Problem is, soon there will not be sufficient "unlimited" bandwidth to go around. The way to fix this is either revamp every cable system in the country (waves wand and makes it so...)
Gee, perhaps telcos could invest some of those hundreds of millions into expanding their business, rather than fluffing and jacking off their CEOs.
This metering scheme will die because people will block ads and streaming, which will in turn kill most free services, which in turn will drive most big Internet sites out of business.
It's a perfect way to assure the death of the Internet.
ut license plate scanning on interstates doesn't even bother me - in the slightest. Doesn't "terrify" me at all - no matter how long they store the data.
If a political party decides what ideas it supports based on what's likely to get it elected, that rises some questions about what its purpose is in the first place.
What criteria should otherwise be used, in a democracy?
The most powerful organization on the planet doesn't give interviews from an undisclosed location.
I like what Anonymous represents, and much of the hacking that they've engaged in has had a populist appeal, but they are self-limited by their anonymity, and obviously they're no more the drivers of our social change than OBL was . . . he also gave his interviews from an undisclosed location.
If I were Anonymous or a member thereof, I'd be looking for a wealthy socially-conscious sponsor to legitimize what I was doing . . . and take the conversation they are trying to have out in the open, where it can't be dismissed.
Until they do that, they're just going to be treated like cyber-terrorists. I suspect that the need that Anonymous is attempting to fill will be met by someone else, wiser and cleverer.
Stop stop stop. If you think that electronics simply "stop working completely" when they overheat
I've got 20 years of expertise in this field. When a CPU overheats, it stops. It does not generate valid, but incorrect data. I've overheated a number of CPUs. Also, I've overheated dozens of sound systems, which also stop working entirely when they overheat.
Ergo, most electronic equipment just stops working when it overheats.
you need to stop pontificating on a subject you don't understand
I understand it to the tune of a six figure salary that I am paid to understand these things. What expertise do YOU have?
Umm, you are just wrong. The Republicans have been on a privatizing tear that has been well-publicized and nearly non-stop for decades now. Examples include Reagan turning our student loans over to third parties, which jacked up the costs of college (Obama ended this practice, btw). Rick Santorum proposing to end our national weather services' free information so that he could stick his (or his buddies') private company in that place instead. Florida governor Rick Scott foisting a mandatory drug test law on welfare recipient so that his company Solantic could cash in on the misery of the less fortunate, Arizona governor Jan Brewer's nasty anti-immigration law which was, as it turns out, funded at the behest of the private prison complex so they could put more bodies in beds on the taxpayer's dime. The examples of GOP leaders shit-canning a public industry, or deliberately creating a market to funnel taxpayer dollars to their private buddies, are FUCKING LEGION.
I know Democrats are occasionally found sticking their hands in the till. But it is almost universally a Republican issue.
As a post script, I'm pretty fucking sick of this "both sides do it, so we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" attitude. That is an utterly false dichotomy that is designed specifically to shut down debate.
So, bring your "Democratic" examples or shut the fuck up.
The speed limit on my local highway is 55mph, the average speed is close to 70. It's a safe speed. Many areas put an artificially low speed to collect tickets at will.
So are you the asshole who tailgates me through the "no fly zone" on I-65 and then gets pulled over by Indiana's finest 2 miles down the road after you whip past me in a rage?
Your logic is garbage. I follow the speed limit because I am not paying $150 for a ticket. You can pay that, but I'm not fucking speeding so you can be more comfortable.
Would be nice, but doesn't work, because there are times ("rush hour") where everyone is trying to use their vehicle at once . . . ther the fleet companies would need to have enough cars to cover the peak (which would be prohibitively expensive)
If they got paid 2x a day to use those cars, I don't think they'd have a problem covering the cost.
. It seems like this would drive more business away from the already floundering USPS financial situation.
The USPS is struggling because they've been required by a vindictive right-wing to maintain an absurd 75-year pension plan commitment, basically they are being forced to fully fund pension plans for employees who haven't even been born yet.
