That was a tongue in cheek comment, since at some level *all* data is metered.
But the economics are quite different now than they were a few years ago.
Hosting that used to cost $10,000 a month because of transfers can now be had for less than $100 or $200.
We're talking about residential broadband here, and the incumbent Cable TV firms that are providing that badly want to protect their
expensive traditional Cable TV service which many people don't see as necessary anymore.
We want to stream what we want when we want. We don't care that something is aired at 8PM on Tuesday, and we want to FF the commercials.
The data caps are to hamstring that. They will not be successful, in a little while.
I found out that my prescription records were stored in Milliman Intelliscript
milliman.com
I was entitled to a report of their data.
I got it, with a FCRA Summary.pdf document, since this falls under the fair credit reporting act.
They got it from my previous health insurance company. You know, they have that 17 page fine print clickthrough agreement that no one can read.
I applied for health insurance, and a nurse from the company I applied to called me and discussed everything ad nauseum, until I finally hung up and refused to buy the insurance.
It was like they were afraid if they signed me up they might have to pay for a prescription or something. That should be just illegal.
I heard where pharmacies are sharing prescription data with each other and with doctors to stop people from going from doctor to doctor to get more meds. More prescriptions than any one doctor would let one patient have. It might be required by law in my state.
It's all pretty ridiculous, anyway. Doctors ask like they give you 30 pills instead of 100 (which might cost the same under a particular pharmacy generic program) they are protecting you, like they don't trust you, the patient. But they do trust you, not to take the whole bottle at once.
TWC and Comcast were two companies that offered the same product in completely different markets. In terms of their affect on the market, they would have had more power over, say, publishers (ie the TV networks), but no more power over, say, home Internet/Cable/Telephone prices than they did before, as the amount of competition in each area would have been unchanged.
While your attempt was noble, this is completely wrong. Both are already monopolies in 90%+ of their market areas. But at least now people can complain that the "other one" is only charging xyz for service in the next town over. IF the merger had gone through the "new" company would just raise prices and lower service EVERYWHERE...
You completely misunderstood, the parent was saying that Directv and ATT were competing, not TWC and Comcast. For consumers, TWC and Comcast do not compete. Whereas today, if AT&T Uverse TV rips you off you can dump them for DirecTV, who will then rip you off instead.
If the merger goes through you won't be able to switch providers, or the ripoff will be computer coordinated to continue. They have rules and filters set up to do that.
OpenWrt is not without it's issues.
It's not a panacea. Unless you need a package that has been implemented on that platform.
If you do, OpenWrt is appropriate.
DDWrt might be slightly easier to configure, but certainly not without it's own problems.
But other platforms are better for average home users. Easier to use.
Man, so many people get glazed looks when asked to make a change to even a simple home router. They are so simple!
When the guy from the cable company did my install and I made the few little changes that needed to be made, his eyes opened wide that I knew how to do that!
He seemed shocked.
Asus is a motherboard company.
They just have a marketing deal to sell routers.
That said, it's probably fine.
But let me just say, Engenius has the features and the WIFI performance. Very strong.
And they are indeed a networking company.
old sff pc with two gigabit nics and a separate switch.. Install linux or bsd of your choice and configure, or use distros tailored to the purpose like zeroshell or m0n0wall.
Uh, right. Now that makes no sense at all for most people.
Zynos is not bad, just turn off remote administration if you don't need it.
If you *do* need remote admin, make sure to establish a good username and pw.
Why leave remote administration on?
I would avoid opening the web UI of any home router on the WAN side.
It's mostly unnecessary and a needless security exposure.
Europe has always had better stuff than the US.
PAL instead of NTSC tv, because they got it after, and it was able to be improved.
America got internet when Algore invented it, and Europe got it after, when better equipment and infrastructure was available.
No surprise about that.
Don't even get me started on the logistics behind putting shit in space. We'll need to call Spock for that logic showdown.
And the cost is such that only one time, the Hubble Space Telescope, were repairs done to an unmanned orbiting object. Because of cost.
It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix that thing.
Cost is important to business. You cannot ignore it, if you do you often find you are making no money at all.
It happens all the time.
im sure firemen and scuba divers might be able to help with that....
Not really. Can you imagine repairing a Dell server with scuba tanks and all that?
It's not that it couldn't be done, of course it could. But it would be much too costly.
Haha. This is essentially impossible.
The more equipment, the more broken equipment, the more techs need to go in to work on it.
An airless data center would have to be a very small data center, because if someone has to go in and fix something, well, they are gonna need oxygen.
Which is precisely what AT&T did with their UVERSE IPTV service.
They exempted the UVERSE TV data the customer used from their data caps and overages, while charging hefty overages for any other usage, whether web browsing, Netflix or Amazon instant video traffic. Or any other kind of traffic.
The exact definition of non-Net Neutrality.
I don't understand the distinction. Practically speaking how would anyone know *why* a badger was angry?
Are we supposed to have a veterinary psychiatrist on staff to help get to the truth?
A soothsayer? An animal psychic?
