Not only analog watches, digital watches are even easier, set the alarm for a specific time, and connect to the buzzer...
Of course he wasn't arrested because he had a big ridiculouse watch, he was arrested because he made someone look stupid when the bomb squad showed up and couldn't find a bomb... the law for "making an authority figure look bad" isn't written down anywhere, but it is one of the crimes that is guaranteed to get you arrested almost every single time.
Sorry to hear about your horrid latency... I'm at 3ms consistently on DSL.. cable just can't compete on latency, or speed, or reliability... btw, my DSL still works in a city wide power outage... in fact the DSLAM's power is backed by 24hrs of battery, and a week of diesel fuel for a generator. Telcos know reliability.
Of course there's an even more telling point... remember how all internal networks used to be on coax? you know what they use now? twisted pair... that's right, that awful medium you keep dissing has wiped the floor with cable.
Considering that you keep spouting outright lies, and refuse to see facts, I'm ending this discussion here. respond with more lies all you want, I will not be replying further.
Your pretense that telephone companies haven't changed anything since 1990, while insisting that every cable co has upgraded every wire all the way from the node to the customer modem is flat our ludicrous. and your insistence that coax has unlimited bandwidth where you can put millions of users on a single RG6 and it will magically divide it up in to bins that can't possibly be intruded on by anyone else shows a complete lack of knowledge of the basic laws of the universe.
The simple fact is that DSL has always been far superior to cable, and always will be. We got rid of cable for LANs a long time ago, it's time people do the same for the last mile.
Oh, and as for fibre? you can't get much more ignorant than claiming that telcos aren't putting it in to the home at this point. They have been for 5 years or so now. The cable company keeps clinging to old coax. That puts most telcos two full generations ahead of cable.
because it is still the absolute best, and most reliable test that the average person can perform.
Such as?
what do you care? you'll just tell me that every one of them is "wrong" too... If you won't listen to facts, why ask for them?
Me too, only at lower latency than you do, and at a higher speed than your average DSL subscriber can ever hope to reach
So you're both wrong, and arrogant.... I can guarantee that your speeds fluctuate, it's the nature of the technology. And your latency is likely HIGHER than DSL too. Gamers around here pick DSL over cable for a reason, and it's the latency.
. My current tier for example is 30mbit, which I pay about $50ish for, and is about to receive a bump to 40mbit for free as my local CMTS just received a hardware upgrade and they're rolling out the changes this month.
Ah, so you're overpaying, and that's why you want to justify what you're getting, even if it isn't as good as the competition, you can't stand to think that you're paying more for less service, it's ok, it's only human nature to be defensive of such things.
While in theory my node could become over-saturated and I could see a loss of throughput, the exact same thing can be said for DSL,
Yes, but the node isn't the problem, there's usually plenty of bandwidth from the node to the network, the last mile is the problem. and that is where your cable line can never compete with DSL.
You probably don't know that since DOCSIS 2, cable doesn't rely on TDMA any more, rather it uses S-CDMA instead. This means there are rarely collisions, effectively making the concept of sharing a single medium rather meaningless. Cable subscribers don't contend for bandwidth like they used to back in the 90's, where the "shared bandwidth" talking point had more merit.
ah yes, your magical cable that has unlimited bandwidth, can have infinite customers on it, all because of DOCSIS2, hate to break it to you, but DOCSIS2(or later) isn't magic, and you are still sharing that cable with everyone else, and it's still only 1 cable. One person rakes in the torrents, the neighbour doesn't get his speeds. Until they run individual cables to each house, cable is doomed to share bandwidth. Luckilly for DSL subscribers the phone company already did run individual cables to every house. how forward thinking of them!
Also, did you know that once you pass half a mile away from the DSLAM, not even VDSL2 (the latest and greatest) can achieve speeds higher than 50mbit? It's physically impossible, and the vast majority of DSL subscribers are beyond that distance.
Did you know that DSLAMS don't live in COs anymore? they live on street corners all over the city. Most customers qualify for upward of 80 meg, and it gets better! VDSL2 is the latest and greatest, but there's no need to limit yourself to even that! Loop bonding is here, 2 lines, twice the bandwidth! (sorry cable users, a second line in to your house won't increase your bandwidth, because it still connects to the same over saturated line in the street)
Where I live though,claimed but unreachable 100mbit cable can be had for $90 a month, with no geographical restrictions that I'm aware of so long as you're able to physically connect the cable.
