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Panama Decrees Block To Kill VoIP Service
An anonymous reader writes "In an apparent attempt to stem telephone company revenue losses due to Internet telephony, the government of Panama has decreed that 46 UDP ports be blocked by all Internet service providers. The ports include ones that are commonly used for voice over IP as well as some that are used for other purposes, apparently with the idea that these, too, could be used to circumvent the POTS (plain old telephone system, a term of art) in making telephone calls."
the government of Panama has decreed that 46 UDP ports be blocked by all Internet service providers.
That's unbelievable!... that it happened in Panama before America.
There's lots of dark fiber across North America.
There's no need to be racist about this! Not everyone can be of Northern European descent.
port 80 as used for http is a tcp port, not a udp port.
<ANAL>
There is no such thing as a "UDP port" or a "TCP port". A port is a port. What protocol it uses depends on the software that opens the port and listens on it, or how it is configured via /etc/services, or whatever your flavor of OS uses.
Yes, port 80 is normally used for http, which is a TCP protocol, but calling port 80 a "TCP port" is incorrect.
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let me just start out by saying that you are a total nutcase who doesn't understand some basic facts and history. if public transportation infrastructure was removed, then that means that it was in use and served a purpose at one point in time. they were in use in the past, when by your own words the US was "even more rural than we are now": so by your logic public transit was used in the past when we were more rural, but then as we became less rural it was all of a sudden ok to pull it out of the ground? i don't think so. those lines were pulled out for one simple reason. the automobile. thats right, not out of any kind of practical reason, no - they were removed because they were interferring with the almighty car. but it wasn't just the automakers who were responsible for this-- their big brother's the oil compaines had a hand in it as well. if this country would finally drop its fucking oil addiction, perhaps we would see all sorts of new transportation technologies come out of the cracks (which were present the whole time anyways..). don't try and tell me that people will not pay a little extra to get from LA to SF and not have to wait in line at the airport. once the rail right of ways are put back in place (thats right, PUT BACK, they were removed ya know) and the government spends a little less money on subsidisinf cotton crops in the southern Ca desert, CA can be a great place to start the transportation revolution. it is as simple as this: 1. planes for the long hauls, coast to coast, or anything >600mi. 2. bullet trains to connect the large cities, or anyhting 600mi. 3. local trains to connect every thing else. 4. cars (electric ones) would then be used for personal transportation that fell outsife of the rail system's bounds, or for emergancy situations. 5. bicycles could be used for all local trips. (weather and terrain permitting) get your head out of your ass. the end