Same thing that keeps a gyroscope standing on end - conservation of angular momentum. Once an external force stops pushing one end of a gyroscope (or a colliding body hits Venus but is just about completely absorbed by it), the gyroscope stabilizes - albeit with a bit an precession (as mentioned in an earlier post about the precession of Earth's north pole).
"Gas" tax is already about $1.50 a gallon in the US, so how about no.
Sure the actual Fed fuel tax is only $.18 a gallon, but you are forgetting State fuel tax along with the sales tax, corporate taxes at the local, state and federal level on the gas station, distributer, refiner, tankers, and the people that pull it out of the ground, along with royalties and other fees demanded by the Federal overlords.
They have plenty of money for infrastructure they are just pissing it away on other things.
Perhaps if you said Gas "tax" rather than "Gas" tax, you'd get some sympathy. With current retail prices at the pump recently below $2.00/gallon and even now back above that, your $1.50 is way out of line. Average US gasoline taxes (total of fed, state and local) are about $0.485 per gallon. You're referring to the incremental production cost of producing a retail gallon of gasoline accumulated throughout the supply chain. True of any industry or business, not just the oil industry
Of course, you're forgetting that the net corporate tax most of the large oil companies pay is effectively zero, nor are they saddled with the environmental costs of searching, drilling, producing and transporting petroleum - nor the medical cost associated with air pollution.
Fair's fair - if you want to include all production costs, you need to consider all the costs - both pre- and post-production - which are not borne by the producers. Loss of income due to environmental sickness, cancers and early deaths. Restoration of oxygen-generating forests destroyed by tar sands extraction, of marine ecosystems destroyed by oil spills. The producers do worse than pass those costs onto others - they directly ignore them, and lobby legislatures to grant them immunity from bearing those costs.
If local, state, and federal governments don't collect some kind of transaction tax to fund infrastructure projects to benefit the common good, we'd "all" be living in grass huts and caves. And I say "all" with specific intent: the world population would be nowhere near 7 billion if the concept of collecting a little bit from everyone to pay for projects benefiting all wasn't invented.
Sure - it's nowhere near 100% efficient. There's graft, corruption, theft of public funds. I'm not saying it's without problems. But why don't you propose some other method of funding infrastructure projects which benefit the majority of people. We already know the Gilded Age failed at that.
I was going to say that since all planets (and most moons) with the exception of Uranus have their rotational axis all lined approximately the same way as Earth, that the north pole could be defined as the same as earth: the pole from which the planet seems to be rotating counter-clockwise (or anti-clockwise for you Brits).
But there's a glaring exception to that rule: Venus rotates in the opposite direction - clockwise from its "northern" pole. The leading theory is, like Earth, Venus was struck by a large planetoid early in the solar system's history, but unlike Earth's moon, the planetoid was totally absorbed by Venus, i.e., a direct hit. The angular momentum imparted by the planetoid caused Venus to "flip". The same theory has been proposed for Uranus' sideways orientation as well.
Was the source of this article employed by the estate of your late uncle MNBob, and he's reaching out to you because a fee is needed to release your uncle's estate trust, which he willed to the University College of London expressly so it could fund advanced undersea fiber modulation research? Your hesitancy to fund the estate transaction fees due to the Royal Bank of Lagos is the only thing standing in the way of broaching the divide between today's lackluster Nigerian business inefficiency and tomorrow's untold wealth extraction from the awful Boko Haram. Think of the children!
Now that the FBI is handling my corporate penetration testing for me, how to I contact the NSA to arrange for online backup/restoral and disaster recovery? What better use of federal corporate taxes!;-)
If that someone with a BA had a 3.8 GPA and 10 years experience versus one with the BS and a 2.9 GPA and a couple years on the job - well, hey - that's not close, eh?
Perhaps they're not peers when it comes to compiler design or kernel coding, but that's but a small part of the total sphere of IT. I have a BSEE, but with over 25 years of IT experience, I can hold my own with a lot of BSCS people - especially when it comes to networking and transport, and blow them out of the water when it comes to RF, telecommunications, and wireless networking.
