Yes, but if it ever leaks out, Gallium might cause structural failure of anything that's made of aluminium. And certainly I don't want to have conductive liquid in my electronic devices, when the cable breaks.
I know I probably shouldn't say this, and my comment might get modded down quite badly.
But those people who think that the Internet's control should be taken away from the US and handed to the UN should really look at what other countries in the UN do with their Internet. I know it is bad that US uses copyright laws as excuse to take over domains, like MegaUpload. However you can still search Barack Obama on the US Internet without any problem. I think having US controlling the Internet is the lesser of two evils. I certainly don't want countries like China to get involved in deciding the future of the Internet.
And if you wonder who introduced DPI into the ITU, it is China.
I wonder if this guy hates his job/Nokia/Microsoft. I meant if he loves his company, he should have contacted Microsoft, and get fixed, then perhaps gets some street cred by publishing some news report.
I am not sure if this kind of activity would sour the relationship between Microsoft and Nokia. Perhaps that's actually his goal.
The current situation: One country can implement rules to abuse the whole world. Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
Without US control: Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
How can this not be a Good Thing(tm)?
Besides the part in the summary about blocking access via proxy servers is bull. Even with the deep packet inspection currently implemented in the UK they can't block VPN links which can be easily hidden in other traffic.
Because without US control, other countries screwing over their own citizens is legitimised. US at least pretends that it cares about the citizens in other countries.
if you think you have to upgrade to do IPv6, you're either foolhardy or not buying the right equipment in the first place. If you buy the right stuff no upgrades should be required for IPv6 functionality, including hiring people.
They have loads of outdated equipment in the government.
I hate to say it, but I think IPv6 is at the bottom of the priority queue of David Cameron. Anything that drive up the cost should be avoided. This includes the cost of equipment upgrade, and the cost of hiring sensible contractor...
I think the government is a bit too thick to see that mandating IPv6 is a business opportunity for the private sectors...
I think ITU's action shows the true colour of the United Nation. I think it is simply too dangerous to pass on the control of the Internet to the United Nation.
If you use Windows, you can install Truecrypt, and change the bootloader so it shows "Operating System Not Found".
If you use Linux, set up encrypted LVM, and have your boot partition on a separate USB flash drive, which you attach to your keyring, and carry around with you all time.
Here's a story I remember reading about Bill Gates, and I wonder whether it's true.
His father was a millionaire lawyer (that much is true). His mother was on a lot of "charity" boards, and on one of those boards, she met an executive of IBM. At that moment in history, IBM was developing the PC as a skonk works project, and needed a simple operating system. His mother hooked the executive, and IBM, up with her son, and he sold them his operating system, which was a derivative of UNIX that he bought from somebody else. IBM foolishly or generously bought non-exclusive rights to the operating system, so that he could sell it to other companies.
How much of that is true? How did Bill Gates make the connection to IBM? I haven't read all the biographies.
I am not sure about Gates's family background, whether or not his father is a millionaire (probably not).
However your story of how IBM approached Microsoft is completely not true. IBM was trying to make this PC thing. They quite like Microsoft's BASIC, which was quite a large business by then. But Microsoft didn't have an OS to offer. So Microsoft asked IBM to talk to Digital Research for the CP/M. IBM's negotiator did not want to reveal that it was an IBM business. So the digital research people gave IBM people some leaflets. So IBM went back to Microsoft, the Gates et al decided to buy get QDOS license from Seattle Computer Products.
Microsoft's BASIC business started with Atari. Microsoft had a lawsuit with Atari to make sure BASIC's license to Atari was not exclusive, and could be ported to other platforms.
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We're not Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
I don't think Bill Gates used his family money to start up the company. However Bill Gates was (possibly still is) extremely talented.
If you read Idea Man[1] by Paul Allen, Bill Gates sneaked around WSU's computer lab with Paul Allen, fixing PhD students' code. That's before Bill Gates went to Harvard to study a degree in law. If you think you are as capable as Bill Gates, feel free to drop out.
I happen to think that the law degree might have helped Bill Gates in running his company.
Most of the blocks are by DNS.. Using opendns alternative ports solves this or DNS over TCP
DNS over TCP solves it. In fact if you use Google DNS as the upstream resolver, and use TCP port 53, you will be okay. However it seems web services with local server in China all slow down, because Google DNS resolves the domain names to foreign IP addresses.
I think this article shows why UN should not control the Internet. I much prefer US to control it. US is not perfect. However I would rather not let controls like China to meddle with the Internet.
