The fact that Wkileaks is making a big deal of the stolen stash of documents suggest they are NOT in this to provide information, but rather to further a specific agenda.
Forget for a moment about the irony of bickering over "ownership" of stolen documents. The fact that Wikileaks still HAS a copy of those documents means they weren't harmed.
As for the anonymous submission system being deactivated, the story seems long on allegations and short on detail. Even the alleged sabotage is only Wikileaks characterization of what is in Domscheit-Berg's book:
"In (his) book Domscheit-Berg confesses to various acts of sabotage against the organization. The former WikiLeaks staffer admits to having damaged the site's primary submission system and stolen material," Hrafnsson's statement said.
I would say those estimates are not unreasonable. You probably have to assume that Kubuntu and Xubuntu and Edubuntu contribute to those numbers too, as they all draw from the same repositories.
I've long used Opensuse, but for joe user, Ubuntu is probably one of the easiest to install and keep up to date, especially when you can start with an LTS version.
Further, there is nothing secure about communications, however well encrypted they might be as people in Egypt found out when the entire country's net went dark.
Apparently you were not paying attention last month when it was proposed by a member of Congress to extend TSA coverage to passenger trains and BUS lines.
And the fact that they haven't done so (and made a profit) should be your first hint that it is totally unrealistic to think it could be accomplished for the amount suggested.
Multiple 53 billion by a factor of ten, add twenty years to the completion date, and scale it down to DC to Boston and forget about ever breaking even and you will have a realistic estimate of a government project.
Because there are a lot of cheap older laptops in the third world. Some cheap new ones too. But having to pay internet fees is beyond the means of many. .
Only reason why a person would choose the same price over an airline is getting rid of the TSA experience and crappy ass experiences flying.....
Believe me, if the Government is involved TSA will be right there feeling your balls before you can get on the train. This has already been proposed for bus service.
But train travel can be very enjoyable for other reasons. You can actually SEE something, and you can walk away from that jerk beside you with the squalling kids.
You are correct, AT&T's UMTS is based on a W-CDMA technology. But its not inter-operable with Verizon CDMA.
As for frequencies, they don't differ that much from country to country. That is why any Quad Band GSM phone will work in any GSM network. They vary slightly within the same bands but not enough to require different antenna lengths.
Also, another point of interest is that the Verizon Iphone 4 has a dual mode GSM / CDMA radio, (which Apple never told us about), so it may well be it can become a world phone with just a IOS upgrade.
Amtrak runs on commercial rails. They've always been a second class citizen. But I agree you can't run passenger rail on freight tracks and expect either high speed or prompt routing.
But you needn't worry about it, because this is never going to happen. Someone should point out to Mr. Obama that he already spent all the money. We couldn't possibly afford this now.
Something like 90% of end users are running behind nat already. (Ok, I pulled that 90% figure right out of my ass, but you get the point). I know entire State agencies that are using their perfectly good world routable IPs... (wait for it)... Behind a NAT!!!
Its not the way the net was designed to work, but we've been using it that way since dirt.
Grammatis aims to set up a network of satellites that will provide free internet access to everyone in the world.
Free in this case means you won't have to pay Grammatis for the bandwidth.
Its understood that someone offering you free beer does not intend to transport you to the beer station and back, or provide you with a car to transport yourself, or that your Free Gmail account comes with a FREE computer as well as Free electricity and a free house to keep it in.
There is very little of the world that has absolutely no electrical power. It doesn't have to be consistent. There are plenty of Islands in the South Pacific that have community power only during certain hours. But that's enough to get your email.
I'm not sure where you were headed with this line of discussion, because these things are patently obvious.
Chuckle, Yeah, why bother actually addressing the problem instead of swallowing Apple's nonsense hook line and sinker. Just read the article in the GP post, and you will see the author is clueless. (look how he holds it). He's still defending is prior position which has been proven wrong time and time again.
Two antennas aren't going to solve the death grip, and CDMA antennas are not much different than 3G/GSM antennas. (And the iPhone always had two antenna halves, one on either side). Antenna length is almost always dictated by frequency in use, and the CDMA bands are pretty close to the 3G bands such that the same antennas can be used for both.
