To all those who say "It will never happen," I respond with an ancient Chinese proverb: "Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it."
This sounds like a great idea! A couple years ago I tried to get some people interested in building a community network based on some of the concepts from the Wellington Internet eXchange. Nobody wanted to touch it.
As soon as the people try to flex their muscle, they are immediately shouted down by the corporations. The laws in the USA have become structured such that corporations have all the power and the people have none. Just ask the citizens of Philadelphia, PA or Wilson, NC.
Both of these cities, acting as agents of their citizens, were attacked by the corporations. In the case of Philly, they got squashed. Wilson's system is still alive, but not for the lack of effort on Time Warner's part. At one point TW had someone answering the phone for one of the congressmen the night before a vote. It was only thanks to the dedication of a small group of citizens, many of whom had to take off work to attend the oddly scheduled committee meetings, that the system is still online. We know that at any point TW will try again to scuttle it.
And much like the airwaves, there's the ham bands and the CBers. Besides, I've heard my fair share of idiocy on HF from licensed amateurs. You can't change human nature, you can just change the channel.
Ya know, you had me... right up until "the end user, need to die." In the end it is ALL about the user, without whom all you have is SkyNet, or the MCP. Do you want to write code for your machine overlord, or for a fellow human being?
Ultimately that end user wants his/her computer to _just work_, which would happen if the tenets you laid out in your diatribe were followed. I find it strange that you would contradict yourself so vehemently right at the very end.
I think I know what you're actually trying to say here, but it would be foolhardy for me to infer that you contradicted yourself _again_ by being an elitist (self-righteous) BOFH who is better than the "end user".
The cable companies do their throttling at the cable modem. It turns out this cap can be bypassed. There were some guys back in my hometown that got caught doing just this. The cable company threw the book at them.
It would make more technical sense to do this at the headend, since they could keep the control closer to them. It would also allow customers who wanted to exchange data locally to do so at the full loop speed without chewing through upstream bandwidth. Instead, I'm stuck talking to my neighbor two apartment buildings away at 384kbit/sec. Obviously what makes the most technical sense does not necessarily mesh with what makes the most business sense.
Might I suggest m0n0wall. Runs on embedded platforms such as the Soekris or WARP as well as standard PCs. One interesting feature is their CD build. The "firmware" is read-only on the CD and only the settings are stored on a floppy disk. Rumor has it storage on a USB key is coming soon.
First of all, when you check your luggage, you lose whatever shred of control you had over where your stuff is. At least with a carryon it's never more than a few feet from you and can be grabbed at any time. Furthermore, I have heard way too many reports from my friends of checked luggage being lost or badly damaged.
Then there's the time issue. After today's advisories, they are saying you need to be at the airport a full three to four hours ahead of your flight's scheduled departure time. Let's do some basic math (flight and layover times grabbed from Orbitz):
I was already opposed to flying as the "security screening" process looks more like herding cattle. Today's knee jerk reaction by the TSA was just the thing to put me over the top.
Seeing as "gone for only two days" covers all of the instances I would ever fly, I will not be flying ever again. It's sad too since my family is all 11 hours away by car.
Lucky you! My parents get 26400bps... 28800 on a good day. Anything to improve last mile bandwidth to people who don't happen to live right in a city (or even small town) would be really helpful.
I take a shower and I'm only 23. Admittedly I'm in the minority, but perhaps you should refrain from using such generalizations... unless of course you really are a 12 year old poster from Usenet:)
> emergency personel should have access to ham radios
Many police, fire, and EMT personnel are also licensed amateur radio operators. In a real emergency there is often quite a bit of crosstalk. Of course, even public service communications are becoming more network-like (central repeaters, trunking, etc.) Amateur radio "nets" can be brought online in seconds in a peer-to-peer mode, and many of the truly dedicated hams have generators, solar panels, gerbil-wheels, etc for when their batteries go out.
I'm actually kind of surprised more cable/DSL companies aren't rooting for IPv6. With the current NAT system, they have a difficult time telling how many machines you've got on your network (if they even know you're running it). With IPv6, you get a public address for every one... and you'll probably get charged for it too.
Comic book dealers must be like drug dealers. They give you a free sample to get you hooked. At least comic books encourage imagination instead of killing brain cells.:)
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To all those who say "It will never happen," I respond with an ancient Chinese proverb: "Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it."
This sounds like a great idea! A couple years ago I tried to get some people interested in building a community network based on some of the concepts from the Wellington Internet eXchange. Nobody wanted to touch it.
