Unlike tools such as youtube-dl, web browsers do not write a copy of all segments of an MPEG-DASH stream to a file intended to persist longer than an hour.
Google's also in a good position to make it hard to find information on youtube-dl/etc.... They're a major search engine, so they can just self-censor their search results.
Contracts that granted exclusivity in Czechoslovakia would probably be interpreted as granting exclusivity in both of its successor states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Likewise with the successor states of Yugoslavia. Cases of unification, such as absorption of the DDR (East Germany) into the BRD (West Germany), pose a more interesting legal challenge. Have you read about any cases where different companies ended up with exclusivity in BRD and DDR at the time of unification?
True, but perhaps beside the point. By "CDMA network", the featured article probably means the CDMA2000 platform, and I guess Anonymous Coward was referring to CDMA2000 as well.
My gripe with CDMA2000 is that U.S. deployments, instead of using a CSIM, prefer to program the subscriber identity directly into the phone.
The ISP isn't Netflix's customer if Netflix's transit provider "would abuse settlement free peering links" by sending far more traffic in one direction than it receives in the other.
The city owns the street and sidewalk. To run your cable under the street or sidewalk, you have to negotiate with the city. And to make this negotiation reasonable and non-discriminatory, "you want to rely on static laws" that set uniform rules under which a utility may operate in a city.
Netflix pays for transit. Netflix pays low-rent transit providers for transit. Many of these low-rent transit providers (or, as pedrop357 put it, "providers that would abuse settlement free peering links") refuse to in turn pay major home ISPs for transit through the home ISPs' networks.
That's because it takes "static laws" to get "physical cables" buried in the first place. Otherwise, an ISP can't run its layer 1 over or under city-owned roads or non-subscribers' land to reach subscribers.
Often it's the last mile that's saturated, especially if it's wireless. A Netflix Open Connect Appliance won't open up more RF spectrum, procure land for more cell towers, or launch more communications satellites.
And even on networks with a wired last mile (fiber, cable, and DSL), who pays to power and cool the OCA, and who pays the opportunity cost for 4U of rack space that the ISP could be leasing to someone else?
ISPs won't take Netflix's Open Connect Appliances, which are 4U in size, because Netflix is unwilling to lease 4U of rack space in the ISPs' data centers.
Why do we need restrictions on moving physical and digital goods across borders?
To respect freedom of contract. A lot of works of authorship are subject to decades-long exclusive territorial distribution contracts that date to before the EU common market. The model was supposed to be that a publisher would enter into a contract with a publisher that understands the Estonian market under the condition that no other distributor would be allowed to distribute the same work in Estonia. Break these contracts, and the work goes out of print everywhere.
Restricting trade and commerce at international borders results in a suboptimal economy
not run the install program (make your own installer by dis-assembling theirs)
That's illegal under 17 USC 1201(a) and foreign counterparts if the installer is encrypted, as doing so would circumvent a "technical protection measure".
Compulsory data plans for smartphones, is that a US-only thing?
It might be. See AT&T story from three years ago. There was a workaround, but it's sort of hard to discover and may not still work: buy a phone separately, buy a pay-as-you-go SIM from AT&T, activate it over the Internet from a desktop or laptop computer (instead of in the phone), and be careful never to turn on cellular data. And you can't buy data by the MB on a smartphone on AT&T's network; you have to buy it by the month.
The CDMA2000 carriers (Verizon and Sprint) are even worse: the CDMA2000 subscriber identity is programmed directly into the phone instead of being stored on a removable CSIM. So they can refuse to activate service on any device for any reason. Phones with LTE have a SIM slot, but that's only for the carrier's LTE network, not its parallel CDMA2000 network.
Then who pays for disposal of your e-waste? E-waste disposal is a cost associated with a new phone that is not associated with a software update to an old phone.
And finally, they certainly DO force me to interact with them. Their fucking scripts and like-buttons are everywhere.
Facebook's scripts won't load if you keep its hostnames from resolving. There are several ways to do that, such as a Windows application written by APK that creates a list of hosts to resolve to 0.0.0.0.
Accepting the offer to upgrade my Nexus 7 (2012) from Android 4.4 "KitKat" to Android 5 "Lollipop" turned it from a smooth experience into a jank-fest whenever anything is going on in the background. Reportedly it has something to do with ASUS cheaping out on its flash memory. If Lollipop stresses the NAND much more often than KitKat did, an upgrade to Android 6 "Marshmallow" would probably make it even worse.
