Which is now in Africa? I'm getting confused with the geography here. Must be the Cell tower near my house.
Seriously, Didn't a town in California try to ban cellphones / Wifi a couple of years ago?
Having been in the business (Tier 1 and Tier2 ISP's, backbone routing ect...), About 8 or 9 years back, the "peer war" really took off. Who should be paying for what and the "I'm bigger than you, pay me" attitude. Several Tier 1, Tier 2 and about every Tier 3 wanted to start negotiations on basing economical (or practically next to nothing) peering based on capacity and quantity in the "lets all work together to balance traffic patterns out" based on that criteria. Problem was as a Tier 3 grew and more capacity and quantity were added they were working the way up the ladder. This never sat well with the Sprint, the newly formed Worldcom, ATT and several others basically because the smaller ISP's could undercut costs and as a responsible AS you really should have redundant backward links based on your daily traffic (trust me, there were some REAL humdingers out there). Anyway, the war of the network's still rages on between the smaller ISP's (presumably Cogent although the stat's really aren't showing that)and the larger one's(Sprint, IMO is not all that and a bag of chips.)
I started in the business around 1994, and all this time we thought the companies would at least get together on certain things like peering with out all the fuss and at least come to terms with recieving and sending of traffic with out isolating some mom and pop organization which by some posts has happened. If Cogent has more traffic, then they should pay more in consideration. If they have less than Sprint can't hold them to already agreed on fee's. I would assume that if Cogent got behind than ANY check in the mail to Sprint would have avoided client interruptions and they could have sat down and worked something out. (I'm sure Sprint would have settled if Cogent had explained the situation) I would have to blame Cogent more than Sprint in this deal because the "resonsibility" factor to Cogent's clients. This is a war that will never be won, the losers will always be the small co-lo and ISP and home customers......and the convergence goes on....
My point exactly. Who gonna say who owns what TLD? It was pointed out in an ealier post, what about.mlb?.nfl? Who gets to control those. If I beat the NFL to the checkout counter, its all mine??? Then, the lawsuits start over copyright infringment (similiar to frys.com a few years back). This is a real bad idea.
Blogged on this one last week. Can we figure out more ways to make the internet(DNS specifically)a bigger mess. We don't need anything other than.123 TLD(root level)domains. Whose going to be authoritative? ICANN? This is a "ICANT" if you ask me. I vote "forget it".
They have got to be kidding. I can't believe that the "Government" of a country can't figure out or hire someone to explain to them it won't work.
What passes for govenmental bodies now days is scary.
"Six people from the United States, one from Germany and one from France"
I guess it's because most (I said "most") Americans are Ridiculously stupid. Six times as much apparently. This is one I learned in College.
"Conspicuous Consumption". It's when one has alot of money on hand and nothing better to do with it (except for maybe invest or save it).
Most of you know what a fry's is.(electronics)I was in and picking up some parts and noticed that a teacher at a nearby tech collage was trying to show his students the different and difference between parts and technologys. As he was doing this a man was aimlessly roving about browsing with his bluetooth headset and talking VERY loudly disturbing anything the instructor was trying to say.
This is common with some(not all)and is so *RUDE* that I had just about enough of the overweight pig(and his plaid tie). I won't go into what transpired between us, but needless to say he left the area. Its not just airplanes, its everywhere. I am one that will let you know that there is a code of conduct and courtesy that should be observed. IMO its not that the technology will be bad, its the users that will exploit it to impress others. Just like expensive cellphones themselves and the stupid wireless headsets that don't impress me one bit. I have a major brand that I can email, watch sports and message. I don't use it near others.(and especially driving). Texting, surfing, watching and typing on a laptop on a plane is fine. Doesn't make much noise.
But needless chatting...