Good luck with pushing [Windows] 8 to the corporate world... it's about as adoptable as an angry badger with syphilis.
Why would a corporate customer choose to install Windows 8 when Windows 10 is just around the corner? MS will still be pumping out FREE security updates for Windows 7 for 4-5 more years, certainly long enough to wait for Windows 10 SP 1...
Probably because Windows 10 will be designed for a touch interface, which as far as I can tell will never be adopted by most corporate customers.
Can you see a secretary typing a business letter or report on a touchscreen? Talk about low employee productivity! Gad.
Not that Microsoft will not try to get it adopted, but mostly by taking away Windows 7, and before that Windows XP, at which a secretary could sit, and begin productivity immediately.
Hah. No kidding! I had a Win2k Server in a closet on a DSL line doing what I needed it for, mail, FTP, tiny bit of web hosting. For over 10 years!
When it finally failed I had to go deal with it, I had forgotten how it worked.
It was there so darned long, years after discontinuance of security patches for that OS.
It ran for so many years. I just can't complain about that. Not at all.
I notice you're not still running Windows 98, so why is XP so long lasting?
I admit the problems it has with exploits, and the EOL issue what was caused entirely by Microsoft for business reasons.
XP will go down in history as the best OS made. Ever.
Non irritating, not many problems, easy to work with and use, within it's limitations.
Windows 8.1 is just ridiculous. It hardly meets the needs of business at all, too many problems. That silly touch interface is just insane.
Microsoft is trying hard to jam Windows 8.1 and soon Windows 10 down our throats, but XP was clearly the most powerful OS that MS has made, and Windows 7 is a barely usable but certainly much less convenient OS than XP.
Which completely explains why there are so many computers in the world still running and being used productively with XP.
Hundreds of millions of them.
I also donated to everydns.net, and I used them for years.
Then Dyn bought them, made a big show of keeping the everydns promise to us. "It'll always be free".
Then they asked for money, I think it was $10, which I paid.
I have them on a few domains, and they have kept my free acct active after I paid them.
The token payment was to separate the slackers from those that were willing to pay at least a little, which meant you were still actually using the service.
I am sure it wasn't the money.
Dyn does have a history of buying their free competitors. To get rid of them.
One thing about them, they are not nice guys. Not at all.
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That was a tongue in cheek comment, since at some level *all* data is metered.
But the economics are quite different now than they were a few years ago.
Hosting that used to cost $10,000 a month because of transfers can now be had for less than $100 or $200.
We're talking about residential broadband here, and the incumbent Cable TV firms that are providing that badly want to protect their
expensive traditional Cable TV service which many people don't see as necessary anymore.
We want to stream what we want when we want.
We don't care that something is aired at 8PM on Tuesday, and we want to FF the commercials.
The data caps are to hamstring that. They will not be successful, in a little while.
We don't want any data caps, just because we don't. Heh.
Yeah, I think it was mostly TAPR in Tucson, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio that blazed those trails.
I'd be interested in hearing insights.
I found out that my prescription records were stored in Milliman Intelliscript
milliman.com
I was entitled to a report of their data.
I got it, with a FCRA Summary.pdf document, since this falls under the fair credit reporting act.
They got it from my previous health insurance company. You know, they have that 17 page fine print clickthrough agreement that no one can read.
I applied for health insurance, and a nurse from the company I applied to called me and discussed everything ad nauseum, until I finally hung up and refused to buy the insurance.
It was like they were afraid if they signed me up they might have to pay for a prescription or something. That should be just illegal.
I heard where pharmacies are sharing prescription data with each other and with doctors to stop people from going from doctor to doctor to get more meds. More prescriptions than any one doctor would let one patient have. It might be required by law in my state.
It's all pretty ridiculous, anyway. Doctors ask like they give you 30 pills instead of 100 (which might cost the same under a particular pharmacy generic program) they are protecting you, like they don't trust you, the patient. But they do trust you, not to take the whole bottle at once.
So what's the point?
Well, I'll take a stab at it.
TWC and Comcast were two companies that offered the same product in completely different markets. In terms of their affect on the market, they would have had more power over, say, publishers (ie the TV networks), but no more power over, say, home Internet/Cable/Telephone prices than they did before, as the amount of competition in each area would have been unchanged.
While your attempt was noble, this is completely wrong. Both are already monopolies in 90%+ of their market areas. But at least now people can complain that the "other one" is only charging xyz for service in the next town over. IF the merger had gone through the "new" company would just raise prices and lower service EVERYWHERE...
You completely misunderstood, the parent was saying that Directv and ATT were competing, not TWC and Comcast. For consumers, TWC and Comcast do not compete. Whereas today, if AT&T Uverse TV rips you off you can dump them for DirecTV, who will then rip you off instead.
If the merger goes through you won't be able to switch providers, or the ripoff will be computer coordinated to continue. They have rules and filters set up to do that.
Put OpenWrt on it and problem over.
OpenWrt is not without it's issues.
It's not a panacea. Unless you need a package that has been implemented on that platform.
