Bandwidth abusers can be identified by their MAC address and throttled appropriately when net traffic is heavy. When it is light they might as well ease up. All that's left is determining what algorithm you use to identify abuse and throttle appropriately.
The Mass-Media-Powers-That-Be have succeeded in royally fucking themselves by taking a perfectly simple concept (watch videos at higher resolution) and turned it into a crippled, convoluted mess.
Ball's in your court, online video distributors (namely Apple).
Speaking of which, OS X frameworks are another sterling example of a saner approach. None of this crap where a bunch of files that interact with each other are squirreled around in countless bin/sbin/lib/share/man/etc/include and so forth. All relevant resources in one place. Store it in your.app, or in any Library folder, it just works. Drag and drop.
I only wish that Apple and 3rd party developers were as logical when they put stuff in ~/Library. There's folders for Application Support, Caches, and Preferences: use them.
Well, there are a lot of things *nix could learn from Mac OS X that would make life easier for both users AND developers. But *nix programmers tend to be pretty set in their ways.
Fortunately, it's free as in beer! So even if it blows your finances you'll always be able to afford it. If need be you can run it on cheap legacy hardware. Now all you have to worry about is electricity...
What the carriers don't realize is that consumers are paying these ISP's upwards of $50/month to get to Google and Amazon.
The carriers realize it perfectly. They're just selling their line of BS to the politicians and public. Make no mistake, it's not about "paying for the pipes", it's about gaining control over content and making money hand over fist off it.
In other words, they want to turn the internet into AOL.
By speeding up the (currently extremely tedious) process of crystallization and hopefully making inroads into the ~70% of all protein which currently can't be crystallized, this will rapidly improve our understanding of the structures of whole classes of proteins.
I think the time is right for Wikipedia to be branched, completely reviewed by experts, tweaked by the same, and pared down for worthwhile content. The result should be put out in disc form as a useful, free, stand-alone resource. Periodic reviews of new changes and additions should then be used to keep this reliable version of wikipedia up to date.
I'd also like to see it merged such that ALL words can have instant look up in the dictionary/wikipedia in pop-ups, whether hyperlinked or not.
Try netflix, or if you're lucky enough to be in the San Francisco Bay Area greencine. You no longer have to suffer with the laughable selection of your local Blockbuster, and the economics is better too. I agree, I don't want to pay bundles of money for a TV show I'm not sure I'll like and I'm only going to watch once and should have been able to see on TV, but until advertising-supported video-on-demand with a full library of anime is available, renting at about $1.50 a disk isn't a bad compromise.
Now that virtually everything gets licensed eventually, I've quit fansubs. Aside from some annoyingly long release schedules and the occasional translator cock-up (It's Alucard not Arucard morons, GITS:Innocence's lack of dubbing AND subtitles for the non-hearing impaired, music licensing issues for Kodocha, and of course shitty dubbing), it's worked out fine for me. Although of course not all shows get picked up, including good ones... Ebichu for instance. If someone would just pick up Daa Daa Daa and Sexy Commando Masaru-san I'd be set for now, especially since the fansubs for those have effectively stopped.
The US distributors of course make their money on sales, not rentals, but tough tits to them for that.
That may be all they can get away with now, but what makes you think they would stop there if they could exert influence over the name system in other countries? There'd be no.tw domain for starters, I'll tell you that.
Cisco and the rest's complicity in China's censorship program is indeed disgraceful and should be punished, but off topic.
You would just go to "perl", instead of having to guess at "perl.com", "perl.org", "perl.net". Like "coke" or "pepsi" or "kfc". The biggest problem with TLDs today is that they are murky and therefore require redundant registration, with the exception of country codes,.mil,.gov, and.edu. Of course, all this is built on the much bigger problem of trademarked words being applied by different companies in different contexts (Apple Computer and Apple Music, for instance), and the inevitable conflicts that arise when their businesses suddenly intersect. Indeed, internet domains are pretty much the be-all, end-all of these intersections, because every company wants to use their trademark/colloquial name as their domain name.
Maybe we should start all over and assign petitioners speakable but meaningless made up words, and let them rebrand themselves with their totally exclusive name.
I don't really care who runs the TLDs, as long as they don't run them in a fashion that interferes with the free speech of those who use them. I don't see how hundreds of TLDs are a good thing - in fact i think it's not! That would just means businesses would waste even MORE money registering redundant TLD names.
I've addressed most of your issues in other replies, but let me say here that people/governments attach very little meaning to sequences of numbers, but a hell of a lot of meaning sequences of letters. So your argument about phone numbers is worthless.
Try this: ask the Chinese government if they would like to prohibit the number 82.138.229.78 Then ask them if they would like to prohibit the sequence of letters www.freetibet.org.
