Do the math..016/hour times 24 hours in a day = 38.4 cents a day. 38.4 cents a day times 30 days equals $11.52 a month. XM only gets 12.99 a month for their fees-so the rights are something like 94% of their income. They simply can't make any money
with what's left! The only thing I can think is that they have some kind of formula that estimates the average hours listened to by a subscriber-remember thats'a no way to actually know what listeners are listening to and for how long they're listening as well (like broadcast radio, satellite is a one way broadcast technology). I suppose the new Arbitron people meter will make things easier for them, as it also will survey satellite radio stations that are encoded.
Remember that Internet radio's rates are almost TWICE as high as satellite's. The only thing I can come up with is that SoundExchange WANTS to put Internet radio out of business for some reason-that's the reason they're setting rates as high as they are!
SoundExchange has to ask itself this: Do we want 50% of something, or 100% of nothing? The fees placed on Internet radio are STAGGERING! No one can afford them. If SoundExchange wants ANY revenue, then they have to be realistic enough to share in the growing pains of this infant business as it tries to gain traction. Otherwise, they will have NOTHING! Of course, so far they have shown that they are too STUPID and too DISCONNECTED FROM REALITY to see the light! This might have something to do with a fact that they are a division if the RIAA and it's obvious that in this case the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
They also need an educational rate for colleges and schools and a non-commercial hobbiest rate for small 'bedroom' Internet stations
Fuel cells have been available for years. Why would putting one in a camera be patentable any more then getting a patent on using AA batteries in such a camera? I mean, it's just the freaking power source!
That helps explain the last 8 years to me! George W. Bush does not exist-his appearances have been computer generated fakes. Dick Cheney and the Halliburton CGI company have actually been running the country!
Seriously though does any of this surprise you? NOTHING on Television should be believed! Have you ever heard the phrses: "smoke and mirrors"? TV invented it! And OF COURSE NBC knew!
Wasn't there a movie out a while back about this? It involved a faked moon walk-and one astronaut showing up at his funeral-they killed the other two.
This is one of the major reasons the USA is fast becoming a third world country technology wise. Another reason is the piss poor education system we have here in the USA.
Problem is, fighting wars is more important to the Govt. then educating and keeping its citizens healthy.
Our govenrmennt is corrupt to its core and needs to be replaced.
The TSA is George W. Bush's patrionage mill. It does NOTHING to improve air safety. It does PLENTY to slow down air travellers. Yesterday I was at the airport in Burbank, CA. It took me TEN MINUTES to get through the ID line-and there were EIGHT of us in line! The stupid TSA person seemed to be going in slow motion. First she read the name on the ticket (taking 30 seconds to do so)-then she spent another 30 seconds looking at my driver's license...THEN she spent another 30 seconds looking over everything and stamping my boarding pass. Move another TEN FEET to the metal detector and ANOTHER TSA guy who asks for the IDs all over again Why? because you're afraid I might have changed identies in the TEN FOOT OPEN WALK from her to you?
There was a woman who had an obviously sealed bottle of commerical drinking water. They made her throw it away! WHY? All it did was make her small child cry-and her have to spend another 3 bucks when she got to the other side of the checkpoint.
Has it occurred to anyone that under today's new hijacking policies, 9/11 would not have happened? Today's rules do not allow either pilot to leave the cockpit if the plane if hijacked-instead they are to IMMEDIATELY land the aircraft! Not to mention that the cockpit doors are now heavily reinforced and today's passengers would make MINCEMEAT of anyone dumb enough to TRY hijackng an aircraft!
The TSA is an expensive joke! It needs to be abolished immediately!
The police state we so fear is already here. They have passed so many laws and now have so many rules that all of us likely break laws every day by simply going through our day-to-day routine! This means that THEY can bust us whenever they want!
The sad thing is that WE are THEY-and if we took back the power that we've given them, THEY would go away!
I had AVG 7.5 on my wife's computer. It kept bugging me to install AVG 8 by saying there would be no more virus definitions after June 30th.
So, I tried to upgrade-THREE TIMES! Every time its installer crashed. I even uninstalled 7.5 and it STILL crashed. Then I went to DSL Reports and read all the complaints about AVG 8.0, so I put Avast! on her computer. It works GREAT!
The Islamic law you all say is SO awful provides the penalty of cutting off someone's hand if they steal. HERE, most of you seem to believe that they should be SHOT IN THE BACK AND KILLED!
Who's worse? Islam or Texas?
