Like others have said, they should have made the "default location" the company's own headquarters. However, I suspect they get paid for providing locations, so a "default location" is fraud. If they don't have a location for an IP, they should just say "location unknown".
The modem IS working as a limited router. The fact is, when your router sees packets meant for addresses it doesn't manage, it can send them to the WAN. I've seen this firsthand by having various Linksys routers chained together with each set up to manage a different 192.168.x.1 network. If you're connected farthest from the Internet gateway, you can reach devices on all of the LANs. If you're connected someplace else, you can reach anything on your own LAN and up through the WAN.
The difference with the modem is that it probably drops any packets that aren't headed for proper Internet-routable addresses OR 192.168.100.1 If the modem doesn't drop them, then the ISP certainly does.
I have it bookmarked so I can freshen up the channels before I do a speedtest. Pepper your blogs with this. People clicking it will lose their Internets for 45 seconds.
If this is in a Wordpress blog, I suggest using Velvet Blues plugin to mass update your links, or Image Teleporter to download remote images to local; it also updates urls.
We've been using Virtualmin 'virtual hosts' management software, on a virtual machine for double virtuosity, for several years with great results. These are the guys who did Webmin and Usermin which are like open source cPanel. The layout is awful and I keep finding goodies buried in strange places, but hey, free is free! It includes a one-click control panel to get Let's Encrypt certs.
Yeah, remote HTTP and HTTPS resources embedded on our HTTPS page didn't work any more. This is why I haven't implemented an HTTP forward to HTTPS rule yet, though I do have TLS certs for my websites now.
Weirdly enough, Google's Calendar and some other things are Iframed HTTPS but work whether embedded in an encrypted page or not. I would love to know how they do that.
"Sales tax" is really an income tax the government charges merchants and service providers... because they made money, get it? The term "sales tax" is misleading. Probably deliberately. This is the root of the reason that a business which is losing money can get a partial or full refund of their taxes. They've proven that they aren't profiting.
If you're a merchant who is licensed to resell used items, and you don't have to pay an income tax on that, you can theoretically feel free to charge less for it. It's no wonder that thrift stores are an ideal venue for charities. The government usually finds that it saves more by not charging taxes than it otherwise would have to spend on, say, processing all that extra garbage and providing new supplies to the needy directly.
Schools aren't what we think of as a traditional merchant, but as such, they don't have to pay a tax on the lunch they sold your child, or on the snacks you bought at their fundraiser bake sale.
Your school is still an ordinary customer to it's suppliers. It buys supplies, utilities. It rents facilities. These suppliers and service providers are charged by the government taxes for their income. Sure, the school is paying the money which the caterer will use to cover that tax, but as with any business purchase, the school itself is not being taxed.
However, I could envision a grant system which provides the school a "refund" based sorta-arbitrarily on the amount their supplier was taxed when doing business with them. After all, their supplier's and service providers will have sent them receipts with "taxes" listed.
Our OBI100 provides numeric caller-id. Perhaps you need to log onto obitalk.com and check a box?
What we don't like about OBI actually, is the remote administration (and the google fiber router is the same way). You have to set up an account on the merchant's website to make your configurations; they get relayed to your OBI once you save them. The OBI does have it's own onboard web admin, but as long as OBI's service is working, it'll be overwritten almost right away.
Well they do. Google reserves the right to add taxes and fees, but simply charge the flat rate. Whatever taxes and fees a specific municipality demands, Google simply swallows the difference. I bet they're still quite profitable.
Yep, just like a lot of (now-obsolete) cable modems I see at the thrift stores, with built-in RJ-11/14 jacks where TWC provided them with a VOIP phone service.
Google Fiber will likely swap out your existing GF router with one which also has phone jacks, or bring you an ATA to plug into one of the four RJ-45 Ethernet jacks provided.
This is good for folks who work from home, such as 'virtual' call centre workers. While these employers typically forbid work over VOIP lines, they do accept VOIP service when supplied by major providers.