FTFY... the cable company LOVES to promise speeds that they can't deliver.
something not a single cable user can honestly say.
Except for me, apparently, and everybody else in my neighborhood. That is a fact
The technology says otherwise. Now it's possible that you happen to live on the end of a cable line that they just installed and that they haven't hooked up to enough houses yet, but trust me, your bandwidth will get worse as they do. Cable
But you don't believe in deterring dangerous driving (which collisions are the definition of) by fines, band, or imprisonment could reduce the possibility of it happening in the first place?
If you're talking a deterent measure, then what difference does it make if you nitpick on random small stuff, or have crushing penalties for the actual real issues? both cause a deterent.
I do regular monitoring of my pipe with shaperprobe (its a hobby; I'm a network engineer after all) and I get what I pay for, plus or minus 30 kilobits.
By the way, did you know that speedtest.net isn't very accurate? My guess is no.
no, it's not very accurate, that's why I also test in a myriad of other ways, and I ALWAYS get my full bandwidth, something not a single cable user can honestly say.
You probably also didn't know that DSL is even worse when it comes to delivering promised bandwidth due to voice grade cable having a degraded signal the further away you are from the DSLAM, which your phone company can't even accurately measure, and therefore can't really tell you what speeds they can reliably deliver even if they wanted to.
And here is where it becomes extremely obvious that you have no clue what you are talking about. You are correct that bandwidth deteriorates with distance, however the telco can measure this EXTREMELY accurately. To start with they use their records, This is all very easy to calculate, they know how long the cables are, they know what gauge the cables are, and therefore they know the loss of those lines, and in fact they refuse to oversell this, so if you are so far away from the DSLAM that you can only get 15Mbps instead of 25Mbps, they will actually refuse to sell 25Mbps service, no matter who you talk to, or what you say. In fact I qualify for 19.8Mbps, so they only sold me a 15Mbps connection. Once that step is done, a technician is dispatched for the install, after which tests are done on the line itself with the ADSL modem trained up to verify that the speeds match what you are paying for, that the signal levels are good, and that your achievable speed is above what you need.
There is no "up to" disclaimer because that's not what they are selling, they are selling the actual speed. They do have a disclaimer that they don't guarantee anything past their own router inside your house though (obviously)
And by the way, you share bandwidth every bit as much as cable users do. Learn networking some day, and you'll realize why.
I have my own dedicated line to the DSLAM, and the DSLAM has plenty of bandwidth from there, being all fibre optic, sure there is sharing at that level, but there's so much bandwidth it isn't an issue. Cable users on the other hand share that part, but they ALSO share the last mile, the part that has very restricted bandwidth. So when the neighbours kids get home from school, suddenly the bandwidth drops. No thanks, I'll stick to ADSL, it's a far superior technology to cable in every way.
someone actually still uses PPPoE??? wow... I thought we were long rid of that garbage... (No provider where I live has ever used it, though I was asked to trial it at one point (the trial never went anywhere))
I pay for the weight of what I ship, including the box and the packing peanuts (or in this example, the headers), but I don't pay for the weight of the dolly cart their delivery driver uses (the ATM overhead, PPOE if they use it (does anyone still use PPOE???) or any other overhead they use beyond that.)
I still look down my nose at cable users with their "shared bandwidth" because when I visit speedtest.net I always see the same speeds I pay for, The cable company won't even sell a speed, they only give you "up to" a speed (which they never reach) Far as I can tell, around here you have to buy twice the speed cable connection to match a DSL connection, of course they must know this, because they price their connections cheaper than DSL to make up for it.
Add in some dropped packets when the telephone is being used and there you go.
When I had DSL, if I started talking on the land line, my speed would drop into the dirt. I could hear static on the phone as well. DSL works over amazing distances, but he might be struggling to get even 256K. Note - old wiring in the house also does this. Most proper installs run a new line from the pole directly to the computer. A lot, though, especially if you are in an apartment, do not.
