Some sites sort statistics by who used the most and, if that amount is much more than anyone else, they cut off that user, even if there was no problem with that amount of usage. Find the outliers for a month, penalize or cut them up, repeat until your user base is sufficiently cowed.
My city's government website silently cut off my employer's access by IP range because I was accessing too many traffic cameras at once for too long of a period of time (building a time-lapse video of snowfall and melt across the city, from at most 3 IP addresses not simultaneously). The government website simply pretended to be off-line to our subnet (stopped at their router). Human Resources was unable to do criminal background checks on potential employees (head of HR is retired law enforcement). They expected anyone they cut off to contact them to regain access.
Thing is, if I had used a service like TOR to anonymize my IP address for this, they wouldn't have been able to identify any particular IP user or IP range as an outlying bandwidth user and they probably wouldn't have noticed it at all, though it would frustrate the timing for the timelapse video.
It's like they're trying to organize the data in ways that let them find witches to burn.
You have two things quantumly entangled. You tickle either one, they both laugh. But if can only observe one at a time, if one laughs without being tickled, you don't know whether it was because the other was tickled or if it laughed spontaneously until you observe the other being tickled. There's no way to confirm the laughter as FTL information from the future unless and until you observe the future.
It may be that they only both laugh when you can observe them both. Your observation entangles them and bridges the FTL transmission classically.
I'd like to see the experiment where they're entangled, one is dropped through a black hole's event horizon, and you observe the result on the other. Time compression should have an interesting effect on the half-life of the retained entangled one until it crosses the EH.
Back in the '80s, my high school had to send in computers repeatedly to their service unit. They'd send Apple IIe computers in, they'd be fixed, and arrive back at the school damaged again.
They figured it out one day when the truck arrived at the school, the driver opened the back, and billows of smoke rolled out the back of the truck. This in the winter months when the smoking driver kept the cab windows closed.
It's often thought that gibibytes and tebibytes were invented to allow "giga" and "tera" to retain their conventional meanings as powers of 10 even when used to refer to quantities of data.
However, the true reason was to enable an entirely new form of pedantry.
Contrary to popular belief around here, you can't actually die or contract serious disease from a lack of internet access.
Even if you've discontinued telephone service and are relying on Internet telephony with your registered location for 911 service, your house is ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob....
The Internet is just ISPs on the backbones of other ISPs all the way down.
The MPAA would have it that only the end licensor of a routable IP address can be considered an ISP. If your service only gives out NATted addresses, no matter how many users you have you're not an ISP and thus have no safe harbor protection.
The N900 seems like it ought to have enough horsepower to do this job
Unfortunately, since an N900 can do other things as well, disability coverage won't pay for it. Insurers demand assistive devices be single-function, even if the devices have to be crippled to comply.
$51.20 per additional GiB. Of course, they market it as $0.05 per MiB, so you won't think it is as bad as it really is. Well, at least they don't round up to the next GiB.
Buh? Wha? Parsing failure. Unlimited...charging for additional usage.....BRAIN ASPLODE
Their point of view: use as much as you want, we'll bill you for what you use. With rates like that, I'd rather they cut off my service for the rest of the month. But they don't make as much money doing that.
I was Alltel Wireless until Verizon took them over. I had free (Bluetooth) tethering with my phone. This month, I got hit with a three-times-normal bill for exceeding my minutes using it. The method I used for tethering is billed as a voice call, so now using it counts against my minutes. And apparently it's sparsely connected--lags in the transmission cause a new call to be registered--giving them many many opportunities to round up to the next minute.
I am tempted to see if I can add #777 to my Friends and Family (formerly My Circle) to get free data tethering minutes again.
Otherwise the best deal you can get from Verizon is their DAYPASS. $15 per 24 hour period signed up on demand, no cap. Not that you'd break a 5 GiB cap with them in one day at their speed. If used 5 days a week for 4 weeks a month, that's $300/mo. Yes, that's a lot, but if used with a MiFi card and you can get four co-workers to pitch in (allows sharing connection with 5 users), you're back to $60/mo., but without a cap. But you can't get a MiFi card for 1 cent without being a new customer and signing up for one of their capped plans; you want to use it just for DAYPASS, you'll need a monthly contract as well or pay full price. And they have limitations on what devices you can use DAYPASS with.
