Now, to be completely clear - I feel overselling bandwidth is wrong. I feel the proper response to issues like this on the larger network is guaranteed access to the full amount of bandwidth sold at all times.
That blog posting reads like PR. It's so clearly not objective. The biggest reason I switched to Google's DNS is that it doesn't do any damn redirection. I hate that OpenDNS search page that comes up. I don't see any way to configure OpenDNS without having to sign up or something annoying. Google's doesn't require any signup; just 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and go.
And what strikes me as even more silly is when people use the comeback of "But [insert person, group, company, etc] is (probably) already doing it too!" as if that justifies the actions of someone else.
No, but it does show that singling one out as the only one is not justified, and it highlights the erroneous approach of focusing only on new things, all the while ignoring things that have been around all along, like your ISP being able to datamine everything you do.
When I first read about this, I immediately thought about datamining. But after another second, I figured that I would prefer Google to have this information than Verizon
What makes you think Verizon isn't doing packet inspection to datamine regardless?
Yes, laser is great. I print only occasionally and got fed up with the "oh, you're powering the printer on, we need to waste a lot of ink before you print" routine. I got a really cheap Samsung used, refilled the starter toner cartridge for $10, and have been going fine ever since. I will never, ever use a fucking inkjet again, given that ink that costs more than human blood.
I bet the MAFIAA would have hated this guy. Every day he could listen to the same song or watch the same movie, never paying them more then the one-time cost to purchase it. Imagine the laws they would have crafted to deal with people like him who rob them of all that profit!
[...] On this site, contrary to every principle of usability and common sense, you can't easily browse pictures of the apartments for rent. [...] Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
That's why they don't allow browsing by images: bandwidth. They're providing the best service possible given the constraints they've adopted, and I happen to hope they don't change.
The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
Yes, it's called a positive externality. News sites make web pages available, other web sites link to them. What's the problem? That's how the web is supposed to work.
Another things to consider is heat output. More or less, any energy that isn't becoming light is becoming heat. Now in some areas of the world, that matters little to none.
It's still a waste if you have a heat pump, which has a coefficient of performance (COP) greater than 1.0. A resistive heater is 1.0.
However in hot climates, it does. An incandescent produces more heat which gets dumped in to the air in your house. You then have to run your AC more often. So you end up paying double for the power, in terms of using it and then eliminating the excess.
An air conditioner also has a COP greater than 1.0, so you don't pay double for the excess energy the incandescent uses.
So, if you need heating and don't have a heat pump, you might as well use incandescents in the winter. If you do have a heat pump, or it's summer, use CFLs.
[the] Vegetarian Society remained skeptical. "The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust."
The label that will identify it will be the price tag. Isn't the whole point so that it can cost a lot less? Who would pay more (or even the same) for inferior synthetic meat?
Doesn't sound like robbery, unless the usernames were taken. If that is the case, how do these users even know their usernames anymore? "I'd like to report a stolen username, but since it was stolen, I can't tell you what the username was. If I knew it, it I wouldn't be reporting it as stolen, now would I?"
Regardless if global warming is a problem, we should ALL strive to lessen our effect on the environment. Restricting emissions that may not heat up the planet, BUT have noticeable problems on health of humans and wildlife.
Everything we do has an effect on the environment. Lessening things that have an effect that's detrimental to us is good, but there are different approaches we can take, each with different tradeoffs. We must know what things are most harmful. We must also trade off who gets the benefits. And finally, we aren't going to devote 100% of our resources to reducing effects, so there's another tradeoff we must make. If we're rational, we'll not let politics color our scientific investigation into the facts of the environment and effects on it, and we'll acknowledge the inherent tradeoffs when we're deciding how much to devote to environmental issues.
Slashdot Mirror
bioavailability. Crudely, if it comes right back out in your piss or shit, you didn't retain it.
Why do we need protection from companies whom we have to voluntarily associate with?
You can get this today, but it'll cost you a lot.
That blog posting reads like PR. It's so clearly not objective. The biggest reason I switched to Google's DNS is that it doesn't do any damn redirection. I hate that OpenDNS search page that comes up. I don't see any way to configure OpenDNS without having to sign up or something annoying. Google's doesn't require any signup; just 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and go.
No, but it does show that singling one out as the only one is not justified, and it highlights the erroneous approach of focusing only on new things, all the while ignoring things that have been around all along, like your ISP being able to datamine everything you do.
The hard white part that surrounds the soft inner parts is bad. It should be removed before eating.
What makes you think Verizon isn't doing packet inspection to datamine regardless?
Don't blame the summarizer for not having access to technology as a child, and thus lacking literacy skills.
Yes, laser is great. I print only occasionally and got fed up with the "oh, you're powering the printer on, we need to waste a lot of ink before you print" routine. I got a really cheap Samsung used, refilled the starter toner cartridge for $10, and have been going fine ever since. I will never, ever use a fucking inkjet again, given that ink that costs more than human blood.
Not my social networking site. I'm a network of one!
I bet the MAFIAA would have hated this guy. Every day he could listen to the same song or watch the same movie, never paying them more then the one-time cost to purchase it. Imagine the laws they would have crafted to deal with people like him who rob them of all that profit!
You're asking whether we remember a crackpot theory that was advanced less than two months ago? How could we forget it?
In case you don't want to read the article, here are the first two lines they decoded:
Well, would you like me to Google that for you?
That's why they don't allow browsing by images: bandwidth. They're providing the best service possible given the constraints they've adopted, and I happen to hope they don't change.
Why are you dragging Sue's name through the mud?
Yes, it's called a positive externality. News sites make web pages available, other web sites link to them. What's the problem? That's how the web is supposed to work.
And now it's a nice puddle of Slashdottedness.
It's still a waste if you have a heat pump, which has a coefficient of performance (COP) greater than 1.0. A resistive heater is 1.0.
An air conditioner also has a COP greater than 1.0, so you don't pay double for the excess energy the incandescent uses.
So, if you need heating and don't have a heat pump, you might as well use incandescents in the winter. If you do have a heat pump, or it's summer, use CFLs.
The label that will identify it will be the price tag. Isn't the whole point so that it can cost a lot less? Who would pay more (or even the same) for inferior synthetic meat?
I thought all accounts were housed in the servers for the game.
I think we'll find that web surfers are the real cause of web slowdown.
Doesn't sound like robbery, unless the usernames were taken. If that is the case, how do these users even know their usernames anymore? "I'd like to report a stolen username, but since it was stolen, I can't tell you what the username was. If I knew it, it I wouldn't be reporting it as stolen, now would I?"
Cavemen. Fire. Duh.
Everything we do has an effect on the environment. Lessening things that have an effect that's detrimental to us is good, but there are different approaches we can take, each with different tradeoffs. We must know what things are most harmful. We must also trade off who gets the benefits. And finally, we aren't going to devote 100% of our resources to reducing effects, so there's another tradeoff we must make. If we're rational, we'll not let politics color our scientific investigation into the facts of the environment and effects on it, and we'll acknowledge the inherent tradeoffs when we're deciding how much to devote to environmental issues.