A T1 line is a dedicated line specifically rated for carrying the bandwidth you pay for. In contrast, a DSL line is an ordinary phone line over which convoluted DSP magic is performed to squeeze as many bits as possible into it. Meanwhile, a cable line is a shared pipe.
T1 outages must be responded to within an hour. DSL and cable outages, God knows when.
If you read BoingBoing, you'd know the sheer volume of NSFW stuff that goes through there, largely thanks to one reckless horndog well-connected wannabe geek freak-nouveau journalist.
And you aren't the least bit surprised that a municipal free public wifi would want to keep all of that off of its publicly accessible network.
The BoingBoingers have kids, so they should be able to guess the real reason why, too. But a cheap shot at Boston was too much for their ivory tower self-importance to bear without.
I now realize that it's high time I got myself into the business of bullshit security. And here I was, wracking my brain trying to figure out what the new good-paying industry was.
People these days are so shit-scared about security that they'll buy anything with the word "secure" in it. I'm surprised DRM isn't marketed (to consumers) as "keeping your music secure". Maybe now I get why Bush is still in office. His work in keeping Americans scared to death is driving a whole new industry of consumer paranoia products.
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It is hard to tell whether Palm, inc. announced that they are going to release a pda based on the Access Linux platform, or if they have gotten back into the software business and developed their own platform.
It is apparent that you have NO idea what it is like to be ruled by your own corrupt leaders.
Hahahahahahahahaha you have no idea where I live, then.
It doesnt matter who fucks the citizenry, when they are being fucked. Believe me, all dicks are the same. Being a turkish citizen, i can tell you that from experience. It totally does NO difference if someone fucking the public is this or that nationality - those kind of people have their OWN unseen nationality.
It does make a difference. Sure, all politicians are scum no matter where you live. But I still believe that a politician from my side of the tracks -- whether it's geographically, historically, culturally, politically, intellectually, etc. -- is better for me than one that isn't. That person will be somewhat more accessible to me. There will be somewhat less layers of government between him and me. There will be smaller agencies with closer ties to the community. Decisions will be made closer to me and thereby within a perspective closer to mine. No, it's not perfect, and no, it doesn't make all problems of government go away. It is, IMO, an improvement.
SELF does not exist when you are being exploited and ruled by minorities even in your own nationality. The SELF that is doing the determination, is not the many selves of the 'nation' but a small minority elite little different from having royalty.
You keep treating self-determination as a one-time deal, such that you can only get it once, and then you're stuck. I don't. The individual, the family, the community, and the society are not rigid institutions, and should be free to choose its allegiances as many times as it feels it needs to.
had british parliament have allotted representatives to colonies, u.s. might have never happened.
No matter how you slice it, the London-based government would have only become less and less suited to rule and more and more out of touch with American development. Even Canada has been in nearly all respects spun off from the mother government, except in ceremony. In the U.S. today, these hundred-year-old states have grown in population to the point where the centers of government are out of touch with all but their core urban centers, and sentiments can be seen across the county for new self-determining states to be carved out of them. And likewise at the county level. And so on.
PS: Texans wanting independence from Britain? I don't think you mean Texans, or else I need a history lesson.
No, I don't see it. Better to be ruled by your own corrupt leaders than disenfranchised under someone else's corrupt leaders. The principle of self-determination is universal, reflexive, and recursive, too. If Western Kurds in a future Kurdistan state decide they are being underserved by the Eastern Kurdistan based government, then they should be entitled to a Western Kurdistan state, home rule district, devolved federal powers, whatever. Etc.
Independence is not always a good idea. Take La Paz County, Arizona, which went bankrupt rapidly after it broke off from Yuma County, because its territory was too rural and couldn't build enough taxes (didn't help that they were anti-tax conservatives) to run the county government. The mistake was that the state came in and bailed them out, instead of letting them run their course and have to beg to get back into Yuma.
