This is the same company that has established the following:
1 - Bandwidth is finite. It must be controlled and limited. Users must endure caps and pay overage fees if they abuse the system.
2 - Bandwidth is so precious, in fact, that we need to charge for it twice: both the consumer and producer must pay. This is why we don't support Net Neutrality.
I'm fine with this model as long as it cuts both ways. After all Comcast is getting a free ride: they're using my electricity, their router is taking up space in my home, their users are consuming capacity both on my wireless network and my cable connection that I might otherwise consume. Therefore I must be compensated.
If comcast refuses to compensate me for my resources consumed in the pursuit of their commercial goals I have no choice but to snip the antenna wire in their router, or more realistically return it and purchase my own. In short: they can suck it.
And yet when I applied for my US passport I had to supply my birth certificate. *shrug* I'm sure the passport office does thorough checks, but getting the birth certificate also required I prove my identity so perhaps they're relying on the idea that you shouldn't have a particular American birth certificate without going through a check of some kind.
So you need to bring a climbing harness and rig yourself into the structure to prevent falling out. I kid. That's ridiculously dangerous. I assume instead it will become a base jumping stunt. LOL.
Google Voice offers call screening. Anyone in your contact list is allowed through - everyone else has to announce their name which is played to you. You then have the option to take the call or send them to voicemail.
That was one of the greatest Grandcentral features that Google eventually adopted. GC users could report a number and other GC users could subscribe to those reports, automatically blocking reported numbers. It was great.
Even my venerable Nexus One had to be rooted to remove the twitter and facebook apks and that was a stock phone straight from google play.
No crapware that I noticed on the Nexus 4, so at least that's alright. But it's nearly impossible to exit the Google ecosystem entirely and use an android phone.
Well you can find out for yourself at the OpenBSD home page, which explains their approach to security: http://www.openbsd.org/security.html
OpenBSD is definitely an educate yourself then ask questions sort of OS. I'm not slagging on you, just saying it makes more sense for me to post a link than try to recreate the contents of the webpage it goes to. Check it out. Decide for yourself.
Really? You've never heard of a transparent bridge? It is possible to work entirely in passthrough mode and quietly learn all MACs on the network whilst never doing anything yourself but packet passing. If there's no new MAC on the network, there's nothing to trigger IDS.
First this is just a marketing fluff piece by some recruiter wherein he shares his fantasy that for some reason companies will lay off or let retire great swathes of workforce, and then for no discernible reason hire them back through modis so they can take a 33% passthrough cut.
Second , I hear you about contracting vs full-time. It took the.com bust combined with a down-swing in energy to force me out of a contracting for the first time since 1900. But, where I work now also doesn't keep contractors on more than a year and doesn't do business with any but a short list of large shops, all of whom want entirely too much dosh for a 1099 passthrough. So again, this guy is talking out his backside if he thinks there's suddenly going to be a sea of contracting jobs. We don't hire contractors unless we have to just because of the one year limitation. It's not enough time to teach people complex systems, get them productive and reap the benefits.
None of them are perfect, but if I had the NSA's budget, I could probably roll a few together into one useful tool. If they're hiring I ain't cheap, but it sounds like fun.
I am an avid consumer of most google products. But Google Voice is just too unreliable to merit serious consideration. My texts randomly show up 12, 16, 18 hours later with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes it's when I restart my phone, switch between wifi and the network, sometimes it's just because. Plus the failure to support MMS except in limited circumstances.
Sure, if there's as many people driving Teslas as driving every other car model combined. You've just doubled the amount of traffic on the road and sold as many Teslas as every other kind of car as well in your effort to create a strawman. You're also completely ignoring the fact that Tesla have the opportunity to charge these packs ahead of time, flattening out your tenuously arrived upon peak demand. What a wonderful town you must live in where everyone can afford not only a second car, but a Tesla at that!
In the real world - where of the 80,000 people in your area on average 800 could *afford* a Tesla and of those perhaps 10% would choose to buy one, I don't really see a charging station holding 8 battery packs on hand for all 8 owners in your town as an issue, do you?
I suppose that depends on what you consider mastery. My home firewall runs BSD. I usually just grab a new disk and do a clean install, and mount the old disk to copy over whatever config files I need. With that approach instead of sysmerge which would actually be faster, I'm back up and on the internet in 1/2 an hour or less. After that I start with packages and again copy over config files, reviewing the files and release notes in case I have to make changes. And frankly to find any languishing TODOs I have forgotten.
By this point 99% of my system functionality is restored and I've spent maybe another hour to one and a half hours. Finally I recompile and reinstall whatever is needed from ports. I don't really count that so much against upgrade time, because it's easily scripted and some builds can take a while. After all my machine is just a firewall, it's old and slow and there's no reason to put in a large machine that compiles quickly when I do that maybe once every 6 months. Nothing I described is particularly difficult or even requires more than an average SA's skillset.
From my perspective it takes less time to do what I just described than the last time I installed Windows 7 and Office 2010 on a friend's laptop. Actually Windows 7 took no time at all. It was the security patching that took forever.
