Let the Telcos choose (this does not apply to cable unfortunately)...
If they want to keep the protections that common carrier status affords them, then they must support net neutrality and remain essentially a dumb pipe. They used public land and massive tax incentives and subsidies to deploy the initial infrastructure (with the exception of FIOS, which I believe Verizon is eating the total cost, but still using public land, and in some cases tax breaks).
Or, if they do not want to implement neutrality in anyway, and they want to double dip on charging for bandwidth, discriminate on the types of traffic so that their own services do not have to compete etc, strip them of their protections, let every content company, every person who has been libeled, every politician who wants to shut down $x type of service/product/content and what not sue the telcos and ISPs into oblivion.
Seriously, the only reason telcos have protections is because they were just the intermediary carrying traffic between end points, and could not be held liable for what those entities did. But if they want to start manipulating the types of traffic and data, then they should be held liable for whatever that data contains.
For the record, I agree with the principles, I may not neccesarily agree with how the gov will implement them. Also, I did not vote, I was taught to vote my believes, not the lesser of 2 evils, and honestly, there is very little difference between them from my viewpoint.
How about this.. we have a public referendum on what the public wants. Sure the public can be swayed, but atleast the public as a whole will have some visibility in front of the politicians, as it is right now, the politicians only real view is of whatever the lobbying entities put in front of them.. he who has the money makes the rules I guess.
Snort was never sold to anyone, Snort has always been a part of Sourcefire, the developer just created a commercial product.
Not sure about tripwire...
Nessus went closed source due to a number of other companies stealing it, incorporating it into their products, and then selling it. It is still free for non commercial use, and free registration will allow you to get updated plugins (albeit a few days behind commercial customers)
Honestly, I doubt ATT cares about the voice aspect of google voice. What they are running scared from, is the fact that google voice eats into their SMS cash cow which provides a significant portion of their revenue. Once I get a decent app (I use gvoice via cydia at the moment) for google voice that supports realtime notifications of SMS and voicemail (right now I have to run the app periodically, and I have my gv account setup to forward sms messages sent to my gv number, to my normal cell) without using my current allotment of text messages, I will be dropping sms messaging packages from my phone. Figure a few million people drop the $5 to $20 a month SMS packages, and thats a huge dent in ATT's profit margins...
You are correct, for the purpose of this conversation gv is not really a voip. The OP I responded to should have stated that GV is not a traditional voip provider, but they made a blanket statement, which is incorrect, GV is a voip service, but it still uses minutes.
Aside from that, I suspect thats not the part that scares ATT, I suspect its the SMS aspect that has ATT's panties in a bunch.
Google voice is VOIP, its just not initiated the same way as the traditional voip applications. You make the request via the web interface (or GVoice for jailbroken apps), Google Voice calls your phone, then connects to the individual you are contacting, it is however still a voip service.
I believe the guidelines are specific to the US based App Store releases, not global. I am sure Apple has to comply with other carrier requests in their respective countries. What those are, I have no clue.
I suspect it has less to do with ATT heading off the FCC, and more to do with the recent announcement by Verizon stating they will be carrying a number of Android based phones, and explicitly stated they would permit voip over their data network (and I believe they mentioned Google Voice and Skype by name in that release).
I disagree about the 1xxx series, I have a 1020 laserjet, and it works just fine on my freebsd cups print server I use to provide print services to all the machines in my house (2 OSX, 3 or 4 windows boxes, and a bunch of openbsd and freebsd boxes).
While your argument is somewhat compelling, it is not correct. More to the point, very few American release games are censored, the censored versions usually end up in places like china (skeletal images are a big no no), or Australia (I wont even bother with the long list of things they most likely censor), or Germany where Nazi images are banned (I think the same goes for France too).
The sole purpose of region locking is price fixing. As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, I can tell you it is significantly cheaper to import games, movies, music etc from the US to the country I was in (South Africa mostly, but I have lived other places as well). That includes taking into account import duties and the cost of shipping, as well as the exchange rate and the fees associated.
With region locks, you are forced to buy the over priced (by a significant margin too) products sold locally. As for who sets those prices, I could not tell you that, I imagine the production houses probably jack the prices up for their international partners, but thats just a guess.
I grew up in South Africa, where all the sodas and what not were made with sugar.. then I moved to the US... go forward 13 years.. recently they released the Mtn Dew throwback, made with real sugar.. it was actually disgusting and tasted like artificial sweetners had been added..
