I want some Sezmi! I'm really tired of cable, since its the second time in a week its gone out completely.. Internet and TV! Comcast... I really hate you. Qwest... not a big fan of you either... but at the moment... your my only other option really... Oh City Council... how narrow minded you were in not going with Utopia.
WHAT!?!?! COMCAST and QWEST CONSIDER YOURSELVES NOTIFIED of atleast myself and EVERYONE I WORK WITH (20+ people) that would all agree that FAST internet access is desired. With a $50/month Charge for 50Mbit too!?!? Hell yes! Where is Utopia when I need them... Damn South Jordan City for believing in their lies.
The title... absurd right? How is it possible for them to use more bandwidth than they pay for? Short answer... its not, but according to this study, its not only possible its happening.
From another article at arstechnica criticizing this new "research", they made a rather amusing comparison that I feel explains it perfectly.
Imagine that I proposed to you the following argument. I have (let's pretend) added up all the fuel consumed in the process of getting WidgetCo's widgets from the factory to consumers. There's all the gas burned by the trucks that bring the widgets from the factory to the retail store. And then there's the gas each consumer burns driving to and from the store for widgets. And having added up the costs of all this carbon, I discover that WidgetCo is paying only a tiny fraction of the total cost of the fuel consumed in the process of getting widgets from the factory to the homes of customers. Now suppose I claim that this is evidence of some form of outrageous unfairness—WidgetCo is somehow forcing you to subsidize their shipping costs! (The widgets, by the way, are free.)If, in fact, I were to make such an argument, you would rapidly conclude that there are really only two possibilities: (1) I am a moron, or (2) I must think that you are if I expect you to find this persuasive.
To put maybe a little simpler... for the amount of traffic the Google sends out... they have to have an internet connection to equal that. And on the receiving end... the end user buys an internet connection thats capable of the speed with which they would like to download at. In short BOTH ends have paid their share of their bandwidth usage. What's really the concern however, is that the people Google buys their bandwidth, and connections from is not the telcos, its from the same providers the Telco's buy theirs from. Otherwise known as the backbone providers, and ultimately this is the problem. They feel that they should get a cut of the money Google is paying to their upstream providers because they're having to build infrastructure to support their users wanting to connect to Google faster and faster. And they're complaining about Google subsidizing? Sounds like they want to be, even in a time of record profits... yeah you heard me. Sad thing is, is the Telco's currently get subsidized by our Government through our Tax money, which is supposed to pay for the continual upgrades required to infrastructure. I'll give you a guess where they're not spending it... In the end, this is ultimately the result of why I was a huge supporter of Utopia for community based fiber infrastructure.
Long time no posts... but I figured I'd take a chance to rip on Qwest.
This is not something that has happened to me mind you... as I've been cursing qwest for a while.... I *might* sign up for their 20Mbit DSL should it ever arrive to my house (headless of coarse). Anyway... a friend of mine had an issue where a $15 charge showed up on his basic phone service account for a "email account" of sorts. Turns out that it came from a third party online over some "free coupons". All this online store had to do was send Qwest a bill with the phone number on it.
Essentially, Qwest is outsourcing their billing department for third parties... so not only are they a telcom company now... they're a billing/collections company!
