Re: What is lawful content? [was VZ...]

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Richardson
I am sure The Gibson guitar company thought the same thing about the EPA.

At least we can be sure that a TLA govt agency wouldn't be used to
harass an administration's political opponents, right?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:

 On Feb 27, 2015, at 16:09 , Jim Richardson weaselkee...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net 
 wrote:
 Again, well settled.

 It is where the end user is viewing the content _and_ where the content is 
 served. If a CDN, then each node which serves the traffic must be in a 
 place where it is legal. There are CDNs which do not serve all customers 
 from all nodes for exactly this reason.

 Does this mean that viewing say, cartoons of mohammed, may or may not
 be 'illegal' for me to do, and result in my ISP being forced to block
 traffic, depending on what origin and route they take to get to me?

 Are we going to have the fedgov trying to enforce other country's
 censorship laws on us?


 This is absurd.

 The source server is under the jurisdiction of the sovereigns in that 
 location. Any enforcement of their laws upon the source server is carried out 
 at the source by them.

 The recipient client is under the jurisdictions of the sovereigns in that 
 location. Any enforcement of their laws upon the recipient is carried out 
 there by them.

 In the case of a US ISP, their local jurisdiction should (though I haven’t 
 read the detailed rules yet) be pre-empted from content based interference by 
 the federal preemption rules and the applicability of Title II. Federal law 
 would still, however, apply, and so an ISP would not be allowed to route 
 traffic to/from a site which they have been notified through proper due 
 process is violating US law.

 Beyond the borders of the US, the FCC has little or no ability to enforce 
 anything.

 Owen



Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Richardson
From 47CFR§8.5b
(b) A person engaged in the provision of mobile broadband Internet
access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block
consumers from accessing lawful Web sites, subject to reasonable
network management; nor shall such person block applications that
compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services, subject
to reasonable network management.

What's a lawful web site?


On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:
 On 02/27/2015 01:19 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:

 We're solving an almost non-existing problem.. by over-empowering an
 already out of control US government, with powers that we can't even begin
 to understand the extend of how they could be abused... to fix an industry
 that has done amazingly good things for consumers in recent years.

 You really should read 47CFR§8.  It won't take you more than an hour or so,
 as it's only about 8 pages.

 The procedure for filing a complaint is pretty interesting, and requires the
 complainant to do some pretty involved things. (47CFR§8.14 for the complaint
 procedure, 47CFR§8.13 for the requirements for the pleading, etc).  Note
 that the definitions found in 47CFR§8.11(a) and (b) are pretty specific in
 who is actually covered by 'net neutrality.'



Re: What is lawful content? [was VZ...]

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote:
 Again, well settled.

 It is where the end user is viewing the content _and_ where the content is 
 served. If a CDN, then each node which serves the traffic must be in a place 
 where it is legal. There are CDNs which do not serve all customers from all 
 nodes for exactly this reason.

Does this mean that viewing say, cartoons of mohammed, may or may not
be 'illegal' for me to do, and result in my ISP being forced to block
traffic, depending on what origin and route they take to get to me?

Are we going to have the fedgov trying to enforce other country's
censorship laws on us?


Re: What is lawful content? [was VZ...]

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote:
 I am not a lawyer (in fact, I Am Not An Isp), but my understanding is this is 
 pretty well settled.

 And it is not even weird or esoteric. If the content on the site is against 
 the law in the jurisdiction in question, it is not legal (duh). Otherwise, 
 yes it is, and no ISP gets to decide whether you can see it or not.

Which is the jurisdiction in question ? the originating website? the
ISP? the CDN network's corporate home? my home?


Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-28 Thread Jim Richardson
I pay for (x) bits/sec up/down. From/to any eyecandysource.  If said
eyecandy origination can't handle the traffic, then I see a slowdown,
that's life.  But if $IP_PROVIDER throttles it specifically, rather
than throttling me to (x),I consider that fraud.

I didn't pay for (x) bits/sec from some whitelist of sources only.


