it's been said a thousand times that the chief reason nuclear plants fail is because they aren't replaced.
Exactly. The plants in the news are like saying a car with 500,000 miles on it broke. Really? What do you mean we can't build a new car? OK. Patch it one more time.
I have a vendor of choice. Most of the time I just order stuff and assume that he is giving me a good price. Occasionally I price check him. If I ever find he has abused my trust, I get a new vendor. The alternative is trust all the time (Stupid) and trust none of the time (a lot of work). The problem is the "verify" part. How do you do it with some companies?
A whole post of information and all you see is the quote at the end. You might want to read "The Last Centurion" by John Ringo for some good information on high vs low trust societies. Or not, since he might like people you hate.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The real problem is that the idiots that caused the hurt to RSA's reputation are not hurt themselves. They will be with Verisign next year, or somewhere else. If we don't watch the corporate level Merry-Go-Round, it will never stop.
The problem is that trust is also required to have a functioning society. The higher the trust, the better a society can function. The lower the overall trust (More corruption) the less effective it is. I think "Trust but verify" is the best.
I think most people have "grown up" and are sick of all the spyware, viruses, and hacks from torrent sites anyway.
As opposed to the spyware, viruses, and hacks from Sony, Microsoft, and many hardware vendors? (note that Sony has hacks and spyware, Micorsoft has spyware like WGA, and many companies have released viruses in the driver disks)
No. All of the last mile in a given area might be owned by ATT. But the backbone is Level3, Quest, Cogent, Verizon, and ATT. If your friend got a wireless link to Level3 he would still be in business. (Or bought some dark fiber, or hung some fiber, or anything to run his own last mile) You can get wireless that will do 100 meg for 20 miles for a few grand.
A lot of the big ones are going to a 250 gig cap. At $0.30, that is $75 a month. How much do you pay for your Internet? Is it enough cheaper than $75 to deal with the BS? How about at $0.20 just for kicks, and $50 a month?
He was buying backhaul from the company he was competing against? Seriously? That was the point of the link above. Go wireless for the backhaul if you can not get Quest, or Cogent, or Level3 out there. Yes, you may need to lease roof space every 15 miles, but it will be cheaper than AT&T (miss)Managed Internet Services.
And, this could be the IPv6 killer app... It is almost a VPN, and it is a tunnel to another spot in most cases right now. Yes, I know that is not what it is intended for IPv6, but it is the way it is working in most places now.
Yet hotels, that have torrent traffic 24/7 will be fine. God knows, Comcast will not want to drop that hotel with 3 business class cable modems and 24 phone lines.
Not totally true. A written communication accusing you of a criminal act leading to monetary damages is slander. Take each letter you can defend to small claims court.
That, or... Once there is real damage from these random letters, you can now take them directly to small claims court for slander. If everyone started doing that, it would make the entire thing cost prohibitive.
Exactly... Why the keep replacing (not just highlighting) stable apps with half baked flashy apps, I do not understand. I am still on 10.04, and have not seen a reason to move yet. (And before it starts, there are firefox and LibreOffice repos for 10.04)
Well... No matter how good it is, Nokia has said "it is over and we are dumping it as soon as we can. We didn't even really want to do this one, but we had to." Knowing that, does it matter how good it is? Why buy a phone that you KNOW will not be supported well, or long?
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I was going to patent "Using patents to fuck people over in a social network environment" but I knew I would get slammed with prior art...
If it's only chomp change, where is the 1 billion euro for solar?
At the end of the article you didn't read. 1.35 billion for renewables... Doh!
And Japan is slowly going against as well... So who will drag the US in?
it's been said a thousand times that the chief reason nuclear plants fail is because they aren't replaced.
Exactly. The plants in the news are like saying a car with 500,000 miles on it broke. Really? What do you mean we can't build a new car? OK. Patch it one more time.
They will make a fortune selling power to all those countries "phasing out" nuclear power with no plan to replace it but the underpants gnomes.
I have a vendor of choice. Most of the time I just order stuff and assume that he is giving me a good price. Occasionally I price check him. If I ever find he has abused my trust, I get a new vendor. The alternative is trust all the time (Stupid) and trust none of the time (a lot of work). The problem is the "verify" part. How do you do it with some companies?