Yeah, but it's okay to shoot unarmed people you believe to be robbing your neighbor's house in the back with a shot gun there...so I guess it all evens out!
I lived in Massachusetts and went to Lowell Tech. Institute (now U Mass Lowell).
I was familiar with the Intersil 8038 design, but went with 555s configured as astables because their output frequency only depended on their R/C time constant and wasn't affected by the battery voltage changing as the 9 volt battery went dead like so many other designs (like the 8038) were. I used 10 turn trimpots to set the oscillator frequencies and found that they only needed to be set once. Someone I know was selling boxes in Boston and he was winding and tapping his own coils for LC oscillators. A few years ago while moving, I found one of his boxes in my cellar, but it would not emit tones any more. He had given it to me as a present. I was pretty much out of Phreaking by 1976/77.
In 1979, a friend of mine made a similar BB out from the same design as mine. I warned him to never use it at home, because by then the telcos were using DEC PDP-1178s for billing computers-and using their excess capacity to scan for 2600 Hz tones coming FROM the subscriber side of the CO. Of course, he didn't listen-and they had him nabbed from his very first call! He got fined 500 bucks, had to turn in his BB and had to do 50 hours of community service.
MF Pheaking wasn't the only form of telco hacking though. Test loops were also big-these were numbers installed by the telcos that they used as a loopback to test between exchanges, For example, they would be paired as xxx-9933 and xxx-9934. If you called into the 9933 side, you got a 1 kHz tone at 1 milliwatt level-until someone else called into the 9934 number. Then the tone would go away and the two lines would be connected together-a sort of underground party line. In my late teens/early '20s, I got laid so many times thanks to these loops!;-) Many of these test lines all over North America were set up to not 'supervise' (trip the billing computer), so calling them was free (to the computer, it looked like you had sat on a ringing line for an hour, waiting for someone to answer). Some of these were modified by telco people so if you called into 9933, you got a dial tone that was 9934's. Then you could touch tone call any number you wanted-for free. There were more then a few telco people that moonlighted as Phreakers!
Finally the other two color boxes were black and red. Black boxes allowed you to call their owner's phone number without being charged. Most used a neon bulb to seize the line when it rang, then blocked the DC connection that cause supervision to come on (the billing started 2 seconds after the called phone went off hook, so transient things would not be recorded as calls-the black box exploited this).
The red box was simply an electronic quarter-it's single pushbutton beeped the five quick 2200 Hz tones that pay phones sent when a quarter was deposited. In theory, these stil work-though you now have to put at least one coin in first so the phone office can see the DC connection made by the coin. With pay phones turning into dinosaurs, this will soon also be gone.
So there you have the whole story in a nutshell...
Though I never met him personally, I know that he had perfect pitch. In other words his ears WERE a frequency counter! Rumor was that he could whistle MF tones-he didn't need the blue box that the rest of us used.
My BB was made with 555 timers in a calculator box and keypad bought from Poly Paks (anyone remember them?). I used a simple 1N914 diode matrix on the back of the keypad (with all its traces hacked away so it was just a bunch of SPST pushbuttons) to apply power to the different 555's configured as astables. For example, pushing the #1 powered on the 700 and 900 Hz oscillators, etc. The astables were all summed by a 741 opamp and then fed an old telco earpiece with the clipping diode across the back removed. Though everything was square waves, the switching equipment didn't seem to care at all and the box worked GREAT! I'd simply acoustically couple it to a handset mouthpiece and call anywhere I wanted.
The display on the unit lit up: 'FUCH BELL' when the CE keypad button was pressed. I couldn't make a K with an 8 segment display:)
I came very close to being busted-a NET security person came to my apt. about 3 months after I left school. Apparently they had a pen tracer on our dorm telephone there and heard my name mentioned. I called his bluff by confronting him ("How did you HEAR my name if all you had a court order to do was use a pen tracer?") and he went away. That day I stopped MFing.
I never met Woz-though we had some common friends. John Draper (AKA: Captain Crunch-called that because he discovered that a small whistle that came with in some Captain Crunch cereal boxes whistled 2600 hz-the main frequency that the entire tandem long distance system ran on) did come to visit me for a few days-he was ok but socially inept. If they illegally wiretapped Joe, then I'd be sure there's also an illegal file on John D. as well-he was HUGE in the phreaking scene at the time.
Ahh, the good old days-today it's too not worth phreaking because VOIP and other technologies make things so cheap that it's not worth the risk any more.
