The 2 day part is just a perk, but honestly even if I were paying for the normal 7-10 day shipping it'd come out to more than $100 a year just from the textbooks and general things I order.
It's not just free 2day, it's also $2 overnight shipping! That's the only reason I have prime. All the other crap, such as streaming movies I don't want to watch is just useless fluff. $100/yr for free 2day or $2 overnight. That's what makes amazon.com for me. If it weren't for this, I probably would not buy from the site.
Also, you get to give out free prime memberships to your family members.
(although, with the advent of much cheaper LED lights, this may not be as much of a problem anymore).
Cheaper yes, cheap no. Cheap enough for third world families to buy them? I really doubt it. I just bought my first household LED's a month ago. They were almost $30 each.
Don't get kicked out of school and you won't have to go to secondary school. Count yourself lucky if your biggest problem involves digital certificates.
There is no reason to assume that TCP/IP or QoS will be standardized upon or even used at all here.
There is every reason to assume that. The car manufacturers are working hard not just to standardize on IPv6 in general, but in fact to have a common approach to such things as address allocation. QoS will be much easier to handle with ethernet, not because it is less complex but because the code is already written and widely deployed.
Also, QoS is a total dog if you are trying to employ it on consumer grade equipment.
I must admit that I have never tried to use QoS on ethernet with consumer grade equipment. Why would you want to though? Generally you have precisely one switch at home, and that switch is typically capable of simultaneous full speed on all ports, so it only drops packets if multiple input ports are trying to send more than 1 gigabit in total to one output port. I have difficult imagining that scenario in a home.
QoS on the WAN is entirely different, but the WAN is typically not yet ethernet, or at least not ethernet at standard speeds.
Perhaps FIOS is still atypical. 300Mbps/75Mbps is what I've got. Pity I can't get 300/300.
This article is about the L1 PHY layer, not the L2 Data Link layer. There is no reason to assume this means your car will be using TCP/IP. The diagram in TFA clearly indicates that the PHY layer being discussed here is independent of the protocol.
In fact, the included diagram seems to indicate broadcom is pitching some kind of adapter device which would enable inclusion of the new L1 layer with no changes whatsoever to the programming of the devices on either end. One would hope that such a thing would be only considered a stop-gap measure while they reworked their components to use the new bus natively in future models. History clearly shows that such adapters tend to be inefficient.
Mixing entertainment systems and critical safety systems on the same bus is common already. The only change is that with ethernet you get decent bandwidth and well-understood QoS.
QoS is OSI level 7. Ethernet is OSI level 1. There is no reason to assume that TCP/IP or QoS will be standardized upon or even used at all here.
Also, QoS is a total dog if you are trying to employ it on consumer grade equipment. At least, that's been my experience with numerous linksys, d-link, and netgear devices. I'm kind of down on QoS as a result. Great idea, ruined by the implementation that most consumers will ever see.
In most countries the government guarantees your funds to a certain extent. So the question becomes, do you trust your government? (or the government in charge of the foreign currency you are storing).
I think there's more to it than that. I trust the bank and the government not to both pull a mtgox at the same time. I wouldn't trust the government alone, nor would I trust the bank alone.
No. Bill specifically about Google Glass is an "excellent" idea.
Make a bill general enough, and the Makers will join forces to fight it.
Make a bill to every single one, one by one, and you will have to handle just one each time: you will have more profit opportunities this way,
(you don'y think they're *really" concerned about safety, do you? They want the money)
Because politicians are known for getting things done? I think we'd be lucky to have a single bill actually passed. After the bill controlling the first such device is passed the campaign PR is in the bag. The politicians will subsequently forget the issue.
Your right to privacy doesn't automatically completely disappear because you're on government property. If you go to a public park, you still have a right against unreasonable search and seizure. A cop can't tell you to empty your pockets or open the trunk of your car just because he feels like it and you happen to be on government property. Admittedly "stop and frisk" has made a mockery of that, but it used to apply before they made a mockery of the 4th Amendment.
Stop waving the constitution in people's faces, it's just a stupid piece of paper.
This story has been making the rounds since the weekend, and now slashdot gets around to it?
No wonder this site is going into the toilet and readership drying up.
I can't believe I'm the first person to welcome you to slashdot.
