You must be new here. This is Slashdot. We Slashdotters know women only from those...documentaries on the Internet.
Myth. Some of us love Linux only second to our 105 lb wives. I would be willing to bet/.ers make more than the average. Helps to keep the chicks in style.
Being a nerd without sexual companionship is so 70's.
Natives worked less hours, had cleaner air, water, food, and lived sustainably. It's better than we seem capable of. But you probably measure wealth in dollars. How's that been treating you lately? 401K looking good? Oh, and that lack of road thing is probably refuted by every piece of archeology in the western hemisphere, unless your definition of road needs asphalt, in which case there were no roads until the 20th century. Which seems kind of inaccurate.
I imagine your kids are getting some kind of education!
While I agree about your assertion that the modern day 401K and big city is a rat race hell hole way to live, the native overstate how good they had it back when.
It was a constant fight for food and survival. Often dead at 35 of diseases we attribute to 70 years and beyond today were present. Tooth decay, a simple one today might have killed you in your early teens. Break a leg as a hunter...sit with the women. Or how about Indian wars? Then if you were a female, get to chew rawhide all day to make it soft for the hunter mans shoes. Pain from teeth cracking? Bite harder on the hyde!
Some natives farmed, but without machinery their hands were like planks of beaten wood and often cracked loosing fingers for the hard manual work of cropping. They didn't have horses or combines. Often their migrations were out of need from environmental destruction, not enough vegetation, deer, moose or buffalo. Had to move.
Sustainability came in that bad years of harvest or hunting resulted in a tribe die off to size it right to the environment. Old were often left to die.
Was not all they make it out to be. Today, they die of Jack Daniels and McDonalds fries.
You might want to look at what was highlighted - the PROVIDER is under investigation, not the tribe. It is the provider that is corrupt, the tribe (very likely) has no more technical knowledge or business acumen than any other non-technical non-corporate organization. ie: not much. This looks like a typical case of a business finding people who lack the necessary skills to evaluate a contract and decided to rip them off as much as possible before getting caught. Hell, I've worked for multinationals that are incapable of evaluating contracts and got themselves screwed over. If you can't expect Fortune 500 companies to bother reading what is written, just because of a fancy powerpoint presentation, can you seriously expect a community get-together to do better?
And how does all that differ from non-native people doing the same thing? If it were a farming community of white people would this even make the news? If you don't have hte skills, go out there and get them.
You would think with 250,000 people they would, well, do like everyone else - manage it and PAY for the services needed. Or better yet get a JOB and pay $140 per month for your own private link. Or even better yet, a small group of that 250,000 start up a Internet company and WORK to get the services they want at a price they can afford. This isn't the 1900's any more. $10/month from 250,000 is $30M a year, that is a lot of internet service.
From our experiences in Canada, it is just a bunch of natives whining for more handouts. They want, and normal society has to provide at no charge to them. Getting tiring actually.
From my viewpoint, it appears that Mr. Childs wasn't so much a malevolent person as much as he was paranoid and protective. We've all met this admin before. He won't give you any rights that you may need to do your job because you could screw "his computers". I'm not saying what he did was right or legal but he may not be the white cat stroking, maniacally-laughing villain that the initial news reports made him to be.
And we have all met the user with every tool bar, spyware and essential keyboard logger that states they need it for their job. No logic, just hyperbole.
When in reality, many users are chair mushrooms that don't give a rats ass about security. Neither does management, but they must be perceived as caring when in fact they are often the most guilty.
Crap, it isn't the admins, it is paranoid management. We do just what we are told, when we are told no mater how dysfunctional it gets. I can hack into some systems easier than I can login!
I am not daming them at all. I am simply stateing the trend the past few months has been to go for the quick cash. I think that has a great deal to do with all the uncertainty right now.
Yes you were, short term investors. No such a thing. Investors will price a stock on a future value and risk, period. The statement of short term just shows you displeasure in Yahoo valuation - nothing more.
I also think your wrong. Yahoo is an established internet company with a wide range of services. They are number two in search and not likely to be pushed out of that position by anyone else out there right now. If you look at Yahoo historically before all the Microsoft Hubub started you'd see their stock prices tracks the index by and large. Yahoo is not just a search company they are a media company. I think there is a long term slow growth value play in Yahoo is Microsoft is run off.
