Perhaps the ISPs will be able to leave the monthly fee alone but reduce the cap and use overage fees to cover the tax. If not, yeah, I'm betting on ISP bankruptcy. (Hmmm. If an existing ISP can't change their rates, can they go bankrupt, reform as a new company, and have new rates?)
Not "give back", "allow access". I have no problem with the cable company offering their services. My problem is with nobody else being able to offer services because they can't afford to run a new set of wires. Imho, the times when the incumbent wire-owner has been required to allow other folks to supply services and charge reasonable rates (dial up ISPs and non-fastlaned broadband are the prime examples) were the heyday of the internet.
So where is this variety of competitors? My area has one cable company and one phone company, which isn't what I would call a 'variety'. Or are you asserting that all the customers in this area are perfectly happy with one of these two? Because I can tell you right now, it isn't so; I would switch to pretty much anyone but Time Warner in a minute.
Not a bad idea. I like it. Doesn't address GP's assertion that "he shouldn't have been able to get here", but it seems more feasible than anything that I can think of that would address that.
How would you implement a system to prevent it? Preferably without completely blocking all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world, because there's a fair number of foreigners there who will want to come home someday, and (at the time of this particular incident) no cases outside of Africa have been seen yet.
*shrug* I print out email messages from my phone fairly regularly (reservation confirmations, for example). I could go into the other room, boot up the computer, bring up thunderbird, and print from there, but I like not having to spend that much time on it.
You've gone into a good bit more detail than I was thinking (or aware of:) I had been thinking the data would have to be encrypted to keep folks from watching stuff they hadn't paid for but that's because for some reason I was thinking in the cable model where everyone gets all the bits, rather than a switched network model where you only see the bits that are sent to you. I must need more coffee.
It's more like you make long calls every night to your mom and she tells you all about her day. You pay for local service, she pays for local service, you pay for the call, she does the talking. Only now your phone company wants to charge your mom because she's doing all the talking.
The point is that traffic that is on the network because of my request is my responsibility. I'm paying Comcast to shovel bits from Netflix to me. I'm paying Netflix to answer my requests. Netflix is doing their job. Why isn't Comcast?
Now, if Netflix hands off to Level3, they have to pay Level3 because I don't. But Comcast and I have an arrangement. If they really need more than I'm paying them to handle the traffic that I have caused, they should talk to me about it. Instead they try to get it from Netflix, which will eventually cause Netflix to increase what they're charging me. The net result is the same, but Comcast is hoping that I'll get mad at Netflix. And sadly many of their customers probably will.
By "compete to offer services" I think he meant that each of them gets to put their bits on the fiber (there's enough capacity) and the end user chooses whose bits they pay to decrypt.
Delta had these on my last trip. They added some humor so I was actually motivated to watch it, unlike the... literally 50 other trips I've taken in the past 8 years.
True, and definitely an important point. Building such a generator into a key manager doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, however. Building one as a web service seems even easier (except of course for paying for the hosting:)
What he's rejecting appears to be user-selected passwords (which really are pretty crappy on average), which is not what XKCD was talking about (it advocated, as I recall, random selection of each of the 4 words).
Where he goes from it, however, is not the randomly selected passphrase of XKCD but directly to key managers, and eventually to two-factor auth.
Doesn't matter. The long term bureaucrats will just work around whoever gets appointed until the next president appoints someone else. The head honcho can dictate policy, but they don't actually implement it and don't really have a way to ensure that it does get implemented.
Perhaps, but keep in mind the standard doesn't specify everything. According to TFA, this Intel issue with fsin does not technically violate the IEEE-754 standard on how sin() should be calculated.
That'll help slow the progress of the resistance, but will it work for a really advanced case? That is, can the brain and muscles run directly on non-glucose fuels derived from fats, or is there a fat-glucose-consumption step that would still need some level of insulin to cause the cells to take in the glucose?
I have no problem with the idea of an API being copyrighted. But please note, "we needed to do it for interoperability" has been found to be a fair use justification for reverse engineering undocumented APIs; if you actually publish it, you're doing it to encourage interoperability and writing to the API is fair use.
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Perhaps the ISPs will be able to leave the monthly fee alone but reduce the cap and use overage fees to cover the tax. If not, yeah, I'm betting on ISP bankruptcy. (Hmmm. If an existing ISP can't change their rates, can they go bankrupt, reform as a new company, and have new rates?)
