Contrary to popular believe, 4chan actually makes up a MINUTE portion of the internet. Besides, even if they DID decide to screw with the mesh, their "raids" never last more than a couple days. They may have some power behind them, but they have the attention span of goldfish.
*** Runs and hides under a table for 12 hours until 4chan forgets I said that.
Really? Just how much say do you think the kid REALLY had in his mother getting involved? That's right, let's just make the kid suffer because his mother is a complete freaking idiot.
Unfortunately this will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. Imagine when he starts going for job interviews. Something like 90% of employers check up applicants on google, facebook, twitter, etc. Seeing how much press this has already gotten, his best bet is probably to change his name or go by a pseudonym. Too bad there aren't any male alternatives to Jack...
The Matterhorn has rendered itself demonstrably wind-proof. Mount Baker and Mount Everest are likewise near impossible to take down. If the earth were to implement the proper tools, we could all have an automated way to stop wind within minutes of its start. Because no one has put the tools on the routers, we don't have the tools. Just because dirt and seismic activity have all the foresight of a deep-water fish, doesn't make the desired result impossible.
So you have no problem paying for 15Mb/s and only getting 5Mb/s? Wow...
If the lines are over-congested, the only thing that should be done is QOS to ensure the lower bitrate connections get priority. Then the people that need the extra speed can complain and get more infrastructure installed. Remember, a lot of people that download huge files have the courtesy to do so at NIGHT when traffic is low anyways. With the supplied solution, those people would get throttled at a time when their usage has almost no effect on anyone else anyways!
When UBB started, there were various organizations that had independant investigators and network consultants determine the cost/GB of an ISP. They determined it to $0.01 The ISP's are just throwing huge numbers around to scare people.
Now if only they'd treat the IPv6 issue with this much energy...
If you can locate the person they contracted it from, it's actually pretty easy to find out. Now if you work in a hospital and a patient infects you, it may become quite difficult, but if you contract HIV it is definitely a good idea to have all the people you have been in contact with tested. A) In case they have it so they can get treatment B) So that person doesn't keep spreading it.
Because it won't take long (think BEFORE the tower's are even installed) for the prisoners to figure out what is going on. Programming a cell-phone to only connect to certain towers is TRIVIAL if you know what you are doing. Guess who has enough money to pay people to re-program phones? DRUG DEALERS!
I'm pretty sure attorney-client privileges requires the attorney to identify themselves, otherwise any bloke could walk into a jail, claim to be somebody's attorney, and get a confidential conversation with them.
This just in: slang-talking, bandanna wearing attorney visits to jails up 100000%!
No, artificially throttling users who use more bandwidth than the ISP likes is not a solution. If the ISP's claims that they are running out of bandwidth were true, then geuss what? There would SLOW DOWN during the day! If 1000 users try to push 5Mb/s through a 2Gb/s connection, you simply won't get the throughput. Since nobody seems to be complaining that their internet is slowing down during the day, the ISP's are obviously lying through their teeth.
It would be like the government limiting your household to 1000Km of driving per month even though you haven't been stuck in traffic in 2 years.*
* Yes I'm aware never hitting road traffic is not common, it's just an example!
Because a user that uses 1GB/month (granny checking email) and someone that uses 250GB/month (HD streamers, torrenters, etc) don't really change how much it costs the service providers. the 250GB/month person probably only costs the ISP $5 more than the 1GB/month person, most of the cost is in getting the connection from the splitters to your house, and having those idling is just pointless. The backbone's are doing just fine and sending those GB upstream costs ISP about $0.01 (as confirmed by various independent investigators).
Well, now that it's been reversed (at least the part where Bell/etc can force the charges on Independent ISP's), you should reply to the email with "Now that the situation is being rectified by the CRTC, can I assume that these changes will no longer be taking place?".
I'd love to know what their response is. BTW, which ISP are you using?
The sad part is, 99.9% of people install the software on the CD their ISP gives them, thus giving their ISP exactly this power. I could *almost* understand if it was dialup, but these are people that connection through a modem provided by the company and even use a router in between.
From the rough calculations I've done, IPv4 is enough IP's for about 1.5 addresses per person. Now most people in the world do not have internet, but those that do usually have a computer, a smartphone, a work computer, maybe a laptop, a home router, etc. IPv6 on the other hand is about enough IP's for every person in the world to have an IP for every CELL IN THEIR BODY!
If that's not enough IP's to last us another couple millennium, the earth is going to get pretty crowded...
With the number of IPv6 numbers available, there is no long ANY excuse for ISP's to be rotating your IP anymore. They should be able to give you a subnet and let you *have* it.
If it did, they've fixed that now. I just nmap'd my dd-wrt router from both a wireless sytem and wired system connected to my router and nothing is running that I didn't tell to run.
So install the CODECS, not some crappy media player that nobody uses anymore. Not only is QuickTime crap, but why would you use it when you just installed iTunes to handle your media anyways?!?
Sort of, the operating itself isn't being attacked, the badly scripted website framework is most commonly the target of the attack. That's sort of like saying a BMW is easy to hot-wire because you can easily steal the purse off the passenger seat when the ass-hat owner leaves the top down.
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Contrary to popular believe, 4chan actually makes up a MINUTE portion of the internet. Besides, even if they DID decide to screw with the mesh, their "raids" never last more than a couple days. They may have some power behind them, but they have the attention span of goldfish.
