Isn't it ironic that her own success at being able to annoy tens of millions of people will probably a major factor in the death of internet as we know it. The isps, especially the cable isps, are beginning to force their own content and restrict the use of their services. Wasn't the internet supposed to be a user oriented environment? It is probably the last place on earth where the customer is always right. This woman through her greed is helping to kill it.
Now if the Wall Street Journal wants to do a story on a truly profitable small/medium business venture on the internet I suggest they look at some porn sites because they are more likely to make a profit than any other web business. Lets see how sympathetic the WSJ can be towards them.
One good tidbit of info, ISP's apparently do respond when spam complaints are made, so I urge everyone to take a little time and report spammers to their isp so they can get booted. Plus it is the only reliable way to get removed from the list.
Can you imagine if this lawyering tactic and blatant abuse of an overburdened patent office had taken place 150 years ago. I could patent things like "a way to use electricity for an artificial light source" and then I could have sued Edison or perhaps I could have patented "a method of towing freight along metal rails" and the railroad and locomotives would have been sued into non-existence. Its insane.
I bought a setup of 802.11a products a few months ago to test out and setup a network at a friend's house. The range is so limited by what is currently being offered for 11a products that I doubt it will catch on except when the networks will be confined to a single room. I found that that the signal dropped at less than 30 feet in many cases and calls to tech support (Dlink) revealed that they openly admit that the range of current generation.11a products is very limited and that the claim that 5ghz can go farther than 2.4 ghz as it often says on the box is a massive dose of wishful thinking. The price/performance is just not up to par.
The supposed rule of thumb for upgrading networks is 40% utilization according to equipment vendors like cisco but of course ISP's tend to wait till it gets to 80% for obvious reasons of cost and since 40% is clearly a way for vendors to sell more equipment. 80% is probably pushing the envelope a little but if your stuck in comcast hell like me on a cable line you are used to a provider that refuses to upgrade even at 120%.
First of all you may see improvements by using a switch instead of a hub (of course its probably that he does not know the difference and is using a switch already) If so you should definitely be using a switch that can divide the ports into VLAN's or use seperate routers so that the 3 office networks can be seperated for security reasons.
It seems your concern is that your ISP has a congested network that is over capacity. If this was your own line and not being shared the way to find out would be to see if you can get full t 1 speeds during busy times of the day but since it is being shared you can only get an accurate test when no one is using your connection.
First of all, regardless of whether government owns libraries or whether we the people own the libraries it does not matter. Our records are private because we have a constituional right to privacy. Just because we go to a government school or a go to a government building does not mean we are surrendering ourselves to a polygraph or a piss test or a background check.
The way to make a library system secure against violations of our privacy is simple. When a person checks out a book, a record is created, when it is returned and any fines due are paid it should be erased. The record as to what book was checked out should be erased as soon as that information is no longer pertinent to the library or the customer.
I would oppose reserved names for this reason beyond all others. In the sex.com litigation, a federal judge ruled that domain names are not property like a trademark or copyright. Rather they are a service, like a phone number. Anyone can buy a particular 1800 number as long as no one else is using it first. You can have
1-800-gateway and Gateway computers could not touch you. It should be that way with domain names as well. If a multibillion dollar corporation wants to have all the top level domain names for its trademark than it can shell out the 70 bucks per piece that us regular folks have to. And if they don't want to lease the domain names and pay the money then someone else is gonna do it.
I have wanted broadband for the last three years. But distance limitations on DSL stopped me from getting it. I signed up for cable cause it was ready first in my area and because for the same price my cable connection is more than 2x as fast. I even got it a few weeks early cause I agreed to be a beta tester in my neigborhood. It has worked almost all the time except for a few brief service probs along their routing system that slowed my latency to their main Washington DC router to about 500ms. Those only lasted a few hours and usually late at night. I had one outage last week that went off an on (mostly off) for a couple days. They said it was my cable signal in my house, but I think it was a neigborhood wide thing. Other than that I have been going good since February. I know about the shared connection problems but I have not experienced any kind of significant traffic based slowdown. DSL will be available to me in another month or so, but with all the complaints I have heard about the service and the contracts and the price/speed situation where I would have to shell out 100 bucks a month to be as fast as my 40 dollar cable connection. Lastly DSL has that stupid log on thing that you gotta go through, whereas my cable is a truly always on connection. Also with cable, I am not required to sign a contract that makes it impossible to cancel and get a refund. Did I mention that even though the cable company says it uses dynamic ip's, that my ip has been the same since I first started.
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I am an unschooler, and I have been since I left highschool at the beginning of tenth grade. If they are interested in homeschooling, I recomend the Teenage Liberation Handbook, by Grace Llewellyn (ISBN: 0962959170). It is based on the works of John Holt with an emphasis placed on being read by teenagers instead of their parents, although my Dad read it and agreed with most of it. Regain your own curiousity and love of learning, without curriculum, without walls, without grades. And best of all you can certainly go to college after being an unschooler, I have been taking occasional classes at community college since I started unschooling and I am nearly a year ahead of my peers in college work.
