Javed Iqbal was arrested in New York in November 2001, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and fraud in relation to identification documents. He was plead guilty to fraud, went to jail, then later released and deported to Pakistan.
No, but as an employee I am enjoying section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code. California is one of two states where this employee friendly law is on the books. The other is Oklahoma. Never ever let employers take advantage of you.
And it seems the strategy for that is to make sure there are no employers around.
"The problem with Rogers is they throttle everything that looks like P2P. My limited understanding is that they look at the number of simultaneous connections to one host and if you go above their threshold, BOOM connection reset!"
That sounds more like a NATting problem. I've dealt with ISPs that just didn't know how to set the damned things up properly.
You know the old saying: don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
Many ISPs today are implementing packet shaping in an extremely simplistic way. They simply rate limit everything and then whitelist the most common game servers, such as WoW. The problem comes when Blizzard commission new servers and the addresses change. Then for a few days-weeks, everyone gets extreme lag. If you are not playing an extremely popular game, it may take you months to get your ISP to whitelist the servers. If you are playing a game where anyone can host a server you are totally screwed.
ISPs don't "simple rate limit everything". Most of the time, it's servers responding to packet loss that limit the data rate.
But lets suppose they were rate-limiting everything including WoW packets. Do you have any idea just how little bandwidth WoW requires? At idle, WoW consumes as little as 2Kbps and at most somewhere around 30Kbps. That's nothing. It would take serious rate-limiting to affect WoW traffic. So there's something else going on.
What's really happening is WoW traffic is sharing a fat link with lots of additional traffic, like web pages, video streams, or email deliveries. On busy links, this traffic, along with WoW traffic ends up in a buffer where it waits. The buffer might be megabytes in size. If a tiny WoW packet ends up at the end of that long buffer, then it gets to wait until all the traffic ahead of it clears. On links with large buffers, that might take more than a second. That kind of lag ruins game play. But hey, that's fair, right? Those other packets arrived first. They should get to go first. All packets should be treated equally.
Except that's stupid.
A latency sensitive tiny 30Kbps WoW stream should be prioritized so that its packets go to the head of the buffer. Those downloading web pages or streaming video will never notice that some of their packets were made to wait. In fact, most of the time, there will be no difference in download time. Packets will simply have been shifted around a bit. The total download time will remain nearly the same and any difference virtually undetectable.
Look, California is one of the largest economies in the world for a reason. (Actually, a lot of reasons.)
If you don't want to give back to the state that you do business in, bye bye. You won't be missed. Have fun learning the hard way why nobody else is running a software company in South Carolina or whatever.
Ugly sentiment and dangerous.
At some point you'll wake up and realize that the state needs them more than they need the state. And California is not East Germany. You won't be able to build a wall to keep them in so they can be forced to "give back to the state". They'll leave and they'll be missed.
Weren't they sued because they were public employees refusing to provide the public with all their data? The public paid for the data and the research. Seems reasonable the public should get to see what they bought.
The racist in this situation is you, though you may not know it.
And the ass in this situation is you, though you may not know it.
The poster perceives he's been the victim of discrimination, you call him a racist for it, then go on to admit that, yes, he really might have been discriminated against because the guys from a particular area in India have a preference for people from that same area. You're basically saying their discrimination is okay because they discriminate against everyone!
If the US hadn't let the regional freight railroad for the Great Plains fail in the 1970s, most likely it would have been much cheaper to get good data connections out there.
Example - I'm originally from north central South Dakota, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad began failing in 1964, was out of Montana and the Dakotas by 1977 with right of ways auctioned and tracks gone by 1985 for the most part. Now the town I am from is 90 miles from the nearest true broadband connections, trenching is very expensive and running lines above ground is problematic because poles fall during winter storms.
The US government made running regional freight impossible. They subsidized the building of rail's main competitor (the interstate highway system) and regulations bankrupted many rail companies.
Farmers know how to move dirt. Let them do it. Broadband is a matter of digging a ditch, dropping a single mode fiber cable into it and putting the dirt back into the ditch. It is not rocket science.
It's not the state of the science that holds back these sorts of projects. It's the state of the laws, taxes, and liabilities surrounding employing American workers and farmers can't do this work without them.
