That's a logical solution, though factor in greed and you have 'not in my lifetime'
Next in line to cash in will be the ISP's and backbone providers. (Indeed, they are trying already) They'll claim that each and every single bit actually costs them money to send over the glass, even though they are making a metric crap ton of cash above and beyond the cost to maintain and keep the infrastructure running and in good working order. Paying the electricity bill isn't exactly a struggle for them.
That may be so, but they only speak for themselves. Not the whole world. It's not exactly a great message your people are sending. Some judge in the US gets to decide on things that actually affect me, on the other side of the world. You want your copyright enforced in my country, but you don't much care about my copyrights. I don't get it?
CAPTCHAs have been dead for a long time already. Please direct me to the spam software that can actually read and interpret these for me, because I have about an 80% failure rate. I'm human, the very thing that is supposed to be able to figure all this out. If I see a site asking me to type in some obscure word or number, I click elsewhere. It's just too much trouble.
Spammers aren't using software to solve this problem anyway! Bold statement you might say? Maybe. Travel your backside to Asia, or, from the comfort of your own chair you could visit sites like sulit.com.ph (think craigs list wanna-be, it's that kind of thing) Every 3rd advert is asking for 'writers' that can log in to forums and post at least 3 or more messages before getting banned. How much does the lucky employee earn? About $200 USD and up per month. It's real money. So who is paying for this? People like the PHB in 1st world corporate wasteland, maybe your CEO thinking it's a good way to get more hits, maybe you. (No, not you personally) Evidently it works or the money wouldn't be flowing, and you wouldn't have 3000 people advertising this service each and every day.
Really? I mostly use transmission, sometimes bittorrent-curses, though in either case, I always set the max upload rate to around 3 kilobytes per second and get download speeds in the 1 to 2 megabyte range depending on what the content actually is. What is this quid-pro-quo you speak of?
Perhaps to expand on what you are saying, because you are dead on accurate: GSM and many POTS telephone services use CCITT7, this comes with SANC, OPC, DPC, & ISPC codes (along with many others), these are all well established. The majority of countries that want to play nice with the rest of the world actually have to use these codes properly too. (Signalling systems are a complex business!) So what actually are these codes? They describe the geography of international telephone circuits. The phone companies latitude and longitude if you will, accurate to about the first digit. I did not say decimal place!:-) What can they be used for? Hypothetically speaking, one would feel confident in presuming these would be used by your local 3 letter agency to 'filter out the good guys' - that's about the only way I can figure it could be done practically anyway. Well, aside from I guess using the label written on some masking tape in sharpie at either end of the international fiber to figure out roughly who is using it. (Note: your good guys may not match my good guys, but that's a political thing)
Now obviously the diligent programer of this particular 'black box' would be inclined to put switches in to do this filtering based on these pretty little acronyms, thus allowing the owners of the 3 letter agency to legitimately talk about 'safeguards' and such. This is great, fantastic. Now, step in greedy middle level managers, directors, and politicians looking for that fast track up the ladder, or just in love with the whole "I can spy on your telephone call!!1!one!!" Rhetorical Question: You really think those switches are going to be in safe mode?
This article is news, you are having comprehension issues. The article writer is not using or wanting a proxy to handle email.
The short version, since you missed it.
* Built in mail client set up wizard = spyware (And since there is no other method to create an account, how do you propose one avoid it?)
When I set up thunderbird to talk to MY imap/pop server, I don't expect it to go off and give my authentication details to Mozilla. When I set up my phone in exactly the same way, I don't expect it to hand out my authentication info to Nokia.
Thunderbird doesn't do this. Nokia does. How is that not news? The system you are talking about is entirely different to the one the author is describing.
This is a pretty common outcome here in Asia. Everyone partakes in it from street sweepers through to politicians, it's going to be an uphill battle to eradicate from the home. That said, Indesign and Photoshop are applications that we were using on a regular basis for business. Pirated of course. We started to use it pretty seriously so we ended up buying a few copies of it. Not cheap either, we dropped about 2,500 USD on it all.