If you do, OpenWrt is appropriate.
DDWrt might be slightly easier to configure, but certainly not without it's own problems.
But other platforms are better for average home users. Easier to use.
Man, so many people get glazed looks when asked to make a change to even a simple home router. They are so simple!
When the guy from the cable company did my install and I made the few little changes that needed to be made, his eyes opened wide that I knew how to do that!
He seemed shocked.
Asus is a motherboard company.
They just have a marketing deal to sell routers.
That said, it's probably fine.
But let me just say, Engenius has the features and the WIFI performance. Very strong.
And they are indeed a networking company.
old sff pc with two gigabit nics and a separate switch.. Install linux or bsd of your choice and configure, or use distros tailored to the purpose like zeroshell or m0n0wall.
Uh, right. Now that makes no sense at all for most people.
Zynos is not bad, just turn off remote administration if you don't need it.
If you *do* need remote admin, make sure to establish a good username and pw.
The funny thing is, hundreds of thousands of Cisco routers are open to the WAN with only a pw, no username at all. Somehow we get by. Heh.
Why leave remote administration on?
I would avoid opening the web UI of any home router on the WAN side.
It's mostly unnecessary and a needless security exposure.
Europe has always had better stuff than the US.
PAL instead of NTSC tv, because they got it after, and it was able to be improved.
America got internet when Algore invented it, and Europe got it after, when better equipment and infrastructure was available.
No surprise about that.
Don't even get me started on the logistics behind putting shit in space. We'll need to call Spock for that logic showdown.
And the cost is such that only one time, the Hubble Space Telescope, were repairs done to an unmanned orbiting object. Because of cost.
It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix that thing.
Cost is important to business. You cannot ignore it, if you do you often find you are making no money at all.
It happens all the time.
im sure firemen and scuba divers might be able to help with that....
Not really. Can you imagine repairing a Dell server with scuba tanks and all that?
It's not that it couldn't be done, of course it could. But it would be much too costly.
Haha. This is essentially impossible.
The more equipment, the more broken equipment, the more techs need to go in to work on it.
An airless data center would have to be a very small data center, because if someone has to go in and fix something, well, they are gonna need oxygen.
Which is precisely what AT&T did with their UVERSE IPTV service.
They exempted the UVERSE TV data the customer used from their data caps and overages, while charging hefty overages for any other usage, whether web browsing, Netflix or Amazon instant video traffic. Or any other kind of traffic.
The exact definition of non-Net Neutrality.
I don't understand the distinction. Practically speaking how would anyone know *why* a badger was angry?
Are we supposed to have a veterinary psychiatrist on staff to help get to the truth?
A soothsayer? An animal psychic?
Good point.
Why would a corporate customer choose to install Windows 8 when Windows 10 is just around the corner? MS will still be pumping out FREE security updates for Windows 7 for 4-5 more years, certainly long enough to wait for Windows 10 SP 1...
Probably because Windows 10 will be designed for a touch interface, which as far as I can tell will never be adopted by most corporate customers.
Can you see a secretary typing a business letter or report on a touchscreen? Talk about low employee productivity! Gad.
Not that Microsoft will not try to get it adopted, but mostly by taking away Windows 7, and before that Windows XP, at which a secretary could sit, and begin productivity immediately.
Syphilis?
Do you have information that syphilis is transferable to animals? Are we blaming Microsoft for that now?
Hah.
Hah. No kidding! I had a Win2k Server in a closet on a DSL line doing what I needed it for, mail, FTP, tiny bit of web hosting. For over 10 years!
When it finally failed I had to go deal with it, I had forgotten how it worked.
It was there so darned long, years after discontinuance of security patches for that OS.
It ran for so many years. I just can't complain about that. Not at all.
I notice you're not still running Windows 98, so why is XP so long lasting?
I admit the problems it has with exploits, and the EOL issue what was caused entirely by Microsoft for business reasons.
XP will go down in history as the best OS made. Ever.
Non irritating, not many problems, easy to work with and use, within it's limitations.
Windows 8.1 is just ridiculous. It hardly meets the needs of business at all, too many problems. That silly touch interface is just insane.
Microsoft is trying hard to jam Windows 8.1 and soon Windows 10 down our throats, but XP was clearly the most powerful OS that MS has made, and Windows 7 is a barely usable but certainly much less convenient OS than XP.
Which completely explains why there are so many computers in the world still running and being used productively with XP.
Hundreds of millions of them.
I also donated to everydns.net, and I used them for years.
Then Dyn bought them, made a big show of keeping the everydns promise to us. "It'll always be free".
Then they asked for money, I think it was $10, which I paid.
I have them on a few domains, and they have kept my free acct active after I paid them.
The token payment was to separate the slackers from those that were willing to pay at least a little, which meant you were still actually using the service.
I am sure it wasn't the money.
Dyn does have a history of buying their free competitors. To get rid of them.
One thing about them, they are not nice guys. Not at all.
Wow, that Therac-25 writeup is fascinating.