Black holes suck, suck big time, right ? So how can they be so rare today yet teeming in the past ? This extreme physics makes my head want to explode:)
How do you feel about these cameras? Is all this surveillance actually wanted by the citizens, or is it being shoved down your throats by the Evil Empire? Does it effect your daily lives? Any stories of when the surveillance goes wrong, or is used for something especially good?
On the whole they don't bother me, providing proper controls on the footage are in place. Most people understand it's about crime prevention, and they do have a measurable effect. It only seems to be the civil liberties organisations that have a real problem with them.
That's some pretty impressive code, that can operate to corrupt the filesystem even when it's just being passively read from another operating system. How does Zero Knowledge gain such power over flux transitions on write-protected media?
Quite simple really, the data is already encrypted; I suggest you do some background reading on Zero Knowledge protocols.
Games on Demand is the future of consoles, consumers will download the latest version direct from the publishers, on a broadband pipe when they want it. Then pay for it depending on the usage. It an automatic try before you buy (hopefully resulting in better games for everybody). The heavy users pay the price.
We already use this business model for Movie Rentals, after all who now buys games or Videos on release date today? practically Nobody!
So why should a consumer pay 40pounds/dollars for a fresh title on day one? It's sense less, the only people who do are the pirates, who's sell you the title within 24 for a fraction of the retail price, generally around the rental price.
The producers know this, consumers know it, progress ? Perhaps.
This is no bad thing, but there is a mistake in thinking they are 'computer literate' instead of just 'net literate'.
These new users will hinder, not help, attempts to fight DMCA etc.. because they will be the first to accept, and unquestioningly use, copyright friendly content viewers/players. And are very succeptable to the suggestion that anyone who deviates from this path must be a 'evil nerd/hacker' to be despised, bullied and then called a coward by lame presidents when they finally snap.
Therefore the Digeratis' responsibility is to continue build a better 'up-town', built on our values and standards.
We need nurture & educate these new comers about the consequences of issues like RIP/DMCA, instead of insulting & alienating them with derogatory labels, because they don't follow 'our' rules.
Indeed in many ways we are actually better placed to achieve this. We can win this fight, it's all about knowledge engineering 'our business. Those wishing to 'take-over' and 'control' the net are the same established power trippers, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, etc that everybody loves to hate.
Indeed in my experience many of us Digeratis' are from working class (blue collar) backgrounds, IT certain gave me (and my brother) a chance to escape from 'down-town' on my own merit, a chance we would not have had at another time, or profession. As incumbents we have a natural advantage, providing we don't piss it away. We need to appeal to mass aspirations, present the benefits of the Digital Suburbs, of Open Content rather than the proprietary getto of AOL/MSN etc.
First they'd have to prove that Sealand wasn't a country.
I think you'll find the burden of proof would be the otherway round. The UK Courts or Police would act, and it's would be up to the 'Mr king' of 'Sealand' to challenge this, however he thought fit.
If it is a country then Britain would be on pretty dodgy ground as far as international law went.
Hardly since any actions would be carried out under UK law, by the UK Courts & Police.
Overall I think the best option for a true data haven in an existing 'trusted' tax/banking haven.
While your point is well made, your data is off...
Whilst these where/are generalisation, they are not unreasonable estimates. The Kinetic energy is the key, and this is a factor of several attributes; speed, attitude, density in addition to the actual size. The shock-wave and ejection actually cause the majority of the 'excessive' damage.
Try this NASA meteor simulator.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/solarsy stem/meteors/ImpactHazard.html
This link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_ 1196000/1196688.stm) shows why the study & exploration of space is so important.
This meteor; which fell today on the historic city of York in the UK, was smaller than a golf ball, yet still left a crater 1 meter deep and 15cm wide.
The long term survival (and development) of the Human species is inexplicably link to the exploration of space.
food for thought A meteor the size of a football would level a house; one the size of a car would level a city; one the size of a house would level the planet.
You should also know ShoeBoy is another well known troll, just checkout the history. I would not be surprised if they are not both alter ego's of the same person.
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Am I the only one to appreciate the delicious sense of irony of making this post ?:)
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As a libertarian, I found the former USSR Government quite offensive, however I've got to play the devils advocate on this post because it does miss-lead.
