None of us were kidding ourselves to think we had privacy anyway, but fighting the good fight is still worth it. I would prefer that the current legislature do something, but it's filled with cowards, and not champions of the people that voted them in.
A PR meltdown would be juicy, but wouldn't stop them. An implementation delay is as good as it gets for now, in the absence of litigation. The data is just too valuable.... and there's little privacy legislation preventing its nefarious use.
I'll take a delay, and let the issued get aired, even if it is in Congress, who can't be trusted with those Internet Tubes.
Seriously-- Charter has no right, and it would take expensive and long term litigation to get them to stop it. I hope they learn, and others learn by the example, and that the sum is that it slows it all down.
Nonetheless, while I'd prefer that traffic payloads aren't analyzed, I fear they already are, in McLean Virginia.
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How they ever got back up the River Styx I'll never know. Like the lamebrains at United with their expansion hopes and boorish customer service treatment for the past decade.... the current head of US Airways that want to merge with anybody, please, anybody, all while driving profits and service to the bottom of the list with United. Remember Ted?
A lot of these airlines don't deserve to be in business. I say: let them go bankrupt and good riddance to bad and boorish service and death by a thousand cuts attitude towards their customers and their own staff.
Mod me troll, but the airlines have to rethink what they're doing, if we're going to survive them.
You can't scrap the laws of physics. And amateur radio operators were the first hackers. Wait until you're in a flood, a hurricane, or another natural disaster.
Or the next time you try to watch TV, listen to a radio, you'll use technology that hams invented, tested, retested, and helped put towards commercial use for your convenience.
Hams are hackers..... and were, far before your great grandfather was born.
Likely it's because the fears engendered by that book have become real. Worse, there are many that are either in denial about that fact, or have succumbed to being tools of a fascist society. Now stop reading/. and conform. It is your destiny.
Meyer and Friedman called it part of the symptoms of the Type A Stress Syndrome. It's eventual result is coronary heart disease from plaques via ACTH secretion. It causes time-urgency and stress, and the fight/flight syndrome.
Multitasking is keenly sought because it also heightens brain activity, which some people crave. The downside is that it's really stressful, according to research done decades ago.
Of the prototypes, one remains that flipped and had killed its driver, injuring its passengers. Read it at Wired, I believe. People have been making this design subsequently for years, Morgan, Messershmitt and others. The specs above aren't quite correct, but the design had other flaws, as many of BM's did. Nonetheless, an inspirational thinker.
Civility means getting what you pay for. Civility means behaving when there's a traffic jam. Civility means not having what you bought and paid for surreptitiously examined, weighted, and thwarted.
I'm not interested in jamming my neighbor's pipe. I AM interested in not being lied to, and for getting what I paid for, and not having my information sniffed by a cockamamie CIVIL liberty-avoiding bone head that calls him/herself a service provider.
That sums it up. It's all of 'our' Internet, and its lucidness and capacity to re-adjust is part of its design. If you want a big-gulp download, you should get what you pay for-- subject to the randomness off aperiodic congestion, just like a freeway.
I'm guessing you weren't around or were kicking your siblings in the playpen when the Internet was designed. We believe in getting what we paid for, in a neutral, unbiased delivered fashion. All other attempts at control in our opinion, is not only illegal, but contradictory to the philosophy of egalitarian use, and in some corners, reason for revolting.
We could annotate the sins of Babcock-Wilcox for days. Just how many problems do you need? Chernobyl was certainly a bad design, and there are others. Should we start here in the US, or perhaps Canada, maybe Japan, or the incidents that have been attempted to be concealed?
Disingenuous? No. Unbelievably terrible oversight, yes. And I certainly don't trust the NRC to do the job.
Nuclear power generation has its fans and foes, and the foes have great evidence of the difficulities of building, maintaining, and lifecycle costs. Ask the people in W Washington State about nuclear. Or Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island.