If they were simply required to do business under the same rules as their competitors, they'd be kicking UPS' punk ass raw.
So, just for clarity let's make sure everyone understands that the USPS is being deliberately engineered to fail by the same vandals and saboteurs who are deliberately engineering our economy to fail.
Six of one, half dozen of another. I think since most people actually observe church service on Sunday, we would wan to vote on Saturday.
With apologies because as an Atheist I aactually have no clue what the fuck Sabbath means, and I assumed it meant the day you went to church or whatever, and in the US today, that day is Sunday.
Why do electronic voting systems seems to have so many problems?
I think the employ of Occam's Razor would be quite useful here. There is an un-holy appeal to any designer of such a machine to be able to artificially control the output. We already have the CEO of Diebold publicly promising to deliver votes to George W. Bush, so any protestation of "naw, people who build these things are so trustworthy, nobody would ever actually think to rig an election by deliberately designing a machine to do so.
My very first thought when I read this rigamarole about how the software conveniently malfunctioned to create new votes was, "oh, my god, what a complete bullshit explanation. Overheating CPUs do not malfunction so specifically as to merely add valid data to the processes they are executing. They STOP WORKING COMPLETELY when they overheat, as anyone who has ever spent even a year working with them would know.
So, I'm calling bullshit immediately, and after being fed an incredibly stupid lie about why these machines generated extra votes, I'm inclined to believe the very fucking worst possible alternative explanation. Why else would someone make up such a fucking ridiculous fib?
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Sincerely, the guy sitting behind you, who doesn't want to see your fat ass instead of the screen.
Well, it sure as hell wasn't "the staff' burning through $4Million a month now, was it?
Gee, perhaps telcos could invest some of those hundreds of millions into expanding their business, rather than fluffing and jacking off their CEOs.
This metering scheme will die because people will block ads and streaming, which will in turn kill most free services, which in turn will drive most big Internet sites out of business.
It's a perfect way to assure the death of the Internet.
Your town isn't our town. Prices vary wildly.
Says "anonymous coward."
Well, it seems like a lot of our white-collar CEOs are kleptocrats, and obviously feel the world owes them something.
This guy is just a poster-child for what is wrong with Corporate America. Never can fucking give these kids enough, can we!
This sounds like brain-dead retarded management policy. Stepping over a dollar to save a dime.
They didn't deserve you.
God, you must be one of those Teabag cultists. Everything is Obama's fault. Don't forget your fuckin' kool-aid!
They have been forced by Congress to fully fund their pensions 75 years out. That means pensions for employees who haven't even been born yet.
It's the GOP's way of killing the USPS so they can drive business to their asshole buddies. SOP.
Sir Frog, you'll be boiling soon enough,.
Taxes in the US are almost the lowest in the developed world. So, I don't really want to know more about something that isn't true.
This doesn't look like a tax to me -- it looks like a government-imposed profit fee for Amazon. Perhaps they should dispense with the fee entirely.
What criteria should otherwise be used, in a democracy?
The most powerful organization on the planet doesn't give interviews from an undisclosed location.
I like what Anonymous represents, and much of the hacking that they've engaged in has had a populist appeal, but they are self-limited by their anonymity, and obviously they're no more the drivers of our social change than OBL was . . . he also gave his interviews from an undisclosed location.
If I were Anonymous or a member thereof, I'd be looking for a wealthy socially-conscious sponsor to legitimize what I was doing . . . and take the conversation they are trying to have out in the open, where it can't be dismissed.
Until they do that, they're just going to be treated like cyber-terrorists. I suspect that the need that Anonymous is attempting to fill will be met by someone else, wiser and cleverer.
LOL. What purpose do you think a USER-DRIVEN site like Slashdot serves, if not to editorialize current events?
