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Europe Is About to Create a Link Tax(techdirt.com)
9 points by pastycrinkles 10y ago|1 comments
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Police Investigate Firebombing At Google Headquarters(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
8 points by pastycrinkles 10y ago|0 comments
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Netflix’s Forecast for Growth Disappoints Wall St(nytimes.com)
4 points by pastycrinkles 10y ago|0 comments
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
I definitely admire their courage. Whether or not you agree with their philosophy, it does represent what disruption should be about imho. On another note, the revenue model of digital-only newspapers isn't particularly sustainable loo
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
I took it a step further and just use my home phone now. Not necessarily to escape any sort of addiction or privacy issues of feature phones (though the latter does cross my mind occasionally), but because when you retire a smartphone, the
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Ask HN: No internet?
6 points by pastycrinkles 11y ago|4 comments
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Google responsible for linking to defamatory websites: Australian court(smh.com.au)
3 points by pastycrinkles 11y ago|0 comments
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
So what happens if an EU country sees a BGP routing error that sends traffic to the US?
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
You forgot about the cyber military!
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
As far as cable companies go, they're kinda low on the telephony totem pole anyway. Probably best to ditch them and go with AT&T/Frontier/whoever your local phone company is.
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
All and all, it's just another sign that the internet is becoming less a tool of individual communication or expression, and more an impression of cable TV. Besides, y'know, all that surveillance and all. Another free medium bites
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
No kidding :/ . If anything, there should really be a movement to get people to migrate off of it more and more.
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
Heh! Bubble much?
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
Isn't "pay once for lifetime service" by definition a Ponzi scheme?
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
> Most carrier backbones have been all-IP for years. Pretty sure end-to-end circuit switched calls are atypical nowadays, although I'm happy to be proven wrong. That certainly depends on what network and where. If you're talkin
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
> Why would you use an HD codec to transcode to G711? Call on any direction can sound only as good as G711. The idea is to use the timeslot g.711 normally would sit in to transport your own codec. Studios use this technique pretty freque
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
> Digital voice services, which are basically VoIP You say that as if things like GR-303 and ISDN BRIs/PRIs don't exist. The only thing that isn't digital about modern, non-IP phone networks is the last mile when you order
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
> Really? The last time I sent a fax was 2006. You're clearly missing the point here. T.38 and RFC-2833 largely exist because there's many, many voip routes that can't transport low latency audio reliably. There's a l
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
You clearly haven't made any PSTN calls on Skype. If you're looking for higher sample rates, it's relatively easy to use a B channel to transport g.722, or even bond a couple together for 128k AAC/MP3/any other code
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
Maybe with dedicated fiber links that carry no other traffic, sure. But the vast, vast majority of voip routes tend not to measure up to their circuit switched counterparts. Why do you think things like T.38 and RFC-2833 exist?
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
Right, because voip has a reputation for sounding great and being reliable. (/s)
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
I saw an article today, and it made me think right away of this whole mess; http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2015/05/04/report-facebook-to...
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
AT&T and some of the CLECs like Windstream offer a product called Centrex that might be what you're looking for. In terms of reliability and call quality, it's pretty much at the top of the stack. Generally speaking, you have
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by pastycrinkles 11y ago
What we're seeing here is another case of a technology outgrowing traditional values. Perhaps democracy should be replaced for the sake of the internet.
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by pastycrinkles 12y ago
Keep your head out of the past. The internet is becoming the way we do everything now; it's a necessity.
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by pastycrinkles 12y ago
HN's comments to this article are funny. Most of them read like denials or sidesteppings of the issue.
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by pastycrinkles 12y ago
Oh, hey! Bubbles!
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Snapchat's Constrictive New Terms of Service(snapchat.com)
2 points by pastycrinkles 12y ago|0 comments
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If Illegal Sites in UK Get Blocked Accidentally, Hard Luck Says Court(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by pastycrinkles 12y ago|0 comments
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US privacy confidence at new low, survey indicates(bbc.com)
3 points by pastycrinkles 12y ago|0 comments

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