I would have gone to watch Narnia, if I wasn't so fed up with Christianists.
There are tons of other stories that contain Hindu, Buddhist, or pagan allegories in them, which I equally disbelieve, but consider great fun to read.
Pagans, Hindus and Buddhists haven't been in the (US) news very much lately with attempts to, for example, push literal interpretations of their cult's genesis myth using a pseudoscience vector. I'm sure that they've done similar things in other fora, it's just that I haven't been exposed to that.
For that, and for much else going on lately with Christianists here in the US, my tolerance level re: their fables is wearing thin. Since mumbling/shouting "Bullshit!" in a theater is usually considered impolite, I've decided to keep that particular $9.something to myself instead.
Squeezebox v1 with the graphic display upgrade, and SlimServer 6.2.1 on a Debian sid box with vorbis-tools installed. Ogg tracks play just fine, and I haven't really messed with transcoding options on the server. It Just Worked.
CNet published a story about this. Their original story also mentioned that first4internet worked "closely" with Symantec and others. Interesting how this has been removed from the current version of the article, without any notes re: changes.
I'm not paying for "telephone" minutes per se, haven't done so for quite a while. My $53/month naked DSL bill pays for my SIP calls, thankyoumerymuch.
I also pay for (relatively) scarce radio spectrum through my mobile phone bill, and *that* is metered. It doesn't have to be:
My mobile provider offers "free" in-network calls, so if I was so inclined, with a second mobile permanently tethered to my home setup I could have a $0.00/minute gateway from my (other) mobile, wherever I am as long as I'm not roaming. Modulo what happens to DTMF on the mobile-to-mobile voice call, which I haven't investagated.
Putting (leaving?) my cynical hat on, it seems that Symbian was forced by the economics of the mobile phone business to screw the handset owners in order to keep the network operators happy:
Platform security is extended in Symbian OS v9, providing control over the capabilities of applications installed on the devices. This is done to ensure the integrity of the phones and the network, while still enabling an open environment for third party applications.
and:
installation of C++ executables, including authentication of software components using digital signatures to provide a measure of confidence that applications being installed onto a Symbian OS phone are from a known reputable vendor
Their spin seems to be that if these controls are not put into place, the sky will fall on the smartphone world as angry users who installed crapware/malware on their phones will annoy the crap out of the network operators' support lines, and other assorted Bad Things will happen. You know, like it happened with PCs.
Me, I just follow the money and I know what to expect: You wanna play? You pays your dues to enter Mr Telco's walled garden.
If you're a P990 (or other Symbian 9 device) owner, you don't get to decide what to install/run. Mr Telco does. For Your Own Good, of course.
The reason they have "overhead" is that they use the (limited) control (signaling) channel. I understand SMS was added to the GSM standard late-ish in the design process.
If you're feeling masochistic, have a look at the spec here.
You took the words from my mouth. I only regret that Lumetta isn't sharing what he's smoking:
These ads could easily be targeted by the information given by the user upon registering for the service - imagine the awesome potential this could have for ad revenues.
Yeah, don't cream your pants just yet.
There will of course be an option to pay a small periodic fee to get rid of these ads for users that want a pure experience (consider the amount of people currently paying mucho bucks for cellular service). But for the vast majority these minor ads are a small price to pay for the service provided to them.
Yeah, I'd like to see you selling that to people used to free WiFi-VoIP in their offices and homes and many coffee shops and similar establishments. Woo-fucking-hoo.
Bitpushers of the world: Prepare to be commoditized. Bitches.
Although telcos, in the US and elsewhere, suck royal dick 24/7, having the recipient pay for incoming calls turns out to have advantages, rooted in the fact that it liberates you from the real telco {mono|oligo}poly: The PSTN numbering cartel.
Consider something like UMA, only turned inside-out: Instead of making your mobile number your "public" number, you use your SIP/IAX endpoint for that instead. Since a lot of your customers/friends/colleagues etc still use the PSTN, you give it a nice PSTN proxy through a VoIP operator that supports this.
When you're out of the house/office your SIP endpoint is forwarded to your mobile number. You can do that for zero incremental cost - to the original caller - in the US because you'll be paying the termination fees through your incoming airtime.
Add the advent of WiFi-capable mobiles and the proliferation of free hotspots in the places you're likely to use your mobile (home-work-starbucks-mall) and you have a very juicy, extremely low barrier-to-entry lever over the mobile operators.
In the rest of the world this would not be possible because the initiator of the mobile leg of the call (your asterisk box/subscription service) will have to pay the high (captive market, fun fun fun!) termination fees the mobile operator charges. This is where not paying for incoming airtime works against you: Cost is not the only problem here; the major problem is that this makes you have to buy [or subscribe to someone who buys] into the PSTN numbering cartel in order to get a number with a high enough termination "cushion" to cover the cost. The barrier to entry has been somewhat safely defended...
