I bet a lot of people feel safe in a country where you can be Tasered with impunity if you forget your library card, make a fuss in your library and refuse to leave, however this "security" that is supposed to prevent this kind of crap has no effect whatsoever. Or could it be that this security that is shoved down our throats isn't really designed to prevent this stuff at all?
Yet another example of how most security is MAKE BELIEVE, and apart from keeping the sheep in line and obedient, it does absolutely nothing to prevent the REAL crime. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the security guards were hiding - probably behind the students.
Frankly the "cult of free" generation is coming to an end. We've had it easy for quite a while - free software(free like mp3's and Public radio - not like free beer) free movies - free everything. It's can't last forever, at some point in a capitalist society people need to make a profit.
The only way you can get all this stuff for FREE is if you're going through your neighbor's open WiFi. Remember that usually people pay a monthly fee for internet access. The host of your favorite website pays even more depending on bandwidth. Nothing has ever been FREE, troll. The thing is some people want to make a few billion and be the next Google, and they're not afraid to degrade the quality of our browsing to do it.
Let your robots target only my robots... I promise, enemy mine, that my robots will also obey the rules... heheheh.
Basic principle of warfare: Apply strength to the WEAKNESS. Humans are weak. Robots should actually target humans, they are far more effective that way. If there are no more humans, who is going to tell the enemy robots what to do?
John S Canning fails for not understanding the nature of war. Go ahead and keep building battleships, and ignore those aircraft...
For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site.... I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak.'
It's great to know that a corporation always has plenty of funds for a witch-hunt even if product security is sacrificed due to "budget constraints"...
I then spent an hour and a half on the phone with an incompetent sales woman who not only wasted my time The only reason I even called and spoke to someone on the phone was to see if I could do the swap, and not have Vista on my system.
As a result of the creation of microsingularities, the explosion has been delayed about a week while it time travels...which explains why the original article failed to mention an explosion.
The airlines fear "crowd control" problems if cell phones are allowed in flights. They believe cell phone calls might promote rude behavior and conflict between passengers, which flight attendants would have to deal with. The airlines also benefit in general from passengers remaining ignorant about what's happening on the ground during flights, including personal problems, terrorist attacks, plane crashes and other information that might upset passengers.
Please explain the existence of "AirFones" if this is true?
Of course, there becomes a point where throttling and shaping just isn't an appropriate description of what is happening. the dorm subnet is "throttled" to 20k. Not each connection, the whole subnet.
That's not throttling, that's 100% bona fide mechanical asphyxiation! I guess the "shaping" part could be compared to being drawn, quartered, eviscerated, immasculated, beheaded and having your entrails burned... yeah that's shaping all right...
This is neutral: All encrypted traffic gets clobbered.
Great. According to HIPAA, all patient related medical information must be encrypted. I like the fact that my ISP is "neutral" and "clobbering" important medical information. Not quite OMGTHINKOFTHECHILDREN, but close. Why should grandma's refresh on the "crosswords galore" website have priority over, say, an encrypted conference between 2 hospitals?
There's a popular restaurant I used to go to that took a different approach: They kicked you out after a certain period of time during peak hours. Think of it as "traffic-shaping" your restaurant experience.
I certainly wouldn't eat there more than once. Perhaps the owner should consider putting the price up, or building a second floor, according to the laws of supply and demand.
Then again I guess there's a certain percentage of the population that enjoys being bullied and treated like crap.
I'm aware of some educational institutions that saw their newly upgraded networks come to a complete grinding halt - simply because of P2P sharing. They had no choice but to shape their traffic so that other business could get done.
Yes they had a choice:
"The campus network is for academic and research uses only. Any student or faculty found using this network for recreational uses or found using file sharing applications can and will be banned. Students and faculty are encouraged to use other non campus internet providers for recreation and file sharing."
The problem with traffic shaping is that it is completely underhand. I'm sure the administrators didn't go out and tell everyone exactly what was going to happen. The institution deserved what it got. Now perhaps they'll take the reasonable step of actually ADMINISTRATING their network and booting users who abuse it, instead of relying on stupid "passive aggressive" traffic shaping.
Or until they get obsolesced by something else. What that would be, I don't know, but progress marches on. Sooner or later something will come along to make all the telcos and cable companies in the country obsolete.
It already exists. It's called WiFi. And why do you think those telcos have been fighting it tooth and nail?
Perhaps one could slap HTTP headers on all traffic, call everything either a GET or a PUT request, and tunnel out with only a modest overhead?
They keep pulling this crap and you KNOW it's going to happen, brother. So long as the overhead is faster than the artificial throttle, someone is going to do it.
