using just photoshop I see
QA
*12BH133 9/24
*VB40x49x90
* I can't make these out
so, it's probably a box being used for laminate clamping, but the box arrived as a shipping container for parts.
although its probably too late for the poor sap who posted from Racoon city on/. hoping to get teh answer!
I guess the answer depends on whether Milla Jovovich is in your party, but I'd pop a cap in the Air.
Apparently Vint Cerf wasn't consulted for the original article, yet he commented on it by 7:42 am on the day it was published: 1/22/08 (although the article URL includes a datestamp of 1/21/08).
I wonder if his advanced monitoring capabilities include/.?
a) sloppy manufacturing picks up loose malware
b) deliberate infection by teenage haxor, perhaps for prestige, perhaps for cash
c) deliberate, by botnet agent
d) deliberate, by government agent
e) deliberate, by aliens, illuminati, JFK, and cmdr taco
- Found for sale only in Taiwan so far / aimed at Taiwan?
Only 1800 drives reported infected, 300 sold. Infection reported to be found initially by consumers.
Doesn't sound particularly sophisticated to me. My bet is on (a).
Bandwidth is to sand as Software is to... what, a pile of bits?
The reality is that consumer bandwidth has two components:
- local access (a 'natural monopoly', where it doesn't make economic sense to have 2+ 'new' high-bandwidth connections to a residence)
- core transport, where dark fiber and aggregated bandwidth enables competition, i.e. a commodity. IPTV (multicast) and webTV (unicast) require some creative solutions to optimize network utilization and ensure that live feeds work, but nothing is going to slow the growth or crash the core networks for awhile.
So the 'bandwidth problem' is local access, where the local providers usually act pretty rationally to maximize profit:
- don't overbuild beyond the market demand, or you lose money
- design for bandwidth peaks that are tolerable, and no more
- try hard to minimize costs (e.g. customer support )
- maximize your market coverage to increase the value of your network as an ad distribution channel
- do what you can to influence regulatory policy in your favor
no mysteries, no conspiracies, just capitalism.
And while there is dark fiber in the core, the problem is laying new fiber to homes. Capital costs for that depend on distance from the CO, density, right-of-ways, etc etc, but are substantial - upwards of $1-3k per household for a reasonably dense suburb.
So you are a carrier - you probably don't lay fiber unless you're pretty sure you'll get your investment back, which means that you bet on enough subscribers signing up for new services that need fiber. How many of your neighbors are going to pony up an extra $50/month just because their TV comes over fiber instead of cable?
now, that's an IT guy for you. I like the problem solving, the simplicity of it, the proof of the protocols. It's the position that closes the argument of the original question, and on all of the other conversations that had started up. Cool.
Does the NSA scheme cross the line? Does P2P? Porn? Apparently the release of AOL's search information crossed the line.. how about retina-scanning talking billboards?
Technology and transparency will need to solve the problem of how to protect people from 'evil', including failsafe identity protection.
In my imagination security in the future is not a firewall, but a black box from within which the user can peer at the world through a hole. No information escapes from the box but a clickstream, signifying selections.
Yet it takes little to identify Thelma Arnold (identified by her search record on AOL), so the avatar that Thelma inhabits in cyberspace, that outline of her that her clickstream paints, will need to be Not_Thelma. And transparency is the only way that Thelma can trust the net, transparency so that google, car manufacturers, politicians, the MPAA, and children too can trust each other.
Or trust their neighbors. We can't stone John M. Karr just yet, but his case demonstrates the need to be able to identify and thwart evil. The NYT has a chilling article on the sophisticated underground network of pedophiles that has been empowered by the net http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ped o.html.
I don't know about a subnet, but I like to think that there is an engineering solution here, a protocol or GNU license that can keep the internet open, free, and safe.
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using just photoshop I see QA *12BH133 9/24 *VB40x49x90 * I can't make these out so, it's probably a box being used for laminate clamping, but the box arrived as a shipping container for parts.
although its probably too late for the poor sap who posted from Racoon city on /. hoping to get teh answer!
I guess the answer depends on whether Milla Jovovich is in your party, but I'd pop a cap in the Air.
Apparently Vint Cerf wasn't consulted for the original article, yet he commented on it by 7:42 am on the day it was published: 1/22/08 (although the article URL includes a datestamp of 1/21/08).
I wonder if his advanced monitoring capabilities include /.?
a) sloppy manufacturing picks up loose malware b) deliberate infection by teenage haxor, perhaps for prestige, perhaps for cash c) deliberate, by botnet agent d) deliberate, by government agent e) deliberate, by aliens, illuminati, JFK, and cmdr taco - Found for sale only in Taiwan so far / aimed at Taiwan? Only 1800 drives reported infected, 300 sold. Infection reported to be found initially by consumers. Doesn't sound particularly sophisticated to me. My bet is on (a).
The reality is that consumer bandwidth has two components:
- local access (a 'natural monopoly', where it doesn't make economic sense to have 2+ 'new' high-bandwidth connections to a residence)
- core transport, where dark fiber and aggregated bandwidth enables competition, i.e. a commodity. IPTV (multicast) and webTV (unicast) require some creative solutions to optimize network utilization and ensure that live feeds work, but nothing is going to slow the growth or crash the core networks for awhile.
So the 'bandwidth problem' is local access, where the local providers usually act pretty rationally to maximize profit:
- don't overbuild beyond the market demand, or you lose money
- design for bandwidth peaks that are tolerable, and no more
- try hard to minimize costs (e.g. customer support )
- maximize your market coverage to increase the value of your network as an ad distribution channel
- do what you can to influence regulatory policy in your favor
no mysteries, no conspiracies, just capitalism.
And while there is dark fiber in the core, the problem is laying new fiber to homes. Capital costs for that depend on distance from the CO, density, right-of-ways, etc etc, but are substantial - upwards of $1-3k per household for a reasonably dense suburb.
So you are a carrier - you probably don't lay fiber unless you're pretty sure you'll get your investment back, which means that you bet on enough subscribers signing up for new services that need fiber. How many of your neighbors are going to pony up an extra $50/month just because their TV comes over fiber instead of cable?
now, that's an IT guy for you. I like the problem solving, the simplicity of it, the proof of the protocols. It's the position that closes the argument of the original question, and on all of the other conversations that had started up. Cool.
It's the question of our time.
Does the NSA scheme cross the line? Does P2P? Porn? Apparently the release of AOL's search information crossed the line.. how about retina-scanning talking billboards?
Technology and transparency will need to solve the problem of how to protect people from 'evil', including failsafe identity protection.
In my imagination security in the future is not a firewall, but a black box from within which the user can peer at the world through a hole. No information escapes from the box but a clickstream, signifying selections.
Yet it takes little to identify Thelma Arnold (identified by her search record on AOL), so the avatar that Thelma inhabits in cyberspace, that outline of her that her clickstream paints, will need to be Not_Thelma. And transparency is the only way that Thelma can trust the net, transparency so that google, car manufacturers, politicians, the MPAA, and children too can trust each other.
Or trust their neighbors. We can't stone John M. Karr just yet, but his case demonstrates the need to be able to identify and thwart evil. The NYT has a chilling article on the sophisticated underground network of pedophiles that has been empowered by the net http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ped o.html.
I don't know about a subnet, but I like to think that there is an engineering solution here, a protocol or GNU license that can keep the internet open, free, and safe.