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PSP And DS Duke It Out
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It's £95 in the UK which is equiv. to $178 at the moment.
OTOH the PSP a touch less than double the cost at £180 ($340).
That's a huge price difference... and will affect sales a lot.
The DS also has the advantage of actually being available (has been for a while) - We don't get the PSP until the end of June, so the DS will undoubtedly win the battle here by default.
However most ISPs in the UK provide minimal 512Kbps connections for a basic package without restriction and 1Mb connection restrictions they do have run into the GB range for download/uploads per month.
That's changing *very* fast... it's not 'most' any more. Within a month or two such connections will have hard to find.
BT Wholesale have changed their charging model so that a 2MB line costs the same as a 512KB line, but the ISP pays for the amount of data transferred. It now doesn't make sense to sell a 512KB line - it makes more sense to sell a 2MB line with limits.
I'm not too bothered my limit is 50GB which is pretty hard to reach on an average month.
Incorrect. It depends simply on copyright law. The GPL takes away NO FREEDOMS that are given by default by copyright law. Instead, it adds to them.
It also takes away your right to link with the code unless you also GPL all your code - which is a freedom I have already (and not covered by copyright law as copy!=link).
OSX wireless is pretty bad actually... No WPA/AES (they only do TKIP), and the wireless won't initialise unless there's someone logged in - so no headless boxes.
I'm hoping they get it right for the next release, but it's not ready yet.
It also had nothing to do with the GPL - the license wasn't even an issue.
It's talking about whether deriving a program from a published standard constitutes a derived work of the standard or not.. copyright law, and the judge, said no.
This may even be bad for the GPL - the FSF are big on how everything is a derived work of everything else, and asserting that there are limits to that starts to chip away at their interpretation.
In the UK one of the big changes they did to go to chip&pin is to push 100% liability onto the customer - if someone gets your pin you are 100% liable for them getting that pin with *no* chance of recovery.
In this regard signatures are far better - you can recover the money for fraud using a forged signature.
I've noticed this - it completely destroys the security... if someone steals your card but doesn't have the time to watch you enter your pin first, they just tell the cashier they 'forgot' it and go back to forging signatures.
OTOH I will *not* be forced to use a PIN system until they make it more secure.. by for example having machines with some kind of cover so you can't be seen by half the store entering it, and having a separate PIN for ATM use (before all they could do was go around shops hoping nobody checked the signature.. now they can empty your bank account too.)
It's possible it slightly extends the range of the aerial by simply by having metal parts to it - this will reduce the power needed to reach the cell and thereby extend battery life (although probably only in the countryside - cities are well covered anyway).
It's not about VOIP specifically.. this kind of vulnerability has existed for years on the public network. Pretty much anyone with an ISDN PRI can specify their own caller ID... the difference it's cheaper to do it now.
Anyone relying on caller ID for security is naive and stupid.
Hmm.. interesting. You could apply the same to the room lights:)
I do the same, to Australia, Germany, US and the UK - all free. Of course being a geek I've spent more on hardware to do this than I've saved:)
How are you routing the UK calls from the mobile? I find that if I put a menu/pin on the incoming line people just get confused, so I'd like it to start ringing and also listen for a pin code... haven't found out how to do that though.
If the telcos were bankrupt, inefficient, unable to provide a decent service, and already collapsing... yes, aim for the throat.
A lot of them *are*. Some of the european ones barely survived the last few years. A lot of the big carriers got bought out (KPN, etc.)
Anyone who could call a telco 'efficient' has never had to deal with them. The incumbents are used to being state monopolies - they have whole departments that are just money sinks (in a previous job we had software that replaced one or two of these departments with a single PC - that's how inneficient they are).
Latency isn't really an issue - I do VOIP calls UK->Australia which can be over 400ms latency on a bad day. The jitter is quite low though so the call is perfect... you just have to rember to pause before talking so you don't talk over each other.
OTOH I've had bad breakup on local calls when the jitter spiked (due to someone downloading on another machine).
RTP already looks like a bit that, and it can travel over *any* port. It's quite hard to distinguish from any other binary traffic.
SIP is just the control interface.. no problems with that being low priority.
All I can imagine the ISPs doing unless they invest in powerful L7 firewalls is stripping the QoS bits from any packets from subscribers... and a lot of them do that already (so no change there then).
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It's £95 in the UK which is equiv. to $178 at the moment.
OTOH the PSP a touch less than double the cost at £180 ($340).
That's a huge price difference... and will affect sales a lot.
The DS also has the advantage of actually being available (has been for a while) - We don't get the PSP until the end of June, so the DS will undoubtedly win the battle here by default.
However most ISPs in the UK provide minimal 512Kbps connections for a basic package without restriction and 1Mb connection restrictions they do have run into the GB range for download/uploads per month.
That's changing *very* fast... it's not 'most' any more. Within a month or two such connections will have hard to find.
BT Wholesale have changed their charging model so that a 2MB line costs the same as a 512KB line, but the ISP pays for the amount of data transferred. It now doesn't make sense to sell a 512KB line - it makes more sense to sell a 2MB line with limits.
I'm not too bothered my limit is 50GB which is pretty hard to reach on an average month.
Yup.. $1000 for a processor. Wowzers!
Low end AMD or P4 processors are dirt cheap now and do everything you could want unless you're running weather simulations or something.
