My VoIP bill so far has been about $5 for 16 months of service - after I dropped the scumbags at Vonage with their $10 disconnection fee.
So in May 2005, I pre-paid $10 for a teliax account that I use for the type of calls that would eat into my included cell airtime - calls to 800 customer service numbers which involve long wait times. I still have about $5 left, even though I've made quite a few calls.
I also make many long international calls using voiptalk. Excellent sound quality, barely appreciable lag, $nothing/minute, $nothing/month, $nothing/ever.
I've lowered my conventional-telco costs down to $6/month - the fee Qwest extorts for my Speakeasy naked DSL circuit. I look forward to dropping that to zero when fixed wireless becomes feasible.
It's somewhat "relevant" because in recent years, most prominent "conservatives" have been caught practicing bait-and-switch. This includes, for example, the "conservative" POTUS on whose watch the US went bankrupt (it didn't start with him, but he made it much worse). True conservatives take fiscal responsibility seriously. Another example are those "conservatives" who, in order to OMG SAVE THE CHILDREN! try to pass laws that will socialize the cost - monetary and indirect, such as loss of useful speech - of policing their families' Internet connections, instead of exercising this personal responsibility thing they keep yapping about.
I'm not defending liberals either: it just seems that their particular bait-and-switch hypocrisy is more obvious, probably because they had been on top till Reagan or so, and got less sharp. Now it's the c-camp's turn.
So, how is all this relevant? Simply, at present, "conservative" is used as a marker for "probably a lying self-serving bastard" by an increasing number of people.
There is in fact no built-in WiFi on the GreenPhone, although it has a SD card slot so an add-on card is a possibility. The linuxdevices article was corrected for that, and the discussion on/. also addressed it.
I'm holding out for a wifi-enabled version of the trolltech phone. Give me that, and Asterisk, and the glorified bitpushers also known as wireless operators can kiss my ass.
SIP for the vast majority of the traffic, and a pay-as-you-go SIM for E911 and occasional in-the-middle-of-nowhere use. Oh, and push email done right, without getting RIMmed with patent troll taxes.
Belief in a supernatural being that created you and the rest of the world and now runs it is, without doubt, a species of mental illness.
Meanwhile, people who disagree are saying that you, 'without doubt', are wrong. Calling them mentally ill, or any other insults does not strengthen your case. It just lowers the quality of the discussion.
Why are they mentally ill?
People who refuse to apply Occam's razor in favor of their literal interpretation of the bible, complete with an invisible bearded man in the sky, seem to me to fit some definition of mental illness.
Disclaimer: Xen hacker, personal opinion:-) Didn't think it was necessary to mention but what the heck:-)
Disclaimer: Just a virtualization user (currently VMware, Linux host with Windows guests), offering some feedback and requesting some enlightenment.
The problem with VMI is that it hides the hypervisor interface from the guest.
By "guest" here, do you mean the particular hypervisor instance (e.g. VMware or Xen) or the guest OS? If it's the OS, I very much want it oblivious to the fact that there's virtualization going on. This would be very very high on my priorities when deciding on which virtualization solution to use.
I'm going to start off with saying that I simply think you're an idiot. The UN is not distrusted in Europe. Giving the complexity of many situations, it has done an admirable job in difficult circumstances. The people serving in UN-peacekeeping missions have nothing but good to say about them.
I know people who had relatives in Srebrenica, and I also know at least one person who was helping the Serbs rape/kill there. Wanna tell them again who's the idiot?
I'm far more likely to support my farmers by going to the local Farmer's Market.
The nuclear generation industry sends its regards, together with the coal folks. Various worldwide petro- (and natural_gas-) dictators are indirectly saying thanks to you too.
But you stuck it to the plutocrats and that's what matters.
Direct Revenue Customer Funds Misallocation Screen Saver
Basically, a virtual-machine-like sandbox that runs a DR-infected IE "clicking" on ads popped up as the "user" (networked spider/p2p agent) "browses" around, comparing notes with other agents and causing view and click fees to be charged to the asshat corps that pay DR for ads.
You can even choose to participate in specific campaigns: "Hey folks, we're 'doing' Vonage this week!".
Then you can also compile nice tables to show the same asshats how much of their ad budget was pissed away in this fashion.
How is it any different than trying to get people to join a religion?
If it is not, then you are certainly no better than those people (who I assume you do not view in a positive light).
The GP made a slight mistake, he/she should have used better instead of different.
Getting people to leave [a] religion is better than getting them to join one, for the simple reason that getting someone to stop believing in omni-potent, omni-present invisible men with long beards in the sky (and other metaphysical claptrap, at least as far as the three Judeo-derived sectsare concerned) is a self-evident Good Thing.
Said it before, will say it again. The way airtime is charged in the US is *great*. It enables you to use any number as as a proxy to the mobile number you happen to be using at the time.
Yes, there's number portability here too, but the players in it are limited (i.e. cartel).
