Sadly, though, consumer routers arent reallly up to the job. Plug in any Netgear router and try to run bit-torrent or gnutella and watch it lock up inside of 15 minutes..... unless you can afford a Cisco - and no, linksys routers are not as good - you're stuffed.. or dependent on a modem.
That might entail the ISP having to break their own terms of service with regard to email traffic, or prevent "infected but unaware" users (spam relays) getting technical help.. but it's a very interesting idea nonetheless.
So is your Sig, actually, I've bookmarked it to read at length later)
(Replying to myself for convenience)
Why can't Earthlink ban certain MAC addresses from its network? Surely the way to stop a repeat offender re-registering is to use MAC addresses (which are each unique to the unit) to ban his computer or router.
Sure, a technically minded user can change a MAC address but its a delay, and not always easy. Spammers aren't the brightest bunch.. hell, most of 'em can't even spell viagra!:-p
"While sending spam is not against the law in most cases, it does violate EarthLink's use policy; not only can Rush terminate the account of a spammer, but he can also charge a $200 cleanup fee." "Serial spammers who have been kicked off the EarthLink network once will often jump back on, creating as many as four or five fraudulent accounts per day using stolen credit cards
So - Earhtlink are fining victims of stolen credit cards, in other words!. Possibly a more long-lasting approach would be to geo-locate the connection and targt it with one of these
You didn't read the site then. The last revisions of the V2 were accurate to within metres of the target even when launched from hundreds of miles away, thanks to superb aiming calibration machines and slight mods to the missile itself.
lol.. for some reason I completely forgot about that. In the context of a discussion about WW2 weapons I read your name as a U-boot identification code.
I guess we should consider ourselves very lucky that the Germans never had the time to develop a submarine-launched V2.. or they'd have been able to conduct accurate short-range attacks on targets in the UK (from offshore positions) and maybe even the USA.
With your/. username being what it is, are you declaring a preference?;-)
No, I'm not trolling and I don't have time to get into the argument about wheter scientific knowledge carries a stain from the way it was acquired - that one could run and run.
Now I will be able to listen to the songs on my Rev.E iPod at triple-speed !
Although I suppose if Apple ever delivers the promised feature of having your Mac OSX Home directory on an iPod, this will be a very useful feature. (Apparently this was ditched as current iPod hard drives can't hack the stress of continuous desktop-style drive access)
However, if it allowed you to copy your DVDs to the internal Hard Drive and access them from an on-screen menu, THEN we'd have a reason to buy it.
This is surely the next step in evolution, but unlike the iPod and iTunes combo, nobody's made a DVD/DVR-with-Hard-Drive that stores DVDs as far as I'm aware
My question to Mr.Glaser is this: Real has made much of its Opensource initiatives, but why is it that the OSS Helix Player is not available for Windows?
Helix must build on Windows as its the basis for all your software, but Win32 users are forced to use the RealPlayer, which some may find undesirable... while other platforms have the option of Helix without proprietary codecs. Is this really choice ?
I really hope I get to meta-mod "unfair" the moderator who did this (-1 Troll??? I don't think so , +5 Funny would be fairer).. check any mac thread to see that standards aren't applied evenly aroud here.
Dual 2Ghz G5. Perhaps not quite as powerful but a far more elegant design. Could probably afford an Apple Cinema Display to go with it for less than the cost of the 4Ghz Intel box....
How sucky is that - a few hours after you posted this link here, some other/.'er got it on the mainpage as a new story. Well I appreciated it anyway....
Actually I'm British, I just chose to use the American terminology (cellphone for mobile') for convenience and consistency with the subject: - here, predictably, providers have chosen to follow the American model of the service provider issuing the subscriber with a handset that's locked to their own network.
I suspect most Brits look to European phone systems with a degree of envy.
Recently there was a kerfuffle about a cellphone which was Bluetooth compliant but which could not be used to transfer images off and on the phone, as the cellphone service provider had the ability removed.
The reason? Allowing direct file access cannibalises the market for emailing/SMSing them to people from the phone.
Now you expect us to believe that mobile telephone providers will make phones that can connect to peoples wifi hotspots to save the caller money?. Somehow I doubt it.
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Sadly, though, consumer routers arent reallly up to the job. Plug in any Netgear router and try to run bit-torrent or gnutella and watch it lock up inside of 15 minutes..... unless you can afford a Cisco - and no, linksys routers are not as good - you're stuffed.. or dependent on a modem.
Apple Airport base station supports dial-up for much less than that, and is beautiful too. I wish it supported ADSL with an internal modem too!
