OK, leopards do change their spots, but they're still irresistable killing machines. And Microsoft has played possum a while, but it's still a monopoly.
I wonder if this kind of complaint will ever result in the Federal government officially finding Microsoft an abusive monopoly that must be corrected.
Fascism is government run by, for, but not of corporations. Just as communism, its diametric opposite (but soulmates on the same axis), is corporations run by and for the government.
The concentration camps have been inevitable, but they're a product of fascism (and often of communism, though dispersal is more common). The rule by terror and pure propaganda is part of the package, because only that kind of coercion can motivate its people, without the consensus motivation from, say, democracy.
If an org like the RIAA makes a complaint like any other (group of) people, then a justice system decides on valid evidence to send police to make reasonable searches and seizures, followed by speedy trial with lawyers available to people informed of their rights facing proportionate penalties under presumption of innocence, that's not a police state. But when the private org directs the police or any other part of the process, that's fascism: government by corporation.
"They hate our freedoms, so let's round up thousands of random people who might look like some of them, and invade a country that had nothing to do with them, and kill as many of them as we can for as long as we can."
Every single time I've had to wade through one of your Bush apologist replies, all that I really have to do to explain how worthless they are is to cite your userID: somedumass.
But just because some less dumb than you might be distracted by your Limbo echo:
The leak came from the White House, as was proven in Libby's case, and everyone knows it's Cheney. None of those people are Democrats, but they could be drunk all the time: who could tell the difference?
Your post says all over it that you explicitly aren't interested in the facts, but instead just want to bet on some kind of gradeschool philosophy that your preconceived notions are correct. While my "views", far from extreme, simply cite some representative examples of the overwhelming evidence of the criminal government Bush is running. Why shouldn't I hate that? I'm neither as dumb nor as crazy-evil as you are.
You're not my brother, and you don't believe it when you say it. You're a dumbass, full of lies.
Anonymous Coward doesn't even bother to back up their nonsensical denial that the White House, Senate and House were all controlled by a lockstep Republican majority until January. All it's got is some stupid attempted insult. These are the people who elected Bush twice, and want more.
Just because you disagreed with Rumsfeld evidently doesn't make you immune to his rhetorical ploys. Then you get all spooked by "colorful language" - just because it paints you accurately as a liar.
Thank you for sticking to the Republican lies about Plame sending Wilson to Niger, when that's been disproven across the board. And since Wilson brought back the truth that dispelled Cheney and Bush's lies about Iraqi Niger uranium, what difference does it make who sent him, even if though it was completely without conflict?
You are so sick that all you've got is Rush Limbo's newsletter, and even more rumsfeldian hyperbolic denial of strawman extremes. You're the one thinking binary to deny the one you say I am. The one insisting only one person can be right categorically, to accuse me of that without grounds. The fact is that Bush and his gang lied us into war, keep us there losing badly with stunts like this latest intel exposure, and tens of millions of Americans like you are complicit in spinning his lies for him.
What does "the Left" have to do with this stupid, costly screwup? The entire government was run by a Republican monopoly until this January. The DNI responsible for this was chosen by Bush, and confirmed before Democrats even had procedural control of the process (not to mention their bare majority including two non-Democrats, one of whom is Lieberman, totally Republican on matters like this). Bush is responsible for the government he controls.
What ideology am I pushing? What's "Left" or "Right" about demanding accountability? In fact, the Right has claimed monopoly on "personal responsiblity" to get power, which it then dispenses irresponsibly and unaccountably.
And how am I excluding the possibility that I could be wrong, or that someone else could be right? Convince me in debate, and I'll concede, and take up your point with the same vigor as my own. It is you who is saying that only your supposedly "nonpartisan" point can be correct, and that I cannot possibly be right. That's extremely hypocritical, and consistent with the denial in your post that I've already described.
It is in fact people like you who deny the partisan essence of so many government wrongdoings who perpetuate them. The party system is a plague, and I belong to no party, nor define my self by choosing a side. But denying that I am in the minority, that the government is in fact controlled by partisans, and this event was produced by one party in control, is to ignore that problem.