Most likely nothing to do with old wiring, sounds like you had a filtering problem. The static you heard was the unfiltered DSL noise. You either didn't have a filter on that phone, had the filter hooked up incorrectly (many brands don't work backwards), or the filter at your end, or the DSLAM end, was faulty.
No need to run a new line to the house, the old one is usually just fine, though there are some things that help. As a matter of policy we replace any aerial lines that are older than about 20 years (before they started using twisted pair in aerial lines) though it honestly doesn't usually make much, if any, difference. Buried lines and lines to apartments are unchanged. We do however clear cap the pair at the aerial terminal or pedestal, this does have an effect as signals bouncing off the end of an unterminated line can come back and interfere with your signal, we also install a filter at the main phone panel for the house to separate the DSL and voice portions (the other alternative is a microfilter on every telephone, not quite as effective, but usually works perfectly fine) Using these techniques we generally get rock solid connections, and are currently offering speeds as high as 25Mbps (most consumers these days get our 15Mbps package) When I run a speedtest in someone's home, 25Mbps means about 23-24Mbps to speedtest.net, 15Mbps means about 14-16Mbps
The oath states that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Telling part of the truth doesn't win you any points.Asked if he had ever been involved in a lawsuit he answered yes (correctly) however the follow up question after that was asking him to explain, he then listed only 1 lawsuit he had been in, and not the other more contentious one, sure it's the truth, but it is not the whole truth which is what he swore to tell.
Personally I'd love the opportunity to do Jury duty, though as of yet I've never been asked. Probably wouldn't want to do it all the time, but I think it would be interesting to do it once.
Of course my employer will also pay my wage while I'm on jury duty, so I won't be out of pocket for it...
In most civilized countries you are given the option to swear an oath to the deity of your choice, or to solemnly affirm (no religion involved)
The point being that you state that you are taking this seriously, and that you intend to be truthful (and that they will likely not be so happy with you if they find out latter that you lied)
Considering the number of laws these days that specifically avoid warrants, I doubt they even have much choice anymore. The best thing they can do really is what you see here, making sure as many people as possible know about it. On a side note, i love how they handle DMCA takedown requests on their search results, you click on the link at the bottom of the page, and it gives you a list of links that someone wanted removed. It's brilliant!
Which makes sense, except that the original poster specifically stated they wanted to avoid this sort of thing because it made marking too difficult...
However, given the size of Quebec in terms of land, people, and economy,
Of course this is another issue Quebec politicians refuse to think about, most of northern Quebec is populated (albeit sparsely) by Aboriginal peoples, most of whom want to stay in Canada, they have proposed separating from Quebec and re-joining Canada (and taking most of the land, and resources with them). Interestingly the answer by Quebec politicians was that Quebec couldn't be divided because it is a sovereign nation... (as opposed to Canada?) It would certainly be quite messy...
it's not unreasonable to assume they would quickly develop their own military, currency, and passports.
Thing is, it's not about reasonable. The promises were made because the Quebec people like travelling abroad on a Canadian passport (It's widely recognized as one of the most "valuable" passports when travelling) they don't want a Quebec one because they don't know how other countries will react to it. The same with currency, how well would the Quebec dollar trade on the international markets? Given the shape of the Quebec economy, not likely very well. Military was simply a financial thing, they didn't want to have to spend money there. Not realizing that Canada hardly wants to spend money to prop up a foreign country either.
Support for separation doesn't correlate as well to the Bloc's success as one might expect. The Bloc Quebecois, and their associated Parti Quebecois have both campaigned on a platform of staying in Canada whenever the polls have told them that this is what people want to hear. They were beat this time by the NDP, but with Jack Layton's passing, I doubt the NDP will manage to hold half those seats in the next election, and the Bloc has a knack for picking emotional and charismatic leaders... If we don't see anything of the Bloc in the next few elections I may start to believe you, but for now I won't put much stock in that idea.
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Not only analog watches, digital watches are even easier, set the alarm for a specific time, and connect to the buzzer...
Of course he wasn't arrested because he had a big ridiculouse watch, he was arrested because he made someone look stupid when the bomb squad showed up and couldn't find a bomb... the law for "making an authority figure look bad" isn't written down anywhere, but it is one of the crimes that is guaranteed to get you arrested almost every single time.
