This has like many things like cracking DRM become an arms race between spammers and anti-spam technologies.
I run a small ISP that was established in 1995. Spam was non-existent when we started our company. Since then many anti-spam measures have been implemented. All are effective when deployed. They get less effective over time as spammer find ways around them.
Most of the spam that leaves our network results from infections people get on their computers. These send through our servers and leave with correct SPF data. The only effective way we have been able to deal with this is to impose strict limits on how many email messages a subscriber can send. Your network is only as strong as it's weakest link. For us this link is our customers equipment/practices.
Several companies have come out with 60GHz WISP gear that give full gigabit speeds now. At least one offering complete links for under $2k. They will have to go to some very high frequencies (millimeter wave) to get enough spectrum to do these things. 2.4GHz is over congested and 5GHz is getting that way.
I own an ISP (WISP) that is virtually the only option outside of the two large incumbent carriers, Centrylink and Comast that residential users have. The other CLECs mainly, if not exclusively, sell commercial service. We have seen in the last 5 years demand for bandwidth increase nearly 500% mostly due to video streaming. The cost of the fiber and equipment has come down to be sure, but no where near 500%. So far we have been able to keep providing an essentially unlimited service. However if current trends continue, I'm not sure for how much longer.
Nothing really new here. Many things are possible if you can insert yourself in the data stream. But without breaking into data centers how are you going to do this?
No way you would ever replace an even an only moderately reliable machine with a human employee. Pointless to use this as an argument against raising the minimum wage. If a human had to replace a machine at the same cost he/she would starve to death.
Raising the minimum wage might speed up the adoption of automation, but not by much.
I run a WISP in a heavily competitive area with both CenturyLink and Comcast as competitors. We sell a residential service that averages 25Mbps down and 9 up. 250GB per month for $48/per month. We use the cheapest radios available, Ubiquiti.
I don't understand a WISP who can't make money at a $50/month and 15GB limit plan.
If you take apart most Li-Ion battery packs from laptops you will find a thermistor. This is to help prevent the battery from overheating while charging/discharging. Nothing new here except perhaps they are putting them in smaller single cell Li-Ion batteries like cell phone batteries.
When I worked at the AV dept at our local community college back in 1979 the resident engineer sound proofed a recording room by glueing shag carpet to the walls. I was surprisingly effective.
I have tried what you are attempting. Same thing will likely happen. You will run into the attitude that if the idea has any merit they would have thought of it. At least you have a patent.
Your best bet, partner with a good lawyer ( otherwise you won't be able to afford the subsequent legal costs ). Send proposals to lots of companies. If you idea is really useful and can be made profitable then sooner or later someone will put it into a product, forgetting where the idea came from. File your lawsuit(s) and set back and get rich.
I have people come to me with idea for products many times in the last 20 years. They are always concerned someone is going to "steal" their idea. I tell the all the same thing, if your idea is any good you won't have to worry about them stealing it, you will have to ram it down their throats.
People in Rural area have been relying on WISPs for over a decade now. Lots of operations that look like this. I transitioned our company ( CyberStreet ) from dialup to this several years ago. Did most of the work building the network myself.
I run a small ISP and have several email servers I maintain. What I have observed is a hair trigger on the part of the large networks like Comcast. Even a few spam complaints is enough to get you black listed. It's hard to run a 100% perfectly clean server as you must to some degree trust your users. 1 malware infection on one of their machines sending spam and boom your cooked.
I have taken to telling customers that have issues sending to Comcast, AT&T, etc to get a Gmail account to send to these. No matter how much SPAM these servers send out they would never get listed as this would cause mass complaints from their users.
Way back in 1984 I discovered that as long as you were using a monochrome text or graphics adapter (Hercules) you could replace the 14.318MHz crystal with a higher frequency ( I think I got as high as 22MHz for 7.33MHz CPU clock). The software clock would run fast, but it was worth it for the speed boost. About 9 months later companies started offering turbo mother boards that would operate at 4.77MHz or 8MHz switch-able.
This would be fairly easy to produce. VHF radios are available cheap (Wouxen, Baofeng). Getting WIFI throughput would be all but impossible due to the necessity of using a much narrower than the 20 MHz channel WIFI uses at 2.4GHz.
Hams have been transmitting digital packets via radio over much father distances for over two decades. True it was only 1200 baud but I could see much higher speeds with much more modern DSP capabilities.
More than likely they cancelled this due to potential liability issues.
I don't think I will live long enough (I'm 55) to see this happen. SMTP is poorly designed from a modern security standpoint with spammers running amok for years now without a decent solution in sight. Can't get rid of it because so many use it. IPV4 replacement will be much harder.
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I agree. Especially if your a Windows user. Linux Mint Mate edition has quite a similar interface.
This has like many things like cracking DRM become an arms race between spammers and anti-spam technologies.
I run a small ISP that was established in 1995. Spam was non-existent when we started our company. Since then many anti-spam measures have been implemented. All are effective when deployed. They get less effective over time as spammer find ways around them.
