out of country VPN servers are already pretty cheap. Some advertise to the torrent crowd, get an IP out of the country and you're protected. I assume this sort of law would really boost their business.
After the next census it won't be so open for debate. The 2010 census will be the first one that doesn't ask if anyone is a citizen. How do we juggle around the House of Reps if we don't have the consitutionally required head count correct? But we'll know how many toilets every house has, great!
I had to look for them myself, I hadn't noticed them previously. They're at the bottom of the summary, before the comments, same line as the story tags. I guess those icons have entered the range of 'ignore by default' by web readers. Also kudos to slashdot to have them available but so unobtrusive.
My father had an employee steal a large amount of plumbing, heating and various hardware items. The guy's roomate turned him in. Police collected everything, father pressed charges. Police told my father they had to keep things in evidence until after charges were finalized and that they'd then call him to get the items.
A few months of not hearing anything he called the cops. It seems the guy plea bargained out and the police never got around to calling my father. Everything was sold at a police auction. No money was sent to us, oh no. It was explained that's what civil court is for, going after lost property. So we were robbed twice, once by a putz employee and then again by the police.
I'd guess they were holding your car stereo until the next auction so they'd pocket the money for the department.
I read that article and I took it to be a sort of hollywood accounting trick. I wonder if in the AT&T agreement they had to share a percentage of App store profits or something along that line?
Americans only have so much energy to devote to critical thinking, maybe 30 seconds. So we'll let the talking heads on TV tell us what to be outraged about. Health care has been the best thing for the nation the past few months - it can help avoid people thinking about 2 wars, horrid economy, national debt, and all the other ills. Although it's a new season of American Idol and 24 so even things like earthquake coverage of Haiti won't matter much.
For many of the fringe types that want to get their news from TV but have more than 30 seconds to give a damn, they watch the Daily show on Comedy Central.
It wouldn't surprise me if this was deliberate misinformation. The FCC has been asking for submissions for their stimulus fund allotment of 7.5 billion for high speed internet across the states. A lot of people have been complaining about existing coverage, or leaving comments like 'hey, let's also get the 200-300 billion the telco's have already gotten paid for broadband rollout but have failed to deliver'. Now here comes a really good stat showing one city is well on its way to being true broadband.
If I was a resident I would bitch to the FCC, congress critters, media, anyone I could think of about this. Any chance of stimulus funds for broadband have disappeared with this study. Also the local telco can chalk this area up as a 'broadband delivered' area.
Just a theory but with the dollar figures involved, and telcos being well... telcos... I wouldn't trust them in the slightest.
Have you tried Meraki? Google bought into the company awhile ago and it all runs on Linux. There are proprietary bits nowadays so you can't put your own distro in place of the original code. However less than $200 for solid, lifetime warranty, outdoor gear is nice. The built in meshing control is impressive. The ranges with omni antennas are great. Also millions of users have connected to the 'net via meraki equipment according to the website. I'm currently writing this on a meraki mesh, 4th hop from the gateway, without a hiccup.
I know it's fun to roll your own solution. If it's for your own personal needs I'd say go ahead with any of the variety of open source projects doing this. If you absolutely don't want a closed source then look at http://www.open-mesh.com/. It took the concept of Meraki and went totally open source. It's a neat idea but having transferred over a terabyte on meraki gear I'm completely happy and wouldn't want the headaches of hardware and software not backed by a commercial company.
Good luck on your WISP venture. As anyone in the ISP field will tell you - you're gonna need it!
Uplift would make an amazing set of movies. Although for action/sci fi my hope would be a Takeshi Kovacs trilogy. Everything from a detective story to martian ghosts.
I like the geek mentality of 'hey, wonder what would happen if I stuff a cat in the New York Pneumatic mail tubes' (If you don't want to read the whole article, He was a little dizzy, but he made it," says Joseph H. Cohen, historian for the New York City Post Office)
The telcos have already been subsidized via tarrifs and tax breaks to the tune of 300 billion. The FCC has some control over what the telcos charge, even if they are a legislated monopoly. In exchange the telcos were supposed to rewire most of the country. This wasn't just large cities, this was rural, suburban and city. This used to be called the 200 billion broadband scandal. It's now up to 300 billion.
