Today, on my way to work when the idiot in the other lane almost ran into the back of an 18 wheeler whose rear bumper was sticking out into their lane from the turn lane.
The problem is you just described your local modern cable system in a typical small to mid size city. They have the gigabit infrastructure running to the few thousand households around town, the problem is all those customers are sharing a single 100 "gigabit" capacity link to the larger city a hundred miles away where it plugs into a major internet backbone. This means that a small fraction of those thousands of local customers can soak the outbound connection if you don't do something to throttle it. Unfortunately the ISP marketing departments have spent years selling internet based upon bandwidth to the subscriber not capacity of the network.
Get over yourself, they don't care that you are using your internet connection to watch TV, what they care about is EVERYONE and their Grandmother that used to just check email once per week are about to use it to watch TV.
Your child services model breaks down using your own examples. Sure some of those things tend to be used as warning signs (rightfully or not) by the Child Services workers, however people living "off grid" are becoming more and more common in the US.
Electricity is just the most common thing people skip going off grid, and it is not just people in mountain cabins doing it surprisingly enough.
It can also include people providing their own drinking water, through rain catchment, ground wells, etc.
Sewage for a typical home can easily be handled by a composting dry toilet system
Sure this works better in some climates than others, but it is still possible in many areas to have a reasonably comfortable life without use of public utilities.
Of course there are also the extremist that decide by choice (not financial circumstance) to go live in a tent with their whole family.
From the bomb squads point of view detonating it is a win - win. If it is a fake bomb then is was a "safe" live action drill, if it was a real bomb it justifies every mid size city in the country having a bomb squad.
It depends on the size of the community served by the book/books If you live in an area where the phone book is a 10 volume set looks more like a set of encyclopedia than a book, then the utility of even the yellow pages becomes questionable. Do you really want to call a plumber to fix the water leak at your house that is on the other side of the metro area and a 3-4 hour drive away at rush hour? On the other hand if you live in an area like I do where the phone book serves a poplation of under 50,000 people, is a combined yellow and white pages and less than an inch thick the usefulness greatly increases (for both yellow and white pages). As I see it the internet has yet to provide a competitive advantage against the yellow pages, sure there have been efforts, the problem is the global economy nature of the internet, too few local businesses are listed and too many big companies with no local presense want to be listed as if they were everywhere on the off chance they may make a buck. To use the plumber example again, do I really want a "national" chain with their neasest location 300 miles away listed next to the local plumber, worse yet do I want 30 of them.
It dates back to the days when cell phone calls were measured in dollars per minute incoming or outgoing, it was also a time when a dollar was worth a lot more.
As a person that lives in hurricane country, I can tell you that during a major disaster cell service is one of the first things to go. Landline service will often be up and running when nothing else works, electricity out for 100 miles in every direction for days and the land lines still work.
This was all brought about by the fact cell phone numbers were not published in the white pages, the reliability of the system failed when a large percentage of people were not listed.
This would only work on the low voltage line between the pole mounted transformer and the building it is connected to. Trying to use it on a transmission line, even a small one in the woods would result in high voltage being fed to the device and likely whoever is holding it. In this case why not plug into an outdoor outlet, or just go inside and borrow the use of an outlet., shelter, etc.
It is the same reason there are no gas stations next to those west texas windmills. West Texas is a lot of vast nothingness, something you learn the first time you drive west of San Antonio (which is just barely in the eastern half of the state) on I-10 and see billboards advertising motels only 263 miles ahead.
Automotive R&D takes real estate, think test tracks for speed, cornering, skid pads, inclines, vibration tests, not to mention their indoor equivalents. Have you priced real estate in Silicon Valley area, this is a place where you could buy a 50 year old sub 1,000 square foot house with a patch of grass in the front yard about the size of a typical car for just a little under $1,000,000 just before the housing crunch (I have not priced it post crunch), now imagine the price of a multi thousand acre test track complex.
I read a fairly extensive report on the Apollo Soyuz docking a few years ago, it seems the airlock tube was just for interfacing the hatches, during the docking both space craft operated at a common pressure with one working a fraction a one PSI over its maximum design pressure and one working at a fraction of a PSI below minimum. There was a lot of engineering concern over this out of range opertation.
