Or put in a less inflammatory way, how preventing or slowing some P2P operations or otherwise using some QoS methods is going to cause any disastrous effect. Part of the problem I have in seeing it is I don't see the importance of the people having very high speed broadband.
As the Internet becomes the delivery agent for more entertainment venues and other uses that have yet to be foreseen, implementing QoS becomes more questionable. Let's say a similar device to the AppleTV is created and released by a competitor to Apple. Let us also assume that Comcast is permitted to enforce QoS for various services. Comcast could then give preferential treatment for QoS to one content provider over another which puts Comcast in the position to either extort one or both companies or lock competitors out of the market (for Comcast subscribers).
By allowing ISPs to implement QoS to limit some types of use, we are allowing ISPs to dictate how data services are used. Depending on how draconian they are about QoS, this could reduce innovation for data services which will then cause this part of the economy to stagnate.
Right now we are mostly talking about movies, however in the future (maybe as little as 3-4 years) we may be talking about something a little more dear to you personally. Allowing them to do this to something you don't care about will set a precedence that will make it easier for them to do the same to something you hold dear later.
Here are a few example uses that I see today that could be impacted:
Buying/Downloading Software Over the Internet (Omni Group, Parallels, GNU, BSDs, Linux Distros)
Telecommuting for office workers
VoIP and Video Communications
Home/Business Security Systems
Rights and privileges lost are not easily obtained again.
In fact, I've heard that a sure way to open a successful independent coffee shop is to open one right by a Starbucks. They've already done all the research on the location for you, and given a choice, I think a lot of people prefer to support the little guy and enjoy a less commercial atmosphere.
That is funny since where I live, Starbucks is the little guy. In Anchorage, AK the big coffee shop player is Kaladis Brothers. Kaladis has been offering free wireless to anyone since I came to Anchorage seven years ago. They also have a nicer atmosphere with big over stuffed couches and chairs, plenty of tables, and power outlets for computers every where. Most of the local restaurants and grocers feature "Kaladi Coffee" instead of Starbucks.
My home of the future might well resemble a faraday cage.
I've often wondered why companies have not yet started making wall paper that has a wire mesh imbedded in it. Granted, the mesh would not make a perfect faraday cage, but it would greatly reduce the radio signals that can penetrate a room enough to possibly render a cell phone useless in the Dinning room, a library, or a theater.
The idea that this would make Microsoft a bigger "monopoly" is unfounded because neither Microsoft nor Yahoo! has anywhere close to the highest marketshare of online searches or advertising.
While I agree that Google almost certainly has the lion's share of searches, the article specifically mentioned IM and e-mail. The majority of the non-techy people I know use either MSN, Yahoo!, or AIM for instant messaging and e-mail. The only people I know using Google Talk are my co-workers and one of my non-techy friends.
Microsoft will probably not be very willing to work with Google to integrate Google Talk with either MSN IM or Yahoo IM. This will effectively split IM into two camps. In one camp there will be MSN IM and Yahoo! IM. In the other camp you will have Google Talk, AIM, and.Mac. Somewhere between the two camps, probably closer to the the Google/AIM/.Mac camp, will be Jabber services.
Google is already working to integrate Google Talk with AIM: Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance . AIM and.Mac are already talking together: iChat. Since Jabber already works with Google Talk, I would not be surprised if the integration between Google Talk and AIM is done via a Jabber server to server interface which would allow Jabber servers to talk to the AIM network as well.
From Google's blog:
Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services?
I too am afraid that Microsoft will attempt to quash any attempts to provide inter operability between different IM providers and will likely succeed since it will control the lion's share of IM accounts. Although Google has the lion's share of the search market, they at least provide or try to provide inter operability with other companies and do not try to lock competitors out of a particular business model.
As a Catholic Geek who is big into both (I am studying to be a priest and I write software that will serve me as a Priest)
I am speechless and I take my hat off to you sir. It is refreshing to see interest in vocations coming from one within a group that more often than not believes in no higher being than themselves. I look forward to the day that I can call you father.
A Linux networking book that doesn't cover bonding is pretty much worthless to me as a Linux system administrator.
I would think most geeks do not have a hard time forming an emotional bind with their Linux boxes. If anything the book should cover how to avoid forming these bonds with our binary Goddesses, err, hardware.
Great! I can just see it now. Clippy pops up on my screen: "It looks like you are extremely frustrated with your current job? Would you like my assistance in composing your resume?"
Let's be honest, a business is not going to buy software that guesses when you are frustrated and offers to help write your resume. However I could see clippy popping up with, "It looks like employee 4142321 is frustrated and is working at lower levels of productivity. Would you like my assistance composing his written reprimand or his pink slip?"
