I have wondered what would it take to start a community cable service, which provides basic HD (OTA reception is bad) and basic cable. Internet service offloaded in bulk to a competing ISP. Has any one any experience in such project, any links on how one can achieve this ?
Yeah forget it.
1. The space on the lines is taken by the companies in the first place. 2. If you are looking at going head to head with a large cable company you are insane. They can will and have almost given out their services to drive out a competitor. And the moment you go bust up go the prices again. 3. The content providers have a lot more controll over what tier you put them on then you do. Don't want to make your customers all buy the golf channel they can just not sign with you. And none of your customers have the golf channels. Same for the sports channels. (You are going to hit the floor when you see what the sports channels are chargeing you per customer.) 4. Your basic infrastructure (cable lines) has a expected life span of 10 years or so. 5. Good luck gettting peering agrements.
Why exactly did you want to start a cable company again?
I'm confused... I thought that the official Slashdot Group Think said that Vista was a failure? What am I supposed to believe: facts, or Slashdot FUD? Decisions, decisions...
Give it a break.... A How many of the Licenses are auto sold to big business that HAVE to buy it because they signed the contract for two years with Microsoft ? B How many are estimated sales? C I would NEVER put it past M$ to lie or put more politely stretch the truth.
And since I am at it what crack head modded up flame bait as Insightful?
Fallacy. The value of any sort of test or alarm depends on its positive predictive value; that is, the probability that when the alarm is raised, it is for cause. Paranoid judgments have essentially 0 predictive value. They are harmful because they divert resources from efforts with higher predictive value, and due to the direct undesirable consequences of responding to false alarms.
It is a frigging JOKE Einstein...... As a matter of fact I was quoting George Carlin. Also since the subtleties of the emoticon have seemingly escaped your grasp the semi or colon followed by a bracket indicate that the person is making a joke so even the humor impaired that read the text can understand.
Note to mods there is a differance bewteen flamebait and flaming. If you can't tell the differance don't moderate.
TFA says that the chapel is in Scotland. Geography lesson: Scotland != USA. The DMCA does not apply to the free world i.e. non-US countries such as Scotland.
Not only is this well known it has already been dealt with. There are sprays and smokes to take care of the issue. There are also two breeds of bee now that are naturally resistant to the fungus. This whole The bees are dieing thing reminds me of the whole Y2K thing. However on the other had I am getting top dollar for putting my bees into other peoples fields this year.:)
I will error on the side of the least risk. You are of course free to do as you wish. And judging the demographics people tend to agree with me. The flight from crime prone areas to less crime prone areas speaks worlds.
You do understand that to live is to risk right? The world will never be "SAFE" for everyone. No country is absolutely safe and it is unreasonable to expect one to be.
With the greatest respect considering the current situation, one thing the UK doesn't seem to see a lot of, that we're sadly seeing a lot on our TV over here happening in the US, is a maniac walking into a school, college, or Uni, and shooting a lot of people...
One incident one day. Hardly compelling numbers.
In fact you are more likely to be killed by a doctor then a gun in the US. "accidental deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in America reached 120,000 per year. Meanwhile, gun deaths have dropped 35 percent. In fact, accidental gun deaths dropped to 1,500 last year. Think about it. " Source CDC Also see the above reply about OVERALL crime rates between our two nations. You are safer in the US.
This is nonsense. Point me to a recent enforcement of gun control that has resulted in increase crime. Note: Iraq does not count (for various, I hope, obvious reasons).
I did notice the reference to ENGLAND? I again referred to it in the latter part of my post. What gun laws has England enacted recently? Since they banned firearms their crime rates have jumped significantly.
I am from England, although presently living in Scotland.
Irrelevant and besides the point.
As I replied to an earlier poster the point is not that removing guns makes it impossible for >nutters to cause harm, but rather that it makes it harder for them to do so. Of course it would be >possible to cause (less) harm with a bat or an SUV,
BWahahahaha Ummmm NO in fact MDs that have to deal with the victims have stated that it is easier to treat people that have been shot then beaten with bats. And you are saying that a truck hitting someone would harm them less then a gunshot? You need to read up on a guy named Newton he wrote some laws on physics.....
just as it's always been possible to cause harm with clenched fists.
