At least in America, there are no real monopolies to broadband, and this guy proves it. All you naysayers who complain about Comcast or other ISPs need to STFU and GTFO.
You shouldn't brazenly accuse others of something you're obviously prone to.
"It's popular, so it sucks" is the mantra here. Some fanboys just want to make their e-penis bigger by saying they use obscure, obfuscated distro X all the time. Nothing new here.
The difference between individual privacy and government secrecy is that individuals can be directly harmed, while governments (and other organizations, like corporations) can only be exposed, and power shifts hands. Members of an organization need to be informed to make good decisions, and, in the case of a democratic government, the members are the citizens. Secrets and misinformation make an organization/constituency less informed, and more prone to making bad decisions. It's not a matter of privacy, since organizations aren't individuals.
> but still believing that plants obtain most of their mass from the soil rather than from the atmosphere.. It's the supreme irony of the self-righteous that the strawmen they set up occasionally have valid points.
remember apps both client and server have to support v6, not just the OS
Really badly written programs. Seriously. I've written stuff in C with the sockets API that is IPv4/v6 agnostic. It's easy to do; there is no excuse for not implementing it.
NAT is fine for people who only make outgoing connections; i.e. the passive internet consumer. It's hell for the rest of us, but hey, since when did the massive media conglomerates ever have the techies' interests at heart?
Portions of the bailout money could have gone to several different causes, doing far more good in the world than what it actually did, but the point is that it was called for by the mega-wealthy, to make themselves wealthier. The capitalist elite do not care about space exploration, world hunger, or any pressing social or scientific issues. They only care about themselves, and Congress has had a long-standing policy of trying to sate them, which is impossible to do.
Basically, forget about space exploration being commercially viable while we still the capitalist elite down here on Earth funneling funds orders of magnitude greater to themselves. It's a wealth gap that cannot be overcome by anything except public action.
Also, I don't think any significant ventures into space will happen until we start doing nuclear propulsion. Chemical compounds just aren't going to do the trick.
I dunno about that... It *is* the solstice and a total lunar eclipse on that day, after all. Maybe there are enough pro-Net-neutrality moon gods to swing the vote our way? Yes, I'm putting my faith in some rare planetary alignment. We're boned.
Exactly this. The policies themselves are the dangers to human lives. Wikileaks exists to make sure this stuff gets out while the responsible parties can still be held accountable.
And all of those cool military gadgets we ooh and ahh over will be deployed against citizens aspiring for freedom.
Hasn't worked in Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, and it won't work here, either.
If I recall correctly, none of those countries have strategic weapons (read: nuclear). If the entire country revolts against the government, the military will be deployed. This will cause many soldiers to defect, as others have discussed, but the higher-ups will use nuclear weapons against us and they will win, no matter the cost. Violent revolution is not an option.
I wonder if this whole vote with your wallet even works anymore...
It never has worked. Even with a novelty like video games -- if gamers aren't in direct control of the development cycle (console manufacturers see to it that the hardware is as locked-down as possible), we take what the centralized industry gives us. Really, the only way to "vote" is not to get the console in the first place and develop a competing game on an open platform. That will get their attention.
Anybody doing the planning and professionals doing the execution? Methinks it will turn out like Axe Cop, the comic written by a 5-year-old and illustrated by his 29-year-old brother.
Ah, but not if they use molten salt as an electrolyte. I can imagine an organization saving so much on "cooling costs" as they send the server admin into hell on earth to swap out a component or fiddle with the cables.
Really? I would think that the underlying physical structure of the internet is heavily regulated in this country by the FCC, e.g., I can't run an unshielded backbone that blasts out so much power that everything around it is receiving heavy interference, and I can't build a transceiver putting out intense thermal or ionizing radiation to transmit wireless data across public land. "Regulated" sounds to me like a dangerous weasel word in this bill.
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Do you even think before you post, or is it all just knee-jerk reaction for you?
Nothing particular came to mind. As you mentioned a minute later:
At least in America, there are no real monopolies to broadband, and this guy proves it. All you naysayers who complain about Comcast or other ISPs need to STFU and GTFO.
You shouldn't brazenly accuse others of something you're obviously prone to.
He'll figure out just how "expensive" broadband is when the telecoms tie him up in court. That is, if this ISP is large enough to affect the bigwigs.
"It's popular, so it sucks" is the mantra here.
Some fanboys just want to make their e-penis bigger by saying they use obscure, obfuscated distro X all the time. Nothing new here.
