Why Wells Fargo? They are the only national bank with a solid presence in Alaska. There is no other national choice.
Ally is a branchless bank offering deposit accounts across the USA. So if you rarely handle cash, why not go with a credit union or an out-of-state bank such as Ally?
No franchise contains such a requirement [for day one citywide service]. It may require a timetable for system buildout so that service will eventually be provided to everyone in the franchise area.
Then I guess I must have misremembered "day one". It might have just been that the city in question required a buildout timetable that was impractically rapid for a smaller company or a nonprofit cooperative.
You want to run an ISP in our city with access to all of the rights of way, then you need to run an ISP in the city. Not just cherry pick high density high income areas.
I understand this intent. A competitive ISP could satisfy its spirit by ensuring an even mix of high- and low-income areas during each phase of its buildout plan, even if said plan is gradual. It just gets low-key monopolistic if a city requires overly rapid buildout despite this concession.
nobody gives a fuck what was being done in 1918 because any possible franchise that did exist then has long, long, long expired.
My point is that since the existing phone and cable networks were built out, cities are likely to have 1. annexed more square miles to serve within the city's corporate limits, and 2. revised their buildout timetable requirements to be more rapid. But because the existing networks had already been built out, this change did not affect the incumbent providers.
By not using the phone or cable lines?
Other than wires or radio frequency, over what last mile were you considering?
The medium does not define the service.
Yes it does. Wireless service has less aggregate bandwidth than wired service for two reasons: there's no separate waveguide per neighborhood, and there's no separate waveguide per carrier. Otherwise satellite and cellular (including MVNOs) wouldn't have single to low double digit GB per month caps. A plan with such a cap is unsuitable for high-volume downloads, such as downloads of purchased movies and video games or even operating system updates for the desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, and smartphones belonging to multiple members of a household. (I'm defining "cap" broadly as a data transfer quota exceeding which results in termination for the month, overage fees, or severe throughput restriction.)
Funny how many ISPs seem to be all around, given the limited ability to get franchises or work without them.
Which U.S. ISPs might these be, in areas with more than two ISPs? How many of them are MVNOs, that is, cellular ISPs leasing Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, or T-Mobile frequencies, which end up charging so much per gigabyte that the price of transfer quota for a single AAA game download on Steam exceeds the game's selling price?
Please explain how Level 3, for example, can provide ISP services without having to run their wires past every house.
In comments to stories about net neutrality, the otherwise unmarked term "ISP" most often refers to residential last mile ISPs. To my knowledge, Level 3 does not claim to operate as a residential last mile ISP but instead as an ISP's ISP. The service that Level 3 provides is not a relevant substitute for the service that a residential last mile ISP provides.
Yeah! Unreasonable! It's outright fascist to require that a new franchisee agree to the same franchise conditions that all of the existing franchisees did!
Except that's not always the case. Though exclusive franchises are forbidden, I seem to remember reading that some franchise conditions require competitive providers to offer service to all addresses in a city from day one rather than rolling out service gradually from one end of the city to the other. That's too large of a capital investment for a smaller company to handle in any practical way that I'm aware of. And though all new franchisees in 2018 must agree to a particular set of conditions, these conditions may have differed in 1918 (or whenever) when the phone company first laid its copper.
Companies that need franchises (and not all ISPs do; many do not)
In the era of U.S. phone and cable line owners refusing to lease out their lines to competitive ISPs, how can an ISP work without a franchise? A wired ISP needs some access to rights of way, and the only way I can see to arrange that is to negotiate with a city.
"ElsaGate" is a name used by a group of watchdogs on Reddit for an apparently Russian live-action video series that (mis)appropriates characters owned by Disney. In this series, Peter Parker from Spider-Man and Elsa Agnarrsdaughter from Frozen live together and go on adventures that aren't always family-friendly. The videos are "silent" in the sense of having no dialogue, and some are violent or mildly sexual in nature.
No ads
Apart from Content ID disputes, most of the recent whining about YouTube is about loss of ability to run ads on a channel's videos. Vimeo.com doesn't support ads at all. This makes it not an alternative for producers who depend on ad revenue.
Commercial content confusion
Vimeo's guidelines ban "commercial content" if the uploader doesn't pay $240 per year for "pro" upload privileges, and I haven't seen a bright line between "showcas[ing] your creative work" and "representing a for-profit business or brand [or] Product demos".
Lack of gamer audience
This one affects video game developers and reviewers. Because Vimeo banned all game-related videos from July 2008 through October 2014, the audience for game reviews has ended up on sites other than Vimeo.