A new low for Qwest
Look, I'm not a fan of the government (just read my blog), and I'm definitely not a fan of more Government Regulation. However, Net Neutrality *IS* a good thing. Its purpose is to force the monopolistic powers that be, to play fair with their smaller and more innovative and dynamic competitors. Republicans are dead against it, (and why wouldn't they be, the lobbyists that give them money/perks tell them to be) and then the far left Liberals are against it because they can't see past this being more unnecessary government regulation. However, what they can't seem to really understand is that the bill (S. 215) Internet Freedom Preservation Act doesn't change much over what is currently going on (far as we/I know anyway). It calls for packets to be equally prioritized regardless of their destination. The exact verbage from the bill goes like this:
`(4) enable any content, application, or service made available via the Internet to be offered, provided, or posted on a basis that--`(A) is reasonable and nondiscriminatory, including with respect to quality of service, access, speed, and bandwidth;
`(B) is at least equivalent to the access, speed, quality of service, and bandwidth that such broadband service provider offers to affiliated content, applications, or services made available via the public Internet into the network of such broadband service provider; and
`(C) does not impose a charge on the basis of the type of content, applications, or services made available via the Internet into the network of such broadband service provider;
If anything this bill didn't quite go far enough as I feel that ISP's should have to properly and accurately make available to the public at large what type of prioritization they are doing. As then consumers could be fully informed as to what is going on behind the curtain and make their purchasing choices based on that. Not that they have alot of choices at the moment, but thats a whole other entry.... (see Utopia)
Wtf!?! Why is it that people think that only web traffic is needed? If they want to stop certain activities in various places, like keeping people from using IM and other various programs in the computer lab thats typically used for teaching "typing", I can understand that. But I'm currently sitting in the computer lab, used for the computer science classes only. And still, EVERYTHING but http/https is blocked, and on top of that, there is some content filtering going on and I can't get to my Gmail account. Google pulls up fine tho... hmmm. Believe me when I say I understand why its being done, but at the same time... I'm also now inspired to circumvent it... and I'm even tempted to figure out how its being filtered and really tax the damn thing and make it crash. I hate being blocked/filtered, and I only gives me motivation to get around it and cause havac... I also suspect I'm not the only one.
-UPDATE- They are also blocking ALL HTTPS!!!! so they could be watching me post this right now!!!! eat it!
I know I've posted before about this whole net neutrality. Which might possibly make it through this time around. And if we can't get them to properly label their connections(I doubt you could force it too, because these same companies are currently getting away with advertising unlimited usage of their internet connections but booting you off if you use to much bandwidth.) like I and previously commented about. I'm for this net neutrality as it is definitely needed. Letting the money grubbing telco's decided whats "best" for consumers is a joke. Nor is letting the market figure it out. There simply isn't enough competition for that to work. Anyway, I found this article, that gives a bit more detail about the situation, and I think its pretty close to accurate as for why the telco's want this net neutrality bill not to pass. I love the thought of them trying to outlaw encryption too... Thats like trying to stop the p2p networks... and we know how well thats worked out.
Whats up with people not seeing what the big telco's are up to? Even more disturbing both political parties should be outraged at this same behavior as both of their founding values would denounce the telco's behavior. But alas, the FCC has killed build-out requirements for telco's, allowing them to enter only the most profitable areas of a city, instead of the whole city.
I'm all for letting companies be profitable, and even with letting the market forces have their way with as little government interaction as possible. However, the governments job is to handle specific instances where someone else's rights might be infringed by the actions of another. In this situation, the FCC is allowing telco's to dig up and make a profit from using public land. The problem is, this decision allows the telco's to "selectively" use public land in their best interests, and ignore the rights of all of the citizens of these cities. Each resident of a city has the right to have a say in *ALL* dealings with *ALL* public land within the cities boarders. This FCC ruling, over rules this, in favor of the telco's. Even more so, it also gives the telco's more rights than the cable companies currently, at least until the cable companies rework their contract with each city. Whats even more disturbing is the fact that the telco's only had to convince three people in order to gain this favor. Three people that are not voted on at all by the public. This is just one more reason the FCC needs to be gutted and striped of any type of authority, assume or actual. They need to be cut back to what their original purpose was for, to prevent chaos on the airwaves.
I've had Digital Cable from comcast for the last couple months, and I have to say, i've not impressed. The only reason I got it was because of the discount and free install which ended up to be almost the same price as what I would have done anyway. I don't like the digital cable box, and changing channels studders and really bothers me. The picture isn't that great over all... and these are all the things I can live with. What I really dislike is the price. I'd say its barely worth what I'm paying and I currently have it for half price. So, I need to call and cut back to my 12.95/month plan as soon as my discount runs up. Also, I'm extremely annoyed that about commercials in general. These big media company types are wondering why people are sick of commercials? And are currently trying to find ways to use technology to force people to watch commercials, while we the consumers are busy finding technology reasons to avoid commercials. Guess who's winning? Let me tell you what I hate about commercials and why I use my MythTV box to avoid them.
