London isn't the only place in the UK they are considering such a scheme. They are talking about the exact same thing for Edinburgh. The cost will be less (£2 per day I think), but it's the same idea of using cameras rather than setting up toll points.
It's a problem with Javascript. If you disable Javascript in your preferences then it will load pages ok again. At least on Linux you can fix it by killing and restarting. With Netscape on NT you have to log off and log back in before Javascript starts working again.
I fail to see how this is any different from alt.binaries.* on Usenet. Plenty of companies and universities no longer carry them (or any newsgroups for that matter) for the exact same reason sites now wish to restrict bandwidth used by Napster: It uses up an inordinate amount of bandwidth at the expense of those who wish or need to do real work.
I don't agree that this is the same. As a sys admin in a University I would say the main reasons for providing alt.binaries.* newsgroups are to do with (i) storage space on the news server and (ii) not wanting to be see hosting pr0n newgroups. All that ends up happening is that the students point their news readers at external sites which do hosts these groups and read them from there. This will actually require more bandwith as articles will be downloaded every time a user reads them, rather than just once overnight when our newsfeed comes in.
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London isn't the only place in the UK they are considering such a scheme. They are talking about the exact same thing for Edinburgh. The cost will be less (£2 per day I think), but it's the same idea of using cameras rather than setting up toll points.
It's a problem with Javascript. If you disable Javascript in your preferences then it will load pages ok again. At least on Linux you can fix it by killing and restarting. With Netscape on NT you have to log off and log back in before Javascript starts working again.
- I fail to see how this is any different from alt.binaries.* on Usenet. Plenty of companies and universities no longer carry them (or any newsgroups for that matter) for the exact same reason sites now wish to restrict bandwidth used by Napster: It uses up an inordinate amount of bandwidth at the expense of those who wish or need to do real work.
I don't agree that this is the same. As a sys admin in a University I would say the main reasons for providing alt.binaries.* newsgroups are to do with (i) storage space on the news server and (ii) not wanting to be see hosting pr0n newgroups. All that ends up happening is that the students point their news readers at external sites which do hosts these groups and read them from there. This will actually require more bandwith as articles will be downloaded every time a user reads them, rather than just once overnight when our newsfeed comes in.