I sometimes wonder if there wouldn't be any advantage to an antitrust-type ruling that split the cell phone carriers into retailers (sell phones, sell plans/minutes/services to end-users) and wholesale network providers (put up towers and implement the network side) with heavy regulation coupled with a fixed 15% margin making the business profitable; fixed pricing guarantees would ensure a 10% margin for expansion and upgrades.
The FCC in conjunction with experts would come up with a wireless standard and require the network providers to support this standard. They could support other standards if they wanted, but the FCC standard would be mandated as a first standard. This would guarantee that cell phone makers would support the FCC standard giving you guaranteed interoperability.
Network providers would sell minutes & data in bulk to retailers at a fixed rate, maybe allowing for bulk pricing. Retailers would be allowed to mark this up any way they saw fit, but because they would all be buying from the same providers at the same prices they would be forced to compete on value (least services and most data/minutes for the money, extra services for less data, whatever combo people wanted).
Entry to market would be much lower for a cell phone retailer since they would already have a network they could use, meaning we might get niche retailers who specialized in certain types of connectivity -- ie, one that sold quantities of rate-limited data only very cheaply, possibly enabling markets for new types of data devices (GPS trackers, dog trackers, kid trackers, cameras, etc) that would otherwise be non-starters now.
Either way, we would get out from under this current situation which seems extremely economically inefficient -- many areas blanketed by 4 different signals requiring a ton of spectrum. The current duopoly doesn't do much of anything for competition, with carriers locking in customers on a technology basis (with the full cooperation of handset providers). It wouldn't surprise me at all if VZW and ATT keep Sprint and T-Mobile afloat with break-even-only roaming agreements designed to keep a false sense of competition to the market.
Ivan always had plenty of oil at home and plenty available from client states like Iraq.
South Africa was politically unpopular over apartheid, but more generally they were a solid anti-communist bulwark against the various Marxist movements in Southern Africa. Trying to squelch the SA economy by flooding diamond markets wouldn't really have made the US happy but would have made Ivan thrilled.
Ivan could have flooded the diamond markets, but they benefited from De Beers' cartel-enforced high prices. They were probably selling them at a steep discount over the cartel prices, but were making more in hard currency than they would have trying to collapse the cartel or SA.
Ivan also had some distribution problems -- the Hasidim have a ton of influence over the diamond markets, and Ivan and the sons of Abraham weren't known for their mutual love, hence the need for a deep discount to move stones through Antwerp, as you had to buy loyalty and cover the risks that your wholesaler could get discovered cheating the cartel and get cut off from the usual supply.
It might make it easier than now, but I'm sure there are already optical scanners for currency that can log the S/Ns on money now.
I don't think it would necessarily enable tracing transactions, that would require some kind of law mandating that all businesses scan all cash they take in and get the info of who gave it to them.
Do you know *anyone* who shops for a doctor based on where they got their degree or what their degree was specifically in? I've been to the doctor's office a half-dozen times in the last year and I couldn't tell you where my doctor went to college or medical school.
Personally I feel better knowing my doctor went to medical school, but I think that's a purely emotional reaction, not an intellectual reation. I would bet that there are lots of smart biochemists, pharmaceutical chemists, and other similar research scientists who would probably be superior at diagnosis and treatment than my doctor with his 20 year old medical degree and the likely bare-minimum continuing medical education he has.
Unfortunately for us, the DEA won't issue licenses to the smart biochemists and the state tends to enforce the monopoloy on medical practice by denying licensing to people who aren't "doctors".
I never saw any personally and remember the Syquest removable HDD cart drives being more common, at least in the 1990s when removable HDD technology was viable.
Whenever I've driven through a large-scale wind farm I'm always amazed by how many aren't turning despite the wind blowing. I assume that there isn't a "need" for the power at the time, so they're turned off or whatever you do with a giant windmill to not make energy.
Even though the real-time grid doesn't need the power, why not divert it to create hydrogen via electrolysis? The hydrogen could be converted to methane on site, eliminating the hydrogen storage and transport issues, and we already have a huge base of things that can use natural gas already.
This way the mills could be turning whenever there is wind, which presumably is much of the time in locations chosen for wind farm installs. The gas production could be used in a variety of ways, either pipelined to a power plant for use when the wind doesn't blow or merged with the existing natural gas supply.
