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  1. Re:With all countries of the world on board we... on Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    ...could do this in a year or two. Wake up people! We've had uber technology that has gone un-used and forgotten from the 80's for christ's sake. People just have to work together, understand the risks, eliminate all the 'red-tape' and do this as a world instead of just countries. It's not hard, open your mind.

    I've opened my mind to your logic. Let's get 100 mothers to make a baby in one month.

  2. Re:Here to, but... on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    I have 27 Gmail accounts, most of them Google Apps, I use IMAP with all of them. Never experienced this on any of them. I only log on two via the webbased interface due to the constant need to setup label filters for automatic sorting of e-mails into folders and never log on the others.

  3. Re:Here to, but... on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    The full story includes nothing about "the screen," because Google cannot rewrite the email program that I use, which is claws-mail. I had not logged in to Gmail's web interface about several years when the change happened, and was basically forced to do so to stop Google from applying filters I did not create.

    Gmail doesn't do that unless you logged in and accepted the offered changes.

  4. Re:Universities should NEVER outsource email on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 2

    (a) No, not if you have competent IT staff, it's not

    With no single cent spent at all on the service by the university, I find it hard to believe the same can be accomplished using the university's staff.

    (b) should universities REALLY have email service provided by the lowest bidder?

    To be fair, you'll be hard to find a provider that is the capability to constantly deal with increasing capacity, needs, functionality that is as reliable to Google. Now, considering Google is also cheaper than all the alternatives, you're hard pressed.

    much of what it carries needs to remain private

    I looked on Google for public e-mail archives of university but couldn't find any?

    Doubly so when the chosen outsource vendor has a very, very, very long history of miserable performance on privacy issues.

    Their history shows them acting responsibly when breaches have occurred actually. So, I have to disagree.

    universities as a class have shown vastly more spine than Google has

    I've seen many horrible issues with the universities class too. From being unable to secure their networks to terrible draconian policies that serve the interests of information control to prevent a series of 'nasty' truths from surfacing. Even using them both in tandem to get students silenced, removed for bringing awareness to the issue as the university expresses no interest in fixing said problems.

    Incidentally, I've run email services ranging in size from "a few" to "a few million" users, and I've run some of them in academic environments -- i.e., I'm not speculating.

    While doing it in such a way that the university doesn't spend a single cent on it, providing all the options of google apps premium (including outlook support, active sync)... Yeah, I don't believe you.

  5. Re:What about Acrobat? on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I like the fact that you can get a full report in a single file, which shows the full evidence of circumstances being reported by having some of the linked citations as embedded videos etc. So, I have to disagree with you.

  6. Re:Here to, but... on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    This was because you accepted the new settings when it was offered to you on screen and you clicked it away instead of reading. Next time tell the full story.

  7. Re:Universities should NEVER outsource email on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    But it's still cheaper and easier to use google apps. Especially when the premium services are provided free to educational institutions. If Google screws up, it does not neccessarily mean you're at fault either.

  8. Re:What about Acrobat? on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 1

    If that's the truth, why won't the free software play the videos that are embedded in PDFs?

  9. Re:Forced her? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    I regularly check my spaces with an EMF detector tool (50-60Hz) for EM fields where I sit (office, home office, living room) and where I sleep (well, mostly the bedroom).....

    Wow, dude.

  10. Re:Is Skype really better? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    I should also note, the options shown still do not help with my home Internet not liking how SIP handles the signalling layer.

  11. Re:Is Skype really better? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    When you talk of reliability and mentioning that calls are routed over voice gsm you are not comparing like for like...

    Skype is Skype. It's called Skype on my phone, the application is called Skype and on the phone bill, the calls are called "Skype" (where it shows there are no charges). When, someone tells me, use "SIP", that's fairly specific.

    For instance, see:
    http://aaisp.net.uk/kb-telecoms-sip2sim.html (aaisp resell the service of 3 i believe, not sure if 3 will deal direct to a single customer)

    I have to pay for that. Don't have to pay for Skype. I see no advantage in it over what I have. So, I don't want it.

    Seems a fairly desperate way to get subscribers, considering no other provider offers such a service... Once they are established you can expect to see this loss leading service either go away entirely, or start costing.

