They have a control plane in AWS, but the bulk of the bandwidth comes from distinct CDN strategy. Notably they have appliances for ISPs to incorporate, precisely to enable ISPs to deliver better netflix performance.
Assuming that the ISPs play ball. Some of the bigger ones have said "no" because Netflix competes against them and they want their customers to pay extra for Netflix.
On an e-commerce site, how do you implement an "Add to Cart" button without cookies?
Then you can have the popup when they try to add to cart. That's more preferable than the sort of "you have to have cookies to even glance at the front page of our site" nonsense that was being discussed in the thread.
Try to counter any of the points I made. You can not.
You start with a number of false assumptions, and then knock them down, but they're still strawmen. *) You assume most nerds other than a couple on Slashdot gave a shit about Aaron Schwartz. I thought he was getting a bad shake from an over-zealous prosecutor, but he took the idiot's and coward's way out. Sucks to be him.
*) Snowden is a defeat of "geekdom?" Snowden isn't really emblematic of geekdom one way or another, most of the public see it either as a government whistleblower exposing illegal operations, or a whistleblower/felon who ran to Russia. Any nerdiness or lack thereof rarely comes into the conversation; I doubt most people could say what his role in the government was. Most nerds aren't in government so they don't feel like what happened to Snowden REALLY pertains to them, because they're never going to be in the position he was in.
*) Your milage may vary based on the Star Trek reboot, but a ton of nerds like it, and a ton of non-nerds don't like it. There's a decent split on both sides. Just about everyone, nerds and non-nerds alike like the Star Wars remake, and everyone thought the same about the BSG remake. Most nerds, even comic book nerds think the Marvel movies are great, and they're making bank too. Most other remakes, at least remakes of things that were popular, end up being critical and commercial failures regardless of whether the critic is a nerd or not.
*) The "Gamergate" fiasco pretty much failed for everyone. Everyone knows that there are a bunch of 15-year-olds on XBox Live who say all sorts of shit, but everyone knew that already. The attempt to paint everyone who games with that broad brush failed; there are way too many who game now, not just the living-in-his-mother's-basement type, and the only ones who parrot that line are "games journalism" sites that no one actually reads and feminist blogs who have a marginally-equivalent amount of real world power.
I know you're trolling, and I'm feeding the trolls, but sometimes troll-feeding is fun.
Well, first of all you stop reading right wing propaganda. What you are complaining about is that Obama didn't manage to clean up the complete mess that Bush managed to create and it might not even have been possible to clean that up.
Come on, it's not "right-wing propaganda" to think that Obama's Nobel was total bullshit. It came down to exactly two things "Thank god that Bush isn't in the White House," and "Obama promises to lead the US to peace." Maybe if Obama had delivered on that he might, might have been eligible, but the fact that they gave him the Peace Prize for making campaign promises that most Democratic candidates made shows it to be a political-motivated prize. It greatly degraded the legitimacy of the prize itself and gives it all the authority of Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
The charge has been rape. You're thinking about the woman he was having sex with when the condom came off. You're correct, that was not charged as rape, at least not what us brit/americans would think of as "rape."
The rape charge comes from a different woman. The two women are identified as "Miss A" and "Miss W." I couldn't find documents online of who made which charge, but it doesn't really matter. Assange is accused of continuing to have sex with one of the women after a condom came off after she'd agreed to have sex if he wore a condom. The other woman accused him of having sex with her while she was asleep (no consent) after telling him she would not have sex with him. Neither of them went to the police until they'd talked to each other about these encounters.
"He" being Jack Bauer, of course. Of course that didn't end up well of ol' Jack either -- captured by the Chinese in retaliation and held for years in China.
You are the piece of shit, scum like you deserves to have their family marched to the gas chamber. State worshipping pig fucker scum!
Butcher all right wingers. We need a civil war. Murder all families of right-wing voters.
I disagree. I think we need more marginalization of people who have watched too many episodes of the X-Files, see spooks in every shadow, and think that anyone who shines a light on something is an alter boy who can't possibly be a douchebag who commits other crimes.
