I ditched comcast for a local fixed wireless ISP (Mesa Networks) who seem to be holding customers despite having both DSL and Cable in the area.
I'm paying for a 3Mb/1Mb connection, yet according to the speedtest on speakeasy's site i'm actually getting 4022kbps/1044kbps.
If I use more distant speed test locations then it seems to be closer to what i'm paying for, however it looks like they must have raised the cap on the local end so that I can get transfers at the speed i'm paying for. On top of that, my connection bursts to 9/3 which makes small transfers really snappy:)
I actually don't mind well thought out, intelligent commercials. The main reason I have a Tivo is so I can skip the Personal Injury commercials and the likes.
Geico, Volvo and a few others actually have commercials that are pretty tolerable.
If CableVision can actually pull off a compelling service, then it has the potential to pretty much kill off Tivo.
Once Tivo and their consumer ilk are gone, then the networks can sue CableVision, collect massive damages and the death of Tivo will merely be collateral damage.
The built in browser on my Nokia seems rather poor. It's way better than what samsung build in, but it falls a long way short of Opera IMHO.
The quality of the built in browser isn't exactly a deal-breaker for most phone consumers, so it's probably not worth the money that Nokia invests in it. By opening it, they will get more development for their money and possibly a browser to rival opera.
In theory I can build a transistor from silicon, a logic gate from those transistors, a cpu from those gates, and from there build an OS and software to run on it.
In practise it would take me a lot more studying to actually pull it all together, as I do Java programming in my professional life. But I find that knowing the levels below where I work give me a definite advantage.
Our legal department insisted that we remove embargoed countries from the dropdown on the sign-up form. So you couldn't possibly choose Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan (at the time) etc...
As a result, when Osama signs up for an account, he'd have to lie about the country he was in which would make it even harder to find him.
Why not move your company HQ on paper to a state with favorable tax laws, and have your NY employees telecomute./oddly enough also in Colorado and doing work for a company in Tampa.
Of course some of the entries are obviously from gathered inteliigence. I recall having to block anyone called "The Chess Player" from signing up. Unfortunately most websites don't gather date of birth, and when you do name only matching you catch a lot of innocent people - who are usually mightily pissed off about having to call EVERY SINGLE SITE that they try to sign up for.
The other big caveat is what you're supposed to do when you find a match - it's virtually impossible to stop them just changing their details and signing up again.
The parent however suggested that the government was in reality only going through their own phone records. My employer doesn't know if i walk down the street and use a payphone, and neither should the government employers.
Surely if you are high enough up in the government that you want to leak information to the press without revealing your identity then you'll be smart enough to make sure that those calls don't appear on your employers phone bill.
I'm pretty happy with the T-Mobile service. They have fantastic customer service and unlimited data (excluding VPN) for $5/month is a pretty sweet deal.
There's nothing inherently stopping you from making a fully 3d chip (existing chips already have many layers) however it's really difficult to get the heat out.
Current CPUs keep the transistors very very close to the heatsink and still struggle to keep them cool. If you had a cube shaped chip then it would be near impossible (with traditional processes).
There are some interesting projects to get miniture coolant pipes running through the chip, but that's a way off.
It'd be far easier to doctor the download so that it either disabled certificate chaining or inserted the bogus root certificate. The problem has to be one of making sure that you get the right file.
Most likely you'd have to get this download covertly from a mirror site or bit torrent (since the real site will surely be blocked) and there would be little way to know it was authentic. Sure you could download and audit the source code, but very few people will have the skills to identify if they have an original or doctored version.
It's straightforward to do MIM unless each party has some certificate authenticating the other party. As a result, the certificate in question would have to come with part of the download (unless it were spread by word of mouth).
The download has to come from a web or ftp server, so it would be trivially for the Chinese authorities to tamper with the certificate.
That way the downloaded client would connect to the firewall and see it as legitimate, and in the process incriminate its user.
If you have a nice easy to remember number then it's completely possible to remember it in one second. Plus if you are the first ad in the slot then it's likely that tivo users will not only see your whole ad but rewind it to find out what the hell you are doing.
Of course it only works for the first couple of people to try it, then it becomes old and will be ignored.
I was very impressed in scandinavia that round the main shipping/ferry routes, every crappy little rock has a tower stuck on it so that you don't drop coverage when sailing between countries.
I'm not sure if it's still true, but a few years ago it was the case that virtually all international web traffic for the entire UK academic network was funnelled through 15 or 16 cache servers.
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I ditched comcast for a local fixed wireless ISP (Mesa Networks) who seem to be holding customers despite having both DSL and Cable in the area.
:)
I'm paying for a 3Mb/1Mb connection, yet according to the speedtest on speakeasy's site i'm actually getting 4022kbps/1044kbps.
If I use more distant speed test locations then it seems to be closer to what i'm paying for, however it looks like they must have raised the cap on the local end so that I can get transfers at the speed i'm paying for. On top of that, my connection bursts to 9/3 which makes small transfers really snappy
Very true.
Where can I download this from? It seems like an opensourced S60 browser should run on my 6600, but I can't find the sis files anywhere on the site.
