Actually it is much easier to determine that from a simple blood test. Some people can be junk food junkies and never have problems with high tryglicerides or cholesterol, other people have to be very selective about what they eat. Watching what people buy is a poor indicator this sort of thing.
You kinda wonder what's next. Does the right to be forgotten include from the minds of people too? Do you have the right to be forgotten from history books?
Maybe we should ask Mr. Burns for his amnesia ray.
I agree with the first part in that if you sign up for facebook, they are pretty clear about what they are going to do with your data. I think it is just plain stupid that anonymous wants to declare war on them because they do exactly what their customers agreed to let them do. If both parties agree, then where is this supposed injustice that needs to be corrected?
However if the customer wants to opt in to having their information shared, they should be allowed to do that. The information I post to linkedin for example, I WANT them to share that. A lot of recruiters hire from there, and that information is a LOT more detailed than anything I have put on facebook.
As far as advertising goes, I am just fine with them sharing the information I give them as well, but not for reasons that you might think. I give them an email address that I rarely ever check, meanwhile they mail coupons to it in order to get me to buy from them more. Whenever I actually come looking to buy something, I search that mailbox and I might find something useful. Last month I wanted to buy some RAM, and it just so happened that a few days earlier newegg emailed a coupon to that address. Staples does that sometimes as well, e.g. I was looking for a portable hard disk once, and I had one of those $25 off $75 coupons they toss around once in a blue moon. Pretty nice taking $25 off of an $80 hard disk.
As far as data mining; I'm a pretty boring person. I think they might find that when finals are coming up, I buy lots of mountain dew. Maybe there are a lot of like minded people, so wal-mart will have a sale on mountain dew around that time so that I buy from them rather than say target. Am I supposed to feel violated because my privacy was invaded? Or am I supposed to be glad that I got some cheaper mountain dew?
Nearly all of the well known terrorists figureheads have had very good lives. All of the 9/11 hijackers had college degrees. The current head of Al-Qaeda is a surgeon. Osama Bin Laden was a multi-millionaire. Azzam the American was born in Berkly, California, and left for the middle east in his 20's. Anwar al-Awlaki was providing support for known terrorists while living as a citizen of the US. Nidal Malik Hasan was an Army Major when he shouted allahuakbar and shot people up.
Nearly all of them have lived in the US legitimately, as well as numerous parts of Europe. Not only have they had a chance at a good life, they lived a good life.
I somehow doubt AC, McDonalds, and TV's would pacify them.
I'm not a scientist, but would this have any use for other autoimmune disorders like type 1 diabetes, celiacs, and hell even organ and tissue transplants?
I remember in nintendo power magazine, they had a long article that basically said cartridges were the space shuttle, and cd roms were snails. At the end of the article, they said that if anybody tells you that the future belongs to cd roms, you should tell them that the future doesn't belong to snails.
Ironically, today their consoles perform at a snails pace compared to their competitors.
I think Microsoft might consider doing what every other web browser has done in the past: pretend it is what it isn't.
Nearly every modern web browser sticks "mozilla" in its user agent in order to make most servers work with it. Mozilla took its name from "mosaic killer" because it was meant to be "better" than mosaic of yore, by including new features. Web sites would use the agent string to determine whether or not they would e.g. use frames, which mosaic didn't support. If the agent string didn't include "mozilla" somewhere in it, it wouldn't put frames on the page.
So, microsoft and everybody else stuck the word mozilla somewhere in the agent string (usually something along the lines of mozilla-compatible.)
They could adopt a similar practice today, just accept the webkit functions and map them to their version of those functions, effectively pretending they are webkit until the W3C ratifies those functions.
Actually the black republicans tend to be religious. A friend of mine is black, is from Etheopia, and also jewish. I identify as atheist. We both were talking about how we wanted Obama out of office, and which Republicans we would vote for, but his reasoning was different from mine.
He wants the democrats out because he believes that they are too opposed to god. I want them out because I want a smaller government. He's not the only black republican I know, most of them are christian though.
The tea partiers aren't necessarily religous. The tea party wants the maximum rights possible (no restrictions on firearms, no invasion of privacy, etc) and want maximum austerity. They are also rather paranoid about government granting more laws towards anything, and that includes copyright. In fact, the tea party put a ton of pressure on congress about SOPA.
FWIW I voted enthusiastically for Jeff Flake for AZ senate. He is currently the spearhead of removing earmarks, reducing money in politics, and stood up against SOPA when he was in the house. Slashdot is often times what I would consider radically left (posts talking about how the republicans should die in a florida storm were moderated with a 5 in one article) yet I think most of them could stand behind Jeff Flake on at least those issues.
I'm 30 years old, and have never found a democrat worth supporting. I have found a few republicans worth supporting. I'd prefer not to, but in this two party system you have to pick a side, there is no room for independents. For that reason, I reluctantly lean republican. That puts me squarely in the demographic that both parties call the "young republicans."
Personally, I'd like nothing more than to see the GOP relax on the social issues. I will not ever ask them to give up their religion. I'm one of few atheists who believes religion is fine so long as you don't proselytize, and I've yet to meet one republican who isn't that way. Hell, I don't even proselytize for people to abandon their view of believing in a god, I just don't believe in any god and that's just how I am. No republican I have ever met has ever given me any lip about that. Yes, I'm aware that there was some congressman who said something about evolution being the spawn of the devil or some crap like that, but I haven't met the guy, and I don't want to either.
In spite of being atheist and rather libertarian though, I am rather hawkish. I served in the Army, and I believe fully that if somebody flies airplanes into our buildings, giving them hugs and kisses is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Like Col West said, we will be the angel of death.
Shockingly, I support Obama's stance on raining death from above with drone strikes, but ironically I've yet to meet anybody who voted for him that supports his kill list (I do.)
I'm not religious, I just know that wars have solved many problems, to include ending Hirohito's "Asian Management" program, and Mussolini's Fascism. Kind of hard for Osama to provide moral support to the "mujahideen" when he's dead. On the contrary, killing him really harmed their morale.