This is a good read, a free ebook. The authors even sat on the FCC board. This is well worth sending an email to your congress critter. Sure most don't care or are in the pockets of lobbyists, but it can't hurt. (For example my rep Upton was the chair of the subcomittee on telecommunications. Biggest political donors were all telephone companies which he backed on everything - go figure)
You know the type of person that hacks for the challenge and not for a profit motivator. Back in the 90s I had a talk request from in network, so I knew something odd was up. College kid saw an interesting domain name I hosted, broke in through a pop3 weakness and grabbed a telnet password. He talked to me to let me know what he did. This let to closing telnet to co-hosted machines and also giving him the email address he asked for. I had no real problem with this as no damage was done. It also showed a weakness in the network that was able to be closed.
Cool, any way to figure out what ATMs think it's the future? I'd like to do a big withdraw now and worry about paying it back sometime in the next 6 years.
Sesame street has a lot of real world politics subtly hidden within it. Kermit was the CIA's man that disposed of the democratically elected government of iran to put in a puppet government. People don't appreciate how much a geopolitical fan Henson must have been.
Robert Newman has a far funnier bit on Kermit and puppet governments.
Also the K56Flex people, Lucent - AKA Bell Labs. I know they had AT+T on that list but not the same. Livingston, bought by Lucent, was the best maker of remote access equipment. Portmasters were rock rolid for ISPs. It was impressive to see one box with 30 serial cables connecting to stand alone modems. (Or later on in the pre VM and blade days, connecting to 30 different serial consoles.) Then the PM3s were all digital pushing the 56K ISP offering. The Portmaster 4 even let you plug a DS3 in and get 700+ modems. Very cool stuff, shame they were bought by some french company.
OT here, but the US air war was fighting with one arm tied behind it's back. The Vietnam Rules of Engagement included such wonders as only shooting at enemy aircraft or SAMs after they were fired upon. I can understand not firebombing whole cities but not taking out enemy air fields, SAM sites, anti aircraft and enemy fighters is insane.
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out of country VPN servers are already pretty cheap. Some advertise to the torrent crowd, get an IP out of the country and you're protected. I assume this sort of law would really boost their business.
Bringing the engineering school's CAD labs network to a grinding halt because of network game play was groundbreaking. Ahhh, the memories.
After the next census it won't be so open for debate. The 2010 census will be the first one that doesn't ask if anyone is a citizen. How do we juggle around the House of Reps if we don't have the consitutionally required head count correct? But we'll know how many toilets every house has, great!
I had to look for them myself, I hadn't noticed them previously. They're at the bottom of the summary, before the comments, same line as the story tags. I guess those icons have entered the range of 'ignore by default' by web readers. Also kudos to slashdot to have them available but so unobtrusive.
My father had an employee steal a large amount of plumbing, heating and various hardware items. The guy's roomate turned him in. Police collected everything, father pressed charges. Police told my father they had to keep things in evidence until after charges were finalized and that they'd then call him to get the items.
A few months of not hearing anything he called the cops. It seems the guy plea bargained out and the police never got around to calling my father. Everything was sold at a police auction. No money was sent to us, oh no. It was explained that's what civil court is for, going after lost property. So we were robbed twice, once by a putz employee and then again by the police.
I'd guess they were holding your car stereo until the next auction so they'd pocket the money for the department.
I read that article and I took it to be a sort of hollywood accounting trick. I wonder if in the AT&T agreement they had to share a percentage of App store profits or something along that line?
This article reminded me of Dragon's Egg. Great book
You must not understand the american psyche.
Americans only have so much energy to devote to critical thinking, maybe 30 seconds. So we'll let the talking heads on TV tell us what to be outraged about. Health care has been the best thing for the nation the past few months - it can help avoid people thinking about 2 wars, horrid economy, national debt, and all the other ills. Although it's a new season of American Idol and 24 so even things like earthquake coverage of Haiti won't matter much.
For many of the fringe types that want to get their news from TV but have more than 30 seconds to give a damn, they watch the Daily show on Comedy Central.
The simpsons grand theft auto style game was enjoyable.
It wouldn't surprise me if this was deliberate misinformation. The FCC has been asking for submissions for their stimulus fund allotment of 7.5 billion for high speed internet across the states. A lot of people have been complaining about existing coverage, or leaving comments like 'hey, let's also get the 200-300 billion the telco's have already gotten paid for broadband rollout but have failed to deliver'. Now here comes a really good stat showing one city is well on its way to being true broadband.
If I was a resident I would bitch to the FCC, congress critters, media, anyone I could think of about this. Any chance of stimulus funds for broadband have disappeared with this study. Also the local telco can chalk this area up as a 'broadband delivered' area.
