The original article says ISPs would charge EVERY broadband customer $5 a month extra to be paid to the music industry. If somebody like me, for instance, who DOES do P2P downloads, but my P2P activity is limited to downloads of different linux distributions - I've probably downloaded 50 or 60 full ISO installs of a lot of different distros (anywhere from 400+MB on the low end to just under 5 GB each for the DVD-based ISOs, -I'm currently using Mandriva- is charged $5 a month even when I have downloaded NO copyrighted music or movies or whatever AT ALL, then THEY, the music industry, are plain and simple thieves and extortionists, and the ISPs are co-conspirators with them and accessories to that theft from the broadband customer. Each month they will steal an additional $5 from me and every other broadband user who does NOT illegally download copyrighted music. We don't owe them even one single penny. Also, as a church music director and organist, I find (from what little I listen to radio or hear coming from the car next mine at a stoplight) that the lyrics of a lot of today's "in" music or "rap" are VERY morally objectionable, devoid of morality, hateful, obscene, or worse. Music or rap that proposes or glorifies killing somebody, or music aimed at and popular with early teens promoting sexual activity, is NOT something I should be compelled to subsidize. The proposed $5 would IN FACT mean that I personally would be required to pay money to the music publishers, "artists" and composers who are making that "music", and that is the worst part of this. A church with a broadband connection would be subsidizing that filth from money put into the offering plate. That is simply unacceptable.
Be creative. Open two links for each transfer. Use one for a tell-tale or status link. If the data-transfer link get dropped, the two peers can query each other and force a re-establishment, right where they left off. Encrypt the status link so Bombcast can't spoof it. What would be nice would be if there was a way for this sort of operation to cost more network overhead to Bombcast if they mess with it than if they simply let it alone and didn't interfere with it. Like the reason why you don't mess with a rattlesnake or a gator.
If Comcast is selling " x megabits down and y kilobits upload", I DO NOT agree that they can do what they are doing, which is deliberately and deceptively killing specific uploads. It ought to be illegal - it is interfering with interstate commerce, or it is deliberate interference and disruption to an existing business relationship, or with an existing contractual relationship, that exists between whoever is sitting at the two peers. Especially since there ARE commercial, LEGAL, file transfers that take place using bittorrent, and they purchased Comcast's service for that purpose (among others). I think the bittorrent folks need to come up with a revision to their software that includes, in the datastream, a peer-to-peer message, properly encrypted, that tells the other peer, in effect: "this stream IS continuing, it has NOT been terminated, regardless of what you may receive to the contrary - any status message you receive that is NOT properly authenticated through encryption is bogus, so continue the transfer".
Yes it should be illegal. But since the States make out like bandits with rebates, don't expect any reforms any time real soon. Why? Assume a 7% sales tax. You buy a REALLY good deal - a $1,000 item with a $500 rebate. WHATTA DEAL!!, you think. OK, even assuming the crooks and scam artists eventually send you your rebate, you paid $70 SALES TAX for a $500 item. The State just collected 14% sales tax on your purchase, and they collected it UP FRONT, they didn't have to wait for their money. You don't get a rebate on sales tax. Remember that. If it's an instant rebate, that's different. But as long as the States are essentially partners with the rebate scammers, they have a huge disincentive to do ANYTHING that would reduce their sales tax windfall.
I would require that the merchant provide you with pre-filled out rebate forms, postage-paid, machine-printed at point-of-sale, with an extra copy of EVERYTHING given to the consumer, have it mailed by the merchant THAT DAY, require that rebate checks be mailed to the consumer within 21 days of the date of sale, and mandate a minimum $500 penalty (or twenty-five times the rebate amount, whichever is greater), payable directly to the consumer, if the consumer doesn't receive the rebate within the specified time, and make it a felony criminal offense if any rebate processor fails to comply with the requirements of this more than ten times in any one month. And that law will be delivered from the legislature to the governor by flying pigs.
I bought the Acer just before Christmas 2005. AMD Turion-64 processor, 100 GB drive partitioned to two 50's, 512 MB DDR (two 256MB SODIMMS), 15.4 screen, modem, 100BT, b/g wireless. Had XP home preinstalled (of course). $799 on sale (not rebate). I installed Mandriva 64 bit on the second partition. Everything worked with Mandriva right off the bat except modem and wireless. The b/g wireless I found a driver for by a google search. For the modem I downloaded the files but haven't installed them yet because I haven't needed it. And I can always boot over into XP if they don't work, so I just didn't bother finishing that. On the down side, it uses shared DDR for the video, but I really don't do serious gaming, and I also upgraded later to two 512MB SODIMMS, for 1GB total, and so no worries. I REALLY like this laptop, have had no problems with it (knock on wood) and good battery life...
