Deregulation usually ends up having the power company as a corporation, and not a Crow Corporation or such. When a power company (or any other company for that matter), has to become profitable they will cut costs, and when they are cutting costs the level of service usually falls.
The most likely reason that this has happened is that the power companies did not want to spend as much money on the grids to maintain them, and make sure that they were in complete working order, and add more grids and upgrade their equipment -- all because of deregulation, and saving money on in the "short term".
We have the livenews for the power outages back on (just like we did with all the other top stories, like the "War on Terrorism") and 9/11. It's the CNN feed.
It's available on: irc.striked.org #livenews
Top headlines: "Microsoft knocks out east coast power grid to prevent DDoS attack on windowsupdate.com"
I find this slightly amusing. What if I don't fall under the DMCA ruling, and someone that is under a DMCA-governed country emails me?
What should I do with the email, should I disregard it? What happens if the claims in the email are false, and in fact the file is just renamed to something that does not actually fall under a copyright.
Do the issuers of these notices even bother to check to see if the file is actually infringing on their copyright laws, or do they just send out random emails, hope to get a response and forget about it. More then likely these are just run by bots, and therefore they don't do much.
I had one of these "copyright enforcement" companys constantley hammer my IRC network, which in fact did not contain any warez, and in the end I had to Z: Line the a whole net range to stop the bots from coming on, registering a nickname, quitting and doing the process again. In the end the "copyright enforcement" bots registered about 11,000 nicknames on my IRC Network in total, wasting the resources of my network and causing me to do extra work.
Should I be able to email their ISP and complain about the abuse that's coming from their network, I do not live in the United States, so I do not believe I should have to put up with these bots that are constantley scanning networks looking for "illegal" content.
Most laptops, and most "end-user" systems (aka the ones that are built by Dell, IBM, etc.) don't include a real version of Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, but in fact are just a hard drive image of the OS, and if you want to reinstall it has to wipe out the whole HD and start over.
This has been happening since 1997, and is probably not really worthy of an article. If you want a computer that doesn't have this, don't buy one from one of the "big names".
SCO, afaik is using a lawyer that they will only have to pay if they win the case. He was the same lawyer that was used in all the FUD Microsoft cases.
We'll see what happens, but at the moment all that SCO is paying for is the bandwidth that we make them use every time we visit their site because of this FUD.
So, basically what you're saying is that Microsoft Office is a resource hog, and that OpenOffice isn't? OpenOffice takes a far longer amount of time to open the Microsoft Office, and uses more memory.
Same with Mozilla vs. Internet Explorer, which uses more memory? Mozilla. But then you have commerical products like Opera that use hardly any memory, and leave a very small footprint.
In my neighbourhood we have a LAN, the houses to the right of me and the left are connected via cat5, and the people across the street are connected via a wireless setup, and connecting each other. The setup I have for this, including mail for them, and about 200 other people, including file server (Samba), webserver (Apache 1.3.x), etc. Trafficing about 3,000 messages/hour (Qmail).
With this setup Im not doing more then about 200kbit/s steady, using my ADSL connection. The specs for this box are as follows (Remember it is a file server with music, etc on it.)
Lets hope that the RIAA doesn't win this case. This would be a big boost for the P2P community, and would probably in the end mean that P2P wouldn't always be related by piracy.
Why does the RIAA always think they can boss everyone around, they act like everyone is a little child, and that they can be squashed.
Doesn't help with the current state of the US justice system though..
Im wondering how this would be implemented. Browsers already such as Opera can fake the version that the browser is identifed as. How will DRM work in this case? Will there be an encrypted key or something else?