My guess is that I have become so used to crappy HFCS that real sugar tastes bad.. or the fact that I never drank Mtn Dew in South Africa (very few Pepsi products there compared to Coke back then) and my first experience with Mtn Dew was with HFCS.
The problem is, the law does not say you cannot mess with your electronics, the law says you cannot bypass security measures in place that protect the intellectual property of the item you are messing with.
That said, I agree the law is stupid, vague, and consistently abused to stifle innovation and peoples rights, but currently, it is the law, and while I would love for it to be repealed, the odds of that ever happening are very very slim.
While yes, there are technical measures that you can put in place to automatically lock screens and accounts and such after a pre determined time period, the best solution is a policy, and actual enforcement of that policy. There in lies the problems in many organizations, enforcement is not being done consistently.
With technical controls, there is always that time frame, for example idle accounts, usually 30 days from last login and then automatically lock the account, well a malicious user has 30 days to which to attempt access to that account. Same goes for screen locks, 15 min is a common default, well you walk away and I have 15 min to make my way over and have fun with the account. You can reduce the amount of time, but that has other issues, users get annoyed at the screen locking while they are on the phone, or whatever while they are at their desk, results in crappy passwords.
With a policy, and enforcement behind it, accounts can be removed, users will lock their screens (hopefully) within a timely manner.
There is a speed sensor that connects to the GPS, it does more then just disable interaction with the GPS unit, it also helps keep track of the vehicle when for example you go through a long tunnel, as long as you do not exit and remain on the main tunnel road, it will accurately track your position with no GPS signal on the map.
I know the Nissans and Infiniti's (my wife has a Infiniti) uses a hardwired speed sensor from the ECU to the GPS.
I also know the stupid rental GPS units from either Budget or Hertz disable the UI while in motion based on GPS tracking
This annoys me to no end, my wife's Infiniti does that. The simple solution for the Inifiniti's is to put a toggle switch inline with the speed sensor wire that connects to the GPS under the passenger side front seat (in the FX 35 atleast). Toggle it the GPS stops tracking, but you can enter your destination or whatever interactions you want, then toggle the switch again and the GPS will begine tracking again.
I disagree that hybrids are a waste. I have one, however it all depends on how you want to define the hybrid. If you are looking for fuel economy, then yes, many of the current and new std vehicles coming out do get as good, or better mileage then some of the hybrids out there. For example, the Lexus SUV and Sedan hybrids get crap mileage (the SUV gets 22/26 the sedan gets 25/30,.. my wifes Inifiniti FX35 which has power and is most definately not enviro friendly gets 18/22, only slightly worse then the hybrid SUV).
My camry on the other hand gets around 35 to 40mpg on avg based on my driving habits, and if you can believe the onboard system after every tank I go through (I use an entire tank before refilling). Yes there are cars that are not hybrids that get that kind of mileage, hell, most diesels get pretty damn good mileage.
If you want a vehicle that is environmentally friendly, then a hybrid is not a bad way to go, they have significantly lower emissions then std cars.
Thats what I used to do... well actually I started off with my first 2 initials followed by my last named in cursive, it then morphed into my 4 initials (last name is 2 words) on top of each other... now its just a squigle ~~~~~ is what I sign on electronic machines.. these days..
Not necessarily true, you don't have to bug during manufacturer, just release counterfeit stuff that is sold to large entities.. prime example.. Counterfeit Cisco hardware, that may or may not have had hardware modified in such a way as to allow spying..
The gov, and gov contractors in the US still use IBM/Lenovo laptops and desktops, its not a stretch to imagine that bug them at manufacturing time, all of them, and then just make sure the bugged batch ends up with vendors who are on the GSA schedule.
You comments are idiotic, Art, music.. woodshop... those all stimulate creativity in students. Hell, even gym class to some extent. There is a whole industry around each of those subjects, and at the same time, it also provides the student some mental down time during school..
Unless of course all you want is mindless drones for the work force....
The way I read the article, its just the band, not the the entire heart rate monitor setup. I can see the school wanting one for each student and having the parents pay for it. I personally would not want to wear a band that a previous kid was sweating like crazy on. Whether or not the parents pay for it is irrelevant, if the school did pay for them all, they would roll the cost up into the fees and taxes to recoup the cost.
