"and the expected cost of blackholing china was... $25..."
Good post. I agree with you and have also implemented this type of 'fix'. I'd really like to see what your long term *savings* end up versus that $25 investment.
"If Spamhaus signed up one of their "spamtrap" email addresses to our mailing list"...
If you are that freakin paranoid, then you KNOW you are doing something that agitates those of us that have to deal with the end result of your "work" on a daily basis.
Only you have the power to clean your lists. Go forth, my son. Empower yourself and waste not another breath in the realm of wizards.
The current system has a transmitter near Wichita Falls, TX and some folks in New Mexico have a
receiver you can listen to online that provides a tone when something reflects the signal.
Works good during meteor showers.
Take a listen at:
I'm all for net neutrality, it has worked worked pretty darned well so far.
When carriers/ISPs become greedy, you will see the same results we saw
with banks and the financial sector doing what the hell they wanted - a middle
class still paying for it.
A tablet is not an e-reader any more than a computer is a pocket calculator.
the lines blur easily with software. and sunlight
Can you read that Nexus in the sun? You can read an ebook reader there.
I have a Nook color, and that is not a clear definition of an e-reader
Can you go for a month without a charge? An e-reader can.
then you'll be highly disappointed with a Nook color. It needs to be fed electrons almost daily. The dang thing is very impressive once you get past the factory software and run Cyanogen from flash.
Perhaps the author misses the point - if Google *had* boxed their tablet in any fashion like the iPad(TM)(patents *) they would have no doubt been sued and harassed.
For Deity's Sakes Man - if you want an iPad, get one. If you want a Google experience, get that. If your lucky enough to afford both, don't cry about a stinking cardboard box!
Japan has proven to be just as efficient with blades as any other country with guns (historically).
Attempting to divorce the human from the equation of human + gun = damage is just plain bad math. Just admit to your human condition - that people can be inherently bad, or start jailing the guns when there is a crime involving a gun.
First off, thanks for a well thought out post. You do have some good points.
I would challenge you on "To the carriers defense, there's only so much capacity to go around." The internet is an evolving place, with bandwidth costs being reduced by volume. The T1 for $8000/mo is now a $19.95 DSL circuit. It scales out to these larger guys, too.
The motive here is to milk/bilk every nickle possible out of their customers, and from the postings I've seen there are several of us on unlimited that don't use even the lower tier of their new plan. This has the potential to actually drive their profits lower by bad customer relations, if nothing else. I was on ATT and moved exactly for that reason.
The main reason * a lot * of people choose unlimited is because of the carriers history of gouging people who used "too many" minutes on voice plans is still a vivid reminder of how greedy these folks can be. And are.
I do agree with your thoughts on government involvement - unless we add the FCC, who is responsible for oversight of the carriers already.
one of my favorite java apps is already beta testing
an html5 replacement. - look forward to many more.
who wants to write anything with a restricted API ???
+1, Mr. Coward. ezquake on linux has been my favorite native client game for many years. Not to single any one server out, but Ratbert has been doing some really neat stuff with Custom Coop that is good testing grounds for clients @ ratbert.servegame.org:27500
I think the overall comments reflect a dislike for software patents, be they Apple, HTC or,* . The ".* sucks" comments will probably be thrown at any company bold enough to sucker punch someone that actually is doing a good job.
Slashdot Mirror
then MS should call Windows 8 the same platform name on devices that can't run the same applications, no?
now now, apple has shown it's more than capable of doing business without Google.
Look at the wonderful maps they came up with!
- As someone who has been on /. longer than that (and around technology of any kind even longer) - all I can say is "this too shall pass".-
you young apple hipsters with your sub 10,000 uid's
This is what you get when you expect corporations to behave as people.
"and the expected cost of blackholing china was... $25..."
Good post. I agree with you and have also implemented this type of 'fix'.
I'd really like to see what your long term *savings* end up versus that $25 investment.
"If Spamhaus signed up one of their "spamtrap" email addresses to our mailing list" ...
If you are that freakin paranoid, then you KNOW you are doing something that agitates those of us
that have to deal with the end result of your "work" on a daily basis.
