RTFA. FRS is free in the US, not elsewhere. Even GMRS is illegal (per the US government) near the Canadian border as that spectrum isn't licensed there.
If you're in the US, good luck trying to get IPv6 from your ISP. SBC customer service, "eye pee vee six? Uhm, can I put you on hold while I check on that?" UUNET, Sprintlint, nada.
Anyone have any major ISPs offering native IPv6 support (or even tunneled across their backbone, but only their backbone)? Yes, I know about he.net, but I don't want to pay mileage to their Colo when MCI/UUNET or Sprint will cover the T1 costs.
I've tried, and all the IPv6 contacts listed for these ISPs either bounce, or simply do no respond. Customer service flat out says, "That's not a supported service."
Ahem, no, I specifically remember their $199 Lindows PC having a shipping cost of 50% ($99). As they are no longer offering this PC, it's not possible to find out the shipping cost on it, now is it? We were considering purchasing a couple of these for our kids, but the shipping was the deal breaker.
I did comment that now they appear to have "normal" shipping costs on all their Lindows PCs right now, but no more sub-$200 PC either. I don't recall the model name, but most likely they jacked the prices up and lowered the shipping.
I'd add, that Dell by default will charge you $99 to ship a PC w/monitor as well. You just have to haggle with them and they'll drop it down considerably. To quote from Dell's site: Next Business Day Delivery1 $160.00 2nd Business Day Delivery1 $120.00 3-5 day Ground Delivery1 $99.00
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Plus at least $50 shipping.
I recall that Lindows PCs from Walmart had a huge shipping markup (like $100). Looks like the shipping is more reasonably priced at ~$15 now.
Very good point. I register products to get recall notices, but I won't give out my email address. Spam my mailbox, but not my inbox.
Of course, if they would say "check here to only get non-sales information about the product you our registering" I'd gladly give out my email to save them postage sending me recall info.
The big concern is in RFID tags in clothing and especially shoes.
Once you (or say your household) is linked to a purchase of a clothing item RFID, what's to stop them from tracking every time you enter a store, or a fellow business partner's store? I'm sure shoe manufactures could make a mint reselling the info.
Yeah, any given store may know what I buy there, but they don't know what I buy elsewhere, and especially what I pay for with cash (say a 2600 magazine at Barnes & Noble). But if you track my shoes, or know all the pants/shorts/shirts I own, you can track every purchase I make, even with cash so long as I still have the item on me (say in a mall and I'm shopping for a few items and popping in a number of stores).
Heh, you could track "friends" of someone by tracking shirts or 'ehm, boxers and such as well.
Perhaps you should read the patent, or at least the abstract. The key difference is that you maintain a list online, and that list is automatically mailed to you up to your max amount of DVDs (which you can pay to have increased if you want to have more out at a time). I don't know of anyone who had such a system. Using the library analogy, I'm sure one had to specify the book they wanted next at the time they returned the other book.
And it's more than just a "reservation list" that a library might have (and then suddenly you have 20 books ready to be picked up), but an intelligent queue where you tell it the order in which you'd like to see movies as they're available. It doesn't seem like much, but being able to spend 15 minutes and build a 50 movie queue list and then not have to hassle with it until I ran into another movie I wanted to add is wonderful.
As an aside: To me, this is a hugely valuable thing. I cancelled my sub after 2 months of renting everything I'd wanted to see, but I wish I could pay a nominal fee ($1-2/month?) to continue to use the online service to add new (or future) releases to the queue, and then re-activate my sub every 6 months and watch a dozen or so movies (of course, that doesn't fit their business model, so they won't do it).
Should a few "obvious" things tied together be patentable? Perhaps so... What is the real purpose for a patent? To protect a new invential/idea/business model from being copied by someone else - especially someone else with a large existing customer base and capital. For once, the patent system is actually going to protect the "little guy" from the corporate giants.
A more appropriate analogy would be buying a house without the flooring - say if you worked for a carpet and tile company and wanted to do it yourself.