Yahoo is a mature company, not a venture start up. MAKE SOME MONEY or watch the stock drop. Many investors got burned on the dot-com hype. Cheap talk, no results is a lower stock price. For me, Yahoo financials suck, over valued. They should have sold, as it isn't often you get a company like Micro$oft willing to pay that kid of cash for a company that has more or less peeked.
First, Asia including Japan have higher bandwidth needs as there character set is often represented in graphics and included in the transmission up and down. While we assume ASCII inside of html for text, theirs may be a long list of graphics files that are much larger.
I also suspect they are much more into video on demand. They are not hindered by lobbyists to hinder the internet to replace TV. Right now they are hard selling HDTV, when it should be InternetTV. And bet sharing is high.
Next, we should invite their ISPs to come over to the US and Canada and kick the ISPs buts. Why can't we have 100mbs up and down? I bet we pay more for less.
This is really a duplicate of previous posts and sales ploy. A hard sell of Erlang.
Me, I never plan on learning or using it. There are plenty of good languages out there without another. But what really turns me off it their hyperbole on threading and multiprocessing. C, C++ and Java thread nicely thank you. They work across platforms, have standards, relatively mature and run on big and small. C and C++ are also fast. Using an ORB or RPCs isn't that tough.
The limitation today in tapping multiprocessing is the lack of good designs by the people. Nothing else. Those who do not believe this ought to read up on RPCs, semaphores, mutex and the like. Or just do Java. However Java does show not knowing the fundamentals can often result in big fat inefficient bloatware.
Real time is also by design and not the specific language but tends towards C. It is why device drivers are written in C. C can be real time and can be made very lean and fast. vxWorks, pSOS and there is even a Linux RTOS out there, all are in C.
I invested in the 80's in learning C, and shortly after C++. It has no limitations in applied computing. Limitations are purely the carbon based units design.
-location
-department/cost center
-purpose
-prod/stage
-some sort of serial # to make it easy
And not be too long. This is underrated. I prefer 8 or 10 characters maximum. Another one you missed is consistency. Another under rated trait.
A good hostname might be:
tcnyfpt01.mydom.com
mc - the company initials, in New York, fp - file and print, t - test 01 serial. All in 9 easy characters.
This would be for I/T names ONLY, which would never be given to end users. End users get friendly functional names like www.mycompany.com in the fully qualified domain name form, no short cuts.
Internal uses use host names where as users use function names. So when it comes time to replace tcnyhr06 to upgrade it, you just point the functional name payroll.mycompany.com to the new host. You would be surprised most environments get this wrong and deprive themselves of making configuration changes easy. But Microsoft you need to make an exception, when they wrote their systems they did so without first understanding how to run DNS properly.
DNS Bind 9 even allows you to enforce this, so to be more secure and show policy violations early. For example, only allow the server networks to see real and friendly host names and user networks only to see friendly names.
Why is giving only friendly names to users a good idea? Simple, ever try to reconfigure something like a FTP server host from one host name to another? Give them ftp.mycompany.com and they will care little if it is mcnyftp04 or mcsffp02.
"Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] -- PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process."
Oh what a fucking nightmare!
A whole lot better than working for MBAs that have the sole purpose of controlling you and politically thick to no end. In an MBA environment the technical staff get labeled "techie" and good bye promotions - a false promise at best. MBA over a coder for a management position, good luck. At least at Google you have a better chance of doing something big and creative. Google will lose the techies that can't cut it. No big.
But nether the Bay area or Redmond does it for me. Too crowded...
I just noticed something weird.
Why is everybody else on this thread an AC? What are you scared of?
MS trolls have mod points too. To state you don't believe Micro$oft is going to be open source friendly could get your post set to -1.
What I have noticed lately is a lot of stupid so called news stories from sources like ZDNet and others that are not worth the disk storage bytes. Conjecture, hype, self important journalists making ever more wild claims trying to revive an otherwise eventless week in desktop technology.
I've taken a lot of shit over the years for suggesting Netsol is still the only safe place to
have domains.
And you will catch a turd from me.
