ISPs think that they offer "high speed", and they do, but only on the "last mile". They think that last mile is the only thing that counts as a metric.
What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
Congestion has always been the bigger underlying issue, because Comcast customers are clueless about what "high speed" means. The best thing Level 3 (and other peering companies like them) could be doing is running national TV advertizements announcing (without naming) that "slow internet" may not be a last mile problem. I could design a 30 second commercial that describes the issue.
"Yes, you do have high speed internet, however your ISP may not be able to deliver the promised speed".
And trust me, congested pipes are worse issue than appears on the surface. Once you hit that max, you start compounding the problem with duplicate (and beyond) packets needing to be resent because the first packet never go there. Once you get to that point, the ONLY solution is more and bigger pipes(series of tubes???) .
If you actually tried to comprehend my point, I covered your case. I care about data being mined being used against me (best salesman's email) aggregating data will not poach your salesman, that would take human intervention. Google isn't selling the Salesman's Email (yet) .
by a soothing voice telling you that they are currently experiencing an exceptionally heavy level of calls.
Once in a while, I could understand. Perpetually, not so much. The issue is that they are often just lying, to save money by having people "give up". You can also realize that this is (almost) NEVER the case when calling to buy something.
As an email administrator, all good administrators scan email. This is done for Spam filtering as well as things like Virus protection, archiving/indexing (Freedom of Information Act). Most of it is automated and humans are almost never involved in reading email. At this Macro level, I have but only one reservation, at any point humans can become involved. This includes Gmail's scanning for advertisements.
The issue isn't the scanning, it is the abuse (potential) of humans inserting themselves into the process to data mine on SPECIFIC users, without any other controls in place. I don't care about my data being aggregated, I care about my data being mined to be used against me. Given enough data, all of us are vulnerable.
Technology isn't the problem. It never was. The problem is humans, and always will be.
Whatever you're doing on the phone isn't worth dying for. Period. People caught should have their license revoked and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars going to a victim compensation fund for all the idiots who lost family members due to idiot driving.
I have no sympathy for assholes who risk not only their own lives, but everyone else's. NONE
I'm not sure how my Nickname gives any such indication. But I am interested in how you actually came to that conclusion based on my nickname, perhaps a story I need to read?
I oppose the death penalty in practice. I also support the idea of the death penalty, in theory.
So the question is, how can this be? Well, there are people so evil that they deserve to be removed from this planet. However, because of the wickedness of the state, we cannot assure that everyone put to death actually is deserving the death penalty gets it, nor everyone deserving it gets it, it is wholly arbitrary in the net results. This makes it completely unsuitable for actual use.
Or as my dad used to say, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not"
You never did. You did say it would run out (eventually) you're just not bold enough to make the same mistakes while making the same claim. Well, here a twist, the sun will burn out... eventually OH NOES WERE USING UP ALL THE SUN!!!!! AND WE DON'T HAVE A REPLACEMENT SUN.. OR EARTH!!!! OH NOES!!!!
Okay?
There were people, who did say we'd be out of oil by 2020, 40 years ago. They are obviously wrong now, but you are making the same claim as they are, you just won't date set. You're making the same relative claim (oil is running out!!!) , and if you can't understand that, then you should probably stop saying it.
One of my long standing proposals for covering this, and the whole Content distribution problem itself, is to have a Municipality own and manage the local Fiber to the Premisses (last mile), and bring everything into a COLO facility. Once in the COLO, patching goes direct to the service provider of the CUSTOMER'S choice. The technical issues would be minor, and the service providers would compete on a variety of metrics (Price, Content, QOS, Speed etc). This would eliminate the Cable single franchise typically offered.
The whole problem is that we need to move the last mile into the "public" realm while keeping the ability to have competition on delivery of product.
You Realize that Snopes is biased left? I've caught them deliberately twisting the "question" around so that it reflects better on Political left ideologies. This is just another "case" of that. Of course all the facts are correct, however, they leave out several important ones.
1) You don't send armed Federal Agents from multiple agencies for a $300K in back fees. 2) You don't hire a wrangler at $960,000 to round up 500 cattle 3) The BLM claimed it was to protect the Tortoise, claimed to be endangered, but then proceeded to destroy several Tortoise nesting sites trying to bury the cattle they killed (illegally)
But, if you want to believe the fairytale that Reid and the Feds are telling you, by all means. But then again, you then can't complain about "no weapons of mass destruction blah blah blah" on Bush. Either you believe the fairytales told to you or you don't.
No, but in the 70s (Such as 1972's "Limits to Growth" report by the Club of Rome) people like you said we would be completely out of oil by 2020. Unless we run out in the next 5 1/2 years, that will be nothing more than fear mongering lies of the Political Left.
