Traffic shaping (also known as packet shaping) is a computer network traffic management technique which delays some or all datagrams to bring them into compliance with a desired traffic profile.[1][2] Traffic shaping is used to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds. It is often confused with traffic policing, the distinct but related practice of packet dropping and packet marking.[3]
The most common type of traffic shaping is application-based traffic shaping.[4] In application-based traffic shaping, fingerprinting tools are first used to identify applications of interest, which are then subject to shaping policies. Some controversial cases of application-based traffic shaping include P2P Bandwidth Throttling. Many application protocols use encryption to circumvent application-based traffic shaping. Another type of traffic shaping is route-based traffic shaping. Route-based traffic shaping is conducted based on previous-hop or next-hop information.[5]
Wikipedia seems to disagree with you. I'll admit the possibility I'm confused on terminology, though.
The V-1, sure. I think calling a rocket a drone is stretching the definition past the breaking point.
Although the V-1 wasn't remote-controllable or anything. They had a preprogrammed flight plan, where they pointed it in the right direction and a distance counter just decremented until it reached the target, and the engine cut out.
Geez, it's like the whole family is cursed. Then the two younger sons went into politics instead and both got assassinated....How many other Kennedys are there?:-/
I read "fighters" as "combat aircraft" so it took me until most of the way through the summary to realize that they weren't downing F-16s with consumer-grade drones. That would've been much more impressive.
How about "combatants" instead of "fighters", guys.
If I had a car like that and came to the (apparently common, here at least) conclusion that it sucked and my phone worked better, I'd be reminded of the money I wasted on the upgrades every time I drove anywhere.
I do pretty much the same thing, except I write out my directions by hand after consulting Google Maps. Write it in a nice big size I can read at a glance.
If I miss a turn on the way, I can pull over and *then* consult Maps again.
Quitting means you're less likely to get unemployment.
To collect unemployment benefits, employees must be out of work through no fault of their own. Workers who lose their jobs in a layoff are clearly eligible for benefits, as are most employees who are fired for reasons other than serious misconduct. [...]
Even employees who quit their jobs may be able to collect unemployment, but that depends on their reasons for leaving. In every state, an employee who voluntarily quits a job without good cause is not eligible for unemployment. But state laws vary as to how they define "good cause."
Even if you think you had a good reason to leave a job, that doesn't necessarily mean you had good cause in the eyes of the law.
They have some weird term for a thing in Britain they do where their representatives are actually required to meet with their constituents for X amount of time per year.
Their point is that ensuring these things *is* support. We're playing word games.
- form a more perfect Union, - establish Justice, - insure domestic Tranquility, - provide for the common defence, - promote the general Welfare, - and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
There are supposed to be other ID cards you can get to prove you're a citizen than just a driver's license. The issue is just that there isn't a national standard for it (?).
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Apparently Arch has actually been around 2 years longer than Ubuntu, and about 20 days than Gentoo. And Mint is only 2 years out of 12 younger.
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I really hope this is a Poe's Law situation and you're being sarcastic.
I guarantee you in the last year/. has done at least 3 articles each on Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, and Gentoo (and OpenBSD and FreeBSD), and at least 1 on various others. I see 2 or 3 Mint articles just since the beginning of September.
Experience. Have you looked at the U.S. economy lately? There's hardly a major consumer-facing industry around these days where the top 2 or 3 players *aren't* trying to merge. And for some reason the regulatory agencies keep approving them.
The problem isn't that the U.S. isn't really a free market; it's that the market is too free.
Fair enough. But the underlying message of space travel should not be "a wormhole will appear which conveniently was the exact solution to your problem* and everybody is saved", but instead "when you fuck up in space travel, you'll probably just die. Somewhat atypically, often you're aware well in advance when you're screwed."
Geez, I'm a third of the way down the comments and have yet to see 101010101001 post about "the space nutters." Is the dude on vacation or something?;)
After reading the summary for that movie, can't say I have any desire to see it. And not just because of spoilers.
I'm a big sap for time travel stories, but when you set up the plot as hard sci fi and then as the movie putters along you start invoking wormholes and time travel and at the end, the big message is TEH FEEEEELS...dammit guys...
It ends up being one step away from "a wizard did it."
The computer in question here is a Commodore C64 that has been balancing driveshafts non-stop for a quarter of a century.
It's been running this program 24/7 for the last 25 years? Wow, this must be a really busy repair shop.
"Non-stop" in a computing context like this to mean "daily" is rather misleading, and a large factor on the reliability of the machine is whether they're shutting it down and starting it up every day. So it's a relevant complaint.
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Traffic shaping (also known as packet shaping) is a computer network traffic management technique which delays some or all datagrams to bring them into compliance with a desired traffic profile.[1][2] Traffic shaping is used to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds. It is often confused with traffic policing, the distinct but related practice of packet dropping and packet marking.[3]
The most common type of traffic shaping is application-based traffic shaping.[4] In application-based traffic shaping, fingerprinting tools are first used to identify applications of interest, which are then subject to shaping policies. Some controversial cases of application-based traffic shaping include P2P Bandwidth Throttling. Many application protocols use encryption to circumvent application-based traffic shaping. Another type of traffic shaping is route-based traffic shaping. Route-based traffic shaping is conducted based on previous-hop or next-hop information.[5]
Wikipedia seems to disagree with you. I'll admit the possibility I'm confused on terminology, though.