Regardless of whether or not independence is a good idea, it shouldn't be refused. Most often, the parent political entity refuses to allow independence of a subregion because political entities tend to be territorial and exploitative. A region has value of some sort -- large tax base, oil, tourism, etc. -- and the parent entity wants it for itself. Granting self-determination to the subregion would cause the parent to lose control over its resources. Conversely, regions with no value are more likely to be successful in gaining independence or self-determination -- like La Paz County.
I've also heard of security issues on the national level against self-determination -- the parent is afraid that the newly independent region will foment rivalry, become a breeding ground for hostility, etc. I don't think there's much merit to it. The likelihood of a child state becoming hostile is just as likely as a breakaway region becoming internally hostile if you continually deny it self-determination.
Should the U.S. have remained British? Should Taiwan unify with the mainland? Etc.? I believe that self-determination is a human imperative.
If they are, then we might possiblly be able to reverse them given reductions in CO2 output and carbon sequestering. If they aren't, then rising CO2 probably isn't helping and should still be reversed, and we might also look into other solutions for it. (bold mine)
And therein lies the problem. Deniers and self-styled fence-sitters like Lindzen are trotted out by pro-business economist institutes who refuse to accept that companies should ever have the need to be responsible. If there is no MMGW, then there is no need to lose profits by changing to less-polluting materials or processes. Lindzen himself has had no problem being trotted out on the bill of free market corporocrats or the energy industry.
Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges.
An old quote from Lindzen, one of about three names dropped regularly by MMGW deniers. Despite his sob story, Lindzen isn't exactly having a hard time looking for work; as there are plenty of free-market economist groups who are directly threatened by the notion that companies may have to be responsible for their effects on the world.
Turkey insists on living in Dark Ages and the modern world should reject it on that basis. Get Turkey out of NATO. And force it to accept the inevitability of Kurdistan. The free world has no business allying with Turkey.
Graduate into a low-status job when it comes to dating
This tendency actually serves predatory IT employing practices. Single IT employees are better than non-single or worse, familied employees because the former have no one at home waiting for them to arrive by a certain time for dinner, a date, bedtime, child or relationship or family obligations, etc.
The single employee has no problem staying late until whenever and less issue with working weekends because there is no one at home for them. The non-single employee has dates and such set up with their SO. The familied employee has family expectations, time spent with kids, contribute to their needs, alleviate burden on the other parent, etc.
So that's another thing to add to the list: Even if you can manage to form a relationship, this will work against your IT career, and even worse so when you form a family.
If Cory at BB would read my email, maybe they'd update that.
Puretracks.com presents a different storefront depending on whether you come from a US network or a Canadian network. The MP3s are only available in the Canadian front.
If you view puretracks.com through a Canadian proxy, you will see this.
So the question to ask Puretracks now is: why are their MP3s only good enough for Canadians?
I don't know a serious company that doesn't use IM extensively for inter- and intra- office communication, or even with clients.
Yeah, some have their own in-house IM systems, but that doesn't usually do it all (especially if you have offsite contractors and/or coordinate with the client during remote system events).
First off, this is impossible to gague because the Wii are so understocked that demand could actually be relatively low, yet there would still be none on shelves.
I do think that there are two factors to consider. One, the casual (i.e. non-rabid) gamer, which seems to be Nintendo's target audience of late, is going to be increasingly discouraged when they continue to discover they can't find any in stores and have to get up early on the day of the week their local retailer gets a load (i.e. 3) of them in order to get their hands on one. Two, the more serious gamer is not the target market, so probably has less interest in the system (barring those who Absolutely Must Have Every Console). And Nintendo's games, while innovative, also often tend not the kind of games serious gamers are looking for. And Nintendo's not only not the only one innovating (Guitar Hero, DDR, KR, Katamari); but they are also ignoring this (none of those games, sans a rare Mario-themed DDR, are on Nintendo platforms).
Personally, I'm dissatisfied with Nintendo games. The majority of offerings with each new Nintendo console seem to be getting tired: A new way to jump on top of Koopas. A new Mario Tennis. A new Mariokart. A new Mario Party. A new Starfox, with little more than better graphics, but the same old tired lines and uber-strong bosses that can only be defeated after figuring out their routines after a dozen deaths (well, this sums up a lot of Nintendo games, doesn't it). The more anthropomorphic animals or inanimate objects you can get into a Nintendo game, the better.