Nuclear power, like offshore oil drilling, isn't the answer. The answer is a rethinking of fuel use, efficiencies, growth patterns, and alternative geo-thermal, solar, and other safer alternatives to nuclear power. Electric cars sound like a great idea, but battery technology just isn't there yet, and that's how they'd be powered-- electricity ostensibly driven by nucular power plants.
Although I'll not argue the data, it seems a bit self-serving to make a prediction like this. There are argument offsets to this data that might be salient:
1) video, especially HDTV, is being delivered by cable systems out-of-band of the Internet because of its high data rate. This trend will continue, else cable companies will have to evolve (and rapidly) immensely fast infrastructure that must also match CPE. Unlikely to occur. However, DSL providers are faced with a similar problem. What this means is that HDTV will be switched at the head-end eventually, and not 100% available to CPE. Video on Demand will become the rule of the day, thus offsetting some of the perceived growth in Cisco's numbers
2) business video conferencing, even in the face of $4 or $8/gal costs, just hasn't taken off. Codecs are available that can do a very good job of offsetting bandwidth needs.
3) isochronous media is still a bear, but it simply needs priority and priority in the face of network neutrality calls will be difficult without increasing bandwidth and therefore asset costs, which pays/plays into Cisco's hands mightily (are you watching, Wall Street?).
4) Cellular/mobile growth will climb, but it's more linear in growth and devices that receive entertainment content that uses bandwidth are largely distributed on private, rather than the public Interent. You just can't make a mobile phone in to an HDTV no matter how much you try, and the demand for it isn't there despite the best hopes of the telcos.
5) regionalization of content distribution is already occuring, and so a distributed infrastructure will 'cellularize' a lot of transfers. Transasction-focused systems aren't well managed through regionalization, but because entertainment systems aren't usually transaction-based, the use case is largely moot.
Doubling is therefore a projection based on a lot of assumptions, mostly favoring the maker of the study.
Blade servers do end up sharing power supplies, and possibly switches/other gear for efficiency. But the CPUs burn, and the disks turn. Density means that a single rack when loaded up consumes voracious amounts of power and requisite cooling. It's a great idea in a lot of ways, but data centers weren't designed for either the power draw or the chilling needs, let along the weight. Add in the fact that denser instances mean more can die in a single chassis, and there are questions posed by blades that older data centers were just not designed for.
Yeah, except that mass-manufacturing data centers is like designing a 1999 Mazda or a 1956 Jaguar. There are so many factors that are changing regarding how data centers go together, that it's a moving target to get long-lasting designs. In the bad old days, you could get a 20 year life from a data center, and not a lot changed, year to year.
Now data centers can have lots of change-- as the servers themselves change along with equipment that's located in a data center. The -48vdc telephony equipment is now housed there, along with blade server chassis that breathe fire and suck power like an SUV-- let alone the heat generation problems.
Add in mandates of 5-9's availability (a new concept in the computer industry), earthquake, hurricane/tornado/flooding, power grid availability, the liablities of co-los, legal mandates and constraints, and data center design has become a discipline unto itself. It's not necessarily constrained by good personnel, rather it's constrained by the huge number of changes in the industry overall, and the numerous disciplines needed to bring asset life out of a data center investment.
Uh, no. Gold is a nice conductor, no doubt, but the biggest problem is the GB# modular adapter's parallel tines. It's there that near-end crosstalk causes inter-modulation distortions and occasional phase shifting problems. Gold won't cure it. A re-design of the modular adapter would be wonderful but unlikely these days.
In audio, gold is nice because it doesn't tarnish. Much.
Cable capacitance is the biggest problem with the cable, hence twisted pairs do a nice noise cancelling job at the cost of mutual inductance. Gold doesn't do much here, either. Optimumly, and inexpensively, the nicest thing you can do is to use the highest efficiency per watt speaker delivered to enable the widest dynamic range of the transducer system. In short, more efficiency is better, and just use thick gauge, short-as-you-can cables with nice speakers, a good preamp or receiver, and a power amp that can deliver current and low harmonic or slewing distortions.