If we are to avoid repeating the former USSR mistakes, we need to truely understand them.
Talk to anyone who grew up in Eastern Europe, or the Soviet Union, before 1990 and you'll discover that there was most certainly central control.
The failure of the former USSR is primarily attributable to the totalitarian nature [Central Control in your words] of it's government, not to communism.
[Communism] thus doesn't work in practice.
Capitalist Governments have also collapsed.
So Capitalism thus doesn't work in practice ?
Indeed, it seems to force at least a third of the population to live in abject poverty, even in the richest countries [USA/Japan/UK/Canada/etc]. This also seems pretty totalitatian to me.
Indeed if you measure 'success' as the highest medium (rather than mean) living standards, the most successful countries are the Scandanavian countries, with near zero real poverty, and socialist (not communist!) Governments. Indeed they are also very strongly social libertarian.
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It might well be, but the Microsoft era certainly hasn't ended. They have better market share than ever.
I think you need to open your eyes to events around you, Microsoft market share, volume, sales, revenues are in decline, their share price is in free fall, it's seem the markets don't agree with you. In the same way that IBM couldn't see who was going to oust them 15 years ago, Microsoft will not see the new contender until it's too late. This is why it's not yet apparent to you, but it is imminent, and there is nothing Microsoft can do about it.
Why... ? Disruptive Technology is how it's going to happen, It attacks from the lower end, erodes your volumes, and neutralises your chances to compete. You don't know what's hit you until it's too late. It's already too late for microsoft.
They are poised to take over the game console market,
That's what IBM thought of the PC when the launched it, it was too little too late. The X-Box is the same, too little, too late; Microsoft have already lost the console market to Sony, that is obvious to anybody with a brain.
and yesterday announced moves to corner the mobile phone market.
Same logic, Norkia this time.
This combined with the increasing acceptance of Windows 2000 as the most stable and maintainable server platform around means the Microsoft era is far from over.
Whilst I dispute your claim's of stability and maintenance, it is actually immaterial for a disruptive technology, where simplicity and low Cost are the keys.
We have seen the beginning of open source on a large scale
Open source is only one of the 'threat's' to Microsoft. The Services Business model, Broadband Networks & Channel Convergence, are three whole sectors that are already eroding Microsoft revenues.
but we certainly haven't seen the end of the Microsoft era.
Not the end of Microsoft, but certainly the end of the "Microsoft Era", IBM are still with us, and a much better company for being knocked down a peg or two. Don't your know, monopolies are bad for everybody especially the monopoly it's self.
...there is no sign of the kind of consumer platform where everything is done for you (speaking as someone who recently went to see a client who didn't even understand how to change resolutions and had 640*480 on a 21" monitor, the importance of the OS helping you through everything is clear), nor indeed a server platform where the all important factor - staff time and expertise in maintenance is kept low enough.
Are you really that sure about this, you've already mentioned two of them, Mobile Phones, Consoles, I add one more general trend, convergent devices. The PC is not a Consumer device, it never has been, it's simply been levered into some home markets, as you point out it's simply too complex for Joe Average, and Windows is not going to get ANY simpler to use.
This is actually a fantastic question: what was the first open source project?
I agree Very Good Question!
The Iliad? Gilgamesh? Perhaps. At least that far back, the 'concepts' behind Open Source/Free Software have repeatedly pop-up through-out history, the Renaissance was built on many of the same ideas, it can certainly be traced back at least as far as the ancient Greek Civilisation.
Scientist & Philosophers would teach at 'universities', conduct lecture tours & publish pamphlets on their ideas, predominantly for the fame and prestige and not trade or monetary rewards, though this often followed through the patronage of the existing rich and powerful. The Patron/Sponsors would gained reflected prestige for their patronage of these important works.
Microsoft distributes some of its programs without charge to customers
You would expect a senior exec of a large corp to understand the sematic differences of Freedom as in "Born Free" and "There is so such thing as a free lunch".
This is similar to an idea, some fiends and I played around with at Univerity. I admit we stole the idea from canoeist/kayekers, who use two part foam for wilderness repairs. The idea was for self healing hull's to protect space craft from micro-meteors.