Both are becoming vital services in the modern era, as to your comment about "websites become as association for the web host...." Do you really think more than 1% of the public associates a web site with its own domain with the company that hosts that content? Content hosted on a Yahoo group, etc. is somewhat different than content under a URL in the name of the organization that is making the statement.
True, but the root of these acceptable use policies that started many years ago with EULA's that stated things like this word processor can't be used to generate hate speech. All goes back to this war on freedom of thought that the hate speech laws so clearly represent. Keep in mind I am not saying anything about the merits of their position, just that using catch all contract clauses that have came about by a cultural lapse in judgement that thinks if you make it so no one can legally have a negative opinion then all will be well.
Would you be saying the same thing if it were the phone company disconnecting their phone service? It is funny how the ISP's and Hosting companies want all that common carrier protection right up until they do something like this, and then don't want to play the neutral party obligation that goes along with being a common carrier.
When you consider the percentage of the population with mental conditions, alzheimer's etc. where they can't remember how to tie their own shoes, this number sounds reasonable, at least in the ballpark.
Slashdot needs some perspective, more importantly needs people that remember 1975, this was 3 to 4 years before the first true home VCR's hit the market, and about 5 years before the first home color video cameras for those VCR's each with a price tag starting at over $1,000 and weighed in together at a weight that would earn an overweight penalty for modern airline luggage weight limits. Kodak cameras in this time period were being driven by a need to compete for what the masses wanted, namely small and instant, with little regard to quality, the 110 instamatic with its easy to load cartridge film was quickly becoming a household norm, and this was only a year before Kodak introduced its own doomed line of instant cameras (recalled after Kodak lost its lawsuit with Polaroid a few years later).
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Today, on my way to work when the idiot in the other lane almost ran into the back of an 18 wheeler whose rear bumper was sticking out into their lane from the turn lane.
The problem is you just described your local modern cable system in a typical small to mid size city. They have the gigabit infrastructure running to the few thousand households around town, the problem is all those customers are sharing a single 100 "gigabit" capacity link to the larger city a hundred miles away where it plugs into a major internet backbone. This means that a small fraction of those thousands of local customers can soak the outbound connection if you don't do something to throttle it. Unfortunately the ISP marketing departments have spent years selling internet based upon bandwidth to the subscriber not capacity of the network.
Get over yourself, they don't care that you are using your internet connection to watch TV, what they care about is EVERYONE and their Grandmother that used to just check email once per week are about to use it to watch TV.
Your child services model breaks down using your own examples. Sure some of those things tend to be used as warning signs (rightfully or not) by the Child Services workers, however people living "off grid" are becoming more and more common in the US.
Electricity is just the most common thing people skip going off grid, and it is not just people in mountain cabins doing it surprisingly enough.
It can also include people providing their own drinking water, through rain catchment, ground wells, etc.
Sewage for a typical home can easily be handled by a composting dry toilet system
Sure this works better in some climates than others, but it is still possible in many areas to have a reasonably comfortable life without use of public utilities.
Of course there are also the extremist that decide by choice (not financial circumstance) to go live in a tent with their whole family.
I remember when CompuServe was $20 per hour for 2400 bps, and $9.60 per hour for 300 bps. (yes to you youngsters that is bps not kbps)
sincerely
(formerly) 72766,1640
From the bomb squads point of view detonating it is a win - win. If it is a fake bomb then is was a "safe" live action drill, if it was a real bomb it justifies every mid size city in the country having a bomb squad.
It depends on the size of the community served by the book/books If you live in an area where the phone book is a 10 volume set looks more like a set of encyclopedia than a book, then the utility of even the yellow pages becomes questionable. Do you really want to call a plumber to fix the water leak at your house that is on the other side of the metro area and a 3-4 hour drive away at rush hour? On the other hand if you live in an area like I do where the phone book serves a poplation of under 50,000 people, is a combined yellow and white pages and less than an inch thick the usefulness greatly increases (for both yellow and white pages). As I see it the internet has yet to provide a competitive advantage against the yellow pages, sure there have been efforts, the problem is the global economy nature of the internet, too few local businesses are listed and too many big companies with no local presense want to be listed as if they were everywhere on the off chance they may make a buck. To use the plumber example again, do I really want a "national" chain with their neasest location 300 miles away listed next to the local plumber, worse yet do I want 30 of them.
