It's straight procmail, not perl-based. The main problem with it was that it hadn't been updated in nearly a year, but a new version finally came out last Friday.
The cable companies would just charge on a per-bandwidth basis. What we have here is a classic tragedy-of-the-commons situation, where nobody has an incentive to limit their usage. If they just charged by traffic usage, everybody could get exactly the speed they wanted, and those who don't use their modems as much would save money.
Imagine if the electric company charged everyone a flat fee, regardless of how much electricity they used... everyone would recognize it as unfair, and there'd be constant brownouts besides. Why the cable companies haven't figured this out yet is beyond me.
We bought plenty of stuff from Nazi Germany before we were at war with them, actually. Does that mean we were "friends"? Is your definition of "enemy" "a country we're at war with"?
I have no idea what 1984 has to do with my comment, but yes, I have read it. I've read almost everything Orwell wrote; have you? The society in 1984 was based mostly on Stalinist Russia, which China largely resembles. Orwell himself spent almost his entire writing career attacking Communism, and attacking idiots that minimized Communism's crimes simply out of fashionable, dilletante dislike of the western democracies (where they all lived, of course). Sound familiar?
the CIA want to keep there jobs and they want more funds so they come up with warning after warning after warning. How come the US has so many enemies all of a sudden?
Uh, China's been our enemy for a long time. If you think the CIA's making this up, then you don't read the news enough.
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You beat me to it... Ghazala's been doing this for years. Here's his main page.
There was a little dip, but somehow I doubt it was what he was hoping for. Not too surprising--as others have noted, he doesn't seem too bright.
It's straight procmail, not perl-based. The main problem with it was that it hadn't been updated in nearly a year, but a new version finally came out last Friday.
It's "it's", not "its". Don't throw stones.
The cable companies would just charge on a per-bandwidth basis. What we have here is a classic tragedy-of-the-commons situation, where nobody has an incentive to limit their usage. If they just charged by traffic usage, everybody could get exactly the speed they wanted, and those who don't use their modems as much would save money.
Imagine if the electric company charged everyone a flat fee, regardless of how much electricity they used... everyone would recognize it as unfair, and there'd be constant brownouts besides. Why the cable companies haven't figured this out yet is beyond me.
I have no idea what 1984 has to do with my comment, but yes, I have read it. I've read almost everything Orwell wrote; have you? The society in 1984 was based mostly on Stalinist Russia, which China largely resembles. Orwell himself spent almost his entire writing career attacking Communism, and attacking idiots that minimized Communism's crimes simply out of fashionable, dilletante dislike of the western democracies (where they all lived, of course). Sound familiar?
Uh, China's been our enemy for a long time. If you think the CIA's making this up, then you don't read the news enough.
All systems-related communication on the internet should be in English? I must have missed that RFC.