When I was a kid, I wanted a Nintendo. What Nintendo failed to realize is that kids like me grew up, yet they continue to push out cute games for kids (English-translated sexploitation games for the DS notwithstanding).
The games that cause real buzz don't come out on Nintendo these days. That's where it's losing.
you don't understand what visual voice mail is. It's not iBiff. It's, well, voicemail that is visual - as in, you get to see a list of all voice mails you have currently waiting, and then you can choose to listen to any one you like,
Most of the ideas that will sell the iPhone are device-side: the interface, the display, iPod compatibility, Safari -- to name the ones that are actually novel with the iPhone. The only novel network-side one I can see is Visual Voicemail. And what does that do? Feed you the CID and audio data stored on the voicemail service. Big whoop; today's PBX systems can do the same thing. It's only novel in the wireless realm, which is ever behind the curve in communications feature set, but gets away with it because it's mobile and portable.
This has nothing to do with lock-in, except in that the wireless carriers love the idea so much that new paradigms often can't get introduced into their lumbering, telco-bred systems without it.
Jobs is right about cellular not understanding modern communications. They understand traditional communications and only recently have realized that modern communications involves expanding beyond the realtime spoken word. They still don't grasp it, which is a big part of why they are behind the curve. And when they do implement it, it's usually with serious lack of foresight -- SMS, WAP, and MMS to name a few examples.
Heh. Apple or someone should start a wireless company. I know it's probably been done before (i.e. a carrier that is tech-based rather than telco-based), but the market is ripe now. The wireless carriers -- at least in the US, for some stupid reason -- can't roll out the services people get from other channels (TV, broadband speed, PTT, etc.), because they have cycles that are far too long and bureaucracies that are far too thick.
> You can implement whatever the hell you want, and let the carriers decide what they're going to implement. And the carriers can laugh at you, and the feature is useless.
And that's again because the carriers are technologically aloof. But if you unlocked the iPhone, and TMO users started getting it, and realized that VVM didn't work, that would put pressure on TMO to buy the platform from Apple and support the feature. Which does a lot more in the name of improving cellular technology than lock-in ever will.
Not true at all. In fact, Apple could make even more bucks by selling the service platform to other carriers. I don't buy the "completely reworked network" line. OK, maybe they had to upgrade their voicemail service platform. I'm sure TMO would be happy to do so too.
IMO Cingular let Apple bitch-slap them around because Cingular wants their hands on a Sidekick-killer and they think the high-ticket iPhone will be it.
Haven't had a problem with Domainmonger, been with them for a while (actually before they were DomainMonger, I think). I hear people dismiss it as being too pricey (just under half of NS), but it's been reliable and stable, which is better than I can say for cripplingly slow gandi, which always seems to be the reg behind any domain I have trouble looking up. It helps that they were offering single-year pricing well before most.
Just as all humans are ultimately cellular organisms, or all substances are ultimately subatomic particles. Security is the art of keeping something hidden by requiring something else that is hidden to reveal it, and repeated applications of this principle in various distinguishable implementations.
The lock on a door is only as secure as the secret of where it's key is. Discover this secret, and act upon it, and the secret of the door is revealed.
Likewise, my encrypted email is only as secure as the secret of the contents of my secret key (which is only as secure as my login), and my passphrase.
Even a biometrically secured system is only as secure as the secret of where the user's body is and how to get it to the scanner.
I used to join in on the laughter of "security through obscurity". Then I realized how much of security really is just obscurity, and how it was often not much less practically effective than "real" security. Then I saw that this is because they are ultimately the same, merely in various complexities.
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A T1 line is a dedicated line specifically rated for carrying the bandwidth you pay for. In contrast, a DSL line is an ordinary phone line over which convoluted DSP magic is performed to squeeze as many bits as possible into it. Meanwhile, a cable line is a shared pipe.
T1 outages must be responded to within an hour. DSL and cable outages, God knows when.
It's a publicly accessible wifi network. Meaning kids use it too.
