The download speed depends on the server as well as the net delivery system. I suspect that the slow speeds seen were because the servers were only delivering data at that speed. In any case, you can use Google's developer tools to see the download speeds from any site.
MIT's Technology Review has an interesting article about the safety - or lack thereof - of self-driving cars. I'm rooting for the cars but I don't think they are quite ready yet.
https://www.technologyreview.c...
Don't you remember all the different chargers? I love being able to use any micro USB charger with any phone or camera. No more digging around to find the proprietary charger that I may have labelled to identify the device that it works with. It may pay the individual companies to design their own proprietary chargers and still be better for the consumer for the government to insist on a single design standard. The "free market" isn't some wonder drug.
That is precisely what scares me. With Trump as president and Congress run by radical nut jobs, who knows what might happen. Certainly nothing good. The man is truly scary.
Of course nobody would use a VPN? Note that the ad that came with this story read: "Slashdot Deals: Get The Fastest VPN For Your Internet Security..." (Their capitalization.)
I've been working with computers since 1961. I've had decades of back problems. Standing is not the answer. Get up and walk around - frequently. If you can stand it walk several miles a day. I just had a 50th college reunion and I think I'm better off than many of my classmates because of walking and exercises. Start now.
I disabled ipv6 last night. Comcast drops the connection after a day or two and then anything that is trying to use ipv6 takes forever to fail over to ipv4. It was interfering with my usage. The only way to solve it was to reboot the router. Not worth it.
Tech reporters should be licensed. I seriously doubt that Maxwell's equations are failing:
"Maxwell’s equations explain how high-frequency flows of electrons in conductors generate electromagnetic waves, but they do not explain how an insulating material, where there is no flow of electrons, would also act as an antenna."
We ran a Windows server for many years with no firewall. We took credit card info (which was immediately encrypted). We had spent over a month hardening the server by shutting down all but the services that we truly needed. We never had a problem with that arrangement. We added a firewall when PCI required it but I'm still not convinced that it mattered.
They are already paid by the end user and by the distributors like Netflix, who pay for their bandwidth usage. What the carriers want is to be paid three times.
In 1961 I took an evening course in Fortran for physics students taught by a volunteer from MIT. We were promised a chance to actually run our programs at the end of the course, but that never happened. I last used Fortran in 1971, when I maintained a subscription fulfillment system for a student-run academic journal. The print routines were in 1401 assembly language, but we'd lost the source and only had a binary deck of cards to work with.
I used LaTex in the mid to late eighties to set type for several professional journals and newsletters. It was the only product I could find that was capable of dealing with footnotes that had to be split across pages. We marked up the articles with tags in Xywrite and then used its macro-programming language to translate into LaTex. Worked like a charm and saved a fortune over commersial typesetting.
Thanks for a thoughtful reply. I'm not against government, or government regulation. We NEED a government. Read Hobbes if you think we can do without. He lived through the English Civil War and knew at first hand what he was talking about. I am upset at having to deal with large, impersonal organizations who don't seem to have any sense of what their customers need or want. I put the telephone companies, large banks, utilities, and cable companies high on my list of organizations that I'd rather avoid dealing with, if at all possible.
Good questions. The IP data is on XFinity. I pay for that whether or not I use it for phone service. From my house it runs on a cable. A tracreroute reveals a string of Comcast servers followed by other routers that don't look much like a traditional Telco, so I'm assuming it doesn't really run over much of the traditional phone companies' networks any more.
No, I'm not protected against a DDos attack but then I'm not protected against a truck pulling down my phone line and part of my house, either. The latter happened; I've never had to deal with the former.
He's right, you know. I've been using computers since 1961. Back then you could read the manual in an evening and then you know all the commands you needed to know. Now the systems are so complicated that only the Internet is big enough to hold the documentation. That's what makes discoverability so important in a user interface these days. Windows 8 is sorely lacking in that department.
I have spent the last two weeks building a virtualized server on top of Windows 2012 Server. As a server it's just dandy. Hyper-V works beautifully; networking, backup, management tools are all great. BUT the new interface is still awful and the screens are just plain ugly.
I've been working with a Remote Desktop connection to Windows 2012 Server from a Win 7 machine. The Win 7 side is beautiful and functional. The Win 2012 Server side is ugly and functional. It looks a lot like IBM stuff from the 60's. At least there's no confusion about which machine your working on.
Just bought a Dell desktop for my GF. We went to some trouble to find a Windows 7 machine since I find Windows 8 to be unuseable on a desktop. (I've spent some time with it since I'm setting up a new server using Win 8 and two virtual Linux machines.)
There is no way I want a touch screen on my desktop. Can you really imagine spending a lot of time reaching over your keyboard and coffee to swipe the screen?
Sadly, it does now mean what the parent poster thinks it means. I gave up on this one when the Economist started using it with the new meaning. Also note the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article.
But in the Gregorian calendar the 13th falls on a Friday more often than on any other day of the week. (You can confirm this by checking the entire 400-year cycle. It's a small difference but Friday wins out.)
Mod parent up. The Air Force Museum is outstanding. They have an actual hydrogen bomb (disarmed, I hope) that's the most ominous looking thing I've ever seen. They also have Bockscar, the B29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Once you get past the nuclear horrors there's an amazing collection of planes going back to the Wright Brothers.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm talking about the developer tools in the desktop version of Chrome. You can use them by hitting Ctrl-Shift-I. They are public.
The download speed depends on the server as well as the net delivery system. I suspect that the slow speeds seen were because the servers were only delivering data at that speed. In any case, you can use Google's developer tools to see the download speeds from any site.
