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Why using VoIP? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 To foresee the different outcome and evolution of VOIP we must consider three different scenarios.1) Evolution of the actual system. Softphone, IP phone, Gateway connecting the Internet line to a PBX or normal telephones. Free IP to IP calls, rates per minute or flat rates for termination.This is the existing model in which an Internet provider or VoIP telephone company, (Skype, Vonage, Lingo...) more or less copies the business model of the existing Telecoms and provides alternative telephone services at lower cost, using the Internet for long distance and the local PSTN for last mile (local) delivery of voice.The competition is getting tough, the number of customers is growing slowly, the quality of the calls is directly chained to the cost of the service.The less you pay, the less you have.In this way VoIP potential is highly underused, the chances of getting a good quality alternative service are getting narrower and proportionally decreasing together with the cost of the call.The Read more:Why using
"Happy motoring" 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "One of the farmers who organized the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's annual meeting put it nicely: "The ethanol craze means that we're going to burn up the Midwest's last six inches of topsoil in our gas-tanks."The truth is, we will never be energy independent as long as we remain a car-fixated society. It's that simple. If we can't let go of the sunk costs associated with Happy
Motoring, we're probably not going to make it very far into the future, either as a nation or a viable economy or as an orderly society. By sunk costs I mean our previous investments in car-oriented infrastructure"Jim KunstlerThe problem is that the most read paper in this world IS NOT the Financial Times, but the electricity bill, the gas bill, the fuel meter and the best piece of news is the one that tells that life is going to go on the same way, even better, it's enough to change "energy supplier".As long as there will be the huge amount of interest behind the "Hap
Feeling "lighter" 1970-01-01 00:59:59 You can fee better for many reasons, one of them is undoubtedly the fact of having sorted out your financial problems.One of the most common of today's life is accumulating debts without realizing it.One day you see your bank account and think something wrong must have happened.Somebody must have made a big mistake, for it's not possible being so low...But then you begin to mentally count and it looks probable just a little while before looking damned right.You have too many debts, and what's worst, you pay too high interest rates on them, so that repaying them is getting so painful to be almost impossible.This is the exact moment in which you need a Bad Credit Debt Consolidation and you need it fast.There are two types of people who will likely be viewed as a credit risk to most credit issuers: those who have a bad credit past and those who have no credit past.If you belong to one of these, do not despair. Fortunately for you, bad credit credit cards can help to build a positive cr Read more:Feeling
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How nice it would be 1970-01-01 00:59:59 How nice it would be to have enough imagination to live in a dream world.Both fantasy and imagination concern unrealities; but while the unrealities of fantasy penetrate and pollute the world, those of the imagination exist in a world of their own, in which we wonder freely and in full knowledge of the really real.Imagination, an unimaginative person once wrote, is what happens when a drunk looses his watch and has to get drunk again to find it.Although fantasy and make-believe flourish in childhood they rapidly atrophy as one is moulded to fit the adult's grey consensus of reality.A child, out on a walk with his mother, suddenly points and cries out, "Look a purple cow".The mother perhaps rather tired and domestically harassed, snaps: "Don't be silly" And then delivers the crunch line:" There's no such thing as purple cows".So the child, a vagabond in the backwoods of rationality, is brought up to see the world in the prosaic terms of grown-ups and eventually forgets it ever saw a
The Value of Money 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "What we need now is a Free Money
Movement comparable to the Free Trade Movement of the 19th century, demonstrating not merely the harm caused by acute inflation...but the deeper effects of producing periods of stagnation that are indeed inherent in the present monetary arrangements. I still believe that, so long as the management of money is in the hands of government, the gold standard, with all its imperfections, is the only tolerably safe system but it is better to take money completely out of the control of government. The only way to save civilization will be to deprive governments of the power over the supply of money."Friedrich August von Hayek, The Denationalization of Money, 1976Saving civilization depends upon wresting the power over monetary issue from government. Hayek was not alone in this view.Ayn Rand expressed a similar sentiment in her famous novel Atlas Shrugged.Earlier still, E.C. Riegel objected to government having issue power over money in his A New Approach to F Read more:Value
