I don't see the "obviously" either. I use 1Password and it's not web based, the secure password database file sits in Dropbox and is synced to all my computers and my iPhone. Works great.
I live in Texas and yes, if you're driving on I-10 between Houston and El Paso, 85 mph would make a big difference. But this particular stretch is only 41 miles. That's not even (quite) across New Jersey. And you know there's gonna be some asshat in the left lane doing 55 the whole way. There always is.
"The state contract with the toll operator allows the state to collect a $67 million up-front cash payment or a percentage of the toll profits in the future if the speed limit is 80 mph or lower. At 85 mph, the cash payment balloons to $100 million or a higher percentage of toll revenues."
I don't know why everyone is saying Verizon is the big winner. AT&T won the vast majority of the B block which, paired with the 12MHz they bought from Aloha, gives them 24 MHz for less than Verizon paid for 20 MHz.
And there are no open network requirements on AT&T's spectrum.
If your living depends on the Internet how about checking for broadband availability before you move? That's like the people who move into a house near an airport then complain about the noise.
Everyone knows broadband availability in rural areas sucks. It's just not cost effective to deliver it and that's not going to change with current technology. Get over it.
Over the last couple of months the spam count on my mail server has gone from an average of 10K a day to over 20K a day. I had to turn off virus scanning and actually drop some of my spam filtering because the server couldn't process the mail fast enough. Now I'm having to upgrade the mail server hardware to handle the increased SPAM load. I'm sure I'm not the only one forced to do this.... SPAM gone from an annoyance to a financial problem.
I have a Thinkpad A22p that's a few months away from five years old and still works fine. I've carried it daily, and although I'm careful, I don't exactly baby it either. Every day to work and back home, sometimes in an office, sometimes sitting by a cell tower in the middle of a cow field.
I'm seeing 11 mbps up right now although it's been as high as 22 mbps this morning. If there's bogging down going on it's somewhere else, I'm not seeing it.
I have the Verizon EVDO card and in Dallas, and other cities with the 1xEVDO service it's pretty good. Speeds average 300 to 400 kbps with bursts up to 1 mbps or more. Works great under Linux too!
Latency is a problem though. I'm seeing 150 ms (or higher) average latencies on the first hop.
I've talked to several CDMA engineers who said there's nothing inherent to CDMA that would account for that high of a latency. Each (independently) said it must be how Verizon has configured their IP network.
I think Verizon engineered a high latency so VoIP wouldn't work. Why sell $75/month unlimited use service then allow people to make VoIP calls when there's so much money to be made selling metered voice minutes?
The down side is if you're not in a high speed coverage area, you get the slower dial up type speeds or nothing at all. It's definately not something I'd expect to work in rural areas.
I read a lot of books (several a week) on my Sharp Zaurus SL-5600. I convert to Plucker from HTML, and it works great. Still not as good a reading experience as a dead tree version, but the screen is good and I can carry several hundred books around on a CF card and still have plenty of room for MP3s. I can read at night without an external light too. Don't rule out the PDA until you try it.
" First, my definition is a little different than the government's and press' definition of WMDs."
Well if we can just make up any definition we want then what's the point? I prefer to not live in Wonderland. Words have definitions and have meaning. We don't get to just make up whatever definition we like. If we can't agree on the basic definitions of what we're taking about then we have no basis for communication.
"...lets say for the sake of argument 5,000 that were gassed by Saddam."
But I thought there were no WMDs? So now there are and even you are willing to allow 5000 killed with them.
"About 3,000 people were killed with box cutters not too long ago."
" I mean the CIA still has publically downloadable 23page document from 2002 about "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction" here, yet its pretty much common knowledge that they never existed"
So what exactly DID Sadam use to gas the Kurds? Pretty hard to do that with something that never existed.
All Sadam did was the equivalent of flushing the drugs down the toilet when the police raid the crack house. WMDs? What WMDs? I have no WMDs.
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And WiMAX won't change the LOS issues. LOS is a function of the frequency used, not the encoding or standard.
Microwaves are LOS. Yes, different materials are transparent to RF at different frequencies, but the bottom line is that if you're above about 900 MHz you have to have (radio) LOS or you don't have a connection beyond a few tens of feet at part 15 power levels.
To really provide true non-LOS service, you have to be down in the UHF or lower frequencies. Yet another reason to push TV into digital and free up all that inefficiently used analog TV spectrum.
If I want to sell a kidney to the highest bidder I should be able to. If I'm dead, my will should be able to have my organs be auctioned off to benefit my family, or any other beneficiary.
I own my body, and it's my property to do with as I like in life or death. Any law denying me this natural right is immoral.
Anyone that can't see the need for real humans to explore space needs to go ahead and hop into the grave. You're already dead, you just don't realize it yet.
Ouch... I guess I'm "old enough" since I remember watching it in B&W when I was 3 years old in 1966. I didn't realize the Orion chick was green until a decade later when it was in syndication and I saw it for the first time in color.