You mean like this article?
You didn't cause a collision. You were simply involved in one.
Not "give back", "allow access". I have no problem with the cable company offering their services. My problem is with nobody else being able to offer services because they can't afford to run a new set of wires. Imho, the times when the incumbent wire-owner has been required to allow other folks to supply services and charge reasonable rates (dial up ISPs and non-fastlaned broadband are the prime examples) were the heyday of the internet.
Nobody said it was a small thing.
... or any other outbreak, for that matter.
So where is this variety of competitors? My area has one cable company and one phone company, which isn't what I would call a 'variety'. Or are you asserting that all the customers in this area are perfectly happy with one of these two? Because I can tell you right now, it isn't so; I would switch to pretty much anyone but Time Warner in a minute.
Not a bad idea. I like it. Doesn't address GP's assertion that "he shouldn't have been able to get here", but it seems more feasible than anything that I can think of that would address that.
How would you implement a system to prevent it? Preferably without completely blocking all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world, because there's a fair number of foreigners there who will want to come home someday, and (at the time of this particular incident) no cases outside of Africa have been seen yet.
*shrug* I print out email messages from my phone fairly regularly (reservation confirmations, for example). I could go into the other room, boot up the computer, bring up thunderbird, and print from there, but I like not having to spend that much time on it.
They were. The guy lied on his paperwork. Had he survived he would have been facing criminal charges in two countries for that.
You've gone into a good bit more detail than I was thinking (or aware of :) I had been thinking the data would have to be encrypted to keep folks from watching stuff they hadn't paid for but that's because for some reason I was thinking in the cable model where everyone gets all the bits, rather than a switched network model where you only see the bits that are sent to you. I must need more coffee.
I seem to be misunderstanding as well. How exactly do they modify the command without DPI?
It's more like you make long calls every night to your mom and she tells you all about her day. You pay for local service, she pays for local service, you pay for the call, she does the talking. Only now your phone company wants to charge your mom because she's doing all the talking.
The point is that traffic that is on the network because of my request is my responsibility. I'm paying Comcast to shovel bits from Netflix to me. I'm paying Netflix to answer my requests. Netflix is doing their job. Why isn't Comcast?
Now, if Netflix hands off to Level3, they have to pay Level3 because I don't. But Comcast and I have an arrangement. If they really need more than I'm paying them to handle the traffic that I have caused, they should talk to me about it. Instead they try to get it from Netflix, which will eventually cause Netflix to increase what they're charging me. The net result is the same, but Comcast is hoping that I'll get mad at Netflix. And sadly many of their customers probably will.
By "compete to offer services" I think he meant that each of them gets to put their bits on the fiber (there's enough capacity) and the end user chooses whose bits they pay to decrypt.
Delta had these on my last trip. They added some humor so I was actually motivated to watch it, unlike the... literally 50 other trips I've taken in the past 8 years.
True, and definitely an important point. Building such a generator into a key manager doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, however. Building one as a web service seems even easier (except of course for paying for the hosting :)
Sure. Mine's substr(md5(date()), 5, 15).
What he's rejecting appears to be user-selected passwords (which really are pretty crappy on average), which is not what XKCD was talking about (it advocated, as I recall, random selection of each of the 4 words).
Where he goes from it, however, is not the randomly selected passphrase of XKCD but directly to key managers, and eventually to two-factor auth.
Doesn't matter. The long term bureaucrats will just work around whoever gets appointed until the next president appoints someone else. The head honcho can dictate policy, but they don't actually implement it and don't really have a way to ensure that it does get implemented.
Perhaps, but keep in mind the standard doesn't specify everything. According to TFA, this Intel issue with fsin does not technically violate the IEEE-754 standard on how sin() should be calculated.
That'll help slow the progress of the resistance, but will it work for a really advanced case? That is, can the brain and muscles run directly on non-glucose fuels derived from fats, or is there a fat-glucose-consumption step that would still need some level of insulin to cause the cells to take in the glucose?
It is. The point about type 1 vs type 2 diabetes, however, is on point.
I have no problem with the idea of an API being copyrighted. But please note, "we needed to do it for interoperability" has been found to be a fair use justification for reverse engineering undocumented APIs; if you actually publish it, you're doing it to encourage interoperability and writing to the API is fair use.