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Ma Bell is Back
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Prison phones are an abominable ripoff, any way you look at it. Anyway, you can ditch your landline, because many VoIP providers (including some who offer it for free) will supply a landline inbound number for you, which -is- reachable from the slammer.
Don't you nerds get it? This is about FREEDOM. FREEDOM to keep FAMILY VALUES. They are all protecting YOU. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from a little surveillance from your protectors. Next sunny morning, go outside, take a deep breath, and thank GOD(R) for your unalienable FREEDOM.
You are correct, but the nature of the session will have to be COMPLETELY free of any characteristic signature, or this evil Nazi-box will be able to block it. It will also have to be totally independent of a unique 'mothership', because THAT would be trivial to block. The earlier suggestion of SSL on port 443 sounds pretty good, but that is TCP traffic, which sucks under many circumstances for voice.
I run phone calls across the world through CIPE tunnels (UDP) for corporate security between internal offices. The VPN in this case has no discernible effect on sound quality, except a tiny additional chunk of latency.
You miss the point. The point is to -verify- that the hardware has mainline drivers in the kernel. The support list is PLENTY LONG. The kernel is what matters, not whether you get SUSE 14.g or whatever distro. If anything, the gakked-up distros make all of this worse.
If you are the type that buys stuff in retail stores, just bring a KNOPPIX boot CD with you. If that finds all your hardware, you are assured of success. If not, buy something else.
1. Forced sale of MS stuff still exists. Wow, what a surprise. 2. Before buying hardware, especially laptops, spend an hour googling or otherwise studying what IS supported. The morons in the story buy stuff and then find out compatibility. Fuckin' DUH!
Hard to believe, but they have agreed with His Steveness, and told the cartel to stuff it. Takes one monopolist to know another, or an oligopoly, at least.
"George W Bush has decreed that, five days later, on the 16th, there is to be a further day of solemnities on which the nation will pray for the unnumbered victims of Hurricane Katrina. Prayers (like vacations) are the default mode for this president who knows how to chuckle and bow the head in the midst of disaster but not, when it counts, how to govern or to command. If you feel the prickly heat of politics, summon a hymn to make it go away; make accountability seem a blasphemy."
"President George W. Bush has always trusted his gut. He prides himself in ignoring the distracting chatter, the caterwauling of the media elites, the Washington political buzz machine. He has boasted that he doesn't read the papers. His doggedness is often admirable. It is easy for presidents to overreact to the noise around them. But it is not clear what President Bush does read or watch, aside from the occasional biography and an hour or two of ESPN here and there. Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him."
What the HELL does it take? Clinton ran a reasonably competent government, and the hypocritical neo-con PseudoChristian fuckers lambasted him for a girl under the desk! The US starts wars based on a pile of transparent lies, and all that matters is "loyalty", and any questioning of authority and their version of 'Truth' is seditious treason! Hello? Mr Orwell? You can stop spinning now!
Americans making fun of the 'repressive' Singapore government! When the best that President Chimp can do is call for a week of Prayer, and attempt to stop the so-called Free and Independent Press from showing dead bodies and other unpleasant images from New Orleans. How many dead American soldiers in the Iraq sham have you seen in the press? NONE! They don't exist, they never have! It's all a video game, they just go poof and turn into turquoise smoke.
Man, this discussion is worse than 100 guys with Uzis in a glass warehouse!
"Well you see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy... it's that I just don't care"
Great! Now Kozmo.com can finally return!
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Algae Can Carry Cargo
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And stoners can again get pizza and Mountain Dew delivered directly to their sofa by this tireless algae crew (better than the old slime molds that used to do the job!)
And then stop this incredible waste! For what they spend on one totally pointless 'mission', real space science could do many probes. The 'bang for the buck' in the Shuttle program (literal bangs not included) has been total crap. The bloodthirsty NASCAR crowd, a pillar of support for the current stupidity administration, must be the core audience.
