Let's be perfectly frank here: the reason the court gave a free pass to the police is because this was a "child pornography" case. All logic flies out the window as soon as you mention CP, particularly so in Ontario for some reason. I don't know if it's the rampant conservative values that are to blame, but 'round here people have no spine unless children are "in danger". They will beat and harass released pedophiles (who have served their sentence), go on month-long searches for missing children (but not adults), but arrest anyone else for any other false reason and they will just look the other way while your life gets destroyed by the nanny police.
Worst case, if you get caught for some other "cybercrime" not involving CP, they have no shortage of people willing to plant or fabricate evidence to support their prosecution. We had one such cop nailed just a few years ago, I guess he pissed off one of his buddies and they turned him in. He was found out to be the leader of a child prostitution ring up here in Ontario. I really wish I could dig up the link...
So when the second alarm fails, everyone will turn up their TV volume and burn to a crisp while watching The Hills, because "it's just a phase one fire" ?
There's no business justification to find and sell a cure, when the life-long treatments are so insanely lucrative.
Diabetes is a close second to STDs. Those meds cost a damn fortune, representing anywhere from tens to a hundred thousand dollars over a diabetic's life - multiply that by the number of diabetes sufferers in the world; that's a shit-ton of money. You just can't sell a cure for that much money, people would just storm the labs and steal it.
When you mess with people's lives, they tend to get violently angry and take action.
Unless the fire spreads to a volatile area like a kitchen or chemical storage area (cleaning products), goes boom and reminds you how lightweight cubicle materials can quickly become high-velocity shrapnel.
Not all buildings are hyper-designed pinnacles of safety. Contractors don't live in the building, they aren't afraid to cut corners if they can get away with it.
Because the U.S. has a long-standing tradition of saddling "business use" with higher costs. People have this deeply-rooted mentality that if they're helping you make money, they should get a piece of the action too. It is assumed that if you're running Active Directory, you're big enough to afford the AD tax.
Just look at other "business class" software and their pricing models. Photoshop costs a thousand bucks - for functionality a teenager could recreate with a simple UI and Imagemagick (and a random bug/crash generator). Music software costs umpteen times more than it's worth, is typically written by absolutely horrible coders and crashes/destroys your work on a regular basis, but because you just might write a hit and become "rich" with it, they get away with charging $500+ for a set of canned drum loops or tired old synth patches.
Kanye will eventually get shot by one of his employees/managers/rivals, and auto-tune will go back into hibernation for another decade.
Eventually, "artists" will learn that electronic music tools should remain in the electronic music genre, as sonic exploration devices. Daft Punk can auto-tune whatever the hell they want, because they're not in the singing business.
In other words, if your computer does the singing for you, don't go around telling people you can sing.
You say he was stupid to get a picture taken while holding a joint, but really what is stupider ?
A. Smoking marijuana recreationally with friends, on private time ?
B. Believing that a photo of a harmless victimless act represents a big heinous crime punishable by shame and shunning ?
If you're desperate to fight drugs, at least fight the invariably evil ones like backyard meth and crack. Those drugs actually destroy people, but with pot, the drug itself is mostly harmless, it's the naysayers who are the ones destroying lives with their near-religious bigotry.
For some reason, your reply just invoked some weird future where everyone is a complete ignorant talking out of their ass... OH SHIT THAT'S THE PRESENT!
The "quality" of a pipe over another is the result of several measurable and meaningful factors. Latency is one of them, uptime is another, peering/saturation, etc. There's more to bandwidth than just volume. For example, I lease cheap servers with cheap bandwidth in Europe. I mean *REALLY* cheap. I get pretty bad latency since my bits have to cross an ocean to reach me, but man is it ever cheap and I don't mind the latency so much. I'm not running millisecond-critical stuff, I just host a few web sites and large-ish files.
Cogent's bandwidth is "bad", because they have slightly greater latency than most, because their peering points are a bit more congested than most, because their incident response times are a little longer than most, and because they might be a little less reliable than most. But they're significantly cheaper than the rest and 99% as good.
It's not that Cogent is "bad", they're just slightly riskier than the others, by a rather small margin. They're still pretty damned decent and an amazing value for the money, but if your online business cannot afford a few hours of downtime or absolutely ass routing/latency once in a while, then Cogent can and will ruin you. That's partly why lots of places use a mix of different backhauls, so when everything is peachy, they can route traffic over the cheapest peer, but if it goes down they switch to a backup to ensure 100% uptime until the Cogent techs finish their Naxx raid and fix your problem.
