Incumbents can afford to lose money undercutting startups longer than startups can remain solvent. The incumbents are that big, and that evil, and that poorly regulated.
Somewhere, someone probably has created a proof that shows that the likelihood of an argument being correct diminishes with the number of premises it requires.
Really? So if I don't like the incumbent monoploy ISP I can just get myself a roll of optical fiber and string up a line across town to some data center that will route packets for me?
Right of way for cross-town fiber is just as much a limited shared resource as radio spectrum. THAT is why Comcast et al should be strictly regulated. The FCC's domain is that last-mile shared resource, NOT the Internet as a whole.
The big national ISPs and their stooges are intentionally equivocating between local carrier service and the global Internet to confuse and derail the pro-NN opposition. GP commenter fell right into this trap ("filing the internet under title 2" and "would give the FCC way too much power to regulate the internet"). NOBODY wants the FCC to regulate The Internet. The Internet is fine. It's the last mile that's a mess, because the giant national ISP companies are abusive, unregulated monopolies.
Democracy is great and all, but it has plenty of failure modes. Stupid people can democratically choose to do stupid things -- that's democracy, and it's also stupid.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
The hacker community has always been full of people with a certain kind of personality. That kind of personality can laugh at Hitler. But hackers are a dying breed. Software development is no longer driven by that "hacker" personality, and the software development community now has to be much more sensitive and respectful of a more diverse population. Which means no more Hitler jokes, or casual swearing, or crude innuendos, or Monty Python references, or etc etc. Oh well, it was fun (for the hackers) while it lasted.
Does the energy bill compare against running a heater to warm your house, as opposed to using the mining rig as the heater?
Resistive heating (e.g. a bitcoin miner) gives ~1W of heat per 1W of electricity. A heat pump gives ~3W of heat per 1W of electricity.
Burning fuel locally for heat is much more efficient than burning it in a remote power plant, converting the heat to electricity, then transporting the electricity and converting it back to heat.
Of course it is possible. There are at least three different ways:
1. Open source, as mentioned already by others.
2. Fully auditable communication. All channels between the AV software and the world can be inspected and filtered by the user.
3. Forensic mode, where the AV software runs offline with no ability to communicate with any network and never touches a live user system, only scanning forensic copies. I used this mode for years, though it was poorly supported by most AV makers and thus a bit cumbersome in practice.
A search warrant does not compel anyone to provide anything. A search warrant just means that the holder of the warrant is allowed to search, and the results of the search will be admissible as evidence. When the police say, "We're going to search your property," whether they have a warrant or not, all you have to do is step aside and not interfere.
Now, if they have a subpoena, then you may be compelled to produce some evidence, by whatever means are at your disposal.
So if the US police show Microsoft a warrant to search some data center in Ireland, all Microsoft has to do is step aside and let them search that datacenter in Ireland. (Good luck with that, US police.) If they want Microsoft to log into that data center remotely and retrieve the data for them, they'll need a subpoena to that effect. In the case at hand, the police got lazy and the court smacked them down.
It is a reference number to help establish that you are who you say you are.
Not quite. It is a reference number to help establish who you say you are. You need something else, like a secret or some unique biometric, to help establish who you are.
Burn the company to the ground, tar-and-feather all the executives, secure-erase all their data. Nobody deserves the kind of power they have, and obviously can't control.
Cryptotokens aren't anything special. Their prices are high right now because of money laundering, drugs and ransomeware. If you doubt me ask yourself what you can buy with them.
Ask myself? How about I ask overstock.com instead? They may not sell mortgages, but they do sell all sorts of housewares and other random crap that you'd find in a department store.
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I'll gladly stand in line to get money, but I'll be damned if I stand in line to give money.
So you'd gladly stand in line to sell something (get money) but not to buy something (give money)? Why? What's the difference?
So rich and poor alike are free to rent the city for a day, eh?
Incumbents can afford to lose money undercutting startups longer than startups can remain solvent. The incumbents are that big, and that evil, and that poorly regulated.
Somewhere, someone probably has created a proof that shows that the likelihood of an argument being correct diminishes with the number of premises it requires.
Ockham?
