Morning Broadband Bytes1) Get Coffee 2) Read Morning Broadband Bytes 3) Start Day ( old news - 07:03AM Wednesday Apr 13 2005) • Around the Industry: International Federation of Phonographic Industries and Motion Picture Association draft big brother, above the law 'code of conduct' for ISPs
Broadband neanderthal U.S. to wake up in a few years
Internet founding father digs BitTorrent, predicts broadband will eventually flush your toilet, walk the dogs
Coming soon: Flying robot broadband
963 new lawsuits courtesy of the music industry• SecurityBits: 'Highly critical' unpatched flaw found in Microsoft software
OpenOffice.org confirms 'potentially serious' buffer overflow flaw• TidBytes: Technology's 10 most inexcusable failures, according to ZDNets editor
Nvidia galloping ahead on graphics front
Apple to open Tiger's cage in late April• More news from around the industry, SecurityBits, and interesting Tidbytes inside!Around The Industry:• International Federation of Phonographic Industries and Motion Picture Association draft big brother, above the law 'code of conduct' for ISPs: Under the new code, ISPs would use filters to block filesharing services and/or sites. They would retain data beyond what law enforcement require, with the aim of helping track down copyright infringement. They'd hand that data, plus your ID, over to the IFPI or MPA if there was even a complaint, not a court order, against you for copyright infringement. Also, the IFPI and MPA want ISPs and network operators to enforce ToS's that prohibit servers, or consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth that might be an indicator of infringing activities.• Broadband neanderthal U.S. to wake up in a few years: Fast phones, online educational courses, and free access in hotels and public places is fairly common in Asia. The infrastructure is paving the way for new generations of start-ups. However, when it comes to broadband, the U.S. is still in the stone knives and bear skins era. But the U.S. is waking up, says a partner at New Enterprise Associates. "At some point, there is going to be a national initiative. By the end of the decade, there are going to be some non-linear (i.e. big and unexpected) events in communications to let the U.S. catch up with the rest of the world."• Internet founding father digs BitTorrent, predicts broadband will eventually flush your toilet, walk the dogs: Vint Cerf is a firm believer in open networks and believes that the potential of technologies like VoIP and BitTorrent is unimaginable. Cerf believes that BitTorrent can reduce the strain on todays networks and also prove to a good way for service providers to get a return on investment they have sunk into their networks. He also predicts that broadband apps will “spread to appliances, health research, motor transport, stock monitoring, medical facilities and just about everything else.”• Coming soon: Flying robot broadband: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a "Stratellite," and its makers believe it will revolutionize the broadband and wireless industry -- if it ever gets off the ground. Sanswire unveiled its almost-finished prototype of a hard-framed, unmanned airship designed to fly in the stratosphere 13 miles above the earth and send broadband and mobile phone signals to an area the size of Texas. "We're shooting for satellite replacement at a lower cost," said the president of Sanswire parent GlobeTel.• 963 new lawsuits courtesy of the music industry: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced it was launching 963 new actions in 11 countries in Europe and Asia. The 963 new cases announced by the IFPI represent the music business's biggest round of legal actions to date, and brings the number of cases against internet users accused of illegally uploading music to 11,552 worldwide.• Broadband market to reach 56.9 million subscribers by 2008: The U.S. broadband market is expected to reach an estimated 56.9 million subscribers by 2008, growing from 32.5 million subscribers in 2004, according to an annual study of the Telecommunications Industry Association. In 2004, the number of high-speed subscribers in the US grew by 35.4% to reach 32.5 million subscribers, consisting of the following access technologies: cable modem (17.0 million), DSL (12.6 million), fixed wireless (2.2 million), fiber (0.2 million), satellite (0.4 million), 3G (0.1 million), and BPL (less than 50,000).• Argentina drops net monitoring law: Argentina's President has ordered the suspension of a law requiring ISP's to monitor and record customers' web-surfing habits, acting quickly after public outcry over the legislation. The law called for ISPs to make their traffic available for "remote observation" by Argentine authorities and called on companies to archive information on email and chatroom communications for up to 10 years.• Australia green lights ADSL2 & ADSL2+: The Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) released new rules governing the deployment of ADSL2 and ADSL2+ services. Finalisation of the standards, which await only registration by the Australian Communications Authority before they become enforceable, clears a major hurdle for deployment of new-gen DSL services. Several carriers are gearing up to offer ADSL2 or ADSL2+, including Telstra, which plans to upgrade nearly all its exchanges by mid-2006.• ISP disconnecting Trojan-infected customers: Aussie ISP Telstra BigPond, largest in the country, is temporarily disconnecting compromised computers from its network to stem a tide of malware swamping its servers and delaying e-mail and Web site requests. BigPond said it had boosted the capacity of its DNS servers to reduce the inconvenience to customers until a long-term engineering solution was developed.