Obviously we can not charge people 10x southern rates for our service, so we have to manage our capacity very carefully, and that includes traffic shaping that deprioritises traffic that can not be identified as a common protocol.
I am able to confirm that their traffic is mistakenly being considered rogue
OK, it's your network and if you have no competition, I guess you can do whatever the heck you want. However a few questions spring to mind:
1) Why can't you charge more? I would assume that everyone up north is in the same boat as you. It would be silly to assume that the same rates apply in the bush or in downtown Toronto.
2) Are you advertising a bandwidth you are not able to provide? See when I plug something into the power socket, I expect more or less 110 volts and 60 Hz in North America. If I plug in and get 50V at 50Hz and my electronics get fried, the power company is going to have to replace my stuff. Sure, you don't have to provide 3Mb/s to everyone if you're not set up to do it, but you shouldn't really advertise what you can't provide. What people DO with their connection is NONE of your business. Or do you want to be responsible for everything transmitted on your net? You're either a common carrier, or you're not. By the way, do you CLEARLY advertise (just as clearly as your offers of bandwidth) that you throttle or "shape" traffic, or is that buried somewhere on page 4 of the Terms Of Service?
3) Like I just mentioned: who gets to determine what "rogue traffic" is? You? Sure, you own the network - so you've appointed yourself as censor. Is a list of your likes and dislikes clearly provided to your subscribers? Which games are allowed more bandwidth? What if there's a game you don't like at all, because it makes fun of people in northern Canada? Is this game also qualified for more bandwidth?
4) Have you actually tried offering higher throughput for more money to the people who actually use the bandwidth you claim to provide them with? Who knows, maybe they'd be willing to pay.
I think I would certainly prefer taking a 2000msec delay on a satellite hookup than subscribe to an arbitrarily censored and regulated network.
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I bet a lot of people feel safe in a country where you can be Tasered with impunity if you forget your library card, make a fuss in your library and refuse to leave, however this "security" that is supposed to prevent this kind of crap has no effect whatsoever. Or could it be that this security that is shoved down our throats isn't really designed to prevent this stuff at all?
Yet another example of how most security is MAKE BELIEVE, and apart from keeping the sheep in line and obedient, it does absolutely nothing to prevent the REAL crime. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the security guards were hiding - probably behind the students.
Better yet, do what I did and move the hell out. Do you have any idea what the weather is like in Costa Rica and Panama this time of year? :P
Frankly the "cult of free" generation is coming to an end. We've had it easy for quite a while - free software(free like mp3's and Public radio - not like free beer) free movies - free everything. It's can't last forever, at some point in a capitalist society people need to make a profit.
The only way you can get all this stuff for FREE is if you're going through your neighbor's open WiFi. Remember that usually people pay a monthly fee for internet access. The host of your favorite website pays even more depending on bandwidth. Nothing has ever been FREE, troll. The thing is some people want to make a few billion and be the next Google, and they're not afraid to degrade the quality of our browsing to do it.
So what 'better, more universal' format would you use?
Text?
If I were a stock market speculator, I would be looking hard at shorting Sony severely
As if the stock market and share prices had anything to do with reality... go ahead and short all the stock you want on this "news".
Let your robots target only my robots... I promise, enemy mine, that my robots will also obey the rules... heheheh.
Basic principle of warfare: Apply strength to the WEAKNESS. Humans are weak. Robots should actually target humans, they are far more effective that way. If there are no more humans, who is going to tell the enemy robots what to do?
John S Canning fails for not understanding the nature of war. Go ahead and keep building battleships, and ignore those aircraft...
For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site.... I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak.'
It's great to know that a corporation always has plenty of funds for a witch-hunt even if product security is sacrificed due to "budget constraints"...
Who's going to pay to replace the whole internet?
You are, as usual.
This sucks, but what are we going to do? Vote Republican?
No thanks
How about considering some of the _other_ parties out there? Yeah, you may not win, but if you get enough seats guess who holds the balance of power?
Why don't they pick someone from a non-profit?
Acording to the RIAA they ARE a non profit, what with all the money they're losing from piracy and all..
What have you cracked?
I could tell you. But then I'd have to kill you.
I then spent an hour and a half on the phone with an incompetent sales woman who not only wasted my time
The only reason I even called and spoke to someone on the phone was to see if I could do the swap, and not have Vista on my system.
So who wasted who's time, then?
As a result of the creation of microsingularities, the explosion has been delayed about a week while it time travels...which explains why the original article failed to mention an explosion.
From TFA:
The airlines fear "crowd control" problems if cell phones are allowed in flights. They believe cell phone calls might promote rude behavior and conflict between passengers, which flight attendants would have to deal with. The airlines also benefit in general from passengers remaining ignorant about what's happening on the ground during flights, including personal problems, terrorist attacks, plane crashes and other information that might upset passengers.
