Mindless seeking towards some arbitrary level of "efficiency" (which is never achieved, requiring yet more investment in equipment and technology and more loss of civil liberties) should not be the primary function of law enforcement.
At what level does improved efficiency suddenly result in a loss of civil liberties?
I would argue (and I think W. Edwards Deming would have agreed) that it's everyone's job to improve efficiency.
Whoever had the bright idea of privatizing a utility should be shot.
The problem isn't a privatized utility. The problem is a privatized, unregulated utility that holds a monopoly. The power line going to my house should be tightly controlled, but I should be allowed to choose the entity that energizes that line.
I match 12 out of 12 Y-DNA markers with 9 other people who have had their DNA tested. Based on our last names, none of us are related.
I don't think you should be able to use blind searches of a DNA database as evidence, because it's too easy to get false positives. It's only useful evidence against someone you've already found by other means, or as a way to generate leads.
The way I approach it is to use a small, but fully functional Cisco router at the client side, and work with a mom & pop ISP who will also throw some QoS on their router for that link.
If you're with an ISP that's unwilling to work with you on the above, would it be possible to setup a server somewhere (probably collocated) and have your home network's router VPN into it? Then you could traffic shape both sides of the connection to your heart's content.
They're not hybrids in the same sense of the word. A diesel electric train is basically a dirty great diesel electricity generator which powers an electric motor. There's no drive between diesel engine and wheels.
It's time Americans woke up and insisted that we stop being ripped off. Flat rates for phone service, flat rates for internet, and at reasonable prices.
Flat rate is another term for light users subsidizing heavy users. Is that more fair than being charged by the gigabyte?
$1 per gigabyte is a little high though. But perhaps a competing ISP will advertise 50 cents per gigabyte, and then the bandwidth price wars can finally begin. Currently it's "unlimited" bandwidth, which really means you will either be throttled or kicked off the network after you exceed some number of gigabytes that the ISP won't disclose.
There's always dialup. It might take half an hour to download an mp3 through BitTorrent, but that might still be better than a throttled high speed connection.
They have vending machines that let you make purchases with your cell phone. Maybe web terminals, debit PIN terminals and ATMs could be made to work the same way. You can't trust somebody else's keyboard/keypad, but hopefully you can trust your own cell phone not to have a keylogger installed.
The best analogy I can come up with is a kid delivering newspapers. You THINK the kid is just delivering the newspaper to you, but he is instead cutting out the advertisements (or god knows what else) and inserting his own client's advertisements while being paid for it.
I'd say it's more like he's inserting flyers. TFA didn't mention anything about ISPs removing or replacing ads in web pages while in transit, just adding more.
It should be the topic right after hello world. I once took a C++ class and it was a miserable experience for the other students who couldn't figure out how to get their programs right.
I'd like to use Asterisk to connect the caller to a voice-equipped Turing test applicant, whose goal would be to keep the telemarketer on the line as long as possible (without agreeing to anything, of course). In fact, I'd setup an online service where people show off their best junk-caller-time-wasting programs and compete with each other. Maybe even make it into a T.V. or radio show, sort of a cross between Robot Wars and Monty Python's Blackmail sketch.
based on paper, i can trail, and trust, and verify.
The same can be done with computers. When I return a defective item to the store, I can prove to the store that I purchased it from them. In some cases, even if they lost their copy of the record of the transaction.
Browser makers could do a lot of good for standards compliance if they would warn the user (unobnoxiously, of course) when he/she is visiting a web page containing invalid HTML code. You wouldn't purchase from a web site that doesn't cause the little lock icon to show up on your browser, so would you also think twice if you knew the company didn't care enough to produce standards-compliant HTML code?
Since the web browser is used as a development tool, it should alert the developer of any syntax errors instead of attempting to silently recover from them.
As congestion increases, tolls increase, so more people, instead of traveling on toll roads designed to take the kind of abuse that volume and congestions provide, begin taking surface streets which are not designed for these kinds of volume.
Not if the streets were properly traffic-calmed. I'm talking about things like speed bumps and narrow winding tree-lined streets. It also helps to design streets and intersections to divert traffic back onto the freeway.
