I have the exact opposite problem... plugging my IP address into Maxmind, I get my EXACT town (and it's a small one, believe me).
Yet, any other address in my ISPs range just says the capital city of my state. Can I convince Maxmind to like.. you know.. MAKE MY DAMN STATIC IP NOT POINT RIGHT AT ME!? And how'd it get like that in the first place?
The issue is, you can't fill your monthly transfer quota without 'slowing the server down'. They still get you for CPU use, even when you're serving static content (eg. images) and not even close to the monthly limits.
What I find funny is the complete double-standards of the internet community at large. eg. "OMG, Microsoft banned me because my gamertag seemed offensive, their ToS is stupid as!", then "OMG, Twitter won't enforce their ToS, that's stupid as!".
Google Street Maps was not welcome in Australia, too. But the newspaper "The Australian" had an interesting idea: the asked Google for the addresses of the Google managers.
It wasn't an interesting idea, it was the typical non-story media beatup our Australian news papers love to do. It's not even bloody comparable, it's not like I can type in "Jeff Blackmore" and it shows me his house and address or something like that. I guess Australians [me being one of them] don't realise that *gasps* people who drive into their street can also see their house! OH THE HORROR!!
I've heard the term 'hoovering' used to describe vacuuming. I think over in Englad it was more widely used that way. (That is if TV has actually taught me something.)
So have I. I think in Australia though, the most prevalent one though is 'iPod' for absolutely any MP3 player. Hell, even "Googling" meaning any type of search as well. Google should sue Google!
Why would Australia, already with very limited high cost bandwidth to the rest of the world, bother building out cable to the small remote isolated island of Guam?
From one of the original press releases back in December 2006 (Whirlpool is an Australian broadband news site/forum).
The link would connect Australia to what VSNL claims is the "world's largest designed global backbone capacity network, spanning across 4 continents and comprises of major ownership in 206,356km of terrestrial network fibreoptic networks and sub-sea cables." Guam already has existing connectivity to Japan, which would provide a gateway to the US and other countries.
Voting no? Coming from an Australian, we don't have a choice.
And fuck off they don't do this already. An Australian guy posted on 4chan saying he was going to shoot up a mall in America (obviously bullshit). Someone, we managed to figure out who this guy was. How? Obviously 4chan is Anonymous. I seriously doubt they handed over his IP, because I seriously doubt they had it (highest turnover I've ever seen, thread would've died before the authorities did shit). Which leaves what? Data logging. Maybe not here, almost definitely there, but to me it's fucking scary that they tracked this guy down and tried to fine him a shitload ($20, 000 I recall), just because he was talking shit on some website.
If I was an ISP who wanted to slow the use of P2P on my network, I only have a few options.
No offense but you'd be shit at running an ISP. There are plenty of ways, a lot of ISPs prioritise certain types of data traffic (and therefore the rest, including p2p is deprioritised), a few use P2P caching systems and some even use deep packet inspection I belief (possibly in correlation with the first thing I mentioned, but I am unsure).
I love Soulseek, but if it leave it running it seems to grind my computer to a halt. Not sure what if/what it is conflicting with but it's damn annoying.
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No, it's something to do with the ACCC trying to stop Australians getting ripped off. I'm glad someone finally stood up to Paypal and their bullshit.
Nope:
203.12x.xxx.xxx.dynamic.rev.aanet.com.au
(aanet = ISP)
Running HTTP server, but all it says is "Nothing to see here".
I have the exact opposite problem... plugging my IP address into Maxmind, I get my EXACT town (and it's a small one, believe me). Yet, any other address in my ISPs range just says the capital city of my state. Can I convince Maxmind to like.. you know.. MAKE MY DAMN STATIC IP NOT POINT RIGHT AT ME!? And how'd it get like that in the first place?
The issue is, you can't fill your monthly transfer quota without 'slowing the server down'. They still get you for CPU use, even when you're serving static content (eg. images) and not even close to the monthly limits.
What I find funny is the complete double-standards of the internet community at large. eg. "OMG, Microsoft banned me because my gamertag seemed offensive, their ToS is stupid as!", then "OMG, Twitter won't enforce their ToS, that's stupid as!".
It connects to 3G etc. So none of the things you mentioned. Australian version here
Yeah yeah, we heard you the first time.
And fuck off they don't do this already. An Australian guy posted on 4chan saying he was going to shoot up a mall in America (obviously bullshit). Someone, we managed to figure out who this guy was. How? Obviously 4chan is Anonymous. I seriously doubt they handed over his IP, because I seriously doubt they had it (highest turnover I've ever seen, thread would've died before the authorities did shit). Which leaves what? Data logging. Maybe not here, almost definitely there, but to me it's fucking scary that they tracked this guy down and tried to fine him a shitload ($20, 000 I recall), just because he was talking shit on some website.