I think everything from one click shopping to the XOR cursor should be covered by patent and the originators of these marvelous inventions should jealously guard their efforts by every legal means. This would be a great start... at stopping the motor of the world.
Anyone who truly believes in all of this pie in the sky free software nonsense needs to just opt out of society. No one *cares*. You'll get no money, no grattitude, there is nothing but abuse for the creative and financial reward for the sleazy. Some of the sleaze is what is called mooching, some of it looting. If you're of the building persuasion, just stop sharing yourself for a bit and watch the sparks fly.
If your sweaty little fingers are all aquiver to either reply to this in a clueless fashion or mod me troll, I suggest you go forth and google for "Atlas Shrugged". Better yet, go get the book and read it. If you have absolutely no idea who Ayn Rand is or why that book is important you have no business at all responding to this. I feel like I should sign this "Richard Halley".
You get 8kb out of G729 but the RTP overhead is 16kb. If you own both ends of the link you can use rtp header compression and it gets knocked back to about 8k but that is strictly a Cisco to Cisco thing.
The RTP RFC is somewhat vague - it says you can't multiplex voice and video, but there is no explicit prohibition on multiplexing like streams. Cisco is conservative and uses one RTP stream per voice stream. Other plays like Nuera will multiplex voice streams headed for the same destination into one RTP stream.
Cisco has been saying they'll fix this with some sort of L2F widget, but it hasn't appeared yet and they've been saying that since 1999.
Don't even bother to try rtp header compression on GRE links - I beat the heck out of that one and it just doesn't help. Now if you tunneled frame DLCIs in GRE that might work... but you'd be laughed right out of the business if anyone saw the config.
If you own *all* the land around and there isn't any other hot ISM band stuff in operation that can work. I've got one small microwave cell on a campus where the owners control everything in the area and we're installing another one at another of their locations today. The second location is in a very hot area, ISM wise, so the antennas are on the back sides of buildings away from the noise. Its a backup to a private link under a road so I'm hoping that a.) its clean and b.) that it will never be used except for me testing it periodically.
You're obviously one of those bloody brits:-) We don't have nearly the government overhead here on private telco stuff - if it works, you can go ahead and use it.
I've done one point to point T1 bypass in ISM band over a 16.7 mile link. Worked fine until one of the aforementioned dirtbags in town decided to put his ten watt(!) 2430 MHz license to use for the purpose of extracting 'tithes' from wireless providers. Talk about a comedy - low grade mafiosos attempts to mug an industry with no money. It'd be funny except for all the people having service problems...
We occasionally see annecdotal evidence that 802.11 can successfully carry voice traffic. These events are highly situational and generally only happen in rural areas where a single player controls all the high ground. If you're writing a business plan based on transiting voice on a point to point unlicensed band link you're very brave, if you're planning on doing it point to multipoint you need one of those jackets that helps you hug yourself.
I've deployed 802.11b, Alvarion Breeze Access II, and various UNI band access products in a five county area that contains the 53rd largest metro area in the US. Note that I said "I have" - my BP had been 110/70 my whole life but in the last ninety days before I quit that and got a job that paid it peaked at 148/98.
Even if you avoid the stock fraud dirtbags, the outright equipment theft dirtbags, the theft by deception dirtbags, and the cheesy mafioso dirtbags with grandfathered licenses in the ISM band, you're still facing the simple fact that any dork with $500 and a building on top of a hill can start a wireless play, crap all over the spectrum, and there simply isn't any recourse.
Voice belongs on licensed spectrum and it always will. The *only* exception to this is sideband T1 usage on high quality point to point links - think Proxim Tsunamis at $14k a pair and you're on the right track.
I'm amazed at the response this post received. This is the first time I've ever been labeled 'troll' and its still moderated to a +4. I must have touched a nerve.
The whole point is that these executives are taking the time to learn things, which is refreshing.
And I attend (and present at times) the local linux users group meetings - I *know* what ya'll look like when not under female supervision:-)
Am I the only one who has noticed the number of Linux fanboys at the local LUG who appear to be either completely absent minded OR have cars with power windows that are perpetually jammed in the 2" short of closed position?
