Perhaps Verizon should look at their business practices first. First the basically laughed at the TCA of 1996 but not opening fully their network as they other ilecs squeezed the 1st generation DSL providers out of business, their $15 per month DSL service that they lose money on and no competitor can match because that's around what they pay for dry copper, and their FIOS service for which they are losing a fortune on to try and force their competition to price match and drive themselves out of business (cable and DSL).
So the appearance is that they are intentionally driving their revenue down in a blatant anti-competive move. Then they blame an entity that's got nothing to do with it, Google, for their poor performance. That's the old game called misdirection. In some circles it's call lying.
So why not run MySQL under Cygwin or use a VM and run Linux and/or Windows under the VM. That way one machine is two and you get to separate the services.
Than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
Joy. Sounds like the nuclear handgrenades in the old pulp "Time Wars" series by Simon Hawke. No doubt there are lots of good uses like propulsion or power generation as well.
Uh,compare the frequency of keyboard to toilet cleanings. Add disenfectent to toilet cleanings. The compare the frequency of someone looking at porn on a computer and the duration (and side activity) to the frequency and duration and side activity (reading) on the toilet.
Sounds like a recipe for 33000 bacteria / sq cm to me!
Okay, it's a pain in the ass for customers and others BUT they are businesses that negotiate peering, sometimes with monopoly money changing hands, sometimes without. It's a business dispute and it's not like Germany and France closing roads and making you drive through Belgium. They'll resolve it or lose business. Their's more of a back story we don't know.
At least it's not like UUNET more than one, some years ago, wanting to charge other Tier 1's per packet for transfer when peering while their traffic they wanted to pass for free. They were a big dog and were trying to make everyone pay. No one did and threatened to or did kill off traffic until UUNET got the sh*t together. But the did try to pull it off more than once.
They are much MUCH better and more experienced at space than we are, which is why we had them help us with the ISS, just like we ripped off all of germany's experience when we started nasa and wanted icbm's.
Much of the space US/USSR race can be defined as a competition between two teenagers bragging about penis size (i.e. my space program/penis is bigger or better than yours). In this case however, it was my German rocket scientists/technology are better than your German rocket scientists/technology.
This administratiion believes in outsourcing at any and all cost. If it costs more to outsource, make it a non-budget item so that it doesn't affect their politically massaged numbers. If it happens to make wealthy Republicans wealthier, all the better.
Democratic administrations generally aren't this overt.
When a "State of Emergency" is declared, it's martial law. Basically, rights get suspended because it's an _EMERGENCY_; you do what you are told, surrender your guns, flowers or whatever you are told to surrender. You can be shot and killed for failure to obey.
KiXtart is about the greatest thing since sliced bread. From the home page:
What's KiXtart
The KiXtart free-format scripting language has rich built-in functionality for easy scripting. It also supports COM (providing access to ADSI, ADO, WMI, etc) and thus is easily extensible.
With the amazing KiXforms GUI for KiXtart, there is so little, if anything you can't accomplish with KiXtart.
And because of the User Defined Functions (about 500 ready UDF's on korg already), there is very little you need to code by yourself as much of the complex things have already been coded for you!
KiXtart is developed by Ruud van Velsen of Microsoft Netherlands
KiXtart is now provided to you as CareWare.
Please see "KiXtart: Do You Care?" for full details.
It's pretty incredible, it's free, it allows you to do things you can't otherwise do at login with paying a lot of money (and did it sooner I believe), is written by an MS employee.
Use an old moderately powered PC, install Asterisk on it with AstLinux and a generic version of the Wildcard X100P and a VOIP client or hardware VOIP phone or a Wildcard TDM400P with up to four FXO or FXS modules and POTS phones. Kris has already done the hard word for you. It's a CF image for Soekris 4801 boards or generic i586 hardware.
You are supposed to be able to call 911 in the US even if service is disconnected on the POTS line. Or keep the cheapest service and pay them for any outbound call but only use it for backup locally.
Then sign up with several VOIP providers that don't provide unlimited calling, voicemail, etc., because you don't need it. Someone like VoicePulse Connect to get your DID and another outbound only provider that's even cheaper per minute. Note that this isn't the same as the regular VoicePulse service. You want more than 1 s0o if one's down, have your outbound tables just go to the next.
Connect your FXO port to the wall, set up Asterisk to work with the different VOIP providers and now your telephone service is incredibly reliable. Internet routing caveats of course. You are at about $22 bucks per month plus outbound calling at US$0.01-0.024 cents per minute domestically. And $US$0.013-0.40 cents per minute internationally depending on destination.
