From the article "Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski publicly supported usage-based pricing in December, a victory for cable companies concerned that usage-based billing would run afoul of net neutrality rules prohibiting Internet services from favoring one form of content for another."
Look at the FCC chairs history
"He was Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairperson at IAC/InterActiveCorp and executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. He earned at least $USD2.5 million when Vivendi acquired Universal assets in 2003.[10] He had previously served on the Boards of Directors of Expedia, Hotels.com, and Ticketmaster.[5]"
The Internet shouldn't be metered at all, rather they should use fixed priced and fixed caps, want more? buy the next tier up to and including unlimited data transfer.
They did this with Television, first it was the proliferation of advertising to the point where TV shows are now 1/3 or greater advertising time, then with cable TV they continued to raise the prices. Now they will do it with the Internet effectively destroying innovation, and lets not forget telecoms suing people in towns trying to create their own service providers because their towns weren't deemed profitable enough to deploy services to. http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/telco-to-town-were-suing-you-because-we-care.ars
It just seems to me that corporations really run everything, and since they are bottom line focused that translates to greed running everything which in turn translates to the death of everything else.
Good point, I sometimes do allow comments to make the call for the article, ironic, that means I am using the very system Google suggested and the analysis I disagree with.
What else can I say that hasn't already been said, Anon's self delusion has gone completely nuts (nu7z?) the banks will not get screwed they get the money back, charities get teased and the Internet squeeze gets tighter, politicians get more fuel to fuck us with.
At least have the brains to wait until there is some sort of useful Internet Freedom legislation in place otherwise people like Senator Lieberman or MPAA/RIAA can go on and on about how hackers are the danger and we need more controls and laws and judges that pass laws without really knowing what they are doing (and admitting it).
Christ it's wrong on so many levels...rip off the banks and hire a decent publicist FFS, you may be great hackers but you suck at strategy.
The minute/. starts to "Allow trusted evaluators to transfer a 'quantity of authority' to like-minded 'contributing authorities', who in turn designate and delegate authority to additional like-minded contributing authorities." because that is too much like the current system of media control and politics, or in other words go with the flow or fuck off.
Again, leave it alone it has worked just dandy all these years.
I think the/. community mods accurately, the good out weighs the bad, and I have had more than one of my comments modded out of existence, and frankly some of my comments deserved to be (we all have bad days) but the thing to keep in mind here is we, we being the members of/., aren't modding for the outside World we mod for the community here on/. so it works well even with the trolls and hopeless pontificates.
So is this a +1 for the iPhone and Apple's need to control their shiz or our they doing the same thing internally? Since CarrierIQ is effectively a key logger doesn't that make it illegal" Are we going to see some legal action here?
"The Higgs field is also thought to make a small contribution, giving mass to individual quarks as well as to electrons and some other particles. The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual."
And if it's all virtual who or what is running the simulation? Or maybe it's self generating "I am because I think I am"
So much tech, so many minds involved in trying to save the World when all we really need to do is admit we circumvented Mothers checks and balances with our medicine and technology and agree that we need World wide population reduction immediately, now, not tomorrow.
Just grow up and admit we are the plague of locust, we are the problem, the 7 billion ignorant, greedy animals sucking the planet dry.
If you think humor or "mirth" is rare or missing in animals you haven't been paying attention, or you're too concerned with your colleges accusations of anthropomorphism.
Primarily dealing with end users, they are ignorant (not stupid most of the time) and feel inadequate, as though they should know how to solve their problems but they don't, an attitude that is about as realistic as being handed an F-14 fighter manual and told you will be flying tomorrow. What happens when I come into contact with them is they are primed and expecting to feel dumb so they do, and it's some how my fault, God forbid I dumb the explanation down and they "catch on" to that, "I'm not stupid you know" yes yes that's why you're here talking to me.
To be fair my delivery does need work, I am sure something close to sarcasm leaks out on occasion, I just never saw myself as their therapist.
With management, I have to say I don't get management, they seem to be baby sitters and I don't need sitting, I am autonomous and some seem threatened by that. They have their own set of issues all of which seem to be created to appear they are needed, created out of sheer ignorance (Peter Principal) or just simple minded D-bags that some how got promoted and now you have to deal with them or rather their egos and egos don't make good business/management/IT decisions.
Good observation, now watch over the next 2 years and see how Verizon comes out of this fiasco because I suspect there is a link in this mess somewhere.