If you read BoingBoing, you'd know the sheer volume of NSFW stuff that goes through there, largely thanks to one reckless horndog well-connected wannabe geek freak-nouveau journalist.
And you aren't the least bit surprised that a municipal free public wifi would want to keep all of that off of its publicly accessible network.
The BoingBoingers have kids, so they should be able to guess the real reason why, too. But a cheap shot at Boston was too much for their ivory tower self-importance to bear without.
Cause someone ripped off her husband's Number of the Beast .
I now realize that it's high time I got myself into the business of bullshit security. And here I was, wracking my brain trying to figure out what the new good-paying industry was.
People these days are so shit-scared about security that they'll buy anything with the word "secure" in it. I'm surprised DRM isn't marketed (to consumers) as "keeping your music secure". Maybe now I get why Bush is still in office. His work in keeping Americans scared to death is driving a whole new industry of consumer paranoia products.
It is hard to tell whether Palm, inc. announced that they are going to release a pda based on the Access Linux platform, or if they have gotten back into the software business and developed their own platform.
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The latter, according to CNet:
http://news.com.com/Palm+touts+stability+of+Linux
iawtc. mpu. tia. hand. etc.
It is apparent that you have NO idea what it is like to be ruled by your own corrupt leaders.
Hahahahahahahahaha you have no idea where I live, then.
It doesnt matter who fucks the citizenry, when they are being fucked. Believe me, all dicks are the same. Being a turkish citizen, i can tell you that from experience. It totally does NO difference if someone fucking the public is this or that nationality - those kind of people have their OWN unseen nationality.
It does make a difference. Sure, all politicians are scum no matter where you live. But I still believe that a politician from my side of the tracks -- whether it's geographically, historically, culturally, politically, intellectually, etc. -- is better for me than one that isn't. That person will be somewhat more accessible to me. There will be somewhat less layers of government between him and me. There will be smaller agencies with closer ties to the community. Decisions will be made closer to me and thereby within a perspective closer to mine. No, it's not perfect, and no, it doesn't make all problems of government go away. It is, IMO, an improvement.
SELF does not exist when you are being exploited and ruled by minorities even in your own nationality. The SELF that is doing the determination, is not the many selves of the 'nation' but a small minority elite little different from having royalty.
You keep treating self-determination as a one-time deal, such that you can only get it once, and then you're stuck. I don't. The individual, the family, the community, and the society are not rigid institutions, and should be free to choose its allegiances as many times as it feels it needs to.
had british parliament have allotted representatives to colonies, u.s. might have never happened.
No matter how you slice it, the London-based government would have only become less and less suited to rule and more and more out of touch with American development. Even Canada has been in nearly all respects spun off from the mother government, except in ceremony. In the U.S. today, these hundred-year-old states have grown in population to the point where the centers of government are out of touch with all but their core urban centers, and sentiments can be seen across the county for new self-determining states to be carved out of them. And likewise at the county level. And so on.
PS: Texans wanting independence from Britain? I don't think you mean Texans, or else I need a history lesson.
No, I don't see it. Better to be ruled by your own corrupt leaders than disenfranchised under someone else's corrupt leaders. The principle of self-determination is universal, reflexive, and recursive, too. If Western Kurds in a future Kurdistan state decide they are being underserved by the Eastern Kurdistan based government, then they should be entitled to a Western Kurdistan state, home rule district, devolved federal powers, whatever. Etc.
Independence is not always a good idea. Take La Paz County, Arizona, which went bankrupt rapidly after it broke off from Yuma County, because its territory was too rural and couldn't build enough taxes (didn't help that they were anti-tax conservatives) to run the county government. The mistake was that the state came in and bailed them out, instead of letting them run their course and have to beg to get back into Yuma.
Regardless of whether or not independence is a good idea, it shouldn't be refused. Most often, the parent political entity refuses to allow independence of a subregion because political entities tend to be territorial and exploitative. A region has value of some sort -- large tax base, oil, tourism, etc. -- and the parent entity wants it for itself. Granting self-determination to the subregion would cause the parent to lose control over its resources. Conversely, regions with no value are more likely to be successful in gaining independence or self-determination -- like La Paz County.
