Only until you answer the bloody question your elected representatives REQUIRE you to answer before allowing access to the Internet.
This isn't something ISPs chose to ask, and it only intrudes on your access until you answer the question - once answered, you are not interrupted again.
The law their government passed requires customers to answer the filtering question...
BT, Sky,TalkTalk and Virgin Media are required to ask all their customers if they want web filters turned on or off, with the government saying it wants to create a "family friendly" Internet free from pornography, gambling, extreme violence and other content inappropriate for children.
The alternative is to simply wait for the deadline in the law, then shut down every account that fails to ask the question the ISP is required to get an answer to by the deadline... That would lead to a tremendous number of upset customers, but your wget command would still function, until the deadline anyway.
It IS a hijack, but in the weakest way possible.
People elect politicians, politicians pass a law requiring ISPs to ask every customer about filtering their connection.
You request page A, ISP serves up page B, unless you previously answer the filter question.
Page B does not pretend it is page A.
Page B does not coerce customer to buy a new service, accept a new fee, etc.
Given the reality of the law, how would you suggest ISPs comply with the law the politicians on behalf of their customers asked for? They have to ask, they can't default to either filtered or unfiltered access...
I mean seriously, every "smart"phone is now much faster than anything scientists had till the 1980s... yet since you are unable to write programs for it without the need of other computers, you cannot do anything they did.
Uhm, no.
Unless, of course, your comparison is based exclusively on comparing bogomips ratings...
... Like when some bureaucrat tries to defend why they never backed up their email, despite federal law requires it, or when a state official tries to defend paying contractors when they can't successfully run end-to-end tests on their web application, despite the purchase agreement says they will...
But honestly, is that ever gonna happen?
How do 'things' get fixed in states like Delaware and New Hampshire where they have NO sales tax?
This law appears based on the idea that your home state is entitled to collect sales tax on anything you buy, no matter where you buy it...
New Jersey had the Abbott Decision, which forced the state to subsidise low income school districts at the expense of better-funded districts. The end result is that there is an obscene amount of money flowing into these failing districts, and the teachers have wonderful salaries, generous benefits, and great pensions - but the schools still look like crap and the kids are failing at the same rate as before the decision... The parents in these districts claim the answer is more money!
I would love to swap teaching staff between a high-achieving school and a failing school and see what happens... The teachers are only part of the problem, the lack of support and parenting at home sets many if these kids up for failure.
I say this as someone that has worked in a top school district AND a charter school in a very low- income neighborhood. I spent half my day trying to get 10th graders to stop talking in class... They should have learned how to behave in class by 10th grade.
In many/most parts of America, local schools are funded and administered locally (by post code, if you will). The parents that live in a community, vote for the local school board and pay the taxes that fund the local schools expect their children will be able to go to their local school.
If a parent chooses to live in a community with a failing school, it is their responsibility to improve the school - they don't get to simply walk away and benefit from the better school int the next community. If their tax base can't support the school they believe their children deserve, they can petition the state for additional funding, they can encourage the creation if charter/magnet schools, or wait for the politicians to give them vouchers to enable them to have 'school choice'.
Federal taxpayers have already footed the bill for high-speed Internet in their local schools and libraries, in an effort to 'bridge the digital divide', now we need to wire up the projects with high-speed (broadband) Internet access...
Who will pay for the laptops and desktops they will need to take advantage of this free Internet access?
Stealing land from one group of natives that they stole from another group of natives, who in turn stole it from a previous group of natives, etc. kind of begs the question who really 'owned' the land they claimed was 'stolen' from them?
But all of them (Linux, UNIX, BSD) are posix-compliant, which is what many people mean these days when they say Linux, even if it's technically incorrect.
So is Windows Server... Does that mean OS X, Unix, BSD, and Windows Server are all 'sorta the samething'?
If he really does have something, he'll be the target of every shifty technology company on the planet, who will steal it, and will patent it on their own.
Well, he'd be a shoe-in for a Nobel Prize, and that million dollar payday should provide some protection from winding up in the gutter...
