Why should Comcast spend a whole bunch of money to improve its infrastructure so Netflix can make a whole bunch of money off other companies? Netflix (and its users) should pay extra since it consumes 20% of the entire internet traffic.
Comcast says that with the new Netflix load, Level 3's traffic to Comcast's network would be five times more than the cable company is driving to Level 3's network. So Comcast demanded that Level 3 pay for that traffic increase.
Comcast should improve its infrastructure because of competition in the ISP market and we the people are demanding faster and faster data. Do you really want Comcast to harm every video site that isn't giant Netflix or Youtube or Amazon or Hulu?
And what about "packages" of just those sites, but to get the entire Internet a whole lot more money?
Already they force Netflix to give them a cut of what you pay Netflix. This is in addition to what you pay them for ISP service. If they slow them down (and specifically them, not general video) then Comcast's claim for x speed to you is a lie, and they should go to jail for fraud.
For no upside? The upside is no resurgent Japan (or Germany). The money spent, and lives not lost in that are trivial compared to another major war.
Here we whine about a handful of troops killed per week. In Vietnam, it was 200. During WWII when the US population was half what it is now, it was 2000 a week.
No thank you, says the American population. Disarming and defending them and keeping our military well ahead technologically is a much better option.
When regulatory bodies completely ignore the will of the public you have a much bigger problem. Courts seem like the perfect entity to deal with that, though it should be a treason case.
The will of the public is instantiated in an election. If the people don't like what the elected officials do, they change them at the next election.
One doesn't throw a coup against democracy because it hasn't turned out the way you imagined. There's nothing he can do that can't be waved away in the future (unless 18 months counts as long-term precedence, as OP claims, in which case 30 months under Trump will be even worse.)
The real problem is the supine, ballless Congress of both sides who prefer to do nothing for fear of anything being held against them. So we get crap like a regulatory agency stretching the original legislative mandate out of all proportion...to satisfy the goals of the legislators, who are too scared to pass laws directly.
I don't even know if he's alive anymore but they could work it in in a news story in the background halfway through, with a talking head saying "Meanwhile..."
You guys are arguing the wrong stuff. They are letting kids gamble with real money for desirable (and usually resellable) virtual items. It takes advantage of the same mental issues of gambling addicts, while hiding the real costs.
It's one thing to say, "Here is a cool outfit skin, price $10." and "Here is a cool outfit skin, buy 10 keys for $10 and maybe you will unlock the gloves, or the boots of one of a dozen other outfits, or some consumable powerups, or a rare mount."
This hides the true likely costs, just like gambling. The house, so to speak, knows the real odds, and relies on confusion and ignorance of the gambling addict, or child in this case.
In Great Society 2.0, governrment rewards law firms that find violations in small businesses. This is why you may have seen two railings on stairs, because the original one was a few inches too high or low, and a law firm found it and made the business pay them $11,947 as a violation finders' reward.
This is incredibly troubling, because it takes a legitimate if somewhat controversial statement, and wonders what mental disease or syndrome the speaker might have, as a cause, rather than dealing with the arguments directly.
In other words, it's a fancy way of saying, "All right-minded people would never even consider that, so something must be wrong with him."
You have to be careful that you haven't inadvertently over-trained the AI so that it's basically memorizing the individual data points rather than reaching generalizations. You can leave some out to test against, but this can inevitably be trained against in an evolutionary sort of way.
The only way to know for sure is to take the "finished product" and run it against brand new stuff it has never seen before, once.
They are cancelling cable tv in droves. Look up the phrase "cutting the cord" (not to be confused with letting go of your mom's apron strings and moving out.)
Arrest the cable companies for fraud. If they tell me they're selling me X bits per second for a certain price, then break my connection to Netflix unless Netflix gives them a cut of the money I give Netflix, that's fraud.
Let's see how far they get being forced to put in blinking lights on the top of your contract, "The price we charge is not the full price we extract from your wallet. We will actually slow down your connection to Netflix unless Netflix gives us some of the money you give Netflix. That amount comes to $2.50 out of your ever-increasing Netflix payment."
This is the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of them planting a flag on an undersea Arctic oil field that was actually from a movie. Which was the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of a jet shooting down the commercial flight over the Ukraine taken from a satellite hundreds of miles up, with the jet's relative size over the ground indicating it was flying about 200 miles above the Earth.
