That's a BIG assumption given the costs involved. The physical plant (fiber in the ground, head-end equipment, nodes) could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars, depending on the neighborhood. Multiply that by 50-100 neighborhoods and soon you're talking about real money.
Now, add in regional networks, connections to other ISPs, customer service/support, employees to service the physical plant, trucks, etc. Some of your local ISPs are still paying off their investment.
It's different because we are talking about ISPs, you glutton, and not an all-you-can-eat restaurant. Try to keep up. If you can't, I hear digg is looking for new members.
What good is a rootkit in a VM? It'll be open just as long as the user needs to open some legacy app, won't have access to their file system, except what documents they choose to copy over temporarily and may or may not have internet access.
The OP was joking about the rookits, you moron. Here, read about it
Is your server at your house? No? Then stfu about 10 cents per GB. Your hosting provider doesn't deliver bandwidth to your house for 10 cents per GB. They can't. Nobody can...unless you live in a damned datacenter or a PoP.
Umm...come back when you know something about ISP operations, you douchebag. The "direct line" you foolishly describe is actually a shared line for cable. Yes, you moron, I hate to burst your bubble but cable is a shared medium.
You couldn't find a 100Mbps peering connect on most real ISP networks anymore. Nice try.
Dropping a few terms you read on "teh intrawebs" doesn't make you smart. It only increases the laughter when the real ISP operators read your hilarious and ill-informed posts.
We all went through that time when insurance was insanely high due to age and income. We all managed to get through it. Why can't you?
Also, what will you say when another uninsured motorist hits your car, totals it, and puts you in the hospital for 2 weeks? "Oh, it's ok, he has to work until 12AM so I'll just pay my own bills" ??
Put a little effort into it. You will find a way.
Horseshit. Lenovo still gets service/support through IBM. Try calling them instead of bitching on slashdot.
I called them at 4:30pm on a Wednesday about a bad DIMM. They had a replacement sitting on my desk at 8:30am the following morning.
Seriously? She didn't obey a teacher. WTF did she expect to happen these days? Since you want to draw unrelated comparisons, what happens during a fire and she decides she's not gonna obey her teacher then?
She's a kid. She's supposed to obey her teachers. If she doesn't like the rules, ask mommy or daddy to withdraw her.
Actions have consequences.
Doesn't the design decision by Microsoft of wrapping this internal engine in such a buggy and security-challenged app concern you? Why should a web browser be required to run an FTP client? Or browse network shares? If Unix/Linux can make their apps modular and reduce the dependencies, why can't Microsoft?
Have these people lost their minds? I spend $60,000 for an automobile and now it will spam me while driving it? Are you serious, Lexus? What could possibly motivate these people to want to spam their customers AFTER a purchase?
We are getting closer and closer to Idiocracy.
While I cannot dispute the fact that Lotus might have used OpenOffice code in Symphony, the author of that article seems to be a paid-shrill for the OpenOffice camp. Check his article history at Linux Journal. He has quite a few articles extolling the benefits of OpenOffice.
I'll wait for someone a little more independent to talk about Symphony before passing judgment.
The newest version, the one that runs on Red Hat, OpenSuse, Fedora, and Ubuntu? Hell yeah, they do. I personally just installed it on four computers at home/work.
You should try it. Lotus is doing some good work with Symphony.
How the hell did you get a +3 Insightful after spewing such nonsense?
Run as root most of the time? On most Linux distros you have to ignore warnings, some repeated multiple times, about using the root account. Sudo is installed by default for a reason...because running as root on a desktop is just plain absurd. Making excuses to cover your own incompetence at sudo only highlights your utter lack of security focus. How hard is it to open a terminal window (or use a Gnome applet which puts a terminal line on your taskbar) and type "sudo system-config-display" or whatever you need to run as root?
Sudo cannot be like UAC since sudo came first.