The.xxx issue isn't over yet, for precisely the reasons you mentioned. For the record, I've never agreed with top-level domain system because difference between them was so murky that most people would just register all of them (which used to be.com,.net, and.org but now includes more) to prevent confusion, with the specific and enforced exceptions of.edu,.mil,.gov, and the country codes. The ethics of [company name]sucks.com situations were murky to begin with, because they DO use trademarked names, and as such is a legitimate legal issue. The human right I specifically refer to is free speech, which AFAIK the USA was the first to legally protect, and has done so longer an better than any other country in the world, particularly with regards to political speech, notwithstanding the few smaller nations that probably are better than we are about it today. And if you consider the US to be so bad and to have abused it so thoroughly, how can you or anyone else possibly even imply that the (unprincipled by design) UN would be a better choice with a straight face?
We need to design a replacement for the domain name system -snip- What you described are search engines, in particular Google. People have been saying that with Google as good as it is now who needs bookmarks/domain names/etc. They're full of crap. I use bookmarks and type domain names directly all the time, as do most people. Also, when you abandon static domain names, you are putting sites at high risk for spoofing.
With a majority vote needed to pass most resolutions, and a two-thirds majority needed to pass issues that the General Assembly considers "important", do you really think any such resolution would pass?
Can you prove that it won't? I have a lot more confidence that the the 1st amendment will remain intact than I do that the UN members will support free speech with a majority for every issue that comes up for a vote.
Basically all the time. Furthermore, if you subscribe to the MAKE blog and WIRED news you'll find 90% of the interesting techie stuff is covered there before slashdot anyway.
Any Internet governance system that gives up the current free and open nature of the internet (courtesy USA) in favor of a body that may contemplate censorship for any reason is unacceptable. In the case of the UN, the behavior of numerous member states with regard to regulating internet use has been unacceptable (including but not limited to France, Germany, and especially China), and therefore the UN cannot be trusted with this duty either.
If the UN ever adopts a satisfactory doctrine of human rights (including freedom of speech) AND enforces it amongst its member states on pain of expulsion, then I might reconsider. But as is realpolitik, not principles (never mind humanist ones), rules the day at the UN.
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Bandwidth abusers can be identified by their MAC address and throttled appropriately when net traffic is heavy. When it is light they might as well ease up. All that's left is determining what algorithm you use to identify abuse and throttle appropriately.
The Mass-Media-Powers-That-Be have succeeded in royally fucking themselves by taking a perfectly simple concept (watch videos at higher resolution) and turned it into a crippled, convoluted mess.
Ball's in your court, online video distributors (namely Apple).
Speaking of which, OS X frameworks are another sterling example of a saner approach. None of this crap where a bunch of files that interact with each other are squirreled around in countless bin/sbin/lib/share/man/etc/include and so forth. All relevant resources in one place. Store it in your .app, or in any Library folder, it just works. Drag and drop.
I only wish that Apple and 3rd party developers were as logical when they put stuff in ~/Library. There's folders for Application Support, Caches, and Preferences: use them.
Well, there are a lot of things *nix could learn from Mac OS X that would make life easier for both users AND developers. But *nix programmers tend to be pretty set in their ways.
Fortunately, it's free as in beer! So even if it blows your finances you'll always be able to afford it. If need be you can run it on cheap legacy hardware. Now all you have to worry about is electricity...
A buggy, unstable money management program... BRILLIANT!
What the carriers don't realize is that consumers are paying these ISP's upwards of $50/month to get to Google and Amazon.
The carriers realize it perfectly. They're just selling their line of BS to the politicians and public. Make no mistake, it's not about "paying for the pipes", it's about gaining control over content and making money hand over fist off it.
In other words, they want to turn the internet into AOL.
By speeding up the (currently extremely tedious) process of crystallization and hopefully making inroads into the ~70% of all protein which currently can't be crystallized, this will rapidly improve our understanding of the structures of whole classes of proteins.
Rewriting history in broken english maybe... but this gweilo isn't too worried about that.
I never noticed trademark infringement lawsuits smell like boiled peanuts until now.
kwijibo: a big hairy north american ape
Since slashdot has stopped giving me comment points for some reason.
It's a simple enough solution - if you have a word with no meaning, just find one for it. Problem solved, the neologistical way!
I think the time is right for Wikipedia to be branched, completely reviewed by experts, tweaked by the same, and pared down for worthwhile content. The result should be put out in disc form as a useful, free, stand-alone resource. Periodic reviews of new changes and additions should then be used to keep this reliable version of wikipedia up to date.
I'd also like to see it merged such that ALL words can have instant look up in the dictionary/wikipedia in pop-ups, whether hyperlinked or not.
And yet there's no way to just look at your current GPS location. They charge extra for that.
Spell "Dracula" backwards. I'll give you a hint - it doesn't spell "Arucard". Unless you speak engrish, of course.
See also Castlevania.
The Hellsing transliteration was wrong. Period.
Try netflix, or if you're lucky enough to be in the San Francisco Bay Area greencine. You no longer have to suffer with the laughable selection of your local Blockbuster, and the economics is better too. I agree, I don't want to pay bundles of money for a TV show I'm not sure I'll like and I'm only going to watch once and should have been able to see on TV, but until advertising-supported video-on-demand with a full library of anime is available, renting at about $1.50 a disk isn't a bad compromise.