Not all evidence is admissable in court. Evidence that is illegally obtainted can't be used in a prosecution. And any resulting evidence (like from a traffic stop as described in the article) is excluded as fruit of the poisoned tree. So this DEA "parallel construction" is not only a subversion of the intent of the law but is actually a conspriacy to subvert justice. The people who organized and practiced this system are guilty of a crime.
Fortunately for the DEA, not all criminals get a trial anymore. Of course, this means anyone they say is a criminal is a criminal.
This is only a formality. Carriers have been pushing for digital for a very long time. Digital phone service is not regulated as analog is. Carriers are not forced to resell their services to other carriers below cost. The only thing surprising here is that the FCC is pushing for it. Unless they plan on enacting regulations on digital service, they're going to eliminate a large part of what they regulate today.
I know that in the Florida region it was a major driver in Verizon rolling out fiber to the premise.
In any event, I'm sure phone companies will be quick to implement any changes that still must be made.
Other posters seem to think this is centered around making sure the schools are on the up and up. I think it's simply a money grab by the State of california. Here's the law, taken right from their website:
94930. Deposit of Fees, Adjustment of Fees, Reserve Balance
(a) All fees collected pursuant to this article, including any interest on those fees, shall be deposited in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund, and shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure by the bureau for the administration of this chapter.
(b) If the bureau determines by regulation that the adjustment of the fees established by this article is consistent with the intent of this chapter, the bureau may adjust the fees. However, the bureau shall not maintain a reserve balance in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund in an amount that is greater than the amount necessary to fund six months of authorized operating expenses of the bureau in any fiscal year.
94930.5. Fee Schedule
An institution shall remit to the bureau for deposit in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund the following fees, in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution submitting an application for an approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Application fee for an approval to operate: five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Application fee for the approval to operate a new branch of the institution: three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) Application fee for an approval to operate by means of accreditation: seven hundred fifty dollars ($750).
(b) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution seeking a renewal of its approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Renewal fee for the main campus of the institution: three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
(2) Renewal fee for a branch of the institution: three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) Renewal fee for an institution that is approved to operate by means of accreditation: five hundred dollars ($500).
(c) The following fees shall apply to an institution seeking authorization of a substantive change to its approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Processing fee for authorization of a substantive change to an approval to operate: five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Processing fee in connection with a substantive change to an approval to operate by means of accreditation: two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(d) (1) In addition to any fees paid to the bureau pursuant to subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, each institution that is approved to operate pursuant to this chapter shall remit both of the following:
(A) An annual institutional fee, in an amount equal to three-quarters of 1 percent of the institution's annual revenues derived from students in California, but not exceeding a total of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) annually.
(B) An annual branch fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each branch or campus of the institution operating in California.
(2) The amount of the annual fees pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be proportional to the bureau's cost of regulating the institution under this chapter.
(e) If the bureau determines that the annual cost of providing oversight and review of an institution, as required by this chapter, is less than the amount of any fees required to be paid by that institution pursuant to this article, the bureau may decrease the fees applicable to that institution to an amount that is proportional to the bureau's costs associated with that institution.
94931. Late Payment
(a) A fee that is not paid on or before the 30th calendar day after the due date for the payment of the fee shall be subject to a 25 percent late payment penalty fee.
(b) A fee that is not paid on or before the 90th calendar day after the due date for payment of the fee shall be subject to a 35 percent late paymen
I really like IE10 on my Win 7 and use it as my default browser. The layout is more streamlined that firefox, which seems to take over half your screen with menus. speed is fast. have you tried this version? I don't use chrome because it gives google a direct view into everything I do, and no thank you. at home
I use safari as my default on mac, but I don't use the windows version of safari because for whatever reason they decided to make the win version resemble the mac version as closely as possible and it looks weird.
Personal preference, I suppose. I like the menus. Scant menus are one reason I don't like chrome. Now that there's an adblock for chrome it's just the menus and lack of RSS based live bookmark support. IE traditionally has horrible performance compared to pretty much anything else. How's ie10 doing in that regard?
You should try over here in the UK where the mere suggestion of snow seems to shut everything down
Shoot, down here in Florida things stop when we hear the northerners are getting their snow. After we stop, we take pictures of palm trees and beaches to send to our friends up north.