BTW, your Hitler analogy is stupid, Godwin or no. Hitler would probably have thought you an idiot - what difference does that make?
The fool who published the PPT is responsible, and should be fired. The fools who trained and managed them, after all the damaging Office exposures so public the past several years, should probably be fired, responsible for the performance of the fool. The responsibility for continuing this incompetence does run all the way to the National Intelligence Director, who is responsible for their office, so they should take a hit of some kind. And of course Bush is responsible for managing the DNI - he's "The Decider".
But no one will get fired. Except maybe in the office that mismanaged the PR spin. For a guide to the standard pattern, just watch Gonzales "take responsibility" for the "mishandling" of his US Attorney purge, by admitting he failed to spin it properly.
This is not a little thing. I didn't say Bush should be fired for this. But now that you mention "every little thing that goes wrong": so many things, mostly big, have "gone wrong" under Bush that he clearly is responsible. That's what leaders do: take responsibility. But he won't. No one in his crony gang will. No one will be fired, except either a scapegoat or, if there really is public pressure, at best a fall guy.
Nothing has ever changed, even over bigger "mistakes" like this, even recently. How can you possibly act like this is acceptable performance from such an important organization as the US Executive Branch, while we're at war on multiple fronts, with intelligence at the core of every problem, and needed in every solution?
I didn't say the DNI should be fired. I just said that no one will be fired. Your rumsfeldian denial of the extreme opposite is exactly the kind of Republican nonsense that protects everyone doing all these important government activities wrong.
And all you can do is "sigh".
The budget is secret. Publishing it is a crime. The total number has indeed been secret, and the conventional estimates have been $15B, 25%, too low. Which means that even in just 2005, the "Intelligence" operations were over 30% larger than previously believed.
I guess you sigh over the big deal everyone makes about the Bush gang exposing a secret CIA agent, Valerie Plame, who worked to keep Iraq and Iran from going nuclear, to protect Bush/Cheney lies about nukes to send us to war in those countries. You'll probably claim that she wasn't covert, that the Bush gang didn't expose her, that they didn't know, that mistakes were made, that Bush will fire anyone involved in the leak... Spare me your horrendous BS.
Only denial junkies can appear to think your way though keeping separate massive administration failures like Katrina, exposed intel secrets, and Bush's failed, faithy government. Your massive coincidence theory doesn't fool anyone. You (dwindling) Republican apologists do indeed insist that terrorists are the reason Bush's government does anything wrong. You Bush worshippers don't even need to hear Bush say "I made a mistake" - "mistakes were made" is enough, and no one gets fired.
You've even got the insanity to defend Bush's Katrina response. You are too sick to try to cure with facts and overwhelming evidence. I'm replying only because it's so easy, and because there are indeed still others who can be fooled by your shoddy lies and denial.
Or, should I say, Bush has shown his contempt for intelligence once again, and will yet again when he doesn't fire anyone for this serious secrecy breach. Of course, Bush will continue to keep more secrets than all previous American governments combined, and illegally invade Americans' privacy all day with wiretaps and the datamining that Orwell described. America serves at the president's pleasure.
I guess terrorists must have infiltrated the government's Powerpoint training program, because they're always the culprits, and Bush's divine right is never wrong.
Demented Anonymous Republican Coward is so trapped in obsolete Permanent Republican Majority VR that their reaction to facts implicating Bush's gang in the Microsoft monopoly preservation discussed in this article is only to vote it down.
This isn't Rove's 2000 Florida or 2004 Ohio, AC chump. You've got only 18 more months to act like you own the place, and already the rent is overdue.
It's true, as I further explained in that thread. Pretty stupid denial you've got. And worthless in face of my truly fast connection. What do I care if you believe me? Jerkoff.
Just because you're clinically depressed doesn't mean the world isn't depressing:). But it's always been that way, and Americans with some self awareness have so many sources of joy and hope, when we can appreciate them.