Of course, in the US and elsewhere, the operators are going to do everything they can to stop all this from happening. Some of it may even be meaningful, like offering decent UMA rates (don't hold your breath, this sounds too much like competition). When WiFi mobiles get introduced in the US I expect to get a laugh from their T&Cs and general brain-dead-ness when they try to both sell and cripple WiFi at the same time:-)
I worked at tibco, but not in the messaging side of engineering - it's only a smallish part of what they do. Here's what I remember, modulo time and lack of coffee:
- NASDAQ uses tibrv (formerly Rendezvous). This featured a lot in tibco's pitch about reliability/scalability etc. NYSE, I *think*, uses MQ Series.
- Rendezvous used to only run over IP broadcast, with software "router" daemons for crossing subnets. This has not been required for years now - remember, the history of Rendezvous stretches back to the late 80s.
- The/a key choking point for tibrv-over-multicast is (hardware) router multicast group table space.
First4Internet messing with network drivers too?
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Messing with CDROM drivers is scummy enough, but could they be messing with network drivers too?
A pass-through NDIS driver would make a grat tool for spying on, oh, say, p2p traffic?
Dissidents not only want to remain anonymous themselves, but also wish to not compromise the sites they access.
and:
Any suggestions for products/procedures/systems out there making anonymous access & publishing a reality under repressive regime run Internet access?
How do you want to publish if you also want the sites to remain anonymous? Granted, Tor can support anonymous web sites, but if you can get collaborators in free(er) regimes to host the sites for you and communicate securely/anonymously with them, you only have to solve the (somewhat) simpler problem of secure, anonymous one-way communication from you to them.
Unless of course you're asking about how to communicate between yourselves securely, which is different from publishing...
Buy some Adobe stock. When is their next AGM? Does anyone know how much stock you have to hold before you can make yourself heard as a stockholder in one of their meetings? "Mr CEO, are we defrauding our customers? Could this result in liability for the Company?" If the BS in this "product" is as described in other postings, maybe some of Adobe's board members should be informed about this in a manner that doesn't leave room for plausible deniability (registered letter?)
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Won't this reduce the life of the flash memory in the card?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=christianist& btnG=Google+Search
Pagans, Hindus and Buddhists haven't been in the (US) news very much lately with attempts to, for example, push literal interpretations of their cult's genesis myth using a pseudoscience vector. I'm sure that they've done similar things in other fora, it's just that I haven't been exposed to that.
For that, and for much else going on lately with Christianists here in the US, my tolerance level re: their fables is wearing thin. Since mumbling/shouting "Bullshit!" in a theater is usually considered impolite, I've decided to keep that particular $9.something to myself instead.
Squeezebox v1 with the graphic display upgrade, and SlimServer 6.2.1 on a Debian sid box with vorbis-tools installed. Ogg tracks play just fine, and I haven't really messed with transcoding options on the server. It Just Worked.
Yes they should. They want the service, they pay for it. Lots of places to buy it from, too.
Other than that, stay the fuck away from my wallet, leech.
How many ringtones do you expect the average ringtone-happy user to have active at the same time?
What is that number if these are ringtones you have to *rent* (you can only rent, not buy, many rigntones).
Whatever the DRM on iTunes and such, at least you do get to keep the track for "ever".
So:
ringtones: Instant Gratification for disposable fashion items
music tracks: A collection of long-lived "goods"
Still think $2.50 is a good idea?
CNet published a story about this.
Their original story also mentioned that first4internet worked "closely" with Symantec and others.
Interesting how this has been removed from the current version of the article, without any notes re: changes.
I'm not paying for "telephone" minutes per se, haven't done so for quite a while. My $53/month naked DSL bill pays for my SIP calls, thankyoumerymuch.
I also pay for (relatively) scarce radio spectrum through my mobile phone bill, and *that* is metered. It doesn't have to be:
My mobile provider offers "free" in-network calls, so if I was so inclined, with a second mobile permanently tethered to my home setup I could have a $0.00/minute gateway from my (other) mobile, wherever I am as long as I'm not roaming. Modulo what happens to DTMF on the mobile-to-mobile voice call, which I haven't investagated.
Have you paid me now? Good!
I think the US govt should let the UN/EU take over the DNS roots.
At the same time, fund an open-source library which uses distributed, PKI-verified p2p to keep host names up to date between huge numbers of hosts.
Finally, they should have ICANN publish a root certificate, and start issuing/delegating domain assignments under it.
and:
Their spin seems to be that if these controls are not put into place, the sky will fall on the smartphone world as angry users who installed crapware/malware on their phones will annoy the crap out of the network operators' support lines, and other assorted Bad Things will happen. You know, like it happened with PCs.