Only just today I posted this article about how not to get spam for users of my servers. When 97% of all spam emails within a 6 month period come from website-harvested addresses, it's pretty clear that posting your email address on a website is just plain stupid. Use a form to allow users to contact you, but never allow them to be able to get your address.
Using Squid Proxy with squidGuard one can simply re-write MSN searchs and direct them to Google... Saves changing the default IE homepage and installing the google search bar as well:
Or in urban settings, hiding a cache right where someone could easily find one, but never do. Magnets glued to altoid tins and 35mm film canisters are the best. Hide 'em under a park bench, in a newspaper stand (behind the coin box), plenty of sneak places to hide them that no normal person would ever think to look. Surprisingly they last a good long time as well.
Almost all geocaches I've found are clearly labeled on the outside, or in clear tupperwear containers where you can see the contents.
The only "scarey" ones are in old ammo tins (great as they are waterproof), but we always clearly label those "Geocaching Treasure Hunt Game" or something that should put any logical person's mind at ease.
I don't think you understand how global routing tables work at exchange points. ISPs don't just say "I'm gonna recognize that route." If you don't have the proper routing objects in the right databases, you don't get recognized.
You're ignoring the fact that if only China/Asia/wherever are using those routes, they still cannot get traffic back from the rest of the internet from their transit ISPs. Sure, they can send the traffic with whatever source address they like, but it'll go nowhere on the way back. It's useless address space. Again, it might as well just use RFC1918 address space, it'll work just as well.
"but the fact is... we only recognize these authorities so long as they are useful to us, and if they aren't, we can start recognizign one that is."
If you're here in the US, try that with the DMV or the IRS, or whatever other "authority" you don't like and doesn't work for you;-p
But you'll just be in your own little world, just like with alternative DNS roots. It won't route anywhere else, so you might as well be using RFC1918 address space. In fact, that's a perfect example.
From the site: H Card Status: Shutdown | Music Channels Only HU Card Status: Hacked | Activation, 3M, Emulation Working P4 Status: Currently Unhacked | Subscription Only
I received my P4 cards last October, and I'm assuming most others have received theirs as well... why not just turn off the HU cards?
The poorly designed wireless implementation doesn't work, but wireless technology works just fine. I know of dozens of customers with production wireless installs.
Go to any UPS warehouse and you'll pick up 802.11b. Just because your installers are FoS, doesn't make the technology bad.
Even a poorly installed CAT5 networks sucks. Runs beyond 100 meters, zip ties too tight pushing into large bundles, bad punch-down techniques (untwisting too much cable), running over flourescent lights, etc., will all make a CAT5 network have issues.
Wireless has its own set of issues, and any competant installer knows them and after having done a proper site survey should be able to implement a great wireless network.
Sounds like they just made the mistake of paying them before they tested it and were sure it worked without issues.
No doubt DirecTV got a list of the shipping records and cross-referenced it to prior customers. A bit suspicious to cancel your sub shortly after buying such a device, wouldn't you think? I doubt 99% of those poeple are just innocent hackers.
That's like saying that the InterNIC didn't control DNS. Yeah, you can start your own alternate DNS root, but no one is going to use it. I use the old InterNIC as an example as now it's a bit more messy with ICANN and dozens of registrars.
I called up my ADSL provider, SBC (formerly PacBell): Took 4 people before I finally had someone who know what the difference was between IPv4 and IPv6. No plans to offer it anytime soon. No demand, customers aren't asking for it (I was the first, they claimed).
I called up my T1 providers at work - MCI/UUNET and Sprint. Neither one offer production IPv6 services. Sprint was offering tunneling to a test-bed IPv6 network (on the 6BONE), but I've emailed the contact 3 times, no reply. Same with UUNET, I emailed the US-UUNET 6BONE contacts, no reply. I did actually get a reply from the South Africa UUNET contact (funny thing is I know him from Shadowfire IRC).
