Dear flurry of ACs who don't know their dick from a screwdriver,
You aren't rebroadcasting those derivative works.
Do you know what a WAP gateway is? Because it certainly is a third-party thing that sits in the middle, reformatting HTML for retransmission to the end user.
Did you notice that the Readability bookmarklet linked does server-side processing of third-party content before retransmitting that content to the end user?
Both of these things have been happening for number of years (over a decade, in the first example). They simply reformat web pages.
Now that you've thought about these questions for a moment, consider: If they reformatted a web page and added advertising, does that addition of advertising affect the things status as a (non-)derivative work? (Aside from making you livid, of course. I'm not happy about ads, either.)
AT&T's hotspots used to be faster back when they were non-free.
I used them a few times back then, generally at McDonald's, as an AT&T customer ("free" for me).
They seemed backed by a T1, based on speeds and traceroute guessery in an empty store. And that was generally better than the alternatives at that time (3G or nothing), so was certainly welcome. But that was a different time...
These days a T1 with multiple freeloading users is painfully slow. Overall experience can be helped considerably with some very careful QoS at the endpoint to prioritize small data streams over more lengthy streams but this is something they apparently aren't doing.
The last time I was at a McDonald's and wanted a cup of free WiFi I had far better results turning my cell phone into a 4G hotspot and paying by the gigabyte.
Same with the local public library: They have free Wifi, and welcome you to use it, but it's so slow that it's useless.
Fine, then: It's to turn the machine on, while being ridiculously low-power in doing so.
And maaaybe faster/better than the CPU: While ARM/Android is nothing in speed compared to Intel's latest-and-greatest whatever, there are cell phones with dedicated voice processing chips such as the Moto X.
My sister, last Christmas, was showing off her new Moto X. It was a family party-type-environment, and so had plenty of voice-range noise going on. She yells across the room at her phone: "Hey phone send a text to adolf `I'm talking to my phone.'"
Seconds later, my own phone woke up with an SMS message, with that text.
These aren't the world's first forays into dedicated hardware speech processing. I can think of other things from the past, such as IBM's MWave, which (despite new CPUs seeming just as fast then, as new CPUs seem now) did a far better job than software alone on a general-purpose CPU.
LEO also does lots of things without asking the FCC, but I'm not personally aware of any using any sort of jamming technique, nor have I fielded a request for such a thing. They're much more interested in getting and keeping their own mobile communications working properly than in figuring out how to make someone else's somehow not work. (And yes, bog-standard cell phones are part of their kit, so they're not going to be jamming those.)
Citation: I work with public safety communication systems, including with departments that have SWAT and bomb squads.
Here's what happens in reality whenever something nasty is going down: The cell network collapses under the weight of its subscriber base and becomes unusable. This causes text messages to be delayed by minutes or hours or just fail to send, TCP connections to hang forever, and phone calls to quickly drop or just fail to connect.
This may appear to the less-clued end-user as a DoS attack, ala "jamming," especially after spinning it through the Facebook Stupidity Multiplier in the rundown after a noted event. But it's really just a lack of service, not a denial of it.
Last year I was grocery shopping when the local tornado sirens went off. I pulled out my pocket computer to get a radar map to see what my options were and plainly wasn't the only person trying to do this; despite having awesome 4G capacity just minutes prior, and still having plenty of signal strength during, what normally took seconds took at least 5 minutes. (Thankfully, there was no actual tornado, and my SO was able to successfully send word to the kids at home to stop watching Youtube and get to the basement in fairly short order.)
I could tell from the morbid disdain on the faces of those around me as they stared at their own temporarily-useless phones that I wasn't the only one who was experiencing this issue.
Government conspiracy? Active jamming before rounding up devices to hide The Truth? No. Just an oversubscribed, under-built network performing as best as it can at a time when everyone wants to use it Right Now.
Doesn't matter if it's a bomb threat, a riot, a huge fire, a natural disaster, or any other source of immediate public concern -- the network doesn't care what is happening, it is simply aware that it can't keep up. And it is affected by this of this in far less time it would take for any domestic government agency to start jamming. (What would they jam, anyway, to cause a criminal's 2-way radio to cease functioning? Everything/wholesale broadband RFI? Then their own stuff wouldn't work.)
Odd. I've found them to be pretty solid. I've got one (A WRT54GL, fwiw) acting as an AP at a sheriff's office which has been running (on a giant UPS with a proper genset behind that) for 6 or 7 years.
