Is not about a dumb internet. It is about an internet that does not discriminate based on entry or exit points and/or the protocol being used except where such discrimination will benefit the overall network performance.
Net Neutrality Positive VOIP Packets receiving priority (because lag and bandwidth throttling reduce performance of VOIP technologies) Prioritizing Gaming traffic of popular/well used games (IE. MMOs, FPS over internet, etc...)
Net Neutrality Negative Throttling Bandwidth on P2P applications (This is the big concern on most ISPs, they admittedly do suck up a lot of bandwidth) Extorting Money from websites who have not paid large sums of money for faster service (YouTube-wannabes) Delaying or Denying packets coming from X-Network (because they didn't pay extortion money)
Ways to fix things... Run more Fiber. It should not be as hard as it was before since many of the tunnels and such have been made already.
They're planning on using Nicotine as a basis for new drugs by using similar structures to target receptors in the brain and slow, pause or reverse diseases like parkinsons.
Alternatively they're looking at cremes which can be used to promote blood flow to parts of the body (begin Viagra jokes now please). Mostly as a way to prevent Diabetic amputations which means its better for the health care system since they wont have to chop off as many legs which means less people in wheelchairs and such.
It's not endorsing that people go light up. Just that they can probably make these things new drugs and get them in 'patch form' in the future (because lets face it lighting up a cigarette is not the best method of administering such a drug)
Freedom of Speech means being able to say and do things that other people find offensive.
Much of the piracy you see is a result of an old outdated 'Copyright' law. One that has been systemically modified, expanded, extended, and enhanced over the years from what it was originally meant to be.
14 Years was the original duration of Copyright. If it was still the case then maybe just maybe people would respect it more. Now its been expanded to Life + 70 years and in the case of companies possibly indefinately/forever. All on account of corporate interests *COUGH*DISNEY*COUGH*! Under the original duration things might become public domain while still culturally relevant
Either way rampant piracy has as much to do with an outdated business model, treating their customers like criminals, DRM (or anti-DRM) movement and other such things. I find it hard to respect a company that smacks me over the head with a moral argument about piracy before the start of every film I go to see IN THE THEATER.
Any other company would go out of business treating their customers like criminals. Why should they be permitted to thrive?
So you are saying that we should treat the guy sharing a bootlegged copy of Spiderman 3 as if they were peddling child porn?
All joking aside, and as much as I dislike pedophiles. I have to say the exact same standards for someone sharing a copy of some movie should be the same standards we use to prosecute pedophiles.
Which is to say that you should not be able to convict someone based on an IP address alone. The police when dealing with those who peddle and share child porn often have to go through alot. The timeline is typically something like this.
Pedo gets caught talking to a 10 year old girl IRL by their parents. (skip this if its potential sting operation by a legal entity) Parents contact FBI (see above) FBI agent pretends to be 10 year old girl. Pedo eventually tells FBI Agent posing at 10 year old girl to come meet them at X-location. FBI gets warrant to show to ISP getting themselves the physical house address to the IP address corresponding. FBI gets warrant to search the premesis based on evidence in last step. FBI raids the house when they see the people are home and seize all the computer equipment and arrest everyone inside.
Which is a far cry away from the RIAA/MPAA model Get IP Address Issue DMCA order to ISP to get them to try and cough up the name/address of the person who owns the account Extort money from said person (We know that you were sharing music/movies! Here take our offer of $3000 so we can go away and pretend this never happened) ... Profit!
Obviously noone read the article I posted. I know it is long but they do utilize a nice dose of the CPU. They check every 10th of a millisecond to see if something is something 'HD' either video or audio. Stuff like tilt bits and other stuff that hackers could use to destabilize a system, etc...
So there is plenty of DRM in there. It dont utilize a huge amount of ram/cpu time but any time the OS is utilizing (and not a specific player) is too much. They're also trying to force hardware manufacturers to do things like change it so that people cant access the busses on the system and other things. Keeping them in the board where they cant be accessed instead of following the laws of electronics to keep things quick and efficient. Today you may not notice negative performance but a few years down the road when you need to buy 'Vista certified' equipment to run anything HD you will. Oh yeah and there wont be any Linux support because we're all pirates.
It may not crash every 5 minutes, but regardless it is slower OUT OF THE BOX than XP ever was. All because of the eye candy to distract the customer from the nasty DRM surprises that hide behind the veil of ignorance.
