This has been the tone of slashdot since I started lurking here, long ago. It can be dystopian, rash, but "slashdot civil discourse" isn't so much an oxymoron, as not the goal.
We enter the new year with the sharp edges of 2017. They were just as sharp a few years ago, yet dulled by the haze of seeming progress. What is apparent is that the Game of Thrones (not the show, the reality) is currently won by evil interests. There will be more bloodletting and recrimination, and fights galore.
It is this, and it's always been like this, and I appreciate your quest for civil discourse. Ideas, you see, are cheap currency. It's how they are propagated into memes, and achieve a mind of their own, complete with antagonists and protagonists, that sets the stage for the existential reality of what we face.
Summary: unless you need the exercise, fight the battles where you can make a difference. That's the hopeful outcome of 2018.
Why bother when you can buy a prospective candidate's browser history, and typify him/her/whatever against various desirable/undesirable profiles/? Why not have a bot do it and save yourself time?
"Siri/Cortana/Alexa, dig up the dirt on social security #504-22-5555. Map profile against StockDesirable#11442. Grade. Display."
There used to be a box, sold sometimes in kit form, that detected micro-tremors in your voice. Some believe that the microtremors, mostly sub-audible, were a sign of deception. There were phone-attachments for them, too. It didn't even take a computer to detect these tremors, or for the device to be thought of as a lie detector.
This was thirty years ago. This is nothing new. Facial recognition is the same way-- finding twitching muscles could be a toothache or a rebuke. Pick one.
I agree that it's tough to identify certain types of traffic. But characterization doesn't have to go very deep. Consider that if the same IP and socket continues for >40MB, it's either a download or a stream.
THEIR streams get to go first, to the detriment of other streams. Can they legally throttle by protocol type? Sure. It's an open range on the consumer these days, each with a target painted on their back.
An encrypted video stream adds up. Neflix's IPs are known, and now that they use a number of varying kinds of cloudflare-like sub-transports, it's a no-brainer to slow them down, by IP address, and it's legal.
Interfering with a relationship could be done, too. Think it's a stream by the nature of the download, and it's not from a software distribution site? Step on its garden hose. Complaints? Join the queue. Your call will be handled in eleven hours.
There are lots of shenanigans they can pull. For each, there's a likely way to thwart them, including jumping to a carrier that doesn't do that.... think jumping from Comcast to a 5G carrier, or downloading a movie on a city-funded WiFi link, or alternatives. Problem is that the alternatives for last-mile are limited to phone carriers, and in-situ data carriers (DSL, cable, fiber) in varying markets.
Even today, prior to non-neutral Internet services, carriers and the government BOTH throttle services, or monetize things like DNS lookups, and so forth, to the added latency of consumer's connections. The onus is on bright people to re-level the playing field, instead of letting it become frustrating and monetized by the ISPs/Telcos/Carriers. Long live Title II.
Um, not so. Even with UDP, if you build a sufficient buffer/cache, you can easily make a stream work. You just have to wait a few seconds for the startup so that a reasonable amount of latency can be tolerated by the user. Certainly with vast 4K streams, this becomes somewhat difficult to do in marginal installations.
The gaps are going to be processing power to re-assemble the threads without disturbing whatever the viewing thread is, but not impossible. MTU size can be fairly small.... although we'd love long packets because they fit QoS algorithms.
Whether it's https, socks5, or an IKE ssl/tls link, randomly disturbing streams will cause the switchboard to light up, or the customer support twitter feed go sour and bad smelling. Encryption is needed so that the packet identifiers are hidden, so that they can't be throttled via typification. Sure, AI can kind of figure things out, but it takes a lot of compute to do that, multiplied by thousands, even millions of users. Deep packet inspection also causes objectionable latencies..... as our US government friends already know.
Take a look. The EU contentions have similarity to those in the USA, see: greed. This said, what were once PTTs are now considered much like the Title II utilities that Pai is trying to get rid of. Look it up, be amazed, some governments actually believe in fairness!
Admit seemingly innocuous protocol-- billed at the lowest rate-- to an IP that is happy to re-assemble it all back into something useful if taxed by the ISP or its minions.
The teachings of ways to get around the Great Firewall of China have taught people many meaningful dodges. It's a game of Whack-a-Mole at best, where the amount of rules changes becomes so administratively expensive-- even with software defined routing-- that it's not worth their while to do so.