To me Computer Science speaks of people who might want to design a new integrated circuit or otherwise do some kind of hard hacking, whereas software engineering refers to people who like to make said hardware do new tricks.
If Microsoft is sticking to the operating system department, I would figure the software engineer might be better qualified.
I'd say computer science would come into play when it comes to designing the surface tablet, except Microsoft isn't in the business of designing the bits and pieces, just the overall form factor. The bits and pieces come from the likes of intel, samsung, etc.
And I'm not sure what lies you say I speak of. I already know that your 3ms claim is a lie. SDSL, which has the lowest latency, has a minimum 10ms latency. ADSL frequently relies upon interleaving in order to reliably deliver layer 2 data. That brings you a minimum of 35ms latency, sometimes up to 75ms, depending on how they tune it. They'll tune it to different amounts depending on your SNR.
Cable doesn't have to deal with any such issue.
Also, cable has hit 250Mbit to the last mile, whereas DSL has hit 80Mbit, but only to customers who live within a few hundred feet of the DSLAM. I've told you about channel bonding, among other things, which you simply can't do over DSL. Your voice lines are at their capacity. RG6 is nowhere near its capacity.
And actually the reason they got rid of coax for LANs was because at the time, orthogonal modulation didn't exist and it was easier to simply add more wires with more twists, so cat5 was born. Also, twisted wiring has hit its limit, as no form of twisted pair will exceed 100mbit without becoming an inductor or adding a ridiculous number of pairs.
Also, keep in mind that DSL relies upon using existing telephone wiring. That wiring will never come anywhere near what cat5 does, whereas coax can already exceed the theoretical limits of twisted pairs.
You might ask, why we don't go back to coax then? Well, because dark fiber is cheaper, and SM fiber is capable of retaining its signal at much greater distances with fewer raw materials.
By the way, I'm a network engineer. Knowing this technology is my business. From the sound of things, you're a fanboy angry that he won't see anything higher than 15mbit any time soon.
During the years that I played WoW, I went through many guilds that had black people, and all of them would regularly use the N word. I asked one why it doesn't bother him, and he said it only bothers white people.
Then on top of it, they were always making jokes about Obama, racist ones included.
I don't really think malice is the intent in most of them, I think it's more a symptom of this:
People just like to joke around, and if somebody else takes offense, then proceed to troll them. I'm no exception myself, we had a palestinian kid in one of my guilds who was always saying perverted things to any girls in ventrilo, and had this really creepy pedophile voice. I always referred to him as the pedophile suicide bomber. It was all in good fun, much as I think these blogs are.
What I find ironic though is how many on slashdot look up to anonymous, but don't realize that most of them hang out on 4chan and encyclopediadramatica, both of which regularly both feature and encourage racist material. In fact, a few politicians in Australia tried to ban ED for its article on Aboriginals.
GSM only facilitates simultaneous voice/data since it uses two separate radios: One for TDMA modulation, and another for WCDMA modulation. CDMA2000 can do simultaneous voice/data with a single radio using SVDO, but most carriers and handset OEM's are too lazy to implement it.
Sprint WiMAX phones can do simultaneous voice/data, if you live in an area with that. Same for their LTE phones, and same for Verizon LTE. Basically the same reason GSM can do simultaneous voice/data; an additional radio to support a newer data standard.
HSPA is a nice addition to the existing WCDMA standard, and I don't really care for LTE right now due to current implementations being a battery hog. However, LTE uses modern modulation techniques, (OFDMA) and therefore makes a much more efficient use of available spectrum, and has further range. It will ultimately win once it becomes ubiquitous.
CDMA is technologically superior to GSM. GSM uses TDMA for voice. TDMA has long since fallen out of use in modern systems as a modulation method for the same reason that token ring has fallen out of use in networking. TDMA is a massive waste of available spectrum and has a very short range compared to CDMA.
This is why for 3G, the GSM standard has adopted CDMA over TDMA, but still uses TDMA for voice for backwards compatibility.
If anything, I imagine google would go straight to LTE and simply use VoLTE, which uses the newer OFDMA modulation, as well as being IP based, and is already spreading worldwide.
If they picked up Sprint, they could have an already growing LTE network, however it's currently the smallest and slowest (and knowing Sprint, will probably remain the slowest, unless Google did buy them and changed that.)
because it is still the absolute best, and most reliable test that the average person can perform.
What world do you live in where the average user can't double-click shaperprobe.exe and then click ok?
Or maybe that's just the typical uneducated DSL user:D
So you're both wrong, and arrogant.... I can guarantee that your speeds fluctuate, it's the nature of the technology. And your latency is likely HIGHER than DSL too. Gamers around here pick DSL over cable for a reason, and it's the latency.
Cable doesn't have to deal with either weaving or transitioning between different layer 2 protocols prior to hitting the first hop. DOCSIS is built around simple ethernet frames, DSL is not. There's not a chance that DSL can compete in latency. I've had 5ms latency to game servers in my area. DSL can't even touch anything below 32ms.
Ah, so you're overpaying, and that's why you want to justify what you're getting, even if it isn't as good as the competition, you can't stand to think that you're paying more for less service, it's ok, it's only human nature to be defensive of such things.
How is it not as good? I have various metrics that show I have a consistent 30mbit steady state. Meanwhile you're stuck at 15mbit because of line length limitations which cable does not suffer from. Rather than using crap like netflix or hulu, I download full high def releases of TV shows in 5 minutes (1.5GBish from sickbeard) and movies (10GB'ish by the parameters I set in couchpotato) in an hour.
If I subscribed to the same level of service you have, I'd pay $30 a month. Really though, I want faster bulk transfers, so I pay more.
Yes, but the node isn't the problem, there's usually plenty of bandwidth from the node to the network, the last mile is the problem. and that is where your cable line can never compete with DSL.