It dates back to the days when cell phone calls were measured in dollars per minute incoming or outgoing, it was also a time when a dollar was worth a lot more.
As a person that lives in hurricane country, I can tell you that during a major disaster cell service is one of the first things to go. Landline service will often be up and running when nothing else works, electricity out for 100 miles in every direction for days and the land lines still work.
This was all brought about by the fact cell phone numbers were not published in the white pages, the reliability of the system failed when a large percentage of people were not listed.
This would only work on the low voltage line between the pole mounted transformer and the building it is connected to. Trying to use it on a transmission line, even a small one in the woods would result in high voltage being fed to the device and likely whoever is holding it. In this case why not plug into an outdoor outlet, or just go inside and borrow the use of an outlet., shelter, etc.
It is the same reason there are no gas stations next to those west texas windmills. West Texas is a lot of vast nothingness, something you learn the first time you drive west of San Antonio (which is just barely in the eastern half of the state) on I-10 and see billboards advertising motels only 263 miles ahead.
Automotive R&D takes real estate, think test tracks for speed, cornering, skid pads, inclines, vibration tests, not to mention their indoor equivalents. Have you priced real estate in Silicon Valley area, this is a place where you could buy a 50 year old sub 1,000 square foot house with a patch of grass in the front yard about the size of a typical car for just a little under $1,000,000 just before the housing crunch (I have not priced it post crunch), now imagine the price of a multi thousand acre test track complex.
I read a fairly extensive report on the Apollo Soyuz docking a few years ago, it seems the airlock tube was just for interfacing the hatches, during the docking both space craft operated at a common pressure with one working a fraction a one PSI over its maximum design pressure and one working at a fraction of a PSI below minimum. There was a lot of engineering concern over this out of range opertation.
If you think cats are bad, you should see what a macaw can do to a keyboard in under a second.
Both are becoming vital services in the modern era, as to your comment about "websites become as association for the web host...." Do you really think more than 1% of the public associates a web site with its own domain with the company that hosts that content? Content hosted on a Yahoo group, etc. is somewhat different than content under a URL in the name of the organization that is making the statement.
I did not say they were common carriers, just that they wanted the protections given to common carriers
No it is not an ISP, it is a hosting company, please read past the first few words
From my grandparent message
"It is funny how the ISP's and Hosting companies want all that common carrier protection"
the word and means both ISP's AND Hosting companies WANT "Common Carrier" protection, it did not say they were common carriers.
True, but the root of these acceptable use policies that started many years ago with EULA's that stated things like this word processor can't be used to generate hate speech. All goes back to this war on freedom of thought that the hate speech laws so clearly represent. Keep in mind I am not saying anything about the merits of their position, just that using catch all contract clauses that have came about by a cultural lapse in judgement that thinks if you make it so no one can legally have a negative opinion then all will be well.
Would you be saying the same thing if it were the phone company disconnecting their phone service? It is funny how the ISP's and Hosting companies want all that common carrier protection right up until they do something like this, and then don't want to play the neutral party obligation that goes along with being a common carrier.
Sooner or later you get into the question, do people have the right to dislike other groups of people?
When you consider the percentage of the population with mental conditions, alzheimer's etc. where they can't remember how to tie their own shoes, this number sounds reasonable, at least in the ballpark.
Slashdot needs some perspective, more importantly needs people that remember 1975, this was 3 to 4 years before the first true home VCR's hit the market, and about 5 years before the first home color video cameras for those VCR's each with a price tag starting at over $1,000 and weighed in together at a weight that would earn an overweight penalty for modern airline luggage weight limits. Kodak cameras in this time period were being driven by a need to compete for what the masses wanted, namely small and instant, with little regard to quality, the 110 instamatic with its easy to load cartridge film was quickly becoming a household norm, and this was only a year before Kodak introduced its own doomed line of instant cameras (recalled after Kodak lost its lawsuit with Polaroid a few years later).
I mean it, has anyone ever used those composite video cables that come with so many digital cameras to display a picture on a TV?