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Comment Re:Multiple versions (Score 2, Informative) 177

Going lower than this is silly. The OP is asking about iOS and Andriod phones specifically. If were going to talk about the newest hardware, I'm not sure about the iPhone 4, but the HTC Evo and the Moto Droid X both support 720p video. HTC Just recently announced a new phone where they plan to support 1080, although it seems like overkill for such a small screen, I think they are thinking more people will use the hdmi outputs available on those phones.

Maybe consider doing 720p and 360p versions if you decide to do 2 encodes instead of just one.

Comment Warrants against domains ? (Score 2, Insightful) 181

Quoted from http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1006/100630losangeles.htm

In the first action carried out as part of the initiative, authorities executed seizure warrants against nine domain names of Web sites that were offering first-run movies

A seizure warrant against a domain includes what exactly ? The host, the registrar, the technical contact's residence ?

I understand warrants for physical locations, but this seems a bit wrong. Maybe its just a poor choice of wording by the original author....

Comment Re:Come again? (Score 4, Informative) 181

It was unclear whether or not the federal agencies actually seized and confiscated the servers hosting and streaming the pirated content, although the ICE said that it had worked with officials in the Netherlands to execute search warrants for some of the domain names and content.

This article is completely silly. It sensationalism based upon speculation. Do real journalists exist anymore ?

Comment Are desktop OS's really dying ? (Score 3, Insightful) 770

From the article:

The desktop OS is besieged from all sides: More and more of our applications now run on the Web, and the idea of running huge, complex, and expensive personal systems will, in time, seem strange.

Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about. What's the reality here ?

Comment Re:Nice try. (Score 3, Interesting) 304

A co-worker of mine recently had his service terminated because he had exceeded 1TB of downloading in a month. I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but that seems like a really high cap. Ultimately, he called them and the solution was to upgrade to a business class connection. It ended up costing him an additional $20 (iirc) a month, but he now has a higher upstream and a static IP. He was cool with that as it seems this works out better for him anyway, but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.

Comment Re:When I think of Comcast, I think of progress. (Score 1) 304

Paying people to make these calls can be pretty costly. The article also states that by automating the process, they'll be able to reach out to more customers. I assume this means they will lessen the existing threshold for "evil traffic" notification.

If they are running some sort of IDS, and they are able to help people become aware of infections/backdoors/etc., they can probably salvage a good deal of bandwidth from garbage/unwanted traffic.

Comment Re:Why not share wi-fi? (Score 1) 271

There are plenty of security concerns with an unencrypted network.>While FON looks like it may be interesting to some people, I need all my bandwidth for my porn.

On a more serious note, many providers in the US will cancel or severely cripple your service if you use so much bandwidth in a month or other predefined timespan. There are other factors to consider.

Comment Re:Bot scanner? (Score 2, Insightful) 146

While some malware/botnet clients may escape anti-virus detection, the common trait is that they all have to connect to a command and control server. Many IDS products have signatures to detect this type of traffic.

For example, many "botnet-kits" will connect using IRC on a random high port. IRC usage audit signatures are good for detecting the more common botnet c&c traffic.

Prevention is key, but it's still not easy - trying to keep Joe User from playing that Michael Jackson video he got in his email from an unknown sender is quite a challenge.

Comment Re:hey Asus (Score 5, Informative) 644

Although parent is modded Troll, just a quick whois reveals that the domain was registered by some guy with a hotmail address using godaddy as a registrar (and likely the host as well.. It also uses godaddy DNS. I would also question the authenticity of this website. A whois to the IP shows that it's hosted by hopone.net. Also, there is nothing on ASUS's website to indicate that they had anything to do with this.

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