Google, Yahoo, none of them care. Spam/abuse reports go into a black hole. You can block international sources and be no worse off, like 163.com, etc. I know this is counter-intuitive, but I get actual responses from Microsoft, and occasionally, some from European ISPs.
Until you can get accounts shut off, and make it vastly tougher, it's a game of whack-a-mole.
Yeah, space lasers to power the planet, let's mine asteroids 'cause the Chinese are screwing the commodity markets, and a long, long list of other WTFs.
But it's from Colorado, where really good pot is the norm, and we should expect even more oddities to come out of "stealth" as time meanders on.
I'd actually like for Microsoft to have the same onus in the USA. Don't touch stuff only and unless you get a secondary auth key from a trustee of the account's data, verified by both sets of credentials, and then only for the session or four hours, which ever is less. A reauth would be needed if they can't fix something within the four hours. The key has to be a healthy, domain curated hefty key. Then: goodbye.
At least in some states, you pay sales tax when you get your plates/registration/etc. You're supposed to be honest. Could you thwart the honesty in electronic transactions? Where there's a will, there's a way, sadly.
Part of Amazon's entire capital model is based on the Interstate Commerce Clause, and tax avoidance, as are trips to certain states made for big box purchases. The tax avoidance then prevents road construction, public safety, watershed projects, and a whole long list of we-need-it. These facts stop no one. So if you want to be the enforcer with such no-cash laws, go ahead. Watch the bubble happen some place else, like corporations do with off-shoring of profits in Ireland and the Caymans.
Doing the Right Thing works for many people. For others, it never will. In the meantime, we learn how to pay bills with law-abiding citizens.... and watch our infrastructure decay otherwise.
IF you count all sites, from 00.00.00.00 to 255.255.255.255, yeah. But let's take a look at the ones with all of the traffic, a count that's easily found and nicely debated, depending on who you're selling the information to.
Take ten people in your family, and open up their cookie cache. Now find three sites across your entire family base that doesn't use cookies and advertising. Like it or not, sites DO INDEED use advertising, and by the almost logarithmic increase in blockers, more people are hating it.
The ways they hate it are annotated up and down thread, in luxurious profanity and scatologically, often well-deserved. Yet we laud Google, prince of this darkness, for all their ostensible goodness where their core revenues come from: ad networking.
Yes, there are more heinous organizations doing nasty things, but until the blockers come to an agreement not to listen to the incessant blather-- and some will cease because of ad revenue decline-- there will be no peace.
See what I said about tiny nibble from each transaction. It's controlling the flow so as to take a chunk, track you, tax you, and slice bits from transactions-- the nibble.
Yeah, it's about control, and using "official" channels to purchase goods and services. I buy and sell vehicles and go to auctions where credit cards aren't taken, or are heavily surcharged-- as almost all forms of electronic transfer except debit mechanisms take tiny nibbles of your purchases. Screw that. Those tiny nibbles are MY tiny nibbles.
Add to the problems, devices like credit card skimmers, smoking hot security breaches at major organizations, the inability to police the Dark Web, and I'll stick to cash where it makes sense. This is all about control, folks. Make no mistake about it.
Alsop became a VC and entrepreneur after starting the DEMO conferences, which gave him early insight into what goes well, and not, in product development. He's not a king maker, but he understands how both kings are made-- and destroyed.
Musk's deflection of Alsop's order didn't stanch Alsop's love, because Alsop's not in the love business. Instead, a wounded Alsop has made the flatulence well-known, long after the scent is dead, hence the bully pulpit citation.
If you or I were to yelp/etc the crap out of the chosen Model ? it would make nary a difference. But Alsop's imprimatur on such a review would be one more battle for Musk, who currently is fighting many of them. Like I said: this is a game rich men play.
Alsop played the press trump card; he was in tech media when most readers here were in diapers. And while Alsop's Real Soon Now tag line to empty vendor promises was nice, there is a species of human that uses their seeming bully pulpit to get stuff, then castigate it for whatever fun that might lead to.
Musk could have played along with this sort of ruse, or just flipped him off. So he flipped him off. Brinksmanship is a game the rich can play.
