Reminds me of the 3 part series that was done on Science Channel called "The year 2050" The first episode was about medical advancements and the wired home, second one was about the wired city with a old 2000's virus like outbreak, and the 3rd was about space.
Had some pretty good insights... One of which was the toilet that would analyse your urine and shoot the report to your health care provider. The guy in the scenario was using fake pee in the toilet to "pass" the screening because he didn't want the health provider to know about his binge drinking [or drug use] he did the night before.
Net Neutrality isn't going to stop QoS, it is stopping the ISPs from double dipping... going to netflix and saying "hey if you don't pay us 100k a month, we are going to bandwidth limit _your service_ to all our customers tomorrow" The ISP then limits netflix traffic in their customer pool, and pushes their video on demand service....
This IS the issue at hand.
If we don't get some type of net neutrality, what happens when Joe the Plumber who runs Plumbers-For-Hire.com starts getting strong armed by their ISP? Hey Joe, we noticed that you are getting kinda big in your city... if you don't pay us an extra 1,000 bucks a month, we are going to block our customers in your city from viewing your site...
QoS on the other hand, is saying that _any_ type of VoIP packet traversing our network gets tagged priority 1, urgent and important (IE low latency and error free), and any bittorrent traffic will get tagged priority 7. This way VoIP on their network doesn't start experiencing latency if their network becomes saturated by torrent traffic.
BAD QoS is when the company says ComcastVoIPService gets priority 1 while Skype gets priority 6... now they are unfairly limiting a competitors product, of course they won't have problems giving skype a priority 1 tag for you if you want to pay an extra $5 per month... and as long as Skype is paying them handsomely for the no latency privilege.
Funny, because Sprint has a unlimited data plan for their phones now, and it is simply amazing. I switched ONLY because of the various snapshots of sprint bills that other customers have posted. Some were showing upwards of 100GB used in a single billing cycle, all for only 69.99 a month (or 79.99 a month if you have a newer evo class phone) Sprint + rooted android phone gets you unlimited data on your PC too, since you now can setup a hotspot free of charge
How many others do you think have switched to Sprint? How many small businesses do you think are ready to make the dive? 5GB monthly allotment or unlimited allotment, tough choice.
I mistyped, I should have said that I was going to assume 1kWh as the required energy needed. I was just looking for a way to associate a price with the energy needed.
all 3 are amazing shows and have seen some awesome highs and lows **except walking dead, which is the first season with only 6 episodes... but it was still some of the best 6 episodes of a Zombie themed TV series I have seen)
except, now that it is public, the people working and managing those facilities now know they must increase security. Do you honestly think before that was leaked that the Gov't went over to Joe Geek Manager and said: "hey you are one of 1000 critical facilities in the US in an event of an attack, make sure to get your IT security up to snuff"
Of course they didn't. They probably couldn't because the IT manager didn't have the clearance.
Now, that IT manager knows, and can use that document as a reason to request an extra 40k in hardware to help secure and audit his network.
The leak helped by making the right people aware, thereby allowing them to do what needs to be done to secure their sites properly.
I wonder if it is worse to have faith in God or in String Theory...
However, maybe having faith in String Theory is more like having faith that the scientific process will someday prove String Theory to be true?
Of course, Religious people could say the same about God; they have faith that some day they will be proven right that God does exist (when they die and go to heaven / hell)
Time to go buy a copy of VMware workstation, I think its something like $189 bucks these days? (I personally like VMware's snapshots and full screen modes much more refined compared to virtualbox.
The travesty would be if the US did this and all the discussions, memos, meetings, names of programmers etc were all just classified secret...
Place blame where it is needed. US security regarding classified information is significantly lacking... The fact that you could burn to a CD or copy to a USB drive on a classified network is completely ass backwards.
Verizon blocks ZERO ports on FiOS. (** THE FiOS router is what defaults to port 80, so if you want to host something @ port 80, you need to reconfigure it to use a different port, or just use a different router. Using a different router will kill video on demand and/or the interactive guide though, assuming you have their TV service as well - check out the discussions at dslreports)
They also don't complain when you saturate your connection 24/7 for weeks at a time.
You COULD set up a server on FiOS, but remember, you are still making multiple hops before you hit the backbone.
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Reminds me of the 3 part series that was done on Science Channel called "The year 2050" The first episode was about medical advancements and the wired home, second one was about the wired city with a old 2000's virus like outbreak, and the 3rd was about space.
Had some pretty good insights... One of which was the toilet that would analyse your urine and shoot the report to your health care provider. The guy in the scenario was using fake pee in the toilet to "pass" the screening because he didn't want the health provider to know about his binge drinking [or drug use] he did the night before.
Net Neutrality isn't going to stop QoS, it is stopping the ISPs from double dipping... going to netflix and saying "hey if you don't pay us 100k a month, we are going to bandwidth limit _your service_ to all our customers tomorrow" The ISP then limits netflix traffic in their customer pool, and pushes their video on demand service....
This IS the issue at hand.
If we don't get some type of net neutrality, what happens when Joe the Plumber who runs Plumbers-For-Hire.com starts getting strong armed by their ISP? Hey Joe, we noticed that you are getting kinda big in your city... if you don't pay us an extra 1,000 bucks a month, we are going to block our customers in your city from viewing your site...