As one understanding man once said 'The last act of any democracy is to elect a dictatorship'. We as IT and Computer professionals stand on the edge of such a choice. To choose Microsoft in the future is the figurative electing a dictatorship. One which we may very well not get a chance to change without a fight either politically, socially or revolutionary. I would love to think that one person alone can win this fight, but that is impossible. It is only when the masses rise up and say 'We wont take it anymore' is when things change. We have the opportunity to do that at this moment when a company cannot and from all appearances will not accept Vista as the failure it is. We can collectively force Microsoft not to become Hollywood's bitch (MAFIAA). The question is do we have the resolve to do such and reject Vista like the scourge it is.
Actually using the TAB key and the up/down buttons works in those cases. Alternatively you can try typing in something like 05 really fast and it may pop up without having to do multiple up/down keypresses.
It could just be that they are using QoS and Packet Shaping to speed up connections to these 'test sites'. Allowing for 'bursty' traffic to break formal limits for 5, 10 or even 60 seconds a test takes. This makes people happy going 'Hey cool I'm getting X-speed here when I'm only paying for Y-speed'. A customer placebo if you will.
That is the problem with net neutrality not being respected by ISPs, they can engage in these sorts of behaviors without anyone knowing if they're getting legitimate results or if their packets to X-test site are being prioritized over anything else.
Agreed, if not the coffee machine then the refrigerator for your choice of cold caffeinated beverage. After that you should be well enough awake to check a few system logs/reports to make sure the sky didn't fall while you were sleeping.
Unfortunately for you, it is possible to write a letter anonymously. You simply do not include a return address. The contents are guaranteed to be private and since there is no return address, who sent it is also private.
Unfortunately in an Internet world you need to stamp a return address on every packet you send out in the form of an IP address.
Its probably in the contract that you can only sue them for $0 if they do early termination. As well if they do get sued for it they may alter the contracts in the future or at the next bill to cover their ass.
If I give you a ticket for $25,000 entitling you to purchase a brand new car from my buddy over there. Am I not just selling you the car but adding an extra step in the process?
Free market economies work best when prices are elastic; that is, where changes in price affect the demand for the product. This allows price to signal the level of available supply and prevent shortages of goods. The problem with healthcare is that it is not elastic. If I have cancer, a broken leg or some other ailment I have to get it fixed - regardless of the cost.
You don't have to get it fixed regardless of the cost. Some people dont have the means to pay the cost and therefore effectively have the choice to die made for them. Oh and remember its illegal to commit suicide and/or get doctor assisted suicide but if you can't afford to buy prescriptions you need to keep your quality of life at a level that is acceptable for working and living then its fine for the drug companies to sentence you to death for not having enough $$$.
Socialised health care is not evil communism, it is a practical solution to the health care of your nation. I don't see anybody complaining about the socialised road, garabage collection, fire, police and military. When you trust the security of your nation to the government, why do you not trust your healthcare to them too?
To be blunt, I do not think most people trust the government with the security of the nation. All the scandals of patriot act abuses, illegal wiretaps, national security certificates, trials where the defendant does not even get to know what the evidence against them is, etc... I'm sure everyone feels so much safer with the country descending into fascism slowly but surely.
Of course, I live in Canada. The whole socialized health care is really the best option to be honest. I've had a few small problems, if it was not socialized then I'd probably be a few thousand dollars in debt right now. The fact that people are not afraid to goto the hospital because of financial repercussions means that overall more lives are saved. Though don't get me wrong, I totally expect this is a self-interested move on the part of the government because generally you cant tax a corpse, hehe.
Net Neutrality legislation would be a pro-active attempt at preventing the Telcos and Cable Companies from abusing their monopoly (or in some instances duopoly) positions.
We are already seeing the very beginnings in the behavior of the internet companies of the potential or in some cases actualization of things which will be VERY hard to correct if not legislated and soon.
Packet Shaping is being used in a negative way to impact customer performance on the network already in most cases. These internet companies are throttling or other measures to ensure that bittorrent and other high bandwidth internet uses are being hurt in terms of performance for the users all because they (the companies) did not purchase enough bandwidth to cover their users adequately. Now making sure VOIP packets go through first and things like that is okay because that generally improves the quality of the network.
The whole net neutrality debate seems to be focused on the fact theres a few 800 lb gorilla's ready to duke it out. Because companies are throttling bittorrent today means they may throttle other high bandwidth uses in the future. Now I don't know about you but I enjoy watching video clips people post on youtube as much as the next person (like the soda bottle explosions and stuff).
