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  1. Re:Can I run a server? on Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds · · Score: 1

    Dynamic DNS and/or port forwarding? My ISP blocks port 80 inbound and port 25 outbound, like most ISPs.. I just forward a different port to port 80 and hand out the URL with the port number in it. If your site truly isn't commercial as you say, there's no harm throwing a port number on there.. (ex. http://www.yoursite.dyndns.org:30/) and then forward 30 to 80 or have your web server answer on 30.

  2. Dark Matter requirements.. on An Older, Larger Universe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So would this larger, older Universe affect the need for the particular volume of Dark Matter we've been searching? If this value is accepted, do we need less Dark Matter to explain the current state of universal expansion and possible contraction? What does this do for the various theories, a-la 'steady state', et. al?

  3. Warranted VoIP logging and CALEA on Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As the Network Administrator for an ISP that has customers who use VoIP, I have had to read, understand and plan for CALEA. I can tell you: if the men in black show up without a warrant, they will not get access to customer data. If they come bearing a warrant, I will tap a single stream of data from a single customer, so no other customer data will be included. There is no need to fear conspiracy from responsible ISPs. There's no 'Carnivore' sitting in our data centers, you simply record all the in-out data for that specific site. It's very easy to do and very easy to ensure cleanliness of the output. As long as the 'onus' isn't on us, the ISP, to 'decode' VoIP or VPN data, I don't mind at all. But a warrant will be required.

  4. Misleading article text on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 1

    Notice the article quotes 30MB and 2MB when the Verizon site promises 30Mb and 2Mb. How misleading.

  5. Re:Coming back? No. on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    I would like to add a real world example of this inept management problem.

    I worked for a small startup Telco (mistake #1, but it was my 1st prog. job), the principles were both intelligent but both were beligerant and possessed poor management skills. They routinely gave the vaguest possible assignments and the President of the company almost always disagreed with the decisions of the VP, who handled all the day-to-day managment.. but never disagreed with the VP, instead blaming the programmer for not mystically discerning what should have been developed, often in direct opposition to what was being asked. Needless to say, they are not in business any longer, their entire staff having quit or been fired in the end.

    Note to managers --

    Telling a programmer to ask his fellow programmers what tools they need because you don't have time to make decisions like that, and then beligerantly berating the programmer who provides *exactly* what they want but that isn't what you (suddenly decided you) wanted.. is poor management in practice.
    FYI.
  6. Jobs lost to Machines on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Well, traditionally, jobs lost to machines were replaced by better, higher paying jobs, some just in using/maintaining the machines. In this case, my suspicion is that we (US citizens) will not lose any jobs to machines in 2050. By then, we (US citizens) will have sent all of our good jobs overseas at reduced labor rates and all of our "menial" jobs will be done by illegal immigrants. Most of the US will be unemployed, overweight and living far too long, wishing social security hadn't dried up in 2038.