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Colm O'Connor commented about Connecting to Internet in Seoul Korea, On Monday September 22nd, 2008 06:27:00 AM
They all used to be open in Europe and the USA too. It has nothing to do with people trusting one another more or less, manufacturers just started shipping routers with encryption turned on by default.
I'm surprised they haven't in SK, as technologically they tend to be 1-2 years ahead of Europe and the US. It might just be a lack of regulatory pressure (politicians in the west tend to regard use of open wifi as a crime).
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Colm O'Connor commented about Broadband Speed Test, On Friday October 17th, 2008 03:00:00 AM
If you are testing your broadband speed with the intention of using Skype, it's better to use the Skype call testing service instead.
Add the contact 'echo123' to your contacts, and call it when you log on. It will say something to you, ask you to say something back and then repeat back to you what you said.
This has the advantage of being an end to end test - checking that bandwidth is sufficient and the connection isn't too laggy, but also that your headphones/mic are both hooked up and working properly.
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Colm O'Connor commented about The New Global Anger, On Friday October 17th, 2008 03:06:00 AM
Are you sure this isn't just a feature of the Internet?
I have noticed that the same people who are angry and argumentative online behind the veil of anonymity or pseudo-anonymity become meek when the veil is lifted.
There is also something about sitting behind a computer that depersonalizes interactions. It's much easier to get angry at a computer than a person.
It seems to be most common when misinterpretation is rife - this is something I can see happening especially on your blog, since you talk in very general terms about many topics (such as this one). The people who read it, especially reading it without context or body language can completely misinterpret it and then disagree violently with that misinterpretation.
And, far from looking for a reason to be angry, I believe every generation has reasons to be angry. But that is a separate issue.
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Colm O'Connor commented about Broadband Speed Test, On Friday October 17th, 2008 05:00:00 AM
Skype doesn't use much bandwidth anyway - sub dial up levels typically. It will be lag and intermittent connection breaks that kill your conversation. Bandwidth will correlate with that, but won't necessarily dictate it.
I guess by checking out the bandwidth and seeing that there's enough for you and everybody else in the hotel who could potentially use the connection you can call knowing that your conversation won't die when somebody else logs on.
Some newer routers have special rules that give priority quality of service to SIP (the standard voice protocol) so it might be worth trying out some SIP software as well as skype. When I go traveling I plan to take both.
Also, Skype has a tendency to do all sorts of funny wrangling to disguise its traffic - that usually serves to make it work in almost all cases, but often at the expense of call quality/reliability.
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Colm O'Connor commented about The New Global Anger, On Friday October 17th, 2008 05:11:00 AM
>The more advanced just ignore the
>people in their daiy lives unless
>they must interact.
is that part haughtiness? when i visited india i noticed my friends acting in a different way around locals. they'd start acting in a manner more like a king addressing his serfs. it bugged the hell out of me.
i haven't traveled much in developing countries, so i can't tell if this is the norm when westerners go abroad.
there's a coldness people have in large cities too. i notice this especially living in london. they're afraid to interact.
n.b. i saw your post about calling the iraq war a mistake - i can bet that made an *awful* lot of people angry. american politics seems to create far more schisms much more nowadays.
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