Of course Gentoo or Slackware or the like will work fine, but in these days of fast processors and cheap memory, why not just use a Debian based Linux like Ubuntu WITH a GUI, and let some one else compile the thing.
Slackware is package based, although I will admit that the packages do not perform checks for required packages. I only know one person that re-compiles Slackware by hand, but he is a bit eccentric. Most of us only compile packages when they are not included in the distro, when they are not compiled with the options we want, or when we re-compile the kernel.
It seems odd to lump Slackware and Gentoo together since most of the people that I know who use Slackware are more server centric than desktop centric and prefer stable software that does not change. Most Gentoo users I know are desktop centric and want the latest greatest untested software. This is reflected in the different methodology of the two distros.
I would also like to point out that Slackware has been around longer than Debian and Slackware produces stable releases faster than one every two to three years. Although Debian is a decent distro, there are other decent distros as well. I could argue that a Torx screw is better than a roofing nail, but it really depends on the job at hand.
I have a real problem with Congress taking away my own rights to my own music
The term Copyright I think is a little misleading. The Constitution says this on the matter:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
We the people grant you the artist an exclusive right, for a limited time, to your own creation. This is to encourage you to produce new works. If we grant you exclusive rights for a single work for a period of time greater than your life span, what is the incentive for you to produce new creative works? Without the incentive to produce new works, we will suffer the loss of the potential works you might have created. Laws are created for the common good, not for a minority's benefit. Your "right" is not a "God" given right like the freedom of speech. In fact, we the people are suspending our right to freedom of speech so you can have for a limited time your copyright. Your copyright is an incentive, a carrot if you will, that we dangle in front of you to motivate you to create new works.
If the exclusive rights to creations are not granted for an adequate duration of time, then new works will stop being created (or at least the amount of new works will be diminished). On the other hand if the exclusive rights to your creation are granted for too long a duration, we lose a reason to respect your limited exclusive rights.
I do agree that five years to too short. 15 - 20 years would be more appropriate. Much longer than 20 years and we run the risk of forgetting about and ultimately losing the works for which the incentive was given.
You can't just leave us hanging like that. I saw on the Apple site that they added tabs, but what other features/improvements did they add?
Is viewport backgrounds now available? The current transparency is really worthless if you have multiple windows with text open on the desktop since all the text starts to bleed together.
On the other hand, I really hate Comcast even more now. They're allowed to charge for this? What the hell *is* that?
Believe it or not, Comcast charging the government is in your best interest. This puts a price tag on frivolous subpoenas which discourages the government from issuing broad subpoenas. This also discourages subpoenas for multiple wiretaps to be maintained indefinitely (even law enforcement must work within a budget).
An ISP with which I am familiar often provides law enforcement with a quote of the cost to fullfill subpoenas they felt were too broad or would require a significant amount of man hours (Uhmm, CPU time) to produce the requested information. Almost invariably this resulted in law enforcement reducing the scope of the subpoena in question (I.E. information about less individuals was disclosed) or they completely rescinded the subpoena.
So whether you agree that Comcast should be able to make a small profit on wiretaps, they are providing an additional layer of checks and balances to our government.
Additionally, why should the Comcast subscribers foot the bill for a public service (Note that I am not a Comcast subscriber).
3000 miles on a motorcycle would add a whole new dimension to the word "torture". I'm not sure there is a person alive that could sustain those speeds that long. Riding a bike is much more fatiguing and requires loads more concentration.
I whole heartedly agree. This summer I drove a Harley from Anchorage, Alaska to Pensicola, Florida in about nine days, very exhausting days. Assuming no adverse weather, even an 800 mile day at ~70mph can leave one in no condition to continue riding without a rest. Attempting to drive a motorcycle 3000 continuous miles on public highways would be tantamount to attempted suicide.
Private companies have, but those are not a Government entity.
Hmm, you are talking about the U.S. government, right?
Oh, I get it it. You said "private" companies. The U.S. government is a publicly traded company whose stock is purchased through specialized stock brokers aka lobbyist/activists.
I know the frustration of trying to find a solution to a problem when other people do not see the merit of your objectives. I had a similar problem. I was unable to find a solution so I developed a program that basically calls a shell within a chrooted directory. The program drops the perms from root to the calling user after calling chroot(). You might give it a try if you are still looking for a solution since it should work for rsync and scp chrooted access:
As the cartridge approaches the end of its life the bottle requires a greater number of pumps to induce water to flow. When the bottle requires a significant number of pumps to induce water to flow this indicates that it is nearing the end of its life. When no more water can be induced to flow despite continuous pumping, the cartridge has expired and it is time to replace it.
