PARIU CU VIATA 24 DECEMBRIE 2011 EP PARIU CU VIAT DE CRACIUN 24.12.2011
Personaje greu de recunoscut, cantece de pe albumul de Sarbatori lansat de „LaLa Band” si o intalnire cu Mos Craciun. In seara de Ajun serialul care a fost lider de audienta in fiecare seara, inca de la lansare, isi descarca tolba cu surprize direct in casele telespectatorilor. Acestia vor avea parte de o intalnire inedita cu Mos Craciun, interpretat de Marin Moraru, si vor fi invitati sa intre intr-o lume in care-si doreste sa traiasca Ioana Popa (Alina Eremia), o lume in care ea si Andrei nu au fost schimbati la nastere
Bandwidth capping from Verizon LTE and other 4G wireless networks will crush our dreams of mobile On-Demand multimedia content. 4G! It’s going to the savior of all of our wireless bandwidth problems! I’ll finally be able to watch my Netflixes and download HD iTunes movies when I’m on the road! Yippee!!!!! Wait… you mean there’s going to be bandwidth caps? As PC Magazine’s Sascha Segan just found out, just because you actually have the ability to suck down data faster than a frat boy funneling Pabst Blue Ribbon, it doesn’t mean the wireless carriers are going to let you do it without paying through the nose for it. Those of you praying that Verizon gets a 4G version of the iPhone and the iPad (or even 4G Android Tablets and Smartphones) and are expecting massive performance improvements over AT&T need to take heed — yes, your performance WILL improve. A lot. But if you expect to be able to watch Netflix movies every day when you’re on the road over your 4G connection for $50 a month, Fuhgeddaboudit. As I wrote in earlier articles regarding my trials and tribulations with horrendous hotel Wi-Fi and in my recent tests of Clear’s WiMax service, 4G is a great cure for business travelers who actually need to get work done and be productive on the road, but it is not a panacea for multimedia applications and heavy downloads that you’ll encounter with services like Netflix or iTunes. If you’re looking to become a Verizon LTE subscriber, keep in mind that at the $50.00 a month data plan, it will will buy you 5GB of data. For the business user that emails a bunch of PowerPoints and does a ton of email and needs to use Web, Intranet and thin client applications over VPNs, this should be more than sufficient. But I’ve now learned the entire thing comes to a screeching halt — or results in a big-ass AMEX bill in service overages if you start trying to do more ambitious stuff with it, such as suck down Netflixes or large iTunes movies. Sascha Segan determined in his tests that when watching Netflix in Standard Definition, with a 1500Kbps stream, you’ll burn through your entire monthly allotment in under seven and a half hours. With 720p Netflix movies, at 3800Kbps, that’s just under three hours. That’s roughly equivalent to the same amount of HD iTunes films, about one and a half movies. Hulu+ will burn through your plan in eleven hours. That certainly won’t get you through the month as a business traveler if you’re counting on pulling content down on-demand after hours in your hotel room. And what about Clearwire? They’ve got “Unlimited” 4G plans. Well that doesn’t work out so well either. Although the service was able to actually deliver HD streaming content in my tests, in my discussions with actual Clearwire subscribers, the company is quick to rate-cap you the second you start burning through gigabytes of data every day. Have a look, for example, at the actual subscriber monthly data usage report of a user in the Atlanta metro region which i’ve obtained: Clearwire monthly 4G usage data from sample user, annotated (click to enlarge) As you can see from the chart — which was downloaded by the subscriber from the Clearwire web site customer portal and has been annotated to indicate cause and effect from daily use, the company does not hesitate to cap performance on the following day when heavy streaming activities are detected. If Clearwire’s current financial situation is of any indication, the company will not be able to sustain even this level of user behavior. They’re going to have to clamp down more and more on movie streaming and heavy downloads. So what’s the cure to this situation? Well, there really isn’t any. You can’t expect to do high-bandwidth downloads in 4G and not run into brick walls or make big dents in your wallet. You’ll want to sideload your iTunes movies when you have Wi-Fi bandwidth at home. Unless Netflix can come up with a comparable DRM-enabled download service like iTunes to side-load your laptop or tablet device on Android, you won’t be able to watch Netfix films on the road on a consistent basis unless you have a ton of money to burn or have access to fast Wi-Fi networks to watch them on. What I also think this means is that long term, peering and hand-off agreements are also going to have to take place between the 4G carriers and the home broadband carriers such as Comcast and Cablevision which maintain the Optimum Wi-Fi and XFINITY networks. Alternatively, the big telecom players, such as Verizon, which is both a broadband provider and a wireless provider will have to maintain large networks of Wi-Fi access points so that their customers don’t have to set limits on their usage. It might also mean that being a Verizon Wireless and Verizon Broadband customer at the same time may have some built-in advantages once the company starts introducing incentives for 4G usage and “Triple Play” deals for broadband/television, VOIP and wireless. Suddenly, buying your Cable modem and television service from Cablevision and having a Verizon or Sprint smartphone instead of just doing all your business with Verizon might not be such a good idea anymore. And if the iPhone and iPad does come to Verizon’s new network, you can bet your bottom dollar that iTunes Video downloads and Netflix might even be turned off on 4G from Day One. Will 4G rate capping affect customer wireless usage behavior and require workarounds? Talk Back and Let Me Know,.
A single senator on Friday stalled a bill that would give the federal government the ability to shut down websites allegedly participating in copyright infringement. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden announced his opposition to the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act at a committee hearing on Friday. The bill was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee one day earlier. The bill has drawn a lot of opposition. Many critics say it will trample free-speech rights (PDF) and could give the government the ability to censor controversial websites such as WikiLeaks. "Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like using a bunker-busting cluster bomb, when what you need is a precision-guided missile," Wyden said in an article onRaw Story. The co-sponsor of the bill, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, said, "Few things are more important to the future of the American economy and job creation than protecting our intellectual property. That is why the legislation is supported by both labor and industry, and Democrats and Republicans are standing together." Apparently Leahy wasn't planning on Wyden voicing his opposition which will put the bill on "hold" until the next Congress convenes. Hopefully the new Congress will give this some more thought. I get that copyright infringement is a problem, but this bill sounds like giving the government the ability to take out certain streets because shady business deals happen on them. Maybe it's time to target the problem instead of taking a broad swipe. After all, wouldn't it be easier to take down the entire Internet instead of just regulating a few shady sites? Just another case of a bunch of "old guys" trying to regulate the series of tubes.
Hong Kong organizations need to combat security threats in a collaborative manner, urged Agnes Mak, executive director of the Hong Kong Productivity Council last week after the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) reported that the number of hacking andphishing cases were up 34 percent year-on-year in the first 10 months of the year. According to the HKPC-managed HKCERT, there were 579 active hacking and phishing cases in the first 10 months of 2010. "As new technologies such as cloud computing and mobile apps for smartphones are increasingly popular, such cases set to spiral upward," said Mak who spoke at the opening of the Information Security Summit 2010 yesterday. "The Government, information security professionals, and the community at large must work together to curb these attacks." (See also Don't be Dragooned into the Botnet Army." Other officiating guests at the opening ceremony included Eric Lam, Assistant Director (Support Branch), Office of the Telecommunications Authority of HKSAR Government, and Dale Johnstone,
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