No, I think the EU probably understands things quite well.
When the EU starts trying to prevent me from getting the results I want from Google by making some pissant mappy result come up first rather than the market leader which is Google Maps, then No, the EU does not understand!. The EU's problem is not that Google is not giving the most relevant answers first but that the most relevant answers are also from Google. The browser selection menu imposed on MS shows just what the EU is searching for: "fairness" not for best results. They want a system where search results will come up in a random order weighted by market share.
The EU may indeed know what they want search to become, but I want no part of this "from each according to his means, to each according to his needs" search
The EU is not claiming that Google has a monopoly on search. They are saying that they are abusing their dominant position in the market. Calling Google a monopoly is incorrect & only wastes everyone's time.
Sponsored results are usually marked as being separate from the "real" results of the search query, at least in my experience. Google used to but changed that at some point so it's hard to tell the difference.
I think the issue here isn't the "sponsored results" (which are marked as such) but the results that are pulled from google's other services and therefore artificially promoted over similar services run by other companies without being marked as such.
When using Google to search for stuff I expect & want google's associated services to come up as they are also generally the market leaders. The EU seems to think that is is unfair that badly known competing services do not come up first in Google's results which shows only that they badly understand how people want search to work.
Thanks for the info.The thing is, for many people like me in noisy environments, 11ac with it's use of larger frequency windows will give us even more contention. As nobody has replied to my question on it including better contention, it appears that 11ac's advantages over 11n for us will be slight to none.
Already doing that. My Freebox in in one corner of the apartment & I have an old WRT with the same SID/password in the opposite corner where multiple walls & neighboring wifi APs render the freebox wifi unusable. I can thus pass off from the freebox & the WRT transparently but that doesn't change the high noise floor & interference from all the other nets.
I already use a WRT that has the same SID/password as the 11N AP to cover some parts of my apartment. That doesn't change the high noise floor/interference from all the neighbouring APs.
Move to France, I actually have most of what you're asking for as I am on Free.fr.
My Freebox server v6 provides: - ADSL connection - 802.11n (2.4 & 5Ghz) - a 250Gb NAS - DECT for my wireless phones (& free calls to much of the world - to almost all places I call) - 4 Gb ethernet ports
The Freebox player provides: - television over ADSL or antenna - recording emissions to the Freebox server - playing videos from all DLNA servers on my LAN - airplay from the Macs & iDevices (no video though) - Digital connection to my dolby decoder.
Does 802.11ac slow down in the presence of older networks like 802.11g slows down in the presence of 802.11b clients? All you needed was one old client present on the network for all transfers to slow down by 50%.
Yeah, you could set the access point to be 802.11g only but even then the 802.11b would keep interfering with the access point...
Congestion & old nets = little benefit
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802.11ac isn't out yet but I have little hope of it really helping. I live in an apartment building I can already see 50+ routers on 2.4 & 10+ ON 5GH.
I just don't see that much of a benefit unless the congestion avoidance is really better than 102.11n.
What everyone is denouncing is that the point you are trying to make is willfully ignorant of the facts & that you make up strawman arguments ("scratching yourself in front of a cop"). Only 6 states have changed their laws to exclude public urination from being indecent exposure which will get you put on the sex offender lists. All it needs is one cop as a witness who want's to push it.
In short, sex offender lists are being applied for anything having to do with nudity and on the other being used to justify barring people from anything to do with children. It's clearly bullshit but as most people don't pay attention to how laxist laws have become on placing people on the list they are easily swayed by prosecutors looking for a cheap & easy public display of how hard they are working.
Awww... widdle assange slaveboy not like mockery of his hero?
I've been calling assange a delusional detriment to society in general & Wikipedia in particulier you brainwashed twit. Apparently mockery was the key to getting you to push him off the pedestal or at least abandon his defense.
Assange's abuse of women & his flight from all responsibility are the reason I have no respect for the man but I reserve my hate for people like Slobodan, Mao, Iosef & Adolf, mass murders all adept adept at enrolling the likes of you...
Yeah as one of assange's last true believers you would be the kind of braindead idiot to suppose that because someone hasn't refuted every last smidgeon of a bullshit argument that he agrees on that part.
