As much as people complain about some government/company having the ability to do 'something', completely decentralized systems are also subject to wide spread abuse that is nearly impossible to stop. Think about the proposed "mesh" networking - you traffic goes through who knows whom's device, your IP address comes from where? Your DNS queries come from who knows where? If I can feed you your IP address and DNS results and your data passes through my network - then I own you.
Yeah, if only there were a way to "encrypt" such communications so that a middleman couldn't do anything besides completely block your communications. Maybe in a few decades...
So don't support it. Find the most expensive widgets produced in the most inefficient manner and buy those instead. Avoid companies that automate anything. For example, if you have people clean your house, be sure they do so without any tools, cleaners, etc. It may take them several days, but you will be employing them much more than selfish people who allow them to use cleaners.
Instead of making it cheaper for a person to ignore his health, make it more expensive. Have high deductibles so that he's better off taking preventive measures than having to be hospitalized and paying a high deductible. Or I suppose you could just make it so hospital visits were guaranteed 100% fatal...
Anime is a great sample subject when the question is whether Anime piracy is beneficial to publishers. Though if it is, I think it should be called what it is: free (viral) marketing.
Disney got rich copying from Mark Twain, Bros. Grimm, Aesop, etc., yet wants to prevent others from doing the exact same to them.
Thanks, this never clicked for me until now. Sure, I've heard people say how they "stole" these things, but that always came across as hyperbole because they never prevented anyone from reading the originals. But what you said puts the inconsistency in plain view: Mark Twain's work wasn't hundreds of years old when Disney made things based on it, yet the copyright extensions pushed by Disney etc. will make it at least that long until anyone derive from Disney's work.
No, the point here is to see whether it's companies who have a history of lobbying for changes that seem benign, but turn out to be corrupt. There the cover IS a good indicator of the content, in a way that you might not even realize on a cursory examination of the content itself.
I'm someone who's only been to Facebook a few times, due to Google searches taking me there. I understand that it's a social site for people to post information about themselves and communicate with friends who use the service. I don't understand it when I see a product saying "Come visit us on Facebook!". Is this just a glorified web page? Why not just put up a website for your company, and let people link to it? Maybe it's like software APIs or something, where the company's Facebook page is a sort of wrapper that makes their interface match that of other Facebook users?
You consider it undemocratic that if I offer to trade 2*N widgets, I can get twice as much in return, and that it would be better if I got the same as some other guy who only offered to trade N widgets?
I have a collection of old game systems and enjoy playing them regularly. I just can't get my head around these current schemes. I am I right that it will be impossible to collect something like the PS3 and this Capcom game and play it 15 years from now, unless Capcom still has exists, the PS3 can still connect to the net, and Capcom still has their DRM servers running? It's incredible.
I believe Google also allows periods to be inserted into the username. So if you have a 1-character username, there are 4 possible aliases involving only inserted periods (x, x.,.x, and.x.), and 256 aliases if you have a 7-character username.
The problem though is that this assumes a non-malicious entity. If malicious, it can trivially determine your real gmail address and spam that. It's best if the email alias bears no resemblance to your real email address, and ideally is on a site that doesn't just hand out aliases (otherwise they'd just block it).
The Government-imposed internet blackout lasted five days, beginning last Friday, and ending on Wednesday.
...and the economic damage will last much longer. What company would want to have its operations in Egypt when it might have its net connection broken for days at the whim of the ruling power?
And, if people educated themselves that GPS is merely a tool, not an authority on what turns you should make, would GPS come out as even more of a life-saver?
They will claim that people born at a certain time of year share some traits... (like it's some kind of scientific measurable proof. sigh)
No, it's true! Every single Scorpio I've ever met has without fail shared the trait of breathing air. It's uncanny. Also, one time in college they had an astrologist visit and hand out printed reports to each of us. It was amazing how accurate it was. My friends said theirs was really accurate too.
Interesting question. How do they calculate the top 5% of users anyway? Usage during previous month? Usage for first 10 days of month? And why is it the top 5% anyway? If it's due to the network itself having limited bandwidth, then it should be based on peak usage and total number of users on the network. Otherwise, let's say that for one month nobody does anything bandwidth-intensive, they'd still throttle the top 5%, even though the network wasn't being stressed.
Is Verizon advertising a guaranteed bandwidth? I haven't seen one. They're not cutting off service, but throttling it to a lower speed. It's still unlimited.
So if they dropped you to 50 kbps, it would be fine as well? What does unlimited mean if not "you can use the service as much as you want, and we will not penalize you for using more than some amount"? It's not unlimited, and it's not even unmetered; it's full bandwidth until N GB, and then lower bandwidth for the rest of the month. That is not unlimited.
This is exactly what Telefonica in Spain does and I think it's a good idea. Instead of charging you some huge rate past a certain limit that you may not know you passed, they just reduce the speed. It still works at the slower speed (although streaming video might not work so well), and it only affects those customers that are streaming audio or video very often.
I agree that given a network whose capacity cannot be expanded, it is a decent way of improving overall service, but it is NOT an honest way to run things IF you claim unlimited service. See the problem? It's one of misrepresentation. Why don't they honestly represent it in the ads? Probably because they wouldn't get as much business. People would actually know up-front that it's metered, and examine other carriers' plans for better deals, and there would be that awful thing called competition.