Going back to Hubbert’s paper we find that he predicted that by 1970 the US should have consumed half or about 100 million barrels of oil of the original endowment of 150-200 billion barrels of recoverable oil. And by his own chart on page 32 of his paper if we use the assumption of 200 billion barrels as the total potential oil reserves of the US we should be completely out of oil by now. According to his curve and graph, by year 2000 we should have had only around 27 billion or so barrels of oil left in the US and fallen to zero sometime in the mid-2000s.
Boys who cry "wolf" are ignored. And eventually there is a wolf, but crying wolf repeatedly when there is none, is bad policy.
burning as much coal as possible before it is disallowed by law causes an incredible amount of pollution, and if the reason is personal enrichment with total disregard for the consequences it is just plain evil.
OR
You're being hypocritical, using CO2 emission fossil fuels to provide heat for your house and gas for your vehicles, and coal powered electricity. It is always someone else's problem never your part of the problem and stopping being part of that problem. You're not evil for doing using the very thing that you're calling evil, hypocritical.
Actually, Solyndra was heavily subsidized. And it ended up being the tip of titanic that got sunk by the iceberg of reality. A large number, to the tune of billions of dollars of subsidized companies, went belly up. I didn't mention those "facts" because Solar is one of most subsidized industries. I mean, you gotta hand it to Harry Reid to come up with a crazy scheme to create a wealth transfer system to his son and dress it up in Environmental subsidies.
Well, lets see, I can move from California to Texas (as millions have done) to avoid taxes and regulation of California. Or I can move to San Fransisco because I'm left wing and love Nancy Pelosi and gay people. Or whatever. Or perhaps move from Big City to Helena Montana, or visa versa.
But I cannot move from USA to where ever nearly as easily, to avoid the idiocy of whatever political class is currently ruining our country. The view that we should move everything up to the Federal Level in a one size fits all mentality is nothing short of tyranny. Concentrated National Power is NOT a good thing.
Either you're opposed to people spending tons of money buying influence, or you're not. If you only oppose it because you oppose the cause, then you're just a hypocrite. WHY should your views be immune to large sums of money and another person's views not so immune?
I'd rather doubt they all got new jobs. What happened is a generation didn't follow in their father's footsteps, and went and did something else, and the older generation retired as the jobs disappeared.
But, if you're a left wing nutjob who see "evil" only on the right side then by all means keep yelling "Koch Brothers". And pay no attention to Harry Reid's deal with the Chinese to land a job for his son in the Nevada Desert, under the auspices of "saving the tortoise".
Corruption in the Political class is both (D) and (R), but until you realize that the enemy isn't the guys with the (R) behind their name, you're just substituting one "evil" for another. And at that point, you might as well go Cthulhu.
The Libertarian Party is much closer to that threshold, but then the Presidential Debate Commission changes the criteria every time the Libertarians get close to meeting the requirements. Calvinball for the win!
Social Security hasn't solve anything, it is only created a huge middleman bureaucracy, skimming off the top. A grandma may be better under Social Security, but ALL the grandmas, in aggregate, are not better off. The Ponzi Scheme is already too entrenched; "too big to fail", that we will spend TRILLIONS of dollars trying to keep it solvent when it is destined to go broke.
Remember the "skimming" part I started out with, well that is stealing money from the system. Eventually it will catch up. We can fix the problem, but people like you won't even begin to admit there is a problem, until it hits you in the pocketbook. And then you'll simply blame the "evil 1%" who don't pay "their fair share".
EPA and FDA have long exceeded their usefulness, and are progressing into areas to increase their bureaucratic controls (tyranny) over the populace. Remember the Bundy Ranch, how it was all about "Tortoises" and how endangered they were (and thus the Grazing Fees)? Well the same EPA that was pitching that excuse was at the same time killing off the tortoises because they have over populated. Imagine that. The grazing fees were nothing more than a scam to get money for government agencies so the can enslave another group of citizens.
The damn system is eating itself alive, and we're busy arguing over how wrong I am.
Government came in handy when Japan and Germany decided the world needed to bow to their loving embrace.
Actually, on this point we agree. THAT is the sole purpose of our Federal Government, provide for common defense. ALL other rights and privileges are the states, or the people's. But then again, that doesn't fit the Progressive agenda of enslaving people to the Bureaucracy.
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ISPs think that they offer "high speed", and they do, but only on the "last mile". They think that last mile is the only thing that counts as a metric.
What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?
Congestion has always been the bigger underlying issue, because Comcast customers are clueless about what "high speed" means. The best thing Level 3 (and other peering companies like them) could be doing is running national TV advertizements announcing (without naming) that "slow internet" may not be a last mile problem. I could design a 30 second commercial that describes the issue.
