In CA, I don't know -- it's an expensive place to live. The average (over the entire country) salary of a patrol officer is what, $30k??? (read: a whole LOT less than 200k, but a cop is the very definition of "high maintenance".)
Right. They first crawl the site to build a map of the encrypted pages. Then by looking at other encrypted streams, they can guess, with approx. 89% accuracy, what page it was. The overwhelming point here is that it is a complete and utter GUESS. Without decrypting the contents, they don't know for sure what it is. The issue for SSL is that it's not very good encryption if my https traffic for foo.html is sufficiently the same as another https session's traffic for foo.html -- i.e. it's failing the test of differential analysis.
"Down" means "not functional". When you pick up your phone, if you have dialtone, it's not "down". The fact that you cannot dial the people you want does not make it "down". For the record, my parent's house is 2.5mi from their CO, and it's another 8.8mi from the same CO to my aunt's house, and about 2mi to my sister's house. (as the crow flies, actually walking there is significantly further.)
Even if you maintain power for your router/ONT/etc., odds are very bad that the provider's infrastructure will match you. For example, how long do you think the 14 million Uverse cabinets littering sidewalks will last without grid power? They don't have generators with hundreds of gallons of fuel.
(also, "all circuits busy" happens on normal days too.)
Where the fuck did I say anything about "wireless"? POTS (analog phone service) is run over a single pair of copper, either to a multiplexer ("SLC"), remote terminal ("RT"), or back to the central office ("CO"). That single pair carries both the signal and power. "your phone is powered the same way your modem is"... no, it is not... take your cable modem and attach only the coax cable: it doesn't power up and run. take your DSL modem and connect only the phone line: again, it does not power on and function.
Land lines did not "go down". Inter-switch capacity from your CO was insufficient for the number of calls being placed -- hence the "all circuits are busy" message. Try calling someone on the same switch; *ding* the call goes through. The only serious problem is the limited capacity to the 911 call center(s) -- most CO's have dedicated lines for 911.
NEGATIVE. The modem is not "line powered". All a POTS phone needs is to be connected to the PSTN; it gets it's power from the line fed from the CO (that has big batteries and a generator, and has "priority restoration" from the power company.)
Actually, that's a safety mechanism... computers can malfunction, and deploying the landing gear (or starting the APU) in space would be a catastrophe. Plus there's the shear mass of the interconnections necessary -- 5lbs is a lot of dead weight, which is why it stayed on the ISS.
There were two options... repair, and rescue. Neither are actually realistic. A repair mission could not be mounted in the limited time available -- shuttle crew aren't versed in building a shuttle; they'd have to be trained for that mission.
(Every beancounter in the government will tell you, NO orbiter is expendable, if there's even a remote chance to bring back that multi-billion dollar device -- which is why they created the 28ft/5lb "RCO IFM" cable after Columbia... the crew can plug it in, bug out, and let Huston land the thing.)
Simply put, Apollo 13 was a math problem... how do we conserve power and oxygen long enough to get them back to earth. THEN you worry about how to actually get the CM functional enough to handle reentry. And the CM was completely off the page; none of it's systems could be trusted (and it turns out, from the brief inspection in Earth orbit, using the SM engine very likely would have ended badly) -- the LEM was all they had to get 'em home.
Columbia lost a critical part of unique heat shielding. There aren't any spares (not even in a warehouse in TX), and there is NOTHING AT ALL on the orbiter that can fill in for that panel. There's no way to bring it back into the atmosphere without putting significant physical and thermal stress on that hole.
It made it too heavy. There are a great many compromises that had gone in the shuttle program up to that point. They used to carry extra heat shield blocks, but that stopped early on -- added weight for something they aren't likely to need to fix in space, plus every damned panel and cube on the thing is unique. (who the f*** thought that was a good idea!)
Welcome to the never ending lawsuits. If NASA knew about it and didn't risk a bunch of lives to attempt a rescue, you bet your ass there would be a thousand lawsuits filed within days. And the only humans to ever go into space after that would be from communist nations where they cannot be sued.
