...we just need to standardize and simplify usage of digital certificates. I've been signing my email with a trusted certificate for nearly 10 years, and pgp for 10 years before that. Browsers already support client certificates. You just need to tie in user controls on when the client certificates are presented with sites actually using them. There are a variety of trusted certificate issuers, so you don't have a single government id, and more importantly, you don't have another government bureaucracy (though, actually, it would make sense for the passport office to issue certs --- they're already a "national id" and certs are a logical extension).
The biggest problem is simplifiying *getting* and using the certs. That has been the roadblock every time I've pushed to get people to sign their email --- using and maintaining them is non-trivial. Some of that is inherent in assuring the identity, but a lot of it crappy user interfaces on both the CA websites and the software using the certs. If (and, admittedly, a *big* if) this initiative solves that problem, it will be a good thing.
Exactly --- I'm waiting for the Galaxy Tab that is wifi only, as it seems like the first tablet that is decent, and since I have an Epic already, usage should be seamless. It likely would be nice to have the ability to tether the Tab to the Epic, but I have no need to be paying for *two* data plans, wifi is pretty ubiquitous, and the Epic will work if I need connectivity and it's the only option.
Though I think Atrix points the way to some intriguing possibilities in the future...
The most interesting part of this is the Atrix. I can see a near future where you carry your computer around as your phone and it runs a mobile desktop on the local screen and a separate full desktop on the external screen. I still want a slider keyboard though;-)
I used a Cliq with Better Terminal Emulator to ssh; I have an Epic now, and it's better because it does have the numbers separate, though that wasn't a *big* problem on the Cliq, and I liked the feel of the Cliq better. It was slightly slower though.
There is a common misconception, both with Net Neutrality and with Economics, that "free" == "unregulated". That is simply not true. An unregulated market quickly becomes very *not* free as the strong use their power to protect their interests and squash the others. Perhaps a better term would be "fair" market, as what we want is for an entity to have the freedom to do what they want, without controlling what others do, so that everyone has the same opportunities. If there is no regulation, the gorillas want very much to, and will, control what others do.
authenticated mail (which can be done on port 25, it doesn't have to be 587, but should be these days because of port 25 filtering) is not normally subjected to blacklist filtering, and is thus not affected.
The vast majority of people don't run their own mail servers though, so their mail clients are configured to use their isp's mail server. Again, not affected.
If your isp has unreliable mail service, then find another one --- there is no shortage of options there. For practical purposes, in that case, you're roaming, in which case you have to authenticate to send mail anyhow to bypass the relaying blocks, and thus again, not affected.
end user customer networks (the ones most likely to go this route) are already on various "mail shouldn't be coming from here" blacklists, and those customers also should be already using the isp's mail servers for outgoing mail. it's a small incremental step, nothing more. Those running servers will necessarily get unique addresses and not be affected by reputable blacklists that are correctable.
If you look at the 30day graph, the situation loses a lot of the spin being placed on it: up until 2 weeks ago, they were doing fine, only peaking briefly at 10G with no upward trend. Then two weeks ago, a significant upsurge (online christmas shopping would be the obvious answer, but surprised it's costing *that* much bandwidth). You don't put in 10G lines overnight, and not if they're only going to be used for a few weeks... They clearly needed to be planning for it, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were in next year's plans...
As a sysadmin at an ISP, if you can't get your rated speed over your DSL connection, the problem is probably signal quality over the telco connection --- rated DSL speeds are the best you can get with clean, short line, and go down with noise and distance. It's just the way the technology works, trying to squeeze bits over wires that were never designed for bits.
It is possible that the link to the telco is saturated, or their upstream connection. If so, there are generally a number of ISPs servicing a telco of any size --- find one that's keeping up.