The same FCC chair that wants to relax media consolidation rules yet again? With the chairman being the very person that profited by the "Rupert Murdoch" fiasco that led to Fox and Vivendi?
"He was Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairperson at IAC/InterActiveCorp and executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. He earned at least $USD2.5 million when Vivendi acquired Universal assets in 2003.[10]"
Why would anyone be more inclined to lie when it will be documented? You lie when you have plausible deniability, or am I putting to much thought into this?
Depends, what do you mean by privacy? You encrypt communications, that's one level of privacy, the real issue in my mind isn't the phone, it's the service you use. No matter how you handle the communications there is still the issue of the account being tied to you, you have to pay for it some how and you need an address for the phone to registered to. Gift cards and prepaid VISA type cards won't work, they either get refused or require some personal information which brings me to the only true privacy I can think of, use another persons account, either by agreement which still ties you to it, steal it, or create a factious account which is more work than you want to get into and doesn't allow you to be "social".
I'm sure all of this is way above what you're looking for so I won't get into facial and voice recognition which brings me back to "Depends, what do you mean by privacy?".
In your case don't use outside services like Google or Facebook, ever, just don't, and get over "The Cloud" which is a euphemism for collected database to be used by everyone else including you. Sync with your local computer keep the info encrypted on the phone and on the computer, but when it comes down to it you can only control your own data, not the data you share with others, which leaves you with 2 choices. Get over it or get off The Grid.
I would take the machines even though that may result in a child like state for humans, human nature isn't going to change if we are "augmented" instead it will become amplified.
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From the article
"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski publicly supported usage-based pricing in December, a victory for cable companies concerned that usage-based billing would run afoul of net neutrality rules prohibiting Internet services from favoring one form of content for another."
Look at the FCC chairs history
"He was Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairperson at IAC/InterActiveCorp and executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. He earned at least $USD2.5 million when Vivendi acquired Universal assets in 2003.[10] He had previously served on the Boards of Directors of Expedia, Hotels.com, and Ticketmaster.[5]"
The Internet shouldn't be metered at all, rather they should use fixed priced and fixed caps, want more? buy the next tier up to and including unlimited data transfer.
They did this with Television, first it was the proliferation of advertising to the point where TV shows are now 1/3 or greater advertising time, then with cable TV they continued to raise the prices.
Now they will do it with the Internet effectively destroying innovation, and lets not forget telecoms suing people in towns trying to create their own service providers because their towns weren't deemed profitable enough to deploy services to.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/telco-to-town-were-suing-you-because-we-care.ars
It just seems to me that corporations really run everything, and since they are bottom line focused that translates to greed running everything which in turn translates to the death of everything else.
Good point, I sometimes do allow comments to make the call for the article, ironic, that means I am using the very system Google suggested and the analysis I disagree with.
What else can I say that hasn't already been said, Anon's self delusion has gone completely nuts (nu7z?) the banks will not get screwed they get the money back, charities get teased and the Internet squeeze gets tighter, politicians get more fuel to fuck us with.
At least have the brains to wait until there is some sort of useful Internet Freedom legislation in place otherwise people like Senator Lieberman or MPAA/RIAA can go on and on about how hackers are the danger and we need more controls and laws and judges that pass laws without really knowing what they are doing (and admitting it).
Christ it's wrong on so many levels...rip off the banks and hire a decent publicist FFS, you may be great hackers but you suck at strategy.
This Has Been Another Pinot Noir Blather.
The minute /. starts to "Allow trusted evaluators to transfer a 'quantity of authority' to like-minded 'contributing authorities', who in turn designate and delegate authority to additional like-minded contributing authorities." because that is too much like the current system of media control and politics, or in other words go with the flow or fuck off.
Again, leave it alone it has worked just dandy all these years.
I think the /. community mods accurately, the good out weighs the bad, and I have had more than one of my comments modded out of existence, and frankly some of my comments deserved to be (we all have bad days) but the thing to keep in mind here is we, we being the members of /., aren't modding for the outside World we mod for the community here on /. so it works well even with the trolls and hopeless pontificates.
No changes needed in my view.
Yes so in effect CarrierIQ is doing just that and it should be (or maybe is) illegal, I think we may be hearing more about this.
So is this a +1 for the iPhone and Apple's need to control their shiz or our they doing the same thing internally? Since CarrierIQ is effectively a key logger doesn't that make it illegal" Are we going to see some legal action here?
