Have you seen what happens on facebook, twitter, (insert any of a massive number of "me too, must make noise or believe life is not worth living" websites)?
The Internet has been royally forked for many years now.
Any sufficiently accurate simulation is indistinguishable from reality.
Corollary: Any simulation distinguishable from reality is insufficiently accurate.
Phil P
Now, if it can be shown that Comcast downgraded their service through TATA, then the claim related to network neutrality begins to have a little more merit. But simply choosing not to spend more money is not enough grounds to make such a claim.
Apparently the word on the street is that they have been actively downgrading their capacity with alternate upstream service providers. So no they have not downgraded their capacity with TATA, but they are now expecting their TATA link to carry more traffic. The end result is the same. They apparently are deliberately engineering a situation to force others to pay them to carry the bits into their network.
In a sufficiently competitive marketplace, businesses who charge too high a price for their services lose customers and eventually go bust.
The corollary is that if a business charges too high a price for their services but does not go bust due to losing customers, then the marketplace is insufficiently competitive.
Cable video+internet services is often a market with insufficient competition. Although usually that's because all too often there's ONE SINGLE PROVIDER for a given geographical area.
The websites in these cases amount to a storefront to distribute fake goods or copyrighted materials. When this happens with physical storefronts, they get shut down. I don't really see how this is any different.
So you're admitting in full view of slashdot that YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT?
In The Real World "shutdown" means the business and people running said storefronts are brought to justice.
In The Online World, all they've done is turned out the lights. Tomorrow the lights will be turned on by THE SAME BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE, doing THE SAME THINGS, from a different domain name.
YOU HAVE ACHIEVED EXACTLY NOTHING except stomped across a whole bunch of things for which you SHOULD have absolutely no jurisdiction over (copyright infringement is NOT a DHS issue no matter what recently crafted law says otherwise).
You haVe WHORED OUT the JUSTICE SYSTEM for PROTECTING COMMERCIAL INTERESTS and NOTHING MORE.
Having said that, there's a lot of good in theory in what The NBN might possibly do, if it is done well and properly. Having said that, there's a lot of evil that may come about as a reuslt of the NBN, if it's done poorly.
The Devil is in the details. Details which we do not yet have. Details which are being defined and/or controlled by Them Politicians. (duh bahstids)
Not that I'm implying that The Will Screw This Up (if there's any way that is possible). But Based On Previous Performance, Confidence of a Complete Charlie Foxtrot is HIGH.
Seriously Folks - Prove Me Wrong - I DOUBLE DARES YA - Get It Right (for once).
The evidence is that few governments misuse their power significantly.
You sir are a complete moron! significantly , in this usage, is a weasel word.
When you say "significanty" the obvious question is "significant as measured by what metrics, specifically?".
I would suggest that the phrase "any government with any power will abuse said power to some extent at some point" is absolutely true for any and all values of "power"/"government"/"abuse".
The important thing is to be ETERNALLY VIGILANT lest their abuse of power become a problem for society. This means for *any* situation in which they are given more "power" (control, etc) there MUST be *extremely* good reason, because it's a guaranteed fact that *some day* someone in the government will ABUSE it.
What is needed is a drastic change, one in which the people reassert their control over the government that purports to serve them. I doubt this will happen, but nevertheless it is the only viable solution.
Oddly enough this is exactly what "the terrorists" are trying to achieve, with the obvious caveat that "the people" in this case would be The Terrorists rather than US Citizens.
So basically you're saying THEY are right, The System is Broken and needs to be replaced *completely*.
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
Seriously folks, that's the worlds bigest copout.
The point of the Geneva Convention was to draw a line in the sand. If there's ANY question that it might possibly be turture, then it is.
The primary concept is this: if you were innocent, were detained for questioning, and THEY did THIS to YOU... Would you be TOTALLY PISSED , or would you think they were being perfectly reasonable?
Pretty much everything going on in the brain is a "chemical imbalance", in the end it's all chemistry. If it was perfectly balanced then it'd be static, nothing going on at all.
The world however is FULL of retarded monkeys who think that the phrase "a chemical balance" conveys meaning when talking about processes within our neural structures.
What the retarded monkeys are TRYING to say is more like "an unwanted chemical imbalance" or "an atypical chemical imbalance" (ie that the "typical" balances are what comes naturally in the "normal" functioning human brain).
.... The Majority of Humanity are basically the homo sapiens equivalent of retarded sheep. Kinda makes you think fondly of the Nazi Eugenics program, really.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you seen what happens on facebook, twitter, (insert any of a massive number of "me too, must make noise or believe life is not worth living" websites)?
The Internet has been royally forked for many years now.
Q: Is There A God?
A: There is NOW!
Since when have psychiatrists ever been happy?
"googlean" ??
Is that even a WORD?
(Hint: it is NOW)
Cue Heat-Death of the planet in
Five
Four
Three
Two
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Nobody saw the dolphins leave.
Just like: Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition!
Though some of us have this delightful memorial fishbowl.
AC FAIL!
The LAB mice were NOT studying *anything*.
Planet Earth was a calculator, Dent Arthur Dent was the final output, his Brain therefore contained The Result (cue trumpet fanfare).
Any sufficiently accurate simulation is indistinguishable from reality. Corollary: Any simulation distinguishable from reality is insufficiently accurate. Phil P
Clearly this is an attempt to invoke Laplace's Demon.
