DSL capability depends on distance to the nearest (hub/station/whatever). We tried that but were barely in DSL range (15,000 feet or so as the cable goes). It ran at 768 kbps max and was pretty bad. If you're closer the speeds etc gets better, if you're close enough to the closest station you can (I heard) get 25 mbps.
1 Consider getting enough neighbors to split the cost (depends on what the cost is of course).
2 Wait until somebody else pays to get it closer to your area.
3 Get them to give a credit (50% in my case) for future service of the money paid to bring the cable in. Have them agree that's transferable to subsequent owners if the cost is high enough to bother with.
4 Look at alternatives
- satelite internet (slow and VERY laggy but otherwise usable, can't do online gaming though).
- cell phone data plan (low data caps, good for gaming, drops off sometimes).
Tape MUST be sufficiently stable. Reading the reliability specs off the box in front of me and running a few calculations shows that of all the tape operations ever done (at least for my brand of tape) there should be zero or at most one (1.3% chance) tape error in the history of all tape storage by humanity.
It is VERY common that people neglect to do this in time. Once mental faculties are impaired then the person does not have the legal ability to create the advanced directive.
We had terrible luck with multiple batches of W/D drives (both standalone drives and USB drives) a couple years ago. Roughly 50% mortality rate (unreadable) within the first year before we scrapped them all.
Sheer love of evil!
Seriously, though - all the massive background processes. Probably a decades-old stack of services and whatnot they don't have the corporate continuity to be able to change at this point.
Is it feasible, for at least some devices, to embed in them a closed set of commands that are acceptable and have them automatically reject any other commands (e.g., prevent buffer overflow and sql injection sorts of things)?
No, but neutrinos could "shortcut" through the earth (straight line) instead of taking the long way (along the surface, or worse, via radio and bouncing off the heaviside layer, so that would be a fair way to get the news faster.
Tachyon radio IMO *would* be cheating.
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we are getting our first experiences with venusforming
FTFY
DSL capability depends on distance to the nearest (hub/station/whatever). We tried that but were barely in DSL range (15,000 feet or so as the cable goes). It ran at 768 kbps max and was pretty bad. If you're closer the speeds etc gets better, if you're close enough to the closest station you can (I heard) get 25 mbps.
1 Consider getting enough neighbors to split the cost (depends on what the cost is of course). 2 Wait until somebody else pays to get it closer to your area. 3 Get them to give a credit (50% in my case) for future service of the money paid to bring the cable in. Have them agree that's transferable to subsequent owners if the cost is high enough to bother with. 4 Look at alternatives - satelite internet (slow and VERY laggy but otherwise usable, can't do online gaming though). - cell phone data plan (low data caps, good for gaming, drops off sometimes).
Please mod up.
"Crasswoods"? I don't get it...
Think of The Children!
Does the associative law therefore say chimps are corporations?
Tape MUST be sufficiently stable. Reading the reliability specs off the box in front of me and running a few calculations shows that of all the tape operations ever done (at least for my brand of tape) there should be zero or at most one (1.3% chance) tape error in the history of all tape storage by humanity.
Bitrot is a myth in modern times.
You state this without any substantiation as if it were a fact.
And I'll counter the above. The last bitrot event I had to deal with - on current server grade (Windoze, tho) hardware was waaaay back last Friday.
Give him the chair!
Wishing mass deaths on people who don't share your views is unfortunately also just extremely common.
It is VERY common that people neglect to do this in time. Once mental faculties are impaired then the person does not have the legal ability to create the advanced directive.
We had terrible luck with multiple batches of W/D drives (both standalone drives and USB drives) a couple years ago. Roughly 50% mortality rate (unreadable) within the first year before we scrapped them all.
Does it count as counterfeiting if I reprogram the machine to take any paper as cash and then feed it blank paper?
Let me be the first to say that they are all worse than Hitler.
Sheer love of evil! Seriously, though - all the massive background processes. Probably a decades-old stack of services and whatnot they don't have the corporate continuity to be able to change at this point.
Wrong conclusion there. Proper conclusion is that rice cakes cure cocaine addiction.
Gimme
Is it feasible, for at least some devices, to embed in them a closed set of commands that are acceptable and have them automatically reject any other commands (e.g., prevent buffer overflow and sql injection sorts of things)?
Nuke The Swiss And Steal Their Gold.
You prefer maybe an Apple device built with a totally-compelling user interface?
I dunno, maybe use the copilot's one or the spare? Or not take off is something zaps them all at once.
The worked with the energy output of 297 suns? Please point that the other way sir.
"Deep" shit if you measure in nanometers. Hundreds of 'em.
No, but neutrinos could "shortcut" through the earth (straight line) instead of taking the long way (along the surface, or worse, via radio and bouncing off the heaviside layer, so that would be a fair way to get the news faster. Tachyon radio IMO *would* be cheating.