The service has become important enough that opting out is hard yet there aren't enough competitors and there's not enough freedom to switch to keep them honest. Meanwhile, consumer regulation and privacy in particular is practically non-existent in telecommunications.
Force them to harmonize their standards so all phones can work on all networks, ban them from locking phones. require open bootloaders, force them to allow free switching of SIMs. All of that is to make sure customers can flee bad policy decisions (like super cookies). While we're at it, legally separate payment for the phone from payment for services and kill termination fees.
Even with that, privacy and pricing regulations will be needed since due to spectrum limitations, the number of carrier networks is naturally limited. There's only so many towers that can be in a given area before they step on each other too badly.
On the political side, the big corporations long ago shoved their hands so far up both party's asses they can use them as sock puppets.
The problem comes in when they deliberately neglect specific peering points to make them act as throttles for extortion purposes.
Let's see here, I peer with A,B,C,D. C carries funkyflix traffic which is very popular with my customers. I sure wish Funkyflix would give me a big ol' pile of cash.
So, I peer using a 10Gbps port with A,B, and D. C gets a 10Mbps port.
There's more than one way to prioritize traffic and I suspect you know it.
For example, you can consistently ignore an overloaded peering point that just happens to carry the traffic of a 3rd party you want to pressure into buying a private connection. Then you can refuse every reasonable offer of a cache server that would eliminate that overload even though it would result in a cost savings and greatly improve service to your own customers.
It amounts to the same as applying a policer to the port.
He shoul;d have pushed it anyway. Then keep a running kill count attributed to every senator that voted it down. Ask the people to vote out the biggest serial killers of the 21st century at the midterms.
They really aren't exactly sure where it is or what the surrounding terrain is like. It is quite likely that by the time the lander gets direct sunlight it will have failed due to prolonged cold.
BUT, the gravity is extremely low and it's not tightly anchored to the ground, so it could (accidentally or on purpose) throw itself into a new location that might work better. They want to accomplish as many objectives as possible first because it could also face plant.
The very fact that it is considered a demotion says a lot. The further you are away from the actual product, the greater your status. Pay structure is arranged in such a way that the most incompetent district manager will always make more than the most brilliant engineer. The only way to increase the engineer's pay is to 'promote' him to be an incompetent district manager.
The problem is that we see manager not as a vocation and a skillset but as a position in a hierarchy of merit.
The problem is that the stupidity explanation has stretched credulity to the breaking point. All those 'errors' across all those departments and they somehow manage to (practically) never err in the customer's favor. The odds of that are so long that even the most generously trusting person would have to suspect there was some sort of systematic effort to make things happen that way.
No it isn't, but in a world of imperfect enforcement, *IF* there are enough legitimate competitors, the market may limit the damage. Alas, we have neither effective enforcement nor adequate markets.
That is exactly because our government keeps deciding to let the market solve it even though our so-called markets don't have enough independent sellers for competition to have any effect. Each 'competitor' can easily match the very few others sleaze for sleaze so nobody goes out of business.
If there was any indication that their 'plans' were ever more than paper, we might not laugh so much at the concept of pausing them. That's like taking time out from your sleep to get a quick nap in.
I was going to cure cancer and create the fountain of youth today, but I had to put those plans on hold because the Easter Bunny told me that some retail stores would be open on Thanksgiving.
You do know the link you gave goes back to only 1983, don't you? And that it reflects only a difference of 1 year? Look back to the '50s and '60s (that I spoke of the red scare should give you some hint of the timeframe).
There are a few objective measures that can be made. We know that professional employment was once considered to be life-long. We know that employers used to offer on the job training and actual entry level employment. We know that at one time retail employers believed 6 days a week and observance of national holidays was just fine. We know that single income families was once the norm.
That's not to say things were perfect. The red scare and blacklists were real. We don't really know if the various spy agencies were more scrupulous at the time or if they just didn't have enough technology and manpower to behave as badly as they do today.
I do know that for whatever reason (simple ability increasing or moral decay) every year the U.S. does more and more of those things that my 4th grade teacher said the 'Russians' (meaning the USSR) were bad for doing. It's not just childhood sheltering. I know for a fact that at one time you really could just walk through the airport with suitcase and ticket in hand and get on a plane with no form of ID whatsoever. Your suitcase would be run through an x-ray and you would pass through the worlds least sensitive metal detector. If you had a video camera that looked like an Uzi on an X-ray, you and the security guy could have a good laugh about it (once he looked in the bag, naturally).
