Why not just switch to something like OpenID for all registrations. Let the OpenID system figure out bot or not. And if someone abuses the ID, it gets turned off and they lose access to everything.
There is so much WiFi in my little town of Silver Springs that the WISP's are having trouble getting WiFi to work reliably. 1 out of 5 homes have a wireless router. There are three WISP's in our town. One WISP has three towers with WiFi backhauls. They are on at 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. The 2.4GHz spectrum is completely saturated with Phones, WiFi, and Microwave ovens. I can use my WiSpy scanner and it's solid across the board with WiFi signals. I can turn on NetStumbler with a 12dBi antenna and I can pick up over 100 WiFi base stations. Mostly SBC DSL internet Routers.
I'm still waiting for my third arm and super powers.
I totally agree. The show turned into a soap and it really sucks right now. The first season was awesome. Even my parents were watching it. But now it's just boring soap stuff that kills shows.
I don't care about who's married to who and what problems they have in their personal lives. I want to see Humans and Cylons kicking some ass.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was my first computer. I spend many nights programming that thing. I would leave it on for weeks because I had no way to back up anything. So I would just write code, play with it, then erase it all and start something else.
"You've discovered that outside of a pretty rabid minority, spam doesn't factor into most people's lives. If they see it, they delete it and move on with their lives."
Tell this to the tech support centers that get calls all day long from angry customers complaining about the amount of spam they receive.
I'm a very small ISP and I get calls twice a week about spam. This is after it's gone through Spamassassin. I have customers getting 200 spam emails a day that make it through Spamassassin. I know it's their fault for the amount of spam they receive, but it becomes my problem with I'm dealing with 20,000 junk mails that my servers have to process every month for 150 people.
I'm amazed by the amount of negative comments about this guy trying to fight spam. It seems like you people like spam or something? I welcome anyone who is doing something about all the spam. I spend $600 a month fighting spam, and I'm sure others spend more.
I run a WISP. We don't have unlimited accounts. It's 15GB for $30. After 15GB we throttle down to modem speed until the next payment. It's pay as you go, so there isn't any set length or late fees. Works good for us. We used to have unlimited internet, but stopped due to P2P killing our network. Half the people that had p2p running didn't even know it was on their systems. Our T1's were at full usage day and night while 1000's of connections coming in sharing music, software, and whatever else. It was getting so bad that DHCP couldn't even assign IP addresses.
Heck, in Firefox you don't even have to do that. Just type in Yahoo or Google and press enter. You will get there. No searching, no clicking, nothing, it just goes to where you tell it. If you type something that needs more info, you get the search page.
I don't even type in URLs anymore, I just type in what I want and I get there.
This is simple. It would cost too much to develop free software on the MS platform. Just think of all the time you will spend working around stability issues and support problems. Then you have to figure out all the undocumented API's and hidden functionality. On top of that, Windows doesn't have half the support, libraries, and code that Linux/FreeBSD has. You have to even _pay_ for the stinking OS to program free software on it.
Why would you want to program free software on something that is not free to develop on?
I think that if all ISP's turned off their spam filters for one month, then that would get people off their asses to do something about spam. I'm spending way too much time and money dealing with spam, and I'm about ready to just shut the mails server and clients off. I'll just go back to telephone and fax to solve the problem.
I had a customer try to update his system yesterday with IE7. When he launched it, it would lock up his system totally. He had to downgrade to IE6 so his system will work. This is not going to be good.
But what is more amazing is all the people that flat out refuse to use anything other than MSIE. Almost all my customers are brain washed into thinking that MSIE _is_ the internet. I try to get them to use FireFox, but they just will not do it. Even with all the problems MSIE has, they still will not switch to FireFox.
Actually, the WISP that I used to run stated on the front page that it was a shared 1.5Mbps T1 line for all customers. It also stated on the web site that P2P was not allowed and to go elsewhere if that is the intended use of the bandwidth.
Since I'm the only thing next to dial up here, I get the customers anyway. Bandwidth is good until P2P gets online. I just terminate their account in that case.