I've also heard of security issues on the national level against self-determination -- the parent is afraid that the newly independent region will foment rivalry, become a breeding ground for hostility, etc. I don't think there's much merit to it. The likelihood of a child state becoming hostile is just as likely as a breakaway region becoming internally hostile if you continually deny it self-determination.
Should the U.S. have remained British? Should Taiwan unify with the mainland? Etc.? I believe that self-determination is a human imperative.
Actually, yes. It does.
If they are, then we might possiblly be able to reverse them given reductions in CO2 output and carbon sequestering. If they aren't, then rising CO2 probably isn't helping and should still be reversed, and we might also look into other solutions for it. (bold mine)
And therein lies the problem. Deniers and self-styled fence-sitters like Lindzen are trotted out by pro-business economist institutes who refuse to accept that companies should ever have the need to be responsible. If there is no MMGW, then there is no need to lose profits by changing to less-polluting materials or processes. Lindzen himself has had no problem being trotted out on the bill of free market corporocrats or the energy industry.
Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges.
An old quote from Lindzen, one of about three names dropped regularly by MMGW deniers. Despite his sob story, Lindzen isn't exactly having a hard time looking for work; as there are plenty of free-market economist groups who are directly threatened by the notion that companies may have to be responsible for their effects on the world.
Meanwhile, Lindzen's own widely-peddled MMGW denial has caused federal funds for GW to shrink under a Republican and industry-loving legislature.
Turkey insists on living in Dark Ages and the modern world should reject it on that basis. Get Turkey out of NATO. And force it to accept the inevitability of Kurdistan. The free world has no business allying with Turkey.
Being depressed, and discouraged, they didn't give a fuck about playing well.
Graduate into a low-status job when it comes to dating
This tendency actually serves predatory IT employing practices. Single IT employees are better than non-single or worse, familied employees because the former have no one at home waiting for them to arrive by a certain time for dinner, a date, bedtime, child or relationship or family obligations, etc.
The single employee has no problem staying late until whenever and less issue with working weekends because there is no one at home for them. The non-single employee has dates and such set up with their SO. The familied employee has family expectations, time spent with kids, contribute to their needs, alleviate burden on the other parent, etc.
So that's another thing to add to the list: Even if you can manage to form a relationship, this will work against your IT career, and even worse so when you form a family.
Or view it via a Canadian proxy. :)
If Cory at BB would read my email, maybe they'd update that.
Puretracks.com presents a different storefront depending on whether you come from a US network or a Canadian network. The MP3s are only available in the Canadian front.
If you view puretracks.com through a Canadian proxy, you will see this.
So the question to ask Puretracks now is: why are their MP3s only good enough for Canadians?
I don't know a serious company that doesn't use IM extensively for inter- and intra- office communication, or even with clients.
Yeah, some have their own in-house IM systems, but that doesn't usually do it all (especially if you have offsite contractors and/or coordinate with the client during remote system events).
First off, this is impossible to gague because the Wii are so understocked that demand could actually be relatively low, yet there would still be none on shelves.
I do think that there are two factors to consider. One, the casual (i.e. non-rabid) gamer, which seems to be Nintendo's target audience of late, is going to be increasingly discouraged when they continue to discover they can't find any in stores and have to get up early on the day of the week their local retailer gets a load (i.e. 3) of them in order to get their hands on one. Two, the more serious gamer is not the target market, so probably has less interest in the system (barring those who Absolutely Must Have Every Console). And Nintendo's games, while innovative, also often tend not the kind of games serious gamers are looking for. And Nintendo's not only not the only one innovating (Guitar Hero, DDR, KR, Katamari); but they are also ignoring this (none of those games, sans a rare Mario-themed DDR, are on Nintendo platforms).
