Yes, they can throttle, but they can' throttle just bitorrent. If they start getting congestion, they would have to throttle everything* equally. HTTP. BT, etc. It wouldn't allow them to just throttling bittorrent all day and all night regardless of load levels.
Also, they would be required to state the "we throttle stuff" publicly.
According to my UPS, my computer (3.0ghz core2 duo E6850, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640MB, 500GB hard drive, including modem and switch) consumes about 180W at idle (monitor/speakers/etc. off, torrents running). Running FaH (same as before, including torrents, but with FaH running on both cores), it sits at about 220W. Powered off, it registers at 5W. Running flat-out, it registers about 350W.
Assuming it's running flat out 8 hours a day, that leaves 16 hours of off, idle, or FaH each day.
Price of electricity here is 6.5 cents per KWhr, so that gives us this for the basic monthly cost:
8*0.35=2.8KWhr = 18.2 cents per day or $5.46 monthly
Now for the other 16 hours a day :
off : 16*0.005=0.08KWHR = 0.5 cents per day or $0.15 monthly idle : 16*0.18=2.88KWhr = 18.7 cents per day or $5.61 monthly FaH : 16*0.22=3.52KWhr = 22.9 cents per day or $6.87 monthly
total costs :
off : $5.61/month idle : $11.07/month FaH : $12.33/month
Actually, IIRC, pennies and nickels are currently worth more as metal than as coins. A penny is something like 1.2 cents and a nickel is about 6 cents, at least that was the case in Sept. 2006, which is the most recent mint report I can get at the us mint site.
Company and corporation are two different terms legally, even though they're synonyms in usual speech, as you point out with your dictionary quote.
A limited liability company is not incorporated. It's somewhat like a cross between a corporation (Limited liability for the owners, as the name states) and a partnership (usually multiple owners), but there is no juristic person as there is with a corporation.
Yes, but then you've got stream-quality compression, DAC, ADC, and then recompression. that does not make for good quality audio. OTOH, I know people who think the audio on youtube sounds just fine.
And whatever happened to "ignorance of the law is no excuse"? One would think that should be doubly so for large corporations with legal departments to tell them what is and isn't legal.
I'm fairly certain that Bell Sympatico users are *not* being throttled. I was under the impression it went like this :
Bell started throttling select groups of their customers. As there are other options (as bell is required to lease lines at a fixed fee), said groups dropped bell and went with another ISP. Bell starts throttling the other ISPs' traffic.
Tons. CRTC regs require bell (and all the other incumbent carriers) to lease out lines to other DSL providers, such as teksavvy, and dozens of others.
The issue here is that bell is interfering by throttling the other providers. Bell's been hemorrhaging customers since they started this throttling nonsense, which is an instance of things working correctly.
A good directory of the other options is www.canadianisp.com
I was under the impression that it was theorized that charge was neutral on average, i.e. as much positive charge as there is negative charge, which doesn't mean there can't be an object with a large charge, just that there has to be an object or set of objects with equal amount of opposite charge somewhere else.
Because of this law, fewer people will be able to afford insurance. Normally high risk people get higher rates. Since the insurance companies can't do that in these cases, they're going to raise rates for everybody instead. So in 5 years the same people who voted for this bill are going to claim the system is broken because there's so many people without insurance. Guess why? It's because they keep breaking the system with bills like this one.
It's unfair that some people are genetically programmed to get certain diseases. That sucks. But life isn't fair. Why should the rest of us have to pay for other people's bad luck? 1. And the insurance companies have such razor thin profit margins.~
2. Because that's the entire purpose of insurance?
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Yes, they can throttle, but they can' throttle just bitorrent. If they start getting congestion, they would have to throttle everything* equally. HTTP. BT, etc. It wouldn't allow them to just throttling bittorrent all day and all night regardless of load levels.
Also, they would be required to state the "we throttle stuff" publicly.
*IMO, VOIP should get a do-not-throttle pass.
Which is why this tool is useful. It detects the forged packets, not all reset packets.
And this just has to be thrown into this discussion.
