Exactly! Slashdot's editor's are really bad at reading an industry-funded PR stunt. As a PR person, if I were working for Big Oil, this is *exactly* what I would do. Get a study or paper with MIT's name on it, claiming "censorship" of my views/business model.
Could it have been your internet provider that was filtering internet traffic in order to control how much Skype traffic was hogging their pipes? "Skype for Business" is happening so that ISPs can easily determine what is "common" Skype and what is "profitable" Skype. Behind the scenes Skype will be making deals with the ISPs to ensure quality of service for "Skype Business" while the consumer offering remains unreliable.
Carriers want to create additional revenue streams by providing QoS for certain internet services. Unfortunately, this is not a matter of "if" but of "when."
The available technology for network traffic management is becoming extremely sophisticated -- check out the offerings of Sandvine and Allot.
With the products from these vendors (among others), carriers can prioritize traffic across their entire network -- in some cases this becomes a sizable chunk of the Internet. The traffic management products integrate seamlessly to the billing systems -- think "click here for a 10 minute, 2 GB speed boost for $10."
At some point, some website will sign a deal to guarantee a certain amount of throughput to their site, or for a special event, etc. It starts with carriers "recouping costs" by ensuring QoS on the Superbowl and then quickly gets ugly. When will Microsoft Live (Hotmail, etc.) sign a deal to ensure it loads faster than Google?
Their founding engineers are old-school storage guys who built a new system from scratch in 2002. The SAN supports FC and iSCSI front end, FC and SATA backend and natively virtualizes all storage into a single pool. When you want more storage, just add more controllers, enclosures, etc.. - the array supports n-way dynamic controllers.
They don't have a ton of information on their website because they sell entirely through partners. The demo is worth your time b/c you'll see where SANs are headed.
Thanks to XIOTech, we now have a "real life mom" to explain the complexities of data storage, server clustering and more! You should have your boss watch this series of videos. warning: videos may result in ROTFL
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Holy Crap - for total newbies (like me, who is also about to go on a long backpacking trip) this is (Stikky) is awesome.
Unfortunately the article does not disclose the researcher's close dealings with the tanning salon industry. Is the science real? Yes. Does it encourage tanning and irresponsible sun exposure? Yes. Solution: it's better to simply drink vitamin D-fortified milk & OJ.
/.ers would do well to look further into the hard science and get past the industry-backed FUD.
Rather than, or in addition to, SPF lotion, wear clothing. This brand is lightweight, well-vented and has titanium dioxide built right into the microfiber. My mom (who is sun sensitive from medication) uses them.
The New York Times has an advocacy ad review board. An advocacy message (save the whales) is seen differently than a commercial message (buy caffeinated soap). The review board provides feedback, etc.. it's not a hard and fast line.
This is a smart move by MSFT. They get to stir up all kinds of FUD about purchasing open source products. "Microsoft protects you from IP lawsuits.. all open source does is open you to lawsuits."
I think of Firefox as "independent media." If we, consumers, are going to continue to have access to the truth, we need to know that there is not a profit motive controlling our access to information.
It's not the most important thing, but it's a step in the same direction.
I was watching the Wikipedia fundraiser with interest (and gave $50 to support it).
A successful fundraiser is more than just asking for money - that's why you have charity balls each year. Throwing the party is a lot of money, but they raise back 3-4x the amount they spend on the party. In this case it cost less than $50,000 to raise $250,000.
Unfortunatley you can't go on "standby" with a "double wide" ad. Which means you're back in the range of the wicked-expensive ads. So, for this one pager we'll pay less than $50K, a double wide ad would have cost over $150,000.
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Exactly! Slashdot's editor's are really bad at reading an industry-funded PR stunt. As a PR person, if I were working for Big Oil, this is *exactly* what I would do. Get a study or paper with MIT's name on it, claiming "censorship" of my views/business model.
