Boohoo. Pay for what you use. Do you demand the power company give you unlimited electricity or the hydro company unlimited water? Bandwidth is a finite resource at any given time.
First off. I *DO* pay for what I use. On top of a plan for unlimited data, I'm paying special rates simply for having a smartphone that can actually USE that data. Moreover, the plan price just got jacked for ADDITIONAL money, as it's a grandfathered "unlimited" plan that's no longer sold. As such, the unlimited plan is significantly MORE expensive than a metered plan. Stuff like this throttling mean they're overselling and expecting people to use less than one percent of their total possible bandwidth. And anyone who uses more is "cheating". Regardless of how much they pay.
And your analogy is fucked up.
Sure, maybe I can't pull 1.21 jiggawatts, but I run a business out of my home and use roughly 2.5x the power consumed by my neighbors. At no point does the power company sit there and say "between times A and B we're going to limit your power consumption to only what your neighbors, who aren't home and thus not really using much power, consume during the day..."
I have a hard time believing that they're actually THAT dumb.
As such, I feel that whatever study did this either was badly planned, executed and processed. Or they just happened to pick up a exceptionally rare pocket of dumbness in their sample group.
Okay, most of the people think that a desert is lifeless.
It isn't. There's an entire ecology there.
Sure, most people will think it worthless. That still doesn't change the fact that things LIVE there.
Glassing it over with panels will destroy that ecology.
And, unlike hydro, where fish populations can be kept alive artificially until dams can be torn down, once you destroy the desert, even ripping all the panels down will not restore what's been destroyed.
Instead of trying to unfuck a totally fucked up, privacy-free system with layers and layers of bureaucracy protecting government from abusing their citizens?
Huh?
Okay?
Stop relying on pie in the sky future tech to protect you SOMEDAY.
1: Google cannot make demands of third party sites to cease selling/distributing (POSSIBLY) copyrighted works.
First off, Google itself, unless it's the actual publisher/author of record, has no standing to make such a demand (request actually).
Second off, Google has NO way of knowing what other ebook sites have coterminous agreements with a given publisher or author.
This is why it's up to the publisher/author to submit DMCA requests to the proper channels. And Google itself isn't a proper channel!
2: This idiot tries to compare it to a store selling knockoff handbags.
First off, these are ebooks, not handbags.
Second off, Google is not "the police" of the Internet. They have no legal standing to do go in and shut these sites down. ESPECIALLY since they have no way of knowing if such a thing would interfere with another distributor's agreements with the publisher/author.
3: Google has no problem going after people who infringe on their own patents.
That's because they're GOOGLE'S patents.
What this imbecile is asking for would be like Google going after you for violating Lockheed Martin's patents.
For someone who is an ostensibly successful publisher, this person shows a SHOCKING lack of knowledge of one of the central legal protections available to him for internet distribution. And it calls into question what other mistaken notions this ignoramus is operating under.
Oh! And now he's just jumped into a large, bright red crosshairs costume and strapped on a blinking neon "Kick Me" sign.
The school district I grew up in had minicomputers, and had had them since the early 70's in several of their schools. By the time I'd gotten there ('78), Apple was in evidence everywhere.
Don't get me wrong. I respect teachers and the jobs they're underpaid (like a motherfucker) to do.
But your average English/Civics/History teacher has NO business trying to teach a comp-sci course. Even today, 40+ years on since the general inception of personal computers in schools.
Another thing. How are these various autonomous car software platforms going to interact with one another.
It's one thing to build in recognition protocols for your own vehicles, so that multiple vehicles of the same type act in a concerted manner.
But what happens where you have four or five different codebases? How are the notoriously closed car manufacturers going to deal with car behavior from another system?
I can foresee some rather nasty interactions. Head on collisions where one car tries toavoid by a juke left to avoid while the other tries to juke right.
This guy is going to simultaneously get himself thrown in jail AND get the pharmaceutical industry even MORE heavily regulated with his dumbass shenanigans.
With data caps like Comcast's carrying a real financial cost in terms of overage fees, how can we trust providers to accurately track customers' bandwidth usage?
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that many don't offer unlimited data at ANY price
Boohoo. Pay for what you use. Do you demand the power company give you unlimited electricity or the hydro company unlimited water? Bandwidth is a finite resource at any given time.
First off. I *DO* pay for what I use. On top of a plan for unlimited data, I'm paying special rates simply for having a smartphone that can actually USE that data. Moreover, the plan price just got jacked for ADDITIONAL money, as it's a grandfathered "unlimited" plan that's no longer sold. As such, the unlimited plan is significantly MORE expensive than a metered plan. Stuff like this throttling mean they're overselling and expecting people to use less than one percent of their total possible bandwidth. And anyone who uses more is "cheating". Regardless of how much they pay.
And your analogy is fucked up.
Sure, maybe I can't pull 1.21 jiggawatts, but I run a business out of my home and use roughly 2.5x the power consumed by my neighbors. At no point does the power company sit there and say "between times A and B we're going to limit your power consumption to only what your neighbors, who aren't home and thus not really using much power, consume during the day..."
Basically part of what the ceramics are doing is insulating components underneath from the heat and friction.