I didn't address the so called plot against assange because A) It's bullshit and B) The Lord Assange Hath Given Thee The Holy Word That That Evul Lurks In The Heart Of The USG & so you're beyond reason.
The short version is that assange discredited himself by: Claiming that the reason he MUST not return to Sweden for questioning is because The Evul USA could then spirit him out of the country (against swedish law & besides it'd be easier to do it from the UK given the treaties & bases) Agreeing to abide by the laws of the UK to avoid spending his time awaiting judgement in the pokey then renegging when all did not go as he ordained. Claiming that Assange, THE ANOINTED ONE is above all mortal laws as only HE knows the TRUTH & is the ONLY one who can works against Evul (pretty much words to that effect as in his mind ONLY HE can do the work of labeling what is & what isn't Evul). Posturing for the media which has abandoned him that we would run for the aussi senate as if that would get him out of the predicaments he has placed himself by his own acts.
The best thing for assange to do is to recognize that he is not above the law & go to sweden to answer their questions. I won't hold my breath, he's had many chances to do so but thinks that it's below him.
WRT Manson. Manson was not condemned as a murderer but for influencing others into murdering for him. Give assange time, unless treated, messianic complexes tend to get worse & he clearly has the same kind of followers ready to do his bidding. Given your absence of critical thought, if assange told you to go out & do something you'd do it unthinkingly, right squeaky?
The words I put in your mouth are only the facsimiles of the tripe I've read coming out of it. Grow a brain or get used to being mocked as the unthinking brainwashed fool you're behaving as.
Gee, How EVER did the world function before the birth of The Assange?!?! There couldn't possibly have been any scandals as THE ASSANGE was not there to reveal them...
Are you so uncultivated that you do not know who Ralph Nader is & how his attacks on the establishment since the mid 60s were possible & respected because he has been ethically irreproachable? Would assange have to rape your mother in front of you for you to understand that no man should be above the law & why ethics matter?
Bringing up Guantanamo reminds me that you never replied when I commented that you see Obama as the same as Bush43. In your fantasy land how exactly could the president elected in large part claiming that he would close Guantanamo _Justify_ sending assange there? By throwing magic pixie dust at congress where the R's & D's would otherwise crucify him for being a hypocrite?
BM clearly thought that aiding and abetting the enemy in wartime would get him a teddy bear & milk & cookies for tea. Armed forces are well known for giving violent people a chance learn discipline & redirect that violence in a direction beneficial to society. Those who cannot reform themselves get sent to Leavenworth in the US & that is where BM voluntarily committed himself through his actions.
Ah, condescension... Here's some for you then: Because you're clearly to stupid to have profited from your time in school to have actually learned any history, here's some info you were too dense to pick up: Scandals come to every government because deeds they attempt to bury will come to the public"s attention. There is no need for an messianic, abusive, oath-breaking coward to be in the process. He was in the right place at the right time to have a major role in setting up wikileaks but without him something similar would have existed anyway as he was far, far from the only one creating it.
Your insistence that ALL MUST BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY ASSANGE shows only that you drank the kool-aid & mistakenly identify assange as the only person capable of performing that function in society. No & Hell no. Having discredited himself completely he needs to step aside & let others manage wikileaks as his discredit has already damaged wikileaks immensely & is consuming the credibility wikileaks has left.
What Wikileaks needs is someone who responsibly manages it & is not afraid to take on the authorities. A Ralph Nader type. Not the Charles Manson clone assange has become.
As for BM, when entering the army he voluntarily vowed to follow orders thereby relinquishing many rights. BM's own actions exposed him to Military justice & placed him where he is. Assange, to my knowledge never vowed to defend the US Constitution & faithfully follow the orders of those appointed above him, etc, so pretending that he faces the same penalties as BM is another delusional fantasy of assange that you took down hook line & sinker.
The encryption key leaked because assange refused to follow basic security protocols & use different keys for different correspondents. The journalists leaked it first but others were on the same trail.
The story's told by journalists have shown that assange was always more about hurting the west & using WP as a tool to that end & not as a tool for bettering societies around the world. It's why Assange works almost exclusively against the USA & it's allies & almost never elsewhere. It's not because whistle blowers don't send info to WP it's that Assange isn't interested.