Wow.. modded troll.. my first ever troll categorization....
Anyways, while I generally do not mind my taxes going to help people in emergency rooms, at the same time, I would prefer that people who can afford it, not use my taxes.
And really, is it that much of a deal to expect people visiting a foreign nation to have sufficient funds or credit (or debit card preferably) on record that shows they can afford to be in the country for whatever reason. I am not advocating that the information be stored and used by the gov, or any entity other then your own financial institution, but is it really that big of a deal.
Granted the examples I used earlier, probably sucked, I will admit that, I am at work, and commenting here is not exactly that high of a priority where I will sit for an hour trying to word out a witty and useful comment.
The point remains the same though, people visiting should be able to prove in some way they are financially stable as to not be an anchor on the country they are visiting, USA, or other countries.
I'll bite and play devils advocate here for a minute. Regardless of the reasons they want the number for, advertising, or collecting information, it could also be said that if you are entering the US, and you don't have a credit card, for say emergencies, or you get mugged and all your cash is taken, or you lose your cash, or you accidentally burn your travelers cheques, that you need a credit card for purchases, you are now going to be a leach on the US tax payers in the event you end up in hospital (if you dont have any travel insurance).
Just saying, having a credit card is not always a bad thing (if you know how to use one responsibly), and I as a tax payer, would prefer that travelers have some sort of method to pay for emergencies rather then using tax payer funds should the need arise.
For ages now, but they keep adding towers to extend their coverage. The problem however is the backhaul, they have not been upgrading those, and while sure everyone will now have perfect tower signal, they still have crappy connections since the traffic is congested on the backhaul.
While they bear no legal weight, you see the result, the company will just sue the provider.
The correct choice would have been for the web hosting company to atleast acknowledge receipt, and request that they provide proof, a court order, any response really. In this case, they just ignored LV, that was not the correct action.
I don't remember the vendor, but a while back there was a high end product vendor/manufacturer that requested ebay take down any and all listings related to their product, counterfit or not (and by not I mean people selling off their old non counterfit products).
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Let the Telcos choose (this does not apply to cable unfortunately)...
If they want to keep the protections that common carrier status affords them, then they must support net neutrality and remain essentially a dumb pipe. They used public land and massive tax incentives and subsidies to deploy the initial infrastructure (with the exception of FIOS, which I believe Verizon is eating the total cost, but still using public land, and in some cases tax breaks).
Or, if they do not want to implement neutrality in anyway, and they want to double dip on charging for bandwidth, discriminate on the types of traffic so that their own services do not have to compete etc, strip them of their protections, let every content company, every person who has been libeled, every politician who wants to shut down $x type of service/product/content and what not sue the telcos and ISPs into oblivion.
Seriously, the only reason telcos have protections is because they were just the intermediary carrying traffic between end points, and could not be held liable for what those entities did. But if they want to start manipulating the types of traffic and data, then they should be held liable for whatever that data contains.
For the record, I agree with the principles, I may not neccesarily agree with how the gov will implement them. Also, I did not vote, I was taught to vote my believes, not the lesser of 2 evils, and honestly, there is very little difference between them from my viewpoint.
How about this.. we have a public referendum on what the public wants. Sure the public can be swayed, but atleast the public as a whole will have some visibility in front of the politicians, as it is right now, the politicians only real view is of whatever the lobbying entities put in front of them.. he who has the money makes the rules I guess.
Snort was never sold to anyone, Snort has always been a part of Sourcefire, the developer just created a commercial product.
Not sure about tripwire...
Nessus went closed source due to a number of other companies stealing it, incorporating it into their products, and then selling it. It is still free for non commercial use, and free registration will allow you to get updated plugins (albeit a few days behind commercial customers)
Honestly, I doubt ATT cares about the voice aspect of google voice. What they are running scared from, is the fact that google voice eats into their SMS cash cow which provides a significant portion of their revenue. Once I get a decent app (I use gvoice via cydia at the moment) for google voice that supports realtime notifications of SMS and voicemail (right now I have to run the app periodically, and I have my gv account setup to forward sms messages sent to my gv number, to my normal cell) without using my current allotment of text messages, I will be dropping sms messaging packages from my phone. Figure a few million people drop the $5 to $20 a month SMS packages, and thats a huge dent in ATT's profit margins...