Then make several out of the 15 models share almost the same hardware components. This would allow for a "generic ROM" across those models in the sense that most GNU/Linux distributions ship with a "generic kernel".
Believe it or not, plenty of people use their smartphone as a phone and ignore the smart.
Then why are they spending money on a smartphone with its attendant cellular data plan rather than switching to a flip phone that uses a less expensive voice and text only plan and holds a charge longer?
For how many years after purchase ought a manufacturer to be required to make security updates available? Case in point: Windows XP no longer receives security updates, and security updates for Windows Vista will terminate in April of next year..
For some types of sites, particularly sites on which a user views only one or a few pages, a subscription cannot easily substitute for advertisements because very few people are willing to spend $4 for a whole month of access to a site just to read a single article. Selling access in granularity smaller than a month is impractical because of the transaction fees of both credit cards and Bitcoin, which tend to exceed 0.25 USD. Sites would need to band together and create a federated micropayment system. If only SatoshiPay supported more top-up options for viewers who don't already use Bitcoin...
the workforce training occurring among new labor market entrants (college students) changes to follow the changing technology trends
So who pays for a worker who becomes unemployed to go back to college to retrain for a new job? And what ensures that employers won't age discriminate against older college graduates who have finished their retraining in favor of 23-year-olds who had proceeded directly from high school to college?
Part of our growth is more grocery baggers and burger flippers
The former is being automated. Amazon has displaced Best Buy and many other sellers of durable goods, and some grocery stores, such as the Kroger store on West State Blvd in Fort Wayne, Indiana, close all non-self-checkout lanes after some hour. The latter is also being automated; see previous stories about Wendy's and Carl's Jr.
if big pharma wouldn't insist on only selling patented stuff for the better of profits.
Other than through monopoly rents, how else is the advocate for a particular new treatment supposed to recoup the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to prove to the U.S. FDA that the treatment is safe and effective?
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Unlike tools such as youtube-dl, web browsers do not write a copy of all segments of an MPEG-DASH stream to a file intended to persist longer than an hour.
Google's also in a good position to make it hard to find information on youtube-dl/etc....
They're a major search engine, so they can just self-censor their search results.
Self-censorship? Let me Bing that for you. Better yet, let me DuckDuckGo that for you.
Is there a document describing standard industry practice for when a particular interconnection is eligible for settlement-free peering status?
Contracts that granted exclusivity in Czechoslovakia would probably be interpreted as granting exclusivity in both of its successor states, namely the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Likewise with the successor states of Yugoslavia. Cases of unification, such as absorption of the DDR (East Germany) into the BRD (West Germany), pose a more interesting legal challenge. Have you read about any cases where different companies ended up with exclusivity in BRD and DDR at the time of unification?
True, but perhaps beside the point. By "CDMA network", the featured article probably means the CDMA2000 platform, and I guess Anonymous Coward was referring to CDMA2000 as well.
My gripe with CDMA2000 is that U.S. deployments, instead of using a CSIM, prefer to program the subscriber identity directly into the phone.
The ISP isn't Netflix's customer if Netflix's transit provider "would abuse settlement free peering links" by sending far more traffic in one direction than it receives in the other.
The city owns the street and sidewalk. To run your cable under the street or sidewalk, you have to negotiate with the city. And to make this negotiation reasonable and non-discriminatory, "you want to rely on static laws" that set uniform rules under which a utility may operate in a city.
Netflix pays for transit. Netflix pays low-rent transit providers for transit. Many of these low-rent transit providers (or, as pedrop357 put it, "providers that would abuse settlement free peering links") refuse to in turn pay major home ISPs for transit through the home ISPs' networks.
That's because it takes "static laws" to get "physical cables" buried in the first place. Otherwise, an ISP can't run its layer 1 over or under city-owned roads or non-subscribers' land to reach subscribers.
Often it's the last mile that's saturated, especially if it's wireless. A Netflix Open Connect Appliance won't open up more RF spectrum, procure land for more cell towers, or launch more communications satellites.
And even on networks with a wired last mile (fiber, cable, and DSL), who pays to power and cool the OCA, and who pays the opportunity cost for 4U of rack space that the ISP could be leasing to someone else?
ISPs won't take Netflix's Open Connect Appliances, which are 4U in size, because Netflix is unwilling to lease 4U of rack space in the ISPs' data centers.