Again and again about IPTV 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I forgot to mention the second advantage of TV on IP2) TV on IP can be the REAL interactive TV.You can forget that with YouTube. That has nothing to do with IPTV.It is just a copy of P2P...Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Again about bandwidth and IPTV 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Mark Tomin said... TV cable carries over 200 channels simultaneously over different frequency range. When you watch internet TV, you only need 1 channel. This will save enormous amounts of bandwidth for all of us, once cable companies reprioterize their bandwidth allowance.Thanks for the comment.If it was for getting a link you are welcome, even though my blog is not so high ranked to make a difference...It it was to discuss, this is my answer:Cable TV already exists and works pretty well.I do not see the need to buy a Set Top Box to see the TV on a PC monitor when we can look at it comfortably sitting on our couch on the TV screen...When we talk of IPTV we talk about IP, and on IP in the cases in which it is really an improvement.For whom it is going to be an improvement?1) It won't use ANY kind of frequency or any room on any satellite, just bandwidth on the Internet.That means EVERYBODY could be a TV producer...Big improvement, isn't it?The only problem is that at this moment ever Read more:Again
Democracy "Italian Style" 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yesterday night Our ex Minister Romano Prodi declared himself the new "King of Italy".From today Italy has suddenly become a Monarchy.This is "Democracy ItalianStyle
":You can say whatever you want as long as it is WHAT I WANT...Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Looking for a millionaire 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What is the reason why you would eventually look for somebody on the Internet?Ask this question to 100 people and 99 will answer:Because I am looking for somebody who understands me, who loves me, who can share his life with me and so on...One would answer: Because I am looking for a millionaire...With such a survey you would think most of the people are interested only in spiritual virtues.Nothing of that kind.This proves only that the majority of the people do not say the truth...And if you belong to the majority I have a good address for you:Millionaire DatingMay be you won't be able to find a millionaire ( it depends also on what you can offer...) but you surely will find somebody who understands you, who loves you, who can share his life with you and so on... This is a sponsored post, please read disclosure policy. Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Can you copyright an idea? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Last week I posted an article offering tips for choosing a blog name. Yesterday morning, I'm checking out Technorati when I notice a blog has linked to my article. "How cool!" I thought. Since this gig is relatively new, it's nice to know others are reading. A click on the link brought me to a "Science and Technology" blog which had the whole piece posted in its entirety, without permission. Not too cool after all.The blog conveniently offered no way for me to contact the blogger to have my post removed, all I could gather was that my piece was stolen and posted by a "Mr. Blogger" I posted to Mr. Blogger's comments letting him know he used my article without permission and requested its removal. Mr. Blogger responded by posting a teeny-tiny "source" link under his post. I commented again that my article was being posted without permission. Though I never received the courtesy of a reply, Mr. Blogger's response was to post an even bigger "Original Post" link Read more:copyright
More about IPTV 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Streaming video is what we - a generation of TV viewers - grew up with. You watch what is broadcast when it's broadcast as it's broadcast. You blink; you miss something. Something disrupts the signal; a fragment of what you're watching is gone forever. Doesn't matter whether the content is as fresh as today's sports event or as stale as a Bogart movie; it comes streaming at you. That's what broadcast TV technology delivered and that's what we consumed.It's absurd, however, to assume that streaming video is what we want. This absurd assumption is nevertheless behind much of the planning - especially by traditional telecom carriers - for the next generation of Internet.Tom EvslinTom, you miss the important feature of the Internet: Interactivity!That is what makes IPTV alluring.Communication, do you remember? It's all what we are screaming and shouting since long.Internet is the network of networks, it can put together people who are millions miles away, it gives
Again on can you copyright an idea? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Deb,I was ON PURPOSE provocative and joking.The fact is that THERE is simply nothing to do with people who copy.Take it the way I do.Studying for me (as for anybody else) was studying what the ones before me had to say and write.I learned from them and after copying one day I was able to say somethng that was "mine".Every generation hands to the next one its discoveries so that we never begin from the beginning.That is what makes progress, that is what makes the world go on.And it is positive that somebody copies you.It helps to spread what you think and say.That is what progress is made of.Was there somebody who paid any copyright
for using the letters of the alphabet? And they were a much bigger invention of what we can say in a blog...Can you copyright an idea?You could, but an idea makes new ideas and new ideas make the progress...Don't you want to be part of it?Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Cellphone screen is today's hip billboard 1970-01-01 00:59:59 " Monty Solomon Date: February 21, 2007 9:03:39 PM ESTCellphone screen