I'm comparing the Opera S60 browser that I bought last year, to whatever came with my Nokia 6600 last year.
On closer inspection it seems that my phone can't run the latest browser, that's a little disapointing.
I actually don't mind well thought out, intelligent commercials. The main reason I have a Tivo is so I can skip the Personal Injury commercials and the likes.
Geico, Volvo and a few others actually have commercials that are pretty tolerable.
If CableVision can actually pull off a compelling service, then it has the potential to pretty much kill off Tivo.
Once Tivo and their consumer ilk are gone, then the networks can sue CableVision, collect massive damages and the death of Tivo will merely be collateral damage.
The built in browser on my Nokia seems rather poor. It's way better than what samsung build in, but it falls a long way short of Opera IMHO.
The quality of the built in browser isn't exactly a deal-breaker for most phone consumers, so it's probably not worth the money that Nokia invests in it. By opening it, they will get more development for their money and possibly a browser to rival opera.
Didn't sony give away a Playstation Linux distro that hackers could play with?
I'm not suggesting a full blown commerical development xbox, just something to let hobbyists tinker with their own machines.
They know it's going to happen eventually, and promoting it would draw a lot of users to their machine.
Give out development kits for the XBox 360. That would spur a lot more cool shared-source development.
In theory I can build a transistor from silicon, a logic gate from those transistors, a cpu from those gates, and from there build an OS and software to run on it.
In practise it would take me a lot more studying to actually pull it all together, as I do Java programming in my professional life. But I find that knowing the levels below where I work give me a definite advantage.
Our legal department insisted that we remove embargoed countries from the dropdown on the sign-up form. So you couldn't possibly choose Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan (at the time) etc...
As a result, when Osama signs up for an account, he'd have to lie about the country he was in which would make it even harder to find him.
Why not move your company HQ on paper to a state with favorable tax laws, and have your NY employees telecomute. /oddly enough also in Colorado and doing work for a company in Tampa.
Yeah they pretty much hand you the lists
/ delimit/index.shtml
http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn
Of course some of the entries are obviously from gathered inteliigence. I recall having to block anyone called "The Chess Player" from signing up. Unfortunately most websites don't gather date of birth, and when you do name only matching you catch a lot of innocent people - who are usually mightily pissed off about having to call EVERY SINGLE SITE that they try to sign up for.
The other big caveat is what you're supposed to do when you find a match - it's virtually impossible to stop them just changing their details and signing up again.
The parent however suggested that the government was in reality only going through their own phone records. My employer doesn't know if i walk down the street and use a payphone, and neither should the government employers.
Surely if you are high enough up in the government that you want to leak information to the press without revealing your identity then you'll be smart enough to make sure that those calls don't appear on your employers phone bill.
I'll be McDonalds turns a much higher profit than the top 50 resturants in the world combined.
I seem to recall the NeoGeo really killed the SNES.
I'm pretty happy with the T-Mobile service. They have fantastic customer service and unlimited data (excluding VPN) for $5/month is a pretty sweet deal.
You have to pay extra to get VPN data on a T-Mobile US phone.
There's nothing inherently stopping you from making a fully 3d chip (existing chips already have many layers) however it's really difficult to get the heat out.
Current CPUs keep the transistors very very close to the heatsink and still struggle to keep them cool. If you had a cube shaped chip then it would be near impossible (with traditional processes).
There are some interesting projects to get miniture coolant pipes running through the chip, but that's a way off.
It'd be far easier to doctor the download so that it either disabled certificate chaining or inserted the bogus root certificate. The problem has to be one of making sure that you get the right file.
Most likely you'd have to get this download covertly from a mirror site or bit torrent (since the real site will surely be blocked) and there would be little way to know it was authentic. Sure you could download and audit the source code, but very few people will have the skills to identify if they have an original or doctored version.
It's straightforward to do MIM unless each party has some certificate authenticating the other party. As a result, the certificate in question would have to come with part of the download (unless it were spread by word of mouth).
The download has to come from a web or ftp server, so it would be trivially for the Chinese authorities to tamper with the certificate.
That way the downloaded client would connect to the firewall and see it as legitimate, and in the process incriminate its user.
If you have a nice easy to remember number then it's completely possible to remember it in one second. Plus if you are the first ad in the slot then it's likely that tivo users will not only see your whole ad but rewind it to find out what the hell you are doing.
Of course it only works for the first couple of people to try it, then it becomes old and will be ignored.
I was very impressed in scandinavia that round the main shipping/ferry routes, every crappy little rock has a tower stuck on it so that you don't drop coverage when sailing between countries.
I cant stand diet coke with Splenda, nor could my wife.
She likes her diet coke and i like coke zero both are sweetened with aspartame, though the zero also has the questionably-safter acesulfame potassium.
I'm sure it's a personal taste issue, if i put a sweetner in my coffee (and i rarely do) i prefer splenda.
Is it true that they've got enough coming back from investments to completely cover the costs of their software business?
I'm not sure if it's still true, but a few years ago it was the case that virtually all international web traffic for the entire UK academic network was funnelled through 15 or 16 cache servers.