QoS on the other hand, is saying that _any_ type of VoIP packet traversing our network gets tagged priority 1, urgent and important (IE low latency and error free), and any bittorrent traffic will get tagged priority 7. This way VoIP on their network doesn't start experiencing latency if their network becomes saturated by torrent traffic.
BAD QoS is when the company says ComcastVoIPService gets priority 1 while Skype gets priority 6... now they are unfairly limiting a competitors product, of course they won't have problems giving skype a priority 1 tag for you if you want to pay an extra $5 per month... and as long as Skype is paying them handsomely for the no latency privilege.
This could also be the issue...
Funny, because Sprint has a unlimited data plan for their phones now, and it is simply amazing. I switched ONLY because of the various snapshots of sprint bills that other customers have posted. Some were showing upwards of 100GB used in a single billing cycle, all for only 69.99 a month (or 79.99 a month if you have a newer evo class phone) Sprint + rooted android phone gets you unlimited data on your PC too, since you now can setup a hotspot free of charge
How many others do you think have switched to Sprint? How many small businesses do you think are ready to make the dive? 5GB monthly allotment or unlimited allotment, tough choice.
I mistyped, I should have said that I was going to assume 1kWh as the required energy needed. I was just looking for a way to associate a price with the energy needed.
AMC has:
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
The Walking Dead
all 3 are amazing shows and have seen some awesome highs and lows
**except walking dead, which is the first season with only 6 episodes... but it was still some of the best 6 episodes of a Zombie themed TV series I have seen)
If only my company paid attention to this...
except, now that it is public, the people working and managing those facilities now know they must increase security. Do you honestly think before that was leaked that the Gov't went over to Joe Geek Manager and said: "hey you are one of 1000 critical facilities in the US in an event of an attack, make sure to get your IT security up to snuff"
Of course they didn't. They probably couldn't because the IT manager didn't have the clearance.
Now, that IT manager knows, and can use that document as a reason to request an extra 40k in hardware to help secure and audit his network.
The leak helped by making the right people aware, thereby allowing them to do what needs to be done to secure their sites properly.
Damnit, I wish I hadn't posted so I could rate you informative :)
I'd rather believe in String Theory than God.
I wonder if it is worse to have faith in God or in String Theory...
However, maybe having faith in String Theory is more like having faith that the scientific process will someday prove String Theory to be true?
Of course, Religious people could say the same about God; they have faith that some day they will be proven right that God does exist (when they die and go to heaven / hell)
From their website, it shows that 1 kilogram of plastic converts roughly to one litre of oil.
So the big question in my book is, how much does 1 kilogram of scrap plastic cost, and how much power is needed to do that conversion.
If we say that one litre of oil is worth ~$1, 1 tonne of plastic is ~$200, and power used for one kilogram conversion is a minuscule 1kilowatt.
You have ~$0.30 in direct costs, but after factoring in the plant, machinery, tankers, etc etc etc, the margins on this process must be hair thin.
OH, thats right, lets not forget the government subsidies!
[citation needed]
Time to go buy a copy of VMware workstation, I think its something like $189 bucks these days?
(I personally like VMware's snapshots and full screen modes much more refined compared to virtualbox.
The travesty would be if the US did this and all the discussions, memos, meetings, names of programmers etc were all just classified secret...
Place blame where it is needed. US security regarding classified information is significantly lacking... The fact that you could burn to a CD or copy to a USB drive on a classified network is completely ass backwards.
So we have a company that has no interest in maintaining at least some privacy for its users.
We also have a company that, as far as I know, is still in the courts regarding ownership.
Yet, somehow this CEO gets nominated as the person of the year? I wonder how much he had to pay for this.
This is of course ignoring the fact that he wasn't even in the top 5 of public nominations.
Verizon blocks ZERO ports on FiOS.
(** THE FiOS router is what defaults to port 80, so if you want to host something @ port 80, you need to reconfigure it to use a different port, or just use a different router. Using a different router will kill video on demand and/or the interactive guide though, assuming you have their TV service as well - check out the discussions at dslreports)
They also don't complain when you saturate your connection 24/7 for weeks at a time.
You COULD set up a server on FiOS, but remember, you are still making multiple hops before you hit the backbone.
How is the company for hosting US based sites latency wise? Looks like ~120 ms pings from Eastern US.
I'll join up once Dust comes out :) who knows, maybe it'll force me to reactivate my EVE account.
Lets just hope they can pull it off
Don't forget, all the hardcore private torrent sites will ban you if you enable all those extra "features" like DHT and PEX.
What Happened to the lawsuit against him & facebook ? I thought ~80 percent of his and facebooks worth isn't technically his?
wouldn't you rather have a bank that processes transactions 24/7 365 days a week?
i'm sick of this one business day to clear crap, and would rather see the banking sector as a whole go to a 7 days a week transaction process.
and where can I download this macro language?
you mean something like this?
Thank you for an awesome sig.
Sounds like they migrated the Elevators to a cloud based system.
No need to ever deal with the bare metal elevator anymore!