You upgrade to the next tier up with 250gb ? Seems to me, if you were able to afford an HD setup and Netflix membership, you can probably spring an extra $20 for faster internet with a more generous cap. That's the whole point of tiered service: those who use it less, pay less.
My mother has a nice cheap 5mbit 10gb service which is quicker than she is and cheaper than a 2nd phone line; she's happy with it. Most of my friends have a 10mbit 100gb service, and they're happy with it. I pay a bit more and I have 10mbit uncapped, and I'm quite happy with it. I think it's perfectly normal to pay more in order to get more.
But hey, what the hell do I know, I'm just a movie-loving geek with a 1080p display, a few terabytes of media and a fast internet connection. I get to watch what I want, when I want it, and I pay what I think is a fair price for that convenience.
If that's a *very* residential-user application, then I hope I never have to share a datacenter with you. You know, you could just do a regular backup to a portable hard drive and store it at the office, like a sane backup freak would do.
Just because we have the ability to generate massive amounts of junk data, does not mean we should.
If I were on Charter cable, I would immediately drop service.
No, you would not. You would be happy to have internet access at all. You have to realize 100gb is still a hefty chunk of data. I don't care if you're into porn, anime or multi-monitor Youtube asshattery, it still takes a fair bit of work to suck down and consume that much data, and I'm sure you'd rather suck down your 100gb in 15mbit bursts, than at a steady 40kbit. Download takes a few seconds, then you can enjoy the content instead of waiting for it.
I'm not in support of caps, but even as a heavy bandwidth user, I think 100gb for "normal people" is reasonable, and 250gb for the next tier up is more than most people can reasonably use right now.
Or, if you're one of those fucktards on DSLreports who boasts about downloading terabytes a month on your $68 cable plan, well you're spending a lot more than that on hard disks or blank DVDs to store all that garbage. In that case, I have no sympathy whatsoever. They offer a hyperfast uncapped plan that's cheaper than anything I could procure in a freaking datancenter, for crying out loud! If the extra $50 is too much for you, tough tits.
The problem is, if you "accept" caps, then an unreasonable cap will be forced upon you.
This reminds me of all the Docsis 3.0 "deals" where an 18mbit 60gb monthly plan costs more than a 10mbit 120gb monthly plan. It's nearly twice the speed but you only get half the total transfer allocation. BULLSHIT!
It's good that (for now) Charter's top tier is still uncapped. They seem to actually get it, "it" being "what power users want". Now, that said, I still think 250gb is extremely generous. I run a few seedboxes overseas, and I have yet to see a single account, not even my own, exceed 250gb/month.
Yes, except the article is absolute fanboyish filth that makes no effort to prove anything. It just takes a bunch of unrelated numbers, puts them into colourful charts and pretends it can draw conclusions from them.
I, for one, don't spend much time booting and shutting down, and I can vouch for the fact that Linux' lack of defragging tools has resulted in my file server slowing to a crawl over time, bad enough that every few months I pull off all the files, wipe the partition then load the files back on, to turn 4mb/sec reads into 150mb/sec:P
Here's something for the fanboys to ponder: at home I run XP, but at the office I run Linux (plus a Windows VM). As a web developer and network guru, Linux lets me work far more quickly and efficiently due to its network-centric design. It doesn't feel "faster" nor slower than Windows, it is just "better" for the kind of work I do. It most certainly is not "better" for the things I do at home, such as playing games, editing video and producing music. I don't care about your so-called "better value" if it turns my beefy media workstation/gaming rig into a useless space heater. If my sole concern was web surfing speed, I'd go back to OS/2 Warp and Netscape 3.02.
"Borrowing" implies they give it back after they're done using it. There is no such thing as "borrowing" bandwidth. They are "using" bandwidth, other people's bandwidth, to deliver their content without having to foot the bill.
Now I'm all for P2P and decentralized communities, but CNN does not fit the description. They are a corporate entity encroaching on other people's property.
Quite the opposite, Mr Troll, he's making the point that rich people are NOT immune, and they need to stop ignoring these problems which they seem to think only affect other people in other countries.
