I've got a great real-world example of why fast lanes won't work.
I spent a night at a 'hip' hotel in West Hollywood. Room, with tax, was $308.
I thought I'd catch up on some episodes of House MD on Netflix and had utterly horrid quality. I did some speed tests (testmy.net) and saw I was being shaped down to 500kbps. I had better speeds while stay at some backwoods motor lodge in Minnesota recently.
I called reception and they informed me that they offer "super fast internet" for only $14.95 more.
Effectively they are capping their internet and offering to uncap it for a premium.
That's why fast lanes don't work.
We encrypt our torrents, mount our flash drives with TrueCrypt, we use TOR/w SSL to browse anonymously...all in pursuit of maintaining privacy in an increasingly interconnected world.
10 Years from now will we all be content with the promise delivered with quantum cryptography, traveling the globe with all of our data instantly available with 'unbeatable' security?
Or will it continuously escalate to the point that we start seeing more and more networks running 'off' the grid? Transporting data in person as on-the-fly decryption becomes increasingly prevalent. (Here we come Johnny Mnemonic)
Epoxy can over-insulate electronics in devices that are becoming increasingly compact and need every square millimeter it can get to shed that excess heat.
Loaded up Redhat, Unbuntu, Suse, Knoppix, and Slackware, before I settled on Gentoo recently. Basically as a command-line heavy using NT user, I found most of the distros didn't compel me rightly or wrongly to really get up to elbows in the nitty gritty that really relates the true benefit of working with Linux, the UNIX underpinnings and the ability to tap into a vast numbers of great open source programs.
System Shock 2 starts in 2114, forty-two years after the events in System Shock, with the TriOptimum starship Von Braun serving as its main setting. The Von Braun is on its maiden voyage as the first faster-than-light starship in human history, and is joined by a Unified National Nominate (UNN) military starship, the Rickenbacker, an armed escort for the journey into the unknown.
Just like when an office network's filtering software is just a little too strict, the smarter users will proxy their traffic outside. I could see ISP's in Argentina, Venezeula, and elsewhere getting some additional traffic....
I really don't understand the intricacies of international diplomacy, but from what I gather (as well as what has been presented) China has almost complete control over North Korea's wellbeing in every respect. Are these six-way talks really just another way of saying China + North Korea versus Japan, USA, South Korea, and Russia?
The original The Longest Journey has been the only game wherein I found an ability to empathize with the protagonist, even when the graphics were already considered subpar. I've never found a way to put to words the reason why. I played Syberia and other similar titles, but I never really felt the same degree of connection. When I recently picked up the sequel, Dreamfall, I was let down.
Good points with regards to reprise levels. I always felt that games should have a 'Director's Cut' on some levels where the difficult is amped up or otherwise uniquely challenging without the usual 'increase enemy hitpoints and increase their damage output'.
I am hardly one to defend the likes of George Bush, or the Republican party, but don't confuse people dying from the likes of disease or SUV's rolling over. Terrorism's impact extends far beyond the tragic death of individuals, as the name implies, fear is on the agenda, and not coincidentally the American economy. Sure the Pentagon was targeted, but the primary goals on 9-11 were the Towers as symbols of the wealth and power of the United States.
As for weighing in on our most recent incursion into stepping around the 4th Amendment, I reckon you'd find that there is a bunker somewhere in Virginia with a couple of hundred petabytes of available storage and expanding, where all of those phone calls are being stored, but not data mined (yet). The second a couple of red flags go up though, and boom, recorded phone calls are yanked by their corresponding numbers and listened to. They probably still won't go through that whole hassle of getting a warrant/supoena after the fact though (too much paper work you understand). The main issue is if say, years later, someone with less altruistic ideals makes a few requests to gain political leverage.
Honestly I've been there and done that, I think I still have my Celeron 300mhz running at 450mhz somewhere around here. But these days, all I really want in a computer is something that has decent performance and doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner. I'd much prefer to know which CPU's I can undervolt/underclock, and reduce the DB to a minimum.
Got together with my P&P roleplay group earlier this week and we had much the same discussion, three of us really enjoyed the game, and one was bored to death by it. The odd man out is big on World of Warcraft, while the rest of us have never really taken to MMORPG's. I think the lack of constant interaction is what left him cold, while we were looking for immersion and story.
Since we're already on the subject, could anyone provide recommendations on proven wireless cards for linux? What provides the best overall compatability with features?