Instead, this way the number you give out to friends/business partners can be selected from a much wider pool of providers - including VoIP/POTS gateways - and forwarded to the commodity-crack-whore-telco's network over which you have chosen have your bits shipped this minute.
How many sensors/scanners and projectors are deployed with each system?
How hard/expensive is it to manufacture decoy reflective surfaces?
Would you wear a decoy T-shirt? I would (at least one with the decoy in the back, to reduce the risk of eye exposure).
How about decoy stickers?
If this ever gets widely deployed, I'd look for cameras that come with ad-hoc wireless networking included, and capabilities for synchronized exposure of the CCD (for the decoys in the group) combined with the "actives" actually taking pictures and sharing them over the wireless net. Good, clean optical coutermeasure fun!
I've had Speakeasy for >1 year now, using their naked DSL (OneLink) offering. I believe that under OneLink, the local racket (Qwest) only makes $6/month. I'd like that to be zero, of course.
The service itself has been damn near perfect. Although my speed is limited due to distance from the CO, I'm more than happy paying $50ish/mo for 1024/384 DSL.
I've only had to call support a few times, and in every case the call was answered after a few rings by someone who handled everything - and could understand DNS, ping, decibels and routes.
It would seriously suck if Qwest ever pushed Speakeasy and similar providers off their wires by playing tricks with their "wholesale" rates.
If that does happen, I've promised myself I'll find a non-racket ISP (probably over WiMax or other wireless) and offer free 802.11 connectivity to as many neighbors as I can.
And, at least in the case of cable franchises, city governments have some say, non?
What's to prevent a few cities from telling the cable company/companies that hold the franchise that, although it's OK for them to apply differential service depending on whether an end user and/or a site like Amazon pays, *for their customers in the city* that cannot happen.
The billing/provisioning nightmare this opens is insane. You now have to decide whether to discriminate against Amazon packets depending on whether the other host is in San Francisco or not.
It also has some potential to drive a lobbying wedge between the telcos/ISPs that support "non-neutral" IP service, on one side, and the Ciscos and Accentures that they pay to buy and implement their fancy billing systems, on the other.
I grew up in Europe, and I remember all the communist droids running around after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc screaming "But the Soviet Union wasn't a _real_ communist system, don't knock my precioussss Communism".
Real conservatives who tolerated W before but now cry "he's not one of us, honest!" therefore sound eerily familiar.
McCain epsecially comes to mind, after sucking up to W in the 04 RNC, and the recent Lynchburg Falwell love-in.
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My VoIP bill so far has been about $5 for 16 months of service - after I dropped the scumbags at Vonage with their $10 disconnection fee.
So in May 2005, I pre-paid $10 for a teliax account that I use for the type of calls that would eat into my included cell airtime - calls to 800 customer service numbers which involve long wait times. I still have about $5 left, even though I've made quite a few calls.
I also make many long international calls using voiptalk. Excellent sound quality, barely appreciable lag, $nothing/minute, $nothing/month, $nothing/ever.
I've lowered my conventional-telco costs down to $6/month - the fee Qwest extorts for my Speakeasy naked DSL circuit. I look forward to dropping that to zero when fixed wireless becomes feasible.
Cellphone service is next.
It's somewhat "relevant" because in recent years, most prominent "conservatives" have been caught practicing bait-and-switch. This includes, for example, the "conservative" POTUS on whose watch the US went bankrupt (it didn't start with him, but he made it much worse). True conservatives take fiscal responsibility seriously. Another example are those "conservatives" who, in order to OMG SAVE THE CHILDREN! try to pass laws that will socialize the cost - monetary and indirect, such as loss of useful speech - of policing their families' Internet connections, instead of exercising this personal responsibility thing they keep yapping about.
I'm not defending liberals either: it just seems that their particular bait-and-switch hypocrisy is more obvious, probably because they had been on top till Reagan or so, and got less sharp. Now it's the c-camp's turn.
So, how is all this relevant? Simply, at present, "conservative" is used as a marker for "probably a lying self-serving bastard" by an increasing number of people.
I can't recommend them highly enough. Pick-up-after-a-few-rings, by-a-person-who-can-talk-dBs-and-DNS grade service, 24/7.
And that's on their residential product.
There is in fact no built-in WiFi on the GreenPhone, although it has a SD card slot so an add-on card is a possibility. The linuxdevices article was corrected for that, and the discussion on /. also addressed it.
I'm holding out for a wifi-enabled version of the trolltech phone. Give me that, and Asterisk, and the glorified bitpushers also known as wireless operators can kiss my ass.
SIP for the vast majority of the traffic, and a pay-as-you-go SIM for E911 and occasional in-the-middle-of-nowhere use. Oh, and push email done right, without getting RIMmed with patent troll taxes.
is find these "black boxes" and wrap/attach each to a message, in a heat/moisture resistant medium, which reads:
The whole procedure will be videotaped, and the video stored in a bank safe deposit box where all access is logged.
People who refuse to apply Occam's razor in favor of their literal interpretation of the bible, complete with an invisible bearded man in the sky, seem to me to fit some definition of mental illness.