The true coast to coast. From the great white north;)
traceroute to www.ca.gov (63.196.102.5), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 velocity (192.168.1.1) 0.396 ms 0.336 ms 0.316 ms
2 209.53.1.238 (209.53.1.238) 14.797 ms 14.838 ms 14.952 ms
3 209.53.142.146 (209.53.142.146) 16.034 ms 209.53.142.150 (209.53.142.150) 15.482 ms 209.53.142.158 (209.53.142.158) 16.088 ms
4 nwmrbc01gr01.bb.telus.com (154.11.4.98) 14.691 ms 15.034 ms 15.818 ms
5 nwmrbc01br01.bb.telus.com (154.11.10.53) 58.448 ms 60.565 ms 61.309 ms
6 sttlwa01gr02.bb.telus.com (209.53.75.178) 61.778 ms 62.234 ms 59.169 ms
7 plalca01gr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.10.2) 54.622 ms 53.273 ms 52.244 ms
8 bb2-p4-0.pxpaca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.89.237) 51.875 ms 62.915 ms 56.183 ms
9 bb1-p14-3.sntc01.pbi.net (64.161.1.41) 59.290 ms 74.547 ms 67.062 ms 10 bb1-p14-0.scrm01.sbcglobal.net (151.164.188.122) 68.950 ms 71.872 ms 68.791 ms 11 ded1-g12-0-0.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.250) 70.696 ms 71.592 ms 71.476 ms 12 VIP-CALNET-State-Cal-Dept-of-General-Serv-Teale-Da ta-1035588.cust-rtr.pacbell.net (206.13.19.178) 68.998 ms 67.916 ms 71.693 ms 13 * * * 14 * * *
Most ISPs really don't block spam, only a few say they do. If they do, I don't know where they do *looks at his Hotmail email box with 400 spams*, and I get an average of 50-90 spam's a day on my ISP's email.
So yeah, I doubt my "large" ISP (services like 4 provinces) runs spam filtering. Well, I know for a fact they don't.
So, if they just filtered the spam, it would save them a ton of bandwidth delivering it to the user.
One T1 isnt going to cut it, and I dont even think 3 T1's would cut it. Your going to have to go for a DS3/T3, which is only 281kbps per user if each user is using the internet, so it'd probably be in your best interest to cap it.
Me and my friends did a similar thing, only we used wireless, and our local DSL provider. Each of us has 2.5mbps/640kbps for $25/mo using 4 DSL connections, we have QoS, static IPs, etc. It's a really nice deal.
Thats totally incorrect, to an extent. Users in the states pay _way_ more for internet access in general than anyone in canada. I know of many people that pay $90/mo (USD) for 1.5mbps/128kbps in California in such areas.
In Western Canada, my 2.5mbps/640kbps connection costs me $40/mo (CDN), and you can get a cable connection capped at 8mbps/512kbps for $45/mo. So it's a matter of where you live.
In the states, to get away from Pacbell. I think people are willing to pay for something similar to that.
So basically what you are saying. Is that most motherboard manufactors will be violating the DMCA for including "overclocking options" in the BIOS/CMOS of the system.
I guess it's kind of ironic, because I can overclock my system by just changing the multipliers in the BIOS.
His server might of had a chance if he didn't have images on it. Say if it was text only, and he had a decent upstream 1mbps (optonline anybody?).
Other then that, posting yourself to slashdot, AND having images on your site. That's just plain stupidity.
I posted a comment one time related to interesting places for computers, and I had my gallery, and that wasn't even a real "slashdotting" and it was on my ADSL, constantly doing 80kb/s out and I felt like I was on dialup. (The comment was +5)
But then again, that was my choice, I knew how much bandwidth I had, and I could've just capped the webserver:)
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I'm going to have to disagree with you.
Deregulation usually ends up having the power company as a corporation, and not a Crow Corporation or such. When a power company (or any other company for that matter), has to become profitable they will cut costs, and when they are cutting costs the level of service usually falls.
The most likely reason that this has happened is that the power companies did not want to spend as much money on the grids to maintain them, and make sure that they were in complete working order, and add more grids and upgrade their equipment -- all because of deregulation, and saving money on in the "short term".
We have the livenews for the power outages back on (just like we did with all the other top stories, like the "War on Terrorism") and 9/11. It's the CNN feed.
It's available on: irc.striked.org #livenews
Top headlines: "Microsoft knocks out east coast power grid to prevent DDoS attack on windowsupdate.com"
I find this slightly amusing. What if I don't fall under the DMCA ruling, and someone that is under a DMCA-governed country emails me?
What should I do with the email, should I disregard it? What happens if the claims in the email are false, and in fact the file is just renamed to something that does not actually fall under a copyright.
Do the issuers of these notices even bother to check to see if the file is actually infringing on their copyright laws, or do they just send out random emails, hope to get a response and forget about it. More then likely these are just run by bots, and therefore they don't do much.