VP's exposure had the potential for harm but only for one person: her & the only harm that happened was that her CIA career is over. Assange's sloppiness has had harmful repercussions around the word for all those mentioned confidentially in the cables & that have suffered for it in Zimbabwe, Russia & elsewhere where their lives are at stake.
Assange is an abusive publicity whore who considers himself the law and who is going to be living in a basement for the foreseeable future. If so many Aussies are really ready to vote for him it says much about how low you guys are willing to stoop.
Assange is a self righteous annoying prick who treats women like hand towels BUT there are plenty on both the right and left who are pretty damn sure he doesn't deserve extradition.
You're ambiguous on where he doesn't deserve extradition to but it doesn't matter because only the deluded believe that an extradition to Sweden implies that he will be magically extradited to the USA afterwards as he pretends as swedish law forbids it. Assange is not above the law. He agreed to accept the decisions of UK courts & is attempting to weasel out.
In addition he is frankly the only real and effective voice worldwide on open government and protection of whistleblowers.
Bullshit. He lost all credibility necessary to fulfill that role long ago.
Take a moment to understand how hugely important that is to us all. If you don't like him, place your butt in that sling and see if you can do better because right now there's noone else.
Us? Who is his "us"? Is it the same who try to claim that by exclude the top 1% earners that they somehow speak for me? Yes, responsible whistle-blowing is a useful service to society but in no way is Assange the person we need to be involved with that.
He ran away from the UK authorities who let him out of custody betraying his sworn statements that he would not do so.
His justifications for betraying his word so are murky as hell (he mustn't allow himself to be extradited to answer questions as it'd be easier for the USA to extradite him from Sweden is patently false in addition to the fact that no charges have even been filed in the USA).
He let himself be used by fascists in the Kremlin.
etc, etc, etc.
The public's lack of faith in him is his own fault.
I could say the same about real world corporations -- except that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks & everyone else all channeling their profits through corporate tax haves means that my society as a whole is now suffering. I recognize that what these companies are doing is not illegal but is in my opinion immoral and that my tax codes need to be changed to make it much more costly for them to avoid paying taxes where the profits are being made.
As far as the iOS appstore is concerned, yeah it's a generic 30% for all in-app purchases. Those who couldn't accept that either changed their apps to use the web like Amazon or left the platform like you did. I continue to use my iDevices & appreciate the unique selection of applications available in large part because the Apple Appstore is where the lions share of profits is made. If your new devices satisfy your needs, good for you but that doesn't work for me.
I buy ebooks from Amazon but the absence of in-app purchasing makes no difference to me as I need to use calibre to remove their DRM anyway. I still buy CD's instead of buying downloadable content because artists make much more money off of CDs. iTunes Match has allowed me to legalize & upgrade lots of the music I had that was of questionable origin, but I use Mediamonkey to manage my music as iTunes, well iTunes just sucks.
IMO this insistence that 30% is too expensive & the web alternative is too unwieldy is far overblown but hey that's just my opinion.
But the thing MS is complaining about is not the application but the fact that they cannot sell subscriptions in app without paying the Apple tax. They need only remove the subscriptions from the apps & sell it on their web.
I'm fine without Office on my iPad but then I use it as an adjunct at home & not in the office. Lots of people apparently want Office on the iPad for business reasons...
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No, I think the EU probably understands things quite well.
When the EU starts trying to prevent me from getting the results I want from Google by making some pissant mappy result come up first rather than the market leader which is Google Maps, then No, the EU does not understand!. The EU's problem is not that Google is not giving the most relevant answers first but that the most relevant answers are also from Google. The browser selection menu imposed on MS shows just what the EU is searching for: "fairness" not for best results. They want a system where search results will come up in a random order weighted by market share.
The EU may indeed know what they want search to become, but I want no part of this "from each according to his means, to each according to his needs" search
Please stop spreading falsehoods.
The EU is not claiming that Google has a monopoly on search. They are saying that they are abusing their dominant position in the market. Calling Google a monopoly is incorrect & only wastes everyone's time.
