Running fiber is about 40% of the overall cost of a fiber last mile network. Trunks are relatively cheap compared to the last mile network. Customer support is the single most expensive part of an ISP. Keeping customers happy is the best way to keep costs down.
-20f nights and 0f days are great at keeping hard core druggies away from here. Nearly all of our crime are along the lines of some bored teenagers trying to lift candy bars at Walmart. I remember this one time that someone was actually shot and killed. That one murder filled the news papers of several local counties for months. It was my first time ever hearing of one happening locally.
Yep, nothing quite like a bunch of frameworks strung together in a way they were never envisioned and doing things that look the same on the surface but are quite different underneath. If you don't understand how a framework works, you'll never use it correctly.
In my limited experience, what people claim to be "agile" is "I don't want to have to design or plan". Agile is a method for programming, and has little to do with design.
Forgot to add. "Dark energy" definitely exists, otherwise we'd be running into problems with the fundamental laws, like conservation of energy. Space itself is expanding and that takes energy, a lot of energy.
Personally, I think "dark matter" and "dark energy" don't really exist. Instead, I think there's something wrong with our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
That is exactly what Dark Matter is and has always been claimed to be. It is a gap in our knowledge with certain characteristics. We know it is not baryonic matter, we know it is not an issue with gravity, as assume it is matter because matter has mass and mass distorts space(aka gravity). The biggest problem is that Dark Matter is the longest standing unknown in all of history. Through all of recorded history, problems have been solved shortly after the discovery of the problem. Dark Matter is nearly a century old and almost a magnitude worse than any other problem.
Plenty of great minds have looked at the problem. Our only hope is to keep running more tests and for technology to allow our tests to get better.
Current Atom CPUs are 8 core with ECC so-dimms, only consume 25watts at the wall at full load and perform non-SIMD related workloads between 1x and 0.5x of a quad-core 8 thread Haswell Xeon of similar frequencies, will nearly identical AES-NI performance.
The government creates these monopolies by making it illegal to run competing cable
That's not true. The government gave Right of Way access to Telcoms and Cable companies, which so happen to also be ISPs, but ISPs are not always telcom or cable. If you want right of way access at the federal level, then you need to be Title II, not what ISPs current are. Local governments are free to grant ISPs access to right of ways, but there is little incentive to do so and it complicates things. No one wants more people digging up their land, it's hard to pass with voter support.
Without major changes to current laws, the best way to give ISPs right of way access to make them Title II. No changes to laws, just a reclassification.
AT&T actually sued my state because we gave an ISP right of way access. In the end, the ISP was not allowed to compete in the private sector, they could only sell services to public services like Schools, hospitals, and libraries. But at 1/1300th the price and better customer service, AT&T could not compete against the $300/month dedicated 1Gb/1Gb fiber with an SLA, operated by a non-profit with no government support other than RoW access. At the time, AT&T was charging $100k/month for the same services, but they had a lot of customer complaints, ignoring the huge 333x mark-up over the wholesale. 99.7% profit margins are nice.
You don't have to use their cable, the FCC will not be enforcing line sharing, only right of way access. A new ISP could lay their own infrastructure or beg the local incumbent to access their's, but at least the local government won't be able to stop a new ISP from moving in like they current can.
If you do line sharing, you don't actually use right of way access, you pay the owner of the lines to do the work for you. This has caused great headaches in some areas. There are a select few ISPs that actually line share in the USA, but they get little support from the line owners because the line owner doesn't want the competition, so they treat them poorly. Technically they're not supposed to do that, but in reality, they get away with it all of the time. Many Tech Savvy ISP customers have complained that when using Tech Savvy, they had many connection issues, but if they switched back to AT&T, who owns the lines, AT&T would immediately send a tech, fix the issue, then the customer would switch back to Tech Savvy and all would be well. Anyone line sharing is at the mercy of the line owner.
