Monopolies are only temporary. They eventually die under their own weight. We (people in general) tend to look for quick and easy solutions so they aren't tolerated very well, when you can vote them out of business. But once you can vote a Monopoly out of business, you can vote any business out of business.
I call this the rule of unintended consequences. My best example is the rise of Linux in the era of Microsoft Monopoly. The Microsoft Monopoly created the need for an alternative (Linux) and Linus found a way (GPL) that would protect his new creation against being taken over by the monopoly. The combination (GPL, Linux Code) has proven to be Microsoft's biggest competitor, and they really have no ability to counter it. I personally doubt Linux would have had that success it has, without Microsoft Monopoly. We are in the age of "Linux on the desktop" except the "desktop" has moved to the pocket (Android), to embedded devices, to all sorts of places Windows can't, and Microsoft can't compete. End of Monopoly. Windows is slowing diminishing in marketplace. Pretty soon, you won't need Windows to run "that one app" that isn't available anywhere else. Someone is building an appliance that does the same thing as "windows / that one app" does.
Actually, the rents tend to be higher and availability is lower, since Landlords can now rent AirBNB and earn more money than they can doing whole month leases.
The problem isn't for the Landlords it is for the big Hotels that are losing lots of customers due to increased supply. These new rules are designed to realign the supply for the benefit of the entrenched industries (hotels)
Sounds good to me. And then, when your own property values dive, and you can't afford to live there, because you now live in a ghost town, and you don't have any workers for your cymbal factory, I'll be happy.
In other words, we all can play "what if" in such a way that it looks stupid.
And yes, I do love the Free Market. It allows for the most efficient use of capital and resources.
The law doesn't protect anyone, except the special interests that are having their industries threatened. There is absolutely no reason other than to stripmine taxes and protect the status quo for these rules. The ONLY ones complaining are those that have something to lose. That is the way of Capitalism, compete or die. The protected industries can't compete, so they will either die, or change the rules (like this) in order so they don't have to compete.
they can *AVOID* all the rules and fees that everyone else has to pay.
And yet, liberals fail to see the actual problem. So, instead of recognizing the problem (too many fees and rules), they create more fees and rules designed to prevent people from avoiding all the previous fees and rules. And when someone figures a way around that, they add more fees and rules.
The real problem is, that nobody is stopping long enough to ask do we need more fees and rules to protect the people who have set the barriers to entry protecting their industries?
The biggest gripe I've seen is that the "Tourists" aren't "paying their fair share", as if the city has a right to highway robbery under the guise of being the Lord of the land, and claiming it is to protect the serfs that serve the Lord.
The Obamacare "Chickens have come home to roost". Everything predicted is coming to fruition, and the people who created the mess, are all running around saying that they are the only ones able to fix the mess they created.
How does that work?
It doesn't. It can't. It was never supposed to work. It was simply the path to single payer that liberals want. They just lied to get the whole thing going.
Next up the anecdotal evidence "I have insurance now, even though I have cancer" stories.
Chicago's Violence Rate is also worse than most 3rd World countries. Not sure that you want to start comparing Chicago with anything.
California is living off previous "booms", and is quickly going down the tubes. Unless there is a new one soon, its economy is going to tank, as the wealthy continue to flee to other states (like Texas). Not to mention the upper 1/3 of the state wants to form a new one (Jefferson). But the powers that be would NEVER allow it.
And NYC has more colleges and universities than Denmark, so what?
The problem with Microsoft, is that they view themselves as a "Windows" company. I've said this for years, and was laughed at a long time ago. They are still a "Windows" company. Everything they do, they try to tie into "Windows" regardless of whether or not it fits that product. In the end, they will be a Windows company.
Their mistake, is thinking "Windows" when they should have been thinking "Technology"
The 2000 liter requirement is kind of a deal breaker. If I have a 1 meter square device that can produce 50 liters a day, that would be way better than a 50,000 meter square device that makes 2000 liters a day.
And in some places, gathering 2000 liters of water from the air is nearly impossible, in other places, it is almost trivial.
And water isn't always the problem, it is usually "clean water" that is the problem.
The Gender Studies department is about 95% female. They are very active and visible on campus. They spend a lot of time on 'outreach', yet they still can't crack 6% on male involvement.
I would classify that as a complete and utter failure. The problem is that they have created their own stereotype and now are struggling to overcome it. You can't spend your time bashing men(everything is misogyny and rape/sexual abuse) , and expect men to want to join.
Affirmative Action was never about anything other than political correctness dressed up as a statistic that can be changed by government.
There are women in Construction, but the overwhelming members of that industrty are... men - No outcry There are men in Nursing, but the overwhelming members of nursing field are... women. - No outcry There are women in police and fire, but the overwhelming members are... men. - No outcry
The terrible thing is, that when we tell women "You can be whatever you want" and then despise them for being what many of them want to be (moms) ; we are doing a huge disservice to women.Women are special, just as men are. They just tend to be specialized in different areas. Everyone being the "same" isn't progressive, it is enslavement.
Baseball is all about story telling. You can tell a complete story between pitches. Sometimes two. It often takes longer to toss a pitch than it does to run a play or two in football.