The best way to describe it is layers of "bubble wrap", alternating with layers of woven Carbon-Kevlar, the bubble's in the bubble wrap would contain a binary (two part) foam or resin. When the two or more 'bubble wrap' layers are breeched the binary components interacts and forms foam or resin, which cloggs up the fissues or holes.
We Java (J2EE) to deliver an Interactive Digital Television System (www.kingston-vision.co.uk).
We develop & unit test on NT PC's using Ultra-10's server, systems test on mid-range Solaris servers, and commission to high-end Clustered Enterprise Solaris Servers, Pace STB's, nCube Video Servers and Linux Servers for IP Services. We integrate with Oracle, and in the near future need to integrate legacy DB. We can also (through XML/XSLT) support a wide range of other client devices Web PAD's, Phones and all types PC's (not just Wintel).
Currently we transparently use a combination of JSWDK, Tomcat and Netscape, on the various platforms, we have a great choice of Application Servers from major names IBM, Oracle, Borland, Forte, IPlanet as well as Sun, on a range of server hardware from the smallest PC to the largest monsters. Java is open in all but name.
Interactive Digital TV simply could not be delivered with Microsoft or PC technology, even the highest end Wintel servers are not even in the same league as our requirements. Java is the only realistic development platforms without the major head ache of multiple development tools, environments and big dose of x-compilation.
It's also must be very reliable, KIT demands 24/7 service because people expect it to be as reliability as TV not their PC's and in the 13 months it's been available we have has ZERO outage due to Java.
As a development tool J2EE is a dream to work with, it's highly OO & readily implements from UML. The API's & JDK's are clean, and support a wide range services in Networking, Integration and Media.
The only down side is the difficulty recruiting skilled Java Software Engineers, personally I regard this as just another advantage:)
Wow, great. Yet again, a pointless story about Sun and Microsoft making bitchy remarks and putdowns at each other.
Now is this really fair ?
The original M$ story was FUD of the highest order, perhaps as Java Software Engineer I have an advantage in recognising that large parts of the original M$ attack are simply untrue. The Sun response focuses of answering the questions/issues raised, and defending Sun & Java from the attack, with only trivial swipes at.NET
It actually closely follows the Linux/Open Source approach & style of FUD control, of focusing on the issues, rebut the falsehoods & keep your cool, especially keep your cool. I think this may well prove as important as the Halloween leaks, & subsequent rebuttals.
...is this part of a PR campaign to show John Q. Public how dangerous encryption is in any hands other than gov?
Perhaps, is this part of a PR campaign to show John Q. Public how dangerous guns are in any hands other than gov?
Why would the former succeed when the latter has failed ?
...they are not dropping the Dreamcast platform, they're just stopping their own production of the Dreamcast console and licensing the technology out...
I agree, and here is an example, A press release from Pace;
http://www.pace.co.uk/content.asp?id=442&template= 0
Hark, do I here convergence ?
Companies are willing to hire programmers without degrees for a combination of two reasons: (1) they can be just as good, if not better than, a software engineer (in some cases);...
Software Engineering is the full process of developing software, coding is only a part of this process. It also includes; macro & micro design (including data & elements of process design) ; unit, integration & systems testing design, it may perhaps also include detailed analysis & development; the commissioning & deployment. Many 'programmers' would not know where to start with many of these.
If they DO know where to start then they are making the transition from Programmer to Software Engineer. However, I don't think that you need a formal qualification to be a Software Engineer, ability from knowledge and experience of the whole process I've highlighted above, is what makes grade.
IMO, formal training often reduces the ability to think creatively -- once you are taught "the right way", it's hard to break new ground.
This post demonstrates the posters Prejudice (envy?) against Software Engineers, it also shows a who is 'thinking within the box'.
While it is ALWAYS nice to have alternative ways of getting subscriber based TV (read: Cable), this really doesn't impress me as a comsumer.
The real benefit to the consumer is indirect, using xDSL technologly to deliver this type of service is signigicatly cheaper than cable because is uses the existing telephone infrastructure.
In my area, we have digital cable. I have 180 channels including 10 HBO channels and 10 Showtime channels. Also, built right into the cable box is a cable modem. Granted DSL has guarantted speed while cable is shared speed, it's as fast (if not faster)as normal home DSL connections most of the time.
