Posts by jonfr 482 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2010
Here is my speed test result. Based on a server in Odense, Denmark.
Ping 20 ms
Download speed 42.44Mbps
Upload speed 56.66Mbps
Link to my result can be found here, http://www.speedtest.net/result/2553340682.png
For comparison. Iceland is now upgrading most of its infrastructure to carry at least 50Mbps VSDL2+ internet connection in most places. What is not on fiber already gets VDSL2+. There are some farms that for now are just on normal ADSL1 or 3G. Until they can be upgraded to faster LTE connection in few years time.
The correct short term for Danmark Radio is DR. Not DK. That is a different media outlet here in Denmark.
As for Microsoft. They have been spotted and Danish Tax is going in for a grab of Microsoft money. Microsoft can employ any amount of lawyers they want. They are still going to loose in most case. Since Denmark tax code is efficient tax code from what I understand.
He also wants people and companies that do not have registered address and Icelandic social ID from owning an .is domain. By law that is.
But given there are only 15 days left of parliament in Iceland (election taking place in April) there is little chance this type of law passing. But the risk remains until Ögmundur is thrown out of his office in the up-coming election.
Side note: My English and Icelandic is all messed up at the moment. I am learning Danish and German at the same time (due to where I live in Denmark).
There is no study that I am aware of. But a lot of claims by the radical feminist movement and "studies" (not peer-reviewed in any way) used to justify the need for this ban.
As for actual scientific proof. They have not showed any (the radical feminist in Iceland). The reason for that is simple. They don't exist at all.
I am a Icelander so I have been following this case for several months now.
What is being discussed here is not a ban on violent porn. Here is being discussed is ban on all pornographic material. This is a country wide filter on the internet in Iceland demanded by law.
Here is some background on this matter.
Ögmundur Jónasson, a minister of interior affairs in Iceland (including justice affairs) is a left politician. But he has during his period as minister in Iceland been moving ever so more to the left in his politics. This also including banning people who do not live in Iceland to own a .is domain (I wrote about it here on my blog, http://www.jonfr.com/?p=7486). He also wants to ban online poke from being accessed from Iceland. So he is not just after banning porn.
This idea comes from radical feminist movement in Iceland. Along with radical people (in this case Gail Dines) that where imported from U.S to spread there nonsense in Iceland. All to justify this planned ban on porn, poker and foreign people from owning an .is domain.
Disclaimer: I am no longer living in Iceland. For the moment I live in Denmark. Where porn is legal.
I am now off OkCupid. It doesn't work for me. Since I am connected to reality or something of that nature. Whatever the case. But as for dating sites in general. I am going to stay off them forever. I rather move to some big city and take my risk.
I have tested sending messages. Just simple hi and such. But I also tested the more complex boring version (I had to test both). Both have same result. That is in most cases there is no replay what so ever.
You know why this is. Here is the reason in part or whole. I am not sure what is the exact case now. I am still checking up on it.
http://youtu.be/Lwv2yHN1Yac (How TV Ruined Your Life - s01e04 - Love)
There was an magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Russia yesterday. It clearly shows on the seismograph shown in this news. The meteor is the small blip at the 03:00 UTC (GMT) line.
Details on the magnitude 6.6 earthquake can be found here, http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=304735
>Over here, Germany, they are moving to VOIP over DSL as the standard connection, unless the customer specifically asks for an analogue or ISDN connection.
This also done here in Denmark. It is expensive to get normal telephone line connected. Other then that everything is now done with VoIP over ADSL, fiber or television cable service.
I solved this issue. I don't have any normal home telephone for this reason. I just have mobile phone instead. That is good enough for me.
The problem with Wall Street is that it is full of psychopaths. With a lot of money and the power that comes with it. People who do not care if they make a country or two go bankrupt when they get greedy. Putting a company on Wall Street is stupid. You are in fact better off by closing the company down and selling everything in it then putting it up for destruction on Wall Street.
So if Dell wants to save it self. It should go private during the weekend. There is no reason to wait until Monday to do so. The paperwork and such have to wait until Monday. As bureaucrats do not work during the weekend.
I always find it interesting that mobile companies claim to need more spectrum. They already got plenty now. They have at least this here in Europe. I am not sure about this status in other parts of the world.
450Mhz (CDMA2000)
800Mhz (LTE)
850Mhz - Not used in Europe for mobile.
900Mhz (3G/GSM/LTE)
1700Mhz - Not used in Europe for mobile.
1800Mhz (GSM/LTE)
1900Mhz (3G) - Limited usage in Europe.
2100Mhz (3G)
2600Mhz (LTE)
I do not understand why they need more spectrum. They got a lot already to work with. What they need to start doing is to remove old service like GSM (2G) that is mostly just voice and not data.
There is future for DVB-T/T2. As many people do not want cable tv, satellite tv. They just want to use normal antenna to get the needed tv signal. Many people do have internet. But the tv service costs extra (as always). Cable costs extra. Getting a signal over antenna does not cost extra. Unless it is encrypted. But encrypted signals can be ignored.