You are making my point for me.
Quoting the number of gun laws does nothing to prove or disprove your argument without reference to the content or enforcement of those laws.
Yes it does, if someone is willing to kill why would they worry about buying a black market handgun? It is not logical to assume that someone that is bent on murder would say 'Boy I can't shoot up a school because it is not legal to but a gun', now is it? THAT IS THE POINT criminals tend to break laws. How are more laws going to do anything?
Actually they want to ban carrying of knives in public (with various exclusions), check your sources.
I did, now if you want to get lippy we can, or we can keep it civil. I will leave that up to you. They have actually in my site put forward proposals to ban "combat knives". And the point you are attempting to dance around is that the bans don't work. If they did the violence would go away like the gun ban happy people have been promising for years now. What happened? What is next after knives? It does not and never will work.
Requires intelligence, planning & preparation. Excludes impulsive crimes / crimes of passion, reducing deaths. The application and wording of the particular law has it's flaws and I'd be happy to discuss that with you outside an attempt to back up a separate, largely unrelated, argument.
Completely relevant, the people promised that it would bring safety and a reduction in violent crime and it has not. In fact it has done the opposite. I could not care less about the application or the wording as I don't have to live under it. My point is simple people were promised safety if they were willing to give up "just a little freedom". They got and deserved neither.
Care to provide statistics? I will. Crime is actually falling in the UK. Violent crime was also much higher in the 1990s than present day.
Ok you are on. Lets look at your source and how it shoots that in the foot
The public's reporting of crime varies considerably by type of offence. Thefts of vehicles are most likely to be reported (94%), followed by burglaries in which something was stolen (81%). Reporting rates are relatively low for crimes such as common assault, theft from the person and vandalism (35%, 33% and 31% in 2005/06).
So your own sources state that the crimes in question are not being reported in shocking numbers. so the actual numbers are roughly three times higher they their own numbers. That leads me on to my next point According to
Quite. Except the lack of gun control makes it far easier to cause a large amount of damage
Wrong in places that gun controls true believers have won they see skyrocketing crime. Ask England, it is the people that are determined to commit the crimes not what ever they use to commit them. Note that criminals by definition do not follow the laws can you explain how yet another gun law is going to keep them from doing it? When they are what?...11k+ gun laws on the books that haven't stopped them? If a gun is not handy they use a bat or explosives or they drive their SUBs into crowds.
Again England is a nice example, they have banned guns and now feel the need to ban knives to protect people. That is right it is not a joke they really want to ban knives. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/8021 That's right they want to ban knives. Something that you can make with a grinder and a few minutes. Because they will protect people by banning them. And even though the evil guns are gone their crime rate is still going up.
How about taking just a little responsibility here people?
That is probibly because your cheap speakers were the problem. If you are in life anything like you are in the above post it is no wonder your not getting any help. He is not at fault here you are. That is why you are getting ignored by the FCC. In an effort to help you have two options. Get better speaker wires (use shielded ones) or keep gripeing about it when the law and the government agency that over sees the issue has repeatedly said you are wrong.
Note to everyone else. If approched in a friendly manner most hams will go over the top to help someone that their transmittions are affecting. I personally have bought bandpass filters and installed them for people around me that could hear me broadcast.
Nobody says here that there exist anti-stealth technologies on going which could eventually make all the stealthy worth nothing.
Right as of yet no one has figured out a way to beat stealth. When they do the bar will be raised. Until then the F22 is invisible to radar. And as far as a missile failing fine the pilot of the F-22 just slides in below and behind and hits with a simple AIM-9 from it optimum position. Kill ratio 90% or better when fired like this. And even if by some chance it misses or fails you have enough time for a follow up shot before retreating out of LOS to take another shot. Not sure on how many 90% or better shots you are trying to say MIGHT miss. As of right now on one can beat stealth and you can't hit what you can't see. It really is that simple.
"But it's the lack of respect from people like you that turn cops into corrupt assholes."
Justification something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution" a statement in explanation of some action or belief the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
Is it just me or is going after servers that people expect up to 3 business days to update not the best way to go? You would have to sustain the attack for a long time for the average joe to notice. Not that I am complaining, one less bot net to worry about. Good thing that they apparently never heard of routers though.