FTA: Pope Benedict will denounce tax havens and offshore bank accounts held by wealthy individuals.
Both articles related to the encyclical only refer to individuals, not corporations. Specifically they mention an individual who lied regarding his income. The companies listed in summary are from the third link and have nothing to do with the Pope's encyclical. The summary seems to be written to elicit a negative opinion of the Pope from the readers.
On a side point, encyclical's tend to be thought out, intellegent arguments against a particular behavior or belief and not the irrational rantings of a fanatic.
Now once your waste water leaves your house and enters the pipes, it's no longer your property, right? Once garbage is placed out on the street (or in the garbage truck) it is no longer your property and the police can search it without a warrant right? This is the same thing isn't it? If not, when would waste water cease to be "yours"; considering that it is quickly mixed (permanently) with other waste water and unrecoverable.
Using your theory, can the company I pay to shred and dispose sensitive documents turn around and give those documents away to the highest bidder? Since I clearly do not wish to retain the documents do I then forfeit my owwership of them by contracting to have them destroyed?
Unlike the garbage, not everyone can tap into the sewage system to take my waste. I pay the sewage company to take my waste and process it for disposal. If the sewage company provide samples of my sewage to any organization or individual without my consent for purposes not related to its disposal, they are in breach of contract in the same way the shredding company would be in breach for distributing documents I have contracted to be destroyed.
What exactly is a "Sol"? Depending on the duration of a sol, 1282 sols might not actually be that long. For insteance Seconds on Landing would not even be a full day of operation. What does it stand for/mean? Dictionary.com gave misc definitions ranging from currency to Roman Gods.
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As the Internet becomes the delivery agent for more entertainment venues and other uses that have yet to be foreseen, implementing QoS becomes more questionable. Let's say a similar device to the AppleTV is created and released by a competitor to Apple. Let us also assume that Comcast is permitted to enforce QoS for various services. Comcast could then give preferential treatment for QoS to one content provider over another which puts Comcast in the position to either extort one or both companies or lock competitors out of the market (for Comcast subscribers).
By allowing ISPs to implement QoS to limit some types of use, we are allowing ISPs to dictate how data services are used. Depending on how draconian they are about QoS, this could reduce innovation for data services which will then cause this part of the economy to stagnate.
Right now we are mostly talking about movies, however in the future (maybe as little as 3-4 years) we may be talking about something a little more dear to you personally. Allowing them to do this to something you don't care about will set a precedence that will make it easier for them to do the same to something you hold dear later.
Here are a few example uses that I see today that could be impacted:
Rights and privileges lost are not easily obtained again.
I thought that signal jamming equipment is illegal. If a simple faraday cage is illegal then you microwave oven would be in violation.
In fact, I've heard that a sure way to open a successful independent coffee shop is to open one right by a Starbucks. They've already done all the research on the location for you, and given a choice, I think a lot of people prefer to support the little guy and enjoy a less commercial atmosphere.
That is funny since where I live, Starbucks is the little guy. In Anchorage, AK the big coffee shop player is Kaladis Brothers. Kaladis has been offering free wireless to anyone since I came to Anchorage seven years ago. They also have a nicer atmosphere with big over stuffed couches and chairs, plenty of tables, and power outlets for computers every where. Most of the local restaurants and grocers feature "Kaladi Coffee" instead of Starbucks.
My home of the future might well resemble a faraday cage.
I've often wondered why companies have not yet started making wall paper that has a wire mesh imbedded in it. Granted, the mesh would not make a perfect faraday cage, but it would greatly reduce the radio signals that can penetrate a room enough to possibly render a cell phone useless in the Dinning room, a library, or a theater.
My brain hurts. Where's my lawyer, I need to sue someone for damaging my intellectual property!
Don't you mean intellectual capacity?
Aren't they supposed to be on the artists' side?
Yes, just not the artist you thought. They are really on the side of the con artists (I.E. the corp backers).
The idea that this would make Microsoft a bigger "monopoly" is unfounded because neither Microsoft nor Yahoo! has anywhere close to the highest marketshare of online searches or advertising.
.Mac. Somewhere between the two camps, probably closer to the the Google/AIM/.Mac camp, will be Jabber services.
.Mac are already talking together: iChat. Since Jabber already works with Google Talk, I would not be surprised if the integration between Google Talk and AIM is done via a Jabber server to server interface which would allow Jabber servers to talk to the AIM network as well.