It'd be curious to know if anyone has actually looked more closely into this -- ie, what percent of the time are wind farms not contributing to the grid, how much electricity does this represent and how much downline methane does this represent? It may not be enough volume to be worthwhile, but it just seems ridiculous to build wind farms that are only used some of the time.
I know there are other energy storage schemes, but most of them seem unlikely (underground stored high pressure air) or geographically restricted (pumping water uphill into a reservoir for hydroelectric use) and they also don't generate a long-term storable, portable fuel, either.
I've seen this technique used before. A landscaper I knew had a hidden key lock than interrupted the electronics on a Bobcat, and my dad's business had some numeric keypad switches that did the same thing installed in some of the business cars they had.
The keypad would be easy to defeat if you had a shop and could trace the wires, but the keypad itself had a bunch of wires in/out that couldn't just be randomly spliced by a thief. I think there might have been some other module under the hood, too, that made it more complicated.
Each note seems to have a serial number, meaning it should be unique. Why not have each note's S/N cryptographically signed and the signature stamped onto the note along with the S/N in some kind of machine-readable format?
It should then be possible to scan the barcode and verify the signature to determine whether the note was legitimate. They could create unique keys for each Federal Reserve district, perhaps annually, so that you wouldn't have to worry as much about the key being compromised.
Someone could clone the same S/N and signature, but if they did it would be easy for banks or other large cash processors with scanners to identify duplicates and remove them from circulation. Dupes could be identified as currency scanned at more than one geographic location within a certain time window where the chance of the currency being in two places at once was very slim -- kind of like the antifraud calls I've gotten from a credit card company when I've used a card in two cities in the same day.
Small numbers of duplicates would be hard to track, but the economic risk from counterfeiting isn't from some guy with a scanner and a inkjet printer but from mass counterfeiting of thousands of notes.
Try it for a day or two and see how it goes. Just eating, no drinking at all.
My guess is that even if you could cut your water intake physiologically, I think you would find it psychologically unbearable and be unable to keep it for very long.
Practically, though, I think salt and low-water foods (like meat) are too necessary for our diet and both of those things use lots of water for metabolization, so I don't think you'd be able to shift your diet to a low-salt, water-rich vegetable and fruit one and do much more than extend your water supply by a small amount, if you could at all.
"40% of the oil and natural gas is still in the gulf" -- is this 40% of the total released quantity of oil AND natural gas combined, 40% of each of oil and natural gas, or some other combination?
What was the proportion of oil:natural gas released? I'd be less worried about natural gas in the ocean than oil, but maybe that's naive (although I've never seen a cleanup working cleaning up natural gas..)
My general suggestion to survivalists is not to stockpile food but to have a triple-redundant water filtration and purification setup that will sustain their family for at least six months.
I figure in about 45 days of any general failure of society there will be abundant canned food because dehydration and disease from desperation water drinking will have greatly thinned the population and reduced the competitive effectiveness of the remaining population.
You're missing a fat source. Rabbits are too lean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation) and you probably can't sustain enough chicken production to get the fat you need from chicken meat and especially not from eggs.
You'd be better off cutting out rabbits and consider goats. Goat milk will give you fat for making cheese, cream, etc and the fat profile of goat meat would make it far more nutritious than rabbit.
And thus the problem of a 20x20 garden -- you probably wouldn't be able to produce enough grains to fatten enough animals to provide the fat source you need to maintain nutrition.
When gas prices first hit $4/gallon a few years ago I remember hearing a report on public radio about how the high gas prices were really hurting the public sector as their expense budgets didn't account for a huge price increase for fuel.
At the same time of this radio report, I was in my car watching a huge tractor-type mower mow a section of median that was maybe 1-2 ft. high with some kind of grass.
I thought to myself, why don't they just suspend mowing operations except where it's a visibility issue (intersections, etc), and then I thought -- why mow the median AT ALL? Why not just let it grow, die, etc.
In Minnesota alone we'd save big money on fuel, machinery costs and especially labor.
The only thing I could think of was that the mowing serves to keep nuisance brush (tree saplings, etc) from becoming a bigger maintenance issue. But then I figured it's less about that than basically a huge jobs program.
I agree with this, but I also wonder about this in an age where there's several lists kept by the Powers That Be. There's the "We Haven't Questioned You Yet" list, the "We Questioned You And Decided Your're a Moron and Not a Threat" list and then several levels of "You Are Suspicious" lists.
