Yet, if they have 100 subscribers at 1.5Mbit, that's a total of 150Mbit bandwidth, so let's say that the average usage is 50%, so 75Mbit. Now, if we actually had that, then a handfull of people using 1.5Mbit, will not saturate that pipe.
If one or two people using their full bandwidth capacity are saturating the pipe, then the provider is probably overselling their bandwidth quite a bit over that 100% mark. Probably closer to 200 or 300% oversell. Again, there's the profit maximization, while they say "fuck you customer".
And what about other customers of other ISPs who's data happens to be carried over a segment owned by Comcast? (I don't know if there are any, however, if any carrier is allowed to fuck with the data flow, who knows what data will be impacted). If a carrier doesn't have enough bandwidth to give each of their customers what they've paid for, they need to increase their capacity, not short their customers.
Don't spew contractual garbage either. If they sell someone 7Mbit down, 1Mbit up, they'd best have the capacity to handle that. If people's connections are slowing down because a few other people are using their rated capacity, then the carrier doesn't have enough bandwidth for their customers and need to provide more.
This throttling is nothing more than the provider trying to cheat their customers by selling at a premium what they have no intent to provide.
Yes - the medical data was intended as a joke. Although it's intent was to say that there are definitely more payloads than just pirated content that traverse torrent-like transports.
Many games that people pay hard cash for high-bandwidth connections use these for updates. Restricting this flow for a particular transport means that there will be something new for the *gasp* piraters to use that is better, faster, harder to isolate than torrent streams, while the legal uses of these streams are choked out of existance.
Sorry about that - oh, did your precious cargo expire?
What, you were transporting critical medical records via Torrent? and someone died? Too bad - we were preventing you from pirating movies / music / software.
See, the problem here is that they cannot know what is being transported. The protocol by itself is not bad. If that were the case, they'd have to block TCP/IP - as all bad things over the net come through via TCP/IP - of course - all good things come that way too....
If we allow our government to nullify aspects of the constitution and bill of rights in the name of the war on terror, then the terrorists have won already.
Part of the reason we were targets for so long was because of the freedoms we have^H^Hd.
Declaring that we no longer have the freedoms from things like invasion of privacy thru illegal signature statements, or that the bill of rights doesn't actually give us any rights as it's worded that congress may pass no law that takes away the rights, rather than specifically granting said rights, gives us an insight into the current illegal regime trying to rule our country out of a democracy and into a militaristic government where the government is the highest power and the people are nothing.
So our government works it's way towards becoming a terrorist organization and we just sit around taking everything they feel like dishing out.
"So even though [there's only a] small chance of [the data being misused], we did notify all affected individuals and advised them of what steps to take to protect themselves " In my opinion, any company, corporation, organization or government entity that misplaces (through loss or theft) sensitive financial data should be responsible for paying for identity theft coverage for as long as the potentially affected individuals live. Then maybe they wouldn't be so damned quick to store all of that data or just hand it out to every contracter they hire.
Telling someone "So sorry, we lost a disk with all of your credit-card numbers, social-security number, personal history. We suggest you buy identity theft coverage right away." is total bullshit.
One of the banks that I used to do business with had 2 laptops stolen with my information on them. They told me they were going to be good enough to *give* me 1 free year of credit protection. I told them that the data on that drive wasn't ever going to *go away* and that they were going to pay for that coverage for the rest of my life. We argued and I basically said that if I ever had my identity stolen, it would come back to haunt them as they had as good as given out my data to whoever stole the laptops. Eventually I got them up to 10 years of coverage, however I let them know that that did not let them off the hook and that if anything happened after that time frame, they would be paying to take care of it one way or another.
Want fries with that? Person thinks... Do I like fries? yes/no? Am I hungry enough for fries? yes/no? makes a decision.
