What does that have to do with anything? You don't need a sophisticated submarine just to break the cables in half. All you need to do that is a ship with an anchor and an approximate idea of where the cables are located. I would imagine it is much easier to tap an already broken cable without being noticed than to tap a working one.
the thing is the really heavy downloaders tend to use automated downloading applications. If things slow down the automated apps don't care they just keep going slowly.
everyone else had to visit all their sites to repoint dishes. Couldn't they just get someone who was already on site to do it?! repoining a dish can't be that hard.
There's also, you know, the people affected by the "drop-catching" described in the article? I agree, there was a domain I was "given" and started to use quite extensively but it was never actually registered to me and was registered with quite an expensive register. When it came up for renewal we naievely thought that the easiest thing to do was to let it drop and re-register it under my name. Since then it has been passing round the squatters. I would really like it back both because I like the name and because I gave a lot of people my email address there.
There is very little unclaimed real property in desirable areas and property rights don't generally just expire in the same way domain names do.
Imagine if a simple accident could transfer your valuable real estate into a pool where anyone could buy it at far below it's real value. That is what the situation is like with domain names.
look at what happened when they introduced info and biz, everyone legit stayed where they were and info and biz became nothing but another place for spammers to abuse.
I'm in favour of new TLDs but only if those tlds have strict rules about who can register what in them. A greater number of "anyone can register anything" style TLDs (of which there are already loads) would bring nothing of value IMO.
People generally expect website urls, email addresses etc to remain the same over a long time. If a TLD has had strict policies from the start then I have no problem with that but I wonder if there is any good way to kill off the existing squatters without hurting those legitimate operations who have ended up with thier stuff spread accross multiple domains.
Afaict they probablly can't do that at least not quickly because most ISP contracts are structured such that service levels are not gauranteed but price rises require a certain ammount of warning.
we are talking temporary disruption here not a permanent reduction in capacity.
But I know that my ISP has no signed contract with me that allows them to put other customer's needs before mine. Does your contract with them actaully gaurantee anything? If so then you are almost certainly on a buisness class connection. If not get ready to be ignored when the crunch comes.
The problem with those is that if you actually used them or even exposed them and got noticed by law enforcement then specalist law enforcement and/or the military would be on your tail almost immediately. Probablly with orders to shoot to kill.
we wouldn't have Apple's magnetic power coupling. Magsafe has always seemed a little pointless to me, how often do you see a laptop with only the power cable plugged in?
how many laptops are there in a similar form factor to the eeepc? The only other laptops I know of in that category are the librettos (which are no longer made), some of the smaller vaios (which are iirc larger and a LOT more expensive) and the OLPC (which is afaict even lower spec than the EEE and can't currently run windows).
IIRC the cost of a refurbished final model libretto is about double the price of an eepc plus a big SD card plus a whitebox oem copy of XP pro.
Why do laptops not have any kind of universal form factor similar to desktops? Is it because of the varying shapes and sizes of the cases? Couldn't laptop manufacturers just design the case around standardized hardware, thus making it easier to upgrade them (or are they already doing this?) Take a look at a standard desktop and monitor. Now take a look at a mac mini. and one of dells slim buisness desktops.
the standard desktop is hugely expandable and customisable but you pay a huge size penalty for that flexibility. The dell slim desktop is smaller and still has some room for customisation. The mac mini has similar customisability/upgradability to a laptop.
Laptops do actually use quite a few standardised parts. Wireless cards are generally minipci or minipcie. Hard drives are IDE or SATA with standardised form factors and connector arrangements. CD drives are generally IDE again with a standardised form factor and connector arranagement (though some manufacturers devite from it for various reasons such as wanting a slotload with the slot being an integrated part of the case or wanting to make things slimmer). CPUs where socketed are standardised though a lot of manufacturers use ball grid array processors soldered to the motherboard. Graphics is afaict ususually integrated on the motherboard.
laptop manufacturers differentiate themselves by form factor, ulitimately the quality laptop manufacturers aim is to squeeze as much as possible into as little space as possible and to do so as robustly and/or cheaply as possible. That doesn't tend to sit well with standardised form factors especially for the larger parts (motherboard, screen,battery, keyboard etc).
The last couple of dell machines we got came with firefox as part of the standard install. I'm in the UK though so I don't know if that is a local thing or general dell policy.
can be simplified quite a bit when you take out the various NAT-hole punch routines. Assuming people use statefull packet inspection firewalls with a "outbound and replies to outbound only" policy the hole punch routines will have to stay.
though from what I can gather parts of OOXML are not that much better. Apparently the spreadsheet spec says nothing about how formulaes are supposed to work for example.