Mysterious objects found in public created funny urban legends (if they were even noticed), not civil panic.
I wouldn't hang too much on the DMCA requirement that the protection method must be effective. In practice, the bar for effective isn't just low, it's buried under the sub-basement floor.
For most of those things, you probably have a point. But law is in the domain of the public. It is our right to make legal judgement since the law belongs to us. That's why at the end of the day it comes down to 12 jurors picked out of the general population (in theory).
So, it will be perfectly OK is I figure out how to convince Blu ray players not to encrypt their HDMI outputs and I sell a solution to the general public?
I think he was meaning things like I got the wrong change or my burger doesn't have enough ketchup on it sorts of complaints. Yes, idiots do call 911 for crap like that.
I don't necessarily think the police should make the determination. The public defender's office might be a better choice. The various civic groups could probably have little problem getting citizens to sign releases for their video.
So somebody somewhere on the internet seems like they want to abuse the cams and the ONLY feasible answer is to stop using them entirely? That has the stink of bad excuses to it. Anyone wanna bet that this 'anonymous' is someone in the department or a close reletive?
They could, of course, just adopt a sensible policy like releasing the videos only to the parties involved in the video or legal representative thereof. That would be just fine except then there would be no 'very good reason' (TM, pat. pend., some restrictions apply, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear) to scrap the program.
Web and mail order (that is, card not present transactions in general).
A proper public key signature card benefits from being old (well understood) and having a sufficient key strength. It could even be used to sign a recurring charge authorization.
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The service has become important enough that opting out is hard yet there aren't enough competitors and there's not enough freedom to switch to keep them honest. Meanwhile, consumer regulation and privacy in particular is practically non-existent in telecommunications.
Force them to harmonize their standards so all phones can work on all networks, ban them from locking phones. require open bootloaders, force them to allow free switching of SIMs. All of that is to make sure customers can flee bad policy decisions (like super cookies). While we're at it, legally separate payment for the phone from payment for services and kill termination fees.
Even with that, privacy and pricing regulations will be needed since due to spectrum limitations, the number of carrier networks is naturally limited. There's only so many towers that can be in a given area before they step on each other too badly.
On the political side, the big corporations long ago shoved their hands so far up both party's asses they can use them as sock puppets.
It seems to work for the GOP.
The problem comes in when they deliberately neglect specific peering points to make them act as throttles for extortion purposes.
Let's see here, I peer with A,B,C,D. C carries funkyflix traffic which is very popular with my customers. I sure wish Funkyflix would give me a big ol' pile of cash.
So, I peer using a 10Gbps port with A,B, and D. C gets a 10Mbps port.
Simple. A packet is a packet is a packet. It matters not where it came from or where it's going, just forward it on and be happy.
If you support QOS bits, honor them without regard to source and destination and without regard to the application you think generated it.
Finally, keep your capacity adequate.
There's more than one way to prioritize traffic and I suspect you know it.
For example, you can consistently ignore an overloaded peering point that just happens to carry the traffic of a 3rd party you want to pressure into buying a private connection. Then you can refuse every reasonable offer of a cache server that would eliminate that overload even though it would result in a cost savings and greatly improve service to your own customers.
It amounts to the same as applying a policer to the port.
He shoul;d have pushed it anyway. Then keep a running kill count attributed to every senator that voted it down. Ask the people to vote out the biggest serial killers of the 21st century at the midterms.
They really aren't exactly sure where it is or what the surrounding terrain is like. It is quite likely that by the time the lander gets direct sunlight it will have failed due to prolonged cold.
BUT, the gravity is extremely low and it's not tightly anchored to the ground, so it could (accidentally or on purpose) throw itself into a new location that might work better. They want to accomplish as many objectives as possible first because it could also face plant.
You've heard the expression "better than nothing"? Perhaps one day mental health care in the U.S. may get there.