This is why I don't watch commercials and why I will continue not to watch them. This needs to stop, it needs to change. Instead these media companies should be using technology to give people what they "want" instead of force feeding us. We are entirely capable of figure out how to make things the way we want without you, why do you insist on thinking and treating us like we're idiots? .... We'll get what we want, with or without you... question is... do you want to be on making some money from it or not... you only have a few chances before the market will take it away from you. Just look at Tivo... they're still the king in the Commercial DVR market. Even after all the attemps and who knows how much money you've invested to try to compete.
Anyway, I'm done with my rant for now, will be interesting to watch the market over the next couple years.
What is this world comming to... more and more we seem to be drifting towards a Police State. The reason for this rant? Well its over a situation reported on by TIME.
Wolf was thrown into federal prison for refusing to testify before a U.S. grand jury and for failing to hand over unpublished video footage he shot during a raucous clash on the streets between San Francisco police officers and anti-G8 protesters last year. Wolf posted some of the video on his blog, and some clips were aired on TV newscasts that later paid Wolf for the footage. But the feds are demanding to see everything that wasn't made public. They allege that the unused portion of Wolf's video may show the patrol car being set afire — part of a federal crime, the government asserts. Wolf denies there is an attempted arson on his videotape. The feds say they have jurisdiction over the case because the police car is partly U.S. government property since the S.F.P.D. receives federal anti-terrorism money.
This is just one more instants that I feel the police(and/or our executive branch) have over stepped boundries they they really shouldn't be crossing. I haven't written on the previous ones, but there have been a few in the news over the last couple months, and I'm really at a loss for words about it... It seems we as a people are giving up everything that was fought for by our founding fathers and since. Many people died to give way to the freedoms we've enjoyed over the last 2 centuries, and this is how we repay their sacrifice... I close this with a quote from one of those founding fathers
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.-- Ben Franklin
I know I've written about this alot, mostly because I'm very concerned about it. I for one do not want the big ISP/Content provides such as the telco's and cable companies making toll roads on the internet. As such, I was of the opinion that a Net Neutrality law would restrict that. However, after watching some very funny bits from the Daily Show, and actually seeing these people I'm trusting to create this law... I've completely lost all faith that they could ever do it right and I'd rather have to deal with the technical pieces and public awareness pieces of the situation instead of trying to get them to fix their broken law. I was reading Pete Ashdown's Blog today and noticed he has written about a new opinion about the whole debate.
Which comes from the point of view of "labeling". As Pete puts it:
labeling laws are a good way to inform the consumer and keep economic playing fields level. For instance, the “juice†vs. “cocktail†labeling law informs purchasers of the content of their purchase, but keeps regulation low.
Also the organization that is backing this new idea is located at: http://dpsproject.com/ and they also have my support.
For those that don't know, the "Last Mile" refers to the connection from the end user(consumer's residence) to their ISP's backbone. This is also the portion that the Net Neutrality debate is talking about. There was recently an article in the column I, Cringely on pbs.org, talking about a "solution" to this whole debate. A thought I believe I've mentioned previously on one of my rants. Essentually the article is calling for a community owned Fiber To The Home (FTTH) network, paid for by the home owners in the community. While I personally agree with this, this also would be impracticle in more urban areas, where better wireless access would be much easier and cheaper. As I've said before I would love to have UTOPIA in my house. It simply is a FTTH infastructure built and backed by the City. Its operated by a non-profit organization, and they allow anyone to provide services over it. However, since the city I bought my house in, did not support UTOPIA when they were looking for cities sign up. I'm not sure when the next time will be that they can join, and if its a long way away, I'm going to look at what it would take to just get the community I live in to join up with UTOPIA, since I never thought that just a community could before. Which also reminds me... I need to look up the transcripts from any and all meetings the city counsil had with regard to UTOPIA.. So I know who not to vote for come elections.
