> I'm a Virgin Media customer and I won't be leaving because they're > still the cheapest deal for me.
Good service has a value all of its own.
There are several ISPs in the UK that have stated that they will never implement DPI; their services generally cost from 17 to 32 UKP per month with no throttling, no port-blocking and no IWF censorship. Is that *really* too much to pay?
Instead we see Virgin, BT and TalkTalk prospering with over 4 million customers each because they spend vast fortunes on advertising, despite even greater sums spent on abusing their customers.
> A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year
In a vacuum!
> It works because the speed of light is the same regardless of your frame of reference
Only in a contiguous medium. The speed of light varies in different media, so the time / distance relationship becomes more complex if part of your journey is through water ( c 30% slower ), solid glass, peanut butter, diamond...
> I put forward that you cannot survive a year > without touching/using a google technology.
Oh come on, set a real challenge! It's easy to avoid the Google data aggregator and many of us do. Look-see!
google search: Alltheweb, cuil, clusty mail: Tuffmail [RSS] reader: Liferea youtube: LiveLeaks maps: Multimap docs: Lyx, Gnumeric books: A library and an Agfa Snapscan:) code: Sourceforge chrome: FF images: Alltheweb news: BBC, RSS android: Nokia 6210 no clicking google ads: All blocked by Privoxy.
There is nothing there that is unique to Google, nor innately innovative. Their search was ground-breaking in 1997, but since then Google have had to buy innovative companies to keep abreast of the rest.
> If you want a domain, you will have to stand that you are public.
Says the poster whose profile reads:
(email not shown publicly)
My registrar proxies my personal information and forwards any legitimate queries. Every year I am required to re-validate my information. This ensures that I can be contacted regarding the domain and can respond appropriately. Why then does any third party require my street address and phone number?
One criterion that I have for an e-mail provider is that they let me be the arbiter of whether an e-mail is useful or not. Unfortunately, from reading their website, Fastmail.fm apply a series of SMTP and content-level filters that cannot be disabled.
For example, regarding levels of spam filtering they write: Go to the Options -> Spam / Virus protection screen and switch from "Basic" to "Normal", "Aggressive" or "Custom" level filtering.
How about a ``None at all'' option? I don't receive spam and I baulk at a company blocking any e-mails addressed to me, particularly if I paying $40 per annum!
> I mean if the cap was something 'reasonable' like several hundred gigs then it would not be such a big deal
Unfortunately in the UK there is a race to the bottom amongst ISPs and they just cannot afford to offer such generous allowances. For example, A&A, Titan and IDNet are considered ``rip-off expensive'' at 20UKP ( $32 ) or thereabouts per month. If they can only offer, say, 10GB and 30GB off-peak for that, what hope for the mass-market ISPs such as BT Retail at 6 UKP per month?
I would much rather pay a reasonable per-GB fee for the data I actually grab and get a decent service in return than receive an ``unlimited'' package of which I could not actually avail due to network congestion and throttling.
Several of the upper-tier ISPs in the UK already operate on this pattern.
For example Andrews & Arnold offers 2GB peak ( 0900 - 1800 ) allowance as the basis and then charges 6UKP for each increment of 2GB used beyond this. IDNet has several base levels ( mine is 10GB peak ) and charges 1UKP per GB excess. Off-peak basic allowances are more generous but have the same excess charging model.
This permits the ISP to offer unthrottled, lower-contention Internet access to its customers. Yes, it is annoying that I have exceeded my base allowance for September but it's a small price to pay for a better connection and a real-live human on the support line.
> I believe most USAF refuelers are based off the 707 airframe.
Well, sort of. The 707 and KC-135 derive from a common prototype but have incompatible parts, different cabin widths, different structures and use different gauge aluminium.
The original poster was referring to the KC-10 Extender tanker, which is indeed based on the DC-10 and of which the USAF purchased 60.
``...AIM-9L missiles, which did not require being anywhere near the enemy aircraft's six o'clock.''
