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Comment mjgraves (Score 1) 594

3D exists in its present incarnation for one primary reason; it will drive the theater chains to move to digital projection, a process that has been stalled. 3D movies require digital projection. When Digital projection is more widespread then the studios and distributors can move to digital delivery and save the cost and headache of traditional release prints and shipping. Once the theaters have been converted to digital the 3D push will fade out like the fad that it is.

Comment Amazon should be compelled to remedy the attack (Score 1) 104

As I see it Amazon should be compelled to act. Failure for them to do so is in effect harboring a fugitive. While there are ways to reduce the impact of the attack at your firewall that does not overcome the fact that it consumes all of the targets available bandwidth. You can protect your systems, but you remain cutoff from the rest of the world. It's a classic DOS attack just moving to the voip application space. That this is not getting much attention is a travesty. Amazon needs to be a more responsible corporate citizen, or face the consequences. It's up to use to determine what those consequences might be. I for one have simply committed to boycot Amazon as I explained here: http://www.mgraves.org/voip/2010/04/amazon-you-got-some-splaining-to-do/

Submission + - SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 1

mjgraves writes: Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. There have been at least a dozen known attacks reported to Amazon, who have been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the people suffering the attack at his blog site http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/457/amazon-ec2-sip-brute-force-attacks-on-rise/

The matter also came under discussion on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference. A podcast of that session can be found here: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/amazon-ec2-flood-attacks/

Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks remain ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, who should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst.

Comment Re:directivo (Score 1) 376

TurboNet is not a USB thing. It's a network interface that is installed inside the Tivo chasis and provides an RJ-45 connector. It's essentially a normal NIC on a slightly strange connector that mates to an edge connector on the motherboard. I have one in my Series 1 Tivo. It works better (faster) than the USB NIC on my Series 2 Tivo. Fax and data services are not likely to work over an VOIP connection that doesn't truly support the t.38 standard...and essentially no ATA devices provide proper implementation of this standard. Michael Michael

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