Cable because is CSMA/CD is limited in the number of channels it can offer. xDSL because it uses point-to-point is essentially unlimited.
What I want to know is what compression they are using? To sqeeze 60 channels into a DSL line is quite a feat (since you can STILL use DSL at the same time), but feasible
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Black holes suck, suck big time, right ? So how can they be so rare today yet teeming in the past ? This extreme physics makes my head want to explode :)
On the whole they don't bother me, providing proper controls on the footage are in place. Most people understand it's about crime prevention, and they do have a measurable effect. It only seems to be the civil liberties organisations that have a real problem with them.
That's some pretty impressive code, that can operate to corrupt the filesystem even when it's just being passively read from another operating system. How does Zero Knowledge gain such power over flux transitions on write-protected media? Quite simple really, the data is already encrypted; I suggest you do some background reading on Zero Knowledge protocols.
Games on Demand is the future of consoles, consumers will download the latest version direct from the publishers, on a broadband pipe when they want it. Then pay for it depending on the usage. It an automatic try before you buy (hopefully resulting in better games for everybody). The heavy users pay the price.
We already use this business model for Movie Rentals, after all who now buys games or Videos on release date today? practically Nobody!
So why should a consumer pay 40pounds/dollars for a fresh title on day one? It's sense less, the only people who do are the pirates, who's sell you the title within 24 for a fraction of the retail price, generally around the rental price.
The producers know this, consumers know it, progress ? Perhaps.
This is no bad thing, but there is a mistake in thinking they are 'computer literate' instead of just 'net literate'.
These new users will hinder, not help, attempts to fight DMCA etc.. because they will be the first to accept, and unquestioningly use, copyright friendly content viewers/players. And are very succeptable to the suggestion that anyone who deviates from this path must be a 'evil nerd/hacker' to be despised, bullied and then called a coward by lame presidents when they finally snap.
Therefore the Digeratis' responsibility is to continue build a better 'up-town', built on our values and standards.
We need nurture & educate these new comers about the consequences of issues like RIP/DMCA, instead of insulting & alienating them with derogatory labels, because they don't follow 'our' rules.
Indeed in many ways we are actually better placed to achieve this. We can win this fight, it's all about knowledge engineering 'our business. Those wishing to 'take-over' and 'control' the net are the same established power trippers, politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, etc that everybody loves to hate.
Indeed in my experience many of us Digeratis' are from working class (blue collar) backgrounds, IT certain gave me (and my brother) a chance to escape from 'down-town' on my own merit, a chance we would not have had at another time, or profession. As incumbents we have a natural advantage, providing we don't piss it away. We need to appeal to mass aspirations, present the benefits of the Digital Suburbs, of Open Content rather than the proprietary getto of AOL/MSN etc.
I think you'll find the burden of proof would be the otherway round. The UK Courts or Police would act, and it's would be up to the 'Mr king' of 'Sealand' to challenge this, however he thought fit.
If it is a country then Britain would be on pretty dodgy ground as far as international law went.
Hardly since any actions would be carried out under UK law, by the UK Courts & Police.
Overall I think the best option for a true data haven in an existing 'trusted' tax/banking haven.
Probably not, since action would be a internal matter, it would be handled by the Police, not the military.
Whilst these where/are generalisation, they are not unreasonable estimates. The Kinetic energy is the key, and this is a factor of several attributes; speed, attitude, density in addition to the actual size. The shock-wave and ejection actually cause the majority of the 'excessive' damage.
Try this NASA meteor simulator. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/solarsy stem/meteors/ImpactHazard.html
This link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_ 1196000/1196688.stm) shows why the study & exploration of space is so important.
This meteor; which fell today on the historic city of York in the UK, was smaller than a golf ball, yet still left a crater 1 meter deep and 15cm wide.
The long term survival (and development) of the Human species is inexplicably link to the exploration of space.
food for thought A meteor the size of a football would level a house; one the size of a car would level a city; one the size of a house would level the planet.
Sigh....
You should also know ShoeBoy is another well known troll, just checkout the history. I would not be surprised if they are not both alter ego's of the same person.