We'll see how this pans out. I have half a dozen Google Voice lines running at home (we have Google Fiber) via an OBI100 box and an Asterisk server with GV plugins. It would suck suck suck if they shut GV completely down now, in favor of their new paid service.:(
Incidentally, that's how sales tax for gas, food and other goods work, too. The government isn't charging you tax, and the merchant isn't collecting tax from you on behalf of the government. That's whatcha always thought, isn't it?
No, the government is taxing THE MERCHANT, and through some long-established tradition this entitles the merchant to post a price on those goods with the amount they calculate they'll be taxed subtracted, then add it back at the register.
I set aside uTorrent_2.2.23071-FinalAdFreeVer.exe in case I ever had to use windows. I miss the way uT is organized, but find it's easier to just run Transmission right on my NAS.
I would guess that the processing destroyed most of the vitamins, and the amount varied too widely to even get a reliable minimum level, so they simply didn't list 'em.
Back in college, I tried to lose my soda habit for something healthier. Frozen concentrates were the best option, saving me from lugging bulky jugs of colored water home in my backpack. I tried "Mr. Pure Papaya Juice". Tasted like ass and made my tongue sting.
Ingredients: no actual papaya at all, just grape and apple from concentrate and tons of HFCS.
If it looked like a mini-stereo-headset jack, it could rotate freely, anyway. But manufacture would probably be getting expensive with that approach. Suppose instead, the business end of the jack looked like a tiny DIMM edge-connector with 4 (or more) pads on each side.
How about putting the factory on the Moon, and powering it 24/7 from orbital powersats? The powersats would be the first building stage before moving on to manufacture spaceship and colony parts. That way, you can save yourself the effort of launching the tailings, which remain on the moon instead of whirling around causing navigation hazards.
Anyway the plentiful tailings could be used to build colonies in orbit. Sintered into a sort of concrete, we'd have material for millions of them before running out of Moon. Colonies don't have to be made out of sheet metal and glass. Orbital colonies would be built to provide perfect living conditions within. Domes and tunnels on the various planets and moons would only provide survivable conditions, not ideal ones. Forget terraforming. Suitable pseudo-gravity can only be found in an orbital colony, and it's a critical thing after temperature, pressure, and air composition. Once we get up in orbit, we aren't wasting resources coming back down again.
I hate RJ45 jacks and outlets enough as is. I favor a slender barrel connector where all you have to do is insert the wires in order and then snap a cap over it to hold the wires in place and sink a vampire tap through the insulation. All you would have to strip is the outer jacket and straighten out the first quarter-inch of each wire. The tip would have a cluster of hardy contact spots instead of pins. Nothing to snap off when you rotate the connector to find the key notch. The result could be as small as a headphone jack.
You could even have the switch take a second to handshake through the connectors with the other end and find which wires were which, and rewire itself internally for the best throughput. When building a cable, you wouldn't need to worry about inserting the wires into the connector in any particular order.
The NSA, FBI and other over-reaching spying agencies are NOT the USA. The USA is the 340 Million "free" people who comprise the citizens of the country.
By fiercely protecting the privacy of those people, we show our love for the USA. Those apologists for the manipulative and disgraceful spy agencies, and those who echo their false narratives are the ones who hate the USA.
Seriously, you're SPENDING MONEY on a domain to smear Talia's reputation? Makes me very suspicious of your interest in all of this. And sorry, you have no evidence of Talia's supposed prosperity for the reasons I outlined above. Poor people have all kinds of things in their possession which they can't afford to buy every day, especially women and their beauty supplies.
Young women of every tax bracket have in their possession a number of ridiculously overpriced beauty aids. No telling how long ago she purchased this facial rub, who gifted it to her, or anything else. So no - not proof that she's a fraud.
First of all, you SUCK at making an argument or counterargument. Second of all, you SUCK at presentation of "evidence". Third of all, you suck as a human being for raising your voice to screaming levels in defense of an unquestionably exploitative corporation.
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Like others have said, they should have made the "default location" the company's own headquarters.
However, I suspect they get paid for providing locations, so a "default location" is fraud.
If they don't have a location for an IP, they should just say "location unknown".
