There's absolutely nothing stopping you from leasing or acquiring right-of-way and laying your own national or international fiber network. If you have a few billion dollars laying around building a hole in your pocket I'm sure you could get some talented engineers to help set that shit up for you.
I think you're vastly overestimating the power of the Slashdot effect anymore. It's more likely they're just using some crappy default install on an underpowered box that hasn't had its Apache settings tweaked. The pages are dynamic and may be fed out of some database-driven content management system probably using MySQL which hasn't been tweaked either. Either that or they got Dugg in which case they're fukked. Digg has a ton more active users than Slashdot can ever hope for, which is sad considering they suck donkey balls and their comment threading was designed by a five year old who can't comprehend nesting comments more than 2 deep.
Because it's exciting!!!!!! We're really into open source too so we're totally cool with you guys knowing all our internal security layout. In fact, the keypad combo for the data center gate for visitors is 31337! Welcome anytime 24/7! Please don't steal anything or mess with any cables though... we don't believe in cameras since they create a hostile work environment so it'd be really cool if you were good fellows and didn't mess anything up if you want to pop on down to check s out in the middle of the night. 'K? Thanks.
That said, RAID is not a replacement for proper backup. RAID is just a first line of defense to avoid downtime.
RAID-5 is "good enough" for home use though. If you're paranoid then build a second box that just backs up the first via rsync or rdiff-backup. The second box doesn't necessarily even have to have a RAID array, you could LVM a bunch of disks together. If the backup array dies then oh well, just install a new drive and rsync from your production server again. Personally I don't even bother to back up my MythTV backend's 600GB RAID-5 array (wow, that was really massive when I built it years ago, now I could back up the entire thing on one drive) since the only thing I keep on it are recorded television programs. Sure, I'd be pretty heartbroken if I lost 2 or 3 years of Law and Order SVU, but I'll get over it and can just buy the DVDs.
Online shops shouldn't get exempt from collection taxes just because they don't have a physical presence in the state.
I don't know about Canada, but in the United States only the Federal Government has the power to regulate and tax interstate commerce. Ohio can't suddenly decide to tax something someone in Idaho buys from an online store in New York because their Internet traffic passes through a router in Cleveland, so why should they be able to force that same store in New York to collect sales tax for a purchaser in Ohio when the New York store has no presence in Ohio? It is absolutely no different than telephone sales and telephone sales are exempt from sales tax. The states get around this limitation by charging you "Use Taxes" instead though which are just thinly veiled attempts to skirt the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.
The thing that I find a lot different between the AT&T DSL I currently use and the Cox Cable Internet I tried for a grand total of 5 days before I ditched it: latency and jitter. The unwashed masses look and see they can get 12 Mbps from Cox's "Premium" Internet service, but then when I got it the average latency to major sites was 60-150 ms with jitter of 30-70ms on top of that. Add in random 10% packet loss periods during heavy usage periods in my neighborhood and I was getting clobbered. My Vonage service would drop out completely or I'd miss parts of the conversation. With my DSL the average latency is 35-55ms with less than 5ms jitter and my Vonage service is rock solid. So, mark me down as another one who doesn't buy into Cable's high bandwidth crapfest, I'll stick with my 6 Mbps/768Kbps ADSL over the 12 Mbps/1 Mbps Cox Cable offering.
That's fantastic if you have an HDTV... the vast majority of people don't however. I have no plans to purchase an HDTV within the next 10 years unless my TV craps out since it is only a 9 year old CRT... it should conceivably last at least 20 years.
Meh, I don't understand why people want to run MythTV on their main PC anyway. Get hardware MPEG2 encoders like PVR 250 cards and install it in an old PC with lots of disk space and throw it in the basement. Then you just use a quiet frontend box with a Via EPIA mini-ITX board that supports hardware mpeg2 decoding in the living room. Then you can leave your beast PC running Windows Vista with 15 fans and your quad core 250 watt CPU in your office to play games.