My first server hosted two "virtual" machines - and 8086 and an 8085 sharing a single S-100 bus. Of course, to switch from one "VM" (DOS) to the other (CP/M), you first had to reboot. And make sure you replaced the 360KB DSDD floppy with the DOS boot image with one with a CP/M image. It worked even better when I augmented the original 128KB RAM with an additional 512KB, and the two 360KB drives with two more 1.2MB drives for almost 3MB of online storage! That old Heathkit/zenith Z100 was pretty sweet for its time.
I'm betting someone will reply with a sad tale about context switching on their first home server being interrupted by having their paper tape tear...
My current home media server is about the size of a deck of playing cards and hosts a 6TB RAID array.;-)
Yeah - same here. My WiFi 2012 Nexus 7 still hasn't received the upgrade. Neither has my Verizon 2013 Moto X. Both are on KitKat. The Nexus is rooted, but the Moto X is still stock. I know it's Verizon's fault for not pushing the Moto X upgrade out, but the Nexus 7? That's Google!
So, if they are truly "proxying", then a stingray seen as a client device when relaying to a legitimate wireless company cell tower, so the wireless network doesn't know they're not talking directly to the client - other than possibly seeing some latency introduced. So the only way for the wireless company to know that something is fishy is to compare RF triangulation location data to reported GPS location data and note the discrepancy. Thanks for the link!
Not only that, but I think everyone here is missing a big point: as far as I know, a stingray does not snoop on a phone conversation, since it would need to be connected to a phone company's telephone backhaul network to either a mobile switching office (think older switched telephony) or to a SIP gateway. Rather, a stingray acts as a stand-alone site which your phone inadvertently registers with, but if you attempt a call or send a text message you'll get a failure.
What it does is gather basic info about your phone - ESN & phone number, your carrier, and perhaps GPS coordinates (for E911). It can't snoop on your phone conversations because you can't place a call. Someone more up to date on 3G and 4G wireless networks can elaborate, My info is based on older 1G/2G cellular networks...
Yea the conservatives are becoming extremists. That's why I see chants of "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now", and then a guy drives to NYC and kills 2 cops.
I think you are so delusional its laughable. Its the left that has fomented hatred to the point where murders are actually happening. Its now significantly more dangerous to be a good cop in NYC this week than a month ago solely because of extremists liberals, like... President Obama, Eric Holder, the Mayor of NYC. I don't see John Bohner or Mitch McConnel telling people all cops are racists bastards.
Yeah, stand behind the cowardice of anonymity.
That little chant you're referring to was purposely edited to inflame idiots just like you. Google "fox affiliate Baltimore edit protest video".
Are you really implying that President Obama, Eric Holder, and Bill DiBlasio said that all cops are racists? Put your money where your mouth is and post links to references.
Oh - and did I say "you're an idiot"? Yeah, I did.
TOS was born in the time of Vietnam, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights era of the 1960's. Roddenberry's vision was what mankind (after a devastating WWIII) could achieve after it had had overcome racism, class warfare and sexism. Well, maybe TOS didn't quite get there with sexism, with Kirk having a green girlfriend in every port - but you know what I mean;-)
Perhaps two failed wars in the MidEast, and what used to be known as the Global War On Terror (GWOT), the US Administration has finally realized that a carrot is better than a stick? Now if we can just convince Congress and its Florida faction...
And as every "Apollo Landing Faked" conspiracy theorist knows, people can't survive the radiation of the Van Allen belt. The VAB sensors will report faked data.
For the sarcasm impaired: that's a joke. Or maybe it isn't. Hmmm...
NASA could only do what Congress gave them the money to do. Same could be said with the SSC. The Luddites we kept sending to Congress made sure that the money Congress appropriated for federal spending, federal subsidies, and federal tax relief benefited the "people" who put them there. As in - not us, but - their real financial contributors. Remember - you get the NASA and the Congress that you pay for!