Please explain the existence of "AirFones" if this is true?
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
I probably wouldn't do that if Balmer or Gates was behind me in line
You'd be safe so long as there weren't any chairs in the immediate vicinity! Bill would probably just offer to buy your card from you.
(that and I enjoy the occasional remark on the Penguin logo on the card)
:D
Does it get you laid?
Of course, there becomes a point where throttling and shaping just isn't an appropriate description of what is happening.
the dorm subnet is "throttled" to 20k. Not each connection, the whole subnet.
That's not throttling, that's 100% bona fide mechanical asphyxiation! I guess the "shaping" part could be compared to being drawn, quartered, eviscerated, immasculated, beheaded and having your entrails burned... yeah that's shaping all right...
This is neutral: All encrypted traffic gets clobbered.
Great. According to HIPAA, all patient related medical information must be encrypted. I like the fact that my ISP is "neutral" and "clobbering" important medical information. Not quite OMGTHINKOFTHECHILDREN, but close. Why should grandma's refresh on the "crosswords galore" website have priority over, say, an encrypted conference between 2 hospitals?
There's a popular restaurant I used to go to that took a different approach: They kicked you out after a certain period of time during peak hours. Think of it as "traffic-shaping" your restaurant experience.
I certainly wouldn't eat there more than once. Perhaps the owner should consider putting the price up, or building a second floor, according to the laws of supply and demand.
Then again I guess there's a certain percentage of the population that enjoys being bullied and treated like crap.
I'm aware of some educational institutions that saw their newly upgraded networks come to a complete grinding halt - simply because of P2P sharing. They had no choice but to shape their traffic so that other business could get done.
Yes they had a choice:
"The campus network is for academic and research uses only. Any student or faculty found using this network for recreational uses or found using file sharing applications can and will be banned. Students and faculty are encouraged to use other non campus internet providers for recreation and file sharing."
The problem with traffic shaping is that it is completely underhand. I'm sure the administrators didn't go out and tell everyone exactly what was going to happen. The institution deserved what it got. Now perhaps they'll take the reasonable step of actually ADMINISTRATING their network and booting users who abuse it, instead of relying on stupid "passive aggressive" traffic shaping.
Or until they get obsolesced by something else. What that would be, I don't know, but progress marches on. Sooner or later something will come along to make all the telcos and cable companies in the country obsolete.
It already exists. It's called WiFi. And why do you think those telcos have been fighting it tooth and nail?
Perhaps one could slap HTTP headers on all traffic, call everything either a GET or a PUT request, and tunnel out with only a modest overhead?
They keep pulling this crap and you KNOW it's going to happen, brother. So long as the overhead is faster than the artificial throttle, someone is going to do it.
Obviously we can not charge people 10x southern rates for our service, so we have to manage our capacity very carefully, and that includes traffic shaping that deprioritises traffic that can not be identified as a common protocol.
I am able to confirm that their traffic is mistakenly being considered rogue
OK, it's your network and if you have no competition, I guess you can do whatever the heck you want. However a few questions spring to mind:
1) Why can't you charge more? I would assume that everyone up north is in the same boat as you. It would be silly to assume that the same rates apply in the bush or in downtown Toronto.
2) Are you advertising a bandwidth you are not able to provide? See when I plug something into the power socket, I expect more or less 110 volts and 60 Hz in North America. If I plug in and get 50V at 50Hz and my electronics get fried, the power company is going to have to replace my stuff. Sure, you don't have to provide 3Mb/s to everyone if you're not set up to do it, but you shouldn't really advertise what you can't provide. What people DO with their connection is NONE of your business. Or do you want to be responsible for everything transmitted on your net? You're either a common carrier, or you're not. By the way, do you CLEARLY advertise (just as clearly as your offers of bandwidth) that you throttle or "shape" traffic, or is that buried somewhere on page 4 of the Terms Of Service?
3) Like I just mentioned: who gets to determine what "rogue traffic" is? You? Sure, you own the network - so you've appointed yourself as censor. Is a list of your likes and dislikes clearly provided to your subscribers? Which games are allowed more bandwidth? What if there's a game you don't like at all, because it makes fun of people in northern Canada? Is this game also qualified for more bandwidth?
4) Have you actually tried offering higher throughput for more money to the people who actually use the bandwidth you claim to provide them with? Who knows, maybe they'd be willing to pay.
I think I would certainly prefer taking a 2000msec delay on a satellite hookup than subscribe to an arbitrarily censored and regulated network.
why their company thinks they can ethically do, even through a proxy, what HP did or worse?
Because HP got away with it?