You saying my node is a problem when I've not once seen SABNZBd unable to fill the pipe completely according to spec.
ah yes, your magical cable that has unlimited bandwidth, can have infinite customers on it, all because of DOCSIS2, hate to break it to you, but DOCSIS2(or later) isn't magic, and you are still sharing that cable with everyone else, and it's still only 1 cable. One person rakes in the torrents, the neighbour doesn't get his speeds. Until they run individual cables to each house, cable is doomed to share bandwidth. Luckilly for DSL subscribers the phone company already did run individual cables to every house. how forward thinking of them!
I don't think you understand what a channel is. If you are transferring data on one channel, and another person is transferring data on another channel, you are not contending for bandwidth. In fact, you can't even see one another's packets. You can also channel bond and have two (or more) people on the same channel, and if you aren't hitting your cap, you can do so using another channel.
Basically what you're arguing is tantamount to saying that all of the over-the-air stations are competing with one another on the same frequency. It's simply not the case.
Newer modems will bond 8 channels downstream, and 4 channels upstream.
Did you know that DSLAMS don't live in COs anymore?
Yes, hence the distinction between "DSLAM" and "Central Office"
they live on street corners all over the city. Most customers qualify for upward of 80 meg, and it gets better! VDSL2 is the latest and greatest, but there's no need to limit yourself to even that!
In my work environment, everybody uses two or even three monitors because they have so many windows open.
Especially when we're working on UCS systems. You'll want the command center window open, in addition to the KVM for the individual virtual machines, as well as your obligatory excel document containing pinning assignments and other notes.
Me too, only at lower latency than you do, and at a higher speed than your average DSL subscriber can ever hope to reach. My current tier for example is 30mbit, which I pay about $50ish for, and is about to receive a bump to 40mbit for free as my local CMTS just received a hardware upgrade and they're rolling out the changes this month.
While in theory my node could become over-saturated and I could see a loss of throughput, the exact same thing can be said for DSL, and it is every bit as likely to happen. You probably don't know that since DOCSIS 2, cable doesn't rely on TDMA any more, rather it uses S-CDMA instead. This means there are rarely collisions, effectively making the concept of sharing a single medium rather meaningless. Cable subscribers don't contend for bandwidth like they used to back in the 90's, where the "shared bandwidth" talking point had more merit. It's more analogous now to having a switched network rather than a hub network.
Also, did you know that once you pass half a mile away from the DSLAM, not even VDSL2 (the latest and greatest) can achieve speeds higher than 50mbit? It's physically impossible, and the vast majority of DSL subscribers are beyond that distance. Where I live though, 100mbit cable can be had for $90 a month, with no geographical restrictions that I'm aware of so long as you're able to physically connect the cable.
something not a single cable user can honestly say.
Except for me, apparently, and everybody else in my neighborhood. That is a fact. But something tells me that I'm not a special case, given that cable co's across the US all use DOCSIS 3.
And here is where it becomes extremely obvious that you have no clue what you are talking about. You are correct that bandwidth deteriorates with distance, however the telco can measure this EXTREMELY accurately. To start with they use their records, This is all very easy to calculate, they know how long the cables are, they know what gauge the cables are, and therefore they know the loss of those lines, and in fact they refuse to oversell this, so if you are so far away from the DSLAM that you can only get 15Mbps instead of 25Mbps
Actually it isn't terribly accurate. While their records could say that on such and such date, your signal to noise ratio was X, the reality is that they can't tell you how good it is on say, friday at noon vs sunday morning, which does vary depending on the use of adjacent wiring. Remember, you're using voice grade cable here, it never was intended to carry more than a single channel of anything. When it comes to telecommunications, voice grade cable is literally the lowest you can even get these days. A single pair of wires, unshielded, and in many cases untwisted. And that is what your DSL infrastructure is based upon. RG6 has no such whims. It also provides 3GHZ of spectrum, of which we only currently use 1ghz (which provides a 7Gb capacity,) but we can use more as the technology advances. Your voice grade cable is pretty much at its limits though, unless they invent some new form of compression.
Let's suppose for your sake that their measurements were always dead on accurate though: tell me, whats it like having no option of going above 15mbit? My data rate is double that, and I don't live very close to the CMTS. If I wanted to, I could make a phone call and have 100mbit data rates tomorrow. Can you?
they will actually refuse to sell 25Mbps service, no matter who you talk to, or what you say. In fact I qualify for 19.8Mbps, so they only sold me a 15Mbps connection. Once that step is done, a technician is dispatched for the install, after which tests are done on the line itself with the ADSL modem trained up
I know the thought process behind forcing the apps to be full screen, but the problem is that this model simply doesn't work for the desktop. Currently, the main reason for having a desktop as opposed to a mobile device (at least, to ma and pa yehaaw) is that a desktop is where you get real work done, e.g. drafting, creating a powerpoint presentation, etc. Touch devices (even with large screens) don't really work too well for that. The keyboard and mouse will be around for a long time to come for this reason. Likewise, the full screen app model simply will not fly on the desktop, that I am certain of.
A perfect example I can think of, is just now when I was entering in configuration commands into some cisco routers, I had three telnet windows open, an excel window which contained subnet layouts and IP addresses, one visio window which contained a physical network topology, another visio window which contained a logical network topology, and a web browser with a command reference page open.
How on earth would I do such a thing using metro? I'm sure you could, but it would be dreadfully slow and downright frustrating compared to being able to have multiple windows open at once. Imagine having to alt-tab through all of those windows each time I need to refer to something else. It would be a nightmare, whereas with overlapping windows I can simply glance at my references rather than figure out how many times I have to press tab in order to get what I am looking for.
While I'm aware of the ability to run two apps alongside one another (I think they might call that "modern UI snap" now? lol) it is really wanting in the face of having multiple windows open. Telnet and excel both depend heavily upon being able to have page width, and not height, which is what metro snap aims for.
I think the complaint is touch interfaces on the desktop.
Windows 8 overall has some nice changes (I am currently running it myself) however what sucks are the so called "immersive" apps. Basically, any app that comes from the windows store.
