The "mailman" is NOT allowed to charge FedEx a premium to put stuff on your doorstep. The "mailman" is NOT allowed to charge you more for the same package delivered the same way from Target than from Walmart.
Would that prevent a network from blocking DDOS traffic to a hosted server on its network?
No.
Putting a cap on how many communications are sent to a destination is not discrimination. So, yes, a network can block a DDOS attack. Unless that DDOS somehow consists of no more data or signals than normal use of the site, which would indicate a DDOS that is triggering a bug on the site's server and should be fixed by the site themselves.
Your rule would make it illegal to give 911 calls priority over all other traffic
Yes, it would be illegal to give 911 calls priority over other traffic. However it WILL be legal to divvy up the available bandwidth evenly and give every user a guaranteed minimum amount. This will be enough to make a 911 call (if not then there is something serioulsly lacking in the infrastructure).
If everybody calls 911, then the person who was using 100% of the bandwidth on bittorrent will suddenly be reduced to approximately the same bandwidth as a 911 call takes.
This is really really easy to understand if you stop making bullshit arguments to try to defeat it.
Complete misunderstanding of what "information wants to be free" means.
Think of "water wants to move downhill". This does not mean "dams are bad". What it means is "if you don't want water to move downhill, you will have to more work (such as build a dam) than if you just let the water flow downhill".
Now think carefully, apply to "information wants to be free", and (I can only hope), get a clue.
I fail to see how you can prevent Comcast from slowing down the "other ISP" without a rule against that.
Basically you are saying you *do* want Net Neutrality, but the exact regulation is that the the data is split up into things you call an "ISP" and only those larger blocks must be treated "fairly", and that customers are allowed to buy any subset of these blocks.
The ISP is allowed to throttle your nasty neighbor who is running BitTorrent all the time, and distribute the available service evenly.
How happy are you going to be if your neighbor watches the ISP's paid-for video service all the time and because of that you are blocked from downloading what you want since the ISP would prefer that all the bandwidth be used by the paid-for extra?
They should have linked the cell phone towers to *stillbirths* (which I assume would correlate just as well). Then the article would have gone everywhere!
I was always told the under 250K income tax is $700B. So there is the $850B there, it is all tax cuts.
The unemployment spending does not appear to be in your total but it is about 50B. The payroll tax cut is also not there and I have heard it is significantly larger expense.
Don't have it to try here, but that does seem likely. I was completely unaware that it still was anything other than an icon in Windows95. They may have removed the popup menu but preserved the double click?
I do however agree with others that Windows made a GUI change of as much significance as Ubuntu.
Likely because the daemon program is running, but only watching the clipboard and not the selection. I think this is a mistake. I think the excuse is that the text is no longer selected when the program exits, but often just clicking makes it no longer selected but the middle-mouse still pastes.
This is incorrect. Both the clipboard and the selection use the same mechanism. A program says it "owns" it and then when somebody does a paste a request is done to that program to retrieve the data. This is why the data is not there if the program exits, as it is no longer there to return the data.
The fix for X is to have a daemon running that retrieves the data just before the program exits. However the desktops should be providing this program.
Interestingly Windows has the exact same problem. However there are two clipboard mechanisms, one which matches X and has this same bug, and another where the data is actually copied to the clipboard. It appears the majority of programs on Windows use the copy method. They also call the return-the-data api on program exit from the system, rather than relying on a daemon program. You can replicate the X problem if you "copy" in some programs and then get them to crash.
Wayland/etc could fix this by ditching legacy stuff. It can reliably ask the program before exiting to return the data like Windows does. And no reason for two apis like Windows.
Before Windows95 the top-left button, if double-clicked, closed the window. Clicking it once popped up a menu of window actions. Almost everybody called that the "close button" because that was the only useful thing to do with it.
That is a hope but I'm really worried it is not true. The previous election threw out moderate democrats and replaced them with tea partiers. If there was a moderate power the election would have replaced far-left democrats with somewhat less far-right republicans (possibly even some tea partiers are less far-right than some democrats). But all the extremists stayed right in position.
Speaking as a mostly leftist, my main fear of Palin is that the Democrats won't then say "hey we can get like 90% of the vote if we just select a moderate". Instead they will say "this is our chance to nominate an equally batty left-wing extremist!"
An Obama-like moderate in the republicans would be a very good thing because the Democrats would also go moderate.
Not only alien life, they have a trove of hundreds of thousands of documents from the alien government! Describing advanced graft and corruption abilities that are centuries beyond our own!
Stop suggesting various toolkits, that is NOT what he is looking for.
He is looking for a "canvas" widget, meaning he wants drawing API.
It is unfortunate that most drawing apis are tied to particular toolkits, so he may have to choose one, but if you are comparing them you have to compare the 2D drawing primitives.
