They're doing it on the source engine too though which helps.
Of course, Valve already sells a port of Half-Life to the Source engine (appropriately named Half-Life: Source)... and the Black Mesa mod will require you to own at least one Source game already.
It has been slow, but Google is turning into the companies they replaced.
No they aren't.
Webcrawler, AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo, Google, Bing... They all make money off of advertising. You go there to find information, and they serve up an ad along the way. That's how they work. That's how they've always worked. It's nothing new.
How else would you propose they make money?
No, the mistake is that the GP hasn't realized that this process has finished already, years ago.
Google originally didn't have ads, let alone services to try to get to know every little thing about every person.
Everything Google does is to improve their value as an advertiser. Some are just less obvious than others. For instance, instant search: How does that help its advertiser value? Well, have you ever started typing in a search term then decided not to search for it after all? With instant search, Google still sees those partial searches and can correlate them against what it already knows about you to guess what term you were going to search for.
GMail? They get to scan your non-encrypted email.
Google Maps? They can find out where you live and where you're interested in going.
I can help but be reminded of one of Microsoft's old logos. Rather than "Where do you want to go today?" Google's is "We know where you want to go today."
Is there a chance they'd try to monetize the J2EE/JEE container market (hey, they're holding the still-warm corpse of BEA) by being deliberately opaque with their JEE specifications?
How? Apache's problem with the license aside, the specs for JSE/JEE components are all spelled out in their respective JSR documents. As far as I'm aware, the interface files are distributable by third parties... since said interfaces only contain method signatures, this is hardly a surprise.
Also, ticking off one of the largest organizations using, developing, supporting and popularizing Java applications, can't be good for the future of the platform.
Two... you forgot Google.
Actually, I wonder if Google will leave the JCP as well.
What if the user boots a LiveCD, downloads LOIC to a RAM disk, and runs it there? The computer itself will show no record of any of this (unless you catch them doing it or within a few seconds of having done it and powered off the machine), so forensics won't find jack.
How much evidence do you need in the UK for this sort of thing? Your ISP will certainly be subpoenaed in the matter.
I am *not* saying it is right or legal for people to write trojan horses to set up botnets to con others' computers to unknowingly (or unwillingly) do ones bidding - but isn't it completely within an individuals right to do this themselves, from their own homes, with their own equipment?
In addition to what others have already said about impeding access...
If you want your ISP to kick you off their network, sure!...you were aware that participating in a (D)DoS is against your Internet provider's Acceptable Use Policy, right? Right?
The Internet is not a public place, and you can be forcefully removed from it.
If it's referring to the quest I think it is... you can rescue more than 6 now (just continue to use the keys you picked up).
Unfortunately, the only reason I know this is... my primary Horde server had a 500+ (30 minute estimated time) queue when I woke up this morning... so I tried a Worgen on a server a friend plays Alliance on.
I do wish Azeroth was about 50-80% larger in land mass, there are quite a few spots in the old world that feel tiny. And old-world flying is going to make that feel even smaller. But it still feels larger then AoC or EQ2 zones.
You don't get the ability to fly until you're ready to depart the old world into the Outlands, which already supported flying.
Maybe I haven't studied this too in depth, but how is this not a conflict of interest over the stated goals of Google Books? You know, the Google project to index books so that they were searchable?
Yeah, it turns out they were indexing them to sell eBook versions. I would love it if their Library project partners sued them for it.
But it changes nothing for Comcast's network load.
If 100,000 Comcast customers were streaming Netflix movies before, 100,000 Comcast customers will be streaming Netflix movies now.
The only difference is that Comcast can now pull that data from local CDN connections from Level 3 instead of having to go out to their back bone provider/peers.
They wind up with a better peering ratio on the backbone, their customers enjoy better streaming, and they get a huge up pipe for free from Level 3.
This is a huge boon for Comcast.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. Akamai used to be Netflix's CDN, and Comcast hosts Akamai nodes inside its network. By switching from Akamai to Level 3, this means there's a lot more traffic entering Comcast's network from the outside rather than just internal traffic. Sadly, I don't think its public knowledge as to how many Akamai nodes are inside Comcast's network.