The enemies of FOSS are well-known, although some superficially appear to have changed their tune.
Your frustrations are common to most projects, as they evolve, go through cycles, and wax and wane.
I have no problem with the GPLv3. Other licenses can be more or less permissive. Linux is still just the kernel, and the rest is devil of the details. FreeBSD is a lot of fun, with its cousin. There are a lot of decent projects out there, some with good code, some not.
In the early days of a project, a lot of code is pretty good, and the number of coders, good and bad, has increased meteorically over the years. Some never knew what the actual ancestry of Unix was, let alone the FOSS movement.
I use Linux, but it's not the only thing I use. Like you, I have choices. Some days I'm deep in Debian, other days, in Centos. Otherdays it's MacOS and Windows. On rarer days, FreeBSD and Android and iOS, QNX, and for fun, Raspian.
These are tools, and used for reasons unique to each user. There are those that DO come here and whose gig it IS to say, "hurray for our side" despite slashdot's diminishing numbers. There are old timers here, and a 4000+ response is probably unlikely as social media has caused a lot of diffusion. Maybe they go to Reddit, etc. I don't care. What I see here, however, are decidedly astroturfing warriors that alternately disparage Windows MacOS or Linux to suit the aims of their overlords, rather than voicing cogent chapter and verse about actual problems, rather than anecdotal rumor mongering.
The truly insane seem to have left, as have the goatse crowd, and the other off-their-meds posters. Some days, it's even under R rated. Fine. ACs do what they will, but I watch as various threads get crapped on in a decided tone that doesn't seem to match reality, and so they become suspect. Certain companies are known to hire people that do exactly what I'm describing. You know who they are.
Mod parent up. Lots of tizzy over nothing. Doesn't change the kernel, apps, distros, direction, etc.
It's for the talking heads and their corporate overlords. Publicly traded corps need to look like they're busy, so there aren't any stockholder lawsuits.
Consider the anonymous coward astroturfers working for non-Linux companies that would have good reason to squat on this thread. Nothing to look at here.
When it suits their interests means that travelers have only expensive alternatives if they want to fly regularly, and internationally. Otherwise, inconveniences abound.
Using the distributive law, the little inconveniences add up to big ones. Using the cumulative law, the big ones add up to the same number. What's left out is the dimensions of guys like this, clearly clueless, asserting his authoritarianism, clearly and aggressively using a bully pulpit to stanch yet another constitutional guarantee as though he knew WTF he was talking about. In so many vectors, this is wrong, not only because he's not a spokesperson, but because his attitude stretches the stress levels of good people everywhere. This sort of pomposity, coupled to the plutocrasy we already face, just increases the height of the political cesspool that we're mired in, today.
There is the A list, and the not so A list, etc. Let's say you get an account, and a URL. The traceroute of that URL gives a lot of info. Pick some other programs. See where those go, and what the ping latency is. After a while, you can pick the program by just being a customer, then following the stream to its destination. You don't have to guess, you can be a customer and just do it.
The streams aren't going to be much different to then characterize. Yes, load balancers and long-path sourcing might be troublesome, but CDNs are highly localized these days, and have co-lo space in many areas. Geographic sampling wouldn't take long if it's done methodically.
Ok, this is Comcast, whose IQ compares to stairsteps in short buildings.
Do you understand how akamai, and other CDNs cache? It's based on predictability and load balancing. The sources are pretty-well known. It's very highly distributed, and depending on locale, X choice will produce Y URL.
You don't know that all nodes have the most popular content. You're guessing.
Think about it.... you're an ISP and everything your customers watch go through its wires. No, you may not have a TLS crack, you know when commercials are inserted, where they come from, and which CDN sources are being used. Not tough math, if you think about it-- oh, and have an account or two to see how selections map to varying resources YOU make because YOU have the cert in your browser while you make them.
I'm not fond of VBR encoding, but I am in favor of rights holders earning their rights legitimately, not the tactics of the MPAA/etc. The Open Internet is more or less an oxymoron. I'm filtered, you're filtered, and don't deny it. Netflix isn't going to close its doors, and if Hulu had brains, they'd be the perfect competitor to Netflix.