Have had it for two days now. Got it working straight away on my Linux laptop (no driver voodoo, it just looks like a USB serial port). BUT- the coverage, at least in Seattle metro, is "thin". Get outside the downtown district (which is drowning in 802.11 hotspots, both free and paid) and you are in a world of hurt to get an EV-DO signal. If you are lucky you get the fallback sub-dialup speed in many cases. In my Bellevue (big upscale suburb between Seattle and The Land of Evil) home, forget it. No signal at all. (The 4 cell phones from two other providers work, no problem)
I would go into further detail, but the Verizon people were nice enough to give me a V620 card and a free month of service, and I've bitten their hand already....
So until the next techno-wave, it's a mixture of DSL at home (reliable 1.5/900 for about $45), hotspots, and in a pinch, slow GPRS via my cellphone & bluetooth [which always works for me worldwide].
This argument is stupid. I can spread kerosene puddles all over the house, but be blameless, while the idiot who comes in with a lit cigarette is at fault. He's got it all wrong. I say:
Yes, that would make sense. But the incumbent telcos intentionally keep those numbers secret. The numbers exist, of course, and with enough digging and googling you can find a VERY small handful of them. But the old telcos keep these to themselves, so that they can keep beating up on the VoIP users who are depriving the telcos of their rightful money.
Having a half-decent (as long as you don't need customer service) outfit be completely compatible with Asterisk (or ANY OTHER SIP-capable client) is fantastic. Broadvoice has been great. You may also want to check out sipphone.com, which is also an open provider. Once you have one or more good providers hooked into your Asterisk box, you virtually ARE a telco.
Skype on the other hand, it a nasty hack which somehow got onto lots of Windoze boxes. Explicitly closed system, will not play with anybody else. Lowest-common-denominatorware. Fuk'em.
Umm, you sound like one of those 'sendmail sucks!' dorks. Slackware has had excellent package management (safe simple upgrades, automatically) since the 8.1 release, some years ago. Keep repeating the groupthink cliches, the Borg loves zombies who ignore facts.
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Prison phones are an abominable ripoff, any way you look at it. Anyway, you can ditch your landline, because many VoIP providers (including some who offer it for free) will supply a landline inbound number for you, which -is- reachable from the slammer.
Don't you nerds get it? This is about FREEDOM. FREEDOM to keep FAMILY VALUES. They are all protecting YOU. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from a little surveillance from your protectors. Next sunny morning, go outside, take a deep breath, and thank GOD(R) for your unalienable FREEDOM.
You'll never walk (or do anything else) alone! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23col lege.html?emc=eta1
You are correct, but the nature of the session will have to be COMPLETELY free of any characteristic signature, or this evil Nazi-box will be able to block it. It will also have to be totally independent of a unique 'mothership', because THAT would be trivial to block. The earlier suggestion of SSL on port 443 sounds pretty good, but that is TCP traffic, which sucks under many circumstances for voice.
I run phone calls across the world through CIPE tunnels (UDP) for corporate security between internal offices. The VPN in this case has no discernible effect on sound quality, except a tiny additional chunk of latency.
You miss the point. The point is to -verify- that the hardware has mainline drivers in the kernel. The support list is PLENTY LONG. The kernel is what matters, not whether you get SUSE 14.g or whatever distro. If anything, the gakked-up distros make all of this worse.
If you are the type that buys stuff in retail stores, just bring a KNOPPIX boot CD with you. If that finds all your hardware, you are assured of success. If not, buy something else.
1. Forced sale of MS stuff still exists. Wow, what a surprise.
2. Before buying hardware, especially laptops, spend an hour googling or otherwise studying what IS supported. The morons in the story buy stuff and then find out compatibility. Fuckin' DUH!
As readers of The Register website have known for a long time, Pay-To-Play WiFi is a utter and complete commercial disaster.f i_has_look/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/21/cometa_cra sh/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/12/public_wi
As an enticement to bring in customers, it is a great freebie in coffee shops, but the big players here do not want to publicly admit it.
Shhhhhh!