Make no mistake this whole standardisation of document formats and mandating use of standardised formats thing is about waging war against microsofts dominance of the office suite market and both sides are fighting dirty.
except for particularlly big projects there is little chance anyone outside of the project will bother to do an audit of the code and IMO there is little chance of someone looking at the code casually spotting a competantly inserted backdoor.
They did that with NT without all that much success. (Windows 95 runs about as well with far fewer resources if you don't mind a crash every few weeks). It doesn't, on 9x try making the taskbar a couple of rows high and opening browser windows until it's full with small icons, you will notice things start falling over. Now try doing the same on a NT based version, no problem. Also 9x has absoloutely no concept of user permissions, every user is essentially god.
The real problem that MS is still trying to find a way out of is that most win32 programmers wrote apps that assumed no security because they were developing on a platform that had no security.
P.S. if you really want to stop windows systems getting messed up without stopping apps working windows steadystate rocks.
how many people who run linux do you think are stupid enough to buy vista then uninstall it? why does everyone pretend the white box market doesn't exist? Having used the cheap whitebox market in the past i'm very reluctant to do so again.
Afaict cheap big brand boxes are cheap because of economies of scale, carefull planning and probablly some loss leadership and crapware bundling income.
Cheap whiteboxes are cheap because they bought whatever shit was cheapest that week and stuffed it in a box with little to no integration testing and no consideration of what brands are reliable at all.
It's a cultural problem, if enough people wanted to use public transport some entrepreneurial sort would provide some Busses will never be faster than cars unless given priority on the roads (which requires governement intervention). Getting a route for a rail or tram line without the help of eminant domain is also likely to be impractical. Train and tram lines also have massive startup costs with little gaurantee of return.
Regardless of whether the day to day operation is managed pubilcally or privately governement intervention is needed to establish and maintain a good public transport network.
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What does that have to do with anything? You don't need a sophisticated submarine just to break the cables in half. All you need to do that is a ship with an anchor and an approximate idea of where the cables are located.
I would imagine it is much easier to tap an already broken cable without being noticed than to tap a working one.
how many more cables would have to be cut to effectively take the middle east off the net?
did you keep copies of the porn?
the thing is the really heavy downloaders tend to use automated downloading applications. If things slow down the automated apps don't care they just keep going slowly.
everyone else had to visit all their sites to repoint dishes.
Couldn't they just get someone who was already on site to do it?! repoining a dish can't be that hard.
the problem I see with that system is who gets to decide what is and isn't a genuine use.
There's also, you know, the people affected by the "drop-catching" described in the article?
I agree, there was a domain I was "given" and started to use quite extensively but it was never actually registered to me and was registered with quite an expensive register. When it came up for renewal we naievely thought that the easiest thing to do was to let it drop and re-register it under my name. Since then it has been passing round the squatters. I would really like it back both because I like the name and because I gave a lot of people my email address there.
There is very little unclaimed real property in desirable areas and property rights don't generally just expire in the same way domain names do.
Imagine if a simple accident could transfer your valuable real estate into a pool where anyone could buy it at far below it's real value. That is what the situation is like with domain names.
look at what happened when they introduced info and biz, everyone legit stayed where they were and info and biz became nothing but another place for spammers to abuse.
I'm in favour of new TLDs but only if those tlds have strict rules about who can register what in them. A greater number of "anyone can register anything" style TLDs (of which there are already loads) would bring nothing of value IMO.
People generally expect website urls, email addresses etc to remain the same over a long time. If a TLD has had strict policies from the start then I have no problem with that but I wonder if there is any good way to kill off the existing squatters without hurting those legitimate operations who have ended up with thier stuff spread accross multiple domains.
Afaict they probablly can't do that at least not quickly because most ISP contracts are structured such that service levels are not gauranteed but price rises require a certain ammount of warning.
we are talking temporary disruption here not a permanent reduction in capacity.
But I know that my ISP has no signed contract with me that allows them to put other customer's needs before mine.
Does your contract with them actaully gaurantee anything? If so then you are almost certainly on a buisness class connection. If not get ready to be ignored when the crunch comes.
