These bandwith caps actually have little or nothing to do with file sharing.
It's just another attempt by the Cable and Satellite companies to slow down online video. Bell is an ISP and also a Satellite provider. Online video eats away at their satellite business.
Over the long haul, following your passion is the way to go.
I have been at a similar crossroads, and went the management route. I am currently re-eavluating that decision since I get much more joy out of being hands-on and much less joy out of the routine administrivia that comes with being a manager.
If you get more joy out of managing than you do as a tech, then that's likely the way you should go.
In Canada, the post office has a service called epost http://www.epost.ca/ that is offered fee of charge and is used by banks as the bill presentment layer. Once you setup your account, you either access it through your online banking application OR you can access the site directly.
Epost conserves your bills for 7 years online with an 'electronic postmark' for the date.
I've got 4 CFL's installed in my outside light fixtures and have not noticed any problems with dimming below 40 degrees. Temperatures here have been hovering in the 20 F or less range and no noticeable dropoff in light output.
In fact the only drop in light output I see is when the neighborhood kids smash my lamps...
Quote: "Frankly, the ISP shouldn't have to do anything unless ordered to. And, if in doubt, they should have contacted the authorities (I don't know if they did or not)."
Well, maybe this part of the article will help:
From the article:
Kulbashian may be on the hook for the $3,000 fine against Affordable Space.com, because he owned the company.
The link between the web site and the company (ISP) is that the owner of the ISP was also a member of the association with the offending we site. Because of this, the ISP had official knowledge that the hate speech was on its servers. Therefore, the ISP became a willing participant to the hate speech. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch in this case.
The difference is in time-sensitive information - think stock and currency traders for example. Essentially anything that is valuable for a short period of time is at risk.
I'm sure there are other cases out there where it's not so much the information that is disclosed, but the timing of such that makes a huge difference.
In the corporate space, uncontrolled communications are a problem. Adding this IM feature to GMAIL will be the final nail in the coffin for corporate users.
While this is can be very useful, it can be very dangerous.
While IM is similar to E-MAIL, once you turn off logging of the chats, it becomes epemeral and there is no longer any auditable trail.
I can see this as being the driver behind corporate policies that will lead to the banning of gmail.com.
If Google can provide them with a way to do that *that just works*, and if they can market it effectively, I think it has a great chance for success.
I think you may be right, but I also think it's a significant concentration risk. Millions of people trusting all their letters, spreadsheets, and other, maybe more sensitive information to a single entity. This would be a great attractor for Identity Thieves.
Fundamentally, giving up your desktop is a matter of trust. You have to trust that your information will still be there tomorrow morning, you have to trust that your privacy will be respected, and you have to trust that you will be able to get on the net.
It's not an just an issue of trusting Google to not be "evil". What happens if Google goes under? Who would the data belong to?
What about market pressures if the company starts to fail? How good is their internal security?
We have recently seen a rash of thefts of Personal Information (choicepoint anyone?). Why would anyone trust a central repository with all of their personal files, given the risks involved?
After reading the article, it seems more like an infomercial than anything else. Sparse and incorrect info, lots of flash, then the links to amazon so you can make your holiday purchase.
"How else would they know who bought it and how to get a name from that serial number?"
Two words: extended warranty
So, if you want to avoid this, pay cash and don't take the warranty, don't use your member card (no costco for you), and heck, don't buy from a primary source - buy used.
-- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Actually, I think all cash is not necessarily the best way to go. Unless you lead a very simple life, you are going to need credit (house loan, car loan, student loan, line of credit, credit cards, etc).
I thing the best approach is the hide in plain sight model where cash is used for things that are private and credit is used for things that are not.
I'm curious about one thing -- of all the/. crowd who worry about privacy issues, how many of you keep blogs?
Our department at uni used to run all of the submitted coding assignments in the first year through a script that would normalise the ident style, remove the comments and change all the variables names so they they could be diffed to check for cheating.
I think there is a significant difference between a university using scripts to check for cheating and a commercial entity that acquires the right to use students' Intellectual Property.
In the former, the university does not make any money. In the latter, the commercial entity gets the right to use the students' papers to further the commercial entity's profits.
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>How does Google have your entire browsing history?
How about DNS? Android defaults to Google's DNS, and now my home router does as well.
This can't be good.
How can we trust that the android version will be secure. As I see it, android is a data-monetization platform that also runs phones and tablets.
Not comforting at all.
Prior art: Blackberry phones can be setup to allow phonecalls without a password but not access to the contents of the device.
The problem comes from the aggregation of the data by Google and what info can be gleaned from it.
I have an android phone - wanna bet that it uses the name of my access point (via google) to better identify my location?
And that's just the SSID. Why did Google never say they were collecting SSID info to start with?
I don't think this was an accidental add-on, if they are collecting the data, they are going to use it.