Death grip was caused by human fingers bridging a gap between the 3G antenna and the WIFI antenna, and it could happen with a single finger touching the gap. No actual "Grip" required. The problem was solved with free bumpers, and users learning to avoid touching the gap. See this wired article: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-its-the-antenna-stupid/
Apple pushed the myth of the death grip, to try to divert attention from their design flaw. It was never about the grip. It was only about bridging that gap. The free bumpers eliminated the problem.
If the Verizon phones lack that gap, then any signal decrease caused by holding it is the same as you see on any other cell phone but don't confuse that the antennagate on the original iphone 4.
Additionally, it is not necessarily the case that the people targeted by this program would want Internet access in their homes; I have heard that in some very rural areas in developing nations, it is common for a village to possess a few communally owned cell phones.
You are describing a system of communal ownership forced on them by their costs and their income level. Its unlikely that would persist if they could obtain free internet service.
Granted there may be some religious / cultural prohibitions against computers or cell phones, (especially for women in some rather oppressive cultures), but that is not common.
The satellite with the net must spend a lot of time and fuel maneuvering to match velocities with the junk. At typical orbital collision speeds the net would have little chance of catching anything.
I think it will catch something. Probably just ONE thing. Then, with any difference in speed at all, the net will wrap itself around that one thing as the inertia of the object and the net deforms the net into a badminton bird shape.
It would need some way to make the net slowly overcome the deformation (spring poles perhaps). But a kilometer wide spring pole would weigh quite a bit.
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The fact that Wkileaks is making a big deal of the stolen stash of documents suggest they are NOT in this to provide information, but rather to further a specific agenda.
Forget for a moment about the irony of bickering over "ownership" of stolen documents. The fact that Wikileaks still HAS a copy of those documents means they weren't harmed.
As for the anonymous submission system being deactivated, the story seems long on allegations and short on detail. Even the alleged sabotage is only Wikileaks characterization of what is in Domscheit-Berg's book:
"In (his) book Domscheit-Berg confesses to various acts of sabotage against the organization. The former WikiLeaks staffer admits to having damaged the site's primary submission system and stolen material," Hrafnsson's statement said.
True there are other means of secure communications, but the man in the street can not use these.
I would say those estimates are not unreasonable. You probably have to assume that Kubuntu and Xubuntu and Edubuntu contribute to those numbers too, as they all draw from the same repositories.
I've long used Opensuse, but for joe user, Ubuntu is probably one of the easiest to install and keep up to date, especially when you can start with an LTS version.
DOH!
I save my best spelling for those who pay me.
I thought it looked wrong when I typed it, but couldn't remember the right spelling. Thanks for the reminder.
Its called a straw man.
Set up false claims then demolish them in a fit of peek.
If anything people have voiced concern for Debian since so many distros depend heavily on it
and its purity.
Further, there is nothing secure about communications, however well encrypted they might be as people in Egypt found out when the entire country's net went dark.
Secure also means Operational.
Apparently you were not paying attention last month when it was proposed by a member of Congress to extend TSA coverage to passenger trains and BUS lines.
Google is your friend.
And the fact that they haven't done so (and made a profit) should be your first hint that it is totally unrealistic to think it could be accomplished for the amount suggested.
Multiple 53 billion by a factor of ten, add twenty years to the completion date, and scale it down to DC to Boston and forget about ever breaking even and you will have a realistic estimate of a government project.
Because there are a lot of cheap older laptops in the third world. Some cheap new ones too. But having to pay internet fees is beyond the means of many. .
Only reason why a person would choose the same price over an airline is getting rid of the TSA experience and crappy ass experiences flying.....
Believe me, if the Government is involved TSA will be right there feeling your balls before you can get on the train. This has already been proposed for bus service.
But train travel can be very enjoyable for other reasons. You can actually SEE something, and you can walk away from that jerk beside you with the squalling kids.
You are correct, AT&T's UMTS is based on a W-CDMA technology. But its not inter-operable with Verizon CDMA.
As for frequencies, they don't differ that much from country to country. That is why any Quad Band GSM
phone will work in any GSM network. They vary slightly within the same bands but not enough to require different antenna lengths.
