In the grand scheme of things, Telia's fixed and dhcp clients are a small minority of the entire Net. Shouldn't Telia customers complain to Telia that they should upgrade their peering links with Cogent (as that is what this disagreement is about)?
Cogent's right. Telia's peering point connection is, shall we say, lacking in several locations. This is causing Cogent to have to waste long-haul capacity to push the traffic to other points.
I doubt anyone will move. Temporary network segregation is a price to pay for getting super-cheap transit. I'd rather have these little spats then get raped by "Tier 1 providers" such as Level3 who try to justify extremely high prices per megabit.
As a Cogent customer who buys several tens of gigabits/second of transit from them all across the world, I could care less of the spat. It's going to happen. Level3 didn't like Cogent selling bandwidth 90-100 dollars less per megabit.
At the end of the day, some things will be unreachable, but the Internet isn't indestructible anymore. Things will break, and we move on.
It's Cogent's network. They can decide who to accept traffic from and who to deny traffic from. They're not violating safe harbor provisions since their decisions don't involve the actual content flowing on the network, just the source/destinations.
I worry less about the money and more about our energy needs. If we don't explore and use efficient energy technologies/policies, we're going to be stuck in this gravity well until the Sun expands and burns our planet up.
Unfortunately, you need to use IE because of the integration with Windows Media Player. On the upside, Netflix just modified their plans so there is no limit on how much you can watch with the service.
My wife did exactly the same thing, but we use Netflix's Watch It Now on a big monitor in the bedroom and living room to watch Netflix movies. We still get the DVDs, but the majority of what we watch is through the Watch It Now feature.
A problem you run into with genetic algorithms is that you get excellent designs/models, but it's extremely difficult to troubleshoot when problems occur. Example: I was at an electronics conference, and a presenter showed off an electrical circuit board that functioned as it should (it did some sort of low-level function, like light up in a certain pattern). It was designed by a genetic algorithm. For all intents and purposes, it should not have worked, as some components weren't even connected in a way you would think could function. But it did. Good luck trying to troubleshoot why something isn't working though if a system like that were to be put into production.
Toshiba hasn't done anything with theirs yet because it hasn't been licensed yet by the NRC. Once licensed, they're going to install it free of charge (proof of concept). That should offset a fair amount of fuel costs for Gurnee, AK.
So GE can clean up by marketing this as super-efficient lighting, and then plow the profits from that into highly-efficient displays in the future? W00t.
The equipment is rated for 8 hours of battery back-up. POTS has to supply 5-9's of uptime, by that standard, Comcast went through one hundred years worth of downtime during yesterday's snowstorm.
Which is why most VoIP providers (Comcast included) do not have to adhere to laws written for POTS, nor do they have to meet 5 9's of reliability. People want cheap phone service (Comcast VoIP, Vonage, etc, etc) but it's cheap because you're riding dumb, non-redundant last-mile infrastructure. If you want rock solid POTS service, get a POTS line. If you want cheap phone service, get VoIP and extended duration battery backup for the VoIP node in your home (and hope your last mile provider's hybrid fiber coax box has backup power for a long enough duration).
Which means insurance, testing, paperwork (in triplicate at a minimum), inspections, etc etc etc.
That'll significantly add to the cost when your price per unit is measured in pennies.
I agree, but space agencies have to deal with the extra costs due to electrical (and other related) components needing to be within more precise tolerances. Why not mission critical bolts? The space shuttle is held to the launch platform by two huge explosive bolts that only detonate and release the shuttle after the on-board computers determine all three main engines are fired up properly. How much is too much additional cost to ensure you don't lose a $1 billion+ space vehicle because of faulty bolts? I know that's an exceptional situation, but if the part in question is mission critical, it's design and manufacture needs to take that into account, as well as the cost.
I would think this could be fixed by having an agreement with the manufacturer/provider that said they were financially liable if the material/product you received was not what you ordered.
While I myself am not a Googler, but a big fan of Google, I'm dismayed that it seems no verification of DMCA requests are made. With all the resources Google has, can it really be that difficult to verify said DMCA notices? It would be interesting for someone to put together DMCA requests for random videos on Youtube and determine what the statistical probability of Youtube accepting an unverified DMCA request was over a period of time.
Doesn't matter if the government waived liability or not. A corporate entity exists to limit liability. The worse that happens is the company goes under and if the cause of the disaster was gross negligence, directors/officers of the company would get the punishment.
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Thanks for the post. Learn something new every day. Kudos! I'd mod you higher, but you're already at +5.
