Yes, I'm sure. I cited a news article that cites FCC rulings.
Comcast: "Okay, we'll up it to 2048 bytes per day, you ungrateful bast- err, we mean, 'valued customer'. No one could POSSIBLY use more than 2 kilobytes per day unless they was pirating movies or something."
Yep. It's hard to take someone seriously when they are the executive technical adviser of a company that is pushing hydrogen cars over battery electric.
Hydrogen cars? What could possib- *KABOOM*(debris and body parts rain down)
Any company that dicks me around with asinine questions like this is a non-starter for me.
And not just me- a good friend of mine who is a very experienced DBA (18+ years of Oracle experience) walked out of an interview at Amazon a few years ago after they spent several hours fucking with him. Lots of bullshit questions and silly crap that any low-level DBS could answer.
Keep in mind that this was a guy who had worked at Bank Of America, Lockheed, AT&T, IBM, and other notable companies and he had always risen to the top. He knew his stuff and had a kick-ass track record.
Finally after several hours he told the Amazon people, "Look, hire me or don't hire me, but I don't have time for this nonsense."
They kept asking the "how many ping pong balls will fit in a suitcase"-type questions, and he finally stood up, thanked them for wasting his entire morning, and walked out.
They were stunned (WTF, how DARE he!) and they bugged him for days by phone and email to "come back and finish the interview so we can hire you".
He told them in no uncertain terms to "fuck off", and a week later he was working at Boeing as a Senior DBA.
He told me later, "I'd rather slide down a razor-blade banister into a pool of iodine than work with those pretentious fucks at Amazon".
Are you for real? How the hell do you patent that? That's like patenting giving back change if you hand a cashier too much money.
Exactly. But see, in this case it's like the store would just be keeping your change until you made your next purchase from them, as long as it was within 30 days of your last purchase. After that you don't get it back at all. So it's like totally fair, man!
The "C word" used to refer to something different.
"We're not going to cap your data, we're just going to ummm, 'rate limit' it according to your 'usage plan'...and the rate limit will be zero bytes per day. Thank you for being a Comcast customer!"
Should Bakers Be Called Hairstylists? Should Tech Writers Be Called Astronauts? Should Engineers Be Called Cobblers? Should Pizza Makers Be Called Dry Cleaners? Should Heart Surgeons Be Called Cashiers?
Words have MEANINGS, okay? Stop with this dumb-ass shit.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with a piece of rogue software that mutates, spreads virally, and creates its own mesh network. I'm also convinced that no one would ever misuse something like this for something nefarious. People just aren't like that.
Holy crap, I'm old and even I never used a slide rule. Calculators were just coming out when I was in 8th or 9th grade and by the time I had graduated High School they were everywhere. $40 or $50 would get you a pretty damn good calculator.
If not for my $15 Texas Instruments calculator (a mandatory purchase for tech school) I never would have made it through and neither would anyone else in my classes. Calculating Thevenin circuit values would have taken all day on a slide rule. We'd have spent most of our class time fiddle-fucking with slide rules instead of actually learning electrical theory.
Yeah, they're cool and all that but so were buggy whips, and I had no desire to use one of those either.
It amazes me how willing people are to sleep next to someone who could profit from their death.
This is why I have no life insurance. My wife knows I am worth more alive than dead.
During my divorce my ex tried to take out a life insurance policy on me without my knowing it. Not a joke, she really tried to do it.
I only found when they called me up to take the physical (it was over $100,000 and at that level the victim, err, I mean the "insured" has to show they're in good health).
I was like, "Huh? What life insurance policy?"
And then it all started to unravel....she had also asked a friend of hers who worked at this seedy biker bar if she knew anyone who could "take care of me", and I'm pretty sure she didn't mean "make my breakfast and do the laundry".
No shit, I slept with the alarm on and a loaded pistol by my bed for the next couple of years.
"... can target Androids, Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs."
