Congratulations Google Home on finally adding the ability to pair with and play to a bluetooth speaker. Unfortunately, it's not quite there as you can only do it by turning off the internal speaker. Logically, many people will want to extend their audio footprint to a bluetooth device (ie a sound bar on the other side of the living room) without losing it on the Home device itself. Can we get that capability soon please?
While it doesn't change (or answer) the question on how to bypass the filtering, what the poster does not make clear is that the "safe internet" infrastructure that will be enabled by all operators (due to government regulation) will be opt-in. Unless subscribers specifically request that their internet be filtered, their traffic will not even pass through the filtering system, and the Turkish government has specifically stated (believable or otherwise) that they have no intention of making the system mandatory, and the ISPs have dimensioned their newly purchased parental control systems accordingly which means that the new systems are not designed or capable of handling the load of all subscribers...
Speaking as someone who works in IT, I would like to remond you that IT reports to business, and there are all sorts of (legal) reasons why business can order IT to inspect your company owned PC and company owned email account. If you have private information on a work PC, you shouldn't. If you send private mail through a work email account you shouldn't. If you use a work telephone for private calls, you shouldn't. It is unethical on your behalf to use work resources for private business and you should have no expectation of privacy. To answer the second part of your question, you can easily use truecrypt, GPG or any other encryption program to store data on PC (that hopefully you own) and as long as you use a decent passphrase it would be very difficult for anyone to access should you die. Putting this on a $15 per month VPS is an excercise for the reader...
Yes. They almost certainly changed the password with TR-069 (otherwise known as "CPE WAN Management Protocol"). TR-069 has been a required feature in all major CPE tenders for all major ISPs across the globe for several year now. You can read more about the TR standards on the Broadband Forum's Technical Reports page
I couldn't disagree more. A good database should NEVER allow invalid data to be inserted/updated into a field. Of course application programmers should validate data as well, but the database should ALWAYS give an error and refuse to insert bad data. MySQL has the bad habit of sometimes inserting bad data, sometimes randomly "munging" the data to make it fit the datatype and sometimes giving an error. This makes it really had for application programs to be able to rely on it for anything, as you don't have an expected baseline behavour. If you don't want data type checking go and use sqllite (or a flatfile). If you do, use Postgresql.
Well, thats funny, because I also have had to write VoIP billing software, and am currently writing IP traffic rating and billing software. When I first started this type of business 5 years ago it was with MySQL, but I was frequently both crashing MySQL and getting junk data in my tables (The biggest problem being invalid dates!) When I started searching for a better option I tried a number of databases including FireBird and Postgresql but settled on Postgresql for 4 major reasons. 1) It has absolutely brilliant Date and Time handling, better even than Oracle. 2) It has native INET support which allows easy manipulation, sorting and searching of IP addresses. 3) It has SUB SELECT support which allowed me to reduce my application code a lot, by making the DB do the work (Always a good tradeoff in my opinion) 4) It has VIEW support which allowed me to generate some "simple" views of the data including some summaries which allowed the management to play to their hearts content with MS Access (As a frontend to PG) without having to understand the "real" data layout. Of course since then I have discovered many more things to love about Postgresql, including triggers and stored procedures etc (To be fair, MySQL has some of these features now, but did not at that time) Just to be clear my first Postgresql app handled ~5 million VoIP records per day on a single CPU, single disk desktop class machine and the only time I have EVER had Postgresql crash was due to a bad ram chip in server! Conversely, I can't count the number of time I and my customers have lost data with MySQL.
Ahhh. Just imagine that. Funny.. Sounds alot like H.323 to me. (The primary VoIP protocol in use today) If you want to know more about VoIP have a read at www.packetizer.com
There are plenty of hardware and software H323 and SIP (A competing but less powerfull VoIP protocol) based phones out there. Voice quality comes down to a combination of available bandwidth and compression codec in use. As the article implies a well designed VoIP network can infact give better voice quality than PSTN. H323 already support seemless routing of calls on and off of PSTN networks, and publishing of your H323 gatekeeper/gateway's ip address in DNS for seemless interdomain routing without any prior configuration between the calling and called parties. H323 DOES already do everything you want, it is an open protocol, and you can already buy hardware phones that are basically plug in and call.
a) We do not ignore complaints, although, sometimes it does take a few days to reply.
b) We do not pass on your email address.
Feel free to try and prove me wrong here.
Nix - Random Cotse person
Move to Australia! We have one of the best telco networks on the planet!
The US system is craziness. Who on earth would pay for incomming calls to their phone? I have a AU$95 per month with OneTel which gives me 95 dollars worth of of outbound calls to other networks, free calls to anyone on the same network, and of course free roaming between any state in Australia. I can send SMS messages to anywhere for 20 cents, I can recieve email direct to my phone for 20 cents and OF COURSE all my inbound calls are free!!! Who on earth would be stupid enough to pay to have other people call them?????
Oh, and I can happily roam to almost any country in the world also without having to setup anything!
God the US is fucked up...
Visit 2600 Australia for our white (black) paper on Censorship Evasion in Australia. We are the most vocal Anti-Censorship Group in Australia and have been getting more press/radio coverage than all the other goups combined. If you're and Aussie, you WILL be affected by this law, join our mailing list and help us speak out.
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Congratulations Google Home on finally adding the ability to pair with and play to a bluetooth speaker. Unfortunately, it's not quite there as you can only do it by turning off the internal speaker. Logically, many people will want to extend their audio footprint to a bluetooth device (ie a sound bar on the other side of the living room) without losing it on the Home device itself. Can we get that capability soon please?