""The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,'' said U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who co-sponsored the measure with U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)."
Well, yea, it's true.
That's why it went into effect in the first place even though I did like it. It's why conservation is a good idea. Things like increased incentives for installing solar or wind power on businesses and homes would do wonders for the environment as well as help alleviate the need for new power plants.
Just a few years ago, Cheney dismissively stated "conservation is a virtue" but not a national priority. Replacing grid transmission cable with fiber optics would do wonders too.
Take a few billion US$ that America pumps into energy subsidies for big oil, big power, etc. and pump it into something that would provide for reduced consumption of oil and gas and increase available power with local renewable power generation, etc. That would provide huge benefits.
Which 'sky' is falling today, Bob? I can't keep up with how many times you've almost incoherently railed about pending doom. I remember several rants just about the internet being about to implode.
Kind of like when some college grad student spammed me doing research on spam. Several emails went back and forth, but you know, he didn't seem to get that sending an unsolicited email to thousands, even with an altruistic goal was still spam.
We needed a new study to tell us that gasoline has more energy to ethanol? It's been known for years that ethanol has less energy that gasoline, at least gasoline sold in the US.
Additives in gasoline are incredibly harmful to us and the environment plus burning gasoline dumps carbon taken out of the atmosphere millions of years ago back into the atmosphere rapidly. With plant based fuels, it puts carbon back into the atmosphere that was taken out of it last year.
1st, I'm going to climb in the mud, then climb out and be objective.
Ah, someone who reads Republican talking points and worships Bill O'Reilly.
Perhaps you consider yourself a libertarian with a little L as opposed to the party with the big L. Anyway, get on with your life and stop trying to blame liberals for everything from your hangnail and no dates to Bob Barr being de-elected. Okay, I'll cop to the Bob Barr thing.
I consider myself a liberal, I'm a business owner, I vote and I donate money. I'm also a veteran of the submarine service.
Having been in that line of work related to radars and communications (and now, among other things, network security), you gobble up everything that is available in the band or on the wire. That means that they look at everyones business. Mind you, I loved my work in the Navy but when I got out of the service, my 3 choices for doing it legally/domestically were CIA, NSA or Secret Service. The first two, I didn't trust (call it paranoia if you want...you probably don't have a clue what I did) and the third was really uninviting. Doing any other form would have meant for foreign governments (no thank you) or corporate espionage (not just no, but fsck no).
You clearly made up your mind to give over the free and open society in which we live(d). I am not. Free doesn't mean or just mean free to do as you please. It means free from unnecessary intrusion, privacy, etc.
I'd rather NOT have wifi on US planes if it meant everything I did was scrutenized. That doesn't mean I'm doing anything illegal. You send a letter in an envelope because if affords a modicum of privacy, not typically on a postcard.
I feel that if you want a fascist utopia, go to Singapore. It's clean, polite and punks get caned for marketing up public or private property with graffiti.
The bit about the fear that terrorists will use the wifi in flight has about as much to do with security as the government's old fight about encryption that sprung up again after 9/11. It was about being able to back door everything. Remember the Clipper chip? It quietly got integrated into secure voice products about 11 years after a big noisy fight.
Liberals: we're to blame for everything. Too bad we haven't had power since LBJ. Amazing what you can force on society when you don't rule.
In the US, out West, they have a "fence 'em out law" regarding cattle. The onus is on you to keep the cattle out, not on the rancher who is grazing his herd. Cattle are stupid but they generally can "read the sign" when it's sharp and pointy or you can't walk through. That's kind of how the internet works. Your example above has no fence. How is someone connecting to know that they aren't allowed to connect when there is no warning?
The internet is a lot like this; as a previous poster mentioned the convention (common law perhaps?) is that it's free and open unless specifically blocked, typically by a firewall of some sort.
Let's look at it like you are leasing a house then. While the owner has insurance, usually, you are required to keep X amount of property insurance as well on the property, not just on the your personal property. Say you throw a party and you get 200 gate crashers and they wreck the house. You are the one on the hook for it to the owner, not generally the gate crasher. And they may or may not have broken trespassing laws. So just because you have an agreement with your ISP that says basically you and no other(s) can use your connection, then you fail to secure it, you should be liable to your ISP.
There's room for discussion regarding the use of the open connection and ethics regarding.
Most don't come out of geekdom, rather from business school and worked previously marketing, sales, or some other management area. The don't have the knowledge or skill to be geeks and must rely on them. To make a move like this one, you must have good ones that you trust not just with the business but **with your career**. That's ultimately more important since your family depends on it.
