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I concur. He also says " The upstream power decreased by 1.5db indicating that the transmitted signal was being seen more clearly now" but that is inaccurate.

A cable modem's upstream power level has nothing to do with noise. The CMTS will always power adjust the modem so that it hits the CMTS at 0db, it doesn't power adjust based on noise. A 1.5 db change in Upstream SNR would be a different story, but that is a reading that can only be obtained from the CMTS so there isn't any data to backup that claim.

I also would dispute the clam that a modem vendor or MSO is trying to only minimize the cost of the cable modem. If minor internal changes reduced the number of service calls and truck rolls a small increase in upfront cost would quickly be recovered.

CALEA is not only for voice. Broadband providers are required to be CALEA compliant. Basically they have to be able to delivery data in a specific format to an LEA.

These devices are not (normally?) under LEA control. The service provider would receive a warrant/court order that says "send data for customer XYZ to this CALEA capture IP". Even if the LEA had direct control of the CALEA device it would need the assistance of the SP to know what data is coming from what customer.

As a new food truck owner I can relate to this article.

I'm in a different situation because my truck is more of a hobby than a job, but I do want it to pay for itself. As such we focus more on festivals, special events, and catering. Even then we are running into some regulation issues.

We are fortunate enough to live and work in a city that is willing to work with us and understands the issues we face. It isn't that the law is bias against food trucks, but that it without considering mobile food vending and because of that is overly restrictive. For example if a local business ask us to come park in their parking lot and serve or sell food to their customers we have to get a special permit per location. And we are limited to the number of permits we can get per year and need to know the exact dates, times, and locations before applying. We get new request every week so there is no way for us to know in advance where we will be for the rest of the year.

But just like any other business understanding and navigating the laws and regulations is part of the job. To be successful you need to plan and adapt accordingly.

I agree. The entire concept is about trying to be less invasive in the web browsing experience (by adding a popup instead of redirect the entire web session) but that all falls apart because of crappy JavaScript.

This is probably part of their "Web Notifcation System". They have a published RFC talking about how it works (RFC6108).

Using that system they can selectively notify customers. Like if they detect your system is infected with a virus. Or warn you your service will be discontinued if you don't pay your bill.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

Yep, we are in Lebanon. We have full time "real" jobs so this is just a weekend gig. Our primary focus is going to be local events (Blues fest, country feat, etc.) but we will also be selling on non-event weekends too.

We will also be doing BBQ Competitions. The first of the season will be the VOA BBQ Bash in West Chester (http://www.voabbqbash.org/). If you like BBQ you should come check it out.

As we get closer to "Going Live" we'll update our website, facebook, and twitter. http://historicbbq.com http://twitter.com/HistoricBBQ

Thanks for the interest!

Not quite yet. We just got the truck and are making some minor changes and getting a full wrap on it.

We also have ordered a custom smoker so we are waiting for that to finish up.

We hope to be up and running in early April.

Very interesting article.

I just bought a food truck (literally 24 hours ago) and while I am as new as it gets in the industry what I have learned so far is in line with this article.

We looked into starting a restaurant or event just a commercial kitchen to do catering out of. After much research and searching for a location we changed direction and went with a food truck.

The food truck has several advantages to us. Overall the cost is much cheaper. Also if we were to buy or rent a building and put money into building a kitchen that would be a sunk cost that we could never get back. If we outgrow the truck or decide this isn't the business for us we can sell the truck and get our money back.

A lot of the work does go into figuring out the health department stuff. Ohio is a lot more friendly than some other states but is still an area we have to dedicate a significant amount of attention to.

You are correct, I misread the code commit. The link to the 2010 bug was removed from the code, not added to it.

Doesn't look like this has anything to do with an exploit. It is because some older web servers who don't support TLS also don't support compression.

See:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31628

The DSCP values have nothing to do with the bandwidth cap. DSCP is just a "flag" on the packet and most internet routers don't look at that at all. I would also be very shocked if DSCP has anything at all to do with the way Comcast is calculating your bandwidth cap. They are most likely using something like IPDR or subscriber-aware DPI.

DSCP values also are completely separate from DOCSIS priority on the cable network. With DOCSIS the provider can create service flows with different priorities and bandwidth restrictions. Most providers only use two service flows (one upstream and one downstream) but if Comcast wanted to give some subset of traffic priority on the DOCSIS network (where they are most likely to see congestion) they would put that traffic into a separate service flow with a higher priority. That is how they do their "congestion management" to top users, top users in saturated nodes get their service flow priority temporary and dynamically reduced (via PCMM) so other users traffic gets first shot at open time slots.

In addition, with DOCSIS 3 it is very possible for the MSO to add a dedicated set of RF channels that only select traffic would use, which in this case it would be the Xfinity video streams. I have no idea if that is how Comcast has implemented this but if so how is that any different to Video-On-Demand on a standard STB? With standard VOD on a STB there is a set of RF frequencies set aside for VOD use. If they put Xfinity XBOX IP traffic on a separate RF channel it would be no different than adding an additional RF channel for VOD and would have zero impact on total available internet bandwidth to the cable node.

It doesn't cost you more money at all.

When you transfer a domain the expiration date is increased by at least a year (more if you chose so). You do not double pay for the time that is remaining. It is basically renewing just with a different registrar.

Blackberry has this build in. It can also wipe your device if the battery gets too low.

I agree. What is the point? The guy was just doing his job.

Your exactly right. Search for the same product using google shopping and it shows the higher price.

Don't blame Bing. It is the store that is deciding to charge you a higher price.

I have seen this several times, on both newegg and Buy.com. Normally the "add to cart to see price" type items are cheaper if you don't do the bing cash back