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The original article says ISPs would charge EVERY broadband customer $5 a month extra to be paid to the music industry. If somebody like me, for instance, who DOES do P2P downloads, but my P2P activity is limited to downloads of different linux distributions - I've probably downloaded 50 or 60 full ISO installs of a lot of different distros (anywhere from 400+MB on the low end to just under 5 GB each for the DVD-based ISOs, -I'm currently using Mandriva- is charged $5 a month even when I have downloaded NO copyrighted music or movies or whatever AT ALL, then THEY, the music industry, are plain and simple thieves and extortionists, and the ISPs are co-conspirators with them and accessories to that theft from the broadband customer. Each month they will steal an additional $5 from me and every other broadband user who does NOT illegally download copyrighted music. We don't owe them even one single penny. Also, as a church music director and organist, I find (from what little I listen to radio or hear coming from the car next mine at a stoplight) that the lyrics of a lot of today's "in" music or "rap" are VERY morally objectionable, devoid of morality, hateful, obscene, or worse. Music or rap that proposes or glorifies killing somebody, or music aimed at and popular with early teens promoting sexual activity, is NOT something I should be compelled to subsidize. The proposed $5 would IN FACT mean that I personally would be required to pay money to the music publishers, "artists" and composers who are making that "music", and that is the worst part of this. A church with a broadband connection would be subsidizing that filth from money put into the offering plate. That is simply unacceptable.
Be creative. Open two links for each transfer. Use one for a tell-tale or status link. If the data-transfer link get dropped, the two peers can query each other and force a re-establishment, right where they left off. Encrypt the status link so Bombcast can't spoof it. What would be nice would be if there was a way for this sort of operation to cost more network overhead to Bombcast if they mess with it than if they simply let it alone and didn't interfere with it. Like the reason why you don't mess with a rattlesnake or a gator.
If Comcast is selling " x megabits down and y kilobits upload", I DO NOT agree that they can do what they are doing, which is deliberately and deceptively killing specific uploads. It ought to be illegal - it is interfering with interstate commerce, or it is deliberate interference and disruption to an existing business relationship, or with an existing contractual relationship, that exists between whoever is sitting at the two peers. Especially since there ARE commercial, LEGAL, file transfers that take place using bittorrent, and they purchased Comcast's service for that purpose (among others). I think the bittorrent folks need to come up with a revision to their software that includes, in the datastream, a peer-to-peer message, properly encrypted, that tells the other peer, in effect: "this stream IS continuing, it has NOT been terminated, regardless of what you may receive to the contrary - any status message you receive that is NOT properly authenticated through encryption is bogus, so continue the transfer".
Yes it should be illegal. But since the States make out like bandits with rebates, don't expect any reforms any time real soon. Why? Assume a 7% sales tax. You buy a REALLY good deal - a $1,000 item with a $500 rebate. WHATTA DEAL!!, you think. OK, even assuming the crooks and scam artists eventually send you your rebate, you paid $70 SALES TAX for a $500 item. The State just collected 14% sales tax on your purchase, and they collected it UP FRONT, they didn't have to wait for their money. You don't get a rebate on sales tax. Remember that. If it's an instant rebate, that's different. But as long as the States are essentially partners with the rebate scammers, they have a huge disincentive to do ANYTHING that would reduce their sales tax windfall. I would require that the merchant provide you with pre-filled out rebate forms, postage-paid, machine-printed at point-of-sale, with an extra copy of EVERYTHING given to the consumer, have it mailed by the merchant THAT DAY, require that rebate checks be mailed to the consumer within 21 days of the date of sale, and mandate a minimum $500 penalty (or twenty-five times the rebate amount, whichever is greater), payable directly to the consumer, if the consumer doesn't receive the rebate within the specified time, and make it a felony criminal offense if any rebate processor fails to comply with the requirements of this more than ten times in any one month. And that law will be delivered from the legislature to the governor by flying pigs.
I bought the Acer just before Christmas 2005. AMD Turion-64 processor, 100 GB drive partitioned to two 50's, 512 MB DDR (two 256MB SODIMMS), 15.4 screen, modem, 100BT, b/g wireless. Had XP home preinstalled (of course). $799 on sale (not rebate). I installed Mandriva 64 bit on the second partition. Everything worked with Mandriva right off the bat except modem and wireless. The b/g wireless I found a driver for by a google search. For the modem I downloaded the files but haven't installed them yet because I haven't needed it. And I can always boot over into XP if they don't work, so I just didn't bother finishing that. On the down side, it uses shared DDR for the video, but I really don't do serious gaming, and I also upgraded later to two 512MB SODIMMS, for 1GB total, and so no worries. I REALLY like this laptop, have had no problems with it (knock on wood) and good battery life...