I live in China and noticed that since a few weeks (starting before the congress) the quality of OpenVPN UDP connections deteriorated severely. Formerly traffic worked fine, but now a ping over OpenVPN has significantly higher packet loss and latency than a direct ping to the same host, while these used to be similar. The connection often drops for 5-10 minutes, after which it is reestablished. A tunnel over ssh now performs a lot better than an OpenVPN connection.
Note that I am using my own servers and non-default ports, not established VPN providers that are easier to block. This behavior occurs on different networks from different ISPs. Additionally, L2TP connections now fail most of the time, while they worked a few months ago.
I have a home server (an O2 Joggler running Ubuntu) in China, to enable my parents to go over the firewall. I basically configured my home server to connect to my VPS via OpenVPN. And UDP seems to have stopped working completely about a month ago. Then I switched to TCP 443. That stop working about 2 weeks ago. Now I switched to TCP 3389, and it works like a charm.
If you ship contraband via FedEx, is FedEx a criminal?
I think operating a Tor exit node is more like carrying a parcel through the border, and you don't know the content, and if may or may not contain heroin.
However information surely is not as dangerous as heroin, right?
For those who can't be bothered to read the whole article, the packets actually went over the Internet. It wasn't a simple case of direct optic fibre connection. It is impressive that the backbone can now achieve such bandwidth.
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
I know I will get modded down for saying this, but quite a lot of Linux distros release more often. Ubuntu gets a new version once every 6 months
Why don't they run their own datacenter and have centralised IT services, rather than relying on some third party private company? Is it because they want to have someone to blame if things do go wrong?
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I have a feeling that people might use this research to blast their data packet on the existing crowded frequencies.
LCD Screen – $17.95
Raspberry Pi – $35
Mini Keyboard/Mouse – $29.95
Standalone Battery Charger- $75.00
Powered 7 Port USB Hub – $14.95
64GB SSD Hard Drive – $129.95
Dell D600 Battery – $88.50
$391.30 (not including 3d printer and other tools).
Nice hobby project if you have money to burn.
With this amount of money, personally I would use it on something else. Printrbot jr is only $399.
http://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-jr/
I demand the Internet to have a default David Cameron block. I think that might be more useful.
metallic gallium is not considered toxic
Wikipedia on Gallium
Pure indium in metal form is considered nontoxic by most sources.
Wikipedia on Indium
Yes, but if it ever leaks out, Gallium might cause structural failure of anything that's made of aluminium. And certainly I don't want to have conductive liquid in my electronic devices, when the cable breaks.
I'd rather see a $45 Pi with more Ram etc.
You can buy a more expensive development board, if you want more ram.
I know I probably shouldn't say this, and my comment might get modded down quite badly.
But those people who think that the Internet's control should be taken away from the US and handed to the UN should really look at what other countries in the UN do with their Internet. I know it is bad that US uses copyright laws as excuse to take over domains, like MegaUpload. However you can still search Barack Obama on the US Internet without any problem. I think having US controlling the Internet is the lesser of two evils. I certainly don't want countries like China to get involved in deciding the future of the Internet.
And if you wonder who introduced DPI into the ITU, it is China.
You don't actually see any cheese in China, unless you go to posh restaurant which provides foreign food.
I wonder if this guy hates his job/Nokia/Microsoft. I meant if he loves his company, he should have contacted Microsoft, and get fixed, then perhaps gets some street cred by publishing some news report.
I am not sure if this kind of activity would sour the relationship between Microsoft and Nokia. Perhaps that's actually his goal.
The current situation:
One country can implement rules to abuse the whole world. Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
Without US control:
Each country can implement rules to screw over its own citizens and manipulate traffic routed though that country. Many countries already abuse their own citizens ( China, UK, Netherlands, etc. )
How can this not be a Good Thing(tm)?
Besides the part in the summary about blocking access via proxy servers is bull. Even with the deep packet inspection currently implemented in the UK they can't block VPN links which can be easily hidden in other traffic.
Because without US control, other countries screwing over their own citizens is legitimised. US at least pretends that it cares about the citizens in other countries.
if you think you have to upgrade to do IPv6, you're either foolhardy or not buying the right equipment in the first place. If you buy the right stuff no upgrades should be required for IPv6 functionality, including hiring people.
They have loads of outdated equipment in the government.
I hate to say it, but I think IPv6 is at the bottom of the priority queue of David Cameron. Anything that drive up the cost should be avoided. This includes the cost of equipment upgrade, and the cost of hiring sensible contractor...
I think the government is a bit too thick to see that mandating IPv6 is a business opportunity for the private sectors...