He'd also be able to pretty much write his own ticket as far as a teaching/research position at any top university, further protecting him from winding up in the gutter...
Finally, he could likely command hefty six-figure speaking fees, again, protecting him from winding up in the gutter...
In my opinion, if true, his best move would be to release it into the public domain and make a living off the resulting fame. (Think Tim Berners-Lee)
You don't need net neutrality for that. All you need is for the PUC/PSCs (for telcos) and the local Franchise Authorities (for cable) to mandate competitive wholesale access to last-mile facilities.
Such an arrangement is in-place for Telcos, but cable companies were exempt from that requirement.
Telcos have a price list established by government and they are required to offer their competitors access to their facilities at the mandated price structure.
How does this play out? I can offer DSL service in a region I have no physical plant, no investment in any network equipment by simply renting the required infrastructure from the local telco (my competitor) at a rate that is below cost... This is great for the telco's competitors, not so much for the telco itself.
ISPs do collect money for the same packet from multiple parties.
Explain.
A consumer Internet connection is paying for the establishment and on-going maintenance of the connection, not the data that passes through the connection. Carriers on the other hand have carriage agreements that has them settling up when they have a traffic imbalance between carriers - either originating or terminating more traffic than the other.
Since Intel introduced the baytrail Atom they really have been able to make machines that operate in a no-bullshit tablet power enevlope.
My Dell Venue 8 Pro has full Windows 8.1 on it and runs a quad-core Atom with 2 Gigs of RAM quite nicely... A dual-core Celeron would be similar/better IMHO.
To be the minimum speed for 'broadband', not too fast for home usage.
By redefining the minimum to 10 Mb/sec the FCC gets to claim almost no one has broadband, and then politicians will spout about a 'constitutional right' to 10 Mb/sec broadband, ISPs will relabel current service and boost prices...
If it was just about population density, then the USA would be rocking decent internet in any large urban-ish area.
We by and large do, but we have literally millions of Americans that live in rural areas, unserved by the well-funded ISPs in the 'large urban-ish' areas...
That drives our national average down - millions of Americans can get similar service - those are the folks served by FiOS and a few other ISPs...
Then all of the teachings in the Q'ran must be true, because more people believe that religion than anyone else.
If a hundred scientists all agreeing on something makes it true, then what is it if 1 billion people believe the same thing? It must be true !;^)
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Required by law in UK, so yes, it's legal.
Only until you answer the bloody question your elected representatives REQUIRE you to answer before allowing access to the Internet. This isn't something ISPs chose to ask, and it only intrudes on your access until you answer the question - once answered, you are not interrupted again.
The alternative is to simply wait for the deadline in the law, then shut down every account that fails to ask the question the ISP is required to get an answer to by the deadline... That would lead to a tremendous number of upset customers, but your wget command would still function, until the deadline anyway.
It IS a hijack, but in the weakest way possible. People elect politicians, politicians pass a law requiring ISPs to ask every customer about filtering their connection. You request page A, ISP serves up page B, unless you previously answer the filter question. Page B does not pretend it is page A. Page B does not coerce customer to buy a new service, accept a new fee, etc. Given the reality of the law, how would you suggest ISPs comply with the law the politicians on behalf of their customers asked for? They have to ask, they can't default to either filtered or unfiltered access...
He was talking about making a choice...
Uhm, no. Unless, of course, your comparison is based exclusively on comparing bogomips ratings...
We went to the moon and back with 40+ year-old computers...
... Like when some bureaucrat tries to defend why they never backed up their email, despite federal law requires it, or when a state official tries to defend paying contractors when they can't successfully run end-to-end tests on their web application, despite the purchase agreement says they will... But honestly, is that ever gonna happen?
How do 'things' get fixed in states like Delaware and New Hampshire where they have NO sales tax? This law appears based on the idea that your home state is entitled to collect sales tax on anything you buy, no matter where you buy it...