Quite difficult to get that with 7 letters. I'd like to see the player who got that one..
(not impossible though, if 'nation' already existed, there was a 'p' and an 'o' in the right place vertically, you could do it with 'rcrasti').
Pretty standard.. they're fishing. They don't really expect him to give up that easily.
That's why Jared needs his own lawyer.
Incorrect. It depends simply on copyright law. The GPL takes away NO FREEDOMS that are given by default by copyright law. Instead, it adds to them.
It also takes away your right to link with the code unless you also GPL all your code - which is a freedom I have already (and not covered by copyright law as copy!=link).
OSX wireless is pretty bad actually... No WPA/AES (they only do TKIP), and the wireless won't initialise unless there's someone logged in - so no headless boxes.
I'm hoping they get it right for the next release, but it's not ready yet.
It also had nothing to do with the GPL - the license wasn't even an issue.
It's talking about whether deriving a program from a published standard constitutes a derived work of the standard or not.. copyright law, and the judge, said no.
This may even be bad for the GPL - the FSF are big on how everything is a derived work of everything else, and asserting that there are limits to that starts to chip away at their interpretation.
In the UK one of the big changes they did to go to chip&pin is to push 100% liability onto the customer - if someone gets your pin you are 100% liable for them getting that pin with *no* chance of recovery.
In this regard signatures are far better - you can recover the money for fraud using a forged signature.
Life savings? OK if you're rich. I have one months salary plus a bit. If I lost that I'd be screwed, totally.
You sign instead.
I've noticed this - it completely destroys the security... if someone steals your card but doesn't have the time to watch you enter your pin first, they just tell the cashier they 'forgot' it and go back to forging signatures.
OTOH I will *not* be forced to use a PIN system until they make it more secure.. by for example having machines with some kind of cover so you can't be seen by half the store entering it, and having a separate PIN for ATM use (before all they could do was go around shops hoping nobody checked the signature.. now they can empty your bank account too.)
A lot of people have their pin listed under 'Bank' in their pocket phonebook.
The 'general public' are not versed in security - IMO some degree of awareness should be taught at school.
The problem with the PIN scheme is once someone gets your PIN *you* are liable, not the card issuer any more... they can clean you out.
DOH! Checking the CLI... why didn't I think of that!!
The problem with BT is they're so expensive you could have paid for the ATA-186 yourself after a few months.
They even charge for VOIP->VOIP calls!
Try sipgate, gradwell, etc. - all are much cheaper than BT.
It's possible it slightly extends the range of the aerial by simply by having metal parts to it - this will reduce the power needed to reach the cell and thereby extend battery life (although probably only in the countryside - cities are well covered anyway).
OTOH it could just be complete bullshit.
A whole atom?
Homeopathic dilution passed that mark 30 years ago.
You should have diluted to one sticker atom per 100,000 HomeoStickers sold... then it would be *really* effective.
It's not about VOIP specifically.. this kind of vulnerability has existed for years on the public network. Pretty much anyone with an ISDN PRI can specify their own caller ID... the difference it's cheaper to do it now.
Anyone relying on caller ID for security is naive and stupid.
The minimum required in sip.conf is actually a lot less than posted:You might also have to limit the protocols to ulaw/alaw (disallow=all,allow=ulaw,allow=alaw).
Hmm.. interesting. You could apply the same to the room lights :)
:)
I do the same, to Australia, Germany, US and the UK - all free. Of course being a geek I've spent more on hardware to do this than I've saved
How are you routing the UK calls from the mobile? I find that if I put a menu/pin on the incoming line people just get confused, so I'd like it to start ringing and also listen for a pin code... haven't found out how to do that though.
If the telcos were bankrupt, inefficient, unable to provide a decent service, and already collapsing... yes, aim for the throat.
A lot of them *are*. Some of the european ones barely survived the last few years. A lot of the big carriers got bought out (KPN, etc.)
Anyone who could call a telco 'efficient' has never had to deal with them. The incumbents are used to being state monopolies - they have whole departments that are just money sinks (in a previous job we had software that replaced one or two of these departments with a single PC - that's how inneficient they are).
This has been on Broadvoice' own website for months. There's also a good guide on voip-info.org.
Why is it suddenly 'news' because some hack reporter republishes them?
(Of course with asterisk you don't use a single provider... you work out the cheapest routes to different places and write them into the dialplan).
Latency isn't really an issue - I do VOIP calls UK->Australia which can be over 400ms latency on a bad day. The jitter is quite low though so the call is perfect... you just have to rember to pause before talking so you don't talk over each other.
OTOH I've had bad breakup on local calls when the jitter spiked (due to someone downloading on another machine).
They're not degrading your service.
Simply refusing to enhance it by guaranteeing QOS. If you want to pay extra I'm sure they'd be accomodating.
RTP already looks like a bit that, and it can travel over *any* port. It's quite hard to distinguish from any other binary traffic.
SIP is just the control interface.. no problems with that being low priority.
All I can imagine the ISPs doing unless they invest in powerful L7 firewalls is stripping the QoS bits from any packets from subscribers... and a lot of them do that already (so no change there then).
MS have stated that they will *not* be supporting CSS2 in IE7.
Tab browsing is looking unlikely, too.
Sounds like IE6 with a couple of bug fixes TBH.