When you have a large (in my case, 46") high resolution display, having apps take up the entire screen is downright stupid. Overlapping windows allow you to view multiple different things simultaneously, even if they aren't provided by the same app. This is why windows replaced DOS for the work environment (DOS mainly survived as long as it did due to being more efficient for games at the time)
The idea of throwing out overlapping windows in favor of an "immersive" experience is just...stupid. If this really is the future of windows, then windows has no future in the workplace, and probably no future anywhere else either as a result.
This is coming from somebody who has a traditionally favorable view of windows.
I do regular monitoring of my pipe with shaperprobe (its a hobby; I'm a network engineer after all) and I get what I pay for, plus or minus 30 kilobits.
By the way, did you know that speedtest.net isn't very accurate? My guess is no. You probably also didn't know that DSL is even worse when it comes to delivering promised bandwidth due to voice grade cable having a degraded signal the further away you are from the DSLAM, which your phone company can't even accurately measure, and therefore can't really tell you what speeds they can reliably deliver even if they wanted to.
You probably also didn't know that DSL is guaranteed to have higher first hop delay than cable (usually 2 to 3 times as much) for reasons related to why they can't accurately tell you how much your line can actually deliver.
Hell, let's take it a step further than that. You probably also didn't know that all consumer grade ISPs will offer the "up to" disclaimer due to their inability to determine the capabilities of consumer premises equipment (that is, everything on the subscriber side of the demarcation point, such as their computer) among other things.
And by the way, you share bandwidth every bit as much as cable users do. Learn networking some day, and you'll realize why.
Oversubscription isn't a bad thing, and in fact, dare I say that virtually every provider in the world does it, because it is basically a waste not to. I pretty much liken non-oversubscription to TDMA or token ring of yore. Basically, if you had nothing to say at the moment you were allowed to, that bandwidth on the pipe was simply wasted, because another guy could have pushed his bits out faster when you were simply mute. This is why ethernet killed token ring, and permanent virtual circuits killed t-carrier.
Say you had a 1Tb pipe, and you had 1,000,000 subscribers. Does that mean you limit all of them to 1Mb? If so, most of your 1Tb pipe is going to waste. The reality is that not all of those users are going to be using their internet connection at once, in fact in a worst case scenario you'd be lucky if more than 10% of them decided to download a big file at the same time, and even if they did, often the remote server doesn't even serve it at a high enough speed to fill their entire allocated bandwidth. Most of the users would be browsing facebook or some other low bandwidth site, assuming they were even using their internet connection at all at the moment.
Better yet, why not give them 30Mb, and statistically speaking, there's probably a 1% chance that they'd ever see any kind of congestion at all, and if they did, it would be negligible to the point that they wouldn't even notice any different.
Now that does fall apart when you and about 50 others seed a torrent of a full blu-ray copy of Avatar 24/7. The fact is, the infrastructure simply wasn't designed for that. If you really must do that, then you really ought to subscribe to a higher tier of service. There's no reason ma and pa yeehaw need to spend ten times what they currently spend just so you can pirate avatar because in your own mind you're doing a good deed to humanity. (Not that I'm not a pirate; far from it, I just choose far more efficient and practical means of doing so. Seeding large files from a consumer grade last mile internet connection is neither practical nor efficient.)
People abusing the above is why we're ending up with metered connections. Having people who treat their home connection like they run a datacenter isn't ideal, and I really wouldn't blame any ISP for either wanting to get rid of them, or charging them extra. If you need to run that kind of service, it costs a hell of a lot less, is more efficient, and more reliable if you subscribe to e.g. amazon cloud services or something.
In the event of a disaster, say hurricane Sandy, so long as everybody isn't hopping on youtube all at once, you won't have a problem with oversubscription. Even VoIP traffic wouldn't be a concern. If such a scenario does happen, you simply throttle youtube or other non-essential high bandwidth services until the emergency is over, and then let everything go back to business as usual.
Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer by trade, delivering packets is my business.
I think tomato counts TCP headers as part of its metric because it is all inclusive of everything encapsulated into internet protocol packets at layer 3. What I don't know however is whether or not it includes layer 2 traffic, for example, not only ethernet frames, but PPPoE encapsulation on top of that. Then there may also be further layer 2 encapsulation between his DSLAM and AT&T's border routers that they count, but he never sees.
DSL is really an ugly monster when it comes to this sort of thing. I remember during the late 90's, the DSL users looked down their nose upon us cable users due to our "shared bandwidth," only to later realize that not only do they share bandwidth at some point, but voice grade cable ultimately isn't nearly as immune to interference as RG6, and requires additional data layering in addition to some other tricks (e.g. weaving) just to make sure too many packets aren't getting dropped.
Well, technically they do. If the US wants to either annex land into its territory, or admit a new region into the union, the federal government has to make that decision, not the states.
Granted, if a state secedes, that is their decision, but if the US wants to oppose, that is a federal government matter.
We provide a sizable chunk of the electrons migrating through your power grid, which is already so short on power that there are rolling brownouts, and most of our energy production is also considered "green energy" which most Californians strive for but don't produce. We also provide a chunk of your food supply.
Without us, Hollywood would have to create the second Globe Theater in order to stay employed. On the contrary, we won't have your industry bigwigs constantly pressuring us to enact SOPA style laws, primarily because nobody would be able to film them in the first place for piracy to even happen.
However, you have already legislated the pornography industry out of your state and into ours, so we'll always have that form of entertainment.
The worlds most advanced semiconductor fabrication plant also resides in Arizona, so be prepared to negotiate a trade with us if you need to make use of its products.
Signed, Arizona.
P.S. Have you seen the new NBC show "Revolution"? That's you if you secede.
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Actually it is much easier to determine that from a simple blood test. Some people can be junk food junkies and never have problems with high tryglicerides or cholesterol, other people have to be very selective about what they eat. Watching what people buy is a poor indicator this sort of thing.
Are these things you're supposed to be ashamed or embarrassed about or something?