The whole problem with QoS is it requires classifying data flows, which has a huge false positive rate and can be easily tricked. Most data is encrypted, you can't do Deep Inspection, and using ports can easily be abused. start hosting an FTP server on the same port that VoIP normally runs on, yay, I've got priority.
With IPv6+IPSec, the entire packet, except the L3 headers are encrypted, so you won't even be able to tell if it's UDP or TCP, yet alone which ports they're trying to use. QoS won't work.
The neutrality rules for this are written such that it only affects services that are over the "public" internet. Netflix is considered a public internet service, but local TC and phone service are not offer to anyone else other than local customers and not over the same logical connection as the public internet.
They kind of did, by giving ISPs Title II. ISPs will now have access to Right of Ways at the federal level, so the local can't block it like they do right now.
QoS your data, but don't touch mine. I don't care if I'm downloading a 20GB game and your VoIP is going to crap because of congestion, don't touch my packets. Fix the issue, the congestion, or implement a decent AQM, like fq_codel or fq_pie. The biggest issue with congestion is buffer bloat. If we fix that, which is dead simple, most of the issues of congestion goes away.
Packetloss is not a huge issue, latency and jitter is. We already have the tools to completely get rid of latency and jitter issues, which actually reduces packetloss, stabilizes bandwidth, and increases bandwidth utilization. Blame the ISPs for being lazy. Really, go look up fq_codel. It's a stateless fair Active Queue Manager.
Arstechnica touched on this subject. It is written that they cannot ignore certain data sources from caps "for pay". T-Mobile is free to ignore certain sources of data consumption for their own reasons, but may not do so for a profit. It is noted that excluding some data from being counted towards caps is "frowned upon", but will only be decided against if it can be shown to negatively affect the customers due to being overly anti-competitive or being unfairly biased.
They're charging Netflix $1,000,000 to have a direct access to their network.
Awesome, so we can change people to access our networks? I should tell my ISP that I would like to be paid. Last mile ISPs should not be able to change non-lastmile customers to access their network. A last mile ISP should not be allowed to have congestion on their networks and links to/from their networks. Lastmile ISPs are being paid by their customers to access the Internet at large. It is the ISP's job to access Netflix or to purchase bandwidth from someone else who can access Netflix.
The average USA city has something like 20,000 people per square mile. Since we're talking about averages. On average, there is one hydrogen atom per 1,000,000 cubic meters in the Universe. How can the Sun be sustaining fusion with such a low density?! Because you're an idiot who only thinks in averages.
I don't think there are many legitimate cases where it did not work out. People who had junk insurance (insurance where you pay money but get nothing of value) had to drop it. Sure. I'll give you that.
My position also. I know several people who had this problem. They were forced to pay insurance premiums through their work, but the employer chose really bad companies that would fight everything you attempted to submit. Even then, it would take them 6+ months to process anything, so enjoy having collection agencies after you while you try to get your insurance to pay.
Everyone working person I know benefited from Obamacare. From the $20k/year hourly workers to the $100k/year salaried. Everyone that I have contact with gained better insurance with only marginal changes to their premiums. The only people I've seen have issues are self employed or unemployed. For me, my premium went down(50% reduction), my coverage stayed the same. Something about lower costs to the local hospitals with more people being insured.
Opening up Right of Way access to ISPs should help competition. As it stands, ISPs don't get RoW access, only telcom or cable companies do. Google Fiber had to fight at the local level just to gain RoW access because GF is neither telcom nor cable. Heck, GF even offers TV services just like a cable company, but being fiber based, they're not a cable company.
Current regulations are anti-fiber and pro-copper. This change levels the playing field.
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Shouldn't an ISP have at least 2 and preferably 3 or more separate trunk links?
Running fiber is about 40% of the overall cost of a fiber last mile network. Trunks are relatively cheap compared to the last mile network. Customer support is the single most expensive part of an ISP. Keeping customers happy is the best way to keep costs down.