No, I come into a thread where people are obviously lamenting spending large values of money on gaming, and declaring that they're perfectly happy with cheap/old/slow hardware and cheap/old/fun games.
Somehow I bet this is more "there's no WAY science will solve the problem because the answer is DIET AND EXERCISE and anything (aka, just like, all the things) that show otherwise MUST be wrong, there MUST be a cost".
Indeed. There's a lot of dismissiveness whenever it comes to a potentially-useful discovery like this.
But every one of the "EAT LESS! DO MORE! IT'S THE ONLY WAY!" crowd is already dis-proven by the fact that poop-transplants from obese people tend to make skinnier people fatter, and poop-transplants from skinny people tend to make fatter people more skinny. (at least in incidences where such transplants are otherwise medically useful, such as after severe deforestation of intestinal flora from intense application of antibiotics.)
Me, personally: I've been fat. I've been skinny. I'm somewhere in-between right now.
To me, these days, my girth does seem to correlate well with the activity that I do...but when I was younger (I speak of early 20s / done growing, though I also had a huge appetite when I was still growing), I had a much higher metabolism and maintained anorexic-like thinness with near-zero exercise or exertion and incredible caloric intake.
And by incredible, I mean: Two triple whoppers or three/four big macs or a couple of burrito supremes with a half-dozen soft tacos just for filler -- that level of caloric intake. Every day. And I washed it down with the most sugar-laden beverages I could get my hands on. When I ordered pizza for a group, I made sure to get an entire large pizza just for myself, lest I would remain feeling hungry straight-away. (Again: Every day.)
And my ass was parked in a chair in front of a computer, just as it mostly is today, though back then folks made fun of me for being skinny. (Nobody picks on a fat guy for being fat these days, though.)
Lately I walk enough that people I know ask me "Where's your car? Oh, you WALKED here?" as if doing so is un-American somehow. I got that response from two people just today, one of whom was driving by and happened to see me walking, and texted me to see if I wanted a ride -- as if walking is an indication of some handicap or a sign of neediness. (I own a car, and I love my car, I just choose not to use it much at all for short trips, especially if the weather is decent.)
(Humans are excellent walking machines. If you want to hunt the wildebeast and have only a knife, all you have to do is walk toward it. It will be scared and start moving. Keep walking toward it. It will keep moving. Eventually, it will fall over from exhaustion, and an average person will still have enough energy to kill it and eat whats he chooses and carry much of it home.)
But I digress. Let me answer your question:
Will you be lining up to swap to fat mode?
No. And I also don't want to swap entirely back to rail-thin mode: My high metabolism caused me to become very aggressive toward others if my more-or-less once-daily fat/carbs/protein injection were delayed by those same people. I experienced enormous stress back then in search of food, with an unshakeable eat-or-be-eaten mentality. I've walked my rail-thin self over 20 miles to get a fucking cheeseburger, when beholden to someone else's reluctant transportation in the middle of nowhere with an empty fridge (or no fridge). I was a very ugly person when I was hungry, though I did surround myself with folks that I considered friends.
For a very thin person to feel like they are starving, even with >3000 kcal of daily intake, is abso-fucking-lutely terrible, and makes one behave in ridiculous and dangerous ways which are absolutely rational to the person who is starving while being utter lunacy to those not-starving people ("witnesses") around them.
And so, like many things in life, I believe that balance is the correct answer. If the MIT discovery is indeed a binary switch, then I want no part of it...unless I can PWM it into som
Re: Old WRT54G going flakey. Bad switching PSU wall-wart (try a different one), bad filter caps near the DC input jack (visual inspection). In that order.
Also, put Shibby's Tomato-USB on that thing. It's a breeze to configure, stable, and has magical QoS.
Not OP, but I check the certificate every time I enter actual personal information into a website. Amazon, in this example, already has my information.
Why would I need to check the entire signing chain?
And if there were a flurry of MITM attacks on HTTPS SSL, I think that I'd be able to be alerted to that quickly enough by reading the news (here, and elsewhere).
This, exactly. With all of the information I give willfully to Google (or their products), they don't really have any reason to be nefarious about stealing it with a MITM attack.
You've got a very unreliable network. Perhaps your router is simply broken. Who knows.