As for me. I am going to cancel my yousee.dk subscription. I am going to focus more on buying dvd and blu-ray disks in the future. It is better and I am free of the tv ads that cut the shows when on the tv channels. I am going to setup an antenna out in my garden. Where I can get DR1/2/3 for free. Along with few german channels that I get. As I am living just about 960 meters (where it is shortest distance) away from the Denmark/German border.
Quasar and a black hole are not the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
Both have strong gravity so getting close is not recommend. Along with deadly radiation and other such things.
While I do not know about the rest of what is explained in this news article (universe uniformity). This quasar structure is proving some ideas about the universe are wrong and needs to be re-evaluated and changed.
In a few years time (at best). I am going to start a company. No Microsoft for me. Just *BSD and Some handy distro of Linux.
The reason being is that it is cheaper to hire a programmer and a admin to do what is needed then to licence a software from Microsoft. As software from Microsoft is expensive, works poorly and is a security threat overall.
I rather want to put money into staff then into software licences.
The earnings tells you it actually pays up to do this, even if you get cough in the end (or perhaps not).
I know that by doing legal blog on volcanoes and earthquakes (in Iceland, Canary Islands and Falkland Islands) I am not even close to getting 1/4 of this income from those blog sites that I that cover geological events.
I am poor and it is not improving any time soon.
Is this not part of the radio spectrum that is being used by GSM and UMTS in most of Europe? Or is this the spectrum between that is not currently being used.
According to this table here. This part of the spectrum is called "Tetra-GSM" and is being used by Tetra hardware in some locations. I guess that is what Dutch army is using.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_ranges
Companies should pay tax where there headquarters are or base of operations are. Regardless of where that is. This constant tax avoidance by locating them self into tax havens has to stop.
Companies should and need to pay there fair share as the public does. Everything else is just unfair and is going to increase the tax burden on the rest of us. Everywhere.
Copyright law in EU are based on the EU copyright directive. This copyright directive was subject to heavy lobbying (bribes) by the music and movie industry. It holds manner of all stupid restrictions on breaking encryption etc.
I am not even sure it holds up to EU treaties. But nobody has so far put it to the test in ECJ that handle this type of matters inside EU. So this EU copyright directive goes on unchallenged in EU.
However. Many countries have chosen to implement it as laws. But ignore action part of it. Sadly. That country is not Finland. How did go crazy in enforcing this directive to the letter and way be on it in reality. Germany has also gone way past this directive mandate in terms of enforcing this law. That are based to service the MPAA and RIAA needs. Not the artist them self. How often get paid less and late due to the music companies willingness to cheat them out when and where they can do so.
More on this in links below.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060428/036245.shtml
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120718brein
Here is what is going to happen when I buy UEFI computer.
Boot up and disable secure boot in the UEFI.
Boot up from PC-BSD or Gentoo Live CD.
Delete Windows 8.
Install something that works and is not screwing me over. Like Windows 8 is sure to do.
Or try and buy a computer without Windows 8 to start with.
Since I am going to go and get me LTE phone soon (it is a waste of money as is). I am going to get me Nokia 700 before it runs out of sale (I need a slightly feature less phone then Nokia N8 for one of my phone number). I already got two Nokia N8 that work great. They do have software issues as every software. But that is nothing reboot does not fix.
As for Nokia. If they do not go off the Windows path of doom, then Nokia is done for. As Microsoft clearly want. Since they are moving to make there own phones soon.
The stock market is a bad idea. Be that for companies or people trying to make money in them. It almost never works out for normal people.
It works out for the cheaters who get away with cheating and stealing in the stock market.
This is why I am never going to invest in the stock market. My money is better kept safe in my bank.
I guess nobody has told musicians about this change. Since this is going to drop musicians income by huge amount.
I also want to see the laws he is backing to be stopped in the U.S. The biggest danger to musicians is not piracy. But the music industry as it is today.
>"Actually an ordinary GSM phone *does* have enough power to have biologic effects. At maximum power output (one bar reception condition, 2 watts) it does actually raise the temperature of your ear. It's also slightly raising the temperature of your brain. I'd be unwilling to say that this is *categorically* harmless, though a simple epidemeological approach shows that it must be pretty close thereto. [...]"
You forgot this. At 2W it is working on 900Mhz. It is at 33,33cm. So the radio wave it self is too big to harm you, your cells and your DNA. It just does not happen. It is also non-ionizing radiation. So no harm there.
What you are feeling is not the radio waves warming up your ear when the phone is at full power. What you are feeling is the phone it self warming up. Along with battery at maximum output and that is also warming up because of full strength.
There is no harm from radio waves from 1Khz to 400Thz (light).
It is a fairy tale that you go there.
I recommend that you start on reading the history of Europe for the past 80 years or so. By those accounts there EU is not going anywhere and the euro certainly is not going anywhere.
Nigel Farage is not so important. The second he is off the stage everybody is going to forget him and his useless message.