Would you like the replacement insurance on this item that's already covered by a manufacturers warranty? If you do, you can deal with us if it breaks within a year, if you don't you can deal with the manufacturer if it breaks within a year. If you get it, we won't ask any questions, we'll just replace it. C'mon - it's a great deal. Buy it. Please. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar on it.
Person thinks... Will this item work longer than a year? If not, I can get a new one if it dies, or doesn't work right or isn't updated to the latest standard, will dealing with the factory be an issue? Can I find a contact for the manufacturer? Oh hell, it's only a 3rd of the price... Okay - I'll take it.
High pressure sales tactics... Not quite the same as "Want fries with that?"
Unfortunately, you can either have it fast and cheap, or cheap and good, but you can't have it fast and good. And with M$, you can't have it cheap, of course with M$, you can't have it good, period.
So if she'd bought the songs on iTunes, she'd have had to pay, what? $321.78 (300 for the iPod, and 21.78 for the songs) that's at.99 per song - I'm not sure if other fees or taxes apply, so it might actually be higher.
So the maximum *damage* actually applicable to the RIAA is Zero. (What's that? zero? yes - zero. The RIAA is a not-for-profit organization, who's member companies were the ones who missed out on their share of $21.78 which I'm guessing is less than $12.00, of which the Artists might, if lucky receive $0.02).
So actual damages to the RIAA being zero, and at $9250.00 per song, we have an (divide by zero error) infinite multiplication of damages.
Someone should inform the Judge of this and have the verdict thrown out due to the punishment being inconsistent with the crime. Especially now that we all (and the Judge as well) know that the reference case was overturned before the RIAA handed it to the judge, and that there actually was NO crime committed, at least not the one she was found guilty of.
Why is this flamebait? It's a true feeling expression of someone's outrage that someone else believes they know better than they do as to what is and isn't appropriate for them....
It's just like claiming someone is a terrorist just because they happen to have a recipe for something akin to napalm, or a fuel-air explosive....
Queue the mind police as we bring you in to implant a chip to control your thoughts.
We will quell any and all seditious thoughts as well as clamp down on violent outbursts. All sports in general will be banned as they have the potentil to lead to violent outbursts and riots depending on the emotional impact of a particular game. Males and females will be separated for the public good as they cannot be trusted to get together without the occasional fight, which leads to violence, which we all know leads to terrorism right?
Get the idea? Any of these *modest* restrictions are just stepping stones to the end of humanity. God (pick your favorite) gave us the ability to exercise free-will. We also received 10 commandments which work fairly well as a guideline on how to live.
Most laws today say "You cannot do this. You cannot do that." They take away free-will.
Why would studying any topic, learning any knowledge be akin to terrorism? Just because it could be used that way? Well shit, we'd better put down all military personel as they leave the service because they've got knowledge that could be used for terrorist acts. Police officers had best be put-down when they retire or quit, as they've got knowledge that could be used for terrorist acts.
See what I mean? It's crazy. Free will determines who and what will be used for terrorism. Knowledge by itself isn't evil. No amount of information can effer become a malicious individual in it's own right.
C'mon - I don't even trust MS to write a secure operating system - let alone a healthcare information system.
Better watch it MS - HIPAA will not be your friend, and you'll probably find that you end up paying more in fines than you'll ever make in revenue. You have to meet all kinds of restrictions and security levels that Windows today just hasn't been able to meet.
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Yet, if they have 100 subscribers at 1.5Mbit, that's a total of 150Mbit bandwidth, so let's say that the average usage is 50%, so 75Mbit. Now, if we actually had that, then a handfull of people using 1.5Mbit, will not saturate that pipe.
If one or two people using their full bandwidth capacity are saturating the pipe, then the provider is probably overselling their bandwidth quite a bit over that 100% mark. Probably closer to 200 or 300% oversell. Again, there's the profit maximization, while they say "fuck you customer".
Exactly what I meant about contractual garbage.
Burst spped? how often? once every 72 hours? the rest of the time at 1Kb/sec? what does that mean?
