Those peering arrangements mean that the ISPs don't bill each other. They still have a cost. Somebody has to build and maintain the infrastructure! And if you are saturating connections, they have to bill more. So if two adjoining counties make an agreement where one pays for the fire department and the other the police department and they provide services for each other, you're saying that makes those services suddenly free to provide? The fact that peers don't charge each other is because each side is paying their own costs.
There isn't much financial impact of people getting killed. It's when they get seriously injured and live that it costs a lot of money. I'm not sure that we really want to see people dead when their transgression is reading/. on their mobile phone while walking, but from a pure economic standpoint, dying is cheap.
I'm anything but an Uber fan. However, what he is proposing is probably something very similar to UberPool with self-driving cars and, unlike other forms of public transit, this would be a significant improvement over private transportation. Other posters have pointed out that specially made electric vehicles could provide private passenger compartments although I'm not even sure that's necessary. Sharing is usually less this issue on public transit than the fact that it's cramped. I've ridden in black cars that are quite nice and spacious and wouldn't really care who was in the other seats as long as they are hygienic.
Having engineering solutions doesn't mean that nothing will ever go wrong. It means that there is a well-researched and well-defined risk model. That model may not be perfect. But it's going to be much better than the one proffered by those who are the business of peddling alarm.
Cigarette smoking is a problem. It used to be that smoking was allowed just about everywhere. As more knowledge become available about the health effects, the number of places that it is allowed keeps going down. It should be painfully obvious that smoking at a playground isn't a good idea and a sign ought not to be necessary. But since there are those who would choose to smoke if not explicitly prohibited, we have to pass laws and put up signs. And no, it's not only smoking. We have to put up signs telling people not to feed alligators (yes, for real). We have to put up signs to tell people to wear shoes and shirts in restaurants. We have to put up signs to tell people not to use their mobile phones in a move theater. So no, it's not just smoking. But smoking is probably the most harmful thing that people seem to think they have some divinely given right to do wherever they want.
I'm sure the original engineering *did* take politics into account. You can't solve politics with engineering. The tanks are double-hulled so that, when the politicians fail to find a solution and the tanks start failing, the waste can be pumped into a new double-hulled tank and this can continue for as long as necessary until the politics are sorted out - in other words, forever. We already have engineering solutions to these problems.
This is far from a slippery slope. When it comes to the/. porn-deniers, it's the exact same symptom as the climate-change deniers. Those who study health generally accept that porn is harmful. There was an excellent article in the Washington Post last weekend. Healthcare scientists rarely recommend banning things and/or punishing their use but rather clinical interventions to reduce use and harm. It's quite reasonable, after the doctor asks you whether you smoke, for her to then ask if you have a gun in your house and if you watch pornography. Porn-defenders, fossil-fuel defenders, and gun-defenders are pretty much indistinguishable in how they put on blinders when evidence is presented that they might be wrong.
I sometimes think I made the wrong choice as well. Having to continuously update skills makes for a feeling of insecurity. What do your neighbors do where they aren't in this situation? The only job where I really see this being true is technology sales.
Yeah cable internet is more profitable. You don't have to pay for the content. Netflix made like $100M last year while Comcast made 3B. The Comcasts of the world would be happy to get out of the cable business and just overcharge for Internet.
You're always better off having additional skills. Our industry is one of continuous learning. If you learn Java and it doesn't work out, learn C#. But you can be pretty sure there will be Java jobs out there. One thing we can all be sure is that the skills we have today won't qualify us to work at all in 10 years. Our skills just become obsolete too fast.
If I were to gain access to a machine like this and install a persistent web shell, I would then patch the underlying vulnerability in order to maintain control. Otherwise, the next guy to come along and exploit the defect can just kick me out. What fun is that?
They already have fork and screen theaters. And, surprisingly, its not disturbing when those around you order food. Of course that may have to do with the seats being both larger and more spread out.
With ISP and media-companies buying each other, it's a matter of time before the ISPs recognize that you are pirating content and just add the full retail price of it to your monthly bill. But at least this is proportional.
That's when you leave the company but if the Bar Boss hasn't figured it out yet, all your comments are going to do is bring more trouble. Just go quietly. You're gone and don't care what happens to that company. Go somewhere that your work is appreciated and satisfying.