Personally, I'm dissatisfied with Nintendo games. The majority of offerings with each new Nintendo console seem to be getting tired: A new way to jump on top of Koopas. A new Mario Tennis. A new Mariokart. A new Mario Party. A new Starfox, with little more than better graphics, but the same old tired lines and uber-strong bosses that can only be defeated after figuring out their routines after a dozen deaths (well, this sums up a lot of Nintendo games, doesn't it). The more anthropomorphic animals or inanimate objects you can get into a Nintendo game, the better.
When I was a kid, I wanted a Nintendo. What Nintendo failed to realize is that kids like me grew up, yet they continue to push out cute games for kids (English-translated sexploitation games for the DS notwithstanding).
The games that cause real buzz don't come out on Nintendo these days. That's where it's losing.
you don't understand what visual voice mail is. It's not iBiff. It's, well, voicemail that is visual - as in, you get to see a list of all voice mails you have currently waiting, and then you can choose to listen to any one you like,
Most of the ideas that will sell the iPhone are device-side: the interface, the display, iPod compatibility, Safari -- to name the ones that are actually novel with the iPhone. The only novel network-side one I can see is Visual Voicemail. And what does that do? Feed you the CID and audio data stored on the voicemail service. Big whoop; today's PBX systems can do the same thing. It's only novel in the wireless realm, which is ever behind the curve in communications feature set, but gets away with it because it's mobile and portable.
This has nothing to do with lock-in, except in that the wireless carriers love the idea so much that new paradigms often can't get introduced into their lumbering, telco-bred systems without it.
Jobs is right about cellular not understanding modern communications. They understand traditional communications and only recently have realized that modern communications involves expanding beyond the realtime spoken word. They still don't grasp it, which is a big part of why they are behind the curve. And when they do implement it, it's usually with serious lack of foresight -- SMS, WAP, and MMS to name a few examples.
Heh. Apple or someone should start a wireless company. I know it's probably been done before (i.e. a carrier that is tech-based rather than telco-based), but the market is ripe now. The wireless carriers -- at least in the US, for some stupid reason -- can't roll out the services people get from other channels (TV, broadband speed, PTT, etc.), because they have cycles that are far too long and bureaucracies that are far too thick.
> You can implement whatever the hell you want, and let the carriers decide what they're going to implement.
And the carriers can laugh at you, and the feature is useless.
And that's again because the carriers are technologically aloof. But if you unlocked the iPhone, and TMO users started getting it, and realized that VVM didn't work, that would put pressure on TMO to buy the platform from Apple and support the feature. Which does a lot more in the name of improving cellular technology than lock-in ever will.
Not true at all. In fact, Apple could make even more bucks by selling the service platform to other carriers. I don't buy the "completely reworked network" line. OK, maybe they had to upgrade their voicemail service platform. I'm sure TMO would be happy to do so too.
IMO Cingular let Apple bitch-slap them around because Cingular wants their hands on a Sidekick-killer and they think the high-ticket iPhone will be it.
So, I have to be sufficiently un-dumb enough to have changed from the default password on my home router/gateway. Ok, done.
Haven't had a problem with Domainmonger, been with them for a while (actually before they were DomainMonger, I think). I hear people dismiss it as being too pricey (just under half of NS), but it's been reliable and stable, which is better than I can say for cripplingly slow gandi, which always seems to be the reg behind any domain I have trouble looking up. It helps that they were offering single-year pricing well before most.
All security *is* obscurity.
Just as all humans are ultimately cellular organisms, or all substances are ultimately subatomic particles. Security is the art of keeping something hidden by requiring something else that is hidden to reveal it, and repeated applications of this principle in various distinguishable implementations.
The lock on a door is only as secure as the secret of where it's key is. Discover this secret, and act upon it, and the secret of the door is revealed.
Likewise, my encrypted email is only as secure as the secret of the contents of my secret key (which is only as secure as my login), and my passphrase.
Even a biometrically secured system is only as secure as the secret of where the user's body is and how to get it to the scanner.
I used to join in on the laughter of "security through obscurity". Then I realized how much of security really is just obscurity, and how it was often not much less practically effective than "real" security. Then I saw that this is because they are ultimately the same, merely in various complexities.
Let's see. What if someone could DOS Lycos Mail for 30 straight days?