As with VIFFing, the 9L's capability was never fully exploited in the Falklands; all kills were from the rear hemisphere.
Recall that all FAA / RAF ACM up to that point had been conducted using the 9G at best; the pilots were trained for rear acquisition and did not have the time or experience to abandon their honed skills for head-on attacks.
Out-of-band has a specific meaning, and this is not it.
An out-of-band patch would have been deployed on CD in the post, or printed out on paper and sent by courier, or been transmitted over FIDONet. That is, via another band than the Internet.
This corruption is becoming more frequent. Yes, English needs to develop, but not through laziness.
The submitter was probably intending to say ``off-schedule''.
When it was determined that the network would require 77 satellites, the system and the company were named Iridium for exactly the reason that you noted.
A company originally run by engineers, see...
The current Iridium Satellite LLC is a private-venture buy-out of the original Iridium LLC so don't expect any such in-jokes in the future.
> Most of the time I just want to see Amazon items, but this is difficult to do.
There is a panel on the left-hand column of the search results entitled ``Shipping Option''. Select ``Prime'' or ``Super-Saver'' Eligible from that panel and the listing will be filtered to Amazon-stocked items.
> in the united states, indeed in every western > democracy, ballots are secret. no one questions > this anonymity -- indeed, it's mandated by law.
Incorrect - in the UK, ballots are secret but not anonymous. Every ballot paper is printed with a unique serial that is marked against the voter's identity when entering the polling station.
The actual vote takes place in secret but if the need arises then the voting preference of individuals can be determined.
>The idea that you can just label a system > as secure seems questionable
In a formal system, the behaviour of the software is entirely understood and proven. So we can rule out corner cases. No happy cracking avenues there.
This leaves us with the specifications. What the certification says is that the OS correctly implements a documented and approved security specification that is resistant to the enumerated threat capabilities.
By approving the security spec they can, indeed, say that the system is proven secure against those capabilities.
> But B1 bombers are not placed on the > Internet protecting large amounts of money
True, but they are networked to a wide range of assets via JTIDS. Not every piece of datalinked equipment has such assured security.
> I almost forgot what life is SUPPOSED to be > like without a clogged sinus of an Inbox. Damn > spammers!
Why are you blaming the spammers?
Spammers will exist and profit until everyone on the Internet starts treating their e-mail addresses with the same privacy and regard that they extend to their home telephone numbers.
If you were to walk around town posting your phone number in every corner shop window with a demographic profile of yourself attached, would you then blame sales drones who called your number?
if the runner-up were appointed as the Vice President?
That might be the first step to breaking the obsession with party affiliation. The two major candidates seemed to be reasonable men, popular with most of the electorate, so why throw one on the scrapheap just because he is a member of a party infinitesimally different in doctrine to the other?
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> I'm a Virgin Media customer and I won't be leaving because they're
> still the cheapest deal for me.
Good service has a value all of its own.
There are several ISPs in the UK that have stated that they will never implement DPI; their services generally cost from 17 to 32 UKP per month with no throttling, no port-blocking and no IWF censorship. Is that *really* too much to pay?
Instead we see Virgin, BT and TalkTalk prospering with over 4 million customers each because they spend vast fortunes on advertising, despite even greater sums spent on abusing their customers.
> The solution to the problem of file sharing is very simple.
It is indeed: just stop downloading and acquiring, legally or illegally, the ``content'' that these companies produce.
Do something else instead of being spoon-fed entertainment. Go for a swim, meet up with friends for a chat or wonder at the stars.
> A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year
In a vacuum!
> It works because the speed of light is the same regardless of your frame of reference
Only in a contiguous medium. The speed of light varies in different media, so the time / distance relationship becomes more complex if part of your journey is through water ( c 30% slower ), solid glass, peanut butter, diamond...
> I put forward that you cannot survive a year
> without touching/using a google technology.