I think it went more along the lines... "there isn't f*** all we can do about it, so we don't need to know." Had they inspected the orbiter, the guys on the ground would know it's stuffed; the guys in space would know it's stuffed, and by extension they are stuffed. Meanwhile, they hang around in space running out of food, oxygen, and power, while NASA does something infinitely more dangerous by rushing an orbiter into the space with a crew that has almost zero training for their impromptu mission. (also, they'd have to rush the construction of replacement panels.)
DSL is more like 40$, Uverse "DSL" can be a bit more. ("business class" is exactly the same at twice the price.) 10M fiber... not sure what that's running around here; the last queries I made, it was in the $800-1k range. 100M is in the $2k range (depending on location and who's involved.) 1G... the line, alone is $2k, data would be 2-3x that (for a flat rate, 95th-% would be less.)
(My office has 100M service over 1G fiber. And I have quotes from TWTC for a similar configuration.)
If it's such a fire hazard, why hasn't the country burned down a dozen times over by now? (phone lines don't carry enough power to cause a fire. power lines have fuses and breakers, and while downed lines do cause brush fires in dry climates, it's rare for a transmission line to be the cause of a structure fire -- faulty inside wire, on the other hand burns down a lot of houses.) Are you sure that was hemp and not asbestos? (asbestos was common for electrical insulation around 1920.)
If you're seeing this stuff today, it's because it's still working. There's no reason to replace it when it's still doing exactly what it was intended to do. Am I to assume you knock down your house every 5-10 years to "modernize"?
Actually, there's a caveat here... it's based on where the ISP claims to offer services, as well as their cliamed speeds of those services. (ADSL rarely meets the 1M up mark) Also, it's counted by zip code; so a single 4/1 connection in a zip counts the whole damned thing.
Read: Profitable within a year. Nobody is willing to sit on multi-million dollar infrastructure projects for a decade. When you're charging ~100$ a month, $3k+ per install takes a long time to pay off.
Which of these offers the customer more choices?
Option "A". With that level of competition among airlines, every one of them will be doing all they can to get and keep customers. If any one airline pisses you off, in any way, you'll instantly stop doing business with them; and they damn well know it. Option "B" is certainly cheaper for consumers, but significantly reduces choice. As a result, the three player in the market will gravitate to the minimum necessary to have a profitable number of customers. Yes, consumers will still have a choice; they just won't have much of one. For "A", you have to be better than your competition. For "B", you only have to be less horrible than ("as good as") the others.
Other than the new infrastructure Google is BUILDING? Go talk to any accountant, you'll often be able to fully depreciate infrastructure in 2-3 years. The cableco's will, of course, use that gear for a decade... (it wasn't until D3 that they had to replace entire chassis's; prior to that there were software and modular upgrades.)
And how much are those commercial services? $$$'s or even $$$$'s, with multi-year contracts. They are not your $29.99 ADSL services. They also have hard SLAs, vs. we-fix-it-when-we-fix-it DSL.
And just who is streaming content at Blu-Ray resolution/bit rates? (NO ONE)
I've downloaded ("purchased") Directv 1080p video-on-demand content. While it's average bit rate (15mbps) is about twice what the CDN provides (8), I don't need a 100mbps package to get it. Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, etc. don't even go that fast. It looks great, but it's still not blu-ray quality, 'tho you'd be hard pressed to know the difference.
And yet, after all the pluses and minuses are tallied, they were POSITIVE 2 BILLION. Guess where that $2bil went.
Cable internet first started @ 30 down, 10 up (technical limit) which was sold as 3 down 256-384k up... because DSL was a max of 1.5M up / 256k down, and they had to be "faster". And in the TWC world, that 384k up remained unchanged for over a decade -- increasing to 1M a few years ago.
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In CA, I don't know -- it's an expensive place to live. The average (over the entire country) salary of a patrol officer is what, $30k??? (read: a whole LOT less than 200k, but a cop is the very definition of "high maintenance".)
