Actually, the main issue with net neutrality is about ISPs forcing content providers to pay for "premium access" and similar shenanigans. This is just large-scale abuse handling.
I'm not sure getting TeliaSonera cut off from the Internet is going to be all that easy, they're the biggest telco in Sweden and Finland and are quite active in northern and eastern europe, central asia and a few other places. TeliaSonera International Carrier is a Tier 1 btw...
Actually, what happened was that Real Host was getting its connection from Junik which in turn gets its upstream from TeliaSonera and TeliaSonera pressured Junik into cutting off Real Host.
Well Mr. Troll, if you had bothered to read the entire sentence you tried write a provoking answer to and then attempted to write a provocative answer you wouldn't have failed as hard since anyone with even a basic grasp of the english language wouldn't read a simple idiomatic expression like "...giving you......for the price of..." in the overly literal and cut off way you're pretending to read it.
If I recall correctly these days some researchers are classifying Generation X as those born between the mid-60s and the late 70s and Generation Y as those born from the mid-80s to the mid-90s with those born inbetween these two generations being called the "Cold Y Generation".
On the other hand, I've heard of people who have gotten away with a possession-for-personal-use defence when having 30 grams of marihuana on them. That must've been a glorious moment.
Well, it could probably be true, much in the same way that having fully stocked liquor cabinet isn't so much a sign of intent to sell booze to kids as it's a sign of you being old enough to enjoy not having to hit the liquor store every friday night.
If the cops and court are sensible they'll realize that a guy with 5 grams of weed in a small baggie next to his bong and another 30 grams in a larger bag in the freezer probably isn't a dealer but just hates having to spend five hours calling people and driving around just to find some weed every weekend...
Do you remember who the first man was to orbit the earth? The vast majority of people wouldn't be able to answer.
I think you meant "The vast majority of hillbillies wouldn't be able to answer.". Here in Sweden I'd be surprised if more than 15% didn't at least know he was russian and I'd be willing to bet money on at least 50% of them knowing his name was Gagarin.
/Mikael
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Except there are plenty of software projects where the original project is a huge mess due to poor planning, impossible deadlines and all the regular management issues that it ends up taking less time rebuilding the whole thing than it would to "just fix the bug and recompile", I've been involved in a couple of them myself.
What's disturbing is how a lot of people in management don't seem to realise what a waste of money this is, if the developers say it's gonna take three months to build it's probably not a good idea to say "ok, you've got two months" and then when the developers say "this new version will take at least two months" you probably shouldn't tell them they've got one month...
I feel like the C&C series of games hasn't been developing as well as they should, certain things have even disappeared from the game, like walls. Now maybe I'm biased but I liked being able to build walls and barbed wire fences to slow down an enemy assault but for some reason they're not in C&C3...
Then OTOH, I'm one of those RTS players who like a slightly slower but more complex gameplay situation with games that drag out for hours on huge maps.
The whole point of TFA was that entry level jobs where people could "get in" went away, then all the senior staff retired or expired, leaving the companies with nothing.
I'd have to say that this is by no means unique for mainframe developers/admins, here in Sweden it seemed like no one was hiring entry-level coders or admins between 2002 and 2008 or so (it seems to have picked up now as companies realise that entry-level coders and admins can be paid less than some guy with 10+ years experience).
Of course, if you looked in the job ads you could easily have been fooled into thinking there were plenty of entry-level jobs, until you read the requirements for just about every entry-level job, somehow a Master's degree and 3+ years of experience was considered "entry-level".
Perhaps because COBOL isn't very similar to python, PHP or vbscript?
(I regularly use python, PHP and vbscript at work and I've messed around with COBOL at home on a few occasions and while the language is by no means hard to grasp it is a bit peculiar and I could never stand working on a large COBOL project.)
What I was talking about with the national hero bit was when you have an article about said national hero and lots of text (with source references) detailing just what a hero he/she was considered in his/her day yet somehow someone manages to pop in a few [citation needed] in the first few paragraphs even though there are plenty of sources, just not in that particular sentence (which is essentially just part of the beginning of a much longer text that, once again, cites countless sources).
The main reason this started to annoy me was that I spent a couple of hours reading about various historical figures the other day and noticed that this sort of abuse, yes I consider it abuse, of the [citation needed] tag seemed to pop up here and there.
My only explanations for it are that either someone is doing it just to be annoying or it's some user who only bothered reading the first paragraph before going "OMG NO SOURCES I MUST DEMAND THEM IMMEDIATELY!".
In all seriousness, I'm starting to get extremely annoyed by what is IMHO flagrant abuse of the [citation needed] tag on Wikipedia, I don't know how many times I've seen it used in situations where it just wasn't needed. And I don't mean in "But anyone who spends all day working on FOO knows that BAR!" situations but more along the lines of "The earth orbits the sun[citation needed]." or even better "Sir NameOfArticle was in his day frequently regarded as a national hero in $COUNTRY.[citation needed]. <Six paragraphs that detail, with plenty of sources, exactly how famous Sir NameOfArticle was.>".
