+1 No original research, and you're not supposed to cite your own work. There's a lot of Ego going on for sure, I don't think it's the Academics however.
If you look at the fine print of the license agreement you have to attest to Amazon that YOU have the proper license to upload and stream the file. YOU accept all responsibility if it turns out to be illegal.
It's interesting that people think this is some new idea. Telco central offices and data centers in many parts of the world have been running 48VDC for 40 years. Lower power consumption, less heat, easier to deal with power outages. The only question in my mind is if it's worthwhile for more widely distributed installations. I.e. high density housing or office space might make sense, but single family homes? Not so sure about that.
DC has some interesting prospects though. Some PoE + systems can deliver 50+Watts over 50v. That's enough juice to power a fanless PC and a LED back-lit monitor.
I would add that the battery on a used $200 laptop is going to at the end of it's life. Add $100 for a new one. Outside that you're paying for the form factor and lightness.
The metal case closes the deal for me. There are a couple models from Dell and Leveno that are metal, but they aren't unibody and they aren't any cheaper than apple. I don't think it's gold plating because it's a real factor of long term durability.
SyFy didn't ruin Caprica. Ronald D. Moore did. The show sucked Baltar's Balls. The presense of Eric Stoltz was not enough to fix horrible story telling.
If you had actually read the article if makes if clear that the gov't didn't do the engineering work. They hired a company to do it. Basically the HOA folks are calling shenanigans on the corporate engineering firm. In this case the city doesn't want to do any regulation (or critical thinking). Instead of taking a serious look at the petition they get all heavy handed with the Engineering credentials. It's gov't that thinks that corporations always know better than citizens.
I don't think it's so cut and dry. In particular when the DSL provider is the incumbent telco. Starting from interconnecting issues to the backdones. Not a single cable company has a Tier 1 network. Whereas Qwest, Verizon/UUNet, Sprint, and AT&T are all Tier 1 networks. Cable Companies are strictly Tier 2, often buying connectivity from the Telco companies they compete with for consumer customers.
Cable doesn't have the infrastructure and redundancy most Telco DSL networks have. Telcos started putting fiber in during the early 90s and frankly they overbuilt to the Central Offices, in particular in metro areas and ended up with a lot of dark fiber between facilities. It just seems that a cable company over subscribing a neighborhood is almost a cliche.
That's not to say the "ISP" side of the equation of a telco hasn't ever miscalculated how much fiber they needed to have turned up (they have). But my experience has been that been on the upstream internet side of the equation.
Cable does deliver better bandwidth in ideal/well managed situations for last mile. Cable is relatively cheap to put in.
DSL is hitting the max you can get on pair of copper lines. Fiber is the go forward and that last mile is very expensive for the Telcos. But I think most Telcos do a far better job managing their network.
Maybe a really small hospital might have issues, but if you're mid or larger and can afford something like Epic MyChart, you can afford a competent network admin.
One thing to keep in mind is that Venture Capitalists are there to maximize the amount of money they can get for a company. That often means forcing the smart company founder(s) out the door for the least amount of money possible. While there are folks that do fit his his categories to a tee, there are plenty of other people who are smeared or manipulated by the VCs into those positions.
I've worked in VERY large national ISPs and local ISPs. At the large ISPs we dealt with dozens of warrants daily. If need be engineering would work with them as a partner to get what they needed. We were also allowed to push back if the warrant wasn't in order.
At the small ISP the FBI would just show up and seize stuff. Often before hand they would call peers and dig up background information on the employees and owners. When dealing with small ISPs the FBI starts with the assumption that the company is in on it. You'll enjoy a reputation tarnished in the local community and threats of having all your equipment seized (putting you out of business).
It's given that authority under Title I and Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In an interesting twist, when the FCC originally reclassified broadband from a regulated Title II service to a to non-regulated Title I a number of competitive broad band providers sued the FCC stating they did not have the authority to classify broadband as an unregulated Title I service.
The case (FCC v. Brand X in 2005) the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the FCC had the technical expertise to determine the classification.
So, they not only have the legal right, that right has been affirmed by the highest court in the land.
You have opinions, I have facts, you're are wrong.
So close, yet so far. Basically what the court said the FCC can't regulate broadband because it's not classified as a regulated service. It was, and then Micheal Powell took over the FCC during the Bush years and reclassified it as unregulated. What the FCC is doing is reclassifying it as a regulated service. Once that is done they are perfectly within their rights to regulate the shit out of it.