Just wait until the mods eventually flip flop on their broken sarcasm detectors.
Improving slashdot, step one: disable anonymous comments.
You know you can set modifiers on AC comments in your preferences, right? -3 is a good setting.
What can you do in Slackware that is impossible in Ubuntu?
The difference between individual privacy and government secrecy is that individuals can be directly harmed, while governments (and other organizations, like corporations) can only be exposed, and power shifts hands. Members of an organization need to be informed to make good decisions, and, in the case of a democratic government, the members are the citizens. Secrets and misinformation make an organization/constituency less informed, and more prone to making bad decisions. It's not a matter of privacy, since organizations aren't individuals.
> but still believing that plants obtain most of their mass from the soil rather than from the atmosphere..
It's the supreme irony of the self-righteous that the strawmen they set up occasionally have valid points.
remember apps both client and server have to support v6, not just the OS
Really badly written programs.
Seriously. I've written stuff in C with the sockets API that is IPv4/v6 agnostic. It's easy to do; there is no excuse for not implementing it.
NAT is fine for people who only make outgoing connections; i.e. the passive internet consumer.
It's hell for the rest of us, but hey, since when did the massive media conglomerates ever have the techies' interests at heart?
Portions of the bailout money could have gone to several different causes, doing far more good in the world than what it actually did, but the point is that it was called for by the mega-wealthy, to make themselves wealthier. The capitalist elite do not care about space exploration, world hunger, or any pressing social or scientific issues. They only care about themselves, and Congress has had a long-standing policy of trying to sate them, which is impossible to do.
Basically, forget about space exploration being commercially viable while we still the capitalist elite down here on Earth funneling funds orders of magnitude greater to themselves. It's a wealth gap that cannot be overcome by anything except public action.
Also, I don't think any significant ventures into space will happen until we start doing nuclear propulsion. Chemical compounds just aren't going to do the trick.
$10/gigabyte, nevermind. (Nearly three cents per second?) It still gets on my nerves.
I bet it doesn't even stop the download when you exceed the limit. It just goes on to charge per megabyte or something.
probably too simple for nuts and bolts types.
If it has text-based configuration files and access to a command line, that's good enough for tinkering.
Well, we're boned.
I dunno about that...
It *is* the solstice and a total lunar eclipse on that day, after all. Maybe there are enough pro-Net-neutrality moon gods to swing the vote our way?
Yes, I'm putting my faith in some rare planetary alignment. We're boned.
Exactly this.
The policies themselves are the dangers to human lives. Wikileaks exists to make sure this stuff gets out while the responsible parties can still be held accountable.
What do you bet this was the result of some government agency/powerful private entity saying they want easier access into remote machines?
And all of those cool military gadgets we ooh and ahh over will be deployed against citizens aspiring for freedom.
Hasn't worked in Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, and it won't work here, either.
If I recall correctly, none of those countries have strategic weapons (read: nuclear). If the entire country revolts against the government, the military will be deployed. This will cause many soldiers to defect, as others have discussed, but the higher-ups will use nuclear weapons against us and they will win, no matter the cost. Violent revolution is not an option.
I wonder if this whole vote with your wallet even works anymore...
It never has worked. Even with a novelty like video games -- if gamers aren't in direct control of the development cycle (console manufacturers see to it that the hardware is as locked-down as possible), we take what the centralized industry gives us. Really, the only way to "vote" is not to get the console in the first place and develop a competing game on an open platform. That will get their attention.
Anybody doing the planning and professionals doing the execution?
Methinks it will turn out like Axe Cop, the comic written by a 5-year-old and illustrated by his 29-year-old brother.
unlike literature, history, politics and music, math has little relevance to everybody's daily life.
Now we'll be comparing the uselessness of those subjects. Nice troll, though.
I was under the impression that all MMORPGs require no skill, only grinding/subscribing.
Ah, but not if they use molten salt as an electrolyte. I can imagine an organization saving so much on "cooling costs" as they send the server admin into hell on earth to swap out a component or fiddle with the cables.
The atrocities of racism in the past would have been explained by the dominant society as "culturally and politically motivated".
The internet is not regulated
Really? I would think that the underlying physical structure of the internet is heavily regulated in this country by the FCC, e.g., I can't run an unshielded backbone that blasts out so much power that everything around it is receiving heavy interference, and I can't build a transceiver putting out intense thermal or ionizing radiation to transmit wireless data across public land. "Regulated" sounds to me like a dangerous weasel word in this bill.