They hide behind words like freedom and liberty, but really it's just plain old "I got mine, fuck everyone else."
Liberals are such hypocrites. Don't pretend you're not hoarding your own wealth, income, food, shelter, etc. There are literally billions of people living in poverty while you sit there in front of your computer doing nothing to help them.
Because liberals realise that the things we take for granted have to be paid for by someone. They also realise that Amazon affiliates have a state-granted advantage over local brick and mortar businesses and has decided to remove that advantage. What is it with righties and their belief that they shouldn't have to pay anything towards the wonderful developed world lifestyle they enjoy?
Maybe it's sort of like your belief that you should waste your time on the internet bitching about righties instead of going out and actually helping someone in need.
But helping those in need is great, as long as you can get someone else to do it, right?
What tax burden is Amazon imposing on the state? They're not using any land in the state, they're not using any services that they aren't already paying for (the postage pays for the gas taxes that pay for the road use by the delivery company's vehicles) The state wants money without doing anything in exchange for it.
We're way past that.
Taxes are collected from those that make money to be given to those that do not.
You got it. They want it. You run away if you can. If you can't escape, tough. That's all you need to understand about taxation today.
Yeah that 20-25% in defense spending is really out of control compared to the >50% (and growing) in entitlement spending, watch out!
The only difference between military spending and entitlement spending is that you have to blow things up to get your free medical, free food, free housing, and free childcare.
GEOS was working on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga was multitasking multimedia in 512k... Yes indeed, computer "history" is all about MS and Apple... (rolls eyes) All we need now is a Space Nutter to claim that we only have computers and Teflon because of NASA and the circle of BS will be complete!
The trouble for Microsoft, though, was that there really wasn't cheap hardware graphics acceleration for the PC until the 90's. It was next to impossible in 1985 to have a multitasking windowing system without some additional help from the hardware. Microsoft could have done a much better job had PC's in 1985 looked like Amigas 1985 (from a hardware standpoint).
Have the change the Constitution to get rid of districts, so it'll never happen.
It's Federal law that prohibits proportional representation.
The constitution gives congress the right the regulation elections. That's the power cited by congress when it created the prohibition against proportional representation.
If you're not careful, like ndogg, you'll end up focusing on the percentages listed for each group paid for by the income tax (and not payroll taxes) and conclude (incorrectly) that 25% of taxes paid go to defense. Of course that's not true, but it's easy to be fooled by the page. Look again at the page. They only show percentages for those items paid for by income tax as a percentage of income tax. If one includes social security spending and medicare spending, then military as a percentage of total taxes is much smaller. You're not supposed to pay attention to social security spending and medicare spending.
That page is meant to fool you.
Want's worse -- it's your own government trying to fool you.
I agree that it will be fear of lawsuits that will probably prevent the production cars that can drive themselves.
Solutions to this problem include limiting the liability of the maker to an amount that equals the net worth of the typical driver, or, force everyone to buy insurance that grants very large, multi-million dollar payouts.
Just maybe, that's the normal way to do business with governments in those parts?
Just sayin', based on my experience living in Latin America. Most of the time government offices are so sluggish (sometimes deliberately so), that you HAVE to grease the wheels if you want things done before you lose serious revenue. Clearing customs, currency exchange (where the government controls it), assorted permits... most new providers are shocked to learn how much these things can take.
Yep. And more often than not, a "bribe" is really an extortion payment, especially if you're an American.
It's not that foreign officials are anti-American, they just know who can afford to pay.
Next it will be the Chinese that get forced to pay these "bribes".
So if one of my employees writes somewhere that he thinks I'm a moron or he insults my wife or spreads nasty rumors about my sex life I just have to keep happily giving him my money?
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Stop with the anti-American propaganda you liar.
Javed Iqbal was arrested in New York in November 2001, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and fraud in relation to identification documents. He was plead guilty to fraud, went to jail, then later released and deported to Pakistan.
"His model is less accurate than that which is predicted by dark matter."
Dark matter doesn't predict anything. Dark matter is a thing hypothesized to exist that might explain our observations.
Makes me wonder whether or not we'd be using as many Windows machines had the government allowed AT&T to sell and market Unix.
But we're not talking about race. We're talking about religion.