MIT's Technology Review has an interesting article about the safety - or lack thereof - of self-driving cars. I'm rooting for the cars but I don't think they are quite ready yet. https://www.technologyreview.c...
He wants to hear fromother people who's companies are losing money.
Don't you remember all the different chargers? I love being able to use any micro USB charger with any phone or camera. No more digging around to find the proprietary charger that I may have labelled to identify the device that it works with. It may pay the individual companies to design their own proprietary chargers and still be better for the consumer for the government to insist on a single design standard. The "free market" isn't some wonder drug.
That is precisely what scares me. With Trump as president and Congress run by radical nut jobs, who knows what might happen. Certainly nothing good. The man is truly scary.
Of course nobody would use a VPN? Note that the ad that came with this story read: "Slashdot Deals: Get The Fastest VPN For Your Internet Security..." (Their capitalization.)
Yup. I still have two 41cv's that I bought new 40+/- years ago. They both work fine, although it's getting harder to find N cells.
I've been working with computers since 1961. I've had decades of back problems. Standing is not the answer. Get up and walk around - frequently. If you can stand it walk several miles a day. I just had a 50th college reunion and I think I'm better off than many of my classmates because of walking and exercises. Start now.
I disabled ipv6 last night. Comcast drops the connection after a day or two and then anything that is trying to use ipv6 takes forever to fail over to ipv4. It was interfering with my usage. The only way to solve it was to reboot the router. Not worth it.
Tech reporters should be licensed. I seriously doubt that Maxwell's equations are failing: "Maxwell’s equations explain how high-frequency flows of electrons in conductors generate electromagnetic waves, but they do not explain how an insulating material, where there is no flow of electrons, would also act as an antenna."
It's an IRS site, what did you expect?
We ran a Windows server for many years with no firewall. We took credit card info (which was immediately encrypted). We had spent over a month hardening the server by shutting down all but the services that we truly needed. We never had a problem with that arrangement. We added a firewall when PCI required it but I'm still not convinced that it mattered.
They are already paid by the end user and by the distributors like Netflix, who pay for their bandwidth usage. What the carriers want is to be paid three times.
That logic leads to debtors' prisons. They didn't work out so well.
In 1961 I took an evening course in Fortran for physics students taught by a volunteer from MIT. We were promised a chance to actually run our programs at the end of the course, but that never happened. I last used Fortran in 1971, when I maintained a subscription fulfillment system for a student-run academic journal. The print routines were in 1401 assembly language, but we'd lost the source and only had a binary deck of cards to work with.
I used LaTex in the mid to late eighties to set type for several professional journals and newsletters. It was the only product I could find that was capable of dealing with footnotes that had to be split across pages. We marked up the articles with tags in Xywrite and then used its macro-programming language to translate into LaTex. Worked like a charm and saved a fortune over commersial typesetting.
Thanks for a thoughtful reply. I'm not against government, or government regulation. We NEED a government. Read Hobbes if you think we can do without. He lived through the English Civil War and knew at first hand what he was talking about. I am upset at having to deal with large, impersonal organizations who don't seem to have any sense of what their customers need or want. I put the telephone companies, large banks, utilities, and cable companies high on my list of organizations that I'd rather avoid dealing with, if at all possible.
Good questions. The IP data is on XFinity. I pay for that whether or not I use it for phone service. From my house it runs on a cable. A tracreroute reveals a string of Comcast servers followed by other routers that don't look much like a traditional Telco, so I'm assuming it doesn't really run over much of the traditional phone companies' networks any more. No, I'm not protected against a DDos attack but then I'm not protected against a truck pulling down my phone line and part of my house, either. The latter happened; I've never had to deal with the former.
Are you sure? I just switched two POTS lines to V over IP and expect to save $800 a year. That's what a regulated monopoly will do to you.
He's right, you know. I've been using computers since 1961. Back then you could read the manual in an evening and then you know all the commands you needed to know. Now the systems are so complicated that only the Internet is big enough to hold the documentation. That's what makes discoverability so important in a user interface these days. Windows 8 is sorely lacking in that department. I have spent the last two weeks building a virtualized server on top of Windows 2012 Server. As a server it's just dandy. Hyper-V works beautifully; networking, backup, management tools are all great. BUT the new interface is still awful and the screens are just plain ugly. I've been working with a Remote Desktop connection to Windows 2012 Server from a Win 7 machine. The Win 7 side is beautiful and functional. The Win 2012 Server side is ugly and functional. It looks a lot like IBM stuff from the 60's. At least there's no confusion about which machine your working on.
Just bought a Dell desktop for my GF. We went to some trouble to find a Windows 7 machine since I find Windows 8 to be unuseable on a desktop. (I've spent some time with it since I'm setting up a new server using Win 8 and two virtual Linux machines.) There is no way I want a touch screen on my desktop. Can you really imagine spending a lot of time reaching over your keyboard and coffee to swipe the screen?
Sadly, it does now mean what the parent poster thinks it means. I gave up on this one when the Economist started using it with the new meaning. Also note the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article.
But in the Gregorian calendar the 13th falls on a Friday more often than on any other day of the week. (You can confirm this by checking the entire 400-year cycle. It's a small difference but Friday wins out.)
Mod parent up. The Air Force Museum is outstanding. They have an actual hydrogen bomb (disarmed, I hope) that's the most ominous looking thing I've ever seen. They also have Bockscar, the B29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Once you get past the nuclear horrors there's an amazing collection of planes going back to the Wright Brothers.