Sudo also offers about a bunch of additional features and controls that UAC can't even comprehend. Restricting commands that users can run as root? Check. Grouping commands? Check. Enforcing environment restrictions like requiring a valid tty and dropping non-standard environment variables? Check? Granting commands to groups of users with a single line? Check. Allowing users to edit specific files with sudoedit? Check.
DefectiveByDesign would have better luck picking on Microsoft or some of the game publishers. Apple has managed to find the sweet spot between user freedom and DRM. Yes, Apple still uses DRM but it doesn't encumber a majority of Apple iTMS users.
Let's run through Apple's DRM:
Can play music on up to five different computers. So, home, work, laptop, and two other places are covered.
Can play music on iPod. So, can take music with us and play almost anywhere.
When de-authorize / re-authorize computers as needed.
Can rip music to Audio CD and *STRIP OUT DRM ENTIRELY* from the music track.
I hate DRM as much as the next/'er but the above "restrictions" are pretty darn loose. When iTMS and its uber-convenience is added into the equation, Apple's DRM becomes a minor annoyance. Point-Click-Purchase? One-click purchases? Recommendations based on previous purchases? It becomes pretty easy to overlook the little bit of DRM that is involved.
I'm not an Apple fanboy either:
[me@mydesktop ~]$ uname -a
Linux my.rhel.desktop 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 09:00:19 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Wow. A virgin Orange Boxer. Hope you have a blast exploring PC games. This is a great year to become a PC gamer. FarCry2, Crysis:Warhead, STALKER:ClearSky, Fallout3, and CoD:4 are just a few of the games you should check out.
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That's a BIG assumption given the costs involved. The physical plant (fiber in the ground, head-end equipment, nodes) could be measured in the tens of millions of dollars, depending on the neighborhood. Multiply that by 50-100 neighborhoods and soon you're talking about real money. Now, add in regional networks, connections to other ISPs, customer service/support, employees to service the physical plant, trucks, etc. Some of your local ISPs are still paying off their investment.
It's different because we are talking about ISPs, you glutton, and not an all-you-can-eat restaurant. Try to keep up. If you can't, I hear digg is looking for new members.
What good is a rootkit in a VM? It'll be open just as long as the user needs to open some legacy app, won't have access to their file system, except what documents they choose to copy over temporarily and may or may not have internet access.
The OP was joking about the rookits, you moron. Here, read about it
Is your server at your house? No? Then stfu about 10 cents per GB. Your hosting provider doesn't deliver bandwidth to your house for 10 cents per GB. They can't. Nobody can...unless you live in a damned datacenter or a PoP.
Umm...come back when you know something about ISP operations, you douchebag. The "direct line" you foolishly describe is actually a shared line for cable. Yes, you moron, I hate to burst your bubble but cable is a shared medium.
You couldn't find a 100Mbps peering connect on most real ISP networks anymore. Nice try.
Dropping a few terms you read on "teh intrawebs" doesn't make you smart. It only increases the laughter when the real ISP operators read your hilarious and ill-informed posts.
*WOOSH* Use A9 (*) to find a sense of humor. * A9 is Amazon's search engine. I'm telling you this now so you don't miss another point.
We all went through that time when insurance was insanely high due to age and income. We all managed to get through it. Why can't you? Also, what will you say when another uninsured motorist hits your car, totals it, and puts you in the hospital for 2 weeks? "Oh, it's ok, he has to work until 12AM so I'll just pay my own bills" ?? Put a little effort into it. You will find a way.
Nobody cares about your life history, clown.
Horseshit. Lenovo still gets service/support through IBM. Try calling them instead of bitching on slashdot. I called them at 4:30pm on a Wednesday about a bad DIMM. They had a replacement sitting on my desk at 8:30am the following morning.
Is it so hard to type "The Supreme Court" or "The USSC"? You sound like that TV troll, Nancy Grace, when you call them "The Supremes."