Look at the selections on a Roku or Apple TV and tell me that Andy Grove's maxim about the battle between all providers is two eyes, and 24hrs. YouTube, and a long long list of non-TV network providers are starting to prevail, as crappy traditional corporate TV/radio networks start to die off. With all of their strictly bought-and-paid-for messaging, broadcast network television was doomed to die as a communications delivery vehicle.
Comcast, if you're a customer of theirs, knows everywhere you go on the Internet, for how long, and which machine inside your network did what, even with NAT.
Delta-T as a non-linear variable is an intriguing concept, too. I like the time-is-a-smash idea, as it solves other mysteries and quantum linkages as well.
All of the perception problems are based on time. Throw out time for a moment and add other dimensions, quantum cohesiveness, and the current reality becomes something that time obscures. It raced out from the Big Bang, and presents us with a construct which our minds now experience, and try to fathom.
Where time is removed from the equation, or altered to permit quantum awareness-- no delta T- we always were, and always will be, but for now, our brains record the moment as an artifice for understanding. Where other dimensions are added, and we may be in them all at once, or only a single set of them, our collective conscious attempts to learn and understand, until the life is drained away, except that in the removal of time as a measurement, we'll always be here, as we always have.
And I didn't even smoke a bowl of something to think that one up.
We very much disagree. AI does interesting things these days, and the applications are numerous. Collectively, AI powers civilian, military, scientific, and research in astounding ways. These applications now transverse disciplines. Some of the actions are in production today, others are in our immediate future, while admittedly, some are far off. But not that far off.
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It's all for the show, folks.
Google, Yahoo, none of them care. Spam/abuse reports go into a black hole. You can block international sources and be no worse off, like 163.com, etc. I know this is counter-intuitive, but I get actual responses from Microsoft, and occasionally, some from European ISPs.
Until you can get accounts shut off, and make it vastly tougher, it's a game of whack-a-mole.
Yeah, space lasers to power the planet, let's mine asteroids 'cause the Chinese are screwing the commodity markets, and a long, long list of other WTFs.
But it's from Colorado, where really good pot is the norm, and we should expect even more oddities to come out of "stealth" as time meanders on.
I'd actually like for Microsoft to have the same onus in the USA. Don't touch stuff only and unless you get a secondary auth key from a trustee of the account's data, verified by both sets of credentials, and then only for the session or four hours, which ever is less. A reauth would be needed if they can't fix something within the four hours. The key has to be a healthy, domain curated hefty key. Then: goodbye.
Profit!
At least in some states, you pay sales tax when you get your plates/registration/etc. You're supposed to be honest. Could you thwart the honesty in electronic transactions? Where there's a will, there's a way, sadly.
Part of Amazon's entire capital model is based on the Interstate Commerce Clause, and tax avoidance, as are trips to certain states made for big box purchases. The tax avoidance then prevents road construction, public safety, watershed projects, and a whole long list of we-need-it. These facts stop no one. So if you want to be the enforcer with such no-cash laws, go ahead. Watch the bubble happen some place else, like corporations do with off-shoring of profits in Ireland and the Caymans.
Doing the Right Thing works for many people. For others, it never will. In the meantime, we learn how to pay bills with law-abiding citizens.... and watch our infrastructure decay otherwise.
Citation?
IF you count all sites, from 00.00.00.00 to 255.255.255.255, yeah. But let's take a look at the ones with all of the traffic, a count that's easily found and nicely debated, depending on who you're selling the information to.
Take ten people in your family, and open up their cookie cache. Now find three sites across your entire family base that doesn't use cookies and advertising. Like it or not, sites DO INDEED use advertising, and by the almost logarithmic increase in blockers, more people are hating it.
The ways they hate it are annotated up and down thread, in luxurious profanity and scatologically, often well-deserved. Yet we laud Google, prince of this darkness, for all their ostensible goodness where their core revenues come from: ad networking.
Yes, there are more heinous organizations doing nasty things, but until the blockers come to an agreement not to listen to the incessant blather-- and some will cease because of ad revenue decline-- there will be no peace.
