Posts by Juha Saarinen
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I want Lemmy to replace Bradbury.
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Hard News: Auckland, so much enormity to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Pshaw! What next? -ize instead of -ise?
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Speaker: The great New Zealand phone…, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Fixed now...
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In reality, the increased cost to business the new copyright act is likely to bring will be much higher. See Paul Brislen's comments.
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The provision for suspensions will be delayed for two years, and even then would need to be enacted by an Order in Council on the part of a Cabinet minister, with the assent of the Governor General.
This isn't right from what I understand. The termination clause can be activated tomorrow, if the government chooses. There is also no provision for consultation and submissions before the OiC is issued.
As Don points out, "rights holders" and "restraint" are two concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive. The Limewire case is just one example. Look at the UK where lawyers are sending out threatening letters to people as pure fishing expeditions, in essence to extort money out of them. This is all documented and, perfectly legal over there.
To think that a process that doesn't have any safeguards against false accusations from rights holders beyond having to pay a processing fee to the ISPs won't be abused when there are countless examples of it having happened overseas doesn't strike me as a realistic position.
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And of course, by "fibre strand" I meant the laser light signal. :)
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Russell Brown,
Because individual fibre does not go back the the exchange,
there is no way for anyone else to physically access it, only at the Ethernet layer.Well, in theory there is. Each fibre strand is split into 24 connections (residential) or 12 or 6 (business). Unbundling takes place after the splitter and then of course there's the issue of the return link to consider. Complicated but doable if you really have to.
One thing I'd like to have explained is how say house 12 out of 24 can pick ISP A, whereas let's say house 5 can pick ISB B for retail service, instead of all 24 being with a single provider.
So no wholesale competition no wholesale price competition, no technological competition. Just retailing.
Basically... yes.
And you know that gigabit fibre Maurice Williamson was telling us about before the election? Yeah, nah. We’re not building that kind of network now.
Ah no, you can get gigabit connections too, even dark fibre. Doubt you'll be able to afford it though.
Cool feature, auto-quoting if I select the text!
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Russell Brown,
PON is harder to unbundle than active fibre-optics.