The very fact that it is considered a demotion says a lot. The further you are away from the actual product, the greater your status. Pay structure is arranged in such a way that the most incompetent district manager will always make more than the most brilliant engineer. The only way to increase the engineer's pay is to 'promote' him to be an incompetent district manager.
The problem is that we see manager not as a vocation and a skillset but as a position in a hierarchy of merit.
The problem is that the stupidity explanation has stretched credulity to the breaking point. All those 'errors' across all those departments and they somehow manage to (practically) never err in the customer's favor. The odds of that are so long that even the most generously trusting person would have to suspect there was some sort of systematic effort to make things happen that way.
No it isn't, but in a world of imperfect enforcement, *IF* there are enough legitimate competitors, the market may limit the damage. Alas, we have neither effective enforcement nor adequate markets.
That is exactly because our government keeps deciding to let the market solve it even though our so-called markets don't have enough independent sellers for competition to have any effect. Each 'competitor' can easily match the very few others sleaze for sleaze so nobody goes out of business.
Actually, I tend to use ambient sound. You can hear a wall approaching without making a sound yourself.
If there was any indication that their 'plans' were ever more than paper, we might not laugh so much at the concept of pausing them. That's like taking time out from your sleep to get a quick nap in.
I was going to cure cancer and create the fountain of youth today, but I had to put those plans on hold because the Easter Bunny told me that some retail stores would be open on Thanksgiving.
Did your dad hold a job in any of the relevant decades?
Since your citation didn't cover the time period in question, it has no substantial meaning in the context.
You do know the link you gave goes back to only 1983, don't you? And that it reflects only a difference of 1 year? Look back to the '50s and '60s (that I spoke of the red scare should give you some hint of the timeframe).
Read some recent history. Ask your dad.
There are a few objective measures that can be made. We know that professional employment was once considered to be life-long. We know that employers used to offer on the job training and actual entry level employment. We know that at one time retail employers believed 6 days a week and observance of national holidays was just fine. We know that single income families was once the norm.
That's not to say things were perfect. The red scare and blacklists were real. We don't really know if the various spy agencies were more scrupulous at the time or if they just didn't have enough technology and manpower to behave as badly as they do today.
I do know that for whatever reason (simple ability increasing or moral decay) every year the U.S. does more and more of those things that my 4th grade teacher said the 'Russians' (meaning the USSR) were bad for doing. It's not just childhood sheltering. I know for a fact that at one time you really could just walk through the airport with suitcase and ticket in hand and get on a plane with no form of ID whatsoever. Your suitcase would be run through an x-ray and you would pass through the worlds least sensitive metal detector. If you had a video camera that looked like an Uzi on an X-ray, you and the security guy could have a good laugh about it (once he looked in the bag, naturally).
Mysterious objects found in public created funny urban legends (if they were even noticed), not civil panic.
I wouldn't hang too much on the DMCA requirement that the protection method must be effective. In practice, the bar for effective isn't just low, it's buried under the sub-basement floor.
For most of those things, you probably have a point. But law is in the domain of the public. It is our right to make legal judgement since the law belongs to us. That's why at the end of the day it comes down to 12 jurors picked out of the general population (in theory).
So, it will be perfectly OK is I figure out how to convince Blu ray players not to encrypt their HDMI outputs and I sell a solution to the general public?
I think he was meaning things like I got the wrong change or my burger doesn't have enough ketchup on it sorts of complaints. Yes, idiots do call 911 for crap like that.
I don't necessarily think the police should make the determination. The public defender's office might be a better choice. The various civic groups could probably have little problem getting citizens to sign releases for their video.
All FOIA laws I know about carve out exceptions where a non-government entity has a significant privacy interest.
So somebody somewhere on the internet seems like they want to abuse the cams and the ONLY feasible answer is to stop using them entirely? That has the stink of bad excuses to it. Anyone wanna bet that this 'anonymous' is someone in the department or a close reletive?
They could, of course, just adopt a sensible policy like releasing the videos only to the parties involved in the video or legal representative thereof. That would be just fine except then there would be no ' very good reason ' (TM, pat. pend., some restrictions apply, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear) to scrap the program.
Web and mail order (that is, card not present transactions in general).
A proper public key signature card benefits from being old (well understood) and having a sufficient key strength. It could even be used to sign a recurring charge authorization.