It doesn't have a 101 key keyboard, you can't reboot it to clear problems, so therefor the magic electric car windows remain in the position where they stop functioning, no matter how silly and uncomfortable it makes the car owner.
I find it funny that a group that collectively has trouble with personal hygiene, getting a date, ever getting a second date, finding something to talk about besides computers, etc is down on high level executives.
So they don't know computer applications. They know finance, marketing, operations, negotiating, and a host of other things that mostly don't have anything to do with computers, but do have a lot to do with ongoing success.
One of the happiest, best paying environments I ever worked in had me reporting to a division controller responsible for operations accounting related to stores doing $200M in sales annually. She was almost helpless on all sorts of things computer related, but she could sign purchase orders faster than I could type and when HQ IS weenies got under foot her head would spin around, she'd spit nails, etc, etc, and they'd go back to guarding their silly little mainframe, while our mighty intranet continued to win the hearts & minds of the people in the field.
Instead of poking fun at them, maybe you should study them - they *are* the ones with the money/power/cars with power windows that work - you might just learn something.
It'll never be that simple, but it should happen a lot more often, not cost nearly so much, and once in orbit boron/proton fusion or some similar technology should make Mars a run of a few weeks, not two years.
The United State's space program is a flabby, stagnant beauracracy. It needs an enema at the top, an exercise program in the middle, and some moral support in the rank and file. Most of all, it needs to take a long, hard look at boron/proton fusion, and get busy designing ships that can use it for swift interplanetary travel.
The fact that both China and India have space programs is beautiful to me. Remember who was first in space? Not John Glenn, but Yuri Gagarin. Perhaps NASA will recover from its existing case of cranial rectitis (hint: leaves a brown ring around your neck) when faced with a large, motivated competitor with a growing economy.
I have vague memories of a Vax 11/730 warping the floorboards in my house. BSD 4.2 Reno on 1600 BPI tape and the Vax 6220 that replaced it at work was a smokin' upgrade - you could hold down the arrow keys in vi and it would scroll a file at 19.2k and it could keep up as long as there weren't too many people testing out its amazing processing power(!).
The OpenSSH/OpenSSL bugs are mostly ironed out, watch for bind9.2.4 in/usr/ports/dns - a new subdirectory, and other than that it looks ready to go - I've been pushing it on my intel DNS/ssh/qmail boxes since a few weeks after code freeze and its been very, very, very stable.
I think its a six hour drive to the one nearest to me, but I should go just to ask pointed questions. I'm more or less enjoying my eighteenth year of Unix use (BSD on Vax 11/780... I feel old) and I'd like to see these creeps get the lawsuits & criminal charges they so richly deserve.
I doubt if most./ers remember, but in the mid 1980s we roundly cursed SCO for being the only Intel hardware unix and being out of reach price wise, and we cheered when MWC's Coherent became available, even if it was constrained to 64k of code and 64k of data per application.
SCO ignored what people needed for a long, long time, and agreeing to be the punching bag in M$'s proxy war against Linux is the last gasp of the last for pay unix workalike on intel hardware. BSDi went quietly, Sun & SGI are going to kick and fuss... just watch and see what happens.
Its politically beneficial for politicians to appear tough on crime. This move does get the political points but it leaves a long term mess for a prison system already over burdened by mandatory minimum sentences and it makes judges into clerks, rather than intelligent wielders of the law.
Look at California; direct democracy there lets the voters feel good for one election and saddles the politicians(managers, lets remember) with situations that just can't be made to work - you *must* provide more services, but not raise taxes.
Disaster ensues when you decouple responsbility and authority to discharge the duties. Judges are being hamstrung, reform has become impossible for nonviolent offenders in many areas, and it is only going to get worse.
I'll tell a personal story about what a joke mandatory minimum sentences are.
I have a friend who has a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart mounted in a little wooden box. He operates on one lung, shrapnel from the booby trap he set off while on patrol in the Mekong delta still comes to the surface in his back, but he kept his M60 lit up covering the LZ while the rest of the platoon retreated to the choppers.
He was involved in agricultural research and he ran a computer shop. One of his computer shop customers laid hands on his ag business information, ordered methamphetamine precursors, and then implicated my war hero friend to cover himself when he got busted.