Sponsored results are usually marked as being separate from the "real" results of the search query, at least in my experience. Google used to but changed that at some point so it's hard to tell the difference.
I think the issue here isn't the "sponsored results" (which are marked as such) but the results that are pulled from google's other services and therefore artificially promoted over similar services run by other companies without being marked as such.
When using Google to search for stuff I expect & want google's associated services to come up as they are also generally the market leaders. The EU seems to think that is is unfair that badly known competing services do not come up first in Google's results which shows only that they badly understand how people want search to work.
Thanks for the info.The thing is, for many people like me in noisy environments, 11ac with it's use of larger frequency windows will give us even more contention. As nobody has replied to my question on it including better contention, it appears that 11ac's advantages over 11n for us will be slight to none.
Already doing that. My Freebox in in one corner of the apartment & I have an old WRT with the same SID/password in the opposite corner where multiple walls & neighboring wifi APs render the freebox wifi unusable. I can thus pass off from the freebox & the WRT transparently but that doesn't change the high noise floor & interference from all the other nets.
I already use a WRT that has the same SID/password as the 11N AP to cover some parts of my apartment. That doesn't change the high noise floor/interference from all the neighbouring APs.
I already use 2 APs & own the apartment I live in. Don't assume that because you live in a motel that everyone else does.
Not if 11ac access points slow down automatically when seeing non 11ac access points like 11g access points do when they see 11b traffic...
Move to France, I actually have most of what you're asking for as I am on Free.fr.
My Freebox server v6 provides:
- ADSL connection
- 802.11n (2.4 & 5Ghz)
- a 250Gb NAS
- DECT for my wireless phones (& free calls to much of the world - to almost all places I call)
- 4 Gb ethernet ports
The Freebox player provides:
- television over ADSL or antenna
- recording emissions to the Freebox server
- playing videos from all DLNA servers on my LAN
- airplay from the Macs & iDevices (no video though)
- Digital connection to my dolby decoder.
Does 802.11ac slow down in the presence of older networks like 802.11g slows down in the presence of 802.11b clients? All you needed was one old client present on the network for all transfers to slow down by 50%.
Yeah, you could set the access point to be 802.11g only but even then the 802.11b would keep interfering with the access point...
802.11ac isn't out yet but I have little hope of it really helping. I live in an apartment building I can already see 50+ routers on 2.4 & 10+ ON 5GH.
I just don't see that much of a benefit unless the congestion avoidance is really better than 102.11n.
What everyone is denouncing is that the point you are trying to make is willfully ignorant of the facts & that you make up strawman arguments ("scratching yourself in front of a cop"). Only 6 states have changed their laws to exclude public urination from being indecent exposure which will get you put on the sex offender lists. All it needs is one cop as a witness who want's to push it.
If the movie theater, restaurant, concert, or sporting event is within 300 feet of a park, school or playground then Florida is already there...
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-04-30/news/fl-sex-offender-loitering-20100430_1_offenders-and-predators-florida-senate-votes-restrictive-zones
Your ignorance is showing.
A 17 year old girl can get on the list for having consensual sex with a 15 year old boy:
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2003101190_offender03.html
Two 14 year olds boys got put on the list for putting their naked butts on the faces of two 12 year old boys :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017081/Two-teenagers-branded-sex-offenders-life-horseplay-incident.html
You can get put on the list for answering the door undressed:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2887/is-it-indecent-exposure-if-im-visibly-naked-while-on-my-own-private-property
A few more dumb reasons for being put on the list:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/sex_offender_registry_stupidity/
In short, sex offender lists are being applied for anything having to do with nudity and on the other being used to justify barring people from anything to do with children. It's clearly bullshit but as most people don't pay attention to how laxist laws have become on placing people on the list they are easily swayed by prosecutors looking for a cheap & easy public display of how hard they are working.
Awww... widdle assange slaveboy not like mockery of his hero?
I've been calling assange a delusional detriment to society in general & Wikipedia in particulier you brainwashed twit. Apparently mockery was the key to getting you to push him off the pedestal or at least abandon his defense.