Reading a good book in 10 minute increments ruins a lot of the fun. Most novels are designed for long reading spells. I'm glad this works for you, but for most people, they don't want to read anything too serious since you will get suddenly pulled away at the worst time (in terms of enjoying the reading)
I agree with your post but have no idea why you call TV garbage. Right now seems to be a golden age of TV content. By TV content I mean things that come in half hour - one hour chunks as, admittedly, not too many people watch via antennas
Unfortunately, when profit margins get squeezed, for-profit companies tend to turn off the ethics. It used to be that newspapers has really great journalism independent of their corporate overlords. There was a demand for the journalism and a demand for the advertisements. It would have been foolish to tinker with the formula. Once the margins aren't there, however, there is much less risk in starting to chip away at those walls. Non-profit status removes some temptations. It doesn't solve the problem, though, of their simply not being enough revenue to cover the costs of quality news gathering and reporting. Part of the issue is that we have *too much* news gathering (why do 100 journalists need to cover the same events) but the bigger issue is funding the "long tail" of news.
I've been waiting for a device like this for years. Right now the way to have our data with us is either to dump it in the cloud or replicate it across devices. Really a phone with a docking station that supplies a faster CPU is a great solution.
This is terrible advice. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that destroying evidence of a crime is way more serious than a motor vehicle accident. Second, they can subpoena records from your mobile phone company. Better advice is don't text and drive.
The design of USB was for connecting trusted peripherals semi-permanently to a machine. In that capacity, it works really well. The original design did not account for attaching things that don't trust each other. Whether it's a USB stick you pick up off the street and connect to your machine or one of those "USB charging" plugs in the airport, it's not a situation for which USB was envisioned which means we're going to be seeing security holes in this area for years even as the devices and OSes get better. The starting point is just so poor.
It does help Facebook's model. The problem right now is that, due to the lack of original content, people aren't paying attention to their news feeds and that means Facebook has less product to sell. I used to love FB because it enriched relationships. Now it's just a bunch of worthless auto-play videos. If there were more original content on FB, they would be able to get a much better price advertising to their users. That's the point of the article.
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They do now. For this reason. Because they lost this case.
Those peering arrangements mean that the ISPs don't bill each other. They still have a cost. Somebody has to build and maintain the infrastructure! And if you are saturating connections, they have to bill more. So if two adjoining counties make an agreement where one pays for the fire department and the other the police department and they provide services for each other, you're saying that makes those services suddenly free to provide? The fact that peers don't charge each other is because each side is paying their own costs.
There isn't much financial impact of people getting killed. It's when they get seriously injured and live that it costs a lot of money. I'm not sure that we really want to see people dead when their transgression is reading /. on their mobile phone while walking, but from a pure economic standpoint, dying is cheap.
I'm anything but an Uber fan. However, what he is proposing is probably something very similar to UberPool with self-driving cars and, unlike other forms of public transit, this would be a significant improvement over private transportation. Other posters have pointed out that specially made electric vehicles could provide private passenger compartments although I'm not even sure that's necessary. Sharing is usually less this issue on public transit than the fact that it's cramped. I've ridden in black cars that are quite nice and spacious and wouldn't really care who was in the other seats as long as they are hygienic.
Are you talking about porn or smoking? https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Having engineering solutions doesn't mean that nothing will ever go wrong. It means that there is a well-researched and well-defined risk model. That model may not be perfect. But it's going to be much better than the one proffered by those who are the business of peddling alarm.
Cigarette smoking is a problem. It used to be that smoking was allowed just about everywhere. As more knowledge become available about the health effects, the number of places that it is allowed keeps going down. It should be painfully obvious that smoking at a playground isn't a good idea and a sign ought not to be necessary. But since there are those who would choose to smoke if not explicitly prohibited, we have to pass laws and put up signs. And no, it's not only smoking. We have to put up signs telling people not to feed alligators (yes, for real). We have to put up signs to tell people to wear shoes and shirts in restaurants. We have to put up signs to tell people not to use their mobile phones in a move theater. So no, it's not just smoking. But smoking is probably the most harmful thing that people seem to think they have some divinely given right to do wherever they want.
I'm sure the original engineering *did* take politics into account. You can't solve politics with engineering. The tanks are double-hulled so that, when the politicians fail to find a solution and the tanks start failing, the waste can be pumped into a new double-hulled tank and this can continue for as long as necessary until the politics are sorted out - in other words, forever. We already have engineering solutions to these problems.