Along with the "just-put-on-the-tinfoil-hat-and-it-will-be-all-better dept." I think this could be filed under the "cell-phones-give-you-brain-cancer-and-let-aliens-take-over-your-mind" dept. In all seriousness (if you can call it that) it should be co-filed under the "we-have-heard-this-on-the-news-so-many-times-it-must-be-true" dept. So many are confused because as is stated by other users comments, 50% firmly believe that you CAN get cancer from a cell phone and 50% say its bunk. This doesn't boil down to light bulbs and high power lines, RF and Microwave ovens or anything in the physics dept. This is all about fear of the unknown. I don't think that the town council wants any proof that its not a health risk, because if there is even Infinitesably small possibility that it could, they would probably reject the proposal anyhow. It only takes one to say "the sky is falling" and most others would have a "suspicion" that is may be.(suspicion, as used in the article.) One other thing. Compared to Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all the coal plants and nuclear waste in our environment, this also belongs in the "this-is-a-none-issue-don't-sweat-the-small-stuff-and-its-all-small-stuff" dept. Well I should go, my wife was surfing the net with the wireless laptop and just collapsed.
Along with the "just-put-on-the-tinfoil-hat-and-it-will-be-all-better dept." I think this could be filed under the "cell-phones-give-you-brain-cancer-and-let-aliens-take-over-your-mind" dept.
In all seriousness (if you can call it that) it should be co-filed under the "we-have-heard-this-on-the-news-so-many-times-it-must-be-true" dept. So many are confused because as is stated by other users comments, 50% firmly believe that you CAN get cancer from a cell phone and 50% say its bunk. This doesn't boil down to light bulbs and high power lines, RF and Microwave ovens or anything in the physics dept. This is all about fear of the unknown. I don't think that the town council wants any proof that its not a health risk, because if there is even Infinitesably small possibility that it could, they would probably reject the proposal anyhow. It only takes one to say "the sky is falling" and most others would have a "suspicion" that is may be.(suspicion, as used in the article.)
One other thing. Compared to Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all the coal plants and nuclear waste in our environment, this also belongs in the "this-is-a-none-issue-don't-sweat-the-small-stuff-and-its-all-small-stuff" dept.
Well I should go, my wife was surfing the net with the wireless laptop and just collapsed.
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Which is now in Africa? I'm getting confused with the geography here. Must be the Cell tower near my house. Seriously, Didn't a town in California try to ban cellphones / Wifi a couple of years ago?
Having been in the business (Tier 1 and Tier2 ISP's, backbone routing ect...), About 8 or 9 years back, the "peer war" really took off. Who should be paying for what and the "I'm bigger than you, pay me" attitude. Several Tier 1, Tier 2 and about every Tier 3 wanted to start negotiations on basing economical (or practically next to nothing) peering based on capacity and quantity in the "lets all work together to balance traffic patterns out" based on that criteria. Problem was as a Tier 3 grew and more capacity and quantity were added they were working the way up the ladder. This never sat well with the Sprint, the newly formed Worldcom, ATT and several others basically because the smaller ISP's could undercut costs and as a responsible AS you really should have redundant backward links based on your daily traffic (trust me, there were some REAL humdingers out there). Anyway, the war of the network's still rages on between the smaller ISP's (presumably Cogent although the stat's really aren't showing that)and the larger one's(Sprint, IMO is not all that and a bag of chips.) I started in the business around 1994, and all this time we thought the companies would at least get together on certain things like peering with out all the fuss and at least come to terms with recieving and sending of traffic with out isolating some mom and pop organization which by some posts has happened. If Cogent has more traffic, then they should pay more in consideration. If they have less than Sprint can't hold them to already agreed on fee's. I would assume that if Cogent got behind than ANY check in the mail to Sprint would have avoided client interruptions and they could have sat down and worked something out. (I'm sure Sprint would have settled if Cogent had explained the situation) I would have to blame Cogent more than Sprint in this deal because the "resonsibility" factor to Cogent's clients. This is a war that will never be won, the losers will always be the small co-lo and ISP and home customers. .....and the convergence goes on....
Kinda wanted to see the page, but I'm: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /hdsilence.html on this server.
How about .big?
Then you could have clownpenis.big
My point exactly. Who gonna say who owns what TLD? It was pointed out in an ealier post, what about .mlb? .nfl? Who gets to control those. If I beat the NFL to the checkout counter, its all mine??? Then, the lawsuits start over copyright infringment (similiar to frys.com a few years back). This is a real bad idea.