Because of the manner in which the prosecutor handled the case the judge had to sentence this guy for something. He said he wanted to have him do forty hours of public service to remind him to keep his business records locked. He served six years in a federal camp.
I did a 21.7 mile shot using Cisco Aironet BR342, Andrew 19dB solid dishes, and YDI 500 mw amps.
I'm a bit embarrased to admit using a wireless LAN product for backhaul work, but some morons overtightened the patch cable on an Andrew P2F 5.2-5.8 GHz 2' dish hooked to a WiLan AWE-120 5.8 GHz radio and put their link out of service.
Despite extensive tweaking the link never managed more than analog modem speeds. It helped in recomissioning the UNI band stuff, but was otherwise useless for hauling traffic.
802.11[bag] is NOT an access product. Take a look at Alvarion's Breeze Access II, or better yet just wait for an 802.16 product meant to do access work.
802.11[bag] is NOT a mobile access product. That market belongs to licensed band products with ISDN like performance offered by cellular companies. Anecdotal evidence of mobile access to one police department in a town of 12,000 does not equal proof of concept for operation in urban areas; its plain dumb luck coupled with no competing ISM band ISP(yet).
802.11[bag] is NOT a backhaul product. Backhaul radios are made by WiLan, Redline, Aperto, Proxim, and others. The minimum cost is $2,500 an end just for the radio, most of them are in the UNI band, the full duplex products are generally split band 5.2/5.7 GHz, and they provide typically eight to ten mbits for entry level products, unlike 802.11b which NEVER, EVER gets 11 mbits in long shots, with 1 or 2 mbits being the typical rate.
802.11[bag] SHOULD NOT BE DEPLOYED BY MONKEYS. Are you a MoNkEy? If you haven't read Matthew S. Gast's 802.11 book published by OReilly and you don't fully grok the implications of the shared MAC layer, you are just throwing nuts and filth from the treetops into the already busy ISM band.
Slashdot's coverage of other topics is relatively even. The coverage of radio is focused on 802.11[bag] and this is quite laughable most of the time to those of us who have actually owned and operated a wireless ISP. Personally I think the editors ought to be giving us a whole lot more information on ICOM's D-STAR, a 23cm (1.2 GHz) amateur band voice/data system.
This comes up so often I wrote about it in my journal
I'll paraphrase for the lazy. Carrier grade IP bandwidth costs $40 or so per 64kbits. If you're a big dog you can cut your cost to half of that.
94% of residential users are cheap retail users, the other 6% are largely music/movie traders and they're often paying $40/mo and using 10x or more that in bandwidth.
You are not ENTITLED to free music because Kazaa exists. You are not ENTITLED to carrier grade bandwidth because 24 of 25 users follow a retail usage pattern.
Some whine about it on slashdot, but I've suggested that a 'special education troll' moderation category be created for those that do.
This is much needed
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Pedophiles *aren't* in control of their actions. Think repeat offender drunk drivers - they just *can't* control their behavior. Chronic drunk drivers are frequently subjected to a monitoring device in their vehicle.
The pedophile is much, much worse than a drunk driver. The drunk driver stands some small chance of injuring or killing someone when they drive, but the pedophile who reoffends *always* hurts someone and *frequently* plants the seed that leads to another generation of the same behavior.
Consider this; for society such control means a long term (generations long) decrease in such problems, instead of paying to jail or otherwise institutionalize a dangerous person for whom there is likely NO CURE, they are again a tax paying member of society.
The offender is motivated as well; instead of slowly rotting in prison he is again able to work, live somewhere much more pleasant than cell block C, and the 'control' of radiolocation makes reoffending very, very difficult - most offenders in moments of lucidity welcome anything that will restrain them from further misbehavior.
I've trained police officers in computer forensics and its mostly used in child porn/child enticement cases. I've done RF surverys inside my state's maximum security prison. The father of my son's best friend is a felony probation officer and I cringe every time I hear another story of a third time loser destroying another child's life. I'm not sure whether the horror of the crime is perfectly matched by the horror of the state's warehouse for those unable to be left free, but consequences don't seem to be a deterrent in this area.
I think all parties benefit from a system that makes tax payers with supervision in the place where unrestrained predators and expensively restrained inmates used to be. Good for Great Britain and may it happen here RSN.