While it doesn't change (or answer) the question on how to bypass the filtering, what the poster does not make clear is that the "safe internet" infrastructure that will be enabled by all operators (due to government regulation) will be opt-in. Unless subscribers specifically request that their internet be filtered, their traffic will not even pass through the filtering system, and the Turkish government has specifically stated (believable or otherwise) that they have no intention of making the system mandatory, and the ISPs have dimensioned their newly purchased parental control systems accordingly which means that the new systems are not designed or capable of handling the load of all subscribers...
This is most Likely done with SACC. It's a built in function of the GGSN...
Speaking as someone who works in IT, I would like to remond you that IT reports to business, and there are all sorts of (legal) reasons why business can order IT to inspect your company owned PC and company owned email account. If you have private information on a work PC, you shouldn't. If you send private mail through a work email account you shouldn't. If you use a work telephone for private calls, you shouldn't. It is unethical on your behalf to use work resources for private business and you should have no expectation of privacy.
To answer the second part of your question, you can easily use truecrypt, GPG or any other encryption program to store data on PC (that hopefully you own) and as long as you use a decent passphrase it would be very difficult for anyone to access should you die. Putting this on a $15 per month VPS is an excercise for the reader...
Yes. They almost certainly changed the password with TR-069 (otherwise known as "CPE WAN Management Protocol"). TR-069 has been a required feature in all major CPE tenders for all major ISPs across the globe for several year now. You can read more about the TR standards on the
Broadband Forum's Technical Reports page
And how exactly is this different to the USA fingerprinting foreigners, even of "friendly" countries like Australia?
I couldn't disagree more. A good database should NEVER allow invalid data to be inserted/updated into a field. Of course application programmers should validate data as well, but the database should ALWAYS give an error and refuse to insert bad data. MySQL has the bad habit of sometimes inserting bad data, sometimes randomly "munging" the data to make it fit the datatype and sometimes giving an error. This makes it really had for application programs to be able to rely on it for anything, as you don't have an expected baseline behavour. If you don't want data type checking go and use sqllite (or a flatfile). If you do, use Postgresql.
Well, thats funny, because I also have had to write VoIP billing software, and am currently writing IP traffic rating and billing software. When I first started this type of business 5 years ago it was with MySQL, but I was frequently both crashing MySQL and getting junk data in my tables (The biggest problem being invalid dates!) When I started searching for a better option I tried a number of databases including FireBird and Postgresql but settled on Postgresql for 4 major reasons. 1) It has absolutely brilliant Date and Time handling, better even than Oracle. 2) It has native INET support which allows easy manipulation, sorting and searching of IP addresses. 3) It has SUB SELECT support which allowed me to reduce my application code a lot, by making the DB do the work (Always a good tradeoff in my opinion) 4) It has VIEW support which allowed me to generate some "simple" views of the data including some summaries which allowed the management to play to their hearts content with MS Access (As a frontend to PG) without having to understand the "real" data layout.
Of course since then I have discovered many more things to love about Postgresql, including triggers and stored procedures etc (To be fair, MySQL has some of these features now, but did not at that time)
Just to be clear my first Postgresql app handled ~5 million VoIP records per day on a single CPU, single disk desktop class machine and the only time I have EVER had Postgresql crash was due to a bad ram chip in server! Conversely, I can't count the number of time I and my customers have lost data with MySQL.
I am posting this from downtown baghdad after a 15 hour road trip from Turkey through northern Iraq..
Damn sat dish stopped working didnt it..
How does that rate??
As not all of us can read German, I thought a link to the
English version of the press release on SuSE's website would not go astray.
Ahhh. Just imagine that.
Funny.. Sounds alot like H.323 to me. (The primary VoIP protocol in use today)
If you want to know more about VoIP have a read at www.packetizer.com
There are plenty of hardware and software H323 and SIP (A competing but less powerfull VoIP protocol) based phones out there. Voice quality comes down to a combination of available bandwidth and compression codec in use.
As the article implies a well designed VoIP network can infact give better voice quality than PSTN.
H323 already support seemless routing of calls on and off of PSTN networks, and publishing of your H323 gatekeeper/gateway's ip address in DNS for seemless interdomain routing without any prior configuration between the calling and called parties.
H323 DOES already do everything you want, it is an open protocol, and you can already buy hardware phones that are basically plug in and call.
a) We do not ignore complaints, although, sometimes it does take a few days to reply.
b) We do not pass on your email address.
Feel free to try and prove me wrong here.
Nix - Random Cotse person
Move to Australia! We have one of the best telco networks on the planet!
The US system is craziness. Who on earth would pay for incomming calls to their phone? I have a AU$95 per month with OneTel which gives me 95 dollars worth of of outbound calls to other networks, free calls to anyone on the same network, and of course free roaming between any state in Australia. I can send SMS messages to anywhere for 20 cents, I can recieve email direct to my phone for 20 cents and OF COURSE all my inbound calls are free!!! Who on earth would be stupid enough to pay to have other people call them?????
Oh, and I can happily roam to almost any country in the world also without having to setup anything!
God the US is fucked up...
Visit 2600 Australia for our white (black) paper on Censorship Evasion in Australia.
We are the most vocal Anti-Censorship Group in Australia and have been getting more press/radio coverage than all the other goups combined.
If you're and Aussie, you WILL be affected by this law, join our mailing list and help us speak out.