Sorry to hear about your horrid latency... I'm at 3ms consistently on DSL.. cable just can't compete on latency, or speed, or reliability... btw, my DSL still works in a city wide power outage... in fact the DSLAM's power is backed by 24hrs of battery, and a week of diesel fuel for a generator. Telcos know reliability.
Of course there's an even more telling point... remember how all internal networks used to be on coax? you know what they use now? twisted pair... that's right, that awful medium you keep dissing has wiped the floor with cable.
Considering that you keep spouting outright lies, and refuse to see facts, I'm ending this discussion here. respond with more lies all you want, I will not be replying further.
Your pretense that telephone companies haven't changed anything since 1990, while insisting that every cable co has upgraded every wire all the way from the node to the customer modem is flat our ludicrous. and your insistence that coax has unlimited bandwidth where you can put millions of users on a single RG6 and it will magically divide it up in to bins that can't possibly be intruded on by anyone else shows a complete lack of knowledge of the basic laws of the universe.
The simple fact is that DSL has always been far superior to cable, and always will be. We got rid of cable for LANs a long time ago, it's time people do the same for the last mile.
Oh, and as for fibre? you can't get much more ignorant than claiming that telcos aren't putting it in to the home at this point. They have been for 5 years or so now. The cable company keeps clinging to old coax. That puts most telcos two full generations ahead of cable.
So why on earth did you cite it?
because it is still the absolute best, and most reliable test that the average person can perform.
Such as?
what do you care? you'll just tell me that every one of them is "wrong" too... If you won't listen to facts, why ask for them?
Me too, only at lower latency than you do, and at a higher speed than your average DSL subscriber can ever hope to reach
So you're both wrong, and arrogant.... I can guarantee that your speeds fluctuate, it's the nature of the technology. And your latency is likely HIGHER than DSL too. Gamers around here pick DSL over cable for a reason, and it's the latency.
. My current tier for example is 30mbit, which I pay about $50ish for, and is about to receive a bump to 40mbit for free as my local CMTS just received a hardware upgrade and they're rolling out the changes this month.
Ah, so you're overpaying, and that's why you want to justify what you're getting, even if it isn't as good as the competition, you can't stand to think that you're paying more for less service, it's ok, it's only human nature to be defensive of such things.
While in theory my node could become over-saturated and I could see a loss of throughput, the exact same thing can be said for DSL,
Yes, but the node isn't the problem, there's usually plenty of bandwidth from the node to the network, the last mile is the problem. and that is where your cable line can never compete with DSL.
You probably don't know that since DOCSIS 2, cable doesn't rely on TDMA any more, rather it uses S-CDMA instead. This means there are rarely collisions, effectively making the concept of sharing a single medium rather meaningless. Cable subscribers don't contend for bandwidth like they used to back in the 90's, where the "shared bandwidth" talking point had more merit.
ah yes, your magical cable that has unlimited bandwidth, can have infinite customers on it, all because of DOCSIS2, hate to break it to you, but DOCSIS2(or later) isn't magic, and you are still sharing that cable with everyone else, and it's still only 1 cable. One person rakes in the torrents, the neighbour doesn't get his speeds. Until they run individual cables to each house, cable is doomed to share bandwidth. Luckilly for DSL subscribers the phone company already did run individual cables to every house. how forward thinking of them!
Also, did you know that once you pass half a mile away from the DSLAM, not even VDSL2 (the latest and greatest) can achieve speeds higher than 50mbit? It's physically impossible, and the vast majority of DSL subscribers are beyond that distance.
Did you know that DSLAMS don't live in COs anymore? they live on street corners all over the city. Most customers qualify for upward of 80 meg, and it gets better! VDSL2 is the latest and greatest, but there's no need to limit yourself to even that! Loop bonding is here, 2 lines, twice the bandwidth! (sorry cable users, a second line in to your house won't increase your bandwidth, because it still connects to the same over saturated line in the street)
Where I live though,claimed but unreachable 100mbit cable can be had for $90 a month, with no geographical restrictions that I'm aware of so long as you're able to physically connect the cable.
FTFY... the cable company LOVES to promise speeds that they can't deliver.
something not a single cable user can honestly say.