NetSol, also known as Verisign back when domain wild cards were an issue. While they have since sold off NetSol, I have no way of knowing who took the idiots that thought of answering up all queries to *.com etc. The DNS issue was circa 2003.
When they tried that stunt, I went to BuyDomains and transferred my domains away from Verisign and NetSol. Since I was responsible for about 250 domains at the time, that cost them. I also wrote a letter to Verisign and NetSol. I didn't get a reply.
ISPs probably don't really care whether it's legitimate or not though, it's the impact that large amounts of data has on their network that's the issue for them.
Let me rephrase that. The ISP hasn't provided enough upstream bandwidth for their user base and now wants to charge the destination URL for preferred access.
I don't see that prioritising HTTP traffic etc is harmful though - it can provide a better quality of service to most users, I prioritise HTTP traffic myself. The real issue is whether ISPs are open to the consumer about how their traffic is shaped.
It is harmful. It sets the precedent that the ISP can now charge providers of services on the internet for preferred paid access. And these interests have squat to do with your benefit, it is about the ISP charging the likes of Google for access. ISP/Money/profit then will dictate to you what is usable on the internet. You know this is going to work out this way as if it only was about limiting a few abusers, then the ISP can already rate throttle the whole IP at the cable/DSL modem. This is a sneak play by the ISP to toss net neutrality out the window. Nothing less.
Roberts is just cashing in his name for profit. I agree with profit, but this is what this is.
Yet speed limits enforce order... those guys who own sports cars that can break 100 are screwed.
America internet is a joke however and the speed limit is effectively 30mph because we are still on dirt roads.
Good analogy. But I might add net neutrality is failing where the speed limit is different depending you are going to NY or Chicago, Sears or Walmart, White, Black or Hispanic. Equal access then goes out the door. While Lawrence Roberts may be a co-founder of early network technology, this does not make the idea right. It does make it easier for him to get venture capital and start a company to selectively discriminate against protocols.
We need to look at the real picture. Your ISP wants to generate revenue to "preferred" paid traffic. This is what it is about and Roberts is going to capitalize on it. I am not against his capital spirit, but the idea sucks. It is akin to packet/protocol racism.
ISPs today can and do throttle traffic, a statement like "if (overlimit()) throttle();" can be had in any cable router. But this has one huge disadvantage. It isn't as easy for the ISP to go to Google, YouTube or others and say pay me for "preferred" access or else we throttle.
Roberts efforts here are capitalistic and not honorable in the spirit of the Internet. Make no mistake, this is about money and to hell with net neutrality.
Oh great! So FedEx will now tell me that my package was delivered. The bad news: it was delivered to me in an alternate reality. With my signature to prove it no doubt. Never mind the fact that "I" didn't get the damn package.
No, it will deliver the package back in the future. Why does everything have to be Trek?
Digital TV is a step backwards. Quality sucks because they compress it hard. plus they remove your ability to record it or use anything advanced to watch it. you have to use that piece of crap cable box of theirs.
It is also why today I still don't have digital TV. I have the old style analog. In fact, the only reason I have cable TV is for the internet. They have sent me tons of offers, but I do not intend to change. Even to the point when analog is dead, I figure Internet TV will bloom and I can skip digital TV all together.... or in a least for cable.
I might retire sometime in the next few years to my country home, if I do, I need satellite Internet more than TV. My favorite show is on the Internet, I can watch it when I want. TV as we know it is legacy. But I agree with you, Digital TV is a giant step backwards.
Wouldn't this be contempt of court or some other punishment? I mean, I'm pretty sure the judges can't be too happy about trying to be tricked like this - can they punish the lawyers in any way?
It is easy. Lets hope a judge does hear the case. Maybe go like this.
Judge: Defense, I would entertain a counter suit for harassment.
Defense: I can have one on your desk tomorrow AM.
Judge: Good, we reconvene tomorrow, 1PM.
Next day...1pm.
Judge: Before I dismiss the claim, I pronounce the defendants all receive 1M plus legal fees. This is compensatory damages for harassment. If this is appealed, or comes up a again I would like to add the notes to double the awards.
Too bad mass immigration will destroy all that (just like in many other European countries), but it was nice while it lasted.
