Full of random junk of questionable usefulness!
yes i’m alone
then again i always was
as far back as i can tell
i think maybe it’s because
because you were never really real
to begin with
and i just made you up
to hurt myself
and it worked
yes it did
there is no you
there is only me
FCC Chief: AT&T Can Limit Net Bandwidth
FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to be able to limit bandwidth to sites like Google, unless those sites pay extortion fees. Martin made it clear in a speech yesterday that he supports such a a “tiered” Internet.
Last year, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre said Google and Vonage were “nuts” for thinking they could “use these [AT&T’s] pipes for free”.
So even though Google is paying (someone) for hosting/bandwidth to run the site, and we the customers are paying our ISPs for our internet connection bandwidth, the ISPs should also be able to charge the sites? As it is is, both ends of the connection are already paying for the person to look at the website. When websites pass these extra costs on to end users based on their ISP, I wonder how much money the ISPs will make off that after all their customers have switched to ISPs that don’t incur these extra costs?
It looks like Mr. Whitacre may have realized this, or it may just be spin to make you think they’re not trying to charge as much money as possible for anything anywhere near them. “Any provider who blocks access to the Internet is inviting customers to find another provider,” Whitacre said in his keynote speech. “It’s bad business.” He then emphatically stated that AT&T would not block independent services, “nor will we degrade [Internet access]. Period, end of story.”
While we’re on the subject of telcos, what happened to all that fiber that they’re running to everyone’s houses? You know, the 86 million households with 45Mb (both ways) connections by 2006 that got them $200 billion worth of tax cuts and incentives. You can find a couple articles about Bruce Kushnickâs book on this topic here and here.
I got talking with someone about personality stuff last night. I found a little test for it. It’s fairly short, but seems to be a pretty good judge too. http://keirsey.com/ and http://typelogic.com/ have some explanations of the different types.
The test said I’m INTJ. It doesn’t seem perfectly accurate (we all vary some), but it’s a pretty good description of me.
I’ve created another little util. This time, it’s an extension for Thunderbird that lets you easily report spam to SpamCop. Check out the MozillaZine thread or SpamCopper’s home. It’s just a directory with a few files now, but it will probably get a real page at some point in the future.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
–Albert Einstein
Indeed.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001
Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-001.mspx
You can also get the update from Windows Update and the other usual channels.
Nice of MS to release this patch now, instead of waiting until “Patch Tuesday”, because customers wanted it. Not because it’s been called the biggest vulnerability in Windows in 15 years…
I had planned to post something else here, but life has a way of not doing what you want.
Click the pic for more pics. Yay for the new camera phone?
Monkey Boy:
WARNING: This post contains alot of middle fingers and really stupid looking drunk people.
Read this post from bottom up for the correct cronological order of the night…
So, I got my phone all linked up with this blogging thing. Now I can be a dork on the go too!