Why such a low limit of aliases? I'd think you'd want to use a separate alias for every service you sign up to, so that if at any point it starts sending you crap and you can't get it to stop, you can kill the alias. I've been using gishpuppy for a few years and love it, though it's not clear whether it's being actively maintained. Unlimited number of aliases that forward to your real email address on whatever service you currently use. You can have them auto-expire after some time period, or manually expire them.
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Some of us would even say it gains something, which is why we read Slashdot with no JavaScript, no stylesheet, minimal bandwidth mode, etc.
Yeah, if only there were a way to "encrypt" such communications so that a middleman couldn't do anything besides completely block your communications. Maybe in a few decades...
It's not a question of better chances, just that eventually they'll be able to slip by.
So don't support it. Find the most expensive widgets produced in the most inefficient manner and buy those instead. Avoid companies that automate anything. For example, if you have people clean your house, be sure they do so without any tools, cleaners, etc. It may take them several days, but you will be employing them much more than selfish people who allow them to use cleaners.
Instead of making it cheaper for a person to ignore his health, make it more expensive. Have high deductibles so that he's better off taking preventive measures than having to be hospitalized and paying a high deductible. Or I suppose you could just make it so hospital visits were guaranteed 100% fatal...
Anime is a great sample subject when the question is whether Anime piracy is beneficial to publishers. Though if it is, I think it should be called what it is: free (viral) marketing.
Thanks, this never clicked for me until now. Sure, I've heard people say how they "stole" these things, but that always came across as hyperbole because they never prevented anyone from reading the originals. But what you said puts the inconsistency in plain view: Mark Twain's work wasn't hundreds of years old when Disney made things based on it, yet the copyright extensions pushed by Disney etc. will make it at least that long until anyone derive from Disney's work.
Then it's working.
Oh come on, it's not that bad; we only get them every other day.
No, the point here is to see whether it's companies who have a history of lobbying for changes that seem benign, but turn out to be corrupt. There the cover IS a good indicator of the content, in a way that you might not even realize on a cursory examination of the content itself.
Maybe they would like it to be available to all, rather than locked away.
Well, as long as it's IPv6. Wait, what were we talking about?
I'm someone who's only been to Facebook a few times, due to Google searches taking me there. I understand that it's a social site for people to post information about themselves and communicate with friends who use the service. I don't understand it when I see a product saying "Come visit us on Facebook!". Is this just a glorified web page? Why not just put up a website for your company, and let people link to it? Maybe it's like software APIs or something, where the company's Facebook page is a sort of wrapper that makes their interface match that of other Facebook users?
You consider it undemocratic that if I offer to trade 2*N widgets, I can get twice as much in return, and that it would be better if I got the same as some other guy who only offered to trade N widgets?
Indeed, that's all I played on my VB until I sold it. Really slick game, albeit extremely tiring to play any length of time.
I have a collection of old game systems and enjoy playing them regularly. I just can't get my head around these current schemes. I am I right that it will be impossible to collect something like the PS3 and this Capcom game and play it 15 years from now, unless Capcom still has exists, the PS3 can still connect to the net, and Capcom still has their DRM servers running? It's incredible.
The problem though is that this assumes a non-malicious entity. If malicious, it can trivially determine your real gmail address and spam that. It's best if the email alias bears no resemblance to your real email address, and ideally is on a site that doesn't just hand out aliases (otherwise they'd just block it).
...and the economic damage will last much longer. What company would want to have its operations in Egypt when it might have its net connection broken for days at the whim of the ruling power?
And, if people educated themselves that GPS is merely a tool, not an authority on what turns you should make, would GPS come out as even more of a life-saver?
No, it's true! Every single Scorpio I've ever met has without fail shared the trait of breathing air. It's uncanny. Also, one time in college they had an astrologist visit and hand out printed reports to each of us. It was amazing how accurate it was. My friends said theirs was really accurate too.
Interesting question. How do they calculate the top 5% of users anyway? Usage during previous month? Usage for first 10 days of month? And why is it the top 5% anyway? If it's due to the network itself having limited bandwidth, then it should be based on peak usage and total number of users on the network. Otherwise, let's say that for one month nobody does anything bandwidth-intensive, they'd still throttle the top 5%, even though the network wasn't being stressed.
So if they dropped you to 50 kbps, it would be fine as well? What does unlimited mean if not "you can use the service as much as you want, and we will not penalize you for using more than some amount"? It's not unlimited, and it's not even unmetered; it's full bandwidth until N GB, and then lower bandwidth for the rest of the month. That is not unlimited.
I agree that given a network whose capacity cannot be expanded, it is a decent way of improving overall service, but it is NOT an honest way to run things IF you claim unlimited service. See the problem? It's one of misrepresentation. Why don't they honestly represent it in the ads? Probably because they wouldn't get as much business. People would actually know up-front that it's metered, and examine other carriers' plans for better deals, and there would be that awful thing called competition.
Yes, so instead of a company undercutting by offering the product for free, they use this bad law to sue the smaller guy and suck money from him.
Why such a low limit of aliases? I'd think you'd want to use a separate alias for every service you sign up to, so that if at any point it starts sending you crap and you can't get it to stop, you can kill the alias. I've been using gishpuppy for a few years and love it, though it's not clear whether it's being actively maintained. Unlimited number of aliases that forward to your real email address on whatever service you currently use. You can have them auto-expire after some time period, or manually expire them.
My thought exactly. This merely focuses sunlight. It doesn't generate any energy, or even convert it for that matter.