There is also the argument that bittorrent is also used as a LEGITIMATE distribution method for some smaller companies. Linux is one of the bigger players distributing their stuff by bittorrent. Some small amateur movie makers post their videos online as well using youtube or sometimes bittorrent.
In short, its about greedy telcos wanting to be able to say that you can have a connection with X kb/s and then pulling a bait n switch so they can save money by not having to purchase any more bandwidth. It is not only false advertising (they should be forced to specify that you cant use X if they specifically throttle X) but also unethical (people paid to get X bandwidth, if you didn't anticipate some people to be high users then its your fault not theirs) as well as reminiscent of the tactics used by used car salesmen of yesteryear.
what is stopping anyone from deleting all the friends in the phone's list before they switch the chip? Or as I thought, doesn't the chip hold all that information on it (at least for SIM cards)
They've been doing it for years. Ever since that PATRIOT Act was put into place.
At the rate the US Government is going there wont be any First Amendment in a few years. Maybe they should have a protest in the form of a funeral for it. It might open up people's eyes instead of just running down a street chanting slogans.
Maybe we can start a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for that. I mean technically we've paid for Windows XP to begin with. If we buy Vista and dont like it and want to go back to the old XP then we should have that right to do so.
It'd be like say you have a car and you go out and buy a new one. You arent required to sell your old car in order to buy the new one (assuming you have enough $$$).
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Is not about a dumb internet. It is about an internet that does not discriminate based on entry or exit points and/or the protocol being used except where such discrimination will benefit the overall network performance.
Net Neutrality Positive
VOIP Packets receiving priority (because lag and bandwidth throttling reduce performance of VOIP technologies)
Prioritizing Gaming traffic of popular/well used games (IE. MMOs, FPS over internet, etc...)
Net Neutrality Negative
Throttling Bandwidth on P2P applications (This is the big concern on most ISPs, they admittedly do suck up a lot of bandwidth)
Extorting Money from websites who have not paid large sums of money for faster service (YouTube-wannabes)
Delaying or Denying packets coming from X-Network (because they didn't pay extortion money)
Ways to fix things... Run more Fiber. It should not be as hard as it was before since many of the tunnels and such have been made already.
They're planning on using Nicotine as a basis for new drugs by using similar structures to target receptors in the brain and slow, pause or reverse diseases like parkinsons.
Alternatively they're looking at cremes which can be used to promote blood flow to parts of the body (begin Viagra jokes now please). Mostly as a way to prevent Diabetic amputations which means its better for the health care system since they wont have to chop off as many legs which means less people in wheelchairs and such.
It's not endorsing that people go light up. Just that they can probably make these things new drugs and get them in 'patch form' in the future (because lets face it lighting up a cigarette is not the best method of administering such a drug)
Maybe they'll start working with Marijuana again.
Freedom of Speech means being able to say and do things that other people find offensive.
Much of the piracy you see is a result of an old outdated 'Copyright' law. One that has been systemically modified, expanded, extended, and enhanced over the years from what it was originally meant to be.
14 Years was the original duration of Copyright. If it was still the case then maybe just maybe people would respect it more. Now its been expanded to Life + 70 years and in the case of companies possibly indefinately/forever. All on account of corporate interests *COUGH*DISNEY*COUGH*! Under the original duration things might become public domain while still culturally relevant
Now for a short educational film on Copyright Law yes it's been posted on slashdot as its own article before but it applies here.
Either way rampant piracy has as much to do with an outdated business model, treating their customers like criminals, DRM (or anti-DRM) movement and other such things. I find it hard to respect a company that smacks me over the head with a moral argument about piracy before the start of every film I go to see IN THE THEATER.
Any other company would go out of business treating their customers like criminals. Why should they be permitted to thrive?
So you are saying that we should treat the guy sharing a bootlegged copy of Spiderman 3 as if they were peddling child porn?
...
All joking aside, and as much as I dislike pedophiles. I have to say the exact same standards for someone sharing a copy of some movie should be the same standards we use to prosecute pedophiles.
Which is to say that you should not be able to convict someone based on an IP address alone. The police when dealing with those who peddle and share child porn often have to go through alot. The timeline is typically something like this.
Pedo gets caught talking to a 10 year old girl IRL by their parents. (skip this if its potential sting operation by a legal entity)
Parents contact FBI (see above)
FBI agent pretends to be 10 year old girl.