Me, I've got a several-year-old Asus RT-N16 in my basement doing the routing and whatever it can for wireless, a cheap TP-Link something-or-other being an AP on the second floor, another cheap TP-Link in the detached garage acting as a wireless client, which feeds a very old WRT-54G that covers the back yard. These are all variously running Shibby's Tomato-USB or OpenWRT.
I think I rebooted the RT-N16 one time in the years that I've owned it due to it being unresponsive, though it does see occasional reboots for some of the configuration changes I do and firmware updates (it is Internet-facing). The rest of the gear hasn't needed rebooted or touched since installing it several months ago; it just works, just as it did in its previous life in a different application.
But whatever the case, neither WiFi nor the hardware nor the firmware ever cares about having a flurry of mostly-idle household devices sitting around on the network. Not one bit. You'll run out of default DHCP addresses space long before a not-broken router starts caring about this sort of thing.
(I'd like to tell you the story about the Tomato-running WRT54GL I've had hanging from the ceiling at a sheriff's office for 7 years, which exists to be a simple access point for all of their portable devices, and which never -- ever -- needed attention. Except I'd rather tell you about the fancy gear from Motorola and Redline and Gigawave and Proxim that needed regular care and feeding.
But I'm sick of writing. Get yourself a not-broken router.)
There used to be a "none" cypher. It's been gone for a very long time. I never understood why it needed to go away: Sometimes, all you need/want is good authentication.
I used it eons ago on 486-ish hardware for remote X on an unswitched LAN. It worked great.
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But is it copyright infringement, or just annoying enough that we're all sure that there must be something illegal about it?
Painfully slow for what?
For /.? For email? Gaming? Streaming audio? Facebook? Youtube? Netflix? Downloading Linux ISOs from TPB?
1.544Mbps is plenty for lots of things and insufficient for some other things.
Dear flurry of ACs who don't know their dick from a screwdriver,
Do you know what a WAP gateway is? Because it certainly is a third-party thing that sits in the middle, reformatting HTML for retransmission to the end user.
Did you notice that the Readability bookmarklet linked does server-side processing of third-party content before retransmitting that content to the end user?
It's free at McDonald's. Has been for years, much to my annoyance as a paying AT&T customer. [citation]
Is using a browser on a dumb phone with a WAP gateway creating a derivative work?
Is using the Readability bookmarklet creating a derivative work?
Both of these things have been happening for number of years (over a decade, in the first example). They simply reformat web pages.
Now that you've thought about these questions for a moment, consider: If they reformatted a web page and added advertising, does that addition of advertising affect the things status as a (non-)derivative work? (Aside from making you livid, of course. I'm not happy about ads, either.)
AT&T's hotspots used to be faster back when they were non-free.
I used them a few times back then, generally at McDonald's, as an AT&T customer ("free" for me).
They seemed backed by a T1, based on speeds and traceroute guessery in an empty store. And that was generally better than the alternatives at that time (3G or nothing), so was certainly welcome. But that was a different time...
These days a T1 with multiple freeloading users is painfully slow. Overall experience can be helped considerably with some very careful QoS at the endpoint to prioritize small data streams over more lengthy streams but this is something they apparently aren't doing.
The last time I was at a McDonald's and wanted a cup of free WiFi I had far better results turning my cell phone into a 4G hotspot and paying by the gigabyte.
Same with the local public library: They have free Wifi, and welcome you to use it, but it's so slow that it's useless.
Fine, then: It's to turn the machine on, while being ridiculously low-power in doing so.
And maaaybe faster/better than the CPU: While ARM/Android is nothing in speed compared to Intel's latest-and-greatest whatever, there are cell phones with dedicated voice processing chips such as the Moto X.
My sister, last Christmas, was showing off her new Moto X. It was a family party-type-environment, and so had plenty of voice-range noise going on. She yells across the room at her phone: "Hey phone send a text to adolf `I'm talking to my phone.'"
Seconds later, my own phone woke up with an SMS message, with that text.
These aren't the world's first forays into dedicated hardware speech processing. I can think of other things from the past, such as IBM's MWave, which (despite new CPUs seeming just as fast then, as new CPUs seem now) did a far better job than software alone on a general-purpose CPU.
LEO also does lots of things without asking the FCC, but I'm not personally aware of any using any sort of jamming technique, nor have I fielded a request for such a thing. They're much more interested in getting and keeping their own mobile communications working properly than in figuring out how to make someone else's somehow not work. (And yes, bog-standard cell phones are part of their kit, so they're not going to be jamming those.)
