I've never experienced or heard of capping or throttling of connections in Korea, and as far as I can tell, there is no port blocking or detrimental traffic shaping going on.
Koreans do not use that much bittorrent, though edonkey was popular until a couple of years ago. I have heard some people being fined for distributing copyrighted material over p2p, but the fines are relatively moderate (a couple of thousand USD at most), and they don't cut you off.
Koreans get a most of their streaming content for free from commercial operators. Buying digital media online is also pretty cheap. I believe the current rate for non-DRM'd mp3 files is like 5 dollars for 40 songs.
This is of course killing DVD rental stores, as well as bootleggers (though they do sell Chinese bootlegged DVDs where there's more foreigners).
Currently I can saturate my 100mbps connection only when downloading stuff from the main portal sites or the larger universities (KAIST Gentoo mirrors are crazy fast), or downloading stuff from Korean peers on p2p networks.
They are pushing more and more stuff over the networks (HD and VOIP), though, so 100mbps can become a little too slow for a regular household in a couple of years.
And the money that "goes for the war in Iraq" mostly goes back to the people (sadly, little of it actually goes to salaries of military personal). Military bases are a huge source of local employment, as are the research facilities, as are the factories where most of that milspec stuff gets built.
I think this is a misunderstanding of how things work. Let's ignore for a moment this instrument called 'money', and just concentrate on the total inputs and outputs of this 'economic activity'.
For inputs we basically have materials, equipment and labor. As outputs we have military bases, presence of foreign soldiers and other personnel in Iraq, and whatever damage inflicted by the war and occupation to the infrastructure and society.
Looking at it from this perspective, the useful outputs from the war are negligible at best. The only remaining results, after the country returns to a normal state, would be the military bases and other installations, which will have relatively little value (compared to having invested these resources in, for instance, social or industrial infrastructure).
So clearly the outputs are quite modest compared to the inputs for this activity. Of course, many locals will have more cash to spend at the markets, though that could have been accomplished by just giving the money to them. There was no need to waste everyone's time by pretending to do useful work.
I can't comfortably ride to work every day, so instead I get up 1-2 hours earlier, and do my bike ride before going back home for breakfast and shower.
Usually you'll notice that you spend at least some time in the evening doing unnecessary stuff (TV, web surfing). Instead of doing that, go to sleep earlier (I go to be at around 9pm), and you can get up quite early (4:30am for me).
Early sleeping also cuts down drinking and late night snacking, which helps keep the fat off.
In these cases, the companies probably built the streets in question with their own money, so they may have felt entitled to deciding on the name, too.
I think that depends on where you are. I know in several European countries it is specifically defined as not theft, but "borrowing without permission", or some such variation thereof.
I've heard of a few car owners who have had their cars borrowed in such a manner, and they have been most unamused to find out that the punishment for such a trick is basically a slap on the wrist.
Strangely enough... we don't see similar numbers of attacks from Catholics, Buddhists, Mormons, Quakers, Amish, Jews, Zoroastrians or even Atheists.
No, those groups seem to prefer acts of genocide accomplished with organized armies. Much more civil, clearly. And much more peaceful, too. Oh, how much those savage Muslims have yet to learn.
If you'd really like to count... I'd take a look at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ a site that actually has a running count of the number of terror attacks world wide since 9/11... as of the writing of this post we are at 11,140.
And how do we define a terror attack? Is it when you cluster bomb urban areas? Is it dropping nuclear bombs? Supporting brutal paramilitaries? Blockading food and medicine transports?
In fact, why only count terror attacks? Surely all violent attacks should be tallied to see which religion produces most violence in this world.
What do you reckon the results would look like then?
I'm in a similar situation (>10 miles to commute, no suitable route, small kid at home). I did, however, found time to bike every day.
I get up an hour earlier than before (also go to sleep earlier), so I'll have time to do a 30-45 minute ride in the mornings before my wife and son wake up.
Fortunately we live next to a large-ish park, so I have somewhere to go on the bike. By your writing, it seems you are not so lucky. You can still try to find some place to go for an exercise in the mornings.
Also, there is advertising in China and Myanmar (never been to Cuba, so don't know about that). Not just billboards, but also on TV. And it's almost as annoying as on American TV.