T-mobile wants $457.99 for a Nexus 4 if purchased outright or $49.99 down and $17/mo for 24 months, which adds up to precisely 457.99. So they aren't charging interest, although they are charging a $108.99 premium over the Google Play store, which is definitely a stupid carrier trick. Either that or Google is subsidizing the phones to consumers.
The Nexus 4 does also speak LTE on Band 4, which supposedly T-Mobile supports. You have to downgrade the flash radio on the Nexus 4 because the latest update disabled LTE. Still, just another reason to buy a Nexus 4, besides the smoking price and unlocked/un-carrier-crufted Android OS. The Galaxy IV and HTC One are arguably better if much more expensive phones, but for $299 you're in the territory of what a carrier might charge you to purchase a new device on contract anyway, and you get an unlocked phone instead.
I'm hoping Google upgrades the Nexus line again before too long, preferably with a removable battery this time.
Or if they just gave away local cell extenders for free instead of wanting to charge for them. I'd stick it in my attic just so my neighbors could benefit as well. But not if I have to pay to fix T-Mobile's coverage.
I'm been happyish with my Nexus One. Yes it's ancient. Not, it hasn't been updated in forever and the system speed and size are two years after purchase *very* limiting factors in using the phone.
But the fact that it has a stock android OS, removable battery which has been upgraded to a stack of extended life batteries (one for running with the GPS on for tracking, another for in-the-office, and a backup) has extended the life of the phone considerably. I would have worn the stock battery completely out by now. I have replaced the SD card at least once and would do it again if it took larger or faster ones.
I know Google is spreading the myth that removable batteries are dead and sd cards are "going away." I can say with all honestly the only reason I consider the Nexus 4 a possible replacement for my Nexus One is because at $350 it's just at the edge of disposable, it runs a stock OS and there's no a ton of crapware/bloatware on the phone. But if someone wants to compete with the Nexus 4 by offering similar features at a reasonable price and include removable storage and batteries, they'll get my money. I'm perfectly happy if someone wants to bury the removable storage in the phone behind the battery cover and make it SDXC UHS-I card. I don't care if it's an expensive accessory. As long as I can upgrade it later. Stop trying to build in profit for cheap components by making them unupgradeable, already. Sheesh.
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1 - Bandwidth is finite. It must be controlled and limited. Users must endure caps and pay overage fees if they abuse the system.
2 - Bandwidth is so precious, in fact, that we need to charge for it twice: both the consumer and producer must pay. This is why we don't support Net Neutrality.
I'm fine with this model as long as it cuts both ways. After all Comcast is getting a free ride: they're using my electricity, their router is taking up space in my home, their users are consuming capacity both on my wireless network and my cable connection that I might otherwise consume. Therefore I must be compensated.
If comcast refuses to compensate me for my resources consumed in the pursuit of their commercial goals I have no choice but to snip the antenna wire in their router, or more realistically return it and purchase my own. In short: they can suck it.
So true! That REA was a complete waste of money (for instance).
And yet when I applied for my US passport I had to supply my birth certificate. *shrug* I'm sure the passport office does thorough checks, but getting the birth certificate also required I prove my identity so perhaps they're relying on the idea that you shouldn't have a particular American birth certificate without going through a check of some kind.
So you need to bring a climbing harness and rig yourself into the structure to prevent falling out. I kid. That's ridiculously dangerous. I assume instead it will become a base jumping stunt. LOL.
I'm a fan of Elon and Tesla, but it sounds like they need to invest heavily in fixing sleep mode.
Google Voice offers call screening. Anyone in your contact list is allowed through - everyone else has to announce their name which is played to you. You then have the option to take the call or send them to voicemail.
$1/mo? Is that with 911 service? Who is the provider? Callcentric is $2.95/mo but you tack on another $3/mo for a 911 fee.
That was one of the greatest Grandcentral features that Google eventually adopted. GC users could report a number and other GC users could subscribe to those reports, automatically blocking reported numbers. It was great.
What do you mean bad old days? Verizon still does this.
Even my venerable Nexus One had to be rooted to remove the twitter and facebook apks and that was a stock phone straight from google play. No crapware that I noticed on the Nexus 4, so at least that's alright. But it's nearly impossible to exit the Google ecosystem entirely and use an android phone.
Well you can find out for yourself at the OpenBSD home page, which explains their approach to security: http://www.openbsd.org/security.html OpenBSD is definitely an educate yourself then ask questions sort of OS. I'm not slagging on you, just saying it makes more sense for me to post a link than try to recreate the contents of the webpage it goes to. Check it out. Decide for yourself.
Really? You've never heard of a transparent bridge? It is possible to work entirely in passthrough mode and quietly learn all MACs on the network whilst never doing anything yourself but packet passing. If there's no new MAC on the network, there's nothing to trigger IDS.