Now that virtually everything gets licensed eventually, I've quit fansubs. Aside from some annoyingly long release schedules and the occasional translator cock-up (It's Alucard not Arucard morons, GITS:Innocence's lack of dubbing AND subtitles for the non-hearing impaired, music licensing issues for Kodocha, and of course shitty dubbing), it's worked out fine for me. Although of course not all shows get picked up, including good ones... Ebichu for instance. If someone would just pick up Daa Daa Daa and Sexy Commando Masaru-san I'd be set for now, especially since the fansubs for those have effectively stopped.
The US distributors of course make their money on sales, not rentals, but tough tits to them for that.
If it ain't Japanese it ain't manga. They should have picked up Azumanga Daioh.
They block free speech today
.tw domain for starters, I'll tell you that.
in China.
That may be all they can get away with now, but what makes you think they would stop there if they could exert influence over the name system in other countries? There'd be no
Cisco and the rest's complicity in China's censorship program is indeed disgraceful and should be punished, but off topic.
You would just go to "perl", instead of having to guess at "perl.com", "perl.org", "perl.net". Like "coke" or "pepsi" or "kfc". The biggest problem with TLDs today is that they are murky and therefore require redundant registration, with the exception of country codes, .mil, .gov, and .edu. Of course, all this is built on the much bigger problem of trademarked words being applied by different companies in different contexts (Apple Computer and Apple Music, for instance), and the inevitable conflicts that arise when their businesses suddenly intersect. Indeed, internet domains are pretty much the be-all, end-all of these intersections, because every company wants to use their trademark/colloquial name as their domain name.
Maybe we should start all over and assign petitioners speakable but meaningless made up words, and let them rebrand themselves with their totally exclusive name.
Are these bastards the same ones that allowed the fucking mercedes behind me to blind me with their piercing blue beams? DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!
When LED headlights are ready for market I'm sure the auto industry lobbyists will see to it they are approved.
Since every bit of content that would have been available on a .xxx is still available.
.xxx isn't even over. And IIRC, its main point was to create a TLD ghetto for porn anyway.
So, where is the censorship again? The debate over
I don't really care who runs the TLDs, as long as they don't run them in a fashion that interferes with the free speech of those who use them. I don't see how hundreds of TLDs are a good thing - in fact i think it's not! That would just means businesses would waste even MORE money registering redundant TLD names.
I've addressed most of your issues in other replies, but let me say here that people/governments attach very little meaning to sequences of numbers, but a hell of a lot of meaning sequences of letters. So your argument about phone numbers is worthless.
Try this: ask the Chinese government if they would like to prohibit the number 82.138.229.78
Then ask them if they would like to prohibit the sequence of letters www.freetibet.org.
The .xxx issue isn't over yet, for precisely the reasons you mentioned. For the record, I've never agreed with top-level domain system because difference between them was so murky that most people would just register all of them (which used to be .com, .net, and .org but now includes more) to prevent confusion, with the specific and enforced exceptions of .edu, .mil, .gov, and the country codes. The ethics of [company name]sucks.com situations were murky to begin with, because they DO use trademarked names, and as such is a legitimate legal issue. The human right I specifically refer to is free speech, which AFAIK the USA was the first to legally protect, and has done so longer an better than any other country in the world, particularly with regards to political speech, notwithstanding the few smaller nations that probably are better than we are about it today. And if you consider the US to be so bad and to have abused it so thoroughly, how can you or anyone else possibly even imply that the (unprincipled by design) UN would be a better choice with a straight face?
We need to design a replacement for the domain name system -snip-
What you described are search engines, in particular Google. People have been saying that with Google as good as it is now who needs bookmarks/domain names/etc. They're full of crap. I use bookmarks and type domain names directly all the time, as do most people. Also, when you abandon static domain names, you are putting sites at high risk for spoofing.
With a majority vote needed to pass most resolutions, and a two-thirds majority needed to pass issues that the General Assembly considers "important", do you really think any such resolution would pass?
Can you prove that it won't? I have a lot more confidence that the the 1st amendment will remain intact than I do that the UN members will support free speech with a majority for every issue that comes up for a vote.
Basically all the time. Furthermore, if you subscribe to the MAKE blog and WIRED news you'll find 90% of the interesting techie stuff is covered there before slashdot anyway.
Any Internet governance system that gives up the current free and open nature of the internet (courtesy USA) in favor of a body that may contemplate censorship for any reason is unacceptable. In the case of the UN, the behavior of numerous member states with regard to regulating internet use has been unacceptable (including but not limited to France, Germany, and especially China), and therefore the UN cannot be trusted with this duty either.
If the UN ever adopts a satisfactory doctrine of human rights (including freedom of speech) AND enforces it amongst its member states on pain of expulsion, then I might reconsider. But as is realpolitik, not principles (never mind humanist ones), rules the day at the UN.