The internet has worked just fine without these regulations.
That's the problem. Since the internet first came to us via phone companies (which are under Title II), they treated internet traffic like phone conversations. No shaping, no priority, no throttling, just letting everything through equally. Then last January Comcast won a law suit saying that the FCC can't enforce that on them. So now Comcast is trying to change the internet. Net Neutrality is trying to keep it the way it is. So if you like how the internet worked for us so far, you're going to want Net Neutrality.
However they ALL NEED TO RENDER THE WEB PAGE THE SAME WAY!
Why? I like the idea of having browsers that can show off what they're better at, by rendering pages in different ways. It creates a market with a variety of browsers.
The real assholes here are MS and Sony for knowingly maintaining insecure networks even after Lizard Squad already took them down and publicly warned that it was but a taste of what was to come on Christmas.
A very secure system can still be overwhelmed by an attacking system. It's a more secure design to safely shut down when being over whelmed than to "turn off" security and just let the information flow. So being taken down by a DDoS does not an insecure network make.
There's a difference between security and being able to handle a DDOS. Unless you expect every computer connected to the internet to be using your service all at the same time, there's no need to budget for that. All Lizard Squad did was make Microsoft and Sony spend resources on combating DDOS's, and not resources on looking for security holes that leak customers data.
Not even that, Visual C++.NET is a broken aberration that I have not seen used anywhere ever
I don't think that anyone should ever write a full on application with it, but C++.Net does work as a small.dll for C#/C++ interop, when your doing something really tricky and P/Invoke isn't quite cutting it.
opportunists will take incredible advantage of the situation.
That's a good thing. If someone is self motivated enough to be an 'opportunists', it's a good thing that their exerting their energy to make the best of a situation.
I knew nothing in my intro to programming class, but there were some guys in the class who were already programmers, and I liked having them there. They were helpful and I could see where the class might take me. My brother-in-law on the other hand had the opposite experience. He felt like he was constantly getting left behind because everyone else in the class could go further, faster.
Sounds like it's time to allow for students to test out of CS classes.
So, I'm not sure what problem this technology is supposed to solve.
It solves the problem of dining with my brother. Who on more than one occasion finally decides what he wants after everyone has given up on him, given the waiter our orders, and had our meals served to us. It's not like he's picking his final meal or anything. I would love it if the max ordering time was 5 sec, when I'm with family.
Except, of course, that it makes you smarter, increases your work ethic and provides a quite useful skill.
How does learning another way, to write the same word in the same language make one smarter, or provide a useful skill? I would say it's useful if anyone ever tried to communicate with me in cursive script, but no one does. There's a reason why the font used for this website is not in a cursive script. I find that learning two ways to write the same characters confuses my hands muscle memory. Once I made an intentional effort to stop writing the cursive I noticed that my block letter hand writing clarity increased.
Time in school is a limited resource. Do you think that any other subject/skill could be taught in school which also "instills in young minds the need of work hard to reach the desired results and while doing so, exercises the brain", and will in addition will also be used outside of school?
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But, when all that is said, is it in any way sensible that you go out of your way to stir up the shit?
Yes. Everything must be open to scrutiny.
And if you provoke a terrorist attack that gets a lot of innocents killed - are you not partially to blame, for all your freedom of speech?
No. Absolutely No.
The Good News is that Google wants to be reclassified, especially to get the pole access.
If Google get reclassified, it won't be able to mine their customers data. That's part of being Title II.
The internet has worked just fine without these regulations.
That's the problem. Since the internet first came to us via phone companies (which are under Title II), they treated internet traffic like phone conversations. No shaping, no priority, no throttling, just letting everything through equally. Then last January Comcast won a law suit saying that the FCC can't enforce that on them. So now Comcast is trying to change the internet. Net Neutrality is trying to keep it the way it is. So if you like how the internet worked for us so far, you're going to want Net Neutrality.
The Pro "Neutrality" angle is a government dominated Internet, the anti-Neutrality angle is a corporate dominated one.
If by government dominated you mean, not allowing anyone to discriminate against certain packets, then yes, it will be government dominated.