At least in Korea, you can get many very small (20 cm to a side, 5 cm thick) and quiet boxes that either run VIA or support Intel chips. External power supply, so only the CPU has a cooling fan. Should be rather quiet.
Boxes cost about $100 to $200 bucks. Once you throw in a stick of RAM and a harddisk, price should be around $250 maximum.
Of course, you can also get them in other colors than white, so they might be unsuitable for conformists...
True. I don't really buy the claim that inserting ads in to a page is infringing on any copyrights.
It's not much different from TV broadcasters using overlays of their own logos or ads during a TV show, at least from the perspective of copyright infringement.
... oh, but it might install the software anywhere on your system... good luck learning to grep it. Fat chance if your friend has just given you a cdrom with software on it!
Jesus Christ on a stick! 10 points for trolling. I can't believe anyone would give you modpoints for that.
I have a 'black box' on my home network. It's a voip phone, provided by our local telecom, and I'd really like to see what traffic it's sending to and receiving from the outside.
I've scanned it with nmap and not found any open ports from the outside. It's sitting behind a nat router, and the company won't tell me which ports it would need to forwarded (though somehow it's still able to receive calls and messages from the outside).
Actually, the company says I should forward ports 20000-60000 (seriously), but I think I won't do that.
I'm really curious to see the traffic it sends and receives, and also whether it's using any encryption. Is it possible to use Wireshark to sniff the traffic from another box that is within the same LAN, and where might one find a good tutorial for such a project?
Mac filters won't do much good, as anyone running a network sniffer will be able to see the mac addresses of your AP and clients and emulate them with software macs.
Also, hiding your SSID won't protect you either, as it is also completely visible through a sniffer.
Best way is to use encryption, WPA with a pre-shared key if possible.
Oh bollocks. Amiga software running within an emulator on a P-II in the late 1990s was already much faster than the same software running on native hardware.
Sure, in some fields, Amiga was far ahead of its PC rivals in performance, esp. in multimedia. But that advantage was lost pretty fast.
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I've never experienced or heard of capping or throttling of connections in Korea, and as far as I can tell, there is no port blocking or detrimental traffic shaping going on.
Koreans do not use that much bittorrent, though edonkey was popular until a couple of years ago. I have heard some people being fined for distributing copyrighted material over p2p, but the fines are relatively moderate (a couple of thousand USD at most), and they don't cut you off.
Koreans get a most of their streaming content for free from commercial operators. Buying digital media online is also pretty cheap. I believe the current rate for non-DRM'd mp3 files is like 5 dollars for 40 songs.
This is of course killing DVD rental stores, as well as bootleggers (though they do sell Chinese bootlegged DVDs where there's more foreigners).
Currently I can saturate my 100mbps connection only when downloading stuff from the main portal sites or the larger universities (KAIST Gentoo mirrors are crazy fast), or downloading stuff from Korean peers on p2p networks.
They are pushing more and more stuff over the networks (HD and VOIP), though, so 100mbps can become a little too slow for a regular household in a couple of years.
Same goes for Finland, though children age 12 or under can use the sidewalks.
Not to worry, I can help!
No, wait...crap.
What, launch fat people into orbit so they block out the sun and prevent global warming?
No, but you can spend big and end up with a bag of shit.
I think he was talking about gay people...
I think this is a misunderstanding of how things work. Let's ignore for a moment this instrument called 'money', and just concentrate on the total inputs and outputs of this 'economic activity'.
For inputs we basically have materials, equipment and labor. As outputs we have military bases, presence of foreign soldiers and other personnel in Iraq, and whatever damage inflicted by the war and occupation to the infrastructure and society.
Looking at it from this perspective, the useful outputs from the war are negligible at best. The only remaining results, after the country returns to a normal state, would be the military bases and other installations, which will have relatively little value (compared to having invested these resources in, for instance, social or industrial infrastructure).
So clearly the outputs are quite modest compared to the inputs for this activity. Of course, many locals will have more cash to spend at the markets, though that could have been accomplished by just giving the money to them. There was no need to waste everyone's time by pretending to do useful work.
I can't comfortably ride to work every day, so instead I get up 1-2 hours earlier, and do my bike ride before going back home for breakfast and shower.
Usually you'll notice that you spend at least some time in the evening doing unnecessary stuff (TV, web surfing). Instead of doing that, go to sleep earlier (I go to be at around 9pm), and you can get up quite early (4:30am for me).
