The government doesn't even have to actually bust that many people. It simply has to create a FUD field and the problem eventually takes care of itself.
Again, you're talking about physical/data link layer stuff.
That's pretty much all handled by hardware/firmware.
It's mostly irrelevant because everything truly "hard" about sharing a network is happening in the network, transport and session layers.
So, who uses channel 5? Everyone
Who uses channel 32? Everyone.
It's basically "a pipe". The network is controlled and segmented in other ways now. Even channelized television service is all just data stream on a given VLAN now.
With Comcast right now, Phone, TV and Internet are all handled by separate devices sharing the same network. If you have Internet, you have your cablemodem. If you have TV, you have your separate cableboxes for each TV. If you have phone service, you have a separate cablemodem with a device that breaks out into either land lines or a PRI. They share the physical medium, but are all segmented logically, later on.
So I can buy a "triple play" package with a 100-200Mbit internet connection, 20 phone lines, and every available channel. While I'd be getting monetarily ass-raped on a monthly basis for such service, none of the services would impinge on one another.
At this point, transport on the cable networks is mostly digital. So you're no longer worried about analog channel competition. So you can have multiple VLANs running on the same physical media. As such, yes you CAN have multiple channel 5's on the same physical network.
VLAN-A: First provider: Channels+Data VLAN-B: Second provider: Channels+Data VLAN-C: Third provider: Channels+Data
Apple may do most of the pioneering work. But they'll never stay in those areas.
Quite simply, they don't want the hassle of having to deal with industries.
Deep down, Apple wants (and needs) to be the artsy-fartsy choice for computers and media consumption devices.
They simply don't have the mindset to fix problems for people who don't give a flying fuck about the Apple/Mac "aesthetic", and simply want their business equipment to work without having to dick around with it too much.
They don't want to have to deal with a douchebag in an Apple-branded polo shirt mumbling incoherently about something and then being told to wait while they exchange it for a new one.
No longer content with foisting off blame and fear on terror groups, politicians, in the search for more money, begin converting climate science into the next big terror threat.
*Facepalm*
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And 5 quatloos, oh damn I dated myself.
So. Did you go "all the way" on the first date?
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I love my Time Warner service. Comcast will find a way to ruin it.
At what point do we begin to want Government Interference?
Right about now actually.
There's the whole "localized monopoly" thing. But this beast is just about the sole provider for a huge swath of the US now, and people's ability to choose providers is in jeopardy.
Basically the article is "suck it up, shut up and drive on".
If you have an imbecile actively, if not maliciously, deep-sixing a project, you notify the client. PERIOD. Sure, it may hurt feelings. Sure, it may alienate the client.
IT ALSO PROTECTS YOU FROM LIABILITY!
At my current job, my bosses have tried going the "suck it up and drive on" route several times. Occasionally it works out, and we're able to educate said idiot. Most of the time though, they're simply a millstone around our neck, damaging said project and making everything take longer and cost more. What's worse is that if you simply do the "suck it up and drive on", you run the risk of said moron becoming the "liason" to your company for EVERYTHING. At that point, they start blaming you for everything and anything they fuck up. We've had multiple instances of this where the person promises a bunch of things, puts it off, puts it off some more, and as deadline approaches, FINALLY calls us, needing "just a quick thing" that's either:
A: Impossible B: Possible but is going to take days/weeks/months of work.
And when you inform them of this, they get hysterical.
One of our clients was using a 3rd party consulting company to manage their backups. Unfortunately, the app the client was using at the time would lock files if people left it open, resulting in error reports on the backup. So what did these guys do? Did they draft policy to get people to shut down properly at the end of the day? Come up with an automated shutdown setup? Nope! They simply removed the offending folders from the backup routine. No more errors! Then, about 6 months down the road, the application ate itself and it's data after an OS update. So we head in and go looking for backups, only to find none. Did we softball it and get blamed for a defective product and get the shit sued out of us? You damn well BET we didn't!
Annoying and dumb? Yeah, you can work around that. Actively dangerous to the client and project? You don't route around stuff like that. It comes back and bites you if you do.
They might take ICANN's advice: And use a non-ICANN international internet naming system. ICANN would then be limited to the US's intranet, if that.
Which they'd likely have LESS control over.
Meaning their "third option" is to spend out money they don't have already and don't really want to spend to build out a naming system themselves.
This is why they're making power grabs for ICANN. The work's already done, dusted and paid for. If they can steal^H^H^H^co-opt it, they don't have to do any real work or incur any real expenses themselves.
Thing is. In the US you can be tried twice for the same crime. It all depends on how far the prosecutor (and you) want to push things. This is what various appeals courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court are.
In the US, you can be convicted in absentia as well. Take Andrew Luster as an example.
Also, you CAN be interrogated without a lawyer present. Reread the Miranda Warning again.
- You have the right to remain silent when questioned. - Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law. (Modern readings have can and will in place of may) - You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future. - If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning, if you wish. - If you decide to answer any questions now, without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney. - Knowing and understanding your rights as I have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?
