What this amounts to is moving the DSLAM from the central office to the pole outside your house, then wiring one or more T1/E1 lines to it.
No magic "sprinkle this on your phone line and wait 10 minutes" here.
There is nothing stopping you from deploying "this technology" for yourself today. Except maybe sticker shock. You'll shell out $500+/mo for the T1 line (since you don't already own the lines, like the Telco does), a couple grand for a DSLAM, and ~$100/mo in fees for dry pairs (assuming they even let you order them anymore) to your neghbors houses if you want to be nice and share.
Control over the root zone dosen't give them the ability to pull any domain they choose.
The closest they could come is taking an entire TLD offline, which by the way they have already done via more effective methods: The person resonsible for management of.IQ was taken in on terrorist charges rendering the ccTLD pretty much useless.
This has nothing (or little) to do with tapping in-flight broadband and phones.
Read that middle part again: "to be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access".
What they REALLY want is the ability to shut passengers up during a hijacking. Killing off all communications with the ground ensures that later on first-hand reports via blog posts or phone calls won't conflict with the governments statement of what 'really' happened.
You can set up automated systems and launch shared responsibility campaigns untill your blue in the face.
The fact still remains that your shared trusted ultra 31337 root zone file won't actually be used.
The operators of the root servers have stated time and time again that their job is to only serve the root zone, the contents of which is the responsibility of ICANN (and in turn the US government).
miked@rhun:~$ cat worldwind-1_2.zip Sorry but a slashdoting of a 250MB file is just just a bit more than we had planned for. The software you are looking for is quite exceptional. We suggest you bookmark it and come back latter when the flood is finished.
99.99% of all online chat sessions with stars, canidates, axe murderers, etc. are done with transcriptionists (people who get paid to type faster than most people can speak) present.
No one wants to wait around 6 minutes for person XYZ to type out a response to a question. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't spend their days in front of keyboards.
Akamai requires a minimum commitment of 10 Mb/sec. They expect your "peak" times to be much much higher than that.
They also charge accordingly.
Also, if you have multiple Mb/sec of RSS traffic, you might want to reconsider providing a RSS feed, since it generates little to no income on it's own.
Making a light connectionless protocol that does similar to what you described would be a lot simpler and not require reimplementing everyone's TCP stack.
What I want to know is how they are getting away with using US Robotics name. Normaly don't you make up a ficticious company name for the evil-going-to-take-over-the-world-bad-guy's seemingly innocent robotics company?
I like how they refer to Microsoft in the first paragraph as "MS Corporation", from what I know of Microsoft, they don't like being called anything but "Microsoft Corporation" or just "Microsoft". Even on internal docs.
If your trying to shorten it to save on typing, the proper useage would be "MSFT". But why anyone would tpye "MS" then type out "Corporation"...
Top Tier - TribalFusion, Burst Media, etc. Highest payoff, you want to work with these guys, but they are very picky. Tribal for instance only represents 5000 or so sites. You need to be pushing 20k+ sets of eyeballs (not just impressions, but individual people) a day before they will return your calls.
Second Tier - Google AdSense, MarketBanker, etc. Below average payoff, but they will accept almost anyone with a legitimate site. But if your seeing less than 10k impressions a day, it will be a good 6 months to a year before you've made enough to get a check mailed to you.
Third Tier - AdDynamix, AllClicks, etc. Bottom of the bucket pay rates. But they will take any impression they can get. When you hear people complain about things like skimming, and commissions not being paid, etc. these are the type of networks that are involved.
Long story short... It all comes down to traffic. 400k impressions per month may seem a lot, untill you try to make money off of that volume.
Your best bet for supporting an opensource project would be to solicit donations or sponsors. Failing that, try to sell your own ad space to companies that fall in your target group. (i.e. if your writing video card drivers, try getting a gaming site to advertise with you)
On the other hand, if you can create something that people love and use on a regular basis, you can support yourself off it. Right now I bring in more a month from Google AdSense than I do at my decent paying IT day job. I'm expecting even more when I convert all my inventory over to TribalFusion.
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What this amounts to is moving the DSLAM from the central office to the pole outside your house, then wiring one or more T1/E1 lines to it.
No magic "sprinkle this on your phone line and wait 10 minutes" here.
There is nothing stopping you from deploying "this technology" for yourself today. Except maybe sticker shock. You'll shell out $500+/mo for the T1 line (since you don't already own the lines, like the Telco does), a couple grand for a DSLAM, and ~$100/mo in fees for dry pairs (assuming they even let you order them anymore) to your neghbors houses if you want to be nice and share.
If you have to prove to them that their is a problem, they aren't likely to do anything about it when you do come up with evidence.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but unless you call your sales rep and threaten to leave, your not going to get anywhere.
> (I am not affiliated with either Samsung or NewEgg)
Wow, that's a relief.
The diffrence is your spin will never be heard by the media.
untill the spammers website is hosted on the cablemodem of someone on your block.