While I agree that Google almost certainly has the lion's share of searches, the article specifically mentioned IM and e-mail. The majority of the non-techy people I know use either MSN, Yahoo!, or AIM for instant messaging and e-mail. The only people I know using Google Talk are my co-workers and one of my non-techy friends.
Microsoft will probably not be very willing to work with Google to integrate Google Talk with either MSN IM or Yahoo IM. This will effectively split IM into two camps. In one camp there will be MSN IM and Yahoo! IM. In the other camp you will have Google Talk, AIM, and
Google is already working to integrate Google Talk with AIM: Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance . AIM and
From Google's blog:
Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services?
I too am afraid that Microsoft will attempt to quash any attempts to provide inter operability between different IM providers and will likely succeed since it will control the lion's share of IM accounts. Although Google has the lion's share of the search market, they at least provide or try to provide inter operability with other companies and do not try to lock competitors out of a particular business model.
As a Catholic Geek who is big into both (I am studying to be a priest and I write software that will serve me as a Priest)
I am speechless and I take my hat off to you sir. It is refreshing to see interest in vocations coming from one within a group that more often than not believes in no higher being than themselves. I look forward to the day that I can call you father.
From one Catholic software developer to another:
printf(
"%s\n",
(const char []) {
0x47, 0x6f, 0x64, 0x20,
0x62, 0x65, 0x20, 0x77,
0x69, 0x74, 0x68, 0x20,
0x79, 0x6f, 0x75, 0x00 }
);
Very well said. Bravo.
A Linux networking book that doesn't cover bonding is pretty much worthless to me as a Linux system administrator.
I would think most geeks do not have a hard time forming an emotional bind with their Linux boxes. If anything the book should cover how to avoid forming these bonds with our binary Goddesses, err, hardware.
Great! I can just see it now. Clippy pops up on my screen: "It looks like you are extremely frustrated with your current job? Would you like my assistance in composing your resume?"
Let's be honest, a business is not going to buy software that guesses when you are frustrated and offers to help write your resume. However I could see clippy popping up with, "It looks like employee 4142321 is frustrated and is working at lower levels of productivity. Would you like my assistance composing his written reprimand or his pink slip?"
Of course Gentoo or Slackware or the like will work fine, but in these days of fast processors and cheap memory, why not just use a Debian based Linux like Ubuntu WITH a GUI, and let some one else compile the thing.
Slackware is package based, although I will admit that the packages do not perform checks for required packages. I only know one person that re-compiles Slackware by hand, but he is a bit eccentric. Most of us only compile packages when they are not included in the distro, when they are not compiled with the options we want, or when we re-compile the kernel.
It seems odd to lump Slackware and Gentoo together since most of the people that I know who use Slackware are more server centric than desktop centric and prefer stable software that does not change. Most Gentoo users I know are desktop centric and want the latest greatest untested software. This is reflected in the different methodology of the two distros.
I would also like to point out that Slackware has been around longer than Debian and Slackware produces stable releases faster than one every two to three years. Although Debian is a decent distro, there are other decent distros as well. I could argue that a Torx screw is better than a roofing nail, but it really depends on the job at hand.
You mean like:
- You shall have no other gods before me *
- You shall not make for yourself an idol
- You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God *
- Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
- Honor your Father and Mother
- You shall not murder
- You shall not commit adultery
- You shall not steal
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
- You shall not covet your neighbor's house
- You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
* Omit depending on your beliefsI have a real problem with Congress taking away my own rights to my own music
The term Copyright I think is a little misleading. The Constitution says this on the matter:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
We the people grant you the artist an exclusive right, for a limited time, to your own creation. This is to encourage you to produce new works. If we grant you exclusive rights for a single work for a period of time greater than your life span, what is the incentive for you to produce new creative works? Without the incentive to produce new works, we will suffer the loss of the potential works you might have created. Laws are created for the common good, not for a minority's benefit. Your "right" is not a "God" given right like the freedom of speech. In fact, we the people are suspending our right to freedom of speech so you can have for a limited time your copyright. Your copyright is an incentive, a carrot if you will, that we dangle in front of you to motivate you to create new works.
If the exclusive rights to creations are not granted for an adequate duration of time, then new works will stop being created (or at least the amount of new works will be diminished). On the other hand if the exclusive rights to your creation are granted for too long a duration, we lose a reason to respect your limited exclusive rights.
I do agree that five years to too short. 15 - 20 years would be more appropriate. Much longer than 20 years and we run the risk of forgetting about and ultimately losing the works for which the incentive was given.
And what if the cops are chasing someone with a pacemaker?