There are also a lot of individuals with various developmental and psychological issues, including lack of intelligence, that will fall for the price and then not get what they thought they were paying for.
At $5-10 pill for ED drugs, a huge percentage off seems like a good thing to the clue-challenged. Like it or not, they need protection, too. That's what safety considerations are all about.
The very fact that the Storm bots exist is a travesty. Shame on OS makers. Shame.
Ummmm, tasty Monday! Couldn't the poster have thrown in a few more choice nuggets as kerosene? Maybe like Geo Bush approves and applauded Virgin, or maybe Sr Richard Branson needed the money??
Everyone wants a bulletproof, but quickly reacting app. Sometimes you can't have both. You can build parsers that vet web pages for sanity sake (or just look for malware as some plugins do), but they'll slow down even the fastest clocking machines; the insertion loss of the parser will be like putting a foot on the garden hose.
Routers and layer 2/3 bridges have to react at wire speed, and therefore have lean, racing engine code with only the barest of exception handlers. Inside the code are lots of routines that have to react to protocol changes related to table building. Screw up those tables even legally (according to the obscurities of even well-known protocols) and the routing/bridging device will behave badly, even to the point of apparently not working. It's happened before, and will happen again. Is it XP3? No one knows yet.
The next update of will likely fix the problem; likely it would arrive before a Microsoft fix, and it would be more effective to fix the crashing device than go after all possible XP SP3 users. Sadly, once in the 'wild', it's the router vendor's problem rather than Microsoft's, no matter who is to blame for the original mistake.
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None of us were kidding ourselves to think we had privacy anyway, but fighting the good fight is still worth it. I would prefer that the current legislature do something, but it's filled with cowards, and not champions of the people that voted them in.
A PR meltdown would be juicy, but wouldn't stop them. An implementation delay is as good as it gets for now, in the absence of litigation. The data is just too valuable.... and there's little privacy legislation preventing its nefarious use.
I'll take a delay, and let the issued get aired, even if it is in Congress, who can't be trusted with those Internet Tubes.
Seriously-- Charter has no right, and it would take expensive and long term litigation to get them to stop it. I hope they learn, and others learn by the example, and that the sum is that it slows it all down.
Nonetheless, while I'd prefer that traffic payloads aren't analyzed, I fear they already are, in McLean Virginia.
How they ever got back up the River Styx I'll never know. Like the lamebrains at United with their expansion hopes and boorish customer service treatment for the past decade.... the current head of US Airways that want to merge with anybody, please, anybody, all while driving profits and service to the bottom of the list with United. Remember Ted?
A lot of these airlines don't deserve to be in business. I say: let them go bankrupt and good riddance to bad and boorish service and death by a thousand cuts attitude towards their customers and their own staff.
Mod me troll, but the airlines have to rethink what they're doing, if we're going to survive them.
We agree.
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The information quality of data isn't implied by large amounts of it. Correlation (read petabites of foo) != causation.
You can't scrap the laws of physics. And amateur radio operators were the first hackers. Wait until you're in a flood, a hurricane, or another natural disaster.
Or the next time you try to watch TV, listen to a radio, you'll use technology that hams invented, tested, retested, and helped put towards commercial use for your convenience.
Hams are hackers..... and were, far before your great grandfather was born.
Paranoia? No. Deserved skepticism, yes. Brave New World had similar themes. We're living it.
Likely it's because the fears engendered by that book have become real. Worse, there are many that are either in denial about that fact, or have succumbed to being tools of a fascist society. Now stop reading /. and conform. It is your destiny.
Although the parent is rated 'funny' currently, I can only imagine a new, really big lake in Switzerland soon, Lake Hadron.
Meyer and Friedman called it part of the symptoms of the Type A Stress Syndrome. It's eventual result is coronary heart disease from plaques via ACTH secretion. It causes time-urgency and stress, and the fight/flight syndrome.