I've often thought about integrating a mouse on the underside of a detached numeric keypad. And with an = key and a normal-sized + key, you'd have 18 buttons as well. Perfect for people entering numbers into spreadsheets.
Keyboards I can understand, but why do you need to encrypt your mouse signal?
So that no one else can spoof your mouse and take control of your system from remote. It's still a HIG device. Are you sure you can't make a system think a mouse is suddenly a keyboard?
Verizon apparently agrees that a data call on a cell phone isn't considered a continuous connection. I was with Alltel using #777 to get slow data calls for free. Since they became part of Verizon, I discover Verizon treats these data calls not only as consuming voice minutes, but also that they consider the connection as starting and stopping for any lull in traffic and round each one to the next minute. Over a period of 2 hours I'd used 130 minutes, and at a charge of 40 cents a minute due to having run out of minutes.
The same way you'd dial the seventh for a seven-chevron address: press pound and star simultaneously (though one of them may actually be marked with infinity).
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Some sites sort statistics by who used the most and, if that amount is much more than anyone else, they cut off that user, even if there was no problem with that amount of usage. Find the outliers for a month, penalize or cut them up, repeat until your user base is sufficiently cowed.
My city's government website silently cut off my employer's access by IP range because I was accessing too many traffic cameras at once for too long of a period of time (building a time-lapse video of snowfall and melt across the city, from at most 3 IP addresses not simultaneously). The government website simply pretended to be off-line to our subnet (stopped at their router). Human Resources was unable to do criminal background checks on potential employees (head of HR is retired law enforcement). They expected anyone they cut off to contact them to regain access.
Thing is, if I had used a service like TOR to anonymize my IP address for this, they wouldn't have been able to identify any particular IP user or IP range as an outlying bandwidth user and they probably wouldn't have noticed it at all, though it would frustrate the timing for the timelapse video.
It's like they're trying to organize the data in ways that let them find witches to burn.
webmasters of the compromised sites and their hosting providers don't simply notice this illicit activity.
How do they notice it then? Complexly?
You can't expect words to mean the same thing when you string them together out of order.
Still, I wouldn't go up to a street gang and call them a bunch of LARPers. At least, not a second time.
"You really don't plan to shake my hand without washing yours first, do you?"
"I take offense to that; I assure you I keep a very clean penis."
You have two things quantumly entangled. You tickle either one, they both laugh. But if can only observe one at a time, if one laughs without being tickled, you don't know whether it was because the other was tickled or if it laughed spontaneously until you observe the other being tickled. There's no way to confirm the laughter as FTL information from the future unless and until you observe the future.
It may be that they only both laugh when you can observe them both. Your observation entangles them and bridges the FTL transmission classically.
I'd like to see the experiment where they're entangled, one is dropped through a black hole's event horizon, and you observe the result on the other. Time compression should have an interesting effect on the half-life of the retained entangled one until it crosses the EH.
Back in the '80s, my high school had to send in computers repeatedly to their service unit. They'd send Apple IIe computers in, they'd be fixed, and arrive back at the school damaged again.
They figured it out one day when the truck arrived at the school, the driver opened the back, and billows of smoke rolled out the back of the truck. This in the winter months when the smoking driver kept the cab windows closed.
When you block the international trade of coltan, only Skynet will be able to import coltan.
Uh, make that 4.888 teranewtons (TN).
"Gee, that's really heavy, Tennessee."
"Come along, Chumley. Time to go see Mr. Whoopee."
Actually, when talking weight, you want teranewtons.
498438559990 kg * 9.80662 N/kg = 4.88800 TN
whoa dude... that's heavy
Actually, that's massive.
4.888 petanewtons (PN), now that's heavy.
from the we-blew-it-on-bubblegum dept.
Well clearly it wasn't spent on kicking ass.
