A lot of it has to do with "keeping with the Jones's". Citizens in the us are happy living in their comfort zone, it is not disgraceful to be supported by government aid or drop out of school. People of the US are mostly fat, lazy, and happy.
To be honest there are many portions of language that just don't make sense aside form "it was derived from X" it would be interesting to see a team of experts sit down and do a clean rewrite of a language. Such a language could become a standard for international communications, like a protocol.
The dilber author asked himself many of the same questions when building his house "Dilbert Ultimate house" or simply DUH. There is a portion of the site where he lists some poplular reader suggestions for the house and comments on some of the more practical and impractical ideas. This is not a complete answer to your question, but will help.
As far as my suggestion, I say you should account for the possibility of having a small server room in your house. Such a room would should be easy to keep cool (basement?), fire resistant, and have some type of shielding from electromagnetic radiation (like thin sheet metal).
I will give you that. I also noticed the people that got where they are because they have the degree tend to be the least versed in other technologies compared to the other mostly self-taught-by-geeking types.
In my days of tech support I talked to many certified people on the phone, the MCSE's were usually very arrogant, they knew Windows but not networks, the A+ people were barely any better than Joe Users but at least they could use DOS, and the Cisco certified people were generally both respectful and knowledgeable. I can think of very few, if any cases where someone Cisco certified called me and had the problem be on their end.
40:1 is more than a little off, it is way off. Especially when you consider that these are not Joe end users we are talking about, these people are engineers.
I don't even have to read the article to guess that the suggested remedy is to secure more funds to spend more money on the problem. Anytime any government agency goes public with information it is because they need more money.
Lavasoft has found a new way to make money. Aparrently Ad-Aware no longer removes WhenU spyware. I wonder if the kickback from taking bribes will be enough to offset the sales losses created by MSFT's product?
You mean slashdot was wrong to make all the "conflict of interst" accusations when all they really did is buy a nonfree (beer) product and make it free?
There is a federal regulation that mandates that you must be able to take your telephone # with you to another service. The problem with the law is that I don't think there is any section that says how long the bells can drag their feet in this process. There are many cases where the POTS providers stall for MONTHS fufilling LNP (Local number portability) requests for VoIP telcos. Can anyone point me the actual section of the regulation that governs LNP? I didn't find the answer to this question in the Telecom Act of 1996
Maybe the bells would do something that stupid in response to the land line ditching, but most DSL users have a bundled DSL/POTS package where they won't save much money by going with DSL/VoIP.
As far as the cable broadband providers, most of them are rolling their own voip with all the same protocols and ports as the other 3rd party providers. But as far as the cable MSO's go, VoIP is _hardly_ the ememy.
At one point I thought to myself that will all the progress in green energy surely some day soon we will hit that critical point where it is cheaper to take the plung and leave the grid. That day is not yet here, and I don't know when or if it will be.
The reason I believe this is because electronics in peoples homes are growing at a faster rate than "green technology" (like solar power) is improving. The amount of solar panels required to power the 3 computers, 4 TV's, 2 PlayStations, DVRs, cordless phones, etc. in my house in cloudy/rainy NY would be crushing.
Sure the green tech will improve, but then add in faster/more computers, another DVR, Xbox 3, dual core 4GHz processors, several more gig of RAM, and a few TB of HDD storage and I am right back at square one.
According to Powell, his understanding is that the blocking is not coming from major service providers, but from rural Local Exchange Carriers (LECs).
If ISP's decide to block 5061 they would blocking way more than just Vonage, even if they block TFTP then Vonage uses an alternate port. So tell me, which ISP's are blocking Vonage?
Some of these geeks probably donated their life savings. Without Star Trek they don't have an identity. Firefox is cool and all, but I don't define my existance on it.
It is funny, my dad's old comp was a 400Mhz AMD with 96 megs of (shared) PC100 RAM on wi98SE. I replaced the box with a new 2.4 Gig Celeron, 256 meg ram, and winXP. The newer system running XP was actually noticeably slower and there is nothing he used in XP that he didn't have in 98se.
Just becasue a new protocol exists does not mean that the internet at lage must upgrade to it the same day.
For instance, the group I work in only communicates with other people in the company and a small handfull of other IT companies. If there was a better solution we could easilly set up aliases on it and migrate to it. Some universities would offer it to students, and some companies could offer webmail or commercial service using it.
It is not like most people don't already have 2 or 3 email aliases as it is. This is not IPv6 we are talking about here, it would work along side what we have easilly.
You show me a hardened, open replacement for SMTP that would scale to the way we use SMTP today and I will show you a market for it.