Now I was happy to do this, bring the business up to speed with software licenses, fully piracy free these days, but.... Adobe... Seriously, please don't ask your resellers to 'remind' me that piracy is illegal. I know that it is, we all do. And when you want copies of my drivers licenses and other government ID just to buy your stuff, I feel like you assumption is that I, the customer, am going to rip the CD out of the plastic and torrent it 15 minutes later. (I refused, they wanted the money so they waived the requirement) Did you not just see the receipt, over 2 grand my friend. I ain't giving that away to anyone, even have the serial numbers locked in the safe!
My baby girl gives me shitty nappies (diapers), elevated stress and terror whenever she takes to her own two feet, tantrums, an annoying cry, uses indestructible toys to bust other indestructible toys and household items, and so on and so forth... But, and I have no rational or logical reason to explain my emotions toward her, I would sacrifice my own life to protect or save hers, if I would do this, then I figure it's love. Probably it's just a hard wired response or chemical, though whatever, I've convinced myself (with pretty much no trouble at all) that this is love and it's good enough for me.
Observation is relative. You see it this way, someone else sees it another. I'm not saying you are wrong though, but consider that ones response might also be 'taking', if it's at all emotional then it is manufactured. That retard that cuts you off by running down the construction lane and cutting in at the last second, that could piss you off for sure, but, you can train yourself to be much more 'give a fuck' about the whole situation and live a less stressful life instead - tap the brakes and let the idiot in.
It's not so much the cost that matters, it's the monopolies you mention. They are not natural though, they were formed from contracts that were drafted with precision greed and much forward contemplation of their potential future value. They did have a hundred years or so of prior telephony contracts to give them a good heads up. It'll be many years and many legal battles before your new generation get to turn their first clump of dirt.
Equally as absurd. Here in the Philippines the police were so vexed with crimes committed by Motorbike riders that they briefly implemented a new law (it was shot down) mandating riders and passengers actually stencil their Name and Plate number to either side of their helmet as a way to curb crime. And when I say passengers, I mean all 13 of them on a slow day. At a random police checkpoint in the palm tree infested rolling provincial countryside: "You're carrying livestock today sir? I see your bovine friends here are not helmeted, and their currently absent helmet is also lacking the aforementioned plate number, that's a double fine for you."
I put windows 95 on one of my laptops a few days back, then took it to starbucks. While I didn't pull in any chicks (my wife would kill me anyway), I did get a few laughs. I can't believe I put up with all those blue screens back in the day. It's not nearly as good as I remember it being.
You're not in the infrastructure business are you. Bandwidth is expensive because the people that string cable around the planet are like little home owner associations - you want to pass through MY patch, you got to pay me. And since the only way for you to get your crap over there and back is via me, I'll name my price. That's not the end of it though. The companies that slap their routers and stuff at either end of the cable are not always the same as the people that own the cable, so they all want their McMansions, 2.8 luxury cars, and 1.5 children as well. This is an out of control market, insanely complicated. The only way it'll be fixed is by having more YouTube's in the world, and more people demanding they want in on it.
How many of your employees did you teach to use Microsoft stuff before they stepped in to the office? I'm guessing that number is near on zero. If someone writes "computer literate" on their resume, then I assume they mean they have at least the most perfunctory understanding of "File -> Save" - if they can grasp that, then the operating system really doesn't matter these days. If they can't, they are not computer literate and get the boot. Anyone that whines, and yes, lots of people do when confronted with change, you say suck it up, you want your pay check, teach yourself how to learn the same trivially easy stuff in a slightly (probably better) rearranged menu structure. Your "Excel" icon is now called "Calc", it's right there on the desktop too, if you don't know what something is, click on it and do some of that learning thing. It's not hard.
Yup, I understand some people actually do need a proprietary operating system and software layout, they get what they need to do the job. If anyone can figure out better, faster, and cheaper ways to do the same job, they get promoted.
HTML is plain old text. SMS is also plain old text. In the GSM spec there is support for multi-part messages, so what exactly is the need for this canonical business again? And why canonical, why not http://...?a=a or...?a=b The meaning is entirely arbitrary, it matters only to the person writing the link or the geek coding the back end system to interpret it. If ones twitter post requires several individual SMSezes all muxed up transparently by the phone, then in this day and age, it really needs to 'just work already' Maybe it does, maybe I'm missing something here? The article didn't entirely make sense to me anyway.