That means that proficiency in those games peaks at the same age as raw IQ -- about 25 -- while scores in more reaction-time based games like Destiny or Battlefield seem to decline from the teens onwards.
No no no, those young punks win because they're all Low Ping Bastards! >:-(
You need to ostracize not just these companies, but any real companies that use it. In short order, companies that sell real products will quickly be brought to heel.
Because the legal power to force you to pay for a service whether you want it or not is not competition? If a private concern did that, you'd rightfully howl.
Are you going to exempt people who continue to buy the better private service? What? Nooo?
What surprise!
To give you a hint of what's to come, Detroit Metro airport built a massive new parking structure, staffed it, and nobody came. Private shuttle services to lots a mile or more away were more than worth it. So the government passed a "government is inefficient" 30% tax on those lots, and still had problems.
Meanwhile, out state people who drove in to the airport the night before their flight and stayed in airport hotels would leave their cars in the hotel lots when they left the next day, with the hotel's blessing.
Nope! That was made illegal too. Because the government cannot compete in legitimate business. They must cheat and put their thumb on the scale and skimp and finally outlaw the competition which outdoes them in spite of all that.
Quarks, along with electrons, are believed fundamental at the moment, as they cannot be split or even collided, so are either tiny beyond statistical belief, or are true point particles.
Anyway, quarks form together to make protons and neutrons and stuff, and protons and neutrons together make the nucleus of an atom. It turns out jamming quarks together to make protons and neutrons gives off 8x more energy than jamming neutrons and protons together to make the nucleus of an atom.
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Why should Comcast spend a whole bunch of money to improve its infrastructure so Netflix can make a whole bunch of money off other companies? Netflix (and its users) should pay extra since it consumes 20% of the entire internet traffic.
Comcast says that with the new Netflix load, Level 3's traffic to Comcast's network would be five times more than the cable company is driving to Level 3's network. So Comcast demanded that Level 3 pay for that traffic increase.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/3...
Comcast should improve its infrastructure because of competition in the ISP market and we the people are demanding faster and faster data. Do you really want Comcast to harm every video site that isn't giant Netflix or Youtube or Amazon or Hulu?
And what about "packages" of just those sites, but to get the entire Internet a whole lot more money?
Already they force Netflix to give them a cut of what you pay Netflix. This is in addition to what you pay them for ISP service. If they slow them down (and specifically them, not general video) then Comcast's claim for x speed to you is a lie, and they should go to jail for fraud.
For no upside? The upside is no resurgent Japan (or Germany). The money spent, and lives not lost in that are trivial compared to another major war.
Here we whine about a handful of troops killed per week. In Vietnam, it was 200. During WWII when the US population was half what it is now, it was 2000 a week.
No thank you, says the American population. Disarming and defending them and keeping our military well ahead technologically is a much better option.
When regulatory bodies completely ignore the will of the public you have a much bigger problem. Courts seem like the perfect entity to deal with that, though it should be a treason case.
The will of the public is instantiated in an election. If the people don't like what the elected officials do, they change them at the next election.
One doesn't throw a coup against democracy because it hasn't turned out the way you imagined. There's nothing he can do that can't be waved away in the future (unless 18 months counts as long-term precedence, as OP claims, in which case 30 months under Trump will be even worse.)
The real problem is the supine, ballless Congress of both sides who prefer to do nothing for fear of anything being held against them. So we get crap like a regulatory agency stretching the original legislative mandate out of all proportion...to satisfy the goals of the legislators, who are too scared to pass laws directly.
I don't even know if he's alive anymore but they could work it in in a news story in the background halfway through, with a talking head saying "Meanwhile..."
This is really gonna hurt in the next movie because, from the after credits, we will be needing "Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom..."
You guys are arguing the wrong stuff. They are letting kids gamble with real money for desirable (and usually resellable) virtual items. It takes advantage of the same mental issues of gambling addicts, while hiding the real costs.
It's one thing to say, "Here is a cool outfit skin, price $10." and "Here is a cool outfit skin, buy 10 keys for $10 and maybe you will unlock the gloves, or the boots of one of a dozen other outfits, or some consumable powerups, or a rare mount."
This hides the true likely costs, just like gambling. The house, so to speak, knows the real odds, and relies on confusion and ignorance of the gambling addict, or child in this case.
Whether it is real or not (whatever that means) all should be free.
In Great Society 2.0, governrment rewards law firms that find violations in small businesses. This is why you may have seen two railings on stairs, because the original one was a few inches too high or low, and a law firm found it and made the business pay them $11,947 as a violation finders' reward.
