Why is this such a bad thing? Everyone already knows that ISPs oversell their bandwidth. As long as you still get the speed you are paying for why should you care if someone else is using your wifi anymore than you care if your neighbor is also a comcast subscriber. I doubt it increases your electricity cost and you get the benefit of using other people's wifi when you are out and about. This seems like a win-win for everyone. I don't see the problem if it's done correctly especially as you have multiple ways to opt out.
If Comcast is as unscrupulous as Aussie IP's, fair bet, you can guarantee they'll charge more for wireless access and limit the home access rather than limit the higher grossing wireless access.
Letting any company abrogate rights without consent is asking for trouble.
why can't google and everyone else support public transportation?
lobby SF and California to build some train tracks and stops at the big corporate parks to start and build out from there to the smaller towns.
i'm all for car ownership and driving on weekends but when you have the same trip that so many people take everyday there should be a public option
Look at the start up costs of light or heavy rail vs a more energy efficient car especially for areas where Public transport is spotty or non-existent.
Building driverless bus lanes would be a good idea but the Nimby's would shoot it down initially. The start up costs are still very large.
To be fair, we are going to eventually have to stabilize our growing population. Or find more place for humanity. Letting $insert_disease_here maintain relatively high mortality rates gives the world time to slowly see the issue appear and look for plausible, non-drastic solutions and avoid several consequences of uncontrolled exponential growth instead of having to radically change views to deal with what may turn out to be a potential black period in human history (mass starvation, riots, criminality rates going to an all time high).
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Except of course the changing of views will never happen. Special interest groups will ensure that their vested interests remain despite the evidence contrary.
Otherwise of course some religions wouldn't be against condoms and Climate change would be universally accepted.
how on earth does an anti-vaxxer get a PHD.:( (neuroscience from what i remember, so not exactly a mickey-mouse marketing/business/social science fluffpaper.)
Science degrees don't inoculate against random stupidity. They just help make it less likely to take.
I agree. People who get their medical advice, especially for their kids, from celebrities are destined to have Darwin knock at their door sooner or later.
Unfortunately it appears there is evolutionary advantage in monomania cause the percentage of dumbarses as a percentage of population ain't declining
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.
Talk about mixing your analogies. Every single movie streamed from Netflix is paid for twice already. Once to the customers IP and once by Netflix for domain availability and uploads.
So what you're saying is that providers need to e charged twice to provide something once. Your road analogy falls down there.
At a wild guess AT&T and the others are more analogous to Robber Barons who chrge for use of the Tollgate then steal your shit just down the road.
So we know one side of the story. But what about the other side? Maybe she was really bad worker and used 'discrimination' card each time to defend her work? "You are saying that this code is bad not because of the code, but just because I'm a woman". It would be nice if somebody could anonymously 'leak' some of her pull requests plus entire conversation around it - and then we could see how much harrasment was from reviewer and how much unfair pushing from her side.
Problem is that GitHub is at lost position. However bad she was, they will be always painted bad boys for throwing dirt on her, so they will probably keep silent...
Whilst it's true GitHub can't prove a negative the demeaning, belittling attitude in your first paragraph may give a clue to what Women face in life let alone Tech companies.
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
Could you point me to where Apple or Google or... have changed apart for the worse?
That's because they weren't paying attention when their leader told them to stay separate from the world's political affairs. Or more likely because they were greedy, power-hungry idiots using religion as a cover for their ambitions.
To many words. Christian suffices but Organised Religion covers it.
Perhaps Microsoft needs to look at whatit's users want rather than constantly changing to meet a trend that's mainly over by the time it gets to market.
I dunno they seem to have a cycle where incompetent fools drive a release then competent fools fix the problem and are replaced by incompetent fools.
I'd start by shooting the fool who decided that making everything look the same was a good idea.
Unfortunately history suggests the inompetent are becoming more frequent at MS.
Seriously, what is the "trickery" that gets one to download and install this "Google Vx" application, and how many Chinese people does it take to read our LOLs? Is someone out there texting their social security number or bank PIN?
Yep they are. Peeps do most everything including texting things to themselves to remember stuff. Creating draft SMS to remember, not sure if that is sent to the server but probably./guilty - Not of sending bank data but sensitive url's/shamed
How many ran over heavy, jagged pieces of metal at highway speeds?
Probably a few given how the Petrol, gas for you foreigners, tank is usually less protected than the battery would be.
Reminds me of the hysteria paraded by the manufacturers / vested interests about how unsafe LPG, dunno what the yanks call Liquefied Petroleum Gas, was when it came out.
Vested interest screams loudly about the things it hasn't bought into yet.
I would like to see a ban against completely ineffectual laws. How effective were the "bans" on guns in movie theaters, malls and schools?
No law protects against those mentally ill or just plain evil. Unfortunately I'm not sure where the American love of assault weapons fits into that analogy but it's one of the choices.