See what I said about tiny nibble from each transaction. It's controlling the flow so as to take a chunk, track you, tax you, and slice bits from transactions-- the nibble.
Yeah, it's about control, and using "official" channels to purchase goods and services. I buy and sell vehicles and go to auctions where credit cards aren't taken, or are heavily surcharged-- as almost all forms of electronic transfer except debit mechanisms take tiny nibbles of your purchases. Screw that. Those tiny nibbles are MY tiny nibbles.
Add to the problems, devices like credit card skimmers, smoking hot security breaches at major organizations, the inability to police the Dark Web, and I'll stick to cash where it makes sense. This is all about control, folks. Make no mistake about it.
You succumbed to that propaganda, too, eh?
Oops, I mean the truth.
Alsop became a VC and entrepreneur after starting the DEMO conferences, which gave him early insight into what goes well, and not, in product development. He's not a king maker, but he understands how both kings are made-- and destroyed.
Musk's deflection of Alsop's order didn't stanch Alsop's love, because Alsop's not in the love business. Instead, a wounded Alsop has made the flatulence well-known, long after the scent is dead, hence the bully pulpit citation.
If you or I were to yelp/etc the crap out of the chosen Model ? it would make nary a difference. But Alsop's imprimatur on such a review would be one more battle for Musk, who currently is fighting many of them. Like I said: this is a game rich men play.
Alsop played the press trump card; he was in tech media when most readers here were in diapers. And while Alsop's Real Soon Now tag line to empty vendor promises was nice, there is a species of human that uses their seeming bully pulpit to get stuff, then castigate it for whatever fun that might lead to.
Musk could have played along with this sort of ruse, or just flipped him off. So he flipped him off. Brinksmanship is a game the rich can play.
The enemies of FOSS are well-known, although some superficially appear to have changed their tune.
Your frustrations are common to most projects, as they evolve, go through cycles, and wax and wane.
I have no problem with the GPLv3. Other licenses can be more or less permissive. Linux is still just the kernel, and the rest is devil of the details. FreeBSD is a lot of fun, with its cousin. There are a lot of decent projects out there, some with good code, some not.
In the early days of a project, a lot of code is pretty good, and the number of coders, good and bad, has increased meteorically over the years. Some never knew what the actual ancestry of Unix was, let alone the FOSS movement.
I use Linux, but it's not the only thing I use. Like you, I have choices. Some days I'm deep in Debian, other days, in Centos. Otherdays it's MacOS and Windows. On rarer days, FreeBSD and Android and iOS, QNX, and for fun, Raspian.
These are tools, and used for reasons unique to each user. There are those that DO come here and whose gig it IS to say, "hurray for our side" despite slashdot's diminishing numbers. There are old timers here, and a 4000+ response is probably unlikely as social media has caused a lot of diffusion. Maybe they go to Reddit, etc. I don't care. What I see here, however, are decidedly astroturfing warriors that alternately disparage Windows MacOS or Linux to suit the aims of their overlords, rather than voicing cogent chapter and verse about actual problems, rather than anecdotal rumor mongering.
The truly insane seem to have left, as have the goatse crowd, and the other off-their-meds posters. Some days, it's even under R rated. Fine. ACs do what they will, but I watch as various threads get crapped on in a decided tone that doesn't seem to match reality, and so they become suspect. Certain companies are known to hire people that do exactly what I'm describing. You know who they are.
Mod parent up. Lots of tizzy over nothing. Doesn't change the kernel, apps, distros, direction, etc.
It's for the talking heads and their corporate overlords. Publicly traded corps need to look like they're busy, so there aren't any stockholder lawsuits.
Consider the anonymous coward astroturfers working for non-Linux companies that would have good reason to squat on this thread. Nothing to look at here.
You believe that this is algebra, and it's not.
When it suits their interests means that travelers have only expensive alternatives if they want to fly regularly, and internationally. Otherwise, inconveniences abound.
