations, then it's harassment.
You also need to look at power structure: A manager asking a subordinate out is a completely different dynamic than two equal-level coworkers. Again, the overriding principal when interpreting these rules has to be reasonableness, and I do not see much of that in these comments. I just see knee-jerk emotional reactions.
The school's sexual harrassment policies are here (PDF) and do not look vague to me. Presumably, the specific details of the case have not been made public because (I imagine) that neither Geoff Marcy nor his accusers particularly want the sordid details floating around the web.
Except Geoff Marcy admitted he'd behaved inappropriately and apologized for it. Oh right, he was "pressured" by SJWs. I forgot that's the asshole Defence of Choice.
Did anyone read this article?. "Geoff Marcy, a leader in the field of exoplanet research, has resigned from his position as a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, following an investigation that found he violated the school's sexual harassment policies."
Or how about this one? "Results from a recent AAS survey were reported at the last week's plenary session on harassment, defined as unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. Some 82% of astronomers have heard sexist remarks from their peers; 44% heard sexist remarks from supervisors; 9% experienced physical harassment from peers or supervisors."
Those articles do not read like SJWs and the do seem to indicate some sort of a problem.
I am guessing you're a male? Try asking women you know. I think you'll be surprised (if not shocked) by the crap women have to deal with on a fairly regular basis.
Apparently, if you use ssh-agent then the keys in the agent cannot be leaked with this exploit.
Finally, for these three reasons, passphrase-encrypted SSH keys are leaked in their encrypted form, but an attacker may attempt to crack the passphrase offline. On the other hand, SSH keys that are available only through an authentication agent are never leaked, in any form.
Whew... I always use ssh-agent. But I've added UseRoaming no to all my boxes just to be safe anyway.
I've had Netflix (Canada) for a few months and I am completely underwhelmed. Even the USA library of 4593 movies is completely pathetic. A decent video store (yes, there is one where I live) will have at least 15,000 to 20,000 titles and often up to 40,000.
I understand that the licensing terms make it impossible for Netflix to have such an extensive library, but they and the content producers need to work out something or people will start abandoning them and going back to the old-fashioned way of streaming movies... illegally or quasi-legally.
I certainly don't think all people who violate copyright should be jailed; that would be crazy. The penalty should be proportional to the loss they cause. So an end-user who casually pirates a $50 game should probably be fined around $100. The fine needs to be a bit higher than the price of the game to act as a deterrent, but not orders of magnitude higher.
But large-scale copyright violators who can be shown to have caused massive losses, in the $250K and up range? Yeah, they should be subject to criminal sanctions.
Twitter officials scheduled a news conference to explain the rationale behind the much higher limit. But unfortunately, people stopped paying attention after 45 seconds, so we don't really know why they increased the limit.... ooh, look! A kitten video! Bob Snodgrass signing out."
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The barriers to entry are Canada's huge size and low population density. You can't just "remove" them.
You can't really have much competition in the cable and landline phone markets. That's because the entrenched players have been granted access to run their wires on poles and underground; it's not feasible to open up that market and it's way too expensive for new entrants.
Bell and Rogers are regulated (as they should be) because they are duopolies with control over critical infrastructure that needs to be managed for the national interest.
Yes. Jesus, yes. What do you think is necessary for someone to be fired?
Why are Siri and Cortana female? Just make them guys.
That means that next year, Facebook will be old enough to get a Facebook account, and the entire Facebook computing infrastructure will disappear in a burst of recursion...
OK. Your thought processes are not typical of businesses who are the largest share of the spam-filtering market. For the most part, the convenience of not having to run their own mail server far outweighs any concerns over the NSA.
Wait until the cloud craze is over in 4 or 5 years...
You think? I don't think it'll be over. I think it will continue to grow. For most businesses, running a mail server is a pain in the butt and not part of their core business.
One of the problems is, going with a large hosting provider, means your company no longer gets to set the operational policies
Most people don't care.
There are of course additional security risks, and by using a hosting provider, your mailboxes may be additionally subject to NSA interception through off-the-record provider cooperation or other espionage.
(1) most people don't care and (2) even if you run your own mail server, NSA can intercept anything they want. You have to work on the assumption that the NSA can intercept all traffic it cares to, and also that it can decrypt specific chunks of that traffic if it really sets its mind to it.
Spamhaus? Spamhaus is nothing but a DNSBL. It won't catch more than 60% of spam, and that's being extremely generous.
