Not sure I'd want this on my own weapon but I could see it being useful for giving / selling firearms to possibly temporary allies that we arm to deal with today's enemy that might become tomorrow's enemy (or just leave the stuff laying around for today's enemy to use).
Probably Comcast cares because NSA told them they should.
Or maybe they're thinking that content (ie netflix) can be tunneled and bypass whatever controls they have in place.
That depends where the cache goes. If it's at the endpoint, you're right. But this allows the cache to be much closer. In the cell tower. In the office router.
You could watch youtube video on a moving train with this. As soon as one person tries to watch the viral video of the day the train's router will store it, so it'll keep working for all even through tunnels and dropouts.
Assuming that the train's caching device could get it to start with - and even then only until the cache is full and gets overwritten by other material while at the same time you also cache a bunch of material that no one else on the train is interested in.
... it is just not realistic to learn another language to be able to support them
It is quite common in Europe to speak two or three languages fluently. If there are 2 - 3 engineers who speak 2 - 3 languages fluently then most of the major languages are covered.
By the way, it is often just a stereotype that all people are drunk here or there. Brazil economy grew 2.5% in 2013, it is certainly achieved by hard working people.
I live in Europe and I speak two languages fluently but I still believe it's completely impractical to learn all the languages when supporting a global deployment of systems or network devices. If you had to interface with users, then I would agree - but that isn't the case here.
Anyway, if you read the article the problems they encountered had nothing to do with language:
"Unfortunately, this was during Carnival. The local phone company did not answer, and the local employees did not answer their mobile phones. After two days we got someone from the phone company on the line — and they were too drunk to understand us."
Multicast is fine when every reciever wants the same thing at the same time. Good for broadcasting live events. Not very good for things like youtube, where millions of people will want to watch a video but very few of them simutainously, and those that do may want to pause it at any moment and resume playback hours later.
Agreed but improving the caching mechanism isn't going to remove the requirement of distributing the content, be it simultaneous (with mcast) or just in time. Either way the content still needs to be transmitted and either way it will still consume bandwidth and will still have some type of overhead.
So what it really comes down to is:
- how efficient a caching mechanism
- what reduction in overhead
We agree it's more likely to run in parallel - I see it more as an overlay to IP rather than a replacement.
I immediately thought of the 1st episode of the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, where 99.9% of their modern military force was rendered inoperable. No. Thank. You.
The best "kill switch" is to kill the idea of leaving a ton of advanced military hardware in the hands of less-than-solid governments in the first place (no matter how much defense contractors want to sell their wares). You'd think we would have learned from Iran and the F-14s we left in Iran in the late 1970s as the Islamic Revolution took place.
Why not have kill switches in anything sold to those less than stable governments, while our own gear remains without kill switches?
a 35% tax on all offshore buys using a credit card
With that kind of tariff how long till all out of country purchases are made with bitcoin?
In which case such purchases would then be considered tax evasion.
Don't forget that you also need to fund the bitcoin account to start with, which is going to leave traces unless you can fund it out of country to start with, especially with governments going after cash for bitcoin exchangers.
Argentina was forced by some creditors to sign agreements giving jurisdiction to US courts because the creditors did not trust Argentinian courts. Argentina bartered their sovereignty on the issue for better credit terms, now they are crying because they are being held to those terms by a court that is not corrupt and subject to their own control.
This whole deal shows the world that:
1. If you're selling bonds and plan on ripping everybody off, do not mess with US courts because they are not scared of your shithole government and they will confiscate your "sovereign" asse(t)s
2. If you're buying bonds from risky countries, do so under a stable jurisdiction like the US otherwise you can be completely screwed by some populist who thinks you're a criminal because you bought what they were voluntarily selling
Not corrupt? What do you call a legal system where, for example, banks who trade with terrorist organizations and drug cartels are allowed to pay (huge) penalties instead of people going to jail?
It looks like this would be more likely to be an overlay to TCP/IP than to replace it, with the idea of 'protected' content distribution being a driver.
Of course, as with any other content distribution mechanism, there will no doubt be ways to copy it once it reaches your living room (or wherever).
I could totally see the two networks running simultaneously. It's completely accurate that TCP/IP sucks for mass content delivery; it's gigantic waste of bandwidth. And for point-to-point interaction this protocol would be massively inefficient.
But why can the two protocols not run on top of the same Layer 2 infrastructure?
Or use, you know, like multicast or something...?
Not being able to communicate with people you are hired to support is most certainly your problem. If she had no viable method to do the job, why did she accept it? That makes her pretty stupid from the start.
If you want to talk about practical, it started long before someone mentioned learning the language.
Do you think its okay for someone to claim they are a Java developer without knowing a single bit of Java?
What in the world are you talking about? Did you even bother to read the article?
Let me help you:
"Unfortunately, this was during Carnival. The local phone company did not answer, and the local employees did not answer their mobile phones. After two days we got someone from the phone company on the line — and they were too drunk to understand us."
Where in that is there a language problem?
Then at least she could avoid blaming a carnival, and concentrate more on her linguistic skills. Or hiring Portuguese speaking engineers instead of non technical interpreters to run a computer system in Brazil.
Many people around the world speak English at different levels. Sometimes it is just Globish or an Airport English. But Brazil is an enormous country where people do speak Portuguese. No way around it.
Or maybe the people in Brazil were out partying instead of working. Were you there somehow and you have information that lets you assume that the author is actually incorrect in their statement?
Anyway. I support networks in many countries around the world including Brazil and it is just not realistic to learn another language to be able to support them.
Perhaps if it were my primary or only customer base, maybe. But you have no idea that this is the case with the author.
If you ban [ insert weapon here ] testing then only the countries that don't sign up for or completely disregard the ban will have [ insert weapon here ].
She works with a whole system in Brazil via an non technical interpreter? Did it ever occur to her to learn Portuguese language?
Sure that's practical, along with learning all the languages of all the offices one has to support globally.
If I recall correctly, this doesn't detect stingray, because stingray looks like any other cell tower.
It seems that stingray is an imsi-catcher so unless there's a way for law enforcement to disable the notification (which I said may be the case in my original post) I think it should work.
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Do you have any more specific info on it?
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