Upload limit
Vimeo appears to behave like SoundCloud in that uploaders who do not pay a recurring fee are limited to 5 GB of total uploads. Those reaching the limit must delete old videos to make room for new ones.
The one thing worse about the PlayStation 2 is the latency of the main program storage. A DVD-ROM at 5 MB/s with seek times in the hundreds of milliseconds can't keep up with an SSD at double digit MB/s with seek times in single-digit microseconds.
Provided it's actually free RAM, as opposed to RAM that belongs to another process that would end up swapped out to disk if Firefox were to allocate and use it.
if somebody wants to show a link to my site with a thumbnail, then they're going to have to generate that on their server and serve the image to their users.
That's rehosting, which some authors find even worse than hotlinking because they don't receive the insight about their audience that comes from a list of sites in which the preview image is embedded.
I'm perfectly happy to permanently block a website which can't be used by the time I've blocked all of the crap
Once the majority of organic results on each page of web search results for a given query are sites that you have blocked for this reason, how do you keep web search engines useful?
For Cloud - why aren't you using your own servers or host?
Do you mean servers at home or in a datacenter? Not all cities have a home ISP that allows servers, and colocating a dedicated server in a datacenter tends to be far more expensive than leasing a VPS.
Browser vendors can comb the top 10000 websites of the world easily enough and see what features are being used the most.
That won't work for features used more often in the long tail below the top 10000 or behind the login page of the top 10000. This might be the case, for example, for the Encrypted Media Extensions used to enforce audio and video rental terms.
Which provider other than Google would you recommend that Firefox instead use when the user chooses to query the safety reputation of a particular website or downloaded file? Or how do you find why do you find offering the choice to query the safety reputation of a particular website or downloaded file inherently harmful?
Which provider other than Google would you recommend that Firefox instead use when the user chooses to reveal the user's location to a site? Or why do you find offering the choice to reveal the user's location to a site inherently harmful?
Without telemetry, how do you expect a browser developer to assess use coverage of the browser's code? Without coverage, browser developers have no way to know which bugs to prioritize fixing and no way to know which web standards are used in websites. Without information about feature use, browser developers might assume CSS and JavaScript features used in your site are "not widely adopted on the web" and begin the process of removing them from the web standards.
Glad to see someone else using Matomo (formerly Piwik) instead of third-party analytics.
Seeing as you've shown interest in helping viewers find documents on your site, have you tried signing up for the major web search engines' webmaster tools, such as Google Search Console? I was under the impression that these tools offered search queries even without having to install a search engine's analytics script on your site. (Source: "What is Search Console?"; "Help Center - Bing Webmaster Tools")
Another tip: Does your site use HTTPS? If so, the Referer is more likely to have useful information than if your site uses cleartext HTTP. The major search engines have shifted to HTTPS since the Firesheep and PRISM revelations, and browsers tend to strip out Referer for cross-scheme links. Once you set up HTTPS with Let's Encrypt on your site, let search engines know to prefer the HTTPS version by with three steps:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://..."> on each page
To counter "unused RAM is wasted RAM", make your complaints explicitly about the user-observable symptom: "Firefox causes my computer to thrash swap when I do X, Y, and Z." If you have made a report that explicitly mentioned page file usage, what was the reply?
If you deny hotlinking, and a user of another website supporting Open Graph protocol links to a document on your site, then the link will look unusually plain because the site won't be able to display the thumbnail declared in og:image. What mechanism have you put in place to allow hotlinking only in the context of thumbnails intended to attract visits to documents on your site, such as og:image, and deny it otherwise? Or do you just opt out of offering thumbnails for other authors to use when citing your documents?
"I tried $linux_distro on my laptop, but it couldn't find my audio or Wi-Fi, and when I took it out of suspend, it stayed on a black screen. Others on forums mentioned the same problem without a solution." What's your next course of action for a friend who tried and failed to defenestrate his laptop?
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Why Wells Fargo? They are the only national bank with a solid presence in Alaska. There is no other national choice.
Ally is a branchless bank offering deposit accounts across the USA. So if you rarely handle cash, why not go with a credit union or an out-of-state bank such as Ally?
No franchise contains such a requirement [for day one citywide service]. It may require a timetable for system buildout so that service will eventually be provided to everyone in the franchise area.
Then I guess I must have misremembered "day one". It might have just been that the city in question required a buildout timetable that was impractically rapid for a smaller company or a nonprofit cooperative.
You want to run an ISP in our city with access to all of the rights of way, then you need to run an ISP in the city. Not just cherry pick high density high income areas.