What did happen to Royal Bank of Scotland is there own fault of greed and incompetent. There people how did run the bank should in reality never have been running the bank in the first place. In fact. This people should not run anything of any importance at all. Ever!
This secure UEFI boot is just a scam. It is not going to prevent malware infection of Windows 8 PC. This just shameless attempt to control the PC market by Microsoft.
I run Gentoo Linux. It does not come with secure keys and I am not going to start paying Microsoft for one once I upgrade to UEFI computer. It is just not going to happen. I am going to find a way to disable UEFI secure boot and wipe the security key from Microsoft clean out. At the same time when I delete Windows 8 or Windows 9 when this happens.
UEFI secure boot is only good for one thing. That is too lock the boot loader forever like is already done on ARM computers (mobile phones, tablets etc).
This UEFI secure boot is not a good idea. It is not going to solve anything. It is going to lock things down for the PC in the future. Something that must not happen.
It is clear that Nokia is going the same way as the dinosaurs. Most part of it are extinct. Some did evolve and go on to be birds.
For Nokia however. It is just going to be long and tiresome death. I am going to miss Nokia. Since they where cutting edge long time ago. But then it got stupid and did hire a stupid asset stripping capitalist from Microsoft. That is going to be death of Nokia and nothing else.
I am going to move on to new brand of phone in few years time. When my Nokia phones start to drop dead.
The fact is nobody "buys" Windows. Any version. If anyone spend a little time reading the EULA it is clear that you are just licensing Windows (insert version here) from Microsoft. So it can stop working at any time. This also goes for every proprietary software out there.
Speaking of "piracy" when the EULA claim you are buying license for the software does not add up. The actual terms is that people are running unlicensed software. That is not piracy as the greedy CEO types it is. But I do not see how copying files is piracy to start with.
Then there is the fact some television shows are not released for Europe. Same goes for many movies.
As for malware infections. Microsoft have them self to blame. As Windows is based on poor technology. Since it is made for profit and not security.
I only run games on my licensed copy of Windows XP. Not going to move to Windows 7 until I get a new gaming PC. If it comes with Windows 8. I am going to delete it and install Windows XP.
I find the idea that Stonehenge is about solstices to be less interesting then it is fact. Based on the fact that axial precession changes the location of the sun during solstices every few thousands years. The location of the sun today during solstices is not the same as it was 5000 years ago when Stonehenge was built according to the idea.
I have a idea on what Stonehenge might be copying. Rather then being (maybe?). But it is classified as above top secret for now. It is also above 50 levels more complex then what readers of this news sites normally understand. As most just understand beer, boobs.and football.
Yes, yes. I am going to be hated for this comment. But I do not care about it. I have bigger things to deal with now.
"As to not understanding what the police are doing if it's piracy... well, if they are police, they are simply enforcing the law, as is their remit. There's no point complaining to police about the existence and illogicality of individual laws, because making them, or prosecuting and offenders isn't any of their business. It's a bit like moaning to the Postie about getting letters that you don't want."
There is the problem. The law for most part is written by corporation for corporation. They call it the fancy word "lobbing". But in reality it comes down on the same place. It is a self-service to laws for corporations. Not every corporations do this. There are few that have the decency to leave the law up to the lawmakers.
The problem of the law in regards to piracy is also well explained here.
http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html
Claims made by MPAA and RIAA are just ridiculous in reality. It would be good if more people would figure this fact out.
"As to freedom... I'm not sure what triggered this. How is the police taking away some servers for an unknown reason of an ISP that contains highly questionable content a restriction or blow to your freedom?"
What is "questionable"? If they are after criminals that rape kids. I fully understand. If they are after people who share digital content. Then I do not understand. Since every study that has not been fabricated by the MPAA or RIAA shows that impact of "piracy" is none. In fact, sharing turns in profit. As it allows people to see new entertainment and see if they like what they are watching. It is also a fact that digital files on the internet do not last that long. Maximum 2 to 5 years (depending). So buy blue ray or dvd often make more scene for people in the long term.
Case in point. Almost none of the show that I currently watch are shown on television I have here in Denmark. That is 0. The exception being Doctor Who. But that is already 1 season behind on DR HD. I can already get on blue ray and it is not that expensive.
I buy movies and television shows on dvd or blue ray when I have the money. I already have a long list of television shows and movies that are on my "to buy" list. So piracy is not the problem.
But the economic crisis is the problem. People buy food before entertainment. That is a fact and nobody at MPAA and RIAA are going to change that fact. Regardless how they want to.
It seems today that freedom is now reserved privilege for corporations, the super-rich and politicians. This development has been ongoing for long time now. It is older then me already.
Not everyone is like this. As that would be generalization. But this problem is widespread enough to be a problem.
Adam Curtis has covered this properly. Here is a documentary on this problem, http://www.jonfr.com/?p=6920
Disclaimer: Yes, this is my blog. But I have collected the documentary film on my blog already. I am too lazy to find them on youtube and post all the links here.
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