Jesus, the guy runs a semi-secure internet drop box for leaks. It's not like he leads a group of hackers breaking into government systems. The FSB just wants to get a jump on what he's going to release. Most likely to use it to their advantage.
It's in how you position it. You do what a network would do. Blast a big message on the front page saying: Comcast is threatening to block Netflix. Call Comcast and tell them when you pay $400 a year for unlimited Internet access you expect unlimited Internet access.
Ultimately that's the problem I think the FCC has. Instead of telling ISPs what to do they should force them to put a big black box on all their ads and bills disclosing "Limited Internet Service - We reserve the right to block your access to any site or service for any reason, including blocking competing services." The FCC should set the bar for what "Unlimited Service" is and make Comcast and others call their service "Limited Internet Service". Most cable companies complete with the local telco. So far Telcos have refrained from this sort of BS.
In most states you are required to claim and pay sales tax on out of state items. Amazon is using legal dodges. Customers are just outright cheating on their taxes.
It's a small victory for Ford, but both of them sold out us out to China for short term gains. In order to get into China in the first place they had to share all the IP of the vehicles they make in China with other Chinese auto makers. This gave Chinese auto makers a huge leap, and put them only a couple years behind US and European auto makers. I would guess Beijing Automotive Company got greedy and wanted more. American companies are very short sighted. The Germans understand that if you don't make things your economy is all paper. We're getting to the point in the US that the only thing we make is processed food.
From reading the linked articles it seems like Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment was in Chap 11. Then someone (maybe a group of investors?) illegally sold the assets of the company to the new gaming companies for $100,000. It appears the court said that action was illegal both in terms of procedure and perhaps value as well. The motives are where the real dirt is, and I suspect you're not going to get a straight answer on that until after all the lawsuits are settled.
Biggest issue is I have with Google cloud is it's not secure using your own domain name. You have to use google's SSL address and that doesn't fly for a lot of people.
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+1 No original research, and you're not supposed to cite your own work. There's a lot of Ego going on for sure, I don't think it's the Academics however.
If you look at the fine print of the license agreement you have to attest to Amazon that YOU have the proper license to upload and stream the file. YOU accept all responsibility if it turns out to be illegal.
If I were them I would get a software patent going. Amazon want to kick you out, fine, but that doesn't mean you can't take a cut of the $$$.
Lifetime caps are removed under Obamacare.
You cannot contribute to a HSA without a having the prerequisite insurance product. In most cases a form of high deductible plan.
It's interesting that people think this is some new idea. Telco central offices and data centers in many parts of the world have been running 48VDC for 40 years. Lower power consumption, less heat, easier to deal with power outages. The only question in my mind is if it's worthwhile for more widely distributed installations. I.e. high density housing or office space might make sense, but single family homes? Not so sure about that.
DC has some interesting prospects though. Some PoE + systems can deliver 50+Watts over 50v. That's enough juice to power a fanless PC and a LED back-lit monitor.
The reason why American society is doomed is we have no idea what these grams and Kg are all about? How many pounds are we talking about?
I would add that the battery on a used $200 laptop is going to at the end of it's life. Add $100 for a new one. Outside that you're paying for the form factor and lightness.
The metal case closes the deal for me. There are a couple models from Dell and Leveno that are metal, but they aren't unibody and they aren't any cheaper than apple. I don't think it's gold plating because it's a real factor of long term durability.
SyFy didn't ruin Caprica. Ronald D. Moore did. The show sucked Baltar's Balls. The presense of Eric Stoltz was not enough to fix horrible story telling.
A dingo ate my video game!
If you had actually read the article if makes if clear that the gov't didn't do the engineering work. They hired a company to do it. Basically the HOA folks are calling shenanigans on the corporate engineering firm. In this case the city doesn't want to do any regulation (or critical thinking). Instead of taking a serious look at the petition they get all heavy handed with the Engineering credentials. It's gov't that thinks that corporations always know better than citizens.
I don't think it's so cut and dry. In particular when the DSL provider is the incumbent telco. Starting from interconnecting issues to the backdones. Not a single cable company has a Tier 1 network. Whereas Qwest, Verizon/UUNet, Sprint, and AT&T are all Tier 1 networks. Cable Companies are strictly Tier 2, often buying connectivity from the Telco companies they compete with for consumer customers.