Water and data delivery are not the same. Water: burst pipes, an empty reservoir. Wait for repairs and nature to replenish. Data: mostly dark fiber, nuclear power plant sucking water out of the ocean, relatively inexpensive electricity bill paid in full every month. The issue is bandwidth, but really, this is a work of fiction. Every other year newer kit is dropped on the market that allows higher bandwidth through the same strand of glass. If you consider the glass as being forever half full, then you would be right on the money, or rather, rolling in mountains of the green stuff and laughing at the ignorance of Joe. Average. Public.
Bandwidth is not really the problem here, bandwidth is not going to run out any time soon. What you have are a bunch of drones up at the top that don't want to invest in newer and better tech, this is understandable, got to appease the share holders. It's greed. Naught more than that.
I don't like to add a "me too" but not just 5 days ago I added an "ejabberd" service. Found it to be fairly complicated and problematic. The documentation presumes one would be all knowing on the subject. Transports were complicated, modules assumed I would read the source code to make them work, the included readme files were a little bit circular and devoid of actual configuration information. And the init script that was provided completely failed to do anything at all. It took a few days messing about to get it somewhat usable, now this isn't a bad thing, I gained a good appreciation for instant messaging in general, but I run across this story just now, and here I am with openfire up and running, doing everything I wanted and much more, just 15 minutes later.
Although there is much controversy on the topic, having your car thrashed in the wild for those first two or three digits on the odometer is likely to be doing the engine a good service. Matching up the piston ring to the cylinder wall is, by all accounts, best done with short and hard bursts of power and a few oil changes. (Here's the first website I dug up: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm) How does this even remotely relate to that brand new game? I'm not sure, but I'm positive someone, somewhere, has built a device or application to 'pre-condition' the bits somehow for better longevity, maybe it spins the CD at 24386RPM for the first 3 million rotations, who knows, either way, whatever it is will be filled with references to phase change and numerous buzzwords.
QT doesn't need a whole bunch of wrappers and libraries to fake a windows environment, DVDFab does. End of story.
What is it with DVD ripping software anyway, the vast majority of it assumes people are frigging experts at bit rates, codecs, containers, video formats, audio formats, and on and on. Most of it also lets you blindly click away at a hundred options no matter how borked and demented the logic is. While an exceedingly small number of applications might actually tell you your choices wont work out so good, the vast majority of it simply goes off and does the stupid and you only find out it wont work after it's done.
I met Rupert in Melbourne once at some kind of technology convention, naturally he had no time for anyone before he was shuffled off in a luxury car to other more worthy members of the human race. He didn't strike me as having a single shred of decency, a man that has enough money in liquid cash to support the next 36 generations of his offspring in a lavish life of hookers and beer. Is it any wonder that these people at the top of the pyramid are not sympathetic to your messed up newspaper? After all, they have theirs printed on pure gold leaf with a person to read it from cover to cover for them. They don't live in the real world.
I thought those same expletives you did, but I went one step further and looked it up. I only have 10 years to ignore my stuff before they take it away, not 15. The law is so old it actually has references to Kings in it, and something about the Spanish empire! I wish I was joking.
(Disclaimer: I'm Australian, now living elsewhere) You don't really know what an SUV is, and I say this not to you in particular, but to the general populous. In Australia you've mostly only ever seen those big arsed SUV's on TV. Sure, you might think the huge 4x4 the MILF next door takes the kids to school in is massive, but really, it's a bitty little Toyota, and it is a fair chunk smaller than the obnoxious Fords, Hummers, and tricked out Escalades you get elsewhere in the world. Australian's never really got in to the whole truck as a car thing, most people still kick around in their limited edition factory mold holden or ford (just like everyone else.)
Other than this, I actually have nothing to add or take away from your post. Sorry.