Re: cable markers for marine environments

2012-03-08 Thread Jim Richardson
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
 I have a couple of wiring projects coming up on salt water-going vessels and 
 I'm curious as to people's experiences with different types of cable marking 
 products in a high-humidity / salt air / bilge environment

 None of the markers will be directly exposed to the outside elements, but 
 quite a bit will be running below decks and will have to put up with the 
 bilge.  Anyone have any horror stories to share?

 My preference is for a direct printing system rather than stock card markers.

 --lyndon



I have had good results with printed labels covered in clear
heatshrink.  Awkward, time consuming, and generally annoying, but
works, and lasts.  Keep the label short, print big, and use marine
(glue lined) heatshrink for best waterproofing. The regular stuff can
allow seepage and mould growth under the heatshrink in extreme cases.


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Re: recommendations for external montioring services?

2011-12-12 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Edward Dore
edward.d...@freethought-internet.co.uk wrote:
 Take a look at Panopta - we use it to compliment our internal monitoring and 
 find it great compared to some of the systems we've used in the past 
 (Pingdom, Binary Canary).

 The interface is easy to use and responsive, we don't get false positives and 
 there are a good range of checks. There's an API as well if you want to 
 integrate it.

 I'd stay clear of the software agent though, we've had a few issues with 
 that. For remote service checks we love it.

 Edward Dore
 Freethought Internet

 On 12 Dec 2011, at 19:10, Eric J Esslinger wrote:

 I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail 
 servers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers (including 
 lookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound 
 mx. A few network points to ping to ensure connectivity throughout my 
 system. Scheduled notification windows (for example, during work hours I 
 don't want my phone pinged unless it's everything going offline. Off hours I 
 do. Secondary notifications if problem persists to other users, or in the 
 event of many triggers. That sort of thing). Sensitivity settings (If web 
 server 1 shows down for 5 min, that's not a big deal. Another one if it 
 doesn't respond to repeated queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly 
 summary of issues would be nice. (especially the 'well it was down for a 
 short bit but we didn't notify as per settings')
 I don't have a lot of money to throw at this. I DO have detailed internal 
 monitoring of our systems  but sometimes that is not entirely useful, due to 
 the fact that there are a few 'single points of failure' within our 
 network/notification system, not to mention if the monitor itself goes 
 offline it's not exactly going to be able to tell me about it. (and that 
 happened once, right before the mail server decided to stop receiving mail).

 _


Nagios, or Zabbix are the ones I am most familiar with.  Zabbix is a
bit involved to set up, and may not be what you need in the scale of
things.  Nagios is a bit cumbersome to keep up with rapidly changing
systems of any size, but is good for small (and large) setups that are
more static.  Not without it's quirks mind, and takes a bit of work to
set up if you've never done it before.  But doesn't require a DB
backend, or any other stuff, just a server to put it on.  No agent
needed, as long as everything you want to check is gettable from the
server, like checking that a mail server is available for connections,
etc.  But can use agent checks, or pretty much any other checks.

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Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote:

 As wonderful as the new communications paradigms are, do we also
 have a situation now developing where it might eventually become
 very difficult or even impossible to ensure out-of-band lines of
 communications remain available?


That's already a problem for getting alert pages. Any actual *pager*
companies left? They all seem to have gone to SMS systems.



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Re: dns interceptors

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote:
 i just lost ten minutes debugging what i thought was a server problem
 which turned out to be a dns trapper on the wireless in the changi sats
 lounge.  this is not the first time i have been caught by this.

 what are other roaming folk doing about this?

 randy



ssh tunnels to IP address


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Re: news from Google

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Richardson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote:
 Peter Beckman wrote:
Snip

 Here's a pretty common line that Microsoft has that Google completely omits
 (or that I can't find):

 We do not sell, rent, or lease our customer lists to third parties.

 ~Seth



You aren't Bing's customer, you are a user. The line you quote, even
if they follow it, would not prohibit them from selling any and all
information they get from your searches.

*yahoo* is Bing's customer.

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