Yugo have refused to release an engine that is compatible with Ferrari cars. Sadly everyone wanting the power of a Yugo engine will have to drive a Yugo car.
I guess I'm looking at this from a UK point of view, and it probably would work differently in other countries. Here everyone has a choice of lots of ADSL providers, most people can get cable too, and there are also a few wireless ISPs. Also being a small country most ISPs have country wide networks, and good peering in London, so only use the Tier 1s for international transit.
Where would the line stop with these laws? Would ISPs be able to prioritize VoIP traffic? Would they be able to de-prioritize peer to peer? Would they be allowed to block illegal content, such as child porn? Would they be able to block incoming viruses and worm traffic? Could they make a deal with someone like Apple to split revenue on downloaded content?
Tier 1 ISPs would not do such a thing, and is in most peering and internet exchange agreements that they don't tamper with the traffic passing through their network. Most big content providers, like google, or the BBC, already peer with lots of ISPs at all the major internet exchanges, so there are no networks in between to slow down traffic or whatever. The only people likely to do this are consumer ISPs, who do so at the risk of losing customers and creating bad publicity for themselves, so probably wouldn't bother.
We already have too many laws, we don't need more! If you don't like what your ISP does, then move to another ISP, or start your own ISP! If people want cheap, and fast internet, then the ISP has to make money somehow...
It's not bandwidth to the internet that is the problem, transit is dirt cheap now, mostly free if you have good peering. Caching in the ISP core doesn't really help with DSL ISPs, as they pay a stupid amount of money to the phone company for the pipe between the phone company's network and their network, so it is usually highly contended. Caching can help some wireless and cable ISPs where upstream bandwidth is limited due to the systems they use.
If you are getting paid in stock options or goods, then do you have to pay income tax on them again when you sell them? Do you have to pay tax on company perks, like free healthcare, pensions, company phones, etc? I just pay tax on my salary. Also my company gives out some prizes as gift vouchers, so we don't have to pay tax on it. Although we have a tax on watching TV, so it's not all good here.
AOL users report everything as spam, they think it is the same as pressing delete. AOL forward a copy of all reported spam back to the ISP's abuse address. I gets emails from users mothers, friends, etc forwarded to me, most of which are not spam.
Piracy didn't kill the dreamcast, it was the only reason I bought one! It's just as easy to pirate xbox games, and that didn't die untill the 360 came out.
Net neutrality probably does mean the customer pays more, if the ISP is making less money from replacing adverts, or blocking things they don't want on their network, then the customer picks up the bill. No "free broadband, but you have to watch all our adverts". Anyone that should be on slashdot should be able to get around it with tunneling or whatever anyway:)
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Also what if he does a #2, then realizes he needs a #1 afterwards, so has to lift the seat up?
The holocaust never happened!
And most networks in the world don't support EDGE, ao the iPhone will only use GPRS.
What enterprise user is going to want one if it doesn't even support 3G internet speeds, let alone HSDPA?
Where do you work? Wish I could leave at 2.30pm, like I did at school!
Yugo have refused to release an engine that is compatible with Ferrari cars. Sadly everyone wanting the power of a Yugo engine will have to drive a Yugo car.
Internet radio shouldn't pay any royalties, as everything on the internet should be free!
Cosmic Rays cause Cisco routers to break enough on Earth, wouldn't the effect be multiplied with them being in space?
Duh, just plug a power over ethernet unit into a wifi to ethernet bridge.
I tried using a linux boot floppy instead of the dos one, and it just hangs before booting the kernel.
You only need 2 tools for managing your address space.
Nmap - To see which addresses are in use and what the servers are doing.
Traceroute - To see where in your network the IP address is.
Also make sure your reverse DNS is updated when you assign an address to something important.
Headed doesn't look right, shouldn't it be "Where Are Operating Systems Heading?"?
I guess I'm looking at this from a UK point of view, and it probably would work differently in other countries. Here everyone has a choice of lots of ADSL providers, most people can get cable too, and there are also a few wireless ISPs. Also being a small country most ISPs have country wide networks, and good peering in London, so only use the Tier 1s for international transit. Where would the line stop with these laws? Would ISPs be able to prioritize VoIP traffic? Would they be able to de-prioritize peer to peer? Would they be allowed to block illegal content, such as child porn? Would they be able to block incoming viruses and worm traffic? Could they make a deal with someone like Apple to split revenue on downloaded content?
Tier 1 ISPs would not do such a thing, and is in most peering and internet exchange agreements that they don't tamper with the traffic passing through their network. Most big content providers, like google, or the BBC, already peer with lots of ISPs at all the major internet exchanges, so there are no networks in between to slow down traffic or whatever. The only people likely to do this are consumer ISPs, who do so at the risk of losing customers and creating bad publicity for themselves, so probably wouldn't bother.
We already have too many laws, we don't need more! If you don't like what your ISP does, then move to another ISP, or start your own ISP! If people want cheap, and fast internet, then the ISP has to make money somehow...
Next he will say Visual Basic is a programming language for little girls.
It's not bandwidth to the internet that is the problem, transit is dirt cheap now, mostly free if you have good peering. Caching in the ISP core doesn't really help with DSL ISPs, as they pay a stupid amount of money to the phone company for the pipe between the phone company's network and their network, so it is usually highly contended. Caching can help some wireless and cable ISPs where upstream bandwidth is limited due to the systems they use.
If you are getting paid in stock options or goods, then do you have to pay income tax on them again when you sell them? Do you have to pay tax on company perks, like free healthcare, pensions, company phones, etc? I just pay tax on my salary. Also my company gives out some prizes as gift vouchers, so we don't have to pay tax on it. Although we have a tax on watching TV, so it's not all good here.
Especially if they are not cash. I'm not sure I believe that story about getting taxed on a prize that isn't cash.
Download the corporate edition, then you don't need to do the activation.
AOL users report everything as spam, they think it is the same as pressing delete. AOL forward a copy of all reported spam back to the ISP's abuse address. I gets emails from users mothers, friends, etc forwarded to me, most of which are not spam.
Piracy didn't kill the dreamcast, it was the only reason I bought one! It's just as easy to pirate xbox games, and that didn't die untill the 360 came out.
the top password was probably p455w0rd
Net neutrality probably does mean the customer pays more, if the ISP is making less money from replacing adverts, or blocking things they don't want on their network, then the customer picks up the bill. No "free broadband, but you have to watch all our adverts". Anyone that should be on slashdot should be able to get around it with tunneling or whatever anyway :)
In the UK there is a single cable provider! ntl:telewest, now know as virgin media...