And about commercials? If you don't like your TV, turn it off. When commercials come on and they're audio-compressed, hit the mute button, or PVR past them.
All of this is fixable without government intervention.
If every Slashdot user had a Gig connection - all it would do is bring the site down. Throttling the last mile is an important part of keeping the content providers alive and online.
It's like when some government agency claims they're switching to Linux - suddenly the software and dollars come flowing out of Microsoft to them. This is nothing more than a trial balloon and a red flag to the Chinese hoodlums running the shows over there - clean up your act and/or give us cheaper rates, or we'll move.
Just like the world is full of "developers" who write everything to c:\temp, the world is full of Unix hacks who chmod 777 everything "because then it works".
This works great if you can take what other (typically college grad) people have done and build on it - a la Facebook. It doesn't work so well if you want to create something NEW, a la the linux kernel. It seems like a great short term win, a 'sugar high' type of thing - you cash in long term success early for a short term (unsustainable? ask Facebook shareholders) win. The problem is that you need an ever increasing number of long term things to get the same short term boost, and eventually all you have is short term stuff.
You fail at technology. There's no reason to maintain multiple instances of the operating system, even virtually, when the components can be hosted on the same machine. Come patch time, would you rather patch N amchines or 1? Maybe with Microsoft machines you need 1 per function because everything tramples everything else or requires reboots when making changes.
Testing is a red herring - you have to do that anyway.
From The Wikipedia: "A darknet is a private, distributed P2P file sharing network where connections are made only between trusted peers — sometimes called "friends" (F2F)[1] — using non-standard protocols and ports."
What they're talking about in TFA is something like TOR.
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What's an ad?
What Slashdot reader ISNT in that demographic ? We're all nerds for crying out loud. Most of us HAVE DONE this.
+eleventy, Retarded
This post made my day, I can walk around with a smile now, thanks!
I have used GNU/Linux on a machine with 4MB of memory, and it worked just fine.
And about commercials? If you don't like your TV, turn it off. When commercials come on and they're audio-compressed, hit the mute button, or PVR past them.
All of this is fixable without government intervention.
My first server was a 386sx16 with 4MB of memory - sad Gothmolly is sad.
What geek DOESNT have a VPS, or at least an Amazon instance that you can fire up from time to time?
A Central American government with widespread corruption? Say it isn't so !
Good point. Infrastructure and some office supplies for the project managers yes, hookers and blow in exotic locations, no.
If every Slashdot user had a Gig connection - all it would do is bring the site down. Throttling the last mile is an important part of keeping the content providers alive and online.
Things either work, or they do not. The function either completes, or it throws an exception. You can catch this, or you can choose not to.
Can be answered 'no'. Lets move on.
You may find that the San Sebastian Data Center has been stripped down to the barest minimum of equipment.
Patriotic Merkins buy all their crap at Walmart already - they don't care about China, they care about saving 17 cents on a 5 gallon jar of pickles.
It's like when some government agency claims they're switching to Linux - suddenly the software and dollars come flowing out of Microsoft to them. This is nothing more than a trial balloon and a red flag to the Chinese hoodlums running the shows over there - clean up your act and/or give us cheaper rates, or we'll move.
Just like the world is full of "developers" who write everything to c:\temp, the world is full of Unix hacks who chmod 777 everything "because then it works".
This works great if you can take what other (typically college grad) people have done and build on it - a la Facebook. It doesn't work so well if you want to create something NEW, a la the linux kernel. It seems like a great short term win, a 'sugar high' type of thing - you cash in long term success early for a short term (unsustainable? ask Facebook shareholders) win. The problem is that you need an ever increasing number of long term things to get the same short term boost, and eventually all you have is short term stuff.
An omnipresent, paternalistic government is welcomed by most of society. Why should this be any different?
And this is why 2013 won't be the Year of the Linux Desktop
You fail at technology. There's no reason to maintain multiple instances of the operating system, even virtually, when the components can be hosted on the same machine. Come patch time, would you rather patch N amchines or 1? Maybe with Microsoft machines you need 1 per function because everything tramples everything else or requires reboots when making changes.
Testing is a red herring - you have to do that anyway.
UNK, TURN SHIP UPSIDE DOWN.
For funding this person's 3 year vacation in San Francisco.
From The Wikipedia: "A darknet is a private, distributed P2P file sharing network where connections are made only between trusted peers — sometimes called "friends" (F2F)[1] — using non-standard protocols and ports."
What they're talking about in TFA is something like TOR.
Have you seen a commercial turkey farm? They shovel the dead out daily - it's like something from the Matrix. Do you really want to eat that?
If you think phone and power companies are private sector, then I'm afraid there's nothing that will ever make sense to you.