Well, isn't that nice. Finally a true cross-platform service that doesn't discriminate.
I'm generally a very peaceful, easy-going guy, but I would be all in favor of hunter-killer teams finding the people that write this shit and lopping their heads off.
This is precisely why I will never click on ANY link behind an URL shortener; because you have no bloody idea what it is.
Same here...I think URL shorteners are like tap-dancing across a field full of landmines...you might avoid most of them but it only takes one to completely ruin your day.
The only place they're useful at all is on something like twitter where space is limited, but that doesn't change the fact that clicking on one is like rolling the dice. Of course, that's true for almost any URL these days- you never know what site has been compromised and is trying to infect you.
It's one of the main reasons I use NoScript and AdBlock; those two plugins have probably saved my ass more times than I can count.
Said someone who obviously doesn't have small children.
I did have a small child, but even then we didn't watch a lot of stuff and not repeatedly.
Some stuff, sure, but I can't recall anything we went back and watched again after more than a couple of months. (We probably did, but I don't think there was a lot of that going on.)
Admittedly we were not huge TV-consumers but we did watch stuff....Blues Clues, cartoons, a few movies here and there.
Until they decide to delete it or change the terms of service or act on a bogus DMCA request or until some executive changes his mind. That's the new definition of "permanent".
If it's not downloadable and DRM free, you never own it.
Exactly. If you don't have actual control over it then you don't own it, no matter what kind of spin they put on it.
But here's something else to consider...they act like you're getting some fantastic deal because the shows and episodes don't expire, but seriously, how useful is that? I mean, it's great that they don't expire, but how often do any of us go back and watch stuff more than once?
Yeah, there are a few things I would watch more than once, but the vast, vast majority of TV and movies that I do watch are strictly a one-time thing...how many times is someone going to re-watch a given movie or series? My guess is "almost never".
My viewing habits may be different than others but I'd bet that most of us are not going to re-watch Parks & Recreation or Dr Who or $OME_MOVIE or $OME_SERIES. I just don't have that much time to watch the new things I'm interested, the chance of me going back and watching some older series or movie are pretty damn slim.
So while it seems like it's a great thing that the shows and episodes don't expire, how much actual value does that really bring to the table? Most of the people I know with large video libraries never watch anything twice, yet they store it as if they might need it at a moment's notice. I was guilty of the same thing years ago until I realized that for all practical purposes, I never, ever went back and watched any of that stuff.
"Numerous" is an inflation. There's one known instance, which is reason to believe there may be others, but no other examples are known publicly.
I tried to locate the page which detailed this but couldn't find it. I seem to recall it was an ex-DEA or NSA employee who was explaining it. He recounted that this was done very frequently, with his involvement in over "a couple of hundred" instances. Unfortunately I can't find the page, but it was quite clear that it was by no means limited to one or even a few instances.
He detailed how they worked closely with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and the USPS to divert packages, fiddle with the hardware, and then seal everything up and have it delivered. Apparently UPS and FedEx had a regular procedure for diverting the packages using a liaison whose job was to coordinate with the particular agency (again, I think it was the DEA or NSA but I can't recall for certain).
In any case, he made it clear that this was by no means a "one off" thing, but rather an ongoing operation that affected a number of packages from different companies.
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Yes, I'm sure. I cited a news article that cites FCC rulings.
Comcast: "Okay, we'll up it to 2048 bytes per day, you ungrateful bast- err, we mean, 'valued customer'. No one could POSSIBLY use more than 2 kilobytes per day unless they was pirating movies or something."
Yep. It's hard to take someone seriously when they are the executive technical adviser of a company that is pushing hydrogen cars over battery electric.
Hydrogen cars? What could possib- *KABOOM* (debris and body parts rain down)
I knive doesn't run out of bullets
Yes, but you can't use a knife on someone 20 feet away, especially while they're shooting at you.
Still not broadband.