And the slashdot parser eats your alligator, which is why we were using those phrases.
to provide some numbers:
According to my UPS, my computer (3.0ghz core2 duo E6850, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640MB, 500GB hard drive, including modem and switch) consumes about 180W at idle (monitor/speakers/etc. off, torrents running). Running FaH (same as before, including torrents, but with FaH running on both cores), it sits at about 220W. Powered off, it registers at 5W. Running flat-out, it registers about 350W.
Assuming it's running flat out 8 hours a day, that leaves 16 hours of off, idle, or FaH each day.
Price of electricity here is 6.5 cents per KWhr, so that gives us this for the basic monthly cost:
8*0.35=2.8KWhr = 18.2 cents per day or $5.46 monthly
Now for the other 16 hours a day :
off : 16*0.005=0.08KWHR = 0.5 cents per day or $0.15 monthly
idle : 16*0.18=2.88KWhr = 18.7 cents per day or $5.61 monthly
FaH : 16*0.22=3.52KWhr = 22.9 cents per day or $6.87 monthly
total costs :
off : $5.61/month
idle : $11.07/month
FaH : $12.33/month
Because we're bored and have nothing better to do on a Wednesday night.
Well, it wouldn't really be murder. More negligent homicide.
I believe the name means ANother Tool for Language Recognition. Nothing to do with LL vs. LR.
Actually, IIRC, pennies and nickels are currently worth more as metal than as coins. A penny is something like 1.2 cents and a nickel is about 6 cents, at least that was the case in Sept. 2006, which is the most recent mint report I can get at the us mint site.
Which is why it's near impossible to find actual tin foil now.
Common English =/= Legal English.
Company and corporation are two different terms legally, even though they're synonyms in usual speech, as you point out with your dictionary quote.
A limited liability company is not incorporated. It's somewhat like a cross between a corporation (Limited liability for the owners, as the name states) and a partnership (usually multiple owners), but there is no juristic person as there is with a corporation.
Yes, but they're not a Delaware corporation. they're a limited liability company located in Delaware. Differant things.
Yes, but then you've got stream-quality compression, DAC, ADC, and then recompression. that does not make for good quality audio. OTOH, I know people who think the audio on youtube sounds just fine.
And whatever happened to "ignorance of the law is no excuse"? One would think that should be doubly so for large corporations with legal departments to tell them what is and isn't legal.
Yes, things currently work that way. Things shouldn't work that way.
Then I'm sure you don't mind returning all that money we gave you to create all this infrastructure.
Bell started throttling select groups of their customers.
As there are other options (as bell is required to lease lines at a fixed fee), said groups dropped bell and went with another ISP.
Bell starts throttling the other ISPs' traffic.
Tons. CRTC regs require bell (and all the other incumbent carriers) to lease out lines to other DSL providers, such as teksavvy, and dozens of others.
The issue here is that bell is interfering by throttling the other providers. Bell's been hemorrhaging customers since they started this throttling nonsense, which is an instance of things working correctly.
A good directory of the other options is www.canadianisp.com
Note the thermoelectric bit. That produces energy from the heat given off by the decaying material, not from any xray/gamma/etc. radiation given off.
I was under the impression that it was theorized that charge was neutral on average, i.e. as much positive charge as there is negative charge, which doesn't mean there can't be an object with a large charge, just that there has to be an object or set of objects with equal amount of opposite charge somewhere else.
It's unfair that some people are genetically programmed to get certain diseases. That sucks. But life isn't fair. Why should the rest of us have to pay for other people's bad luck? 1. And the insurance companies have such razor thin profit margins.~
2. Because that's the entire purpose of insurance?
Well, I do know that black people have a greater instance is vitamin D and nitrous oxide deficiency.
OTOH, white people have a greater instance of skin cancer.
No, just that black & white sensors give better detail. They've got a set filters that will allow them to make pretty coloured pictures.
AFAICT, pretty much all the FF2 memory issues have been fixed up in FF3, though i'm staying with 2 until google makes their toolbar work on 3.
Nope. It looks like the firefox logo with a swirl transform to me.