If the ISPs were interested in conserving their traffic, they'd have null-routed all of the botnets of their customers long ago. This isn't about altruism. This is about shareholder profits, and once those profits decline because of overly-complex servicing algorithms, they'll throw them out. Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious, is the salient aphorism.
This is going to shock you. The Internet is transmitted 100% in ASCII, at least the data payload is. Tell me, are they going to watch every stream, every UDP and TCP relationship, and check to see if it looks like it might be encrypted? Chop up a Netflix movie using a packet cap. Chop up a VPN data stream, same method. Tell me you can tell or characterize the difference.
Keep trying. Go ahead. Are you actually hired for Trump media damage control?
The sheer number of credible media sources gives this madness, this Trump SS idea, a lot of believability. Everyone has dirt, and by gosh, he'll distract the media with what he finds.... and not necessarily within the lawful confines of his office.
Don Quixote couldn't have done better. You, either.
Here are the problems: 1. Traffic densities mean some roads need huge power (big drain) while others will not, and so the grid has to have hugely flexible current balancing skills 2. Roads have to be precision-built, adding to their capital costs, and have to have a long service life, and must be easy to repair when it weather ages it. 3. Proximal efficiency means keeping charging coils very close to the ground with no obstructions; they almost have to "surf" the pavement surface 4. Lots of copper or other metal conductors close to the surface of the road, but the surface of the road has to still provide friction, and have good expansion/contraction/weather skills 5. Someone has to pay for it, so effective metering vs current/joules used has to be metered and paid for, somehow. 6. Insulation and interruption protection has to be capitalized as well, adding to costs. 7. Inter-jurisdictional handoffs have to be made; 120 vs 220/etc, meaning standardization(s) for international road use.
Upsides: 1. Charge on the fly 2. If they give you the coulombs for free, it really is a Freeway!
Second/third world countries have problems keeping their 24/7 grids alive, and so it's a stretch to believe that they'd buy-in to this concept, sadly.
It's HOW LONG will they wait for a charge? A rapid charge could be fine. Consider the capital cost if everyone at a filling station is waiting for a half-hour to fill their battery stores. Not gonna happen for most. People lack patience these days.
Very large current capability through bus bars has been done for well over 100 years---> in commercially made automobiles. Look it up. There is no science fiction here.
We sell four grades of fuel in the US at most pumps, three grades of gasoline, and one diesel. Selling alternate battery packs isn't a problem, only in your mind, which is confined to the idea that rapidly interchangeable battery packs are out of the question. Move out of the box holding back the ability for autos to quickly get more joules. I support the idea of rapid charging, too, but that ALSO involves huge amounts of current being exchanged in outdoor circumstances (in all kinds of weather) by civilians.
For electrics to succeed, you have to recharge batteries or rapidly exchange them to be tenable. Tenable is important.
Does your car have a gas tank? Yep. Is it a shitty car? You tell me.
A battery bank is INSIDE the vehicle, hidden. Do whatever you want to the cosmetics of your car. Still have a fuel tank. The fuel is electrons. Can it be done from underneath? Sure. Hidden panel? Sure. Structurally sound? That's up to astute engineering and standardized placement so that it changes out quickly, extending the psychological barrier facing electrics now: range.
Making the pack user- serviceable is all important for rapid change-out. Has to be stupid-simple and done in a way that it's all easily audited as well as the weight compensated for.... because people can't lift them. Think of it as a docking station. Eject the old one, insert the new one.
But I want them standardized so that they're not proprietary, and therefore a million battery packs that *are* interchangeable. Lacking that, there's a sea of some marketing department's vision of the ultimate, rather than the utility of battery packs that can be easily serviced for *any* vehicle.
Another 800 pound gorilla is the fact that new vehicles have a large carbon footprint. Part of the goodness of a used vehicle is that it doesn't have be made again.
A standardized battery pack would be great. Increasing energy density would be a good short-term goal. It's not unlike the gas-tank, and with a little finesse in engineering, could be made modular and easy to change, just like a fill-up. It's then the charging station's choice of how to re-up the electron store in the battery pack, solar, wind, whatever.
Re-use is very important. Sure, everyone wants something new, but the junkyards of the world tell a different story, not to mention the electricity and manufacturing processes entailed in a *new* vehicle.
Read some of crusader Gary Taube's books to find out how institutions like Harvard and many more succumbed to industry research money that makes sugary foods an integral part of today's diet and yes, the ubiquitous Food Pyramid. Bought.And.Paid.For.
Sugar's an addictive drug, like opoids, nicotine, even social media and gaming. This is one of the US's favorite business models: addiction-- Profit!!
