So here’s everything you need to know about IPv6. The short version? IPv6 has 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 times more addresses than the current IPv4.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/the-future-is-forever-the-state-of-ipv6-in-the-apple-world/
Basically my test web server with 4gb of Ram running Microsoft IIS7 was brought to its knees under less than a minute, running all requests from a single host.
http://www.sectorix.com/2012/05/17/hulk-web-server-dos-tool/
Eugene Kaspersky has reiterated his long-standing support for Internet IDs, and called for all SCADA systems to be redesigned around a secure operating system, to protect critical infrastructure from cyber-attack.
SCADA is so vulnerable, Kaspersky told the AusCERT audience: “It’s not possible to protect. Stuxnet told us that modern systems are not protected at all. SCADA could be very easy victims – the result of an attack could be like Stuxnet but everywhere.”
He said his company’s research suggests that malware costs the world economy $US100 billion each year, and noted other vendors estimates of the total trillion-dollar cybercrime industry mean that, “because of cybercrime, we have the equivalent of two or three Japanese tsunamis a year” of economic damage.
People “need to understand the danger of cyber-weapons and of cyber-war to ruin national infrastructure. Transportation, power-grids, power plants … it would take us back to the pre-electric era.”
The cameras, which are mounted above the door of their client bars, scan patrons’ faces as they enter and exit the bar. The company’s software then immediately determines whether the person is male or female, and counts how many of each are in the bar, divides that by the known capacity of the bar, and then outputs something like: “Crowd: >90% full | Women: 58% | Men: 42%.”
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/scenetap-poised-to-creep-out-san-francisco-bar-patrons/
The workforce computing landscape has become radically more complex, and the resources that employees need are shifting rapidly from inside the firewall to outside
Chinese retailers have started selling a miniature Linux computer that is housed in a 3.5-inch plastic case slightly larger than a USB thumb drive. Individual units are available online for $74.
The small computer has an AllWinner A10 single-core 1.5GHz ARM CPU, a Mali 400 GPU, and 512MB of RAM. An HDMI port on the exterior allows users to plug the computer into a television. It outputs at 1080p and is said to be capable of playing high-definition video.
The device also has a full-sized USB port with host support for input devices, a conventional micro-USB port, a microSD slot, and an internal 802.11 b/g WiFi antenna. The computer can boot from a microSD card and is capable of running Android 4.0 and other ARM-compatible Linux platforms.
UK ISP Entanet Calls Governments Revived Internet Snooping Law Pointless
Which means that whenever people in relation to regulation of non-digital or non-technical realms manage to circumvent the law, those laws are pointless too??
No law is foolproof, no law can prevent 100% of the issues it tries to deal with. Same applies to laws regulating internet or technical matters. Same applies to enforcement by technology (anti-spam, anti-phishing et cetera).
But nobody said 100% foolproof solutions are what governments are looking for or even expecting in relation to the internet. Much like providers fighting spam: one simply cannot allow the problems to increase to disastrous levels.
the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads.
Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-kill-bittorrent-traffic-120513/
Emile Protalinski:
Facebook temporarily suspended one of its users from commenting on public posts. The punishment was supposed to last a week. It has now been two weeks. This can happen to any Facebook user. Facebook user Rima Regas is being censored by Facebook. The social network put her on time out after apparently getting complaints about public posts she has made. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be an isolated incident.
Last weekend, technical evangelist Robert Scoble saw his comment blocked because Facebook deemed it “irrelevant or inappropriate”. When I inquired about the issue, Facebook told me the block was a false positive caused by an automatic spam filter. I also wrote this:
Facebook’s algorithms for comments made on Subscriber posts are apparently much pickier because anyone can reply to a public Facebook post. To be honest, I only find that slightly more comforting.
In her original Facebook status, Regas said “I don’t see a way to file a complaint or defend myself.” She isn’t the first to realize getting in touch with Facebook is very difficult. In some two years of writing about Facebook, I have received hundreds of complaints about the company’s communication problems, both from members and journalists alike. Regas’ story is just one of many I have written about publicly in order to get Facebook to respond.
Again, my problem with all this is not that Facebook’s reporting systems screwed up or were abused. That is bound to happen with any anti-spam implementation.
The worrying trend here is that Facebook continues to add features like this one without giving users an option to fight back.
See also:
#OccupyWallStreet demonstrates that there are many ways to intentionally, accidentally or unconsciously but automatically disrupt the free flow of information
Events that could occur:
Seemingly mundane technical specifications of Internet routers and social-networking software platforms have powerful political implications. In virtual realms, programmers essentially set the laws of physics, or at least the rules of interaction, for their cyberspaces. If it sometimes seems that media pundits treat Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg or Apple’s Steve Jobs as gods, that’s because in a sense they are—sitting on Mount Olympus with the power to hurl digital thunderbolts with a worldwide impact on people.
It’s The Algorithm Stupid! Part IV – Humanity becomes redundant
http://vrritti.com/2012/04/15/its-the-algorithm-stupid-part-iv-humanity-becomes-redundant/
It’s The Algorithm Stupid! Part III
http://vrritti.com/2012/01/01/its-the-algorithm-stupid-part-iii/
It’s the algorithm stupid! Part II
http://vrritti.com/2011/11/23/its-the-algorithm-stupid-part-ii/
It’s the algorithm, stupid! Do algorithms offer the ultimate grounds for exoneration? Can they fail, or only the people writing them?