is today's hip billboardAds must be targeted, relevant, and even coolBy Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | February 20, 2007In an ad-saturated world, the cellphone screen is a nearly pristine canvas.But a number of area companies are helping to transform the device that 220 million people are loath to leave at home into a personal, pocket-sized billboard, hawking everything from the latest ringtone to Fabio-favored "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!""We're calling the phone 'the brand in your hand' -- you're never more than a foot away from it, 24 hours a day," said Fareena Sultan , associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University's College of Business Administration. The challenge, Sultan said, will be to produce an advertisement for the phone "that excites the person holding it."Fueled by faster wireless networks, more capable phones, and increasingly popular data services, the cellphone ad spac
Why would a broadcaster choose Streaming on IP? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Well, it is partially true. Downloading and, later looking at it, has advantages.You can begin and stop when you decide, you can store and see it again.That is why the invention of VCR was so profitable.VOD they call it.You decide to look at something, just download it and look at it.At any hour at any day.But what's the cost?Not cheap certainly, unless you talk about P2P.That is cheap (not as much as it looks, because if you consider the time to search and to download you find out that it gets expensive)but it is ILLEGAL.It's like a Chinese copy of Prada or Chanel or Rolex, very much like the original at a 100th of the price.Too bad you are not allowed to buy it.It would be nice if it was free, just like the free TV.Free is what makes everythign widespread.But then, you have to pay looking a the commercial...And commercials are what made TV what it is.Somebody could object about quality and I could agree, but here I am discussing about popularity and availability.I guess commercials Read more:broadcaster
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IPTV: Here the advantages of owning the entire network from stem to stern (as the telcos do) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ars Technica offers a tutorial:First things first: the venerable set-top box, on its way out in the cable world, will make a resurgence in IPTV systems. The box will connect to the home DSL line and is responsible for reassembling the packets into a coherent video stream and then decoding the contents. Your computer could do the same job, but most people still don't have an always-on PC sitting beside the TV, so the box will make a comeback. Where will the box pull its picture from? To answer that question, let's start at the source. Most video enters the system at the telco's national headend, where network
feeds are pulled from satellites and encoded if necessary (often in MPEG-2, though H.264 and Windows Media are also possibilities). The video stream is broken up into IP packets and dumped into the telco's core network, which is a massive IP network that handles all sorts of other traffic (data, voice, etc.) in addition to the video. Here the advantages of owning the entire
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What I buy when I get broadband connection 2007-03-02 19:49:00 "I wanted to get people to focus on what they get when they connect to current broadband
. Too many IPers seem to think they get a real X meg pipe when they subscribe to a X meg service, It should now be clear that you do NOT -- you get a max or something . You share with others and if they are very heavy users you might get poor service d or at least everyone gets lowered delivery."David FarberThink and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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The importance of being "always on" 2007-03-02 18:59:00 Service criteria including availability, quality of service (QOS),security etc should be a basic part of any website or business on the Internet.A well structured, efficient, safe, data center is the only way to guarantee 24 hours a day, seven days a week that your website and your data, whatever they are, will be available to anybody.That is what Server Colocation Charlotte NC is offering.But not only.Whether you choose colocation, dedicated server, managed services or disaster recovery Charlotte Data Center delivers the highest level of security, safety, redundancy, reliability, scalability and technology.They offer special building features such as lightning protection, 24-hour physical security monitors for all cameras, door positions, and badge access areas. In the data center you have conditioned air from below to push hot air up for more efficient and effective cooling of computer equipment, sensor-driven cameras watching every door, aisle, cage, and cabinet, NOC, NODE, and othe Read more:always
"A fraud is a sale" 2007-03-02 18:40:00 Yes, public opinion and credit card companies can and will force companies that process credit card data to increase their security. However, how about the "acceptable risk" concept that underlies the very security procedures of credit card companies themselves and pervades their relationships with their parties? Do As I Say, Not As I Do?The dirty little secret of the credit card industry is that they are very happy with 10% of credit card fraud
, over the Internet or not.In fact, if they would reduce fraud to _zero_ today, their revenue would decrease as well as their profits. So, there is really no incentive to reduce fraud. On the contrary, keeping the status quo is just fine.This is so because of insurance -- up to a certain level, which is well within the operational boundaries of course, a fraudulent transaction does not go unpaid through VISA, American Express or Mastercard servers. The transaction is fully paid, with its insurance cost paid by the merchant and, ultimately, by th