The attendees are pissed at him, because they are spoiled magnates and he just made asses of them. So sue the man! See if he cares...
Frankly, I think he should have stabbed everyone with an HIV syringe. Maybe _that_ would stimulate these cocky ego-stroking bastards to release the cure.
If they made their fire drill look and act like a game, that's their own damn fault. Real people don't strafe-jump down the stairs either. In fact, real people tend to just stand around staring at each other, complaining about how the alarm makes it difficult to work and how some people take these drills too seriously. After a few minutes they start asking "Should we leave ?" as their cube neighbour shrugs "I dunno, let's go raid the vending machines!".
People are (mostly) idiots, and I don't know of any game that can accurately simulate that "social lemming" aspect of human behavior. It's not the drill procedure itself that's so terrible, once people are moving, they will continue following whoever's in front of them. It's getting them to start moving that's the hard part.
If by "specialized BIOS", you mean "storage controller firmware on the card", then yes.
This is hardly different from any SCSI or SATA controller on the market, only this one has the "disk" built-in. When the system is POSTing, it triggers every device's initialization routine, which is where a disk controller can let the BIOS know it has (bootable) disks up for grabs.
Maybe I'm being a little too logical here, but I don't consider 700 open jobs to be a "good market", in a population of 300-million for Microsoft, nor 3200 jobs worldwide for IBM.
That, to me, is proof that nobody I know is going to be getting a tech job anytime soon. Better get in line for plumbing school:P
The article clearly states that there will be TWO editions: Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Professional. This mirrors XP's Home and Pro editions.
The "other four" editions are for specifically targeted markets, like the Starter edition for low-end 3rd world machines, and the Home Basic edition probably destined for netbooks and the like. For most users, there will only be Home and Pro to consider, and the differences are fairly clear-cut, just like they were for XP. You won't see six different W7 boxes at Staples, you will see two.
Keep in mind, XP also had a handful of spinoff editions for foreign markets and low-end machines. Most people have never even heard of them, because your mother doesn't need to know about Windows XP KN Edition or Windows XP FlexGo-Brasil:P
Now, even with 2 main SKUs, this is still just a small subset of the features Vista was supposed to have in the first place, and that's nothing to be proud of, but those who choose to bitch and moan about having "too many versions of Windows" will be required to sit down and shut up, because there is nothing wrong with Home and Pro. In fact, that kind of split is better than just having one mega-distro for both environment, from a usability perspective.
Since when does the U.S. respect foreign laws on foreign territory ? What... you think the rest of the world hates the U.S. just because it's trendy ? No! They hate because the U.S. government is an obnoxious self-righteous bully that still acts like it owns the damned planet.
The fact that they often get away with it, however, is an international failure. The "victims" deserve full blame for not holding U.S. envoys responsible for their actions.
You would be surprised the kind of things you can find on TPB. It is, after all, a public tracker, meaning anyone can post anything. Not everyone on the internet is a 14-year old warez kiddie.
I think they're basically modernizing the old ATA security lockout, as made popular by the original Xbox. I do agree it's rather domineering to not include a "clear password" option. Sure, you'll lose the encryption key and the data is lost, but I'd much rather have a blank drive than a bricked one. This sort of draconian "security" is a sysadmin's nightmare, as now you can't just reimage a drive any old way, you have to reimage it in the target PC. If that board dies (as Dell/HP machines just love to do), you have to toss out the drive. You can't boot it elsewhere:P It will result in a few more hard drive sales at a hefty premium, but the benefit to end-users and their employers is hugely trumped by the nuisance caused by this "feature".
And twitter, take a chill pill with your open-source FUD. You're making us all look like religious fanatics. FOSS is about choice, not war.
A BIOS actually does not have that much to do, by definition. The problem is that PC architecture is crusty and hasn't evolved all that much since the 80's. It should not be the BIOS' job to handle USB/Ethernet or any other hardware niggling, such feats belong in the hardware's own controller. If each component did its job and presented a uniform, reliable interface to the BIOS, we could be writing very simple BIOSes that glue it all together and give us a simple UI to configure the pre-boot stage. That's really all a modern operating system needs.