I've actually begun wondering if maybe there are certain individuals who are deliberately trolling Wikipedia by adding [citation needed] in places where it just doesn't belong and then sit around giggling as they read the discussion pages of various articles they've messed with.
I take it that you've never used Safari. Well, either that or you're one of those people that can't use a browser unless it's Firefox with a few dozen weird extensions. Pretty much every (previously old-school UNIX-using) mac user I know uses Safari for their everyday browsing because it's fast, has a nice UI and is one of the best browsers when it comes to standards compliance.
/Mikael
PLEASE NOTE: As I stated but which I have no doubt that some troll will miss, practically all mac users I know personally are people who previously used other UNIX systems, not "liberal arts majors who get confused by more than one mouse button" or any crap like that.
You stated it was never legal to post torrents in Sweden but I pointed out that this statement on your part was incorrect, I never said that the main issue was private trackers.
Actually up until quite recently it was perfectly legal to share copyright-protected information to your heart's content as long as you only shared it with a few select friends, then they changed the law to make it completely illegal and in true Orwellian fashion the media industry shills are now pretending that it's always been this way.
Actually, if properly dosed marijuana taken orally is a lot more intense than if smoked, but if you eat as much as you would have smoked then the effects will not be as pronounced.
Uh, eating marijuana has pretty much the same effect as smoking hashish, the high lasts longer and the hallucinogenic qualities of the drug tend to be more pronounced but overall it's the same effect caused by the same chemicals.
Actually, from what I could tell most of the defendants seemed to be unaware of the judge's bias until after the trial when this was revealed by a third party, the prosecution has been shown to have been aware of this all along though.
I used to work for a hosting company and I've dealt with several others, there's no way I'd let any of those bozos handle my personal data. With an SLA I'd gladly rent machines for work since then it wouldn't be my personal data and for the $$$ we'd be paying them we'd get some guarantee of them keeping track of our data (or that they'd have to pay for fuckups on their end).
The normal cheap services are often painfully unreliable (if not the service itself then just think of the billing system, if you've ever had to deal with "oopsie, seems these -- users' accounts were deleted because the system thought they didn't pay their bills..." then you'll understand).
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Actually, the main issue with net neutrality is about ISPs forcing content providers to pay for "premium access" and similar shenanigans. This is just large-scale abuse handling.
/Mikael
I'm not sure getting TeliaSonera cut off from the Internet is going to be all that easy, they're the biggest telco in Sweden and Finland and are quite active in northern and eastern europe, central asia and a few other places. TeliaSonera International Carrier is a Tier 1 btw...
/Mikael
Actually, what happened was that Real Host was getting its connection from Junik which in turn gets its upstream from TeliaSonera and TeliaSonera pressured Junik into cutting off Real Host.
/Mikael
Well Mr. Troll, if you had bothered to read the entire sentence you tried write a provoking answer to and then attempted to write a provocative answer you wouldn't have failed as hard since anyone with even a basic grasp of the english language wouldn't read a simple idiomatic expression like "...giving you... ...for the price of..." in the overly literal and cut off way you're pretending to read it.
/Mikael
If I recall correctly these days some researchers are classifying Generation X as those born between the mid-60s and the late 70s and Generation Y as those born from the mid-80s to the mid-90s with those born inbetween these two generations being called the "Cold Y Generation".
/Mikael
This may just have been the worst troll I've ever seen here, including the crapflooders of yesteryear.
/Mikael
On the other hand, I've heard of people who have gotten away with a possession-for-personal-use defence when having 30 grams of marihuana on them. That must've been a glorious moment.
Well, it could probably be true, much in the same way that having fully stocked liquor cabinet isn't so much a sign of intent to sell booze to kids as it's a sign of you being old enough to enjoy not having to hit the liquor store every friday night.
If the cops and court are sensible they'll realize that a guy with 5 grams of weed in a small baggie next to his bong and another 30 grams in a larger bag in the freezer probably isn't a dealer but just hates having to spend five hours calling people and driving around just to find some weed every weekend...
/Mikael
Do you remember who the first man was to orbit the earth? The vast majority of people wouldn't be able to answer.
I think you meant "The vast majority of hillbillies wouldn't be able to answer.". Here in Sweden I'd be surprised if more than 15% didn't at least know he was russian and I'd be willing to bet money on at least 50% of them knowing his name was Gagarin.
/Mikael
Except there are plenty of software projects where the original project is a huge mess due to poor planning, impossible deadlines and all the regular management issues that it ends up taking less time rebuilding the whole thing than it would to "just fix the bug and recompile", I've been involved in a couple of them myself.
What's disturbing is how a lot of people in management don't seem to realise what a waste of money this is, if the developers say it's gonna take three months to build it's probably not a good idea to say "ok, you've got two months" and then when the developers say "this new version will take at least two months" you probably shouldn't tell them they've got one month...
/Mikael
I feel like the C&C series of games hasn't been developing as well as they should, certain things have even disappeared from the game, like walls. Now maybe I'm biased but I liked being able to build walls and barbed wire fences to slow down an enemy assault but for some reason they're not in C&C3...
