idk like Elon? his cars are great, but he has benefitted from a lot of public interest and government funding because people see electric cars as an alternative to AGW-causing petroleum. That's just one example.
just expanding on it. your GGP comment is the second sensible thing to be said this entire thread. the first was, they're going to set the meter according to their rules anyway. just internalize the fact that a "150gb cap" means in actuality 135 gb. either plan your usage accordingly or shop for different service. it's ok to OCD count your bits, but drop the outrage.
What if the police got to the scene of a crime after the victim (a black man) managed to turn the tables on the attacker (a white woman) and the only thing the camera saw was the victim (a black man) attacking the attacker (a white woman) in a panicked frenzy?
what is the difference between the police seeing this and a police necklace camera seeing this? absent any conflicting proof the word of the police is gospel.
And yes, I am picking an extreme example, but thats exactly how we got here in the first place. White cop shoots black kid. White cop goes free, black kid is (supposedly) framed as a thief.
lol do you read the news or just hear stories at the bar? white cop shoots black kid, WHO DIES, and to create a bs "he had it coming" story police release unrelated video and that may or may not show a shoptheft. that's why people are upset.
Oh, but we'll have to wait MONTHS for the FEDERAL investigation to be completed because the LOCAL POLICE fucked up so badly there was RIOTING in the streets for over a week. But body cameras will solve all that, right?
yes, body cams would solve a lot of this. many people are rioting because they feel that the police are above the law and mistreat those they are sworn to protect. if there was a body cam system in place and people had confidence that the truth will come to light, and if the police didn't crack down on a peaceful protest with military trucks and sniper rifles pointed at US CITIZENS, then things would likely have remained peaceful.
when you buy a quarter pounder at mcdonalds how do you verify how much the patty weighed before cooking? are you going to have them weigh it on your scale? no, you'll just have to trust them.
my ups and postage is paid for by the ounce/lb, including envelope and carton. I'm not crying because I'm getting charged for shipping the packaging. well yes, i'm crying right now, but it has nothing to do with UPS.
a Netflix stream is 3mbps. so if I streamed 24x7 for a month it would be 972 MB (bytes not bit). put it another way, if I wanted to download 150 GB in a month I would have to stream at a steady rate of really high.
it caught me by surprise as well. but thinking about it more it's mind blowing to think that there are a lot of things we take as fact when they may just be assertions. like fusion powering the sun, for example. I call this the Wikipedia phallacy.
at first I thought the underground experiment was conducted by anonymous on 4chan or something. but no, it's in fact an underground bunker lair for detecting invisible particles from the sun. that's astounding. now that the experiment is done can I lease the facility for my evil lair? why? no reason.
Thats all fine and good except, ATT shouldn't be charging for the overhead on their internal network. The reason that the meter their network usage is to limit how much upstream bandwidth they need, not because the DSL network is saturated.
this has no bearing on anything.
tl dr, guy is upset because when ATT said he has a 150GB cap it's actually a 135GB cap. Yes, those are the games people play. My 25MPG car just gets 22MPG on average. My 2x4 lumber is actually 3.5" wide. that's the way that business works in America. people have their thumbs on the scale. Just internalize that you have a 135GB cap and call it a day.
Encrypt it before it hits the cloud, and keep that encryption control with you as much as possible.
Rule #2: See rule #1.
actually, the lesson I take from this is not to use a cloud provider at all. Instead, self host storage with some sort of syncing option, everybody keeps talking about owncloud. If your information isn't stored on someone's server, then they can't NSL a copy of it. they could still intercept info in transit, but this is a different beast of overall internet data slurping.
You know, given the terrible kind of software we see in embedded software, and the terrible security implemented by most companies... I'm perfectly willing to believe this is an incredibly bad design, because there's plenty of evidence that these kinds of things tend to have incredibly bad designs.
Between companies using 10 year old Linux kernels, to having unpatchable systems, or just having really bad understandings of security, I've come to conclude this is the norm.
there's the old horror trope about the guy who gets a transplanted hand, and the hand comes alive on its own and tries to choke him. maybe it's time for the same thing but with a robot hand.
also, having not read the article i do not get the issue here. cant they just put the app on a different ipod? did they destroy the source code? if the firmware in the hand is somehow tied to the serial number of the ipod, cant they reprogram the firm ware? this whole thing stinks of a greedy govt contractor.
why should youtube or twitter care about your nerd ideals? they want to push content that advertisers are willing to support. if they build a reputation like reddit for trolls and nasties, then nobody will want to push ads there. you want youtube to show your revenge pr0n? then show them the benjamins.
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idk like Elon? his cars are great, but he has benefitted from a lot of public interest and government funding because people see electric cars as an alternative to AGW-causing petroleum. That's just one example.
ok but there are many reasons the sun may not collapse on itself. the neutrino thing locks in one of the many explanations.
Lol u mad bro?
That's a theory with no physical evidence. This is physical evidence of fusion.
just expanding on it. your GGP comment is the second sensible thing to be said this entire thread. the first was, they're going to set the meter according to their rules anyway. just internalize the fact that a "150gb cap" means in actuality 135 gb. either plan your usage accordingly or shop for different service. it's ok to OCD count your bits, but drop the outrage.
