We all know telecoms (most clecs, and ilecs (some ilecs are pritty cool though) just want money, and lots of it. Thats why the cost of a t1 is still so high, so some technican gets fired when the loop alarm is on for a few days. Speaking of loop alarm, I hope BTI is firing people monday. Anyway. Broadband would be cheaper w/o goverment regs, and if telecoms were more willing to sell t1 lines chaper. Seriously, I would put a t1 into my house, I would consolidate my phone line onto one channel, and use the rest for data. I know one of the nearby ilecs (i have sprint, sprint sucks) is doing what they call dsl, but its really a multiplexed voice line in their words. In other words, they are rolling out t1 lines to homes. Makes perfect sence, High bandwidth, high quality, cheap since they are the incumbent local exchange.
The problem with new goverment regs is that it would just make broadband more expensive. I wouldnt mind getting together with a few friends and buying a few dslpipes to make my own dsl network, or setting up a few long distance 802.11b network, but all that stuff would get even more regulated. I mean honestly, Some Phone companies (local exchanges) will not do alarm circuits any more. I have buddies in one city that used to use them to quietly do point-to-point t1 lines inside the same exchange area.
The clear solution is for the consumer to dish ou the cash and build their own infastructure, any which way they please, but cheap t1 loops would be VERY nice.
I attend a UNC system school, and we have NCREN powering the internet access. A little background info, everybody has one or two ds3 or oc3 lines. NCREN has an oc48, an oc12, and a handfull of oc3 lines uplinking them to the world. The problem is, that NCREN has given oc3/ds3 lines to companies like microsoft, and they load down the entire system. The traffic graphs for my university never really exceed 40mbit/sec on one line, and 12mbit/sec on the second line. We even have a third line, and its dark most of he time.
But the NCREN oc48, oc12, and all the oc3 line outbound are allways loaded at 99%. In ncren before you hit the core routers, pings are below 30 ms, once packets leave, they have gone as high as 2000 ms. NCREN refuses to admit there is a problem, or resolve the issues. One problem also seems that one of sprints core routers that peers with NCREN is faulty or over loaded.
I must admit, when I lived in the dorms, it was nice to sometimes be able to play the major ra3 servers at 35-55ms.
Well I allready knew my boss had some serious issues...... when I started finding three gigs of porn here, four gigs of porn there, i told him to just get rid of it off the servers. At that point, he started buying a bunch of 60-70 gig drives......
Not all machines come preloaded with windows. I build all my desktops, and when I ordered my custom laptop, I spesificly requested that windows not be included, and it did not come with windows.
I normally get out of working, but I still end up having a pager. This year, we rotate the pager out every few weeks, I lucked out and got it for x-mas. Last year I had a pager 24/7 for months on end, and I just quietly went up to new jersey, and the pager didn't work *grin*.
my understanding is that its manditory, even if it is not though, is not as if you can get through grade school without filling out your SSN on a test or something like that. I remember my 6th grade year soo many years ago, and we had to put our SSN on tests, ofcorse, this was before congress decided that the SSN could be used as ID.
I am very aware of reality, perhaps you need to get your head out of your ass, and truly think about what could happen, and the future. The future is what we make it, if we make it where everybody is "implanted", then we are under the thumb of somebody/something we cannot even see. Thus, we would never be free.
Think about it, If such a thing like in the matrix were to happen, where machines wadge to war with man. They will win with ease if everybody is implanted.
I have earthlink cable thru roadrunner. ie roadrunner, but i pay earthlink, and my ip addy says mindspring. They really don't care, I have heard cases of rr localally scanning boxes, but that is only when like some new major worm hits the net. There was a webserver on the IP address, and it told ya why they were scanning your box. Pritty interresting anyway.
I have ssh, smtp, and i need to get my webserver back up, and maybe I should bring online a q3a server. I have noticed everything works nice and smoothly, except around 5-7, my ipsec tunnel gets a little odd around then, i may have to start mangling packets to get better performance.
Its not just kiddies though, i've met many adults who hoard warez. One guy who had a state goverment job said that he had nothing better to do at work, than to collect a terabyte of warez.
Also, we all must remember that figures in most news articals are pulled out of somebody's ass.