Assange's abuse of women & his flight from all responsibility are the reason I have no respect for the man but I reserve my hate for people like Slobodan, Mao, Iosef & Adolf, mass murders all adept adept at enrolling the likes of you...
Yeah as one of assange's last true believers you would be the kind of braindead idiot to suppose that because someone hasn't refuted every last smidgeon of a bullshit argument that he agrees on that part.
I didn't address the so called plot against assange because A) It's bullshit and B) The Lord Assange Hath Given Thee The Holy Word That That Evul Lurks In The Heart Of The USG & so you're beyond reason.
The short version is that assange discredited himself by:
Claiming that the reason he MUST not return to Sweden for questioning is because The Evul USA could then spirit him out of the country (against swedish law & besides it'd be easier to do it from the UK given the treaties & bases)
Agreeing to abide by the laws of the UK to avoid spending his time awaiting judgement in the pokey then renegging when all did not go as he ordained.
Claiming that Assange, THE ANOINTED ONE is above all mortal laws as only HE knows the TRUTH & is the ONLY one who can works against Evul (pretty much words to that effect as in his mind ONLY HE can do the work of labeling what is & what isn't Evul).
Posturing for the media which has abandoned him that we would run for the aussi senate as if that would get him out of the predicaments he has placed himself by his own acts.
The best thing for assange to do is to recognize that he is not above the law & go to sweden to answer their questions. I won't hold my breath, he's had many chances to do so but thinks that it's below him.
WRT Manson. Manson was not condemned as a murderer but for influencing others into murdering for him. Give assange time, unless treated, messianic complexes tend to get worse & he clearly has the same kind of followers ready to do his bidding. Given your absence of critical thought, if assange told you to go out & do something you'd do it unthinkingly, right squeaky?
The words I put in your mouth are only the facsimiles of the tripe I've read coming out of it. Grow a brain or get used to being mocked as the unthinking brainwashed fool you're behaving as.
Gee, How EVER did the world function before the birth of The Assange?!?! There couldn't possibly have been any scandals as THE ASSANGE was not there to reveal them...
Are you so uncultivated that you do not know who Ralph Nader is & how his attacks on the establishment since the mid 60s were possible & respected because he has been ethically irreproachable? Would assange have to rape your mother in front of you for you to understand that no man should be above the law & why ethics matter?
Bringing up Guantanamo reminds me that you never replied when I commented that you see Obama as the same as Bush43. In your fantasy land how exactly could the president elected in large part claiming that he would close Guantanamo _Justify_ sending assange there? By throwing magic pixie dust at congress where the R's & D's would otherwise crucify him for being a hypocrite?
BM clearly thought that aiding and abetting the enemy in wartime would get him a teddy bear & milk & cookies for tea. Armed forces are well known for giving violent people a chance learn discipline & redirect that violence in a direction beneficial to society. Those who cannot reform themselves get sent to Leavenworth in the US & that is where BM voluntarily committed himself through his actions.
I await your reply with buttered popcorn...
Ah, condescension... Here's some for you then: Because you're clearly to stupid to have profited from your time in school to have actually learned any history, here's some info you were too dense to pick up: Scandals come to every government because deeds they attempt to bury will come to the public"s attention. There is no need for an messianic, abusive, oath-breaking coward to be in the process. He was in the right place at the right time to have a major role in setting up wikileaks but without him something similar would have existed anyway as he was far, far from the only one creating it.
Your insistence that ALL MUST BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY ASSANGE shows only that you drank the kool-aid & mistakenly identify assange as the only person capable of performing that function in society. No & Hell no. Having discredited himself completely he needs to step aside & let others manage wikileaks as his discredit has already damaged wikileaks immensely & is consuming the credibility wikileaks has left.
What Wikileaks needs is someone who responsibly manages it & is not afraid to take on the authorities. A Ralph Nader type. Not the Charles Manson clone assange has become.
As for BM, when entering the army he voluntarily vowed to follow orders thereby relinquishing many rights. BM's own actions exposed him to Military justice & placed him where he is. Assange, to my knowledge never vowed to defend the US Constitution & faithfully follow the orders of those appointed above him, etc, so pretending that he faces the same penalties as BM is another delusional fantasy of assange that you took down hook line & sinker.
