[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Fri, 09 May 2008 23:38:11 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

> Avoiding exposure of infamously insecure network protocols to the
> public Internet is "pointless"?  This is obviously some sense of the
> term "pointless" with which I was previously unacquainted.

_That's_ not pointless; pointless is trying to get somebody else to do
that. Again, know your audience. That's why the insecure network protocols
are not indicated here. Crypto overhead is primarily in latency and CPU
cycles, but the real insufficiency here is in bandwidth. Gigabit is a lot,
but not relative to terabytes; however, it makes crypto overhead in
bandwidth relatively negligible. I am reminded of the concept of
"diminishing marginal utility" regarding moving to insecure protocols to
gain the tiniest bit of extra speed, but needing to have the end user
create a new private network segment to do it. The CPUs here are not that
anemic.

> Que?  Saying someone gave someone else misleadingly bad information, or
> that that person happens to not know that subject, is not "libel" in any
> universe of my acquaintance.

The latter can sometimes fit your own definition of it. Think about it. As
for the former, whether misleading information is "bad" is always a
judgment call.