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me?
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not)
Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
Tom Perkins direct reference to the one percent should have been your first clue as to how it is a better comparison. Did you really miss that? This is a matter of class injustice as the French dealt with, not racial injustice as was seen in Germany. The difference with reference to the 1% is that in the case of France (and today's US) the 1% are the perpetrators. In Nazi Germany, the 1% are the victims.
I can't believe I'm the first one to reply that Correlation != causation.
What about: include the name of Obama in a comment without singing his praises and get modded down. Is that a case of "Correlation != causation"? Because that sure happens a lot.
All he did was destroy small business with his fiscal and healthcare lunacy, damage the economy even further than Bush managed to, spy on US citizens and destroy business opportunities abroad for IT companies by making allies and foes worried about NSA backdoors. Why do you people keep defending him.
I was horrified to see that the country was very close to get Sarah Palin as a VP and I believe that just by choosing her McCain did not deserve to be President. But now seeing the extent of damage done by Obama I wonder how worse it could have been.
I never said anything about Obama. You seem to be fixated, do you have a crush on him?
Agreed. A rooted Android phone with a decent mod on it is as close as you can get to a Unix box in your pocket. The lack of a physical keyboard is a drag, but with a decent stock keyboard replacement like SwiftKey, it is not the end of the world.
I recently put Cyanogenmod on my droid razr and actually got geeked out on my phone again. Everything just works like it should. The ROMs that come from the phone companies are bloated and inefficient. Do not make the mistake of judging the Android ecosystem by what you see in the stores.
There are even some useful utilities for Android. (http://ultimatepeter.com/freakin-cool-hacking-apps-for-android/)
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The 2 day part is just a perk, but honestly even if I were paying for the normal 7-10 day shipping it'd come out to more than $100 a year just from the textbooks and general things I order.
It's not just free 2day, it's also $2 overnight shipping! That's the only reason I have prime. All the other crap, such as streaming movies I don't want to watch is just useless fluff. $100/yr for free 2day or $2 overnight. That's what makes amazon.com for me. If it weren't for this, I probably would not buy from the site.
Also, you get to give out free prime memberships to your family members.
Don't get kicked out of school and you won't have to go to secondary school. Count yourself lucky if your biggest problem involves digital certificates.
There is no reason to assume that TCP/IP or QoS will be standardized upon or even used at all here.
There is every reason to assume that. The car manufacturers are working hard not just to standardize on IPv6 in general, but in fact to have a common approach to such things as address allocation. QoS will be much easier to handle with ethernet, not because it is less complex but because the code is already written and widely deployed.
Also, QoS is a total dog if you are trying to employ it on consumer grade equipment.
I must admit that I have never tried to use QoS on ethernet with consumer grade equipment. Why would you want to though? Generally you have precisely one switch at home, and that switch is typically capable of simultaneous full speed on all ports, so it only drops packets if multiple input ports are trying to send more than 1 gigabit in total to one output port. I have difficult imagining that scenario in a home.
QoS on the WAN is entirely different, but the WAN is typically not yet ethernet, or at least not ethernet at standard speeds.
Perhaps FIOS is still atypical. 300Mbps/75Mbps is what I've got. Pity I can't get 300/300.
It's 2014, do people somewhere still pay by the message?
This article is about the L1 PHY layer, not the L2 Data Link layer. There is no reason to assume this means your car will be using TCP/IP. The diagram in TFA clearly indicates that the PHY layer being discussed here is independent of the protocol.
In fact, the included diagram seems to indicate broadcom is pitching some kind of adapter device which would enable inclusion of the new L1 layer with no changes whatsoever to the programming of the devices on either end. One would hope that such a thing would be only considered a stop-gap measure while they reworked their components to use the new bus natively in future models. History clearly shows that such adapters tend to be inefficient.
Mixing entertainment systems and critical safety systems on the same bus is common already. The only change is that with ethernet you get decent bandwidth and well-understood QoS.
QoS is OSI level 7. Ethernet is OSI level 1. There is no reason to assume that TCP/IP or QoS will be standardized upon or even used at all here.