There is a lot of truth to that. The city I am in was 400,000 when we moved to it some 30 years ago. Now, the area is well over 1.3M...it has lost it's appeal. It isn't necessarily the immigration, it is about too many people in one place and the cultural dilution of that occurs when too many come at once. In North America, we are all 1st, 2nd, 3rd or so generation of immigrants.
At some point we need to stop making our cities bigger, and worry more about sustainability. I suspect many places in Europe are well ahead of us in this regard.
As for government doing everything, what is your tax rates? Be fair about that, I am from Canada and have lived in the US. I know both sides and neither is a panacea.
I admit, us non-US slashdotters do tend to take the piss out of you Americans a fair bit (partly because it's quite fun and very easy), but deep down I care and I'm very sad to see America go so wrong these last couple of decades.
We agree here. I would love to see Americans rebound back to the top. But the problems are a moral decay.
Case in point, a CEO/VPs who lays people off in droves in a mid-sized company due to their bad decisions. Then cash out their many millions in bonuses. And this is now standard practice. In fact a model of the business. Dog eat dog and loyalty, integrity and honesty amount to little. Reverse this, and America will again rise.
In the mean time, it is dog eat dog. It is now turning where corporations have more votes than do the people. Sad.
You forgot: you've also won the wars on terror and drugs.
That is highly debatable.
Lots of drugs out there. There are terrorists making laws against their own people but not enforcing laws effectively. I can't remember who said it, but America has to worry about the enemy from with-in.
Governments in many countries (including the USA) are now big enough they control their people like sheep. Voters have their selections made for them, Obama or McCain. Dion or Harper. Modern taxation is now used to control the people, not unlike a feudal aristocracy.
The screenshot at http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9965381-7.html?tag=nefd.top says that the victim pays to download a 'decryptor'. Either the decryptor contacts, in real time, the extortionist (at a server location that can be linked to them), or the private key is included in the decryptor program, and should be able to be sussed out...
In which case, setup a sting operation and pay for one. Me, I have no intention of lending my CPU to crack keys for someone who didn't make backups.
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'cause Microsoft still gets the $$$, no matter what OS sells more...
Bet this quarters sales for MS tank.
A 5 year chart that shows Microsoft is well, soft on performance for the shareholder.
Actually, do you not mean Balmer thew chairs and broke MS Windows?
You must be new here. This is Slashdot. We Slashdotters know women only from those...documentaries on the Internet.
Myth. Some of us love Linux only second to our 105 lb wives. I would be willing to bet /.ers make more than the average. Helps to keep the chicks in style.
Being a nerd without sexual companionship is so 70's.
Why would Linux be the only alternative?
Keeping XP on the old machines, reusing licenses, using ubuntu, and a plethora of other options exist.
Your assumption that linux is the only alternative reveals a bias.
Fanboy much?
Ubuntu IS Linux. I know, I run it. But I also run Fedora, Solaris and OpenBSD.
Natives worked less hours, had cleaner air, water, food, and lived sustainably. It's better than we seem capable of. But you probably measure wealth in dollars. How's that been treating you lately? 401K looking good? Oh, and that lack of road thing is probably refuted by every piece of archeology in the western hemisphere, unless your definition of road needs asphalt, in which case there were no roads until the 20th century. Which seems kind of inaccurate.
I imagine your kids are getting some kind of education!
While I agree about your assertion that the modern day 401K and big city is a rat race hell hole way to live, the native overstate how good they had it back when.
It was a constant fight for food and survival. Often dead at 35 of diseases we attribute to 70 years and beyond today were present. Tooth decay, a simple one today might have killed you in your early teens. Break a leg as a hunter...sit with the women. Or how about Indian wars? Then if you were a female, get to chew rawhide all day to make it soft for the hunter mans shoes. Pain from teeth cracking? Bite harder on the hyde!
Some natives farmed, but without machinery their hands were like planks of beaten wood and often cracked loosing fingers for the hard manual work of cropping. They didn't have horses or combines. Often their migrations were out of need from environmental destruction, not enough vegetation, deer, moose or buffalo. Had to move.