So, if the tracker port number changes and the client port number changes, how is it being blocked?
Thats easy as pie. They put a clause about you not being able to offer services to the Internet in the AUP then look to see who had the most upload traffic over the last month and look into their connection a little closer then normal. You fire up a bittorrent client and start sending out files and come home to find your net connection cut.
Dude, get up on the wrong side of the internet this morning?
Bwahahahah That is a good one. Classy responce even if you wasted it on an AC troll. BTW The parent poster is probably 12 and skipping school I did not see any facts, just flames.
In my opinion it is just vaporware for now. I would have to see exactly how much moisture they would extract under what humidity conditions before I would think about it as a viable technology let alone a problem for the environment. But thats just me.
"All that said, yes, Kyoto is not going to deal with the problem. However, given that we have enough poeple, such as yourself, who refuse to acknowledge the extent of the climate change problem, I hardly expect that an international treaty which includes more strict emmission curtails will ever come into being"
Ok I am going to wade in here. The latest tactic I have seen is people pretending that all discussion is over on this issue. It is not even close to an agreement. Now climate change is a fact anyone that looks at the facts of the matter will agree that the climate swings even radically at times. The example I like to use to illustrate this is the T-Rex. Show of hands from the people that believe that the T-Rex was stomping around in snow? Right it sucks to be cold blooded. I *think* most paleontologists agree they lived in a tropical climate. The first response I hear is usually that the continents are drifting and the T-Rex existed when Montana and South Dakota were far further south. I would invite you to go to UCLA Berkley's quick time movie showing the drift of the continents over the last 750 million years. It shows the position of North America 65 Million years ago. It was at the roughly the same latitude as it is now but further east from its current position. So unless you think that the Dinosaurs lived in snow you can not logically state that the climate does not change all the time and can change wildly. Then the entire matter comes down to how much effect if any man is having on the climate.
Wrong Many cable compaines have COPYRIGHTED their set top box design. Make the design differant enough to not be compatable and refuse to allow anyone to produce them. Net sum 0
Don't get rid of your compainies set top box yet. I know what the intent was but the effect will be little to nothing.
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I have wondered what would it take to start a community cable service, which provides basic HD (OTA reception is bad) and basic cable. Internet service offloaded in bulk to a competing ISP. Has any one any experience in such project, any links on how one can achieve this ?
Yeah forget it.
1. The space on the lines is taken by the companies in the first place.
2. If you are looking at going head to head with a large cable company you are insane.
They can will and have almost given out their services to drive out a competitor. And the moment you go bust up go the prices again.
3. The content providers have a lot more controll over what tier you put them on then you do.
Don't want to make your customers all buy the golf channel they can just not sign with you.
And none of your customers have the golf channels. Same for the sports channels. (You are going to hit the floor when you see what the sports channels are chargeing you per customer.)
4. Your basic infrastructure (cable lines) has a expected life span of 10 years or so.
5. Good luck gettting peering agrements.
Why exactly did you want to start a cable company again?
Gee I might a lighting rod.
I'm confused... I thought that the official Slashdot Group Think said that Vista was a failure? What am I supposed to believe: facts, or Slashdot FUD? Decisions, decisions...
....
Give it a break
A How many of the Licenses are auto sold to big business that HAVE to buy it because they signed the contract for two years with Microsoft ?
B How many are estimated sales?
C I would NEVER put it past M$ to lie or put more politely stretch the truth.
And since I am at it what crack head modded up flame bait as Insightful?
Fallacy. The value of any sort of test or alarm depends on its positive predictive value; that is, the probability that when the alarm is raised, it is for cause. Paranoid judgments have essentially 0 predictive value. They are harmful because they divert resources from efforts with higher predictive value, and due to the direct undesirable consequences of responding to false alarms.
It is a frigging JOKE Einstein......
As a matter of fact I was quoting George Carlin.
Also since the subtleties of the emoticon have seemingly escaped your grasp the semi or colon followed by a bracket indicate that the person is making a joke so even the humor impaired that read the text can understand.
Note to mods there is a differance bewteen flamebait and flaming. If you can't tell the differance don't moderate.
"Kind of expected in a state of overly paranoid affairs. Paranoia is where rationality gets thrown out of the window."
