Errr, last time I checked, most (not all thought) European carriers were DIRECTLY subsidized by the state (country)...so I guess your friend should thank all of your countrymen for paying their taxes so she could fly so cheaply...
If only through air travel, middle class America has been impacted. Look at the state of the airliners: that they are still going bankrupt one after another can not be just because the fuel cost is up. It is also because there are so much less passengers: a direct effect of the anti-terror legislations, so much security hassle, and I can't stop thinking "oh, so much security, then really everyone is trying to get us! Must be dangerous in the skies!". Airlines going bankrupt means more unemployment, etc. It is not that the US economy is doing so well, and making people live in fear is not known to give a great stimulus to your economy.
This is the biggest load of bullshit I've read in a while. Airlines are going out of business due to a stagnating US economy, shitty business practices, and staggering fuel bills. Frankly, a few need to go, and the prices do need to go up. Adjust the cost of airfare for inflation and look back to air travel in the 70's or 80's. It's not really that expensive these days, matter of fact, it's still largely CHEAPER to fly today than it was in the past.
Stop buying shitty routers and you might have better experiences...I've used Netscreens (the old NS5/NS10s long since discontinued since Juniper bought them, but solid VPN/Firewall/Routers) for over 8 years - have easily had uptimes of over a year on some of them, and I've only ONCE needed to 'reboot' one (and that was after an especially bad lightning storm that nuked its UPS).
It's not just the software/firmware/OS that leads to this (although it is a good part of it), but the actual physical components too.
It's not a matter of the law being bad, it's bad application of an otherwise okay law. DAs try to bend/twist laws to apply where they can and in cases reach rather dramatically to bring charges - hopefully this will be a case where the judge or jury will laugh it out of court (although I'm not holding my breath).
Yawn! Apple had "futuristic drawings" like this 15+ years ago, I remember seeing a video of the "laptop of the future" at a MacWorld ages ago that looked, shockingly, just like this.... I'll bet they bring one to market long before 2015 (and long before this guy).
That or he's a good one, and you're not. SQL isn't magic, although there are LOTS of bad magicians, errr, SQL programmers out there (or people that claim to be SQL programmers).
No kidding - *EVERY* friend I spoke with that uses Netflix said they used profiles...I have no idea where the 3% number came up from because from my same set (~30 people), it was 100%. Granted, that is statistically meaningless, but still, 3% seems WAY out of whack...
The problem isn't your upstream (IE, from you to the ISP), it's your downstream (from the ISP to you). You can control your upstream with QoS settings on most good routers (although you need a 'real' router to get true QoS handled in hardware - most of the software implementations in the little SOHO routers suck badly), but you are at the mercy of your ISP for your downstream. If you are doing anything that pulls large amounts of data toward you (IE, downloading), it is far more effective to have the application do the throttling than the router (the router will just drop a ton of inbound traffic on the floor which is rather ineffective since you will usually have a much higher bandwidth on the LAN side than the WAN side in the first place).
As for bittorrent, limit the number of inbound connections and limit the bandwidth per connection in the application, that will be most effective...
Bingo! People are to quick to gloss over the full ramifications to others in this case. Simply whining that he shouldn't get 38 years in jail (which everyone knows won't happen) derails the conversation of the real damage the guy has done. Not only to the 12 others he altered grades for, but the entire rest of his graduating class (who got bumped down in rank) and classes yet to come. If you think for a moment that colleges don't hear and know about problem high schools, you're sadly mistaken. This will haunt the next class as well when college admission administrators think (rightly or wrongly), "they allowed a screw up once, will it happen again". The full impact won't ever really be known, but it will be a lot larger than people are thinking.
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Errr, last time I checked, most (not all thought) European carriers were DIRECTLY subsidized by the state (country)...so I guess your friend should thank all of your countrymen for paying their taxes so she could fly so cheaply...
If only through air travel, middle class America has been impacted. Look at the state of the airliners: that they are still going bankrupt one after another can not be just because the fuel cost is up. It is also because there are so much less passengers: a direct effect of the anti-terror legislations, so much security hassle, and I can't stop thinking "oh, so much security, then really everyone is trying to get us! Must be dangerous in the skies!". Airlines going bankrupt means more unemployment, etc. It is not that the US economy is doing so well, and making people live in fear is not known to give a great stimulus to your economy.
This is the biggest load of bullshit I've read in a while. Airlines are going out of business due to a stagnating US economy, shitty business practices, and staggering fuel bills. Frankly, a few need to go, and the prices do need to go up. Adjust the cost of airfare for inflation and look back to air travel in the 70's or 80's. It's not really that expensive these days, matter of fact, it's still largely CHEAPER to fly today than it was in the past.
Stop buying shitty routers and you might have better experiences...I've used Netscreens (the old NS5/NS10s long since discontinued since Juniper bought them, but solid VPN/Firewall/Routers) for over 8 years - have easily had uptimes of over a year on some of them, and I've only ONCE needed to 'reboot' one (and that was after an especially bad lightning storm that nuked its UPS). It's not just the software/firmware/OS that leads to this (although it is a good part of it), but the actual physical components too.
It's not a matter of the law being bad, it's bad application of an otherwise okay law. DAs try to bend/twist laws to apply where they can and in cases reach rather dramatically to bring charges - hopefully this will be a case where the judge or jury will laugh it out of court (although I'm not holding my breath).
Yawn! Apple had "futuristic drawings" like this 15+ years ago, I remember seeing a video of the "laptop of the future" at a MacWorld ages ago that looked, shockingly, just like this.... I'll bet they bring one to market long before 2015 (and long before this guy).
That or he's a good one, and you're not. SQL isn't magic, although there are LOTS of bad magicians, errr, SQL programmers out there (or people that claim to be SQL programmers).
No kidding - *EVERY* friend I spoke with that uses Netflix said they used profiles...I have no idea where the 3% number came up from because from my same set (~30 people), it was 100%. Granted, that is statistically meaningless, but still, 3% seems WAY out of whack...
M-x boycot-olympics -- Yup, it's in there...of course it crashed it when invoked, but that might be the expected result...
The problem isn't your upstream (IE, from you to the ISP), it's your downstream (from the ISP to you). You can control your upstream with QoS settings on most good routers (although you need a 'real' router to get true QoS handled in hardware - most of the software implementations in the little SOHO routers suck badly), but you are at the mercy of your ISP for your downstream. If you are doing anything that pulls large amounts of data toward you (IE, downloading), it is far more effective to have the application do the throttling than the router (the router will just drop a ton of inbound traffic on the floor which is rather ineffective since you will usually have a much higher bandwidth on the LAN side than the WAN side in the first place). As for bittorrent, limit the number of inbound connections and limit the bandwidth per connection in the application, that will be most effective...
Bingo! People are to quick to gloss over the full ramifications to others in this case. Simply whining that he shouldn't get 38 years in jail (which everyone knows won't happen) derails the conversation of the real damage the guy has done. Not only to the 12 others he altered grades for, but the entire rest of his graduating class (who got bumped down in rank) and classes yet to come. If you think for a moment that colleges don't hear and know about problem high schools, you're sadly mistaken. This will haunt the next class as well when college admission administrators think (rightly or wrongly), "they allowed a screw up once, will it happen again". The full impact won't ever really be known, but it will be a lot larger than people are thinking.