Just a theory but with the dollar figures involved, and telcos being well... telcos... I wouldn't trust them in the slightest.
Have you tried Meraki? Google bought into the company awhile ago and it all runs on Linux. There are proprietary bits nowadays so you can't put your own distro in place of the original code. However less than $200 for solid, lifetime warranty, outdoor gear is nice. The built in meshing control is impressive. The ranges with omni antennas are great. Also millions of users have connected to the 'net via meraki equipment according to the website. I'm currently writing this on a meraki mesh, 4th hop from the gateway, without a hiccup.
I know it's fun to roll your own solution. If it's for your own personal needs I'd say go ahead with any of the variety of open source projects doing this. If you absolutely don't want a closed source then look at http://www.open-mesh.com/. It took the concept of Meraki and went totally open source. It's a neat idea but having transferred over a terabyte on meraki gear I'm completely happy and wouldn't want the headaches of hardware and software not backed by a commercial company.
Good luck on your WISP venture. As anyone in the ISP field will tell you - you're gonna need it!
Uplift would make an amazing set of movies. Although for action/sci fi my hope would be a Takeshi Kovacs trilogy. Everything from a detective story to martian ghosts.
I like the geek mentality of 'hey, wonder what would happen if I stuff a cat in the New York Pneumatic mail tubes' (If you don't want to read the whole article, He was a little dizzy, but he made it," says Joseph H. Cohen, historian for the New York City Post Office)
this is /. people we're talking about, so it'd be along the lines of the onion headline of "Special Olympics T-ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game"
The telcos have already been subsidized via tarrifs and tax breaks to the tune of 300 billion. The FCC has some control over what the telcos charge, even if they are a legislated monopoly. In exchange the telcos were supposed to rewire most of the country. This wasn't just large cities, this was rural, suburban and city. This used to be called the 200 billion broadband scandal. It's now up to 300 billion.
This is a good read, a free ebook. The authors even sat on the FCC board. This is well worth sending an email to your congress critter. Sure most don't care or are in the pockets of lobbyists, but it can't hurt. (For example my rep Upton was the chair of the subcomittee on telecommunications. Biggest political donors were all telephone companies which he backed on everything - go figure)
You know the type of person that hacks for the challenge and not for a profit motivator. Back in the 90s I had a talk request from in network, so I knew something odd was up. College kid saw an interesting domain name I hosted, broke in through a pop3 weakness and grabbed a telnet password. He talked to me to let me know what he did. This let to closing telnet to co-hosted machines and also giving him the email address he asked for. I had no real problem with this as no damage was done. It also showed a weakness in the network that was able to be closed.
If only it was just a private bank, instead of being a government mandated monopoly. Corporatism is not libertarian friendly.
No car analogy or Checkbox form on why this won't solve the problem of /. readers getting laid?
Cool, any way to figure out what ATMs think it's the future? I'd like to do a big withdraw now and worry about paying it back sometime in the next 6 years.
Sesame street has a lot of real world politics subtly hidden within it. Kermit was the CIA's man that disposed of the democratically elected government of iran to put in a puppet government. People don't appreciate how much a geopolitical fan Henson must have been.
Robert Newman has a far funnier bit on Kermit and puppet governments.
ahh, I finally understand. It's a grand conspiracy so that Palin can legitimately says he's seen Russia soil.
Suicide deprives the country of another tax payer. Of course it's illegal!
Also the K56Flex people, Lucent - AKA Bell Labs. I know they had AT+T on that list but not the same. Livingston, bought by Lucent, was the best maker of remote access equipment. Portmasters were rock rolid for ISPs. It was impressive to see one box with 30 serial cables connecting to stand alone modems. (Or later on in the pre VM and blade days, connecting to 30 different serial consoles.) Then the PM3s were all digital pushing the 56K ISP offering. The Portmaster 4 even let you plug a DS3 in and get 700+ modems. Very cool stuff, shame they were bought by some french company.
Great, I can look forward to spending 10 minutes wading my way through adventure choices for them all to end in a rick roll.
OT here, but the US air war was fighting with one arm tied behind it's back. The Vietnam Rules of Engagement included such wonders as only shooting at enemy aircraft or SAMs after they were fired upon. I can understand not firebombing whole cities but not taking out enemy air fields, SAM sites, anti aircraft and enemy fighters is insane.