I think you geeks wouldn't last long at my company:-) If you can't resolve a critical issue you are fired. No questions asked.
How much does the company spend on onboarding new hires to replace someone who failed to resolve a critical issue and took all his experience with him?
Why are they calling 300 square feet "microunits"?
Because such an apartment is smaller than the smallest single-family dwellings that some city building codes allow. This has forced some supporters of the small house movement to mount a house on wheels to avoid regulations that apply only to permanent structures.
If you want to get stuck with the same people stay in your parents house, is cheaper!
However, dorm life can be worth the expense if jobs near the dorm pay more than jobs near the parents' residence, be it in money or in career-relevant experience.
If this is anything like a university dorm, an RA will be around to connect such a tenant with an occupational therapist who can provide training in basic hygiene and social skills.
Does discontinuing a service entirely, as Lavabit did, constitute "disclosing it"? Or does this bill allow the government to force a private British citizen to provide a service to the public against his will?
What happens if an application allows for arbitrary code injection and execution due to a buffer overflow bug? Injected code could easily wipe all your user space files by using standard file io operations without ever doing anything that can be construed as exploiting defects in an underlying OS.
Not if the application is running under a separate user account, a jail, or some other containment facility of the operating system. Lack of such a facility is the defect. An application shouldn't be able to access a resource unless both the user has access to it and the user has delegated access to it to the particular application.
Name one OS that can't be "exploited" in this fashion.
Any GNU/Linux distribution with an AppArmor policy in effect. Or iOS on Apple devices. Or IOS on Nintendo Wii for that matter. Or Android, provided the APK doesn't have the SD full access permission. Or OLPC Sugar, which has the Bitfrost capability system. Likewise, both OS X with Mac App Store and Windows 8 and later with Windows Store prohibit store applications from writing outside the application's own data folder and folders chosen by the user or reading outside those folders and the program folder.
In order to spoil such a research project, a site would have to find an exploit that busts out of not only the browser but also the user account and VirtualBox.
Any sites that require [the Flash Player plug-in] tend to be either Eastern European (dodgy porn) or very old.
I'm not sure what you mean by "very old". Do you mean "established long ago" or specifically "not updated in years"? In which sense are Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, and Weebl's Stuff "very old"?
Also the major OTA networks run pro football so where's the problem
The problem comes when the team you follow happens to be playing in a cable-only match. Also NHL ice hockey, which is more likely to be on cable (NBCSN) even for the finals.
and I'm sure you can get Food Network or whatever is equivalent online for free anyway.
What is equivalent, so that I can recommend it to other Slashdot users who complain about cable TV alternatives' lack of Wife Acceptance Factor?
That'd be fine if infringers were liable only for actual damages. But as long as statutory damages are available to a copyright owner, the orphan works problem will continue. Or are you thinking of another "Nike model" of some benefactor being willing to pay the statutory damages the way Nike reimbursed Michael Jordan for paying fines to the NBA for wearing out-of-spec sneakers?
A subscriber whose carrier recently implemented overage fees mid-contract can probably get out of paying an early termination fee when switching to a different carrier. But I guess carriers that implement overage fees mid-contract probably think the loss of ETF revenue from these subscribers is a fair price to pay for decongesting the infrastructure at peak hours.
We're talking about bandwidth. We're talking about electrons that are always flowing down the wire. There is no real resource being consumed by using more data.
We're also talking about photons that fill the air. Authorization to emit photons of a particular frequency in a particular area is a scarce resource so that different uses of EM fields in the same area do not cause harmful interference.
During non-peak times when your switches are not at capacity, it doesn't really take more electricity to process more data
It takes more electricity to grow food to feed customer service representatives who have to repeatedly explain to cellular subscribers the difference between peak and off-peak data. To reduce customer service costs, some carriers just simplify their offerings by eliminating a discount for off-peak data.
Your total cost is in the infrastructure for standard data at peak.
Agreed. But the market determines what infrastructure it's willing to pay for. Increasing efficiency by moving big transfers off-peak has been shown to work in the satellite market but not the cellular market.
Oh, and HDD space for leased storage is also a limited resource.
Businesses also pay substantially more per month. And I'm told that some markets allow a telecommuter to subscribe to business Internet at home, but in others, business Internet is available only on commercially zoned land to holders of a business license.
First, the pricing would be a reasonably small margin over production cost, like electricity.
Provided "production cost" includes a reasonable amount of CapEx, or capital expenditure for capacity expansion to meet growing demands for a service whose provision involves a scarce resource. It costs money to put up a DSLAM or CMTS. It costs even more money to put up cell towers or launch a satellite.
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I think you geeks wouldn't last long at my company :-) If you can't resolve a critical issue you are fired. No questions asked.
How much does the company spend on onboarding new hires to replace someone who failed to resolve a critical issue and took all his experience with him?
Co-ops or "Cooperative Houses" like this have existed forever, and they're still very common now.
That depends on the zoning code in effect where you live.
but of course Millennials have to re-invent everything under a new name so they feel like it's theirs and only theirs.
Or they may have to find a way to legally distinguish a slightly tweaked idea from an older idea prohibited by existing zoning codes.
Outside of San Francisco hipster startup culture, I doubt anyone actually wants to live in a college dorm past their early 20s.
And even then, it may be because living near an employer in the Bay Area has become unaffordable.
Why are they calling 300 square feet "microunits"?
Because such an apartment is smaller than the smallest single-family dwellings that some city building codes allow. This has forced some supporters of the small house movement to mount a house on wheels to avoid regulations that apply only to permanent structures.
