I would have thought that Starbucks (the largest coffee chain in the USA and possibly the entire world) would have been a target since WiFi has been a huge part of their business lately.
Or McDonalds (the largest fast food joint on the planet with over 11,500 WiFi locations in the US alone)
Looking at the iiNet site you can get 100GB+100GB at 12mbps on the NBN for $60 per month. If you compare that to naked ADSL, you would have to pay $70 for the cheapest plan and you only get half as much quota plus "ADSL2+ speeds" instead of 12mbps (and unlike ADSL2+, the NBN speeds dont drop off as you get further from the exchange)
If you are in a location without an iiNet DSLAM and need to use Telstra DSLAMS (including all those people stuck on "pair gain") the value of NBN vs ADSL is even better.
The whole solution is for everyone (wired and wireless) to forget about trying to detect if its torrent traffic or otherwise and just charge by the megabyte or gigabyte. For congested wireless cells, you just rate limit the total amount of data any one customer can transfer over the given cell
I think the bit about telephony should say "nor shall such person block applications that compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services or with the provider's text and multimedia messaging services, subject to reasonable network management."
That is, providers are not allowed to block things that compete with SMS and MMS in the same way they are not allowed to block things like Skype or FaceTime or other voice and video call applications.
I bought an N900 precisely because it was OPEN and didnt try to stop me from running what I want to.
My N900 does not support Cell Broadcast SMS. However, the support is there in the cellular modem and telephony stack.
Thanks to a small binary patch to the SMS library and a (yet to be written) GUI app its possible to add Cell Broadcast SMS to this phone. Try doing that on an iPhone without months of reverse engineering of every piece of the telephony stack. And then find a way to release it without being sued by Apple.
I already have a proof of concept program that logs incoming cell broadcast messages to a file and have used it several times to log cell broadcast messages from towers in my local area, I just need to learn how to write UI apps in GTK and figure out how to parse (and what to do with) Cell Broadcast messages other than the "cell tower name" message.
Anyone who thinks the other guy wouldn't have signed this is living in fantasy-land. I doubt there was a single person in the last election cycle with a realistic chance of becoming president who wouldn't have signed this. And I doubt any of the serious people in the current election cycle are any better.
Unless its changed since I last saw an episode, Play School is good quality preschool TV.
Far better than the junk the commercial networks use to fulfill their legal obligation to show 1/2 hour of locally made preschool TV every weekday. I mean come on, a show where the main character is a talking LAWNMOWER? WTF is up with that?
I have a BSc in Computer Science on my wall and I dont think purely online courses are the best idea (I had none in my degree) However, use of online resources makes a LOT of sense including accepting assignment submissions by email and distributing lecture slides/notes/recordings/assignments/etc.
Being able to talk to tutors/unit coordinators face to face helps (being able to send them email questions right on the spot without needing to wait until they can see them in the flesh next time also helps)
And yes as others have said, being on campus gives you campus culture and stuff (not as much as if you actually live on campus but that's not as common here in Australia as it is in the states)
What started this mess is Apple and Microsoft wanting to destroy Android & Google.
Apple hates Android because its the biggest threat to their iOS success and especially to the iPad and wants to stop Android (and especially Samsung, one of the most successful Android vendors and the one that represents the biggest threat to Apple)
Microsoft hates Android & Google because Google is killing their online offerings (Hotmail vs GMail, Google vs Bing, Google Docs vs Office/Office online etc etc) and because Google (through Chrome OS and Android) is a threat to its traditional desktop OS business (and its attempt to push that desktop OS business into smaller form factor devices)
Android is also a huge threat to Microsoft's Windows Phone. Plus going after Android allows Microsoft to continue its fight against Linux and open source (since Android uses the Linux kernel)
Most likely there will be a single key from Microsoft that MS will use to root sign and validate Windows 8 and future versions of Windows as well as device drivers and things and any Windows version they release will function on any UEFI chain-of-trust-enforcing PC. Same with drivers, any driver that is properly signed for Windows 8 should run on any Windows 8 system without breaking the chain-of-trust (same way driver signing for Windows 7 x64 works now or how driver signing for the Windows 7 Protected Media Path works)
Also, boxed copies of Windows will not require the UEFI chain-of-trust because if they did Microsoft cant sell Windows 8 as an upgrade from XP/Vista/7. I see no reason why boxed copies wont RUN on a chain-of-trust-enforced machine though.
