But CDNs and server farms are closer to the backbone providers than your home and office ever will be... and that's where the network planners are expecting content to come from. A $60 Comcast connection that can only handle 250 GB a billing cycle is 24 cents a GB... and that's 1500 times the cost of "doing it right" by paying for your CDN instead of trying to get your users to supply the uploads.
TWIT and Revision3 both started their podcasting empire by using torrents... but both moved to traditional downloads when sponsors wanted an accuate count of viewers.
Data usage costs money. Anybody offering a server with "Unlimited" bandwidth on a web server is lying to you, and the more data transfer a plan allows, the more expensive the hosting gets. Exceed your transfer limit on a server, and expect to pay cell-phone like overage fees.
Right now, this isn't a big deal because what they're stealing from their users doesn't cost the user extra right now... but imagine if the GB they stole from you is the one that puts you over a Comcast-style cap. That would suck big.
The network operators have already been complaining about illegal torrents not just because they're illegal content sharing, but because having people uploading like crazy from the consumer side of their network just isn't what they designed it to handle. Now, what are they going to say when the content is legal, and the user got suckered into agreeing to allow it in a game's TOS?
Mozilla's on the take... they get paid for featuring Google as the default search engine in Firefox.
Besides, Google would be able to get around any attempt to block their ads totally... they've got ways to make them indistinguishable from content.
In the.com error days, people valued money-losing Internet companies as if they would gain market share and be able to raise prices in the future. Most failed at doing that, and the bubble burst.
But Google has this insanely profitable AdWords business, and therefore can fund a money-loser and work the ads in slowly... which is exactly what they did with YouTube. Look out phone companies, you're next.
I'm not quite sure America has its value system on straight.
Hit the right spaces on the Wheel of Fortune and solve two or more puzzles, and you could win $1,000,000. Answer 15 multiple choice trivia questions in the hotseat in front of Regis Philbin, wait, what it's now 12 questions in the new season walking around the stage with Meridith Vieira? Still $1,000,000. Ken Jennings is extremely smart, but he took Jeopardy! for multiple millions.
Discover a flaw in Internet Explorer or Windows or just go after somebody else's research and count on the unpatched systems being still online... and you just got the ability to run a botnet if you're evil. Untold riches there.
Discover flaws in Google's Chrome... and you get paid. But the entire panel of winners gets less than $5,000 for their trouble...
Something's not right in the equity here.
Yep, very few professions require fill-in-the-right-bubble skills outside of schools... so having them actually build or write out plans for how they would build something is a much better test.
Registrars are like air traffic control at universities. They keep track of where a class is being held (and make sure they don't double-book a room), who's teaching it, who's attending, what grades the students got...
When I was in school, as soon as the registrar released their schedule for final exam blocks, I e-mailed the professor to ask if this rumor the registrar was spreading was true. Many wanted to hold their finals earlier than the stated date, with the exception of the math department which wanted the last finals slot and always got it.
To me, this was critical information, I wanted to be able to tell my school break job when I'd be back in town so they could plan my work. The earlier I knew when the finals were and weren't, the better.
So, really this is a registrar reacting to a change that has already happened. Final projects have replaced the final exam in many classes, so if a professor wants to hold a memory-based final they need to alert the registrar, as that office's default assumption is changing to if they don't ask for a finals slot, they don't need it.
Fire/Police radios have all gone digital and moved to new frequencies in order to get the ability to use more power, have longer range, and encryption so RadioShack can't sell scanners that hear them anymore.
Use it or lose it is an FCC policy. Leave a station offline too long, they'll pull your license and give it to somebody else.
All US cell companies require ID for a "credit check" that also verifies the ID of whomever is going to pay the bill. They've got your name, SSN, and home address.
Sure, there's prepaid that can be bought with cash, and I know the research into this was done by Ryan Seacrest, Guilana Ransic and the rest of the E! News team, but it doesn't make it any less true. Buy too many minutes with cash only and don't pay with a credit or debit card at all, and they'll raise prices and tap the phone.
As I've posted elsewhere, CB or anything the public can hear, transmit on, and understand is subject to a very simple misinformation attack. You can't do business on the CB channels.
Wow would you make a bad contestant on The Money List (US Title)/Who Dares Wins (UK Title)... you just claimed there are several other perfectly viable options when a cyber attack has caused the government to down the whole internet and phone networks, and some breaks in the lines done the old fashioned way have downed power. Name them.
The company that invented the product, got their rightful patent, but their patent rights expired as they should, and is still using old packaging/molds/etc. that display the patent number and are now falsely claiming protection they don't have...
OR...
The lawyer who finds out about this violation of the law, and gets a finder's fee of $250 per product in violation distributed, and raises $250 per product in money for the government who definitely could use some help collecting this fine.
False patent claims can FUD a business away... but we also hate most lawyers here. Editors, please define which side to hate in all arguments. We/. commentators will crash if you execute Story.Comment without the required argument variable "$side".
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But CDNs and server farms are closer to the backbone providers than your home and office ever will be... and that's where the network planners are expecting content to come from. A $60 Comcast connection that can only handle 250 GB a billing cycle is 24 cents a GB... and that's 1500 times the cost of "doing it right" by paying for your CDN instead of trying to get your users to supply the uploads.
Nope, things like TiVo and Roku don't honor such cookies.
If we're all using more bandwidth, that's a demand increase, not a supply increase.
TWIT and Revision3 both started their podcasting empire by using torrents... but both moved to traditional downloads when sponsors wanted an accuate count of viewers.