You are correct, for the purpose of this conversation gv is not really a voip. The OP I responded to should have stated that GV is not a traditional voip provider, but they made a blanket statement, which is incorrect, GV is a voip service, but it still uses minutes.
Aside from that, I suspect thats not the part that scares ATT, I suspect its the SMS aspect that has ATT's panties in a bunch.
Google voice is VOIP, its just not initiated the same way as the traditional voip applications. You make the request via the web interface (or GVoice for jailbroken apps), Google Voice calls your phone, then connects to the individual you are contacting, it is however still a voip service.
I believe the guidelines are specific to the US based App Store releases, not global. I am sure Apple has to comply with other carrier requests in their respective countries. What those are, I have no clue.
I suspect it has less to do with ATT heading off the FCC, and more to do with the recent announcement by Verizon stating they will be carrying a number of Android based phones, and explicitly stated they would permit voip over their data network (and I believe they mentioned Google Voice and Skype by name in that release).
Its called google voice.. and yes it is a voip service, but its initiated via an analogue connection (atleast for iphones using gvoice).
I disagree about the 1xxx series, I have a 1020 laserjet, and it works just fine on my freebsd cups print server I use to provide print services to all the machines in my house (2 OSX, 3 or 4 windows boxes, and a bunch of openbsd and freebsd boxes).
While your argument is somewhat compelling, it is not correct. More to the point, very few American release games are censored, the censored versions usually end up in places like china (skeletal images are a big no no), or Australia (I wont even bother with the long list of things they most likely censor), or Germany where Nazi images are banned (I think the same goes for France too).
The sole purpose of region locking is price fixing. As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, I can tell you it is significantly cheaper to import games, movies, music etc from the US to the country I was in (South Africa mostly, but I have lived other places as well). That includes taking into account import duties and the cost of shipping, as well as the exchange rate and the fees associated.
With region locks, you are forced to buy the over priced (by a significant margin too) products sold locally. As for who sets those prices, I could not tell you that, I imagine the production houses probably jack the prices up for their international partners, but thats just a guess.
I grew up in South Africa, where all the sodas and what not were made with sugar.. then I moved to the US... go forward 13 years.. recently they released the Mtn Dew throwback, made with real sugar.. it was actually disgusting and tasted like artificial sweetners had been added..
My guess is that I have become so used to crappy HFCS that real sugar tastes bad.. or the fact that I never drank Mtn Dew in South Africa (very few Pepsi products there compared to Coke back then) and my first experience with Mtn Dew was with HFCS.
That said, I do miss my cokes with real sugar...
The problem is, the law does not say you cannot mess with your electronics, the law says you cannot bypass security measures in place that protect the intellectual property of the item you are messing with.
That said, I agree the law is stupid, vague, and consistently abused to stifle innovation and peoples rights, but currently, it is the law, and while I would love for it to be repealed, the odds of that ever happening are very very slim.
While yes, there are technical measures that you can put in place to automatically lock screens and accounts and such after a pre determined time period, the best solution is a policy, and actual enforcement of that policy. There in lies the problems in many organizations, enforcement is not being done consistently.
With technical controls, there is always that time frame, for example idle accounts, usually 30 days from last login and then automatically lock the account, well a malicious user has 30 days to which to attempt access to that account. Same goes for screen locks, 15 min is a common default, well you walk away and I have 15 min to make my way over and have fun with the account. You can reduce the amount of time, but that has other issues, users get annoyed at the screen locking while they are on the phone, or whatever while they are at their desk, results in crappy passwords.
With a policy, and enforcement behind it, accounts can be removed, users will lock their screens (hopefully) within a timely manner.
There is a speed sensor that connects to the GPS, it does more then just disable interaction with the GPS unit, it also helps keep track of the vehicle when for example you go through a long tunnel, as long as you do not exit and remain on the main tunnel road, it will accurately track your position with no GPS signal on the map.
I know the Nissans and Infiniti's (my wife has a Infiniti) uses a hardwired speed sensor from the ECU to the GPS.
I also know the stupid rental GPS units from either Budget or Hertz disable the UI while in motion based on GPS tracking
This annoys me to no end, my wife's Infiniti does that. The simple solution for the Inifiniti's is to put a toggle switch inline with the speed sensor wire that connects to the GPS under the passenger side front seat (in the FX 35 atleast). Toggle it the GPS stops tracking, but you can enter your destination or whatever interactions you want, then toggle the switch again and the GPS will begine tracking again.