Cable doesn't have the infrastructure and redundancy most Telco DSL networks have. Telcos started putting fiber in during the early 90s and frankly they overbuilt to the Central Offices, in particular in metro areas and ended up with a lot of dark fiber between facilities. It just seems that a cable company over subscribing a neighborhood is almost a cliche.
That's not to say the "ISP" side of the equation of a telco hasn't ever miscalculated how much fiber they needed to have turned up (they have). But my experience has been that been on the upstream internet side of the equation.
Cable does deliver better bandwidth in ideal/well managed situations for last mile. Cable is relatively cheap to put in.
DSL is hitting the max you can get on pair of copper lines. Fiber is the go forward and that last mile is very expensive for the Telcos. But I think most Telcos do a far better job managing their network.
Maybe a really small hospital might have issues, but if you're mid or larger and can afford something like Epic MyChart, you can afford a competent network admin.
One thing to keep in mind is that Venture Capitalists are there to maximize the amount of money they can get for a company. That often means forcing the smart company founder(s) out the door for the least amount of money possible. While there are folks that do fit his his categories to a tee, there are plenty of other people who are smeared or manipulated by the VCs into those positions.
I have to disagree about the taps.
I've worked in VERY large national ISPs and local ISPs. At the large ISPs we dealt with dozens of warrants daily. If need be engineering would work with them as a partner to get what they needed. We were also allowed to push back if the warrant wasn't in order.
At the small ISP the FBI would just show up and seize stuff. Often before hand they would call peers and dig up background information on the employees and owners. When dealing with small ISPs the FBI starts with the assumption that the company is in on it. You'll enjoy a reputation tarnished in the local community and threats of having all your equipment seized (putting you out of business).
It's given that authority under Title I and Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In an interesting twist, when the FCC originally reclassified broadband from a regulated Title II service to a to non-regulated Title I a number of competitive broad band providers sued the FCC stating they did not have the authority to classify broadband as an unregulated Title I service.
The case (FCC v. Brand X in 2005) the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the FCC had the technical expertise to determine the classification.
So, they not only have the legal right, that right has been affirmed by the highest court in the land.
You have opinions, I have facts, you're are wrong.
Contempt of cop that is.
So close, yet so far. Basically what the court said the FCC can't regulate broadband because it's not classified as a regulated service. It was, and then Micheal Powell took over the FCC during the Bush years and reclassified it as unregulated. What the FCC is doing is reclassifying it as a regulated service. Once that is done they are perfectly within their rights to regulate the shit out of it.
Jesus, the guy runs a semi-secure internet drop box for leaks. It's not like he leads a group of hackers breaking into government systems. The FSB just wants to get a jump on what he's going to release. Most likely to use it to their advantage.
It's in how you position it. You do what a network would do. Blast a big message on the front page saying: Comcast is threatening to block Netflix. Call Comcast and tell them when you pay $400 a year for unlimited Internet access you expect unlimited Internet access.
Ultimately that's the problem I think the FCC has. Instead of telling ISPs what to do they should force them to put a big black box on all their ads and bills disclosing "Limited Internet Service - We reserve the right to block your access to any site or service for any reason, including blocking competing services." The FCC should set the bar for what "Unlimited Service" is and make Comcast and others call their service "Limited Internet Service". Most cable companies complete with the local telco. So far Telcos have refrained from this sort of BS.
In most states you are required to claim and pay sales tax on out of state items. Amazon is using legal dodges. Customers are just outright cheating on their taxes.
Go for a cheapie wildcard cert. That will cover all your intranet needs.
It's a small victory for Ford, but both of them sold out us out to China for short term gains. In order to get into China in the first place they had to share all the IP of the vehicles they make in China with other Chinese auto makers. This gave Chinese auto makers a huge leap, and put them only a couple years behind US and European auto makers. I would guess Beijing Automotive Company got greedy and wanted more. American companies are very short sighted. The Germans understand that if you don't make things your economy is all paper. We're getting to the point in the US that the only thing we make is processed food.
From reading the linked articles it seems like Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment was in Chap 11. Then someone (maybe a group of investors?) illegally sold the assets of the company to the new gaming companies for $100,000. It appears the court said that action was illegal both in terms of procedure and perhaps value as well. The motives are where the real dirt is, and I suspect you're not going to get a straight answer on that until after all the lawsuits are settled.
Biggest issue is I have with Google cloud is it's not secure using your own domain name. You have to use google's SSL address and that doesn't fly for a lot of people.