Old and ridiculous news. I'd say 10Mbps is actually too slow. 10Mbps up is a bare minimum, 50+ each way is closer to what needs to exist. If you don't think so, just try showing Grandma that 4K home movie you take in a couple of years. We shouldn't be looking at what the minimums should have been 5 years ago, but what they need to be in the next 5. 50-100 Mbps up is going to be a minimum, if we are to see real use of the internet. All those phones shooting 4K video will need to share it somehow, and going across a 4Mbps uplink (yeah, show me where I can get that reliably around here) you'll spend more time waiting on the upload than you did shooting, editing, and compressing it to try to make it smaller for the transit.
Honestly, 10 Mbps up right now is too slow for today's needs, if you're doing any of the related things just with a simple communication with Grandma. Video calls? You need a good upload link if you're going to make that work, or the quality is so crappy it won't be workable.
Considering the unemployment rate in our industry, you should never put up with a hostile environment. It is relatively easy to get a job, getting one you might like can take a while. You might have to move, depending on where you live, but that's true of a lot of jobs these days.
Repeat it yourself when you are the victim of prosecutorial misconduct, etc. That's what these laws are for. To prevent that. The only issue is that they don't punish the real offenders strongly enough. Generally, there are enough crimes committed that if there is sufficient evidence, they'll get the perpetrators for one or more of the other ones. If not, See the AC reply above and place your blame appropriately. Illegal activities by law enforcement and those on the side of the prosecution should never be rewarded.
Sorry, that's the penalty for not following the law - the evidence gets thrown out and cannot be used, ever. This is the only thing that can prevent large scale abuse by law enforcement, as long as it is applied consistently. Lately, that latter assumption is being called into question quite frequently.
Then you'll love Apple's iOS 8 random MAC plans Wonder why this isn't on Android yet? (Other than apps that require root, etc) Yes, I'm aware of Apple's Beacon network that is in competition with those that run MAC tracking software. That can be turned off.
That's actually incorrect, as anyone getting an account prior to Oct something or other will also receive it for free. And interestingly enough, it was marked free when I looked at it, and was not in my account.
The other interesting thing about this is that now libraries will never "lose" a book, or have it wear out, etc, as long as they have good backups. Probably another reason publishers were against it - once bought, no repeat business.
I'd say at this point a minimum 10Mbps up is required. Down has to be equal or higher, with low-latency, although I'd prefer down around 50Mbps, to handle more than 1 HD stream.
Let's drop RoundUp from the discussion entirely and "shift the goalposts" back to where I started - the self-perpetuating nature of GMO. This still unfortunately revolves around Monsanto with a second reference in wikipedia that also notes this case:
In May 2013, glyphosate-resistant wheat (a GMO) that was not yet approved for release was discovered in a farm in Oregon, growing as a weed or "volunteer plant". The wheat was developed by Monsanto, and was a strain that was field-tested from 1998 to 2005 and was in the regulatory approval process before Monsanto withdrew it based on concern that importers would avoid the crop. The last field test in Oregon occurred in 2001. As of May 2013 there was no information as to how the wheat got there or whether it had entered the food supply; volunteer wheat from a former test field two miles away was tested and it was not found to be glyphosate-resistant. Monsanto faced penalties up to $1 million if violations of the Plant Protection Act would be found. The discovery threatened US wheat exports which totaled $8.1 billion in 2012; the US is the world's largest wheat exporter.[208][209] New Scientist reported that the variety of wheat was rarely imported into Europe and doubted that the discovery of the wheat would affect Europe, but more likely destined for Asia. According to Monsanto it destroyed all the material it held after completing trials in 2004 and it was "mystified" by its appearance.
That was just what I could find with a few minutes of searching. I'm sure you're perfectly capable of researching the rest yourself now that it has been shown to have been a problem at least twice.
I don't really give a rats ass if Monsanto actually sues someone because their patented gene jumped fields. That's not my point at all, and would be an extremely shallow point of argument. The point is that it does and can jump fields, and spread itself. That alone should give everyone pause...
Regarding roundup - it's not so much that the roundup resistance gene may not be beneficial in nature, but that it may actually harm us. Look at how persistent that particular gene is, to the point that Monsanto is suing people who's crops get "enhanced" merely by being next to the modified one. That's the kind of invasive persistence I consider dangerous. As for the argument that it's not harmful, no one actually knows as there's only a few years of data. Some things take decades or more to develop into problems, or to be identified as problems.
Now for something I could support, it'd be wonderful if they figured out how to regress a mosquito to a previous non-bloodsucking form. That would be something good and defensible, with little downside as they are already major harmful pests, and aren't really a significant food source for anything. The only issue would be the carrier method.
The general population is pretty ignorant when it comes to genetics, but geneticists do kinda know what they are doing...
Really? I'd rather they be "100% stake not only their lives but everyone in their family on it sure" personally, versus "kinda know what they are doing" like most back yard mechanics "kind of know what they're doing" under the hood. You're talking about something that once released may never be taken back, as it's self-perpetuating. If it was only 1 plant, that's one thing. Something that can spread. you need to reconsider the entire concept in light of "the world may never be the same if I screw up", and it is guaranteed someone will screw up, sooner or later.