As Australia, and many other countries, have shownlaws banning access to specific types of firearms does work. It needs the willpower not to be bought by vested interests and the sanity to hold firm.
And that's their undoing. Show the user 10 captchas: If none match -> It's an old bot If some match -> It's human It over 90% match -> It's this new algorithm.
There, solved!
If the recaptcha is refreshed twice before being abandoned then that's human.
Ill never own one either, but keep in mind those chargers are shit and break. Its not that hard off the beaten trail to assume they are trying to protect their brand by eliminating the levels of suck.
Ah so because the clone is crap the Ebil Fruit Empires actions are OK.
They aren't protecting themselves from levels of suck up it seems.
The truth doesn't need anyone 'standing behind it.' It is self evident. Individuals (or societies) who ignore it will end up chewed apart by it eventually. Whether the argument is made by 'anonymous' or 'john smith' is immaterial.
That's so seriously shallow you must have got it off a cereal box.
The truth needs to be nurtured to fight the efforts of the wankers of the Earth like #newscorpse etc.
I have no issue commenting under a pseudonym and supplying my real name to the admin but would be restricted by the thought of professional harm if I used my real name.
Yes. Of course the cartel, oops the publishers, demanding Amazon increase the price of E-books year or so ago hasn't helped. Why an E-Book should be around the same price as a hardbook is beyond me given there is no printing, binding, lesser storage or shipping costs.
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Yes, this is a shitty thing to do
Why is this such a bad thing? Everyone already knows that ISPs oversell their bandwidth. As long as you still
get the speed you are paying for why should you care if someone else is using your wifi anymore than you care
if your neighbor is also a comcast subscriber. I doubt it increases your electricity cost and you get the benefit of
using other people's wifi when you are out and about. This seems like a win-win for everyone. I don't see the problem
if it's done correctly especially as you have multiple ways to opt out.
If Comcast is as unscrupulous as Aussie IP's, fair bet, you can guarantee they'll charge more for wireless access and limit the home access rather than limit the higher grossing wireless access.
Letting any company abrogate rights without consent is asking for trouble.
why can't google and everyone else support public transportation?
lobby SF and California to build some train tracks and stops at the big corporate parks to start and build out from there to the smaller towns.
i'm all for car ownership and driving on weekends but when you have the same trip that so many people take everyday there should be a public option
Look at the start up costs of light or heavy rail vs a more energy efficient car especially for areas where Public transport is spotty or non-existent.
Building driverless bus lanes would be a good idea but the Nimby's would shoot it down initially. The start up costs are still very large.
And take the brain dead moron who decided that Sdcards being mountable as drives rather than a media was deprecated and educumate him/it/her.
To be fair, we are going to eventually have to stabilize our growing population. Or find more place for humanity. Letting $insert_disease_here maintain relatively high mortality rates gives the world time to slowly see the issue appear and look for plausible, non-drastic solutions and avoid several consequences of uncontrolled exponential growth instead of having to radically change views to deal with what may turn out to be a potential black period in human history (mass starvation, riots, criminality rates going to an all time high).
...
Except of course the changing of views will never happen. Special interest groups will ensure that their vested interests remain despite the evidence contrary.
Otherwise of course some religions wouldn't be against condoms and Climate change would be universally accepted.
how on earth does an anti-vaxxer get a PHD. :( (neuroscience from what i remember, so not exactly a mickey-mouse marketing/business/social science fluffpaper.)
Science degrees don't inoculate against random stupidity. They just help make it less likely to take.
I agree. People who get their medical advice, especially for their kids, from celebrities are destined to have Darwin knock at their door sooner or later.
Unfortunately it appears there is evolutionary advantage in monomania cause the percentage of dumbarses as a percentage of population ain't declining
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
- it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road. On a road you can charge different rates for different types of vehicles, this is the same situation. An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
See, I even used an appropriate car analogy.
Talk about mixing your analogies.
Every single movie streamed from Netflix is paid for twice already.
Once to the customers IP and once by Netflix for domain availability and uploads.
So what you're saying is that providers need to e charged twice to provide something once. Your road analogy falls down there.
At a wild guess AT&T and the others are more analogous to Robber Barons who chrge for use of the Tollgate then steal your shit just down the road.
So we know one side of the story. But what about the other side? Maybe she was really bad worker and used 'discrimination' card each time to defend her work? "You are saying that this code is bad not because of the code, but just because I'm a woman". It would be nice if somebody could anonymously 'leak' some of her pull requests plus entire conversation around it - and then we could see how much harrasment was from reviewer and how much unfair pushing from her side.
Problem is that GitHub is at lost position. However bad she was, they will be always painted bad boys for throwing dirt on her, so they will probably keep silent...
Whilst it's true GitHub can't prove a negative the demeaning, belittling attitude in your first paragraph may give a clue to what Women face in life let alone Tech companies.