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/30/its-the-algorithm-stupid-do-algorithms-offer-the-ultimate-grounds-for-exoneration-can-they-fail-or-only-the-people-writing-them/
According to Technology Review, the quantum teleportation does not involve dematerializing and then re-materializing physical matter, but rather using a photon to transmit the quantum state of one object to another, thus allowing the recipient to become a clone of the sender (think of it kind of like your consciousness inhabiting someone else’s body).
http://gizmodo.com/5909610/quantum-object-teleported-100-kilometers-by-chinese-scientists
When did music become unimportant?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-57432895-47/when-did-music-become-unimportant/
Clearly, there’s a deep split forming in Silicon Valley between the tech companies that want the TV industry disrupted and those that want to keep them in business. Will it become a battle that’s won by the best technologies? …or best business models?
Probably the most profitable technologies or business models
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/a-peek-at-cisco-tv-and-the-silicon-valley-tv-battle-lines/2249
And that’s just the start as the next generation of consumers grows up without seeing a plastic card.
Internet fragmentation (and as such fragmentation of the advertising landscape) is inevitable. Google can’t stop technological progress
As always, if laws based on fundamental rights demand technical remedies that will probably only COST money and won’t MAKE money, the technical requirements will suddenly be “highly complicated”, “technically not feasible” or they “won’t offer a 100% solution to the problem”
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110449/internetbranche–uitvoering-cookiewet-nog-onduidelijk.html
See also:
Dutch Senate approves new Telecom Act: net neutrality and restricted use of cookies codified
http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2012/05/09/dutch-senate-approves-new-telecom-act-net-neutrality-and-restricted-use-of-cookies-codified.html
The global organization has again pushed back the deadline for taking applications for new top-level domains — a process that was put on hold last month after ICANN “received a report of unusual behavior” with the system’s software.
This latest wrinkle comes as ICANN is in the midst of its biggest effort ever to expand the domain name landscape to potentially thousands of alternatives beyond .com, .net, and the many other suffixes already available. The new names also have the potential to change the way companies brand themselves on the Web (Nike, for example, could start branding itself as JustDoIt.Nike.)
ICANN had intended to reopen the process yesterday and finalize it during the middle of next week, when it would begin the arduous process of sorting out who gets what URL extensions and which would potentially go to auction.
Now, ICANN says that it’s aiming to reopen the application process on May 22, giving people until May 30 to submit their applications.
While most applicants are not yet known, ICANN last week said it had received 2,091 applications at the time the system was taken offline. One applicant can submit up to 50 applications for specific top-level domains, at a cost of $185,000 each. ICANN has said it had already received about $350 million in fees.
“Frankly, there will be huge questions for ICANN about what it’s doing with the money,” said Adelman, a former member of the ICANN Affirmation of Commitments Accountability and Transparency Review team.
More:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57431082-93/icann-extends-net-domain-application-date-again/
A ReWalk robotic exoskeleton allows a paraplegic woman to start and finish the London Marathon, covering the 26.2-mile course over 17 days
The appeal was lodged in 2009, when the use of White Space was fiercely debated, but these days there are White Space devices being legitimately deployed around the US and the unabated continuation of TV broadcasts rather undermines the NAB position that such devices would leave screens dark.
The NAB reckons that’s thanks to the limits imposed by the FCC, which resulted from its campaign, but really it’s the dynamic nature of White Space radio which has rendered the appeal unnecessary.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/09/white_spaces_nab/
“It’s like when you had voice running over traditional PBXs and then some said, ‘Let’s move that to IP’ and we got Skype,” he says. In his mind, using VXLAN and NVGRE today is still “hacks,” whereas Nicira has done “the proper job” in building a complete network controller. Nicira has built the equivalent of Skype, he says, whereas the efforts are still short of this.
“Skype has a way of taking your Skype handle and turning it into your IP address, so I can call you, and you need something similar with VXLAN, NVGRE, and STT,” he says. “The others have just emulated Ethernet over IP, but Nicira has done the proper job with a central controller. It’s like the Skype directory service.”
Much more:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/what-is-a-virtual-network/
The boys who brought Napster to the world — Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning — are getting ready to reveal details of their next, still stealthy startup.
It’s called Airtime, although a year ago the project apparently was going by the name Supyo, and it has to do with live video. And, naturally, social media — a familiar world for Parker, who was Facebook’s founding president and is currently a backer and board member of Spotify.
We cannot oppose progress through technology without irony, because we are products of medical science, information technology and the industrial revolution. (In some sense, I think Doctorow seems to be saying that we are already trans-human.)
According to Doctorow, to use technology to preserve the status quo is to deny something about what we are as human beings and this powerful observation is the thread which ties the novella to the other essays in the book and to the rest of Doctorow’s work. It explains his distaste for DRM technologies — the subject of the address in the book — and guides all his fiction — the subject of the interview which closes the book.
What makes Doctorow’s story so unique is that in almost every science fiction story meat-space is privileged over cyber-space. The hero wins when they successfully resist technology and establish their humanity as an opposing force against the tyranny of the machine. Doctorow and other techno-positive thinkers like him argue forcefully that such thinking can only lead to dystopia and suffering.
Much more:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/cory-doctorow-great-big-beautiful-tomorrow/