Second , I hear you about contracting vs full-time. It took the .com bust combined with a down-swing in energy to force me out of a contracting for the first time since 1900. But, where I work now also doesn't keep contractors on more than a year and doesn't do business with any but a short list of large shops, all of whom want entirely too much dosh for a 1099 passthrough. So again, this guy is talking out his backside if he thinks there's suddenly going to be a sea of contracting jobs. We don't hire contractors unless we have to just because of the one year limitation. It's not enough time to teach people complex systems, get them productive and reap the benefits.
None of them are perfect, but if I had the NSA's budget, I could probably roll a few together into one useful tool. If they're hiring I ain't cheap, but it sounds like fun.
Oh yeah they *really* loved it when Citibike went in.
I am an avid consumer of most google products. But Google Voice is just too unreliable to merit serious consideration. My texts randomly show up 12, 16, 18 hours later with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes it's when I restart my phone, switch between wifi and the network, sometimes it's just because. Plus the failure to support MMS except in limited circumstances.
Sure, if there's as many people driving Teslas as driving every other car model combined. You've just doubled the amount of traffic on the road and sold as many Teslas as every other kind of car as well in your effort to create a strawman. You're also completely ignoring the fact that Tesla have the opportunity to charge these packs ahead of time, flattening out your tenuously arrived upon peak demand. What a wonderful town you must live in where everyone can afford not only a second car, but a Tesla at that! In the real world - where of the 80,000 people in your area on average 800 could *afford* a Tesla and of those perhaps 10% would choose to buy one, I don't really see a charging station holding 8 battery packs on hand for all 8 owners in your town as an issue, do you?
This is why I call OpenBSD PVP UNIX. If you failed to armor up, you will be flamed to death by fellow players. :-)
OpenBSD is PVP unix. External attackers or your fellow players can kill you any time. As long as you understand that, it's fine.
I suppose that depends on what you consider mastery. My home firewall runs BSD. I usually just grab a new disk and do a clean install, and mount the old disk to copy over whatever config files I need. With that approach instead of sysmerge which would actually be faster, I'm back up and on the internet in 1/2 an hour or less. After that I start with packages and again copy over config files, reviewing the files and release notes in case I have to make changes. And frankly to find any languishing TODOs I have forgotten. By this point 99% of my system functionality is restored and I've spent maybe another hour to one and a half hours. Finally I recompile and reinstall whatever is needed from ports. I don't really count that so much against upgrade time, because it's easily scripted and some builds can take a while. After all my machine is just a firewall, it's old and slow and there's no reason to put in a large machine that compiles quickly when I do that maybe once every 6 months. Nothing I described is particularly difficult or even requires more than an average SA's skillset. From my perspective it takes less time to do what I just described than the last time I installed Windows 7 and Office 2010 on a friend's laptop. Actually Windows 7 took no time at all. It was the security patching that took forever.
Yes, it actually does stop them from doing just that. You never reveal operational capability, ever.
T-mobile wants $457.99 for a Nexus 4 if purchased outright or $49.99 down and $17/mo for 24 months, which adds up to precisely 457.99. So they aren't charging interest, although they are charging a $108.99 premium over the Google Play store, which is definitely a stupid carrier trick. Either that or Google is subsidizing the phones to consumers.
The Nexus 4 does also speak LTE on Band 4, which supposedly T-Mobile supports. You have to downgrade the flash radio on the Nexus 4 because the latest update disabled LTE. Still, just another reason to buy a Nexus 4, besides the smoking price and unlocked/un-carrier-crufted Android OS. The Galaxy IV and HTC One are arguably better if much more expensive phones, but for $299 you're in the territory of what a carrier might charge you to purchase a new device on contract anyway, and you get an unlocked phone instead. I'm hoping Google upgrades the Nexus line again before too long, preferably with a removable battery this time.
Or if they just gave away local cell extenders for free instead of wanting to charge for them. I'd stick it in my attic just so my neighbors could benefit as well. But not if I have to pay to fix T-Mobile's coverage.
I'm been happyish with my Nexus One. Yes it's ancient. Not, it hasn't been updated in forever and the system speed and size are two years after purchase *very* limiting factors in using the phone. But the fact that it has a stock android OS, removable battery which has been upgraded to a stack of extended life batteries (one for running with the GPS on for tracking, another for in-the-office, and a backup) has extended the life of the phone considerably. I would have worn the stock battery completely out by now. I have replaced the SD card at least once and would do it again if it took larger or faster ones. I know Google is spreading the myth that removable batteries are dead and sd cards are "going away." I can say with all honestly the only reason I consider the Nexus 4 a possible replacement for my Nexus One is because at $350 it's just at the edge of disposable, it runs a stock OS and there's no a ton of crapware/bloatware on the phone. But if someone wants to compete with the Nexus 4 by offering similar features at a reasonable price and include removable storage and batteries, they'll get my money. I'm perfectly happy if someone wants to bury the removable storage in the phone behind the battery cover and make it SDXC UHS-I card. I don't care if it's an expensive accessory. As long as I can upgrade it later. Stop trying to build in profit for cheap components by making them unupgradeable, already. Sheesh.