Except for me, apparently, and everybody else in my neighborhood. That is a fact
The technology says otherwise. Now it's possible that you happen to live on the end of a cable line that they just installed and that they haven't hooked up to enough houses yet, but trust me, your bandwidth will get worse as they do. Cable
But you don't believe in deterring dangerous driving (which collisions are the definition of) by fines, band, or imprisonment could reduce the possibility of it happening in the first place?
If you're talking a deterent measure, then what difference does it make if you nitpick on random small stuff, or have crushing penalties for the actual real issues? both cause a deterent.
I do regular monitoring of my pipe with shaperprobe (its a hobby; I'm a network engineer after all) and I get what I pay for, plus or minus 30 kilobits.
By the way, did you know that speedtest.net isn't very accurate? My guess is no.
no, it's not very accurate, that's why I also test in a myriad of other ways, and I ALWAYS get my full bandwidth, something not a single cable user can honestly say.
You probably also didn't know that DSL is even worse when it comes to delivering promised bandwidth due to voice grade cable having a degraded signal the further away you are from the DSLAM, which your phone company can't even accurately measure, and therefore can't really tell you what speeds they can reliably deliver even if they wanted to.
And here is where it becomes extremely obvious that you have no clue what you are talking about. You are correct that bandwidth deteriorates with distance, however the telco can measure this EXTREMELY accurately. To start with they use their records, This is all very easy to calculate, they know how long the cables are, they know what gauge the cables are, and therefore they know the loss of those lines, and in fact they refuse to oversell this, so if you are so far away from the DSLAM that you can only get 15Mbps instead of 25Mbps, they will actually refuse to sell 25Mbps service, no matter who you talk to, or what you say. In fact I qualify for 19.8Mbps, so they only sold me a 15Mbps connection. Once that step is done, a technician is dispatched for the install, after which tests are done on the line itself with the ADSL modem trained up to verify that the speeds match what you are paying for, that the signal levels are good, and that your achievable speed is above what you need.
There is no "up to" disclaimer because that's not what they are selling, they are selling the actual speed. They do have a disclaimer that they don't guarantee anything past their own router inside your house though (obviously)
And by the way, you share bandwidth every bit as much as cable users do. Learn networking some day, and you'll realize why.
I have my own dedicated line to the DSLAM, and the DSLAM has plenty of bandwidth from there, being all fibre optic, sure there is sharing at that level, but there's so much bandwidth it isn't an issue. Cable users on the other hand share that part, but they ALSO share the last mile, the part that has very restricted bandwidth. So when the neighbours kids get home from school, suddenly the bandwidth drops. No thanks, I'll stick to ADSL, it's a far superior technology to cable in every way.
someone actually still uses PPPoE??? wow... I thought we were long rid of that garbage... (No provider where I live has ever used it, though I was asked to trial it at one point (the trial never went anywhere))
I pay for the weight of what I ship, including the box and the packing peanuts (or in this example, the headers), but I don't pay for the weight of the dolly cart their delivery driver uses (the ATM overhead, PPOE if they use it (does anyone still use PPOE???) or any other overhead they use beyond that.)
I still look down my nose at cable users with their "shared bandwidth" because when I visit speedtest.net I always see the same speeds I pay for, The cable company won't even sell a speed, they only give you "up to" a speed (which they never reach) Far as I can tell, around here you have to buy twice the speed cable connection to match a DSL connection, of course they must know this, because they price their connections cheaper than DSL to make up for it.
Add in some dropped packets when the telephone is being used and there you go.
When I had DSL, if I started talking on the land line, my speed would drop into the dirt. I could hear static on the phone as well. DSL works over amazing distances, but he might be struggling to get even 256K. Note - old wiring in the house also does this. Most proper installs run a new line from the pole directly to the computer. A lot, though, especially if you are in an apartment, do not.
Most likely nothing to do with old wiring, sounds like you had a filtering problem. The static you heard was the unfiltered DSL noise. You either didn't have a filter on that phone, had the filter hooked up incorrectly (many brands don't work backwards), or the filter at your end, or the DSLAM end, was faulty.