Could it have been your internet provider that was filtering internet traffic in order to control how much Skype traffic was hogging their pipes? "Skype for Business" is happening so that ISPs can easily determine what is "common" Skype and what is "profitable" Skype. Behind the scenes Skype will be making deals with the ISPs to ensure quality of service for "Skype Business" while the consumer offering remains unreliable.
The available technology for network traffic management is becoming extremely sophisticated -- check out the offerings of Sandvine and Allot.
With the products from these vendors (among others), carriers can prioritize traffic across their entire network -- in some cases this becomes a sizable chunk of the Internet. The traffic management products integrate seamlessly to the billing systems -- think "click here for a 10 minute, 2 GB speed boost for $10."
At some point, some website will sign a deal to guarantee a certain amount of throughput to their site, or for a special event, etc. It starts with carriers "recouping costs" by ensuring QoS on the Superbowl and then quickly gets ugly. When will Microsoft Live (Hotmail, etc.) sign a deal to ensure it loads faster than Google?
Gizmodo seems to have a better write up.
The Columbia Journalism Review covered this issue last week.
>>after blind and other visually impaired state workers raised concerns.
Translation: after MSFT's PR people dragged out some blind people, called Senators, called the media.. and yeah.. "raised concerns."
Their founding engineers are old-school storage guys who built a new system from scratch in 2002. The SAN supports FC and iSCSI front end, FC and SATA backend and natively virtualizes all storage into a single pool. When you want more storage, just add more controllers, enclosures, etc.. - the array supports n-way dynamic controllers. They don't have a ton of information on their website because they sell entirely through partners. The demo is worth your time b/c you'll see where SANs are headed.
Thanks to XIOTech, we now have a "real life mom" to explain the complexities of data storage, server clustering and more! You should have your boss watch this series of videos.
warning: videos may result in ROTFL
Holy Crap - for total newbies (like me, who is also about to go on a long backpacking trip) this is (Stikky) is awesome.
Unfortunately the article does not disclose the researcher's close dealings with the tanning salon industry. Is the science real? Yes. Does it encourage tanning and irresponsible sun exposure? Yes. Solution: it's better to simply drink vitamin D-fortified milk & OJ.
Let's learn something from Australia, where 1 in 7 people get skin cancer in their lifetimes.
/.ers would do well to look further into the hard science and get past the industry-backed FUD.
Rather than, or in addition to, SPF lotion, wear clothing. This brand is lightweight, well-vented and has titanium dioxide built right into the microfiber. My mom (who is sun sensitive from medication) uses them.
Gizmodo
C'mon, give us a little credit. We're obviously using networked TI-80s with a graphics app I wrote in 10th grade study hall.
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We thought of that and the problem has been addressed.
Rob Davis
The New York Times has an advocacy ad review board. An advocacy message (save the whales) is seen differently than a commercial message (buy caffeinated soap). The review board provides feedback, etc.. it's not a hard and fast line.
Rob
Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election.
Deputy Sarpy County Election Commissioner Ed Gilbert says, "It affected 32 of the 80 precincts. And I suppose as many as 10,000 votes."
Think of it like this.. it cost $50,000 to raise $250,000 -- which means that the rest is left over for developers.
It's not the most important thing, but it's a step in the same direction.
A successful fundraiser is more than just asking for money - that's why you have charity balls each year. Throwing the party is a lot of money, but they raise back 3-4x the amount they spend on the party. In this case it cost less than $50,000 to raise $250,000.
Unfortunatley you can't go on "standby" with a "double wide" ad. Which means you're back in the range of the wicked-expensive ads. So, for this one pager we'll pay less than $50K, a double wide ad would have cost over $150,000.
that's what it costs when you're a for-profit company. The Mozilla Foundation is a non profit. The ad cost less than $50K.
Only a tiny percentage of people contribute money spontaneously - the rest need more motivation.
The people supported this idea with their dollars, if they agreed with you, they wouldn't have funded it.
the ad is less than $50,000