Everybody seems to be on the "We Haven't Quesitoned You Yet" list -- I'd worry that being relatively aggressive with my assertion of rights might somehow get me moved to one of the "Keep an Eye on This One" lists. In this day and age I don't doubt that asserting your rights is in the top five reasons to keep people under suspicion.
In general, though, I agree. I try to avoid all contact with the police just to avoid falling for "the interview" and getting myself searched or something.
Out here in the hinterlands, nobody will invest in 10GbE yet, but do any of these support larger jumbo frames? I see about 92xx as the largest supported frame size for 1 GbE with most equipment only accepting 9000.
Do the jumbo frame sizes make a 10x leap when the data rate does? Or at least the 6x jump from standard to 9k that 100Mbit to 1Gbit was?
I suppose there are reasons why they wouldn't (maybe 900k or even 325k frame sizes are too much, even at 100GbE), but it seems that if there's some efficiency benefit for 1GbE to use jumbos, you'd think there would be some reason to jack it up when the data rate jacked up.
...25+ years ago at a major Midwestern state university was that calculus was just one of those classes they expected you to figure out on your own.
3 days a week we had a lecture that largely followed the book. It was in a lecture hall which seated 200-300 people and was usually completely full. There were no questions and answer, straight lecture. These were taught be either "senior" PhD candidates or post-grads, never an actual professor.
Two days a week we had a recitation with a low-level grad student T/A. In every case in every class I had this T/A was foreign born and spoke atrocious English. In one case, the T/A appeared to speak NO English, getting by on grunting and pointing.
The student paper ran lots of articles about the T/A English proficiency issue. It boiled down to "It's a global world, why should they be expected to speak English?" to "These are undergrads in the Midwest, I didn't see Urdu, Hindi, and Mandarin as class requirements." Basically there was just nobody left to teach the classes and the professors couldn't be bothered.
Anyway, my assumption is that they don't really want to teach math. They want to make a kind of gesture towards teaching math, but really either you sink or swim. Online education just seems an extension of this mindset.
Go into a high end luxury car dealership dressed in a janitor uniform (blue pants, shirt with a name patch on the front) and park some beater up front in the spots all the sales people can see. Walk in and see how seriously any of them take my desire to buy, say, a brand-new Mercedes E63.
Having known a luxury car salesman personally and seen the shallow, ego-driven mindset involved, I'd assume I'd get jacked around and basically be told that nothing was available, would I like to look at a 10 year old C class?
I'd politely say no, go out to the junker and pull a Zero Haliburton suitcase out and walk in and ask to speak the sales manager. Pop open case, display a bunch of cash and explain I was really interested in buying car, but frankly, I'd rather burn the money.
Then walk back outside the dealership, dump the money and light it on fire and watch it burn.
Does anybody believe any of the so-called "benchmarking" speed test web sites?
I almost believe there's a full time team at every major provider of consumer internet access whose job it is to packet shape and/or outright fake every benchmark web site. Even if the motivation isn't to fool people outright (ie, not provide the service level they're charging people) but to just keep every ignoramus out there from hammering customer service about how their speed tests aren't living up to their expectations.
The only speed test I think I trust anymore is an scp of some decently large block of data output from/dev/random and then run through bdes and gzip to eliminate as much compressibility as possible. This just might be enough anti-snooping/anti-shaping to keep you from getting a false result.
Of course, you're not immune from the shaper from identifying you as ssh traffic and dumping you into whatever bucket that traffic goes into, but it least its what kind of throughput you're actually likely to get with run of the mill ssh tunneled traffic. Maybe a real implementation of this would use a home-rolled protocol on random, encrypted-negotiated ports to prevent anything but the "everything else, unknown traffic" shaper bucket.
I wonder how many directors actually do any more than give some vague description of the look (bright, dark, grey, etc) they want and then the army of people including production designers, cinematographers, colorists, and so on do a little something which isn't even evident until maybe after a working print of whatever scene is being shot is struck if its shot on film.
I'll bet a lot of director color schemes these days get applied via post-processing anymore.
Have a physical or occupational therapist do an eval on patients with a fall risk and those scoring above some point on the criteria get put in wheelchairs.
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I sometimes wonder if there wouldn't be any advantage to an antitrust-type ruling that split the cell phone carriers into retailers (sell phones, sell plans/minutes/services to end-users) and wholesale network providers (put up towers and implement the network side) with heavy regulation coupled with a fixed 15% margin making the business profitable; fixed pricing guarantees would ensure a 10% margin for expansion and upgrades.