The modem IS working as a limited router. The fact is, when your router sees packets meant for addresses it doesn't manage, it can send them to the WAN. I've seen this firsthand by having various Linksys routers chained together with each set up to manage a different 192.168.x.1 network. If you're connected farthest from the Internet gateway, you can reach devices on all of the LANs. If you're connected someplace else, you can reach anything on your own LAN and up through the WAN.
The difference with the modem is that it probably drops any packets that aren't headed for proper Internet-routable addresses OR 192.168.100.1
If the modem doesn't drop them, then the ISP certainly does.
I think they just sold off their cablemodem division. They continued under another brand name.
http://192.168.100.1/Reboot.ht...
I have it bookmarked so I can freshen up the channels before I do a speedtest.
Pepper your blogs with this. People clicking it will lose their Internets for 45 seconds.
The more TLS traffic we get flooding the Internet, the less indiscriminate hoovering the spooks will do?
If this is in a Wordpress blog, I suggest using Velvet Blues plugin to mass update your links, or
Image Teleporter to download remote images to local; it also updates urls.
We've been using Virtualmin 'virtual hosts' management software, on a virtual machine for double virtuosity, for several years with great results. These are the guys who did Webmin and Usermin which are like open source cPanel. The layout is awful and I keep finding goodies buried in strange places, but hey, free is free!
It includes a one-click control panel to get Let's Encrypt certs.
Yeah, remote HTTP and HTTPS resources embedded on our HTTPS page didn't work any more. This is why I haven't implemented an HTTP forward to HTTPS rule yet, though I do have TLS certs for my websites now.
Weirdly enough, Google's Calendar and some other things are Iframed HTTPS but work whether embedded in an encrypted page or not. I would love to know how they do that.
Actually, it's exactly as I describe!
"Sales tax" is really an income tax the government charges merchants and service providers... because they made money, get it? The term "sales tax" is misleading. Probably deliberately. This is the root of the reason that a business which is losing money can get a partial or full refund of their taxes. They've proven that they aren't profiting.
If you're a merchant who is licensed to resell used items, and you don't have to pay an income tax on that, you can theoretically feel free to charge less for it. It's no wonder that thrift stores are an ideal venue for charities. The government usually finds that it saves more by not charging taxes than it otherwise would have to spend on, say, processing all that extra garbage and providing new supplies to the needy directly.
Schools aren't what we think of as a traditional merchant, but as such, they don't have to pay a tax on the lunch they sold your child, or on the snacks you bought at their fundraiser bake sale.
Your school is still an ordinary customer to it's suppliers. It buys supplies, utilities. It rents facilities. These suppliers and service providers are charged by the government taxes for their income. Sure, the school is paying the money which the caterer will use to cover that tax, but as with any business purchase, the school itself is not being taxed.
However, I could envision a grant system which provides the school a "refund" based sorta-arbitrarily on the amount their supplier was taxed when doing business with them. After all, their supplier's and service providers will have sent them receipts with "taxes" listed.
Our OBI100 provides numeric caller-id. Perhaps you need to log onto obitalk.com and check a box?
What we don't like about OBI actually, is the remote administration (and the google fiber router is the same way). You have to set up an account on the merchant's website to make your configurations; they get relayed to your OBI once you save them. The OBI does have it's own onboard web admin, but as long as OBI's service is working, it'll be overwritten almost right away.
Well they do. Google reserves the right to add taxes and fees, but simply charge the flat rate. Whatever taxes and fees a specific municipality demands, Google simply swallows the difference. I bet they're still quite profitable.
Yep, just like a lot of (now-obsolete) cable modems I see at the thrift stores, with built-in RJ-11/14 jacks where TWC provided them with a VOIP phone service.
Google Fiber will likely swap out your existing GF router with one which also has phone jacks, or bring you an ATA to plug into one of the four RJ-45 Ethernet jacks provided.
This is good for folks who work from home, such as 'virtual' call centre workers. While these employers typically forbid work over VOIP lines, they do accept VOIP service when supplied by major providers.