You simply cannot convert to IPv6 here in the US without using the private IPv6 ranges (akin to IPv4 RFC1918 address space). Why? Because only ISPs get IPv6 address space, and then they are to assign it to sub-ISPs and/or businesses.
Actually, I take that back, if you want to pay for a T1 all the way to one of Hurrican Electric's sites, you can get native IPv6: ipv6.he.net.
I've been using he.net's IPv6 tunnels to them for about 6 months. Mainly though, I set up tunnels between my sites, so the traffic isn't really flowing to he.net's network. Think of it as a VPN, but with globally unique IPv6 addresses (which you can access from any host that can get on the IPv6 backbone or tunnel via IPv4 to an IPv6 backbone).
So, everyone, email or call your ISP and tell them you'd like to get IPv6 address space.
But here's a thought, why should they spend the time and money to upgrade their infrastructure when what they have "works just fine" right now? Are you willing to pay more per month for your own IPv6 address space? I currently pay $15 more per month for my 5 (technically 9) static IPs from SBC. I'd trade those statics for a single IPv4 address and a IPv6/64. I wouldn't pay even more for just IPv6 so long as there are free IPv6 tunnel brokers and I've got static IPv4 addresses to tunnel with.
IAFAIR, mainline Cisco IOS only added IPv6 support within the last year or so. It is there though, you just need to upgrade (which may mean you need more DRAM and flash).
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RTFA. FRS is free in the US, not elsewhere. Even GMRS is illegal (per the US government) near the Canadian border as that spectrum isn't licensed there.
If you're in the US, good luck trying to get IPv6 from your ISP. SBC customer service, "eye pee vee six? Uhm, can I put you on hold while I check on that?" UUNET, Sprintlint, nada.
Anyone have any major ISPs offering native IPv6 support (or even tunneled across their backbone, but only their backbone)? Yes, I know about he.net, but I don't want to pay mileage to their Colo when MCI/UUNET or Sprint will cover the T1 costs.
I've tried, and all the IPv6 contacts listed for these ISPs either bounce, or simply do no respond. Customer service flat out says, "That's not a supported service."
IPv6 is and is not static, depending on how you use it. If you're using /64s per LAN, then you can use EUI's:
LAN segment:
2001:470:1f00:486::/64
My NIC:
::240:96ff:fe32:4aac
(My MAC address is 0040:9632:4aac, but the leading 00 is stripped and 02 added, and then fffe padded inbetween).
My IPv6 address:
2001:470:1f00:486:240:96ff:fe32:4aac
Anywhere I go that supports EUI, my address will always end in ::240:96ff:fe32:4aac
Let's just say you probably won't be memorizing IPv6 addresses anytime soon.
han.ipv6.freenet.artoo.net is just much easier to remember, right? ;-p
Ahem, no, I specifically remember their $199 Lindows PC having a shipping cost of 50% ($99). As they are no longer offering this PC, it's not possible to find out the shipping cost on it, now is it? We were considering purchasing a couple of these for our kids, but the shipping was the deal breaker.
I did comment that now they appear to have "normal" shipping costs on all their Lindows PCs right now, but no more sub-$200 PC either. I don't recall the model name, but most likely they jacked the prices up and lowered the shipping.
I'd add, that Dell by default will charge you $99 to ship a PC w/monitor as well. You just have to haggle with them and they'll drop it down considerably. To quote from Dell's site:
Next Business Day Delivery1 $160.00
2nd Business Day Delivery1 $120.00
3-5 day Ground Delivery1 $99.00
Plus at least $50 shipping.
I recall that Lindows PCs from Walmart had a huge shipping markup (like $100). Looks like the shipping is more reasonably priced at ~$15 now.
Very good point. I register products to get recall notices, but I won't give out my email address. Spam my mailbox, but not my inbox.
Of course, if they would say "check here to only get non-sales information about the product you our registering" I'd gladly give out my email to save them postage sending me recall info.
The big concern is in RFID tags in clothing and especially shoes.