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That's a logical solution, though factor in greed and you have 'not in my lifetime'
Next in line to cash in will be the ISP's and backbone providers. (Indeed, they are trying already) They'll claim that each and every single bit actually costs them money to send over the glass, even though they are making a metric crap ton of cash above and beyond the cost to maintain and keep the infrastructure running and in good working order. Paying the electricity bill isn't exactly a struggle for them.
That may be so, but they only speak for themselves. Not the whole world. It's not exactly a great message your people are sending. Some judge in the US gets to decide on things that actually affect me, on the other side of the world. You want your copyright enforced in my country, but you don't much care about my copyrights. I don't get it?
CAPTCHAs have been dead for a long time already. Please direct me to the spam software that can actually read and interpret these for me, because I have about an 80% failure rate. I'm human, the very thing that is supposed to be able to figure all this out. If I see a site asking me to type in some obscure word or number, I click elsewhere. It's just too much trouble.
Spammers aren't using software to solve this problem anyway! Bold statement you might say? Maybe. Travel your backside to Asia, or, from the comfort of your own chair you could visit sites like sulit.com.ph (think craigs list wanna-be, it's that kind of thing) Every 3rd advert is asking for 'writers' that can log in to forums and post at least 3 or more messages before getting banned. How much does the lucky employee earn? About $200 USD and up per month. It's real money. So who is paying for this? People like the PHB in 1st world corporate wasteland, maybe your CEO thinking it's a good way to get more hits, maybe you. (No, not you personally) Evidently it works or the money wouldn't be flowing, and you wouldn't have 3000 people advertising this service each and every day.
Really? I mostly use transmission, sometimes bittorrent-curses, though in either case, I always set the max upload rate to around 3 kilobytes per second and get download speeds in the 1 to 2 megabyte range depending on what the content actually is. What is this quid-pro-quo you speak of?
Perhaps to expand on what you are saying, because you are dead on accurate: GSM and many POTS telephone services use CCITT7, this comes with SANC, OPC, DPC, & ISPC codes (along with many others), these are all well established. The majority of countries that want to play nice with the rest of the world actually have to use these codes properly too. (Signalling systems are a complex business!) So what actually are these codes? They describe the geography of international telephone circuits. The phone companies latitude and longitude if you will, accurate to about the first digit. I did not say decimal place! :-) What can they be used for? Hypothetically speaking, one would feel confident in presuming these would be used by your local 3 letter agency to 'filter out the good guys' - that's about the only way I can figure it could be done practically anyway. Well, aside from I guess using the label written on some masking tape in sharpie at either end of the international fiber to figure out roughly who is using it. (Note: your good guys may not match my good guys, but that's a political thing)
Now obviously the diligent programer of this particular 'black box' would be inclined to put switches in to do this filtering based on these pretty little acronyms, thus allowing the owners of the 3 letter agency to legitimately talk about 'safeguards' and such. This is great, fantastic. Now, step in greedy middle level managers, directors, and politicians looking for that fast track up the ladder, or just in love with the whole "I can spy on your telephone call!!1!one!!" Rhetorical Question: You really think those switches are going to be in safe mode?
This article is news, you are having comprehension issues. The article writer is not using or wanting a proxy to handle email.
The short version, since you missed it.
* Built in mail client set up wizard = spyware (And since there is no other method to create an account, how do you propose one avoid it?)
When I set up thunderbird to talk to MY imap/pop server, I don't expect it to go off and give my authentication details to Mozilla.
When I set up my phone in exactly the same way, I don't expect it to hand out my authentication info to Nokia.
Thunderbird doesn't do this. Nokia does. How is that not news? The system you are talking about is entirely different to the one the author is describing.
This is a pretty common outcome here in Asia. Everyone partakes in it from street sweepers through to politicians, it's going to be an uphill battle to eradicate from the home. That said, Indesign and Photoshop are applications that we were using on a regular basis for business. Pirated of course. We started to use it pretty seriously so we ended up buying a few copies of it. Not cheap either, we dropped about 2,500 USD on it all.
Now I was happy to do this, bring the business up to speed with software licenses, fully piracy free these days, but.... Adobe... Seriously, please don't ask your resellers to 'remind' me that piracy is illegal. I know that it is, we all do. And when you want copies of my drivers licenses and other government ID just to buy your stuff, I feel like you assumption is that I, the customer, am going to rip the CD out of the plastic and torrent it 15 minutes later. (I refused, they wanted the money so they waived the requirement) Did you not just see the receipt, over 2 grand my friend. I ain't giving that away to anyone, even have the serial numbers locked in the safe!