You kinda wonder what's next. Does the right to be forgotten include from the minds of people too? Do you have the right to be forgotten from history books?
Maybe we should ask Mr. Burns for his amnesia ray.
I agree with the first part in that if you sign up for facebook, they are pretty clear about what they are going to do with your data. I think it is just plain stupid that anonymous wants to declare war on them because they do exactly what their customers agreed to let them do. If both parties agree, then where is this supposed injustice that needs to be corrected?
However if the customer wants to opt in to having their information shared, they should be allowed to do that. The information I post to linkedin for example, I WANT them to share that. A lot of recruiters hire from there, and that information is a LOT more detailed than anything I have put on facebook.
As far as advertising goes, I am just fine with them sharing the information I give them as well, but not for reasons that you might think. I give them an email address that I rarely ever check, meanwhile they mail coupons to it in order to get me to buy from them more. Whenever I actually come looking to buy something, I search that mailbox and I might find something useful. Last month I wanted to buy some RAM, and it just so happened that a few days earlier newegg emailed a coupon to that address. Staples does that sometimes as well, e.g. I was looking for a portable hard disk once, and I had one of those $25 off $75 coupons they toss around once in a blue moon. Pretty nice taking $25 off of an $80 hard disk.
As far as data mining; I'm a pretty boring person. I think they might find that when finals are coming up, I buy lots of mountain dew. Maybe there are a lot of like minded people, so wal-mart will have a sale on mountain dew around that time so that I buy from them rather than say target. Am I supposed to feel violated because my privacy was invaded? Or am I supposed to be glad that I got some cheaper mountain dew?
Nearly all of the well known terrorists figureheads have had very good lives. All of the 9/11 hijackers had college degrees. The current head of Al-Qaeda is a surgeon. Osama Bin Laden was a multi-millionaire. Azzam the American was born in Berkly, California, and left for the middle east in his 20's. Anwar al-Awlaki was providing support for known terrorists while living as a citizen of the US. Nidal Malik Hasan was an Army Major when he shouted allahuakbar and shot people up.
Nearly all of them have lived in the US legitimately, as well as numerous parts of Europe. Not only have they had a chance at a good life, they lived a good life.
I somehow doubt AC, McDonalds, and TV's would pacify them.
I'm not a scientist, but would this have any use for other autoimmune disorders like type 1 diabetes, celiacs, and hell even organ and tissue transplants?
I remember in nintendo power magazine, they had a long article that basically said cartridges were the space shuttle, and cd roms were snails. At the end of the article, they said that if anybody tells you that the future belongs to cd roms, you should tell them that the future doesn't belong to snails.
Ironically, today their consoles perform at a snails pace compared to their competitors.
I think Microsoft might consider doing what every other web browser has done in the past: pretend it is what it isn't.
Nearly every modern web browser sticks "mozilla" in its user agent in order to make most servers work with it. Mozilla took its name from "mosaic killer" because it was meant to be "better" than mosaic of yore, by including new features. Web sites would use the agent string to determine whether or not they would e.g. use frames, which mosaic didn't support. If the agent string didn't include "mozilla" somewhere in it, it wouldn't put frames on the page.
So, microsoft and everybody else stuck the word mozilla somewhere in the agent string (usually something along the lines of mozilla-compatible.)
They could adopt a similar practice today, just accept the webkit functions and map them to their version of those functions, effectively pretending they are webkit until the W3C ratifies those functions.
Actually the black republicans tend to be religious. A friend of mine is black, is from Etheopia, and also jewish. I identify as atheist. We both were talking about how we wanted Obama out of office, and which Republicans we would vote for, but his reasoning was different from mine.
He wants the democrats out because he believes that they are too opposed to god. I want them out because I want a smaller government. He's not the only black republican I know, most of them are christian though.
The tea partiers aren't necessarily religous. The tea party wants the maximum rights possible (no restrictions on firearms, no invasion of privacy, etc) and want maximum austerity. They are also rather paranoid about government granting more laws towards anything, and that includes copyright. In fact, the tea party put a ton of pressure on congress about SOPA.
FWIW I voted enthusiastically for Jeff Flake for AZ senate. He is currently the spearhead of removing earmarks, reducing money in politics, and stood up against SOPA when he was in the house. Slashdot is often times what I would consider radically left (posts talking about how the republicans should die in a florida storm were moderated with a 5 in one article) yet I think most of them could stand behind Jeff Flake on at least those issues.
I'm 30 years old, and have never found a democrat worth supporting. I have found a few republicans worth supporting. I'd prefer not to, but in this two party system you have to pick a side, there is no room for independents. For that reason, I reluctantly lean republican. That puts me squarely in the demographic that both parties call the "young republicans."
Personally, I'd like nothing more than to see the GOP relax on the social issues. I will not ever ask them to give up their religion. I'm one of few atheists who believes religion is fine so long as you don't proselytize, and I've yet to meet one republican who isn't that way. Hell, I don't even proselytize for people to abandon their view of believing in a god, I just don't believe in any god and that's just how I am. No republican I have ever met has ever given me any lip about that. Yes, I'm aware that there was some congressman who said something about evolution being the spawn of the devil or some crap like that, but I haven't met the guy, and I don't want to either.
In spite of being atheist and rather libertarian though, I am rather hawkish. I served in the Army, and I believe fully that if somebody flies airplanes into our buildings, giving them hugs and kisses is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Like Col West said, we will be the angel of death.
Shockingly, I support Obama's stance on raining death from above with drone strikes, but ironically I've yet to meet anybody who voted for him that supports his kill list (I do.)
I'm not religious, I just know that wars have solved many problems, to include ending Hirohito's "Asian Management" program, and Mussolini's Fascism. Kind of hard for Osama to provide moral support to the "mujahideen" when he's dead. On the contrary, killing him really harmed their morale.
To me Computer Science speaks of people who might want to design a new integrated circuit or otherwise do some kind of hard hacking, whereas software engineering refers to people who like to make said hardware do new tricks.