1024 bytes per day isn't broadband? Are you sure?
Any company that dicks me around with asinine questions like this is a non-starter for me.
And not just me- a good friend of mine who is a very experienced DBA (18+ years of Oracle experience) walked out of an interview at Amazon a few years ago after they spent several hours fucking with him. Lots of bullshit questions and silly crap that any low-level DBS could answer.
Keep in mind that this was a guy who had worked at Bank Of America, Lockheed, AT&T, IBM, and other notable companies and he had always risen to the top. He knew his stuff and had a kick-ass track record.
Finally after several hours he told the Amazon people, "Look, hire me or don't hire me, but I don't have time for this nonsense."
They kept asking the "how many ping pong balls will fit in a suitcase"-type questions, and he finally stood up, thanked them for wasting his entire morning, and walked out.
They were stunned (WTF, how DARE he!) and they bugged him for days by phone and email to "come back and finish the interview so we can hire you".
He told them in no uncertain terms to "fuck off", and a week later he was working at Boeing as a Senior DBA.
He told me later, "I'd rather slide down a razor-blade banister into a pool of iodine than work with those pretentious fucks at Amazon".
"Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be"
Let me be the first to say, "No shit."
They're doing better than the average Slashtard who moans about Apple all day.
Yes, but the day is still young.
Push the rate limit too low and it no longer qualifies under the FCC definition of broadband service.
Comcast: "Well okay then, we'll raise it to 1024 bytes per day, now stop complaining!"
Are you for real? How the hell do you patent that? That's like patenting giving back change if you hand a cashier too much money.
Exactly. But see, in this case it's like the store would just be keeping your change until you made your next purchase from them, as long as it was within 30 days of your last purchase. After that you don't get it back at all. So it's like totally fair, man!
They even suggest avoiding the term "cap,"
The "C word" used to refer to something different.
"We're not going to cap your data, we're just going to ummm, 'rate limit' it according to your 'usage plan'...and the rate limit will be zero bytes per day. Thank you for being a Comcast customer!"
I also agree that the answer is no.
I agree with your agreement. The answer is no.
No.
Should Bakers Be Called Hairstylists?
Should Tech Writers Be Called Astronauts?
Should Engineers Be Called Cobblers?
Should Pizza Makers Be Called Dry Cleaners?
Should Heart Surgeons Be Called Cashiers?
Words have MEANINGS, okay? Stop with this dumb-ass shit.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with a piece of rogue software that mutates, spreads virally, and creates its own mesh network. I'm also convinced that no one would ever misuse something like this for something nefarious. People just aren't like that.
Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free.......and they'll lose.
There are a million malicious programmers versus what, a few dozen app testers and some automated code-checking tools?
Yeah, good luck with that. They'll never keep the App Store free of malware. I'm calling this one right now, Apple will lose.
Holy crap, I'm old and even I never used a slide rule. Calculators were just coming out when I was in 8th or 9th grade and by the time I had graduated High School they were everywhere. $40 or $50 would get you a pretty damn good calculator.
If not for my $15 Texas Instruments calculator (a mandatory purchase for tech school) I never would have made it through and neither would anyone else in my classes. Calculating Thevenin circuit values would have taken all day on a slide rule. We'd have spent most of our class time fiddle-fucking with slide rules instead of actually learning electrical theory.
Yeah, they're cool and all that but so were buggy whips, and I had no desire to use one of those either.
For the second time today I find myself saying, "Well isn't that nice..." and not meaning it at all.
It amazes me how willing people are to sleep next to someone who could profit from their death.
This is why I have no life insurance. My wife knows I am worth more alive than dead.
During my divorce my ex tried to take out a life insurance policy on me without my knowing it. Not a joke, she really tried to do it.
I only found when they called me up to take the physical (it was over $100,000 and at that level the victim, err, I mean the "insured" has to show they're in good health).
I was like, "Huh? What life insurance policy?"