My baby girl gives me shitty nappies (diapers), elevated stress and terror whenever she takes to her own two feet, tantrums, an annoying cry, uses indestructible toys to bust other indestructible toys and household items, and so on and so forth... But, and I have no rational or logical reason to explain my emotions toward her, I would sacrifice my own life to protect or save hers, if I would do this, then I figure it's love. Probably it's just a hard wired response or chemical, though whatever, I've convinced myself (with pretty much no trouble at all) that this is love and it's good enough for me.
Observation is relative. You see it this way, someone else sees it another. I'm not saying you are wrong though, but consider that ones response might also be 'taking', if it's at all emotional then it is manufactured. That retard that cuts you off by running down the construction lane and cutting in at the last second, that could piss you off for sure, but, you can train yourself to be much more 'give a fuck' about the whole situation and live a less stressful life instead - tap the brakes and let the idiot in.
It's not so much the cost that matters, it's the monopolies you mention. They are not natural though, they were formed from contracts that were drafted with precision greed and much forward contemplation of their potential future value. They did have a hundred years or so of prior telephony contracts to give them a good heads up. It'll be many years and many legal battles before your new generation get to turn their first clump of dirt.
Equally as absurd. Here in the Philippines the police were so vexed with crimes committed by Motorbike riders that they briefly implemented a new law (it was shot down) mandating riders and passengers actually stencil their Name and Plate number to either side of their helmet as a way to curb crime. And when I say passengers, I mean all 13 of them on a slow day. At a random police checkpoint in the palm tree infested rolling provincial countryside: "You're carrying livestock today sir? I see your bovine friends here are not helmeted, and their currently absent helmet is also lacking the aforementioned plate number, that's a double fine for you."
I put windows 95 on one of my laptops a few days back, then took it to starbucks. While I didn't pull in any chicks (my wife would kill me anyway), I did get a few laughs. I can't believe I put up with all those blue screens back in the day. It's not nearly as good as I remember it being.
While I am happy that you have some reserves left in your overall caring potential, me, I'm out, I simply could NOT care any less than what I do now.
You're not in the infrastructure business are you. Bandwidth is expensive because the people that string cable around the planet are like little home owner associations - you want to pass through MY patch, you got to pay me. And since the only way for you to get your crap over there and back is via me, I'll name my price. That's not the end of it though. The companies that slap their routers and stuff at either end of the cable are not always the same as the people that own the cable, so they all want their McMansions, 2.8 luxury cars, and 1.5 children as well. This is an out of control market, insanely complicated. The only way it'll be fixed is by having more YouTube's in the world, and more people demanding they want in on it.
How many of your employees did you teach to use Microsoft stuff before they stepped in to the office? I'm guessing that number is near on zero. If someone writes "computer literate" on their resume, then I assume they mean they have at least the most perfunctory understanding of "File -> Save" - if they can grasp that, then the operating system really doesn't matter these days. If they can't, they are not computer literate and get the boot. Anyone that whines, and yes, lots of people do when confronted with change, you say suck it up, you want your pay check, teach yourself how to learn the same trivially easy stuff in a slightly (probably better) rearranged menu structure. Your "Excel" icon is now called "Calc", it's right there on the desktop too, if you don't know what something is, click on it and do some of that learning thing. It's not hard.
Yup, I understand some people actually do need a proprietary operating system and software layout, they get what they need to do the job. If anyone can figure out better, faster, and cheaper ways to do the same job, they get promoted.
HTML is plain old text. SMS is also plain old text. In the GSM spec there is support for multi-part messages, so what exactly is the need for this canonical business again? And why canonical, why not http://...?a=a or ...?a=b The meaning is entirely arbitrary, it matters only to the person writing the link or the geek coding the back end system to interpret it. If ones twitter post requires several individual SMSezes all muxed up transparently by the phone, then in this day and age, it really needs to 'just work already' Maybe it does, maybe I'm missing something here? The article didn't entirely make sense to me anyway.