This may be true, but when it takes a pitcher (baseball) longer to throw a single pitch than it does to coordinate 11 (22 if you're counting both sides) from the completion of the last play to the start of the next that is ridiculous. Put players on base, and the time goes up excruciatingly so. Throw the damn pitch already; it shouldn't take two minutes to toss a ball 60'6".
I am an actual "networking professional", and I can tell you, that there is often very little distinction between network infrastructure that isn't responding, and hardware that is on the verge of locking up. The only real way to tell is to "reboot" and see if it goes away. And that does make it look like it is the device, and not the network (to the untrained).
We issue troubleshooting tips based on how easy they are to complete by the end user, and then assess from there. We don't tend to have easy tools that check for networking issues that the end user has access to.
That being said, I actually believe that the infrastructure isn't there to support the number of devices, and the needs of those devices. I believe that it might be nearly impossible to not saturate the airwaves with signal to provide all the bandwidth all those thousands and thousands of devices need. There just isn't enough frequencies available.
In this case, the solution is already available. When a new tower is spun up, to flag it as "unsafe" until a valid tower says otherwise.
I have a good idea where all the towers are in my city, if a new one was spun up, I'd know about it fairly quickly. And there are projects that have very detailed information on existing towers. The problem with this kind of attack, is that it is very short lived because it would be easy to triangulate where the bad tower/Node actually is.
You cannot legislate a sociological solution to a technical problem, any more than you can legislate a technological solution to a sociological problem. It is like using a screwdriver to hit a nail or a hammer trying to screw in a screw.
Since a DDOS is a technical problem, legislation isn't even going to solve the problem and will no doubt cause unintended consequences.
The only solution to a DDOS that will work, is a Distributed model to detect and dismantle the problem at the edges, not at the central attack point.
It is worse than that.The problem with DDOS is that the real victim probably doesn't know about it.
The proper way to thwart these kinds of attacks is to have a method of detecting them and then cutting off people who are making an inordinate amount of those kinds of packets aimed at that address. The solution to a coordinated attack is a coordinated response.
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"But we need to protect the ___________ industry ... because of jobs"
Government should stop protecting industries from competition
Government should stop sponsoring industries that can't support themselves
Monopolies are only temporary. They eventually die under their own weight. We (people in general) tend to look for quick and easy solutions so they aren't tolerated very well, when you can vote them out of business. But once you can vote a Monopoly out of business, you can vote any business out of business.
I call this the rule of unintended consequences. My best example is the rise of Linux in the era of Microsoft Monopoly. The Microsoft Monopoly created the need for an alternative (Linux) and Linus found a way (GPL) that would protect his new creation against being taken over by the monopoly. The combination (GPL, Linux Code) has proven to be Microsoft's biggest competitor, and they really have no ability to counter it. I personally doubt Linux would have had that success it has, without Microsoft Monopoly. We are in the age of "Linux on the desktop" except the "desktop" has moved to the pocket (Android), to embedded devices, to all sorts of places Windows can't, and Microsoft can't compete. End of Monopoly. Windows is slowing diminishing in marketplace. Pretty soon, you won't need Windows to run "that one app" that isn't available anywhere else. Someone is building an appliance that does the same thing as "windows / that one app" does.
Actually, the rents tend to be higher and availability is lower, since Landlords can now rent AirBNB and earn more money than they can doing whole month leases.
The problem isn't for the Landlords it is for the big Hotels that are losing lots of customers due to increased supply. These new rules are designed to realign the supply for the benefit of the entrenched industries (hotels)
The two main choices for President are kind of proof that the people can't vote properly, IMHO
Sounds good to me. And then, when your own property values dive, and you can't afford to live there, because you now live in a ghost town, and you don't have any workers for your cymbal factory, I'll be happy.
In other words, we all can play "what if" in such a way that it looks stupid.
And yes, I do love the Free Market. It allows for the most efficient use of capital and resources.
The law doesn't protect anyone, except the special interests that are having their industries threatened. There is absolutely no reason other than to stripmine taxes and protect the status quo for these rules. The ONLY ones complaining are those that have something to lose. That is the way of Capitalism, compete or die. The protected industries can't compete, so they will either die, or change the rules (like this) in order so they don't have to compete.
they can *AVOID* all the rules and fees that everyone else has to pay.
And yet, liberals fail to see the actual problem. So, instead of recognizing the problem (too many fees and rules), they create more fees and rules designed to prevent people from avoiding all the previous fees and rules. And when someone figures a way around that, they add more fees and rules.
The real problem is, that nobody is stopping long enough to ask do we need more fees and rules to protect the people who have set the barriers to entry protecting their industries?
The biggest gripe I've seen is that the "Tourists" aren't "paying their fair share", as if the city has a right to highway robbery under the guise of being the Lord of the land, and claiming it is to protect the serfs that serve the Lord.
http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/...
The Obamacare "Chickens have come home to roost". Everything predicted is coming to fruition, and the people who created the mess, are all running around saying that they are the only ones able to fix the mess they created.
How does that work?