A simple economic motion and the entire domino theory is proven, only the trouble starts in Western Europe this time instead of repeating itself in Eastern Europe.
One wise little action and the entire connotation of the word 'Munich' changed. I'm sure Chamberlain's descendants are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
If we continue marching backward through time what else do we see happening in Munich?
Germany was hundreds of principalities with no sense of nationalism until the fire of the French revolution followed by Napolean drove them to it. Perhaps we should all be seeing Darl McBride in a triangular hat feather and his hand tucked into his pants?
One has to look at Micrsoft's behavior in the same sort of manner as the German barons of the East Elbe during the beginning of the 19th century. Tax farmers, they are, treating the peasants as chattel. And the end of this whole mess is started by one rebel in the Baltic. Isn't the German/English meaning just delicious - those East Elbe tax farmers were known as "Junkers".
The parallels are there - history DOES repeat itself, although in this case instead of a GNU like recursion we're seeing a strange sort of historical palindrome metaphor.
Now BIFF will be spamming Usenet 24/7 with his new broadband connection. Am I the only/. reader old enough to remember BIFF? Am I sold old that I can't recall if its a C64 or a VIC-20 he is using? Could be...
Re:Don't DDoS - manipulate stock instead
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NO, I'm not affiliated with raging bull, drooling goat, twitching british bovine, or any other web based stock manipulation ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h tracking site. I've got some stock certificates which could be used, if properly softened, for wiping my ass.
And their first task will be going through the SCO customer list in my geographic area and whacking each and every SCO system they can locate.
You have to view it from their perspective - years, some times decades of hard work, stock in the company trapped by trading rules, and scam artists from Canopy making it all just a sick joke.
If you really want to jab SCO, find a job for *every* person there who does real work, and do it quick.
Don't DDoS - manipulate stock instead
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You/.ers are fairly clueless - two of you who haven't bathed in a month(each) can bring SCO's network to its knees, but the other 79,998 regular users can't each take five minutes to join http://ragingbull.com and pound this stuff into the heads of every dummy who is buying this stock because of its 'momentum'.
Get on that stock board, post a message with the subject "SCOX ==> $0, read this", and link it to the latest slashdot article on the topic.
If it is a genuine pump and dump there are a handful of paid cheerleaders out there who are trying to bury any sensible discussion so the 'marks' don't see it by filling that board with SCOX rah rah rah nonsense. Amp the signal to noise ratio to the point where the cluelesss day traders know this thing is a pig in a poke and you'll do way more damage than ranting on slashdot about the subject.
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I think everything from one click shopping to the XOR cursor should be covered by patent and the originators of these marvelous inventions should jealously guard their efforts by every legal means. This would be a great start ... at stopping the motor of the world.
Anyone who truly believes in all of this pie in the sky free software nonsense needs to just opt out of society. No one *cares*. You'll get no money, no grattitude, there is nothing but abuse for the creative and financial reward for the sleazy. Some of the sleaze is what is called mooching, some of it looting. If you're of the building persuasion, just stop sharing yourself for a bit and watch the sparks fly.
If your sweaty little fingers are all aquiver to either reply to this in a clueless fashion or mod me troll, I suggest you go forth and google for "Atlas Shrugged". Better yet, go get the book and read it. If you have absolutely no idea who Ayn Rand is or why that book is important you have no business at all responding to this. I feel like I should sign this "Richard Halley".
You get 8kb out of G729 but the RTP overhead is 16kb. If you own both ends of the link you can use rtp header compression and it gets knocked back to about 8k but that is strictly a Cisco to Cisco thing.
The RTP RFC is somewhat vague - it says you can't multiplex voice and video, but there is no explicit prohibition on multiplexing like streams. Cisco is conservative and uses one RTP stream per voice stream. Other plays like Nuera will multiplex voice streams headed for the same destination into one RTP stream.
Cisco has been saying they'll fix this with some sort of L2F widget, but it hasn't appeared yet and they've been saying that since 1999.
