My point though is that if they want to claim they let all non-abuse traffic through and are not responsible (for say piracy or kiddie porn) then they ought not to modify legitimate packets and data.
Of course I live in a country where GSM comes from... Rogers. It's direct competitor is... Rogers (there is only one GSM provider in Canada).
You can get net access from... Bell Canada or.... Rogers.
etc...
You think your monopolies suck in the USA. Here in Canada we put the "pwned" in Monopwnedly.
Just like to point out you can configure Vonnage to use lower bitrate codecs. Just most people leave it at 64kbps. IIRC you can go all the way down to GSM CELP at 8kbps.
It seems every 3 months or so ISPs forget they're common carriers. You can't limit traffic beyond the tech specs and then say "we're not responsible for what the traffic represents".
Being immune from prosecution is a privilege extended because you're enabling the citizens to live peacefully and freely.
Otherwise the MPAA and RIAA may want to have a chat with you.
That and if Comcast is really doing this then fuck them. Make it expensive for them to suck. E.g. share connections with your neighbours, call tech support all the time, fight over every line of your bill (even if there is only one), etc...
Seek out competitors if possible which sadly is not always possible (hey, you need monopolies afterall!).
But most importantly don't buy Comcast VoIP at all. Go back to a POTS if you have to. Giving them more business just encourages this radically stupid behaviour.
I seem to recall another university claiming women are inherently inferior to men in terms of intellect.
You seem to have a hero-worship complex. Just because the study came from a university (in good standing or otherwise) doesn't mean you should outright believe it.
I think you ought to attend a conference or two. Then you'll see where "publish or perish" gets you in terms of study quality.
Do you know if the plane was in good shape? Was it properly built, inspected and registered? Was the pilot trained for the weather? Was there any sorts of "wind events"? etc, etc, etc.
I mean, I have a rock on my lawn AND I don't get attacked by lions. therefore the rock protects me from lions.
I'm not saying a cell phone CAN'T interfere with a plane. I'm just saying it's not really the top on the list of shit to worry about.
Think about this if you will, you're in a metal tube sitting on wings built by the lowest bidder, maintained by staff who may or may not be qualified, a plane that has seen more action then a prostitute on a saturday night, weighing in at 40,000 Kg or more, hurtling down a road which may or may not have debris on it at 200 mph hoping to god the wind favours your take off...
Then once you get airborn your fly through a half dozen or more layers of air flowing in different directions with different densities and fly through and around strong RF signals of powers that far exceed that in your cell phone.
A cell phone going "buzz buzz buzz" is very unlikely to be the cause of a crash.
That and I know plenty of private pilots who fly with their cell phones on aircraft far smaller than that and yet are unscathed.
Most of the admins at my school were actually students who either recently grad'ed or dropped out and needed work.
They were all the type of dork that you see with a pda, cell phone, laptop, etc all the time yet nothing installed on them except solitaire. Rarely if never were any of them into OSS at all. So asking them about Linux wireless was useless (fortunately I knew how to use it anyways).
My school, like many others, was basically owned by Microsoft. All the labs except the "Linux lab" had MSFT on it. The assignments? MS Word. The grades? Excel sheets, etc, etc, etc.
Our engineering program was shite though, we had to use MSFT project/visio to make our reports. We couldn't use anything else.
I was a Computer Science and Engineering student. Basically the problem was the labs were either reserved for GIS students (who basically along with the Nursing students took over the building) or were packed with people reading their hotmail.
There wasn't a lot of places to sit down and get good wireless access (or power outlets).
So I basically used my laptop to take a note or two or play games while I did the lab work at home.
For me though most of the assignments were trivial and I just didthem the same night they were assigned (either that or the night before they were due).
My school used a super secret 40-bit WEP key, that they would take your laptop and enter themselves.
Yeah, I had linux on my laptop and I didn't give the techy a root account to play with.
That was fun.
A bit of social engineering later (and a strong reminder that student tech fees pay his salary) and I ended up with the WEP key which at the time was something like b4d45552 or something like that (something like bigbadboss or whatever).
I seriously hate admins of schools they're the most useless technologically inept people ever. Which was funny given the program I was in was for techies (e.g. software/hardware developers).
It'll be another "let's use all proprietary windows intel only tools" scam.
I only got my laptop in the second half of my program and frankly aside from giving me something to do during class (e.g. read slashdot) it didn't help. I did most of my lab work at home and very little on the laptop at school.
Now if this uni went the way of OSS and used proper open source networking resources then I may be in favour of it...
But knowing most unis they're just a money pit so who do you think they'll align with.