By your logic that would mean that abuse happens anytime a person changes their mind.
Anyone could 'change their mind' and storm out and accuse someone they were with with rape. Making breakfast the next day isn't really indicative of things one way or the other.
Journalists unfortunately, need to get paid. If, when you are making a feature of some form, and waiting for 20 responses to FOIA - if someone comes along and writes an article on the first 15, you're pretty much screwed, and don't get paid (directly, or your employer) this means less investigative journalism. Journalism is pretty much dying - especially investigative journalism like this.
Spotlight is a fun movie currently out (and currently in the running for the Best Picture Academy Award) where this comes into play. One of the Spotlight reporters working on the Catholic Priest molestation scandal waited in the lobby of the public court records department all night until they opened in the morning because the documents he'd been working on unsealing had just been made public, and he had to get to them before a competitor from the Boston Herald discovered them.
Please, explain how the "Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act" applies to Trademark.
DMCA is for copyright violations. Reporting Trademark infringement is an incorrect use of the process.
Worse than incorrect, according to CrossFit, Inc c. Alvies (2014), if you use a DMCA takedown to assert a trademark, you could be liable under section 512(f) of the DMCA.
Crossfit tried to use the DMCA to assert a trademark against the "Crossfit Mamas" website, and lost the counterclaim under DMCA section 512(f).
The case was just made that your first amendment rights don't count because you had to get a business license to do business and the government can put restrictions on your first amendment rights when they make you do something by law
If getting a business licence is a legal requirement, and the license requires you to give up your first amendment rights are a requirement for getting that license, then the jurisdiction would be violating the Constitution. However, around the original Civil Rights era, the country sort of decided that some rights were lesser than others -- and that protecting a class that suffered from mass discrimination took precedence.
the Law is the FIRST authority on what is right and wrong
Absolutely, positively incorrect. The law is the FIRST authority on what is legal. Any lawyer... hell, anyone who pays attention to the world around them, can see that law and morality often similar, but also often wildly diverge.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." Adolf Hitler (from John Toland, "Adolf Hitler", p224).
Which American politician does that sound like? Ted Cruz? Rand Paul? Ben Carson? Seems to me that's more like Obama, Clinton, and Sanders.
I suppose it depends on which you believe better: the words and platforms that the Nazis used while building support to assume power, or the actions of the Third Reich once Hitler was supreme leader. I'll note that the Nazis persecuted the communists with a profound zeal exceed only by the fires they reserved for the jews and homosexuals, none of those groups having much in common with what we'd think of as "conservatism."
How about a completely redone-HTML5 skeleton and have a design competition for who can theme it the best. CSS has come pretty far since 2001. Where you around when they tried to show off beta? OMG Things are different... DIFFERENT!!!!!! Every change on Slashdot appearance is met with harsh retribution.
If you're going to change something, it absolutely has to be better. Not 'different.' I spoke with a developer in one of those Slashdot Beta discussions and he admitted that the motivation was that Slashdot HAD to be different. That if a website doesn't change radically, it becomes "stale." It's a mindset I can't stand, because it prioritizes "different" over "useful." Useful should always come first. "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" is a foreign and outdated concept to these folks. We have tons of experience with websites that crash and burn after a failed interface experiment goes live, and Slashdot Beta had solidly gone down that road.
Given all the hoops and the security hassles and the extra things you pointed out that you have to worry about for unicode support, it sounds like unicode support might not be worth the extra hassle and danger.
In principle it sounds good, but certainly there's going to be some sort of certifications involved somewhere, and I doubt open source stuff like mythtv is going to be able to pass the requirements to get certified
Unless there's some sort of sea change in the country, it's highly unlikely that open source technologies will ever be allowed access to encrypted TV broadcasts. Only the programs and devices that can pass through an authorization process will be given access.
This is amazingly AT&T. What do they think, it's 1981 and they're Ma Bell again (proprietary landline phones)?
