recently switched to Comcast from Verizon.
One thing that's really odd to me is how wildly different Comcast's speed test results are vs independent ones like SpeakEasy or even Google's
like it says 4-5x faster under Comcast's. Which I assume is complete BS.
But just unusual how blatant it seems to lie about it.
Indeed public infrastructure can be shared. The Cable and fiber currently deployed is NOT public infrastructure. Definitely should be but it isn't. As such, either a competitor has to put up their own poles over the entire area or run buried lines.
Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.
Yes you're moving the attack point, but it's basically the same as your router firewall doing the heavy lifting while behind the firewall you can run without one in relative safety if you choose.
I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.
US based I believe. I use PIA and am pretty happy with it. Occasionally their servers get blocked by Waze routing servers (and other such vanilla sites) but likely that's normal with any decent volume VPN.
Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.
Would love to donate to the defense fund but your vendor uses Stripe for CC processing. They're terrible and routinely block transactions for no valid reason.
I use PIA and while it works absolutely fabulous for my needs, it seemingly wouldn't work for full time usage as too many times their IPs get blocked by various mainstream sites, making those sites less than fully functional.
The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
Comcast Speed test inconsistency?
recently switched to Comcast from Verizon. One thing that's really odd to me is how wildly different Comcast's speed test results are vs independent ones like SpeakEasy or even Google's like it says 4-5x faster under Comcast's. Which I assume is complete BS. But just unusual how blatant it seems to lie about it.
Re: Insanity to give you what you want
And now my password is a multiplication problem. Battery Horse Staple Correct [5*7]
Re: Insanity to give you what you want
And now my password is a multiplication problem. Battery Horse Staple Correct [5*7]
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what the Dead figured out was touring was the money maker that the labels couldn't siphon.
It's different thing that what DL has done which is using the power the internet and the 'free' to drive fans to their shows.
Both are significant.
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every email, his website, his business cards...
Re: He already knows the answer
What we need is to have the laws say that our intelligence services may not POSSESS, Collect or Receive, domestic communications.
As it is now, the Five Eyes simply collect each others domestic comms and give them to each other.
Re: YNOT share infrastructure
Indeed public infrastructure can be shared. The Cable and fiber currently deployed is NOT public infrastructure. Definitely should be but it isn't. As such, either a competitor has to put up their own poles over the entire area or run buried lines.
Both things can be seriously stopped up by the existing provider.
We absolutely should have the gov't in the ISP business; it's a utility like anything else.
The corporations are the ones stopping things. Having politicians simply write laws in exchange for campaign donations root of the problem.
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Yes you're moving the attack point, but it's basically the same as your router firewall doing the heavy lifting while behind the firewall you can run without one in relative safety if you choose.
I almost think it needs to be a router function...which means a standard that needs to be fleshed out and followed.
Re: Re:
US based I believe. I use PIA and am pretty happy with it. Occasionally their servers get blocked by Waze routing servers (and other such vanilla sites) but likely that's normal with any decent volume VPN.
Speeds are more than adequate for browsing, torrenting or whatever you want to do.
If you used a VPN from somewhere without a vigorous legal system, you can't really trust what your VPN provider is doing with your data.
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"Well, I wouldn't go that far; lots of things get done with government money that aren't useful."
aren't useful right now
FTFY
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Would love to donate to the defense fund but your vendor uses Stripe for CC processing. They're terrible and routinely block transactions for no valid reason.
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fuckton
Re: Re: CANT DONATE?????
yeah it's Stripe. Bank hasn't seen any attempted transactions at all.
CANT DONATE?????
your provider uses Stripe for CC transactions. I've had nothing but trouble with Stripe.
Card is fine, data is fine. Stripe simply declines it. CC provider never even sees the transaction. 2 different cards.
I support this
If there's someone who would end up qualifying under this statute...it's Donald J Trump. Easy to impeach a 'terrorist' isn't it?
Re: Yet another story reinforcing my whole-house VPN
I use PIA and while it works absolutely fabulous for my needs, it seemingly wouldn't work for full time usage as too many times their IPs get blocked by various mainstream sites, making those sites less than fully functional.
The non-techies in house can't deal with that unfortunately.
Any suggestions for when the VPN IP gets blocked?
You get what you pay for
we PAY doctors, lawyers and accountants for their services.
The data they collect is entirely separate from the services they provide to us.
Unless this is proposing we pay Facebook/Google for the services they provide it doesn't fit the current reality
Re: Re: They'll Be Missed
They study them along with other violent causes of death and injury...it's just the guns that politically they aren't allowed to study.
More correctly the CDC is banned on spending any money on such gun violence research.
Re: Re: Re: Eliminate License-Plates !
perhaps unlicensed drivers are a bigger problem expressly BECAUSE of license plates significantly reducing the number of unregistered cars?
Why would they care about quality?
The NSA Benefits from a sloppy install. Once they get the info having hackers come in and mess things up covers their tracks