I understand this intent. A competitive ISP could satisfy its spirit by ensuring an even mix of high- and low-income areas during each phase of its buildout plan, even if said plan is gradual. It just gets low-key monopolistic if a city requires overly rapid buildout despite this concession.
nobody gives a fuck what was being done in 1918 because any possible franchise that did exist then has long, long, long expired.
My point is that since the existing phone and cable networks were built out, cities are likely to have 1. annexed more square miles to serve within the city's corporate limits, and 2. revised their buildout timetable requirements to be more rapid. But because the existing networks had already been built out, this change did not affect the incumbent providers.
By not using the phone or cable lines?
Other than wires or radio frequency, over what last mile were you considering?
The medium does not define the service.
Yes it does. Wireless service has less aggregate bandwidth than wired service for two reasons: there's no separate waveguide per neighborhood, and there's no separate waveguide per carrier. Otherwise satellite and cellular (including MVNOs) wouldn't have single to low double digit GB per month caps. A plan with such a cap is unsuitable for high-volume downloads, such as downloads of purchased movies and video games or even operating system updates for the desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, and smartphones belonging to multiple members of a household. (I'm defining "cap" broadly as a data transfer quota exceeding which results in termination for the month, overage fees, or severe throughput restriction.)
Funny how many ISPs seem to be all around, given the limited ability to get franchises or work without them.
Which U.S. ISPs might these be, in areas with more than two ISPs? How many of them are MVNOs, that is, cellular ISPs leasing Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, or T-Mobile frequencies, which end up charging so much per gigabyte that the price of transfer quota for a single AAA game download on Steam exceeds the game's selling price?
Please explain how Level 3, for example, can provide ISP services without having to run their wires past every house.
In comments to stories about net neutrality, the otherwise unmarked term "ISP" most often refers to residential last mile ISPs. To my knowledge, Level 3 does not claim to operate as a residential last mile ISP but instead as an ISP's ISP. The service that Level 3 provides is not a relevant substitute for the service that a residential last mile ISP provides.
Why should the browser be doing your due diligence for you [with respect to websites that distribute malware]?
Because non-technical users, who outnumber technical users, have seen that as a desirable feature in a web browser.
Yeah! Unreasonable! It's outright fascist to require that a new franchisee agree to the same franchise conditions that all of the existing franchisees did!
Except that's not always the case. Though exclusive franchises are forbidden, I seem to remember reading that some franchise conditions require competitive providers to offer service to all addresses in a city from day one rather than rolling out service gradually from one end of the city to the other. That's too large of a capital investment for a smaller company to handle in any practical way that I'm aware of. And though all new franchisees in 2018 must agree to a particular set of conditions, these conditions may have differed in 1918 (or whenever) when the phone company first laid its copper.
Companies that need franchises (and not all ISPs do; many do not)
In the era of U.S. phone and cable line owners refusing to lease out their lines to competitive ISPs, how can an ISP work without a franchise? A wired ISP needs some access to rights of way, and the only way I can see to arrange that is to negotiate with a city.
"ElsaGate" is a name used by a group of watchdogs on Reddit for an apparently Russian live-action video series that (mis)appropriates characters owned by Disney. In this series, Peter Parker from Spider-Man and Elsa Agnarrsdaughter from Frozen live together and go on adventures that aren't always family-friendly. The videos are "silent" in the sense of having no dialogue, and some are violent or mildly sexual in nature.
Wouldn't Vimeo be a viable alternative?
That's a tall order for several reasons.
No ads Apart from Content ID disputes, most of the recent whining about YouTube is about loss of ability to run ads on a channel's videos. Vimeo.com doesn't support ads at all. This makes it not an alternative for producers who depend on ad revenue. Commercial content confusion Vimeo's guidelines ban "commercial content" if the uploader doesn't pay $240 per year for "pro" upload privileges, and I haven't seen a bright line between "showcas[ing] your creative work" and "representing a for-profit business or brand [or] Product demos". Lack of gamer audience This one affects video game developers and reviewers. Because Vimeo banned all game-related videos from July 2008 through October 2014, the audience for game reviews has ended up on sites other than Vimeo. Upload limit Vimeo appears to behave like SoundCloud in that uploaders who do not pay a recurring fee are limited to 5 GB of total uploads. Those reaching the limit must delete old videos to make room for new ones.Good luck joining Steemit if your phone number previously belonged to a user of Steemit.
You want 'net neutrality' you have the option to start your own company
Not when cities impose unreasonable conditions on access to rights of way.