I support UTOPIA just as I support the city maintaining city roads. The city controlling the fiber infastructure is the best solution because that puts the city council immediately in control of the "last mile" of their infastructure, and could allow the citizens to vote to keep it current and working. Also allowing as many providers as they feel they need to keep up competition. This situation also provides exactly what the anti-net neutrality people want to do, let the market figure it out itself without legislation. However, this still doesn't account for the credits and such that the Telco's were given to "upgrade" the nations infastructure. And maybe we should make them help pay the cities to pay for this community owned FTTH.
For those that haven't heard about the issue, at the heart of it, the Bells are wanting more money. Currently they don't think they would be able to get more money of of Joe consumer without a huge outcry (and they would be correct), so they're looking for other places. They are wanting to charge (for instance) Google, for "improved service" or since they view themselves as providing Googles customers, if they don't want degraded service, they should pay up(ie: they're threatening to purposely degrade their customers access to Google, if Google doesn't pay up). Now, this is simply absurd... Google already pays their uplink providers (they have multiple), for an internet connection. You, the consumer, pay your internet connection fees... now why should you have to pay extra to connect to say Google? (I know, technically it would be Google paying... but believe me it all comes back around)
I know what your saying... you shouldn't have to right? Right! you definately shouldn't have to. The bells are making plenty of money (record profits from what I hear...) Oh and they're not the only ones all for this Tier'd Internet, Cisco among others are all for it. And why wouldn't they be? If the Bell's have to upgrade network equipment to micromanage everyones bandwidth usage... Yeah thats right, it all comes down to money, but doesn't everything?
Anyway, on to the purpose of why I'm writing. I came across a quick writeup from a group called "tele-truth" their mission is simply: "TeleTruth is a national, independent, customer advocacy group, dedicated to fixing the problems in telecommunications -- from customer overcharging and harm to competitors, to the customer issues surrounding Broadband deployment and competition." Their website can be found at: http://www.teletruth.org. They have written a book that looks awfully interesting and a quick Ad/summery for it can be found here: $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. Which poses some interesting questions... I would definately need to read more on the subject to know for sure, but at first sight I'm more apt to believe them. After seeing how hard Qwest fought against UTOPIA. When it was the hot topic here... And the rumors I hear of Qwest having lots of dark fiber laying in the ground. And nothing forbid Qwest from providing service on Utopia either... they just had to play on the same playing field as everyone else. Its sad really... All the more reason why I *hate* Qwest. So far, they haven't gotten any money from me, and I'm going to keep it that way as long as I can.
I will start pushing for Utopia in South Jordan as thats where I will be living now, and Net Neutrality is in the best interests of the people and for the people! But don't just believe what I say... do the research for yourself so you will know exactly why... but if you must just believe something... you can believe me, I won't mind :)
I've been upset at the current state of my broadband options for a while, not sure how much I've expressed that here. Which is mostly why I bought a house in a Utopia member city. I hate Qwest, and while I have Comcast cable internet, I just find them the lesser of the two evils for broadband options... Currently I'm still looking at not getting Utopia untill 2007! Which I don't particularly like, but you can bet I'm going to be on it as soon as its availible. What brought this post about however, was an article linked up on Slashdot which links up an article about the state of broadband in America. Which we currently rank 16th!!! Now I'm not going to do any comparisons with other countries, however I must say that *this* is what you get with monopolies. We used to be 4th, and the current powers that be, think we don't want or need faster connections. The truth to the matter is, they're comfortable making $$$ and don't want to *invest* in upgrading their infastructures to continue passing along bandwidth to us lowly consumers. Why spend more money upgrading when you can spread the FUD around that customers don't want more? FUD is cheaper right? This is the exact reason why I support UTOPIA, and any other project like it. Move the infastructure into a non partial third party controlled by the citizens using it! Think of UTOPIA as virtual road ways. You wouldn't want a private company owning roads would you? They just might neglect roads to competing businesses, which is exactly the type of stuff that happens around here with Qwest. They're always going to give you the lowest price for DSL, because they own the lines, and get the right to charge fees to anyone else that wants to use them. Removing that and giving it to a non-profit, non-partial entity controlled by the users of the network means more fair competition. Giving the *users* what we want. Why? because we'll pay for what we want, and not what we dont... with Qwest you don't have the luxury.
