Not quite true. Neuf Telecom doesn't use voip for it's unlimited free national calls, just straightforward telephony.
(In France we have this funny thing called "competition" - you can get your telephone and DSL service from different suppliers, there are no local monopolies. Strangely enough this seems to be causing the prices to drop and new services get created (Voip, TV over DSL, etc).)
The initial report containing what were quickly exposed as gross errors and exaggerations was written by the Guardian's newly appointed Shanghai correspondent, Benjamin Joffe-Walt...
You can multihome with a PA (provider allocated) address space, it may even be more reliable (if anyone refuses to route to you they'll route to one of your ISPs), but we're using a PI (provider independant) address space. We have a/24, which seems to be routable from just about everywhere.
It wasn't too hard to get, we just had to write some blurb justifying it. We're not big, 6 employees, ~1000 customers, ~1.5M EUR annual billing.
Most companies that do large-scale internet work are already multi-homed. Those that aren't probably can't afford the extra hardware anyway.
Extra hardware? Unless you're shifting multi-megabytes a second all you need is a cheap PC with (bsd|linux) and (qaugga|zebra|bgpd). If you're serious about using the internet for your business you must be multihomed.
In short, DRM is never going to work on general purpose computers. So just stop trying.
You underestimate the power of the dark side of the farce.
The DRM guys have, like you, realised that DRM is impossible on general purpose computers. Their solution is not to stop trying, it's to get rid of the general purpose computer.
Welcome to "trusted computing". I.e. soon your computer will trust microsoft/apple/sony instead of you.
(Linux OpenSSI have been run with multiple virtual nodes under UML, the current Debian version of OpenSSI supports Xen for the same thing - it's an easy way of debugging the cluster system without needing lots of machines).
The unfocused energy in a car? The heat, the rotation of the tires, the vibration from the relative lack of application of aerodynamic principles. And on and on. I think cars are pretty damn inefficient.
Hitting your rubber tube will not cool down the car.
Hitting your rubber tube will slow down the tires, as it slows down the car.
Hitting your rubber tube will not reduce vibration of the car.
So the only so called "unfocussed" energy you are harvesting is the kinetic energy of the car. So all you're doing is using the car as an extremely inefficient gasoline powered compressor.
[...] The extra distance travelled by the car is so minimal such that it would be undetectable in most situations, and would harness more energy from the falling of the top wall of the malleable pressurized air container.
AAARGH! harness more energy! Where the hell do you think this energy comes from?
So apply it in speed bumps. Then, you WANT the car to slow down,
Finaly you admit that the car would slow down, but...
and the energy harnessed from the weight of the car would be much greater.
There is no energy to be "harnessed" in the weight of the car. Please learn a little physics before blathering on.
Before it hits the bump the car has kinetic energy (mv^2). The bump slows it down, to some extent by lifting it up (giving it some potential energy, mgh), it drops, squashing the tube, transfering that potential energy to your tank of compressed air, with enormous losses, heating the rubber, making a big BUMP noise &c.
Anyway, thats the limit of my patience will innumerate (wrong word, maybe a-physical?) trolls.
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Ah poof, it's just an Ace Double:
On one side: War God of Ancient Israel
On the other: The Thing With Three Souls.
No connection between the two whatsoever.
Tee hee. Level3 saved by Cogent.
Not quite true. Neuf Telecom doesn't use voip for it's unlimited free national calls, just straightforward telephony.
(In France we have this funny thing called "competition" - you can get your telephone and DSL service from different suppliers, there are no local monopolies. Strangely enough this seems to be causing the prices to drop and new services get created (Voip, TV over DSL, etc).)
Hey, reading the article - no fair!
:-) for the humour impaired.
Good thing you're posting as AC or I'd be asking people to mod you down.
Can you tell me how to grow crystals in microgravity with some bored astronaut farting in the next compartment?
Seeing and believing in China
Can you name an Arab state that doesn't have a secular ruler?