There *should* be no record if people read the ToS and agreed to it. But if they don't agree, they can't get installed. It's kind of a hostage situation. I implicitly and explicitly don't install apps that track.
But if you're on of the 3+billion android users, then I'm guessing tracks you *anyway*. Perhaps Samsung does, or Apple.
We have few ways of determining phone-homes on phones if they're done over the air, rather than being trapped through a wifi link (watching nmap, as an example). I don't trust them, at all. The only safe way to do this is Airplane mode (I have my doubts) or a Faraday cage, or simply turning it off and yanking the battery between calls.
It shouldn't have to be this way, but only a fool trusts Apple, Google, and the app makers.
Please respect your Google Overlord, You are only a cog in the new plutocracy. You need re-education. Please use the search term "I am fucked, I am fucked. Heal me. Heal me." and your sins will be absolved, citizen.
I don't work for free, and the consumer electronics vendors get NOTHING FREE FROM ME, either. You want my data? Pay me for it. I can refuse to sell it, too. It's called: cut the Ethernet or WiFi "cable". Better still: go outside and get some fresh air.
It's my belief that for now, Xiaomi, even LG and (used) Samsungs are a great value, and aren't captive to a single carrier, and no one worries about them going out of business after a firesale of their phones.
The battle of The Phones is now officially over, just like you can't cram even more stuff into a laptop without adding two zeros to the left of the decimal price point. But organizations will convince investors that they have some new secret sauce that is going to propel them to perhaps, a point of Samsung's, LG's, Moto's, or someone else's share.
Not as much as you're implying. Some are savants, others are just smarter than average and more self-aware. I'm not trying to imbue classism, or in other ways divide people through typification. Rather, it's a function of real capacity and cognition, rather than the other seeming slurs that you seem to imply.
While some are functionally disabled, there are lots of Mensa members whose skills are quite sufficient to do those practical tasks, and much more. Don't be a dick.
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This has been the tone of slashdot since I started lurking here, long ago. It can be dystopian, rash, but "slashdot civil discourse" isn't so much an oxymoron, as not the goal.
We enter the new year with the sharp edges of 2017. They were just as sharp a few years ago, yet dulled by the haze of seeming progress. What is apparent is that the Game of Thrones (not the show, the reality) is currently won by evil interests. There will be more bloodletting and recrimination, and fights galore.
It is this, and it's always been like this, and I appreciate your quest for civil discourse. Ideas, you see, are cheap currency. It's how they are propagated into memes, and achieve a mind of their own, complete with antagonists and protagonists, that sets the stage for the existential reality of what we face.
Summary: unless you need the exercise, fight the battles where you can make a difference. That's the hopeful outcome of 2018.
You mean 1984 is here?
Why bother when you can buy a prospective candidate's browser history, and typify him/her/whatever against various desirable/undesirable profiles/? Why not have a bot do it and save yourself time?
"Siri/Cortana/Alexa, dig up the dirt on social security #504-22-5555. Map profile against StockDesirable#11442. Grade. Display."
There used to be a box, sold sometimes in kit form, that detected micro-tremors in your voice. Some believe that the microtremors, mostly sub-audible, were a sign of deception. There were phone-attachments for them, too. It didn't even take a computer to detect these tremors, or for the device to be thought of as a lie detector.
This was thirty years ago. This is nothing new. Facial recognition is the same way-- finding twitching muscles could be a toothache or a rebuke. Pick one.
I agree that it's tough to identify certain types of traffic. But characterization doesn't have to go very deep. Consider that if the same IP and socket continues for >40MB, it's either a download or a stream.
THEIR streams get to go first, to the detriment of other streams. Can they legally throttle by protocol type? Sure. It's an open range on the consumer these days, each with a target painted on their back.
An encrypted video stream adds up. Neflix's IPs are known, and now that they use a number of varying kinds of cloudflare-like sub-transports, it's a no-brainer to slow them down, by IP address, and it's legal.
Interfering with a relationship could be done, too. Think it's a stream by the nature of the download, and it's not from a software distribution site? Step on its garden hose. Complaints? Join the queue. Your call will be handled in eleven hours.
There are lots of shenanigans they can pull. For each, there's a likely way to thwart them, including jumping to a carrier that doesn't do that.... think jumping from Comcast to a 5G carrier, or downloading a movie on a city-funded WiFi link, or alternatives. Problem is that the alternatives for last-mile are limited to phone carriers, and in-situ data carriers (DSL, cable, fiber) in varying markets.