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Perhaps Verizon should look at their business practices first. First the basically laughed at the TCA of 1996 but not opening fully their network as they other ilecs squeezed the 1st generation DSL providers out of business, their $15 per month DSL service that they lose money on and no competitor can match because that's around what they pay for dry copper, and their FIOS service for which they are losing a fortune on to try and force their competition to price match and drive themselves out of business (cable and DSL).
So the appearance is that they are intentionally driving their revenue down in a blatant anti-competive move. Then they blame an entity that's got nothing to do with it, Google, for their poor performance. That's the old game called misdirection. In some circles it's call lying.
And who do you suppose would terminate those calls for the next forever if BT ceased to exist tomorrow?
So why not run MySQL under Cygwin or use a VM and run Linux and/or Windows under the VM. That way one machine is two and you get to separate the services.
Than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.
Joy. Sounds like the nuclear handgrenades in the old pulp "Time Wars" series by Simon Hawke. No doubt there are lots of good uses like propulsion or power generation as well.
Sounds like a recipe for 33000 bacteria / sq cm to me!
Lot's of Intel gear has kept my coffee warm over the years.
You mean like Kevin Mitnick for about 5 years without trial?
The Emperor's New Clothes. I'm sure they are very nice but I just wish I could see them!
Maybe their bandwidth is really just saturated by the spammers they harbor.
That's what the damper that directs the hot air out of the house or circulates it is for.
At least it's not like UUNET more than one, some years ago, wanting to charge other Tier 1's per packet for transfer when peering while their traffic they wanted to pass for free. They were a big dog and were trying to make everyone pay. No one did and threatened to or did kill off traffic until UUNET got the sh*t together. But the did try to pull it off more than once.
They are much MUCH better and more experienced at space than we are, which is why we had them help us with the ISS, just like we ripped off all of germany's experience when we started nasa and wanted icbm's.
Much of the space US/USSR race can be defined as a competition between two teenagers bragging about penis size (i.e. my space program/penis is bigger or better than yours). In this case however, it was my German rocket scientists/technology are better than your German rocket scientists/technology.
This administratiion believes in outsourcing at any and all cost. If it costs more to outsource, make it a non-budget item so that it doesn't affect their politically massaged numbers. If it happens to make wealthy Republicans wealthier, all the better.
Democratic administrations generally aren't this overt.
When a "State of Emergency" is declared, it's martial law. Basically, rights get suspended because it's an _EMERGENCY_; you do what you are told, surrender your guns, flowers or whatever you are told to surrender. You can be shot and killed for failure to obey.
Yea, but they are all cults.
What's KiXtart
The KiXtart free-format scripting language has rich built-in functionality for easy scripting. It also supports COM (providing access to ADSI, ADO, WMI, etc) and thus is easily extensible. With the amazing KiXforms GUI for KiXtart, there is so little, if anything you can't accomplish with KiXtart.
And because of the User Defined Functions (about 500 ready UDF's on korg already), there is very little you need to code by yourself as much of the complex things have already been coded for you!
KiXtart is developed by Ruud van Velsen of Microsoft Netherlands
KiXtart is now provided to you as CareWare. Please see "KiXtart: Do You Care?" for full details.
It's pretty incredible, it's free, it allows you to do things you can't otherwise do at login with paying a lot of money (and did it sooner I believe), is written by an MS employee.
Use an old moderately powered PC, install Asterisk on it with AstLinux and a generic version of the Wildcard X100P and a VOIP client or hardware VOIP phone or a Wildcard TDM400P with up to four FXO or FXS modules and POTS phones. Kris has already done the hard word for you. It's a CF image for Soekris 4801 boards or generic i586 hardware.
You are supposed to be able to call 911 in the US even if service is disconnected on the POTS line. Or keep the cheapest service and pay them for any outbound call but only use it for backup locally.
Then sign up with several VOIP providers that don't provide unlimited calling, voicemail, etc., because you don't need it. Someone like VoicePulse Connect to get your DID and another outbound only provider that's even cheaper per minute. Note that this isn't the same as the regular VoicePulse service. You want more than 1 s0o if one's down, have your outbound tables just go to the next.
Connect your FXO port to the wall, set up Asterisk to work with the different VOIP providers and now your telephone service is incredibly reliable. Internet routing caveats of course. You are at about $22 bucks per month plus outbound calling at US$0.01-0.024 cents per minute domestically. And $US$0.013-0.40 cents per minute internationally depending on destination.