Also, QoS is a total dog if you are trying to employ it on consumer grade equipment. At least, that's been my experience with numerous linksys, d-link, and netgear devices. I'm kind of down on QoS as a result. Great idea, ruined by the implementation that most consumers will ever see.
In most countries the government guarantees your funds to a certain extent. So the question becomes, do you trust your government? (or the government in charge of the foreign currency you are storing).
I think there's more to it than that. I trust the bank and the government not to both pull a mtgox at the same time. I wouldn't trust the government alone, nor would I trust the bank alone.
No. Bill specifically about Google Glass is an "excellent" idea.
Make a bill general enough, and the Makers will join forces to fight it.
Make a bill to every single one, one by one, and you will have to handle just one each time: you will have more profit opportunities this way,
(you don'y think they're *really" concerned about safety, do you? They want the money)
Because politicians are known for getting things done? I think we'd be lucky to have a single bill actually passed. After the bill controlling the first such device is passed the campaign PR is in the bag. The politicians will subsequently forget the issue.
Sheesh. I guess some people don't like when I quote G dubya for comic effect!
Your right to privacy doesn't automatically completely disappear because you're on government property. If you go to a public park, you still have a right against unreasonable search and seizure. A cop can't tell you to empty your pockets or open the trunk of your car just because he feels like it and you happen to be on government property. Admittedly "stop and frisk" has made a mockery of that, but it used to apply before they made a mockery of the 4th Amendment.
Stop waving the constitution in people's faces, it's just a stupid piece of paper.
Ok, is that irony?
It's reality.
This story has been making the rounds since the weekend, and now slashdot gets around to it? No wonder this site is going into the toilet and readership drying up.
I can't believe I'm the first person to welcome you to slashdot.
Not all evidence is admissable in court. Evidence that is illegally obtainted can't be used in a prosecution. And any resulting evidence (like from a traffic stop as described in the article) is excluded as fruit of the poisoned tree. So this DEA "parallel construction" is not only a subversion of the intent of the law but is actually a conspriacy to subvert justice. The people who organized and practiced this system are guilty of a crime.
Fortunately for the DEA, not all criminals get a trial anymore. Of course, this means anyone they say is a criminal is a criminal.
America, land of the fee. Home of the Braves.
This is only a formality. Carriers have been pushing for digital for a very long time. Digital phone service is not regulated as analog is. Carriers are not forced to resell their services to other carriers below cost. The only thing surprising here is that the FCC is pushing for it. Unless they plan on enacting regulations on digital service, they're going to eliminate a large part of what they regulate today.
I know that in the Florida region it was a major driver in Verizon rolling out fiber to the premise.
In any event, I'm sure phone companies will be quick to implement any changes that still must be made.
94930. Deposit of Fees, Adjustment of Fees, Reserve Balance
(a) All fees collected pursuant to this article, including any interest on those fees, shall be deposited in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund, and shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure by the bureau for the administration of this chapter.
(b) If the bureau determines by regulation that the adjustment of the fees established by this article is consistent with the intent of this chapter, the bureau may adjust the fees. However, the bureau shall not maintain a reserve balance in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund in an amount that is greater than the amount necessary to fund six months of authorized operating expenses of the bureau in any fiscal year.
94930.5. Fee Schedule
An institution shall remit to the bureau for deposit in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund the following fees, in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution submitting an application for an approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Application fee for an approval to operate: five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Application fee for the approval to operate a new branch of the institution: three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) Application fee for an approval to operate by means of accreditation: seven hundred fifty dollars ($750).
(b) The following fees shall be remitted by an institution seeking a renewal of its approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Renewal fee for the main campus of the institution: three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
(2) Renewal fee for a branch of the institution: three thousand dollars ($3,000).
(3) Renewal fee for an institution that is approved to operate by means of accreditation: five hundred dollars ($500).
(c) The following fees shall apply to an institution seeking authorization of a substantive change to its approval to operate, if applicable:
(1) Processing fee for authorization of a substantive change to an approval to operate: five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Processing fee in connection with a substantive change to an approval to operate by means of accreditation: two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(d) (1) In addition to any fees paid to the bureau pursuant to subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, each institution that is approved to operate pursuant to this chapter shall remit both of the following:
(A) An annual institutional fee, in an amount equal to three-quarters of 1 percent of the institution's annual revenues derived from students in California, but not exceeding a total of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) annually.