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Let's be perfectly frank here: the reason the court gave a free pass to the police is because this was a "child pornography" case. All logic flies out the window as soon as you mention CP, particularly so in Ontario for some reason. I don't know if it's the rampant conservative values that are to blame, but 'round here people have no spine unless children are "in danger". They will beat and harass released pedophiles (who have served their sentence), go on month-long searches for missing children (but not adults), but arrest anyone else for any other false reason and they will just look the other way while your life gets destroyed by the nanny police.
Worst case, if you get caught for some other "cybercrime" not involving CP, they have no shortage of people willing to plant or fabricate evidence to support their prosecution. We had one such cop nailed just a few years ago, I guess he pissed off one of his buddies and they turned him in. He was found out to be the leader of a child prostitution ring up here in Ontario. I really wish I could dig up the link...
HDCP for the alphabet - just translate it to cuneiform.
So when the second alarm fails, everyone will turn up their TV volume and burn to a crisp while watching The Hills, because "it's just a phase one fire" ?
There's no business justification to find and sell a cure, when the life-long treatments are so insanely lucrative.
Diabetes is a close second to STDs. Those meds cost a damn fortune, representing anywhere from tens to a hundred thousand dollars over a diabetic's life - multiply that by the number of diabetes sufferers in the world; that's a shit-ton of money. You just can't sell a cure for that much money, people would just storm the labs and steal it.
When you mess with people's lives, they tend to get violently angry and take action.
Unless the fire spreads to a volatile area like a kitchen or chemical storage area (cleaning products), goes boom and reminds you how lightweight cubicle materials can quickly become high-velocity shrapnel.
Not all buildings are hyper-designed pinnacles of safety. Contractors don't live in the building, they aren't afraid to cut corners if they can get away with it.
Because the U.S. has a long-standing tradition of saddling "business use" with higher costs. People have this deeply-rooted mentality that if they're helping you make money, they should get a piece of the action too. It is assumed that if you're running Active Directory, you're big enough to afford the AD tax.
Just look at other "business class" software and their pricing models. Photoshop costs a thousand bucks - for functionality a teenager could recreate with a simple UI and Imagemagick (and a random bug/crash generator). Music software costs umpteen times more than it's worth, is typically written by absolutely horrible coders and crashes/destroys your work on a regular basis, but because you just might write a hit and become "rich" with it, they get away with charging $500+ for a set of canned drum loops or tired old synth patches.
It's communist capitalism, I guess.
Kanye will eventually get shot by one of his employees/managers/rivals, and auto-tune will go back into hibernation for another decade.
Eventually, "artists" will learn that electronic music tools should remain in the electronic music genre, as sonic exploration devices. Daft Punk can auto-tune whatever the hell they want, because they're not in the singing business.
In other words, if your computer does the singing for you, don't go around telling people you can sing.
You say he was stupid to get a picture taken while holding a joint, but really what is stupider ?
A. Smoking marijuana recreationally with friends, on private time ?
B. Believing that a photo of a harmless victimless act represents a big heinous crime punishable by shame and shunning ?
If you're desperate to fight drugs, at least fight the invariably evil ones like backyard meth and crack. Those drugs actually destroy people, but with pot, the drug itself is mostly harmless, it's the naysayers who are the ones destroying lives with their near-religious bigotry.
For some reason, your reply just invoked some weird future where everyone is a complete ignorant talking out of their ass... OH SHIT THAT'S THE PRESENT!
The "quality" of a pipe over another is the result of several measurable and meaningful factors. Latency is one of them, uptime is another, peering/saturation, etc. There's more to bandwidth than just volume. For example, I lease cheap servers with cheap bandwidth in Europe. I mean *REALLY* cheap. I get pretty bad latency since my bits have to cross an ocean to reach me, but man is it ever cheap and I don't mind the latency so much. I'm not running millisecond-critical stuff, I just host a few web sites and large-ish files.
Cogent's bandwidth is "bad", because they have slightly greater latency than most, because their peering points are a bit more congested than most, because their incident response times are a little longer than most, and because they might be a little less reliable than most. But they're significantly cheaper than the rest and 99% as good.
It's not that Cogent is "bad", they're just slightly riskier than the others, by a rather small margin. They're still pretty damned decent and an amazing value for the money, but if your online business cannot afford a few hours of downtime or absolutely ass routing/latency once in a while, then Cogent can and will ruin you. That's partly why lots of places use a mix of different backhauls, so when everything is peachy, they can route traffic over the cheapest peer, but if it goes down they switch to a backup to ensure 100% uptime until the Cogent techs finish their Naxx raid and fix your problem.