Even today, prior to non-neutral Internet services, carriers and the government BOTH throttle services, or monetize things like DNS lookups, and so forth, to the added latency of consumer's connections. The onus is on bright people to re-level the playing field, instead of letting it become frustrating and monetized by the ISPs/Telcos/Carriers. Long live Title II.
Um, not so. Even with UDP, if you build a sufficient buffer/cache, you can easily make a stream work. You just have to wait a few seconds for the startup so that a reasonable amount of latency can be tolerated by the user. Certainly with vast 4K streams, this becomes somewhat difficult to do in marginal installations.
The gaps are going to be processing power to re-assemble the threads without disturbing whatever the viewing thread is, but not impossible. MTU size can be fairly small.... although we'd love long packets because they fit QoS algorithms.
Whether it's https, socks5, or an IKE ssl/tls link, randomly disturbing streams will cause the switchboard to light up, or the customer support twitter feed go sour and bad smelling. Encryption is needed so that the packet identifiers are hidden, so that they can't be throttled via typification. Sure, AI can kind of figure things out, but it takes a lot of compute to do that, multiplied by thousands, even millions of users. Deep packet inspection also causes objectionable latencies..... as our US government friends already know.
LOL.
Take a look. The EU contentions have similarity to those in the USA, see: greed. This said, what were once PTTs are now considered much like the Title II utilities that Pai is trying to get rid of. Look it up, be amazed, some governments actually believe in fairness!
Admit seemingly innocuous protocol-- billed at the lowest rate-- to an IP that is happy to re-assemble it all back into something useful if taxed by the ISP or its minions.
The teachings of ways to get around the Great Firewall of China have taught people many meaningful dodges. It's a game of Whack-a-Mole at best, where the amount of rules changes becomes so administratively expensive-- even with software defined routing-- that it's not worth their while to do so.
If the ISPs were interested in conserving their traffic, they'd have null-routed all of the botnets of their customers long ago. This isn't about altruism. This is about shareholder profits, and once those profits decline because of overly-complex servicing algorithms, they'll throw them out. Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious, is the salient aphorism.
This is going to shock you. The Internet is transmitted 100% in ASCII, at least the data payload is. Tell me, are they going to watch every stream, every UDP and TCP relationship, and check to see if it looks like it might be encrypted? Chop up a Netflix movie using a packet cap. Chop up a VPN data stream, same method. Tell me you can tell or characterize the difference.
This is why various VPNs will work well. Get a pipe to the EU, where data neutrality is (today) somewhat assured. Rinse, repeat.
Keep trying. Go ahead. Are you actually hired for Trump media damage control?
The sheer number of credible media sources gives this madness, this Trump SS idea, a lot of believability. Everyone has dirt, and by gosh, he'll distract the media with what he finds.... and not necessarily within the lawful confines of his office.
Don Quixote couldn't have done better. You, either.
Sounds good on the surface (pun not intended).
Here are the problems:
1. Traffic densities mean some roads need huge power (big drain) while others will not, and so the grid has to have hugely flexible current balancing skills
2. Roads have to be precision-built, adding to their capital costs, and have to have a long service life, and must be easy to repair when it weather ages it.
3. Proximal efficiency means keeping charging coils very close to the ground with no obstructions; they almost have to "surf" the pavement surface
4. Lots of copper or other metal conductors close to the surface of the road, but the surface of the road has to still provide friction, and have good expansion/contraction/weather skills
5. Someone has to pay for it, so effective metering vs current/joules used has to be metered and paid for, somehow.
6. Insulation and interruption protection has to be capitalized as well, adding to costs.
7. Inter-jurisdictional handoffs have to be made; 120 vs 220/etc, meaning standardization(s) for international road use.
Upsides:
1. Charge on the fly
2. If they give you the coulombs for free, it really is a Freeway!
Second/third world countries have problems keeping their 24/7 grids alive, and so it's a stretch to believe that they'd buy-in to this concept, sadly.
It's HOW LONG will they wait for a charge? A rapid charge could be fine. Consider the capital cost if everyone at a filling station is waiting for a half-hour to fill their battery stores. Not gonna happen for most. People lack patience these days.
Gas tanks hold gas. Battery packs hold joules.
Very large current capability through bus bars has been done for well over 100 years---> in commercially made automobiles. Look it up. There is no science fiction here.