Yes, the link is vastly oversold to keep the service affordable, but what really matters is usage, and the system works because in real life, everyone *doesn't* try to use the full bandwidth all at once and upstream capacity is growing with technology while prices are falling. video makes us a little nervous, because it does have the potential to break that, but really, nothing changes. people *don't* all watch shows at the same time, especially with modern tech where you can watch it when you want, and people have been predicting "death of the net" over bandwidth since the internet was invented. it adapts. we adapt. Just don't expect the entire world to be able to watch the first alien contact, or even the world cup, streamed in hd over the internet all at once --- you really don't want to pay for that.
You and Assange, et al live in nice white ivory towers. In the real world, you have to work with difficult people, and helping others do it without making life with those difficult people worse is valuable, not only to the immediately affected people, but to everyone depending on them as well.
When plugged into a home charging station the first Leafs and Volts will draw 3,300 Watts and take about 8 hours to deliver a full charge
while technically true, it ignores the reality of electric cars: people just don't drive *that* much at a time. Check and reset your trip meter every morning first time out of the garage. At 250wh/m, just how much electricity would you actually have used? At 20 miles (probably high for a lot of people), that's a whole 5kwh, about 50 cents worth. And if you plug in after every trip (like I do, coming home for lunch), even that gets spread out over the day. Sure it'll add up over time, as EVs become more common, but they've got time to prepare... At least they're thinking about it...
we have no sales tax; I don't know if their prices are noticeably better, but I usually buy from Amazon because it's easy: they're the modern Sears --- if you want it, they have it.
Everything fails, you have to design the system to work in spite of the failures. And yeah, the system will break once in a while anyway, but it works mostly so the stress is low. The place where the stress occurs is dealing with all the poorly documented crap software that we have to use because bad as it is, it's the best there is. I'd name names, but pretty much any name you might pick is on the list.
people have been exclaiming "death of the net" from whatever the latest bandwidth consumption increase new tech has made available ever since the net was invented. I've been seeing it for 25 years personally. Each time, capacity increases to meet the demand. This will be no different.
It has never been "in about a year" until this year, when the unallocated ipv4 space went from 10% at the beginning of the year to 5% as of this week, and there is a lot of work going on right now to move to ipv6. But doom and gloom cynicism always sells better...
This is a step in what I think is the right balance between participation, being relevant and being able to stay in business: Let the first N/month be free (N needs to be around 5-10 at least though), and then require subscription. If you're going back to the same source that often, it's reasonable to be expected to help support it, and it's in your own best interests to do so. Yet it still lets people share links and pass around info that might not otherwise be seen.
It has never been "this year", but it *will* be in the next two years, probably next year, at the Registry level. Existing ISPs already have their pools of addresses they can continue using for sometime longer until those are depleted, and yes, NAT has kept this from happening a lot sooner, but lets not make the mistake the US did with the metric system and keep an archaic and broken system in place when life is so much easier (after the transition anyhow) if we switch.
I had a Sparrow in 2000-2003, and have had a Solectria since early 2006. I'm on the list for a LEAF, which will be my first Primary EV (for some definition - the Solectria covers all my needs in town, I only have to use a gas car once in a while when I go out of town; the LEAF however will be able to handle all but a very few extended trips a year).
I'm looking for one that does easy to use virtual debit cards, now that paypal stopped doing it. discover does, but they're harder to use, especially closing them after you've used them (which is the whole point, after all). Unfortunately, neither of my credit unions offers the service.
I agree with the others on size: the ipad is too big to carry around easily and a phone is too small for many things I'd like to do, so I'm looking forward to something this size. What seems odd to me is doing "1204x600" --- if you're going for something in that ballpark, why not use a standard size like 1280x720?
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...we just need to standardize and simplify usage of digital certificates. I've been signing my email with a trusted certificate for nearly 10 years, and pgp for 10 years before that. Browsers already support client certificates. You just need to tie in user controls on when the client certificates are presented with sites actually using them. There are a variety of trusted certificate issuers, so you don't have a single government id, and more importantly, you don't have another government bureaucracy (though, actually, it would make sense for the passport office to issue certs --- they're already a "national id" and certs are a logical extension).