Multitasking is keenly sought because it also heightens brain activity, which some people crave. The downside is that it's really stressful, according to research done decades ago.
Of the prototypes, one remains that flipped and had killed its driver, injuring its passengers. Read it at Wired, I believe. People have been making this design subsequently for years, Morgan, Messershmitt and others. The specs above aren't quite correct, but the design had other flaws, as many of BM's did. Nonetheless, an inspirational thinker.
That's not what I'm advocating at all.
Civility means getting what you pay for. Civility means behaving when there's a traffic jam. Civility means not having what you bought and paid for surreptitiously examined, weighted, and thwarted.
I'm not interested in jamming my neighbor's pipe. I AM interested in not being lied to, and for getting what I paid for, and not having my information sniffed by a cockamamie CIVIL liberty-avoiding bone head that calls him/herself a service provider.
Where, praytell, is the civility in THAT?
That sums it up. It's all of 'our' Internet, and its lucidness and capacity to re-adjust is part of its design. If you want a big-gulp download, you should get what you pay for-- subject to the randomness off aperiodic congestion, just like a freeway.
I'm guessing you weren't around or were kicking your siblings in the playpen when the Internet was designed. We believe in getting what we paid for, in a neutral, unbiased delivered fashion. All other attempts at control in our opinion, is not only illegal, but contradictory to the philosophy of egalitarian use, and in some corners, reason for revolting.
Nothing I've written implies that I like coal-fired plants. Fossil fuels in general are a bad idea.
We could annotate the sins of Babcock-Wilcox for days. Just how many problems do you need? Chernobyl was certainly a bad design, and there are others. Should we start here in the US, or perhaps Canada, maybe Japan, or the incidents that have been attempted to be concealed?
Disingenuous? No. Unbelievably terrible oversight, yes. And I certainly don't trust the NRC to do the job.
McCain panders to a crisis-mode mentality.
Nuclear power generation has its fans and foes, and the foes have great evidence of the difficulities of building, maintaining, and lifecycle costs. Ask the people in W Washington State about nuclear. Or Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island.
Nuclear power, like offshore oil drilling, isn't the answer. The answer is a rethinking of fuel use, efficiencies, growth patterns, and alternative geo-thermal, solar, and other safer alternatives to nuclear power. Electric cars sound like a great idea, but battery technology just isn't there yet, and that's how they'd be powered-- electricity ostensibly driven by nucular power plants.
Although I'll not argue the data, it seems a bit self-serving to make a prediction like this. There are argument offsets to this data that might be salient:
1) video, especially HDTV, is being delivered by cable systems out-of-band of the Internet because of its high data rate. This trend will continue, else cable companies will have to evolve (and rapidly) immensely fast infrastructure that must also match CPE. Unlikely to occur. However, DSL providers are faced with a similar problem. What this means is that HDTV will be switched at the head-end eventually, and not 100% available to CPE. Video on Demand will become the rule of the day, thus offsetting some of the perceived growth in Cisco's numbers
2) business video conferencing, even in the face of $4 or $8/gal costs, just hasn't taken off. Codecs are available that can do a very good job of offsetting bandwidth needs.
3) isochronous media is still a bear, but it simply needs priority and priority in the face of network neutrality calls will be difficult without increasing bandwidth and therefore asset costs, which pays/plays into Cisco's hands mightily (are you watching, Wall Street?).
4) Cellular/mobile growth will climb, but it's more linear in growth and devices that receive entertainment content that uses bandwidth are largely distributed on private, rather than the public Interent. You just can't make a mobile phone in to an HDTV no matter how much you try, and the demand for it isn't there despite the best hopes of the telcos.
5) regionalization of content distribution is already occuring, and so a distributed infrastructure will 'cellularize' a lot of transfers. Transasction-focused systems aren't well managed through regionalization, but because entertainment systems aren't usually transaction-based, the use case is largely moot.