Don't even bother to try rtp header compression on GRE links - I beat the heck out of that one and it just doesn't help. Now if you tunneled frame DLCIs in GRE that might work
If you own *all* the land around and there isn't any other hot ISM band stuff in operation that can work. I've got one small microwave cell on a campus where the owners control everything in the area and we're installing another one at another of their locations today. The second location is in a very hot area, ISM wise, so the antennas are on the back sides of buildings away from the noise. Its a backup to a private link under a road so I'm hoping that a.) its clean and b.) that it will never be used except for me testing it periodically.
You're obviously one of those bloody brits
I've done one point to point T1 bypass in ISM band over a 16.7 mile link. Worked fine until one of the aforementioned dirtbags in town decided to put his ten watt(!) 2430 MHz license to use for the purpose of extracting 'tithes' from wireless providers. Talk about a comedy - low grade mafiosos attempts to mug an industry with no money. It'd be funny except for all the people having service problems
We occasionally see annecdotal evidence that 802.11 can successfully carry voice traffic. These events are highly situational and generally only happen in rural areas where a single player controls all the high ground. If you're writing a business plan based on transiting voice on a point to point unlicensed band link you're very brave, if you're planning on doing it point to multipoint you need one of those jackets that helps you hug yourself. I've deployed 802.11b, Alvarion Breeze Access II, and various UNI band access products in a five county area that contains the 53rd largest metro area in the US. Note that I said "I have" - my BP had been 110/70 my whole life but in the last ninety days before I quit that and got a job that paid it peaked at 148/98. Even if you avoid the stock fraud dirtbags, the outright equipment theft dirtbags, the theft by deception dirtbags, and the cheesy mafioso dirtbags with grandfathered licenses in the ISM band, you're still facing the simple fact that any dork with $500 and a building on top of a hill can start a wireless play, crap all over the spectrum, and there simply isn't any recourse. Voice belongs on licensed spectrum and it always will. The *only* exception to this is sideband T1 usage on high quality point to point links - think Proxim Tsunamis at $14k a pair and you're on the right track.
I'm amazed at the response this post received. This is the first time I've ever been labeled 'troll' and its still moderated to a +4. I must have touched a nerve.
The whole point is that these executives are taking the time to learn things, which is refreshing.
And I attend (and present at times) the local linux users group meetings - I *know* what ya'll look like when not under female supervision
Am I the only one who has noticed the number of Linux fanboys at the local LUG who appear to be either completely absent minded OR have cars with power windows that are perpetually jammed in the 2" short of closed position?
It doesn't have a 101 key keyboard, you can't reboot it to clear problems, so therefor the magic electric car windows remain in the position where they stop functioning, no matter how silly and uncomfortable it makes the car owner.
I find it funny that a group that collectively has trouble with personal hygiene, getting a date, ever getting a second date, finding something to talk about besides computers, etc is down on high level executives.
So they don't know computer applications. They know finance, marketing, operations, negotiating, and a host of other things that mostly don't have anything to do with computers, but do have a lot to do with ongoing success.
One of the happiest, best paying environments I ever worked in had me reporting to a division controller responsible for operations accounting related to stores doing $200M in sales annually. She was almost helpless on all sorts of things computer related, but she could sign purchase orders faster than I could type and when HQ IS weenies got under foot her head would spin around, she'd spit nails, etc, etc, and they'd go back to guarding their silly little mainframe, while our mighty intranet continued to win the hearts & minds of the people in the field.
Instead of poking fun at them, maybe you should study them - they *are* the ones with the money/power/cars with power windows that work - you might just learn something.
Sorry, first to orbit
It'll never be that simple, but it should happen a lot more often, not cost nearly so much, and once in orbit boron/proton fusion or some similar technology should make Mars a run of a few weeks, not two years.
The United State's space program is a flabby, stagnant beauracracy. It needs an enema at the top, an exercise program in the middle, and some moral support in the rank and file. Most of all, it needs to take a long, hard look at boron/proton fusion, and get busy designing ships that can use it for swift interplanetary travel.
The fact that both China and India have space programs is beautiful to me. Remember who was first in space? Not John Glenn, but Yuri Gagarin. Perhaps NASA will recover from its existing case of cranial rectitis (hint: leaves a brown ring around your neck) when faced with a large, motivated competitor with a growing economy.