The FCC in conjunction with experts would come up with a wireless standard and require the network providers to support this standard. They could support other standards if they wanted, but the FCC standard would be mandated as a first standard. This would guarantee that cell phone makers would support the FCC standard giving you guaranteed interoperability.
Network providers would sell minutes & data in bulk to retailers at a fixed rate, maybe allowing for bulk pricing. Retailers would be allowed to mark this up any way they saw fit, but because they would all be buying from the same providers at the same prices they would be forced to compete on value (least services and most data/minutes for the money, extra services for less data, whatever combo people wanted).
Entry to market would be much lower for a cell phone retailer since they would already have a network they could use, meaning we might get niche retailers who specialized in certain types of connectivity -- ie, one that sold quantities of rate-limited data only very cheaply, possibly enabling markets for new types of data devices (GPS trackers, dog trackers, kid trackers, cameras, etc) that would otherwise be non-starters now.
Either way, we would get out from under this current situation which seems extremely economically inefficient -- many areas blanketed by 4 different signals requiring a ton of spectrum. The current duopoly doesn't do much of anything for competition, with carriers locking in customers on a technology basis (with the full cooperation of handset providers). It wouldn't surprise me at all if VZW and ATT keep Sprint and T-Mobile afloat with break-even-only roaming agreements designed to keep a false sense of competition to the market.
I figure any company with a concern for managed tablet access to Windows will just buy iPads and leverage their virtualization for VDI.
That's a crazy political analysis.
Ivan always had plenty of oil at home and plenty available from client states like Iraq.
South Africa was politically unpopular over apartheid, but more generally they were a solid anti-communist bulwark against the various Marxist movements in Southern Africa. Trying to squelch the SA economy by flooding diamond markets wouldn't really have made the US happy but would have made Ivan thrilled.
Ivan could have flooded the diamond markets, but they benefited from De Beers' cartel-enforced high prices. They were probably selling them at a steep discount over the cartel prices, but were making more in hard currency than they would have trying to collapse the cartel or SA.
Ivan also had some distribution problems -- the Hasidim have a ton of influence over the diamond markets, and Ivan and the sons of Abraham weren't known for their mutual love, hence the need for a deep discount to move stones through Antwerp, as you had to buy loyalty and cover the risks that your wholesaler could get discovered cheating the cartel and get cut off from the usual supply.
It might make it easier than now, but I'm sure there are already optical scanners for currency that can log the S/Ns on money now.
I don't think it would necessarily enable tracing transactions, that would require some kind of law mandating that all businesses scan all cash they take in and get the info of who gave it to them.
Do you know *anyone* who shops for a doctor based on where they got their degree or what their degree was specifically in? I've been to the doctor's office a half-dozen times in the last year and I couldn't tell you where my doctor went to college or medical school.
Personally I feel better knowing my doctor went to medical school, but I think that's a purely emotional reaction, not an intellectual reation. I would bet that there are lots of smart biochemists, pharmaceutical chemists, and other similar research scientists who would probably be superior at diagnosis and treatment than my doctor with his 20 year old medical degree and the likely bare-minimum continuing medical education he has.
Unfortunately for us, the DEA won't issue licenses to the smart biochemists and the state tends to enforce the monopoloy on medical practice by denying licensing to people who aren't "doctors".
...after the Bernoulli effect.
They were made by Iomega, according to Wikipedia.
I never saw any personally and remember the Syquest removable HDD cart drives being more common, at least in the 1990s when removable HDD technology was viable.
Whenever I've driven through a large-scale wind farm I'm always amazed by how many aren't turning despite the wind blowing. I assume that there isn't a "need" for the power at the time, so they're turned off or whatever you do with a giant windmill to not make energy.
Even though the real-time grid doesn't need the power, why not divert it to create hydrogen via electrolysis? The hydrogen could be converted to methane on site, eliminating the hydrogen storage and transport issues, and we already have a huge base of things that can use natural gas already.
This way the mills could be turning whenever there is wind, which presumably is much of the time in locations chosen for wind farm installs. The gas production could be used in a variety of ways, either pipelined to a power plant for use when the wind doesn't blow or merged with the existing natural gas supply.
It'd be curious to know if anyone has actually looked more closely into this -- ie, what percent of the time are wind farms not contributing to the grid, how much electricity does this represent and how much downline methane does this represent? It may not be enough volume to be worthwhile, but it just seems ridiculous to build wind farms that are only used some of the time.