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
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Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away
Oh Oh Oh
Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Wooooo
Now, if it can be shown that Comcast downgraded their service through TATA, then the claim related to network neutrality begins to have a little more merit. But simply choosing not to spend more money is not enough grounds to make such a claim.
Apparently the word on the street is that they have been actively downgrading their capacity with alternate upstream service providers. So no they have not downgraded their capacity with TATA, but they are now expecting their TATA link to carry more traffic. The end result is the same. They apparently are deliberately engineering a situation to force others to pay them to carry the bits into their network.
How is this not extortion?
In a sufficiently competitive marketplace, businesses who charge too high a price for their services lose customers and eventually go bust.
The corollary is that if a business charges too high a price for their services but does not go bust due to losing customers, then the marketplace is insufficiently competitive.
Cable video+internet services is often a market with insufficient competition. Although usually that's because all too often there's ONE SINGLE PROVIDER for a given geographical area.
The websites in these cases amount to a storefront to distribute fake goods or copyrighted materials. When this happens with physical storefronts, they get shut down. I don't really see how this is any different.
So you're admitting in full view of slashdot that YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT?
In The Real World "shutdown" means the business and people running said storefronts are brought to justice.
In The Online World, all they've done is turned out the lights. Tomorrow the lights will be turned on by THE SAME BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE, doing THE SAME THINGS, from a different domain name.
YOU HAVE ACHIEVED EXACTLY NOTHING except stomped across a whole bunch of things for which you SHOULD have absolutely no jurisdiction over (copyright infringement is NOT a DHS issue no matter what recently crafted law says otherwise).
You haVe WHORED OUT the JUSTICE SYSTEM for PROTECTING COMMERCIAL INTERESTS and NOTHING MORE.
Insightful????
INSIGHTFUL?????
WTF is The Department of Homeland Security doing shutting down websites?
Don't they have enough CHILDREN BOARDING AIRPLANES to TERRORIZE?
Not Enough Ethnic Looking Non-Chritians to profile and arrest as potential terrorists?
A monopoly by any other name is still a monopoly.
Having said that, there's a lot of good in theory in what The NBN might possibly do, if it is done well and properly.
Having said that, there's a lot of evil that may come about as a reuslt of the NBN, if it's done poorly.
The Devil is in the details.
Details which we do not yet have.
Details which are being defined and/or controlled by Them Politicians. (duh bahstids)
Not that I'm implying that The Will Screw This Up (if there's any way that is possible).
But Based On Previous Performance, Confidence of a Complete Charlie Foxtrot is HIGH.
Seriously Folks - Prove Me Wrong - I DOUBLE DARES YA - Get It Right (for once).
Braking News is what Rupert Murdoch and his multinational megacorp does, stopping it from being viewed online.
The evidence is that few governments misuse their power significantly.
You sir are a complete moron! significantly , in this usage, is a weasel word.
When you say "significanty" the obvious question is "significant as measured by what metrics, specifically?".
I would suggest that the phrase "any government with any power will abuse said power to some extent at some point" is absolutely true for any and all values of "power"/"government"/"abuse".
The important thing is to be ETERNALLY VIGILANT lest their abuse of power become a problem for society. This means for *any* situation in which they are given more "power" (control, etc) there MUST be *extremely* good reason, because it's a guaranteed fact that *some day* someone in the government will ABUSE it.
What is needed is a drastic change, one in which the people reassert their control over the government that purports to serve them. I doubt this will happen, but nevertheless it is the only viable solution.
Oddly enough this is exactly what "the terrorists" are trying to achieve, with the obvious caveat that "the people" in this case would be The Terrorists rather than US Citizens.
So basically you're saying THEY are right, The System is Broken and needs to be replaced *completely*.
If this is blatant Geneva Convention-breaking torture, I apologize for my ignorance; the UN definition is so vague you could consider imprisonment a type of torture. I figure it seems far more "humane" than waterboarding at least.
Seriously folks, that's the worlds bigest copout.
... Would you be TOTALLY PISSED , or would you think they were being perfectly reasonable?
The point of the Geneva Convention was to draw a line in the sand. If there's ANY question that it might possibly be turture, then it is.
The primary concept is this: if you were innocent, were detained for questioning, and THEY did THIS to YOU
Pretty much everything going on in the brain is a "chemical imbalance", in the end it's all chemistry. If it was perfectly balanced then it'd be static, nothing going on at all.
The world however is FULL of retarded monkeys who think that the phrase "a chemical balance" conveys meaning when talking about processes within our neural structures.
What the retarded monkeys are TRYING to say is more like "an unwanted chemical imbalance" or "an atypical chemical imbalance" (ie that the "typical" balances are what comes naturally in the "normal" functioning human brain).
What's in the box?
Mr Clueless above seems to have forgotten that deep down these two forms of life are driven by DNA.
And that they (scientists) have already crossed that boundary by splicing HUMAN genes into PLANTS.
the majority of humanity
.... The Majority of Humanity are basically the homo sapiens equivalent of retarded sheep. Kinda makes you think fondly of the Nazi Eugenics program, really.
although most people fight back hard when they perceive they're using a dumbed-down tool
really? Then why so many people still use MS Windows?
Bad call, you suck. You've taken your once great insights and whored yourself out for money-laundering of 10 million dollars.
There's a fine line between brilliance and madness and you just jumped it.