For disk imaging tools and rescue disks and recovery consoles and such things (including forensic tools used by law enforcement) the manufacturers of such tools will simply get their tools signed so that they are allowed to boot without breaking the chain-of-trust (and are therefore allowed to access resources protected by the chain-of-trust).
Corporate users will be given the tools they need to build the Windows+Office+Outlook+Norton+whatever images that they are building now and deploy those images to the PCs whilst maintaining the chain of trust.
Oh and Microsoft themselves have said they want a solution to allow dual booting Windows 8 alongside Windows 7 and if you can boot Windows 7, you can almost certainly boot Linux (I doubt Microsoft would retro-fit the secure boot stuff into Windows 7)
Given that MySQL is GPL and that all the users of MySQL you talk about are likely using the GPL version, nothing will change. People will keep using the MySQL version(s) in question.
Should Oracle decide to be a dick about it and close the source or charge money for it, a fork will appear and (as happened with xfree86 when the license was changed in ways people didnt like) a fork will appear. People (and projects) using MySQL will keep using the same MySQL versions they are using or if they need a newer version, switch to the fork. VPSs and hosting providers using MySQL will keep using the same version they are now or switch to the fork with the "set up database" option being pointed at the new version.
I seriously doubt any fork is going to want to change the binary format or query language for MySQL in a way that breaks things for existing MySQL users (not if they want the fork to be relavent anyway)
Even LibreOffice hasn't changed things in ways that break binary compatibility as far as I am aware.
Australian ISPs give you x amount of GB per month as part of your plan. Some offer the option to buy more data blocks or even (in a few cases) unlimited data. When you exceed your quota your entire internet connection is rate limited to 64k or 128k or something similar (exactly how much depends on the ISP and plan)
If I am on a 50GB plan and want to use the entire 50GB in the first week of the monthly cycle downloading from BitTorrent, I can do that and my ISP doesn't care.
Say what you will about shaping but bandwidth ain't free and its far better to have hard limits for how much you can use and no restrictions on how you use that than to have the ISPs block p2p, BitTorrent or whatever else.
For example, if someone breaks their leg, why does it matter if the leg was broken by a fall from a ladder, someone beating them up and stealing their wallet, a turtle bite, stepping on a land mine or whatever else?
A broken leg is a broken leg and the only thing that should matter is which leg is broken, how badly broken it is and what the correct treatment for that particular broken leg is.
The chinese have already launched missions equivalent to the Russian Vostok and American Mercury programs and are working towards launching a space station and a moon program (unmanned initially with a manned lunar landing to follow) so whats the difference here vs what the Soviets were doing in the 60s?
I seriously doubt Australia will get any kind of mandatory internet censorship anytime soon, the political will to support it has largely vanished.
What we may see here in.au though is laws that make ISPs more responsible for copyright actions, mostly as a result of pressure from AFACT after they lost the iiNet case.
Anyone that thinks HTCs Android handsets are the same as everyone elses has clearly not used HTC Sense.
There ie plenty of scope for HTC to bolt all sorts of cool apps and UI gizmos on top of Android and in so doing, differentiate their handsets from everyone elses.