You mean the banks richer, right? (or possibly the state his is a resident of, his lawyers, or possible a distant relative who hires an attorney to argue that this guy will *always* be a popsicle).
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I've got a great real-world example of why fast lanes won't work. I spent a night at a 'hip' hotel in West Hollywood. Room, with tax, was $308. I thought I'd catch up on some episodes of House MD on Netflix and had utterly horrid quality. I did some speed tests (testmy.net) and saw I was being shaped down to 500kbps. I had better speeds while stay at some backwoods motor lodge in Minnesota recently. I called reception and they informed me that they offer "super fast internet" for only $14.95 more. Effectively they are capping their internet and offering to uncap it for a premium. That's why fast lanes don't work.
What's a functional network appliance type device that supports OpenBSD through and through to load up OpenBSD 4.7 on?
10 Years from now will we all be content with the promise delivered with quantum cryptography, traveling the globe with all of our data instantly available with 'unbeatable' security?
Or will it continuously escalate to the point that we start seeing more and more networks running 'off' the grid? Transporting data in person as on-the-fly decryption becomes increasingly prevalent. (Here we come Johnny Mnemonic)
Good luck finding women in the IT field *and* willing to work on a ship.
Epoxy can over-insulate electronics in devices that are becoming increasingly compact and need every square millimeter it can get to shed that excess heat.
Time to start getting alt-key ASCII keys in there... Alt-255 anyone?
Thanks Gentoo!
Might be worthwhile to wait for Santa Rosa platform in April/May. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Napa_platfor m
It may not have the All-Star voice acting, but it is fun, and significantly more realized as a game than Star Trek: Legacy.
System Shock 2 starts in 2114, forty-two years after the events in System Shock, with the TriOptimum starship Von Braun serving as its main setting. The Von Braun is on its maiden voyage as the first faster-than-light starship in human history, and is joined by a Unified National Nominate (UNN) military starship, the Rickenbacker, an armed escort for the journey into the unknown.
Just like when an office network's filtering software is just a little too strict, the smarter users will proxy their traffic outside. I could see ISP's in Argentina, Venezeula, and elsewhere getting some additional traffic....
I really don't understand the intricacies of international diplomacy, but from what I gather (as well as what has been presented) China has almost complete control over North Korea's wellbeing in every respect. Are these six-way talks really just another way of saying China + North Korea versus Japan, USA, South Korea, and Russia?
I believe it was John Carpenter's masterpiece, The Thing. Dog eats alien, dog transforms into bloated mass of cells, Thing eats humans.
I mean, priorities people, priorities!
Any recommendations on titles?
Good points with regards to reprise levels. I always felt that games should have a 'Director's Cut' on some levels where the difficult is amped up or otherwise uniquely challenging without the usual 'increase enemy hitpoints and increase their damage output'.
A little Cold War, depending on technology to overcome our shortcomings, and a fair amount of luck.
As for weighing in on our most recent incursion into stepping around the 4th Amendment, I reckon you'd find that there is a bunker somewhere in Virginia with a couple of hundred petabytes of available storage and expanding, where all of those phone calls are being stored, but not data mined (yet). The second a couple of red flags go up though, and boom, recorded phone calls are yanked by their corresponding numbers and listened to. They probably still won't go through that whole hassle of getting a warrant/supoena after the fact though (too much paper work you understand). The main issue is if say, years later, someone with less altruistic ideals makes a few requests to gain political leverage.
Honestly I've been there and done that, I think I still have my Celeron 300mhz running at 450mhz somewhere around here. But these days, all I really want in a computer is something that has decent performance and doesn't sound like a vacuum cleaner. I'd much prefer to know which CPU's I can undervolt/underclock, and reduce the DB to a minimum.
Something about MythTV and my cold dead fingers, but I just can't seem to remember how it goes.
More than likely I'm beginning to suspect that NA crackers are probably 'above' such things as botnets and such. Kind of a scary proposition.
Got together with my P&P roleplay group earlier this week and we had much the same discussion, three of us really enjoyed the game, and one was bored to death by it. The odd man out is big on World of Warcraft, while the rest of us have never really taken to MMORPG's. I think the lack of constant interaction is what left him cold, while we were looking for immersion and story.
He will when compromising pictures he took of his girlfriend show up on the interweb.
Since we're already on the subject, could anyone provide recommendations on proven wireless cards for linux? What provides the best overall compatability with features?
You mean the banks richer, right? (or possibly the state his is a resident of, his lawyers, or possible a distant relative who hires an attorney to argue that this guy will *always* be a popsicle).