Nothing in there says they CANNOT interrogate you without an attorney present. Merely that you have the right to demand that one be present.
Maybe this makes me come off as a pedantic asshole. But before casting aspersions and talking about how GREAT you have it here...
Oh, and maybe talk to Cassandra Feuerstein about her treatment while in custody:
Basically ANY time you bring a government into the mix, you get massive cost multiplications, shitty design, worse implementation, and just all-around craptastic workmanship. Meanwhile, everyone sits there, pointing fingers at everyone else.
And don't even get me started on graft and corruption.
Seriously, look at fucking social security in this country. The coffers for SS have been robbed from so much that there just isn't money enough to continue supporting the program. But it's a massive cash influx for Uncle Sam. So they're not going to get rid of it. They'll keep milking it until it collapses under its own weight.
And that's basically what's going to happen with OhBlahBlahCare as well.
You do something wrong? Cop has video of it. Cop does something wrong? "Well, I was chasing the suspect and my Google Glass fell off, so I don't have footage of the event. I have NO idea how he fell down and broke both arms, both legs (multiple fractures each), and caved his own skull in so he can't testify...err...caved his own skull in..."
Sure, the things always looked sexy. But they'd break if you looked at them funny. That and all the attempts to inject stupid, Sony-proprietary connectors on everything...
How about how much Visa burn as energy to secure its network?
I dunno. Ask the nerds doing security how active they are, and then check their candy bar and Mt.Dew consumption.
How many buildings? Employee who burned fuel every day to go to work? That's energy too... and the result is the same, they both securing their network.
Yes, but the energy costs of printing real money is fairly low, and non-constant.
The energy costs of PRODUCING Bitcoins (which is what the GP you were responding to, wrongly I might add) is incredible. More comparable to what YOU are talking about are the costs of maintaining a Bitcoin "market". Which is a whole different set of power expenditures.
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Yeah. Probably.
The government doesn't even have to actually bust that many people. It simply has to create a FUD field and the problem eventually takes care of itself.
Silk Road 2.0 employees desert after they learn they are not getting paid.
Several turn turn over information to law enforcement...
Again, you're talking about physical/data link layer stuff.
That's pretty much all handled by hardware/firmware.
It's mostly irrelevant because everything truly "hard" about sharing a network is happening in the network, transport and session layers.
So, who uses channel 5?
Everyone
Who uses channel 32?
Everyone.
It's basically "a pipe". The network is controlled and segmented in other ways now.
Even channelized television service is all just data stream on a given VLAN now.
With Comcast right now, Phone, TV and Internet are all handled by separate devices sharing the same network.
If you have Internet, you have your cablemodem.
If you have TV, you have your separate cableboxes for each TV.
If you have phone service, you have a separate cablemodem with a device that breaks out into either land lines or a PRI.
They share the physical medium, but are all segmented logically, later on.
So I can buy a "triple play" package with a 100-200Mbit internet connection, 20 phone lines, and every available channel.
While I'd be getting monetarily ass-raped on a monthly basis for such service, none of the services would impinge on one another.
And, again, this is only a concern on an ANALOG CABLE SETUP.
On a digital setup. You simply don't deal directly with channelization.
Maybe, at some level there's still channelization, but it's abstracted away from the content and entirely manageable in software.
At this point, transport on the cable networks is mostly digital. So you're no longer worried about analog channel competition.
So you can have multiple VLANs running on the same physical media.
As such, yes you CAN have multiple channel 5's on the same physical network.
VLAN-A: First provider: Channels+Data
VLAN-B: Second provider: Channels+Data
VLAN-C: Third provider: Channels+Data
Apple may do most of the pioneering work. But they'll never stay in those areas.
Quite simply, they don't want the hassle of having to deal with industries.
Deep down, Apple wants (and needs) to be the artsy-fartsy choice for computers and media consumption devices.
They simply don't have the mindset to fix problems for people who don't give a flying fuck about the Apple/Mac "aesthetic", and simply want their business equipment to work without having to dick around with it too much.
They don't want to have to deal with a douchebag in an Apple-branded polo shirt mumbling incoherently about something and then being told to wait while they exchange it for a new one.
They just don't work (or think) that way.
No longer content with foisting off blame and fear on terror groups, politicians, in the search for more money, begin converting climate science into the next big terror threat.
*Facepalm*
And 5 quatloos, oh damn I dated myself.
So. Did you go "all the way" on the first date?
Your penalty is 15 bars of gold-pressed latinum.
It means justice is in bed with corrupt institutions.
No. It means that justice is dead and the corrupt institutions have a penchant for necrophilia and buggery.
Agreed!
I love my Time Warner service. Comcast will find a way to ruin it.
At what point do we begin to want Government Interference?
Right about now actually.
There's the whole "localized monopoly" thing. But this beast is just about the sole provider for a huge swath of the US now, and people's ability to choose providers is in jeopardy.
Basically the article is "suck it up, shut up and drive on".