Me, I just follow the money and I know what to expect: You wanna play? You pays your dues to enter Mr Telco's walled garden.
If you're a P990 (or other Symbian 9 device) owner, you don't get to decide what to install/run. Mr Telco does. For Your Own Good, of course.
Anyone want to take a bet which way it'll go?
The reason they have "overhead" is that they use the (limited) control (signaling) channel. I understand SMS was added to the GSM standard late-ish in the design process.
If you're feeling masochistic, have a look at the spec here.
Yeah, don't cream your pants just yet.
Yeah, I'd like to see you selling that to people used to free WiFi-VoIP in their offices and homes and many coffee shops and similar establishments. Woo-fucking-hoo.
Bitpushers of the world: Prepare to be commoditized. Bitches.
You're selling optional luxury, not bread.
Take a look at this $20 bill. It's part of my disposable income. This is as close as you're getting to it.
Dude! You didn't [threaten to] sue her ass for opening your mail? Isn't that a federal offence?
While I never experienced anything like Damien Katz mentions, I have pretty much the same reaction when it comes to Vonage. Fuck'em.
The $10 disconnect fee in particular makes them the used-car dealers of VoIP.
I did have the pleasure of calling their 800 number to cancel using pulver's Free World Dialup, hehe.
D.
Off-topic, and very slightly tongue-in-cheek:
:-)
Although telcos, in the US and elsewhere, suck royal dick 24/7, having the recipient pay for incoming calls turns out to have advantages, rooted in the fact that it liberates you from the real telco {mono|oligo}poly: The PSTN numbering cartel.
Consider something like UMA, only turned inside-out: Instead of making your mobile number your "public" number, you use your SIP/IAX endpoint for that instead. Since a lot of your customers/friends/colleagues etc still use the PSTN, you give it a nice PSTN proxy through a VoIP operator that supports this.
When you're out of the house/office your SIP endpoint is forwarded to your mobile number. You can do that for zero incremental cost - to the original caller - in the US because you'll be paying the termination fees through your incoming airtime.
Add the advent of WiFi-capable mobiles and the proliferation of free hotspots in the places you're likely to use your mobile (home-work-starbucks-mall) and you have a very juicy, extremely low barrier-to-entry lever over the mobile operators.
In the rest of the world this would not be possible because the initiator of the mobile leg of the call (your asterisk box/subscription service) will have to pay the high (captive market, fun fun fun!) termination fees the mobile operator charges. This is where not paying for incoming airtime works against you: Cost is not the only problem here; the major problem is that this makes you have to buy [or subscribe to someone who buys] into the PSTN numbering cartel in order to get a number with a high enough termination "cushion" to cover the cost. The barrier to entry has been somewhat safely defended...
Of course, in the US and elsewhere, the operators are going to do everything they can to stop all this from happening. Some of it may even be meaningful, like offering decent UMA rates (don't hold your breath, this sounds too much like competition). When WiFi mobiles get introduced in the US I expect to get a laugh from their T&Cs and general brain-dead-ness when they try to both sell and cripple WiFi at the same time
I worked at tibco, but not in the messaging side of engineering - it's only a smallish part of what they do. Here's what I remember, modulo time and lack of coffee:
- NASDAQ uses tibrv (formerly Rendezvous). This featured a lot in tibco's pitch about reliability/scalability etc. NYSE, I *think*, uses MQ Series.
- Rendezvous used to only run over IP broadcast, with software "router" daemons for crossing subnets. This has not been required for years now - remember, the history of Rendezvous stretches back to the late 80s.
- The/a key choking point for tibrv-over-multicast is (hardware) router multicast group table space.
Messing with CDROM drivers is scummy enough, but could they be messing with network drivers too?
A pass-through NDIS driver would make a grat tool for spying on, oh, say, p2p traffic?
and:
How do you want to publish if you also want the sites to remain anonymous? Granted, Tor can support anonymous web sites, but if you can get collaborators in free(er) regimes to host the sites for you and communicate securely/anonymously with them, you only have to solve the (somewhat) simpler problem of secure, anonymous one-way communication from you to them.
Unless of course you're asking about how to communicate between yourselves securely, which is different from publishing...
What about Speakeasy's OneLink?
Since this does (re)activate the copper to your house, does it mean that you also get the mandated E911 service on it?
You want GNU Radio.
GNU Radio
Buy some Adobe stock. When is their next AGM? Does anyone know how much stock you have to hold before you can make yourself heard as a stockholder in one of their meetings? "Mr CEO, are we defrauding our customers? Could this result in liability for the Company?" If the BS in this "product" is as described in other postings, maybe some of Adobe's board members should be informed about this in a manner that doesn't leave room for plausible deniability (registered letter?)
Keynote Systems has a service which should catch something like this. Doesn't look too pricey either...