Look at the history of AT&T in the last 30 years. The breakup was a temporary set-back, and they realized quickly all they had to do was lay low for a few years for the anti-trust fervor to disappear (and for the people in office behind the break-up to leave). Pretty quickly they tried getting it all back. They're not as dominant as they were back in the phone heydays, but they have as much of a stranglehold over the landline market as they ever had.
What are data caps? Is that still a thing in the modern western world?
In the US they are. You either have the obvious, advertised data cap, or else you have an invisible cap where the ISP starts messing with your connection speed without telling you. One way out of that mess is not to use the large carriers, but they have municipal-granted monopolies or duopolies in most areas. If you're lucky enough to have FiOS or better yet a local ISP with a huge pipe, you can be in a pretty good position. Not a lot of people have that sort of thing as an option.
b) Have you heard of QoS? You can quite easily setup a network to give priority packets to one connection, that is significantly easier to do than actually filter it by content. Any 10 year old script kiddy should be able to configure a router in a way that your max connection speed is maintained when the connection is shared. The other user's may not but then they don't have such guarantees.
QoS is beyond the abilities of many home Internet users, especially because in many cases you'd have to use your own router. I have never had an ISP-approved/supplied router that supported QoS, and my current ISP is a local service that is otherwise considered one of the best in the nation. Their default routers suck, though at least they're totally chill if I want to use my own. Which I'm about to, because having high ping times in games when any other device tries to do any sort of download or streaming.. that really sucks.
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Does it just block autoplaying? Or does it completely block the content from loading and downloading in the first place?
That's why they call it a "golden parachute" after all. He put in the procedures to make it incredibly expensive just to fire him.
Oh yes, every company is just EVIL EVIL EVIL.
They're all totally EVIIIIIL. Because money is EVIL.
Companies are just terrible and EVIL.
They have a control plane in AWS, but the bulk of the bandwidth comes from distinct CDN strategy. Notably they have appliances for ISPs to incorporate, precisely to enable ISPs to deliver better netflix performance.
Assuming that the ISPs play ball. Some of the bigger ones have said "no" because Netflix competes against them and they want their customers to pay extra for Netflix.
On an e-commerce site, how do you implement an "Add to Cart" button without cookies?
Then you can have the popup when they try to add to cart. That's more preferable than the sort of "you have to have cookies to even glance at the front page of our site" nonsense that was being discussed in the thread.
Try to counter any of the points I made. You can not.
You start with a number of false assumptions, and then knock them down, but they're still strawmen.
*) You assume most nerds other than a couple on Slashdot gave a shit about Aaron Schwartz. I thought he was getting a bad shake from an over-zealous prosecutor, but he took the idiot's and coward's way out. Sucks to be him.
*) Snowden is a defeat of "geekdom?" Snowden isn't really emblematic of geekdom one way or another, most of the public see it either as a government whistleblower exposing illegal operations, or a whistleblower/felon who ran to Russia. Any nerdiness or lack thereof rarely comes into the conversation; I doubt most people could say what his role in the government was. Most nerds aren't in government so they don't feel like what happened to Snowden REALLY pertains to them, because they're never going to be in the position he was in.
*) Your milage may vary based on the Star Trek reboot, but a ton of nerds like it, and a ton of non-nerds don't like it. There's a decent split on both sides. Just about everyone, nerds and non-nerds alike like the Star Wars remake, and everyone thought the same about the BSG remake. Most nerds, even comic book nerds think the Marvel movies are great, and they're making bank too. Most other remakes, at least remakes of things that were popular, end up being critical and commercial failures regardless of whether the critic is a nerd or not.
*) The "Gamergate" fiasco pretty much failed for everyone. Everyone knows that there are a bunch of 15-year-olds on XBox Live who say all sorts of shit, but everyone knew that already. The attempt to paint everyone who games with that broad brush failed; there are way too many who game now, not just the living-in-his-mother's-basement type, and the only ones who parrot that line are "games journalism" sites that no one actually reads and feminist blogs who have a marginally-equivalent amount of real world power.