I had one of these "copyright enforcement" companys constantley hammer my IRC network, which in fact did not contain any warez, and in the end I had to Z: Line the a whole net range to stop the bots from coming on, registering a nickname, quitting and doing the process again. In the end the "copyright enforcement" bots registered about 11,000 nicknames on my IRC Network in total, wasting the resources of my network and causing me to do extra work.
Should I be able to email their ISP and complain about the abuse that's coming from their network, I do not live in the United States, so I do not believe I should have to put up with these bots that are constantley scanning networks looking for "illegal" content.
I'm going to probably get modded down for this.. but.
I do write my own code, and I release it under the BSD license; so I also do release it to the public, for whatever use they please.
But under a less-restrictive license that isn't going to let me make profit over my OWN work at a later date.
I get 15ms to my ADSL modem, and I used to get 33ms. You are getting pretty good pings if it's still in your ISP, except about 40ms in your ISP.
I don't see whats wrong with what you are getting, maybe you are whining just a little bit too much about what you are getting.
Heck, I'd like 8mbps down on my ADSL. I'm stuck with 1.53mbps/640kbps.
Oh well. There is nothing wrong with what you get..
They don't use Linux. The canadian gov't uses *BSD because of the licensing issues with Linux (e.g. the GPL).
Some gov't agencies such as NCR *may* run it, but its just the development network.
Most laptops, and most "end-user" systems (aka the ones that are built by Dell, IBM, etc.) don't include a real version of Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, but in fact are just a hard drive image of the OS, and if you want to reinstall it has to wipe out the whole HD and start over.
This has been happening since 1997, and is probably not really worthy of an article. If you want a computer that doesn't have this, don't buy one from one of the "big names".
But isn't OpenServ just a "SCO" version of Linux? Packaged as something that Linux isnt.
As in, Linux kernel and GNU userland..
Interesting Discussions about the Legality & Anonymity of BitTorrent from the enfamed SuprNova site.
That's not what the article writer is asking.
He is asking if you can build something with similiar hardware for cheaper or the same price that's NOT crippled.
SCO, afaik is using a lawyer that they will only have to pay if they win the case. He was the same lawyer that was used in all the FUD Microsoft cases.
We'll see what happens, but at the moment all that SCO is paying for is the bandwidth that we make them use every time we visit their site because of this FUD.
So, basically what you're saying is that Microsoft Office is a resource hog, and that OpenOffice isn't? OpenOffice takes a far longer amount of time to open the Microsoft Office, and uses more memory.
Same with Mozilla vs. Internet Explorer, which uses more memory? Mozilla. But then you have commerical products like Opera that use hardly any memory, and leave a very small footprint.
What about, Archive.org -- they seem to have a large selection of Public domain videos, who knows if they are any recent ones though..
In my neighbourhood we have a LAN, the houses to the right of me and the left are connected via cat5, and the people across the street are connected via a wireless setup, and connecting each other. The setup I have for this, including mail for them, and about 200 other people, including file server (Samba), webserver (Apache 1.3.x), etc. Trafficing about 3,000 messages/hour (Qmail).
With this setup Im not doing more then about 200kbit/s steady, using my ADSL connection. The specs for this box are as follows (Remember it is a file server with music, etc on it.)
- AMD Thunderbird 1.4GHz
- 512MB of SDRAM
- FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
- 3x 120GB, 1x 80GB (Maxtor)
- Promise ATA100 Controller
- D-Link DFE-550TX 10/100BaseTX
This box has been doing wonderful under the performance, load averages are pretty low unless trafficing movies, or such.
Having a box with that kind of specs for some mail server/web server is insane at best, you could do something like that with an AMD 500.
But then again, I'd recommend that you distribute the load on multiple boxes.
the Pentagon, and now DoD, both 2008? Concidence, or not?
Lets hope that the RIAA doesn't win this case. This would be a big boost for the P2P community, and would probably in the end mean that P2P wouldn't always be related by piracy.
Why does the RIAA always think they can boss everyone around, they act like everyone is a little child, and that they can be squashed.
Doesn't help with the current state of the US justice system though..
Yeah, it my be illegal. But what if you dont live in a country that is run under the DMCA? What can they do then.