As soon as the people try to flex their muscle, they are immediately shouted down by the corporations. The laws in the USA have become structured such that corporations have all the power and the people have none. Just ask the citizens of Philadelphia, PA or Wilson, NC.
Both of these cities, acting as agents of their citizens, were attacked by the corporations. In the case of Philly, they got squashed. Wilson's system is still alive, but not for the lack of effort on Time Warner's part. At one point TW had someone answering the phone for one of the congressmen the night before a vote. It was only thanks to the dedication of a small group of citizens, many of whom had to take off work to attend the oddly scheduled committee meetings, that the system is still online. We know that at any point TW will try again to scuttle it.
And much like the airwaves, there's the ham bands and the CBers. Besides, I've heard my fair share of idiocy on HF from licensed amateurs. You can't change human nature, you can just change the channel.
73 de N8VNR
Ya know, you had me... right up until "the end user, need to die." In the end it is ALL about the user, without whom all you have is SkyNet, or the MCP. Do you want to write code for your machine overlord, or for a fellow human being?
Ultimately that end user wants his/her computer to _just work_, which would happen if the tenets you laid out in your diatribe were followed. I find it strange that you would contradict yourself so vehemently right at the very end.
I think I know what you're actually trying to say here, but it would be foolhardy for me to infer that you contradicted yourself _again_ by being an elitist (self-righteous) BOFH who is better than the "end user".
The cable companies do their throttling at the cable modem. It turns out this cap can be bypassed. There were some guys back in my hometown that got caught doing just this. The cable company threw the book at them.
It would make more technical sense to do this at the headend, since they could keep the control closer to them. It would also allow customers who wanted to exchange data locally to do so at the full loop speed without chewing through upstream bandwidth. Instead, I'm stuck talking to my neighbor two apartment buildings away at 384kbit/sec. Obviously what makes the most technical sense does not necessarily mesh with what makes the most business sense.
Not to mention 64-bit compatible. Hey Sun, you watching this?
RAII (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Intarwebs) :)
Might I suggest m0n0wall. Runs on embedded platforms such as the Soekris or WARP as well as standard PCs. One interesting feature is their CD build. The "firmware" is read-only on the CD and only the settings are stored on a floppy disk. Rumor has it storage on a USB key is coming soon.
First of all, when you check your luggage, you lose whatever shred of control you had over where your stuff is. At least with a carryon it's never more than a few feet from you and can be grabbed at any time. Furthermore, I have heard way too many reports from my friends of checked luggage being lost or badly damaged.
Then there's the time issue. After today's advisories, they are saying you need to be at the airport a full three to four hours ahead of your flight's scheduled departure time. Let's do some basic math (flight and layover times grabbed from Orbitz):
3.0 hours through security
2.0 hours flight
1.0 hours layover
1.0 hours flight
0.5 hours luggage retrieval
---
7.5 hours
Not a whole lot better than the 11 to drive it.
I was already opposed to flying as the "security screening" process looks more like herding cattle. Today's knee jerk reaction by the TSA was just the thing to put me over the top.
Seeing as "gone for only two days" covers all of the instances I would ever fly, I will not be flying ever again. It's sad too since my family is all 11 hours away by car.
Lucky you! My parents get 26400bps... 28800 on a good day.
Anything to improve last mile bandwidth to people who don't happen to live right in a city (or even small town) would be really helpful.
> grungy old men with ham radios
:)
I take a shower and I'm only 23. Admittedly I'm in the minority, but perhaps you should refrain from using such generalizations... unless of course you really are a 12 year old poster from Usenet
> emergency personel should have access to ham radios
Many police, fire, and EMT personnel are also licensed amateur radio operators. In a real emergency there is often quite a bit of crosstalk. Of course, even public service communications are becoming more network-like (central repeaters, trunking, etc.) Amateur radio "nets" can be brought online in seconds in a peer-to-peer mode, and many of the truly dedicated hams have generators, solar panels, gerbil-wheels, etc for when their batteries go out.
-- Kevin, N8VNR
I'm actually kind of surprised more cable/DSL companies aren't rooting for IPv6. With the current NAT system, they have a difficult time telling how many machines you've got on your network (if they even know you're running it). With IPv6, you get a public address for every one... and you'll probably get charged for it too.
Comic book dealers must be like drug dealers. They give you a free sample to get you hooked. At least comic books encourage imagination instead of killing brain cells. :)
No wonder the Debian distribution is so far behind technically. They're all so busy arguing all this legal mumbo jumbo.