If the Tele Act of 96 was to get rural lines to 56k, then "FAIL."
I'm a rural internet user (since 1984!). My line is 26.4 kbps. Isn't it 2008? Or have I been asleep?
I don't think any current crypto uses the solution of simultaneous equations as its trapdoor function. So this has no direct effect on the current state of affairs. Does it open up the possibility of a new trapdoor? I don't think so, but I wasn't clever enough to come up with this algorithm either.
Now, if a federal department had such traffic crossing its borders, they'd have a rapid deployment team there within minutes to figure out what happened.
No, they wouldn't have to. Microsoft's request to allow the Xbox to use the "officially secured" internet would have been denied. So...no problem.
Unless, of course, you consider destroying all future novel uses of the internet a problem.
Yes, most TV content is dismal. Most content of ANY TYPE is dismal. Most magazines are dismal. Most books are dismal. Most manuals, texts, ads, software, music, etc is dismal.
I guess you tend to avoid books as well (since most content is dismal).
And who would I be complaining to? The South Carolina phone company (I'm in New Hampshire, 1000 miles away) that just bought the lines just took on $5B in debt. Think their first priority is to build out additional infrastructure in a sparsely populated rural area?
Good luck with those protests.
Luckily, a local consortium has promised wireless boradband within five years. Of course, I've heard that for the last 10 years.
Satellite reception requires a clear view of the southern sky. I am on a the northern slope of a steep mountain which is forested to the top. I cannot cut trees beyond my property line, and the trees further uphill block my line of sight.
Also, my boss had satellite for his remote beeper adventures. After 6 months, he kicked it to the curb as unacceptable. He's back on (admittedly much higher speed) 44 kbps dialup.
My 26.4 kbps (that's right, not quite 28.8 modem speeds) connection is right here in the good old USA. And I am a network administrator for a hospital who needs to remote in some nights that I'm on the beeper. That's rather painful at 3,000 bytes per second. My community would benefit from my having better remote control of the hospital.
But, hey, why not spend a few billion to get an African peasant farmer a 1 Meg connection?
If you won't use a chinese laptop because it might be compromised, may I please ask who made your current laptop? Because if you look in there you're going to see a lot of "Made in China" stickers.
The huge bandwidth required for good telepresence is available in the cities exactly where it will NOT help to take cars off the road. In the rural areas where this would have the greatest impact, no bandwidth is available and--if you go by my personal experience over the last 10 years--NONE IS PLANNED. Even when gigabit lines are strung there, there'll be petabit connections in the city so it will STILL BE USELESS.
I think it's great that all you city people are all complaining that no one is laying in fiber to your last mile and the municipality should be involved to spur it and the gubmint should do something to help you out so your Voip bills will go down.
But when I suggest my rural town should get in the game to help me out, all I get is "I don't want to pay for you! You should move out of your house and hometown to get decent service!"
How come you don't want to pay for me getting something other than 26.4 kbps (that's 2.5 kB/s) but you want me to pay for you to get your 3MB/s connection good enough for you to get free telephone as well?
When you dialed Pennsylvania 6 5000 you were dialing PE 6 5000 or 736-5000. The words were put in to help you remember the digits--you were supposed to use the FIRST TWO LETTERS of the word as numbers.
My parents' first phone number was Oxbow 4 7188 which was simply OX4-7188 or 694-7188. They did not live in Oxbow (they lived in Hackensack).
I worked with one of the inventors of the "digital fountain" technique (he taught at one of the Harvard graduate schools). This mathematical method of encoding allows anyone to join a casting stream AT ANY POINT. As soon as they've been on long enough, the client can reconstruct the entire stream.
No TV-like schedules required, but of course the streaming doesn't begin immediately.
So the idea that casting only works if everyone waits for the start time is long out of date.
I want to do a search, but don't care about the actual results, only how many total hits there are. You know, the "of about 42,000,000" part of the regular page. How do I get that info through this interface?
We have a door in our hospital which requires a key card swipe to get in and a swipe to get OUT. Fire marshal visits every month with nary a mention. He has made us swap out some power strips and UPSs for ones with a different UL listing, and he's always making us remove flammable boxes from within 18" of ceilings so he is paying attention.
But when you want to LEAVE our birthing center, you better have a key.
Of course, the fire alarm disables the lock so you can imaging a kidnapper pulling the alarm then exiting. I think if you want to escape unnoticed this wouldn't work, and if you tried to use the 'confusion' of an alarm to your advantage, we have many fire drills so there is little confusion--everyone knows what to do.
And unless you are already out at the street when they call a code pink (kidnapping), you are not getting away. We practice code pinks and believe me, no one can 'sneak' out of our building once the announcement is broadcast. We do not rely on technology (beyond the PA) to pull this off, it is 200 human observers with assigned strategic positions all looking for anyone entering, leaving, or even driving in the parking lot.
So now, with a DVR (with say a 200GB HDD), you're filling up over 70GB's of it with commercials
It's worse than that. Every time there is a small incremental change to a scene, MPEG records only the changes--very efficient. But when there is a screen wipe (every pixel changes) a new entire 'reference frame' must be added (which is much bigger than just incremental changes).