It was absolutely amazing at the time. What looks a little stupid and clunky today was cutting edge and we loved it.
Yep, 1966. You young'uns don't know what it was like back then. No computers, no calculators, no digital watches. Most people had ONE phone in the house and we actually answered it when it rang so we could find out who was calling. It was safe to answer because tele-marketing hadn't been invented yet so it was probably someone you actually knew.
For most people the only 'high tech' thing they used on a daily basis was the television. In fact, I knew people who dismissed Trek as silly because there was no possible way any of that stuff could ever happen in real life. I guess the joke's on them.
Khomar, you're making the same mistake Marx did. A thing's value is not derived from the costs involved in making it.
Value is totally subjective and unmeasurable. A rough approximation can be made based on market price, but that's somewhat faulty too because the trade medium (money) itself has different value to different people. $100 is is more valuable to someone who earns $20K/year than it is to someone who earns $100k/year.
A ratio of $s/time to earn can be used to more closely approximate comparative value of a thing for models but even so that ignores differences in individual tastes/wants/needs. Basically value can only be measured on individual case by case basis by the individual making the buy/not buy decision.
It's not a VoIP service despite what the marketing droids call it. It's a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) gateway service which is a very different animal. VoIP doesn't require a phone company, just an IP network connection.
What Qwest and the other bells (and Vonage) are doing is allowing VoIP call termination to the existing POTS network.
Everyone's seen the writing on the wall and it says "POTS is dead, long live the packet!"
At some point a network effect will kick in when there is a critical mass of VoIP users who discover everyone they call is on VoIP and realize they don't need the bells for anything.
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I don't see the "obviously" either. I use 1Password and it's not web based, the secure password database file sits in Dropbox and is synced to all my computers and my iPhone. Works great.
I live in Texas and yes, if you're driving on I-10 between Houston and El Paso, 85 mph would make a big difference. But this particular stretch is only 41 miles. That's not even (quite) across New Jersey. And you know there's gonna be some asshat in the left lane doing 55 the whole way. There always is.
The speed limit is 85 because the state gets more money from the toll operator at the higher speed.
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/09/07/texas-approves-highest-speed-limit-in-country-at-85-mph/
"The state contract with the toll operator allows the state to collect a $67 million up-front cash payment or a percentage of the toll profits in the future if the speed limit is 80 mph or lower. At 85 mph, the cash payment balloons to $100 million or a higher percentage of toll revenues."
Driving 41 miles at 85 mph vs 75 mph saves a whole 4 minutes.
Seems kinda pointless.
Major Caudill does not exist. This essay was originally written by Marko Kloos in 2007.
http://munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/why-the-gun-is-civilization/
Shortly thereafter it was plagiarized and falsely attributed to the nonexistent Major Caudill. It even appeaed in a certain celebrity's book.
http://munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/major-caudill-hits-the-big-time/
If the test is only 90% accurate then it's useless.
A 10% error rate would generate a number of false results greater than the incidence of pancreatic cancer in the first place.
I don't know why everyone is saying Verizon is the big winner. AT&T won the vast majority of the B block which, paired with the 12MHz they bought from Aloha, gives them 24 MHz for less than Verizon paid for 20 MHz.
And there are no open network requirements on AT&T's spectrum.
Sounds like AT&T came out on top of this deal.
If your living depends on the Internet how about checking for broadband availability before you move? That's like the people who move into a house near an airport then complain about the noise.
Everyone knows broadband availability in rural areas sucks. It's just not cost effective to deliver it and that's not going to change with current technology. Get over it.
Over the last couple of months the spam count on my mail server has gone from an average of 10K a day to over 20K a day. I had to turn off virus scanning and actually drop some of my spam filtering because the server couldn't process the mail fast enough. Now I'm having to upgrade the mail server hardware to handle the increased SPAM load. I'm sure I'm not the only one forced to do this.... SPAM gone from an annoyance to a financial problem.
I have a Thinkpad A22p that's a few months away from five years old and still works fine. I've carried it daily, and although I'm careful, I don't exactly baby it either. Every day to work and back home, sometimes in an office, sometimes sitting by a cell tower in the middle of a cow field.
Of course that's a pre-Lenovo notebook.
I've recently switched from DLT to external USB drives. They're cheaper, more reliable and easier to restore from than tape.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing higher UP speeds.
I'm seeing 11 mbps up right now although it's been as high as 22 mbps this morning. If there's bogging down going on it's somewhere else, I'm not seeing it.
I have the Verizon EVDO card and in Dallas, and other cities with the 1xEVDO service it's pretty good. Speeds average 300 to 400 kbps with bursts up to 1 mbps or more. Works great under Linux too!
Latency is a problem though. I'm seeing 150 ms (or higher) average latencies on the first hop.
I've talked to several CDMA engineers who said there's nothing inherent to CDMA that would account for that high of a latency. Each (independently) said it must be how Verizon has configured their IP network.
