I would have agreed with you pre-2000, but if my last 3 phones are any indication, carriers are now using GPRS by default (in the phone settings) to deliver the SMS messages. Also, voice requires CSD (switch telephony) whereas data can be sent in "packet mode", ths being cheaper.
Maybe you could help me understand why carriers still charge more (or at least the same price) for MMS (up to 100kb each) than for SMS? This is especially true when roaming.
Something tells me that it's because no-one will send an MMS that costs as much as a post card with a stamp. But hey, who knows
"10x1000000 bytes " you mean a whole 10 MB accross the system??? Yeah these consumers are insane!
GSM Voice is 9.6Kb per sec. A minute of voice is 72KB of data, compared with 160 characters which shouldn't be much more than ~30bytes, or ~2500 times less data than a minute of voice data. Yet a minute of voice communication is usually cheaper than sending a SMS, at least with European carriers.
Oh noes, the police can't decipher Skype! We're all gonna die! Yeah right. If you are paying attention, Skype is incorporated in Luxembourg, which is part of the EU, just like Germany (they actually share borders). Do you think the EU would allow for some European company to provide tools to "terrorists" without having eavesdropping ability?
Now for the real story; German Police is putting on a little show so people actually trust *more* the closed-source Skype software.
If the German Police had no way of eavesdropping they would either (a) Shut up about it or (b) Actually say they have supercomputers that can decipher anything (even if this is not true). (a) or (b) would create enough FUD for "terrorists" to actually distrust Skype as a communication medium.
This is all spin doctor speak, and I would never trust Skype for sensitivie material communications. The Zfone project http://zfoneproject.com/ is a much more secure system.
you assume that my employers VPN servers are based in the same country as I am. In any multinational company, they will have a central VPN server, and it sure as hell won't be in Belgium.
What if I am a small company in Belgium and I oustource all my hosting to a company in the UK?
Your solution doesn't work.
ou are right but to that one could reply that: - There is no evidence that Relakks customers are involved in illegal activities (unlike P2P whose unecnrypted packets you can monitor). I for instance happen to use Relakks more for Hotspot access than anything else.
- What happens if Relakks has some sort of DynDns VPN server address? The ISP could not reference this address in their DNS servers but then agin those subscribing to Relakks are savy enough to use OpenDNS as well.
What happens then? FYI, countries like China and Saudi Arabia have been trying real hard to prevent all sorts of traffic: HTTP, P2P, VOIP etc. None of these protections can hold up more than a few hours. VPNs are he easiest way to defeat these kind of protections.
For Relakks.com to start marketing their services to these ISP customers.
FYI, here's what Relakks does: "- You'll exchange the IP-number you get from your ISP to an anonymous IP-number . - You get a safe/encrypted connection between your computer and the Internet. "
How could the ISP filter or block VPN traffic without annoying the rest of the professionals who rely on corporate VPN access?
I can't imagine one second that Dell would endorse ubuntu and ship hardware pre-installed with this Linux distribution without having go through Q&A. The reason why dell is selling it pre-installed to you rather than a barenaked machine is purposely so that people know that their hardware will work with the OS it shipped with. If these machines have any success whatsoever you can be assured that more hardware vendors (Broadcaom et al) will make sure their chips are supported in Linux so that Dell can reference them. These hardware vendors might even start contributing themselves to the community efforts (or they could go with blobs like ATI, which is a shame).
All these screenshots look strikenly similar to those from the Nokia N800 built with the Maemo platform. I hope maemo catches up and that they get some more developpers working on that framewaork
If you're going to do a slashvedrtisement, especially one as obvious as this (nothing really new and exciting, has been done a million times by people with a PBX or any normal phone who can fwd their calls to their skypeIn number who in turm forwards to your PAYG throwawy SIM card.).
The right title should have been "SkyQube Squared shakes Up International Roaming charges".
This article was especially poor in substance and novelty.
And don't expect to see this thing explode the sales chart. It'll most probabl be +200 dollars given that it has GSM radio. Geeks only. 2000 units shipped tops. 800 will be sold and we'll all call it a day.
No need to mock around with your hosts file with Sudo, hosts.etc and who knows what kind of crap. Just open your connections settings and instead of "use ISP DNS" just pop in 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 Works like a charm.
And if that doesn't work (99% guaranteed it will) than fork over some dough for PublicVPN Relakks or whatever. $5 per month or whatever is not a whole lot for freedom of speech.
You are right, and people do not live in a vaccum where only one factor is determinant (and in this case intelligence). Other things such as resistance to viruses, physical strength etc.. came into play at first. In more recent periods, social aspects such as networking, social status etc.. all affect the natural selection.