Citation: I work with public safety communication systems, including with departments that have SWAT and bomb squads.
Here's what happens in reality whenever something nasty is going down: The cell network collapses under the weight of its subscriber base and becomes unusable. This causes text messages to be delayed by minutes or hours or just fail to send, TCP connections to hang forever, and phone calls to quickly drop or just fail to connect.
This may appear to the less-clued end-user as a DoS attack, ala "jamming," especially after spinning it through the Facebook Stupidity Multiplier in the rundown after a noted event. But it's really just a lack of service, not a denial of it.
Last year I was grocery shopping when the local tornado sirens went off. I pulled out my pocket computer to get a radar map to see what my options were and plainly wasn't the only person trying to do this; despite having awesome 4G capacity just minutes prior, and still having plenty of signal strength during, what normally took seconds took at least 5 minutes. (Thankfully, there was no actual tornado, and my SO was able to successfully send word to the kids at home to stop watching Youtube and get to the basement in fairly short order.)
I could tell from the morbid disdain on the faces of those around me as they stared at their own temporarily-useless phones that I wasn't the only one who was experiencing this issue.
Government conspiracy? Active jamming before rounding up devices to hide The Truth? No. Just an oversubscribed, under-built network performing as best as it can at a time when everyone wants to use it Right Now.
Doesn't matter if it's a bomb threat, a riot, a huge fire, a natural disaster, or any other source of immediate public concern -- the network doesn't care what is happening, it is simply aware that it can't keep up. And it is affected by this of this in far less time it would take for any domestic government agency to start jamming. (What would they jam, anyway, to cause a criminal's 2-way radio to cease functioning? Everything/wholesale broadband RFI? Then their own stuff wouldn't work.)
Resistive touchscreens are used for POS applications because they are the only ones that work when covered in shmoo.
Explain that to Google's Chromecast.
Odd. I've found them to be pretty solid. I've got one (A WRT54GL, fwiw) acting as an AP at a sheriff's office which has been running (on a giant UPS with a proper genset behind that) for 6 or 7 years.
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
No, I come into a thread where people are obviously lamenting spending large values of money on gaming, and declaring that they're perfectly happy with cheap/old/slow hardware and cheap/old/fun games.
Scroll up.
Indeed. There's a lot of dismissiveness whenever it comes to a potentially-useful discovery like this.
But every one of the "EAT LESS! DO MORE! IT'S THE ONLY WAY!" crowd is already dis-proven by the fact that poop-transplants from obese people tend to make skinnier people fatter, and poop-transplants from skinny people tend to make fatter people more skinny. (at least in incidences where such transplants are otherwise medically useful, such as after severe deforestation of intestinal flora from intense application of antibiotics.)
Me, personally: I've been fat. I've been skinny. I'm somewhere in-between right now.
To me, these days, my girth does seem to correlate well with the activity that I do...but when I was younger (I speak of early 20s / done growing, though I also had a huge appetite when I was still growing), I had a much higher metabolism and maintained anorexic-like thinness with near-zero exercise or exertion and incredible caloric intake.
And by incredible, I mean: Two triple whoppers or three/four big macs or a couple of burrito supremes with a half-dozen soft tacos just for filler -- that level of caloric intake. Every day. And I washed it down with the most sugar-laden beverages I could get my hands on. When I ordered pizza for a group, I made sure to get an entire large pizza just for myself, lest I would remain feeling hungry straight-away. (Again: Every day.)
And my ass was parked in a chair in front of a computer, just as it mostly is today, though back then folks made fun of me for being skinny. (Nobody picks on a fat guy for being fat these days, though.)
Lately I walk enough that people I know ask me "Where's your car? Oh, you WALKED here?" as if doing so is un-American somehow. I got that response from two people just today, one of whom was driving by and happened to see me walking, and texted me to see if I wanted a ride -- as if walking is an indication of some handicap or a sign of neediness. (I own a car, and I love my car, I just choose not to use it much at all for short trips, especially if the weather is decent.)
(Humans are excellent walking machines. If you want to hunt the wildebeast and have only a knife, all you have to do is walk toward it. It will be scared and start moving. Keep walking toward it. It will keep moving. Eventually, it will fall over from exhaustion, and an average person will still have enough energy to kill it and eat whats he chooses and carry much of it home.)
