This is probably your NAT or firewall itself, not Comcast. We've seen this behavior across many customers regardless of ISP, and only a few comcast customers show this behavior.
Once again Sony is probably overpricing the market. Sony would love to wipe the venerable DS off the face of the planet, but the DS is what, $130 or $180 for the DSi?
Something like the Fluke tester is a very sophisticated ANALOG device. Its measuring reflectivity and a whole host of analog properties, in order to determine that the cable meets the specification.
EG, it will tell you where there is an actual break in the cable.
Personally, I don't consider build-my-own cables saving money. Rather, it is some other reason (the necessity to be neat, an inability to pull pre-made jacks through the wall...) that is the reason to build your own.
I've learned the hard way when setting up a couple of clusters: You MUST use custom-made, cut to length cables to prevent a huge rats nets in the server room. Buying precut cables is a disaster. I had to rip out and completely rewire one cluster because I made that mistake.
However, you need to TEST the cables. And not just by plugging in and making sure it works, but a full ethernet validation tester.
I've been very happy with the Fluke Cable-IQ qualification tester, which doesn't just make sure that the wiring is correct, but actually tests the cable up to gigabit speed to make sure everything is kosher.
Comcast may cap, but at >250GB. 250GB is not a problem.
50GB however, is grossly anticompetitive, because someone who's a heavy user of video-over-the-net instead of video-over-cable will hit that cap in easily.
Actually, you can't without serious browser hackery:
Its not google recording your searches that are your problem, its that EVERY page with Google Analytics or AdWords or Doublclick on it tells google what you are viewing.
The big difference between Phorm and Google is Google has consent of the WEB SITES.
Neither really have "user" consent, but Google will only track you on pages which are either hosted by Google itself or derive content from Google (adwords, analytics), which specifically excludes porn etc.
Thus although both have the same objective, they have vastly different mechanisms and Google does have one-party consent, vs Phorm's no-party consent.
It isn't a ban on black cars. It is a requirement that at least some fraction of all solar radiation be reflected so cars don't heat up that much.
A car with "black" paint, as long as that paint reflects UV and IR, and at least scatters some light (You want a glossy paintjob anyway), combined with UV/IR reflective window treatments, will meet the requirement.
And true, it may cost $50/car to $150/car more, but on the other hand, the cars won't get so miserably hot when sitting in the sun. So it would actually benefit most consumers.
I'd imagine the iPhone carriers are paranoid about tethering. When its a few alpha-geeks and their crackberries, no problem.
But when its every tom-dick-and harriet with an iPhone, and a simple one-click "turn on" setup, the bandwidth usage you are talking about is extreme. iPhone users are already so much worse than crackberry users, giving them a link to their computer and you are talking about traffic-in-the-extreme.
Thus, easily expcet it to be a ~$30-40/month option.
This sounds amazingly,stupidly brittle. When it comes down to it, it looks like some variant of a substitution cypher. Now I'm not a cryptographer, but I'm pretty sure blowing this thing out of the water would be a good exercise for a grad-school Crypto class.
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This is probably your NAT or firewall itself, not Comcast. We've seen this behavior across many customers regardless of ISP, and only a few comcast customers show this behavior.
We have not seen any redirection issues with Comcast user's DNS settings.
Questions on netalyzr itself will be answered in this thread.
Once again Sony is probably overpricing the market. Sony would love to wipe the venerable DS off the face of the planet, but the DS is what, $130 or $180 for the DSi?
The case quoted involved businesses who were wilfully infringing, and the decision was that the fines should be punative to act to disuade others.
This may not be true for the RIAA and dealing with individuals, but its probably true when dealing with businesses.
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Anyone think of Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haberbrook's monorails?!?
If it doesn't have a catchy "Monorail" song, its not worth public funds...
The WSJ's content is as "newspaper of record" for financial items. Which means its unique.
Additionally, how many of those "online" subscribers are dead-tree subscribers?
For most other news, news outlets are substitutable. If you are a substitutable item, but you charge and your competition doesn't, you're out of luck.
Use self-powered USB drives, and have this be your server. Yes, its boring, but that way its a server with a built-in UPS!