:)
Yeah but the great thing about paranoia is you only have to be right once for it to all be worth while.
TFA says that the chapel is in Scotland. Geography lesson: Scotland != USA. The DMCA does not apply to the free world i.e. non-US countries such as Scotland.
Tell that to Canada,,,, serouisly.
OK as an apiculturist MOD THIS GUY UP!!!
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Not only is this well known it has already been dealt with.
There are sprays and smokes to take care of the issue.
There are also two breeds of bee now that are naturally resistant to the fungus.
This whole The bees are dieing thing reminds me of the whole Y2K thing.
However on the other had I am getting top dollar for putting my bees into other peoples fields this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_the_hone
or
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/Bee_Diseases/AFB.h
I will error on the side of the least risk.
You are of course free to do as you wish.
And judging the demographics people tend to agree with me. The flight from crime prone areas to less crime prone areas speaks worlds.
You do understand that to live is to risk right?
The world will never be "SAFE" for everyone. No country is absolutely safe and it is unreasonable to expect one to be.
With the greatest respect considering the current situation, one thing the UK doesn't seem to see a lot of, that we're sadly seeing a lot on our TV over here happening in the US, is a maniac walking into a school, college, or Uni, and shooting a lot of people...
One incident one day.
Hardly compelling numbers.
In fact you are more likely to be killed by a doctor then a gun in the US.
"accidental deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in America reached 120,000 per year. Meanwhile, gun deaths have dropped 35 percent. In fact, accidental gun deaths dropped to 1,500 last year.
Think about it. "
Source CDC
Also see the above reply about OVERALL crime rates between our two nations.
You are safer in the US.
With all due respect.
I did notice the reference to ENGLAND? I again referred to it in the latter part of my post. What gun laws has England enacted recently? Since they banned firearms their crime rates have jumped significantly.
Irrelevant and besides the point.
BWahahahaha Ummmm NO in fact MDs that have to deal with the victims have stated that it is easier to treat people that have been shot then beaten with bats. And you are saying that a truck hitting someone would harm them less then a gunshot?
You need to read up on a guy named Newton he wrote some laws on physics.....
You are making my point for me.
Yes it does, if someone is willing to kill why would they worry about buying a black market handgun? It is not logical to assume that someone that is bent on murder would say 'Boy I can't shoot up a school because it is not legal to but a gun', now is it? THAT IS THE POINT criminals tend to break laws. How are more laws going to do anything?
I did, now if you want to get lippy we can, or we can keep it civil. I will leave that up to you.
They have actually in my site put forward proposals to ban "combat knives". And the point you are attempting to dance around is that the bans don't work. If they did the violence would go away like the gun ban happy people have been promising for years now. What happened?
What is next after knives? It does not and never will work.
Completely relevant, the people promised that it would bring safety and a reduction in violent crime and it has not. In fact it has done the opposite. I could not care less about the application or the wording as I don't have to live under it. My point is simple people were promised safety if they were willing to give up "just a little freedom". They got and deserved neither.
Ok you are on. Lets look at your source and how it shoots that in the foot
So your own sources state that the crimes in question are not being reported in shocking numbers.
so the actual numbers are roughly three times higher they their own numbers.
That leads me on to my next point
According to
Quite. Except the lack of gun control makes it far easier to cause a large amount of damage
...11k+ gun laws on the books that haven't stopped them?
Wrong in places that gun controls true believers have won they see skyrocketing crime.
Ask England, it is the people that are determined to commit the crimes not what ever they use to commit them. Note that criminals by definition do not follow the laws can you explain how yet another gun law is going to keep them from doing it? When they are what?
If a gun is not handy they use a bat or explosives or they drive their SUBs into crowds.
Again England is a nice example, they have banned guns and now feel the need to ban knives to protect people. That is right it is not a joke they really want to ban knives.
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/8021
That's right they want to ban knives. Something that you can make with a grinder and a few minutes. Because they will protect people by banning them.
And even though the evil guns are gone their crime rate is still going up.
How about taking just a little responsibility here people?
That is probibly because your cheap speakers were the problem.
If you are in life anything like you are in the above post it is no wonder your not getting any help.