The thing is, when reading that artical, I was reminded of Agent Vince Gill (i think thats the name...) in the movie Hackers.
I'll be honest, if they can provide support for me, at my home, and work, and maybe where my nearby 2600 group meets, i would get it even though I have cable. It's also nice to have an internet connection when one is waiting to be towed for four hours.... If its below 40 bucks, I would see it as worth it. Maybe faster access would be nice.
I know you will never read this response, but its not all that violent. It would be as violent as a volcano, but in all reality it would just be kick starting what has been happening here on earth for billions of years. If you are blind enouf, thinking that only man-inflicted violence is the only violence in the universe, then what about the Mt. St. Hellens explosion, Or what about Mt. Vesuvious (sp?) explosion? I think it would be that those two earth related natural events are good examples of violence in nature.
Teraforming Venus would be harder to do, but I have thought about it. The major issue with venus is that its atmosphere is composed of sulpheric (sp?) acid, at a tempature hot enouf to melt lead if memory serves. If that wasen't a major concern, I belave the air pressure on venus is extreamly high. I think it would take some giant sucking device to lower the pressure some, and then we would have to figure out how to break down the acid in the atmosphere. Once we did that, the greenhouse effect on the planet would hopefully be lessened, and the tempature would drop. I'm not aware of how the gravity differs from earth, but i'm sure we could figure out how to deal with that.
After a point, such a reaction becomes self sustaining, initally, it would take lots of material though, we could potentially empty all the storage facilities of spent uranium. It would be going to a great cause though.
As for altering spin, my friends argument was that we could use it to make the days 24 hours, or something along those lines.
It would kick up dust, but its not as if there are allready large dust storms on the surface.
The problem is, who is going to make the effort. If we were to truly make an effort, we could have a self sustaining perminant colony in lets say five years. Once we have a perminant colony, it would just be a small stepping stone to begin teraforming the planet. But again, who is going to make the effort.
This is true, I have had several discussions with friends on this subject. Since we know that mars' core is cold, the solution is to clearly heat it up. Me and my friends figured the only real way to do that was with a massive nuclear meltdown, put massive amounts of fissionable material into sealed caves and get it going on the process of nuclear meltdown. We figured that it would be the cheapest, quickest, and best way to get the process going. The material (in our idea) should melt down, all be it slowly, and in time gather in the core of the planet, where it would continue reacting, and generating heat. The heat should melt what was the core, or ateast start liquifying it, so a magnetic field forms. Hell, we could ship all our solid radio active waste to mars. Really, this would require special launch or elevator platform to get it into orbit.
So, with enough reactive material, we should be able to get it going, and possibly maintain it using some sort of plazma infusion system. Like in that next generation episode. Ofcorse, this would be a major effort to get going, but I would like to see it happening within my lifetime. If I ever build a space ship, you better belive i'm going to claim a part of mars. Also, for water, It has been discused using astroids composed of large amounts of ice, and just ramming them into the atmosphere. A friend of mind suggest using them to also alter the orbit and the spin of the planet.
I would say the greatest issue is response by isps and groups who seem to have been a source for an attack. I NEVER hear back from ip address block owners, its rare, In maybe a three or four HUNDRED emails, I have only gotten one response from a person. In all honesty though, no matter of legislation or tax incentives can help that.
I think it would be best if the US Goverment, My Goverment, took a hands-off approch, but while encouraging insurence companies to give incentives to customers who maintain high security networks. Goverment Control of technology, Outlawing of the tools, will only make things worse, because only the crooks, script kiddies, and outlaws will have the tools and technology.
The internet is an international, boundless medium, and only a community effort, with the cooperation of isps and companies who hold massive networks, will keep the net free, and allow net admins to hunt down, and stop people who are doing things that cause net admins trouble in their job. I mean, I would be much happier if one isp out west would email be about one of their customers who have a box that is scanning one of my customers just about every three weeks.
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I'm reminded of stories of uses of arcnet.......