My analogy is "flawed" because it uses the actual definition of CDN rather than Level 3's definition of "CDN."
Normal CDNs host their servers inside an ISP's network. There are a great number of these, the largest and most well known being Akamai. Level 3's "CDN" hosts everything inside Level 3's network.
Well, that changes things, because the traffic now originates outside the receiving ISP's network rather than inside.
At some point an ISP like Comcast had the brilliant (if morally repugnant) idea of charging CDNs access to their customers. Since a CDN makes money off of reaching customers, their service is only valuable if they can reach the customers, which puts them in a bind. They have to pay, and the CDNs customers pay because they wish to provide their clients a better experience.
I have an idea, I'll run a video games store and you can run a mall. Now give me free shop space! After all, it benefits your customers! Oh, and don't forget that you're the one paying security guards, maintenance staff, electric bills, water bills, etc...
This will increase Comcast's operating costs, because prior to this, Netflix paid Akamai to host things on the Akamai CDN, which has servers located inside Comcast's network. This meant that Netflix traffic traveled from the closest Akamai mirror inside the network to the user.
Now, traffic must come from outside the network, and travel from a Comcast-Level 3 interchange to the user.
At the very least, this means a significant increase in bandwidth usage at the network interchange points between Comcast and Level 3... which is likely why Level 3 requested a number of new interchange points, although reports seem to differ as to who is expected to pay for said points.
Before I forget, this also means Akamai is paying Comcast less, because it's using less bandwidth.
I pay my ISP for bandwidth. ISPs want to charge Netflix for bandwidth too.
But Comcast isn't trying to charge Netflix. Comcast is dealing with Level 3.
Peering agreements are based on, and always have been based on, the difference between traffic of two connected networks. Level 3 is the largest ISP, controlling a large share of the North American Internet backbone, and route pretty much all traffic between dial-up and VoIP providers, in addition to being interchange points for most major ISPs, including Comcast... at present. It would not surprise me in the least if Comcast and Level 3 currently have a symmetric peering agreement, despite cable being asymmetric, because of this.
However, if they pile on a bunch of additional traffic that Akamai used to handle within Comcast's network, then that changes. And since Akamai was hosting it inside Comcast's network before, Comcast likely has a good notion of exactly how much traffic that is.
Oh, did I mention this means Akamai isn't paying Comcast to host those services inside its network any more?
If i'm using more bandwidth now because of Netflix, that should be between me and my ISP, but ISPs don't want to mess with that relationship for fear of pissing off customers and spurring real competition in the marketplace. It's cheaper to buy legislation mandating your business model than to compete.
Why would Netflix's bandwidth usage magically go up between November 30th and December 1st? Here's a tip: it didn't. However, because Akamai used to pay Comcast to colocate CDN servers that supplied Comcast with local Netflix mirrors, even no change in Netflix usage means an increase in traffic across Comcast's network, and a massive increase in incoming traffic where Comcast and Level 3 (or whomever else handles Netflix traffic) interconnect.
If we had real competition then net neutrality would be a non-issue because we could choose open networks over closed ones, but with the near-monopoly of the big operators in most markets, it's usually just a choice between their crappy service or another crappier, more expensive option.
Use a time machine and go back to the early 90s and tell NSFNet not to privatize the U.S. Internet backbone then! The government used to have control of the Internet backbone, but sold it off... in 10 sections, as I recall. I have no idea who all owns parts now, but if I recall correctly the big ones are AT&T, Verizon, and Level 3, with Level 3 owning the majority.
What you're missing from this equation is that this traffic used to be handled inside Comcast's network, likely at a lot of different locations, because Akamai used to be Netflix's CDN and Akamai colocates servers with ISPs for quicker response times.
In other words, this is new external traffic to the network, and I have a feeling no matter where it passes into Comcast's network, they're going to want an increase in money from whomever is passing it in.