1.Sometimes they dont want to sell the roms because they are selling sequels on modern platforms (why would you buy Street Fighter on 360 or PS3 or iPhone or whatever when you could buy the original arcade ROMs for a cheaper price and play them with MAME) 2.Selling the ROMs means they are endorsing the idea that emulators written without the companies permission are illegal 3.Lack of control over what ROMs are sold and what emulators are used to play those ROMs (in some cases the manufacturer may be able to provide a set of ROMs from an archive but what about if those dont match the ROMs the emulator wants) 4.Pushing people to play on the platform of their choice (i.e. Nintendo pushing people to buy a Wii or DS if they want to play the old Nintendo titles) 5.licensing and rights issues such as content licensed from a 3rd party (e.g. Atari Star Wars licensing from Lucas), content produced by someone else (e.g. graphics developed by company A, game developed by company B), issues with music issues with home computer vs arcade vs console rights (Tetris being one well known example) and other issues where the company owning the copyright on the arcade ROMs may not own all the rights they need to distribute those ROMs for home use. A release of the ROMs may also infringe on rights held by someone else to produce a remake or sequel. 7.Also they may not want to release ROMs for old games simply because if people are playing those, they arent playing unrelated newer (and more profitable) titles from the same company.
I too would LOVE to see a site like StarRoms only better and with a bigger library.
One would hope that any and all private keys for the DigiNotar root certificates have been regenerated and replaced and are NEVER going to be used to generate certificates again.
Basically patent holders should be required to sue either in a location in which the infringer has business or in a location in which the patent holder has business.
Then when lots of patent holders (especially trolls) set up offices in east texas, the Texas State government can increase corporate taxes (which would be popular with the locals if it hits the big boys and not the little guys)
Australia Post isn't privatized. But they ARE a government run corporation that is run like a business and they offer a LOT of services.
Their postal shops sell everything from stamps to packing material to office supplies. They also offer payment for all sorts of bills including government bills and they are the place to go to pick up all sorts of government forms (Need a passport? Go to the post office and get the passport photo taken and pick up all the forms from the one place)
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I would have thought that Starbucks (the largest coffee chain in the USA and possibly the entire world) would have been a target since WiFi has been a huge part of their business lately.
Or McDonalds (the largest fast food joint on the planet with over 11,500 WiFi locations in the US alone)
Looking at the iiNet site you can get 100GB+100GB at 12mbps on the NBN for $60 per month. If you compare that to naked ADSL, you would have to pay $70 for the cheapest plan and you only get half as much quota plus "ADSL2+ speeds" instead of 12mbps (and unlike ADSL2+, the NBN speeds dont drop off as you get further from the exchange)
If you are in a location without an iiNet DSLAM and need to use Telstra DSLAMS (including all those people stuck on "pair gain") the value of NBN vs ADSL is even better.
The whole solution is for everyone (wired and wireless) to forget about trying to detect if its torrent traffic or otherwise and just charge by the megabyte or gigabyte. For congested wireless cells, you just rate limit the total amount of data any one customer can transfer over the given cell
I think the bit about telephony should say "nor shall such person block applications that compete with the provider's voice or video telephony services or with the provider's text and multimedia messaging services, subject to reasonable network management."
That is, providers are not allowed to block things that compete with SMS and MMS in the same way they are not allowed to block things like Skype or FaceTime or other voice and video call applications.
I bought an N900 precisely because it was OPEN and didnt try to
stop me from running what I want to.
My N900 does not support Cell Broadcast SMS. However, the support is there in the cellular modem and telephony stack.
Thanks to a small binary patch to the SMS library and a (yet to be written) GUI app its possible to add Cell Broadcast SMS to this phone. Try doing that on an iPhone without months of reverse engineering of every piece of the telephony stack. And then find a way to release it without being sued by Apple.
I already have a proof of concept program that logs incoming cell broadcast messages to a file and have used it several times to log cell broadcast messages from towers in my local area, I just need to learn how to write UI apps in GTK and figure out how to parse (and what to do with) Cell Broadcast messages other than the "cell tower name" message.
Anyone who thinks the other guy wouldn't have signed this is living in fantasy-land.
I doubt there was a single person in the last election cycle with a realistic chance of becoming president who wouldn't have signed this. And I doubt any of the serious people in the current election cycle are any better.