You upgrade to the next tier up with 250gb ? Seems to me, if you were able to afford an HD setup and Netflix membership, you can probably spring an extra $20 for faster internet with a more generous cap. That's the whole point of tiered service: those who use it less, pay less.
My mother has a nice cheap 5mbit 10gb service which is quicker than she is and cheaper than a 2nd phone line; she's happy with it. Most of my friends have a 10mbit 100gb service, and they're happy with it. I pay a bit more and I have 10mbit uncapped, and I'm quite happy with it. I think it's perfectly normal to pay more in order to get more.
But hey, what the hell do I know, I'm just a movie-loving geek with a 1080p display, a few terabytes of media and a fast internet connection. I get to watch what I want, when I want it, and I pay what I think is a fair price for that convenience.
If that's a *very* residential-user application, then I hope I never have to share a datacenter with you. You know, you could just do a regular backup to a portable hard drive and store it at the office, like a sane backup freak would do.
Just because we have the ability to generate massive amounts of junk data, does not mean we should.
You seem to ignore the fact that GP is a cave-dwelling troll who downloads furry pr0n 24/7.
If I were on Charter cable, I would immediately drop service.
No, you would not. You would be happy to have internet access at all. You have to realize 100gb is still a hefty chunk of data. I don't care if you're into porn, anime or multi-monitor Youtube asshattery, it still takes a fair bit of work to suck down and consume that much data, and I'm sure you'd rather suck down your 100gb in 15mbit bursts, than at a steady 40kbit. Download takes a few seconds, then you can enjoy the content instead of waiting for it.
I'm not in support of caps, but even as a heavy bandwidth user, I think 100gb for "normal people" is reasonable, and 250gb for the next tier up is more than most people can reasonably use right now.
Or, if you're one of those fucktards on DSLreports who boasts about downloading terabytes a month on your $68 cable plan, well you're spending a lot more than that on hard disks or blank DVDs to store all that garbage. In that case, I have no sympathy whatsoever. They offer a hyperfast uncapped plan that's cheaper than anything I could procure in a freaking datancenter, for crying out loud! If the extra $50 is too much for you, tough tits.
The problem is, if you "accept" caps, then an unreasonable cap will be forced upon you.
This reminds me of all the Docsis 3.0 "deals" where an 18mbit 60gb monthly plan costs more than a 10mbit 120gb monthly plan. It's nearly twice the speed but you only get half the total transfer allocation. BULLSHIT!
It's good that (for now) Charter's top tier is still uncapped. They seem to actually get it, "it" being "what power users want". Now, that said, I still think 250gb is extremely generous. I run a few seedboxes overseas, and I have yet to see a single account, not even my own, exceed 250gb/month.
Yes, except the article is absolute fanboyish filth that makes no effort to prove anything. It just takes a bunch of unrelated numbers, puts them into colourful charts and pretends it can draw conclusions from them.
I, for one, don't spend much time booting and shutting down, and I can vouch for the fact that Linux' lack of defragging tools has resulted in my file server slowing to a crawl over time, bad enough that every few months I pull off all the files, wipe the partition then load the files back on, to turn 4mb/sec reads into 150mb/sec :P
Here's something for the fanboys to ponder: at home I run XP, but at the office I run Linux (plus a Windows VM). As a web developer and network guru, Linux lets me work far more quickly and efficiently due to its network-centric design. It doesn't feel "faster" nor slower than Windows, it is just "better" for the kind of work I do. It most certainly is not "better" for the things I do at home, such as playing games, editing video and producing music. I don't care about your so-called "better value" if it turns my beefy media workstation/gaming rig into a useless space heater. If my sole concern was web surfing speed, I'd go back to OS/2 Warp and Netscape 3.02.
"Borrowing" implies they give it back after they're done using it. There is no such thing as "borrowing" bandwidth. They are "using" bandwidth, other people's bandwidth, to deliver their content without having to foot the bill.
Now I'm all for P2P and decentralized communities, but CNN does not fit the description. They are a corporate entity encroaching on other people's property.