Currently the WISP is switching to a new pricing plan based on usage. Pay per Megabyte. Normal usage would get you a $15/mo rate. We are still analyzing the normal usage rates to get the tiers setup. Drop off the top 10 and average it or something.
I think that more and more small ISP's are going to start doing usage fees to help with the bandwidth/cost problem causes by P2P and now VoIP.
Dude, upgrade to the latest version and solve that problem. Yes, the 7.x versions had major problems with slowing down due to this. I have a medium sized project that I forgot to vacuum for about 6 months and didn't see any slowdown in it using the 8.x versions. The only reason I found out was that I was doing a code audit and seen that I had it remarked out. The auto-vacuum works very well these days.
So dump your RedHat/Fedora install, go with FreeBSD and get some performance from your box.
You don't know how much bandwidth costs do you. $500 a month for 1.5Mbps. Normally, that can work find for about 100 customers. But when you have someone using P2P, connecting to 100's of other clients, using every bit of bandwidth there is, then there is a problem. Now if 80 of your 100 customers are doing it, expecting that they should all get 1.5Mbps... You would have to buy 80 T1's at $500 each, per month. Then your customers are only paying $20 per month. So do the math.
The majority must want more taxes and more restrictions, because they have voted for it. Me, I didn't vote for Bush. I didn't even vote for Gore. I only vote Libertarian. I voted for less taxes, less government, and most importantly, I voted for freedom.
So any of you complaining here about these taxes that also voted for our current government should have nothing to complain about.
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Right. They need to take another look in two months with all the new goodies from Apple come out.
Also, most BioDiesel is made with another fuel mixture - Diesel fuel, Ethanol, or some other fuel that you have to buy and get taxed on.
So wouldn't this be double taxation?
Would I get a fine if my car got 200MPG?
Is this why we don't have cars that get better gas mileage?
"Obvious now, but was it obvious in 1996 when they filed for it?"
w ww.111cars.com/
Yes, in 1998 I was doing search by location for the automobile industry.
http://web.archive.org/web/19980128024655/http://
I'm sure I was doing it before that doing ZIP code, Area code and Geographic location searches.
"However, the truth is that the lack of an SDK means that there won't be a killer application for the iPhone."
The Killer App for the iPhone will be Linux.
Why not just switch to something like OpenID for all registrations. Let the OpenID system figure out bot or not. And if someone abuses the ID, it gets turned off and they lose access to everything.
Maybe it's the 800C that cleans it?
There is so much WiFi in my little town of Silver Springs that the WISP's are having trouble getting WiFi to work reliably. 1 out of 5 homes have a wireless router. There are three WISP's in our town. One WISP has three towers with WiFi backhauls. They are on at 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. The 2.4GHz spectrum is completely saturated with Phones, WiFi, and Microwave ovens. I can use my WiSpy scanner and it's solid across the board with WiFi signals. I can turn on NetStumbler with a 12dBi antenna and I can pick up over 100 WiFi base stations. Mostly SBC DSL internet Routers.
I'm still waiting for my third arm and super powers.
I totally agree. The show turned into a soap and it really sucks right now. The first season was awesome. Even my parents were watching it. But now it's just boring soap stuff that kills shows.
I don't care about who's married to who and what problems they have in their personal lives. I want to see Humans and Cylons kicking some ass.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was my first computer. I spend many nights programming that thing. I would leave it on for weeks because I had no way to back up anything. So I would just write code, play with it, then erase it all and start something else.
"You've discovered that outside of a pretty rabid minority, spam doesn't factor into most people's lives. If they see it, they delete it and move on with their lives."
Tell this to the tech support centers that get calls all day long from angry customers complaining about the amount of spam they receive.
I'm a very small ISP and I get calls twice a week about spam. This is after it's gone through Spamassassin. I have customers getting 200 spam emails a day that make it through Spamassassin. I know it's their fault for the amount of spam they receive, but it becomes my problem with I'm dealing with 20,000 junk mails that my servers have to process every month for 150 people.
I'm amazed by the amount of negative comments about this guy trying to fight spam. It seems like you people like spam or something? I welcome anyone who is doing something about all the spam. I spend $600 a month fighting spam, and I'm sure others spend more.
