time to get a good source management management system applied to laws - so we can look back in the history and see where the changes come from as they are developed ("ooh look this seems to have been changed by someone working for the oil/drug/gun/etc lobby")
I agree - publically accessable source code control with logs on this stuff is a must (same with actual law) - some countries are already going this way
but then neither are viruses and they count - I think this is probably somewhere on the continuum between 'chemical' and 'biological' - closer to 'chemical' than viruses are
actually it is ~42Mb/sec raw - that's the symbol rate (5.3MHz) times the qam256 bits/symbol (8) - but that's just the raw clock rate if the data coming out of the demod, it doesn't include packet preambles, FEC (hamming) bits, framing overheads etc etc you never actually see that at the user side of things
I mostly deal with video qams which are also qam 256 but different from that point on - 25Mbit/sec is a number we use for reasonable estimates of reality - I think one could argue that it's low for docsis (1/2) and I'd give you that - getting 42 though is pretty unreasonable - however my main point was that wthere it's 10, 25 or even 42 it's still statistically shared with your neighbors, the cable company doesn't give you a whole qam to yourself permanently - sometimes you get all the bandwidth available to you, sometimes you don't - depends on the other users of the system - if they did that they'd have to push the CM plant equipment onto every block (with a modulator per house) and might as well just run the fibre the last 100 yards
real-world channel widths in the US are 6MHz though, not 6.4 and have to be pretty carefully managed - drop 400kHz worth of digital dross into an adjacent analog channel and the results are crud
the upstream/downstream freq thing has to do with how/where the diplexors sit in the plant, especially if you have fiber to the block as many places do now
it's cable - you get to listen to 1 qam (6MHz wide - more for the new docsis that isn't here yet) and you're limited to ~25Mbits by that technology... and you're sharing with your neighbors - upstream is much much less - you're never going to get more than what the cable modem can give you anyway - the cable company has a limit to the number of qams or analog channels they can fit on the cable (~120) and you're sharing that with TV.
Not to excuse the cable company but they see it as that they're in a bind trying to trade off how many TV channels they can support (and how many analog ones in particular - (the sooner they die the better) with how many qams they dedicate to cable modems - and the expense of injecting the internet feeds in lower and lower down in the plant to support more and more customers with more and more bandwidth (ie sharing with fewer neighbors)
They shouldn't have ever offered 'unlimited' because as we all know it really isn't and for technical reasons can't be as the customer base increases - they're depending on statistical models which those 5% who use 50% of the resources (if that's a real number) break
well 'leveraging a monopoly' involves actually making money by doing so - if your business involves giving stuff away I don't see how you're applying leverage - if you never make any money by doing it there's no issue - for example if you're M$ and decide that you're just going to give word away that's OK, but if you decide that you're going to use the leverage you have over hardware manufacturers to include the purchase of word in every hardware sale that uses windows - that's leveraging a monopoly - the same applies to linux except that in the linux case you're always giving the stuff away
nothing - so long as in the process you are not leveraging a monopoly - the problem isn't including apps, it's using your OS monopoly to out-compete other app vendors
yup - somewhere like Wyoming with a population of 1/453 already gets more representation per person than someone in California (it has about 2/3 or 1/453 of the US population)
you're sharing the downstream with your neighbors - upstream is contention - people get assigned slots - one guy doesn't get all of them and you collide/retransmit with your neighbors
I see lots of ideas here for doing away with or trashing on copyright..... just remember that it's also the basis of the GPL..... restrict them to 5 years and M$ can steal your stuff after that......
they're all tagged 'endemic surveillance societies' - is the govt tapping phones without permission? watching your web traffic? got cameras all watching you in public? - that's all surveillance - seems right to me - I mean they have honking big machines in AT&T's backbones watching every packet and voice call that passes through
well lots of stuff (pacemakers for example) use sealed lead-acid - they do go on planes all the time - though I must admit the image I was going for was a queue of geeks all carrying car batteries and the xray machine conveyor table collapsing under the weight
pretty soon we'll all be carry car batteries on with us....