A whole post of information and all you see is the quote at the end. You might want to read "The Last Centurion" by John Ringo for some good information on high vs low trust societies. Or not, since he might like people you hate.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The real problem is that the idiots that caused the hurt to RSA's reputation are not hurt themselves. They will be with Verisign next year, or somewhere else. If we don't watch the corporate level Merry-Go-Round, it will never stop.
The problem is that trust is also required to have a functioning society. The higher the trust, the better a society can function. The lower the overall trust (More corruption) the less effective it is. I think "Trust but verify" is the best.
Sue for each baseless accusation as slander in small claims court.
I think most people have "grown up" and are sick of all the spyware, viruses, and hacks from torrent sites anyway.
As opposed to the spyware, viruses, and hacks from Sony, Microsoft, and many hardware vendors? (note that Sony has hacks and spyware, Micorsoft has spyware like WGA, and many companies have released viruses in the driver disks)
No. All of the last mile in a given area might be owned by ATT. But the backbone is Level3, Quest, Cogent, Verizon, and ATT. If your friend got a wireless link to Level3 he would still be in business. (Or bought some dark fiber, or hung some fiber, or anything to run his own last mile) You can get wireless that will do 100 meg for 20 miles for a few grand.
A lot of the big ones are going to a 250 gig cap. At $0.30, that is $75 a month. How much do you pay for your Internet? Is it enough cheaper than $75 to deal with the BS? How about at $0.20 just for kicks, and $50 a month?
He was buying backhaul from the company he was competing against? Seriously? That was the point of the link above. Go wireless for the backhaul if you can not get Quest, or Cogent, or Level3 out there. Yes, you may need to lease roof space every 15 miles, but it will be cheaper than AT&T (miss)Managed Internet Services.
The US government would provide protection to them with our military.
That might not go well... http://torrentfreak.com/us-military-bittorrent-users-targeted-by-mpaariaa-100118/
But a written accusation of illegal activity with monetary consequences is still slander.
Even cheaper than that: STOP WATCHING THEIR STUFF.
Really - just stop. You're not inherently entitled to it, they want to punish you for peeking at it; so why not just stop?
I would, but I can't get my damn printer to stop downloading porn! http://www.p2p-blog.com/?itemid=686
And, this could be the IPv6 killer app... It is almost a VPN, and it is a tunnel to another spot in most cases right now. Yes, I know that is not what it is intended for IPv6, but it is the way it is working in most places now.
Aye, Alexa confirms it: the Pirate Bay has a global traffic rank of 89 and a US traffic rank of 97.
Slashdot, on the other hand, would be inaccessible at 1354 (globally) / 775 (US).
riaa.org * Alexa Traffic Rank: 122,822
comcast.net * Alexa Traffic Rank: 217
att.net * Alexa Traffic Rank: 6,440
verizon.net * Alexa Traffic Rank: 2,911
Doh!
Yet hotels, that have torrent traffic 24/7 will be fine. God knows, Comcast will not want to drop that hotel with 3 business class cable modems and 24 phone lines.
Not totally true. A written communication accusing you of a criminal act leading to monetary damages is slander. Take each letter you can defend to small claims court.
Actually, it isn't fascism when two private businesses agree to do something incredibly unfriendly to the consumer.
But when all the business in a given market do the same, it is collusion and restraint of trade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law#United_States_antitrust Now if we can get the government to take our side...
That, or... Once there is real damage from these random letters, you can now take them directly to small claims court for slander. If everyone started doing that, it would make the entire thing cost prohibitive.
Exactly... Why the keep replacing (not just highlighting) stable apps with half baked flashy apps, I do not understand. I am still on 10.04, and have not seen a reason to move yet. (And before it starts, there are firefox and LibreOffice repos for 10.04)
Well... No matter how good it is, Nokia has said "it is over and we are dumping it as soon as we can. We didn't even really want to do this one, but we had to." Knowing that, does it matter how good it is? Why buy a phone that you KNOW will not be supported well, or long?