Using the distributive law, the little inconveniences add up to big ones. Using the cumulative law, the big ones add up to the same number. What's left out is the dimensions of guys like this, clearly clueless, asserting his authoritarianism, clearly and aggressively using a bully pulpit to stanch yet another constitutional guarantee as though he knew WTF he was talking about. In so many vectors, this is wrong, not only because he's not a spokesperson, but because his attitude stretches the stress levels of good people everywhere. This sort of pomposity, coupled to the plutocrasy we already face, just increases the height of the political cesspool that we're mired in, today.
.... as we creep slowly-- no rapidly descend towards fascism. Why don't they rename DHS to DACL-- Department of Anti-CIvil Liberty?
There is the A list, and the not so A list, etc. Let's say you get an account, and a URL. The traceroute of that URL gives a lot of info. Pick some other programs. See where those go, and what the ping latency is. After a while, you can pick the program by just being a customer, then following the stream to its destination. You don't have to guess, you can be a customer and just do it.
The streams aren't going to be much different to then characterize. Yes, load balancers and long-path sourcing might be troublesome, but CDNs are highly localized these days, and have co-lo space in many areas. Geographic sampling wouldn't take long if it's done methodically.
Ok, this is Comcast, whose IQ compares to stairsteps in short buildings.
Do you understand how akamai, and other CDNs cache? It's based on predictability and load balancing. The sources are pretty-well known. It's very highly distributed, and depending on locale, X choice will produce Y URL.
You don't know that all nodes have the most popular content. You're guessing.
Think about it.... you're an ISP and everything your customers watch go through its wires. No, you may not have a TLS crack, you know when commercials are inserted, where they come from, and which CDN sources are being used. Not tough math, if you think about it-- oh, and have an account or two to see how selections map to varying resources YOU make because YOU have the cert in your browser while you make them.
I'm not fond of VBR encoding, but I am in favor of rights holders earning their rights legitimately, not the tactics of the MPAA/etc. The Open Internet is more or less an oxymoron. I'm filtered, you're filtered, and don't deny it. Netflix isn't going to close its doors, and if Hulu had brains, they'd be the perfect competitor to Netflix.
Look at the selections on a Roku or Apple TV and tell me that Andy Grove's maxim about the battle between all providers is two eyes, and 24hrs. YouTube, and a long long list of non-TV network providers are starting to prevail, as crappy traditional corporate TV/radio networks start to die off. With all of their strictly bought-and-paid-for messaging, broadcast network television was doomed to die as a communications delivery vehicle.
Specific nodes will have specific content. Latencies can also help determine what's going on, too. Predictability is reasonable.
What they're trying to do, however, is hassle and compete with Netflix, who doesn't need to report the same numbers to the ad gods.
It's internecine fighting that's all in the spirit of good fun, right?
Doesn't take much to look at the CDN network accessed to figure out what's being watched-- along with the ad content that is also triggered.
In fact, if they're not looking-- they're stupid.
Ahem...
Comcast owns NBC.
See any rivalry there?
Comcast, if you're a customer of theirs, knows everywhere you go on the Internet, for how long, and which machine inside your network did what, even with NAT.
Should they be scared? Ayup.
Delta-T as a non-linear variable is an intriguing concept, too. I like the time-is-a-smash idea, as it solves other mysteries and quantum linkages as well.
All of the perception problems are based on time. Throw out time for a moment and add other dimensions, quantum cohesiveness, and the current reality becomes something that time obscures. It raced out from the Big Bang, and presents us with a construct which our minds now experience, and try to fathom.
Where time is removed from the equation, or altered to permit quantum awareness-- no delta T- we always were, and always will be, but for now, our brains record the moment as an artifice for understanding. Where other dimensions are added, and we may be in them all at once, or only a single set of them, our collective conscious attempts to learn and understand, until the life is drained away, except that in the removal of time as a measurement, we'll always be here, as we always have.
And I didn't even smoke a bowl of something to think that one up.
We very much disagree. AI does interesting things these days, and the applications are numerous. Collectively, AI powers civilian, military, scientific, and research in astounding ways. These applications now transverse disciplines. Some of the actions are in production today, others are in our immediate future, while admittedly, some are far off. But not that far off.