About Credit Cards 2007-03-02 18:18:00 I do not know who invented the Credit Card and when, but I think it is one of the most meaningful and most useful invention of our Era.How could we live without them?Once you are used to it, you cannot really do without.It is the lightest, easiest, most useful accessory to bring with you when you go shopping and the one you should look after the most.Nevertheless there are several issues you should consider when you own one and you plan to use it.First, if you are not too sure about the amount of your bank account (that is an euphemism to say you are almost sure there is little or no amount at all) that the interest you are going to pay on the amount you will borrow is worth what you are going to buy.Yes, I know what it means, that special scarf or that special bag, with that special price it is something YOU CANNOT really live without and you are DEFINETELY sure you won't be able to find it, least at that price, when you will be able to have enough money to afford it...That could be Read more:Cards
Intercepting the Internet 2007-03-04 09:17:00 European commission documents obtained reveal plans to require manufacturers and operators to build in "interception interfaces" to the Internet
and all future digital communications systems. The plans require the installation of a network of tapping centres throughout Europe, operating almost instantly across all national boundaries, providing access to every kind of communications including the net and satellites. A German tapping centre could intercept Internet messages in Britain, or a British detective could listen to Dutch phone calls. here could even be several tapping centres listening in at once.EU ministers are preparing to adopt a convention on Mutual Legal Assistance, including international interception arrangements.If the Enfopol 19 proposals are enacted, internet service providers (ISPs)as well as telecommunications network operators face having to install monitoring equipment or software in their premises in a high security zone.Ministers were told two months ago that a
Cyborg seeks community 2007-03-04 09:01:00 People find me peculiar. They think it’s odd that I spend most of my sleeping hours wearing eight or nine Internet-connected computers sewn into my clothing and that I wear opaque wrap-around glasses day and night, inside and outdoors. They find it odd that to sustain wireless communications during my travels, I will climb to the hotel roof to rig my room with an antenna and Internet connection. They wonder why I sometimes seem detached and lost, but at other times I exhibit vast knowledge of their specialty.A physicist once said he felt that I had the intelligence of a dozen experts in his discipline; a few minutes later, someone else said they thought I was mentally handicapped.Despite the peculiar glances I draw, I wouldn’t live any other way. I have melded technology with my person and achieved a higher state of awareness than would otherwise be possible. I see the world as images imprinted onto my retina by rays of light controlled by several computers, which in turn are contr Read more:Cyborg
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Will the Internet survive? 2007-03-04 08:37:00 The phenomenal worldwide popularity and growth of the Internet
and Web is under threat from many directions, globally and locally: spam, viruses, denial-of-service-attacks, pornography, paedophile soliciting, fraud and government monitoring and censorship. These threats raise many questions of vital social and economic significance, such as:Will the Internet’s value be undermined – and its survival endangered?What can be done technically, such as in the area of security?What can users, households, Internet service providers and industry do?Are policy responses required, such as Internet governance and regulation?Will the next Internet protocol (IPV6) and other technical advances help?Or will the Net become clogged up until there is an e-traffic gridlock?Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Off-the-shelf home remote monitoring system 2007-03-04 08:35:00 Do you remember: ten years ago with a camera in a kindergarten a parent could view the child from the office?That was then, today we have a more twisting and winding passages, but it is still doable off-to-the shelf.Webcam companies offer this as a standard feature using their web sites to rendezvous in lieu of having stable end point identifiers.The cameras typically have motion detection and can even email alerts with images. As you pay more you get features such automatic panning and logging and microphones.So, knowing everything they DO online is easier than reading their emails...With internet monitoring
you can record every exact detail of their PC and Internet activity, you can archive and review your Employee's PC and Internet activity and know exactly what they are doing online by viewing simple reports and charts.SpectorSoft Computer Monitoring software lets you : Records Emails, Chats, IMs, Web Sites, Web Searches, Programs Run, Keystrokes Typed, Files Transferred, Scre
The Regulation of the deregulation 2007-03-04 08:28:00 WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - The Federal Communications Commission began writing new rules today that officials and industry experts said would profoundly alter both the way the Internet is delivered and used in homes and businesses.In one set of proceedings, the commission began writing regulations to enable computer users to gain access to the Internet through electric power lines. Consumers will be able to plug their modems directly into the wall sockets just as they do with any garden variety appliance.Officials said the new rules, which are to be completed in the coming months, would enable utilities to offer an alternative to the cable and phone companies and provide an enormous possible benefit to rural communities that are served by the power grid but not by broadband providers.In a second set of proceedings, commissioners began considering what rules ought to apply to companies offering Internet space and software to enable computer users tosend and receive telephone calls."This repr Read more:Regulation