We sell four grades of fuel in the US at most pumps, three grades of gasoline, and one diesel. Selling alternate battery packs isn't a problem, only in your mind, which is confined to the idea that rapidly interchangeable battery packs are out of the question. Move out of the box holding back the ability for autos to quickly get more joules. I support the idea of rapid charging, too, but that ALSO involves huge amounts of current being exchanged in outdoor circumstances (in all kinds of weather) by civilians.
For electrics to succeed, you have to recharge batteries or rapidly exchange them to be tenable. Tenable is important.
LOL.
Does your car have a gas tank? Yep. Is it a shitty car? You tell me.
A battery bank is INSIDE the vehicle, hidden. Do whatever you want to the cosmetics of your car. Still have a fuel tank. The fuel is electrons. Can it be done from underneath? Sure. Hidden panel? Sure. Structurally sound? That's up to astute engineering and standardized placement so that it changes out quickly, extending the psychological barrier facing electrics now: range.
Making the pack user- serviceable is all important for rapid change-out. Has to be stupid-simple and done in a way that it's all easily audited as well as the weight compensated for.... because people can't lift them. Think of it as a docking station. Eject the old one, insert the new one.
But I want them standardized so that they're not proprietary, and therefore a million battery packs that *are* interchangeable. Lacking that, there's a sea of some marketing department's vision of the ultimate, rather than the utility of battery packs that can be easily serviced for *any* vehicle.
Another 800 pound gorilla is the fact that new vehicles have a large carbon footprint. Part of the goodness of a used vehicle is that it doesn't have be made again.
A standardized battery pack would be great. Increasing energy density would be a good short-term goal. It's not unlike the gas-tank, and with a little finesse in engineering, could be made modular and easy to change, just like a fill-up. It's then the charging station's choice of how to re-up the electron store in the battery pack, solar, wind, whatever.
Re-use is very important. Sure, everyone wants something new, but the junkyards of the world tell a different story, not to mention the electricity and manufacturing processes entailed in a *new* vehicle.
Read some of crusader Gary Taube's books to find out how institutions like Harvard and many more succumbed to industry research money that makes sugary foods an integral part of today's diet and yes, the ubiquitous Food Pyramid. Bought.And.Paid.For.
Sugar's an addictive drug, like opoids, nicotine, even social media and gaming. This is one of the US's favorite business models: addiction-- Profit!!
There *should* be no record if people read the ToS and agreed to it. But if they don't agree, they can't get installed. It's kind of a hostage situation. I implicitly and explicitly don't install apps that track.
But if you're on of the 3+billion android users, then I'm guessing tracks you *anyway*. Perhaps Samsung does, or Apple.
We have few ways of determining phone-homes on phones if they're done over the air, rather than being trapped through a wifi link (watching nmap, as an example). I don't trust them, at all. The only safe way to do this is Airplane mode (I have my doubts) or a Faraday cage, or simply turning it off and yanking the battery between calls.
It shouldn't have to be this way, but only a fool trusts Apple, Google, and the app makers.
Disinformation. Nice try.
Please respect your Google Overlord, You are only a cog in the new plutocracy. You need re-education. Please use the search term "I am fucked, I am fucked. Heal me. Heal me." and your sins will be absolved, citizen.
I don't work for free, and the consumer electronics vendors get NOTHING FREE FROM ME, either. You want my data? Pay me for it. I can refuse to sell it, too. It's called: cut the Ethernet or WiFi "cable". Better still: go outside and get some fresh air.
But that would be the right thing to do.
If there was QA.
If the list from QA wasn't many screens long, some with red flashing thingies attached to them.
If the in-house coffee machine wasn't calling my name.
If you didn't give me gruesome deadlines to begin with, and impossible specs.....
If.....
And so it's a non-Essential phone.
It's my belief that for now, Xiaomi, even LG and (used) Samsungs are a great value, and aren't captive to a single carrier, and no one worries about them going out of business after a firesale of their phones.
The battle of The Phones is now officially over, just like you can't cram even more stuff into a laptop without adding two zeros to the left of the decimal price point. But organizations will convince investors that they have some new secret sauce that is going to propel them to perhaps, a point of Samsung's, LG's, Moto's, or someone else's share.
Perhaps they'll learn. Perhaps not.
Not as much as you're implying. Some are savants, others are just smarter than average and more self-aware. I'm not trying to imbue classism, or in other ways divide people through typification. Rather, it's a function of real capacity and cognition, rather than the other seeming slurs that you seem to imply.
While some are functionally disabled, there are lots of Mensa members whose skills are quite sufficient to do those practical tasks, and much more. Don't be a dick.