In Australia most ISPs have had systems like this in place for almost a decade now, and we call it "shaping" (a nice term for "use too much bandwidth and we'll jack you back down to ISDN").
The funny thing is that "shaping" is a change for the better in Australia, as before it became common place (it was initially marketed as "UNLIMITED BROADBAND!11!!*") users were either charged ridiculous rates for excess usage ($50+/gb on some plans) or had their service cut off until the end of the month.
AT&T's move may be seen as a step backwards, but the truth is that Americans are still lucky to have some of the lowest cost bandwidth in the world.
Is it just me, or are open* and cloud* becoming the new cyber*?
Middle manager: "Hey, did you try the new CyberCloud 2.0 Open-Surface ® operating system by OpenMicrosoft ®?"
MS patent goon: "You bet your Zune ® I did! It allows me to innovate my value-added cyberdata to enhance availability in scalable cloud based enterprise architectures channeling an enterprise virtualisation solution, thus leveraging existing ROI and increasing key delivarables as per OpenMicrosoft ® BestPractise ®!"
I don't know if I like this either. So they take away the annoyance of Flash, but now we have 10+ popup windows moving around on their own. It's not a refreshing change, and actually more annoying.
Ah, so THAT is what it does. I'm using Chromium 12 on Linux and I saw... nothing?
And I'm not sure how the windows planned to move around on my dwm desktop anyway. It's not exactly designed for floating windows. Great if you want to be productive, though.
Duplicity is handy if you're just wanting the same rsync experience, but with encryption.
If you need a nice Duplicity-like tool with a user friendly GUI, there's also Duplicati.
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In Australia most ISPs have had systems like this in place for almost a decade now, and we call it "shaping" (a nice term for "use too much bandwidth and we'll jack you back down to ISDN").
The funny thing is that "shaping" is a change for the better in Australia, as before it became common place (it was initially marketed as "UNLIMITED BROADBAND!11!!*") users were either charged ridiculous rates for excess usage ($50+/gb on some plans) or had their service cut off until the end of the month.
AT&T's move may be seen as a step backwards, but the truth is that Americans are still lucky to have some of the lowest cost bandwidth in the world.
"Good luck, I'm behind SEVEN ROT13s!"
Is it just me, or are open* and cloud* becoming the new cyber*?
Middle manager: "Hey, did you try the new CyberCloud 2.0 Open-Surface ® operating system by OpenMicrosoft ®?"
MS patent goon: "You bet your Zune ® I did! It allows me to innovate my value-added cyberdata to enhance availability in scalable cloud based enterprise architectures channeling an enterprise virtualisation solution, thus leveraging existing ROI and increasing key delivarables as per OpenMicrosoft ® BestPractise ®!"
I don't know if I like this either. So they take away the annoyance of Flash, but now we have 10+ popup windows moving around on their own. It's not a refreshing change, and actually more annoying.
Ah, so THAT is what it does. I'm using Chromium 12 on Linux and I saw... nothing? And I'm not sure how the windows planned to move around on my dwm desktop anyway. It's not exactly designed for floating windows. Great if you want to be productive, though.
Duplicity is handy if you're just wanting the same rsync experience, but with encryption. If you need a nice Duplicity-like tool with a user friendly GUI, there's also Duplicati.