    I don't understand the problem? This is the best choice right now. If it's no longer the best choice, I will stop using it. I don't use something because it's a name.

    Also if they offer free services, there will be a lot of users who exclusively use the free services and never pay for anything at all. This inflates the market share and subscriber numbers, but is otherwise damaging to the bottom line as these customers are a cost rather than a revenue source.

    Again, this has nothing to do with my best choice of options at this moment. At the moment there is no SIP provider, providing what I get.

    You can expect the free services to be dropped just as soon as paying customers need the capacity.

    I expect nothing but change. I don't assume anything will last forever.

  12. Re:Is Skype really better? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    How do you think Three make any money from that deal?

    They get subscribers who inevitably pay for more services through them. Such as when I purchase temporary Internet access when traveling.

    The fact is its a money losing venture, both for three and skype... a loss leader to get customers, otherwise known as a bait and switch. They get you locked into the service with a good deal, and then pull it away knowing that it will be painful for you to move once you have a large group of people who are used to that method of contacting you. How long do you expect that deal to last, and what is your exit strategy?

    If there is no decent alternatives, I'd go back to before, not using anything. I'm not obsessed. So far I've had this since 2008, during that time, they've only opened up more resources, not limited.

    I always found SIP to provide much better reliability than skype

    How did you deal with the signalling layer with SIP services? Where the client maintains a constant TCP connection to the signaling server (and my home Internet doesn't like these things). This generally suffers numerous issues due to the fact it prevents my phone from going to sleep and it results in unreliable performance as connectivity changes on a mobile device.

    With Skype on my Three phone, it uses the provider's existing voice network to handle calls so I don't even lose battery life from using VOIP over data and it uses the mobile phone provider's existing network to handle signalling etc.

    I'm unconvinced so far you've really had better reliability unless you were doing something that isn't standard to SIP here.

    I usually use voipraider.com for outbound, they provide free (well inclusive) calls to a bunch of countries for 90 days from the date of your last top up, so you only need to top up every 90 days and you get 100% of your topup fee as calling credit separate from the free calls they offer, ie for calling non-free destinations.

    Cool, I'll keep them in mind.

    They too are routed through the asterisk pbx, where i can filter calls (known telemarketers get forwarded to a script which plays sound samples of borat and records the call for my amusement), manage multiple extensions, voicemail including emailed notifications, automatically reroute to different handsets depending on availability (eg if my mobile is seen on my home wireless, assume im at home and ring the home handsets, otherwise route to the mobile) and a whole bunch of other stuff

    I can't see myself making use of this.

  13. Re:Is Skype really better? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of SIP providers which offer considerably better deals than that...

    So... What SIP provider can I get works for free with a Three sim, that works in all the countries that Three exists in, note that the sim having no Internet subscription. I would like to see this better deal. Thanks.

    Compare that to SIP, where you have a choice of hundreds of providers which you can mix and match depending on your needs

    So far I've had a lot of choice when it comes to SIP, more unreliable calls because my Internet has very brief interruptions etc. (if it can't handle it at home, how would it handle it on a mobile device?). I'm not convinced it's better for my uses.

    As for costs, I haven't found an unlimited world plan that has as many countries as Skype does with unlimited calling yet (I've been online since the 90s, I have quite a few friends who I will call up depending on circumstances).

    easy free peering to other sip users even those using different providers

    I look forward to seeing your explanation of how I do this free peering on my mobile phone with Three.

    huge range of hardware and software clients

    I got my phone that supports Skype on the Three network for free, what hardware+software combo can I get from Three for free with free SIP usage without an Internet plan?

  14. Re:Is Skype really better? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    My Skype subscription is only 7GBP a month for unlimited calls. I've been curious about calling cards but never saw any reason to switch?

  15. Re:Why shouldn't Google pay? on YouTube Ordered To Remove Videos, Filter Future Uploads By German Court · · Score: 1

    Because Google is already blocking videos GEMA highlights and their automated detection systems flag. Google doesn't want to host any of GEMA's content to German users is the issue.

  16. Re:Google's Best Option Is Compliance on YouTube Ordered To Remove Videos, Filter Future Uploads By German Court · · Score: 1

    Why would Google show more content than before? Currently when a video is taken down due to GEMA, the entire video is blocked in Germany. Audio and video.