I know you're trolling, and I'm feeding the trolls, but sometimes troll-feeding is fun.
Well, first of all you stop reading right wing propaganda. What you are complaining about is that Obama didn't manage to clean up the complete mess that Bush managed to create and it might not even have been possible to clean that up.
Come on, it's not "right-wing propaganda" to think that Obama's Nobel was total bullshit. It came down to exactly two things "Thank god that Bush isn't in the White House," and "Obama promises to lead the US to peace." Maybe if Obama had delivered on that he might, might have been eligible, but the fact that they gave him the Peace Prize for making campaign promises that most Democratic candidates made shows it to be a political-motivated prize. It greatly degraded the legitimacy of the prize itself and gives it all the authority of Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
The charge has never been rape
The charge has been rape. You're thinking about the woman he was having sex with when the condom came off. You're correct, that was not charged as rape, at least not what us brit/americans would think of as "rape."
The rape charge comes from a different woman. The two women are identified as "Miss A" and "Miss W." I couldn't find documents online of who made which charge, but it doesn't really matter. Assange is accused of continuing to have sex with one of the women after a condom came off after she'd agreed to have sex if he wore a condom. The other woman accused him of having sex with her while she was asleep (no consent) after telling him she would not have sex with him. Neither of them went to the police until they'd talked to each other about these encounters.
"He" being Jack Bauer, of course. Of course that didn't end up well of ol' Jack either -- captured by the Chinese in retaliation and held for years in China.
If they were going to pull that, storming the embassy wouldn't be that much harder. You're a loon.
Oh, it's totally possible, I saw an episode of 24 where he stormed a Chinese embassy and did just that.
You are the piece of shit, scum like you deserves to have their family marched to the gas chamber. State worshipping pig fucker scum!
Butcher all right wingers. We need a civil war. Murder all families of right-wing voters.
I disagree. I think we need more marginalization of people who have watched too many episodes of the X-Files, see spooks in every shadow, and think that anyone who shines a light on something is an alter boy who can't possibly be a douchebag who commits other crimes.
By your logic that would mean that abuse happens anytime a person changes their mind.
Anyone could 'change their mind' and storm out and accuse someone they were with with rape. Making breakfast the next day isn't really indicative of things one way or the other.
Journalists unfortunately, need to get paid. If, when you are making a feature of some form, and waiting for 20 responses to FOIA - if someone comes along and writes an article on the first 15, you're pretty much screwed, and don't get paid (directly, or your employer) this means less investigative journalism. Journalism is pretty much dying - especially investigative journalism like this.
Spotlight is a fun movie currently out (and currently in the running for the Best Picture Academy Award) where this comes into play. One of the Spotlight reporters working on the Catholic Priest molestation scandal waited in the lobby of the public court records department all night until they opened in the morning because the documents he'd been working on unsealing had just been made public, and he had to get to them before a competitor from the Boston Herald discovered them.
Please, explain how the "Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act" applies to Trademark.
DMCA is for copyright violations. Reporting Trademark infringement is an incorrect use of the process.
Worse than incorrect, according to CrossFit, Inc c. Alvies (2014), if you use a DMCA takedown to assert a trademark, you could be liable under section 512(f) of the DMCA.
Crossfit tried to use the DMCA to assert a trademark against the "Crossfit Mamas" website, and lost the counterclaim under DMCA section 512(f).
Yes! The murder of innocents! That's certainly a good way of getting the moral high ground.
The case was just made that your first amendment rights don't count because you had to get a business license to do business and the government can put restrictions on your first amendment rights when they make you do something by law
If getting a business licence is a legal requirement, and the license requires you to give up your first amendment rights are a requirement for getting that license, then the jurisdiction would be violating the Constitution. However, around the original Civil Rights era, the country sort of decided that some rights were lesser than others -- and that protecting a class that suffered from mass discrimination took precedence.
the Law is the FIRST authority on what is right and wrong
Absolutely, positively incorrect. The law is the FIRST authority on what is legal. Any lawyer... hell, anyone who pays attention to the world around them, can see that law and morality often similar, but also often wildly diverge.
