No, see, it's totally different. Chrome sandboxes extensions so this cannot possibly be an attack. Now I'm to run some more arbitrary JavaScript from the internet without being asked first or even told what's running</sacrasm>
Not only are they being marketed heavily by Google but they seem to have appeared in almost every "Holiday Gift Guide" on the internet.
Normally, you don't put "Not only" at the beginning of a sentence that goes [generality] -> [specific]. I would have written the sentence "they being marketed heavily by Google, for instance, they seem to have appeared in almost every \"Holiday Gift Guide\" on the internet."
People know that those guides are paid for content, right?
See, you say, without evidence, the fix is more competition. I'll say, with slight evidence, the fix is more regulation. Why? Because when the FCC started regulating, a bunch of BS the ISPs started doing got shut down.
Fun question, without NN, what's to stop Verizon, Comcast, etc from saying as a group "You can serve your website to our customers, or to little startup ISPs, but not both"?
Why do I have to look at the total cost? Or, to be more blunt, you're making a case that the ambulance ride is subsidized. To which the answer is... duh . It's subsidized because non-US countries decided that saving lives is the government's job.
I mean Obama did what he had to do under law and custom. Did you read the rest of my post? Or are you trolling? Because it takes someone acing in bad faith to claim that when someone does what they are obligated to do, to execute an action that someone else defines, it's somehow their fault.
I don't know if it was you, but I remember a Puerto Rican/.er who had almost all his assets in bitcoin. Post-hurricane, he was unable to buy what he needed without access to the cloud. It was pretty horrific.
When did a desire to pay a debt in a certain manner (cash, credit card, debit card, personal check, bitcoin, third-person check, loose coins, beaver pelts, etc.) obligate a retailer to accept your form of payment?
For cash - 1792 (gold backed); 1971 (fiat). (US Dates, your country may be different.)
You think it's the government is going to do it? It's going to be insurance companies who do it. And they won't warn you. They'll just see that you bought a cheeseburger when you weren't supposed to, cancel your insurance (but still accept your checks), and you'll find out when you're checking out of the hospital.
What are you complaining about, it's on page 7 of fine print that if you eat red meat while your BMI is over 22.5, your insurance is canceled.
Government regulation is the only thing that's going to stop that reality.
Sure, the rich probably have cards that are free, but they likely have a premium card or two (that include high minimums and an annual fee). The first example was the black Amex, but others have sprung up. They offer so many benefits that that is what you are buying (e.g. upgrades on airlines and access to their lounges) not the right to use it as a credit card.
Why on earth would it? I mean, processing rates haven't been subject to competitive pricing... ever.
What's the problem here?
The problems are several. First, it's exercising coercive power on customers. Second, people are bad at future costs. While it may be voluntary now, it may not be.later And if Visa/MC/Amex have a chokehold on commerce, they can jack up the rates and exercise huge control.
It's a frog in boiling water situation. You speak up now while we have the freedom to choose another merchant, cause soon we may not be able to. See also, people who complained about Facebook before it became mandatory in some social groups.
Only technically true. Pai was appointed to a reserved Republican seat by Obama, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell (as the opposition leadership in the Senate chooses executive branch appointees for seats dedicated to their party, by longstanding custom.)
You either didn't know that Obama didn't choose Pai, or were lying. I choose to assume the former, but your combative attitude implies it may be the later.
Woah, bad estimations. First off, figure you have to double the energy consumption just to account for cooling.Secondly, you're talking about an ideal world. Let's say half the computing power is top of the line (you said half of it came online in the last 6 months), that would more than double that again. Let's say triple, if for no other reason than it has to be more than double. So that's 21 nuke plants or ~1% of world energy production.
~1% of world energy production is a fucking huge amount That seems like the kind of thing that should be recognized as a major cost center.
Also, tripling the power is probably low. After all, it means all the GPU rigs and javascript miners and such are literally only half as effective as modern rigs (power wise). That seems unlikely to be that efficient.
If you think checking for flat tires is a government function, you might get a kick out of the reaction that Republicans had when then-Senator-Running-For-President Obama suggested that people ensure their personal tires were inflated so they would get better gas mileage and save money. (During the Great Recession's start) You would have thought it was some horrific attack on fundamental rights - they had negative mottos on tire gauges they passed out, etc. Heck, even/. was stupid about it (but what else is new).
I suppose I would disagree driving is a privilege. Free travel is an important right, and while we may have some safety standards, until we get to driverless cars (or the US invests in mass transit), it's not really optional if you want to be able to leave your house.
If I'm the kind of person who is worried about the lack of NAS leading to people tracking me more effectively, why don't you think I'm the kind of person who can handle user-agent-strings (and other browser fingerprinting) and cookies?
IPv6 seems dedicated to preventing me from hiding. Even if my device is randomly hopping among IPv6 addresses, they're all on the same subnet (does that term still apply) meaning they can all be used to id me.
BUT, they really know this anyway because they scan for device IDs, browser fingerprinting, etc.
YOu mean all things my devices all self-report. Yeah, I get that. It's modestly annoying to solve, but not difficult. Hint, all my devices report what I tell them to.
By the by, I read your article. It argues, e.g. that geolocation will be aided by IPv6. Sign me up to stay on IP4! Yes, I get that it's not a security feature, but it's definitely an obfuscation feature.
a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html'>NY Times? Guardian?BBC?
Doesn't IPv6 hide the anonymization about which device beyond the firewall is using a service. Do I really want people outside my home to know how many devices I have, or which is viewing what?
Slashdot Mirror
No, see, it's totally different. Chrome sandboxes extensions so this cannot possibly be an attack. Now I'm to run some more arbitrary JavaScript from the internet without being asked first or even told what's running</sacrasm>
There next round of funding is supposedly a down round. Like, half of the value assigned to Uber by the last investors has been lost.