There is also Cairo and OpenGL, which are not really tied to toolkits. Though you still need to jump through hoops depending on the toolkit to get it so the graphics calls draw where you want. Sigh.
I know you are joking, but I really would not mind seeing such stuff in Update Manager. Along with less silly stuff, sure. But if that is what they are changing, I would like the ability to match it now, rather than be surprised when I update the system.
However I would like to see new features incrementally!
Right now all new features appear simultaneously when I update the system to the new Ubuntu version. This leads to fear & uncertainty when doing this, and also means I have to learn all the changes at once.
New features would be a lot more interesting than "some programmer added a buffer length check and thus MAY have fixed a security flaw but really nobody has proven that it is possible for an over-length string to get to that point in the code" which seem to be 90% of Update Manager (the rest are exciting things like "updated the Daylight Savings Time rules for Pago Pago").
I would love to see "new default picture viewing program" or "added layer sets to Gimp" or whatever. Leave them unchecked by default but let me check them and try that new program immediately and see if I like the feature, rather than be surprised by it a month after I update the system.
A system upgrade would just be a special package that depends on all the feature and bug updates.
Ignoring any politics, an absolutely huge problem with the "Fair Tax" is that the redistribution portion (designed so that those below the poverty line do not end up paying) would be ENORMOUS, like orders of magnitude greater than all the social security, medicare, and all other aid given by the government now. This will result is an equally enormous bureaucracy and equally enormous amounts of graft and corruption and cheating.
GEM however did have some really stupid design decisions. In particular the method they chose to allow "double click" to be an event was to delay reporting of *all* clicks to the program until the double-click time had passed. Thus all clicks had a built-in delay before the program could respond.
Any programmer with an IQ over 80 would have instead had it report the single click immediatly, then report a second double click event later when it was detected. Windows and mac and X and every other system I have heard of did this, so it is pretty obvious.
I think GEM also had some hard-coded limits of 4 apps and 8 windows in the api.
who prints what programs have updated/var/run/utmp. This is not the tty that this patch is using. Updating utmp can be skipped for many reasons. Main ones are to just make that output from who shorter, but it also means the terminal emulator does not have to be setuid.
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The "mailman" is NOT allowed to charge FedEx a premium to put stuff on your doorstep. The "mailman" is NOT allowed to charge you more for the same package delivered the same way from Target than from Walmart.
Would that prevent a network from blocking DDOS traffic to a hosted server on its network?
No.
Putting a cap on how many communications are sent to a destination is not discrimination. So, yes, a network can block a DDOS attack. Unless that DDOS somehow consists of no more data or signals than normal use of the site, which would indicate a DDOS that is triggering a bug on the site's server and should be fixed by the site themselves.
Next wild attempt to make NN sound bad, please...
Your rule would make it illegal to give 911 calls priority over all other traffic
Yes, it would be illegal to give 911 calls priority over other traffic. However it WILL be legal to divvy up the available bandwidth evenly and give every user a guaranteed minimum amount. This will be enough to make a 911 call (if not then there is something serioulsly lacking in the infrastructure).
If everybody calls 911, then the person who was using 100% of the bandwidth on bittorrent will suddenly be reduced to approximately the same bandwidth as a 911 call takes.
This is really really easy to understand if you stop making bullshit arguments to try to defeat it.
Complete misunderstanding of what "information wants to be free" means.
Think of "water wants to move downhill". This does not mean "dams are bad". What it means is "if you don't want water to move downhill, you will have to more work (such as build a dam) than if you just let the water flow downhill".
Now think carefully, apply to "information wants to be free", and (I can only hope), get a clue.
I fail to see how you can prevent Comcast from slowing down the "other ISP" without a rule against that.
Basically you are saying you *do* want Net Neutrality, but the exact regulation is that the the data is split up into things you call an "ISP" and only those larger blocks must be treated "fairly", and that customers are allowed to buy any subset of these blocks.
The ISP is allowed to throttle your nasty neighbor who is running BitTorrent all the time, and distribute the available service evenly.
How happy are you going to be if your neighbor watches the ISP's paid-for video service all the time and because of that you are blocked from downloading what you want since the ISP would prefer that all the bandwidth be used by the paid-for extra?
That is what Net Neutrality is about.
They should have linked the cell phone towers to *stillbirths* (which I assume would correlate just as well). Then the article would have gone everywhere!
I would think the link to the number of *stillbirths* would be much more effective!
Judging by some other assasinations in the past, this plan is likely to work even if law enforcement caught the actual assassin.
Is it possible nowadays to get a read-only CD/DVD drive? It would seem that would solve this problem pretty well.
However I don't think I have seen a read-only drive in a long time...
The $150B is for the over 250K income tax.
I was always told the under 250K income tax is $700B. So there is the $850B there, it is all tax cuts.