So.. they passed a bill to control tv commercial volume but they couldn't find the time to pass the health bill for 9/11 workers suffering from chronic illnesses. Seems perfectly honest, at least they have a sence of priorities.
No, it's just that TV commercials being too loud are the only thing both parties actually agree on.
The guy was found guilty because... he pleaded guilty. What's the court supposed to do, argue the defense's case for them when they've already said they did it?
What does the FCC have to do with this, again? Last I checked, internet was not transferred directly over the air like traditional television, so they have no more jurisdiction over internet than cable TV.
Where did you get the idea that the FCC only regulates over-the-air signals? Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter I, Section 151 describes the purpose of the FCC, and includes the words "by wire and radio."
2: would this be a router's worst nightmare? In tree structure that ISPs has put us in, yes. But if this structure ever fails and we get back to the original net design, which is a mesh network, than it would not be such a problem. DNS change would be propagated to next nodes, wave like. IMO the problems come from the centralization and tree structure the net has become.
Actually DNS has always been a tree structure. For example, to resolve www.microsoft.com, a recursive DNS client needs to:
Ask a root server for the address of the.com registry.
Ask the.com registry for the DNS servers responsible for the microsoft.com domain
Ask (for example) ns1.msft.net for the address of www.microsoft.com
This is ignoring stub clients, which are found in most OSes which ask a recursive DNS server to do this process for them.
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Of course, Valve already sells a port of Half-Life to the Source engine (appropriately named Half-Life: Source)... and the Black Mesa mod will require you to own at least one Source game already.
Amazon sells more than just books.
For instance, I tend to buy video games rather than books from them.
Possibly because they keep throwing $20 gift certificates at me if I pre-order certain ($50-60) games.
No, the mistake is that the GP hasn't realized that this process has finished already, years ago.
Google originally didn't have ads, let alone services to try to get to know every little thing about every person.
Everything Google does is to improve their value as an advertiser. Some are just less obvious than others. For instance, instant search: How does that help its advertiser value? Well, have you ever started typing in a search term then decided not to search for it after all? With instant search, Google still sees those partial searches and can correlate them against what it already knows about you to guess what term you were going to search for.
GMail? They get to scan your non-encrypted email.
Google Maps? They can find out where you live and where you're interested in going.
I can help but be reminded of one of Microsoft's old logos. Rather than "Where do you want to go today?" Google's is "We know where you want to go today."
How? Apache's problem with the license aside, the specs for JSE/JEE components are all spelled out in their respective JSR documents. As far as I'm aware, the interface files are distributable by third parties... since said interfaces only contain method signatures, this is hardly a surprise.
Two... you forgot Google.
Actually, I wonder if Google will leave the JCP as well.
Not any more... IBM has sided with Oracle against Apache (and, by extension, Google).
How much evidence do you need in the UK for this sort of thing? Your ISP will certainly be subpoenaed in the matter.
In addition to what others have already said about impeding access...
If you want your ISP to kick you off their network, sure! ...you were aware that participating in a (D)DoS is against your Internet provider's Acceptable Use Policy, right? Right?
The Internet is not a public place, and you can be forcefully removed from it.
Gotta catch 'em all, Reportermon!
If it's referring to the quest I think it is... you can rescue more than 6 now (just continue to use the keys you picked up).
Unfortunately, the only reason I know this is... my primary Horde server had a 500+ (30 minute estimated time) queue when I woke up this morning... so I tried a Worgen on a server a friend plays Alliance on.
You don't get the ability to fly until you're ready to depart the old world into the Outlands, which already supported flying.
Maybe I haven't studied this too in depth, but how is this not a conflict of interest over the stated goals of Google Books? You know, the Google project to index books so that they were searchable?
Yeah, it turns out they were indexing them to sell eBook versions. I would love it if their Library project partners sued them for it.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. Akamai used to be Netflix's CDN, and Comcast hosts Akamai nodes inside its network. By switching from Akamai to Level 3, this means there's a lot more traffic entering Comcast's network from the outside rather than just internal traffic. Sadly, I don't think its public knowledge as to how many Akamai nodes are inside Comcast's network.