Shame the stupidity gene that not vaccinating would remove from the gene pool takes useful people with it.
If parents prfer the vacuous to the sensible then they should be isolated until they can't kill sensible people with their stupidity.
People can't get past MS's sins because MS never really changed. They still bend the rules until they're warped and often just snap. They are still they same company in many ways.
Could you point me to where Apple or Google or ... have changed apart for the worse?
There is no such thing as a "soccer pitch".
The people who use the word "pitch" this way don't use the word "soccer".
3 times the length of a round ball field mayhap.
Not sure if the BAFTA level acting associated with roundball adds to the length of the pitch.
Wrong. YOU are the one name calling. Have you actually READ the book? 'Frankenstein' is the doctor... not the monster.
Or perhaps the monster is the mad scientist who put together a patchwork revenant rather than the patchwork revenant itself.
Or maybe the article is using the patchwork part as the link.
Gotta love the pedantics who blindly pursue their pedantry in the face of fact.
I do not understand. I just can not understand.
China is a communist country, a country in which the regime is NOT elected.
They have their "Great Firewall" in place in order to protect their totalitarian regime.
Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??
Well if you read Animal Farm you'd realise that it's a commentary on the fact that Polar opposites are pretty much the same as each other.
The conservative proletariat have long stolen from the communists in their drive to make the world bland.
That's because they weren't paying attention when their leader told them to stay separate from the world's political affairs. Or more likely because they were greedy, power-hungry idiots using religion as a cover for their ambitions.
To many words.
Christian suffices but Organised Religion covers it.
"Do you have any weaknesses?"
"Yes, I hate stupid interview questions"
Oddly this stupid question got me a job once I used it to explain why I was so unemotional in interviews.
Still a stupid question but..
Perhaps Microsoft needs to look at whatit's users want rather than constantly changing to meet a trend that's mainly over by the time it gets to market.
I dunno they seem to have a cycle where incompetent fools drive a release then competent fools fix the problem and are replaced by incompetent fools.
I'd start by shooting the fool who decided that making everything look the same was a good idea.
Unfortunately history suggests the inompetent are becoming more frequent at MS.
Seriously, what is the "trickery" that gets one to download and install this "Google Vx" application, and how many Chinese people does it take to read our LOLs? Is someone out there texting their social security number or bank PIN?
Yep they are. Peeps do most everything including texting things to themselves to remember stuff. Creating draft SMS to remember, not sure if that is sent to the server but probably. /guilty - Not of sending bank data but sensitive url's /shamed
How many ran over heavy, jagged pieces of metal at highway speeds?
Probably a few given how the Petrol, gas for you foreigners, tank is usually less protected than the battery would be.
Reminds me of the hysteria paraded by the manufacturers / vested interests about how unsafe LPG, dunno what the yanks call Liquefied Petroleum Gas, was when it came out.
Vested interest screams loudly about the things it hasn't bought into yet.
I would like to see a ban against completely ineffectual laws. How effective were the "bans" on guns in movie theaters, malls and schools?
No law protects against those mentally ill or just plain evil. Unfortunately I'm not sure where the American love of assault weapons fits into that analogy but it's one of the choices.
As Australia, and many other countries, have shownlaws banning access to specific types of firearms does work. It needs the willpower not to be bought by vested interests and the sanity to hold firm.
And that's their undoing.
Show the user 10 captchas:
If none match -> It's an old bot
If some match -> It's human
It over 90% match -> It's this new algorithm.
There, solved!
If the recaptcha is refreshed twice before being abandoned then that's human.
Ill never own one either, but keep in mind those chargers are shit and break. Its not that hard off the beaten trail to assume they are trying to protect their brand by eliminating the levels of suck.
Ah so because the clone is crap the Ebil Fruit Empires actions are OK.
They aren't protecting themselves from levels of suck up it seems.
The truth doesn't need anyone 'standing behind it.' It is self evident. Individuals (or societies) who ignore it will end up chewed apart by it eventually. Whether the argument is made by 'anonymous' or 'john smith' is immaterial.
That's so seriously shallow you must have got it off a cereal box.
The truth needs to be nurtured to fight the efforts of the wankers of the Earth like #newscorpse etc.
I have no issue commenting under a pseudonym and supplying my real name to the admin but would be restricted by the thought of professional harm if I used my real name.
DOS still works too, if you find the right hardware to run it on or use it in a virtual machine. Does that mean we should all be using DOS?
It would certainly be preferable to running Windoze 8.
Yes. Of course the cartel, oops the publishers, demanding Amazon increase the price of E-books year or so ago hasn't helped. Why an E-Book should be around the same price as a hardbook is beyond me given there is no printing, binding, lesser storage or shipping costs.
Please show me any combustion engine that operates at 100% efficiency even when new :)