Right. They first crawl the site to build a map of the encrypted pages. Then by looking at other encrypted streams, they can guess, with approx. 89% accuracy, what page it was. The overwhelming point here is that it is a complete and utter GUESS . Without decrypting the contents, they don't know for sure what it is. The issue for SSL is that it's not very good encryption if my https traffic for foo.html is sufficiently the same as another https session's traffic for foo.html -- i.e. it's failing the test of differential analysis.
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The MODEM is not line powered. The M-O-D-E-M! Learn to read.
"Down" means "not functional". When you pick up your phone, if you have dialtone, it's not "down". The fact that you cannot dial the people you want does not make it "down". For the record, my parent's house is 2.5mi from their CO, and it's another 8.8mi from the same CO to my aunt's house, and about 2mi to my sister's house. (as the crow flies, actually walking there is significantly further.)
Even if you maintain power for your router/ONT/etc., odds are very bad that the provider's infrastructure will match you. For example, how long do you think the 14 million Uverse cabinets littering sidewalks will last without grid power? They don't have generators with hundreds of gallons of fuel.
(also, "all circuits busy" happens on normal days too.)
Again, where the fuck did I say anything about POTS being wireless.
Where the fuck did I say anything about "wireless"? POTS (analog phone service) is run over a single pair of copper, either to a multiplexer ("SLC"), remote terminal ("RT"), or back to the central office ("CO"). That single pair carries both the signal and power. "your phone is powered the same way your modem is"... no, it is not... take your cable modem and attach only the coax cable: it doesn't power up and run. take your DSL modem and connect only the phone line: again, it does not power on and function.
Land lines did not "go down". Inter-switch capacity from your CO was insufficient for the number of calls being placed -- hence the "all circuits are busy" message. Try calling someone on the same switch; *ding* the call goes through. The only serious problem is the limited capacity to the 911 call center(s) -- most CO's have dedicated lines for 911.
NEGATIVE. The modem is not "line powered". All a POTS phone needs is to be connected to the PSTN; it gets it's power from the line fed from the CO (that has big batteries and a generator, and has "priority restoration" from the power company.)
Actually, that's a safety mechanism... computers can malfunction, and deploying the landing gear (or starting the APU) in space would be a catastrophe. Plus there's the shear mass of the interconnections necessary -- 5lbs is a lot of dead weight, which is why it stayed on the ISS.
There were two options... repair, and rescue. Neither are actually realistic. A repair mission could not be mounted in the limited time available -- shuttle crew aren't versed in building a shuttle; they'd have to be trained for that mission.
(Every beancounter in the government will tell you, NO orbiter is expendable, if there's even a remote chance to bring back that multi-billion dollar device -- which is why they created the 28ft/5lb "RCO IFM" cable after Columbia... the crew can plug it in, bug out, and let Huston land the thing.)
Simply put, Apollo 13 was a math problem... how do we conserve power and oxygen long enough to get them back to earth. THEN you worry about how to actually get the CM functional enough to handle reentry. And the CM was completely off the page; none of it's systems could be trusted (and it turns out, from the brief inspection in Earth orbit, using the SM engine very likely would have ended badly) -- the LEM was all they had to get 'em home.
Columbia lost a critical part of unique heat shielding. There aren't any spares (not even in a warehouse in TX), and there is NOTHING AT ALL on the orbiter that can fill in for that panel. There's no way to bring it back into the atmosphere without putting significant physical and thermal stress on that hole.
It made it too heavy. There are a great many compromises that had gone in the shuttle program up to that point. They used to carry extra heat shield blocks, but that stopped early on -- added weight for something they aren't likely to need to fix in space, plus every damned panel and cube on the thing is unique. (who the f*** thought that was a good idea!)
It wasn't even SUPPOSED to go to the moon. It was to be a low Earth orbital test of the systems.
Welcome to the never ending lawsuits. If NASA knew about it and didn't risk a bunch of lives to attempt a rescue, you bet your ass there would be a thousand lawsuits filed within days. And the only humans to ever go into space after that would be from communist nations where they cannot be sued.