Why not just pay Google to do it, the have the infrastructure experience and coding talent.
"Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html
Everything is random.
"The Higgs field is also thought to make a small contribution, giving mass to individual quarks as well as to electrons and some other particles. The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual."
And if it's all virtual who or what is running the simulation? Or maybe it's self generating "I am because I think I am"
"Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that they'd made mistakes."
Translation: "We got caught"
"The settlement is soft on Facebook; there are no fines or criminal penalties."
Translation: "We paid the FTC boss off or our backers are too powerful to screw with"
"Facebook will be audited every two years for the next two decades to make sure they're holding up their end of the settlement."
Translation: "We expect to get bought off every 2 years if you want us to cover for you"
So much tech, so many minds involved in trying to save the World when all we really need to do is admit we circumvented Mothers checks and balances with our medicine and technology and agree that we need World wide population reduction immediately, now, not tomorrow.
Just grow up and admit we are the plague of locust, we are the problem, the 7 billion ignorant, greedy animals sucking the planet dry.
Lets do this for politicians too.
If you think humor or "mirth" is rare or missing in animals you haven't been paying attention, or you're too concerned with your colleges accusations of anthropomorphism.
Primarily dealing with end users, they are ignorant (not stupid most of the time) and feel inadequate, as though they should know how to solve their problems but they don't, an attitude that is about as realistic as being handed an F-14 fighter manual and told you will be flying tomorrow.
What happens when I come into contact with them is they are primed and expecting to feel dumb so they do, and it's some how my fault, God forbid I dumb the explanation down and they "catch on" to that, "I'm not stupid you know" yes yes that's why you're here talking to me.
To be fair my delivery does need work, I am sure something close to sarcasm leaks out on occasion, I just never saw myself as their therapist.
With management, I have to say I don't get management, they seem to be baby sitters and I don't need sitting, I am autonomous and some seem threatened by that.
They have their own set of issues all of which seem to be created to appear they are needed, created out of sheer ignorance (Peter Principal) or just simple minded D-bags that some how got promoted and now you have to deal with them or rather their egos and egos don't make good business/management/IT decisions.
Good observation, now watch over the next 2 years and see how Verizon comes out of this fiasco because I suspect there is a link in this mess somewhere.
Focus (no pun intended) on the quality of the lens before you worry about Megapixels.
The only issue I have with this is who decides what constitutes "terrorism" on the Internet?
Frankly, if Google is going to "apply policy" to Youtube they should be consistent on said policy for all their platforms.
So every church in America is like this?
Of course not, it would depend on where you are, what religion, and who runs the church wouldn't it.
So if you're on Facebook you're only 4.74 degrees from some maniacal jihadist, right-wing Christian extremist or a pedobear...
For traveling in and out of the USA is using UPS or some other shipping a good idea for moving your laptop to your destination?
The same FCC chair that wants to relax media consolidation rules yet again? With the chairman being the very person that profited by the "Rupert Murdoch" fiasco that led to Fox and Vivendi?
"He was Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairperson at IAC/InterActiveCorp and executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. He earned at least $USD2.5 million when Vivendi acquired Universal assets in 2003.[10]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski
I wonder which way this will go *smirk*
Why would anyone be more inclined to lie when it will be documented? You lie when you have plausible deniability, or am I putting to much thought into this?
Depends, what do you mean by privacy? You encrypt communications, that's one level of privacy, the real issue in my mind isn't the phone, it's the service you use.
No matter how you handle the communications there is still the issue of the account being tied to you, you have to pay for it some how and you need an address for the phone to registered to.
Gift cards and prepaid VISA type cards won't work, they either get refused or require some personal information which brings me to the only true privacy I can think of, use another persons account, either by agreement which still ties you to it, steal it, or create a factious account which is more work than you want to get into and doesn't allow you to be "social".
I'm sure all of this is way above what you're looking for so I won't get into facial and voice recognition which brings me back to "Depends, what do you mean by privacy?".
In your case don't use outside services like Google or Facebook, ever, just don't, and get over "The Cloud" which is a euphemism for collected database to be used by everyone else including you.
Sync with your local computer keep the info encrypted on the phone and on the computer, but when it comes down to it you can only control your own data, not the data you share with others, which leaves you with 2 choices.
Get over it or get off The Grid.
I would take the machines even though that may result in a child like state for humans, human nature isn't going to change if we are "augmented" instead it will become amplified.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2520812&cid=38027408
Oh yeah...