I have vague memories of a Vax 11/730 warping the floorboards in my house. BSD 4.2 Reno on 1600 BPI tape and the Vax 6220 that replaced it at work was a smokin' upgrade - you could hold down the arrow keys in vi and it would scroll a file at 19.2k and it could keep up as long as there weren't too many people testing out its amazing processing power(!).
The OpenSSH/OpenSSL bugs are mostly ironed out, watch for bind9.2.4 in
I think its a six hour drive to the one nearest to me, but I should go just to ask pointed questions. I'm more or less enjoying my eighteenth year of Unix use (BSD on Vax 11/780
I doubt if most
SCO ignored what people needed for a long, long time, and agreeing to be the punching bag in M$'s proxy war against Linux is the last gasp of the last for pay unix workalike on intel hardware. BSDi went quietly, Sun & SGI are going to kick and fuss
Dooley Horton, Federal Court would have been in Cedar Rapids, Iowa circa 1995. Post your contact info and I'll get the details to you.
Its politically beneficial for politicians to appear tough on crime. This move does get the political points but it leaves a long term mess for a prison system already over burdened by mandatory minimum sentences and it makes judges into clerks, rather than intelligent wielders of the law.
Look at California; direct democracy there lets the voters feel good for one election and saddles the politicians(managers, lets remember) with situations that just can't be made to work - you *must* provide more services, but not raise taxes.
Disaster ensues when you decouple responsbility and authority to discharge the duties. Judges are being hamstrung, reform has become impossible for nonviolent offenders in many areas, and it is only going to get worse.
I'll tell a personal story about what a joke mandatory minimum sentences are.
I have a friend who has a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart mounted in a little wooden box. He operates on one lung, shrapnel from the booby trap he set off while on patrol in the Mekong delta still comes to the surface in his back, but he kept his M60 lit up covering the LZ while the rest of the platoon retreated to the choppers.
He was involved in agricultural research and he ran a computer shop. One of his computer shop customers laid hands on his ag business information, ordered methamphetamine precursors, and then implicated my war hero friend to cover himself when he got busted.
Because of the manner in which the prosecutor handled the case the judge had to sentence this guy for something. He said he wanted to have him do forty hours of public service to remind him to keep his business records locked. He served six years in a federal camp.
I did a 21.7 mile shot using Cisco Aironet BR342, Andrew 19dB solid dishes, and YDI
500 mw amps.
I'm a bit embarrased to admit using a wireless LAN product for backhaul work, but some morons overtightened
the patch cable on an Andrew P2F 5.2-5.8 GHz 2' dish hooked to a WiLan AWE-120 5.8 GHz radio and put their link out
of service.
Despite extensive tweaking the link never managed more than analog modem speeds. It helped in recomissioning the UNI band stuff, but was otherwise
useless for hauling traffic.
802.11[bag] is NOT an access product. Take a look at Alvarion's Breeze Access II, or better yet just wait for an
802.16 product meant to do access work.
802.11[bag] is NOT a mobile access product. That market belongs to licensed band products with ISDN like performance offered by cellular companies.
Anecdotal evidence of mobile access to one police department in a town of 12,000 does not equal proof of concept for operation in urban areas; its plain
dumb luck coupled with no competing ISM band ISP(yet).
802.11[bag] is NOT a backhaul product. Backhaul radios are made by WiLan, Redline, Aperto, Proxim, and others. The minimum cost is $2,500 an end just for
the radio, most of them are in the UNI band, the full duplex products are generally split band 5.2/5.7 GHz, and they provide typically eight to ten
mbits for entry level products, unlike 802.11b which NEVER, EVER gets 11 mbits in long shots, with 1 or 2 mbits being the typical rate.
802.11[bag] SHOULD NOT BE DEPLOYED BY MONKEYS. Are you a MoNkEy? If you haven't read Matthew S. Gast's 802.11 book published by OReilly and you
don't fully grok the implications of the shared MAC layer, you are just throwing nuts and filth from the treetops into the already busy ISM band.
Slashdot's coverage of other topics is relatively even. The coverage of radio is focused on 802.11[bag] and this is quite laughable most of the time
to those of us who have actually owned and operated a wireless ISP. Personally I think the editors ought to be giving us a whole lot more information
on ICOM's D-STAR, a 23cm (1.2 GHz) amateur band voice/data system.