The encryption key leaked because assange refused to follow basic security protocols & use different keys for different correspondents. The journalists leaked it first but others were on the same trail.
The story's told by journalists have shown that assange was always more about hurting the west & using WP as a tool to that end & not as a tool for bettering societies around the world. It's why Assange works almost exclusively against the USA & it's allies & almost never elsewhere. It's not because whistle blowers don't send info to WP it's that Assange isn't interested.
VP's exposure had the potential for harm but only for one person: her & the only harm that happened was that her CIA career is over. Assange's sloppiness has had harmful repercussions around the word for all those mentioned confidentially in the cables & that have suffered for it in Zimbabwe, Russia & elsewhere where their lives are at stake.
Assange is an abusive publicity whore who considers himself the law and who is going to be living in a basement for the foreseeable future. If so many Aussies are really ready to vote for him it says much about how low you guys are willing to stoop.
How exactly does this presumption place him above the law? Is it because he has a sekret "I can do whatever i like" card in his wallet?
The confidence you have in Obama & the rest of US society to to stop such goings on is really quite charming.
Come on, let us have the real truth, The truthers were right all along & Obama in an alien controlled from alpha centauri, right?
Assange is a self righteous annoying prick who treats women like hand towels BUT there are plenty on both the right and left who are pretty damn sure he doesn't deserve extradition.
You're ambiguous on where he doesn't deserve extradition to but it doesn't matter because only the deluded believe that an extradition to Sweden implies that he will be magically extradited to the USA afterwards as he pretends as swedish law forbids it. Assange is not above the law. He agreed to accept the decisions of UK courts & is attempting to weasel out.
In addition he is frankly the only real and effective voice worldwide on open government and protection of whistleblowers.
Bullshit. He lost all credibility necessary to fulfill that role long ago.
Take a moment to understand how hugely important that is to us all. If you don't like him, place your butt in that sling and see if you can do better because right now there's noone else.
Us? Who is his "us"? Is it the same who try to claim that by exclude the top 1% earners that they somehow speak for me? Yes, responsible whistle-blowing is a useful service to society but in no way is Assange the person we need to be involved with that.
Only in the minds of the self deluded like Assange. Diplomatic immunity cannot be granted retroactively.
He ran away from the UK authorities who let him out of custody betraying his sworn statements that he would not do so.
His justifications for betraying his word so are murky as hell (he mustn't allow himself to be extradited to answer questions as it'd be easier for the USA to extradite him from Sweden is patently false in addition to the fact that no charges have even been filed in the USA).
He let himself be used by fascists in the Kremlin.
etc, etc, etc.
The public's lack of faith in him is his own fault.
I could say the same about real world corporations -- except that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks & everyone else all channeling their profits through corporate tax haves means that my society as a whole is now suffering. I recognize that what these companies are doing is not illegal but is in my opinion immoral and that my tax codes need to be changed to make it much more costly for them to avoid paying taxes where the profits are being made.
As far as the iOS appstore is concerned, yeah it's a generic 30% for all in-app purchases. Those who couldn't accept that either changed their apps to use the web like Amazon or left the platform like you did. I continue to use my iDevices & appreciate the unique selection of applications available in large part because the Apple Appstore is where the lions share of profits is made. If your new devices satisfy your needs, good for you but that doesn't work for me.
I buy ebooks from Amazon but the absence of in-app purchasing makes no difference to me as I need to use calibre to remove their DRM anyway.
I still buy CD's instead of buying downloadable content because artists make much more money off of CDs. iTunes Match has allowed me to legalize & upgrade lots of the music I had that was of questionable origin, but I use Mediamonkey to manage my music as iTunes, well iTunes just sucks.
IMO this insistence that 30% is too expensive & the web alternative is too unwieldy is far overblown but hey that's just my opinion.
But the thing MS is complaining about is not the application but the fact that they cannot sell subscriptions in app without paying the Apple tax. They need only remove the subscriptions from the apps & sell it on their web.
I'm fine without Office on my iPad but then I use it as an adjunct at home & not in the office. Lots of people apparently want Office on the iPad for business reasons...