If the ceramic compound is less porous, there's less air space in there. Which means less thermal isolation.
So the ceramic compound goes from being a thermal insulator to a thermal mass.
You REALLY don't want that kind of thing on a hypersonic vehicle.
I have a hard time believing that they're actually THAT dumb.
As such, I feel that whatever study did this either was badly planned, executed and processed. Or they just happened to pick up a exceptionally rare pocket of dumbness in their sample group.
HP's crappy middleware preloaded!
Haven't seen this anywhere.
Okay, most of the people think that a desert is lifeless.
It isn't. There's an entire ecology there.
Sure, most people will think it worthless. That still doesn't change the fact that things LIVE there.
Glassing it over with panels will destroy that ecology.
And, unlike hydro, where fish populations can be kept alive artificially until dams can be torn down, once you destroy the desert, even ripping all the panels down will not restore what's been destroyed.
Hell, if someone cost me my job, I can tell you I'd be a lot more than "radicalized".
We just to it right, NOW.
Instead of trying to unfuck a totally fucked up, privacy-free system with layers and layers of bureaucracy protecting government from abusing their citizens?
Huh?
Okay?
Stop relying on pie in the sky future tech to protect you SOMEDAY.
PROTECT YOUR FUCKING SELF NOW!
Going out of your way to get someone fired/arrested/expelled isn't a "consequence".
It's you being a complete dick to someone who happens to not believe the same thing as you do.
PERIOD.
At least in their own, bent little perception of reality.
Yes. Because the way to deal with people we find offensive/unbearable is to censor them from our reality and pretend they don't exist.
What? Are we fucking two years old or something?
Don't use "Tune Up" type products.
Most of the time they don't do JACK SHIT.
And in the few instances where they might actually improve performance, they're likely compromising either system/application security/stability.
Plus, they're installing this additional crapware and hijacking your browsers.
FUCK.
THAT.
NOISE.
Maybe we should just start rigging pyro charges to our drones (especially in areas containing the serials)
This way if we crash *FWOOSH!* "Well! We've got a melted lump of plastic that we can't ID! MUST BE TERRORISTS!:
1: Google cannot make demands of third party sites to cease selling/distributing (POSSIBLY) copyrighted works.
First off, Google itself, unless it's the actual publisher/author of record, has no standing to make such a demand (request actually).
Second off, Google has NO way of knowing what other ebook sites have coterminous agreements with a given publisher or author.
This is why it's up to the publisher/author to submit DMCA requests to the proper channels. And Google itself isn't a proper channel!
2: This idiot tries to compare it to a store selling knockoff handbags.
First off, these are ebooks, not handbags.
Second off, Google is not "the police" of the Internet. They have no legal standing to do go in and shut these sites down. ESPECIALLY since they have no way of knowing if such a thing would interfere with another distributor's agreements with the publisher/author.
3: Google has no problem going after people who infringe on their own patents.
That's because they're GOOGLE'S patents.
What this imbecile is asking for would be like Google going after you for violating Lockheed Martin's patents.
For someone who is an ostensibly successful publisher, this person shows a SHOCKING lack of knowledge of one of the central legal protections available to him for internet distribution. And it calls into question what other mistaken notions this ignoramus is operating under.
Oh! And now he's just jumped into a large, bright red crosshairs costume and strapped on a blinking neon "Kick Me" sign.
The school district I grew up in had minicomputers, and had had them since the early 70's in several of their schools.
By the time I'd gotten there ('78), Apple was in evidence everywhere.
Don't get me wrong. I respect teachers and the jobs they're underpaid (like a motherfucker) to do.
But your average English/Civics/History teacher has NO business trying to teach a comp-sci course. Even today, 40+ years on since the general inception of personal computers in schools.
It's not that I don't think a civics teacher COULD NOT teach CS.
I'm sure there are civics teachers out there who actually know their way around the basics of programming.
But most civics teachers are at the "Computers run on magic smoke" level of computer literacy.
Which is NOT what you want to be teaching kids.
I honestly despair for the future of the US.
We basically are now getting education by idiots for idiots.
Another thing. How are these various autonomous car software platforms going to interact with one another.
It's one thing to build in recognition protocols for your own vehicles, so that multiple vehicles of the same type act in a concerted manner.
But what happens where you have four or five different codebases? How are the notoriously closed car manufacturers going to deal with car behavior from another system?
I can foresee some rather nasty interactions. Head on collisions where one car tries toavoid by a juke left to avoid while the other tries to juke right.
Is that kinda like "ISIS is contained"?
And charge double!
Land of the free-ish.
Home of the "fuck you peon scum!"
Part of me wants to say "yes".
Then I remember that pretty much ANY time the government gets involved, shit just gets worse.
Basically it's the difference between having your leg amputated at the knee and having it amputated at the testicles.
This guy is going to simultaneously get himself thrown in jail AND get the pharmaceutical industry even MORE heavily regulated with his dumbass shenanigans.
With data caps like Comcast's carrying a real financial cost in terms of overage fees, how can we trust providers to accurately track customers' bandwidth usage?
YOU CANNOT!
PERIOD!
They tried that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Killing an entire deep-sea ecology?
Probably not a Good Idea.