Compression of video data is known to cause loss. It is an art to maintain the integrity of the original source — to cook a compression recipe. These two samples show atypical results, both with high amounts of loss yet beautiful results.

Venetian Snares – Szamar Madar from David OReilly on Vimeo.

Chairlift – “Evident Utensil” Music Video from Data Mosher on Vimeo.

Motorola has pushed their marketing too far according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority.

The company claimed in a series of ads that the phone was incapable of any injury owing to its strong design. One of the ads showed someone dropping the device on the dance floor and another showed the device submerged in the pool.

The ads contained words like “dance floor proof”, “splash proof” and “life proof”. The ASA however, believes otherwise.

The regulator said that it was reacting to complaints made by three device owners who claimed that the screen of their Android based Defy handset cracked after they dropped it.

The ASA ruled that the ads were ‘misleading’ and should be banned.

Only three failures? Out of how many units in the field? I mean at least they did not claim the phone hacker proof, malware proof…

News from Beijing in Chinabyte.com

比特网Chinabyte11月3日原创 11月2日，2011RSA安全大会信息安全国际论坛在京举行，Flyingpenguin总裁Davi Ottenheimer在会上发表了题为《在云环境中筹划安全》的演讲。泄密、数据完整性丢失、停机对于虚拟环境来说并不陌生，Davi Ottenheimer介绍了组合和衡量各种安全成分的一些新方法，即使是在大型多租户、多层次的安全状况下依旧能满足要求和实现合规性。演讲结束后，就云安全的合规性、从安全角度进行云供应商选择等问题Davi Ottenheime接受了比特网记者的采访。

Or, in other words:

Davi Ottenheimer describes the various security components, mixes and measures of new methods, even in large multi-tenant, multi-layered security situations that still are able to meet regulatory requirements and achieve compliance.

There is a nice summary and introduction to VXLAN on BORGcube. Note the system responsible for encapsulation as that is always a focus area of manipulation. Can a guest probe ARP information on another host, for example, beyond what the local host is meant to reveal?

…you can think of VXLAN as a tunneling scheme with the ESX hosts making up the VXLAN Tunnel End Points (VTEP). The VTEPs are responsible for encapsulating the virtual machine traffic in a VXLAN header as well as stripping it off and presenting the destination virtual machine with the original L2 packet.