If you have an imbecile actively, if not maliciously, deep-sixing a project, you notify the client. PERIOD.
Sure, it may hurt feelings. Sure, it may alienate the client.
IT ALSO PROTECTS YOU FROM LIABILITY!
At my current job, my bosses have tried going the "suck it up and drive on" route several times.
Occasionally it works out, and we're able to educate said idiot.
Most of the time though, they're simply a millstone around our neck, damaging said project and making everything take longer and cost more.
What's worse is that if you simply do the "suck it up and drive on", you run the risk of said moron becoming the "liason" to your company for EVERYTHING.
At that point, they start blaming you for everything and anything they fuck up.
We've had multiple instances of this where the person promises a bunch of things, puts it off, puts it off some more, and as deadline approaches, FINALLY calls us, needing "just a quick thing" that's either:
A: Impossible
B: Possible but is going to take days/weeks/months of work.
And when you inform them of this, they get hysterical.
One of our clients was using a 3rd party consulting company to manage their backups.
Unfortunately, the app the client was using at the time would lock files if people left it open, resulting in error reports on the backup.
So what did these guys do? Did they draft policy to get people to shut down properly at the end of the day? Come up with an automated shutdown setup?
Nope! They simply removed the offending folders from the backup routine. No more errors!
Then, about 6 months down the road, the application ate itself and it's data after an OS update.
So we head in and go looking for backups, only to find none.
Did we softball it and get blamed for a defective product and get the shit sued out of us? You damn well BET we didn't!
Annoying and dumb? Yeah, you can work around that.
Actively dangerous to the client and project? You don't route around stuff like that. It comes back and bites you if you do.
They might take ICANN's advice: And use a non-ICANN international internet naming system. ICANN would then be limited to the US's intranet, if that.
Which they'd likely have LESS control over.
Meaning their "third option" is to spend out money they don't have already and don't really want to spend to build out a naming system themselves.
This is why they're making power grabs for ICANN. The work's already done, dusted and paid for. If they can steal^H^H^H^co-opt it, they don't have to do any real work or incur any real expenses themselves.
Seriously. If they're stupid enough to believe that Astrology is science, they're a danger to the human race.
If it becomes a knock-down, drag-out between Eugenics and Dysgenics, I'll go with the lesser of two evils and pick Eugenics.
But there's exactly jack and shit they can do if ICANN and the US tell them to fuck off.
Thing is. In the US you can be tried twice for the same crime. It all depends on how far the prosecutor (and you) want to push things. This is what various appeals courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court are.
In the US, you can be convicted in absentia as well. Take Andrew Luster as an example.
Also, you CAN be interrogated without a lawyer present. Reread the Miranda Warning again.
- You have the right to remain silent when questioned.
- Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law. (Modern readings have can and will in place of may)
- You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future.
- If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning, if you wish.
- If you decide to answer any questions now, without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
- Knowing and understanding your rights as I have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?
Nothing in there says they CANNOT interrogate you without an attorney present. Merely that you have the right to demand that one be present.
Maybe this makes me come off as a pedantic asshole. But before casting aspersions and talking about how GREAT you have it here...
Oh, and maybe talk to Cassandra Feuerstein about her treatment while in custody:
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Basically ANY time you bring a government into the mix, you get massive cost multiplications, shitty design, worse implementation, and just all-around craptastic workmanship. Meanwhile, everyone sits there, pointing fingers at everyone else.
And don't even get me started on graft and corruption.
Seriously, look at fucking social security in this country. The coffers for SS have been robbed from so much that there just isn't money enough to continue supporting the program. But it's a massive cash influx for Uncle Sam. So they're not going to get rid of it. They'll keep milking it until it collapses under its own weight.
And that's basically what's going to happen with OhBlahBlahCare as well.
You do something wrong? Cop has video of it.
Cop does something wrong? "Well, I was chasing the suspect and my Google Glass fell off, so I don't have footage of the event. I have NO idea how he fell down and broke both arms, both legs (multiple fractures each), and caved his own skull in so he can't testify...err...caved his own skull in..."
Less crap computers to deal with.
Sure, the things always looked sexy.
But they'd break if you looked at them funny.
That and all the attempts to inject stupid, Sony-proprietary connectors on everything...
I won't miss VAIO at all.
How about how much Visa burn as energy to secure its network?
I dunno. Ask the nerds doing security how active they are, and then check their candy bar and Mt.Dew consumption.
How many buildings? Employee who burned fuel every day to go to work? That's energy too... and the result is the same, they both securing their network.
Yes, but the energy costs of printing real money is fairly low, and non-constant.
The energy costs of PRODUCING Bitcoins (which is what the GP you were responding to, wrongly I might add) is incredible.
More comparable to what YOU are talking about are the costs of maintaining a Bitcoin "market". Which is a whole different set of power expenditures.
Yeah. The main problem is, Reddit is a fucking mess in terms of layout.
So.
What was it like?
Back before...y'know...dirt?
Can we just fucking nuke the goofy bastards and get it over with?