Does the EU have a worldwide police force with rights to operate in every country on the planet? No? Then I don't see how they'd enforce such utter nonsense as this, any more than they could censor the Internet. How, really, do they think they can enforce anything on a website that's not hosted in an EU country? Rhetorical question, they can't. I guess they can demand that everyone block the aforementioned website, but again, do they really think they have some special power to allow them to enforce their rules on non-EU countries? More clueless, toothless legislation by moron politicians who don't understand the Internet.
How much are they actually over-booking their network capacity? Do you even know? I don't know the answer to that either, but I suspect the figure would be astoundingly large. That's what I'm talking about. I don't expect 1:1, but if a reasonable figure is, say, 100:1, and they're selling 1000:1 or 10000:1 then that's bullshit.
Netflix pays for their connection to the public Internet. An ISP's customers pay for their connection to the public Internet. The ISP pays backbone provider(s) for their interconnection to every other ISP. No one is getting anything for 'FREE'.
Now, that having been said: If ISPs would stop over-booking their own networks, then maybe everyone streaming stuff from Netflix at the same time wouldn't max out their networks and make their customers complain.
Also, as a sidebar: ISPs are completely disingenuous. Some company like Comcast/Xfinity has competing services, and furthermore are both content creators and content deliverers; as such anything they say on the subject should be disregarded.
Overall there are too many parasite corporations in this country and they need to be taken down a few notches.
I always saw tablets as expensive toys with limited uses, and to be fair they have legitimate uses, but as a replacement for a full-blown desktop computer or laptop? No. Too limited, too specialized. It's always been marketing hype like with anything else, trying to convince people their lives aren't complete unless they have such-and-such thing. Just like smartphones; you don't actually need it, a plain old phone would be just as good, but you want it, mainly because they convinced you you need it.
Keep sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "LALALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING!!!" all you like but you know I'm right. Seriously how much longer can you hold your nose against the stench that Trump has brought to the country? He says "I'm going to drain the swamp!" then turns around and builds a cesspool in it's place. You jackasses need to get off this whole 'stick it to the libtards' shit and wake the fuck up.
Yep, we're just a bunch of worthless plebians, who gives a flying fuck if our worthless little lives are ruined? The Rich, and D.C. politicians, guaranteed, are 'protected', so why should they give a fuck?
No, I didn't add one too many zeroes: Ten thousand dollar iPhone; I meant every zero of it. That's what I think it would end up costing if you built every part of it here in the U.S. Enjoy your new world, GOP: everything may end up being made in the U.S., but you'll have to be Jeff Bezos to afford them. Trumps' economic policies will wreck the country, like everything else he's doing to us.
Of course nothing changed; the politicians, The Rich, they're all already 'protected', they were never in any danger from this, only The Poor, and middle-class working people stood to lose anything -- and our own alleged 'representatives' in our government don't really give a rat's ass about any of us filthy plebians. Politicians are too busy trying to hold on to their power and position, a large part of which is serving corporate interests (whose money got them elected in the first place; thanks so much Citizens United), the rest of which is kowtowing to (you guessed it) The Rich, who likewise funded their campaigns. Meanwhile the rest of us cross our fingers and hope we don't get our bank accounts drained, credit cards maxed out, and identity stolen and ruined forever; I, for one, don't even bother worrying, I have nothing to take, my identity is basically worthless, and there's not a gods-be-damned thing I can do about it all anyway, it's out of my hands, so why make myself sick with worry? I'll be there when Monsieur Guillotine is brought out again, and the people who have shit on us are dealt with, but until then what can we do but try to survive? Also meanwhile, we have to vote for Democrats whether we like it or not, because it's mainly the Republicans who currently hold a majority who are ignoring this shit, and throwing things farther and farther out of balance every month, so regardless of Democrats being just as corrupt, we have to pit them against each other and hope something actually gets done. The alternative is anarchy and chaos, which would complete the descent of the United States from a top-tier first-world country down into a third-world lawless shithole like Libya or Syria or Somalia.
He's clearly mentally unstable, or maybe just flat-out evil, not good for the country at all, and should resign or be removed as unfit, and Kavanaugh should remove himself from consideration.
I read the article so fuck you. They want to 'child proof' shit because people are dumb but childproofing everything just creates more problems. How about we EDUCATE people better so they're not so dumb anymore? People get more and more done FOR them by some automation or service or whatever and they never learn to do shit for themselves and over time it just makes them dumber and dumber.