The problem with those is that if you actually used them or even exposed them and got noticed by law enforcement then specalist law enforcement and/or the military would be on your tail almost immediately. Probablly with orders to shoot to kill.
yeah but network cables do and they have this nice little locking tab that ensures if the cable is tripped over it takes the laptop with it.
windows (even vista) does not require contact with microsoft after the initial installation.
we wouldn't have Apple's magnetic power coupling.
Magsafe has always seemed a little pointless to me, how often do you see a laptop with only the power cable plugged in?
how many laptops are there in a similar form factor to the eeepc? The only other laptops I know of in that category are the librettos (which are no longer made), some of the smaller vaios (which are iirc larger and a LOT more expensive) and the OLPC (which is afaict even lower spec than the EEE and can't currently run windows).
IIRC the cost of a refurbished final model libretto is about double the price of an eepc plus a big SD card plus a whitebox oem copy of XP pro.
Why do laptops not have any kind of universal form factor similar to desktops? Is it because of the varying shapes and sizes of the cases? Couldn't laptop manufacturers just design the case around standardized hardware, thus making it easier to upgrade them (or are they already doing this?)
Take a look at a standard desktop and monitor. Now take a look at a mac mini. and one of dells slim buisness desktops.
the standard desktop is hugely expandable and customisable but you pay a huge size penalty for that flexibility. The dell slim desktop is smaller and still has some room for customisation. The mac mini has similar customisability/upgradability to a laptop.
Laptops do actually use quite a few standardised parts. Wireless cards are generally minipci or minipcie. Hard drives are IDE or SATA with standardised form factors and connector arrangements. CD drives are generally IDE again with a standardised form factor and connector arranagement (though some manufacturers devite from it for various reasons such as wanting a slotload with the slot being an integrated part of the case or wanting to make things slimmer). CPUs where socketed are standardised though a lot of manufacturers use ball grid array processors soldered to the motherboard. Graphics is afaict ususually integrated on the motherboard.
laptop manufacturers differentiate themselves by form factor, ulitimately the quality laptop manufacturers aim is to squeeze as much as possible into as little space as possible and to do so as robustly and/or cheaply as possible. That doesn't tend to sit well with standardised form factors especially for the larger parts (motherboard, screen,battery, keyboard etc).
The last couple of dell machines we got came with firefox as part of the standard install. I'm in the UK though so I don't know if that is a local thing or general dell policy.
can be simplified quite a bit when you take out the various NAT-hole punch routines.
Assuming people use statefull packet inspection firewalls with a "outbound and replies to outbound only" policy the hole punch routines will have to stay.
though from what I can gather parts of OOXML are not that much better. Apparently the spreadsheet spec says nothing about how formulaes are supposed to work for example.
Make no mistake this whole standardisation of document formats and mandating use of standardised formats thing is about waging war against microsofts dominance of the office suite market and both sides are fighting dirty.
except for particularlly big projects there is little chance anyone outside of the project will bother to do an audit of the code and IMO there is little chance of someone looking at the code casually spotting a competantly inserted backdoor.
They did that with NT without all that much success. (Windows 95 runs about as well with far fewer resources if you don't mind a crash every few weeks).
It doesn't, on 9x try making the taskbar a couple of rows high and opening browser windows until it's full with small icons, you will notice things start falling over. Now try doing the same on a NT based version, no problem. Also 9x has absoloutely no concept of user permissions, every user is essentially god.
The real problem that MS is still trying to find a way out of is that most win32 programmers wrote apps that assumed no security because they were developing on a platform that had no security.
P.S. if you really want to stop windows systems getting messed up without stopping apps working windows steadystate rocks.
how many people who run linux do you think are stupid enough to buy vista then uninstall it? why does everyone pretend the white box market doesn't exist?
Having used the cheap whitebox market in the past i'm very reluctant to do so again.
Afaict cheap big brand boxes are cheap because of economies of scale, carefull planning and probablly some loss leadership and crapware bundling income.
Cheap whiteboxes are cheap because they bought whatever shit was cheapest that week and stuffed it in a box with little to no integration testing and no consideration of what brands are reliable at all.
It's a cultural problem, if enough people wanted to use public transport some entrepreneurial sort would provide some
Busses will never be faster than cars unless given priority on the roads (which requires governement intervention). Getting a route for a rail or tram line without the help of eminant domain is also likely to be impractical. Train and tram lines also have massive startup costs with little gaurantee of return.
Regardless of whether the day to day operation is managed pubilcally or privately governement intervention is needed to establish and maintain a good public transport network.