Pedo eventually tells FBI Agent posing at 10 year old girl to come meet them at X-location.
FBI gets warrant to show to ISP getting themselves the physical house address to the IP address corresponding.
FBI gets warrant to search the premesis based on evidence in last step.
FBI raids the house when they see the people are home and seize all the computer equipment and arrest everyone inside.
Which is a far cry away from the RIAA/MPAA model
Get IP Address
Issue DMCA order to ISP to get them to try and cough up the name/address of the person who owns the account
Extort money from said person (We know that you were sharing music/movies! Here take our offer of $3000 so we can go away and pretend this never happened)
Profit!
I can already compress a text file down to 0 bytes.
/dev/null
cp *.txt
Can I claim the prize now?
The GPLv2 was a much simpler license, a word count alone should confirm that. This one was written by lawyers, and it is long and very verbose.
Sorta like Microsoft's EULA? Which they say the GPLv3 doesnt apply to them
Obviously noone read the article I posted. I know it is long but they do utilize a nice dose of the CPU. They check every 10th of a millisecond to see if something is something 'HD' either video or audio. Stuff like tilt bits and other stuff that hackers could use to destabilize a system, etc...
So there is plenty of DRM in there. It dont utilize a huge amount of ram/cpu time but any time the OS is utilizing (and not a specific player) is too much. They're also trying to force hardware manufacturers to do things like change it so that people cant access the busses on the system and other things. Keeping them in the board where they cant be accessed instead of following the laws of electronics to keep things quick and efficient. Today you may not notice negative performance but a few years down the road when you need to buy 'Vista certified' equipment to run anything HD you will. Oh yeah and there wont be any Linux support because we're all pirates.
No you wont see DRM but it will be constantly running in the background.
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection - Article detailing the extremes that Microsoft DRM is headed towards.
It may not crash every 5 minutes, but regardless it is slower OUT OF THE BOX than XP ever was. All because of the eye candy to distract the customer from the nasty DRM surprises that hide behind the veil of ignorance.
As one understanding man once said 'The last act of any democracy is to elect a dictatorship'. We as IT and Computer professionals stand on the edge of such a choice. To choose Microsoft in the future is the figurative electing a dictatorship. One which we may very well not get a chance to change without a fight either politically, socially or revolutionary. I would love to think that one person alone can win this fight, but that is impossible. It is only when the masses rise up and say 'We wont take it anymore' is when things change. We have the opportunity to do that at this moment when a company cannot and from all appearances will not accept Vista as the failure it is. We can collectively force Microsoft not to become Hollywood's bitch (MAFIAA). The question is do we have the resolve to do such and reject Vista like the scourge it is.
Actually using the TAB key and the up/down buttons works in those cases. Alternatively you can try typing in something like 05 really fast and it may pop up without having to do multiple up/down keypresses.
They shouldnt have to. There should always be a non-iTunes option otherwise they'll get like any monopoly, big, fat and complacent.
Anyways should we call 2007 'The Year of the Downgrade'. First Vista, now this... I hope this isnt the trend in the future...
I'm a bit skeptical on this...
It could just be that they are using QoS and Packet Shaping to speed up connections to these 'test sites'. Allowing for 'bursty' traffic to break formal limits for 5, 10 or even 60 seconds a test takes. This makes people happy going 'Hey cool I'm getting X-speed here when I'm only paying for Y-speed'. A customer placebo if you will.
That is the problem with net neutrality not being respected by ISPs, they can engage in these sorts of behaviors without anyone knowing if they're getting legitimate results or if their packets to X-test site are being prioritized over anything else.
Agreed, if not the coffee machine then the refrigerator for your choice of cold caffeinated beverage. After that you should be well enough awake to check a few system logs/reports to make sure the sky didn't fall while you were sleeping.
Unfortunately for you, it is possible to write a letter anonymously. You simply do not include a return address. The contents are guaranteed to be private and since there is no return address, who sent it is also private.
Unfortunately in an Internet world you need to stamp a return address on every packet you send out in the form of an IP address.
Its probably in the contract that you can only sue them for $0 if they do early termination. As well if they do get sued for it they may alter the contracts in the future or at the next bill to cover their ass.
If I give you a ticket for $25,000 entitling you to purchase a brand new car from my buddy over there. Am I not just selling you the car but adding an extra step in the process?