Yeah that too. When I can (I'm not what you call a small dude and planes aren't made for normal sized people anyways) i always leave it on for the entire flight no matter if it's 30mins of 8 hours.
though I've been in seats with a 12" seat belt (e.g. ridiculously short). I think honestly they have no standards. I've been on flights with huge seat belts that even I can tighten up a good 6" or so (recalling I'm a big dude...).
KLM though (dutch) are the worse for both space, seating and seatbelts. Their inflight movie selection is horrible too:-) United is decent I guess.
1 in 4? I've been on a lot of flights and I have NEVER seen ANYONE talk on a cell once we're airborn. Must be some hip commuter flights or something...... PERIODS!!!!
I go on a road trip with three phones around me (not all mine) and a Garmin GPS and it works just fine.
you're telling me that a multi-million dollar instrument panel is more vulnerable than a 350$ garmin GPS I bought at walmart?...
Plus they FLY THROUGH areas of strong RF radiation all the time. From cell towers to AM/FM broadcasts to something we in the industry like to call ***RADAR***.
It's just a load of bullshit for three reasons
1. They want you to use the expensive inflight phone 2. It annoys others on the plane 3. In the event of an accident you're phone, laptop, cd player, gameboy, etc is a nice loose projectile.
But let's check who is on the UN security council as permanent members...... United States, China, France, Russia and the UK.... who sells weapons to these warlords... States, China, France, Russia and the UK.
"you seem to forget the whole airplanes crashing into buildings."
And you seem to forget you can't declare war on an idea. A formal declaration of war means cessation of trading, recalling foreign diplomats, sending troops to defeat a foreign power and occupy.
You got the last part down, but last I checked YOU STILL HAVE A SAUDI EMBASSY IN THE STATES.
Oh yeah, where did the 9/11 "terrorists" come from? Iraq? Afghanistan?...
That's odd, because your country is not officially at war...
Oh you mean that loosely defined "send our troops anywhere and disregard local laws" bit... oh ok.
As for "oh well monitoring the middle east calls is ok isn't it?" the point of the "slippery slope" is where does it end? It's easier for me to enter Romania of all places then it is the united states. Land of freedom? My ass. I can visit the UK for upto 6 months. I can't do that in the USA (or ireland for that matter:-()
I still hate blogs... hate the word blog, hate the word IT too... it's a fucking list of things you did today. Big deal. Doesn't mean it has to be boring.
I think my point is it reflects on society "cheap and easy" philosophy to anything. Why sit down and properly form a paragraph or two of an eventful day when you can quickly blurt out in txt-speak what went on...
So as a cop I walk up to you and say "here's 100$ hit this guy for me" and you do it. Who actually created the crime?
You *DID NOT* have to do the action. The crime was you hit the person. Who hit the person? You did. Who created the crime of hitting the person? You did. I just don't buy it. "creating a crime" is just a defense strategy and not a realistic argument.
Might as well say Twinkies enticed you to commit the crime. I mean obviously you're only responsible for your positive actions. All negative actions have an excuse that puts you out of the hot spot.
Now, I can see talking to mentally retarded people who may confuse right and wrong (or plain not know the difference at all). That should be a crime because they're likely to go with whatever someone else says specially if they gain their trust.
But a rational well mentally equipped person wouldn't succomb to such peer pressure at all. And if they do then they're just immoral and shouldn't be in society.
I mean at $OFFICE here where I work I could probably ask 10 people to break some law (say theft) with the promise of $100 reward. I bet you all 10 will refuse to commit the action.
I bet you I can find 10 people in under an hour in Toronto willing to steal for $100. Where would I find them?
Slashdot Mirror
Whoops sorry.
... Rogers. It's direct competitor is ... Rogers (there is only one GSM provider in Canada).
... Bell Canada or .... Rogers.
My point though is that if they want to claim they let all non-abuse traffic through and are not responsible (for say piracy or kiddie porn) then they ought not to modify legitimate packets and data.
Of course I live in a country where GSM comes from
You can get net access from
etc...
You think your monopolies suck in the USA. Here in Canada we put the "pwned" in Monopwnedly.
Tom
Just like to point out you can configure Vonnage to use lower bitrate codecs. Just most people leave it at 64kbps. IIRC you can go all the way down to GSM CELP at 8kbps.
Even a dialup modem can handle 8kbps reliably.
Tom
It seems every 3 months or so ISPs forget they're common carriers. You can't limit traffic beyond the tech specs and then say "we're not responsible for what the traffic represents".
Being immune from prosecution is a privilege extended because you're enabling the citizens to live peacefully and freely.
Otherwise the MPAA and RIAA may want to have a chat with you.