Oh come on, set a real challenge! It's easy to avoid the Google data aggregator and many of us do. Look-see!
google search: Alltheweb, cuil, clusty
mail: Tuffmail
[RSS] reader: Liferea
youtube: LiveLeaks
maps: Multimap
docs: Lyx, Gnumeric
books: A library and an Agfa Snapscan
code: Sourceforge
chrome: FF
images: Alltheweb
news: BBC, RSS
android: Nokia 6210
no clicking google ads: All blocked by Privoxy.
There is nothing there that is unique to Google, nor innately innovative. Their search was ground-breaking in 1997, but since then Google have had to buy innovative companies to keep abreast of the rest.
> can we please have a reader that doesn't suck?
Ta-da!
http://www.iliadreader.co.uk/product.digital_reader_1000s.htm
And it's A4 sized...
> Whats the path to getting the root cert in popular browsers?
The path is long and strewn with rocks:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215243
> If you want a domain, you will have to stand that you are public.
Says the poster whose profile reads:
(email not shown publicly)
My registrar proxies my personal information and forwards any legitimate queries. Every year I am required to re-validate my information. This ensures that I can be contacted regarding the domain and can respond appropriately. Why then does any third party require my street address and phone number?
One criterion that I have for an e-mail provider is that they let me be the arbiter of whether an e-mail is useful or not. Unfortunately, from reading their website, Fastmail.fm apply a series of SMTP and content-level filters that cannot be disabled.
For example, regarding levels of spam filtering they write:
Go to the Options -> Spam / Virus protection screen and switch from "Basic" to "Normal", "Aggressive" or "Custom" level filtering.
How about a ``None at all'' option? I don't receive spam and I baulk at a company blocking any e-mails addressed to me, particularly if I paying $40 per annum!
Thankfully the better ISPs already do, complete with projected usage!
During the time period 2009-09-01 to 2009-09-29 your bandwidth use was:
40.83 GB Download - (Peak: 9.87 GB | Off-Peak: 30.96 GB
These figures cover 28 days. If your previous 7 days rate of usage continues for 30 days then the total for the month will be:
40.83 GB Download - (Peak: 9.87 GB | Off-Peak: 30.96 GB)
> I mean if the cap was something 'reasonable' like several hundred gigs then it would not be such a big deal
Unfortunately in the UK there is a race to the bottom amongst ISPs and they just cannot afford to offer such generous allowances. For example, A&A, Titan and IDNet are considered ``rip-off expensive'' at 20UKP ( $32 ) or thereabouts per month. If they can only offer, say, 10GB and 30GB off-peak for that, what hope for the mass-market ISPs such as BT Retail at 6 UKP per month?
I would much rather pay a reasonable per-GB fee for the data I actually grab and get a decent service in return than receive an ``unlimited'' package of which I could not actually avail due to network congestion and throttling.
Several of the upper-tier ISPs in the UK already operate on this pattern.
For example Andrews & Arnold offers 2GB peak ( 0900 - 1800 ) allowance as the basis and then charges 6UKP for each increment of 2GB used beyond this. IDNet has several base levels ( mine is 10GB peak ) and charges 1UKP per GB excess. Off-peak basic allowances are more generous but have the same excess charging model.
This permits the ISP to offer unthrottled, lower-contention Internet access to its customers. Yes, it is annoying that I have exceeded my base allowance for September but it's a small price to pay for a better connection and a real-live human on the support line.
> I believe most USAF refuelers are based off the 707 airframe.
Well, sort of. The 707 and KC-135 derive from a common prototype but have incompatible parts, different cabin widths, different structures and use different gauge aluminium.
The original poster was referring to the KC-10 Extender tanker, which is indeed based on the DC-10 and of which the USAF purchased 60.
> Sell/Buy on craigslist.
Of which eBay is a 25% shareholder. Not really punishing them much, is it?
> ...when you have Search? Pick your own keywords.
Unfortunately there are some major problems with searching, such as ``A OR B'' returning fewer results than when searching separately for A, B.
http://www.gale.cengage.com/reference/peter/googlebooks.htm
``...AIM-9L missiles, which did not require being anywhere near the enemy aircraft's six o'clock.''