This is true to some extent. Some targeted attacks are very hard to catch, though there are things you can do to mitigate them.
But you still need a filter to catch all the background crap that would otherwise overwhelm your inbox.
That is actually not true. We offer a hosted anti-spam service and the ratio of spam-to-ham coming in over IPv6 is still pretty high --- major providers such as Google and Comcast are using IPv6, so it's no longer a "filter-out-the-lusers" protocol.
Thanks for the vote of confidence! (I'm from Roaring Penguin and am the MIMEDefang gal). But actually I go by DIanne now.
The anti-spam market is small, mature and shrinking as more and more companies outsource their email to Microsoft or Google. While it can be profitable, the actual numbers are way too small to interest behemoths like Intel or Google.
I happen to run a small anti-spam company. We're doing extremely well, but that's because we have low overhead and can survive quite nicely on the little slice of market share we have. But I have no illusions that my company will be the next Facebook or Google or whatever... we'll chug along steadily for as long as we want to, and we'll make a very nice living at it, but that's about it.
A guiding principal in law is that rules should be interpreted the way a "reasonable person" would interpret them.
So a guy asking a female coworker out on a date is not harassment. If she says "no, thanks, and please don't ask me again because I'm not interested in you" and he keeps on going with unwanted invitations, then it's harassment.
You also need to look at power structure: A manager asking a subordinate out is a completely different dynamic than two equal-level coworkers. Again, the overriding principal when interpreting these rules has to be reasonableness, and I do not see much of that in these comments. I just see knee-jerk emotional reactions.
The school's sexual harrassment policies are here (PDF) and do not look vague to me. Presumably, the specific details of the case have not been made public because (I imagine) that neither Geoff Marcy nor his accusers particularly want the sordid details floating around the web.
Except Geoff Marcy admitted he'd behaved inappropriately and apologized for it. Oh right, he was "pressured" by SJWs. I forgot that's the asshole Defence of Choice.
Did anyone read this article?. "Geoff Marcy, a leader in the field of exoplanet research, has resigned from his position as a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, following an investigation that found he violated the school's sexual harassment policies."
Or how about this one? "Results from a recent AAS survey were reported at the last week's plenary session on harassment, defined as unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. Some 82% of astronomers have heard sexist remarks from their peers; 44% heard sexist remarks from supervisors; 9% experienced physical harassment from peers or supervisors."
Those articles do not read like SJWs and the do seem to indicate some sort of a problem.
I am guessing you're a male? Try asking women you know. I think you'll be surprised (if not shocked) by the crap women have to deal with on a fairly regular basis.
Apparently, if you use ssh-agent then the keys in the agent cannot be leaked with this exploit.
Whew... I always use ssh-agent. But I've added UseRoaming no to all my boxes just to be safe anyway.
I've had Netflix (Canada) for a few months and I am completely underwhelmed. Even the USA library of 4593 movies is completely pathetic. A decent video store (yes, there is one where I live) will have at least 15,000 to 20,000 titles and often up to 40,000.
I understand that the licensing terms make it impossible for Netflix to have such an extensive library, but they and the content producers need to work out something or people will start abandoning them and going back to the old-fashioned way of streaming movies... illegally or quasi-legally.
I certainly don't think all people who violate copyright should be jailed; that would be crazy. The penalty should be proportional to the loss they cause. So an end-user who casually pirates a $50 game should probably be fined around $100. The fine needs to be a bit higher than the price of the game to act as a deterrent, but not orders of magnitude higher.
But large-scale copyright violators who can be shown to have caused massive losses, in the $250K and up range? Yeah, they should be subject to criminal sanctions.
Don't know why parent was modded down so much. He/she should be modded up.
I don't agree with DRM, but the proper response to DRM'd games (if you don't believe in DRM) is simply not to buy them. It's not to steal them.
Drupal also supports PostgreSQL.
"Bob Snodgrass reporting from San Francisco.
Twitter officials scheduled a news conference to explain the rationale behind the much higher limit. But unfortunately, people stopped paying attention after 45 seconds, so we don't really know why they increased the limit.... ooh, look! A kitten video! Bob Snodgrass signing out."
Whoever published it must have quite a pair of brass balls.
Yes, and they're each somewhere between the size of a soccer ball and a city block.
You Americans really need to change your laws so John Oliver can be President. He talked about this last year.