"The reason for this is simple, Age. In most places the copper in the ground has been their since the 1950's and in some cases longer. It is of different specs than are ideal and is corroding."
Lots of copper is on poles as well as in the ground, and cable modem HFC cabling also counts as part of the last mile. Corrosion and "different specs" aren't an issue in any event.
"you have to get so many permits and studies just to replace one section of line that it is not feasable to do so."
Phone companies and cable companies can readily maintain their lines without studies and permits. Judging by how often the street by my office is dug up, the permit and study process to lay fiber underground in downtown San Francisco isn't too strenuous, either.
"When congress de-regulated the phone industry they forced the local telco to give this last mile to the public domain. Any carrier can provide service over that mile of copper wire, be it DSL , POTS (Plain old telephone service), or long distance. This causes the eminent maintainer (the local telco) not to be interested at all in replacing any of it. Why replace it for other people? Monopolies are bad, but it does help to have someone who are directly responsible for maintaining a service."
I don't think there's any government body with the authority to nationalize the carriers' assets in the local loop. The 1996 Telecom Act stipulated that incumbent LECs should *resell* their facilities or "unbundled network elements", but anyone who tries to compete with the ILECs has to pay, and it's clear that the ILECs can extract costs by hassling canditate competitors for everything from cage space to parking spaces. Of course, the cable providers don't have to resell their facilities at all.
The ILECs are still in the voice business. It's a little implausible to think they'll stop maintaining their network because they have to resell lines to their competition, especially since much of the competition is rapidly going bankrupt.
It's hard to believe drivel like this is rated 5. Based on the credibility of the first two paragraphs, I'd be skeptical of the helpfulness of ordering caller ID in order to improve your 56k performance.
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With respect to 2.(Philos. of Leibnitz), one of the properties of monads was that they are windowless.
That would be "drops off with the *square* of the distance--1/r^2, not 1/e^r.
I wondered if anyone was going to mention this--an IDS outside the firewall is a science fair project, not a professional application.
It also seems atypical to run IDSs on an ISP's network. How representative of the intrusions a real enterprise faces is that going to be?
Cingular's cell phone band certainly is licensed. That service doesn't use the unlicensed ISM band at 2.4GHz that 802.11 and the others use.
I can't find a definitive statement that the ISM band was or wasn't taken away from the military, but it's unlikely on general principles.
Here's where you first go off the rails:
"The reason for this is simple, Age. In most places the copper in the ground has been their since the 1950's and in some cases longer. It is of different specs than are ideal and is corroding."
Lots of copper is on poles as well as in the ground, and cable modem HFC cabling also counts as part of the last mile. Corrosion and "different specs" aren't an issue in any event.
"you have to get so many permits and studies just to replace one section of line that it is not feasable to do so."
Phone companies and cable companies can readily maintain their lines without studies and permits. Judging by how often the street by my office is dug up, the permit and study process to lay fiber underground in downtown San Francisco isn't too strenuous, either.
"When congress de-regulated the phone industry they forced the local telco to give this last mile to the public domain. Any carrier can provide service over that mile of copper wire, be it DSL , POTS (Plain old telephone service), or long distance. This causes the eminent maintainer (the local telco) not to be interested at all in replacing any of it. Why replace it for other people? Monopolies are bad, but it does help to have someone who are directly responsible for maintaining a service."
I don't think there's any government body with the authority to nationalize the carriers' assets in the local loop. The 1996 Telecom Act stipulated that incumbent LECs should *resell* their facilities or "unbundled network elements", but anyone who tries to compete with the ILECs has to pay, and it's clear that the ILECs can extract costs by hassling canditate competitors for everything from cage space to parking spaces. Of course, the cable providers don't have to resell their facilities at all.
The ILECs are still in the voice business. It's a little implausible to think they'll stop maintaining their network because they have to resell lines to their competition, especially since much of the competition is rapidly going bankrupt.
It's hard to believe drivel like this is rated 5. Based on the credibility of the first two paragraphs, I'd be skeptical of the helpfulness of ordering caller ID in order to improve your 56k performance.
http://www.booknotes.org/transcripts/50404.htm
>LAMB: W--let me ask the obvious question: Why is Bill Bennett an opportunist and you're not?
Mr. KATZ: Well, he's made a lot more money than I have, basically. Whe--if I get to the point where I've sold as many books as he has, we'll be equal.