(B) An annual branch fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each branch or campus of the institution operating in California.
(2) The amount of the annual fees pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be proportional to the bureau's cost of regulating the institution under this chapter.
(e) If the bureau determines that the annual cost of providing oversight and review of an institution, as required by this chapter, is less than the amount of any fees required to be paid by that institution pursuant to this article, the bureau may decrease the fees applicable to that institution to an amount that is proportional to the bureau's costs associated with that institution.
94931. Late Payment
(a) A fee that is not paid on or before the 30th calendar day after the due date for the payment of the fee shall be subject to a 25 percent late payment penalty fee.
(b) A fee that is not paid on or before the 90th calendar day after the due date for payment of the fee shall be subject to a 35 percent late paymen
I really like IE10 on my Win 7 and use it as my default browser. The layout is more streamlined that firefox, which seems to take over half your screen with menus. speed is fast. have you tried this version? I don't use chrome because it gives google a direct view into everything I do, and no thank you. at home
I use safari as my default on mac, but I don't use the windows version of safari because for whatever reason they decided to make the win version resemble the mac version as closely as possible and it looks weird.
Personal preference, I suppose. I like the menus. Scant menus are one reason I don't like chrome. Now that there's an adblock for chrome it's just the menus and lack of RSS based live bookmark support. IE traditionally has horrible performance compared to pretty much anything else. How's ie10 doing in that regard?
And we respond back by making fun you when your temps are in the 40s and everyone digs out the winter parka .
Only fools wait till it's that cold. I put mine on this morning, it was 52.
You should try over here in the UK where the mere suggestion of snow seems to shut everything down
Shoot, down here in Florida things stop when we hear the northerners are getting their snow. After we stop, we take pictures of palm trees and beaches to send to our friends up north.
Acid has been bringing us good things for years. It's true, just ask Yosemite bear.
Pro tools. It's not cheap, but it'll work on Microsoft or Apple OS. http://www.avid.com/US/product...
I never said anything about Obama. You seem to be fixated, do you have a crush on him?
Nah it's just that I watched "Mitt" on Netflix. Now I'm a raging republican and pro-mormon. HASHTAG ROMNEY 2016
I don't think the party usually runs someone again after a failed attempt, do they?
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me? Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"? A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not) Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
Tom Perkins direct reference to the one percent should have been your first clue as to how it is a better comparison. Did you really miss that? This is a matter of class injustice as the French dealt with, not racial injustice as was seen in Germany. The difference with reference to the 1% is that in the case of France (and today's US) the 1% are the perpetrators. In Nazi Germany, the 1% are the victims.
I can't believe I'm the first one to reply that Correlation != causation.
What about: include the name of Obama in a comment without singing his praises and get modded down. Is that a case of "Correlation != causation"? Because that sure happens a lot.
All he did was destroy small business with his fiscal and healthcare lunacy, damage the economy even further than Bush managed to, spy on US citizens and destroy business opportunities abroad for IT companies by making allies and foes worried about NSA backdoors. Why do you people keep defending him.
I was horrified to see that the country was very close to get Sarah Palin as a VP and I believe that just by choosing her McCain did not deserve to be President. But now seeing the extent of damage done by Obama I wonder how worse it could have been.
I never said anything about Obama. You seem to be fixated, do you have a crush on him?
Agreed. A rooted Android phone with a decent mod on it is as close as you can get to a Unix box in your pocket. The lack of a physical keyboard is a drag, but with a decent stock keyboard replacement like SwiftKey, it is not the end of the world.
I recently put Cyanogenmod on my droid razr and actually got geeked out on my phone again. Everything just works like it should. The ROMs that come from the phone companies are bloated and inefficient. Do not make the mistake of judging the Android ecosystem by what you see in the stores.
There are even some useful utilities for Android. (http://ultimatepeter.com/freakin-cool-hacking-apps-for-android/)
Bluetooth Keyboard. http://www.logitech.com/en-us/... is what I use
Or you could get something much cheaper like this: http://www.amazon.com/Bluetoot...
There are also cell phone cases with integrated Bluetooth keyboards to turn many phones into "sliders".