That might entail the ISP having to break their own terms of service with regard to email traffic, or prevent "infected but unaware" users (spam relays) getting technical help.. but it's a very interesting idea nonetheless.
So is your Sig, actually, I've bookmarked it to read at length later)
Bastards !
(Replying to myself for convenience)
:-p
Why can't Earthlink ban certain MAC addresses from its network? Surely the way to stop a repeat offender re-registering is to use MAC addresses (which are each unique to the unit) to ban his computer or router.
Sure, a technically minded user can change a MAC address but its a delay, and not always easy. Spammers aren't the brightest bunch.. hell, most of 'em can't even spell viagra!
"While sending spam is not against the law in most cases, it does violate EarthLink's use policy; not only can Rush terminate the account of a spammer, but he can also charge a $200 cleanup fee."
"Serial spammers who have been kicked off the EarthLink network once will often jump back on, creating as many as four or five fraudulent accounts per day using stolen credit cards
So - Earhtlink are fining victims of stolen credit cards, in other words!. Possibly a more long-lasting approach would be to geo-locate the connection and targt it with one of these
Start buying Firewire peripherals. My Mac supports them already, an extra PCI card is all my PC will need....
lucky stop - that joke ALWAYS gets modded down to -1
I tried babelfishing it, turns out that page is all about Dirty Schoolgirls who like hot sausage. That or I didn't get the right URL.....
You didn't read the site then. The last revisions of the V2 were accurate to within metres of the target even when launched from hundreds of miles away, thanks to superb aiming calibration machines and slight mods to the missile itself.
lol.. for some reason I completely forgot about that. In the context of a discussion about WW2 weapons I read your name as a U-boot identification code.
I guess we should consider ourselves very lucky that the Germans never had the time to develop a submarine-launched V2.. or they'd have been able to conduct accurate short-range attacks on targets in the UK (from offshore positions) and maybe even the USA.
PBD:Frontline coverage of Iraqi scud missile variants
With your /. username being what it is, are you declaring a preference? ;-)
No, I'm not trolling and I don't have time to get into the argument about wheter scientific knowledge carries a stain from the way it was acquired - that one could run and run.
It's my understanding that the Russian "Scud" rockets so beloved of wannabe regional powers are also V-2 derived.
" I'm surprised we haven't seen those microdrives in camcorders yet. I wonder why?"
Not suitable for continuous r/w operations! Mp3 player/Camera use is a single file being written then the drive is stopped again....
Now I will be able to listen to the songs on my Rev.E iPod at triple-speed !
Although I suppose if Apple ever delivers the promised feature of having your Mac OSX Home directory on an iPod, this will be a very useful feature. (Apparently this was ditched as current iPod hard drives can't hack the stress of continuous desktop-style drive access)
However, if it allowed you to copy your DVDs to the internal Hard Drive and access them from an on-screen menu, THEN we'd have a reason to buy it.
This is surely the next step in evolution, but unlike the iPod and iTunes combo, nobody's made a DVD/DVR-with-Hard-Drive that stores DVDs as far as I'm aware
My question to Mr.Glaser is this: Real has made much of its Opensource initiatives, but why is it that the OSS Helix Player is not available for Windows?
Helix must build on Windows as its the basis for all your software, but Win32 users are forced to use the RealPlayer, which some may find undesirable... while other platforms have the option of Helix without proprietary codecs. Is this really choice ?
I really hope I get to meta-mod "unfair" the moderator who did this (-1 Troll??? I don't think so , +5 Funny would be fairer).. check any mac thread to see that standards aren't applied evenly aroud here.
Dual 2Ghz G5. Perhaps not quite as powerful but a far more elegant design. Could probably afford an Apple Cinema Display to go with it for less than the cost of the 4Ghz Intel box....
How sucky is that - a few hours after you posted this link here, some other /.'er got it on the mainpage as a new story. Well I appreciated it anyway....
Actually I'm British, I just chose to use the American terminology (cellphone for mobile') for convenience and consistency with the subject: - here, predictably, providers have chosen to follow the American model of the service provider issuing the subscriber with a handset that's locked to their own network.
I suspect most Brits look to European phone systems with a degree of envy.
Recently there was a kerfuffle about a cellphone which was Bluetooth compliant but which could not be used to transfer images off and on the phone, as the cellphone service provider had the ability removed.
The reason? Allowing direct file access cannibalises the market for emailing/SMSing them to people from the phone.
Now you expect us to believe that mobile telephone providers will make phones that can connect to peoples wifi hotspots to save the caller money?. Somehow I doubt it.
I wonder if the author will find himself being tailed by suited guys in cars from now on....