This is basically what happened in Canada. Here's my only problem. Since they are in charge of the last mile, when something goes wrong with the lines, they prioritize based on who is their customer. The only way the other ISPs can communicate with them is via email, and they can't really do too much if the big boys are being slow about fixing the problem. This is why the lines should be taken back, and managed by an impartial third party, who's only job it is to manage the lines, and isn't involved in selling internet service.
The situation here in the US after a similar arrangement was required by the Telecom Act of 1996 was even worse: the incumbent local exchange carriers (who owned the last mile drop) were required to resell access to CLECs, and the trouble resolution system was even worse: they (the ILECs) required trouble tickets on re-sold lines to be submitted via fax, rather than a computerized ticketing system. You can just imagine the nightmares the customers suffering from outages faced. They'd call their ILEC they were (not;-) getting service from, but all the ILEC could do was to submit ticket queries via fax. The ILEC's met the letter of the law, but gave the finger to the spirit of it.
Like Anonymous Coward, yours were my thoughts exactly. Why would one use TCP to stream video? It's one of the tenants of networking that losing packets is preferable to increasing jitter in the video or audio feed. And off the top of my head, I'd say that there hasn't been a widely used connection-based layer 2 protocol since X.25. Hell, that's why Frame Relay and later ATM were invented - to let the transport layer handle error detection (and retransmission if required). Even Ethernet uses just a CRC for forward error correction - if the receiver can't fix errors, the frame is dropped. It's up to the upper layers do actually do anything about it. And let's not get started about a 3% random error distribution in a wireless link - everyone knows that fading causes a whole stream of consecutive packets to be lost, not just an even statistical distribution of them. Stephen Max Patterson at Network World just proved he isn't qualified to write for Network World... And just a nit for you, AK Marc - if someone says UDP is "running over TCP/IP", tell them to put down the router and step away from the rack. They just aren't qualified.
Encryption on a link, however good, looks not like white noise but like "pink" noise - as it isn't truly random. Just as we're getting better at detecting gravity waves, the Higgs field, we'll eventually be able to separate pseudo-random "pink" noise from the cosmic background radiation.
Another problem will be the fact that for the galactic Internet, the current IPv8 standard is running out of addresses, so everyone's hiding private address behind NAT/PAT firewalls. The upside, though, is that even with IPSec encryption, we'd still be able to tell that there's a connection out there since the address headers will still have to be in the clear;-)
Under the current rules, treating the Internet as an "information service" treats it exactly like Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy - virtually all content is presented by the service themselves, rather than relaying information content from providers to consumers. And we all know that the prior is exactly how the Verizons, the AT&Ts, the Comcasts and the TimeWarners of the world want it to be.
The fairest way is to treat the ISP portion of the business as a common carrier - they have to treat "internal customers", like NBC/Universal in TWC's case, exactly the same as they treat external customers, like Netflix. It's fine to charge extra for expedited service handling for real-time data like voice or streaming video - but you have to treat all comers the same - using published tariffs, with allowable discounts based on volume of data and # of endpoints.
But to allow things like Comcast used to do - purposely degrade certain traffic types from certain providers because it competed with their own offerings - that should be illegal.
Net Neutrality is not about treating all traffic equally - realtime data like voice or video telephony and streaming video should always be treated with expedited handling with a minimum of queuing delay and jitter. But similar traffic types need to be treated similarly - else the whole thing falls apart.
That's what any internet engineer familiar with traffic engineering will tell you.
Technically, it was post-DMCA. It was signed into law in 1998 - same year Auerbach graduated. But the lawsuits didn't really begin until Napster hit it big and was sued by Metallica in 2000. AOL wasn't as smart as a bunch of metal-heads, I guess.
At 52 I can tell you it gets much, much worse. I have a BSEE and an MS. I've gone from being a principal network engineer at 38 to taking a career sabbatical at 45 - but continuing to work part-time on various projects. Last year I decided I had enough fun so I'm trying to find work in a different city (my old employer will take me back, but wants me to move back.)