The biggest problem is simplifiying *getting* and using the certs. That has been the roadblock every time I've pushed to get people to sign their email --- using and maintaining them is non-trivial. Some of that is inherent in assuring the identity, but a lot of it crappy user interfaces on both the CA websites and the software using the certs. If (and, admittedly, a *big* if) this initiative solves that problem, it will be a good thing.
Exactly --- I'm waiting for the Galaxy Tab that is wifi only, as it seems like the first tablet that is decent, and since I have an Epic already, usage should be seamless. It likely would be nice to have the ability to tether the Tab to the Epic, but I have no need to be paying for *two* data plans, wifi is pretty ubiquitous, and the Epic will work if I need connectivity and it's the only option.
Though I think Atrix points the way to some intriguing possibilities in the future...
The most interesting part of this is the Atrix. I can see a near future where you carry your computer around as your phone and it runs a mobile desktop on the local screen and a separate full desktop on the external screen. I still want a slider keyboard though ;-)
I used a Cliq with Better Terminal Emulator to ssh; I have an Epic now, and it's better because it does have the numbers separate, though that wasn't a *big* problem on the Cliq, and I liked the feel of the Cliq better. It was slightly slower though.
There is a common misconception, both with Net Neutrality and with Economics, that "free" == "unregulated". That is simply not true. An unregulated market quickly becomes very *not* free as the strong use their power to protect their interests and squash the others. Perhaps a better term would be "fair" market, as what we want is for an entity to have the freedom to do what they want, without controlling what others do, so that everyone has the same opportunities. If there is no regulation, the gorillas want very much to, and will, control what others do.
authenticated mail (which can be done on port 25, it doesn't have to be 587, but should be these days because of port 25 filtering) is not normally subjected to blacklist filtering, and is thus not affected.
The vast majority of people don't run their own mail servers though, so their mail clients are configured to use their isp's mail server. Again, not affected.
If your isp has unreliable mail service, then find another one --- there is no shortage of options there. For practical purposes, in that case, you're roaming, in which case you have to authenticate to send mail anyhow to bypass the relaying blocks, and thus again, not affected.
end user customer networks (the ones most likely to go this route) are already on various "mail shouldn't be coming from here" blacklists, and those customers also should be already using the isp's mail servers for outgoing mail. it's a small incremental step, nothing more. Those running servers will necessarily get unique addresses and not be affected by reputable blacklists that are correctable.
If you look at the 30day graph, the situation loses a lot of the spin being placed on it: up until 2 weeks ago, they were doing fine, only peaking briefly at 10G with no upward trend. Then two weeks ago, a significant upsurge (online christmas shopping would be the obvious answer, but surprised it's costing *that* much bandwidth). You don't put in 10G lines overnight, and not if they're only going to be used for a few weeks... They clearly needed to be planning for it, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were in next year's plans...
As a sysadmin at an ISP, if you can't get your rated speed over your DSL connection, the problem is probably signal quality over the telco connection --- rated DSL speeds are the best you can get with clean, short line, and go down with noise and distance. It's just the way the technology works, trying to squeeze bits over wires that were never designed for bits.
It is possible that the link to the telco is saturated, or their upstream connection. If so, there are generally a number of ISPs servicing a telco of any size --- find one that's keeping up.
Yes, the link is vastly oversold to keep the service affordable, but what really matters is usage, and the system works because in real life, everyone *doesn't* try to use the full bandwidth all at once and upstream capacity is growing with technology while prices are falling. video makes us a little nervous, because it does have the potential to break that, but really, nothing changes. people *don't* all watch shows at the same time, especially with modern tech where you can watch it when you want, and people have been predicting "death of the net" over bandwidth since the internet was invented. it adapts. we adapt. Just don't expect the entire world to be able to watch the first alien contact, or even the world cup, streamed in hd over the internet all at once --- you really don't want to pay for that.