It doesn't. It can't. It was never supposed to work. It was simply the path to single payer that liberals want. They just lied to get the whole thing going.
Next up the anecdotal evidence "I have insurance now, even though I have cancer" stories.
Chicago's Violence Rate is also worse than most 3rd World countries. Not sure that you want to start comparing Chicago with anything.
California is living off previous "booms", and is quickly going down the tubes. Unless there is a new one soon, its economy is going to tank, as the wealthy continue to flee to other states (like Texas). Not to mention the upper 1/3 of the state wants to form a new one (Jefferson). But the powers that be would NEVER allow it.
And NYC has more colleges and universities than Denmark, so what?
What? And live in "racist, homophobic, religious flyover country" that is going to vote Trump?
TRIGGERED!!!!
I suggest that computers need flash, period. For just the IOPS alone. Even for normal "computing".
You've made the best case I've seen in a long time as to why Government should be limited. Not sure that was your intention though. ;)
The problem with Microsoft, is that they view themselves as a "Windows" company. I've said this for years, and was laughed at a long time ago. They are still a "Windows" company. Everything they do, they try to tie into "Windows" regardless of whether or not it fits that product. In the end, they will be a Windows company.
Their mistake, is thinking "Windows" when they should have been thinking "Technology"
I rest my case.
The 2000 liter requirement is kind of a deal breaker. If I have a 1 meter square device that can produce 50 liters a day, that would be way better than a 50,000 meter square device that makes 2000 liters a day.
And in some places, gathering 2000 liters of water from the air is nearly impossible, in other places, it is almost trivial.
And water isn't always the problem, it is usually "clean water" that is the problem.
There are plenty of unreadable posts. Mostly from trolls though.
This is going to open up whole new arenas of Fraud. Imagine a "fake" reseller "NlKE" selling fake Sneakers that never come.
(Please note that is not an "I" (capital i) that is an "l" (lower case L) )
Incoming Message from NlKE, "%50 off all NlKE sneakers! Buy now using PayPal!"
Please file under "what could possibly go wrong"
The Gender Studies department is about 95% female. They are very active and visible on campus. They spend a lot of time on 'outreach', yet they still can't crack 6% on male involvement.
I would classify that as a complete and utter failure. The problem is that they have created their own stereotype and now are struggling to overcome it. You can't spend your time bashing men(everything is misogyny and rape/sexual abuse) , and expect men to want to join.
Affirmative Action was never about anything other than political correctness dressed up as a statistic that can be changed by government.
There are women in Construction, but the overwhelming members of that industrty are ... men - No outcry ... women. - No outcry ... men. - No outcry
There are men in Nursing, but the overwhelming members of nursing field are
There are women in police and fire, but the overwhelming members are
The terrible thing is, that when we tell women "You can be whatever you want" and then despise them for being what many of them want to be (moms) ; we are doing a huge disservice to women .Women are special, just as men are. They just tend to be specialized in different areas. Everyone being the "same" isn't progressive, it is enslavement.
Baseball is all about story telling. You can tell a complete story between pitches. Sometimes two. It often takes longer to toss a pitch than it does to run a play or two in football.
This may be true, but when it takes a pitcher (baseball) longer to throw a single pitch than it does to coordinate 11 (22 if you're counting both sides) from the completion of the last play to the start of the next that is ridiculous. Put players on base, and the time goes up excruciatingly so. Throw the damn pitch already; it shouldn't take two minutes to toss a ball 60'6".
I am an actual "networking professional", and I can tell you, that there is often very little distinction between network infrastructure that isn't responding, and hardware that is on the verge of locking up. The only real way to tell is to "reboot" and see if it goes away. And that does make it look like it is the device, and not the network (to the untrained).
We issue troubleshooting tips based on how easy they are to complete by the end user, and then assess from there. We don't tend to have easy tools that check for networking issues that the end user has access to.
That being said, I actually believe that the infrastructure isn't there to support the number of devices, and the needs of those devices. I believe that it might be nearly impossible to not saturate the airwaves with signal to provide all the bandwidth all those thousands and thousands of devices need. There just isn't enough frequencies available.
In this case, the solution is already available. When a new tower is spun up, to flag it as "unsafe" until a valid tower says otherwise.
I have a good idea where all the towers are in my city, if a new one was spun up, I'd know about it fairly quickly. And there are projects that have very detailed information on existing towers. The problem with this kind of attack, is that it is very short lived because it would be easy to triangulate where the bad tower/Node actually is.
You cannot legislate a sociological solution to a technical problem, any more than you can legislate a technological solution to a sociological problem. It is like using a screwdriver to hit a nail or a hammer trying to screw in a screw.
Since a DDOS is a technical problem, legislation isn't even going to solve the problem and will no doubt cause unintended consequences.
The only solution to a DDOS that will work, is a Distributed model to detect and dismantle the problem at the edges, not at the central attack point.
It is worse than that.The problem with DDOS is that the real victim probably doesn't know about it.
The proper way to thwart these kinds of attacks is to have a method of detecting them and then cutting off people who are making an inordinate amount of those kinds of packets aimed at that address. The solution to a coordinated attack is a coordinated response.