The 50 Most Important People on the Web 2007-03-05 18:32:00 Christopher Null, PC World"Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web's potential would be lost among spam sites and other online detritus."I guess the Internet is something more than Craiglists, MySpace, YouTube and spam sites.Thank GOD!PS For example there is a very good blog at http://woip.blogspot.comWhat is important is what we think it is.What we appreciate is not what we should, but what we do.What things look like is a convention, not the truth.Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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Tapping a VoIP phone 2007-03-05 17:48:00 Found on Vonage Forum:"Hi all, Is it possible for any one to tap my VONAGE phone
linend listen to conversation. I am in India currently, and my neighbour recently made some comments refering my personal info. Please clarify. thanks and regards, Kumarr"In the old days, tapping a phone was as easy as one-two-three. All calls ran over Ma Bell's copper wires. To listen in, law-enforcement agents simply requested that the phone company isolate the suspect's wire and record any calls made or received. One phone company. One network. One flip of a switch. Today, dozens of new technologies need to be monitored, such as packet voice and cellular text messaging.But There is the danger. The FBI can use the rise of the packet technology and the expanding number of players as an excuse to expand its all-seeing, all-knowing surveillance power.VOIP travels across the Internet the same way that e-mail does.Address information (the number dialed or the e-mail address) is contained in the same packet Read more:VoIP phone
Outsourcing 2007-03-05 10:28:00 Many U.S. companies out-source high-tech and customer-service operations both at home and abroad. Half the Fortune 500 is said to make use of India's well-educated, English-speaking and significantly lower-paid workforce. Within five years, according to a recent study, Indian outsourcing firmswill comprise a $21 billion industry, employing 1.2 million people.Customer-service representatives at call centers in the United States make as much as $12 an hour. Their Indian counterparts, who frequently are told by employers to conceal their whereabouts from callers, make about a third of that amount.Tata Broadband, tata indicom,is one of the largest telecom companies in India and provides mobile telephone services, landlines, cdma, broadband services and many other services and is expanding at a good pace for the last few years.India broadband forum provides a platform for all tata indicom users and a place to know and discuss about tata's services.It grants the good and reliable infrastr Read more:Outsourcing
Justice for Bloggers 2007-03-05 10:07:00 There is still a lot of confusion about the legal status of bloggers. Are they journalists, due the protections of the reporters' privilege and heightened First Amendment analysis? Are they online service providers, who are generally exempt from liability for the postings of others?EFF's guide explores all of these roles and explains how the law may be interpreted in particular instances."Bloggers are a powerful new voice in public debates," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, who coordinated the project. "The guide will help bloggers understand the basics about the laws that affect them so they can better protect and defend their rights."EFF will add to the guide over the next several months, posting a section on how labor law may affect people who blog about their workplaces, as well as updates to the law as pending cases are decided.In addition to publishing the guide, EFF has been involved in the fight to protect bloggers' rights by defending online journalists in the Apple Read more:Justice
What Real Justice should be 2007-03-05 10:04:00 Justice should be the way to bring protection to the weak, freedom to the restrained, liberty to the oppressed, and security to all.And most of all it should bring Truth, the real one, not the one that suits this or that.We shouldn't anymore have the suspicion that most death penalty cases are fuelled by hatred as much as by evidence, and a belief that every defendant, no matter how unpopular or unlikable, deserves a fair hearing.Seattle Attorney Personal injury law is about finding the truth and delivering justice for people whose lives have been harmed by negligent or other wrongful conduct. Get help for your injuries (Motorcycle Accident, Automobile Accidents, Car Accident, personal injury) by hiring an attorney in Washington now. Speak with a Seattle attorney today and learn your rights. Or complete the online case evaluation form and one of their experienced seattle personal injury lawyer will reply as soon as possible. There is no charge to review your case and if they accept i Read more:Justice
Mom looking for Dad 2007-03-07 08:37:00 Once parents had many children, now a days children have many parents.I do not know if it was better then or it is better now.I guess you can find advantages (and disadvantages) in both cases...What to do when you suddenly become a single mother and you hate it?(There are also cases in which some women do not exactly hate it...)Also in this case the Internet will come to your rescue.Is there a better place, with so many "daddytobe", than the Internet?Is there a better way than just look in Single Moms brand new website and being able to choose?I personally do not believe there is a better way.Unless you are so lucky as to have the dad of your dreams as a neighbor...In this case things are much less complicated.Did you see the Movie "You got mail"?Well he was very close, but without the Internet nothing would have happened...That is the Magic of the Net. This is a sponsored post, please read disclosure policy. Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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