I think Verizon engineered a high latency so VoIP wouldn't work. Why sell $75/month unlimited use service then allow people to make VoIP calls when there's so much money to be made selling metered voice minutes?
The down side is if you're not in a high speed coverage area, you get the slower dial up type speeds or nothing at all. It's definately not something I'd expect to work in rural areas.
I read a lot of books (several a week) on my Sharp Zaurus SL-5600. I convert to Plucker from HTML, and it works great. Still not as good a reading experience as a dead tree version, but the screen is good and I can carry several hundred books around on a CF card and still have plenty of room for MP3s. I can read at night without an external light too. Don't rule out the PDA until you try it.
" First, my definition is a little different than the government's and press' definition of WMDs."
Well if we can just make up any definition we want then what's the point? I prefer to not live in Wonderland. Words have definitions and have meaning. We don't get to just make up whatever definition we like. If we can't agree on the basic definitions of what we're taking about then we have no basis for communication.
"...lets say for the sake of argument 5,000 that were gassed by Saddam."
But I thought there were no WMDs? So now there are and even you are willing to allow 5000 killed with them.
"About 3,000 people were killed with box cutters not too long ago."
No, they were killed with hijacked jets.
" I mean the CIA still has publically downloadable 23page document from 2002 about "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction" here, yet its pretty much common knowledge that they never existed"
So what exactly DID Sadam use to gas the Kurds? Pretty hard to do that with something that never existed.
All Sadam did was the equivalent of flushing the drugs down the toilet when the police raid the crack house. WMDs? What WMDs? I have no WMDs.
" Simply put, fail-safe encryption does not and will not exist."
One time pad.
Done right, it's unbreakable by any means.
Of course it's a huge pain in the ass to implement because the keys have to be transmitted somehow to the receiving end separately and securely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad/
And WiMAX won't change the LOS issues. LOS is a function of the frequency used, not the encoding or standard.
Microwaves are LOS. Yes, different materials are transparent to RF at different frequencies, but the bottom line is that if you're above about 900 MHz you have to have (radio) LOS or you don't have a connection beyond a few tens of feet at part 15 power levels.
To really provide true non-LOS service, you have to be down in the UHF or lower frequencies. Yet another reason to push TV into digital and free up all that inefficiently used analog TV spectrum.
At least five hours a month?
You must not be married. My wife can put in five hours a DAY on the phone! Thank god for unlimited flat rate long distance.
If I want to sell a kidney to the highest bidder I should be able to. If I'm dead, my will should be able to have my organs be auctioned off to benefit my family, or any other beneficiary.
I own my body, and it's my property to do with as I like in life or death. Any law denying me this natural right is immoral.
OK, you're on Slashdot complaining about spelling and grammar on another site?
Wow.
I just couldn't let that one pass.
Go ahead and mod me down, I've got karma burning a hole in my pocket.
"You can't take the sky from me..."
Hey look, it's a Browncoat!
Anyone that can't see the need for real humans to explore space needs to go ahead and hop into the grave. You're already dead, you just don't realize it yet.
Ouch... I guess I'm "old enough" since I remember watching it in B&W when I was 3 years old in 1966. I didn't realize the Orion chick was green until a decade later when it was in syndication and I saw it for the first time in color.
It was absolutely amazing at the time. What looks a little stupid and clunky today was cutting edge and we loved it.
Yep, 1966. You young'uns don't know what it was like back then. No computers, no calculators, no digital watches. Most people had ONE phone in the house and we actually answered it when it rang so we could find out who was calling. It was safe to answer because tele-marketing hadn't been invented yet so it was probably someone you actually knew.
For most people the only 'high tech' thing they used on a daily basis was the television. In fact, I knew people who dismissed Trek as silly because there was no possible way any of that stuff could ever happen in real life. I guess the joke's on them.
Khomar, you're making the same mistake Marx did. A thing's value is not derived from the costs involved in making it.
Value is totally subjective and unmeasurable. A rough approximation can be made based on market price, but that's somewhat faulty too because the trade medium (money) itself has different value to different people. $100 is is more valuable to someone who earns $20K/year than it is to someone who earns $100k/year.
A ratio of $s/time to earn can be used to more closely approximate comparative value of a thing for models but even so that ignores differences in individual tastes/wants/needs. Basically value can only be measured on individual case by case basis by the individual making the buy/not buy decision.
It's not a VoIP service despite what the marketing droids call it. It's a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) gateway service which is a very different animal. VoIP doesn't require a phone company, just an IP network connection.
What Qwest and the other bells (and Vonage) are doing is allowing VoIP call termination to the existing POTS network.
Everyone's seen the writing on the wall and it says "POTS is dead, long live the packet!"
At some point a network effect will kick in when there is a critical mass of VoIP users who discover everyone they call is on VoIP and realize they don't need the bells for anything.