"Yes, you do have high speed internet, however your ISP may not be able to deliver the promised speed".
And trust me, congested pipes are worse issue than appears on the surface. Once you hit that max, you start compounding the problem with duplicate (and beyond) packets needing to be resent because the first packet never go there. Once you get to that point, the ONLY solution is more and bigger pipes(series of tubes???) .
If you actually tried to comprehend my point, I covered your case. I care about data being mined being used against me (best salesman's email) aggregating data will not poach your salesman, that would take human intervention. Google isn't selling the Salesman's Email (yet) .
by a soothing voice telling you that they are currently experiencing an exceptionally heavy level of calls.
Once in a while, I could understand. Perpetually, not so much. The issue is that they are often just lying, to save money by having people "give up". You can also realize that this is (almost) NEVER the case when calling to buy something.
So does Nate Silver. But while he was the darling of the left a couple years ago, his current predictions have them steaming mad. ;)
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As an email administrator, all good administrators scan email. This is done for Spam filtering as well as things like Virus protection, archiving/indexing (Freedom of Information Act). Most of it is automated and humans are almost never involved in reading email. At this Macro level, I have but only one reservation, at any point humans can become involved. This includes Gmail's scanning for advertisements.
The issue isn't the scanning, it is the abuse (potential) of humans inserting themselves into the process to data mine on SPECIFIC users, without any other controls in place. I don't care about my data being aggregated, I care about my data being mined to be used against me. Given enough data, all of us are vulnerable.
Technology isn't the problem. It never was. The problem is humans, and always will be.
Whatever you're doing on the phone isn't worth dying for. Period. People caught should have their license revoked and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars going to a victim compensation fund for all the idiots who lost family members due to idiot driving.
I have no sympathy for assholes who risk not only their own lives, but everyone else's. NONE
I'm not sure how my Nickname gives any such indication. But I am interested in how you actually came to that conclusion based on my nickname, perhaps a story I need to read?
I oppose the death penalty in practice. I also support the idea of the death penalty, in theory.
So the question is, how can this be? Well, there are people so evil that they deserve to be removed from this planet. However, because of the wickedness of the state, we cannot assure that everyone put to death actually is deserving the death penalty gets it, nor everyone deserving it gets it, it is wholly arbitrary in the net results. This makes it completely unsuitable for actual use.
Or as my dad used to say, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not"
You never did. You did say it would run out (eventually) you're just not bold enough to make the same mistakes while making the same claim. Well, here a twist, the sun will burn out ... eventually OH NOES WERE USING UP ALL THE SUN!!!!! AND WE DON'T HAVE A REPLACEMENT SUN .. OR EARTH!!!! OH NOES!!!!
Okay?
There were people, who did say we'd be out of oil by 2020, 40 years ago. They are obviously wrong now, but you are making the same claim as they are, you just won't date set. You're making the same relative claim (oil is running out!!!) , and if you can't understand that, then you should probably stop saying it.
One of my long standing proposals for covering this, and the whole Content distribution problem itself, is to have a Municipality own and manage the local Fiber to the Premisses (last mile), and bring everything into a COLO facility. Once in the COLO, patching goes direct to the service provider of the CUSTOMER'S choice. The technical issues would be minor, and the service providers would compete on a variety of metrics (Price, Content, QOS, Speed etc). This would eliminate the Cable single franchise typically offered.
The whole problem is that we need to move the last mile into the "public" realm while keeping the ability to have competition on delivery of product.
Please join the Clippers Coach in the Racism corner. BTW, he is/was a staunch Democrat.
If it was only one .... but ... it wasn't. there were dozens of them.
You Realize that Snopes is biased left? I've caught them deliberately twisting the "question" around so that it reflects better on Political left ideologies. This is just another "case" of that. Of course all the facts are correct, however, they leave out several important ones.
1) You don't send armed Federal Agents from multiple agencies for a $300K in back fees.
2) You don't hire a wrangler at $960,000 to round up 500 cattle
3) The BLM claimed it was to protect the Tortoise, claimed to be endangered, but then proceeded to destroy several Tortoise nesting sites trying to bury the cattle they killed (illegally)
But, if you want to believe the fairytale that Reid and the Feds are telling you, by all means. But then again, you then can't complain about "no weapons of mass destruction blah blah blah" on Bush. Either you believe the fairytales told to you or you don't.
No, but in the 70s (Such as 1972's "Limits to Growth" report by the Club of Rome) people like you said we would be completely out of oil by 2020. Unless we run out in the next 5 1/2 years, that will be nothing more than fear mongering lies of the Political Left.