What if the police got to the scene of a crime after the victim (a black man) managed to turn the tables on the attacker (a white woman) and the only thing the camera saw was the victim (a black man) attacking the attacker (a white woman) in a panicked frenzy?
what is the difference between the police seeing this and a police necklace camera seeing this? absent any conflicting proof the word of the police is gospel.
And yes, I am picking an extreme example, but thats exactly how we got here in the first place. White cop shoots black kid. White cop goes free, black kid is (supposedly) framed as a thief.
lol do you read the news or just hear stories at the bar? white cop shoots black kid, WHO DIES, and to create a bs "he had it coming" story police release unrelated video and that may or may not show a shoptheft. that's why people are upset.
Oh, but we'll have to wait MONTHS for the FEDERAL investigation to be completed because the LOCAL POLICE fucked up so badly there was RIOTING in the streets for over a week. But body cameras will solve all that, right?
yes, body cams would solve a lot of this. many people are rioting because they feel that the police are above the law and mistreat those they are sworn to protect. if there was a body cam system in place and people had confidence that the truth will come to light, and if the police didn't crack down on a peaceful protest with military trucks and sniper rifles pointed at US CITIZENS, then things would likely have remained peaceful.
I also refuse to get a flat stomach and muscles there, because that's a great way to get a hernia.
lol yes that's why your belly is big.
And hernia operations are expensive, and I refuse to buy health insurance on matters of conscience and principle.
lol ur trolling us.
when you buy a quarter pounder at mcdonalds how do you verify how much the patty weighed before cooking? are you going to have them weigh it on your scale? no, you'll just have to trust them.
my ups and postage is paid for by the ounce/lb, including envelope and carton. I'm not crying because I'm getting charged for shipping the packaging. well yes, i'm crying right now, but it has nothing to do with UPS.
that would be much greater than a 150GB cap! less than a 1TB cap, but I don't know if that's a crazy amount of data. My phone gets 4gb.
a Netflix stream is 3mbps. so if I streamed 24x7 for a month it would be 972 MB (bytes not bit). put it another way, if I wanted to download 150 GB in a month I would have to stream at a steady rate of really high.
it caught me by surprise as well. but thinking about it more it's mind blowing to think that there are a lot of things we take as fact when they may just be assertions. like fusion powering the sun, for example. I call this the Wikipedia phallacy.
at first I thought the underground experiment was conducted by anonymous on 4chan or something. but no, it's in fact an underground bunker lair for detecting invisible particles from the sun. that's astounding. now that the experiment is done can I lease the facility for my evil lair? why? no reason.
what about when I email a file to myself?
Thats all fine and good except, ATT shouldn't be charging for the overhead on their internal network. The reason that the meter their network usage is to limit how much upstream bandwidth they need, not because the DSL network is saturated.
this has no bearing on anything.
tl dr, guy is upset because when ATT said he has a 150GB cap it's actually a 135GB cap. Yes, those are the games people play. My 25MPG car just gets 22MPG on average. My 2x4 lumber is actually 3.5" wide. that's the way that business works in America. people have their thumbs on the scale. Just internalize that you have a 135GB cap and call it a day.
lol snark right?
Encrypt it before it hits the cloud, and keep that encryption control with you as much as possible.
Rule #2: See rule #1.
actually, the lesson I take from this is not to use a cloud provider at all. Instead, self host storage with some sort of syncing option, everybody keeps talking about owncloud. If your information isn't stored on someone's server, then they can't NSL a copy of it. they could still intercept info in transit, but this is a different beast of overall internet data slurping.
You know, given the terrible kind of software we see in embedded software, and the terrible security implemented by most companies ... I'm perfectly willing to believe this is an incredibly bad design, because there's plenty of evidence that these kinds of things tend to have incredibly bad designs.
Between companies using 10 year old Linux kernels, to having unpatchable systems, or just having really bad understandings of security, I've come to conclude this is the norm.
there's the old horror trope about the guy who gets a transplanted hand, and the hand comes alive on its own and tries to choke him. maybe it's time for the same thing but with a robot hand.
also, having not read the article i do not get the issue here. cant they just put the app on a different ipod? did they destroy the source code? if the firmware in the hand is somehow tied to the serial number of the ipod, cant they reprogram the firm ware? this whole thing stinks of a greedy govt contractor.
every time I come across a top secret NSA I memo I tweet it just for the lulz.
why should youtube or twitter care about your nerd ideals? they want to push content that advertisers are willing to support. if they build a reputation like reddit for trolls and nasties, then nobody will want to push ads there. you want youtube to show your revenge pr0n? then show them the benjamins.
I dunno man, you sound pretty full of outrage. are you sure you wouldn't be outraged by a video like this? sounds pretty outrageous.
what sandbox? the middle east?
Also many rapists meet their victims at a bar or club.
I was thinking about owncloud but the company says macs are not supported. Unix is supported, but not macs. how weird is that?????
when they're giving something away at zero, presumably that's a at a loss. but I'm not a MBA, so who's to say?