That depends on your definition of free, doesn't it.
The ironic thing is that at the end of the day, the BSD license is more "free" than the GPL in that it allows you to do whatever you want with the code, including bundling it in with proprietary code and not releasing your enhancements. It sucks for the original authors, but they released their code under that license fully acknowledging companies had permission to take their work and build on it without giving anything back. That is "free", but not necessary conducive to building communities obviously.
Its been illegal since 9/11 to take any photos in or on any of the bridges and tunnels of NYC.
How on Earth do they think they can enforce such a law? You can't take a tourist picture on the Brooklyn Bridge? How did Wikipedia get their picture from 2005 then?
And then, both pilots die from food poisoning and a whole plane full of retired pilots crashes since no once could actually get into the cockpit to land the darn thing.
In the event of a hijacking or loss of the flight crew the plane would just revert automatically to autopilot and only take commands from the ground. The autopilot can easily be made to land a jumbo jet these days, it's just cocky pilots don't want to sit around and do nothing while the plane flies itself.
But what if you no longer wish to own that track (you got sick of it, or bought the wrong track, or whatever) and decide to exercise your right of first sale and transfer ownership of that one (1) copy of the track to someone else?
That is stealing. In this brave new world where there is no physical media anymore there is nothing to transfer physically so you do not have those supposed "rights" anymore. Transferring the digital bits is copyright infringement.
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Eliminate the domain squatters and you'll eliminate the push for alternative TLDs. I'm sure more than half the domain names in existence are typo-squatting domain hoarders. There's no legitimate reason we need to allow them to keep those domains. Get a posse together of people with a clue and start going through domains. When you come across one that is obviously a domain squatter, delete it and then put more emphasis on analyzing that guy's other domains and delete those if necessary too until you've cleaned up the system. It's not property, you're just leasing a label from the collective community and we can choose to take it back if you're being an asshat.
This is like someone trying to bring the Windows Registry or child windows to Mac OS X. Even the idea itself is abhorrent.
I think it'd be much more interesting to find a way to implement something like MacOS X's Application Directory container which has all the libraries you need to run the program and, now with universal binaries, binaries for both PowerPC and x86 platforms. I can just drag and drop the Application container onto a USB thumb drive and then onto another computer if I want and everything goes along with it 95% of the time (there are cases where kernel modules would need to be installed or a driver or something in which case it needs a different installer method or a check that runs the first time the app is run on a new system and updates the modules). Some companies developed the U3 kludge and it sort of works, but isn't nearly as elegant as MacOS X's application directories.
I might have got one but have about 9Gb of music in Ogg Vorbis format and they don't support it.
Well that was pretty stupid of you. If you would've ripped the music in MP3 format you could listen to it on nearly anything. The only people that use Ogg Vorbis are open source fanatics.
I have already been told that my labor is now only worth a dollar an hour or something, because it can be reproduced in china for that sum, and society seems to think that is OK, that I have to "deal with it".
But I think you'll get a fairly united response here from people that think the people working for $1/hr in Asia are being exploited by greedy corporations who continue to sell the items for the same price they did when they were paying factory workers $10 or $15 an hour. Asians are already seeing their standard of living rise up as a result of an influx in foreign capital so wages will eventually HAVE to rise unless their governments artificially keep prices low to force their society into a slave state. Eventually Asians will be making a modest fraction of what first world nations pay their employers and greedy companies will find it taking a significant portion out of their profits so they'll need to move their factories to somewhere even more impoverished... probably Africa.
Domain names aren't IP addresses. You can have a billion DNS records pointing to one IP address and serving up ads. Yet another reason why we should NOT think of domain names as "real estate" and more like trademarks.
There's no market out there asking for IPv6 network access. ISPs and their upstream providers thus have no increase in revenue if they deploy IPv6, but that deployment will cost them real money -- v6 capable routers need much more storage and processing, for instance -- and so there's real financial incentive to avoid IPv6.