The one thing worse about the PlayStation 2 is the latency of the main program storage. A DVD-ROM at 5 MB/s with seek times in the hundreds of milliseconds can't keep up with an SSD at double digit MB/s with seek times in single-digit microseconds.
You do realise that free ram is wasted ram.
Provided it's actually free RAM, as opposed to RAM that belongs to another process that would end up swapped out to disk if Firefox were to allocate and use it.
if somebody wants to show a link to my site with a thumbnail, then they're going to have to generate that on their server and serve the image to their users.
That's rehosting, which some authors find even worse than hotlinking because they don't receive the insight about their audience that comes from a list of sites in which the preview image is embedded.
1) They need to listen to what their users are voluntarily saying.
"After a Firefox update, this site doesn't let me use it after I've logged in."
2) If they don't understand what their users are saying, then they can ask the users some questions to clarify the situation.
"We aren't members of that site. What error messages is it showing in the Error Console?"
Except I don't see how non-technical end users are likely to be able to answer that usefully.
I'm perfectly happy to permanently block a website which can't be used by the time I've blocked all of the crap
Once the majority of organic results on each page of web search results for a given query are sites that you have blocked for this reason, how do you keep web search engines useful?
For Cloud - why aren't you using your own servers or host?
Do you mean servers at home or in a datacenter? Not all cities have a home ISP that allows servers, and colocating a dedicated server in a datacenter tends to be far more expensive than leasing a VPS.
Browser vendors can comb the top 10000 websites of the world easily enough and see what features are being used the most.
That won't work for features used more often in the long tail below the top 10000 or behind the login page of the top 10000. This might be the case, for example, for the Encrypted Media Extensions used to enforce audio and video rental terms.
Which provider other than Google would you recommend that Firefox instead use when the user chooses to query the safety reputation of a particular website or downloaded file? Or how do you find why do you find offering the choice to query the safety reputation of a particular website or downloaded file inherently harmful?
Which provider other than Google would you recommend that Firefox instead use when the user chooses to reveal the user's location to a site? Or why do you find offering the choice to reveal the user's location to a site inherently harmful?
Without telemetry, how do you expect a browser developer to assess use coverage of the browser's code? Without coverage, browser developers have no way to know which bugs to prioritize fixing and no way to know which web standards are used in websites. Without information about feature use, browser developers might assume CSS and JavaScript features used in your site are "not widely adopted on the web" and begin the process of removing them from the web standards.
Let me know when key binding support for new-style addons is fixed.
Glad to see someone else using Matomo (formerly Piwik) instead of third-party analytics.
Seeing as you've shown interest in helping viewers find documents on your site, have you tried signing up for the major web search engines' webmaster tools, such as Google Search Console? I was under the impression that these tools offered search queries even without having to install a search engine's analytics script on your site. (Source: "What is Search Console?"; "Help Center - Bing Webmaster Tools")
Another tip: Does your site use HTTPS? If so, the Referer is more likely to have useful information than if your site uses cleartext HTTP. The major search engines have shifted to HTTPS since the Firesheep and PRISM revelations, and browsers tend to strip out Referer for cross-scheme links. Once you set up HTTPS with Let's Encrypt on your site, let search engines know to prefer the HTTPS version by with three steps:
Probably once you and the rest of the user base have flocked to SoylentNews, which forked the Slash software and added proper Unicode support.
Then what image should a document on one site use to represent the document on another site to which it is linking?
To counter "unused RAM is wasted RAM", make your complaints explicitly about the user-observable symptom: "Firefox causes my computer to thrash swap when I do X, Y, and Z." If you have made a report that explicitly mentioned page file usage, what was the reply?
If you deny hotlinking, and a user of another website supporting Open Graph protocol links to a document on your site, then the link will look unusually plain because the site won't be able to display the thumbnail declared in og:image . What mechanism have you put in place to allow hotlinking only in the context of thumbnails intended to attract visits to documents on your site, such as og:image, and deny it otherwise? Or do you just opt out of offering thumbnails for other authors to use when citing your documents?
Queue the [PlayStation 2 game development] companies shitting out endless drivel that were somehow classed as "games"
Is the PC any different in this respect, other than that PC users can install community-maintained mods to make some of those games actually decent?
"I tried $linux_distro on my laptop, but it couldn't find my audio or Wi-Fi, and when I took it out of suspend, it stayed on a black screen. Others on forums mentioned the same problem without a solution." What's your next course of action for a friend who tried and failed to defenestrate his laptop?