Tetsuo Time

Here's an article about making good arguments.. especially on the internet. I think there's one thing that they forgot to mention or touch upon. Quite a few people on the internet ignore or dismiss the good points of what someone writes and they dissect a post weeding out what they feel are the weakest parts nit picking them. It could be if you took the post as a whole the author of it may be correct but taking parts of it out of context helps them dismiss the whole thing. This is something that personally I don't like. That's in addition to the other things they mention there making things quite difficult. You also can't count on people changing these kind of habits.

I saw a TV show recently about the story of the internet called "Download: The True Story of the internet" on the Science Channel. They said one of the first meetings that google had was at a sushi resteraunt and they showed them it on their laptop and I thought... this was what... ~9 years ago? How did they get online at the sushi resteraunt did they have ethernet at the table or what? Did Sushi restaurants in California all have internet connections for their customers in the late 90's?

"Your ethernet connection is right next to your wasabi."

I stumbled upon this. Speakeasy actually supports sharing your broadband with your neighbors giving them it for a low price and reducing your price in the process. The only type of connection they have available to me is T1. Their T1 costs $359 a month (around half of what I thought it would be). I think I was actually thinking of Bonded T1 (more than one line combined into one) when I was thinking of the price before. This actually sounds more attractive than getting a WildBlue Enterprise account ($200 for 38GB a month download and 10GB a month upload).

I would need to get gear from a place like here. Question is.. would a single 1.5Mbps T1 line be enough to share with a few neighbors? I'm thinking it's probably a more reliable and consistent 1.5Mbps and it's also probably synchronous with the uploads. If I charge 9 people $40 a month I should be able to make $360 a month.

Now only if I could find 9 people and get money for the initial investment in the line and necessary hardware.... it wouldn't work to invest in it and not have enough people to sign up. They advertise in their brochure that the user can get broadband for as low as $20 a month. I'd have to sign up 16 people other than myself to cover the cost of the T1 line at that price. That means less bandwidth per person. I'd rather go with $40 x 9 (including myself if I have to). They say they handle the billing. If they charged each user just $20 when using a T1 line making their part be $180 and stuck me with the rest (the other half) that wouldn't work out as well.

Of course with $40 x 9 people I'd pretty much only break even so it wouldn't be good as a business. Hmmm.....

I stumbled upon this. Speakeasy actually supports sharing your broadband with your neighbors giving them it for a low price and reducing your price in the process. The only type of connection they have available to me is T1. Their T1 costs $359 a month (around half of what I thought it would be). I think I was actually thinking of Bonded T1 (more than one line combined into one) when I was thinking of the price before. This actually sounds more attractive than getting a WildBlue Enterprise account ($200 for 38GB a month download and 10GB a month upload).

I would need to get gear from a place like here. Question is.. would a single 1.5Mbps T1 line be enough to share with a few neighbors? I'm thinking it's probably a more reliable and consistent 1.5Mbps and it's also probably synchronous with the uploads. If I charge 9 people $40 a month I should be able to make $360 a month.

Now only if I could find 9 people and get money for the initial investment in the line and necessary hardware.... it wouldn't work to invest in it and not have enough people to sign up. They advertise in their brochure that the user can get broadband for as low as $20 a month. I'd have to sign up 16 people other than myself to cover the cost of the T1 line at that price. That means less bandwidth per person. I'd rather go with $40 x 9 (including myself if I have to). They say they handle the billing. If they charged each user just $20 when using a T1 line making their part be $180 and stuck me with the rest (the other half) that wouldn't work out as well.

Of course with $40 x 9 people I'd pretty much only break even so it wouldn't be good as a business. Hmmm.....

I have always found FTW (For The Win) to be an amusing internet three letter acronym and I like using it sometimes especially when I'm joking around about something. But I don't like FTL because it's too negative and people use it in a snarky way. I guess I'd like to be more of a glass half full kind of person.

FTW FTW!