If Microsoft is sticking to the operating system department, I would figure the software engineer might be better qualified.
I'd say computer science would come into play when it comes to designing the surface tablet, except Microsoft isn't in the business of designing the bits and pieces, just the overall form factor. The bits and pieces come from the likes of intel, samsung, etc.
If DSL is so reliable as you claim, then what is this?
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/184
And I'm not sure what lies you say I speak of. I already know that your 3ms claim is a lie. SDSL, which has the lowest latency, has a minimum 10ms latency. ADSL frequently relies upon interleaving in order to reliably deliver layer 2 data. That brings you a minimum of 35ms latency, sometimes up to 75ms, depending on how they tune it. They'll tune it to different amounts depending on your SNR.
Cable doesn't have to deal with any such issue.
Also, cable has hit 250Mbit to the last mile, whereas DSL has hit 80Mbit, but only to customers who live within a few hundred feet of the DSLAM. I've told you about channel bonding, among other things, which you simply can't do over DSL. Your voice lines are at their capacity. RG6 is nowhere near its capacity.
And actually the reason they got rid of coax for LANs was because at the time, orthogonal modulation didn't exist and it was easier to simply add more wires with more twists, so cat5 was born. Also, twisted wiring has hit its limit, as no form of twisted pair will exceed 100mbit without becoming an inductor or adding a ridiculous number of pairs.
Also, keep in mind that DSL relies upon using existing telephone wiring. That wiring will never come anywhere near what cat5 does, whereas coax can already exceed the theoretical limits of twisted pairs.
You might ask, why we don't go back to coax then? Well, because dark fiber is cheaper, and SM fiber is capable of retaining its signal at much greater distances with fewer raw materials.
By the way, I'm a network engineer. Knowing this technology is my business. From the sound of things, you're a fanboy angry that he won't see anything higher than 15mbit any time soon.
During the years that I played WoW, I went through many guilds that had black people, and all of them would regularly use the N word. I asked one why it doesn't bother him, and he said it only bothers white people.
Then on top of it, they were always making jokes about Obama, racist ones included.
I don't really think malice is the intent in most of them, I think it's more a symptom of this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
People just like to joke around, and if somebody else takes offense, then proceed to troll them. I'm no exception myself, we had a palestinian kid in one of my guilds who was always saying perverted things to any girls in ventrilo, and had this really creepy pedophile voice. I always referred to him as the pedophile suicide bomber. It was all in good fun, much as I think these blogs are.
What I find ironic though is how many on slashdot look up to anonymous, but don't realize that most of them hang out on 4chan and encyclopediadramatica, both of which regularly both feature and encourage racist material. In fact, a few politicians in Australia tried to ban ED for its article on Aboriginals.
GSM only facilitates simultaneous voice/data since it uses two separate radios: One for TDMA modulation, and another for WCDMA modulation. CDMA2000 can do simultaneous voice/data with a single radio using SVDO, but most carriers and handset OEM's are too lazy to implement it.
Sprint WiMAX phones can do simultaneous voice/data, if you live in an area with that. Same for their LTE phones, and same for Verizon LTE. Basically the same reason GSM can do simultaneous voice/data; an additional radio to support a newer data standard.
HSPA is a nice addition to the existing WCDMA standard, and I don't really care for LTE right now due to current implementations being a battery hog. However, LTE uses modern modulation techniques, (OFDMA) and therefore makes a much more efficient use of available spectrum, and has further range. It will ultimately win once it becomes ubiquitous.
CDMA is technologically superior to GSM. GSM uses TDMA for voice. TDMA has long since fallen out of use in modern systems as a modulation method for the same reason that token ring has fallen out of use in networking. TDMA is a massive waste of available spectrum and has a very short range compared to CDMA.
This is why for 3G, the GSM standard has adopted CDMA over TDMA, but still uses TDMA for voice for backwards compatibility.
If anything, I imagine google would go straight to LTE and simply use VoLTE, which uses the newer OFDMA modulation, as well as being IP based, and is already spreading worldwide.
If they picked up Sprint, they could have an already growing LTE network, however it's currently the smallest and slowest (and knowing Sprint, will probably remain the slowest, unless Google did buy them and changed that.)
because it is still the absolute best, and most reliable test that the average person can perform.
What world do you live in where the average user can't double-click shaperprobe.exe and then click ok?
Or maybe that's just the typical uneducated DSL user :D
So you're both wrong, and arrogant.... I can guarantee that your speeds fluctuate, it's the nature of the technology. And your latency is likely HIGHER than DSL too. Gamers around here pick DSL over cable for a reason, and it's the latency.
Cable doesn't have to deal with either weaving or transitioning between different layer 2 protocols prior to hitting the first hop. DOCSIS is built around simple ethernet frames, DSL is not. There's not a chance that DSL can compete in latency. I've had 5ms latency to game servers in my area. DSL can't even touch anything below 32ms.
Ah, so you're overpaying, and that's why you want to justify what you're getting, even if it isn't as good as the competition, you can't stand to think that you're paying more for less service, it's ok, it's only human nature to be defensive of such things.
How is it not as good? I have various metrics that show I have a consistent 30mbit steady state. Meanwhile you're stuck at 15mbit because of line length limitations which cable does not suffer from. Rather than using crap like netflix or hulu, I download full high def releases of TV shows in 5 minutes (1.5GBish from sickbeard) and movies (10GB'ish by the parameters I set in couchpotato) in an hour.
If I subscribed to the same level of service you have, I'd pay $30 a month. Really though, I want faster bulk transfers, so I pay more.
Yes, but the node isn't the problem, there's usually plenty of bandwidth from the node to the network, the last mile is the problem. and that is where your cable line can never compete with DSL.