I've got 20 years of expertise in this field. When a CPU overheats, it stops. It does not generate valid, but incorrect data. I've overheated a number of CPUs. Also, I've overheated dozens of sound systems, which also stop working entirely when they overheat.
Ergo, most electronic equipment just stops working when it overheats.
I understand it to the tune of a six figure salary that I am paid to understand these things. What expertise do YOU have?
Maybe that Adama fellow is right after all.
Umm, you are just wrong. The Republicans have been on a privatizing tear that has been well-publicized and nearly non-stop for decades now. Examples include Reagan turning our student loans over to third parties, which jacked up the costs of college (Obama ended this practice, btw). Rick Santorum proposing to end our national weather services' free information so that he could stick his (or his buddies') private company in that place instead. Florida governor Rick Scott foisting a mandatory drug test law on welfare recipient so that his company Solantic could cash in on the misery of the less fortunate, Arizona governor Jan Brewer's nasty anti-immigration law which was, as it turns out, funded at the behest of the private prison complex so they could put more bodies in beds on the taxpayer's dime. The examples of GOP leaders shit-canning a public industry, or deliberately creating a market to funnel taxpayer dollars to their private buddies, are FUCKING LEGION.
I know Democrats are occasionally found sticking their hands in the till. But it is almost universally a Republican issue.
As a post script, I'm pretty fucking sick of this "both sides do it, so we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" attitude. That is an utterly false dichotomy that is designed specifically to shut down debate.
So, bring your "Democratic" examples or shut the fuck up.
So are you the asshole who tailgates me through the "no fly zone" on I-65 and then gets pulled over by Indiana's finest 2 miles down the road after you whip past me in a rage?
Your logic is garbage. I follow the speed limit because I am not paying $150 for a ticket. You can pay that, but I'm not fucking speeding so you can be more comfortable.
If they got paid 2x a day to use those cars, I don't think they'd have a problem covering the cost.
The USPS is struggling because they've been required by a vindictive right-wing to maintain an absurd 75-year pension plan commitment, basically they are being forced to fully fund pension plans for employees who haven't even been born yet.
If they were simply required to do business under the same rules as their competitors, they'd be kicking UPS' punk ass raw.
So, just for clarity let's make sure everyone understands that the USPS is being deliberately engineered to fail by the same vandals and saboteurs who are deliberately engineering our economy to fail.
Republicans have made theft legal for their business buddies. It's axiomatic. It's widespread.
So we should spend millions of dollars to add an extra step to something that already is known to work just fine?
Why? Just skip the middle step and use pen and fucking paper.
The taxpayers' money is better spent elsewhere, rather than just stuffing the pockets of voting machine makers.
It would need to be the kind of ink that you have to burn your skin to get off. What I mean by 'indelible.'
I know such inks must exist. Perhaps a henna tattoo, which I believe lasts about three weeks and is completely painless.
Six of one, half dozen of another. I think since most people actually observe church service on Sunday, we would wan to vote on Saturday.
With apologies because as an Atheist I aactually have no clue what the fuck Sabbath means, and I assumed it meant the day you went to church or whatever, and in the US today, that day is Sunday.
I think the employ of Occam's Razor would be quite useful here. There is an un-holy appeal to any designer of such a machine to be able to artificially control the output. We already have the CEO of Diebold publicly promising to deliver votes to George W. Bush, so any protestation of "naw, people who build these things are so trustworthy, nobody would ever actually think to rig an election by deliberately designing a machine to do so.
My very first thought when I read this rigamarole about how the software conveniently malfunctioned to create new votes was, "oh, my god, what a complete bullshit explanation. Overheating CPUs do not malfunction so specifically as to merely add valid data to the processes they are executing. They STOP WORKING COMPLETELY when they overheat, as anyone who has ever spent even a year working with them would know.
So, I'm calling bullshit immediately, and after being fed an incredibly stupid lie about why these machines generated extra votes, I'm inclined to believe the very fucking worst possible alternative explanation. Why else would someone make up such a fucking ridiculous fib?