*** Runs and hides under a table for 12 hours until 4chan forgets I said that.
Really? Just how much say do you think the kid REALLY had in his mother getting involved? That's right, let's just make the kid suffer because his mother is a complete freaking idiot.
Jackasses, both of you.
I'm hoping you didn't read the article where it mentioned they were MINORS!
Unfortunately this will probably haunt him for the rest of his life. Imagine when he starts going for job interviews. Something like 90% of employers check up applicants on google, facebook, twitter, etc. Seeing how much press this has already gotten, his best bet is probably to change his name or go by a pseudonym. Too bad there aren't any male alternatives to Jack...
The Matterhorn has rendered itself demonstrably wind-proof. Mount Baker and Mount Everest are likewise near impossible to take down. If the earth were to implement the proper tools, we could all have an automated way to stop wind within minutes of its start. Because no one has put the tools on the routers, we don't have the tools. Just because dirt and seismic activity have all the foresight of a deep-water fish, doesn't make the desired result impossible.
FTFY
So you have no problem paying for 15Mb/s and only getting 5Mb/s? Wow...
If the lines are over-congested, the only thing that should be done is QOS to ensure the lower bitrate connections get priority. Then the people that need the extra speed can complain and get more infrastructure installed. Remember, a lot of people that download huge files have the courtesy to do so at NIGHT when traffic is low anyways. With the supplied solution, those people would get throttled at a time when their usage has almost no effect on anyone else anyways!
When UBB started, there were various organizations that had independant investigators and network consultants determine the cost/GB of an ISP. They determined it to $0.01 The ISP's are just throwing huge numbers around to scare people.
Now if only they'd treat the IPv6 issue with this much energy...
If you can locate the person they contracted it from, it's actually pretty easy to find out. Now if you work in a hospital and a patient infects you, it may become quite difficult, but if you contract HIV it is definitely a good idea to have all the people you have been in contact with tested. A) In case they have it so they can get treatment B) So that person doesn't keep spreading it.
Because it won't take long (think BEFORE the tower's are even installed) for the prisoners to figure out what is going on. Programming a cell-phone to only connect to certain towers is TRIVIAL if you know what you are doing. Guess who has enough money to pay people to re-program phones? DRUG DEALERS!
I'm pretty sure attorney-client privileges requires the attorney to identify themselves, otherwise any bloke could walk into a jail, claim to be somebody's attorney, and get a confidential conversation with them.
This just in: slang-talking, bandanna wearing attorney visits to jails up 100000%!
No, artificially throttling users who use more bandwidth than the ISP likes is not a solution. If the ISP's claims that they are running out of bandwidth were true, then geuss what? There would SLOW DOWN during the day! If 1000 users try to push 5Mb/s through a 2Gb/s connection, you simply won't get the throughput. Since nobody seems to be complaining that their internet is slowing down during the day, the ISP's are obviously lying through their teeth.
It would be like the government limiting your household to 1000Km of driving per month even though you haven't been stuck in traffic in 2 years.*
* Yes I'm aware never hitting road traffic is not common, it's just an example!
Because a user that uses 1GB/month (granny checking email) and someone that uses 250GB/month (HD streamers, torrenters, etc) don't really change how much it costs the service providers. the 250GB/month person probably only costs the ISP $5 more than the 1GB/month person, most of the cost is in getting the connection from the splitters to your house, and having those idling is just pointless. The backbone's are doing just fine and sending those GB upstream costs ISP about $0.01 (as confirmed by various independent investigators).
Well, now that it's been reversed (at least the part where Bell/etc can force the charges on Independent ISP's), you should reply to the email with "Now that the situation is being rectified by the CRTC, can I assume that these changes will no longer be taking place?".
I'd love to know what their response is. BTW, which ISP are you using?
Hmm, I wonder if there are any local data centers that need some "cooling"...
Not that a tank of propane dumped and lit would be much better for the environment...
The sad part is, 99.9% of people install the software on the CD their ISP gives them, thus giving their ISP exactly this power. I could *almost* understand if it was dialup, but these are people that connection through a modem provided by the company and even use a router in between.
From the rough calculations I've done, IPv4 is enough IP's for about 1.5 addresses per person. Now most people in the world do not have internet, but those that do usually have a computer, a smartphone, a work computer, maybe a laptop, a home router, etc. IPv6 on the other hand is about enough IP's for every person in the world to have an IP for every CELL IN THEIR BODY! If that's not enough IP's to last us another couple millennium, the earth is going to get pretty crowded...
With the number of IPv6 numbers available, there is no long ANY excuse for ISP's to be rotating your IP anymore. They should be able to give you a subnet and let you *have* it.
Hey, at least there wouldn't be any drunk blind people walking into traffic...
They were bred for really short life spans and really tiny penises. Plus, the scientists supplied each one of them with a big red Ferrari!
FTFY
If it did, they've fixed that now. I just nmap'd my dd-wrt router from both a wireless sytem and wired system connected to my router and nothing is running that I didn't tell to run.
What does your browser and secondlife have to do with iTunes? If people need quicktime for other stuff, let the OTHER STUFF install it!
So install the CODECS, not some crappy media player that nobody uses anymore. Not only is QuickTime crap, but why would you use it when you just installed iTunes to handle your media anyways?!?
Sort of, the operating itself isn't being attacked, the badly scripted website framework is most commonly the target of the attack. That's sort of like saying a BMW is easy to hot-wire because you can easily steal the purse off the passenger seat when the ass-hat owner leaves the top down.
How many windows users can even differentiate windows from word?