In the grand scheme of things, Telia's fixed and dhcp clients are a small minority of the entire Net. Shouldn't Telia customers complain to Telia that they should upgrade their peering links with Cogent (as that is what this disagreement is about)?
Cogent's right. Telia's peering point connection is, shall we say, lacking in several locations. This is causing Cogent to have to waste long-haul capacity to push the traffic to other points.
I doubt anyone will move. Temporary network segregation is a price to pay for getting super-cheap transit. I'd rather have these little spats then get raped by "Tier 1 providers" such as Level3 who try to justify extremely high prices per megabit.
At the end of the day, some things will be unreachable, but the Internet isn't indestructible anymore. Things will break, and we move on.
It's Cogent's network. They can decide who to accept traffic from and who to deny traffic from. They're not violating safe harbor provisions since their decisions don't involve the actual content flowing on the network, just the source/destinations.
Horse-zebrafish hybrids? Apparently, zebrafish have amazing regenerative properties (or so says the article/thread posted on a Slashdot recently).
That would make a kick ass Robot Chicken skit.
I worry less about the money and more about our energy needs. If we don't explore and use efficient energy technologies/policies, we're going to be stuck in this gravity well until the Sun expands and burns our planet up.
Unfortunately, you need to use IE because of the integration with Windows Media Player. On the upside, Netflix just modified their plans so there is no limit on how much you can watch with the service.
My wife did exactly the same thing, but we use Netflix's Watch It Now on a big monitor in the bedroom and living room to watch Netflix movies. We still get the DVDs, but the majority of what we watch is through the Watch It Now feature.
A problem you run into with genetic algorithms is that you get excellent designs/models, but it's extremely difficult to troubleshoot when problems occur. Example: I was at an electronics conference, and a presenter showed off an electrical circuit board that functioned as it should (it did some sort of low-level function, like light up in a certain pattern). It was designed by a genetic algorithm. For all intents and purposes, it should not have worked, as some components weren't even connected in a way you would think could function. But it did. Good luck trying to troubleshoot why something isn't working though if a system like that were to be put into production.
Toshiba hasn't done anything with theirs yet because it hasn't been licensed yet by the NRC. Once licensed, they're going to install it free of charge (proof of concept). That should offset a fair amount of fuel costs for Gurnee, AK.
"I am code contributor #9"
I have several Netgear 1U NAS devices in a 19" rack at my home, totaling almost 17TB of usable storage. I'm still running out of space.
It's easier to walk away from a job than a wife. Plus, the job doesn't take half when you leave.
So GE can clean up by marketing this as super-efficient lighting, and then plow the profits from that into highly-efficient displays in the future? W00t.
Which is why most VoIP providers (Comcast included) do not have to adhere to laws written for POTS, nor do they have to meet 5 9's of reliability. People want cheap phone service (Comcast VoIP, Vonage, etc, etc) but it's cheap because you're riding dumb, non-redundant last-mile infrastructure. If you want rock solid POTS service, get a POTS line. If you want cheap phone service, get VoIP and extended duration battery backup for the VoIP node in your home (and hope your last mile provider's hybrid fiber coax box has backup power for a long enough duration).
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dont_scale_99999_uptime_is_for_walmart.php
That'll significantly add to the cost when your price per unit is measured in pennies.
I agree, but space agencies have to deal with the extra costs due to electrical (and other related) components needing to be within more precise tolerances. Why not mission critical bolts? The space shuttle is held to the launch platform by two huge explosive bolts that only detonate and release the shuttle after the on-board computers determine all three main engines are fired up properly. How much is too much additional cost to ensure you don't lose a $1 billion+ space vehicle because of faulty bolts? I know that's an exceptional situation, but if the part in question is mission critical, it's design and manufacture needs to take that into account, as well as the cost.
I would think this could be fixed by having an agreement with the manufacturer/provider that said they were financially liable if the material/product you received was not what you ordered.
While I myself am not a Googler, but a big fan of Google, I'm dismayed that it seems no verification of DMCA requests are made. With all the resources Google has, can it really be that difficult to verify said DMCA notices? It would be interesting for someone to put together DMCA requests for random videos on Youtube and determine what the statistical probability of Youtube accepting an unverified DMCA request was over a period of time.
Doesn't matter if the government waived liability or not. A corporate entity exists to limit liability. The worse that happens is the company goes under and if the cause of the disaster was gross negligence, directors/officers of the company would get the punishment.
I think I'll hold off until I can get a "fuel injected" core =)
The rule of law is only works when someone is around to enforce it.
A++ Would LOL again.