Once you (or say your household) is linked to a purchase of a clothing item RFID, what's to stop them from tracking every time you enter a store, or a fellow business partner's store? I'm sure shoe manufactures could make a mint reselling the info.
Yeah, any given store may know what I buy there, but they don't know what I buy elsewhere, and especially what I pay for with cash (say a 2600 magazine at Barnes & Noble). But if you track my shoes, or know all the pants/shorts/shirts I own, you can track every purchase I make, even with cash so long as I still have the item on me (say in a mall and I'm shopping for a few items and popping in a number of stores).
Heh, you could track "friends" of someone by tracking shirts or 'ehm, boxers and such as well.
Perhaps you should read the patent, or at least the abstract. The key difference is that you maintain a list online, and that list is automatically mailed to you up to your max amount of DVDs (which you can pay to have increased if you want to have more out at a time). I don't know of anyone who had such a system. Using the library analogy, I'm sure one had to specify the book they wanted next at the time they returned the other book.
And it's more than just a "reservation list" that a library might have (and then suddenly you have 20 books ready to be picked up), but an intelligent queue where you tell it the order in which you'd like to see movies as they're available. It doesn't seem like much, but being able to spend 15 minutes and build a 50 movie queue list and then not have to hassle with it until I ran into another movie I wanted to add is wonderful.
As an aside: To me, this is a hugely valuable thing. I cancelled my sub after 2 months of renting everything I'd wanted to see, but I wish I could pay a nominal fee ($1-2/month?) to continue to use the online service to add new (or future) releases to the queue, and then re-activate my sub every 6 months and watch a dozen or so movies (of course, that doesn't fit their business model, so they won't do it).
Should a few "obvious" things tied together be patentable? Perhaps so... What is the real purpose for a patent? To protect a new invential/idea/business model from being copied by someone else - especially someone else with a large existing customer base and capital. For once, the patent system is actually going to protect the "little guy" from the corporate giants.
A more appropriate analogy would be buying a house without the flooring - say if you worked for a carpet and tile company and wanted to do it yourself.
Only just today I posted this article about how not to get spam for users of my servers. When 97% of all spam emails within a 6 month period come from website-harvested addresses, it's pretty clear that posting your email address on a website is just plain stupid. Use a form to allow users to contact you, but never allow them to be able to get your address.
Using Squid Proxy with squidGuard one can simply re-write MSN searchs and direct them to Google... Saves changing the default IE homepage and installing the google search bar as well:
s@http://www.msn.com@http://news.google.com@iR
rew srch-engines {
s@http://search.msn.com@http://www.google.com@ir
s@http://msn.com@http://news.google.com@iR
}
It's rather slick, if you ask me.
Or in urban settings, hiding a cache right where someone could easily find one, but never do. Magnets glued to altoid tins and 35mm film canisters are the best. Hide 'em under a park bench, in a newspaper stand (behind the coin box), plenty of sneak places to hide them that no normal person would ever think to look. Surprisingly they last a good long time as well.
Almost all geocaches I've found are clearly labeled on the outside, or in clear tupperwear containers where you can see the contents.
The only "scarey" ones are in old ammo tins (great as they are waterproof), but we always clearly label those "Geocaching Treasure Hunt Game" or something that should put any logical person's mind at ease.
Sounds like a nice window to get the list and do some major telephone spamming. I wonder what protections there are against that?
I don't think you understand how global routing tables work at exchange points. ISPs don't just say "I'm gonna recognize that route." If you don't have the proper routing objects in the right databases, you don't get recognized.
;-p
You're ignoring the fact that if only China/Asia/wherever are using those routes, they still cannot get traffic back from the rest of the internet from their transit ISPs. Sure, they can send the traffic with whatever source address they like, but it'll go nowhere on the way back. It's useless address space. Again, it might as well just use RFC1918 address space, it'll work just as well.
"but the fact is... we only recognize these authorities so long as they are useful to us, and if they aren't, we can start recognizign one that is."