FreeBSD uses it on the console screen --- hit scrolllock and then page up and page down work. That's about the only time I've seen a use for it.
I don't care if there *is* a caps lock key, as long as it's not where the Control key belongs! IBM really screwed that one up 30 years ago...
You and Assange, et al live in nice white ivory towers. In the real world, you have to work with difficult people, and helping others do it without making life with those difficult people worse is valuable, not only to the immediately affected people, but to everyone depending on them as well.
When plugged into a home charging station the first Leafs and Volts will draw 3,300 Watts and take about 8 hours to deliver a full charge
while technically true, it ignores the reality of electric cars: people just don't drive *that* much at a time. Check and reset your trip meter every morning first time out of the garage. At 250wh/m, just how much electricity would you actually have used? At 20 miles (probably high for a lot of people), that's a whole 5kwh, about 50 cents worth. And if you plug in after every trip (like I do, coming home for lunch), even that gets spread out over the day. Sure it'll add up over time, as EVs become more common, but they've got time to prepare... At least they're thinking about it...
we have no sales tax; I don't know if their prices are noticeably better, but I usually buy from Amazon because it's easy: they're the modern Sears --- if you want it, they have it.
Everything fails, you have to design the system to work in spite of the failures. And yeah, the system will break once in a while anyway, but it works mostly so the stress is low. The place where the stress occurs is dealing with all the poorly documented crap software that we have to use because bad as it is, it's the best there is. I'd name names, but pretty much any name you might pick is on the list.
...instead of spending half of every day installing Yet Another Slew of Updates.
On the other hand, just because they release them doesn't mean we have to install them on their schedule...
Have him watch October Sky; Homer may not be young any more now, but what he did was pretty inspiring and he was young when he did it...
people have been exclaiming "death of the net" from whatever the latest bandwidth consumption increase new tech has made available ever since the net was invented. I've been seeing it for 25 years personally. Each time, capacity increases to meet the demand. This will be no different.
It has never been "in about a year" until this year, when the unallocated ipv4 space went from 10% at the beginning of the year to 5% as of this week, and there is a lot of work going on right now to move to ipv6. But doom and gloom cynicism always sells better...
This is a step in what I think is the right balance between participation, being relevant and being able to stay in business: Let the first N/month be free (N needs to be around 5-10 at least though), and then require subscription. If you're going back to the same source that often, it's reasonable to be expected to help support it, and it's in your own best interests to do so. Yet it still lets people share links and pass around info that might not otherwise be seen.
It has never been "this year", but it *will* be in the next two years, probably next year, at the Registry level. Existing ISPs already have their pools of addresses they can continue using for sometime longer until those are depleted, and yes, NAT has kept this from happening a lot sooner, but lets not make the mistake the US did with the metric system and keep an archaic and broken system in place when life is so much easier (after the transition anyhow) if we switch.
I had a Sparrow in 2000-2003, and have had a Solectria since early 2006. I'm on the list for a LEAF, which will be my first Primary EV (for some definition - the Solectria covers all my needs in town, I only have to use a gas car once in a while when I go out of town; the LEAF however will be able to handle all but a very few extended trips a year).
"...you wonder if the Supreme Court will also give companies the right to vote directly."
I'm all for it...if that vote comes at the expense of the personal votes of the Board. Otherwise, they're voting twice.
I'm looking for one that does easy to use virtual debit cards, now that paypal stopped doing it. discover does, but they're harder to use, especially closing them after you've used them (which is the whole point, after all). Unfortunately, neither of my credit unions offers the service.
I agree with the others on size: the ipad is too big to carry around easily and a phone is too small for many things I'd like to do, so I'm looking forward to something this size. What seems odd to me is doing "1204x600" --- if you're going for something in that ballpark, why not use a standard size like 1280x720?