No need to run a new line to the house, the old one is usually just fine, though there are some things that help. As a matter of policy we replace any aerial lines that are older than about 20 years (before they started using twisted pair in aerial lines) though it honestly doesn't usually make much, if any, difference. Buried lines and lines to apartments are unchanged. We do however clear cap the pair at the aerial terminal or pedestal, this does have an effect as signals bouncing off the end of an unterminated line can come back and interfere with your signal, we also install a filter at the main phone panel for the house to separate the DSL and voice portions (the other alternative is a microfilter on every telephone, not quite as effective, but usually works perfectly fine) Using these techniques we generally get rock solid connections, and are currently offering speeds as high as 25Mbps (most consumers these days get our 15Mbps package) When I run a speedtest in someone's home, 25Mbps means about 23-24Mbps to speedtest.net, 15Mbps means about 14-16Mbps
Easy way around it, sell the wifi module separately... easy enough to do in a car, though pretty difficult in a phone or tablet.
The oath states that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Telling part of the truth doesn't win you any points.Asked if he had ever been involved in a lawsuit he answered yes (correctly) however the follow up question after that was asking him to explain, he then listed only 1 lawsuit he had been in, and not the other more contentious one, sure it's the truth, but it is not the whole truth which is what he swore to tell.
Personally I'd love the opportunity to do Jury duty, though as of yet I've never been asked. Probably wouldn't want to do it all the time, but I think it would be interesting to do it once.
Of course my employer will also pay my wage while I'm on jury duty, so I won't be out of pocket for it...
In most civilized countries you are given the option to swear an oath to the deity of your choice, or to solemnly affirm (no religion involved)
The point being that you state that you are taking this seriously, and that you intend to be truthful (and that they will likely not be so happy with you if they find out latter that you lied)
How about on your memory testing game called "memory"? (how is this different?)
Too bad google users are absolutely locked in to Google Play and can't possibly get their apps any other way....
Oh right, every current Android device allows side-loading of apps...
If you really want to avoid google, it only takes a few host entries and you'll find most sites still work just fine, with no google tracking.
Try that to opt out of your government...
You don't honestly believe that bit about the walled garden protecting the users do you?
You are. One way or another.
Often this would land them in pretty big trouble, many of these laws have provisions against this.
Considering the number of laws these days that specifically avoid warrants, I doubt they even have much choice anymore. The best thing they can do really is what you see here, making sure as many people as possible know about it. On a side note, i love how they handle DMCA takedown requests on their search results, you click on the link at the bottom of the page, and it gives you a list of links that someone wanted removed. It's brilliant!
While I agree with you on most of this, I must say, Israel has never been shy about deploying soldiers, I bet they'll be on the battlefield.
Although I do see your point, there is a subtle difference. I can choose not to use Google...
Which makes sense, except that the original poster specifically stated they wanted to avoid this sort of thing because it made marking too difficult...
However, given the size of Quebec in terms of land, people, and economy,
Of course this is another issue Quebec politicians refuse to think about, most of northern Quebec is populated (albeit sparsely) by Aboriginal peoples, most of whom want to stay in Canada, they have proposed separating from Quebec and re-joining Canada (and taking most of the land, and resources with them). Interestingly the answer by Quebec politicians was that Quebec couldn't be divided because it is a sovereign nation... (as opposed to Canada?) It would certainly be quite messy...
it's not unreasonable to assume they would quickly develop their own military, currency, and passports.
Thing is, it's not about reasonable. The promises were made because the Quebec people like travelling abroad on a Canadian passport (It's widely recognized as one of the most "valuable" passports when travelling) they don't want a Quebec one because they don't know how other countries will react to it. The same with currency, how well would the Quebec dollar trade on the international markets? Given the shape of the Quebec economy, not likely very well. Military was simply a financial thing, they didn't want to have to spend money there. Not realizing that Canada hardly wants to spend money to prop up a foreign country either.
Support for separation doesn't correlate as well to the Bloc's success as one might expect. The Bloc Quebecois, and their associated Parti Quebecois have both campaigned on a platform of staying in Canada whenever the polls have told them that this is what people want to hear. They were beat this time by the NDP, but with Jack Layton's passing, I doubt the NDP will manage to hold half those seats in the next election, and the Bloc has a knack for picking emotional and charismatic leaders...
If we don't see anything of the Bloc in the next few elections I may start to believe you, but for now I won't put much stock in that idea.