At least s/he can log in.
The V-1, sure. I think calling a rocket a drone is stretching the definition past the breaking point.
Although the V-1 wasn't remote-controllable or anything. They had a preprogrammed flight plan, where they pointed it in the right direction and a distance counter just decremented until it reached the target, and the engine cut out.
Geez, it's like the whole family is cursed. Then the two younger sons went into politics instead and both got assassinated....How many other Kennedys are there? :-/
I read "fighters" as "combat aircraft" so it took me until most of the way through the summary to realize that they weren't downing F-16s with consumer-grade drones. That would've been much more impressive.
How about "combatants" instead of "fighters", guys.
Not to mention that 90% of traffic, strictly speaking, can be considered downloading...
If some other user's voip slows down your download, then your ISP is grossly oversubscribed and your service is already shit.
Exactly. Are there any ISPs that *don't* massively oversell?
Every ISP is doing some kind of traffic shaping.
Just because everybody is doing it doesn't make it less wrong.
How about the government keeps its dirty hands out of private infrastructure and lets customers vote with their feet?
"But how can you vote with your wallet, Mr. Anderson, when there are no competitors in your area?"
If I had a car like that and came to the (apparently common, here at least) conclusion that it sucked and my phone worked better, I'd be reminded of the money I wasted on the upgrades every time I drove anywhere.
Get in the car. Look at your shame.
I do pretty much the same thing, except I write out my directions by hand after consulting Google Maps. Write it in a nice big size I can read at a glance.
If I miss a turn on the way, I can pull over and *then* consult Maps again.
Quitting means you're less likely to get unemployment.
To collect unemployment benefits, employees must be out of work through no fault of their own. Workers who lose their jobs in a layoff are clearly eligible for benefits, as are most employees who are fired for reasons other than serious misconduct. [...]
Even employees who quit their jobs may be able to collect unemployment, but that depends on their reasons for leaving. In every state, an employee who voluntarily quits a job without good cause is not eligible for unemployment. But state laws vary as to how they define "good cause."
Even if you think you had a good reason to leave a job, that doesn't necessarily mean you had good cause in the eyes of the law.
http://www.nolo.com/legal-ency...
They have some weird term for a thing in Britain they do where their representatives are actually required to meet with their constituents for X amount of time per year.
Ah here we are, "surgery."
Their point is that ensuring these things *is* support. We're playing word games.
- form a more perfect Union,
- establish Justice,
- insure domestic Tranquility,
- provide for the common defence,
- promote the general Welfare,
- and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
There are supposed to be other ID cards you can get to prove you're a citizen than just a driver's license. The issue is just that there isn't a national standard for it (?).
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Linux Mint
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Initial release 27 August 2006; 10 years ago
Arch Linux
Developer Aaron Griffin and others[a]
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Source model Open source
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Apparently Arch has actually been around 2 years longer than Ubuntu, and about 20 days than Gentoo.
And Mint is only 2 years out of 12 younger.
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I really hope this is a Poe's Law situation and you're being sarcastic.
I guarantee you in the last year /. has done at least 3 articles each on Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, and Gentoo (and OpenBSD and FreeBSD), and at least 1 on various others. I see 2 or 3 Mint articles just since the beginning of September.
Experience. Have you looked at the U.S. economy lately? There's hardly a major consumer-facing industry around these days where the top 2 or 3 players *aren't* trying to merge. And for some reason the regulatory agencies keep approving them.
The problem isn't that the U.S. isn't really a free market; it's that the market is too free.
Fair enough. But the underlying message of space travel should not be "a wormhole will appear which conveniently was the exact solution to your problem* and everybody is saved", but instead "when you fuck up in space travel, you'll probably just die. Somewhat atypically, often you're aware well in advance when you're screwed."
*and also the cause of it, ironically
Is this some sort of riff on Creationism or Last Thursdayism or are you actually serious?
Geez, I'm a third of the way down the comments and have yet to see 101010101001 post about "the space nutters." Is the dude on vacation or something? ;)
After reading the summary for that movie, can't say I have any desire to see it. And not just because of spoilers.
I'm a big sap for time travel stories, but when you set up the plot as hard sci fi and then as the movie putters along you start invoking wormholes and time travel and at the end, the big message is TEH FEEEEELS...dammit guys...
It ends up being one step away from "a wizard did it."
All high risk efforts will be done by robots, break one, use a spare and another is sent from earth.
Oh come on, now you're just baiting 11010100100101 :P
The computer in question here is a Commodore C64 that has been balancing driveshafts non-stop for a quarter of a century.
It's been running this program 24/7 for the last 25 years? Wow, this must be a really busy repair shop.
"Non-stop" in a computing context like this to mean "daily" is rather misleading, and a large factor on the reliability of the machine is whether they're shutting it down and starting it up every day. So it's a relevant complaint.