So if there are more camera changes, the resulting MPEG file is larger. So even though commercials take only one third of the TIME, they take much, much more of the FILE SIZE. It is likely your 200GB has 70GB of show and 130GB of commercials.
Movie trailers are the worst. I saw a 30 second commercial with 75 separate scenes (with 75 full wipes)! Why do kids have such sort attention spans? Could it be that they see hours and hours of this input every day, where the average scene duration is 0.4 seconds.
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A spike in album sales and a spike in torrent traffic are always correlated. There's never a spike in one without a spike in the other. Never.
Must be nice. I have ZERO broadband ISPs. So my choices are...?
If the Tele Act of 96 was to get rural lines to 56k, then "FAIL." I'm a rural internet user (since 1984!). My line is 26.4 kbps. Isn't it 2008? Or have I been asleep?
I don't think any current crypto uses the solution of simultaneous equations as its trapdoor function. So this has no direct effect on the current state of affairs. Does it open up the possibility of a new trapdoor? I don't think so, but I wasn't clever enough to come up with this algorithm either.
No, they wouldn't have to. Microsoft's request to allow the Xbox to use the "officially secured" internet would have been denied. So...no problem.
Unless, of course, you consider destroying all future novel uses of the internet a problem.
I guess you tend to avoid books as well (since most content is dismal).
Where ever his media has significant market share, the population has made wild swings toward corporatism.
What are the people of Iraq considered to be?
Oh, I see, if you CALL someone something other than civilian, they're fair game. No way THAT can be abused.....
Oh, that's right. That'd be NOBODY.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Good luck with those protests.
Luckily, a local consortium has promised wireless boradband within five years. Of course, I've heard that for the last 10 years.
No line-of-sight to the geo-stationary plane. (I'm on the north side of a mountain.)
Also, my boss had satellite for his remote beeper adventures. After 6 months, he kicked it to the curb as unacceptable. He's back on (admittedly much higher speed) 44 kbps dialup.
But, hey, why not spend a few billion to get an African peasant farmer a 1 Meg connection?
If you won't use a chinese laptop because it might be compromised, may I please ask who made your current laptop? Because if you look in there you're going to see a lot of "Made in China" stickers.
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"Boo-hoo, I have access to massive bandwidth, but it's expensive." I can only WISH I had such access at that price.
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So what's your next idea?
But when I suggest my rural town should get in the game to help me out, all I get is "I don't want to pay for you! You should move out of your house and hometown to get decent service!"
How come you don't want to pay for me getting something other than 26.4 kbps (that's 2.5 kB/s) but you want me to pay for you to get your 3MB/s connection good enough for you to get free telephone as well?
Bottom line: Bite me.
STILL TRUE. I dial up at 26.4 kbps (2.5 kB/s), so FLASH ONLY sites are inaccessible and horrible.
And if you tell me to get broadband, how about you tell me how to do that (satellite, dsl, cable are all not available on my site).
A percentage should never be used with either the term "more" or "less." It should always be "of." Then any ambiguity is eliminated.
Apple's hardware costs 200% of Dell's.
The worst is when someone says "This costs ten times less than that!" Really? The price is NEGATIVE 900% of that? Better is "This costs 10% of that."
My parents' first phone number was Oxbow 4 7188 which was simply OX4-7188 or 694-7188. They did not live in Oxbow (they lived in Hackensack).
No TV-like schedules required, but of course the streaming doesn't begin immediately.
So the idea that casting only works if everyone waits for the start time is long out of date.
I want to do a search, but don't care about the actual results, only how many total hits there are. You know, the "of about 42,000,000" part of the regular page. How do I get that info through this interface?
But when you want to LEAVE our birthing center, you better have a key.
Of course, the fire alarm disables the lock so you can imaging a kidnapper pulling the alarm then exiting. I think if you want to escape unnoticed this wouldn't work, and if you tried to use the 'confusion' of an alarm to your advantage, we have many fire drills so there is little confusion--everyone knows what to do.
And unless you are already out at the street when they call a code pink (kidnapping), you are not getting away. We practice code pinks and believe me, no one can 'sneak' out of our building once the announcement is broadcast. We do not rely on technology (beyond the PA) to pull this off, it is 200 human observers with assigned strategic positions all looking for anyone entering, leaving, or even driving in the parking lot.
It may be they save that for residential customers. I would definitely have a problem with ad insertion for web pages viewed in our hospital.
It's worse than that. Every time there is a small incremental change to a scene, MPEG records only the changes--very efficient. But when there is a screen wipe (every pixel changes) a new entire 'reference frame' must be added (which is much bigger than just incremental changes).
So if there are more camera changes, the resulting MPEG file is larger. So even though commercials take only one third of the TIME, they take much, much more of the FILE SIZE. It is likely your 200GB has 70GB of show and 130GB of commercials.
Movie trailers are the worst. I saw a 30 second commercial with 75 separate scenes (with 75 full wipes)! Why do kids have such sort attention spans? Could it be that they see hours and hours of this input every day, where the average scene duration is 0.4 seconds.