I think ITU's action shows the true colour of the United Nation. I think it is simply too dangerous to pass on the control of the Internet to the United Nation.
If you use Windows, you can install Truecrypt, and change the bootloader so it shows "Operating System Not Found".
If you use Linux, set up encrypted LVM, and have your boot partition on a separate USB flash drive, which you attach to your keyring, and carry around with you all time.
Is any of Apple's current product capable of wireless charging? Did they develop any of the technology, as in doing the research?
Here's a story I remember reading about Bill Gates, and I wonder whether it's true.
His father was a millionaire lawyer (that much is true). His mother was on a lot of "charity" boards, and on one of those boards, she met an executive of IBM. At that moment in history, IBM was developing the PC as a skonk works project, and needed a simple operating system. His mother hooked the executive, and IBM, up with her son, and he sold them his operating system, which was a derivative of UNIX that he bought from somebody else. IBM foolishly or generously bought non-exclusive rights to the operating system, so that he could sell it to other companies.
How much of that is true? How did Bill Gates make the connection to IBM? I haven't read all the biographies.
I am not sure about Gates's family background, whether or not his father is a millionaire (probably not).
However your story of how IBM approached Microsoft is completely not true. IBM was trying to make this PC thing. They quite like Microsoft's BASIC, which was quite a large business by then. But Microsoft didn't have an OS to offer. So Microsoft asked IBM to talk to Digital Research for the CP/M. IBM's negotiator did not want to reveal that it was an IBM business. So the digital research people gave IBM people some leaflets. So IBM went back to Microsoft, the Gates et al decided to buy get QDOS license from Seattle Computer Products.
Microsoft's BASIC business started with Atari. Microsoft had a lawsuit with Atari to make sure BASIC's license to Atari was not exclusive, and could be ported to other platforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
We're not Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
I don't think Bill Gates used his family money to start up the company. However Bill Gates was (possibly still is) extremely talented.
If you read Idea Man[1] by Paul Allen, Bill Gates sneaked around WSU's computer lab with Paul Allen, fixing PhD students' code. That's before Bill Gates went to Harvard to study a degree in law. If you think you are as capable as Bill Gates, feel free to drop out.
I happen to think that the law degree might have helped Bill Gates in running his company.
http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/dp/1591845378
Most of the blocks are by DNS .. Using opendns alternative ports solves this or DNS over TCP
DNS over TCP solves it. In fact if you use Google DNS as the upstream resolver, and use TCP port 53, you will be okay. However it seems web services with local server in China all slow down, because Google DNS resolves the domain names to foreign IP addresses.
I think this article shows why UN should not control the Internet. I much prefer US to control it. US is not perfect. However I would rather not let controls like China to meddle with the Internet.
I live in China and noticed that since a few weeks (starting before the congress) the quality of OpenVPN UDP connections deteriorated severely. Formerly traffic worked fine, but now a ping over OpenVPN has significantly higher packet loss and latency than a direct ping to the same host, while these used to be similar. The connection often drops for 5-10 minutes, after which it is reestablished. A tunnel over ssh now performs a lot better than an OpenVPN connection.
Note that I am using my own servers and non-default ports, not established VPN providers that are easier to block. This behavior occurs on different networks from different ISPs. Additionally, L2TP connections now fail most of the time, while they worked a few months ago.
I have a home server (an O2 Joggler running Ubuntu) in China, to enable my parents to go over the firewall. I basically configured my home server to connect to my VPS via OpenVPN. And UDP seems to have stopped working completely about a month ago. Then I switched to TCP 443. That stop working about 2 weeks ago. Now I switched to TCP 3389, and it works like a charm.
If you ship contraband via FedEx, is FedEx a criminal?
I think operating a Tor exit node is more like carrying a parcel through the border, and you don't know the content, and if may or may not contain heroin.
However information surely is not as dangerous as heroin, right?
If you really want, I am pretty sure you can run Matlab/Mathematica on a Windows 8 x86 tablet. (not that I am recommending Windows 8)
For those who can't be bothered to read the whole article, the packets actually went over the Internet. It wasn't a simple case of direct optic fibre connection. It is impressive that the backbone can now achieve such bandwidth.
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
I know I will get modded down for saying this, but quite a lot of Linux distros release more often. Ubuntu gets a new version once every 6 months
Why don't they run their own datacenter and have centralised IT services, rather than relying on some third party private company? Is it because they want to have someone to blame if things do go wrong?
I bet you TI would do anything to stop it. Remember this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_key_controversy
That's because TI's calculators are used in academic exams... Teachers don't want the kids to cheat.