PRO-TIP: There's this magical thing called a bookmark that stores all those 'so-over-complicated' URL thingies under a name that you can even change yourself so your teeny little human brain can understand it! Ain't that amazing?</extreme_sarcasm>
Seriously, Google, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
Or is it that people have become so fucking dumb that they really can't type in {website}.{top_level_domain}? Considering all the stupid shit I see in the news pretty much every single day anymore I'd be very tempted to believe that, too.
"Oh bugger, it doesn't live up to the hype our marketing department laid out to the investors and customers, what do we do now? We thought it was just another design cycle and we'd have a working, saleable product by now, what do we do? The investors and stockholders will have our heads!"
"Tut tut Nigel, we'll just invoke a version of the million monkeys theory at the problem, by recruiting every single programmer that has the term 'AI' in their resume and hope they can get us that last 0.1% we need to make something that isn't dumber than an amoeba and more unfathomable than Mona Lisa's smile."
Never mind that it's like the Bridge in Zork, you only ever get infinitessimally closer to the other side, but never, ever actually make it across.
We're all pretty goddamned close at this point in the history of the human race to living in such when so-called 'law enforcement', acting more like jackbooted thugs, can start 'demanding' these things in the name of 'national security'.
When strong encryption is OUTLAWED, only OUTLAWS will have strong encryption!
Say it with me now, gentlemen and ladies. These assholes in our respective governments don't give a rat's ASS about us little irrelevant 'citizens', so long as their lust for power and control is always satisfied. Them, them, FUCK THEM sideways with a rusty chainsaw.
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Does the EU have a worldwide police force with rights to operate in every country on the planet? No? Then I don't see how they'd enforce such utter nonsense as this, any more than they could censor the Internet. How, really, do they think they can enforce anything on a website that's not hosted in an EU country? Rhetorical question, they can't. I guess they can demand that everyone block the aforementioned website, but again, do they really think they have some special power to allow them to enforce their rules on non-EU countries? More clueless, toothless legislation by moron politicians who don't understand the Internet.
Consider yourself modded up -- and most certainly woke.
We say it's going to happen therefore it has to be true, BELIEVE IT!
Yeah sure and tablet computers were going to make desktops and laptops extinct.
You are a FOOL if you believe this, and a BIGGER fool if you run out and start buying these gods-be-damned surveillance devices.
How much are they actually over-booking their network capacity? Do you even know? I don't know the answer to that either, but I suspect the figure would be astoundingly large. That's what I'm talking about. I don't expect 1:1, but if a reasonable figure is, say, 100:1, and they're selling 1000:1 or 10000:1 then that's bullshit.
Netflix pays for their connection to the public Internet. An ISP's customers pay for their connection to the public Internet. The ISP pays backbone provider(s) for their interconnection to every other ISP. No one is getting anything for 'FREE'.
Now, that having been said: If ISPs would stop over-booking their own networks, then maybe everyone streaming stuff from Netflix at the same time wouldn't max out their networks and make their customers complain.
Also, as a sidebar: ISPs are completely disingenuous. Some company like Comcast/Xfinity has competing services, and furthermore are both content creators and content deliverers; as such anything they say on the subject should be disregarded.
Overall there are too many parasite corporations in this country and they need to be taken down a few notches.
I always saw tablets as expensive toys with limited uses, and to be fair they have legitimate uses, but as a replacement for a full-blown desktop computer or laptop? No. Too limited, too specialized. It's always been marketing hype like with anything else, trying to convince people their lives aren't complete unless they have such-and-such thing. Just like smartphones; you don't actually need it, a plain old phone would be just as good, but you want it, mainly because they convinced you you need it.
Keep sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "LALALALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING!!!" all you like but you know I'm right. Seriously how much longer can you hold your nose against the stench that Trump has brought to the country? He says "I'm going to drain the swamp!" then turns around and builds a cesspool in it's place. You jackasses need to get off this whole 'stick it to the libtards' shit and wake the fuck up.
Yep, we're just a bunch of worthless plebians, who gives a flying fuck if our worthless little lives are ruined? The Rich, and D.C. politicians, guaranteed, are 'protected', so why should they give a fuck?
