I was never gonna work at either place, anyway. But now I do have to worry more that someone will try to upsell me to a 3 year warranty plan in person.
They should have put an x86 inside the ia64, so software for either architecture can run. That could have been a separate core, or even just the bits and pieces to make an accelerated emulator. Then people could have run old and new software side by side. And of course, as mentioned, they already needed a damn good ia64 compiler... and make it free and run on all the OSes.
Eventually (not even now) they can phase out the x86 to purely software emulation.
... managers saying "we need to get this up and running sooner... automating it reliably is hard to do... just get it working and update things manually for now and we will automate it later". When later comes, everyone is working on something else.
This is exactly why projects should be run by the community instead of a for-profit corporation. Such corporations simply have not learned to really work together for a common goal. In theory, it is impossible for them to do so, anyway, since, by definition, the only goal a for-profit corporation can have it to make a profitable return on the investment of its owners.
Right. This is just a side system to gather information and make arguments for lawsuits they are not mentioning. Too bad the system is already flawed... see this post for an example of failure. If the ISP does not know what email address you actually use, you can't be notified. If you browser (and its network configuration) cannot be penetrated, you won't get a popup. They could still throttle your network down to 300 baud... but if you are paying a premium for a higher speed, then they are not providing what is paid for in speed terms. And this all assumes that they can trace down your IP address.
No one said this would not be subject to all the typical internal communications problems inherint in large corporations. It's called "corpolag". They will notify you next year when you have forgotten all about it.
The first two warnings – “educational alerts” – tell consumers they’ve been caught. The email will then direct them to legitimate sources of content with the hopes that the early warnings are enough to scare people into buying content.
I hardly use email anymore. I almost don't use it at all. What I do have, my ISP does not know about, unless they've been spying on my HTTPS connections to Gmail. I don't have ISP based email, or if I do, I have no idea what it is, or have a means to login. Why would I use email that would change if I need to change layer 3 ISP?
And what "legitimate sources of content" will work on my Slackware based computer? If they had that, I wouldn't need to be working around their broken sites.
The next two warnings step it up a notch with what’s called “acknowledgement alerts.” The first two alerts were simply emails, but these next two will actually hijack your browser. You will be hit with a message telling you that you’ve been caught yet again, and must acknowledge that you’ve been caught before you can start browsing.
Criminal actions and privacy aside, how the hell are they going to hijack my browser? I'm using HTTPS whever I can. I have 4 VPN setups to use. Sure, I do some insecure browsing like at Slashdot. But I don't use THEIR proxies, so they would have to add equipment than can do intercepts to traffic. So maybe it's possible for them to hijack my Slashdot traffic. But combining the interception and Slashdot's crazy content format, how can they make a popup appear safely... for every web site? And how will this even prevent browsing without cutting off service? Cut off port 80 if they think that stops anything of high value?
The next two tiers, and presumably every alert afterwards, will be “mitigation measures.” In essence, the ISPs will begin throttling your bandwidth or blocking Web sites you frequently visit. The ISPs will not be able to cut off your Internet connection under the plan.
I frequently visit Slashdot. I guess they are going to block that And I am paying extra for the higher tier (8 mbps... and it works). If they throttle below that level, they are violating the service offering they have for that extra payment. So I stop paying the extra.
But many Europeans actually have real competition, and thus reasonable prices... and, importantly, a place to go to when voting with their wallets. Americans only barely have that in Kansas City and Chattanooga.
But you could be using HTTPS for as many sites that accept it, IPsec for more that accept that, and ssh -D via a free cloud instance or cheap virtual server for all the rest. You'd then never see the popup because you'd never get the injected Javascript. Your neighbors borrowing your wifi might, and might acknowledge for you. But with security like that, they'd never see your downloads, either.
This sounds like the job shortage that corporations have trained their bought and paid for congress critters with... "there are not enough people willing to do this work for chicken feed wages". This is all still about corporations gouging people on price, one way or another, and congress doing nothing about the lack of competitive markets for so many things in the USA.
... specifically. Instead, I want a very competitive environment that gives quality services at reasonable prices so that the market can make realistic decisions about what it really wants, instead of having the decision of what people want being made in corporate executive conference rooms.
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I was never gonna work at either place, anyway. But now I do have to worry more that someone will try to upsell me to a 3 year warranty plan in person.
They should have put an x86 inside the ia64, so software for either architecture can run. That could have been a separate core, or even just the bits and pieces to make an accelerated emulator. Then people could have run old and new software side by side. And of course, as mentioned, they already needed a damn good ia64 compiler ... and make it free and run on all the OSes.