What gets me through is other people who've caught on to the big picture scam, talking with them, learning from them, teaching them, laughing with them, and, when sometimes gaping in horror at the latest outrage, at least gaping in good company. I like the Daily Kos. When I want to wallow in bad news, I enjoy BuzzFlash. And when I want to run with a crowd of ignorant, but often smart nerds who sometimes teach me something, sometimes learn something, and sometimes just serve as a worthy target for venting some rage, I like Slashdot. Too much, probably. It's better to talk with a live human outside somewhere. Reminds you how complex reality is, and how fit we are to live in it.
Wanna blow your mind? First google for (CNMI abramoff delay). Then try (abramoff "iran/contra"). Then try ("iran/contra" X), where "X" is any of the crooks you find in any of those Abramoff articles (including the ones that weren't about Iran/Contra).
There most certainly is a "Vast RightWing Conspiracy". Just because Hillary's paranoid doesn't mean she doesn't have enemies. And it doesn't mean she isn't in on it.
For perspective, try reading RAW's Illuminatus! trilogy, keeping in mind that just because it's a joke doesn't mean it can't be true.
And I'm disgusted that the corporate mass media isn't all over such a juicy story. That willful ignorance tends to confirm "conspiracy theory", rather than some preposterous "coincidence theory".
Hmm, then I guess I shouldn't have disclosed it so casually on Slashdot. Now it'll take years to figure out that I have to "rsync --UUDDLRLRABStart scp";).
Or, in this case, uploading DVDs - or operating a server from home.
10Mbps is fast enough to stream 2.5 realtime SD cable-quality MPEG-2 videostreams. So it's more than I'd need to "place shift" my TiVo or DVD collection from home storage to, say, some hotel in Tokyo or Seoul (or other actually modern bandwidth locale) where I want to consume the content I own. But not much more - in fact, probably just enough to placeshift my DVD and monitor my home security camera, with enough bandwidth for other telemetry, including fire, utility and other alarms, as well as URL requests from someone browsing or some other SW legitimately downloading in the other channel.
However, 10Mbps isn't enough for even a single DVD or HD channel, which is 15-80-300Mbps. And it's certainly not enough to stream commercially to enough viewers to compete with Time Warner. Except maybe in a highly efficient P2P swarm - but not for realtime streaming.
It's an interesting scenario. Because targeting the P2P or DVD traffic will drive it "underground", always encrypted and proxied, so it can't be detected. Instead, Time Warner will just enforce fine-print (or secret & unilaterally "agreed") bandwidth quotas, or service dropouts.
All because Time Warner is both a bandwidth ISP and a content and services seller. If the network layers were prohibited from being stacked into vertical monopolies, the bandwidth ISP wouldn't have any vested interest except delivering better bandwidth per dollar.
Net Neutrality is everywhere. Unfortunately, the telcos/cablecos got everywhere with their lawyers, marketers and lobbyists first.
I'd think so, too. But testing scp (not wget) without rsync gets the slower 60Kbps, while wrapping it in rsync gets the faster 10Mbps. Somehow the higher bandwidth is negotiated by rsync, not scp, unless scp goes into some other mode when called by rsync.
Also, I forgot to mention (because doing it has become automatic) that "rsync scp" initially gets the slow rate. But if I cancel the initial invocation, then reinvoke with --partial (even if practically nothing has been sent), then I get the fast speed.
There's extra negotiation overhead to rsync, or I'd just symlink "scp" to an "rsync scp" script that starts, cancels, and restarts.
The article and the rating site's policy defense announcement don't say whether the rating formula is published. If it were, that should be proof against any attack except that their formula is unfair/inaccurate/mispopulated or not applied correctly. If those attacks were also published, then consumers could judge for themselves whether they trust the ratings. And lawyers could request specific changes when arguing they're unfair.
If the formula is secret, then lawyers are arguing with an unknown target. They hate that, and will use all kinds of lawyer tricks and tools that have nothing to do with fairness. But consumers have no reason to trust the ratings, except maybe some anecdotal evidence.
Open source is essential to people communicating with each other. The computer and software are just the medium. If the medium is opaque, people will have to get drastic just to be seen through it.
A Time Warner cablemodem account (really RoadRunner sold by Time Warner) I've been using has grown suprisingly fast in bandwidth. Every 12-18 months it approximately doubles, from 2Mbps to 10Mbps over the past 4 years. Its upload was about 600Kbps until last week, but one day it went symmetric, 10Mbps in each direction or both simultaneously.