You saying my node is a problem when I've not once seen SABNZBd unable to fill the pipe completely according to spec.
ah yes, your magical cable that has unlimited bandwidth, can have infinite customers on it, all because of DOCSIS2, hate to break it to you, but DOCSIS2(or later) isn't magic, and you are still sharing that cable with everyone else, and it's still only 1 cable. One person rakes in the torrents, the neighbour doesn't get his speeds. Until they run individual cables to each house, cable is doomed to share bandwidth. Luckilly for DSL subscribers the phone company already did run individual cables to every house. how forward thinking of them!
I don't think you understand what a channel is. If you are transferring data on one channel, and another person is transferring data on another channel, you are not contending for bandwidth. In fact, you can't even see one another's packets. You can also channel bond and have two (or more) people on the same channel, and if you aren't hitting your cap, you can do so using another channel.
Basically what you're arguing is tantamount to saying that all of the over-the-air stations are competing with one another on the same frequency. It's simply not the case.
Newer modems will bond 8 channels downstream, and 4 channels upstream.
Did you know that DSLAMS don't live in COs anymore?
Yes, hence the distinction between "DSLAM" and "Central Office"
they live on street corners all over the city. Most customers qualify for upward of 80 meg, and it gets better! VDSL2 is the latest and greatest, but there's no need to limit yourself to even that!
That's not true, and I can prove it:
http://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail
It's pretty unusual to have more than one DSLAM every three to four city blocks. Sorry, but you're talking out your ass here.
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In my work environment, everybody uses two or even three monitors because they have so many windows open.
Especially when we're working on UCS systems. You'll want the command center window open, in addition to the KVM for the individual virtual machines, as well as your obligatory excel document containing pinning assignments and other notes.
no, it's not very accurate,
So why on earth did you cite it?
that's why I also test in a myriad of other ways,
Such as?
and I ALWAYS get my full bandwidth,
Me too, only at lower latency than you do, and at a higher speed than your average DSL subscriber can ever hope to reach. My current tier for example is 30mbit, which I pay about $50ish for, and is about to receive a bump to 40mbit for free as my local CMTS just received a hardware upgrade and they're rolling out the changes this month.
While in theory my node could become over-saturated and I could see a loss of throughput, the exact same thing can be said for DSL, and it is every bit as likely to happen. You probably don't know that since DOCSIS 2, cable doesn't rely on TDMA any more, rather it uses S-CDMA instead. This means there are rarely collisions, effectively making the concept of sharing a single medium rather meaningless. Cable subscribers don't contend for bandwidth like they used to back in the 90's, where the "shared bandwidth" talking point had more merit. It's more analogous now to having a switched network rather than a hub network.
Also, did you know that once you pass half a mile away from the DSLAM, not even VDSL2 (the latest and greatest) can achieve speeds higher than 50mbit? It's physically impossible, and the vast majority of DSL subscribers are beyond that distance. Where I live though, 100mbit cable can be had for $90 a month, with no geographical restrictions that I'm aware of so long as you're able to physically connect the cable.
something not a single cable user can honestly say.
Except for me, apparently, and everybody else in my neighborhood. That is a fact. But something tells me that I'm not a special case, given that cable co's across the US all use DOCSIS 3.
And here is where it becomes extremely obvious that you have no clue what you are talking about. You are correct that bandwidth deteriorates with distance, however the telco can measure this EXTREMELY accurately. To start with they use their records, This is all very easy to calculate, they know how long the cables are, they know what gauge the cables are, and therefore they know the loss of those lines, and in fact they refuse to oversell this, so if you are so far away from the DSLAM that you can only get 15Mbps instead of 25Mbps
Actually it isn't terribly accurate. While their records could say that on such and such date, your signal to noise ratio was X, the reality is that they can't tell you how good it is on say, friday at noon vs sunday morning, which does vary depending on the use of adjacent wiring. Remember, you're using voice grade cable here, it never was intended to carry more than a single channel of anything. When it comes to telecommunications, voice grade cable is literally the lowest you can even get these days. A single pair of wires, unshielded, and in many cases untwisted. And that is what your DSL infrastructure is based upon. RG6 has no such whims. It also provides 3GHZ of spectrum, of which we only currently use 1ghz (which provides a 7Gb capacity,) but we can use more as the technology advances. Your voice grade cable is pretty much at its limits though, unless they invent some new form of compression.
Let's suppose for your sake that their measurements were always dead on accurate though: tell me, whats it like having no option of going above 15mbit? My data rate is double that, and I don't live very close to the CMTS. If I wanted to, I could make a phone call and have 100mbit data rates tomorrow. Can you?
they will actually refuse to sell 25Mbps service, no matter who you talk to, or what you say. In fact I qualify for 19.8Mbps, so they only sold me a 15Mbps connection. Once that step is done, a technician is dispatched for the install, after which tests are done on the line itself with the ADSL modem trained up
I know the thought process behind forcing the apps to be full screen, but the problem is that this model simply doesn't work for the desktop. Currently, the main reason for having a desktop as opposed to a mobile device (at least, to ma and pa yehaaw) is that a desktop is where you get real work done, e.g. drafting, creating a powerpoint presentation, etc. Touch devices (even with large screens) don't really work too well for that. The keyboard and mouse will be around for a long time to come for this reason. Likewise, the full screen app model simply will not fly on the desktop, that I am certain of.
A perfect example I can think of, is just now when I was entering in configuration commands into some cisco routers, I had three telnet windows open, an excel window which contained subnet layouts and IP addresses, one visio window which contained a physical network topology, another visio window which contained a logical network topology, and a web browser with a command reference page open.
How on earth would I do such a thing using metro? I'm sure you could, but it would be dreadfully slow and downright frustrating compared to being able to have multiple windows open at once. Imagine having to alt-tab through all of those windows each time I need to refer to something else. It would be a nightmare, whereas with overlapping windows I can simply glance at my references rather than figure out how many times I have to press tab in order to get what I am looking for.
While I'm aware of the ability to run two apps alongside one another (I think they might call that "modern UI snap" now? lol) it is really wanting in the face of having multiple windows open. Telnet and excel both depend heavily upon being able to have page width, and not height, which is what metro snap aims for.
I think the complaint is touch interfaces on the desktop.