Eventually (not even now) they can phase out the x86 to purely software emulation.
... managers saying "we need to get this up and running sooner ... automating it reliably is hard to do ... just get it working and update things manually for now and we will automate it later". When later comes, everyone is working on something else.
You better copyright that opinion ... unless you want it shared.
Sorry, but this post adds no new knowledge to the discussion. Move along.
A /64 for home. A /60 for business. Pay more to get shorter.
But this is also a company that is holding off transferring money from overseas back to the US to avoid paying taxes on it.
This is exactly why projects should be run by the community instead of a for-profit corporation. Such corporations simply have not learned to really work together for a common goal. In theory, it is impossible for them to do so, anyway, since, by definition, the only goal a for-profit corporation can have it to make a profitable return on the investment of its owners.
Right. This is just a side system to gather information and make arguments for lawsuits they are not mentioning. Too bad the system is already flawed ... see this post for an example of failure. If the ISP does not know what email address you actually use, you can't be notified. If you browser (and its network configuration) cannot be penetrated, you won't get a popup. They could still throttle your network down to 300 baud ... but if you are paying a premium for a higher speed, then they are not providing what is paid for in speed terms. And this all assumes that they can trace down your IP address.
No one said this would not be subject to all the typical internal communications problems inherint in large corporations. It's called "corpolag". They will notify you next year when you have forgotten all about it.
The first two warnings – “educational alerts” – tell consumers they’ve been caught. The email will then direct them to legitimate sources of content with the hopes that the early warnings are enough to scare people into buying content.
I hardly use email anymore. I almost don't use it at all. What I do have, my ISP does not know about, unless they've been spying on my HTTPS connections to Gmail. I don't have ISP based email, or if I do, I have no idea what it is, or have a means to login. Why would I use email that would change if I need to change layer 3 ISP?
And what "legitimate sources of content" will work on my Slackware based computer? If they had that, I wouldn't need to be working around their broken sites.
The next two warnings step it up a notch with what’s called “acknowledgement alerts.” The first two alerts were simply emails, but these next two will actually hijack your browser. You will be hit with a message telling you that you’ve been caught yet again, and must acknowledge that you’ve been caught before you can start browsing.
Criminal actions and privacy aside, how the hell are they going to hijack my browser? I'm using HTTPS whever I can. I have 4 VPN setups to use. Sure, I do some insecure browsing like at Slashdot. But I don't use THEIR proxies, so they would have to add equipment than can do intercepts to traffic. So maybe it's possible for them to hijack my Slashdot traffic. But combining the interception and Slashdot's crazy content format, how can they make a popup appear safely ... for every web site? And how will this even prevent browsing without cutting off service? Cut off port 80 if they think that stops anything of high value?
The next two tiers, and presumably every alert afterwards, will be “mitigation measures.” In essence, the ISPs will begin throttling your bandwidth or blocking Web sites you frequently visit. The ISPs will not be able to cut off your Internet connection under the plan.
I frequently visit Slashdot. I guess they are going to block that And I am paying extra for the higher tier (8 mbps ... and it works). If they throttle below that level, they are violating the service offering they have for that extra payment. So I stop paying the extra.
If they can insert content into your data stream in the place that makes it pop up, then they have to be able to look at that stream. Spying!
No need for v6 to be dynamic. There's plenty of addresses.
Get:
Then do:
Someone let this out a month and a day too early.
... filled with a bunch of emacs jokes.
Or the neighbor kids for those without their own.
But many Europeans actually have real competition, and thus reasonable prices ... and, importantly, a place to go to when voting with their wallets. Americans only barely have that in Kansas City and Chattanooga.
But you could be using HTTPS for as many sites that accept it, IPsec for more that accept that, and ssh -D via a free cloud instance or cheap virtual server for all the rest. You'd then never see the popup because you'd never get the injected Javascript. Your neighbors borrowing your wifi might, and might acknowledge for you. But with security like that, they'd never see your downloads, either.
Unless you are doing:
... we can just cap them at the equivalent of 300 baud.
This sounds like the job shortage that corporations have trained their bought and paid for congress critters with ... "there are not enough people willing to do this work for chicken feed wages". This is all still about corporations gouging people on price, one way or another, and congress doing nothing about the lack of competitive markets for so many things in the USA.
Compare this to markets that have sufficient (at least 6 providers) competition.
... specifically. Instead, I want a very competitive environment that gives quality services at reasonable prices so that the market can make realistic decisions about what it really wants, instead of having the decision of what people want being made in corporate executive conference rooms.