My grief here is much simpler than the whole theory of evolution. People are dumb nowadays because they don't take responsibility for their acts.
Some numnut at MacDonalds burns his crouch with hot coffee. Another burns down his house with a sponge in a microwave. First things first, they were wrong, and they should be so lucky that we live in a world that protects dumb people against themselves with failsafes (such as fire insulation, insurances etc..). However for these people to not acknowledge that they've made a mistake and that they seek outside compensation/responsibility recognition is beyond me.
These people are a drain to the greater good of the larger group. An idiot like this one with his Microwave could bring down an entire campus at MIT with his fire. Leaving no choice for the smarter ones.
As such I believe that he shouldn't be polluting the gene pool.
Recessive dominant genes? Stupid genes (or others) never dissapear until they have been dissemenated enough so that both parents have the gene. Which then expresses itself.
Thought I was being a little slow before my morning coffee not getting the point. If this isn't the worst analogy ever, I think it definitely makes it in the Top 5 funniest analogies.
Back in good old days, many centuries ago, there wasn't any kind of this Politically Correct stuff and neither was there protection of the idiots. There was one rule: survival of the fittest. If you made mistakes dumb enough to kill you , you didn't get anybody to pull you out and nature did its thing and eliminated the "idiot's" gene. Of course this had nothing to do with real accidents, but in the long term idiots would dissapear. Nowadays there is no personal responsibility. People do their own mistakes and blame it on somebody else. This idiot should have had at least his genitals burned so we wouldn't have anymore kids.
Mind you, I am all about protecting and subsidising the weakest, the handicapped, the sick and al. I just believe that dumb people that bring it upon themselves deserve no attention and no compassion whatsoever.
A launch every 5 minutes for how 25 years? Do you kow how much energy that will use? Where are they going to get it from? Oil so it creates more emmissions? Sun maybe, nope sorry we'll be blocking that too!
The trillions this would potentially cost would be better served as investments in renewable energies. How about some long term solutions rather than band-aids?
things such as opening up the POP SSL ports (993 and 995).
FONERA only allows access to ports 80 and 445 to the internet even on the *private SSID*, making it useless for me as the sole router.
Also, even is the router gives the public and private clients different IP addresses to theoretically prevent the public from browsing on my private LAN, well they are on the same subnet and I can type my private LAN ips from the public network and get access! This thing then NATs my NAT, making it even more difficult for me to sandbox it properly.
Hopefully, open-wrt will make it more useful as a mini mail server or something like a mini Asterisk server.
Sure traditional Hard Drive manufacturers may be in jeopardy if they don't license this technology but don't discard flash just yet. First thing flash has over this technology is *proven* reliability. This new technology can't buy that for money nor love.
Second thing is that this technology has *nothing* over flash (except maybe extreme temperatures, but special flash chips exist too). Performance is not said to be better than flash (you can't beet nanoseconds to access data in flash). The only thing it has over flash at the moment is a cheaper price. Have you seen flash price trends over the last two years? I would say that it roughly obeys an inverse Moore Law (where prices for a same capacity are halfed every 18 months). Flash chips are nothing but plastic and silicium. If Sandisk our however started feeling some heat from this new technology they could *ALWAYS* lower the price, hoping to make it up in volume. At the moment flash manufacturers are at max capacity and are structuring their prices to maximise profit IN THE CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS. If a new competitor comes out with a ground breaking technology they will find a new price point to maximise their profit then. Flash, inlike hard drives cost almost nothing to produce, their marginal cost is virually pennies, unlike tens of dollars for HDs. They currently support investment costs and high margins, but in a differnet market configuration they could outprice these new disks and ramp up production.
Flash is the future, its already here but the chip companies have no incentive to make it any more affordable than it currently is, they are milking us just like OPEC does with oil.
If somebody invents tomorrow a car that recharges in 3 mins and has 500 miles range and same performance and price as regular cars, the oil barrel will drop to $15 overnight, it's the same thing.
I'm currently thinking of setting up a Fon acces point at home (www.fon.com) however I am worried that some people will just go stupid and hog all the bandwith. Is there anyway to limit individual bandwith to approx 150kps?
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At the risk of sounding like an idiot. How do these guys get around? Are they doing their meetings via video conference?
I would have agreed with you pre-2000, but if my last 3 phones are any indication, carriers are now using GPRS by default (in the phone settings) to deliver the SMS messages.
Also, voice requires CSD (switch telephony) whereas data can be sent in "packet mode", ths being cheaper.