Well, yea, it's true.
That's why it went into effect in the first place even though I did like it. It's why conservation is a good idea. Things like increased incentives for installing solar or wind power on businesses and homes would do wonders for the environment as well as help alleviate the need for new power plants.
Just a few years ago, Cheney dismissively stated "conservation is a virtue" but not a national priority. Replacing grid transmission cable with fiber optics would do wonders too.
Take a few billion US$ that America pumps into energy subsidies for big oil, big power, etc. and pump it into something that would provide for reduced consumption of oil and gas and increase available power with local renewable power generation, etc. That would provide huge benefits.
this and farm run off gets you egg producting male bass in the Potomac River.
Which 'sky' is falling today, Bob? I can't keep up with how many times you've almost incoherently railed about pending doom. I remember several rants just about the internet being about to implode.
Kind of like when some college grad student spammed me doing research on spam. Several emails went back and forth, but you know, he didn't seem to get that sending an unsolicited email to thousands, even with an altruistic goal was still spam.
Additives in gasoline are incredibly harmful to us and the environment plus burning gasoline dumps carbon taken out of the atmosphere millions of years ago back into the atmosphere rapidly. With plant based fuels, it puts carbon back into the atmosphere that was taken out of it last year.
1st, I'm going to climb in the mud, then climb out and be objective.
Ah, someone who reads Republican talking points and worships Bill O'Reilly.
Perhaps you consider yourself a libertarian with a little L as opposed to the party with the big L. Anyway, get on with your life and stop trying to blame liberals for everything from your hangnail and no dates to Bob Barr being de-elected. Okay, I'll cop to the Bob Barr thing.
I consider myself a liberal, I'm a business owner, I vote and I donate money. I'm also a veteran of the submarine service.
Having been in that line of work related to radars and communications (and now, among other things, network security), you gobble up everything that is available in the band or on the wire. That means that they look at everyones business. Mind you, I loved my work in the Navy but when I got out of the service, my 3 choices for doing it legally/domestically were CIA, NSA or Secret Service. The first two, I didn't trust (call it paranoia if you want...you probably don't have a clue what I did) and the third was really uninviting. Doing any other form would have meant for foreign governments (no thank you) or corporate espionage (not just no, but fsck no).
You clearly made up your mind to give over the free and open society in which we live(d). I am not. Free doesn't mean or just mean free to do as you please. It means free from unnecessary intrusion, privacy, etc.
I'd rather NOT have wifi on US planes if it meant everything I did was scrutenized. That doesn't mean I'm doing anything illegal. You send a letter in an envelope because if affords a modicum of privacy, not typically on a postcard.
I feel that if you want a fascist utopia, go to Singapore. It's clean, polite and punks get caned for marketing up public or private property with graffiti.
The bit about the fear that terrorists will use the wifi in flight has about as much to do with security as the government's old fight about encryption that sprung up again after 9/11. It was about being able to back door everything. Remember the Clipper chip? It quietly got integrated into secure voice products about 11 years after a big noisy fight.
Liberals: we're to blame for everything. Too bad we haven't had power since LBJ. Amazing what you can force on society when you don't rule.
IANAL but....
In the US, out West, they have a "fence 'em out law" regarding cattle. The onus is on you to keep the cattle out, not on the rancher who is grazing his herd. Cattle are stupid but they generally can "read the sign" when it's sharp and pointy or you can't walk through. That's kind of how the internet works. Your example above has no fence. How is someone connecting to know that they aren't allowed to connect when there is no warning?
The internet is a lot like this; as a previous poster mentioned the convention (common law perhaps?) is that it's free and open unless specifically blocked, typically by a firewall of some sort.
Let's look at it like you are leasing a house then. While the owner has insurance, usually, you are required to keep X amount of property insurance as well on the property, not just on the your personal property. Say you throw a party and you get 200 gate crashers and they wreck the house. You are the one on the hook for it to the owner, not generally the gate crasher. And they may or may not have broken trespassing laws. So just because you have an agreement with your ISP that says basically you and no other(s) can use your connection, then you fail to secure it, you should be liable to your ISP.
There's room for discussion regarding the use of the open connection and ethics regarding.
Most don't come out of geekdom, rather from business school and worked previously marketing, sales, or some other management area. The don't have the knowledge or skill to be geeks and must rely on them. To make a move like this one, you must have good ones that you trust not just with the business but **with your career**. That's ultimately more important since your family depends on it.