Routers that have been capable of supporting IPv4/IPv6 dual stack have been available for a long time now so unless you're a tiny ISP that has no budget for life-cycle upgrades it's very likely your kit is already capable of running IPv6. Now, whether or not your engineering staff is trained in supporting IPv6 is another story. Within 5-10 years though ISPs will have very little excuse to NOT support IPv6 since they will have replaced any antiquated IPv4-only equipment as it is end-of-lifed. US Federal Government agencies have a mandate to support IPv6 by June 2008 so it has been spurring a lot of vendors to get their shit in order and either upgrade their products to support IPv6 or face not being able to sell to one of their largest customers.
On my annual state tax form (we have sales tax here) there is a special box for you to put in the $ amount you spent on internet purchases that you haven't yet paid taxes on (and a corresponding box to calculate what you now owe in taxes based on that amount).
And it's probably called a "Use Tax" on that form and not a "Sales Tax" since taxing interstate commerce is illegal. It applies to brick and mortar transactions in most places too. If I go from my home county where the tax is 7.5% and buy something in the neighboring county where the tax is 6%, the state expects me to pay the 1.5% difference in Use Tax. That's complete bullshit and conveniently enough, I've never bought anything outside my home county.;-)
Instead of blaming PlusNet, why don't you blame the criminal spammers who are assaulting your e-mail account? We seem to acquire this apathetic attitude towards spam as if there's nothing we can do about it... it's just a fact of life that half our e-mail or more is going to be garbage. Why do people accept this?
The size of the internet is not going to stop growing because many companies chose to go with underpowered Cisco kit. The internet will continue to grow by 12,000 to 17,000 routes per month, accelerating over the next few years as IPv4 space becomes exhausted and de-aggregation becomes the norm.
It sounds like what we need is legislation to enforce some hard limits on the growth of Internet routing tables in order to avoid these kinds of DoS attacks in the future. If we lobby Congress now we can hopefully avoid these disastrous consequences from reaching the United States.
Meh, I'm still not into this at all. The Transformers in the original cartoon were not complicated and looked like humanoid robots. The Transformers I've seen in the trailers look like gigantic robots with random bits of complicated fucking metal sticking out here or there and they only vaguely resemble humanoid form in that they've got a head, torso, two legs, and two arms. Other than that, they look nothing like the Transformers I grew up with as a kid in the early 1980s. I think I'll pass on this movie until it finds its way to Netflix like Fantastic Four.
If you have evidence, show it. If it's infringing, it'll be removed. But you don't want to.
That is an interesting point. If Microsoft really cared that their patents were being infringed they'd provide a detailed list of the points of infringement and demand you either pay up or remove the offending intellectual property from your FOSS. You know that, at least in the case of Debian or OpenBSD, any patent encumbered technology would be immediately purged even if it meant restricting existing functionality.
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There's absolutely nothing stopping you from leasing or acquiring right-of-way and laying your own national or international fiber network. If you have a few billion dollars laying around building a hole in your pocket I'm sure you could get some talented engineers to help set that shit up for you.
I think you're vastly overestimating the power of the Slashdot effect anymore. It's more likely they're just using some crappy default install on an underpowered box that hasn't had its Apache settings tweaked. The pages are dynamic and may be fed out of some database-driven content management system probably using MySQL which hasn't been tweaked either. Either that or they got Dugg in which case they're fukked. Digg has a ton more active users than Slashdot can ever hope for, which is sad considering they suck donkey balls and their comment threading was designed by a five year old who can't comprehend nesting comments more than 2 deep.
Because it's exciting!!!!!! We're really into open source too so we're totally cool with you guys knowing all our internal security layout. In fact, the keypad combo for the data center gate for visitors is 31337! Welcome anytime 24/7! Please don't steal anything or mess with any cables though... we don't believe in cameras since they create a hostile work environment so it'd be really cool if you were good fellows and didn't mess anything up if you want to pop on down to check s out in the middle of the night. 'K? Thanks.