Umm, they'll stop dead instead of coming to a dead stop?
Obviously over those distances any amount of error or jitter translates to a huge positioning error
Some where in Africa:
*cough* *cough*
Mean while in Houston:
Dammit!! We lost communications again.
Something about a butterfly flapping wings and a tsunami.
Terminal improvements (lots of them)
You can't just leave us hanging like that. I saw on the Apple site that they added tabs, but what other features/improvements did they add?
Is viewport backgrounds now available? The current transparency is really worthless if you have multiple windows with text open on the desktop since all the text starts to bleed together.
On the other hand, I really hate Comcast even more now. They're allowed to charge for this? What the hell *is* that?
Believe it or not, Comcast charging the government is in your best interest. This puts a price tag on frivolous subpoenas which discourages the government from issuing broad subpoenas. This also discourages subpoenas for multiple wiretaps to be maintained indefinitely (even law enforcement must work within a budget).
An ISP with which I am familiar often provides law enforcement with a quote of the cost to fullfill subpoenas they felt were too broad or would require a significant amount of man hours (Uhmm, CPU time) to produce the requested information. Almost invariably this resulted in law enforcement reducing the scope of the subpoena in question (I.E. information about less individuals was disclosed) or they completely rescinded the subpoena.
So whether you agree that Comcast should be able to make a small profit on wiretaps, they are providing an additional layer of checks and balances to our government.
Additionally, why should the Comcast subscribers foot the bill for a public service (Note that I am not a Comcast subscriber).
3000 miles on a motorcycle would add a whole new dimension to the word "torture". I'm not sure there is a person alive that could sustain those speeds that long. Riding a bike is much more fatiguing and requires loads more concentration.
I whole heartedly agree. This summer I drove a Harley from Anchorage, Alaska to Pensicola, Florida in about nine days, very exhausting days. Assuming no adverse weather, even an 800 mile day at ~70mph can leave one in no condition to continue riding without a rest. Attempting to drive a motorcycle 3000 continuous miles on public highways would be tantamount to attempted suicide.
Private companies have, but those are not a Government entity.
Hmm, you are talking about the U.S. government, right?
Oh, I get it it. You said "private" companies. The U.S. government is a publicly traded company whose stock is purchased through specialized stock brokers aka lobbyist/activists.
I know the frustration of trying to find a solution to a problem when other people do not see the merit of your objectives. I had a similar problem. I was unable to find a solution so I developed a program that basically calls a shell within a chrooted directory. The program drops the perms from root to the calling user after calling chroot(). You might give it a try if you are still looking for a solution since it should work for rsync and scp chrooted access:
http://cvs.syzdek.net/projects/shail/
From the Life Saver's site:
As the cartridge approaches the end of its life the bottle requires a greater number of pumps to induce water to flow. When the bottle requires a significant number of pumps to induce water to flow this indicates that it is nearing the end of its life. When no more water can be induced to flow despite continuous pumping, the cartridge has expired and it is time to replace it.
FTA: Pope Benedict will denounce tax havens and offshore bank accounts held by wealthy individuals.
Both articles related to the encyclical only refer to individuals, not corporations. Specifically they mention an individual who lied regarding his income. The companies listed in summary are from the third link and have nothing to do with the Pope's encyclical. The summary seems to be written to elicit a negative opinion of the Pope from the readers.
On a side point, encyclical's tend to be thought out, intellegent arguments against a particular behavior or belief and not the irrational rantings of a fanatic.
Now once your waste water leaves your house and enters the pipes, it's no longer your property, right? Once garbage is placed out on the street (or in the garbage truck) it is no longer your property and the police can search it without a warrant right? This is the same thing isn't it? If not, when would waste water cease to be "yours"; considering that it is quickly mixed (permanently) with other waste water and unrecoverable.
Using your theory, can the company I pay to shred and dispose sensitive documents turn around and give those documents away to the highest bidder? Since I clearly do not wish to retain the documents do I then forfeit my owwership of them by contracting to have them destroyed?
Unlike the garbage, not everyone can tap into the sewage system to take my waste. I pay the sewage company to take my waste and process it for disposal. If the sewage company provide samples of my sewage to any organization or individual without my consent for purposes not related to its disposal, they are in breach of contract in the same way the shredding company would be in breach for distributing documents I have contracted to be destroyed.
What exactly is a "Sol"? Depending on the duration of a sol, 1282 sols might not actually be that long. For insteance Seconds on Landing would not even be a full day of operation. What does it stand for/mean? Dictionary.com gave misc definitions ranging from currency to Roman Gods.