I knew damn well about the first Flubber movie. What a dweeb.
This sounds wayy too much like Son of Flubber!
Hard to believe, but they have agreed with His Steveness, and told the cartel to stuff it. Takes one monopolist to know another, or an oligopoly, at least.
When Encryption is outlawed, only outlaws #$%TYHNFBGNHGFDCVFBGHFHkjhskjdghs346df/
For example:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1
Or for myopic xenophobic Murricans:
Even the lapdog domestic press can't hold back the truth:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/
What the HELL does it take? Clinton ran a reasonably competent government, and the hypocritical neo-con PseudoChristian fuckers lambasted him for a girl under the desk! The US starts wars based on a pile of transparent lies, and all that matters is "loyalty", and any questioning of authority and their version of 'Truth' is seditious treason! Hello? Mr Orwell? You can stop spinning now!
Americans making fun of the 'repressive' Singapore government! When the best that President Chimp can do is call for a week of Prayer, and attempt to stop the so-called Free and Independent Press from showing dead bodies and other unpleasant images from New Orleans. How many dead American soldiers in the Iraq sham have you seen in the press? NONE! They don't exist, they never have! It's all a video game, they just go poof and turn into turquoise smoke.
Man, this discussion is worse than 100 guys with Uzis in a glass warehouse!
"Well you see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy... it's that I just don't care"
And stoners can again get pizza and Mountain Dew delivered directly to their sofa by this tireless algae crew (better than the old slime molds that used to do the job!)
This kind of external meddling is how the Earth got started! Thanks guys, what a nice mess you've created.
And then stop this incredible waste! For what they spend on one totally pointless 'mission', real space science could do many probes. The 'bang for the buck' in the Shuttle program (literal bangs not included) has been total crap. The bloodthirsty NASCAR crowd, a pillar of support for the current stupidity administration, must be the core audience.
Have had it for two days now. Got it working straight away on my Linux laptop (no driver voodoo, it just looks like a USB serial port). BUT- the coverage, at least in Seattle metro, is "thin". Get outside the downtown district (which is drowning in 802.11 hotspots, both free and paid) and you are in a world of hurt to get an EV-DO signal. If you are lucky you get the fallback sub-dialup speed in many cases. In my Bellevue (big upscale suburb between Seattle and The Land of Evil) home, forget it. No signal at all. (The 4 cell phones from two other providers work, no problem)
I would go into further detail, but the Verizon people were nice enough to give me a V620 card and a free month of service, and I've bitten their hand already....
So until the next techno-wave, it's a mixture of DSL at home (reliable 1.5/900 for about $45), hotspots, and in a pinch, slow GPRS via my cellphone & bluetooth [which always works for me worldwide].
This argument is stupid. I can spread kerosene puddles all over the house, but be blameless, while the idiot who comes in with a lit cigarette is at fault. He's got it all wrong. I say:
BLAME CANADA!
Yes, that would make sense. But the incumbent telcos intentionally keep those numbers secret. The numbers exist, of course, and with enough digging and googling you can find a VERY small handful of them. But the old telcos keep these to themselves, so that they can keep beating up on the VoIP users who are depriving the telcos of their rightful money.
Wouldn't want these to sink the project.
Having a half-decent (as long as you don't need customer service) outfit be completely compatible with Asterisk (or ANY OTHER SIP-capable client) is fantastic. Broadvoice has been great. You may also want to check out sipphone.com, which is also an open provider. Once you have one or more good providers hooked into your Asterisk box, you virtually ARE a telco.
Skype on the other hand, it a nasty hack which somehow got onto lots of Windoze boxes. Explicitly closed system, will not play with anybody else. Lowest-common-denominatorware. Fuk'em.
Another format, another payday, eh, George?
Umm, you sound like one of those 'sendmail sucks!' dorks. Slackware has had excellent package management (safe simple upgrades, automatically) since the 8.1 release, some years ago. Keep repeating the groupthink cliches, the Borg loves zombies who ignore facts.