I know there are other energy storage schemes, but most of them seem unlikely (underground stored high pressure air) or geographically restricted (pumping water uphill into a reservoir for hydroelectric use) and they also don't generate a long-term storable, portable fuel, either.
I've seen this technique used before. A landscaper I knew had a hidden key lock than interrupted the electronics on a Bobcat, and my dad's business had some numeric keypad switches that did the same thing installed in some of the business cars they had.
The keypad would be easy to defeat if you had a shop and could trace the wires, but the keypad itself had a bunch of wires in/out that couldn't just be randomly spliced by a thief. I think there might have been some other module under the hood, too, that made it more complicated.
Each note seems to have a serial number, meaning it should be unique. Why not have each note's S/N cryptographically signed and the signature stamped onto the note along with the S/N in some kind of machine-readable format?
It should then be possible to scan the barcode and verify the signature to determine whether the note was legitimate. They could create unique keys for each Federal Reserve district, perhaps annually, so that you wouldn't have to worry as much about the key being compromised.
Someone could clone the same S/N and signature, but if they did it would be easy for banks or other large cash processors with scanners to identify duplicates and remove them from circulation. Dupes could be identified as currency scanned at more than one geographic location within a certain time window where the chance of the currency being in two places at once was very slim -- kind of like the antifraud calls I've gotten from a credit card company when I've used a card in two cities in the same day.
Small numbers of duplicates would be hard to track, but the economic risk from counterfeiting isn't from some guy with a scanner and a inkjet printer but from mass counterfeiting of thousands of notes.
Try it for a day or two and see how it goes. Just eating, no drinking at all.
My guess is that even if you could cut your water intake physiologically, I think you would find it psychologically unbearable and be unable to keep it for very long.
Practically, though, I think salt and low-water foods (like meat) are too necessary for our diet and both of those things use lots of water for metabolization, so I don't think you'd be able to shift your diet to a low-salt, water-rich vegetable and fruit one and do much more than extend your water supply by a small amount, if you could at all.
"40% of the oil and natural gas is still in the gulf" -- is this 40% of the total released quantity of oil AND natural gas combined, 40% of each of oil and natural gas, or some other combination?
What was the proportion of oil:natural gas released? I'd be less worried about natural gas in the ocean than oil, but maybe that's naive (although I've never seen a cleanup working cleaning up natural gas..)
My general suggestion to survivalists is not to stockpile food but to have a triple-redundant water filtration and purification setup that will sustain their family for at least six months.
I figure in about 45 days of any general failure of society there will be abundant canned food because dehydration and disease from desperation water drinking will have greatly thinned the population and reduced the competitive effectiveness of the remaining population.
You're missing a fat source. Rabbits are too lean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation) and you probably can't sustain enough chicken production to get the fat you need from chicken meat and especially not from eggs.
You'd be better off cutting out rabbits and consider goats. Goat milk will give you fat for making cheese, cream, etc and the fat profile of goat meat would make it far more nutritious than rabbit.
And thus the problem of a 20x20 garden -- you probably wouldn't be able to produce enough grains to fatten enough animals to provide the fat source you need to maintain nutrition.
When gas prices first hit $4/gallon a few years ago I remember hearing a report on public radio about how the high gas prices were really hurting the public sector as their expense budgets didn't account for a huge price increase for fuel.
At the same time of this radio report, I was in my car watching a huge tractor-type mower mow a section of median that was maybe 1-2 ft. high with some kind of grass.
I thought to myself, why don't they just suspend mowing operations except where it's a visibility issue (intersections, etc), and then I thought -- why mow the median AT ALL? Why not just let it grow, die, etc.
In Minnesota alone we'd save big money on fuel, machinery costs and especially labor.
The only thing I could think of was that the mowing serves to keep nuisance brush (tree saplings, etc) from becoming a bigger maintenance issue. But then I figured it's less about that than basically a huge jobs program.
Can your polynomial equation explain why my modified choke patterns so poorly?
I agree with this, but I also wonder about this in an age where there's several lists kept by the Powers That Be. There's the "We Haven't Questioned You Yet" list, the "We Questioned You And Decided Your're a Moron and Not a Threat" list and then several levels of "You Are Suspicious" lists.