-20f nights and 0f days are great at keeping hard core druggies away from here. Nearly all of our crime are along the lines of some bored teenagers trying to lift candy bars at Walmart. I remember this one time that someone was actually shot and killed. That one murder filled the news papers of several local counties for months. It was my first time ever hearing of one happening locally.
Don't like your government? Replace it. Don't like your opensource software, add a feature.
only 8 pages of rules, the rest were comments.
Turns out he was using the framework to pull all the records from a couple of different tables and doing the join in Java
Who gave him direct table access?! They should be fired!
Yep, nothing quite like a bunch of frameworks strung together in a way they were never envisioned and doing things that look the same on the surface but are quite different underneath. If you don't understand how a framework works, you'll never use it correctly.
In my limited experience, what people claim to be "agile" is "I don't want to have to design or plan". Agile is a method for programming, and has little to do with design.
Forgot to add. "Dark energy" definitely exists, otherwise we'd be running into problems with the fundamental laws, like conservation of energy. Space itself is expanding and that takes energy, a lot of energy.
Personally, I think "dark matter" and "dark energy" don't really exist. Instead, I think there's something wrong with our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
That is exactly what Dark Matter is and has always been claimed to be. It is a gap in our knowledge with certain characteristics. We know it is not baryonic matter, we know it is not an issue with gravity, as assume it is matter because matter has mass and mass distorts space(aka gravity). The biggest problem is that Dark Matter is the longest standing unknown in all of history. Through all of recorded history, problems have been solved shortly after the discovery of the problem. Dark Matter is nearly a century old and almost a magnitude worse than any other problem.
Plenty of great minds have looked at the problem. Our only hope is to keep running more tests and for technology to allow our tests to get better.
Current Atom CPUs are 8 core with ECC so-dimms, only consume 25watts at the wall at full load and perform non-SIMD related workloads between 1x and 0.5x of a quad-core 8 thread Haswell Xeon of similar frequencies, will nearly identical AES-NI performance.
The government creates these monopolies by making it illegal to run competing cable
That's not true. The government gave Right of Way access to Telcoms and Cable companies, which so happen to also be ISPs, but ISPs are not always telcom or cable. If you want right of way access at the federal level, then you need to be Title II, not what ISPs current are. Local governments are free to grant ISPs access to right of ways, but there is little incentive to do so and it complicates things. No one wants more people digging up their land, it's hard to pass with voter support.
Without major changes to current laws, the best way to give ISPs right of way access to make them Title II. No changes to laws, just a reclassification.
AT&T actually sued my state because we gave an ISP right of way access. In the end, the ISP was not allowed to compete in the private sector, they could only sell services to public services like Schools, hospitals, and libraries. But at 1/1300th the price and better customer service, AT&T could not compete against the $300/month dedicated 1Gb/1Gb fiber with an SLA, operated by a non-profit with no government support other than RoW access. At the time, AT&T was charging $100k/month for the same services, but they had a lot of customer complaints, ignoring the huge 333x mark-up over the wholesale. 99.7% profit margins are nice.
You don't have to use their cable, the FCC will not be enforcing line sharing, only right of way access. A new ISP could lay their own infrastructure or beg the local incumbent to access their's, but at least the local government won't be able to stop a new ISP from moving in like they current can.
If you do line sharing, you don't actually use right of way access, you pay the owner of the lines to do the work for you. This has caused great headaches in some areas. There are a select few ISPs that actually line share in the USA, but they get little support from the line owners because the line owner doesn't want the competition, so they treat them poorly. Technically they're not supposed to do that, but in reality, they get away with it all of the time. Many Tech Savvy ISP customers have complained that when using Tech Savvy, they had many connection issues, but if they switched back to AT&T, who owns the lines, AT&T would immediately send a tech, fix the issue, then the customer would switch back to Tech Savvy and all would be well. Anyone line sharing is at the mercy of the line owner.