Control over the root zone dosen't give them the ability to pull any domain they choose.
.IQ was taken in on terrorist charges rendering the ccTLD pretty much useless.
The closest they could come is taking an entire TLD offline, which by the way they have already done via more effective methods: The person resonsible for management of
This has nothing (or little) to do with tapping in-flight broadband and phones.
Read that middle part again: "to be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access".
What they REALLY want is the ability to shut passengers up during a hijacking. Killing off all communications with the ground ensures that later on first-hand reports via blog posts or phone calls won't conflict with the governments statement of what 'really' happened.
You can set up automated systems and launch shared responsibility campaigns untill your blue in the face.
The fact still remains that your shared trusted ultra 31337 root zone file won't actually be used.
The operators of the root servers have stated time and time again that their job is to only serve the root zone, the contents of which is the responsibility of ICANN (and in turn the US government).
This is just more "alternate root" quackery.
I can't seem to get the fish to figure out what language this story is in.
For what it's worth, their backend machines do run Windows:
http://sasrchbvta02.search.msn-int.com was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 10-Nov-2004 17:47:58 GMT
http://sasrchbvta03.search.msn-int.com was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 10-Nov-2004 17:52:20 GMT
etc...
http://www.futuremark.com/download/files/3DMark05_ v100_installer.exe.torrent
miked@rhun:~$ cat worldwind-1_2.zip
Sorry but a slashdoting of a 250MB file is just just a bit more than we had planned for. The software you are looking for is quite exceptional. We suggest you bookmark it and come back latter when the flood is finished.
Neither will Kerry.
99.99% of all online chat sessions with stars, canidates, axe murderers, etc. are done with transcriptionists (people who get paid to type faster than most people can speak) present.
No one wants to wait around 6 minutes for person XYZ to type out a response to a question. Believe it or not, a lot of people don't spend their days in front of keyboards.
Whoever yells loud enough, pushes hard enough, and hold their breath the longest wins.
I definately welcome them to hold their breath as long as possible...
Akamai requires a minimum commitment of 10 Mb/sec. They expect your "peak" times to be much much higher than that.
They also charge accordingly.
Also, if you have multiple Mb/sec of RSS traffic, you might want to reconsider providing a RSS feed, since it generates little to no income on it's own.
Making a light connectionless protocol that does similar to what you described would be a lot simpler and not require reimplementing everyone's TCP stack.
Thats a great idea! Lets call it UDP.
Karma be damned...
What the *fuck* are you talking about?
You could just open a couple dozen Gmail accounts.
Maybe consider 2 tiers of authentication.
First level being a 4 digit pin that can be easily entered at a login screen that will allow view access to all the important data.
Second level, require a username and password if anyone actualy wants to modify something.
What I want to know is how they are getting away with using US Robotics name. Normaly don't you make up a ficticious company name for the evil-going-to-take-over-the-world-bad-guy's seemingly innocent robotics company?
My first guess would be because the "Lemon Law" only covers cars.
From http://www.mylemon.com/faq.htm:
What types of products are covered by the Lemon Law ?
All motor vehicles primary used for personal use are covered under the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lemon Law.
And of course the mods miss the blaitant spam. Submitter is getting points for every slashdot clickthru.
Non spammy link in 3..2..1...http://www.serenitymovie.com/
I like how they refer to Microsoft in the first paragraph as "MS Corporation", from what I know of Microsoft, they don't like being called anything but "Microsoft Corporation" or just "Microsoft". Even on internal docs.
If your trying to shorten it to save on typing, the proper useage would be "MSFT". But why anyone would tpye "MS" then type out "Corporation"...
There are pretty much 3 levels of advertising:
Top Tier - TribalFusion, Burst Media, etc.
Highest payoff, you want to work with these guys, but they are very picky. Tribal for instance only represents 5000 or so sites. You need to be pushing 20k+ sets of eyeballs (not just impressions, but individual people) a day before they will return your calls.
Second Tier - Google AdSense, MarketBanker, etc.
Below average payoff, but they will accept almost anyone with a legitimate site. But if your seeing less than 10k impressions a day, it will be a good 6 months to a year before you've made enough to get a check mailed to you.
Third Tier - AdDynamix, AllClicks, etc.
Bottom of the bucket pay rates. But they will take any impression they can get. When you hear people complain about things like skimming, and commissions not being paid, etc. these are the type of networks that are involved.
Long story short... It all comes down to traffic. 400k impressions per month may seem a lot, untill you try to make money off of that volume.
Your best bet for supporting an opensource project would be to solicit donations or sponsors. Failing that, try to sell your own ad space to companies that fall in your target group. (i.e. if your writing video card drivers, try getting a gaming site to advertise with you)
On the other hand, if you can create something that people love and use on a regular basis, you can support yourself off it. Right now I bring in more a month from Google AdSense than I do at my decent paying IT day job. I'm expecting even more when I convert all my inventory over to TribalFusion.