And then it all started to unravel....she had also asked a friend of hers who worked at this seedy biker bar if she knew anyone who could "take care of me", and I'm pretty sure she didn't mean "make my breakfast and do the laundry".
No shit, I slept with the alarm on and a loaded pistol by my bed for the next couple of years.
"... can target Androids, Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs."
Well, isn't that nice. Finally a true cross-platform service that doesn't discriminate.
I'm generally a very peaceful, easy-going guy, but I would be all in favor of hunter-killer teams finding the people that write this shit and lopping their heads off.
This is precisely why I will never click on ANY link behind an URL shortener; because you have no bloody idea what it is.
Same here...I think URL shorteners are like tap-dancing across a field full of landmines...you might avoid most of them but it only takes one to completely ruin your day.
The only place they're useful at all is on something like twitter where space is limited, but that doesn't change the fact that clicking on one is like rolling the dice. Of course, that's true for almost any URL these days- you never know what site has been compromised and is trying to infect you.
It's one of the main reasons I use NoScript and AdBlock; those two plugins have probably saved my ass more times than I can count.
Said someone who obviously doesn't have small children.
I did have a small child, but even then we didn't watch a lot of stuff and not repeatedly.
Some stuff, sure, but I can't recall anything we went back and watched again after more than a couple of months. (We probably did, but I don't think there was a lot of that going on.)
Admittedly we were not huge TV-consumers but we did watch stuff....Blues Clues, cartoons, a few movies here and there.
Okay, I'll be happy to admit I think this is a pretty cool camera with some interesting features.
How permanent is permanent?
Until they decide to delete it or change the terms of service or act on a bogus DMCA request or until some executive changes his mind. That's the new definition of "permanent".
If it's not downloadable and DRM free, you never own it.
Exactly. If you don't have actual control over it then you don't own it, no matter what kind of spin they put on it.
But here's something else to consider...they act like you're getting some fantastic deal because the shows and episodes don't expire, but seriously, how useful is that? I mean, it's great that they don't expire, but how often do any of us go back and watch stuff more than once?
Yeah, there are a few things I would watch more than once, but the vast, vast majority of TV and movies that I do watch are strictly a one-time thing...how many times is someone going to re-watch a given movie or series? My guess is "almost never".
My viewing habits may be different than others but I'd bet that most of us are not going to re-watch Parks & Recreation or Dr Who or $OME_MOVIE or $OME_SERIES. I just don't have that much time to watch the new things I'm interested, the chance of me going back and watching some older series or movie are pretty damn slim.
So while it seems like it's a great thing that the shows and episodes don't expire, how much actual value does that really bring to the table? Most of the people I know with large video libraries never watch anything twice, yet they store it as if they might need it at a moment's notice. I was guilty of the same thing years ago until I realized that for all practical purposes, I never, ever went back and watched any of that stuff.
So they're saying that it....went off the rails?
No need to get up, I'll see myself out.
Although I'm happily married, I always think of this Bill Murray quote when someone asks about marriage:
"When someone is murdered, they always investigate the spouse first. And that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about marriage."
Lol.
"Numerous" is an inflation. There's one known instance, which is reason to believe there may be others, but no other examples are known publicly.
I tried to locate the page which detailed this but couldn't find it. I seem to recall it was an ex-DEA or NSA employee who was explaining it. He recounted that this was done very frequently, with his involvement in over "a couple of hundred" instances. Unfortunately I can't find the page, but it was quite clear that it was by no means limited to one or even a few instances.
He detailed how they worked closely with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and the USPS to divert packages, fiddle with the hardware, and then seal everything up and have it delivered. Apparently UPS and FedEx had a regular procedure for diverting the packages using a liaison whose job was to coordinate with the particular agency (again, I think it was the DEA or NSA but I can't recall for certain).
In any case, he made it clear that this was by no means a "one off" thing, but rather an ongoing operation that affected a number of packages from different companies.