Sustainability came in that bad years of harvest or hunting resulted in a tribe die off to size it right to the environment. Old were often left to die.
Was not all they make it out to be. Today, they die of Jack Daniels and McDonalds fries.
You might want to look at what was highlighted - the PROVIDER is under investigation, not the tribe. It is the provider that is corrupt, the tribe (very likely) has no more technical knowledge or business acumen than any other non-technical non-corporate organization. ie: not much. This looks like a typical case of a business finding people who lack the necessary skills to evaluate a contract and decided to rip them off as much as possible before getting caught. Hell, I've worked for multinationals that are incapable of evaluating contracts and got themselves screwed over. If you can't expect Fortune 500 companies to bother reading what is written, just because of a fancy powerpoint presentation, can you seriously expect a community get-together to do better?
And how does all that differ from non-native people doing the same thing? If it were a farming community of white people would this even make the news? If you don't have hte skills, go out there and get them.
You would think with 250,000 people they would, well, do like everyone else - manage it and PAY for the services needed. Or better yet get a JOB and pay $140 per month for your own private link. Or even better yet, a small group of that 250,000 start up a Internet company and WORK to get the services they want at a price they can afford. This isn't the 1900's any more. $10/month from 250,000 is $30M a year, that is a lot of internet service.
From our experiences in Canada, it is just a bunch of natives whining for more handouts. They want, and normal society has to provide at no charge to them. Getting tiring actually.
I mean, what happens when Microsoft goes bad?
Linux.
Some are already there, NSAKey anyone?
From my viewpoint, it appears that Mr. Childs wasn't so much a malevolent person as much as he was paranoid and protective. We've all met this admin before. He won't give you any rights that you may need to do your job because you could screw "his computers". I'm not saying what he did was right or legal but he may not be the white cat stroking, maniacally-laughing villain that the initial news reports made him to be.
And we have all met the user with every tool bar, spyware and essential keyboard logger that states they need it for their job. No logic, just hyperbole.
When in reality, many users are chair mushrooms that don't give a rats ass about security. Neither does management, but they must be perceived as caring when in fact they are often the most guilty.
Crap, it isn't the admins, it is paranoid management. We do just what we are told, when we are told no mater how dysfunctional it gets. I can hack into some systems easier than I can login!
I am not daming them at all. I am simply stateing the trend the past few months has been to go for the quick cash. I think that has a great deal to do with all the uncertainty right now.
Yes you were, short term investors. No such a thing. Investors will price a stock on a future value and risk, period. The statement of short term just shows you displeasure in Yahoo valuation - nothing more.
I also think your wrong. Yahoo is an established internet company with a wide range of services. They are number two in search and not likely to be pushed out of that position by anyone else out there right now. If you look at Yahoo historically before all the Microsoft Hubub started you'd see their stock prices tracks the index by and large. Yahoo is not just a search company they are a media company. I think there is a long term slow growth value play in Yahoo is Microsoft is run off.
Yahoo is a mature company, not a venture start up. MAKE SOME MONEY or watch the stock drop. Many investors got burned on the dot-com hype. Cheap talk, no results is a lower stock price. For me, Yahoo financials suck, over valued. They should have sold, as it isn't often you get a company like Micro$oft willing to pay that kid of cash for a company that has more or less peeked.
First, Asia including Japan have higher bandwidth needs as there character set is often represented in graphics and included in the transmission up and down. While we assume ASCII inside of html for text, theirs may be a long list of graphics files that are much larger.
I also suspect they are much more into video on demand. They are not hindered by lobbyists to hinder the internet to replace TV. Right now they are hard selling HDTV, when it should be InternetTV. And bet sharing is high.
Next, we should invite their ISPs to come over to the US and Canada and kick the ISPs buts. Why can't we have 100mbs up and down? I bet we pay more for less.
This is really a duplicate of previous posts and sales ploy. A hard sell of Erlang.
Me, I never plan on learning or using it. There are plenty of good languages out there without another. But what really turns me off it their hyperbole on threading and multiprocessing. C, C++ and Java thread nicely thank you. They work across platforms, have standards, relatively mature and run on big and small. C and C++ are also fast. Using an ORB or RPCs isn't that tough.