This is far from a slippery slope. When it comes to the /. porn-deniers, it's the exact same symptom as the climate-change deniers. Those who study health generally accept that porn is harmful. There was an excellent article in the Washington Post last weekend. Healthcare scientists rarely recommend banning things and/or punishing their use but rather clinical interventions to reduce use and harm. It's quite reasonable, after the doctor asks you whether you smoke, for her to then ask if you have a gun in your house and if you watch pornography. Porn-defenders, fossil-fuel defenders, and gun-defenders are pretty much indistinguishable in how they put on blinders when evidence is presented that they might be wrong.
I think those jobs also pay half of what a Java programmer makes, no?
I sometimes think I made the wrong choice as well. Having to continuously update skills makes for a feeling of insecurity. What do your neighbors do where they aren't in this situation? The only job where I really see this being true is technology sales.
Yeah cable internet is more profitable. You don't have to pay for the content. Netflix made like $100M last year while Comcast made 3B. The Comcasts of the world would be happy to get out of the cable business and just overcharge for Internet.
You're always better off having additional skills. Our industry is one of continuous learning. If you learn Java and it doesn't work out, learn C#. But you can be pretty sure there will be Java jobs out there. One thing we can all be sure is that the skills we have today won't qualify us to work at all in 10 years. Our skills just become obsolete too fast.
If I were to gain access to a machine like this and install a persistent web shell, I would then patch the underlying vulnerability in order to maintain control. Otherwise, the next guy to come along and exploit the defect can just kick me out. What fun is that?
They already have fork and screen theaters. And, surprisingly, its not disturbing when those around you order food. Of course that may have to do with the seats being both larger and more spread out.
With ISP and media-companies buying each other, it's a matter of time before the ISPs recognize that you are pirating content and just add the full retail price of it to your monthly bill. But at least this is proportional.
That's when you leave the company but if the Bar Boss hasn't figured it out yet, all your comments are going to do is bring more trouble. Just go quietly. You're gone and don't care what happens to that company. Go somewhere that your work is appreciated and satisfying.
Reading a good book in 10 minute increments ruins a lot of the fun. Most novels are designed for long reading spells. I'm glad this works for you, but for most people, they don't want to read anything too serious since you will get suddenly pulled away at the worst time (in terms of enjoying the reading)
I agree with your post but have no idea why you call TV garbage. Right now seems to be a golden age of TV content. By TV content I mean things that come in half hour - one hour chunks as, admittedly, not too many people watch via antennas
Unfortunately, when profit margins get squeezed, for-profit companies tend to turn off the ethics. It used to be that newspapers has really great journalism independent of their corporate overlords. There was a demand for the journalism and a demand for the advertisements. It would have been foolish to tinker with the formula. Once the margins aren't there, however, there is much less risk in starting to chip away at those walls. Non-profit status removes some temptations. It doesn't solve the problem, though, of their simply not being enough revenue to cover the costs of quality news gathering and reporting. Part of the issue is that we have *too much* news gathering (why do 100 journalists need to cover the same events) but the bigger issue is funding the "long tail" of news.
I've been waiting for a device like this for years. Right now the way to have our data with us is either to dump it in the cloud or replicate it across devices. Really a phone with a docking station that supplies a faster CPU is a great solution.
This is terrible advice. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that destroying evidence of a crime is way more serious than a motor vehicle accident. Second, they can subpoena records from your mobile phone company. Better advice is don't text and drive.
In many places, it is.
The design of USB was for connecting trusted peripherals semi-permanently to a machine. In that capacity, it works really well. The original design did not account for attaching things that don't trust each other. Whether it's a USB stick you pick up off the street and connect to your machine or one of those "USB charging" plugs in the airport, it's not a situation for which USB was envisioned which means we're going to be seeing security holes in this area for years even as the devices and OSes get better. The starting point is just so poor.
It does help Facebook's model. The problem right now is that, due to the lack of original content, people aren't paying attention to their news feeds and that means Facebook has less product to sell. I used to love FB because it enriched relationships. Now it's just a bunch of worthless auto-play videos. If there were more original content on FB, they would be able to get a much better price advertising to their users. That's the point of the article.