A dorm is a place to got to sleep.
True, reflecting the term's Latin roots.
If you want to get stuck with the same people stay in your parents house, is cheaper!
However, dorm life can be worth the expense if jobs near the dorm pay more than jobs near the parents' residence, be it in money or in career-relevant experience.
If this is anything like a university dorm, an RA will be around to connect such a tenant with an occupational therapist who can provide training in basic hygiene and social skills.
"Peasant"? I thought console gamers would be an ideal fit for a "highly curated" environment.
Why can't they create their own jobs by finding what people want, making it, and selling it to them?
Archives of classic vector animations created before HTML5 had support for <canvas> and <audio>.
Since you can't disclose it, what can you do?
Does discontinuing a service entirely, as Lavabit did, constitute "disclosing it"? Or does this bill allow the government to force a private British citizen to provide a service to the public against his will?
What happens if an application allows for arbitrary code injection and execution due to a buffer overflow bug? Injected code could easily wipe all your user space files by using standard file io operations without ever doing anything that can be construed as exploiting defects in an underlying OS.
Not if the application is running under a separate user account, a jail, or some other containment facility of the operating system. Lack of such a facility is the defect. An application shouldn't be able to access a resource unless both the user has access to it and the user has delegated access to it to the particular application.
Name one OS that can't be "exploited" in this fashion.
Any GNU/Linux distribution with an AppArmor policy in effect. Or iOS on Apple devices. Or IOS on Nintendo Wii for that matter. Or Android, provided the APK doesn't have the SD full access permission. Or OLPC Sugar, which has the Bitfrost capability system. Likewise, both OS X with Mac App Store and Windows 8 and later with Windows Store prohibit store applications from writing outside the application's own data folder and folders chosen by the user or reading outside those folders and the program folder.
In your theory, once PC desktop is killed off, with what tools will people develop HTML5 apps?
Have you tried switching from your Flash bank to an HTML5 bank such as Ally or Schwab?
Is there a reason you can't play tower defense in Flash Player in Firefox in Xubuntu in VirtualBox?
In order to spoil such a research project, a site would have to find an exploit that busts out of not only the browser but also the user account and VirtualBox.
Any sites that require [the Flash Player plug-in] tend to be either Eastern European (dodgy porn) or very old.
I'm not sure what you mean by "very old". Do you mean "established long ago" or specifically "not updated in years"? In which sense are Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, and Weebl's Stuff "very old"?
Explain to me why you need these things anyway?
Because they're things Tommy Carpenter's wife likes.
Also the major OTA networks run pro football so where's the problem
The problem comes when the team you follow happens to be playing in a cable-only match. Also NHL ice hockey, which is more likely to be on cable (NBCSN) even for the finals.
and I'm sure you can get Food Network or whatever is equivalent online for free anyway.
What is equivalent, so that I can recommend it to other Slashdot users who complain about cable TV alternatives' lack of Wife Acceptance Factor?
Apps are made of code, and code is data. Unlimited data means unlimited apps.
That'd be fine if infringers were liable only for actual damages. But as long as statutory damages are available to a copyright owner, the orphan works problem will continue. Or are you thinking of another "Nike model" of some benefactor being willing to pay the statutory damages the way Nike reimbursed Michael Jordan for paying fines to the NBA for wearing out-of-spec sneakers?
A subscriber whose carrier recently implemented overage fees mid-contract can probably get out of paying an early termination fee when switching to a different carrier. But I guess carriers that implement overage fees mid-contract probably think the loss of ETF revenue from these subscribers is a fair price to pay for decongesting the infrastructure at peak hours.
We're talking about bandwidth. We're talking about electrons that are always flowing down the wire. There is no real resource being consumed by using more data.
We're also talking about photons that fill the air. Authorization to emit photons of a particular frequency in a particular area is a scarce resource so that different uses of EM fields in the same area do not cause harmful interference.
During non-peak times when your switches are not at capacity, it doesn't really take more electricity to process more data
It takes more electricity to grow food to feed customer service representatives who have to repeatedly explain to cellular subscribers the difference between peak and off-peak data. To reduce customer service costs, some carriers just simplify their offerings by eliminating a discount for off-peak data.
Your total cost is in the infrastructure for standard data at peak.
Agreed. But the market determines what infrastructure it's willing to pay for. Increasing efficiency by moving big transfers off-peak has been shown to work in the satellite market but not the cellular market.
Oh, and HDD space for leased storage is also a limited resource.
Get an antenna, watch free OTA HDTV.
Agreed for many subscribers. But for others, what is the alternative to ESPN Monday Night Football or Food Network?
Use Redbox
Fails for any movie that's not a new release.
or get Netflix to send you discs
I'm told that when Netflix runs out of working copies of a movie, it doesn't replenish them. This leads to a queue full of Very Long Wait.
Businesses also pay substantially more per month. And I'm told that some markets allow a telecommuter to subscribe to business Internet at home, but in others, business Internet is available only on commercially zoned land to holders of a business license.
How would "We no longer offer new unlimited plans nor renewals thereof" be bait and switch?
First, the pricing would be a reasonably small margin over production cost, like electricity.
Provided "production cost" includes a reasonable amount of CapEx, or capital expenditure for capacity expansion to meet growing demands for a service whose provision involves a scarce resource. It costs money to put up a DSLAM or CMTS. It costs even more money to put up cell towers or launch a satellite.