My DSL provider (DirecTV/Telocity) has a 2GB/mo upload cap (no download cap). The router's web interface (IP 10.5.1.2) shows your RX and TX stats for the month. So I can adjust my throttling params on my Linux ipmasqing router to account for how much I have left.
I think that the better way to cap is uploads. My DSL provider, DirecTV (nee Telocity) has a 2GB/month upload limit. That's more than enough for me to run a mail server, ssh, and a little Apache. They also specifically allow servers in the TOS. I think it's a good trade-off.
...and I don't mind. The cap is 2 GB/mo of uploads (unlimited downloads), but they compensate for this, imho, by explicitly allowing servers in the TOS.
That's the problem with consumer broadband: people running web/ftp servers (specifically, ones that get popular). Too many providers ban this or even firewall port 80. I think it's fair to have an upload cap to collar the warez d00dz who eat my bandwidth while I can run a low-volume server (and I have my router throttle my outbound data...).
Of course, some providers will cap and not change the TOS one iota...
Scientists at the International Slashdot Observatory have found evidence of repeat postings on/.
The lead researcher said, in presenting his findings, "compare this article with the parent. Notice the stunning similarity? The only rational explanation is that Slashdot is repeating itself."
seems rather an inelegant way to make a general proof; general proof for n>=5, the seperate proofs for n=1, n=2, n=3 and n=4. Does this new proof just do n=3, or is it a _nice_ general proof?
I see no inelegance to this method. One of the steps in the general proof may only work if n>=5. This does not mean that the general proof is invalid.
Essentially, the same method underlies inductive proof (e.g. a general proof that holds for n>s, and a demonstration that n=s combine to n>=s).
One fringe benefit of making the query in that script: three out of four ads shown are for.Net training, thus making life a little more expensive for our friends pushing.Net.
I think that if you ran that script with a sleep thrown in for good measure, Google wouldn't have the problem.
This may be a residual effect of people protesting the Xenu.net flap of a month ago.
Basically, Don Marti proposed that people run this shell script:
while : ; do wget -o/dev/null -O/dev/null \ http://google.com/search?query=where+the+fuck+is+x enu+dot+net+you+chickenshit+stanford+assholes; do ne
Google essentially took this to be a DoS attack against their search (which, to a large extent, it is, imho). They started banning IP's which were running this script. When lots of users from Comcast netblocks began running the script, they may have decided to block those netblocks.
Does Comcast happen to use PPPoE? If so, then I would say that Google's actions are warranted, imho.
The network movies in prime time are shown nationwide (well, except when some preacher forces the local affiliate to drop the network that night). But a lot of network affiliates show movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, especially if there's no sports programming available (I myself wonder if minor sports like lacrosse or NFL Europe football would get better ratings than the 18th showing this year of Red Heat...).
Good lord - if this gets The Guardian, Family Law, First Monday, Everbody Loves Raymond, Baby Bob and the other crap shows off the air, more power to you.
In fact, I know a group of upcoming juniors who decided to not live off campus because of the internet connection - it's god aweful and hideously expensive.
That's a major reason why there's a housing crunch at UMass. If I were a landlord renting a house to college students, I would get a DSL connection and set up a LAN, splitting the cost of the connection.
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Monolinux reports that Mozilla 1.0RC1 is due within a week. This is surely News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters!
It has to be... uh... stable! Yeah, that's it, stable.
I think their capping compromise is a good one: cap your TX at 2GB/mo.
My DSL provider (DirecTV/Telocity) has a 2GB/mo upload cap (no download cap). The router's web interface (IP 10.5.1.2) shows your RX and TX stats for the month. So I can adjust my throttling params on my Linux ipmasqing router to account for how much I have left.
I think that the better way to cap is uploads. My DSL provider, DirecTV (nee Telocity) has a 2GB/month upload limit. That's more than enough for me to run a mail server, ssh, and a little Apache. They also specifically allow servers in the TOS. I think it's a good trade-off.
...and I don't mind. The cap is 2 GB/mo of uploads (unlimited downloads), but they compensate for this, imho, by explicitly allowing servers in the TOS.
That's the problem with consumer broadband: people running web/ftp servers (specifically, ones that get popular). Too many providers ban this or even firewall port 80. I think it's fair to have an upload cap to collar the warez d00dz who eat my bandwidth while I can run a low-volume server (and I have my router throttle my outbound data...).
Of course, some providers will cap and not change the TOS one iota...
Scientists at the International Slashdot Observatory have found evidence of repeat postings on /.
The lead researcher said, in presenting his findings, "compare this article with the parent. Notice the stunning similarity? The only rational explanation is that Slashdot is repeating itself."
I see no inelegance to this method. One of the steps in the general proof may only work if n>=5. This does not mean that the general proof is invalid.
Essentially, the same method underlies inductive proof (e.g. a general proof that holds for n>s, and a demonstration that n=s combine to n>=s).
One fringe benefit of making the query in that script: three out of four ads shown are for .Net training, thus making life a little more expensive for our friends pushing .Net.
I think that if you ran that script with a sleep thrown in for good measure, Google wouldn't have the problem.
This may be a residual effect of people protesting the Xenu.net flap of a month ago.
Basically, Don Marti proposed that people run this shell script:
Google essentially took this to be a DoS attack against their search (which, to a large extent, it is, imho). They started banning IP's which were running this script. When lots of users from Comcast netblocks began running the script, they may have decided to block those netblocks.
Does Comcast happen to use PPPoE? If so, then I would say that Google's actions are warranted, imho.
Read the subject line!
NotSlash : We scoop Slashdot!The network movies in prime time are shown nationwide (well, except when some preacher forces the local affiliate to drop the network that night). But a lot of network affiliates show movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, especially if there's no sports programming available (I myself wonder if minor sports like lacrosse or NFL Europe football would get better ratings than the 18th showing this year of Red Heat...).
I take it you're not a fan of Les Moonves.
That's a major reason why there's a housing crunch at UMass. If I were a landlord renting a house to college students, I would get a DSL connection and set up a LAN, splitting the cost of the connection.
...In Goatseciah 6:9 "Do not click on the popups, for they are the spawn of Satan!"
Mandrake's installer is GPL. It shouldn't be too exceptionally difficult to port it to Debian...
Didn't they?
Also, that provision will be ruled unconstitutional anyway...
The problem is that the Campaign Finance Reform law that just got passed banned issue-based political ads by non-candidates, IIRC.
Of course, it could be difficult to buy a GeForce4.
Well, web servers are a minor part of an enterprises computing needs. I mean, no one does actual business over the web, right?
Generally the shopping networks pay a certain percentage of sales to the cable/sat providers.
Dude, if you thought the DMCA was a bad law, just look at the rules a girlfriend can make!
Hey, when I cross a bridge, the toll attendant doesn't give me a receipt that's "fr15t p0st b1tche5!" printed on a goatse.cx background.
Nor do they give me a receipt that eight miles wide, either...
*groan*
I could see the GPL being used as a sort of viral manner... anyone who records a version of the song must freely distribute it.
But the beauty of the GPL is that it's your choice to use it. If you don't like it, just use another license.