If you're here in the US, try that with the DMV or the IRS, or whatever other "authority" you don't like and doesn't work for you
But you'll just be in your own little world, just like with alternative DNS roots. It won't route anywhere else, so you might as well be using RFC1918 address space. In fact, that's a perfect example.
aimath.org/primegaps/
aimath.org/primegaps/residueerror/
I'm still working on mirroring all 47 images, but the text is there, and the img tags have great alt text descriptions.
From the site:
H Card Status: Shutdown | Music Channels Only
HU Card Status: Hacked | Activation, 3M, Emulation Working
P4 Status: Currently Unhacked | Subscription Only
I received my P4 cards last October, and I'm assuming most others have received theirs as well... why not just turn off the HU cards?
The poorly designed wireless implementation doesn't work, but wireless technology works just fine. I know of dozens of customers with production wireless installs.
Go to any UPS warehouse and you'll pick up 802.11b. Just because your installers are FoS, doesn't make the technology bad.
Even a poorly installed CAT5 networks sucks. Runs beyond 100 meters, zip ties too tight pushing into large bundles, bad punch-down techniques (untwisting too much cable), running over flourescent lights, etc., will all make a CAT5 network have issues.
Wireless has its own set of issues, and any competant installer knows them and after having done a proper site survey should be able to implement a great wireless network.
Sounds like they just made the mistake of paying them before they tested it and were sure it worked without issues.
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If they are really evil, they'll change it to require registration before you can enter the site, and then track down everyone who registers.
No doubt DirecTV got a list of the shipping records and cross-referenced it to prior customers. A bit suspicious to cancel your sub shortly after buying such a device, wouldn't you think? I doubt 99% of those poeple are just innocent hackers.
That's like saying that the InterNIC didn't control DNS. Yeah, you can start your own alternate DNS root, but no one is going to use it. I use the old InterNIC as an example as now it's a bit more messy with ICANN and dozens of registrars.
I called up my ADSL provider, SBC (formerly PacBell): Took 4 people before I finally had someone who know what the difference was between IPv4 and IPv6. No plans to offer it anytime soon. No demand, customers aren't asking for it (I was the first, they claimed).
/64. I wouldn't pay even more for just IPv6 so long as there are free IPv6 tunnel brokers and I've got static IPv4 addresses to tunnel with.
I called up my T1 providers at work - MCI/UUNET and Sprint. Neither one offer production IPv6 services. Sprint was offering tunneling to a test-bed IPv6 network (on the 6BONE), but I've emailed the contact 3 times, no reply. Same with UUNET, I emailed the US-UUNET 6BONE contacts, no reply. I did actually get a reply from the South Africa UUNET contact (funny thing is I know him from Shadowfire IRC).
You simply cannot convert to IPv6 here in the US without using the private IPv6 ranges (akin to IPv4 RFC1918 address space). Why? Because only ISPs get IPv6 address space, and then they are to assign it to sub-ISPs and/or businesses.
Actually, I take that back, if you want to pay for a T1 all the way to one of Hurrican Electric's sites, you can get native IPv6:
ipv6.he.net.
I've been using he.net's IPv6 tunnels to them for about 6 months. Mainly though, I set up tunnels between my sites, so the traffic isn't really flowing to he.net's network. Think of it as a VPN, but with globally unique IPv6 addresses (which you can access from any host that can get on the IPv6 backbone or tunnel via IPv4 to an IPv6 backbone).
So, everyone, email or call your ISP and tell them you'd like to get IPv6 address space.
But here's a thought, why should they spend the time and money to upgrade their infrastructure when what they have "works just fine" right now? Are you willing to pay more per month for your own IPv6 address space? I currently pay $15 more per month for my 5 (technically 9) static IPs from SBC. I'd trade those statics for a single IPv4 address and a IPv6
IAFAIR, mainline Cisco IOS only added IPv6 support within the last year or so. It is there though, you just need to upgrade (which may mean you need more DRAM and flash).