We all know telecoms (most clecs, and ilecs (some ilecs are pritty cool though) just want money, and lots of it. Thats why the cost of a t1 is still so high, so some technican gets fired when the loop alarm is on for a few days. Speaking of loop alarm, I hope BTI is firing people monday. Anyway. Broadband would be cheaper w/o goverment regs, and if telecoms were more willing to sell t1 lines chaper. Seriously, I would put a t1 into my house, I would consolidate my phone line onto one channel, and use the rest for data. I know one of the nearby ilecs (i have sprint, sprint sucks) is doing what they call dsl, but its really a multiplexed voice line in their words. In other words, they are rolling out t1 lines to homes. Makes perfect sence, High bandwidth, high quality, cheap since they are the incumbent local exchange.
The problem with new goverment regs is that it would just make broadband more expensive. I wouldnt mind getting together with a few friends and buying a few dslpipes to make my own dsl network, or setting up a few long distance 802.11b network, but all that stuff would get even more regulated. I mean honestly, Some Phone companies (local exchanges) will not do alarm circuits any more. I have buddies in one city that used to use them to quietly do point-to-point t1 lines inside the same exchange area.
The clear solution is for the consumer to dish ou the cash and build their own infastructure, any which way they please, but cheap t1 loops would be VERY nice.
UNC Charlotte. Several of my friends wine and complane about road runner being the isp for the dorms. They hate it.
NCREN dosen't just power unc system schools, wake forest and duke are on it.
So... your connection is going to be yanked in under three weeks........ Have you called somebody like covad to get a replacement line pulled in?
Seriously. You could pull 1.5 GB with a single t1 in what? a day?
I attend a UNC system school, and we have NCREN powering the internet access. A little background info, everybody has one or two ds3 or oc3 lines. NCREN has an oc48, an oc12, and a handfull of oc3 lines uplinking them to the world. The problem is, that NCREN has given oc3/ds3 lines to companies like microsoft, and they load down the entire system. The traffic graphs for my university never really exceed 40mbit/sec on one line, and 12mbit/sec on the second line. We even have a third line, and its dark most of he time.
But the NCREN oc48, oc12, and all the oc3 line outbound are allways loaded at 99%. In ncren before you hit the core routers, pings are below 30 ms, once packets leave, they have gone as high as 2000 ms. NCREN refuses to admit there is a problem, or resolve the issues. One problem also seems that one of sprints core routers that peers with NCREN is faulty or over loaded.
I must admit, when I lived in the dorms, it was nice to sometimes be able to play the major ra3 servers at 35-55ms.
Well I allready knew my boss had some serious issues...... when I started finding three gigs of porn here, four gigs of porn there, i told him to just get rid of it off the servers. At that point, he started buying a bunch of 60-70 gig drives......
oh ok cool. I was like, what the.....
Anyway, Cool, So, CoyoteGuy, are you new?
Not all machines come preloaded with windows. I build all my desktops, and when I ordered my custom laptop, I spesificly requested that windows not be included, and it did not come with windows.
I normally get out of working, but I still end up having a pager. This year, we rotate the pager out every few weeks, I lucked out and got it for x-mas. Last year I had a pager 24/7 for months on end, and I just quietly went up to new jersey, and the pager didn't work *grin*.
my understanding is that its manditory, even if it is not though, is not as if you can get through grade school without filling out your SSN on a test or something like that. I remember my 6th grade year soo many years ago, and we had to put our SSN on tests, ofcorse, this was before congress decided that the SSN could be used as ID.
Ofcorse, I have to be to be working in the computer industry.
I am very aware of reality, perhaps you need to get your head out of your ass, and truly think about what could happen, and the future. The future is what we make it, if we make it where everybody is "implanted", then we are under the thumb of somebody/something we cannot even see. Thus, we would never be free.
No matter what, I would cut it out. In my minds eye, it would be just as bad as tatooing a person's name on their face, or a barcode on their arm.
Think about it, If such a thing like in the matrix were to happen, where machines wadge to war with man. They will win with ease if everybody is implanted.
I have earthlink cable thru roadrunner. ie roadrunner, but i pay earthlink, and my ip addy says mindspring. They really don't care, I have heard cases of rr localally scanning boxes, but that is only when like some new major worm hits the net. There was a webserver on the IP address, and it told ya why they were scanning your box. Pritty interresting anyway.
I have ssh, smtp, and i need to get my webserver back up, and maybe I should bring online a q3a server. I have noticed everything works nice and smoothly, except around 5-7, my ipsec tunnel gets a little odd around then, i may have to start mangling packets to get better performance.