(Strangely, just uploading with wget doesn't do it, but rsync over scp gets the full 10Mbps instead of the old 0.6Mbps.)
The jumps happen suddenly, but what's strange is that Time Warner doesn't promote the increases. I'd expect them to put ads screaming about how I'm paying the same, but getting so much more, steadily for years. I'm pretty cynical, but I can't keep up with that mystery.
Why does it seem "strange" that Bush would appoint a Microsoft lawyer to the Justice Department that was supposed to stop Microsoft from abusing its monopoly, after the Clinton Justice Department got the court to declare Microsoft an abusive monopoly that had to be stopped? "Unjust", maybe, but how strange is it for a Justice Department that's got its chief, Attorney General Gonzales, lying to Congress every day to coverup Bush's political purges and cronyism? Not to mention all the Patriot Act travesties Bush's DoJ has committed. Haven't you heard what a zoo they're running over there?
What you might not have heard is that Jack Abramoff, the crooked lobbyist who helped build Bush's crooked Republican Congress, got his start lobbying out of Bill Gates' father's law firm, Preston Gates. It would seem strange if Microsoft weren't getting the benefit of the crooked system it's helped train and build.
Why does it have to be a complete, functioning brain to be self-aware? People with severe brain damage, much less than half a brain, are still self aware, and we don't think it ethical to zap them with false memories. Somewhere between the least functioning human brain we've got, and just one lone neuron without any interconnects, lies some critical mass (or range) that we wouldn't fool with. And now that we're facing it, we have to think it through, or we'll definitely make a mistake we'll regret once it's too late to go back.
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If time travel can be produced, it's worth (asymptotically) nearly any amount of investmemnt to get it.
I wonder whether the Gore DoJ would have split up Microsoft into OS, app, dev, game, media & HW companies.
OK, leopards do change their spots, but they're still irresistable killing machines. And Microsoft has played possum a while, but it's still a monopoly.
I wonder if this kind of complaint will ever result in the Federal government officially finding Microsoft an abusive monopoly that must be corrected.
Where's Tarzan when we need him?
Fascism is government run by, for, but not of corporations. Just as communism, its diametric opposite (but soulmates on the same axis), is corporations run by and for the government.
The concentration camps have been inevitable, but they're a product of fascism (and often of communism, though dispersal is more common). The rule by terror and pure propaganda is part of the package, because only that kind of coercion can motivate its people, without the consensus motivation from, say, democracy.
If an org like the RIAA makes a complaint like any other (group of) people, then a justice system decides on valid evidence to send police to make reasonable searches and seizures, followed by speedy trial with lawyers available to people informed of their rights facing proportionate penalties under presumption of innocence, that's not a police state. But when the private org directs the police or any other part of the process, that's fascism: government by corporation.
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TrollMods think I'm a terrorist, because they can debate as well as Bush can fight terrorism.
"They hate our freedoms, so let's round up thousands of random people who might look like some of them, and invade a country that had nothing to do with them, and kill as many of them as we can for as long as we can."
Every single time I've had to wade through one of your Bush apologist replies, all that I really have to do to explain how worthless they are is to cite your userID: somedumass.
But just because some less dumb than you might be distracted by your Limbo echo:
The leak came from the White House, as was proven in Libby's case, and everyone knows it's Cheney. None of those people are Democrats, but they could be drunk all the time: who could tell the difference?
Your post says all over it that you explicitly aren't interested in the facts, but instead just want to bet on some kind of gradeschool philosophy that your preconceived notions are correct. While my "views", far from extreme, simply cite some representative examples of the overwhelming evidence of the criminal government Bush is running. Why shouldn't I hate that? I'm neither as dumb nor as crazy-evil as you are.
You're not my brother, and you don't believe it when you say it. You're a dumbass, full of lies.
Anonymous Coward doesn't even bother to back up their nonsensical denial that the White House, Senate and House were all controlled by a lockstep Republican majority until January. All it's got is some stupid attempted insult. These are the people who elected Bush twice, and want more.
