No, they're not compliant. From section 2.2 of the Vonage TOS:
Vonage does offer a 911-type dialing service in the U.S. (but may not offer such service in Canada) that is different in a number of important ways from traditional 911 service.... When you dial 911, your call is routed from the Vonage network to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) or local emergency service personnel designated for the address that you listed at the time of activation. You acknowledge and understand that when you dial 911 from your Vonage equipment it is intended that you will be routed to the general telephone number for the PSAP or local emergency service provider (which may not be answered outside business hours), and may not be routed to the 911 dispatcher(s) who are specifically designated to receive incoming 911 calls using traditional 911 dialing.
As a resident of central Florida, I can attest that the three counties singled-out as having the largest irregularities, were not counties that received a large amount of hurricane damage this year. They were only lightly hit.
Actually, that's exactly what I said. They are pursuing "free" firmware, not open-source firmware. The remainder of my comment was in response to the question posed by its parent.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that FCC regulations come into play here. These devices are considered wireless radios, and they are approved by the FCC to operate on specific frequencies with specific power levels. Having open sourced firmware could allow modifications to these parameters, such that the devices no longer conform to FCC regulations. This is why several wireless chipsets have open source drivers, but none have open source firmware. Thus, the best we can do at the moment is to pursue "free" firmware, even if it is closed source.
You are likely not leaking memory. Linux caches almost EVERYTHING if you have free memory. dentry stuff, inode stuff, etc... Why waste that good fast memory by just leaving it unused? If your system were to need the memory though, the caches would be cleaned up so that applications could use it.
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As a resident of central Florida, I can attest that the three counties singled-out as having the largest irregularities, were not counties that received a large amount of hurricane damage this year. They were only lightly hit.
Actually, that's exactly what I said. They are pursuing "free" firmware, not open-source firmware. The remainder of my comment was in response to the question posed by its parent.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that FCC regulations come into play here. These devices are considered wireless radios, and they are approved by the FCC to operate on specific frequencies with specific power levels. Having open sourced firmware could allow modifications to these parameters, such that the devices no longer conform to FCC regulations. This is why several wireless chipsets have open source drivers, but none have open source firmware. Thus, the best we can do at the moment is to pursue "free" firmware, even if it is closed source.
You are likely not leaking memory. Linux caches almost EVERYTHING if you have free memory. dentry stuff, inode stuff, etc... Why waste that good fast memory by just leaving it unused? If your system were to need the memory though, the caches would be cleaned up so that applications could use it.