Seriously? She didn't obey a teacher. WTF did she expect to happen these days? Since you want to draw unrelated comparisons, what happens during a fire and she decides she's not gonna obey her teacher then? She's a kid. She's supposed to obey her teachers. If she doesn't like the rules, ask mommy or daddy to withdraw her. Actions have consequences.
If only I had a mod point... Well said. A careful analysis of the facts about a pretty hefty cap -- at least for Comcast. Well done.
BS. ISPs don't pay different rates for upload v/s download. The upload limitation is due to DOCSIS. Look up QAM16 for more info.
Doesn't the design decision by Microsoft of wrapping this internal engine in such a buggy and security-challenged app concern you? Why should a web browser be required to run an FTP client? Or browse network shares? If Unix/Linux can make their apps modular and reduce the dependencies, why can't Microsoft?
Funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in ages. Thank you, sir!
Have these people lost their minds? I spend $60,000 for an automobile and now it will spam me while driving it? Are you serious, Lexus? What could possibly motivate these people to want to spam their customers AFTER a purchase? We are getting closer and closer to Idiocracy.
While I cannot dispute the fact that Lotus might have used OpenOffice code in Symphony, the author of that article seems to be a paid-shrill for the OpenOffice camp. Check his article history at Linux Journal. He has quite a few articles extolling the benefits of OpenOffice. I'll wait for someone a little more independent to talk about Symphony before passing judgment.
The newest version, the one that runs on Red Hat, OpenSuse, Fedora, and Ubuntu? Hell yeah, they do. I personally just installed it on four computers at home/work. You should try it. Lotus is doing some good work with Symphony.
How the hell did you get a +3 Insightful after spewing such nonsense?
Run as root most of the time? On most Linux distros you have to ignore warnings, some repeated multiple times, about using the root account. Sudo is installed by default for a reason...because running as root on a desktop is just plain absurd. Making excuses to cover your own incompetence at sudo only highlights your utter lack of security focus. How hard is it to open a terminal window (or use a Gnome applet which puts a terminal line on your taskbar) and type "sudo system-config-display" or whatever you need to run as root?
Sudo cannot be like UAC since sudo came first.
Sudo also offers about a bunch of additional features and controls that UAC can't even comprehend. Restricting commands that users can run as root? Check. Grouping commands? Check. Enforcing environment restrictions like requiring a valid tty and dropping non-standard environment variables? Check? Granting commands to groups of users with a single line? Check. Allowing users to edit specific files with sudoedit? Check.
Have you even used sudo?
DefectiveByDesign would have better luck picking on Microsoft or some of the game publishers. Apple has managed to find the sweet spot between user freedom and DRM. Yes, Apple still uses DRM but it doesn't encumber a majority of Apple iTMS users.
Let's run through Apple's DRM:
I hate DRM as much as the next /'er but the above "restrictions" are pretty darn loose. When iTMS and its uber-convenience is added into the equation, Apple's DRM becomes a minor annoyance. Point-Click-Purchase? One-click purchases? Recommendations based on previous purchases? It becomes pretty easy to overlook the little bit of DRM that is involved.
I'm not an Apple fanboy either:
[me@mydesktop ~]$ uname -a Linux my.rhel.desktop 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 09:00:19 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Yes, you are the only one. My T60 and T61p both run circles around the Dells or Toshibas on the market today.
Wow that was an obscure reference. I remember hearing the word "Osbourne" but didn't recall what it was
Thank you for making me feel old. "obscure" reference...sheesh.
Wow. A virgin Orange Boxer. Hope you have a blast exploring PC games. This is a great year to become a PC gamer. FarCry2, Crysis:Warhead, STALKER:ClearSky, Fallout3, and CoD:4 are just a few of the games you should check out.
Same here. Having the same first name makes the game a little more fun. (Hello, Alyx)
Wait a minute. You buy a game through Steam...an on-line marketplace...then bitch about having to connect to it every now and then? Seriously?
There is an off-line mode for playing Steam games for those times when your Internet connection is down/missing-in-action.