...and Comcast is ALREADY billing you to provide those bits. What they are trying to do is double-dip on the traffic and charge both sides except Level 3 is already charging Netflix for the bandwidth provided to them so in reality the content is being triple charged. Charging an additional fee in the middle makes sense if you have a non-equitable transit service and are not directly peering, but in this case it's just greed and cost shifting.
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Oh there are fish, they're just all dead...
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Chances are that the BP senior exec had no direct knowledge or influence on the actual drilling operation, beyond specifying the initial contract terms and requirements. Even despite this they haven't tried to avoid their responsibilities...
That's not what is being reported today in the press. Less than 12 hours prior to the rig exploding, BP executives ordered a procedure over the loud objections of the rig operators... Either way, it doesn't really matter because BP owns the rights to drill that tract and therefore legally is responsible for anything that happens there, regardless of whether it is done directly by them or a subcontractor...
Many (most?) alarm companies cannot successfully run alarms (fire, elevator, burglar) over VoIP lines. Not sure if it's latency, compression or what, but I have heard this complaint MANY times from various security (alarm) company people. In some states, doing so is actually against the law.
That's because most alarm boxes use a modem internally to relay the information to the central monitoring station....and modems don't exactly work well over VOIP. All they need to do is switch to IP-based reporting and it's problem solved...
He didn't say text messages, he said "text based web pages"....IE, it should be fast because no graphic images need to be sent. Apples and Oranges comparison here...
Oh I wish I had mod points right now - this is VERY true. AT&T's network is painfully slow in most markets (luckily, my primary market is pretty good, but I frequent others where it is almost completely unusable). 3G data is pointless if you have zero capacity in your back-haul to the backbone...I can see this only as fodder to raise rates and cry fowl against the voip companies in a few months...
Why is this news? Sun/Solaris dominated the high-end financial sector for ages...any exchange/trading house/equity firm/etc that is using Windows is insane IMHO. Linux is just the most recent unix platform to show up in the sector, it's not revolutionary...
At least one server-based game I was looking at a network capture for was using the phone number as the login/authentication information to their server....rather stupid as it meant that anyone able to guess iPhone phone numbers would be able to hack other users accounts of the game...WHOOPS!
Oh god no, not another tax in Ithaca....I remember having to buy tax stickers that you applied to EACH trash bag you put out at the curb (and you had BETTER make sure there were absolutely zero recyclables in the bag or the trash people would shred the sticker and the bag leaving trash everywhere on your front lawn for you to deal with). Talk about a PITA...
But you're right, the hippies up there make even the most left-wing liberals look centrist...
You have zero expectation of privacy when standing out in the open on a city street in the US, why would one assume you have an expectation of privacy when posting on a public forum on the Internet? I understand if you take some measure to really hide (wear a mask in public, or use something like Tor on the Internet), but even then, you could only blame the service you use to protect your privacy, not the end public bulletin (or blog) I would think...
There is nothing wrong with charging for GPLed software as long as you provide the source code for free to anyone who asks.
I thought you only had to provide source to those that you provided binaries to...minor quibble, but he would only have to give the source to people who bought the app, not just ANYONE who asked for it...(although as others have said, there is absolutely NOTHING to prevent someone from buying the app, getting the source, recompiling, and then placing it on iTunes for free, which is the way it should be)
The energy companies only have to pay if a persons generation exceeds consumption and as such they start pushing energy back into the grid (IE, spin the meter backwards). It seems perfectly reasonable to assess a fee if you are still hooked up to the grid, someone has to pay for the maintenance of the grid and connection to your house and if you are getting paid for pushing energy back in to the grid, you too are using the grid, only as a provider, not a consumer. Even if you aren't actively pushing energy back into the grid, you still have the option of pulling energy from the grid (say, on cloudy days or at night if you don't have sufficient battery capacity). Either way, you're using it and should help pay for the maintenance of it.
Pure and simple - the class and type of player it attracts is the same too. The high-end/hard-core doesn't exist the same way it did in previous MMOs. It's MMOs-for-dummies and that is EXACTLY why it is so successful.
Why is it that every time I hear "swine flu", I think this is nothing more than a really old rerun of the muppet show....maybe Gonzo will show up and save us all!
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But the satellite is now UNdead! Doesn't that make it MORE of a zombie?
Oh crap, now they have to roll 1d20 to make their saving throw...
...and Comcast is ALREADY billing you to provide those bits. What they are trying to do is double-dip on the traffic and charge both sides except Level 3 is already charging Netflix for the bandwidth provided to them so in reality the content is being triple charged. Charging an additional fee in the middle makes sense if you have a non-equitable transit service and are not directly peering, but in this case it's just greed and cost shifting.