My analogy is "flawed" because it uses the actual definition of CDN rather than Level 3's definition of "CDN."
Normal CDNs host their servers inside an ISP's network. There are a great number of these, the largest and most well known being Akamai. Level 3's "CDN" hosts everything inside Level 3's network.
Well, that changes things, because the traffic now originates outside the receiving ISP's network rather than inside.
I have an idea, I'll run a video games store and you can run a mall. Now give me free shop space! After all, it benefits your customers! Oh, and don't forget that you're the one paying security guards, maintenance staff, electric bills, water bills, etc...
This will increase Comcast's operating costs, because prior to this, Netflix paid Akamai to host things on the Akamai CDN, which has servers located inside Comcast's network. This meant that Netflix traffic traveled from the closest Akamai mirror inside the network to the user.
Now, traffic must come from outside the network, and travel from a Comcast-Level 3 interchange to the user.
At the very least, this means a significant increase in bandwidth usage at the network interchange points between Comcast and Level 3... which is likely why Level 3 requested a number of new interchange points, although reports seem to differ as to who is expected to pay for said points.
Before I forget, this also means Akamai is paying Comcast less, because it's using less bandwidth.
But Comcast isn't trying to charge Netflix. Comcast is dealing with Level 3.
Peering agreements are based on, and always have been based on, the difference between traffic of two connected networks. Level 3 is the largest ISP, controlling a large share of the North American Internet backbone, and route pretty much all traffic between dial-up and VoIP providers, in addition to being interchange points for most major ISPs, including Comcast... at present. It would not surprise me in the least if Comcast and Level 3 currently have a symmetric peering agreement, despite cable being asymmetric, because of this.
However, if they pile on a bunch of additional traffic that Akamai used to handle within Comcast's network, then that changes. And since Akamai was hosting it inside Comcast's network before, Comcast likely has a good notion of exactly how much traffic that is.
Oh, did I mention this means Akamai isn't paying Comcast to host those services inside its network any more?
Why would Netflix's bandwidth usage magically go up between November 30th and December 1st? Here's a tip: it didn't. However, because Akamai used to pay Comcast to colocate CDN servers that supplied Comcast with local Netflix mirrors, even no change in Netflix usage means an increase in traffic across Comcast's network, and a massive increase in incoming traffic where Comcast and Level 3 (or whomever else handles Netflix traffic) interconnect.
Use a time machine and go back to the early 90s and tell NSFNet not to privatize the U.S. Internet backbone then! The government used to have control of the Internet backbone, but sold it off... in 10 sections, as I recall. I have no idea who all owns parts now, but if I recall correctly the big ones are AT&T, Verizon, and Level 3, with Level 3 owning the majority.
What you're missing from this equation is that this traffic used to be handled inside Comcast's network, likely at a lot of different locations, because Akamai used to be Netflix's CDN and Akamai colocates servers with ISPs for quicker response times.
In other words, this is new external traffic to the network, and I have a feeling no matter where it passes into Comcast's network, they're going to want an increase in money from whomever is passing it in.
No, it's just that TV commercials being too loud are the only thing both parties actually agree on.
Cue "Microsoft is funding TurboHercules lawsuit against IBM" conspiracy theorists in 5... 4... 3...
To everyone claiming this is unjust: RTFA.
The guy was found guilty because... he pleaded guilty. What's the court supposed to do, argue the defense's case for them when they've already said they did it?
I posted this on another site that ran this story yesterday, but since this is a different site...
Amazon EC2 is entirely automated. That includes provisioning servers.
At least it wasn't the TSA... they would have seized his crotch. ;)
Where did you get the idea that the FCC only regulates over-the-air signals? Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter I, Section 151 describes the purpose of the FCC, and includes the words "by wire and radio."
Actually DNS has always been a tree structure. For example, to resolve www.microsoft.com, a recursive DNS client needs to:
This is ignoring stub clients, which are found in most OSes which ask a recursive DNS server to do this process for them.