Windows 8 overall has some nice changes (I am currently running it myself) however what sucks are the so called "immersive" apps. Basically, any app that comes from the windows store.
When you have a large (in my case, 46") high resolution display, having apps take up the entire screen is downright stupid. Overlapping windows allow you to view multiple different things simultaneously, even if they aren't provided by the same app. This is why windows replaced DOS for the work environment (DOS mainly survived as long as it did due to being more efficient for games at the time)
The idea of throwing out overlapping windows in favor of an "immersive" experience is just...stupid. If this really is the future of windows, then windows has no future in the workplace, and probably no future anywhere else either as a result.
This is coming from somebody who has a traditionally favorable view of windows.
I do regular monitoring of my pipe with shaperprobe (its a hobby; I'm a network engineer after all) and I get what I pay for, plus or minus 30 kilobits.
By the way, did you know that speedtest.net isn't very accurate? My guess is no. You probably also didn't know that DSL is even worse when it comes to delivering promised bandwidth due to voice grade cable having a degraded signal the further away you are from the DSLAM, which your phone company can't even accurately measure, and therefore can't really tell you what speeds they can reliably deliver even if they wanted to.
You probably also didn't know that DSL is guaranteed to have higher first hop delay than cable (usually 2 to 3 times as much) for reasons related to why they can't accurately tell you how much your line can actually deliver.
Hell, let's take it a step further than that. You probably also didn't know that all consumer grade ISPs will offer the "up to" disclaimer due to their inability to determine the capabilities of consumer premises equipment (that is, everything on the subscriber side of the demarcation point, such as their computer) among other things.
And by the way, you share bandwidth every bit as much as cable users do. Learn networking some day, and you'll realize why.
Oversubscription isn't a bad thing, and in fact, dare I say that virtually every provider in the world does it, because it is basically a waste not to. I pretty much liken non-oversubscription to TDMA or token ring of yore. Basically, if you had nothing to say at the moment you were allowed to, that bandwidth on the pipe was simply wasted, because another guy could have pushed his bits out faster when you were simply mute. This is why ethernet killed token ring, and permanent virtual circuits killed t-carrier.
Say you had a 1Tb pipe, and you had 1,000,000 subscribers. Does that mean you limit all of them to 1Mb? If so, most of your 1Tb pipe is going to waste. The reality is that not all of those users are going to be using their internet connection at once, in fact in a worst case scenario you'd be lucky if more than 10% of them decided to download a big file at the same time, and even if they did, often the remote server doesn't even serve it at a high enough speed to fill their entire allocated bandwidth. Most of the users would be browsing facebook or some other low bandwidth site, assuming they were even using their internet connection at all at the moment.
Better yet, why not give them 30Mb, and statistically speaking, there's probably a 1% chance that they'd ever see any kind of congestion at all, and if they did, it would be negligible to the point that they wouldn't even notice any different.
Now that does fall apart when you and about 50 others seed a torrent of a full blu-ray copy of Avatar 24/7. The fact is, the infrastructure simply wasn't designed for that. If you really must do that, then you really ought to subscribe to a higher tier of service. There's no reason ma and pa yeehaw need to spend ten times what they currently spend just so you can pirate avatar because in your own mind you're doing a good deed to humanity. (Not that I'm not a pirate; far from it, I just choose far more efficient and practical means of doing so. Seeding large files from a consumer grade last mile internet connection is neither practical nor efficient.)
People abusing the above is why we're ending up with metered connections. Having people who treat their home connection like they run a datacenter isn't ideal, and I really wouldn't blame any ISP for either wanting to get rid of them, or charging them extra. If you need to run that kind of service, it costs a hell of a lot less, is more efficient, and more reliable if you subscribe to e.g. amazon cloud services or something.
In the event of a disaster, say hurricane Sandy, so long as everybody isn't hopping on youtube all at once, you won't have a problem with oversubscription. Even VoIP traffic wouldn't be a concern. If such a scenario does happen, you simply throttle youtube or other non-essential high bandwidth services until the emergency is over, and then let everything go back to business as usual.
Disclaimer: I'm a network engineer by trade, delivering packets is my business.
I think tomato counts TCP headers as part of its metric because it is all inclusive of everything encapsulated into internet protocol packets at layer 3. What I don't know however is whether or not it includes layer 2 traffic, for example, not only ethernet frames, but PPPoE encapsulation on top of that. Then there may also be further layer 2 encapsulation between his DSLAM and AT&T's border routers that they count, but he never sees.
DSL is really an ugly monster when it comes to this sort of thing. I remember during the late 90's, the DSL users looked down their nose upon us cable users due to our "shared bandwidth," only to later realize that not only do they share bandwidth at some point, but voice grade cable ultimately isn't nearly as immune to interference as RG6, and requires additional data layering in addition to some other tricks (e.g. weaving) just to make sure too many packets aren't getting dropped.
Oh and just to add, although congress has to take action for that, the president has to approve of it. So yes, both branches are involved.
Well, technically they do. If the US wants to either annex land into its territory, or admit a new region into the union, the federal government has to make that decision, not the states.
Granted, if a state secedes, that is their decision, but if the US wants to oppose, that is a federal government matter.
Dear California:
We provide a sizable chunk of the electrons migrating through your power grid, which is already so short on power that there are rolling brownouts, and most of our energy production is also considered "green energy" which most Californians strive for but don't produce. We also provide a chunk of your food supply.
Without us, Hollywood would have to create the second Globe Theater in order to stay employed. On the contrary, we won't have your industry bigwigs constantly pressuring us to enact SOPA style laws, primarily because nobody would be able to film them in the first place for piracy to even happen.
However, you have already legislated the pornography industry out of your state and into ours, so we'll always have that form of entertainment.
The worlds most advanced semiconductor fabrication plant also resides in Arizona, so be prepared to negotiate a trade with us if you need to make use of its products.
Signed, Arizona.
P.S. Have you seen the new NBC show "Revolution"? That's you if you secede.