The limitation today in tapping multiprocessing is the lack of good designs by the people. Nothing else. Those who do not believe this ought to read up on RPCs, semaphores, mutex and the like. Or just do Java. However Java does show not knowing the fundamentals can often result in big fat inefficient bloatware.
Real time is also by design and not the specific language but tends towards C. It is why device drivers are written in C. C can be real time and can be made very lean and fast. vxWorks, pSOS and there is even a Linux RTOS out there, all are in C.
I invested in the 80's in learning C, and shortly after C++. It has no limitations in applied computing. Limitations are purely the carbon based units design.
And not be too long. This is underrated. I prefer 8 or 10 characters maximum. Another one you missed is consistency. Another under rated trait.
A good hostname might be:
tcnyfpt01.mydom.com
mc - the company initials, in New York, fp - file and print, t - test 01 serial. All in 9 easy characters.
This would be for I/T names ONLY, which would never be given to end users. End users get friendly functional names like www.mycompany.com in the fully qualified domain name form, no short cuts.
Internal uses use host names where as users use function names. So when it comes time to replace tcnyhr06 to upgrade it, you just point the functional name payroll.mycompany.com to the new host. You would be surprised most environments get this wrong and deprive themselves of making configuration changes easy. But Microsoft you need to make an exception, when they wrote their systems they did so without first understanding how to run DNS properly.
DNS Bind 9 even allows you to enforce this, so to be more secure and show policy violations early. For example, only allow the server networks to see real and friendly host names and user networks only to see friendly names.
Why is giving only friendly names to users a good idea? Simple, ever try to reconfigure something like a FTP server host from one host name to another? Give them ftp.mycompany.com and they will care little if it is mcnyftp04 or mcsffp02.
Where is Visio ?
Or MS-Project or MS-PowerPoint?
As usual, a MS PR stunt.
"Everything is pretty much run by [engineering] -- PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process."
Oh what a fucking nightmare!
A whole lot better than working for MBAs that have the sole purpose of controlling you and politically thick to no end. In an MBA environment the technical staff get labeled "techie" and good bye promotions - a false promise at best. MBA over a coder for a management position, good luck. At least at Google you have a better chance of doing something big and creative. Google will lose the techies that can't cut it. No big.
But nether the Bay area or Redmond does it for me. Too crowded...
I just noticed something weird.
Why is everybody else on this thread an AC? What are you scared of?
MS trolls have mod points too. To state you don't believe Micro$oft is going to be open source friendly could get your post set to -1.
What I have noticed lately is a lot of stupid so called news stories from sources like ZDNet and others that are not worth the disk storage bytes. Conjecture, hype, self important journalists making ever more wild claims trying to revive an otherwise eventless week in desktop technology.
The article is speculation, not about news.
I've taken a lot of shit over the years for suggesting Netsol is still the only safe place to
have domains.
And you will catch a turd from me.
NetSol, also known as Verisign back when domain wild cards were an issue. While they have since sold off NetSol, I have no way of knowing who took the idiots that thought of answering up all queries to *.com etc. The DNS issue was circa 2003.
When they tried that stunt, I went to BuyDomains and transferred my domains away from Verisign and NetSol. Since I was responsible for about 250 domains at the time, that cost them. I also wrote a letter to Verisign and NetSol. I didn't get a reply.
To this day, I don't deal with either.
ISPs probably don't really care whether it's legitimate or not though, it's the impact that large amounts of data has on their network that's the issue for them.
Let me rephrase that. The ISP hasn't provided enough upstream bandwidth for their user base and now wants to charge the destination URL for preferred access.
I don't see that prioritising HTTP traffic etc is harmful though - it can provide a better quality of service to most users, I prioritise HTTP traffic myself. The real issue is whether ISPs are open to the consumer about how their traffic is shaped.
It is harmful. It sets the precedent that the ISP can now charge providers of services on the internet for preferred paid access. And these interests have squat to do with your benefit, it is about the ISP charging the likes of Google for access. ISP/Money/profit then will dictate to you what is usable on the internet. You know this is going to work out this way as if it only was about limiting a few abusers, then the ISP can already rate throttle the whole IP at the cable/DSL modem. This is a sneak play by the ISP to toss net neutrality out the window. Nothing less.