No, but as an employee I am enjoying section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code.
California is one of two states where this employee friendly law is on the books. The other is Oklahoma.
Never ever let employers take advantage of you.
And it seems the strategy for that is to make sure there are no employers around.
"The problem with Rogers is they throttle everything that looks like P2P. My limited understanding is that they look at the number of simultaneous connections to one host and if you go above their threshold, BOOM connection reset!"
That sounds more like a NATting problem. I've dealt with ISPs that just didn't know how to set the damned things up properly.
You know the old saying: don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
Many ISPs today are implementing packet shaping in an extremely simplistic way. They simply rate limit everything and then whitelist the most common game servers, such as WoW. The problem comes when Blizzard commission new servers and the addresses change. Then for a few days-weeks, everyone gets extreme lag. If you are not playing an extremely popular game, it may take you months to get your ISP to whitelist the servers. If you are playing a game where anyone can host a server you are totally screwed.
ISPs don't "simple rate limit everything". Most of the time, it's servers responding to packet loss that limit the data rate.
But lets suppose they were rate-limiting everything including WoW packets. Do you have any idea just how little bandwidth WoW requires? At idle, WoW consumes as little as 2Kbps and at most somewhere around 30Kbps. That's nothing. It would take serious rate-limiting to affect WoW traffic. So there's something else going on.
What's really happening is WoW traffic is sharing a fat link with lots of additional traffic, like web pages, video streams, or email deliveries. On busy links, this traffic, along with WoW traffic ends up in a buffer where it waits. The buffer might be megabytes in size. If a tiny WoW packet ends up at the end of that long buffer, then it gets to wait until all the traffic ahead of it clears. On links with large buffers, that might take more than a second. That kind of lag ruins game play. But hey, that's fair, right? Those other packets arrived first. They should get to go first. All packets should be treated equally.
Except that's stupid.
A latency sensitive tiny 30Kbps WoW stream should be prioritized so that its packets go to the head of the buffer. Those downloading web pages or streaming video will never notice that some of their packets were made to wait. In fact, most of the time, there will be no difference in download time. Packets will simply have been shifted around a bit. The total download time will remain nearly the same and any difference virtually undetectable.
Unfair? I don't know, but it works.
Look, California is one of the largest economies in the world for a reason. (Actually, a lot of reasons.)
If you don't want to give back to the state that you do business in, bye bye. You won't be missed. Have fun learning the hard way why nobody else is running a software company in South Carolina or whatever.
Ugly sentiment and dangerous.
At some point you'll wake up and realize that the state needs them more than they need the state. And California is not East Germany. You won't be able to build a wall to keep them in so they can be forced to "give back to the state". They'll leave and they'll be missed.
In America, climatologists get sued and harassed for making public statements about global warming.
Weren't they sued because they were public employees refusing to provide the public with all their data? The public paid for the data and the research. Seems reasonable the public should get to see what they bought.
The racist in this situation is you, though you may not know it.
And the ass in this situation is you, though you may not know it.
The poster perceives he's been the victim of discrimination, you call him a racist for it, then go on to admit that, yes, he really might have been discriminated against because the guys from a particular area in India have a preference for people from that same area. You're basically saying their discrimination is okay because they discriminate against everyone!
What a dick you are. Seriously.
If the US hadn't let the regional freight railroad for the Great Plains fail in the 1970s, most likely it would have been much cheaper to get good data connections out there.
Example - I'm originally from north central South Dakota, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad began failing in 1964, was out of Montana and the Dakotas by 1977 with right of ways auctioned and tracks gone by 1985 for the most part. Now the town I am from is 90 miles from the nearest true broadband connections, trenching is very expensive and running lines above ground is problematic because poles fall during winter storms.
The US government made running regional freight impossible. They subsidized the building of rail's main competitor (the interstate highway system) and regulations bankrupted many rail companies.
Farmers know how to move dirt. Let them do it. Broadband is a matter of digging a ditch, dropping a single mode fiber cable into it and putting the dirt back into the ditch. It is not rocket science.
It's not the state of the science that holds back these sorts of projects. It's the state of the laws, taxes, and liabilities surrounding employing American workers and farmers can't do this work without them.