Isn't part of being classified as a telecom company, come with the regulation that you can't record your users activities?
Might suck for the half dozen Slashdotters who are still using Sony Walkman, but them's the breaks.
Or it might not. It's not like Walkmans' phones home, or are tied to a walled garden, or only sync with one piece of software.
Do you really think the prosecutors, law enforcement agencies and lawyers are going to have a squabble about semantics?
Semantics are generally the only thing that prosecutors, law enforcement and lawyers squabble about.
I was deeply impressed. And a little appalled.
Why? Microsoft is all about being held back by backwards compatibility.
However they ALL NEED TO RENDER THE WEB PAGE THE SAME WAY!
Why? I like the idea of having browsers that can show off what they're better at, by rendering pages in different ways. It creates a market with a variety of browsers.
The real assholes here are MS and Sony for knowingly maintaining insecure networks even after Lizard Squad already took them down and publicly warned that it was but a taste of what was to come on Christmas.
A very secure system can still be overwhelmed by an attacking system. It's a more secure design to safely shut down when being over whelmed than to "turn off" security and just let the information flow. So being taken down by a DDoS does not an insecure network make.
There's a difference between security and being able to handle a DDOS. Unless you expect every computer connected to the internet to be using your service all at the same time, there's no need to budget for that. All Lizard Squad did was make Microsoft and Sony spend resources on combating DDOS's, and not resources on looking for security holes that leak customers data.
Not even that, Visual C++ .NET is a broken aberration that I have not seen used anywhere ever
I don't think that anyone should ever write a full on application with it, but C++ .Net does work as a small .dll for C#/C++ interop, when your doing something really tricky and P/Invoke isn't quite cutting it.
Nothing else would feed the 24 hour news cycle.
opportunists will take incredible advantage of the situation.
That's a good thing. If someone is self motivated enough to be an 'opportunists', it's a good thing that their exerting their energy to make the best of a situation.
I knew nothing in my intro to programming class, but there were some guys in the class who were already programmers, and I liked having them there. They were helpful and I could see where the class might take me. My brother-in-law on the other hand had the opposite experience. He felt like he was constantly getting left behind because everyone else in the class could go further, faster.
Sounds like it's time to allow for students to test out of CS classes.
I view piracy as a form of civil disobedience protesting inflated prices.
But if it's the price the market will bare, how can it be inflated?
Our Exchange 2010 install which I did last year will be our last one.
Because you're migrating to O365?
There is no large scale .NET app I know of
Microsoft Exchange is written in C#.
Nobody's going to go to the effort of copying an RFID tag just to get on a system as a child user.
Until somebody does.
So, I'm not sure what problem this technology is supposed to solve.
It solves the problem of dining with my brother. Who on more than one occasion finally decides what he wants after everyone has given up on him, given the waiter our orders, and had our meals served to us. It's not like he's picking his final meal or anything. I would love it if the max ordering time was 5 sec, when I'm with family.
I like the idea that well written laws will apply to anytime.
I'm ambivalent about keeping or dropping cursive writing, but what will we use to replace cursive signatures on hard-copy legal documents?
Legibly written names, just as they were originally intended to be.
Bullshit. Cursive is several times faster than printing.
Not for someone who has to think about how it's supposed to look in cursive. Plus it's not faster to read cursive.
I understand it's not necessary like it used to be,... but I think it should still be taught.
I believe that's the same argument for teaching Latin.
Except, of course, that it makes you smarter, increases your work ethic and provides a quite useful skill.
How does learning another way, to write the same word in the same language make one smarter, or provide a useful skill? I would say it's useful if anyone ever tried to communicate with me in cursive script, but no one does. There's a reason why the font used for this website is not in a cursive script. I find that learning two ways to write the same characters confuses my hands muscle memory. Once I made an intentional effort to stop writing the cursive I noticed that my block letter hand writing clarity increased.
Time in school is a limited resource. Do you think that any other subject/skill could be taught in school which also "instills in young minds the need of work hard to reach the desired results and while doing so, exercises the brain", and will in addition will also be used outside of school?