Unless its changed since I last saw an episode, Play School is good quality preschool TV.
Far better than the junk the commercial networks use to fulfill their legal obligation to show 1/2 hour of locally made preschool TV every weekday. I mean come on, a show where the main character is a talking LAWNMOWER? WTF is up with that?
I have a BSc in Computer Science on my wall and I dont think purely online courses are the best idea (I had none in my degree)
However, use of online resources makes a LOT of sense including accepting assignment submissions by email and distributing lecture slides/notes/recordings/assignments/etc.
Being able to talk to tutors/unit coordinators face to face helps (being able to send them email questions right on the spot without needing to wait until they can see them in the flesh next time also helps)
And yes as others have said, being on campus gives you campus culture and stuff (not as much as if you actually live on campus but that's not as common here in Australia as it is in the states)
I think part of the problem for Boeing was the decision to outsource so much of the 787 Dreamliner compared to their previous airplanes.
What started this mess is Apple and Microsoft wanting to destroy Android & Google.
Apple hates Android because its the biggest threat to their iOS success and especially to the iPad and wants to stop Android (and especially Samsung, one of the most successful Android vendors and the one that represents the biggest threat to Apple)
Microsoft hates Android & Google because Google is killing their online offerings (Hotmail vs GMail, Google vs Bing, Google Docs vs Office/Office online etc etc) and because Google (through Chrome OS and Android) is a threat to its traditional desktop OS business (and its attempt to push that desktop OS business into smaller form factor devices)
Android is also a huge threat to Microsoft's Windows Phone. Plus going after Android allows Microsoft to continue its fight against Linux and open source (since Android uses the Linux kernel)
There are many many servers that will totally fail if the client claims to support TLS 1.1 or 1.2.
Most likely there will be a single key from Microsoft that MS will use to root sign and validate Windows 8 and future versions of Windows as well as device drivers and things and any Windows version they release will function on any UEFI chain-of-trust-enforcing PC. Same with drivers, any driver that is properly signed for Windows 8 should run on any Windows 8 system without breaking the chain-of-trust (same way driver signing for Windows 7 x64 works now or how driver signing for the Windows 7 Protected Media Path works)
Also, boxed copies of Windows will not require the UEFI chain-of-trust because if they did Microsoft cant sell Windows 8 as an upgrade from XP/Vista/7. I see no reason why boxed copies wont RUN on a chain-of-trust-enforced machine though.
For disk imaging tools and rescue disks and recovery consoles and such things (including forensic tools used by law enforcement) the manufacturers of such tools will simply get their tools signed so that they are allowed to boot without breaking the chain-of-trust (and are therefore allowed to access resources protected by the chain-of-trust).
Corporate users will be given the tools they need to build the Windows+Office+Outlook+Norton+whatever images that they are building now and deploy those images to the PCs whilst maintaining the chain of trust.
Oh and Microsoft themselves have said they want a solution to allow dual booting Windows 8 alongside Windows 7 and if you can boot Windows 7, you can almost certainly boot Linux (I doubt Microsoft would retro-fit the secure boot stuff into Windows 7)
Given that MySQL is GPL and that all the users of MySQL you talk about are likely using the GPL version, nothing will change. People will keep using the MySQL version(s) in question.
Should Oracle decide to be a dick about it and close the source or charge money for it, a fork will appear and (as happened with xfree86 when the license was changed in ways people didnt like) a fork will appear. People (and projects) using MySQL will keep using the same MySQL versions they are using or if they need a newer version, switch to the fork.
VPSs and hosting providers using MySQL will keep using the same version they are now or switch to the fork with the "set up database" option being pointed at the new version.
I seriously doubt any fork is going to want to change the binary format or query language for MySQL in a way that breaks things for existing MySQL users (not if they want the fork to be relavent anyway)
Even LibreOffice hasn't changed things in ways that break binary compatibility as far as I am aware.