Oh yeah, you're a "Libertarian", right?
Just because you disagreed with Rumsfeld evidently doesn't make you immune to his rhetorical ploys. Then you get all spooked by "colorful language" - just because it paints you accurately as a liar.
Thank you for sticking to the Republican lies about Plame sending Wilson to Niger, when that's been disproven across the board. And since Wilson brought back the truth that dispelled Cheney and Bush's lies about Iraqi Niger uranium, what difference does it make who sent him, even if though it was completely without conflict?
You are so sick that all you've got is Rush Limbo's newsletter, and even more rumsfeldian hyperbolic denial of strawman extremes. You're the one thinking binary to deny the one you say I am. The one insisting only one person can be right categorically, to accuse me of that without grounds. The fact is that Bush and his gang lied us into war, keep us there losing badly with stunts like this latest intel exposure, and tens of millions of Americans like you are complicit in spinning his lies for him.
You're a worthless troll. Goodbye.
What does "the Left" have to do with this stupid, costly screwup? The entire government was run by a Republican monopoly until this January. The DNI responsible for this was chosen by Bush, and confirmed before Democrats even had procedural control of the process (not to mention their bare majority including two non-Democrats, one of whom is Lieberman, totally Republican on matters like this). Bush is responsible for the government he controls.
What ideology am I pushing? What's "Left" or "Right" about demanding accountability? In fact, the Right has claimed monopoly on "personal responsiblity" to get power, which it then dispenses irresponsibly and unaccountably.
And how am I excluding the possibility that I could be wrong, or that someone else could be right? Convince me in debate, and I'll concede, and take up your point with the same vigor as my own. It is you who is saying that only your supposedly "nonpartisan" point can be correct, and that I cannot possibly be right. That's extremely hypocritical, and consistent with the denial in your post that I've already described.
It is in fact people like you who deny the partisan essence of so many government wrongdoings who perpetuate them. The party system is a plague, and I belong to no party, nor define my self by choosing a side. But denying that I am in the minority, that the government is in fact controlled by partisans, and this event was produced by one party in control, is to ignore that problem.
BTW, your Hitler analogy is stupid, Godwin or no. Hitler would probably have thought you an idiot - what difference does that make?
The fool who published the PPT is responsible, and should be fired. The fools who trained and managed them, after all the damaging Office exposures so public the past several years, should probably be fired, responsible for the performance of the fool. The responsibility for continuing this incompetence does run all the way to the National Intelligence Director, who is responsible for their office, so they should take a hit of some kind. And of course Bush is responsible for managing the DNI - he's "The Decider".
But no one will get fired. Except maybe in the office that mismanaged the PR spin. For a guide to the standard pattern, just watch Gonzales "take responsibility" for the "mishandling" of his US Attorney purge, by admitting he failed to spin it properly.
This is not a little thing. I didn't say Bush should be fired for this. But now that you mention "every little thing that goes wrong": so many things, mostly big, have "gone wrong" under Bush that he clearly is responsible. That's what leaders do: take responsibility. But he won't. No one in his crony gang will. No one will be fired, except either a scapegoat or, if there really is public pressure, at best a fall guy.
Nothing has ever changed, even over bigger "mistakes" like this, even recently. How can you possibly act like this is acceptable performance from such an important organization as the US Executive Branch, while we're at war on multiple fronts, with intelligence at the core of every problem, and needed in every solution?
I didn't say the DNI should be fired. I just said that no one will be fired. Your rumsfeldian denial of the extreme opposite is exactly the kind of Republican nonsense that protects everyone doing all these important government activities wrong.
And all you can do is "sigh".
The budget is secret. Publishing it is a crime. The total number has indeed been secret, and the conventional estimates have been $15B, 25%, too low. Which means that even in just 2005, the "Intelligence" operations were over 30% larger than previously believed.
I guess you sigh over the big deal everyone makes about the Bush gang exposing a secret CIA agent, Valerie Plame, who worked to keep Iraq and Iran from going nuclear, to protect Bush/Cheney lies about nukes to send us to war in those countries. You'll probably claim that she wasn't covert, that the Bush gang didn't expose her, that they didn't know, that mistakes were made, that Bush will fire anyone involved in the leak... Spare me your horrendous BS.
