Here is one of the most famous videos of a UFO sighting. It's not your typical shaky shot of some light(s) off in the distance; the quality is quite good and at around 33 seconds you can actually see some detail of the alleged UFO.
The point of the argument is that NN used to be an inherent part of the internet. Whatever speed you got, everyone moved at that speed. The point of NN is to fight against what's now possible - ISPs mucking around with internet traffic artificially so they can charge both sides to get the advertised speeds.
I agree with that. NN is optimal strategy; anything else is necessarily a degradation. And letting politicians make these kinds of decisions instead of us techies is like letting a McDonald's employee perform open heart surgery.
I don't believe ISPs when they ask us to just trust them that they don't need those rules, and I don't believe for one second that Ajit Pai will keep NN in place, no matter how much public backlash there is. However, I'm also no longer 100% certain that getting rid of the NN rules will be the "internet armageddon" that I used to think it would be.
I used to be vehemently in favor of NN, but when you stop to think about it, do we even really have it right now?
Per the FCC:
Blocking: Broadband providers may not block access to lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices.
Name one big cable company that lets you serve lawful content via port 80 on your home internet connection.
Throttling: Broadband providers may not deliberately target some lawful internet traffic to be delivered to users more slowly than other traffic.
Name one big cable provider that doesn't offer multiple speed tiers. If you've got the lowest/standard tier, watch what happens when you download something from a fast server: your download speed hits an artificial limit, according to your service level.
I know getting rid of the NN rules opens up a huge can of worms with lots of nightmare scenarios because of the broadband providers' collective monopoly.
But really, what good are NN rules when nobody is following them anyway? And has life been unlivable with the fake NN we currently have?
My guess is that regular content will end up being compressed and amplified to compensate (say goodbye to dynamic range in movies) so that normal content and commercials are all at the same, as-loud-as-possible-without-clipping volume. After all, that would be the easiest approach for television station operators.
Here is my highly effective file organization methodology:
I keep multimedia (audio, video, porn) files scattered around 37 or so different folders, each with several subfolders. The majority of these folders have 'temp' or 'download' in their names, except for porn files and folders which consist solely of simple combinations of letters and numbers, such as zzz/tt2.mpg, abc/xyz10.mpg, etc.
Programming projects (some for work, some for hobby, none of which are finished or ever will be) get split up among folders whose names convey increasing seriousness. For example, first there was simply 'Projects', then along came 'New Projects', which begat 'Really New Projects' and eventually 'Even More New Projects'.
Helper files (planning, documentation, spreadsheets, etc.) for each such project have strange filenames relating to whatever thoughts were racing through my mind at the time they were named.
Then, all you have to do is remember where and what everything is.
And that's pretty much all there is to it. This system hasn't failed me yet. Plus, it will stimulate the economy in approximately 0 to 60 years, because the investigator who has the pleasure of snooping through my computers after I croak will have job security for years.
To offer some perspective, here in the UK we have monthly limits that are most commonly in the 15-30Gb range, with a premium limit of 50Gb being offered by a minority of service providers.
Yeah, but your guys' internet isn't nearly as big as ours.
Could it be because this ISP charges for bandwidth (and quite heavily during the day) and are more expensive than other providers that supply truly unlimited tariffs?
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Is the Trickle Down Theory that thing where republicans pee on our leg and tell us it's raining?
Here is one of the most famous videos of a UFO sighting. It's not your typical shaky shot of some light(s) off in the distance; the quality is quite good and at around 33 seconds you can actually see some detail of the alleged UFO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The point of the argument is that NN used to be an inherent part of the internet. Whatever speed you got, everyone moved at that speed. The point of NN is to fight against what's now possible - ISPs mucking around with internet traffic artificially so they can charge both sides to get the advertised speeds.
I agree with that. NN is optimal strategy; anything else is necessarily a degradation. And letting politicians make these kinds of decisions instead of us techies is like letting a McDonald's employee perform open heart surgery.
I don't believe ISPs when they ask us to just trust them that they don't need those rules, and I don't believe for one second that Ajit Pai will keep NN in place, no matter how much public backlash there is. However, I'm also no longer 100% certain that getting rid of the NN rules will be the "internet armageddon" that I used to think it would be.
I used to be vehemently in favor of NN, but when you stop to think about it, do we even really have it right now?
Per the FCC:
Blocking: Broadband providers may not block access to lawful content, applications, services or non-harmful devices.
Name one big cable company that lets you serve lawful content via port 80 on your home internet connection.
Throttling: Broadband providers may not deliberately target some lawful internet traffic to be delivered to users more slowly than other traffic.
Name one big cable provider that doesn't offer multiple speed tiers. If you've got the lowest/standard tier, watch what happens when you download something from a fast server: your download speed hits an artificial limit, according to your service level.
I know getting rid of the NN rules opens up a huge can of worms with lots of nightmare scenarios because of the broadband providers' collective monopoly.
But really, what good are NN rules when nobody is following them anyway? And has life been unlivable with the fake NN we currently have?
The attendant has no steering wheel or break. What does the attendant have, a bucket and a mop?
Yes, to clean up the incontinence issues that arise when the passengers learn they are in a vehicle that has no steering wheel and no brakes.
it should also work behind a van...
...DOWN BY THE RIVER!!
My guess is that regular content will end up being compressed and amplified to compensate (say goodbye to dynamic range in movies) so that normal content and commercials are all at the same, as-loud-as-possible-without-clipping volume. After all, that would be the easiest approach for television station operators.
According to Google, the translation is:
If nunstück is git and slotemeyer? Yes! Beiherhund or the gersput flipperwaldt!
Hilarious.
Here is my highly effective file organization methodology:
And that's pretty much all there is to it. This system hasn't failed me yet. Plus, it will stimulate the economy in approximately 0 to 60 years, because the investigator who has the pleasure of snooping through my computers after I croak will have job security for years.
YES ICANN !
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Think of how many pigeons you can buy for $9 Billion.
Think of the "packet drops" from $9 billion worth of pigeons.
I pity the guy whose job it would be to wade through all of those "hex dumps".
Sounds to me like he should only be allowed to teach eunuchs.
You must be Knuth here.
Beer helps with that too.
What I want to know is: if you flooded the moon with as many great lakes as there are books in the LoC, to what depth would the flood waters rise?
7.
You seem to be off by a factor of 6.
Supervised conjugal visits.
To offer some perspective, here in the UK we have monthly limits that are most commonly in the 15-30Gb range, with a premium limit of 50Gb being offered by a minority of service providers.
Yeah, but your guys' internet isn't nearly as big as ours.
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Is there any way to stop Chrome sending the info of the URLs you type into the address bar back to google, yet?
Yes - use SRWare Iron. It's a fork of Chrome, without all the phone-home stuff.
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I prefer LemonWire myself. Although PlumWire has some nice features, and CherryWire isn't too bad either.
But whatever you do, stay away from KumquatWire!
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Could it be because this ISP charges for bandwidth (and quite heavily during the day) and are more expensive than other providers that supply truly unlimited tariffs?