This is incredibly troubling, because it takes a legitimate if somewhat controversial statement, and wonders what mental disease or syndrome the speaker might have, as a cause, rather than dealing with the arguments directly.
In other words, it's a fancy way of saying, "All right-minded people would never even consider that, so something must be wrong with him."
Correction: All nations' elections have been impacted by social engineering all years through history.
Covert? MMmm hmmmmm.
You have to be careful that you haven't inadvertently over-trained the AI so that it's basically memorizing the individual data points rather than reaching generalizations. You can leave some out to test against, but this can inevitably be trained against in an evolutionary sort of way.
The only way to know for sure is to take the "finished product" and run it against brand new stuff it has never seen before, once.
They are cancelling cable tv in droves. Look up the phrase "cutting the cord" (not to be confused with letting go of your mom's apron strings and moving out.)
So...they are blocking embedded files now?
Web sites like CNN are excruciatingly slow because they are selling your ad space off in real time to a dozen different agencies.
I'm so confused. I thought Russia was bad.
No, I'm sure they're paying you a decent rate with benefits as a government employee.
What is that in Russia anyway? $247 a month?
Slashdot should examine the IP addresses of the downmods of this sarcasm.
Arrest the cable companies for fraud. If they tell me they're selling me X bits per second for a certain price, then break my connection to Netflix unless Netflix gives them a cut of the money I give Netflix, that's fraud.
Let's see how far they get being forced to put in blinking lights on the top of your contract, "The price we charge is not the full price we extract from your wallet. We will actually slow down your connection to Netflix unless Netflix gives us some of the money you give Netflix. That amount comes to $2.50 out of your ever-increasing Netflix payment."
This is the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of them planting a flag on an undersea Arctic oil field that was actually from a movie. Which was the most fun we've had since Russia posted a photo of a jet shooting down the commercial flight over the Ukraine taken from a satellite hundreds of miles up, with the jet's relative size over the ground indicating it was flying about 200 miles above the Earth.
That means that proficiency in those games peaks at the same age as raw IQ -- about 25 -- while scores in more reaction-time based games like Destiny or Battlefield seem to decline from the teens onwards.
No no no, those young punks win because they're all Low Ping Bastards! >:-(
You need to ostracize not just these companies, but any real companies that use it. In short order, companies that sell real products will quickly be brought to heel.
Someone should do this someday, someone should.
"You are free...to view what we permit!
You are free...to view what we permit!
You are free...to view what we permit!"
And do you really want bikini ads popping up all the time when you have people over for Thanksgiving?
It's the "Clear my browser history!!!" problem all over again.
D-Wave makes quantum annealing processors - and is only useful for a sliver of useful computing (adiabatic quantum computing).
Whew, that's lucky! Quantum computing wouldn't get very far at all without obese diabetic programmers participating.
Aren't most or all of Trump's grandkids Jewish? Oh my fucking god, Jews Will Not Replace Us idiots! Wut now???
Cornered on all sides!
Time Warner doesn't care about CNN's political positions except as insofar as it would buy future Democrat compliance in other large mergers.
Democrats should be wary of everyone's motivations vis-a-vis "protecting The People".
Because the legal power to force you to pay for a service whether you want it or not is not competition? If a private concern did that, you'd rightfully howl.
Are you going to exempt people who continue to buy the better private service? What? Nooo?
What surprise!
To give you a hint of what's to come, Detroit Metro airport built a massive new parking structure, staffed it, and nobody came. Private shuttle services to lots a mile or more away were more than worth it. So the government passed a "government is inefficient" 30% tax on those lots, and still had problems.
Meanwhile, out state people who drove in to the airport the night before their flight and stayed in airport hotels would leave their cars in the hotel lots when they left the next day, with the hotel's blessing.
Nope! That was made illegal too. Because the government cannot compete in legitimate business. They must cheat and put their thumb on the scale and skimp and finally outlaw the competition which outdoes them in spite of all that.
That is why it isn't competition.
Quarks, along with electrons, are believed fundamental at the moment, as they cannot be split or even collided, so are either tiny beyond statistical belief, or are true point particles.
Anyway, quarks form together to make protons and neutrons and stuff, and protons and neutrons together make the nucleus of an atom. It turns out jamming quarks together to make protons and neutrons gives off 8x more energy than jamming neutrons and protons together to make the nucleus of an atom.