...They just were able to locate which genes are responsible for what, and can now proceed with attempting to coax it into what they want....
And this is the only kind of "GMO" I'm willing to accept. Utilizing what's there, and doing the equivalent of selective breeding to express genes is all we really should be doing with the information at hand. Injecting new DNA, or arbitrarily altering it is a recipe for disaster IMNSHO. Having the genome handy and knowing what you want to express makes selective breeding a much faster process, without going into Monsanto Frankenland.
That is true, but when a user tells you that interface eth1 is tied to the modem's internal port and that the outer IP is 'x' and that you can't get past that point, I'd think a lightbulb would go off that perhaps, just maybe, this user might be smarter than the average moron and isn't lying about rebooting everything.
They're still whiners. Try writing code to support multiple languages simultaneously on heterogenous environments with users attempting to look at the same data. Back around Y2K. And then supports those users.
For some reason, kids today think they have all these new exciting special problems and that they're in a eureka moment. That wasn't even true when I encountered those issues more than a decade earlier. I'm pretty sure the initial international connections for what became the internet were not even the first instance of this issue, as there were those wonderful 300 baud links way back in the 70s, and possibly earlier.
I think I'd rather see a story about the challenges of dealing with clueless tech support. Yes, I rebooted the system. Yes, I rebooted the network. I even checked that all links internally are live and that the problem appears to be your modem not connecting reliably to the outside world. Response: can you unplug your computer and reboot it? (Just one example of idiot tech support)
I believe your obvious anti-Apple tone was referred to. You don't have to use iCloud, I don't.
My point is nothing cloud is safe by default. Yes, there's ways to make it a lot more secure, such as drop a 2048bit plus encrypted file on dropbox, for example, and not just anyone is going to be able to see what you dropped. But that is not how any of these systems are setup. Use a PKI system instead of a simple As it stands, putting things up in the cloud is like dropping a postcard in the mail. No one is supposed to look at it, but there's nothing really keeping anyone from doing so if they really want to. Yes, that's extending the postcard analogy from email to cloud services. A cloud services/accounts are essentially nothing more than a postbox with a relatively weak lock. It doesn't matter what the environments are hosted on or how secure those environments are. The services running on them are insecure by design. Nothing external is going to fix that, and there is largely no incentive to fix it either.
For the same reasons you don't use dropbox, onedrive, etc, you don't use iCloud. Basically, if you don't want the world to see it, don't use cloud services. This is pretty simple and easy to understand. For all intents and purposes, anything "cloud" equals world access.
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Old and ridiculous news. I'd say 10Mbps is actually too slow. 10Mbps up is a bare minimum, 50+ each way is closer to what needs to exist. If you don't think so, just try showing Grandma that 4K home movie you take in a couple of years. We shouldn't be looking at what the minimums should have been 5 years ago, but what they need to be in the next 5. 50-100 Mbps up is going to be a minimum, if we are to see real use of the internet. All those phones shooting 4K video will need to share it somehow, and going across a 4Mbps uplink (yeah, show me where I can get that reliably around here) you'll spend more time waiting on the upload than you did shooting, editing, and compressing it to try to make it smaller for the transit.
Honestly, 10 Mbps up right now is too slow for today's needs, if you're doing any of the related things just with a simple communication with Grandma. Video calls? You need a good upload link if you're going to make that work, or the quality is so crappy it won't be workable.
I only have to trust them to hand out the IP once. That's all, certainly not with any other details.
Considering the unemployment rate in our industry, you should never put up with a hostile environment. It is relatively easy to get a job, getting one you might like can take a while. You might have to move, depending on where you live, but that's true of a lot of jobs these days.
Repeat it yourself when you are the victim of prosecutorial misconduct, etc. That's what these laws are for. To prevent that. The only issue is that they don't punish the real offenders strongly enough. Generally, there are enough crimes committed that if there is sufficient evidence, they'll get the perpetrators for one or more of the other ones. If not, See the AC reply above and place your blame appropriately. Illegal activities by law enforcement and those on the side of the prosecution should never be rewarded.
Sorry, that's the penalty for not following the law - the evidence gets thrown out and cannot be used, ever. This is the only thing that can prevent large scale abuse by law enforcement, as long as it is applied consistently. Lately, that latter assumption is being called into question quite frequently.
Then you'll love Apple's iOS 8 random MAC plans Wonder why this isn't on Android yet? (Other than apps that require root, etc) Yes, I'm aware of Apple's Beacon network that is in competition with those that run MAC tracking software. That can be turned off.
Better a maid gets a phone than a contact blown.
That's actually incorrect, as anyone getting an account prior to Oct something or other will also receive it for free. And interestingly enough, it was marked free when I looked at it, and was not in my account.
In the 700K range you'd have to be at least . . . 12? dunno if that's "old" these days.