These bandwith caps actually have little or nothing to do with file sharing.
It's just another attempt by the Cable and Satellite companies to slow down online video.
Bell is an ISP and also a Satellite provider. Online video eats away at their satellite business.
Same is true of cable companies.
Over the long haul, following your passion is the way to go.
I have been at a similar crossroads, and went the management route. I am currently re-eavluating that decision since I get much more joy out of being hands-on and much less joy out of the routine administrivia that comes with being a manager.
If you get more joy out of managing than you do as a tech, then that's likely the way you should go.
In Canada, the post office has a service called epost http://www.epost.ca/ that is offered fee of charge and is used by banks as the bill presentment layer. Once you setup your account, you either access it through your online banking application OR you can access the site directly.
Epost conserves your bills for 7 years online with an 'electronic postmark' for the date.
Haven't had a glitch yet.
Does an Osborne 1 count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1/
I wonder if our laptops of today will look to us then like the ones from 1981 look to us now?
IANAR (reader), but page 18 seems to indicate a date of 2008-02-04 18:10:28 EST.
If the c&d was in january, then there's your proof right there.
Or did I miss something obvious?
I've got 4 CFL's installed in my outside light fixtures and have not noticed any problems with dimming below 40 degrees. Temperatures here have been hovering in the 20 F or less range and no noticeable dropoff in light output.
In fact the only drop in light output I see is when the neighborhood kids smash my lamps...
Well, maybe this part of the article will help:
From the article:
Kulbashian may be on the hook for the $3,000 fine against Affordable Space.com, because he owned the company.
The link between the web site and the company (ISP) is that the owner of the ISP was also a member of the association with the offending we site. Because of this, the ISP had official knowledge that the hate speech was on its servers. Therefore, the ISP became a willing participant to the hate speech. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch in this case.
The difference is in time-sensitive information - think stock and currency traders for example. Essentially anything that is valuable for a short period of time is at risk.
I'm sure there are other cases out there where it's not so much the information that is disclosed, but the timing of such that makes a huge difference.
MOD PARENT UP!
In the corporate space, uncontrolled communications are a problem.
Adding this IM feature to GMAIL will be the final nail in the coffin for corporate users.
While this is can be very useful, it can be very dangerous.
While IM is similar to E-MAIL, once you turn off logging of the chats, it becomes epemeral and there is no longer any auditable trail.
I can see this as being the driver behind corporate policies that will lead to the banning of gmail.com.
Apparently not anymore..
Funny message for a piece of DB software:
2006-01-27 15:26:14.905745R download was not found in the database
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If Google can provide them with a way to do that *that just works*, and if they can market it effectively, I think it has a great chance for success.
I think you may be right, but I also think it's a significant concentration risk. Millions of people trusting all their letters, spreadsheets, and other, maybe more sensitive information to a single entity. This would be a great attractor for Identity Thieves.
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Slashdot this: http://www.mt999.net
I agree.
Fundamentally, giving up your desktop is a matter of trust. You have to trust that your information will still be there tomorrow morning, you have to trust that your privacy will be respected, and you have to trust that you will be able to get on the net.
It's not an just an issue of trusting Google to not be "evil". What happens if Google goes under? Who would the data belong to?
What about market pressures if the company starts to fail? How good is their internal security?
We have recently seen a rash of thefts of Personal Information (choicepoint anyone?). Why would anyone trust a central repository with all of their personal files, given the risks involved?
After reading the article, it seems more like an infomercial than anything else. Sparse and incorrect info, lots of flash, then the links to amazon so you can make your holiday purchase.
Brilliant! We've been SLASHSPAMMED.
That should have been the headline for this article.
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"How else would they know who bought it and how to get a name from that serial number?"
Two words: extended warranty
So, if you want to avoid this, pay cash and don't take the warranty, don't use your member card (no costco for you), and heck, don't buy from a primary source - buy used.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
You may not need an IDE for VB, but what IDE do you use to program in NOTEPAD?
[see, i was making a small joke about notepad being a programming language, but oh never mind]
From the article ...
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" He demonstrated how to change vote totals with a six-line program in Microsoft notepad
Is that the programming language for tablet pc's?
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Actually, I think all cash is not necessarily the best way to go. Unless you lead a very simple life, you are going to need credit (house loan, car loan, student loan, line of credit, credit cards, etc).
/. crowd who worry about privacy issues, how many of you keep blogs?
I thing the best approach is the hide in plain sight model where cash is used for things that are private and credit is used for things that are not.
I'm curious about one thing -- of all the
I think there is a significant difference between a university using scripts to check for cheating and a commercial entity that acquires the right to use students' Intellectual Property.
In the former, the university does not make any money. In the latter, the commercial entity gets the right to use the students' papers to further the commercial entity's profits.
-- mzungu
Not yet.