Roberts is just cashing in his name for profit. I agree with profit, but this is what this is.
We all pay the same amount of freeways too.
Yet speed limits enforce order... those guys who own sports cars that can break 100 are screwed.
America internet is a joke however and the speed limit is effectively 30mph because we are still on dirt roads.
Good analogy. But I might add net neutrality is failing where the speed limit is different depending you are going to NY or Chicago, Sears or Walmart, White, Black or Hispanic. Equal access then goes out the door. While Lawrence Roberts may be a co-founder of early network technology, this does not make the idea right. It does make it easier for him to get venture capital and start a company to selectively discriminate against protocols.
We need to look at the real picture. Your ISP wants to generate revenue to "preferred" paid traffic. This is what it is about and Roberts is going to capitalize on it. I am not against his capital spirit, but the idea sucks. It is akin to packet/protocol racism.
ISPs today can and do throttle traffic, a statement like "if (overlimit()) throttle();" can be had in any cable router. But this has one huge disadvantage. It isn't as easy for the ISP to go to Google, YouTube or others and say pay me for "preferred" access or else we throttle.
Roberts efforts here are capitalistic and not honorable in the spirit of the Internet. Make no mistake, this is about money and to hell with net neutrality.
while FedEx is traversing through worm holes
Oh great! So FedEx will now tell me that my package was delivered. The bad news: it was delivered to me in an alternate reality. With my signature to prove it no doubt. Never mind the fact that "I" didn't get the damn package.
No, it will deliver the package back in the future. Why does everything have to be Trek?
It is also why today I still don't have digital TV. I have the old style analog. In fact, the only reason I have cable TV is for the internet. They have sent me tons of offers, but I do not intend to change. Even to the point when analog is dead, I figure Internet TV will bloom and I can skip digital TV all together.... or in a least for cable.
I might retire sometime in the next few years to my country home, if I do, I need satellite Internet more than TV. My favorite show is on the Internet, I can watch it when I want. TV as we know it is legacy. But I agree with you, Digital TV is a giant step backwards.
It is easy. Lets hope a judge does hear the case. Maybe go like this.
Judge: Defense, I would entertain a counter suit for harassment.
Defense: I can have one on your desk tomorrow AM.
Judge: Good, we reconvene tomorrow, 1PM.
Next day...1pm.
Judge: Before I dismiss the claim, I pronounce the defendants all receive 1M plus legal fees. This is compensatory damages for harassment. If this is appealed, or comes up a again I would like to add the notes to double the awards.
Judge: Case dismissed with prejudice.
There is a lot of truth to that. The city I am in was 400,000 when we moved to it some 30 years ago. Now, the area is well over 1.3M...it has lost it's appeal. It isn't necessarily the immigration, it is about too many people in one place and the cultural dilution of that occurs when too many come at once. In North America, we are all 1st, 2nd, 3rd or so generation of immigrants.
At some point we need to stop making our cities bigger, and worry more about sustainability. I suspect many places in Europe are well ahead of us in this regard.
As for government doing everything, what is your tax rates? Be fair about that, I am from Canada and have lived in the US. I know both sides and neither is a panacea.
We agree here. I would love to see Americans rebound back to the top. But the problems are a moral decay.
Case in point, a CEO/VPs who lays people off in droves in a mid-sized company due to their bad decisions. Then cash out their many millions in bonuses. And this is now standard practice. In fact a model of the business. Dog eat dog and loyalty, integrity and honesty amount to little. Reverse this, and America will again rise.
In the mean time, it is dog eat dog. It is now turning where corporations have more votes than do the people. Sad.
That is highly debatable.
Lots of drugs out there. There are terrorists making laws against their own people but not enforcing laws effectively. I can't remember who said it, but America has to worry about the enemy from with-in.
Governments in many countries (including the USA) are now big enough they control their people like sheep. Voters have their selections made for them, Obama or McCain. Dion or Harper. Modern taxation is now used to control the people, not unlike a feudal aristocracy.
We are not as free as we believe.
In which case, setup a sting operation and pay for one. Me, I have no intention of lending my CPU to crack keys for someone who didn't make backups.