So, I'm still getting hit with comment spam... Its horrible. Spammers are the most vile creatures on earth. Seems they'll stop at nothing to sell their soul. Well, I am vowing to put a stop to such acts. I'm am going to attack them where its going to hurt them the most. Their income. From this day forth, I will report any such violaters to the ISP's in which they recieve their internet access... best of all, I will not stop contacting that ISP untill I get a responce that says said spammers account has been terminated. I'm am sick and tired of it. I will be posting how-to's for this process as I work through it. I encourage everyone else with comment spam to do the same. I will be passing said howto around to everyone else that has a problem with comment spam, and believe me, I will search for these users with the same problem as I, and help to educate them. Together, we can stop the spread of this most vile disease that is spammers.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again NewEgg is the best place to buy computer parts! My DVD burner is on the truck to be delivered today... that makes a 2 day turn around!! I don't think I'll ever buy from anyone else... their shipping is extremely fast. I love it. I haven't needed to use their customer support or returns departments yet... but I've heard and read that they're equally as good. Buy from NewEgg!
I was made aware of a site called Hack A Day which has one for "Speeding up Firefox"
Seems to work pretty well, assuming the webserver is fast (mine regretably isn't...). Anyway heres the how-to:
1.Type “about:config†into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining†to “trueâ€
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining†to “trueâ€
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests†to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay†and set its value to “0â€. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Give it a try! I love firefox!
Had the comcast guy come out and install last thursday. So I now have internet! However, the problem is, the room its in needs to have more power run. I need to have a ground for the outlets much like what we've already done for the kitchen. I've gotten as far as ripping off all of the ugly panneling, and most of the sheet rock. So that will be my plans tonight hopefully... rip off the rest of the sheet rock, so its ready for wiring.
I've been unsure of what to write about as of late... Blogging in general has two sides. One, is freedom of speech. The other however is where the corporate types get a little uptight about what you say. They even go as far as sueing for things such as defamation, or even lately an appartment complex is sueing http://apartmentratings.com because people have posted unfavorable reviews about the appartments. Personally I'm on the side of free speech here assuming the posts were made by actual (former?) tenants with real complaints. They have every right to share those complaints with anyone who will listen. With the use of the internet, this becomes MUCH easier, and maybe it will inspire (or force..) the service and manufacturing sectors to stop pushing crap on us, because now our opinion will be heard much easier. Personally I love sites that allow user feedback about products and services. I used them when I bought my phone which conviced me it would be ok to buy it.
Blogging can also get one into trouble with their employer(if the employer ever found out about the blog and read it that is...). I would love to write about more of my life and things going on, however this thought has kept me from actually doing it. I'm unsure about how much I would be able to say without getting into some kind of heat. I'm also sure it wouldn't take much of it to get fired. Which is why I haven't said much of anything about it.
This alone however, wont stop me from blogging completly. I will continue to keep sheding atleast some of my insite's on life as I feel inspired.
George Ou VoIP and open source, the next great frontier - ZDNet.com
What do you think? Are the Bells in for the same type of competition as what Microsoft has been dealing with for the last couple years? I believe they are. Since the begining of the internet, the Open Source Community has been the (subtle?) driving force behind the major advances of the internet. Up untill recently no company has really cared what the community was doing because they weren't affecting their bottom line. However, the community is moving up the chain. Linux is making *huge* in-roads in the datacenter, and threatening the Desktop. Something that Linus himself said would be really neat(he *never* said he wanted to over thow MS from their throne, that will probably just be a bi-product). The community has always been about the core infastructure of the internet. Because thats the only way to keep it free. As it becomes more and more involved in our lives having a *free* option availible becomes more and more important. I really believe that Open Source is the best thing for everyone. The community as a whole has whats really important to each and every one of us in mind. Most just buy into the marketing machines FUD. Its only a matter of time before software for the most part is a commodity.
How Stuff Works - I've seen this website before... however, I really just want to give it some props... because its something thats been really needed, puts alot of information in one easy place, and makes it easy to understand on top of that. I've also added the RSS feed to my news feeds... going to try to make it a goal to read one of them a day. Really cool stuff!
