Whether this small time ISP does offer that is a legitimate question. If they do, simple solution, don't throttle business lines, if not, start offering business lines.
I have met many many nice CMU students who don't have their heads up their up their butts (Kiva Han, anyone?), but quite a few who do. I don't mean to paint all CMU students like that.
That's beside the point here. He's not talking about blocking P2P completely, only giving other traffic preference. I don't have a problem with that. Yes, you can torrent Linux distros and you still could, it would just take longer. Big deal.
That would harm business who are using the line heavily might be willing to pay more for their internet service without that restriction. Throttling by protocol is the best way to go. You can pick protocols that aren't used for critical applications and throttle those. If you slow down some one's bit-torrent who doesn't use it often, you annoy them, if you slow some one's business connection who is using it for something important, that's another level of inconvenience.
I know people from CMU and community college, and the CMU people do tend to have their heads up their butts. The community college people have much lower expectations. If you hire the people with the highest grades from the best schools, yes they're going think like that. Try hiring students from non-ivy league schools (yes that includes new Ivy) and see if they have a more down to earth attitude. Or maybe even give people who have real life experience (working as a dishwasher) credit for that on their job applications. Talk to their former employers and see what there attitude is like. Maybe you're hiring the wrong employees because you're analysing job applications wrong.
I know a guy who was taking a class in Linux, and he could only take it from a windows computer, because the stupid "simulated Linux" disk wouldn't run on a Linux machine.
That and lock down your browser, by installing Firefox, with NoScript, Better privacy, adblock plus, and deny cookies by default, then enable the cookies you want using the cookingSafe extension. Do that no matter what security software you have installed. Or of course you could save yourself a great deal of trouble by using Linux.
The standard should be changeable to fit the circumstances, but any change to the standard should have to made on GPL, so others can read and modify the new standard.
even if making the program was contracted out. The public deserves that kind of accountability, and other corporations deserve the ability to compete they'll only have when it's not a proprietary system.
I've been a political activist (hell, I've been intimidated by the government for my political activities), and I can tell you first hand that anonymity is no friend to activists. The thing that gives you power in political activism is your publicity, the same thing that attracts the government's attention. Publicity is the opposite of privacy. You can't change the world without standing up and putting yourself on the line for what you believe in.
We can't set a double standard for government because it's impossible. The government will always have the same access to a you a random stranger does because the government is made up of people. On the topic of double standards, it is perfectly reasonable to hold a double standards for different types of behaviours, especially when one type of behaviour presents a greater risk to others than another type of behaviour. For example, walking verses driving drunk; driving drunk is a great way to kill someone else, while walking drunk will hurt no one but you (so a double standard is justified). Claiming there is no double standard that can ever be justified means you don't understand the use of the term in context. The term "double standard" can also mean "where the analogy fails", or "why the principles you're applying there don't work here".
Some people love the anonymity they have in crows that they find in places like New York, London, and lose in the suburbs or in rural areas. In some ways the best privacy you can have in the real world is to be one among millions, unnoticeable to anyone.
You can only commit property crimes online (and there are many measures in place to prevent you doing even that), you can't rape or murder over the internet, and those crimes are much worse than any property crime.
Install Linux on the PC, of course, unless you have tons of money to throw around.
Apple has become the BMW of computers. No, I don't have that kind of money to throw around just so I can upgrade my PC. Screw that. Apple does make better computers, but they're ridiculously expensive too, like many other superior products (except Linux, and open source).
Pen, printing press, and keyboard. I don't think we're about to come up with a new way any time soon.
Speech to text is still evolving but has major problems, some inherent (such as the fact that others have to listen to what you're saying to your computer). Touch screens are the best bet for new improved user interfaces. The only new kind of interface that will really revolutionize computers will be a neural interface, and we're years (maybe decades) away from that, not to mention the moral issues should we get it to work.
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Whether this small time ISP does offer that is a legitimate question. If they do, simple solution, don't throttle business lines, if not, start offering business lines.
I have met many many nice CMU students who don't have their heads up their up their butts (Kiva Han, anyone?), but quite a few who do. I don't mean to paint all CMU students like that.
Business isn't using P2P traffic, not heavily at least. That's why throttling traffic is a better idea than throttling by costumer.