"Give us money and we will look after you" Is right wing rhetoric.
"Give us money, and then fuck off and die" is right wing policy.
"Give us money and we will look after you" Is left wing policy.
"Give us money and we will look after someone else" is left wing policy.
How does imposing a tax have a net effect of reducing economic activity?
It doesn't. It just alters the form that economic activity takes.
Whether that new activity is superior or inferior to the previous activity is another matter.
Simple greed.
They hide behind words like freedom and liberty, but really it's just plain old "I got mine, fuck everyone else."
Liberals are such hypocrites. Don't pretend you're not hoarding your own wealth, income, food, shelter, etc. There are literally billions of people living in poverty while you sit there in front of your computer doing nothing to help them.
Because liberals realise that the things we take for granted have to be paid for by someone. They also realise that Amazon affiliates have a state-granted advantage over local brick and mortar businesses and has decided to remove that advantage. What is it with righties and their belief that they shouldn't have to pay anything towards the wonderful developed world lifestyle they enjoy?
Maybe it's sort of like your belief that you should waste your time on the internet bitching about righties instead of going out and actually helping someone in need.
But helping those in need is great, as long as you can get someone else to do it, right?
What tax burden is Amazon imposing on the state? They're not using any land in the state, they're not using any services that they aren't already paying for (the postage pays for the gas taxes that pay for the road use by the delivery company's vehicles) The state wants money without doing anything in exchange for it.
We're way past that.
Taxes are collected from those that make money to be given to those that do not.
You got it. They want it. You run away if you can. If you can't escape, tough. That's all you need to understand about taxation today.
Yeah that 20-25% in defense spending is really out of control compared to the >50% (and growing) in entitlement spending, watch out!
The only difference between military spending and entitlement spending is that you have to blow things up to get your free medical, free food, free housing, and free childcare.
"Series of tubes" is much more understandable than "multimegabyte FIFOs in routers for queuing packets".
GEOS was working on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga was multitasking multimedia in 512k... Yes indeed, computer "history" is all about MS and Apple... (rolls eyes) All we need now is a Space Nutter to claim that we only have computers and Teflon because of NASA and the circle of BS will be complete!
The trouble for Microsoft, though, was that there really wasn't cheap hardware graphics acceleration for the PC until the 90's. It was next to impossible in 1985 to have a multitasking windowing system without some additional help from the hardware. Microsoft could have done a much better job had PC's in 1985 looked like Amigas 1985 (from a hardware standpoint).
Have the change the Constitution to get rid of districts, so it'll never happen.
It's Federal law that prohibits proportional representation.
The constitution gives congress the right the regulation elections. That's the power cited by congress when it created the prohibition against proportional representation.
If you're not careful, like ndogg, you'll end up focusing on the percentages listed for each group paid for by the income tax (and not payroll taxes) and conclude (incorrectly) that 25% of taxes paid go to defense. Of course that's not true, but it's easy to be fooled by the page. Look again at the page. They only show percentages for those items paid for by income tax as a percentage of income tax. If one includes social security spending and medicare spending, then military as a percentage of total taxes is much smaller. You're not supposed to pay attention to social security spending and medicare spending.
That page is meant to fool you.
Want's worse -- it's your own government trying to fool you.
I agree that it will be fear of lawsuits that will probably prevent the production cars that can drive themselves.
Solutions to this problem include limiting the liability of the maker to an amount that equals the net worth of the typical driver, or, force everyone to buy insurance that grants very large, multi-million dollar payouts.
Just maybe, that's the normal way to do business with governments in those parts?
Just sayin', based on my experience living in Latin America. Most of the time government offices are so sluggish (sometimes deliberately so), that you HAVE to grease the wheels if you want things done before you lose serious revenue. Clearing customs, currency exchange (where the government controls it), assorted permits... most new providers are shocked to learn how much these things can take.
Yep. And more often than not, a "bribe" is really an extortion payment, especially if you're an American.
It's not that foreign officials are anti-American, they just know who can afford to pay.
Next it will be the Chinese that get forced to pay these "bribes".
So if one of my employees writes somewhere that he thinks I'm a moron or he insults my wife or spreads nasty rumors about my sex life I just have to keep happily giving him my money?
That's crazy.