Maybe you could help me understand why carriers still charge more (or at least the same price) for MMS (up to 100kb each) than for SMS? This is especially true when roaming.
Something tells me that it's because no-one will send an MMS that costs as much as a post card with a stamp. But hey, who knows
"10x1000000 bytes " you mean a whole 10 MB accross the system??? Yeah these consumers are insane!
GSM Voice is 9.6Kb per sec. A minute of voice is 72KB of data, compared with 160 characters which shouldn't be much more than ~30bytes, or ~2500 times less data than a minute of voice data. Yet a minute of voice communication is usually cheaper than sending a SMS, at least with European carriers.
Any more suggestions?
Oh noes, the police can't decipher Skype! We're all gonna die!
Yeah right.
If you are paying attention, Skype is incorporated in Luxembourg, which is part of the EU, just like Germany (they actually share borders).
Do you think the EU would allow for some European company to provide tools to "terrorists" without having eavesdropping ability?
Now for the real story; German Police is putting on a little show so people actually trust *more* the closed-source Skype software.
If the German Police had no way of eavesdropping they would either (a) Shut up about it or (b) Actually say they have supercomputers that can decipher anything (even if this is not true). (a) or (b) would create enough FUD for "terrorists" to actually distrust Skype as a communication medium.
This is all spin doctor speak, and I would never trust Skype for sensitivie material communications. The Zfone project http://zfoneproject.com/ is a much more secure system.
you assume that my employers VPN servers are based in the same country as I am. In any multinational company, they will have a central VPN server, and it sure as hell won't be in Belgium. What if I am a small company in Belgium and I oustource all my hosting to a company in the UK? Your solution doesn't work.
ou are right but to that one could reply that:
- There is no evidence that Relakks customers are involved in illegal activities (unlike P2P whose unecnrypted packets you can monitor). I for instance happen to use Relakks more for Hotspot access than anything else.
- What happens if Relakks has some sort of DynDns VPN server address? The ISP could not reference this address in their DNS servers but then agin those subscribing to Relakks are savy enough to use OpenDNS as well.
What happens then?
FYI, countries like China and Saudi Arabia have been trying real hard to prevent all sorts of traffic: HTTP, P2P, VOIP etc.
None of these protections can hold up more than a few hours. VPNs are he easiest way to defeat these kind of protections.
For Relakks.com to start marketing their services to these ISP customers.
FYI, here's what Relakks does:
"- You'll exchange the IP-number you get from your ISP to an anonymous IP-number .
- You get a safe/encrypted connection between your computer and the Internet. "
How could the ISP filter or block VPN traffic without annoying the rest of the professionals who rely on corporate VPN access?
So sad, you should open your eyes while travelling and go out to meet the locals
I can't imagine one second that Dell would endorse ubuntu and ship hardware pre-installed with this Linux distribution without having go through Q&A.
The reason why dell is selling it pre-installed to you rather than a barenaked machine is purposely so that people know that their hardware will work with the OS it shipped with.
If these machines have any success whatsoever you can be assured that more hardware vendors (Broadcaom et al) will make sure their chips are supported in Linux so that Dell can reference them.
These hardware vendors might even start contributing themselves to the community efforts (or they could go with blobs like ATI, which is a shame).
All these screenshots look strikenly similar to those from the Nokia N800 built with the Maemo platform.
I hope maemo catches up and that they get some more developpers working on that framewaork
Can anybody please set up a torrent and post a link here in the comments for one of the high-res files?
If you're going to do a slashvedrtisement, especially one as obvious as this (nothing really new and exciting, has been done a million times by people with a PBX or any normal phone who can fwd their calls to their skypeIn number who in turm forwards to your PAYG throwawy SIM card.).
The right title should have been "SkyQube Squared shakes Up International Roaming charges".
This article was especially poor in substance and novelty.
And don't expect to see this thing explode the sales chart. It'll most probabl be +200 dollars given that it has GSM radio.
Geeks only. 2000 units shipped tops. 800 will be sold and we'll all call it a day.
OpenDns then this is it.
No need to mock around with your hosts file with Sudo, hosts.etc and who knows what kind of crap. Just open your connections settings and instead of "use ISP DNS" just pop in 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Works like a charm.
And if that doesn't work (99% guaranteed it will) than fork over some dough for PublicVPN Relakks or whatever. $5 per month or whatever is not a whole lot for freedom of speech.
Nice way to circumvent the trap!
The Patent seen at Google
You are right, and people do not live in a vaccum where only one factor is determinant (and in this case intelligence).