That and if Comcast is really doing this then fuck them. Make it expensive for them to suck. E.g. share connections with your neighbours, call tech support all the time, fight over every line of your bill (even if there is only one), etc...
Seek out competitors if possible which sadly is not always possible (hey, you need monopolies afterall!).
But most importantly don't buy Comcast VoIP at all. Go back to a POTS if you have to. Giving them more business just encourages this radically stupid behaviour.
Tom
They're gonna ask the public for research themes? ... AFTER THEY BOUGHT IT???
:-)
I'd love to see this from top500.org
name,where,how many processors,average FLOPS,max FLOPS,***actually being used FLOPS***
Then sort it based on the latter.
Tom
I seem to recall another university claiming women are inherently inferior to men in terms of intellect.
You seem to have a hero-worship complex. Just because the study came from a university (in good standing or otherwise) doesn't mean you should outright believe it.
I think you ought to attend a conference or two. Then you'll see where "publish or perish" gets you in terms of study quality.
Tom
Do you know if the plane was in good shape? Was it properly built, inspected and registered? Was the pilot trained for the weather? Was there any sorts of "wind events"? etc, etc, etc.
I mean, I have a rock on my lawn AND I don't get attacked by lions. therefore the rock protects me from lions.
I'm not saying a cell phone CAN'T interfere with a plane. I'm just saying it's not really the top on the list of shit to worry about.
Think about this if you will, you're in a metal tube sitting on wings built by the lowest bidder, maintained by staff who may or may not be qualified, a plane that has seen more action then a prostitute on a saturday night, weighing in at 40,000 Kg or more, hurtling down a road which may or may not have debris on it at 200 mph hoping to god the wind favours your take off...
Then once you get airborn your fly through a half dozen or more layers of air flowing in different directions with different densities and fly through and around strong RF signals of powers that far exceed that in your cell phone.
A cell phone going "buzz buzz buzz" is very unlikely to be the cause of a crash.
That and I know plenty of private pilots who fly with their cell phones on aircraft far smaller than that and yet are unscathed.
tom
Most of the admins at my school were actually students who either recently grad'ed or dropped out and needed work.
They were all the type of dork that you see with a pda, cell phone, laptop, etc all the time yet nothing installed on them except solitaire. Rarely if never were any of them into OSS at all. So asking them about Linux wireless was useless (fortunately I knew how to use it anyways).
My school, like many others, was basically owned by Microsoft. All the labs except the "Linux lab" had MSFT on it. The assignments? MS Word. The grades? Excel sheets, etc, etc, etc.
Our engineering program was shite though, we had to use MSFT project/visio to make our reports. We couldn't use anything else.
Tom
I was a Computer Science and Engineering student. Basically the problem was the labs were either reserved for GIS students (who basically along with the Nursing students took over the building) or were packed with people reading their hotmail.
There wasn't a lot of places to sit down and get good wireless access (or power outlets).
So I basically used my laptop to take a note or two or play games while I did the lab work at home.
For me though most of the assignments were trivial and I just didthem the same night they were assigned (either that or the night before they were due).
tom
Um? How is a book annoying?
... you have to stow everything during take off and landing...
:-)
And in case you've never flown commercially
well everything except the inflight magazines
"SkyMall you screwed me again!"
Tom
Yeah I guess the trick is to multitask...
...
:-)
Connect, start quest, pick up kids, battle boss and win quest, make supper, start new quest, put kids to bed, finish quest
hehehe
If they could make GTA:SA for the gameboy I'd be in heaven... screw these RPG games. Portable mayhem is where it's at.
Tom
j/k
.... ...
:-)
You have a wife who lets you play games so much you're willing to wait 30 mins to get online?
DANG! That's nice.
Tom
My school used a super secret 40-bit WEP key, that they would take your laptop and enter themselves.
Yeah, I had linux on my laptop and I didn't give the techy a root account to play with.
That was fun.
A bit of social engineering later (and a strong reminder that student tech fees pay his salary) and I ended up with the WEP key which at the time was something like b4d45552 or something like that (something like bigbadboss or whatever).
I seriously hate admins of schools they're the most useless technologically inept people ever. Which was funny given the program I was in was for techies (e.g. software/hardware developers).
Tom
It'll be another "let's use all proprietary windows intel only tools" scam.
I only got my laptop in the second half of my program and frankly aside from giving me something to do during class (e.g. read slashdot) it didn't help. I did most of my lab work at home and very little on the laptop at school.
Now if this uni went the way of OSS and used proper open source networking resources then I may be in favour of it...
But knowing most unis they're just a money pit so who do you think they'll align with.