Adobe is really slow about security patches on Acrobat. This is just the latest.
Its the reason why Miko Hypponen of F-Secure says you should ditch acrobat and use something else.
If you are making money developing the software, the GPL with a dual liscence is a feature, not a bug:
"Hey Mr Customer, you can have it for free under this GPL thingy, or pay us $$$ and do whatever you want with it"
If you want to make money modifying the software, the GPL is a disaster.
Something like the Fluke tester is a very sophisticated ANALOG device. Its measuring reflectivity and a whole host of analog properties, in order to determine that the cable meets the specification.
EG, it will tell you where there is an actual break in the cable.
Personally, I don't consider build-my-own cables saving money. Rather, it is some other reason (the necessity to be neat, an inability to pull pre-made jacks through the wall...) that is the reason to build your own.
I've learned the hard way when setting up a couple of clusters: You MUST use custom-made, cut to length cables to prevent a huge rats nets in the server room. Buying precut cables is a disaster. I had to rip out and completely rewire one cluster because I made that mistake.
However, you need to TEST the cables. And not just by plugging in and making sure it works, but a full ethernet validation tester.
I've been very happy with the Fluke Cable-IQ qualification tester, which doesn't just make sure that the wiring is correct, but actually tests the cable up to gigabit speed to make sure everything is kosher.
OOPS, 44GB a week.... THats another story...
Comcast may cap, but at >250GB. 250GB is not a problem.
50GB however, is grossly anticompetitive, because someone who's a heavy user of video-over-the-net instead of video-over-cable will hit that cap in easily.
Actually, you can't without serious browser hackery:
Its not google recording your searches that are your problem, its that EVERY page with Google Analytics or AdWords or Doublclick on it tells google what you are viewing.
The big difference between Phorm and Google is Google has consent of the WEB SITES.
Neither really have "user" consent, but Google will only track you on pages which are either hosted by Google itself or derive content from Google (adwords, analytics), which specifically excludes porn etc.
Thus although both have the same objective, they have vastly different mechanisms and Google does have one-party consent, vs Phorm's no-party consent.
This is an ACM article behind a paywall.
How about a slashdot policy of not linking to articles behind paywalls?
Once something is published, it becomes "prior art" and someone else can't patent prior art and obvious extensions to prior art.
And also once you publish it, you can't file for a patent on it outside the US, and you can only file for a US patent within a year.
Hulu is a BRAND. It wants to live in its own world and be exclusive.
So their attitude is "Frak Boxie", as boxie is trying to DESTROY the brand of all the video sites to be replaced by the Boxee brand.
Why should Hulu play nice?
Virgin america also has WiFi on at least some of their flights.
Hulu is about turning your brain into a rich mush for the benefit of aliens, err, advertisers.
Boxee bypasses much of the advertisement and branding structure, so its not in Hulu's incentive to play nice with Boxee.
Especially since Boxee is just the mac users (10% of the market) and linux (1%).
Its cheaper to buy the phone and break the contract if you want a "no contract" iPhone, as its only $400 or so that way.
It isn't a ban on black cars. It is a requirement that at least some fraction of all solar radiation be reflected so cars don't heat up that much.
A car with "black" paint, as long as that paint reflects UV and IR, and at least scatters some light (You want a glossy paintjob anyway), combined with UV/IR reflective window treatments, will meet the requirement.
And true, it may cost $50/car to $150/car more, but on the other hand, the cars won't get so miserably hot when sitting in the sun. So it would actually benefit most consumers.
I'd imagine the iPhone carriers are paranoid about tethering. When its a few alpha-geeks and their crackberries, no problem.
But when its every tom-dick-and harriet with an iPhone, and a simple one-click "turn on" setup, the bandwidth usage you are talking about is extreme. iPhone users are already so much worse than crackberry users, giving them a link to their computer and you are talking about traffic-in-the-extreme.
Thus, easily expcet it to be a ~$30-40/month option.
This sounds amazingly,stupidly brittle. When it comes down to it, it looks like some variant of a substitution cypher. Now I'm not a cryptographer, but I'm pretty sure blowing this thing out of the water would be a good exercise for a grad-school Crypto class.