Doubling is therefore a projection based on a lot of assumptions, mostly favoring the maker of the study.
try googling jakob nielsen's work.
one link: http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
or, just http://www.useit.com/jakob
as nothing works unless you can use it.
Blade servers do end up sharing power supplies, and possibly switches/other gear for efficiency. But the CPUs burn, and the disks turn. Density means that a single rack when loaded up consumes voracious amounts of power and requisite cooling. It's a great idea in a lot of ways, but data centers weren't designed for either the power draw or the chilling needs, let along the weight. Add in the fact that denser instances mean more can die in a single chassis, and there are questions posed by blades that older data centers were just not designed for.
Yeah, except that mass-manufacturing data centers is like designing a 1999 Mazda or a 1956 Jaguar. There are so many factors that are changing regarding how data centers go together, that it's a moving target to get long-lasting designs. In the bad old days, you could get a 20 year life from a data center, and not a lot changed, year to year.
Now data centers can have lots of change-- as the servers themselves change along with equipment that's located in a data center. The -48vdc telephony equipment is now housed there, along with blade server chassis that breathe fire and suck power like an SUV-- let alone the heat generation problems.
Add in mandates of 5-9's availability (a new concept in the computer industry), earthquake, hurricane/tornado/flooding, power grid availability, the liablities of co-los, legal mandates and constraints, and data center design has become a discipline unto itself. It's not necessarily constrained by good personnel, rather it's constrained by the huge number of changes in the industry overall, and the numerous disciplines needed to bring asset life out of a data center investment.
Uh, no. Gold is a nice conductor, no doubt, but the biggest problem is the GB# modular adapter's parallel tines. It's there that near-end crosstalk causes inter-modulation distortions and occasional phase shifting problems. Gold won't cure it. A re-design of the modular adapter would be wonderful but unlikely these days.
In audio, gold is nice because it doesn't tarnish. Much.
Cable capacitance is the biggest problem with the cable, hence twisted pairs do a nice noise cancelling job at the cost of mutual inductance. Gold doesn't do much here, either. Optimumly, and inexpensively, the nicest thing you can do is to use the highest efficiency per watt speaker delivered to enable the widest dynamic range of the transducer system. In short, more efficiency is better, and just use thick gauge, short-as-you-can cables with nice speakers, a good preamp or receiver, and a power amp that can deliver current and low harmonic or slewing distortions.
Then clean your ears.
There are also a lot of individuals with various developmental and psychological issues, including lack of intelligence, that will fall for the price and then not get what they thought they were paying for.
At $5-10 pill for ED drugs, a huge percentage off seems like a good thing to the clue-challenged. Like it or not, they need protection, too. That's what safety considerations are all about.
The very fact that the Storm bots exist is a travesty. Shame on OS makers. Shame.
Ummmm, tasty Monday! Couldn't the poster have thrown in a few more choice nuggets as kerosene? Maybe like Geo Bush approves and applauded Virgin, or maybe Sr Richard Branson needed the money??
You mean your tongue isn't in your cheek?
Everyone wants a bulletproof, but quickly reacting app. Sometimes you can't have both. You can build parsers that vet web pages for sanity sake (or just look for malware as some plugins do), but they'll slow down even the fastest clocking machines; the insertion loss of the parser will be like putting a foot on the garden hose.
Routers and layer 2/3 bridges have to react at wire speed, and therefore have lean, racing engine code with only the barest of exception handlers. Inside the code are lots of routines that have to react to protocol changes related to table building. Screw up those tables even legally (according to the obscurities of even well-known protocols) and the routing/bridging device will behave badly, even to the point of apparently not working. It's happened before, and will happen again. Is it XP3? No one knows yet.
The next update of will likely fix the problem; likely it would arrive before a Microsoft fix, and it would be more effective to fix the crashing device than go after all possible XP SP3 users. Sadly, once in the 'wild', it's the router vendor's problem rather than Microsoft's, no matter who is to blame for the original mistake.