Data usage costs money. Anybody offering a server with "Unlimited" bandwidth on a web server is lying to you, and the more data transfer a plan allows, the more expensive the hosting gets. Exceed your transfer limit on a server, and expect to pay cell-phone like overage fees.
Right now, this isn't a big deal because what they're stealing from their users doesn't cost the user extra right now... but imagine if the GB they stole from you is the one that puts you over a Comcast-style cap. That would suck big.
The network operators have already been complaining about illegal torrents not just because they're illegal content sharing, but because having people uploading like crazy from the consumer side of their network just isn't what they designed it to handle. Now, what are they going to say when the content is legal, and the user got suckered into agreeing to allow it in a game's TOS?
Mozilla's on the take... they get paid for featuring Google as the default search engine in Firefox. Besides, Google would be able to get around any attempt to block their ads totally... they've got ways to make them indistinguishable from content.
In the .com error days, people valued money-losing Internet companies as if they would gain market share and be able to raise prices in the future. Most failed at doing that, and the bubble burst.
But Google has this insanely profitable AdWords business, and therefore can fund a money-loser and work the ads in slowly... which is exactly what they did with YouTube. Look out phone companies, you're next.
Browser history is filled with skipped numbers to keep up with the competition... see also Netscape vs. IE.
What? Google's not big enough? They need to find sponsors in order to make money? Oh, wait a second...
Google's honoring a password security effort in Linux, and at least calling a cyrpto function in Windows... but why no support for the OSX Keyring?
I'm not quite sure America has its value system on straight. Hit the right spaces on the Wheel of Fortune and solve two or more puzzles, and you could win $1,000,000. Answer 15 multiple choice trivia questions in the hotseat in front of Regis Philbin, wait, what it's now 12 questions in the new season walking around the stage with Meridith Vieira? Still $1,000,000. Ken Jennings is extremely smart, but he took Jeopardy! for multiple millions. Discover a flaw in Internet Explorer or Windows or just go after somebody else's research and count on the unpatched systems being still online... and you just got the ability to run a botnet if you're evil. Untold riches there. Discover flaws in Google's Chrome... and you get paid. But the entire panel of winners gets less than $5,000 for their trouble... Something's not right in the equity here.
Yep, very few professions require fill-in-the-right-bubble skills outside of schools... so having them actually build or write out plans for how they would build something is a much better test.
Registrars are like air traffic control at universities. They keep track of where a class is being held (and make sure they don't double-book a room), who's teaching it, who's attending, what grades the students got...
When I was in school, as soon as the registrar released their schedule for final exam blocks, I e-mailed the professor to ask if this rumor the registrar was spreading was true. Many wanted to hold their finals earlier than the stated date, with the exception of the math department which wanted the last finals slot and always got it.
To me, this was critical information, I wanted to be able to tell my school break job when I'd be back in town so they could plan my work. The earlier I knew when the finals were and weren't, the better.
So, really this is a registrar reacting to a change that has already happened. Final projects have replaced the final exam in many classes, so if a professor wants to hold a memory-based final they need to alert the registrar, as that office's default assumption is changing to if they don't ask for a finals slot, they don't need it.
Canon doesn't just make cameras, they also make copy/fax systems that are already big enough that an 8 inches squared sensor would fit nicely.
It's confirmed that Apple and Cydia each have killbit files that can yank an app after download if needed. Remember the I Am Rich incident.
Storms don't mess with repair efforts, terrorists do.
Public not able to talk securely to another member of the public of their choosing is bad.
Public able to listen into conversations that shouldn't be public is bad.
What's the contradiction?
Fire/Police radios have all gone digital and moved to new frequencies in order to get the ability to use more power, have longer range, and encryption so RadioShack can't sell scanners that hear them anymore.
Use it or lose it is an FCC policy. Leave a station offline too long, they'll pull your license and give it to somebody else.
But all are unencrypted channels that anyone can use, so you can't do secure business on them like you can with a phone.
You're too late.
All US cell companies require ID for a "credit check" that also verifies the ID of whomever is going to pay the bill. They've got your name, SSN, and home address.
Sure, there's prepaid that can be bought with cash, and I know the research into this was done by Ryan Seacrest, Guilana Ransic and the rest of the E! News team, but it doesn't make it any less true. Buy too many minutes with cash only and don't pay with a credit or debit card at all, and they'll raise prices and tap the phone.
As I've posted elsewhere, CB or anything the public can hear, transmit on, and understand is subject to a very simple misinformation attack. You can't do business on the CB channels.
Fresca was introduced by the Coca-Cola company while LBJ was in office.
Wow would you make a bad contestant on The Money List (US Title)/Who Dares Wins (UK Title)... you just claimed there are several other perfectly viable options when a cyber attack has caused the government to down the whole internet and phone networks, and some breaks in the lines done the old fashioned way have downed power. Name them.
Yep... sell 2 million items with an incorrect patent and you're $1,000,000,000 in debt. Wonder if somebody could catch the business doing that?
Who's the troll?
The company that invented the product, got their rightful patent, but their patent rights expired as they should, and is still using old packaging/molds/etc. that display the patent number and are now falsely claiming protection they don't have...
OR...
The lawyer who finds out about this violation of the law, and gets a finder's fee of $250 per product in violation distributed, and raises $250 per product in money for the government who definitely could use some help collecting this fine.
False patent claims can FUD a business away... but we also hate most lawyers here. Editors, please define which side to hate in all arguments. We /. commentators will crash if you execute Story.Comment without the required argument variable "$side".