From http://www.counterpunch.org/20...
Going back to Hubbert’s paper we find that he predicted that by 1970 the US should have consumed half or about 100 million barrels of oil of the original endowment of 150-200 billion barrels of recoverable oil. And by his own chart on page 32 of his paper if we use the assumption of 200 billion barrels as the total potential oil reserves of the US we should be completely out of oil by now. According to his curve and graph, by year 2000 we should have had only around 27 billion or so barrels of oil left in the US and fallen to zero sometime in the mid-2000s.
Boys who cry "wolf" are ignored. And eventually there is a wolf, but crying wolf repeatedly when there is none, is bad policy.
burning as much coal as possible before it is disallowed by law causes an incredible amount of pollution, and if the reason is personal enrichment with total disregard for the consequences it is just plain evil.
OR
You're being hypocritical, using CO2 emission fossil fuels to provide heat for your house and gas for your vehicles, and coal powered electricity. It is always someone else's problem never your part of the problem and stopping being part of that problem. You're not evil for doing using the very thing that you're calling evil, hypocritical.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/...
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07...
http://www.aei.org/article/pol...
But then again, if John Stewart and Colbert don't report it, it never happened ... right?
Oil, going out of business since the 70's!
Actually, Solyndra was heavily subsidized. And it ended up being the tip of titanic that got sunk by the iceberg of reality. A large number, to the tune of billions of dollars of subsidized companies, went belly up. I didn't mention those "facts" because Solar is one of most subsidized industries. I mean, you gotta hand it to Harry Reid to come up with a crazy scheme to create a wealth transfer system to his son and dress it up in Environmental subsidies.
What if?
Well, lets see, I can move from California to Texas (as millions have done) to avoid taxes and regulation of California. Or I can move to San Fransisco because I'm left wing and love Nancy Pelosi and gay people. Or whatever. Or perhaps move from Big City to Helena Montana, or visa versa.
But I cannot move from USA to where ever nearly as easily, to avoid the idiocy of whatever political class is currently ruining our country. The view that we should move everything up to the Federal Level in a one size fits all mentality is nothing short of tyranny. Concentrated National Power is NOT a good thing.
Why shouldn't it?
Either you're opposed to people spending tons of money buying influence, or you're not. If you only oppose it because you oppose the cause, then you're just a hypocrite. WHY should your views be immune to large sums of money and another person's views not so immune?
Gotta love hypocrites.
Yes most of them found new jobs
I'd rather doubt they all got new jobs. What happened is a generation didn't follow in their father's footsteps, and went and did something else, and the older generation retired as the jobs disappeared.
Solyndra
Subsidized "Green" energy in a nutshell.
But, if you're a left wing nutjob who see "evil" only on the right side then by all means keep yelling "Koch Brothers". And pay no attention to Harry Reid's deal with the Chinese to land a job for his son in the Nevada Desert, under the auspices of "saving the tortoise".
Corruption in the Political class is both (D) and (R), but until you realize that the enemy isn't the guys with the (R) behind their name, you're just substituting one "evil" for another. And at that point, you might as well go Cthulhu.
The Libertarian Party is much closer to that threshold, but then the Presidential Debate Commission changes the criteria every time the Libertarians get close to meeting the requirements. Calvinball for the win!
Social Security hasn't solve anything, it is only created a huge middleman bureaucracy, skimming off the top. A grandma may be better under Social Security, but ALL the grandmas, in aggregate, are not better off. The Ponzi Scheme is already too entrenched; "too big to fail", that we will spend TRILLIONS of dollars trying to keep it solvent when it is destined to go broke.
Remember the "skimming" part I started out with, well that is stealing money from the system. Eventually it will catch up. We can fix the problem, but people like you won't even begin to admit there is a problem, until it hits you in the pocketbook. And then you'll simply blame the "evil 1%" who don't pay "their fair share".
EPA and FDA have long exceeded their usefulness, and are progressing into areas to increase their bureaucratic controls (tyranny) over the populace. Remember the Bundy Ranch, how it was all about "Tortoises" and how endangered they were (and thus the Grazing Fees)? Well the same EPA that was pitching that excuse was at the same time killing off the tortoises because they have over populated. Imagine that. The grazing fees were nothing more than a scam to get money for government agencies so the can enslave another group of citizens.
The damn system is eating itself alive, and we're busy arguing over how wrong I am.
Government came in handy when Japan and Germany decided the world needed to bow to their loving embrace.
Actually, on this point we agree. THAT is the sole purpose of our Federal Government, provide for common defense. ALL other rights and privileges are the states, or the people's. But then again, that doesn't fit the Progressive agenda of enslaving people to the Bureaucracy.