Australian ISPs give you x amount of GB per month as part of your plan. Some offer the option to buy more data blocks or even (in a few cases) unlimited data. When you exceed your quota your entire internet connection is rate limited to 64k or 128k or something similar (exactly how much depends on the ISP and plan)
If I am on a 50GB plan and want to use the entire 50GB in the first week of the monthly cycle downloading from BitTorrent, I can do that and my ISP doesn't care.
Say what you will about shaping but bandwidth ain't free and its far better to have hard limits for how much you can use and no restrictions on how you use that than to have the ISPs block p2p, BitTorrent or whatever else.
For example, if someone breaks their leg, why does it matter if the leg was broken by a fall from a ladder, someone beating them up and stealing their wallet, a turtle bite, stepping on a land mine or whatever else?
A broken leg is a broken leg and the only thing that should matter is which leg is broken, how badly broken it is and what the correct treatment for that particular broken leg is.
The idea of ReactOS is that it will be able to run the same drivers from NVIDIA, Intel, ATI, AMD, HP, Dell etc etc etc.
The chinese have already launched missions equivalent to the Russian Vostok and American Mercury programs and are working towards launching a space station and a moon program (unmanned initially with a manned lunar landing to follow) so whats the difference here vs what the Soviets were doing in the 60s?
I seriously doubt Australia will get any kind of mandatory internet censorship anytime soon, the political will to support it has largely vanished.
What we may see here in .au though is laws that make ISPs more responsible for copyright actions, mostly as a result of pressure from AFACT after they lost the iiNet case.
Anyone that thinks HTCs Android handsets are the same as everyone elses has clearly not used HTC Sense.
There ie plenty of scope for HTC to bolt all sorts of cool apps and UI gizmos on top of Android and in so doing, differentiate their handsets from everyone elses.
1.Sometimes they dont want to sell the roms because they are selling sequels on modern platforms (why would you buy Street Fighter on 360 or PS3 or iPhone or whatever when you could buy the original arcade ROMs for a cheaper price and play them with MAME)
2.Selling the ROMs means they are endorsing the idea that emulators written without the companies permission are illegal
3.Lack of control over what ROMs are sold and what emulators are used to play those ROMs (in some cases the manufacturer may be able to provide a set of ROMs from an archive but what about if those dont match the ROMs the emulator wants)
4.Pushing people to play on the platform of their choice (i.e. Nintendo pushing people to buy a Wii or DS if they want to play the old Nintendo titles)
5.licensing and rights issues such as content licensed from a 3rd party (e.g. Atari Star Wars licensing from Lucas), content produced by someone else (e.g. graphics developed by company A, game developed by company B), issues with music issues with home computer vs arcade vs console rights (Tetris being one well known example) and other issues where the company owning the copyright on the arcade ROMs may not own all the rights they need to distribute those ROMs for home use. A release of the ROMs may also infringe on rights held by someone else to produce a remake or sequel.
7.Also they may not want to release ROMs for old games simply because if people are playing those, they arent playing unrelated newer (and more profitable) titles from the same company.
I too would LOVE to see a site like StarRoms only better and with a bigger library.
no, Emu is a brand of pisswater (jokingly labeled "beer" by its manufacturer)
If you think you have tasted the worst the beer world can offer, you clearly havent tasted Emu here in Western Australia.
One would hope that any and all private keys for the DigiNotar root certificates have been regenerated and replaced and are NEVER going to be used to generate certificates again.
Basically patent holders should be required to sue either in a location in which the infringer has business or in a location in which the patent holder has business.
Then when lots of patent holders (especially trolls) set up offices in east texas, the Texas State government can increase corporate taxes (which would be popular with the locals if it hits the big boys and not the little guys)
Australia Post isn't privatized. But they ARE a government run corporation that is run like a business and they offer a LOT of services.
Their postal shops sell everything from stamps to packing material to office supplies.
They also offer payment for all sorts of bills including government bills and they are the place to go to pick up all sorts of government forms (Need a passport? Go to the post office and get the passport photo taken and pick up all the forms from the one place)