No, I didn't add one too many zeroes: Ten thousand dollar iPhone; I meant every zero of it. That's what I think it would end up costing if you built every part of it here in the U.S. Enjoy your new world, GOP: everything may end up being made in the U.S., but you'll have to be Jeff Bezos to afford them. Trumps' economic policies will wreck the country, like everything else he's doing to us.
Just have them telnet into that.
How about you remove all ability of so-called 'smart TVs' to spy on anyone, ever, for any reason, you assholes?
So-called 'AI' is over-hyped and under-performing.
Of course nothing changed; the politicians, The Rich, they're all already 'protected', they were never in any danger from this, only The Poor, and middle-class working people stood to lose anything -- and our own alleged 'representatives' in our government don't really give a rat's ass about any of us filthy plebians. Politicians are too busy trying to hold on to their power and position, a large part of which is serving corporate interests (whose money got them elected in the first place; thanks so much Citizens United), the rest of which is kowtowing to (you guessed it) The Rich, who likewise funded their campaigns. Meanwhile the rest of us cross our fingers and hope we don't get our bank accounts drained, credit cards maxed out, and identity stolen and ruined forever; I, for one, don't even bother worrying, I have nothing to take, my identity is basically worthless, and there's not a gods-be-damned thing I can do about it all anyway, it's out of my hands, so why make myself sick with worry? I'll be there when Monsieur Guillotine is brought out again, and the people who have shit on us are dealt with, but until then what can we do but try to survive? Also meanwhile, we have to vote for Democrats whether we like it or not, because it's mainly the Republicans who currently hold a majority who are ignoring this shit, and throwing things farther and farther out of balance every month, so regardless of Democrats being just as corrupt, we have to pit them against each other and hope something actually gets done. The alternative is anarchy and chaos, which would complete the descent of the United States from a top-tier first-world country down into a third-world lawless shithole like Libya or Syria or Somalia.
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone!
He's clearly mentally unstable, or maybe just flat-out evil, not good for the country at all, and should resign or be removed as unfit, and Kavanaugh should remove himself from consideration.
There's no need to be upset, AC.
He probably doesn't have the right app to do that, what a Luddite!
My collage in the 80's
So was it an art school? That would explain why you can't spell 'college'.
No, I'm pretty sure that's just you.
Then we need to TEACH them to know better. Childproofing everything like everyone has an IQ of 75 isn't a good solution.
I read the article so fuck you. They want to 'child proof' shit because people are dumb but childproofing everything just creates more problems. How about we EDUCATE people better so they're not so dumb anymore? People get more and more done FOR them by some automation or service or whatever and they never learn to do shit for themselves and over time it just makes them dumber and dumber.
PRO-TIP: There's this magical thing called a bookmark that stores all those 'so-over-complicated' URL thingies under a name that you can even change yourself so your teeny little human brain can understand it! Ain't that amazing?</extreme_sarcasm>
Seriously, Google, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
Or is it that people have become so fucking dumb that they really can't type in {website}.{top_level_domain}? Considering all the stupid shit I see in the news pretty much every single day anymore I'd be very tempted to believe that, too.
Firing high-powered lasers into the air, what could possibly go wrong?
"Oh bugger, it doesn't live up to the hype our marketing department laid out to the investors and customers, what do we do now? We thought it was just another design cycle and we'd have a working, saleable product by now, what do we do? The investors and stockholders will have our heads!"
"Tut tut Nigel, we'll just invoke a version of the million monkeys theory at the problem, by recruiting every single programmer that has the term 'AI' in their resume and hope they can get us that last 0.1% we need to make something that isn't dumber than an amoeba and more unfathomable than Mona Lisa's smile." Never mind that it's like the Bridge in Zork, you only ever get infinitessimally closer to the other side, but never, ever actually make it across.
You made me smile with this comment. :-) Apparently people are starting to wake up. :-)
We're all pretty goddamned close at this point in the history of the human race to living in such when so-called 'law enforcement', acting more like jackbooted thugs, can start 'demanding' these things in the name of 'national security'.
When strong encryption is OUTLAWED, only OUTLAWS will have strong encryption!
Say it with me now, gentlemen and ladies. These assholes in our respective governments don't give a rat's ASS about us little irrelevant 'citizens', so long as their lust for power and control is always satisfied. Them, them, FUCK THEM sideways with a rusty chainsaw.