I think it went more along the lines... "there isn't f*** all we can do about it, so we don't need to know." Had they inspected the orbiter, the guys on the ground would know it's stuffed; the guys in space would know it's stuffed, and by extension they are stuffed. Meanwhile, they hang around in space running out of food, oxygen, and power, while NASA does something infinitely more dangerous by rushing an orbiter into the space with a crew that has almost zero training for their impromptu mission. (also, they'd have to rush the construction of replacement panels.)
DSL is more like 40$, Uverse "DSL" can be a bit more. ("business class" is exactly the same at twice the price.) 10M fiber... not sure what that's running around here; the last queries I made, it was in the $800-1k range. 100M is in the $2k range (depending on location and who's involved.) 1G... the line, alone is $2k, data would be 2-3x that (for a flat rate, 95th-% would be less.)
(My office has 100M service over 1G fiber. And I have quotes from TWTC for a similar configuration.)
If it's such a fire hazard, why hasn't the country burned down a dozen times over by now? (phone lines don't carry enough power to cause a fire. power lines have fuses and breakers, and while downed lines do cause brush fires in dry climates, it's rare for a transmission line to be the cause of a structure fire -- faulty inside wire, on the other hand burns down a lot of houses.) Are you sure that was hemp and not asbestos? (asbestos was common for electrical insulation around 1920.)
If you're seeing this stuff today, it's because it's still working. There's no reason to replace it when it's still doing exactly what it was intended to do. Am I to assume you knock down your house every 5-10 years to "modernize"?
Also, nobody bothered to read the whole page...
All access accounts come with a 2.5TB monthly maximum allotted transfer. Additional usage billed in increments of 1GB
While that sounds like a lot, a gigabit connection could reach that quickly.
Actually, there's a caveat here... it's based on where the ISP claims to offer services, as well as their cliamed speeds of those services. (ADSL rarely meets the 1M up mark) Also, it's counted by zip code; so a single 4/1 connection in a zip counts the whole damned thing.
(which explains why there's a uverse vrad here)
Read: Profitable within a year. Nobody is willing to sit on multi-million dollar infrastructure projects for a decade. When you're charging ~100$ a month, $3k+ per install takes a long time to pay off.
Option "A". With that level of competition among airlines, every one of them will be doing all they can to get and keep customers. If any one airline pisses you off, in any way, you'll instantly stop doing business with them; and they damn well know it. Option "B" is certainly cheaper for consumers, but significantly reduces choice. As a result, the three player in the market will gravitate to the minimum necessary to have a profitable number of customers. Yes, consumers will still have a choice; they just won't have much of one. For "A", you have to be better than your competition. For "B", you only have to be less horrible than ("as good as") the others.
Other than the new infrastructure Google is BUILDING? Go talk to any accountant, you'll often be able to fully depreciate infrastructure in 2-3 years. The cableco's will, of course, use that gear for a decade... (it wasn't until D3 that they had to replace entire chassis's; prior to that there were software and modular upgrades.)
And how much are those commercial services? $$$'s or even $$$$'s, with multi-year contracts. They are not your $29.99 ADSL services. They also have hard SLAs, vs. we-fix-it-when-we-fix-it DSL.
You mean the Universal Service Pocket?
And just who is streaming content at Blu-Ray resolution/bit rates? (NO ONE)
I've downloaded ("purchased") Directv 1080p video-on-demand content. While it's average bit rate (15mbps) is about twice what the CDN provides (8), I don't need a 100mbps package to get it. Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, etc. don't even go that fast. It looks great, but it's still not blu-ray quality, 'tho you'd be hard pressed to know the difference.
And yet, after all the pluses and minuses are tallied, they were POSITIVE 2 BILLION. Guess where that $2bil went.
Cable internet first started @ 30 down, 10 up (technical limit) which was sold as 3 down 256-384k up... because DSL was a max of 1.5M up / 256k down, and they had to be "faster". And in the TWC world, that 384k up remained unchanged for over a decade -- increasing to 1M a few years ago.