Early sleeping also cuts down drinking and late night snacking, which helps keep the fat off.
Double-ahh, but Vista is causing delays in adoption of SSD's.
Right?
Or did I just make a fool out of myself?
Can I get a +1 thinksHeIsFunny please ^^
Let's see...You ever heard of a thing called "Daystar"?
No good medicine comes without side effects.
It is my understanding that these false resets cause much more serious disruption than leaving connections open, so you are still coming out ahead.
In these cases, the companies probably built the streets in question with their own money, so they may have felt entitled to deciding on the name, too.
More like Doktor Wer!
Bwahahahhaa!
I think that depends on where you are. I know in several European countries it is specifically defined as not theft, but "borrowing without permission", or some such variation thereof.
I've heard of a few car owners who have had their cars borrowed in such a manner, and they have been most unamused to find out that the punishment for such a trick is basically a slap on the wrist.
Well, they did get their cars back, though.
No, those groups seem to prefer acts of genocide accomplished with organized armies. Much more civil, clearly. And much more peaceful, too. Oh, how much those savage Muslims have yet to learn.
And how do we define a terror attack? Is it when you cluster bomb urban areas? Is it dropping nuclear bombs? Supporting brutal paramilitaries? Blockading food and medicine transports?
In fact, why only count terror attacks? Surely all violent attacks should be tallied to see which religion produces most violence in this world.
What do you reckon the results would look like then?
Wow, I never heard of this product. Maybe esthetically the machine is not the prettiest in the world, but the functionality absolutely rocks.
I'm using a modded xbox for video playback at home, but if the box ever breaks, I'm definitely getting one of these to replace it.
This machine needs to be advertised more!
I'm in a similar situation (>10 miles to commute, no suitable route, small kid at home). I did, however, found time to bike every day.
I get up an hour earlier than before (also go to sleep earlier), so I'll have time to do a 30-45 minute ride in the mornings before my wife and son wake up.
Fortunately we live next to a large-ish park, so I have somewhere to go on the bike. By your writing, it seems you are not so lucky. You can still try to find some place to go for an exercise in the mornings.
Also, there is advertising in China and Myanmar (never been to Cuba, so don't know about that). Not just billboards, but also on TV. And it's almost as annoying as on American TV.
At least in Korea, you can get many very small (20 cm to a side, 5 cm thick) and quiet boxes that either run VIA or support Intel chips. External power supply, so only the CPU has a cooling fan. Should be rather quiet.
Boxes cost about $100 to $200 bucks. Once you throw in a stick of RAM and a harddisk, price should be around $250 maximum.
Of course, you can also get them in other colors than white, so they might be unsuitable for conformists...
True. I don't really buy the claim that inserting ads in to a page is infringing on any copyrights.
It's not much different from TV broadcasters using overlays of their own logos or ads during a TV show, at least from the perspective of copyright infringement.
Jesus Christ on a stick! 10 points for trolling. I can't believe anyone would give you modpoints for that.
I have a 'black box' on my home network. It's a voip phone, provided by our local telecom, and I'd really like to see what traffic it's sending to and receiving from the outside.
I've scanned it with nmap and not found any open ports from the outside. It's sitting behind a nat router, and the company won't tell me which ports it would need to forwarded (though somehow it's still able to receive calls and messages from the outside).
Actually, the company says I should forward ports 20000-60000 (seriously), but I think I won't do that.
I'm really curious to see the traffic it sends and receives, and also whether it's using any encryption. Is it possible to use Wireshark to sniff the traffic from another box that is within the same LAN, and where might one find a good tutorial for such a project?
Well, back when I was a PFY, nude pictures of me would definitely not have been classified as sexual in nature.
Of course, nowadays I'm oozing sexual appeal, at least that's what I tell me wife.
Mac filters won't do much good, as anyone running a network sniffer will be able to see the mac addresses of your AP and clients and emulate them with software macs.
Also, hiding your SSID won't protect you either, as it is also completely visible through a sniffer.
Best way is to use encryption, WPA with a pre-shared key if possible.
Oh bollocks. Amiga software running within an emulator on a P-II in the late 1990s was already much faster than the same software running on native hardware.
Sure, in some fields, Amiga was far ahead of its PC rivals in performance, esp. in multimedia. But that advantage was lost pretty fast.