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Am I the only one to appreciate the delicious sense of irony of making this post ? :)
As a libertarian, I found the former USSR Government quite offensive, however I've got to play the devils advocate on this post because it does miss-lead.
If we are to avoid repeating the former USSR mistakes, we need to truely understand them.
Talk to anyone who grew up in Eastern Europe, or the Soviet Union, before 1990 and you'll discover that there was most certainly central control.
The failure of the former USSR is primarily attributable to the totalitarian nature [Central Control in your words] of it's government, not to communism.
[Communism] thus doesn't work in practice.
Capitalist Governments have also collapsed.
So Capitalism thus doesn't work in practice ?
Indeed, it seems to force at least a third of the population to live in abject poverty, even in the richest countries [USA/Japan/UK/Canada/etc]. This also seems pretty totalitatian to me.
Indeed if you measure 'success' as the highest medium (rather than mean) living standards, the most successful countries are the Scandanavian countries, with near zero real poverty, and socialist (not communist!) Governments. Indeed they are also very strongly social libertarian.
It might well be, but the Microsoft era certainly hasn't ended. They have better market share than ever.
I think you need to open your eyes to events around you, Microsoft market share, volume, sales, revenues are in decline, their share price is in free fall, it's seem the markets don't agree with you. In the same way that IBM couldn't see who was going to oust them 15 years ago, Microsoft will not see the new contender until it's too late. This is why it's not yet apparent to you, but it is imminent, and there is nothing Microsoft can do about it.
Why ... ? Disruptive Technology is how it's going to happen, It attacks from the lower end, erodes your volumes, and neutralises your chances to compete. You don't know what's hit you until it's too late. It's already too late for microsoft.
They are poised to take over the game console market,
That's what IBM thought of the PC when the launched it, it was too little too late. The X-Box is the same, too little, too late; Microsoft have already lost the console market to Sony, that is obvious to anybody with a brain.
and yesterday announced moves to corner the mobile phone market.
Same logic, Norkia this time.
This combined with the increasing acceptance of Windows 2000 as the most stable and maintainable server platform around means the Microsoft era is far from over.
Whilst I dispute your claim's of stability and maintenance, it is actually immaterial for a disruptive technology, where simplicity and low Cost are the keys.
We have seen the beginning of open source on a large scale
Open source is only one of the 'threat's' to Microsoft. The Services Business model, Broadband Networks & Channel Convergence, are three whole sectors that are already eroding Microsoft revenues.
but we certainly haven't seen the end of the Microsoft era.
Not the end of Microsoft, but certainly the end of the "Microsoft Era", IBM are still with us, and a much better company for being knocked down a peg or two. Don't your know, monopolies are bad for everybody especially the monopoly it's self.
Are you really that sure about this, you've already mentioned two of them, Mobile Phones, Consoles, I add one more general trend, convergent devices. The PC is not a Consumer device, it never has been, it's simply been levered into some home markets, as you point out it's simply too complex for Joe Average, and Windows is not going to get ANY simpler to use.
This is actually a fantastic question: what was the first open source project? I agree Very Good Question! The Iliad? Gilgamesh? Perhaps. At least that far back, the 'concepts' behind Open Source/Free Software have repeatedly pop-up through-out history, the Renaissance was built on many of the same ideas, it can certainly be traced back at least as far as the ancient Greek Civilisation. Scientist & Philosophers would teach at 'universities', conduct lecture tours & publish pamphlets on their ideas, predominantly for the fame and prestige and not trade or monetary rewards, though this often followed through the patronage of the existing rich and powerful. The Patron/Sponsors would gained reflected prestige for their patronage of these important works.
Microsoft distributes some of its programs without charge to customers
You would expect a senior exec of a large corp to understand the sematic differences of Freedom as in "Born Free" and "There is so such thing as a free lunch".
We can build a better product than Linux,'' he [Allchin] said.
"We can" Future tense; this would suggest tacit acceptance the Linux is presently superior Windows!
This is similar to an idea, some fiends and I played around with at Univerity. I admit we stole the idea from canoeist/kayekers, who use two part foam for wilderness repairs. The idea was for self healing hull's to protect space craft from micro-meteors.
