Use OpenVPN in TCP mode (rather than it's default UDP mode).
Then set up local ssh port forwards through a bounce host you know works well.
Instead of going from Peru --> UK instead go from Peru --> Localhost --> SSH bounce host in Germany --> UK.
Or try an onion network like Tor.
hedronist is 100% right.
My house was built in 1953 and is made of brick with plaster walls. Some of the walks have chipped or cracked over the years and underneath the plaster surface is a metallic mesh.
When I'm outside my home my signal is a perfect 4 bars. The minute I step inside I drop to "No Service".
WiFi has problems too and it's transmitting within the house about 2 rooms away.
I wish there was a WiFi solution outside of microwave...
I'm usually good at playing devils advocate and look at the other point of view when pondering about such things, but I really can't think of any good reason why if the enemy were the only ones remaining that I should allow them to remain after what they'd done.
A good reasons for not mindlessly nuking and murdering thousands of people? Well, let's see:
Realizing that humanity is all on the same "team" would help a lot. We're all in this together. People that cause division and constantly label other humans the "enemy" are usually either missing something, or politicians.
Just because someone is a great scientist does not mean the person is a good administrator or a good politician.
Just because someone is a great scientist does not mean the person is a bad administrator or a bad politician.
What makes administrators or politicians "good" anyway? An MBA, or a PoliSci degree? Hardly.
I'd say a reasonable degree of expertise in your domain, coupled with an ability to listen and evaluate the merits of many different viewpoints are the primary attributes to look for.
From a press release several weeks/months ago:
"DIRECTV and TiVo will work together to develop a version of the TiVo® service for DIRECTV's broadband-enabled HD DVR platform. The product will support the latest TiVo and DIRECTV features and services, including TiVo's Universal Swivel Search and TiVo KidZone. TiVo will develop the new HD DVR for an expected launch in the second half of 2009."
So right now we're locked out but the landscape will improve in the future.
People get so caught up trying to teach the "right" way to program that they don't teach how to program first, which is a mistake. Students need to learn the power and wonder of while, for, and regular functions before you can teach them the power of object oriented programming. Computer science is unfamiliar and strange, let students learn the simple things before throwing the advanced concepts at them.
You make a good point here, I would add that we should be teaching basic programming like this in high school and doing a better job of preparing students for university. This is already done in certain areas with Advanced Placement classes that offer college credit. Students that come into university without these fundamentals should expect at least a five-year Bachelor's degree program, with the first year spent focusing on the basics. Trying to cram everything into four years when you're starting from zero makes the C.S. degree extremely difficult for students that went to inadequate high schools.
Well, I had my first negative experience with the DRM hiding inside of iTunes, and when it's bad, it's real bad. I've been using iTunes + iPod for over two years and had no trouble up until now, and it really has been a great experience.
Reality is for people who can't cope with drugs.
Pisses me off how more things these days in our trusted "lil OS that could" are automatically done for you in order to make you more efficient. As it turns out, many of these things make me LESS efficient, and cause me to break things near my computer. And I'm quite certain that my computer is quite tired of me slapping it on it's face (monitor) for automatically doing something I don't want it to do.
Never has a 17Kb animated GIF motivated me to make a purchase. To me, advertisements are like spam:
1.) They are unsolicited
2.) They only hit 1 / 1000 times.
3.) They consume resources and bandwidth.
There's an enormous uproar about spam, but how come nobody cares that CNN pops up an advertisement *every time you go to their page*?
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
