This is the main reason I haven't set this up yet. My router doesn't have any way to only allow web access (which I would like to offer) without also offering everything else including P2P which causes so much lag while I'm doing anything else that it annoys me greatly.
Wasteful in terms of what? You can waste more than just money. It may be more monetarily wasteful to produce a good locally, but it may be less wasteful in terms of damage to the environment and consumption of natural resources. To translate all things in your perceived world into money cheapens (pardon the pun) your life.
We each calculate our own values for things....which happens to be a basic economic principle. Economics should be properly taught in high school.
Actually if this were aimed at a bigger company I'd be surprised if the current US administration didn't want to jump in to protect the business. Of course they'd hype it as a live fire test and play down the business side.
I don't think the US govn't was ready for this though.....they would need much more warning to do anything useful I suspect, and there's a good chance their idea of useful might be pulling the plug on some of the untrusted foreign networks.
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That was my plan for about the last year and a half until I saw the pricetag. One of those should do great on reencoding tasks for the backend.
I think the pricetag is the big killer on this though.
This is the main reason I haven't set this up yet. My router doesn't have any way to only allow web access (which I would like to offer) without also offering everything else including P2P which causes so much lag while I'm doing anything else that it annoys me greatly.
Wasteful in terms of what? You can waste more than just money. It may be more monetarily wasteful to produce a good locally, but it may be less wasteful in terms of damage to the environment and consumption of natural resources.
To translate all things in your perceived world into money cheapens (pardon the pun) your life.
We each calculate our own values for things....which happens to be a basic economic principle.
Economics should be properly taught in high school.
Actually if this were aimed at a bigger company I'd be surprised if the current US administration didn't want to jump in to protect the business. Of course they'd hype it as a live fire test and play down the business side.
I don't think the US govn't was ready for this though.....they would need much more warning to do anything useful I suspect, and there's a good chance their idea of useful might be pulling the plug on some of the untrusted foreign networks.