Tom
Yeah that too. When I can (I'm not what you call a small dude and planes aren't made for normal sized people anyways) i always leave it on for the entire flight no matter if it's 30mins of 8 hours.
:-) United is decent I guess.
though I've been in seats with a 12" seat belt (e.g. ridiculously short). I think honestly they have no standards. I've been on flights with huge seat belts that even I can tighten up a good 6" or so (recalling I'm a big dude...).
KLM though (dutch) are the worse for both space, seating and seatbelts. Their inflight movie selection is horrible too
Tom
Perhaps, but then the real problem is the planes are not maintained as much as they should be. Or not built as they should be.
I agree phones should be off during the flight but mostly because they're projectiles and because it's annoying.
Personally the only time I'm even remotely "weary" during a flight is takeoff. After that the rest including landing is fine with me.
Tom
1 in 4? I've been on a lot of flights and I have NEVER seen ANYONE talk on a cell once we're airborn. Must be some hip commuter flights or something... ... PERIODS!!!!
Tom
No way.
...
I go on a road trip with three phones around me (not all mine) and a Garmin GPS and it works just fine.
you're telling me that a multi-million dollar instrument panel is more vulnerable than a 350$ garmin GPS I bought at walmart?
Plus they FLY THROUGH areas of strong RF radiation all the time. From cell towers to AM/FM broadcasts to something we in the industry like to call ***RADAR***.
It's just a load of bullshit for three reasons
1. They want you to use the expensive inflight phone
2. It annoys others on the plane
3. In the event of an accident you're phone, laptop, cd player, gameboy, etc is a nice loose projectile.
Tom
two wrongs ... don't make a right.
... United States, China, France, Russia and the UK. ... who sells weapons to these warlords ... States, China, France, Russia and the UK.
But let's check who is on the UN security council as permanent members...
Now you wonder why Rwanda went on?
Really?
Tom
Gah? Are you making fun of my grammor or are you saying the slippery slope doesn't exist? ...
"you seem to forget the whole airplanes crashing into buildings."
...
And you seem to forget you can't declare war on an idea. A formal declaration of war means cessation of trading, recalling foreign diplomats, sending troops to defeat a foreign power and occupy.
You got the last part down, but last I checked YOU STILL HAVE A SAUDI EMBASSY IN THE STATES.
Oh yeah, where did the 9/11 "terrorists" come from? Iraq? Afghanistan?
You really need to stop watching Fox News.
tom
That's odd, because your country is not officially at war...
... oh ok.
:-()
Oh you mean that loosely defined "send our troops anywhere and disregard local laws" bit
As for "oh well monitoring the middle east calls is ok isn't it?" the point of the "slippery slope" is where does it end? It's easier for me to enter Romania of all places then it is the united states. Land of freedom? My ass. I can visit the UK for upto 6 months. I can't do that in the USA (or ireland for that matter
Tom
Nope. Inter implies between networks.
:-)
/wasn't alive then
//but read a book or two
///wish I had a TF account
You need to read up on the ARPANET projects
Tom
So long as I can keep buying my wardrobe for 29.95$ at Wal-mart I really don't care what they do to their people.
Look, they have over a billion people there. And they can't get their government together?
TOO FUCKING BAD!
Tom
It was a joke.
... it's a fucking list of things you did today. Big deal. Doesn't mean it has to be boring.
I still hate blogs... hate the word blog, hate the word IT too
I think my point is it reflects on society "cheap and easy" philosophy to anything. Why sit down and properly form a paragraph or two of an eventful day when you can quickly blurt out in txt-speak what went on...
LOL!
Tom
Creating crime?
So as a cop I walk up to you and say "here's 100$ hit this guy for me" and you do it. Who actually created the crime?
You *DID NOT* have to do the action. The crime was you hit the person. Who hit the person? You did. Who created the crime of hitting the person? You did. I just don't buy it. "creating a crime" is just a defense strategy and not a realistic argument.
Might as well say Twinkies enticed you to commit the crime. I mean obviously you're only responsible for your positive actions. All negative actions have an excuse that puts you out of the hot spot.
Now, I can see talking to mentally retarded people who may confuse right and wrong (or plain not know the difference at all). That should be a crime because they're likely to go with whatever someone else says specially if they gain their trust.
But a rational well mentally equipped person wouldn't succomb to such peer pressure at all. And if they do then they're just immoral and shouldn't be in society.
I mean at $OFFICE here where I work I could probably ask 10 people to break some law (say theft) with the promise of $100 reward. I bet you all 10 will refuse to commit the action.
I bet you I can find 10 people in under an hour in Toronto willing to steal for $100. Where would I find them?
Tom