Most of the spam that leaves our network results from infections people get on their computers. These send through our servers and leave with correct SPF data. The only effective way we have been able to deal with this is to impose strict limits on how many email messages a subscriber can send. Your network is only as strong as it's weakest link. For us this link is our customers equipment/practices.
Thawing is great. How are you going to freeze the tissue without damage?
Several companies have come out with 60GHz WISP gear that give full gigabit speeds now. At least one offering complete links for under $2k. They will have to go to some very high frequencies (millimeter wave) to get enough spectrum to do these things. 2.4GHz is over congested and 5GHz is getting that way.
You can also see a slide show she used in her thesis defence below. Much shorter read.
http://slideplayer.com/slide/4...
My wife did her Thesis on this topic. It's Entitled:
E-Ternally Yours: The case for the development of a reliable repository for the preservation of personal digital objects.
The PDF can be read at the link below
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
I own an ISP (WISP) that is virtually the only option outside of the two large incumbent carriers, Centrylink and Comast that residential users have. The other CLECs mainly, if not exclusively, sell commercial service. We have seen in the last 5 years demand for bandwidth increase nearly 500% mostly due to video streaming. The cost of the fiber and equipment has come down to be sure, but no where near 500%. So far we have been able to keep providing an essentially unlimited service. However if current trends continue, I'm not sure for how much longer.
Nothing really new here. Many things are possible if you can insert yourself in the data stream. But without breaking into data centers how are you going to do this?
No way you would ever replace an even an only moderately reliable machine with a human employee. Pointless to use this as an argument against raising the minimum wage. If a human had to replace a machine at the same cost he/she would starve to death.
Raising the minimum wage might speed up the adoption of automation, but not by much.
Their Ebay store is empty.
I run a WISP in a heavily competitive area with both CenturyLink and Comcast as competitors. We sell a residential service that averages 25Mbps down and 9 up. 250GB per month for $48/per month. We use the cheapest radios available, Ubiquiti.
I don't understand a WISP who can't make money at a $50/month and 15GB limit plan.
Great shades of bio-metal.
If you take apart most Li-Ion battery packs from laptops you will find a thermistor. This is to help prevent the battery from overheating while charging/discharging. Nothing new here except perhaps they are putting them in smaller single cell Li-Ion batteries like cell phone batteries.
When I worked at the AV dept at our local community college back in 1979 the resident engineer sound proofed a recording room by glueing shag carpet to the walls. I was surprisingly effective.
I have tried what you are attempting. Same thing will likely happen. You will run into the attitude that if the idea has any merit they would have thought of it. At least you have a patent.
Your best bet, partner with a good lawyer ( otherwise you won't be able to afford the subsequent legal costs ). Send proposals to lots of companies. If you idea is really useful and can be made profitable then sooner or later someone will put it into a product, forgetting where the idea came from. File your lawsuit(s) and set back and get rich.
I have people come to me with idea for products many times in the last 20 years. They are always concerned someone is going to "steal" their idea. I tell the all the same thing, if your idea is any good you won't have to worry about them stealing it, you will have to ram it down their throats.
People in Rural area have been relying on WISPs for over a decade now. Lots of operations that look like this. I transitioned our company ( CyberStreet ) from dialup to this several years ago. Did most of the work building the network myself.
I run a small ISP and have several email servers I maintain. What I have observed is a hair trigger on the part of the large networks like Comcast. Even a few spam complaints is enough to get you black listed. It's hard to run a 100% perfectly clean server as you must to some degree trust your users. 1 malware infection on one of their machines sending spam and boom your cooked.
I have taken to telling customers that have issues sending to Comcast, AT&T, etc to get a Gmail account to send to these. No matter how much SPAM these servers send out they would never get listed as this would cause mass complaints from their users.
Way back in 1984 I discovered that as long as you were using a monochrome text or graphics adapter (Hercules) you could replace the 14.318MHz crystal with a higher frequency ( I think I got as high as 22MHz for 7.33MHz CPU clock). The software clock would run fast, but it was worth it for the speed boost. About 9 months later companies started offering turbo mother boards that would operate at 4.77MHz or 8MHz switch-able.
I have plenty (a majority I would say) of 30+ year old Apple II disks that are still readable.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
People living on boats have been doing this for years.
Why would anyone give this any attention. They best deserve to be ignored and forgotten.
This would be fairly easy to produce. VHF radios are available cheap (Wouxen, Baofeng). Getting WIFI throughput would be all but impossible due to the necessity of using a much narrower than the 20 MHz channel WIFI uses at 2.4GHz.
Hams have been transmitting digital packets via radio over much father distances for over two decades. True it was only 1200 baud but I could see much higher speeds with much more modern DSP capabilities.
More than likely they cancelled this due to potential liability issues.
I can't wait to see the SQRT function.
I don't think I will live long enough (I'm 55) to see this happen. SMTP is poorly designed from a modern security standpoint with spammers running amok for years now without a decent solution in sight. Can't get rid of it because so many use it. IPV4 replacement will be much harder.