I disagree that hybrids are a waste. I have one, however it all depends on how you want to define the hybrid. If you are looking for fuel economy, then yes, many of the current and new std vehicles coming out do get as good, or better mileage then some of the hybrids out there. For example, the Lexus SUV and Sedan hybrids get crap mileage (the SUV gets 22/26 the sedan gets 25/30,.. my wifes Inifiniti FX35 which has power and is most definately not enviro friendly gets 18/22, only slightly worse then the hybrid SUV).
My camry on the other hand gets around 35 to 40mpg on avg based on my driving habits, and if you can believe the onboard system after every tank I go through (I use an entire tank before refilling). Yes there are cars that are not hybrids that get that kind of mileage, hell, most diesels get pretty damn good mileage.
If you want a vehicle that is environmentally friendly, then a hybrid is not a bad way to go, they have significantly lower emissions then std cars.
But in the end, its personnel preference.
Thats what I used to do... well actually I started off with my first 2 initials followed by my last named in cursive, it then morphed into my 4 initials (last name is 2 words) on top of each other... now its just a squigle ~~~~~ is what I sign on electronic machines.. these days..
Not necessarily true, you don't have to bug during manufacturer, just release counterfeit stuff that is sold to large entities.. prime example.. Counterfeit Cisco hardware, that may or may not have had hardware modified in such a way as to allow spying..
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/1317212
The gov, and gov contractors in the US still use IBM/Lenovo laptops and desktops, its not a stretch to imagine that bug them at manufacturing time, all of them, and then just make sure the bugged batch ends up with vendors who are on the GSA schedule.
You comments are idiotic, Art, music.. woodshop... those all stimulate creativity in students. Hell, even gym class to some extent. There is a whole industry around each of those subjects, and at the same time, it also provides the student some mental down time during school..
Unless of course all you want is mindless drones for the work force....
The way I read the article, its just the band, not the the entire heart rate monitor setup. I can see the school wanting one for each student and having the parents pay for it. I personally would not want to wear a band that a previous kid was sweating like crazy on. Whether or not the parents pay for it is irrelevant, if the school did pay for them all, they would roll the cost up into the fees and taxes to recoup the cost.
Wow.. modded troll.. my first ever troll categorization....
Anyways, while I generally do not mind my taxes going to help people in emergency rooms, at the same time, I would prefer that people who can afford it, not use my taxes.
And really, is it that much of a deal to expect people visiting a foreign nation to have sufficient funds or credit (or debit card preferably) on record that shows they can afford to be in the country for whatever reason. I am not advocating that the information be stored and used by the gov, or any entity other then your own financial institution, but is it really that big of a deal.
Granted the examples I used earlier, probably sucked, I will admit that, I am at work, and commenting here is not exactly that high of a priority where I will sit for an hour trying to word out a witty and useful comment.
The point remains the same though, people visiting should be able to prove in some way they are financially stable as to not be an anchor on the country they are visiting, USA, or other countries.
I'll bite and play devils advocate here for a minute. Regardless of the reasons they want the number for, advertising, or collecting information, it could also be said that if you are entering the US, and you don't have a credit card, for say emergencies, or you get mugged and all your cash is taken, or you lose your cash, or you accidentally burn your travelers cheques, that you need a credit card for purchases, you are now going to be a leach on the US tax payers in the event you end up in hospital (if you dont have any travel insurance).
Just saying, having a credit card is not always a bad thing (if you know how to use one responsibly), and I as a tax payer, would prefer that travelers have some sort of method to pay for emergencies rather then using tax payer funds should the need arise.
For ages now, but they keep adding towers to extend their coverage. The problem however is the backhaul, they have not been upgrading those, and while sure everyone will now have perfect tower signal, they still have crappy connections since the traffic is congested on the backhaul.
While they bear no legal weight, you see the result, the company will just sue the provider.
The correct choice would have been for the web hosting company to atleast acknowledge receipt, and request that they provide proof, a court order, any response really. In this case, they just ignored LV, that was not the correct action.
I don't remember the vendor, but a while back there was a high end product vendor/manufacturer that requested ebay take down any and all listings related to their product, counterfit or not (and by not I mean people selling off their old non counterfit products).
It was a while ago...