1. Buy a D-Link DVG-1120M VOIP router on ebay for 10 bucks including shipping.
2 Convert it into a DVG-1120S Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20580722?hilite=
3. Configure DVG 1120S with your provider, and put it as your first device (connect directly to your cable or DSL modem and then hook your LAN to it). This unit has great QoS VOIP bandwidth limiting, which is why AT&T used it for their VOIP service. It's only disadvantage is that it's WAN input is 10 base T so on a 10 mbps cable circuit the max throughput I get is about 8.4 mbps. For speeds below 8 mbps it's great!
4. Done
I was in a child custody battle years back and my ex was making baseless accusations about my using drugs, so I went to take a drug test at a local lab-only to be told that it had to be prescribed by a doctor. I called my doctor, he phoned in the prescription, I peed in the cup and all was fine.
In many states, if someone dies during the commission of a crime, that person is guilty of felony murder. What if MediaDefender's servers DoS ed a hospital that was right in the middle of a delicate operation that was being guided via teleconference-and as a result the patient died?
What I can't understand is how MediaDefender has been getting away with illegal DoS attacks for years, when ANY of us would be put in prison for doing it. Who have they paid off to be able to break the law with impunity?
Isn't DoSing also a Homeland Security issue? Shouldn't their ISP have cut them off when they started doing illegal things like automatically targeting innocent companies with illegal DoS Attacks?
If someone did to MediaDefender what they do to EVERYONE ELSE, they'd be screaming bloody murder!
Finally, what if they DID actually DoS a company that caused someone to be hurt or die. Would they be liable for pre-mediated murder?
This time next year, the LA County Sheriff will be adding "copyright infringers" to the list of kidnappers, rapists, robbers and murderers he's caught over the past year.
Seriously though-this seems WAY over the top!
The reason they're so against it is because they're already VIOLATING it! If net neutrality laws/policies came to be the ISPs would have to change the way they conduct business now.
This is happening to radio too, which is why the big Clear Channel buyout might not close. The buyout price is 39.70 a share, yet Clear Channel has been traded as low as 25 dollars recently-38% less then the buyout price. Recently, an FM station in Los Angeles sold for 137 million dollars-113 million less then the last one did a couple of years ago-46 percent less.
Seems to me that this is right in line with the newspaper valuations you have mentioned.
It's also happening in cellular-why just look at Sprint-at the time of their merger, Sprint and Nextel were each worth about 35 billion. Today, the combined company is only valued at 25 billion.
I think the reason is stockholder greed. Stockholders expect stock to ALWAYS go up-which forces management to make choices based on short term gains-and at the expense of bigger losses in the long term. Until this "next quarter's guidance" mentality ends, you're going to see even more companies hit the skids.
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Remember that Internet radio's rates are almost TWICE as high as satellite's. The only thing I can come up with is that SoundExchange WANTS to put Internet radio out of business for some reason-that's the reason they're setting rates as high as they are!
They also need an educational rate for colleges and schools and a non-commercial hobbiest rate for small 'bedroom' Internet stations
Fuel cells have been available for years. Why would putting one in a camera be patentable any more then getting a patent on using AA batteries in such a camera? I mean, it's just the freaking power source!
Seriously though does any of this surprise you? NOTHING on Television should be believed! Have you ever heard the phrses: "smoke and mirrors"? TV invented it! And OF COURSE NBC knew!
Wasn't there a movie out a while back about this? It involved a faked moon walk-and one astronaut showing up at his funeral-they killed the other two.
Problem is, fighting wars is more important to the Govt. then educating and keeping its citizens healthy.
Our govenrmennt is corrupt to its core and needs to be replaced.
The TSA is George W. Bush's patrionage mill. It does NOTHING to improve air safety. It does PLENTY to slow down air travellers. Yesterday I was at the airport in Burbank, CA. It took me TEN MINUTES to get through the ID line-and there were EIGHT of us in line! The stupid TSA person seemed to be going in slow motion. First she read the name on the ticket (taking 30 seconds to do so)-then she spent another 30 seconds looking at my driver's license...THEN she spent another 30 seconds looking over everything and stamping my boarding pass. Move another TEN FEET to the metal detector and ANOTHER TSA guy who asks for the IDs all over again Why? because you're afraid I might have changed identies in the TEN FOOT OPEN WALK from her to you?
There was a woman who had an obviously sealed bottle of commerical drinking water. They made her throw it away! WHY? All it did was make her small child cry-and her have to spend another 3 bucks when she got to the other side of the checkpoint.