Really? So if I don't like the incumbent monoploy ISP I can just get myself a roll of optical fiber and string up a line across town to some data center that will route packets for me?
Right of way for cross-town fiber is just as much a limited shared resource as radio spectrum. THAT is why Comcast et al should be strictly regulated. The FCC's domain is that last-mile shared resource, NOT the Internet as a whole.
The big national ISPs and their stooges are intentionally equivocating between local carrier service and the global Internet to confuse and derail the pro-NN opposition. GP commenter fell right into this trap ("filing the internet under title 2" and "would give the FCC way too much power to regulate the internet"). NOBODY wants the FCC to regulate The Internet. The Internet is fine. It's the last mile that's a mess, because the giant national ISP companies are abusive, unregulated monopolies.
Democracy is great and all, but it has plenty of failure modes. Stupid people can democratically choose to do stupid things -- that's democracy, and it's also stupid.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Being a badass mofo myself, I LOL'd. In a totally badass way of course.
Well that link requires a login -
No problem, just enter "root" for the user name, leave the password field blank, and hit Enter twice.
That one is called Soylent News.
The movie version was called Pacific Heights.
Nope, it's Ireland, where Apple records all its profits.
The hacker community has always been full of people with a certain kind of personality. That kind of personality can laugh at Hitler. But hackers are a dying breed. Software development is no longer driven by that "hacker" personality, and the software development community now has to be much more sensitive and respectful of a more diverse population. Which means no more Hitler jokes, or casual swearing, or crude innuendos, or Monty Python references, or etc etc. Oh well, it was fun (for the hackers) while it lasted.
Does the energy bill compare against running a heater to warm your house, as opposed to using the mining rig as the heater?
Resistive heating (e.g. a bitcoin miner) gives ~1W of heat per 1W of electricity. A heat pump gives ~3W of heat per 1W of electricity.
Burning fuel locally for heat is much more efficient than burning it in a remote power plant, converting the heat to electricity, then transporting the electricity and converting it back to heat.
Thank you for clarifying!
InfraRed? Irreproducible Results? Infinite Radix? Inscrutable Raven?
He thinks he's stigginit to Slashdot by not adding to their registered users count.
KU is usually called the University of Kansas. They abbreviate it KU so as not to cause confusion with the United Kingdom.
You simply can not. Not Possible.
Of course it is possible. There are at least three different ways:
1. Open source, as mentioned already by others.
2. Fully auditable communication. All channels between the AV software and the world can be inspected and filtered by the user.
3. Forensic mode, where the AV software runs offline with no ability to communicate with any network and never touches a live user system, only scanning forensic copies. I used this mode for years, though it was poorly supported by most AV makers and thus a bit cumbersome in practice.
A search warrant does not compel anyone to provide anything. A search warrant just means that the holder of the warrant is allowed to search, and the results of the search will be admissible as evidence. When the police say, "We're going to search your property," whether they have a warrant or not, all you have to do is step aside and not interfere.
Now, if they have a subpoena, then you may be compelled to produce some evidence, by whatever means are at your disposal.
So if the US police show Microsoft a warrant to search some data center in Ireland, all Microsoft has to do is step aside and let them search that datacenter in Ireland. (Good luck with that, US police.) If they want Microsoft to log into that data center remotely and retrieve the data for them, they'll need a subpoena to that effect. In the case at hand, the police got lazy and the court smacked them down.
stylii
Keybounce, or stutter?
You're in the wrong discussion. We're talking about an expedition to Venus, not Venice.
It is a reference number to help establish that you are who you say you are.
Not quite. It is a reference number to help establish who you say you are. You need something else, like a secret or some unique biometric, to help establish who you are.
I suspect that we're just not smart enough to design a machine as smart as we are, and we never will be.
PROJECT MAYHEM
Burn the company to the ground, tar-and-feather all the executives, secure-erase all their data. Nobody deserves the kind of power they have, and obviously can't control.
Cryptotokens aren't anything special. Their prices are high right now because of money laundering, drugs and ransomeware. If you doubt me ask yourself what you can buy with them.
Ask myself? How about I ask overstock.com instead? They may not sell mortgages, but they do sell all sorts of housewares and other random crap that you'd find in a department store.