Then OTOH, I'm one of those RTS players who like a slightly slower but more complex gameplay situation with games that drag out for hours on huge maps.
/Mikael
I don't doubt it, another good reason for me not to become a COBOL coder, I prefer the elegant simplicity of Python...
/Mikael
The whole point of TFA was that entry level jobs where people could "get in" went away, then all the senior staff retired or expired, leaving the companies with nothing.
I'd have to say that this is by no means unique for mainframe developers/admins, here in Sweden it seemed like no one was hiring entry-level coders or admins between 2002 and 2008 or so (it seems to have picked up now as companies realise that entry-level coders and admins can be paid less than some guy with 10+ years experience).
Of course, if you looked in the job ads you could easily have been fooled into thinking there were plenty of entry-level jobs, until you read the requirements for just about every entry-level job, somehow a Master's degree and 3+ years of experience was considered "entry-level".
/Mikael
Perhaps because COBOL isn't very similar to python, PHP or vbscript?
(I regularly use python, PHP and vbscript at work and I've messed around with COBOL at home on a few occasions and while the language is by no means hard to grasp it is a bit peculiar and I could never stand working on a large COBOL project.)
/Mikael
What I was talking about with the national hero bit was when you have an article about said national hero and lots of text (with source references) detailing just what a hero he/she was considered in his/her day yet somehow someone manages to pop in a few [citation needed] in the first few paragraphs even though there are plenty of sources, just not in that particular sentence (which is essentially just part of the beginning of a much longer text that, once again, cites countless sources).
The main reason this started to annoy me was that I spent a couple of hours reading about various historical figures the other day and noticed that this sort of abuse, yes I consider it abuse, of the [citation needed] tag seemed to pop up here and there.
My only explanations for it are that either someone is doing it just to be annoying or it's some user who only bothered reading the first paragraph before going "OMG NO SOURCES I MUST DEMAND THEM IMMEDIATELY!".
/Mikael
In all seriousness, I'm starting to get extremely annoyed by what is IMHO flagrant abuse of the [citation needed] tag on Wikipedia, I don't know how many times I've seen it used in situations where it just wasn't needed. And I don't mean in "But anyone who spends all day working on FOO knows that BAR!" situations but more along the lines of "The earth orbits the sun[citation needed]." or even better "Sir NameOfArticle was in his day frequently regarded as a national hero in $COUNTRY.[citation needed]. <Six paragraphs that detail, with plenty of sources, exactly how famous Sir NameOfArticle was.>".
I've actually begun wondering if maybe there are certain individuals who are deliberately trolling Wikipedia by adding [citation needed] in places where it just doesn't belong and then sit around giggling as they read the discussion pages of various articles they've messed with.
/Mikael
Well yeah, the Windows version of Safari is kind of an odd beast, the mac version is a lot better IMHO.
/Mikael
I take it that you've never used Safari. Well, either that or you're one of those people that can't use a browser unless it's Firefox with a few dozen weird extensions. Pretty much every (previously old-school UNIX-using) mac user I know uses Safari for their everyday browsing because it's fast, has a nice UI and is one of the best browsers when it comes to standards compliance.
/Mikael
PLEASE NOTE: As I stated but which I have no doubt that some troll will miss, practically all mac users I know personally are people who previously used other UNIX systems, not "liberal arts majors who get confused by more than one mouse button" or any crap like that.
You stated it was never legal to post torrents in Sweden but I pointed out that this statement on your part was incorrect, I never said that the main issue was private trackers.
/Mikael
Ever hear of private trackers? Sort of like how people run their own FTP servers only accesible by their close friends.
/Mikael
Actually up until quite recently it was perfectly legal to share copyright-protected information to your heart's content as long as you only shared it with a few select friends, then they changed the law to make it completely illegal and in true Orwellian fashion the media industry shills are now pretending that it's always been this way.
/Mikael
Actually, if properly dosed marijuana taken orally is a lot more intense than if smoked, but if you eat as much as you would have smoked then the effects will not be as pronounced.
/Mikael
Uh, eating marijuana has pretty much the same effect as smoking hashish, the high lasts longer and the hallucinogenic qualities of the drug tend to be more pronounced but overall it's the same effect caused by the same chemicals.
/Mikael
Actually, from what I could tell most of the defendants seemed to be unaware of the judge's bias until after the trial when this was revealed by a third party, the prosecution has been shown to have been aware of this all along though.
/Mikael
I used to work for a hosting company and I've dealt with several others, there's no way I'd let any of those bozos handle my personal data. With an SLA I'd gladly rent machines for work since then it wouldn't be my personal data and for the $$$ we'd be paying them we'd get some guarantee of them keeping track of our data (or that they'd have to pay for fuckups on their end).
The normal cheap services are often painfully unreliable (if not the service itself then just think of the billing system, if you've ever had to deal with "oopsie, seems these -- users' accounts were deleted because the system thought they didn't pay their bills..." then you'll understand).
/Mikael
I'd have to say that I've seen worse languages (x86 asm, I'm looking at you) but it sure wasn't pretty.
/Mikael