It's often thought that gibibytes and tebibytes were invented to allow "giga" and "tera" to retain their conventional meanings as powers of 10 even when used to refer to quantities of data.
However, the true reason was to enable an entirely new form of pedantry.
And that form is called "kibitzing".
I always found it to be a particularly disturbing animation myself.
As much as the drinking drunken naked baby staggering with bottle in hand and continuously urinating to the tune of Old Lange Syne?
I find it outrageous that AutoDesk was granted a trademark on the words "Ooga-Chaka".
and 144 terabytes of main memory -- 100,000 times as much as your computer has.
What is that in library-of-congresses?
Twelve.
$30 Dollars for one 4.7 gig disk
If not dual layer, couldn't it at least be double-sided?
Contrary to popular belief around here, you can't actually die or contract serious disease from a lack of internet access.
Even if you've discontinued telephone service and are relying on Internet telephony with your registered location for 911 service, your house is ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob....
The Internet is just ISPs on the backbones of other ISPs all the way down.
The MPAA would have it that only the end licensor of a routable IP address can be considered an ISP. If your service only gives out NATted addresses, no matter how many users you have you're not an ISP and thus have no safe harbor protection.
It will be priced what the market can bear, and if the market has assisted purchasing power via insurance, the price will account for that.
The N900 seems like it ought to have enough horsepower to do this job
Unfortunately, since an N900 can do other things as well, disability coverage won't pay for it. Insurers demand assistive devices be single-function, even if the devices have to be crippled to comply.
$51.20 per additional GiB. Of course, they market it as $0.05 per MiB, so you won't think it is as bad as it really is. Well, at least they don't round up to the next GiB.
Buh? Wha? Parsing failure. Unlimited...charging for additional usage.....BRAIN ASPLODE
Their point of view: use as much as you want, we'll bill you for what you use. With rates like that, I'd rather they cut off my service for the rest of the month. But they don't make as much money doing that.
There's also US Cellular.
I was Alltel Wireless until Verizon took them over. I had free (Bluetooth) tethering with my phone. This month, I got hit with a three-times-normal bill for exceeding my minutes using it. The method I used for tethering is billed as a voice call, so now using it counts against my minutes. And apparently it's sparsely connected--lags in the transmission cause a new call to be registered--giving them many many opportunities to round up to the next minute.
I am tempted to see if I can add #777 to my Friends and Family (formerly My Circle) to get free data tethering minutes again.
Otherwise the best deal you can get from Verizon is their DAYPASS. $15 per 24 hour period signed up on demand, no cap. Not that you'd break a 5 GiB cap with them in one day at their speed. If used 5 days a week for 4 weeks a month, that's $300/mo. Yes, that's a lot, but if used with a MiFi card and you can get four co-workers to pitch in (allows sharing connection with 5 users), you're back to $60/mo., but without a cap. But you can't get a MiFi card for 1 cent without being a new customer and signing up for one of their capped plans; you want to use it just for DAYPASS, you'll need a monthly contract as well or pay full price. And they have limitations on what devices you can use DAYPASS with.
I've often thought about integrating a mouse on the underside of a detached numeric keypad. And with an = key and a normal-sized + key, you'd have 18 buttons as well. Perfect for people entering numbers into spreadsheets.
Keyboards I can understand, but why do you need to encrypt your mouse signal?
So that no one else can spoof your mouse and take control of your system from remote. It's still a HIG device. Are you sure you can't make a system think a mouse is suddenly a keyboard?
Verizon apparently agrees that a data call on a cell phone isn't considered a continuous connection. I was with Alltel using #777 to get slow data calls for free. Since they became part of Verizon, I discover Verizon treats these data calls not only as consuming voice minutes, but also that they consider the connection as starting and stopping for any lull in traffic and round each one to the next minute. Over a period of 2 hours I'd used 130 minutes, and at a charge of 40 cents a minute due to having run out of minutes.
...so how do I dial the eighth chevron on DTMF?
The same way you'd dial the seventh for a seven-chevron address: press pound and star simultaneously (though one of them may actually be marked with infinity).