• Samsung pitches for WiBro wireless spec: Samsung has announced that it had been elected to the board of directors of the WiMax Forum. Samsung is also at the forefront of the devlopment of WiBro, or Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, an emerging broadband tech intended to let people use wireless devices such as cell phones to watch several TV broadcasts and surf the Internet simultaneously. Part of that development work includes making WiBro compatible with WiMax.SecurityBits:• 'Highly critical' unpatched flaw found in Microsoft software: MS is investigating the report of a flaw that could open systems using its Access or Office software up to attack. The vulnerability, which was not one of eight patched by Microsoft on Tuesday, is in the Jet database engine component, according to an advisory posted the same day by Secunia. It could enable an intruder to remotely execute malicious code on a vulnerable PC. Secunia rated the problem "highly critical," noting that exploit code for the flaw had been shared on a public mailing list.• OpenOffice.org confirms 'potentially serious' buffer overflow flaw: OpenOffice.org confirmed the existence of a potentially serious heap-overflow vulnerability in its freely distributed office productivity suite. The flaw affects OpenOffice Version 1.1.4 and prior and OpenOffice Version 2.0-dev and prior. The vulnerability was discovered in the "StgCompObjStream::Load()" function and occurs when handling a specially crafted ".doc" file.• Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities; Exchange Bug Dubbed Worst: MS rolled out 8 security bulletins for patch day that encompassed 18 vulnerabilities, 7 of which were dubbed critical. Patches can be obtained through the usual channels: the Windows Update and Office Update services, or directly downloaded from the MS website. MS is also beta testing a new service, Microsoft Update, that will keep users current with security patches and other updates for not only Windows, but also Office and Exchange. Microsoft Update, however, won't debut until mid-year.Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes:• Technology's 10 most inexcusable failures, according to ZDNets editor• Nvidia galloping ahead on graphics front• Apple to open Tiger's cage in late April• Follow up commentary: Linux fanatics losing the plot?• Red Hat tests dual-core support• ISP blames its own customers for not paying enough after losing its customers email• Google Adds New Services For Mobile Users• LexisNexis breach may be 10X worse than thought
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pleekmo
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mmickk
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| Follow up : Linux fanatics losing the plot? Rabid fanaticism tends to hurt your cause more than help. We see this with Linux, Apple, Firefox, IE, etc.
The most irritating thing for me is the fanatic, of any variety, that lies and/or spreads FUD about products they don't use.
Here at BBR, it gets old seeing the same arguments by the same fanatics in every thread that has Firefox, IE, or Apple in the title. I don't even click on those threads or news items anymore. | |
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1 edit | Re: Follow up : Linux fanatics losing the plot? You'll find the battle of the browsers or OSes in just about any tech forum, not just BBr.
In the Microsoft forums, when asking for advice on only MS OSes, there's ALWAYS someone who butts in and says "Neither! Get Linux." or "Dude, get Linux and you won't have to worry about all that!" They get ignored.
However if you do the same thing in the UNIX forum about Windows, you will get flamed, hey-modded, and 2-3 pages of replies to just that one poster. I would know this for a fact. I see it more often than it should happen.
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| Broadband neanderthal U.S. to wake up ... I like how they always compare things to ASIA. Why not to Europe?
When I was in Greece this summer, the first hotel (Olympic Palace) in Athens did not have a room connection, the place in Volos (Xenia) did not have a connection at all and we were told to go to a cafe, and the third place (Royal Olympic) back in Athens had a connection but you had to pay through the nose so I did not use it. And these were the more expensive hotels (business travel), not the cheaper places.
In Seoul Korea the hotel (Grand Hyatt) we stayed at charged a lot! to use the net. The place we stayed at in Chungju did not have room connection, but the manager let us use his office computer.
In Cairo Egypt, the place we stayed at (Sonesta) charged for room hookups and the business center (center was cheaper to use). Talking to another group staying at a more modern hotel down on the river, they were charged a lot more than we were (and we all were in the high priced special treatment rooms for security reasons).
The above examples ranged from May thru October of 2004.
This year I was in Fort Worth, Texas, stayed at a mid range hotel (Courtyard), and had a very nice wired connection as part of the room. I just got back from Rancho Bernardo, California and the Residence Inn had an OK wired connection as part of the room.
Based on my limited experience, I wonder about the people writing these articles and what their agenda really is or what company is paying them to write the way they are.
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| Interesting ways to deliver wireless. Why do we keep inventing and reinventing them. There was a GREAT way to deliver wireless to mass numbers of people with little foot print or [seemingly] expensive robot ariships.
Just use the street lights. One every so often should do it and heck try for awhile and you might be able to use the streetlight as an antenna, who knows!
This is great for resedents and buildings that aren't terribly thick and/or tall, but yes higher floors might get litle to no coverage, but the same would go for those at the bottom with flying implementations. In such situations the company might need to have placement in or on the building to completely saturate it with service. | |
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|  Someone remind why they call it "broadband"
Perhaps they should call it dialup instead, heaven forbid someone might use there internet connection for something besides web surfing and email.... | |
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