So is sandblasting graffiti off of a wall, it still doesn't make the graffiti legal...
Depends on if the plumbing is "fixed" or not :)
Oh there are fish, they're just all dead...
Chances are that the BP senior exec had no direct knowledge or influence on the actual drilling operation, beyond specifying the initial contract terms and requirements. Even despite this they haven't tried to avoid their responsibilities...
That's not what is being reported today in the press. Less than 12 hours prior to the rig exploding, BP executives ordered a procedure over the loud objections of the rig operators... Either way, it doesn't really matter because BP owns the rights to drill that tract and therefore legally is responsible for anything that happens there, regardless of whether it is done directly by them or a subcontractor...
A coupon good for $12.50 at any sony store, and if you are lucky best buy.
You call that LUCKY??!?
Mod parent up.... CS != CE they are two very different creatures.
All pyramid schemes ultimately fail...
Good luck doing that with any sort of real-time application or application that consumes any amount of I/O...
Many (most?) alarm companies cannot successfully run alarms (fire, elevator, burglar) over VoIP lines. Not sure if it's latency, compression or what, but I have heard this complaint MANY times from various security (alarm) company people. In some states, doing so is actually against the law.
That's because most alarm boxes use a modem internally to relay the information to the central monitoring station....and modems don't exactly work well over VOIP. All they need to do is switch to IP-based reporting and it's problem solved...
I *knew* there had to be some other reason why they closed half the interstate rest stops in VA, this is obviously where the money was (mis)spent...
Oh, wait, wrong show (or was that a LHC around the disc of the Enterprise??!?)
He didn't say text messages, he said "text based web pages"....IE, it should be fast because no graphic images need to be sent. Apples and Oranges comparison here...
Oh I wish I had mod points right now - this is VERY true. AT&T's network is painfully slow in most markets (luckily, my primary market is pretty good, but I frequent others where it is almost completely unusable). 3G data is pointless if you have zero capacity in your back-haul to the backbone...I can see this only as fodder to raise rates and cry fowl against the voip companies in a few months...
Why is this news? Sun/Solaris dominated the high-end financial sector for ages...any exchange/trading house/equity firm/etc that is using Windows is insane IMHO. Linux is just the most recent unix platform to show up in the sector, it's not revolutionary...
At least one server-based game I was looking at a network capture for was using the phone number as the login/authentication information to their server....rather stupid as it meant that anyone able to guess iPhone phone numbers would be able to hack other users accounts of the game...WHOOPS!
Oh god no, not another tax in Ithaca....I remember having to buy tax stickers that you applied to EACH trash bag you put out at the curb (and you had BETTER make sure there were absolutely zero recyclables in the bag or the trash people would shred the sticker and the bag leaving trash everywhere on your front lawn for you to deal with). Talk about a PITA...
But you're right, the hippies up there make even the most left-wing liberals look centrist...
You have zero expectation of privacy when standing out in the open on a city street in the US, why would one assume you have an expectation of privacy when posting on a public forum on the Internet? I understand if you take some measure to really hide (wear a mask in public, or use something like Tor on the Internet), but even then, you could only blame the service you use to protect your privacy, not the end public bulletin (or blog) I would think...
There is nothing wrong with charging for GPLed software as long as you provide the source code for free to anyone who asks.
I thought you only had to provide source to those that you provided binaries to...minor quibble, but he would only have to give the source to people who bought the app, not just ANYONE who asked for it...(although as others have said, there is absolutely NOTHING to prevent someone from buying the app, getting the source, recompiling, and then placing it on iTunes for free, which is the way it should be)
The energy companies only have to pay if a persons generation exceeds consumption and as such they start pushing energy back into the grid (IE, spin the meter backwards). It seems perfectly reasonable to assess a fee if you are still hooked up to the grid, someone has to pay for the maintenance of the grid and connection to your house and if you are getting paid for pushing energy back in to the grid, you too are using the grid, only as a provider, not a consumer. Even if you aren't actively pushing energy back into the grid, you still have the option of pulling energy from the grid (say, on cloudy days or at night if you don't have sufficient battery capacity). Either way, you're using it and should help pay for the maintenance of it.
Guess they want some feedback on this topic:
http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/feedback
Pure and simple - the class and type of player it attracts is the same too. The high-end/hard-core doesn't exist the same way it did in previous MMOs. It's MMOs-for-dummies and that is EXACTLY why it is so successful.
...wait, didn't they say the same thing then??!?
Why is it that every time I hear "swine flu", I think this is nothing more than a really old rerun of the muppet show....maybe Gonzo will show up and save us all!