> fraud: "intentional perversion of truth in > order to induce another to part with something > of value or to surrender a legal right"
By that definition, SearchKing in guilty of fraud by creating link farms to artificially increase their customers' apparent relevance - like salting a gold mine with a 12-bore or ballot stuffing.
iiNet here in Australia has a 512/128 plan which has 6Gb down(+6Gb off-peak) with no upload restrictions and simply caps you at 76kbit/s if you go over in any 30-day period.
Oh and it's AU$80/month - $15 cheaper than the Telstra 512 plan(3Gb total, 20c/mb over).
CUA here in Oz has a webbanker, which has worked fine in Mozilla since about 0.9.6 or so. The site looks great, their javascript works, popup loan calculators work, and as far as I can see there's no browser restrictions enforced.
My only niggle is that when the java webbanker applet is downloaded it gives a TCP IO exception if it can't talk to it's server backend, rather than a human readable error dialog.
No open markets. There's one major bandwidth supplier - Telstra. Formerly government(ie taxpayer) owned, it was partially sold to jack up the balance sheet. Most ISPs either re-sell it's services, or lease it's infrastructure for their own pipes.
Also, the links from AU to the rest of the world are few, and traditionally the US has charged AU 20c/Mb for data, with no peering arrangements. Can't host data without cheap bandwidth; no source data, no peering; expensive data.
More ISPs are installing infrastructure, and more international links are being installed.
All this costs money, and everyone is used to exhorbitant prices, so there's no incentive to drop the price. It will come down eventually, but will take years.
BTW, as soon as IINet pushes their data network up the coast to me, I'll be switching from Telstra broadband to them - $15/month cheaper, 6Gb(Double!!!) of bandwidth/month, plus 6Gb extra in off-peak time(12am-7am). They block ports 25,80,143,443, so I'll have to have Gandi redirect my web traffic to a non-standard port, and mail to a drop where I can fetchmail it from.
Umlimited for business? Bwahahahahaha!!!!!! Oh, boy you must be on some serious s**t!
AU$18,000/year, plus AU$11,000 installation, for a 2Mbit symmetric pipe. That $18,000 includes 10Gb/month downloads, after that it's AU$0.18/Mb. Oh, and if your outgoing exceeds 2.7x your incoming, it's charged at the 18c/Mb as well.
At AU$0.20/Mb for anything over the base plan, data costs are what's keeping the internet expensive here. The current pricepoint is AU$80-90/month with a 3Gb cap. It doesn't matter what the delivery medium is used to deliver the data, that cost sets a lower limit for any pricing scheme.
Cable is severely restricted to the highest areas of population density in the south-east of the country, ADSL is available in a high percentage of exchanges(both metropolitan and regional), and satellite is used for those areas where copper doesn't reach and can afford it($$$$$).
A 3G infrastructure depends on a good underlying data network - which basically describes ADSL(plus ISDN, ATM, etc).
As far as I can see, the areas which have that infrastructure, but where 3G is the only solution are extremely limited. Add that to the very limited market of high-speed-mobile-data users, and you have a solution which has an extremely small number of users for a high development and setup/intrastructure cost.
I doubt it will be a competitive or affrodable "last mile" solution for the forseeable future, outside of a few PR "success stories".
Ummm, yeah. Through the swipe-card door in reception, through the building without being challenged for lack of a ID card, through IT without being challenged, through the restricted (five people) swipe-card door to the machine room.
BTW, if a nasty has such free access to your machine room, they are just as likely to take the entire 3U/4U server as the drives.
Larger than that, and you move into Security Through Massivity territory, though. *grin*
Redundant power supplies, SCSI removable drives, good physical security (lots of locks).
If you need locks on your servers to provide physical security, then you have more urgent problems than wringing the last drop of performance from your webserver.
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> fraud: "intentional perversion of truth in
> order to induce another to part with something
> of value or to surrender a legal right"
By that definition, SearchKing in guilty of fraud by creating link farms to artificially increase their customers' apparent relevance - like salting a gold mine with a 12-bore or ballot stuffing.
It's fairly straightforward, but preparation is the key.
First, take your Ewok...