Blogged on this one last week. Can we figure out more ways to make the internet(DNS specifically)a bigger mess. We don't need anything other than .123 TLD(root level)domains. Whose going to be authoritative? ICANN? This is a "ICANT" if you ask me. I vote "forget it".
I'd be more sympathetic if these morons weren't voluntarily signing their lives away to an uncaring government.
Oh Lord. Another 19 year old democrat that knows it all. Hail Obama !!!!!
They have got to be kidding. I can't believe that the "Government" of a country can't figure out or hire someone to explain to them it won't work. What passes for govenmental bodies now days is scary.
"Six people from the United States, one from Germany and one from France" I guess it's because most (I said "most") Americans are Ridiculously stupid. Six times as much apparently. This is one I learned in College. "Conspicuous Consumption". It's when one has alot of money on hand and nothing better to do with it (except for maybe invest or save it).
Most of you know what a fry's is.(electronics)I was in and picking up some parts and noticed that a teacher at a nearby tech collage was trying to show his students the different and difference between parts and technologys. As he was doing this a man was aimlessly roving about browsing with his bluetooth headset and talking VERY loudly disturbing anything the instructor was trying to say. This is common with some(not all)and is so *RUDE* that I had just about enough of the overweight pig(and his plaid tie). I won't go into what transpired between us, but needless to say he left the area. Its not just airplanes, its everywhere. I am one that will let you know that there is a code of conduct and courtesy that should be observed. IMO its not that the technology will be bad, its the users that will exploit it to impress others. Just like expensive cellphones themselves and the stupid wireless headsets that don't impress me one bit. I have a major brand that I can email, watch sports and message. I don't use it near others.(and especially driving). Texting, surfing, watching and typing on a laptop on a plane is fine. Doesn't make much noise. But needless chatting...
Along with the "just-put-on-the-tinfoil-hat-and-it-will-be-all-better dept." I think this could be filed under the "cell-phones-give-you-brain-cancer-and-let-aliens-take-over-your-mind" dept. In all seriousness (if you can call it that) it should be co-filed under the "we-have-heard-this-on-the-news-so-many-times-it-must-be-true" dept. So many are confused because as is stated by other users comments, 50% firmly believe that you CAN get cancer from a cell phone and 50% say its bunk. This doesn't boil down to light bulbs and high power lines, RF and Microwave ovens or anything in the physics dept. This is all about fear of the unknown. I don't think that the town council wants any proof that its not a health risk, because if there is even Infinitesably small possibility that it could, they would probably reject the proposal anyhow. It only takes one to say "the sky is falling" and most others would have a "suspicion" that is may be.(suspicion, as used in the article.) One other thing. Compared to Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all the coal plants and nuclear waste in our environment, this also belongs in the "this-is-a-none-issue-don't-sweat-the-small-stuff-and-its-all-small-stuff" dept. Well I should go, my wife was surfing the net with the wireless laptop and just collapsed.
Along with the "just-put-on-the-tinfoil-hat-and-it-will-be-all-better dept." I think this could be filed under the "cell-phones-give-you-brain-cancer-and-let-aliens-take-over-your-mind" dept. In all seriousness (if you can call it that) it should be co-filed under the "we-have-heard-this-on-the-news-so-many-times-it-must-be-true" dept. So many are confused because as is stated by other users comments, 50% firmly believe that you CAN get cancer from a cell phone and 50% say its bunk. This doesn't boil down to light bulbs and high power lines, RF and Microwave ovens or anything in the physics dept. This is all about fear of the unknown. I don't think that the town council wants any proof that its not a health risk, because if there is even Infinitesably small possibility that it could, they would probably reject the proposal anyhow. It only takes one to say "the sky is falling" and most others would have a "suspicion" that is may be.(suspicion, as used in the article.) One other thing. Compared to Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all the coal plants and nuclear waste in our environment, this also belongs in the "this-is-a-none-issue-don't-sweat-the-small-stuff-and-its-all-small-stuff" dept. Well I should go, my wife was surfing the net with the wireless laptop and just collapsed.
Oh Brother. To mentally Challenged to live. Unfortunately, we need people of that nature for the economy.
Oh Brother. People to stupid to live. To bad we need them economically.