The other interesting thing about this is that now libraries will never "lose" a book, or have it wear out, etc, as long as they have good backups. Probably another reason publishers were against it - once bought, no repeat business.
...who can't pee, filling up the pockets...
Comma, or no comma?
I'd say at this point a minimum 10Mbps up is required. Down has to be equal or higher, with low-latency, although I'd prefer down around 50Mbps, to handle more than 1 HD stream.
Let's drop RoundUp from the discussion entirely and "shift the goalposts" back to where I started - the self-perpetuating nature of GMO. This still unfortunately revolves around Monsanto with a second reference in wikipedia that also notes this case:
That was just what I could find with a few minutes of searching. I'm sure you're perfectly capable of researching the rest yourself now that it has been shown to have been a problem at least twice.
I don't really give a rats ass if Monsanto actually sues someone because their patented gene jumped fields. That's not my point at all, and would be an extremely shallow point of argument. The point is that it does and can jump fields, and spread itself. That alone should give everyone pause...
Regarding roundup - it's not so much that the roundup resistance gene may not be beneficial in nature, but that it may actually harm us. Look at how persistent that particular gene is, to the point that Monsanto is suing people who's crops get "enhanced" merely by being next to the modified one. That's the kind of invasive persistence I consider dangerous. As for the argument that it's not harmful, no one actually knows as there's only a few years of data. Some things take decades or more to develop into problems, or to be identified as problems.
Now for something I could support, it'd be wonderful if they figured out how to regress a mosquito to a previous non-bloodsucking form. That would be something good and defensible, with little downside as they are already major harmful pests, and aren't really a significant food source for anything. The only issue would be the carrier method.
Orbital mechanics ... maybe, rocket science, not even a little.
Orbital mechanics is "advanced" rocket science (i.e. the science after you get liftoff without blowing yourself to smithereens)
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The Clapper?
The general population is pretty ignorant when it comes to genetics, but geneticists do kinda know what they are doing...
Really? I'd rather they be "100% stake not only their lives but everyone in their family on it sure" personally, versus "kinda know what they are doing" like most back yard mechanics "kind of know what they're doing" under the hood. You're talking about something that once released may never be taken back, as it's self-perpetuating. If it was only 1 plant, that's one thing. Something that can spread. you need to reconsider the entire concept in light of "the world may never be the same if I screw up", and it is guaranteed someone will screw up, sooner or later.
...They just were able to locate which genes are responsible for what, and can now proceed with attempting to coax it into what they want. ...
And this is the only kind of "GMO" I'm willing to accept. Utilizing what's there, and doing the equivalent of selective breeding to express genes is all we really should be doing with the information at hand. Injecting new DNA, or arbitrarily altering it is a recipe for disaster IMNSHO. Having the genome handy and knowing what you want to express makes selective breeding a much faster process, without going into Monsanto Frankenland.
That is true, but when a user tells you that interface eth1 is tied to the modem's internal port and that the outer IP is 'x' and that you can't get past that point, I'd think a lightbulb would go off that perhaps, just maybe, this user might be smarter than the average moron and isn't lying about rebooting everything.
A decade or more ago? Only one part was notable. In the 70s or earlier? That predates my professional involvement.
The point of comparison should be between the server OSes. So, do you really think Linux on the server is more secure than Windows Server 2012R2 ?
Yes.
They're still whiners. Try writing code to support multiple languages simultaneously on heterogenous environments with users attempting to look at the same data. Back around Y2K. And then supports those users.
For some reason, kids today think they have all these new exciting special problems and that they're in a eureka moment. That wasn't even true when I encountered those issues more than a decade earlier. I'm pretty sure the initial international connections for what became the internet were not even the first instance of this issue, as there were those wonderful 300 baud links way back in the 70s, and possibly earlier.
I think I'd rather see a story about the challenges of dealing with clueless tech support. Yes, I rebooted the system. Yes, I rebooted the network. I even checked that all links internally are live and that the problem appears to be your modem not connecting reliably to the outside world. Response: can you unplug your computer and reboot it? (Just one example of idiot tech support)
I believe your obvious anti-Apple tone was referred to. You don't have to use iCloud, I don't.
My point is nothing cloud is safe by default. Yes, there's ways to make it a lot more secure, such as drop a 2048bit plus encrypted file on dropbox, for example, and not just anyone is going to be able to see what you dropped. But that is not how any of these systems are setup. Use a PKI system instead of a simple As it stands, putting things up in the cloud is like dropping a postcard in the mail. No one is supposed to look at it, but there's nothing really keeping anyone from doing so if they really want to. Yes, that's extending the postcard analogy from email to cloud services. A cloud services/accounts are essentially nothing more than a postbox with a relatively weak lock. It doesn't matter what the environments are hosted on or how secure those environments are. The services running on them are insecure by design. Nothing external is going to fix that, and there is largely no incentive to fix it either.
For the same reasons you don't use dropbox, onedrive, etc, you don't use iCloud. Basically, if you don't want the world to see it, don't use cloud services. This is pretty simple and easy to understand. For all intents and purposes, anything "cloud" equals world access.