He is not at fault here you are. That is why you are getting ignored by the FCC.
In an effort to help you have two options. Get better speaker wires (use shielded ones) or keep gripeing about it when the law and the government agency that over sees the issue has repeatedly said you are wrong.
Note to everyone else. If approched in a friendly manner most hams will go over the top to help someone that their transmittions are affecting. I personally have bought bandpass filters and installed them for people around me that could hear me broadcast.
Nobody says here that there exist anti-stealth technologies on going which could eventually make all the stealthy worth nothing.
Right as of yet no one has figured out a way to beat stealth.
When they do the bar will be raised.
Until then the F22 is invisible to radar.
And as far as a missile failing fine the pilot of the F-22 just slides in below and behind and hits with a simple AIM-9 from it optimum position.
Kill ratio 90% or better when fired like this.
And even if by some chance it misses or fails you have enough time for a follow up shot before retreating out of LOS to take another shot. Not sure on how many 90% or better shots you are trying to say MIGHT miss.
As of right now on one can beat stealth and you can't hit what you can't see.
It really is that simple.
"But it's the lack of respect from people like you that turn cops into corrupt assholes."
Justification something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"
a statement in explanation of some action or belief
the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
As an American is it too late to hope that the Canadian government will extend the finger to the south?
Is it just me or is going after servers that people expect up to 3 business days to update not the best way to go? You would have to sustain the attack for a long time for the average joe to notice.
Not that I am complaining, one less bot net to worry about.
Good thing that they apparently never heard of routers though.
Yep, plenty of room to build a moat.
A moat would be a waste of valuable land.
6 Huge mutts do the trick nicely.
There is some good in having a 3/4 mile driveway :)
I just have to remember that when it snows...
So, if the tracker port number changes and the client port number changes, how is it being blocked?
Thats easy as pie. They put a clause about you not being able to offer services to the Internet in the AUP then look to see who had the most upload traffic over the last month and look into their connection a little closer then normal. You fire up a bittorrent client and start sending out files and come home to find your net connection cut.
Dude, get up on the wrong side of the internet this morning?
Bwahahahah That is a good one.
Classy responce even if you wasted it on an AC troll.
BTW The parent poster is probably 12 and skipping school I did not see any facts, just flames.
In my opinion it is just vaporware for now. I would have to see exactly how much moisture they would extract under what humidity conditions before I would think about it as a viable technology let alone a problem for the environment.
But thats just me.
That's a problem that's easy to solve. From now on, every navy fleet travels with a super tanker filled to the brim with KY lube.
What do you mean FROM NOW ON ?
"All that said, yes, Kyoto is not going to deal with the problem. However, given that we have enough poeple, such as yourself, who refuse to acknowledge the extent of the climate change problem, I hardly expect that an international treaty which includes more strict emmission curtails will ever come into being"
Ok I am going to wade in here.
The latest tactic I have seen is people pretending that all discussion is over on this issue.
It is not even close to an agreement. Now climate change is a fact anyone that looks at the facts of the matter will agree that the climate swings even radically at times. The example I like to use to illustrate this is the T-Rex. Show of hands from the people that believe that the T-Rex was stomping around in snow?
Right it sucks to be cold blooded. I *think* most paleontologists agree they lived in a tropical climate.
The first response I hear is usually that the continents are drifting and the T-Rex existed when Montana and South Dakota were far further south. I would invite you to go to UCLA Berkley's quick time movie showing the drift of the continents over the last 750 million years. It shows the position of North America 65 Million years ago. It was at the roughly the same latitude as it is now but further east from its current position.
So unless you think that the Dinosaurs lived in snow you can not logically state that the climate does not change all the time and can change wildly. Then the entire matter comes down to how much effect if any man is having on the climate.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html
9 out of 10 Bears polled say
"Crunchy on the outside gooey on the inside......."
Wrong
Many cable compaines have COPYRIGHTED their set top box design.
Make the design differant enough to not be compatable and refuse to
allow anyone to produce them.
Net sum 0
Don't get rid of your compainies set top box yet.
I know what the intent was but the effect will be little to nothing.
Those coal plants being built in China are going to be built Kyoto or no Kyoto.
Correct and that is exactly why Kyoto is worthless.