Some countries aren't willing to adopot this dictatorship laws.
Im wondering how this would be implemented. Browsers already such as Opera can fake the version that the browser is identifed as. How will DRM work in this case? Will there be an encrypted key or something else?
The true coast to coast. From the great white north ;)
a ta-1035588.cust-rtr.pacbell.net (206.13.19.178) 68.998 ms 67.916 ms 71.693 ms
traceroute to www.ca.gov (63.196.102.5), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 velocity (192.168.1.1) 0.396 ms 0.336 ms 0.316 ms
2 209.53.1.238 (209.53.1.238) 14.797 ms 14.838 ms 14.952 ms
3 209.53.142.146 (209.53.142.146) 16.034 ms 209.53.142.150 (209.53.142.150) 15.482 ms 209.53.142.158 (209.53.142.158) 16.088 ms
4 nwmrbc01gr01.bb.telus.com (154.11.4.98) 14.691 ms 15.034 ms 15.818 ms
5 nwmrbc01br01.bb.telus.com (154.11.10.53) 58.448 ms 60.565 ms 61.309 ms
6 sttlwa01gr02.bb.telus.com (209.53.75.178) 61.778 ms 62.234 ms 59.169 ms
7 plalca01gr00.bb.telus.com (154.11.10.2) 54.622 ms 53.273 ms 52.244 ms
8 bb2-p4-0.pxpaca.sbcglobal.net (151.164.89.237) 51.875 ms 62.915 ms 56.183 ms
9 bb1-p14-3.sntc01.pbi.net (64.161.1.41) 59.290 ms 74.547 ms 67.062 ms
10 bb1-p14-0.scrm01.sbcglobal.net (151.164.188.122) 68.950 ms 71.872 ms 68.791 ms
11 ded1-g12-0-0.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.250) 70.696 ms 71.592 ms 71.476 ms
12 VIP-CALNET-State-Cal-Dept-of-General-Serv-Teale-D
13 * * *
14 * * *
No posts, and it's already slashdotted. That has to be a world record.
;)
Let me guess, they probably were on like 56k or somethin, or some ADSL. I mean, thats a dyndns A pointer
Fun, fun.
Most ISPs really don't block spam, only a few say they do. If they do, I don't know where they do *looks at his Hotmail email box with 400 spams*, and I get an average of 50-90 spam's a day on my ISP's email.
So yeah, I doubt my "large" ISP (services like 4 provinces) runs spam filtering. Well, I know for a fact they don't.
So, if they just filtered the spam, it would save them a ton of bandwidth delivering it to the user.
One T1 isnt going to cut it, and I dont even think 3 T1's would cut it. Your going to have to go for a DS3/T3, which is only 281kbps per user if each user is using the internet, so it'd probably be in your best interest to cap it.
Me and my friends did a similar thing, only we used wireless, and our local DSL provider. Each of us has 2.5mbps/640kbps for $25/mo using 4 DSL connections, we have QoS, static IPs, etc. It's a really nice deal.
Thats totally incorrect, to an extent. Users in the states pay _way_ more for internet access in general than anyone in canada. I know of many people that pay $90/mo (USD) for 1.5mbps/128kbps in California in such areas.
In Western Canada, my 2.5mbps/640kbps connection costs me $40/mo (CDN), and you can get a cable connection capped at 8mbps/512kbps for $45/mo. So it's a matter of where you live.
In the states, to get away from Pacbell. I think people are willing to pay for something similar to that.
So basically what you are saying. Is that most motherboard manufactors will be violating the DMCA for including "overclocking options" in the BIOS/CMOS of the system.
I guess it's kind of ironic, because I can overclock my system by just changing the multipliers in the BIOS.
His server might of had a chance if he didn't have images on it. Say if it was text only, and he had a decent upstream 1mbps (optonline anybody?).
:)
Other then that, posting yourself to slashdot, AND having images on your site. That's just plain stupidity.
I posted a comment one time related to interesting places for computers, and I had my gallery, and that wasn't even a real "slashdotting" and it was on my ADSL, constantly doing 80kb/s out and I felt like I was on dialup. (The comment was +5)
But then again, that was my choice, I knew how much bandwidth I had, and I could've just capped the webserver