Has it occurred to anyone that under today's new hijacking policies, 9/11 would not have happened? Today's rules do not allow either pilot to leave the cockpit if the plane if hijacked-instead they are to IMMEDIATELY land the aircraft! Not to mention that the cockpit doors are now heavily reinforced and today's passengers would make MINCEMEAT of anyone dumb enough to TRY hijackng an aircraft!
The TSA is an expensive joke! It needs to be abolished immediately!
You know...the one with: "The stations between the stations"? OK..never mind....
Idiot, moron, twit, retard, incompetant, tool, growup, fucktwit, iqof45
THOUSANDS of Canadians travel to Cuba every year on vacation, so don't be surprised if it's now Westernized already!
The police state we so fear is already here. They have passed so many laws and now have so many rules that all of us likely break laws every day by simply going through our day-to-day routine! This means that THEY can bust us whenever they want!
The sad thing is that WE are THEY-and if we took back the power that we've given them, THEY would go away!
I had AVG 7.5 on my wife's computer. It kept bugging me to install AVG 8 by saying there would be no more virus definitions after June 30th. So, I tried to upgrade-THREE TIMES! Every time its installer crashed. I even uninstalled 7.5 and it STILL crashed. Then I went to DSL Reports and read all the complaints about AVG 8.0, so I put Avast! on her computer. It works GREAT!
I thought that the legislative and jusice (court) branches were separate and distinct. So much for the separation of powers!
The Islamic law you all say is SO awful provides the penalty of cutting off someone's hand if they steal. HERE, most of you seem to believe that they should be SHOT IN THE BACK AND KILLED! Who's worse? Islam or Texas?
Yeah, but it's okay to shoot unarmed people you believe to be robbing your neighbor's house in the back with a shot gun there...so I guess it all evens out!
I lived in Massachusetts and went to Lowell Tech. Institute (now U Mass Lowell). I was familiar with the Intersil 8038 design, but went with 555s configured as astables because their output frequency only depended on their R/C time constant and wasn't affected by the battery voltage changing as the 9 volt battery went dead like so many other designs (like the 8038) were. I used 10 turn trimpots to set the oscillator frequencies and found that they only needed to be set once. Someone I know was selling boxes in Boston and he was winding and tapping his own coils for LC oscillators. A few years ago while moving, I found one of his boxes in my cellar, but it would not emit tones any more. He had given it to me as a present. I was pretty much out of Phreaking by 1976/77. In 1979, a friend of mine made a similar BB out from the same design as mine. I warned him to never use it at home, because by then the telcos were using DEC PDP-1178s for billing computers-and using their excess capacity to scan for 2600 Hz tones coming FROM the subscriber side of the CO. Of course, he didn't listen-and they had him nabbed from his very first call! He got fined 500 bucks, had to turn in his BB and had to do 50 hours of community service. MF Pheaking wasn't the only form of telco hacking though. Test loops were also big-these were numbers installed by the telcos that they used as a loopback to test between exchanges, For example, they would be paired as xxx-9933 and xxx-9934. If you called into the 9933 side, you got a 1 kHz tone at 1 milliwatt level-until someone else called into the 9934 number. Then the tone would go away and the two lines would be connected together-a sort of underground party line. In my late teens/early '20s, I got laid so many times thanks to these loops! ;-) Many of these test lines all over North America were set up to not 'supervise' (trip the billing computer), so calling them was free (to the computer, it looked like you had sat on a ringing line for an hour, waiting for someone to answer). Some of these were modified by telco people so if you called into 9933, you got a dial tone that was 9934's. Then you could touch tone call any number you wanted-for free. There were more then a few telco people that moonlighted as Phreakers!
Finally the other two color boxes were black and red. Black boxes allowed you to call their owner's phone number without being charged. Most used a neon bulb to seize the line when it rang, then blocked the DC connection that cause supervision to come on (the billing started 2 seconds after the called phone went off hook, so transient things would not be recorded as calls-the black box exploited this).
The red box was simply an electronic quarter-it's single pushbutton beeped the five quick 2200 Hz tones that pay phones sent when a quarter was deposited. In theory, these stil work-though you now have to put at least one coin in first so the phone office can see the DC connection made by the coin. With pay phones turning into dinosaurs, this will soon also be gone.
So there you have the whole story in a nutshell...
Though I never met him personally, I know that he had perfect pitch. In other words his ears WERE a frequency counter! Rumor was that he could whistle MF tones-he didn't need the blue box that the rest of us used.