So I guess Microsoft's EULA does not apply either?
Free market economies work best when prices are elastic; that is, where changes in price affect the demand for the product. This allows price to signal the level of available supply and prevent shortages of goods. The problem with healthcare is that it is not elastic. If I have cancer, a broken leg or some other ailment I have to get it fixed - regardless of the cost.
You don't have to get it fixed regardless of the cost. Some people dont have the means to pay the cost and therefore effectively have the choice to die made for them. Oh and remember its illegal to commit suicide and/or get doctor assisted suicide but if you can't afford to buy prescriptions you need to keep your quality of life at a level that is acceptable for working and living then its fine for the drug companies to sentence you to death for not having enough $$$.
Socialised health care is not evil communism, it is a practical solution to the health care of your nation. I don't see anybody complaining about the socialised road, garabage collection, fire, police and military. When you trust the security of your nation to the government, why do you not trust your healthcare to them too?
To be blunt, I do not think most people trust the government with the security of the nation. All the scandals of patriot act abuses, illegal wiretaps, national security certificates, trials where the defendant does not even get to know what the evidence against them is, etc... I'm sure everyone feels so much safer with the country descending into fascism slowly but surely.
Of course, I live in Canada. The whole socialized health care is really the best option to be honest. I've had a few small problems, if it was not socialized then I'd probably be a few thousand dollars in debt right now. The fact that people are not afraid to goto the hospital because of financial repercussions means that overall more lives are saved. Though don't get me wrong, I totally expect this is a self-interested move on the part of the government because generally you cant tax a corpse, hehe.
1) You are the victim, therefore any and all information you have at your disposal would not require a license to turn over to police.
2) Debatable, you could argue it is the same as putting an alarm or GPS on your car. It is a theft deterrant and/or retrieval device.
3) That's what cops do, they get info from the victim to find the criminal and presumably put them behind bars or make them pay.
Net Neutrality legislation would be a pro-active attempt at preventing the Telcos and Cable Companies from abusing their monopoly (or in some instances duopoly) positions.
We are already seeing the very beginnings in the behavior of the internet companies of the potential or in some cases actualization of things which will be VERY hard to correct if not legislated and soon.
Packet Shaping is being used in a negative way to impact customer performance on the network already in most cases. These internet companies are throttling or other measures to ensure that bittorrent and other high bandwidth internet uses are being hurt in terms of performance for the users all because they (the companies) did not purchase enough bandwidth to cover their users adequately. Now making sure VOIP packets go through first and things like that is okay because that generally improves the quality of the network.
The whole net neutrality debate seems to be focused on the fact theres a few 800 lb gorilla's ready to duke it out. Because companies are throttling bittorrent today means they may throttle other high bandwidth uses in the future. Now I don't know about you but I enjoy watching video clips people post on youtube as much as the next person (like the soda bottle explosions and stuff).
There is also the argument that bittorrent is also used as a LEGITIMATE distribution method for some smaller companies. Linux is one of the bigger players distributing their stuff by bittorrent. Some small amateur movie makers post their videos online as well using youtube or sometimes bittorrent.
In short, its about greedy telcos wanting to be able to say that you can have a connection with X kb/s and then pulling a bait n switch so they can save money by not having to purchase any more bandwidth. It is not only false advertising (they should be forced to specify that you cant use X if they specifically throttle X) but also unethical (people paid to get X bandwidth, if you didn't anticipate some people to be high users then its your fault not theirs) as well as reminiscent of the tactics used by used car salesmen of yesteryear.
Oh dont worry it works. If not they'll just delete any evidence to the contrary!
what is stopping anyone from deleting all the friends in the phone's list before they switch the chip? Or as I thought, doesn't the chip hold all that information on it (at least for SIM cards)
They've been doing it for years. Ever since that PATRIOT Act was put into place.
At the rate the US Government is going there wont be any First Amendment in a few years. Maybe they should have a protest in the form of a funeral for it. It might open up people's eyes instead of just running down a street chanting slogans.
OMFG we need to switch to pen! They could be stealing our votes w/ erasers and bootleg pencils! Vote yes for pens!
Maybe we can start a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for that. I mean technically we've paid for Windows XP to begin with. If we buy Vista and dont like it and want to go back to the old XP then we should have that right to do so.
It'd be like say you have a car and you go out and buy a new one. You arent required to sell your old car in order to buy the new one (assuming you have enough $$$).
Sorry that's still classified.