This comes up so often I wrote about it in my journal
I'll paraphrase for the lazy. Carrier grade IP bandwidth costs $40 or so per 64kbits. If you're a big dog you can cut your cost to half of that.
94% of residential users are cheap retail users, the other 6% are largely music/movie traders and they're often paying $40/mo and using 10x or more that in bandwidth.
You are not ENTITLED to free music because Kazaa exists. You are not ENTITLED to carrier grade bandwidth because 24 of 25 users follow a retail usage pattern.
Some whine about it on slashdot, but I've suggested that a 'special education troll' moderation category be created for those that do.
Pedophiles *aren't* in control of their actions. Think repeat offender drunk drivers - they just *can't* control their behavior. Chronic drunk drivers are frequently subjected to a monitoring device in their vehicle.
The pedophile is much, much worse than a drunk driver. The drunk driver stands some small chance of injuring or killing someone when they drive, but the pedophile who reoffends *always* hurts someone and *frequently* plants the seed that leads to another generation of the same behavior.
Consider this; for society such control means a long term (generations long) decrease in such problems, instead of paying to jail or otherwise institutionalize a dangerous person for whom there is likely NO CURE, they are again a tax paying member of society.
The offender is motivated as well; instead of slowly rotting in prison he is again able to work, live somewhere much more pleasant than cell block C, and the 'control' of radiolocation makes reoffending very, very difficult - most offenders in moments of lucidity welcome anything that will restrain them from further misbehavior.
I've trained police officers in computer forensics and its mostly used in child porn/child enticement cases. I've done RF surverys inside my state's maximum security prison. The father of my son's best friend is a felony probation officer and I cringe every time I hear another story of a third time loser destroying another child's life. I'm not sure whether the horror of the crime is perfectly matched by the horror of the state's warehouse for those unable to be left free, but consequences don't seem to be a deterrent in this area.
I think all parties benefit from a system that makes tax payers with supervision in the place where unrestrained predators and expensively restrained inmates used to be. Good for Great Britain and may it happen here RSN.
A simple economic motion and the entire domino theory is proven, only the trouble starts in Western Europe this time instead of repeating itself in Eastern Europe.
One wise little action and the entire connotation of the word 'Munich' changed. I'm sure Chamberlain's descendants are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
If we continue marching backward through time what else do we see happening in Munich?
Germany was hundreds of principalities with no sense of nationalism until the fire of the French revolution followed by Napolean drove them to it. Perhaps we should all be seeing Darl McBride in a triangular hat feather and his hand tucked into his pants?
One has to look at Micrsoft's behavior in the same sort of manner as the German barons of the East Elbe during the beginning of the 19th century. Tax farmers, they are, treating the peasants as chattel. And the end of this whole mess is started by one rebel in the Baltic. Isn't the German/English meaning just delicious - those East Elbe tax farmers were known as "Junkers".
The parallels are there - history DOES repeat itself, although in this case instead of a GNU like recursion we're seeing a strange sort of historical palindrome metaphor.
Now BIFF will be spamming Usenet 24/7 with his new broadband connection. Am I the only
NO, I'm not affiliated with raging bull, drooling goat, twitching british bovine, or any other web based stock manipulation ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h tracking site. I've got some stock certificates which could be used, if properly softened, for wiping my ass.
The logitech 3 button mouse without that stinky wheel is the *only* mouse for use with BSD derivatives. Yes, I am a tad biased :-)
And their first task will be going through the SCO customer list in my geographic area and whacking each and every SCO system they can locate.
You have to view it from their perspective - years, some times decades of hard work, stock in the company trapped by trading rules, and scam artists from Canopy making it all just a sick joke.
If you really want to jab SCO, find a job for *every* person there who does real work, and do it quick.
You
Get on that stock board, post a message with the subject "SCOX ==> $0, read this", and link it to the latest slashdot article on the topic.
If it is a genuine pump and dump there are a handful of paid cheerleaders out there who are trying to bury any sensible discussion so the 'marks' don't see it by filling that board with SCOX rah rah rah nonsense. Amp the signal to noise ratio to the point where the cluelesss day traders know this thing is a pig in a poke and you'll do way more damage than ranting on slashdot about the subject.