Captain: Scotty, I need more power to the engines we're not lifting
1st Officer: I canna do it sir - there's a party of geeks in the back and
they all brought batteries for their laptops
"But Mom everyone does it" didn't wash in grade school and it doesn't wash in a modern democracy
What is important is the veracity of the information our govt. feeds us - if they lie to us how can we as citizens make those important choices
about who should govern us that are the foundation of our whole system of government. More importantly an employee of the government should NEVER lie
to its citizens - one could argue that that's the provenance of the politicians, but not one of the civil service
what's the problem? it's like you make a phone call and every minute some third party chimes in and starts telling you how much you've spent... besides you just know that next year they will start telling you about McDonald's latest burger
getting an internet connection prior to about 1990 was really really hard and expensive BBN had a lock on providing new connections and the cost was beyond mere mortals
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yes I believe it's being trialed somewhere in the Baltic (just can't find the reference I'd seen before)
time to get a good source management management system applied to laws - so we can look back in the history and see where the changes come from as they are developed ("ooh look this seems to have been changed by someone working for the oil/drug/gun/etc lobby")
over here
and you can protest the behaviour of an organisation by exposing their abuses to the public so that they wont get sucked in
because you just know it's going to happen
I agree - publically accessable source code control with logs on this stuff is a must (same with actual law) - some countries are already going this way
what else?
of course you do have to grow the pointy hair
but then neither are viruses and they count - I think this is probably somewhere on the continuum between 'chemical' and 'biological' - closer to 'chemical' than viruses are
I mostly deal with video qams which are also qam 256 but different from that point on - 25Mbit/sec is a number we use for reasonable estimates of reality - I think one could argue that it's low for docsis (1/2) and I'd give you that - getting 42 though is pretty unreasonable - however my main point was that wthere it's 10, 25 or even 42 it's still statistically shared with your neighbors, the cable company doesn't give you a whole qam to yourself permanently - sometimes you get all the bandwidth available to you, sometimes you don't - depends on the other users of the system - if they did that they'd have to push the CM plant equipment onto every block (with a modulator per house) and might as well just run the fibre the last 100 yards
real-world channel widths in the US are 6MHz though, not 6.4 and have to be pretty carefully managed - drop 400kHz worth of digital dross into an adjacent analog channel and the results are crud
the upstream/downstream freq thing has to do with how/where the diplexors sit in the plant, especially if you have fiber to the block as many places do now
Not to excuse the cable company but they see it as that they're in a bind trying to trade off how many TV channels they can support (and how many analog ones in particular - (the sooner they die the better) with how many qams they dedicate to cable modems - and the expense of injecting the internet feeds in lower and lower down in the plant to support more and more customers with more and more bandwidth (ie sharing with fewer neighbors)
They shouldn't have ever offered 'unlimited' because as we all know it really isn't and for technical reasons can't be as the customer base increases - they're depending on statistical models which those 5% who use 50% of the resources (if that's a real number) break
well 'leveraging a monopoly' involves actually making money by doing so - if your business involves giving stuff away I don't see how you're applying leverage - if you never make any money by doing it there's no issue - for example if you're M$ and decide that you're just going to give word away that's OK, but if you decide that you're going to use the leverage you have over hardware manufacturers to include the purchase of word in every hardware sale that uses windows - that's leveraging a monopoly - the same applies to linux except that in the linux case you're always giving the stuff away
nothing - so long as in the process you are not leveraging a monopoly - the problem isn't including apps, it's using your OS monopoly to out-compete other app vendors
how will they know you are over 50 without the id card?
yup - somewhere like Wyoming with a population of 1/453 already gets more representation per person than someone in California (it has about 2/3 or 1/453 of the US population)
you're sharing the downstream with your neighbors - upstream is contention - people get assigned slots - one guy doesn't get all of them and you collide/retransmit with your neighbors
it's a double edged sword, it cuts both ways ....
they're all tagged 'endemic surveillance societies' - is the govt tapping phones without permission? watching your web traffic? got cameras all watching you in public? - that's all surveillance - seems right to me - I mean they have honking big machines in AT&T's backbones watching every packet and voice call that passes through
well lots of stuff (pacemakers for example) use sealed lead-acid - they do go on planes all the time - though I must admit the image I was going for was a queue of geeks all carrying car batteries and the xray machine conveyor table collapsing under the weight
Captain: Scotty, I need more power to the engines we're not lifting
1st Officer: I canna do it sir - there's a party of geeks in the back and they all brought batteries for their laptops
IMHO if it wont do it out-of-the-box then it doesn;t pass
What is important is the veracity of the information our govt. feeds us - if they lie to us how can we as citizens make those important choices about who should govern us that are the foundation of our whole system of government. More importantly an employee of the government should NEVER lie to its citizens - one could argue that that's the provenance of the politicians, but not one of the civil service
what's the problem? it's like you make a phone call and every minute some third party chimes in and starts telling you how much you've spent ... besides you just know that next year they will start telling you about McDonald's latest burger
it's the BSD guys who have the pitchforks
getting an internet connection prior to about 1990 was really really hard and expensive BBN had a lock on providing new connections and the cost was beyond mere mortals