Doesn't matter because WiFi is prevalent enough where most calls are made, as in
Or "What was that click?" - "Oh, that was Asterisk switching us over to WiFi/VoIP, I'm in the office now so it's free".
Yeah, I know, the baseband drivers/firmware/hardware won't let you so that, but it would be nice...
Disclaimer: Just a virtualization user (currently VMware, Linux host with Windows guests), offering some feedback and requesting some enlightenment.
By "guest" here, do you mean the particular hypervisor instance (e.g. VMware or Xen) or the guest OS? If it's the OS, I very much want it oblivious to the fact that there's virtualization going on. This would be very very high on my priorities when deciding on which virtualization solution to use.
I know people who had relatives in Srebrenica, and I also know at least one person who was helping the Serbs rape/kill there. Wanna tell them again who's the idiot?
The nuclear generation industry sends its regards, together with the coal folks. Various worldwide petro- (and natural_gas-) dictators are indirectly saying thanks to you too.
But you stuck it to the plutocrats and that's what matters.
I hereby propose a DRCFMSS:
Direct Revenue Customer Funds Misallocation Screen Saver
Basically, a virtual-machine-like sandbox that runs a DR-infected IE "clicking" on ads popped up as the "user" (networked spider/p2p agent) "browses" around, comparing notes with other agents and causing view and click fees to be charged to the asshat corps that pay DR for ads.
You can even choose to participate in specific campaigns: "Hey folks, we're 'doing' Vonage this week!".
Then you can also compile nice tables to show the same asshats how much of their ad budget was pissed away in this fashion.
It would be a shame if something happened to it."
*That* is the treatment they deserve.
It's called a lawsuit.
The GP made a slight mistake, he/she should have used better instead of different.
Getting people to leave [a] religion is better than getting them to join one, for the simple reason that getting someone to stop believing in omni-potent, omni-present invisible men with long beards in the sky (and other metaphysical claptrap, at least as far as the three Judeo-derived sectsare concerned) is a self-evident Good Thing.
So remember:
Helping someone become less psychotic: Good.
Helping them become more so: Bad
Like this one (Sorry, site is in Greek only), with thousands of nodes.
Said it before, will say it again. The way airtime is charged in the US is *great*. It enables you to use any number as as a proxy to the mobile number you happen to be using at the time.
Yes, there's number portability here too, but the players in it are limited (i.e. cartel).
Instead, this way the number you give out to friends/business partners can be selected from a much wider pool of providers - including VoIP/POTS gateways - and forwarded to the commodity-crack-whore-telco's network over which you have chosen have your bits shipped this minute.
Laptop keyboards make me dyslexic!
How many sensors/scanners and projectors are deployed with each system?
How hard/expensive is it to manufacture decoy reflective surfaces?
Would you wear a decoy T-shirt? I would (at least one with the decoy in the back, to reduce the risk of eye exposure).
How about decoy stickers?
If this ever gets widely deployed, I'd look for cameras that come with ad-hoc wireless networking included, and capabilities for synchronized exposure of the CCD (for the decoys in the group) combined with the "actives" actually taking pictures and sharing them over the wireless net. Good, clean optical coutermeasure fun!
I've had Speakeasy for >1 year now, using their naked DSL (OneLink) offering. I believe that under OneLink, the local racket (Qwest) only makes $6/month. I'd like that to be zero, of course.
The service itself has been damn near perfect. Although my speed is limited due to distance from the CO, I'm more than happy paying $50ish/mo for 1024/384 DSL.
I've only had to call support a few times, and in every case the call was answered after a few rings by someone who handled everything - and could understand DNS, ping, decibels and routes.
It would seriously suck if Qwest ever pushed Speakeasy and similar providers off their wires by playing tricks with their "wholesale" rates.
If that does happen, I've promised myself I'll find a non-racket ISP (probably over WiMax or other wireless) and offer free 802.11 connectivity to as many neighbors as I can.
And, at least in the case of cable franchises, city governments have some say, non?
What's to prevent a few cities from telling the cable company/companies that hold the franchise that, although it's OK for them to apply differential service depending on whether an end user and/or a site like Amazon pays, *for their customers in the city* that cannot happen.
The billing/provisioning nightmare this opens is insane. You now have to decide whether to discriminate against Amazon packets depending on whether the other host is in San Francisco or not.
It also has some potential to drive a lobbying wedge between the telcos/ISPs that support "non-neutral" IP service, on one side, and the Ciscos and Accentures that they pay to buy and implement their fancy billing systems, on the other.
I grew up in Europe, and I remember all the communist droids running around after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc screaming "But the Soviet Union wasn't a _real_ communist system, don't knock my precioussss Communism".
Real conservatives who tolerated W before but now cry "he's not one of us, honest!" therefore sound eerily familiar.
McCain epsecially comes to mind, after sucking up to W in the 04 RNC, and the recent Lynchburg Falwell love-in.
Charge extra? Wha?
William Gibson's latest about a quasi-viral-marketing scheme.