Quite the opposite, Mr Troll, he's making the point that rich people are NOT immune, and they need to stop ignoring these problems which they seem to think only affect other people in other countries.
The attendees are pissed at him, because they are spoiled magnates and he just made asses of them. So sue the man! See if he cares...
Frankly, I think he should have stabbed everyone with an HIV syringe. Maybe _that_ would stimulate these cocky ego-stroking bastards to release the cure.
Get the rocket launcher and make your own exit ?
If they made their fire drill look and act like a game, that's their own damn fault. Real people don't strafe-jump down the stairs either. In fact, real people tend to just stand around staring at each other, complaining about how the alarm makes it difficult to work and how some people take these drills too seriously. After a few minutes they start asking "Should we leave ?" as their cube neighbour shrugs "I dunno, let's go raid the vending machines!".
People are (mostly) idiots, and I don't know of any game that can accurately simulate that "social lemming" aspect of human behavior. It's not the drill procedure itself that's so terrible, once people are moving, they will continue following whoever's in front of them. It's getting them to start moving that's the hard part.
If by "specialized BIOS", you mean "storage controller firmware on the card", then yes.
This is hardly different from any SCSI or SATA controller on the market, only this one has the "disk" built-in. When the system is POSTing, it triggers every device's initialization routine, which is where a disk controller can let the BIOS know it has (bootable) disks up for grabs.
Maybe I'm being a little too logical here, but I don't consider 700 open jobs to be a "good market", in a population of 300-million for Microsoft, nor 3200 jobs worldwide for IBM.
That, to me, is proof that nobody I know is going to be getting a tech job anytime soon. Better get in line for plumbing school :P
Hooray for sensationalist idiot posters :P
The article clearly states that there will be TWO editions: Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Professional. This mirrors XP's Home and Pro editions.
The "other four" editions are for specifically targeted markets, like the Starter edition for low-end 3rd world machines, and the Home Basic edition probably destined for netbooks and the like. For most users, there will only be Home and Pro to consider, and the differences are fairly clear-cut, just like they were for XP. You won't see six different W7 boxes at Staples, you will see two.
Keep in mind, XP also had a handful of spinoff editions for foreign markets and low-end machines. Most people have never even heard of them, because your mother doesn't need to know about Windows XP KN Edition or Windows XP FlexGo-Brasil :P
Now, even with 2 main SKUs, this is still just a small subset of the features Vista was supposed to have in the first place, and that's nothing to be proud of, but those who choose to bitch and moan about having "too many versions of Windows" will be required to sit down and shut up, because there is nothing wrong with Home and Pro. In fact, that kind of split is better than just having one mega-distro for both environment, from a usability perspective.
Since when does the U.S. respect foreign laws on foreign territory ? What... you think the rest of the world hates the U.S. just because it's trendy ? No! They hate because the U.S. government is an obnoxious self-righteous bully that still acts like it owns the damned planet.
The fact that they often get away with it, however, is an international failure. The "victims" deserve full blame for not holding U.S. envoys responsible for their actions.
You would be surprised the kind of things you can find on TPB. It is, after all, a public tracker, meaning anyone can post anything. Not everyone on the internet is a 14-year old warez kiddie.
I think they're basically modernizing the old ATA security lockout, as made popular by the original Xbox. I do agree it's rather domineering to not include a "clear password" option. Sure, you'll lose the encryption key and the data is lost, but I'd much rather have a blank drive than a bricked one. This sort of draconian "security" is a sysadmin's nightmare, as now you can't just reimage a drive any old way, you have to reimage it in the target PC. If that board dies (as Dell/HP machines just love to do), you have to toss out the drive. You can't boot it elsewhere :P It will result in a few more hard drive sales at a hefty premium, but the benefit to end-users and their employers is hugely trumped by the nuisance caused by this "feature".
And twitter, take a chill pill with your open-source FUD. You're making us all look like religious fanatics. FOSS is about choice, not war.
A BIOS actually does not have that much to do, by definition. The problem is that PC architecture is crusty and hasn't evolved all that much since the 80's. It should not be the BIOS' job to handle USB/Ethernet or any other hardware niggling, such feats belong in the hardware's own controller. If each component did its job and presented a uniform, reliable interface to the BIOS, we could be writing very simple BIOSes that glue it all together and give us a simple UI to configure the pre-boot stage. That's really all a modern operating system needs.