As with VIFFing, the 9L's capability was never fully exploited in the Falklands; all kills were from the rear hemisphere.
Recall that all FAA / RAF ACM up to that point had been conducted using the 9G at best; the pilots were trained for rear acquisition and did not have the time or experience to abandon their honed skills for head-on attacks.
``Microsoft's latest emergency out-of-band patch ''
Out-of-band has a specific meaning, and this is not it.
An out-of-band patch would have been deployed on CD in the post, or printed out on paper and sent by courier, or been transmitted over FIDONet. That is, via another band than the Internet.
This corruption is becoming more frequent. Yes, English needs to develop, but not through laziness.
The submitter was probably intending to say ``off-schedule''.
Lecture ends.
> Iridium's atomic number is 77.
When it was determined that the network would require 77 satellites, the system and the company were named Iridium for exactly the reason that you noted.
A company originally run by engineers, see...
The current Iridium Satellite LLC is a private-venture buy-out of the original Iridium LLC so don't expect any such in-jokes in the future.
> Most of the time I just want to see Amazon items, but this is difficult to do.
There is a panel on the left-hand column of the search results entitled ``Shipping Option''. Select ``Prime'' or ``Super-Saver'' Eligible from that panel and the listing will be filtered to Amazon-stocked items.
Roundabout but effective.
> in the united states, indeed in every western
> democracy, ballots are secret. no one questions
> this anonymity -- indeed, it's mandated by law.
Incorrect - in the UK, ballots are secret but not anonymous. Every ballot paper is printed with a unique serial that is marked against the voter's identity when entering the polling station.
The actual vote takes place in secret but if the need arises then the voting preference of individuals can be determined.
> Or at least, what it would probably rate if it were to receive a rating?
Unfortunately, and much as I love it, OpenBSD would also be rated at EAL 4. There are no formal proofs of correctness for the OpenBSD code base.
Yes, it is good solid code but no-one actually has a proof of how it behaves or to what degree it implements any documented specifications.
>The idea that you can just label a system
> as secure seems questionable
In a formal system, the behaviour of the software is entirely understood and proven. So we can rule out corner cases. No happy cracking avenues there.
This leaves us with the specifications. What the certification says is that the OS correctly implements a documented and approved security specification that is resistant to the enumerated threat capabilities.
By approving the security spec they can, indeed, say that the system is proven secure against those capabilities.
> But B1 bombers are not placed on the
> Internet protecting large amounts of money
True, but they are networked to a wide range of assets via JTIDS. Not every piece of datalinked equipment has such assured security.
> I almost forgot what life is SUPPOSED to be
> like without a clogged sinus of an Inbox. Damn
> spammers!
Why are you blaming the spammers?
Spammers will exist and profit until everyone on the Internet starts treating their e-mail addresses with the same privacy and regard that they extend to their home telephone numbers.
If you were to walk around town posting your phone number in every corner shop window with a demographic profile of yourself attached, would you then blame sales drones who called your number?
> It would be if we had a Labour government, but this is NooLabour
This chart nicely summarises the drift of the Labour Party to the authoritarian right:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/enPartiesTime.gif
So essentially we now have a replica of the US system of two right-wing parties distinct only in the minds of their supporters.
> Then put tomato on it or DD-WRT (they're Linux distros).
Be careful with the licences, though. Tomato's GUI is not free software:
Tomato GUI
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Jonathan Zarate
www.polarcloud.com/tomato/
For use with Tomato Firmware only.
No part of this file may be used without
permission.
and DD-WRT requires activation licenses for commercial use:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/shop/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=728&osCsid=ns9upt2t79usrn36f3eihdlem6
if the runner-up were appointed as the Vice President?
That might be the first step to breaking the obsession with party affiliation. The two major candidates seemed to be reasonable men, popular with most of the electorate, so why throw one on the scrapheap just because he is a member of a party infinitesimally different in doctrine to the other?
Just a comment on your system from an outsider.