Only denial junkies can appear to think your way though keeping separate massive administration failures like Katrina, exposed intel secrets, and Bush's failed, faithy government. Your massive coincidence theory doesn't fool anyone. You (dwindling) Republican apologists do indeed insist that terrorists are the reason Bush's government does anything wrong. You Bush worshippers don't even need to hear Bush say "I made a mistake" - "mistakes were made" is enough, and no one gets fired.
You've even got the insanity to defend Bush's Katrina response. You are too sick to try to cure with facts and overwhelming evidence. I'm replying only because it's so easy, and because there are indeed still others who can be fooled by your shoddy lies and denial.
Heckuva job, Negroponte and McConnell.
Or, should I say, Bush has shown his contempt for intelligence once again, and will yet again when he doesn't fire anyone for this serious secrecy breach. Of course, Bush will continue to keep more secrets than all previous American governments combined, and illegally invade Americans' privacy all day with wiretaps and the datamining that Orwell described. America serves at the president's pleasure.
I guess terrorists must have infiltrated the government's Powerpoint training program, because they're always the culprits, and Bush's divine right is never wrong.
Demented Anonymous Republican Coward is so trapped in obsolete Permanent Republican Majority VR that their reaction to facts implicating Bush's gang in the Microsoft monopoly preservation discussed in this article is only to vote it down.
This isn't Rove's 2000 Florida or 2004 Ohio, AC chump. You've got only 18 more months to act like you own the place, and already the rent is overdue.
It's true, as I further explained in that thread. Pretty stupid denial you've got. And worthless in face of my truly fast connection. What do I care if you believe me? Jerkoff.
Just because you're clinically depressed doesn't mean the world isn't depressing :). But it's always been that way, and Americans with some self awareness have so many sources of joy and hope, when we can appreciate them.
What gets me through is other people who've caught on to the big picture scam, talking with them, learning from them, teaching them, laughing with them, and, when sometimes gaping in horror at the latest outrage, at least gaping in good company. I like the Daily Kos. When I want to wallow in bad news, I enjoy BuzzFlash. And when I want to run with a crowd of ignorant, but often smart nerds who sometimes teach me something, sometimes learn something, and sometimes just serve as a worthy target for venting some rage, I like Slashdot. Too much, probably. It's better to talk with a live human outside somewhere. Reminds you how complex reality is, and how fit we are to live in it.
Wanna blow your mind? First google for (CNMI abramoff delay). Then try (abramoff "iran/contra"). Then try ("iran/contra" X), where "X" is any of the crooks you find in any of those Abramoff articles (including the ones that weren't about Iran/Contra).
There most certainly is a "Vast RightWing Conspiracy". Just because Hillary's paranoid doesn't mean she doesn't have enemies. And it doesn't mean she isn't in on it.
For perspective, try reading RAW's Illuminatus! trilogy, keeping in mind that just because it's a joke doesn't mean it can't be true.
I'm glad I could connect the dots.
I regretted after submitting my comment not linking my assertion to the presumably well-read Jack Abramoff Wikipedia article's "Lobbying" section.
And I'm disgusted that the corporate mass media isn't all over such a juicy story. That willful ignorance tends to confirm "conspiracy theory", rather than some preposterous "coincidence theory".
Hmm, then I guess I shouldn't have disclosed it so casually on Slashdot. Now it'll take years to figure out that I have to "rsync --UUDDLRLRABStart scp" ;).
Or, in this case, uploading DVDs - or operating a server from home.
10Mbps is fast enough to stream 2.5 realtime SD cable-quality MPEG-2 videostreams. So it's more than I'd need to "place shift" my TiVo or DVD collection from home storage to, say, some hotel in Tokyo or Seoul (or other actually modern bandwidth locale) where I want to consume the content I own. But not much more - in fact, probably just enough to placeshift my DVD and monitor my home security camera, with enough bandwidth for other telemetry, including fire, utility and other alarms, as well as URL requests from someone browsing or some other SW legitimately downloading in the other channel.
