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Technically Nicira does both. One of the tunnelling protocols it uses is STT (Stateless Transport Tunnelling) Protocol which they effectively made themselves (and is up for draft in the IETF). It's their mechanism of choice for communicating between the network controllers and hypervisors over the physical network.

It's not true TCP, but looks enough like like it to allow hardware offloading to the network interfaces of all the tunnelling, saving a lot of CPU power.

This allows for throughput speeds in an STT software tunnel to reach the same maximums as "raw" TCP through a given interface.

It looks like a scatter-gun approach: shoot out a bunch of products and see what sticks.

>@Orbling, for implementation of a hash dictionary. So collisions should be kept to a minimal, but it has no security purpose at all. – Earlz

SHA-1 is very fast though so it is a good point for comparison.

This already exists in Australia and has for years. It's as simple as getting a police report done and ringing your phone company to get the IMEI blocked.

What are you sending in your HTTP headers?

It stops an avenue of piracy sure, it also stops code injecting into the startup which is also cool. The fun bit is going to be all the disk encryption software that will take a hit when people migrate to 8 (unless it's signed).

It's a pain agreed, but hopefully doesn't affect the ability to keep your system open enough to install non-windows OSes or restrict using non OEM equipment to run Win8.

> Booting two different operating systems is just fundamentally at odds with secure boot...

Agreed with your first sentence but not really with the second. The idea is simply securing the boot process of an operating system from POST right through to the OS being ready for use. Having 2 operating systems is perfectly fine from that point of view as long as the integrity of the boot process can be maintained. Having a boot loader and 2 or more OS's available complicates things, but doesn't make it at-odds with secure booting.

Edit: Manually correcting autocorrect and adding a couple of words

In short, no. The secure boot is essentially optional from what I've seen so far; put Windows 8 on any old motherboard and it should work.

The whole reason this has come about is due to the vulnerability of people faking BIOS IDs and manufacturers on startup, allowing auto-authentication of pirate copies of Windows Vista and 7. In order for this auto-authentication to work in Windows 8 on a shipped bundle, secure boot will need to be activated. After the initial secure boot and activation, hopefully it can be turned off and allow more open access on OEM machines. (If it doesn't, then we have a problem.)

In the example given? No, the bounds are restricted. The actual text above though is the important bit:

    The variations of attacks are enormous. Use regular expressions 
    to define what is good and then deny the input if anything else is received. 
    In other words, we want to use the approach "Accept Known Good" instead of 
    "Reject Known Bad"

This has been around for a good while but still gets me reading it every time.

It's also a great example of taking an incredibly complex subject and cutting it down to various levels of understanding.

Tali is a woman, correct!

There is a link down the bottom to the abstract which links to the full thing: http://press.psprings.co.uk/oem/march/oem59030.pdf

Edit: Agreed though, the article itself is a waste.

> So there is a semi-reasonable argument to be made that she caused some degree of social harm in distributing the photos.

Entertaining that argument, the harm though would be to herself. Why should she be essentially doubly punished with membership to the sex offender's list and a criminal record?

http://blog.colbyrabideau.com/archive -- August 2011

Edit: OP is the poster of the blog also

If you do a search for 'search engine' then Dogpile still comes up on top. Didn't know it still existed!

Security leaks happen. The lesson here is treat anything that you put on a machine you don't completely control as being at-risk, even if you pay for top notch security and the vendor guarantees it. The guarantee (and any compensation) isn't a lot of comfort if the information hits the wild. This includes everything from web servers on Amazon to your Gmail account.

In the case of Dropbox, I would suggest PGP or Truecrypt anything sensitive and keep the keys locally or in another location that is completely unrelated to the box.

Absolutely agreed, but the industry insiders have to be impartial and use their knowledge and experience to come up with a decision.

The question you have to ask is what's the motivation to approve (or deny) a given application or law? If it's because it's the 'right thing to do' (broad term I know) then fantastic. If it's to 'help out a mate' or 'it may be the right thing to do, but meanwhile there's incentives for me to vote this way' then that's where integrity has to be questioned.

In saying that, even with the contract signed the doctor still has to do the same thing only under contract law rather than defamation.

First up segregation is not the issue here but this guy's choice of words. The real problem here is if Google responds to any of his comments, on paper it really does look like there's a class issue and then the company can potentially find themselves in hot water. I would shut right up in that situation as well.

The way he keeps saying 'people of colour' and talking about different classes doesn't lend to his cause either, nor going right out with a video camera as it really does look like he is filming an expose. If he was smart, he should have replied he was simply curious as to what these guys do and why the rules are different for this particular group. To elaborate any further than that, well, he dug his own pit there.

The vast majority of games are playable offline, there are some new ones that require you to be connected to the PSN though in order to combat the custom firmware 'threat'.

Even using your conservative numbers, this guy is earning almost 3 times what he was previously, a fantastic effort and do envy him :-)

Uh no they didn't, this guy has said this is what he was told on a phone call. Samsung has not released a public statement saying this is what they actually do.

Without confirmation from anyone else that has a Samsung laptop (have just checked my brother's bought 2 months ago and found nothing) this really should be taken with a grain of salt.

Some banks have had this ability even in credit for a long while. The reason it has taken so long for the likes of VISA to join the crowd is the ironing out of issues like money laundering.

Even if it was AOL asking for them to tone it down, what's the problem? A rep asks nicely if the language used is appropriate and if perhaps some better wording could be used instead?

To pan a person or company over a request like that seems ridiculous.

Only when you directly link from Google. If you try to search anything on the site itself? It tries to con you into signing up.

English and bad English

If my brother has a headache and I give him an aspirin, am I practising medicine?

Nope they're just swamped by traffic. Check their Twitter for info: http://twitter.com/#!/arabist

No ISP connectivity isn't blocked/censored internet, the ISP links are down completely. There isn't a possible way to get through something that isn't even connected. Ham radio is funnily enough a better solution.