  17. Re:pretty simple solution on YouTube Ordered To Remove Videos, Filter Future Uploads By German Court · · Score: 1

    block all music that not release under cc-sa/cc-0 conditions

    How will you block people who ignore these terms and upload anyway?

  18. Re:Frigging Freeloaders on YouTube Ordered To Remove Videos, Filter Future Uploads By German Court · · Score: 1

    I wonder just why so many people here seem to believe they are entitled to enjoy free content (in this case music videos).

    I find it more interesting that GEMA's filters tend to block legitimate publishers on youtube more often, like VEVO. Also, are you not familiar with other cases such as these?

  19. Re:Who the hell is relying on a single shared serv on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    They tell you in the summary.

  20. Re:Hollywood would disagree on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    The editors of 2600 have repeatedly stated that they don't support segregating cracking and hacking, that malicious acts do fall under "hacking" just as much as non-malicious acts.

    It's more to do with the fact they (2600) fall under the 'grey hat' category .

  21. Re:Not hacking on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    When are nerds going to accept that "hacking" has a perfectly legitimate second meaning?

    Never. You have your answer.

  22. Re:The Netherlands is important because... on Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal · · Score: 1

    They would have been free to do so, had they not joined the moneytary union (via outright deception and forgery, might I add).

    Which the EU knew about prior to approving it and chose to ignore the auditors. The EU further refuses to give them permission to change currency to balance themselves out as well.

    As it is, I'm all for giving them the boot from the Euro, hell the union even; IMHO we should limit the EU to the Alps as it seems corruption and bad finances are rampant everywhere south from there. But "unjoining" the Euro seems to be difficult

    You can't unjoin the Euro without permission from the EU, when the government attempted to correct the issue themselves, the EU saw to it to replace their democratically voted person power for people who were not.

    Sadly, what we think or want has no relevance. It doesn't matter what party I vote for in my country, and it probably won't matter for the party you vote for in your country.

  23. Re:The Netherlands is important because... on Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal · · Score: 1

    - The European Parliament has one of the most democratic elections I can think of: proportional and with a large number of Europe-wide parties.

    Feel free to take your argument to Nigel Farage

    - Local state legislation has an influence on the long term on the European people and the European governance, even if it does not apply to the other member states (and in some cases, fortunately).

    If that was true, the common fisheries policy wouldn't be an issue repeatedly while member states had few issues without the common fisheries policy. And that's just one of the major issues.

    But, maybe you say this issue is kind of small. So, let's take an even bigger issue. What about member states being able to devalue themselves to recoup from economic crisis issues (a recent example of this exact scenario working working would be Iceland)... Greece prior to EU legislation could do this, when it's government attempted to do so under the EU, the EU removed the government power of Greece and replaced it with a puppet - The country that created democracy. I'm sorry, but the EU government will not take into account the "Local state legislation has an influence on the long term on the European people" as they have overruled them by determining that borrowing more money and more money to save a country from economic crisis caused by 'borrowing' instead of letting them devalue.

  24. Re:The Netherlands is important because... on Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal · · Score: 1

    You think so?

    Absolutely.

    TSA, Guantanamo, over a decade of poorly-justified wars, attempts to stigmatize abortion through law, the steady lowering of the maximum legal BAC, the so-called "war on drugs", the extremely large prison population including the rise of a for-profit industry with the purpose of imprisoning minors, metal detectors in schools, the rise of the surveillance state, the growing wealth imbalance aided by law, on and on... we claim to love individual rights, but I would not want to have to defend our actions of the last decade or so in a court of my peers.

    While these issues are relevant to "individual freedoms and right", this has little to do with being "strong believers in individual freedoms and rights". Belief does not dictate reality.

  25. Re:The Netherlands is important because... on Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal · · Score: 1

    1) the Dutch are strong believers in individual freedoms and rights

    Same with the USA.

    2) because what happens in the courts in the Netherlands may affect what happens in other EU Zone courts.

    True for the USA, but not for the Netherlands. The Netherlands have little power over the non-democratic elected officials of the European Union government (in other words, the peoples of Europe have no power to elect the ones with power in the EU government), For this reason, the politics in Netherlands is unlikely to have much of an impact on future EU legislation that will end up overruling any actions the Dutch take to the contrary of the EU's legislations.