But I digress. Let me answer your question:
No. And I also don't want to swap entirely back to rail-thin mode: My high metabolism caused me to become very aggressive toward others if my more-or-less once-daily fat/carbs/protein injection were delayed by those same people. I experienced enormous stress back then in search of food, with an unshakeable eat-or-be-eaten mentality. I've walked my rail-thin self over 20 miles to get a fucking cheeseburger, when beholden to someone else's reluctant transportation in the middle of nowhere with an empty fridge (or no fridge). I was a very ugly person when I was hungry, though I did surround myself with folks that I considered friends.
For a very thin person to feel like they are starving, even with >3000 kcal of daily intake, is abso-fucking-lutely terrible, and makes one behave in ridiculous and dangerous ways which are absolutely rational to the person who is starving while being utter lunacy to those not-starving people ("witnesses") around them.
And so, like many things in life, I believe that balance is the correct answer. If the MIT discovery is indeed a binary switch, then I want no part of it...unless I can PWM it into som
You know, I frankly expect better trolling from someone who actually bothered to log in.
It's a shame that you think that all relationships are doomed and useless and all-encompassing.
Enjoy your solo work. I'll enjoy my pornstar sex.
I traded the wife in for a newer model a year or two ago, while also learning to never do that to myself again.
Also: Say hi to your mom for me when she calls you upstairs for dinner.
personally I don't spend a lot of money on digital entertainment.
Let's do some math:
$5 Steam or GOG/Humble game + $0 for my garbage-score Radeon HD4800-ish 1GB card == $5 for lots of digital entertainment.
$60 game + $150 video card == $210 for lots of digital entertainment.
$210 - $5 == $205.
And $205 is just enough to take my ridiculously-attractive lady friend on a cheap night out of town and enjoy a few guaranteed hours of pornstar sex.
To me, the choice is obvious. But I guess others have different priorities in life.
Re: Old WRT54G going flakey. Bad switching PSU wall-wart (try a different one), bad filter caps near the DC input jack (visual inspection). In that order.
Also, put Shibby's Tomato-USB on that thing. It's a breeze to configure, stable, and has magical QoS.
Not OP, but I check the certificate every time I enter actual personal information into a website. Amazon, in this example, already has my information.
Why would I need to check the entire signing chain?
And if there were a flurry of MITM attacks on HTTPS SSL, I think that I'd be able to be alerted to that quickly enough by reading the news (here, and elsewhere).
This, exactly. With all of the information I give willfully to Google (or their products), they don't really have any reason to be nefarious about stealing it with a MITM attack.
You've got a very unreliable network. Perhaps your router is simply broken. Who knows.
Me, I've got a several-year-old Asus RT-N16 in my basement doing the routing and whatever it can for wireless, a cheap TP-Link something-or-other being an AP on the second floor, another cheap TP-Link in the detached garage acting as a wireless client, which feeds a very old WRT-54G that covers the back yard. These are all variously running Shibby's Tomato-USB or OpenWRT.
I think I rebooted the RT-N16 one time in the years that I've owned it due to it being unresponsive, though it does see occasional reboots for some of the configuration changes I do and firmware updates (it is Internet-facing). The rest of the gear hasn't needed rebooted or touched since installing it several months ago; it just works, just as it did in its previous life in a different application.
But whatever the case, neither WiFi nor the hardware nor the firmware ever cares about having a flurry of mostly-idle household devices sitting around on the network. Not one bit. You'll run out of default DHCP addresses space long before a not-broken router starts caring about this sort of thing.
(I'd like to tell you the story about the Tomato-running WRT54GL I've had hanging from the ceiling at a sheriff's office for 7 years, which exists to be a simple access point for all of their portable devices, and which never -- ever -- needed attention. Except I'd rather tell you about the fancy gear from Motorola and Redline and Gigawave and Proxim that needed regular care and feeding.
But I'm sick of writing. Get yourself a not-broken router.)
Gee, I wonder: Did they call it "Macromedia Flash"?
My local municipality already monitors water lines on a per-household basis in near-realtime, using existing 900MHz license-free ISM bands.
This is primarily for billing (there aren't any more human meter readers peering into holes in the ground), but is also used for leak detection.
The system was rolled out quietly and without fanfare, and seems to work well.
Upon further reading: You're right. Thanks!
There used to be a "none" cypher. It's been gone for a very long time. I never understood why it needed to go away: Sometimes, all you need/want is good authentication.
I used it eons ago on 486-ish hardware for remote X on an unswitched LAN. It worked great.