Everybody seems to be on the "We Haven't Quesitoned You Yet" list -- I'd worry that being relatively aggressive with my assertion of rights might somehow get me moved to one of the "Keep an Eye on This One" lists. In this day and age I don't doubt that asserting your rights is in the top five reasons to keep people under suspicion.
In general, though, I agree. I try to avoid all contact with the police just to avoid falling for "the interview" and getting myself searched or something.
Out here in the hinterlands, nobody will invest in 10GbE yet, but do any of these support larger jumbo frames? I see about 92xx as the largest supported frame size for 1 GbE with most equipment only accepting 9000.
Do the jumbo frame sizes make a 10x leap when the data rate does? Or at least the 6x jump from standard to 9k that 100Mbit to 1Gbit was?
I suppose there are reasons why they wouldn't (maybe 900k or even 325k frame sizes are too much, even at 100GbE), but it seems that if there's some efficiency benefit for 1GbE to use jumbos, you'd think there would be some reason to jack it up when the data rate jacked up.
...25+ years ago at a major Midwestern state university was that calculus was just one of those classes they expected you to figure out on your own.
3 days a week we had a lecture that largely followed the book. It was in a lecture hall which seated 200-300 people and was usually completely full. There were no questions and answer, straight lecture. These were taught be either "senior" PhD candidates or post-grads, never an actual professor.
Two days a week we had a recitation with a low-level grad student T/A. In every case in every class I had this T/A was foreign born and spoke atrocious English. In one case, the T/A appeared to speak NO English, getting by on grunting and pointing.
The student paper ran lots of articles about the T/A English proficiency issue. It boiled down to "It's a global world, why should they be expected to speak English?" to "These are undergrads in the Midwest, I didn't see Urdu, Hindi, and Mandarin as class requirements." Basically there was just nobody left to teach the classes and the professors couldn't be bothered.
Anyway, my assumption is that they don't really want to teach math. They want to make a kind of gesture towards teaching math, but really either you sink or swim. Online education just seems an extension of this mindset.
Hah, where do you think I got the idea? Irony points: I read it via Kindle app on the iPad.
Go into a high end luxury car dealership dressed in a janitor uniform (blue pants, shirt with a name patch on the front) and park some beater up front in the spots all the sales people can see. Walk in and see how seriously any of them take my desire to buy, say, a brand-new Mercedes E63.
Having known a luxury car salesman personally and seen the shallow, ego-driven mindset involved, I'd assume I'd get jacked around and basically be told that nothing was available, would I like to look at a 10 year old C class?
I'd politely say no, go out to the junker and pull a Zero Haliburton suitcase out and walk in and ask to speak the sales manager. Pop open case, display a bunch of cash and explain I was really interested in buying car, but frankly, I'd rather burn the money.
Then walk back outside the dealership, dump the money and light it on fire and watch it burn.
Bezos uploads a backup of himself daily to S3. You can't kill him, you can only return him to the last backup point.
To kill Bezos, you have have to kill S3.
Does anybody believe any of the so-called "benchmarking" speed test web sites?
I almost believe there's a full time team at every major provider of consumer internet access whose job it is to packet shape and/or outright fake every benchmark web site. Even if the motivation isn't to fool people outright (ie, not provide the service level they're charging people) but to just keep every ignoramus out there from hammering customer service about how their speed tests aren't living up to their expectations.
The only speed test I think I trust anymore is an scp of some decently large block of data output from /dev/random and then run through bdes and gzip to eliminate as much compressibility as possible. This just might be enough anti-snooping/anti-shaping to keep you from getting a false result.
Of course, you're not immune from the shaper from identifying you as ssh traffic and dumping you into whatever bucket that traffic goes into, but it least its what kind of throughput you're actually likely to get with run of the mill ssh tunneled traffic. Maybe a real implementation of this would use a home-rolled protocol on random, encrypted-negotiated ports to prevent anything but the "everything else, unknown traffic" shaper bucket.
I wonder how many directors actually do any more than give some vague description of the look (bright, dark, grey, etc) they want and then the army of people including production designers, cinematographers, colorists, and so on do a little something which isn't even evident until maybe after a working print of whatever scene is being shot is struck if its shot on film.
I'll bet a lot of director color schemes these days get applied via post-processing anymore.
VW GTIs are for stroke artists with too little money to buy at least an Audi S4 and too little skill to hot rod one themselves.
Anyone buying a GTI has more money than brains.
Have a physical or occupational therapist do an eval on patients with a fall risk and those scoring above some point on the criteria get put in wheelchairs.