Its not just kiddies though, i've met many adults who hoard warez. One guy who had a state goverment job said that he had nothing better to do at work, than to collect a terabyte of warez.
Also, we all must remember that figures in most news articals are pulled out of somebody's ass.
The thing is, when reading that artical, I was reminded of Agent Vince Gill (i think thats the name...) in the movie Hackers.
I'll be honest, if they can provide support for me, at my home, and work, and maybe where my nearby 2600 group meets, i would get it even though I have cable. It's also nice to have an internet connection when one is waiting to be towed for four hours.... If its below 40 bucks, I would see it as worth it. Maybe faster access would be nice.
I know you will never read this response, but its not all that violent. It would be as violent as a volcano, but in all reality it would just be kick starting what has been happening here on earth for billions of years. If you are blind enouf, thinking that only man-inflicted violence is the only violence in the universe, then what about the Mt. St. Hellens explosion, Or what about Mt. Vesuvious (sp?) explosion? I think it would be that those two earth related natural events are good examples of violence in nature.
Teraforming Venus would be harder to do, but I have thought about it. The major issue with venus is that its atmosphere is composed of sulpheric (sp?) acid, at a tempature hot enouf to melt lead if memory serves. If that wasen't a major concern, I belave the air pressure on venus is extreamly high. I think it would take some giant sucking device to lower the pressure some, and then we would have to figure out how to break down the acid in the atmosphere. Once we did that, the greenhouse effect on the planet would hopefully be lessened, and the tempature would drop. I'm not aware of how the gravity differs from earth, but i'm sure we could figure out how to deal with that.
I loved that game...
After a point, such a reaction becomes self sustaining, initally, it would take lots of material though, we could potentially empty all the storage facilities of spent uranium. It would be going to a great cause though.
As for altering spin, my friends argument was that we could use it to make the days 24 hours, or something along those lines.
It would kick up dust, but its not as if there are allready large dust storms on the surface.
The problem is, who is going to make the effort. If we were to truly make an effort, we could have a self sustaining perminant colony in lets say five years. Once we have a perminant colony, it would just be a small stepping stone to begin teraforming the planet. But again, who is going to make the effort.
This is true, I have had several discussions with friends on this subject. Since we know that mars' core is cold, the solution is to clearly heat it up. Me and my friends figured the only real way to do that was with a massive nuclear meltdown, put massive amounts of fissionable material into sealed caves and get it going on the process of nuclear meltdown. We figured that it would be the cheapest, quickest, and best way to get the process going. The material (in our idea) should melt down, all be it slowly, and in time gather in the core of the planet, where it would continue reacting, and generating heat. The heat should melt what was the core, or ateast start liquifying it, so a magnetic field forms. Hell, we could ship all our solid radio active waste to mars. Really, this would require special launch or elevator platform to get it into orbit.
So, with enough reactive material, we should be able to get it going, and possibly maintain it using some sort of plazma infusion system. Like in that next generation episode. Ofcorse, this would be a major effort to get going, but I would like to see it happening within my lifetime. If I ever build a space ship, you better belive i'm going to claim a part of mars. Also, for water, It has been discused using astroids composed of large amounts of ice, and just ramming them into the atmosphere. A friend of mind suggest using them to also alter the orbit and the spin of the planet.
I would say the greatest issue is response by isps and groups who seem to have been a source for an attack. I NEVER hear back from ip address block owners, its rare, In maybe a three or four HUNDRED emails, I have only gotten one response from a person. In all honesty though, no matter of legislation or tax incentives can help that.
I think it would be best if the US Goverment, My Goverment, took a hands-off approch, but while encouraging insurence companies to give incentives to customers who maintain high security networks. Goverment Control of technology, Outlawing of the tools, will only make things worse, because only the crooks, script kiddies, and outlaws will have the tools and technology.
The internet is an international, boundless medium, and only a community effort, with the cooperation of isps and companies who hold massive networks, will keep the net free, and allow net admins to hunt down, and stop people who are doing things that cause net admins trouble in their job. I mean, I would be much happier if one isp out west would email be about one of their customers who have a box that is scanning one of my customers just about every three weeks.