My BB was made with 555 timers in a calculator box and keypad bought from Poly Paks (anyone remember them?). I used a simple 1N914 diode matrix on the back of the keypad (with all its traces hacked away so it was just a bunch of SPST pushbuttons) to apply power to the different 555's configured as astables. For example, pushing the #1 powered on the 700 and 900 Hz oscillators, etc. The astables were all summed by a 741 opamp and then fed an old telco earpiece with the clipping diode across the back removed. Though everything was square waves, the switching equipment didn't seem to care at all and the box worked GREAT! I'd simply acoustically couple it to a handset mouthpiece and call anywhere I wanted.
The display on the unit lit up: 'FUCH BELL' when the CE keypad button was pressed. I couldn't make a K with an 8 segment display :)
I came very close to being busted-a NET security person came to my apt. about 3 months after I left school. Apparently they had a pen tracer on our dorm telephone there and heard my name mentioned. I called his bluff by confronting him ("How did you HEAR my name if all you had a court order to do was use a pen tracer?") and he went away. That day I stopped MFing.
I never met Woz-though we had some common friends. John Draper (AKA: Captain Crunch-called that because he discovered that a small whistle that came with in some Captain Crunch cereal boxes whistled 2600 hz-the main frequency that the entire tandem long distance system ran on) did come to visit me for a few days-he was ok but socially inept. If they illegally wiretapped Joe, then I'd be sure there's also an illegal file on John D. as well-he was HUGE in the phreaking scene at the time.
Ahh, the good old days-today it's too not worth phreaking because VOIP and other technologies make things so cheap that it's not worth the risk any more.
1. Buy a D-Link DVG-1120M VOIP router on ebay for 10 bucks including shipping. 2 Convert it into a DVG-1120S Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20580722?hilite= 3. Configure DVG 1120S with your provider, and put it as your first device (connect directly to your cable or DSL modem and then hook your LAN to it). This unit has great QoS VOIP bandwidth limiting, which is why AT&T used it for their VOIP service. It's only disadvantage is that it's WAN input is 10 base T so on a 10 mbps cable circuit the max throughput I get is about 8.4 mbps. For speeds below 8 mbps it's great! 4. Done
I was in a child custody battle years back and my ex was making baseless accusations about my using drugs, so I went to take a drug test at a local lab-only to be told that it had to be prescribed by a doctor. I called my doctor, he phoned in the prescription, I peed in the cup and all was fine.
Most/many people simply don't WANT Vista! Not to mention that we're deeply in a recession and many simply aren't upgrading their computers.
Microsoft isn't stupid...they know that Vista is a joke-and XP can continue to be a cash cow for them.
In many states, if someone dies during the commission of a crime, that person is guilty of felony murder. What if MediaDefender's servers DoS ed a hospital that was right in the middle of a delicate operation that was being guided via teleconference-and as a result the patient died?
Isn't DoSing also a Homeland Security issue? Shouldn't their ISP have cut them off when they started doing illegal things like automatically targeting innocent companies with illegal DoS Attacks?
If someone did to MediaDefender what they do to EVERYONE ELSE, they'd be screaming bloody murder!
Finally, what if they DID actually DoS a company that caused someone to be hurt or die. Would they be liable for pre-mediated murder?
1. Buy your own p2p network
2. Throttle every one else's p2p networks with Sandvine
3. Profit!
Seriously, if there were any reason for net neutrality, this is it....What's next? Throttling Vonage?This time next year, the LA County Sheriff will be adding "copyright infringers" to the list of kidnappers, rapists, robbers and murderers he's caught over the past year. Seriously though-this seems WAY over the top!
The reason they're so against it is because they're already VIOLATING it! If net neutrality laws/policies came to be the ISPs would have to change the way they conduct business now.
This is happening to radio too, which is why the big Clear Channel buyout might not close. The buyout price is 39.70 a share, yet Clear Channel has been traded as low as 25 dollars recently-38% less then the buyout price. Recently, an FM station in Los Angeles sold for 137 million dollars-113 million less then the last one did a couple of years ago-46 percent less.
Seems to me that this is right in line with the newspaper valuations you have mentioned.
It's also happening in cellular-why just look at Sprint-at the time of their merger, Sprint and Nextel were each worth about 35 billion. Today, the combined company is only valued at 25 billion.
I think the reason is stockholder greed. Stockholders expect stock to ALWAYS go up-which forces management to make choices based on short term gains-and at the expense of bigger losses in the long term. Until this "next quarter's guidance" mentality ends, you're going to see even more companies hit the skids.