Ok, I've been living with Fedora Core 3 for a couple weeks now... I also use Core 3 as a Desktop at work and I must say, for a Linux Desktop, Core 3 is great. However, my complaints are simply about multimedia on the web. All to often things are just written for Windows, and all the formats windows programs can typically read. My multimedia needs are simple... I want to be able to watch movie trailers off of apples web site! I've download all of the latest codecs from Mplayers website, and installed them in /usr/lib/win32 however playing off the web is still a pain... I really hope this will be fixed soon.
I've been tired of my current bookmarks app for a while now... Not really because it doesn't do what I want... because it works really well. However, I want it themeable, preferably with smarty so I could use the same them I have for my blog. I've been looking and haven't found anything I like, so I'll probably end up writing my own, *when i find the time*... story of my life...
Phrame Tutorial with Smarty
Found this article, figure I'm going to start here with creating some web apps for work. Should be really pretty easy it seems. Anyhow I'm tired and I'm going to bed.
It has just come to my attention that my website here doesn't render correctly in the latest version of IE... (on XP atleast). And, all I can say is... get a decent browser. I mean, with all the security problems with the browser AND its lack of support for even the basic standards (full CSS1 comes to mind), and on top of it, Microsoft thought it would throw in a couple of non standard stuff that it can use as well. Its horrible. Sure, i know, windows users don't care because "everything just works for me". But the web is suppose to be a medium where it doesn't matter what OS, or browser, or anything else your using. The experience is supposed to be the same for everyone. Hence why standards are important. Last I checked, this site renders fully compliant with standards, except for my news feeds.... which I will be fixing as soon as I get around to it...
Man... not having internet access was driving me nuts. Comcast was scheduled to come today between 1pm and 4pm, I got a call from one of their techs at around 3:30pm saying he was running about 2 hours behind. So he said he should be here by 6pm. Well, 7:45pm came and my wife and I got tired of waiting because we had other things to do... and had now been waiting around all day for him. I called him, he said to call their office and maybe get reschedualed for another time, because he didn't think he'd make it out today. So I called, and the lady on the other end seemed concerned and said it shouldn't be happening, so she called the guy that was supposed to be comming to install ours, and told him to get over right now. So he left the job he was currently working on (and had been working on for the last couple hours anyway). And he had ours setup within 30 minutes. I wasn't asking questions while he was setting it up, and he couldn't get it to work on my gentoo linux box right away. So I grabed my laptop from work and he used that to get it setup. Went without a problem. After he left however, I tried to get my gentoo box back on it. Wasn't working... my gentoo box would no longer get an IP from their dhcp server, and I didn't know exactly why. I looked around on the net a bit and found out exactly what was happening and why he wanted to use the windows box. But, turns out the problem was very simple. I only needed to unplug the power from the cable modem and then plug it back in. My gentoo box grabed an IP immediately. First thing I did was download emails and run an emerge sync && emerge -u --deep world. And I'm noticing a big difference over Ygnition's "T1" we had at our old appartment. I really don't think they had a T1, or they had it capped on the bandwidth each user could use... Anyway, so far so good.
As for Comcast's service. I didn't like the wait (had to wait about a week and a half for the install) but they said it would be done today, and they did all they could to make sure it was done today. Which I appreciate. I mean... the internet has been a part of my life for years, I don't think I've been this long with out it at home for years... almost went insane.... good thing I have internet at work, or i would have :)
Comcast is supposed to be comming out on Saturday... being without internet has been killing me... don't quite feel like my self. I mean, I have internet at work and all... but I feel guilty for using it for personal stuff while I'm working. So I don't do alot of browsing while at work. Anyway, i'm going through withdrawals quite honestly... I mean, I've been on call this week for work, and we have this sprint wireless card... works like a cell phone to the internet... anyway, I haven't used a modem in more than 5 years... its now killing me to attempt at using this... its HORRIBLE... i don't know how anyone can stand dialup anymore. But I guess if its all you know... its not so bad. however... I CAN'T WAIT...
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
- Will Henry
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