It's 12:09pm 1/1/2003 here. This story is about 15 hours overdue.
Tuberculosis(sp?), Tetanus Booster, whatever...
Just think - blackmailing GI's who haven't got their latest TB shot...
Yeah, I can just see Agents of a Foreign Power going round to their homes and threatening them with a rusty nail.
"You for us work now, comrade, or poke you with this, we do!"
It may be a wow factor, but any connection is much more common than you might think - most people simply don't know their family's geneology.
Does a connection to a first fleet doctor count?
iiNet here in Australia has a 512/128 plan which has 6Gb down(+6Gb off-peak) with no upload restrictions and simply caps you at 76kbit/s if you go over in any 30-day period.
Oh and it's AU$80/month - $15 cheaper than the Telstra 512 plan(3Gb total, 20c/mb over).
700Mb is 23% of my monthly bandwidth allowance. This has NO chance of working in Australia.
CUA here in Oz has a webbanker, which has worked fine in Mozilla since about 0.9.6 or so. The site looks great, their javascript works, popup loan calculators work, and as far as I can see there's no browser restrictions enforced.
My only niggle is that when the java webbanker applet is downloaded it gives a TCP IO exception if it can't talk to it's server backend, rather than a human readable error dialog.
No open markets. There's one major bandwidth supplier - Telstra. Formerly government(ie taxpayer) owned, it was partially sold to jack up the balance sheet. Most ISPs either re-sell it's services, or lease it's infrastructure for their own pipes.
Also, the links from AU to the rest of the world are few, and traditionally the US has charged AU 20c/Mb for data, with no peering arrangements. Can't host data without cheap bandwidth; no source data, no peering; expensive data.
More ISPs are installing infrastructure, and more international links are being installed.
All this costs money, and everyone is used to exhorbitant prices, so there's no incentive to drop the price. It will come down eventually, but will take years.
BTW, as soon as IINet pushes their data network up the coast to me, I'll be switching from Telstra broadband to them - $15/month cheaper, 6Gb(Double!!!) of bandwidth/month, plus 6Gb extra in off-peak time(12am-7am). They block ports 25,80,143,443, so I'll have to have Gandi redirect my web traffic to a non-standard port, and mail to a drop where I can fetchmail it from.
Umlimited for business? Bwahahahahaha!!!!!! Oh, boy you must be on some serious s**t!
AU$18,000/year, plus AU$11,000 installation, for a 2Mbit symmetric pipe. That $18,000 includes 10Gb/month downloads, after that it's AU$0.18/Mb. Oh, and if your outgoing exceeds 2.7x your incoming, it's charged at the 18c/Mb as well.
At AU$0.20/Mb for anything over the base plan, data costs are what's keeping the internet expensive here. The current pricepoint is AU$80-90/month with a 3Gb cap. It doesn't matter what the delivery medium is used to deliver the data, that cost sets a lower limit for any pricing scheme.
Cable is severely restricted to the highest areas of population density in the south-east of the country, ADSL is available in a high percentage of exchanges(both metropolitan and regional), and satellite is used for those areas where copper doesn't reach and can afford it($$$$$).
A 3G infrastructure depends on a good underlying data network - which basically describes ADSL(plus ISDN, ATM, etc).
As far as I can see, the areas which have that infrastructure, but where 3G is the only solution are extremely limited. Add that to the very limited market of high-speed-mobile-data users, and you have a solution which has an extremely small number of users for a high development and setup/intrastructure cost.
I doubt it will be a competitive or affrodable "last mile" solution for the forseeable future, outside of a few PR "success stories".
Ummm, yeah. Through the swipe-card door in reception, through the building without being challenged for lack of a ID card, through IT without being challenged, through the restricted (five people) swipe-card door to the machine room.
BTW, if a nasty has such free access to your machine room, they are just as likely to take the entire 3U/4U server as the drives.
Larger than that, and you move into Security Through Massivity territory, though. *grin*
Redundant power supplies, SCSI removable drives, good physical security (lots of locks).
If you need locks on your servers to provide physical security, then you have more urgent problems than wringing the last drop of performance from your webserver.