It also helps to provide attractive alternatives to driving that bypass all that traffic, like rail and bus rapid transit, so people can give up that extra car payment.
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Oh that's right, America is still stuck in the 1950s.
I have that problem all the time.
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At what level does improved efficiency suddenly result in a loss of civil liberties?
I would argue (and I think W. Edwards Deming would have agreed) that it's everyone's job to improve efficiency.
The problem isn't a privatized utility. The problem is a privatized, unregulated utility that holds a monopoly. The power line going to my house should be tightly controlled, but I should be allowed to choose the entity that energizes that line.
I match 12 out of 12 Y-DNA markers with 9 other people who have had their DNA tested. Based on our last names, none of us are related.
I don't think you should be able to use blind searches of a DNA database as evidence, because it's too easy to get false positives. It's only useful evidence against someone you've already found by other means, or as a way to generate leads.
If you're with an ISP that's unwilling to work with you on the above, would it be possible to setup a server somewhere (probably collocated) and have your home network's router VPN into it? Then you could traffic shape both sides of the connection to your heart's content.
In other words, a series hybrid.
Sure you can, provided that whoever makes it also makes the complete specifications public.
Probably not much, but when one user uses up most of a pipe's capacity, shouldn't he pay most of its overhead cost?
Flat rate is another term for light users subsidizing heavy users. Is that more fair than being charged by the gigabyte?
$1 per gigabyte is a little high though. But perhaps a competing ISP will advertise 50 cents per gigabyte, and then the bandwidth price wars can finally begin. Currently it's "unlimited" bandwidth, which really means you will either be throttled or kicked off the network after you exceed some number of gigabytes that the ISP won't disclose.
There's always dialup. It might take half an hour to download an mp3 through BitTorrent, but that might still be better than a throttled high speed connection.
They basically do that with their x-ty thousand miles warranties.
Why don't they just close that gaping caller ID security hole? Spoofing shouldn't be possible in the first place.
They have vending machines that let you make purchases with your cell phone. Maybe web terminals, debit PIN terminals and ATMs could be made to work the same way. You can't trust somebody else's keyboard/keypad, but hopefully you can trust your own cell phone not to have a keylogger installed.
I'd say it's more like he's inserting flyers. TFA didn't mention anything about ISPs removing or replacing ads in web pages while in transit, just adding more.
It should be the topic right after hello world. I once took a C++ class and it was a miserable experience for the other students who couldn't figure out how to get their programs right.
I actually like how it takes a few seconds to come all the way up. My eyes get less of a shock when I come home at night and turn on the light.
Don't forget bicycles! They were on the roads before cars, and are still on the roads today.
An electric car without batteries? You'd need a long cord. Or lots of PV panels.
I'd like to use Asterisk to connect the caller to a voice-equipped Turing test applicant, whose goal would be to keep the telemarketer on the line as long as possible (without agreeing to anything, of course). In fact, I'd setup an online service where people show off their best junk-caller-time-wasting programs and compete with each other. Maybe even make it into a T.V. or radio show, sort of a cross between Robot Wars and Monty Python's Blackmail sketch.
Or a credit card statement, or a copy of a canceled check.
The same can be done with computers. When I return a defective item to the store, I can prove to the store that I purchased it from them. In some cases, even if they lost their copy of the record of the transaction.
I don't think electronic voting necessarily means opacity.
Browser makers could do a lot of good for standards compliance if they would warn the user (unobnoxiously, of course) when he/she is visiting a web page containing invalid HTML code. You wouldn't purchase from a web site that doesn't cause the little lock icon to show up on your browser, so would you also think twice if you knew the company didn't care enough to produce standards-compliant HTML code?
Since the web browser is used as a development tool, it should alert the developer of any syntax errors instead of attempting to silently recover from them.
Not if the streets were properly traffic-calmed. I'm talking about things like speed bumps and narrow winding tree-lined streets. It also helps to design streets and intersections to divert traffic back onto the freeway.
It also helps to provide attractive alternatives to driving that bypass all that traffic, like rail and bus rapid transit, so people can give up that extra car payment.