Water and data delivery are not the same. Water: burst pipes, an empty reservoir. Wait for repairs and nature to replenish. Data: mostly dark fiber, nuclear power plant sucking water out of the ocean, relatively inexpensive electricity bill paid in full every month. The issue is bandwidth, but really, this is a work of fiction. Every other year newer kit is dropped on the market that allows higher bandwidth through the same strand of glass. If you consider the glass as being forever half full, then you would be right on the money, or rather, rolling in mountains of the green stuff and laughing at the ignorance of Joe. Average. Public.
Bandwidth is not really the problem here, bandwidth is not going to run out any time soon. What you have are a bunch of drones up at the top that don't want to invest in newer and better tech, this is understandable, got to appease the share holders. It's greed. Naught more than that.
I don't like to add a "me too" but not just 5 days ago I added an "ejabberd" service. Found it to be fairly complicated and problematic. The documentation presumes one would be all knowing on the subject. Transports were complicated, modules assumed I would read the source code to make them work, the included readme files were a little bit circular and devoid of actual configuration information. And the init script that was provided completely failed to do anything at all. It took a few days messing about to get it somewhat usable, now this isn't a bad thing, I gained a good appreciation for instant messaging in general, but I run across this story just now, and here I am with openfire up and running, doing everything I wanted and much more, just 15 minutes later.
I too found this story rather relevant.
That I was sir!
Although there is much controversy on the topic, having your car thrashed in the wild for those first two or three digits on the odometer is likely to be doing the engine a good service. Matching up the piston ring to the cylinder wall is, by all accounts, best done with short and hard bursts of power and a few oil changes. (Here's the first website I dug up: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm) How does this even remotely relate to that brand new game? I'm not sure, but I'm positive someone, somewhere, has built a device or application to 'pre-condition' the bits somehow for better longevity, maybe it spins the CD at 24386RPM for the first 3 million rotations, who knows, either way, whatever it is will be filled with references to phase change and numerous buzzwords.
QT doesn't need a whole bunch of wrappers and libraries to fake a windows environment, DVDFab does. End of story.
What is it with DVD ripping software anyway, the vast majority of it assumes people are frigging experts at bit rates, codecs, containers, video formats, audio formats, and on and on. Most of it also lets you blindly click away at a hundred options no matter how borked and demented the logic is. While an exceedingly small number of applications might actually tell you your choices wont work out so good, the vast majority of it simply goes off and does the stupid and you only find out it wont work after it's done.
I met Rupert in Melbourne once at some kind of technology convention, naturally he had no time for anyone before he was shuffled off in a luxury car to other more worthy members of the human race. He didn't strike me as having a single shred of decency, a man that has enough money in liquid cash to support the next 36 generations of his offspring in a lavish life of hookers and beer. Is it any wonder that these people at the top of the pyramid are not sympathetic to your messed up newspaper? After all, they have theirs printed on pure gold leaf with a person to read it from cover to cover for them. They don't live in the real world.
Panadol. Common in the UK and Australia.
You should take a look some time. The 'best of craigslist' is pretty funny in its own right.
Eg: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/518589816.html (Dear Internet Porn) - Text only, so probably safe for work :-)
I thought those same expletives you did, but I went one step further and looked it up. I only have 10 years to ignore my stuff before they take it away, not 15. The law is so old it actually has references to Kings in it, and something about the Spanish empire! I wish I was joking.
(Disclaimer: I'm Australian, now living elsewhere) You don't really know what an SUV is, and I say this not to you in particular, but to the general populous. In Australia you've mostly only ever seen those big arsed SUV's on TV. Sure, you might think the huge 4x4 the MILF next door takes the kids to school in is massive, but really, it's a bitty little Toyota, and it is a fair chunk smaller than the obnoxious Fords, Hummers, and tricked out Escalades you get elsewhere in the world. Australian's never really got in to the whole truck as a car thing, most people still kick around in their limited edition factory mold holden or ford (just like everyone else.)
Other than this, I actually have nothing to add or take away from your post. Sorry.