I don't suppose anyone on my friends list can invite others to Joost right? I'd like to try that new iPTV service out.

I just read this on digg... I don't know if I agree with people who think that what this guy was doing was theft even in the sense that piracy can be considered theft. If it was a private residence that he was connecting to their WIFI it would be a different story and those people should have passwords on their wifi routers. However, In this case I would agree that a private person's wifi connection isn't meant for public use but the Public Libraries was.

But these people shouldn't be able to fall back on the analogy that they think it's like leaving a door unlocked and saying even if its unlocked that doesn't mean you can go into the building and do whatever you want. Why? Because WiFi like this is nothing like a building since you don't have any doors or areas you have to enter in order to use it. It's not even like stealing property from someones front yard because this implies that there won't be any bandwidth leftover.

No one else is even making use of the bandwidth at night so in all honesty it's typically going to waste. It's not like someone like this using the internet at night means less bandwidth for people in the morning. If anything it's like taking rain water from buckets attached to gutters at a public building in a way that there still is lots of water left for people the next day. Or using a street light outside of the libary to read your books after hours. Or like the library kept stacks of weatherproof books out in the parking lot and then got mad when someone was reading them after hours when no one else was but not taking them with him so he could then come back and read them again.

The library should shut off their router at night and then there wouldn't be any temptation for people to use their internet connection after hours. One person mentioned using a 10 dollar timer on the router and that sounds about right to me.

I guess this guy had been going around connecting to any and every unprotected wifi source that he could public or private perhaps living in people's parking lots until they chased him away so he got on the cops bad side already. But I still think part of the blame should be on the people operating unprotected open wifi hotspots.

The worst thing that someone could say about what the peson was doing was he was loitering outside the library.

I updated the screenshot in my last post yet again to show progress I have made on my Latium iTunes skin. Almost all traces of aqua are removed (which is the goal when making a theme). I edited the last button on the bottom but I still think I'm going to change the glyphs for them later. Since that post might have been buried in everyone's friends page here is a link to the post.

My internet connection is kind of pissing me off tonight. My messenger keeps on disconnecting and web sites are either taking forever to load or they are not loading at all.

It just seemed like a lot of tiny little distractions where happening this past couple of hours to try to get on my nerves or something. I mean most of the time I don't do things but when I do all these tiny things start happening like someone telling me for some reason they can't see my buddy icon. I'm like I'm sorry you can't see my buddy icon I'll have to look into that later on and they kept on telling me about how for some reason they can't see my buddy icon. =p I only need to hear things ONE time.

Stuff like that makes me feel kind of antisocial.

Besides that sometimes people on the net annoy me in general (not any of my friends in particular but people). For example a lot of times other anime fans seem to be annoying to me in general like they are some kind of insufferable lot who like to complain (and here I am complaining lmao) and in general have unpleasent personalities and that's why I don't go to a lot of anime chats. Maybe I have just met the wrong people. I also don't like those type who feel like they can be as rude as possible to other people because they don't have to see them face to face. People who think that messing someone's web site up or other such nonesense makes them superior to other people. People who don't respect the people who make the things they use like software because they take for granted the things that they have to do to make it or they are just plain assholes. Or people who are always being difficult, simply for the sake of being difficult.

I guess that can apply to a lot of people though because there are quite a few themers out there who are like that too. I can't stand them I'd rather theme on my own and share with my good friends than have to deal with those people. Like you want to have fun and release the themes you make and all they can do is bash the software you use.

Anyway... I have two cordless phones that I use to talk to Adia everyday. When the charge on one runs out I switch to the other and that coupled with a hands free set makes it convenient for me to talk to her for as long as we talk. But today the other phones base wasn't all the way plugged in so so when it was time for me to switch phones the caller id screen on the other phone was completely blank and I had to plug it in and get it started charging and our conversation got cut short which isn't too cool to me.

I feel like it's 1am already and it's only 9:36ish. =p