However, 10Mbps isn't enough for even a single DVD or HD channel, which is 15-80-300Mbps. And it's certainly not enough to stream commercially to enough viewers to compete with Time Warner. Except maybe in a highly efficient P2P swarm - but not for realtime streaming.
It's an interesting scenario. Because targeting the P2P or DVD traffic will drive it "underground", always encrypted and proxied, so it can't be detected. Instead, Time Warner will just enforce fine-print (or secret & unilaterally "agreed") bandwidth quotas, or service dropouts.
All because Time Warner is both a bandwidth ISP and a content and services seller. If the network layers were prohibited from being stacked into vertical monopolies, the bandwidth ISP wouldn't have any vested interest except delivering better bandwidth per dollar.
Net Neutrality is everywhere. Unfortunately, the telcos/cablecos got everywhere with their lawyers, marketers and lobbyists first.
I'd think so, too. But testing scp (not wget) without rsync gets the slower 60Kbps, while wrapping it in rsync gets the faster 10Mbps. Somehow the higher bandwidth is negotiated by rsync, not scp, unless scp goes into some other mode when called by rsync.
Also, I forgot to mention (because doing it has become automatic) that "rsync scp" initially gets the slow rate. But if I cancel the initial invocation, then reinvoke with --partial (even if practically nothing has been sent), then I get the fast speed.
There's extra negotiation overhead to rsync, or I'd just symlink "scp" to an "rsync scp" script that starts, cancels, and restarts.
The article and the rating site's policy defense announcement don't say whether the rating formula is published. If it were, that should be proof against any attack except that their formula is unfair/inaccurate/mispopulated or not applied correctly. If those attacks were also published, then consumers could judge for themselves whether they trust the ratings. And lawyers could request specific changes when arguing they're unfair.
If the formula is secret, then lawyers are arguing with an unknown target. They hate that, and will use all kinds of lawyer tricks and tools that have nothing to do with fairness. But consumers have no reason to trust the ratings, except maybe some anecdotal evidence.
Open source is essential to people communicating with each other. The computer and software are just the medium. If the medium is opaque, people will have to get drastic just to be seen through it.
A Time Warner cablemodem account (really RoadRunner sold by Time Warner) I've been using has grown suprisingly fast in bandwidth. Every 12-18 months it approximately doubles, from 2Mbps to 10Mbps over the past 4 years. Its upload was about 600Kbps until last week, but one day it went symmetric, 10Mbps in each direction or both simultaneously.
(Strangely, just uploading with wget doesn't do it, but rsync over scp gets the full 10Mbps instead of the old 0.6Mbps.)
The jumps happen suddenly, but what's strange is that Time Warner doesn't promote the increases. I'd expect them to put ads screaming about how I'm paying the same, but getting so much more, steadily for years. I'm pretty cynical, but I can't keep up with that mystery.
Why does it seem "strange" that Bush would appoint a Microsoft lawyer to the Justice Department that was supposed to stop Microsoft from abusing its monopoly, after the Clinton Justice Department got the court to declare Microsoft an abusive monopoly that had to be stopped? "Unjust", maybe, but how strange is it for a Justice Department that's got its chief, Attorney General Gonzales, lying to Congress every day to coverup Bush's political purges and cronyism? Not to mention all the Patriot Act travesties Bush's DoJ has committed. Haven't you heard what a zoo they're running over there?
What you might not have heard is that Jack Abramoff, the crooked lobbyist who helped build Bush's crooked Republican Congress, got his start lobbying out of Bill Gates' father's law firm, Preston Gates. It would seem strange if Microsoft weren't getting the benefit of the crooked system it's helped train and build.
These are not dead, they're just dumb.
Why does it have to be a complete, functioning brain to be self-aware? People with severe brain damage, much less than half a brain, are still self aware, and we don't think it ethical to zap them with false memories. Somewhere between the least functioning human brain we've got, and just one lone neuron without any interconnects, lies some critical mass (or range) that we wouldn't fool with. And now that we're facing it, we have to think it through, or we'll definitely make a mistake we'll regret once it's too late to go back.