The whole problem with QoS is it requires classifying data flows, which has a huge false positive rate and can be easily tricked. Most data is encrypted, you can't do Deep Inspection, and using ports can easily be abused. start hosting an FTP server on the same port that VoIP normally runs on, yay, I've got priority.
With IPv6+IPSec, the entire packet, except the L3 headers are encrypted, so you won't even be able to tell if it's UDP or TCP, yet alone which ports they're trying to use. QoS won't work.
I'm not funding someone's website with my personal information.
Exactly. Now just enter in your name, where you live, and a creditcard number.
The neutrality rules for this are written such that it only affects services that are over the "public" internet. Netflix is considered a public internet service, but local TC and phone service are not offer to anyone else other than local customers and not over the same logical connection as the public internet.
THAT is what should have been outlawed
They kind of did, by giving ISPs Title II. ISPs will now have access to Right of Ways at the federal level, so the local can't block it like they do right now.
QoS your data, but don't touch mine. I don't care if I'm downloading a 20GB game and your VoIP is going to crap because of congestion, don't touch my packets. Fix the issue, the congestion, or implement a decent AQM, like fq_codel or fq_pie. The biggest issue with congestion is buffer bloat. If we fix that, which is dead simple, most of the issues of congestion goes away.
Packetloss is not a huge issue, latency and jitter is. We already have the tools to completely get rid of latency and jitter issues, which actually reduces packetloss, stabilizes bandwidth, and increases bandwidth utilization. Blame the ISPs for being lazy. Really, go look up fq_codel. It's a stateless fair Active Queue Manager.
Arstechnica touched on this subject. It is written that they cannot ignore certain data sources from caps "for pay". T-Mobile is free to ignore certain sources of data consumption for their own reasons, but may not do so for a profit. It is noted that excluding some data from being counted towards caps is "frowned upon", but will only be decided against if it can be shown to negatively affect the customers due to being overly anti-competitive or being unfairly biased.
They're charging Netflix $1,000,000 to have a direct access to their network.
Awesome, so we can change people to access our networks? I should tell my ISP that I would like to be paid. Last mile ISPs should not be able to change non-lastmile customers to access their network. A last mile ISP should not be allowed to have congestion on their networks and links to/from their networks. Lastmile ISPs are being paid by their customers to access the Internet at large. It is the ISP's job to access Netflix or to purchase bandwidth from someone else who can access Netflix.
The average USA city has something like 20,000 people per square mile. Since we're talking about averages. On average, there is one hydrogen atom per 1,000,000 cubic meters in the Universe. How can the Sun be sustaining fusion with such a low density?! Because you're an idiot who only thinks in averages.
I don't think there are many legitimate cases where it did not work out. People who had junk insurance (insurance where you pay money but get nothing of value) had to drop it. Sure. I'll give you that.
My position also. I know several people who had this problem. They were forced to pay insurance premiums through their work, but the employer chose really bad companies that would fight everything you attempted to submit. Even then, it would take them 6+ months to process anything, so enjoy having collection agencies after you while you try to get your insurance to pay.
Everyone working person I know benefited from Obamacare. From the $20k/year hourly workers to the $100k/year salaried. Everyone that I have contact with gained better insurance with only marginal changes to their premiums. The only people I've seen have issues are self employed or unemployed. For me, my premium went down(50% reduction), my coverage stayed the same. Something about lower costs to the local hospitals with more people being insured.
My anecdotal experience.
Opening up Right of Way access to ISPs should help competition. As it stands, ISPs don't get RoW access, only telcom or cable companies do. Google Fiber had to fight at the local level just to gain RoW access because GF is neither telcom nor cable. Heck, GF even offers TV services just like a cable company, but being fiber based, they're not a cable company.
Current regulations are anti-fiber and pro-copper. This change levels the playing field.
After a while, some game servers started to segregate between LPBs and not-LPBs. ISDN?! Lynch him!