We'll see how this pans out. I have half a dozen Google Voice lines running at home (we have Google Fiber) via an OBI100 box and an Asterisk server with GV plugins. It would suck suck suck if they shut GV completely down now, in favor of their new paid service. :(
Incidentally, that's how sales tax for gas, food and other goods work, too. The government isn't charging you tax, and the merchant isn't collecting tax from you on behalf of the government. That's whatcha always thought, isn't it?
No, the government is taxing THE MERCHANT, and through some long-established tradition this entitles the merchant to post a price on those goods with the amount they calculate they'll be taxed subtracted, then add it back at the register.
I set aside uTorrent_2.2.23071-FinalAdFreeVer.exe in case I ever had to use windows.
I miss the way uT is organized, but find it's easier to just run Transmission right on my NAS.
I would guess that the processing destroyed most of the vitamins, and the amount varied too widely to even get a reliable minimum level, so they simply didn't list 'em.
Back in college, I tried to lose my soda habit for something healthier. Frozen concentrates were the best option, saving me from lugging bulky jugs of colored water home in my backpack. I tried "Mr. Pure Papaya Juice". Tasted like ass and made my tongue sting.
Ingredients: no actual papaya at all, just grape and apple from concentrate and tons of HFCS.
"Mr Pure", folks.
If it looked like a mini-stereo-headset jack, it could rotate freely, anyway. But manufacture would probably be getting expensive with that approach. Suppose instead, the business end of the jack looked like a tiny DIMM edge-connector with 4 (or more) pads on each side.
How about putting the factory on the Moon, and powering it 24/7 from orbital powersats? The powersats would be the first building stage before moving on to manufacture spaceship and colony parts. That way, you can save yourself the effort of launching the tailings, which remain on the moon instead of whirling around causing navigation hazards.
Anyway the plentiful tailings could be used to build colonies in orbit. Sintered into a sort of concrete, we'd have material for millions of them before running out of Moon. Colonies don't have to be made out of sheet metal and glass. Orbital colonies would be built to provide perfect living conditions within. Domes and tunnels on the various planets and moons would only provide survivable conditions, not ideal ones. Forget terraforming. Suitable pseudo-gravity can only be found in an orbital colony, and it's a critical thing after temperature, pressure, and air composition. Once we get up in orbit, we aren't wasting resources coming back down again.
I hate RJ45 jacks and outlets enough as is. I favor a slender barrel connector where all you have to do is insert the wires in order and then snap a cap over it to hold the wires in place and sink a vampire tap through the insulation. All you would have to strip is the outer jacket and straighten out the first quarter-inch of each wire. The tip would have a cluster of hardy contact spots instead of pins. Nothing to snap off when you rotate the connector to find the key notch. The result could be as small as a headphone jack.
You could even have the switch take a second to handshake through the connectors with the other end and find which wires were which, and rewire itself internally for the best throughput. When building a cable, you wouldn't need to worry about inserting the wires into the connector in any particular order.
Er, his momma, anyway.
Dude, that's Geddy Lee, as in, how his Polish granny pronounced his birth name "Gary Lee Weinrib".
NOPE NOPE NOPE
No, you may not do that.
The NSA, FBI and other over-reaching spying agencies are NOT the USA.
The USA is the 340 Million "free" people who comprise the citizens of the country.
By fiercely protecting the privacy of those people, we show our love for the USA.
Those apologists for the manipulative and disgraceful spy agencies, and those who echo their false narratives are the ones who hate the USA.
Seriously, you're SPENDING MONEY on a domain to smear Talia's reputation? Makes me very suspicious of your interest in all of this. And sorry, you have no evidence of Talia's supposed prosperity for the reasons I outlined above. Poor people have all kinds of things in their possession which they can't afford to buy every day, especially women and their beauty supplies.
Young women of every tax bracket have in their possession a number of ridiculously overpriced beauty aids. No telling how long ago she purchased this facial rub, who gifted it to her, or anything else. So no - not proof that she's a fraud.
First of all, you SUCK at making an argument or counterargument. Second of all, you SUCK at presentation of "evidence". Third of all, you suck as a human being for raising your voice to screaming levels in defense of an unquestionably exploitative corporation.