I run a WISP. We don't have unlimited accounts. It's 15GB for $30. After 15GB we throttle down to modem speed until the next payment. It's pay as you go, so there isn't any set length or late fees. Works good for us. We used to have unlimited internet, but stopped due to P2P killing our network. Half the people that had p2p running didn't even know it was on their systems. Our T1's were at full usage day and night while 1000's of connections coming in sharing music, software, and whatever else. It was getting so bad that DHCP couldn't even assign IP addresses.
Heck, in Firefox you don't even have to do that. Just type in Yahoo or Google and press enter. You will get there. No searching, no clicking, nothing, it just goes to where you tell it. If you type something that needs more info, you get the search page.
I don't even type in URLs anymore, I just type in what I want and I get there.
This is simple. It would cost too much to develop free software on the MS platform. Just think of all the time you will spend working around stability issues and support problems. Then you have to figure out all the undocumented API's and hidden functionality. On top of that, Windows doesn't have half the support, libraries, and code that Linux/FreeBSD has. You have to even _pay_ for the stinking OS to program free software on it.
Why would you want to program free software on something that is not free to develop on?
I think that if all ISP's turned off their spam filters for one month, then that would get people off their asses to do something about spam. I'm spending way too much time and money dealing with spam, and I'm about ready to just shut the mails server and clients off. I'll just go back to telephone and fax to solve the problem.
"Anybody can create a virus for OS X, and it can run perfectly. The biggest problem would be how it can be able to spread to other machines."
If it can't spread, then it's not a Virus.
I had a customer try to update his system yesterday with IE7. When he launched it, it would lock up his system totally. He had to downgrade to IE6 so his system will work. This is not going to be good.
Bill Gates never worked from his Garage. He already had the money to rent office space.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just float things into space. There would be no friction, no heat, and less energy to consume. Floating is the answer.
So, we should figure out anti-gravity.
But what is more amazing is all the people that flat out refuse to use anything other than MSIE. Almost all my customers are brain washed into thinking that MSIE _is_ the internet. I try to get them to use FireFox, but they just will not do it. Even with all the problems MSIE has, they still will not switch to FireFox.
Actually, the WISP that I used to run stated on the front page that it was a shared 1.5Mbps T1 line for all customers. It also stated on the web site that P2P was not allowed and to go elsewhere if that is the intended use of the bandwidth.
Since I'm the only thing next to dial up here, I get the customers anyway. Bandwidth is good until P2P gets online. I just terminate their account in that case.
Currently the WISP is switching to a new pricing plan based on usage. Pay per Megabyte. Normal usage would get you a $15/mo rate. We are still analyzing the normal usage rates to get the tiers setup. Drop off the top 10 and average it or something.
I think that more and more small ISP's are going to start doing usage fees to help with the bandwidth/cost problem causes by P2P and now VoIP.
Dude, upgrade to the latest version and solve that problem. Yes, the 7.x versions had major problems with slowing down due to this. I have a medium sized project that I forgot to vacuum for about 6 months and didn't see any slowdown in it using the 8.x versions. The only reason I found out was that I was doing a code audit and seen that I had it remarked out. The auto-vacuum works very well these days.
So dump your RedHat/Fedora install, go with FreeBSD and get some performance from your box.
You don't know how much bandwidth costs do you. $500 a month for 1.5Mbps. Normally, that can work find for about 100 customers. But when you have someone using P2P, connecting to 100's of other clients, using every bit of bandwidth there is, then there is a problem. Now if 80 of your 100 customers are doing it, expecting that they should all get 1.5Mbps... You would have to buy 80 T1's at $500 each, per month. Then your customers are only paying $20 per month. So do the math.
The majority must want more taxes and more restrictions, because they have voted for it. Me, I didn't vote for Bush. I didn't even vote for Gore. I only vote Libertarian. I voted for less taxes, less government, and most importantly, I voted for freedom.
So any of you complaining here about these taxes that also voted for our current government should have nothing to complain about.
Stop using email. I'm almost ready to just turn off all my email accounts. RSS feeds, IMs, VoIP, and the telephone work much better anyway.