Only you have the power to clean your lists. Go forth, my son. Empower yourself and waste not
another breath in the realm of wizards.
Scotty: I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!
Can't have enough stuff looking for possible collision sources, can we?
Or am I just another paranoid, SysFy Channel watching meat bag?
The current system has a transmitter near Wichita Falls, TX and some folks in New Mexico have a
receiver you can listen to online that provides a tone when something reflects the signal.
Works good during meteor showers.
Take a listen at:
http://spaceweatherradio.com/
but the remote sites still aren't showing April 1
WTH?
I'm all for net neutrality, it has worked worked pretty darned well so far.
When carriers/ISPs become greedy, you will see the same results we saw
with banks and the financial sector doing what the hell they wanted - a middle
class still paying for it.
sed s/palatable/patentable/g
I often questioned why Gnome was removed from Slackware. Perhaps it wasn't a blunder, after all.
A tablet is not an e-reader any more than a computer is a pocket calculator.
the lines blur easily with software. and sunlight
Can you read that Nexus in the sun? You can read an ebook reader there.
I have a Nook color, and that is not a clear definition of an e-reader
Can you go for a month without a charge? An e-reader can.
then you'll be highly disappointed with a Nook color. It needs to be fed electrons almost daily.
The dang thing is very impressive once you get past the factory software and run Cyanogen
from flash.
No disrespect to Dr. Bob Metcalfe, but internet would be nothing without a router.
.
Perhaps the author misses the point - if Google *had* boxed their tablet in any fashion like the iPad(TM)(patents *)
they would have no doubt been sued and harassed.
For Deity's Sakes Man - if you want an iPad, get one. If you want a Google experience, get that.
If your lucky enough to afford both, don't cry about a stinking cardboard box!
I wonder how many bots are using IE user agent strings this week.
Japan has proven to be just as efficient with blades as any other country with guns (historically).
Attempting to divorce the human from the equation of human + gun = damage is just plain bad math.
Just admit to your human condition - that people can be inherently bad, or start jailing the guns when
there is a crime involving a gun.
I don't see how the above posters profile would help try to push your noticed
gun-less advocacy, but there are statistics that prove him out.
http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=1323
Now we shall all go read your profile, Mr. Anonymous, and see your anti US agenda...
Oh, wait
No doubt, their bean counters were using an older version of Excel to calculated the profits v damages.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel/browse_thread/thread/2bcad1a1a4861879/2f8806d5400dfe22?hl=en&pli=1
First off, thanks for a well thought out post. You do have some good points.
I would challenge you on "To the carriers defense, there's only so much capacity to go around."
The internet is an evolving place, with bandwidth costs being reduced by volume. The T1 for
$8000/mo is now a $19.95 DSL circuit. It scales out to these larger guys, too.
The motive here is to milk/bilk every nickle possible out of their customers, and from the postings I've
seen there are several of us on unlimited that don't use even the lower tier of their new plan. This has
the potential to actually drive their profits lower by bad customer relations, if nothing else. I was on ATT
and moved exactly for that reason.
The main reason * a lot * of people choose unlimited is because of the carriers history of gouging people
who used "too many" minutes on voice plans is still a vivid reminder of how greedy these folks can be. And are.
I do agree with your thoughts on government involvement - unless we add the FCC, who is responsible for oversight
of the carriers already.
blah
Oracle forked itself and you know it.
one of my favorite java apps is already beta testing
an html5 replacement. - look forward to many more.
who wants to write anything with a restricted API ???
I *really* wish for mod points right now. Excellent point, sir. I'm sure it really chaffs the bean counters behinds.
+1, Mr. Coward. ezquake on linux has been my favorite native client game for many years.
Not to single any one server out, but Ratbert has been doing some really neat stuff with
Custom Coop that is good testing grounds for clients @ ratbert.servegame.org:27500
I think the overall comments reflect a dislike for software patents, be they Apple, HTC or ,* .
The ".* sucks" comments will probably be thrown at any company bold enough to sucker
punch someone that actually is doing a good job.
Like BT