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Comment What is exactly the problem? (Score 2) 945

by FranckMartin (#34690170) Attached to: The Right's War On Net Neutrality
The problem is that there is not enough bandwidth in the USA, so people, instead of throwing more bandwidth at the problem, try to define ways to control the current bandwidth.

I'm sure we have already spent more money in Network Neutrality issues than if we had put more bandwidth.

Note this problem is not much felt in other part of the world, because there is sufficient bandwidth for current services. In USA, rural America is still much under dial-up...

If the government wants to help: bring broadband in all corners of the USA.
The Internet

Submission + - The Future of the Internet in 4 videos (isoc.org)

Submitted by FranckMartin
FranckMartin writes: The Internet society has released 4 videos where they explore the future of the Internet. In these times of cyber-wars, net neutrality, censorship and increased government control, will the Internet stay the way we know it, or the way we think we know it? As they explain "While obviously not intended to be a definitive overview of the landscape or all potential issues, we believe the results are interesting and, we hope, thought-provoking. [We hope] they will inspire thought about possibilities for the future development of the Internet, and involvement in helping to make that happen in the best possible way."
At the end you can vote on what is the biggest threat to the future of the Internet.
Microsoft

Submission + - Linux to take over Microsoft in Enterprises (linux.com) 1

Submitted by shougyin
shougyin writes: For years, Linux has enjoyed much of its success as a replacement for Unix. Companies turned to Linux to replace Unix servers, or for new deployments within a Unix-heavy environment. Linux is still king there, but it's starting to encroach on Microsoft as well. Big companies are planning overwhelmingly (76.4%) to add more Linux servers in the next year, and less than half (41.2%) of the companies are planning to add Windows servers in the next year. Even more interesting, nearly half (43.6%) are actively planning to decrease use of Windows servers in the next year.
The Military

Submission + - Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones

Submitted by
Pickens
Pickens writes: "Fast Company reports that Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle will soon issue a decision on an intellectual property-related lawsuit that could ground the CIA's Predator drones as Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL Toolkit were pirated by Massachusetts-based Netezza for use by a government client and is seeking an injunction that would halt the use of their two toolkits by Netezza for three years. The dispute goes back to when Netezza and IISi were former partners in a contract to develop software that would be used, among other purposes, for unmanned drones. IISi's suit claims that both the software package used by the CIA and the Netezza Spatial product were built using their intellectual property and according to statements made by IISi CEO Paul Davis, a favorable ruling in the injunction would revoke the CIA's license to use Geospatial. If IISi prevails in court this would either force the CIA to ground Predator drones or to break the law in their use of the pirated software. But there's more. Testimony given by an IISi executive to the court indicates that Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi's code to deliver a faulty version that could cause predator drones to miss their targets by as much as 40 feet. According to a deposition by IISi Chief Technical Officer Rich Zimmerman "my reaction was one of stunned amazement that (the CIA) want to kill people with my software that doesn't work." Zimmerman was also nervous about any possible legal liability for IISi in case Predator missiles miss their target; in his words they would not continue participating "without some sort of terms around that indemnifies us in case that code kills people.""

Comment Don't wait for your ISP... (Score 1) 583

by FranckMartin (#33803202) Attached to: Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4?
... to provide you with IPv6

If you have
-a static IPv4, use a tunnel from he.net
-a dynamic IPv4, use 6to4 like on openWRT or Apple Airport Express
-a nated IPv4, use a teredo tunnel

Most likely your PC is already using tunnels.

Once you have done it, you will wonder what was all the commotion about.

For the office, disable IPv6 on your servers and provide IPv6 on your clients, then figure out your servers later

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