The unemployment spending does not appear to be in your total but it is about 50B. The payroll tax cut is also not there and I have heard it is significantly larger expense.
Don't have it to try here, but that does seem likely. I was completely unaware that it still was anything other than an icon in Windows95. They may have removed the popup menu but preserved the double click?
I do however agree with others that Windows made a GUI change of as much significance as Ubuntu.
Likely because the daemon program is running, but only watching the clipboard and not the selection. I think this is a mistake. I think the excuse is that the text is no longer selected when the program exits, but often just clicking makes it no longer selected but the middle-mouse still pastes.
This is incorrect. Both the clipboard and the selection use the same mechanism. A program says it "owns" it and then when somebody does a paste a request is done to that program to retrieve the data. This is why the data is not there if the program exits, as it is no longer there to return the data.
The fix for X is to have a daemon running that retrieves the data just before the program exits. However the desktops should be providing this program.
Interestingly Windows has the exact same problem. However there are two clipboard mechanisms, one which matches X and has this same bug, and another where the data is actually copied to the clipboard. It appears the majority of programs on Windows use the copy method. They also call the return-the-data api on program exit from the system, rather than relying on a daemon program. You can replicate the X problem if you "copy" in some programs and then get them to crash.
Wayland/etc could fix this by ditching legacy stuff. It can reliably ask the program before exiting to return the data like Windows does. And no reason for two apis like Windows.
Before Windows95 the top-left button, if double-clicked, closed the window. Clicking it once popped up a menu of window actions. Almost everybody called that the "close button" because that was the only useful thing to do with it.
If making the battery kills a kitten then making these cars will kill more kittens than not making them. Won't you please think of the kittens?!
That is a hope but I'm really worried it is not true. The previous election threw out moderate democrats and replaced them with tea partiers. If there was a moderate power the election would have replaced far-left democrats with somewhat less far-right republicans (possibly even some tea partiers are less far-right than some democrats). But all the extremists stayed right in position.
Speaking as a mostly leftist, my main fear of Palin is that the Democrats won't then say "hey we can get like 90% of the vote if we just select a moderate". Instead they will say "this is our chance to nominate an equally batty left-wing extremist!"
An Obama-like moderate in the republicans would be a very good thing because the Democrats would also go moderate.
Not only alien life, they have a trove of hundreds of thousands of documents from the alien government! Describing advanced graft and corruption abilities that are centuries beyond our own!
Stop suggesting various toolkits, that is NOT what he is looking for.
He is looking for a "canvas" widget, meaning he wants drawing API.
It is unfortunate that most drawing apis are tied to particular toolkits, so he may have to choose one, but if you are comparing them you have to compare the 2D drawing primitives.
There is also Cairo and OpenGL, which are not really tied to toolkits. Though you still need to jump through hoops depending on the toolkit to get it so the graphics calls draw where you want. Sigh.
I know you are joking, but I really would not mind seeing such stuff in Update Manager. Along with less silly stuff, sure. But if that is what they are changing, I would like the ability to match it now, rather than be surprised when I update the system.
However I would like to see new features incrementally!
Right now all new features appear simultaneously when I update the system to the new Ubuntu version. This leads to fear & uncertainty when doing this, and also means I have to learn all the changes at once.
New features would be a lot more interesting than "some programmer added a buffer length check and thus MAY have fixed a security flaw but really nobody has proven that it is possible for an over-length string to get to that point in the code" which seem to be 90% of Update Manager (the rest are exciting things like "updated the Daylight Savings Time rules for Pago Pago").
I would love to see "new default picture viewing program" or "added layer sets to Gimp" or whatever. Leave them unchecked by default but let me check them and try that new program immediately and see if I like the feature, rather than be surprised by it a month after I update the system.
A system upgrade would just be a special package that depends on all the feature and bug updates.
Ignoring any politics, an absolutely huge problem with the "Fair Tax" is that the redistribution portion (designed so that those below the poverty line do not end up paying) would be ENORMOUS, like orders of magnitude greater than all the social security, medicare, and all other aid given by the government now. This will result is an equally enormous bureaucracy and equally enormous amounts of graft and corruption and cheating.
This appears to me to be a complete deal breaker.
GEM however did have some really stupid design decisions. In particular the method they chose to allow "double click" to be an event was to delay reporting of *all* clicks to the program until the double-click time had passed. Thus all clicks had a built-in delay before the program could respond.
Any programmer with an IQ over 80 would have instead had it report the single click immediatly, then report a second double click event later when it was detected. Windows and mac and X and every other system I have heard of did this, so it is pretty obvious.
I think GEM also had some hard-coded limits of 4 apps and 8 windows in the api.
who prints what programs have updated /var/run/utmp. This is not the tty that this patch is using. Updating utmp can be skipped for many reasons. Main ones are to just make that output from who shorter, but it also means the terminal emulator does not have to be setuid.