The best way to describe it is layers of "bubble wrap", alternating with layers of woven Carbon-Kevlar, the bubble's in the bubble wrap would contain a binary (two part) foam or resin. When the two or more 'bubble wrap' layers are breeched the binary components interacts and forms foam or resin, which cloggs up the fissues or holes.
We Java (J2EE) to deliver an Interactive Digital Television System (www.kingston-vision.co.uk).
We develop & unit test on NT PC's using Ultra-10's server, systems test on mid-range Solaris servers, and commission to high-end Clustered Enterprise Solaris Servers, Pace STB's, nCube Video Servers and Linux Servers for IP Services. We integrate with Oracle, and in the near future need to integrate legacy DB. We can also (through XML/XSLT) support a wide range of other client devices Web PAD's, Phones and all types PC's (not just Wintel).
Currently we transparently use a combination of JSWDK, Tomcat and Netscape, on the various platforms, we have a great choice of Application Servers from major names IBM, Oracle, Borland, Forte, IPlanet as well as Sun, on a range of server hardware from the smallest PC to the largest monsters. Java is open in all but name.
Interactive Digital TV simply could not be delivered with Microsoft or PC technology, even the highest end Wintel servers are not even in the same league as our requirements. Java is the only realistic development platforms without the major head ache of multiple development tools, environments and big dose of x-compilation.
It's also must be very reliable, KIT demands 24/7 service because people expect it to be as reliability as TV not their PC's and in the 13 months it's been available we have has ZERO outage due to Java.
As a development tool J2EE is a dream to work with, it's highly OO & readily implements from UML. The API's & JDK's are clean, and support a wide range services in Networking, Integration and Media.
The only down side is the difficulty recruiting skilled Java Software Engineers, personally I regard this as just another advantage :)
Now is this really fair ?
The original M$ story was FUD of the highest order, perhaps as Java Software Engineer I have an advantage in recognising that large parts of the original M$ attack are simply untrue. The Sun response focuses of answering the questions/issues raised, and defending Sun & Java from the attack, with only trivial swipes at .NET
It actually closely follows the Linux/Open Source approach & style of FUD control, of focusing on the issues, rebut the falsehoods & keep your cool, especially keep your cool. I think this may well prove as important as the Halloween leaks, & subsequent rebuttals.
Perhaps, is this part of a PR campaign to show John Q. Public how dangerous guns are in any hands other than gov? Why would the former succeed when the latter has failed ?
Gates is expected to be released in three weeks. They'll probably slip that deadline as well :)
Companies are willing to hire programmers without degrees for a combination of two reasons: (1) they can be just as good, if not better than, a software engineer (in some cases);...
Software Engineering is the full process of developing software, coding is only a part of this process. It also includes; macro & micro design (including data & elements of process design) ; unit, integration & systems testing design, it may perhaps also include detailed analysis & development; the commissioning & deployment. Many 'programmers' would not know where to start with many of these.
If they DO know where to start then they are making the transition from Programmer to Software Engineer. However, I don't think that you need a formal qualification to be a Software Engineer, ability from knowledge and experience of the whole process I've highlighted above, is what makes grade.
IMO, formal training often reduces the ability to think creatively -- once you are taught "the right way", it's hard to break new ground.
This post demonstrates the posters Prejudice (envy?) against Software Engineers, it also shows a who is 'thinking within the box'.
While it is ALWAYS nice to have alternative ways of getting subscriber based TV (read: Cable), this really doesn't impress me as a comsumer.
The real benefit to the consumer is indirect, using xDSL technologly to deliver this type of service is signigicatly cheaper than cable because is uses the existing telephone infrastructure.
In my area, we have digital cable. I have 180 channels including 10 HBO channels and 10 Showtime channels. Also, built right into the cable box is a cable modem. Granted DSL has guarantted speed while cable is shared speed, it's as fast (if not faster)as normal home DSL connections most of the time.
Cable because is CSMA/CD is limited in the number of channels it can offer. xDSL because it uses point-to-point is essentially unlimited.
What I want to know is what compression they are using? To sqeeze 60 channels into a DSL line is quite a feat (since you can STILL use DSL at the same time), but feasible
It's not compressed.
Only the Current channel is streamed.