Also, another point of interest is that the Verizon Iphone 4 has a dual mode GSM / CDMA radio, (which Apple never told us about), so it may well be it can become a world phone with just a IOS upgrade.
Amtrak runs on commercial rails. They've always been a second class citizen.
But I agree you can't run passenger rail on freight tracks and expect either high speed or prompt routing.
But you needn't worry about it, because this is never going to happen.
Someone should point out to Mr. Obama that he already spent all the money. We couldn't possibly afford this now.
Or a Bandaid: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20011050-233.html
The do it all the time. Why would they stop now.
Not really.
Something like 90% of end users are running behind nat already. (Ok, I pulled that 90% figure right out of my ass, but you get the point). I know entire State agencies that are using their perfectly good world routable IPs ... (wait for it)... Behind a NAT!!!
Its not the way the net was designed to work, but we've been using it that way since dirt.
Its not like they need new hardware to achieve ipv6.
They need only offer a firmware upgrade.
I don't see this as being free at all,
Quoting the story:
Grammatis aims to set up a network of satellites that will provide free internet access to everyone in the world.
Free in this case means you won't have to pay Grammatis for the bandwidth.
Its understood that someone offering you free beer does not intend to transport you to the beer station and back, or provide you with a car to transport yourself, or that your Free Gmail account comes with a FREE computer as well as Free electricity and a free house to keep it in.
There is very little of the world that has absolutely no electrical power. It doesn't have to be consistent. There are plenty of Islands in the South Pacific that have community power only during certain hours. But that's enough to get your email.
I'm not sure where you were headed with this line of discussion, because these things are patently obvious.
Chuckle,
Yeah, why bother actually addressing the problem instead of swallowing Apple's nonsense hook line and sinker. Just read the article in the GP post, and you will see the author is clueless. (look how he holds it). He's still defending is prior position which has been proven wrong time and time again.
Compare that to the real problem: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-its-the-antenna-stupid/
Except that that's total crap and has been gone over on slashdot so often that I refuse to even give you a link.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-its-the-antenna-stupid/
I did it for you. I know, it gets old, but Education is a continuous job.
Two antennas aren't going to solve the death grip, and CDMA antennas are not much different than 3G/GSM antennas. (And the iPhone always had two antenna halves, one on either side). Antenna length is almost always dictated by frequency in use, and the CDMA bands are pretty close to the 3G bands such that the same antennas can be used for both.
Death grip was caused by human fingers bridging a gap between the 3G antenna and the WIFI antenna, and it could happen with a single finger touching the gap. No actual "Grip" required. The problem was solved with free bumpers, and users learning to avoid touching the gap. See this wired article: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-its-the-antenna-stupid/
Apple pushed the myth of the death grip, to try to divert attention from their design flaw. It was never about the grip. It was only about bridging that gap. The free bumpers eliminated the problem.
If the Verizon phones lack that gap, then any signal decrease caused by holding it is the same as you see on any other cell phone but don't confuse that the antennagate on the original iphone 4.
Additionally, it is not necessarily the case that the people targeted by this program would want Internet access in their homes; I have heard that in some very rural areas in developing nations, it is common for a village to possess a few communally owned cell phones .
You are describing a system of communal ownership forced on them by their costs and their income level.
Its unlikely that would persist if they could obtain free internet service.
Granted there may be some religious / cultural prohibitions against computers or cell phones, (especially for women in some rather oppressive cultures), but that is not common.
Cell towers use land lines.
Maybe.
It might use microwave or fiber as a back haul.
Clearly you know nothing about commercial fishing.
What makes you think fish net manufacturers have engineers?
The satellite with the net must spend a lot of time and fuel maneuvering to match velocities with the junk. At typical orbital collision speeds the net would have little chance of catching anything.
I think it will catch something. Probably just ONE thing.
Then, with any difference in speed at all, the net will wrap itself around that one thing as the inertia of the object and the net deforms the net into a badminton bird shape.
It would need some way to make the net slowly overcome the deformation (spring poles perhaps). But a kilometer wide spring pole would weigh quite a bit.