Why do we need restrictions on moving physical and digital goods across borders?
To respect freedom of contract. A lot of works of authorship are subject to decades-long exclusive territorial distribution contracts that date to before the EU common market. The model was supposed to be that a publisher would enter into a contract with a publisher that understands the Estonian market under the condition that no other distributor would be allowed to distribute the same work in Estonia. Break these contracts, and the work goes out of print everywhere.
Restricting trade and commerce at international borders results in a suboptimal economy
Prisoner's dilemma.
not run the install program (make your own installer by dis-assembling theirs)
That's illegal under 17 USC 1201(a) and foreign counterparts if the installer is encrypted, as doing so would circumvent a "technical protection measure".
Compulsory data plans for smartphones, is that a US-only thing?
It might be. See AT&T story from three years ago. There was a workaround, but it's sort of hard to discover and may not still work: buy a phone separately, buy a pay-as-you-go SIM from AT&T, activate it over the Internet from a desktop or laptop computer (instead of in the phone), and be careful never to turn on cellular data. And you can't buy data by the MB on a smartphone on AT&T's network; you have to buy it by the month.
The CDMA2000 carriers (Verizon and Sprint) are even worse: the CDMA2000 subscriber identity is programmed directly into the phone instead of being stored on a removable CSIM. So they can refuse to activate service on any device for any reason. Phones with LTE have a SIM slot, but that's only for the carrier's LTE network, not its parallel CDMA2000 network.
Who gets the carrier's share of a Wi-Fi tablet? Comcast?
Then who pays for disposal of your e-waste? E-waste disposal is a cost associated with a new phone that is not associated with a software update to an old phone.
If your claim that nobody visits a business's Facebook Page is true, what explains tools to let a business count visits to its Page?
And finally, they certainly DO force me to interact with them. Their fucking scripts and like-buttons are everywhere.
Facebook's scripts won't load if you keep its hostnames from resolving. There are several ways to do that, such as a Windows application written by APK that creates a list of hosts to resolve to 0.0.0.0.
Accepting the offer to upgrade my Nexus 7 (2012) from Android 4.4 "KitKat" to Android 5 "Lollipop" turned it from a smooth experience into a jank-fest whenever anything is going on in the background. Reportedly it has something to do with ASUS cheaping out on its flash memory. If Lollipop stresses the NAND much more often than KitKat did, an upgrade to Android 6 "Marshmallow" would probably make it even worse.
Then make several out of the 15 models share almost the same hardware components. This would allow for a "generic ROM" across those models in the sense that most GNU/Linux distributions ship with a "generic kernel".
Believe it or not, plenty of people use their smartphone as a phone and ignore the smart.
Then why are they spending money on a smartphone with its attendant cellular data plan rather than switching to a flip phone that uses a less expensive voice and text only plan and holds a charge longer?
For how many years after purchase ought a manufacturer to be required to make security updates available? Case in point: Windows XP no longer receives security updates, and security updates for Windows Vista will terminate in April of next year..
If you want money use a paywall
For some types of sites, particularly sites on which a user views only one or a few pages, a subscription cannot easily substitute for advertisements because very few people are willing to spend $4 for a whole month of access to a site just to read a single article. Selling access in granularity smaller than a month is impractical because of the transaction fees of both credit cards and Bitcoin, which tend to exceed 0.25 USD. Sites would need to band together and create a federated micropayment system. If only SatoshiPay supported more top-up options for viewers who don't already use Bitcoin...
the workforce training occurring among new labor market entrants (college students) changes to follow the changing technology trends
So who pays for a worker who becomes unemployed to go back to college to retrain for a new job? And what ensures that employers won't age discriminate against older college graduates who have finished their retraining in favor of 23-year-olds who had proceeded directly from high school to college?
Part of our growth is more grocery baggers and burger flippers
The former is being automated. Amazon has displaced Best Buy and many other sellers of durable goods, and some grocery stores, such as the Kroger store on West State Blvd in Fort Wayne, Indiana, close all non-self-checkout lanes after some hour. The latter is also being automated; see previous stories about Wendy's and Carl's Jr.
if big pharma wouldn't insist on only selling patented stuff for the better of profits.
Other than through monopoly rents, how else is the advocate for a particular new treatment supposed to recoup the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to prove to the U.S. FDA that the treatment is safe and effective?