That's beside the point here. He's not talking about blocking P2P completely, only giving other traffic preference. I don't have a problem with that. Yes, you can torrent Linux distros and you still could, it would just take longer. Big deal.
That would harm business who are using the line heavily might be willing to pay more for their internet service without that restriction. Throttling by protocol is the best way to go. You can pick protocols that aren't used for critical applications and throttle those. If you slow down some one's bit-torrent who doesn't use it often, you annoy them, if you slow some one's business connection who is using it for something important, that's another level of inconvenience.
No, you'd be charged more after the cap, like running over your cell phone minuets.
I know people from CMU and community college, and the CMU people do tend to have their heads up their butts. The community college people have much lower expectations. If you hire the people with the highest grades from the best schools, yes they're going think like that. Try hiring students from non-ivy league schools (yes that includes new Ivy) and see if they have a more down to earth attitude. Or maybe even give people who have real life experience (working as a dishwasher) credit for that on their job applications. Talk to their former employers and see what there attitude is like. Maybe you're hiring the wrong employees because you're analysing job applications wrong.
Reinstall is faster than cleanup. A good antivirus and antispyware apps have to run over night, and a reinstall will take 2 hours.
I know a guy who was taking a class in Linux, and he could only take it from a windows computer, because the stupid "simulated Linux" disk wouldn't run on a Linux machine.
Only use one antivirus, and one firewall, OR one Internet Security Suite. Do not use everything on the list.
Avira is faster and better at catching virus.
A Linux is install will cleanly remove Norton in 45 minuets. Reformatting the hard drive is about all that will do it that quickly.
That and lock down your browser, by installing Firefox, with NoScript, Better privacy, adblock plus, and deny cookies by default, then enable the cookies you want using the cookingSafe extension. Do that no matter what security software you have installed. Or of course you could save yourself a great deal of trouble by using Linux.
The standard should be changeable to fit the circumstances, but any change to the standard should have to made on GPL, so others can read and modify the new standard.
even if making the program was contracted out. The public deserves that kind of accountability, and other corporations deserve the ability to compete they'll only have when it's not a proprietary system.
The protection for pre-existing conditions was gone long ago. We have to fix the medical system, not the medical information system.
Legalize marijuana and tax that too.
Why have a password then? Just save yourself the trouble.
I've been a political activist (hell, I've been intimidated by the government for my political activities), and I can tell you first hand that anonymity is no friend to activists. The thing that gives you power in political activism is your publicity, the same thing that attracts the government's attention. Publicity is the opposite of privacy. You can't change the world without standing up and putting yourself on the line for what you believe in.
We can't set a double standard for government because it's impossible. The government will always have the same access to a you a random stranger does because the government is made up of people. On the topic of double standards, it is perfectly reasonable to hold a double standards for different types of behaviours, especially when one type of behaviour presents a greater risk to others than another type of behaviour. For example, walking verses driving drunk; driving drunk is a great way to kill someone else, while walking drunk will hurt no one but you (so a double standard is justified). Claiming there is no double standard that can ever be justified means you don't understand the use of the term in context. The term "double standard" can also mean "where the analogy fails", or "why the principles you're applying there don't work here".
Some people love the anonymity they have in crows that they find in places like New York, London, and lose in the suburbs or in rural areas. In some ways the best privacy you can have in the real world is to be one among millions, unnoticeable to anyone.
You can only commit property crimes online (and there are many measures in place to prevent you doing even that), you can't rape or murder over the internet, and those crimes are much worse than any property crime.
Install Linux on the PC, of course, unless you have tons of money to throw around.
Apple has become the BMW of computers. No, I don't have that kind of money to throw around just so I can upgrade my PC. Screw that. Apple does make better computers, but they're ridiculously expensive too, like many other superior products (except Linux, and open source).
At least your average user wouldn't.
Pen, printing press, and keyboard. I don't think we're about to come up with a new way any time soon.
Speech to text is still evolving but has major problems, some inherent (such as the fact that others have to listen to what you're saying to your computer). Touch screens are the best bet for new improved user interfaces. The only new kind of interface that will really revolutionize computers will be a neural interface, and we're years (maybe decades) away from that, not to mention the moral issues should we get it to work.
We've had voice control technology for a long time. The problem with it now is exactly what you mention. It needs major improvement.
Some users make servers for other users, so a server can exist although the users "have the files".
It's a joke.