I can't find decent work. I apply for mid-level or even low-level NE roles, and get rejected because they think I'll be too expensive with my experience. I apply for senior roles and they say I don't have the requisite experience. I apply for management roles, and they say I don't have enough management experience (even though I've managed people before). Blatant age discrimination - or they want an H1-B who'll work for peanuts.
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Same thing that keeps a gyroscope standing on end - conservation of angular momentum. Once an external force stops pushing one end of a gyroscope (or a colliding body hits Venus but is just about completely absorbed by it), the gyroscope stabilizes - albeit with a bit an precession (as mentioned in an earlier post about the precession of Earth's north pole).
"Gas" tax is already about $1.50 a gallon in the US, so how about no.
Sure the actual Fed fuel tax is only $.18 a gallon, but you are forgetting State fuel tax along with the sales tax, corporate taxes at the local, state and federal level on the gas station, distributer, refiner, tankers, and the people that pull it out of the ground, along with royalties and other fees demanded by the Federal overlords.
They have plenty of money for infrastructure they are just pissing it away on other things.
Perhaps if you said Gas "tax" rather than "Gas" tax, you'd get some sympathy. With current retail prices at the pump recently below $2.00/gallon and even now back above that, your $1.50 is way out of line. Average US gasoline taxes (total of fed, state and local) are about $0.485 per gallon. You're referring to the incremental production cost of producing a retail gallon of gasoline accumulated throughout the supply chain. True of any industry or business, not just the oil industry
Of course, you're forgetting that the net corporate tax most of the large oil companies pay is effectively zero, nor are they saddled with the environmental costs of searching, drilling, producing and transporting petroleum - nor the medical cost associated with air pollution.
Fair's fair - if you want to include all production costs, you need to consider all the costs - both pre- and post-production - which are not borne by the producers. Loss of income due to environmental sickness, cancers and early deaths. Restoration of oxygen-generating forests destroyed by tar sands extraction, of marine ecosystems destroyed by oil spills. The producers do worse than pass those costs onto others - they directly ignore them, and lobby legislatures to grant them immunity from bearing those costs.
If local, state, and federal governments don't collect some kind of transaction tax to fund infrastructure projects to benefit the common good, we'd "all" be living in grass huts and caves. And I say "all" with specific intent: the world population would be nowhere near 7 billion if the concept of collecting a little bit from everyone to pay for projects benefiting all wasn't invented.
Sure - it's nowhere near 100% efficient. There's graft, corruption, theft of public funds. I'm not saying it's without problems. But why don't you propose some other method of funding infrastructure projects which benefit the majority of people. We already know the Gilded Age failed at that.
Not when the MGM lion roars, but when Katy Perry roars. BH is a closet Katy Perry fan.
I was going to say that since all planets (and most moons) with the exception of Uranus have their rotational axis all lined approximately the same way as Earth, that the north pole could be defined as the same as earth: the pole from which the planet seems to be rotating counter-clockwise (or anti-clockwise for you Brits).
But there's a glaring exception to that rule: Venus rotates in the opposite direction - clockwise from its "northern" pole. The leading theory is, like Earth, Venus was struck by a large planetoid early in the solar system's history, but unlike Earth's moon, the planetoid was totally absorbed by Venus, i.e., a direct hit. The angular momentum imparted by the planetoid caused Venus to "flip". The same theory has been proposed for Uranus' sideways orientation as well.
Was the source of this article employed by the estate of your late uncle MNBob, and he's reaching out to you because a fee is needed to release your uncle's estate trust, which he willed to the University College of London expressly so it could fund advanced undersea fiber modulation research? Your hesitancy to fund the estate transaction fees due to the Royal Bank of Lagos is the only thing standing in the way of broaching the divide between today's lackluster Nigerian business inefficiency and tomorrow's untold wealth extraction from the awful Boko Haram. Think of the children!