New Jersey had the Abbott Decision, which forced the state to subsidise low income school districts at the expense of better-funded districts. The end result is that there is an obscene amount of money flowing into these failing districts, and the teachers have wonderful salaries, generous benefits, and great pensions - but the schools still look like crap and the kids are failing at the same rate as before the decision... The parents in these districts claim the answer is more money! I would love to swap teaching staff between a high-achieving school and a failing school and see what happens... The teachers are only part of the problem, the lack of support and parenting at home sets many if these kids up for failure. I say this as someone that has worked in a top school district AND a charter school in a very low- income neighborhood. I spent half my day trying to get 10th graders to stop talking in class... They should have learned how to behave in class by 10th grade.
Or baggy pants, or talking 'gangsta', or having a mouth full of gold teefuses, etc.
In many/most parts of America, local schools are funded and administered locally (by post code, if you will). The parents that live in a community, vote for the local school board and pay the taxes that fund the local schools expect their children will be able to go to their local school. If a parent chooses to live in a community with a failing school, it is their responsibility to improve the school - they don't get to simply walk away and benefit from the better school int the next community. If their tax base can't support the school they believe their children deserve, they can petition the state for additional funding, they can encourage the creation if charter/magnet schools, or wait for the politicians to give them vouchers to enable them to have 'school choice'.
Federal taxpayers have already footed the bill for high-speed Internet in their local schools and libraries, in an effort to 'bridge the digital divide', now we need to wire up the projects with high-speed (broadband) Internet access... Who will pay for the laptops and desktops they will need to take advantage of this free Internet access?
Stealing land from one group of natives that they stole from another group of natives, who in turn stole it from a previous group of natives, etc. kind of begs the question who really 'owned' the land they claimed was 'stolen' from them?
So is Windows Server... Does that mean OS X, Unix, BSD, and Windows Server are all 'sorta the samething'?
Uh, you just did the math - why should I duplicate your effort?
Well, he'd be a shoe-in for a Nobel Prize, and that million dollar payday should provide some protection from winding up in the gutter... He'd also be able to pretty much write his own ticket as far as a teaching/research position at any top university, further protecting him from winding up in the gutter... Finally, he could likely command hefty six-figure speaking fees, again, protecting him from winding up in the gutter... In my opinion, if true, his best move would be to release it into the public domain and make a living off the resulting fame. (Think Tim Berners-Lee)
It's not like you can just down a bottle of aspirin to lessen your fever and lie on the EXPANDED questionnaire and bring Ebola into America... Right?
Such an arrangement is in-place for Telcos, but cable companies were exempt from that requirement. Telcos have a price list established by government and they are required to offer their competitors access to their facilities at the mandated price structure. How does this play out? I can offer DSL service in a region I have no physical plant, no investment in any network equipment by simply renting the required infrastructure from the local telco (my competitor) at a rate that is below cost... This is great for the telco's competitors, not so much for the telco itself.
Explain. A consumer Internet connection is paying for the establishment and on-going maintenance of the connection, not the data that passes through the connection. Carriers on the other hand have carriage agreements that has them settling up when they have a traffic imbalance between carriers - either originating or terminating more traffic than the other.
My Dell Venue 8 Pro has full Windows 8.1 on it and runs a quad-core Atom with 2 Gigs of RAM quite nicely... A dual-core Celeron would be similar/better IMHO.
A tablet without a touchscreen is an Etch-A-Sketch without the knobs... ;^)
To be the minimum speed for 'broadband', not too fast for home usage. By redefining the minimum to 10 Mb/sec the FCC gets to claim almost no one has broadband, and then politicians will spout about a 'constitutional right' to 10 Mb/sec broadband, ISPs will relabel current service and boost prices...
We by and large do, but we have literally millions of Americans that live in rural areas, unserved by the well-funded ISPs in the 'large urban-ish' areas... That drives our national average down - millions of Americans can get similar service - those are the folks served by FiOS and a few other ISPs...
Then all of the teachings in the Q'ran must be true, because more people believe that religion than anyone else. If a hundred scientists all agreeing on something makes it true, then what is it if 1 billion people believe the same thing? It must be true ! ;^)