Cable is shared all the way to the house. DSL is shared to the switch, then dedicated to the house.
And what about other customers of other ISPs who's data happens to be carried over a segment owned by Comcast? (I don't know if there are any, however, if any carrier is allowed to fuck with the data flow, who knows what data will be impacted).
If a carrier doesn't have enough bandwidth to give each of their customers what they've paid for, they need to increase their capacity, not short their customers.
Don't spew contractual garbage either. If they sell someone 7Mbit down, 1Mbit up, they'd best have the capacity to handle that. If people's connections are slowing down because a few other people are using their rated capacity, then the carrier doesn't have enough bandwidth for their customers and need to provide more.
This throttling is nothing more than the provider trying to cheat their customers by selling at a premium what they have no intent to provide.
Yes - the medical data was intended as a joke. Although it's intent was to say that there are definitely more payloads than just pirated content that traverse torrent-like transports.
Many games that people pay hard cash for high-bandwidth connections use these for updates. Restricting this flow for a particular transport means that there will be something new for the *gasp* piraters to use that is better, faster, harder to isolate than torrent streams, while the legal uses of these streams are choked out of existance.
Sorry about that - oh, did your precious cargo expire?
What, you were transporting critical medical records via Torrent? and someone died? Too bad - we were preventing you from pirating movies / music / software.
See, the problem here is that they cannot know what is being transported. The protocol by itself is not bad. If that were the case, they'd have to block TCP/IP - as all bad things over the net come through via TCP/IP - of course - all good things come that way too....
If we allow our government to nullify aspects of the constitution and bill of rights in the name of the war on terror, then the terrorists have won already.
Part of the reason we were targets for so long was because of the freedoms we have^H^Hd.
Declaring that we no longer have the freedoms from things like invasion of privacy thru illegal signature statements, or that the bill of rights doesn't actually give us any rights as it's worded that congress may pass no law that takes away the rights, rather than specifically granting said rights, gives us an insight into the current illegal regime trying to rule our country out of a democracy and into a militaristic government where the government is the highest power and the people are nothing.
So our government works it's way towards becoming a terrorist organization and we just sit around taking everything they feel like dishing out.
" In my opinion, any company, corporation, organization or government entity that misplaces (through loss or theft) sensitive financial data should be responsible for paying for identity theft coverage for as long as the potentially affected individuals live. Then maybe they wouldn't be so damned quick to store all of that data or just hand it out to every contracter they hire.
Telling someone "So sorry, we lost a disk with all of your credit-card numbers, social-security number, personal history. We suggest you buy identity theft coverage right away." is total bullshit.
One of the banks that I used to do business with had 2 laptops stolen with my information on them. They told me they were going to be good enough to *give* me 1 free year of credit protection. I told them that the data on that drive wasn't ever going to *go away* and that they were going to pay for that coverage for the rest of my life. We argued and I basically said that if I ever had my identity stolen, it would come back to haunt them as they had as good as given out my data to whoever stole the laptops. Eventually I got them up to 10 years of coverage, however I let them know that that did not let them off the hook and that if anything happened after that time frame, they would be paying to take care of it one way or another.
I believe the poster is referring to working within 1 cab file, not for all cab files...
It's either none or all it seems.
Not quite...
Want fries with that? Person thinks... Do I like fries? yes/no? Am I hungry enough for fries? yes/no? makes a decision.
Would you like the replacement insurance on this item that's already covered by a manufacturers warranty? If you do, you can deal with us if it breaks within a year, if you don't you can deal with the manufacturer if it breaks within a year. If you get it, we won't ask any questions, we'll just replace it. C'mon - it's a great deal. Buy it. Please. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar on it.
Person thinks... Will this item work longer than a year? If not, I can get a new one if it dies, or doesn't work right or isn't updated to the latest standard, will dealing with the factory be an issue? Can I find a contact for the manufacturer? Oh hell, it's only a 3rd of the price... Okay - I'll take it.