Normally, you don't put "Not only" at the beginning of a sentence that goes [generality] -> [specific]. I would have written the sentence "they being marketed heavily by Google, for instance, they seem to have appeared in almost every \"Holiday Gift Guide\" on the internet."
People know that those guides are paid for content, right?
See, you say, without evidence, the fix is more competition. I'll say, with slight evidence, the fix is more regulation. Why? Because when the FCC started regulating, a bunch of BS the ISPs started doing got shut down.
Fun question, without NN, what's to stop Verizon, Comcast, etc from saying as a group "You can serve your website to our customers, or to little startup ISPs, but not both"?
No, both credit and debit cards are weak. But the credit card offers more protections.
Why do I have to look at the total cost? Or, to be more blunt, you're making a case that the ambulance ride is subsidized. To which the answer is... duh . It's subsidized because non-US countries decided that saving lives is the government's job.
I mean Obama did what he had to do under law and custom. Did you read the rest of my post? Or are you trolling? Because it takes someone acing in bad faith to claim that when someone does what they are obligated to do, to execute an action that someone else defines, it's somehow their fault.
In fairness, we would have had another year of NN if Obama's appointee hadn't stepped down.
I don't know if it was you, but I remember a Puerto Rican /.er who had almost all his assets in bitcoin. Post-hurricane, he was unable to buy what he needed without access to the cloud. It was pretty horrific.
For cash - 1792 (gold backed); 1971 (fiat). (US Dates, your country may be different.)
Credit cards offer cash back which is nice. But the main reason is in the US they offer far better protection against fraud.
You think it's the government is going to do it? It's going to be insurance companies who do it. And they won't warn you. They'll just see that you bought a cheeseburger when you weren't supposed to, cancel your insurance (but still accept your checks), and you'll find out when you're checking out of the hospital.
What are you complaining about, it's on page 7 of fine print that if you eat red meat while your BMI is over 22.5, your insurance is canceled.
Government regulation is the only thing that's going to stop that reality.
Sure, the rich probably have cards that are free, but they likely have a premium card or two (that include high minimums and an annual fee). The first example was the black Amex, but others have sprung up. They offer so many benefits that that is what you are buying (e.g. upgrades on airlines and access to their lounges) not the right to use it as a credit card.
Why on earth would it? I mean, processing rates haven't been subject to competitive pricing... ever.
The problems are several. First, it's exercising coercive power on customers. Second, people are bad at future costs. While it may be voluntary now, it may not be .later And if Visa/MC/Amex have a chokehold on commerce, they can jack up the rates and exercise huge control.
It's a frog in boiling water situation. You speak up now while we have the freedom to choose another merchant, cause soon we may not be able to. See also, people who complained about Facebook before it became mandatory in some social groups.
Only technically true. Pai was appointed to a reserved Republican seat by Obama, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell (as the opposition leadership in the Senate chooses executive branch appointees for seats dedicated to their party, by longstanding custom.)
You either didn't know that Obama didn't choose Pai, or were lying. I choose to assume the former, but your combative attitude implies it may be the later.
Woah, bad estimations. First off, figure you have to double the energy consumption just to account for cooling.Secondly, you're talking about an ideal world. Let's say half the computing power is top of the line (you said half of it came online in the last 6 months), that would more than double that again. Let's say triple, if for no other reason than it has to be more than double. So that's 21 nuke plants or ~1% of world energy production.
~1% of world energy production is a fucking huge amount That seems like the kind of thing that should be recognized as a major cost center.
Also, tripling the power is probably low. After all, it means all the GPU rigs and javascript miners and such are literally only half as effective as modern rigs (power wise). That seems unlikely to be that efficient.
CSS has very basic animation... but you might mean more than that.
If you think checking for flat tires is a government function, you might get a kick out of the reaction that Republicans had when then-Senator-Running-For-President Obama suggested that people ensure their personal tires were inflated so they would get better gas mileage and save money. (During the Great Recession's start) You would have thought it was some horrific attack on fundamental rights - they had negative mottos on tire gauges they passed out, etc. Heck, even /. was stupid about it (but what else is new).
I suppose I would disagree driving is a privilege. Free travel is an important right, and while we may have some safety standards, until we get to driverless cars (or the US invests in mass transit), it's not really optional if you want to be able to leave your house.
If I'm the kind of person who is worried about the lack of NAS leading to people tracking me more effectively, why don't you think I'm the kind of person who can handle user-agent-strings (and other browser fingerprinting) and cookies?
IPv6 seems dedicated to preventing me from hiding. Even if my device is randomly hopping among IPv6 addresses, they're all on the same subnet (does that term still apply) meaning they can all be used to id me.
YOu mean all things my devices all self-report. Yeah, I get that. It's modestly annoying to solve, but not difficult. Hint, all my devices report what I tell them to.
By the by, I read your article. It argues, e.g. that geolocation will be aided by IPv6. Sign me up to stay on IP4! Yes, I get that it's not a security feature, but it's definitely an obfuscation feature.
I said obfuscation, not security. It seems better, from my point of view, not to have any security tied to IP address at all.
And yes, it seems better if my ISP shares my IP address across many households. Why would it harm me in the slightest?
All that means is I can add an arbitrary number of phantom devices. I want to emulate only having one device.
Sure, let me DuckDuckGo that for you:
a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html'>NY Times? Guardian? BBC?
I'm not redefining words. Please give me your definition of game.
Doesn't IPv6 hide the anonymization about which device beyond the firewall is using a service. Do I really want people outside my home to know how many devices I have, or which is viewing what?