Other things such as resistance to viruses, physical strength etc.. came into play at first.
In more recent periods, social aspects such as networking, social status etc.. all affect the natural selection.
My grief here is much simpler than the whole theory of evolution. People are dumb nowadays because they don't take responsibility for their acts.
Some numnut at MacDonalds burns his crouch with hot coffee. Another burns down his house with a sponge in a microwave.
First things first, they were wrong, and they should be so lucky that we live in a world that protects dumb people against themselves with failsafes (such as fire insulation, insurances etc..).
However for these people to not acknowledge that they've made a mistake and that they seek outside compensation/responsibility recognition is beyond me.
These people are a drain to the greater good of the larger group.
An idiot like this one with his Microwave could bring down an entire campus at MIT with his fire. Leaving no choice for the smarter ones.
As such I believe that he shouldn't be polluting the gene pool.
Recessive dominant genes?
Stupid genes (or others) never dissapear until they have been dissemenated enough so that both parents have the gene. Which then expresses itself.
I'm pretty sure Weird Al Yankovick won't mind. I think he fits the category like a charm.
Thought I was being a little slow before my morning coffee not getting the point.
If this isn't the worst analogy ever, I think it definitely makes it in the Top 5 funniest analogies.
Back in good old days, many centuries ago, there wasn't any kind of this Politically Correct stuff and neither was there protection of the idiots. There was one rule: survival of the fittest.
If you made mistakes dumb enough to kill you , you didn't get anybody to pull you out and nature did its thing and eliminated the "idiot's" gene.
Of course this had nothing to do with real accidents, but in the long term idiots would dissapear.
Nowadays there is no personal responsibility. People do their own mistakes and blame it on somebody else.
This idiot should have had at least his genitals burned so we wouldn't have anymore kids.
Mind you, I am all about protecting and subsidising the weakest, the handicapped, the sick and al. I just believe that dumb people that bring it upon themselves deserve no attention and no compassion whatsoever.
... anytime soon?
Or do we have to rip it ourselves from the phones once we get our hands on them?
A launch every 5 minutes for how 25 years? Do you kow how much energy that will use?
Where are they going to get it from? Oil so it creates more emmissions? Sun maybe, nope sorry we'll be blocking that too!
The trillions this would potentially cost would be better served as investments in renewable energies.
How about some long term solutions rather than band-aids?
in the current FONERA firmware,
things such as opening up the POP SSL ports (993 and 995).
FONERA only allows access to ports 80 and 445 to the internet even on the *private SSID*, making it useless for me as the sole router.
Also, even is the router gives the public and private clients different IP addresses to theoretically prevent the public from browsing on my private LAN, well they are on the same subnet and I can type my private LAN ips from the public network and get access!
This thing then NATs my NAT, making it even more difficult for me to sandbox it properly.
Hopefully, open-wrt will make it more useful as a mini mail server or something like a mini Asterisk server.
Sure traditional Hard Drive manufacturers may be in jeopardy if they don't license this technology but don't discard flash just yet.
First thing flash has over this technology is *proven* reliability. This new technology can't buy that for money nor love.
Second thing is that this technology has *nothing* over flash (except maybe extreme temperatures, but special flash chips exist too). Performance is not said to be better than flash (you can't beet nanoseconds to access data in flash).
The only thing it has over flash at the moment is a cheaper price. Have you seen flash price trends over the last two years? I would say that it roughly obeys an inverse Moore Law (where prices for a same capacity are halfed every 18 months).
Flash chips are nothing but plastic and silicium. If Sandisk our however started feeling some heat from this new technology they could *ALWAYS* lower the price, hoping to make it up in volume.
At the moment flash manufacturers are at max capacity and are structuring their prices to maximise profit IN THE CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS. If a new competitor comes out with a ground breaking technology they will find a new price point to maximise their profit then.
Flash, inlike hard drives cost almost nothing to produce, their marginal cost is virually pennies, unlike tens of dollars for HDs. They currently support investment costs and high margins, but in a differnet market configuration they could outprice these new disks and ramp up production.
Flash is the future, its already here but the chip companies have no incentive to make it any more affordable than it currently is, they are milking us just like OPEC does with oil.
If somebody invents tomorrow a car that recharges in 3 mins and has 500 miles range and same performance and price as regular cars, the oil barrel will drop to $15 overnight, it's the same thing.
It's all about supply, demand and marginal costs.
I'm currently thinking of setting up a Fon acces point at home (www.fon.com) however I am worried that some people will just go stupid and hog all the bandwith.
Is there anyway to limit individual bandwith to approx 150kps?