Or did you mean secularist? Have you forgotten Syria, Egypt?
Um, the total blame is put on Bush (or "the Bush Organisation" as you put it) because:
The buck stops here.
You do that and I'm off to the WTO before you can say "Boeing".
I knew someone would fall into this trap.
And I'm not supprised that someone decided your post was "informative".
The joke on the patents system is that both Unisys and IBM owned a patent on LZW.
Kind of makes you wonder why anyone thought either one of them was valid, doesn't it.
Mods on crack.
How is this a troll?
The guy is simply telling the truth.
Where I come from the carrier doesn't "activate" the phone. I just bung my SIM chip in and use it.
Isn't it funny that your free market has produced monopolies that screw the customer and our regulated one has produced competition?
Some of us are against all software patents, stupid or not.
(in fact they're illegal where I'm writing from (as such)).
And IBM own, and have threatened to assert, some dodgy software patents, e.g. LZW compression.
(They threatened to use it against TSCOG, using a bad weapon against bad people. A but like nuking Saddam).
Are you implying that the FSM (may I be forever touched by his noodly appendage) is not benevolent?
Are you an adherent of the true Church of the FSM, or the reformed church of the FSM? Answer carefully, your life may depend on it.
Um, no they're not.
Ah, but no hydrogen bonds in galaxies. Water is not an ideal fluid.
Don't be dumb, when talking about the presence or absence of dark matter the appropriate theory is intelligent falling, not intelligent design.
Boy, some people disprove intelligent design every time they touch a keyboard.
You can multihome with a PA (provider allocated) address space, it may even be more reliable (if anyone refuses to route to you they'll route to one of your ISPs), but we're using a PI (provider independant) address space. We have a /24, which seems to be routable from just about everywhere.
It wasn't too hard to get, we just had to write some blurb justifying it. We're not big, 6 employees, ~1000 customers, ~1.5M EUR annual billing.
See this for the RIPE's policies on this stuff.
Well, I don't know if I'm in the same real world as you, but I currently have my site dual homed using Quagga on 2 Dell 1650's.
Works so far.
Exactly what problems do you think I will see?
I'm not an ISP, I just need multi-homing for reliability.
You seem to think that multihoming is expensive.
It isn't.
What architectural limitations does a PC have that make it unsuitable for someone who wants to multihome but isn't dealing with multigigabit links?
Extra hardware? Unless you're shifting multi-megabytes a second all you need is a cheap PC with (bsd|linux) and (qaugga|zebra|bgpd). If you're serious about using the internet for your business you must be multihomed.
You underestimate the power of the dark side of the farce.
The DRM guys have, like you, realised that DRM is impossible on general purpose computers. Their solution is not to stop trying, it's to get rid of the general purpose computer.
Welcome to "trusted computing". I.e. soon your computer will trust microsoft/apple/sony instead of you.
Why bother imagining it, just do it.
(Linux OpenSSI have been run with multiple virtual nodes under UML, the current Debian version of OpenSSI supports Xen for the same thing - it's an easy way of debugging the cluster system without needing lots of machines).
So, how much are they paying you for the rent on your appartement?
So the only so called "unfocussed" energy you are harvesting is the kinetic energy of the car. So all you're doing is using the car as an extremely inefficient gasoline powered compressor.
AAARGH! harness more energy! Where the hell do you think this energy comes from? Finaly you admit that the car would slow down, but... There is no energy to be "harnessed" in the weight of the car. Please learn a little physics before blathering on.Before it hits the bump the car has kinetic energy (mv^2). The bump slows it down, to some extent by lifting it up (giving it some potential energy, mgh), it drops, squashing the tube, transfering that potential energy to your tank of compressed air, with enormous losses, heating the rubber, making a big BUMP noise &c.
Anyway, thats the limit of my patience will innumerate (wrong word, maybe a-physical?) trolls.