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A lot of it has to do with "keeping with the Jones's". Citizens in the us are happy living in their comfort zone, it is not disgraceful to be supported by government aid or drop out of school. People of the US are mostly fat, lazy, and happy.
To be honest there are many portions of language that just don't make sense aside form "it was derived from X" it would be interesting to see a team of experts sit down and do a clean rewrite of a language. Such a language could become a standard for international communications, like a protocol.
Mathmatics and programming?
As far as my suggestion, I say you should account for the possibility of having a small server room in your house. Such a room would should be easy to keep cool (basement?), fire resistant, and have some type of shielding from electromagnetic radiation (like thin sheet metal).
In my days of tech support I talked to many certified people on the phone, the MCSE's were usually very arrogant, they knew Windows but not networks, the A+ people were barely any better than Joe Users but at least they could use DOS, and the Cisco certified people were generally both respectful and knowledgeable.
I can think of very few, if any cases where someone Cisco certified called me and had the problem be on their end.
40:1 is more than a little off, it is way off. Especially when you consider that these are not Joe end users we are talking about, these people are engineers.
This happened 50,000 years ago and it is just now being posted to Slashdot? :)
I don't even have to read the article to guess that the suggested remedy is to secure more funds to spend more money on the problem. Anytime any government agency goes public with information it is because they need more money.
Lavasoft has found a new way to make money. Aparrently Ad-Aware no longer removes WhenU spyware. I wonder if the kickback from taking bribes will be enough to offset the sales losses created by MSFT's product?
You mean slashdot was wrong to make all the "conflict of interst" accusations when all they really did is buy a nonfree (beer) product and make it free?
This is just an alternate title to "Gaping security hole discovered in Firefox, experts say switch to IE"
There is a federal regulation that mandates that you must be able to take your telephone # with you to another service. The problem with the law is that I don't think there is any section that says how long the bells can drag their feet in this process. There are many cases where the POTS providers stall for MONTHS fufilling LNP (Local number portability) requests for VoIP telcos. Can anyone point me the actual section of the regulation that governs LNP?
I didn't find the answer to this question in the Telecom Act of 1996
As far as the cable broadband providers, most of them are rolling their own voip with all the same protocols and ports as the other 3rd party providers. But as far as the cable MSO's go, VoIP is _hardly_ the ememy.
Well Slashdot poster # 720774, you are officially fired. You can pick up your last pay.. er, never mind. Keep doing what you were doing.
OK, what ports does Vonage use that OO blocks? I am reading the OO board on DLSR and see other OO users that use Vonage fine.
The reason I believe this is because electronics in peoples homes are growing at a faster rate than "green technology" (like solar power) is improving.
The amount of solar panels required to power the 3 computers, 4 TV's, 2 PlayStations, DVRs, cordless phones, etc. in my house in cloudy/rainy NY would be crushing.
Sure the green tech will improve, but then add in faster/more computers, another DVR, Xbox 3, dual core 4GHz processors, several more gig of RAM, and a few TB of HDD storage and I am right back at square one.
If ISP's decide to block 5061 they would blocking way more than just Vonage, even if they block TFTP then Vonage uses an alternate port. So tell me, which ISP's are blocking Vonage?
They do, the are still trying to think of a new name for it.
I started reading and made it as far as "according to a growing band of top scientists"
I think I have that exact phrase in my spam filter.
Some of these geeks probably donated their life savings. Without Star Trek they don't have an identity. Firefox is cool and all, but I don't define my existance on it.
Me too (TM)
It is funny, my dad's old comp was a 400Mhz AMD with 96 megs of (shared) PC100 RAM on wi98SE.
I replaced the box with a new 2.4 Gig Celeron, 256 meg ram, and winXP. The newer system running XP was actually noticeably slower and there is nothing he used in XP that he didn't have in 98se.
And for some more backround I recommend reading How Stuff Works' How Terraforming Mars Will Work
Actually the number of results is because if you convert BILL GATES III into ASCII and add the values you get 666. WINDOWS95 is also 666.
Just becasue a new protocol exists does not mean that the internet at lage must upgrade to it the same day.
For instance, the group I work in only communicates with other people in the company and a small handfull of other IT companies. If there was a better solution we could easilly set up aliases on it and migrate to it. Some universities would offer it to students, and some companies could offer webmail or commercial service using it.
It is not like most people don't already have 2 or 3 email aliases as it is. This is not IPv6 we are talking about here, it would work along side what we have easilly.
You show me a hardened, open replacement for SMTP that would scale to the way we use SMTP today and I will show you a market for it.