The thing that I find a lot different between the AT&T DSL I currently use and the Cox Cable Internet I tried for a grand total of 5 days before I ditched it: latency and jitter. The unwashed masses look and see they can get 12 Mbps from Cox's "Premium" Internet service, but then when I got it the average latency to major sites was 60-150 ms with jitter of 30-70ms on top of that. Add in random 10% packet loss periods during heavy usage periods in my neighborhood and I was getting clobbered. My Vonage service would drop out completely or I'd miss parts of the conversation. With my DSL the average latency is 35-55ms with less than 5ms jitter and my Vonage service is rock solid. So, mark me down as another one who doesn't buy into Cable's high bandwidth crapfest, I'll stick with my 6 Mbps/768Kbps ADSL over the 12 Mbps/1 Mbps Cox Cable offering.
Translation: "I can't touch-dial my phone while driving anymore." PULL OVER TO USE A PHONE STUPID.
That's fantastic if you have an HDTV... the vast majority of people don't however. I have no plans to purchase an HDTV within the next 10 years unless my TV craps out since it is only a 9 year old CRT... it should conceivably last at least 20 years.
Meh, I don't understand why people want to run MythTV on their main PC anyway. Get hardware MPEG2 encoders like PVR 250 cards and install it in an old PC with lots of disk space and throw it in the basement. Then you just use a quiet frontend box with a Via EPIA mini-ITX board that supports hardware mpeg2 decoding in the living room. Then you can leave your beast PC running Windows Vista with 15 fans and your quad core 250 watt CPU in your office to play games.
Eliminate the domain squatters and you'll eliminate the push for alternative TLDs. I'm sure more than half the domain names in existence are typo-squatting domain hoarders. There's no legitimate reason we need to allow them to keep those domains. Get a posse together of people with a clue and start going through domains. When you come across one that is obviously a domain squatter, delete it and then put more emphasis on analyzing that guy's other domains and delete those if necessary too until you've cleaned up the system. It's not property, you're just leasing a label from the collective community and we can choose to take it back if you're being an asshat.
Domain names aren't IP addresses. You can have a billion DNS records pointing to one IP address and serving up ads. Yet another reason why we should NOT think of domain names as "real estate" and more like trademarks.
Routers that have been capable of supporting IPv4/IPv6 dual stack have been available for a long time now so unless you're a tiny ISP that has no budget for life-cycle upgrades it's very likely your kit is already capable of running IPv6. Now, whether or not your engineering staff is trained in supporting IPv6 is another story. Within 5-10 years though ISPs will have very little excuse to NOT support IPv6 since they will have replaced any antiquated IPv4-only equipment as it is end-of-lifed. US Federal Government agencies have a mandate to support IPv6 by June 2008 so it has been spurring a lot of vendors to get their shit in order and either upgrade their products to support IPv6 or face not being able to sell to one of their largest customers.
The FCC doesn't regulate cable television.
Instead of blaming PlusNet, why don't you blame the criminal spammers who are assaulting your e-mail account? We seem to acquire this apathetic attitude towards spam as if there's nothing we can do about it... it's just a fact of life that half our e-mail or more is going to be garbage. Why do people accept this?
It sounds like what we need is legislation to enforce some hard limits on the growth of Internet routing tables in order to avoid these kinds of DoS attacks in the future. If we lobby Congress now we can hopefully avoid these disastrous consequences from reaching the United States.
Meh, I'm still not into this at all. The Transformers in the original cartoon were not complicated and looked like humanoid robots. The Transformers I've seen in the trailers look like gigantic robots with random bits of complicated fucking metal sticking out here or there and they only vaguely resemble humanoid form in that they've got a head, torso, two legs, and two arms. Other than that, they look nothing like the Transformers I grew up with as a kid in the early 1980s. I think I'll pass on this movie until it finds its way to Netflix like Fantastic Four.