High pressure sales tactics... Not quite the same as "Want fries with that?"
Unfortunately, you can either have it fast and cheap, or cheap and good, but you can't have it fast and good. And with M$, you can't have it cheap, of course with M$, you can't have it good, period.
lol - while funny as hell, not everyone restricts # to PS1 for root.. =D
Don't drink and post.... .. now where's the delete idiotic post button?
=D
So if she'd bought the songs on iTunes, she'd have had to pay, what? $321.78 (300 for the iPod, and 21.78 for the songs) that's at .99 per song - I'm not sure if other fees or taxes apply, so it might actually be higher.
So the maximum *damage* actually applicable to the RIAA is Zero. (What's that? zero? yes - zero. The RIAA is a not-for-profit organization, who's member companies were the ones who missed out on their share of $21.78 which I'm guessing is less than $12.00, of which the Artists might, if lucky receive $0.02).
So actual damages to the RIAA being zero, and at $9250.00 per song, we have an (divide by zero error) infinite multiplication of damages.
Someone should inform the Judge of this and have the verdict thrown out due to the punishment being inconsistent with the crime.
Especially now that we all (and the Judge as well) know that the reference case was overturned before the RIAA handed it to the judge, and that there actually was NO crime committed, at least not the one she was found guilty of.
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/subtype/subtype.do?group=computersperipherals&type=harddiskdrives&subtype=hybridhdd_flashon
That's the page with 3 hybrid drives listed...
Well, that's your opinion, I think it stinks, but it's all yours and you are entitled to it.
Why is this flamebait? It's a true feeling expression of someone's outrage that someone else believes they know better than they do as to what is and isn't appropriate for them....
It's just like claiming someone is a terrorist just because they happen to have a recipe for something akin to napalm, or a fuel-air explosive....
Ugh - getting riled up and spelling do not mix... effer? ever sheesh... =D
Queue the mind police as we bring you in to implant a chip to control your thoughts.
We will quell any and all seditious thoughts as well as clamp down on violent outbursts. All sports in general will be banned as they have the potentil to lead to violent outbursts and riots depending on the emotional impact of a particular game.
Males and females will be separated for the public good as they cannot be trusted to get together without the occasional fight, which leads to violence, which we all know leads to terrorism right?
Get the idea? Any of these *modest* restrictions are just stepping stones to the end of humanity. God (pick your favorite) gave us the ability to exercise free-will. We also received 10 commandments which work fairly well as a guideline on how to live.
Most laws today say "You cannot do this. You cannot do that." They take away free-will.
Why would studying any topic, learning any knowledge be akin to terrorism? Just because it could be used that way? Well shit, we'd better put down all military personel as they leave the service because they've got knowledge that could be used for terrorist acts. Police officers had best be put-down when they retire or quit, as they've got knowledge that could be used for terrorist acts.
See what I mean? It's crazy. Free will determines who and what will be used for terrorism. Knowledge by itself isn't evil. No amount of information can effer become a malicious individual in it's own right.
Of course, according to the terms of service, your mail is their mail.
At least it used to be, I haven't read their latest TOS.
That's funny, because, software can't be patented.
They get around it by calling it "the device", but it essence, "the device" is a computer running "someone's software".
C'mon - I don't even trust MS to write a secure operating system - let alone a healthcare information system.
Better watch it MS - HIPAA will not be your friend, and you'll probably find that you end up paying more in fines than you'll ever make in revenue.
You have to meet all kinds of restrictions and security levels that Windows today just hasn't been able to meet.
When the corporations will say continue to support / maintain xp, or lose us as customers - guess what MS will do? Just take a wild guess?
How many corporations will actually be using Vista in 1 year? 2 years? 3 years?
MS needs to dump Vista, and go on.
I'm still trying to figure out if Gradma was an intentional mis-spelling of Grandma, or if some other terminology slipped between her crack?
Because they might have money. They probably think it's obvious that the counselor doesn't.