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." Adolf Hitler (from John Toland, "Adolf Hitler", p224).
Which American politician does that sound like? Ted Cruz? Rand Paul? Ben Carson? Seems to me that's more like Obama, Clinton, and Sanders.
I suppose it depends on which you believe better: the words and platforms that the Nazis used while building support to assume power, or the actions of the Third Reich once Hitler was supreme leader. I'll note that the Nazis persecuted the communists with a profound zeal exceed only by the fires they reserved for the jews and homosexuals, none of those groups having much in common with what we'd think of as "conservatism."
I want the word "boxen" banned.
How about a completely redone-HTML5 skeleton and have a design competition for who can theme it the best. CSS has come pretty far since 2001.
Where you around when they tried to show off beta? OMG Things are different... DIFFERENT!!!!!! Every change on Slashdot appearance is met with harsh retribution.
If you're going to change something, it absolutely has to be better. Not 'different.' I spoke with a developer in one of those Slashdot Beta discussions and he admitted that the motivation was that Slashdot HAD to be different. That if a website doesn't change radically, it becomes "stale." It's a mindset I can't stand, because it prioritizes "different" over "useful." Useful should always come first. "If it ain't broken, don't fix it" is a foreign and outdated concept to these folks. We have tons of experience with websites that crash and burn after a failed interface experiment goes live, and Slashdot Beta had solidly gone down that road.
Given all the hoops and the security hassles and the extra things you pointed out that you have to worry about for unicode support, it sounds like unicode support might not be worth the extra hassle and danger.
In principle it sounds good, but certainly there's going to be some sort of certifications involved somewhere, and I doubt open source stuff like mythtv is going to be able to pass the requirements to get certified
Unless there's some sort of sea change in the country, it's highly unlikely that open source technologies will ever be allowed access to encrypted TV broadcasts. Only the programs and devices that can pass through an authorization process will be given access.
This is amazingly AT&T. What do they think, it's 1981 and they're Ma Bell again (proprietary landline phones)?
Look at the history of AT&T in the last 30 years. The breakup was a temporary set-back, and they realized quickly all they had to do was lay low for a few years for the anti-trust fervor to disappear (and for the people in office behind the break-up to leave). Pretty quickly they tried getting it all back. They're not as dominant as they were back in the phone heydays, but they have as much of a stranglehold over the landline market as they ever had.
What are data caps? Is that still a thing in the modern western world?
In the US they are. You either have the obvious, advertised data cap, or else you have an invisible cap where the ISP starts messing with your connection speed without telling you. One way out of that mess is not to use the large carriers, but they have municipal-granted monopolies or duopolies in most areas. If you're lucky enough to have FiOS or better yet a local ISP with a huge pipe, you can be in a pretty good position. Not a lot of people have that sort of thing as an option.
b) Have you heard of QoS? You can quite easily setup a network to give priority packets to one connection, that is significantly easier to do than actually filter it by content. Any 10 year old script kiddy should be able to configure a router in a way that your max connection speed is maintained when the connection is shared. The other user's may not but then they don't have such guarantees.
QoS is beyond the abilities of many home Internet users, especially because in many cases you'd have to use your own router. I have never had an ISP-approved/supplied router that supported QoS, and my current ISP is a local service that is otherwise considered one of the best in the nation. Their default routers suck, though at least they're totally chill if I want to use my own. Which I'm about to, because having high ping times in games when any other device tries to do any sort of download or streaming.. that really sucks.
So your point is that the conspiracy survived so long, it outlived its usefulness. Sounds like it was successful to me!
It's an urban legend or old wives' tale, not a conspiracy. The conspiracy phase lasted for a short amount of time.
And it wasn't entirely wrong, either, just a bit misleading.