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Isn't it ironic that her own success at being able to annoy tens of millions of people will probably a major factor in the death of internet as we know it. The isps, especially the cable isps, are beginning to force their own content and restrict the use of their services. Wasn't the internet supposed to be a user oriented environment? It is probably the last place on earth where the customer is always right. This woman through her greed is helping to kill it.
Now if the Wall Street Journal wants to do a story on a truly profitable small/medium business venture on the internet I suggest they look at some porn sites because they are more likely to make a profit than any other web business. Lets see how sympathetic the WSJ can be towards them.
One good tidbit of info, ISP's apparently do respond when spam complaints are made, so I urge everyone to take a little time and report spammers to their isp so they can get booted. Plus it is the only reliable way to get removed from the list.
Can you imagine if this lawyering tactic and blatant abuse of an overburdened patent office had taken place 150 years ago. I could patent things like "a way to use electricity for an artificial light source" and then I could have sued Edison or perhaps I could have patented "a method of towing freight along metal rails" and the railroad and locomotives would have been sued into non-existence. Its insane.
I bought a setup of 802.11a products a few months ago to test out and setup a network at a friend's house. The range is so limited by what is currently being offered for 11a products that I doubt it will catch on except when the networks will be confined to a single room. I found that that the signal dropped at less than 30 feet in many cases and calls to tech support (Dlink) revealed that they openly admit that the range of current generation .11a products is very limited and that the claim that 5ghz can go farther than 2.4 ghz as it often says on the box is a massive dose of wishful thinking. The price/performance is just not up to par.
The supposed rule of thumb for upgrading networks is 40% utilization according to equipment vendors like cisco but of course ISP's tend to wait till it gets to 80% for obvious reasons of cost and since 40% is clearly a way for vendors to sell more equipment. 80% is probably pushing the envelope a little but if your stuck in comcast hell like me on a cable line you are used to a provider that refuses to upgrade even at 120%.
First of all you may see improvements by using a switch instead of a hub (of course its probably that he does not know the difference and is using a switch already) If so you should definitely be using a switch that can divide the ports into VLAN's or use seperate routers so that the 3 office networks can be seperated for security reasons.
It seems your concern is that your ISP has a congested network that is over capacity. If this was your own line and not being shared the way to find out would be to see if you can get full t 1 speeds during busy times of the day but since it is being shared you can only get an accurate test when no one is using your connection.
First of all, regardless of whether government owns libraries or whether we the people own the libraries it does not matter. Our records are private because we have a constituional right to privacy. Just because we go to a government school or a go to a government building does not mean we are surrendering ourselves to a polygraph or a piss test or a background check.
The way to make a library system secure against violations of our privacy is simple. When a person checks out a book, a record is created, when it is returned and any fines due are paid it should be erased. The record as to what book was checked out should be erased as soon as that information is no longer pertinent to the library or the customer.
I would oppose reserved names for this reason beyond all others. In the sex.com litigation, a federal judge ruled that domain names are not property like a trademark or copyright. Rather they are a service, like a phone number. Anyone can buy a particular 1800 number as long as no one else is using it first. You can have 1-800-gateway and Gateway computers could not touch you. It should be that way with domain names as well. If a multibillion dollar corporation wants to have all the top level domain names for its trademark than it can shell out the 70 bucks per piece that us regular folks have to. And if they don't want to lease the domain names and pay the money then someone else is gonna do it.
I have wanted broadband for the last three years. But distance limitations on DSL stopped me from getting it. I signed up for cable cause it was ready first in my area and because for the same price my cable connection is more than 2x as fast. I even got it a few weeks early cause I agreed to be a beta tester in my neigborhood. It has worked almost all the time except for a few brief service probs along their routing system that slowed my latency to their main Washington DC router to about 500ms. Those only lasted a few hours and usually late at night. I had one outage last week that went off an on (mostly off) for a couple days. They said it was my cable signal in my house, but I think it was a neigborhood wide thing. Other than that I have been going good since February. I know about the shared connection problems but I have not experienced any kind of significant traffic based slowdown. DSL will be available to me in another month or so, but with all the complaints I have heard about the service and the contracts and the price/speed situation where I would have to shell out 100 bucks a month to be as fast as my 40 dollar cable connection. Lastly DSL has that stupid log on thing that you gotta go through, whereas my cable is a truly always on connection. Also with cable, I am not required to sign a contract that makes it impossible to cancel and get a refund. Did I mention that even though the cable company says it uses dynamic ip's, that my ip has been the same since I first started.
I am an unschooler, and I have been since I left highschool at the beginning of tenth grade. If they are interested in homeschooling, I recomend the Teenage Liberation Handbook, by Grace Llewellyn (ISBN: 0962959170). It is based on the works of John Holt with an emphasis placed on being read by teenagers instead of their parents, although my Dad read it and agreed with most of it. Regain your own curiousity and love of learning, without curriculum, without walls, without grades. And best of all you can certainly go to college after being an unschooler, I have been taking occasional classes at community college since I started unschooling and I am nearly a year ahead of my peers in college work.