Now that the FBI is handling my corporate penetration testing for me, how to I contact the NSA to arrange for online backup/restoral and disaster recovery? What better use of federal corporate taxes! ;-)
If that someone with a BA had a 3.8 GPA and 10 years experience versus one with the BS and a 2.9 GPA and a couple years on the job - well, hey - that's not close, eh?
Perhaps they're not peers when it comes to compiler design or kernel coding, but that's but a small part of the total sphere of IT. I have a BSEE, but with over 25 years of IT experience, I can hold my own with a lot of BSCS people - especially when it comes to networking and transport, and blow them out of the water when it comes to RF, telecommunications, and wireless networking.
My first server hosted two "virtual" machines - and 8086 and an 8085 sharing a single S-100 bus. Of course, to switch from one "VM" (DOS) to the other (CP/M), you first had to reboot. And make sure you replaced the 360KB DSDD floppy with the DOS boot image with one with a CP/M image. It worked even better when I augmented the original 128KB RAM with an additional 512KB, and the two 360KB drives with two more 1.2MB drives for almost 3MB of online storage! That old Heathkit/zenith Z100 was pretty sweet for its time.
;-)
I'm betting someone will reply with a sad tale about context switching on their first home server being interrupted by having their paper tape tear...
My current home media server is about the size of a deck of playing cards and hosts a 6TB RAID array.
I'm still on 2.3 (Gingerbread I think). Zero upgrades for my Motorola Defy+ despite them being owned by Lenovo now.
There. FTFY.
Yeah - same here. My WiFi 2012 Nexus 7 still hasn't received the upgrade. Neither has my Verizon 2013 Moto X. Both are on KitKat. The Nexus is rooted, but the Moto X is still stock. I know it's Verizon's fault for not pushing the Moto X upgrade out, but the Nexus 7? That's Google!
So, if they are truly "proxying", then a stingray seen as a client device when relaying to a legitimate wireless company cell tower, so the wireless network doesn't know they're not talking directly to the client - other than possibly seeing some latency introduced. So the only way for the wireless company to know that something is fishy is to compare RF triangulation location data to reported GPS location data and note the discrepancy. Thanks for the link!
Not only that, but I think everyone here is missing a big point : as far as I know, a stingray does not snoop on a phone conversation, since it would need to be connected to a phone company's telephone backhaul network to either a mobile switching office (think older switched telephony) or to a SIP gateway. Rather, a stingray acts as a stand-alone site which your phone inadvertently registers with, but if you attempt a call or send a text message you'll get a failure.
What it does is gather basic info about your phone - ESN & phone number, your carrier, and perhaps GPS coordinates (for E911). It can't snoop on your phone conversations because you can't place a call. Someone more up to date on 3G and 4G wireless networks can elaborate, My info is based on older 1G/2G cellular networks...
Yea the conservatives are becoming extremists. That's why I see chants of "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now", and then a guy drives to NYC and kills 2 cops.
I think you are so delusional its laughable. Its the left that has fomented hatred to the point where murders are actually happening. Its now significantly more dangerous to be a good cop in NYC this week than a month ago solely because of extremists liberals, like... President Obama, Eric Holder, the Mayor of NYC. I don't see John Bohner or Mitch McConnel telling people all cops are racists bastards.
Yeah, stand behind the cowardice of anonymity.
That little chant you're referring to was purposely edited to inflame idiots just like you. Google "fox affiliate Baltimore edit protest video".
Are you really implying that President Obama, Eric Holder, and Bill DiBlasio said that all cops are racists? Put your money where your mouth is and post links to references.
Oh - and did I say "you're an idiot"? Yeah, I did.
TOS was born in the time of Vietnam, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights era of the 1960's. Roddenberry's vision was what mankind (after a devastating WWIII) could achieve after it had had overcome racism, class warfare and sexism. Well, maybe TOS didn't quite get there with sexism, with Kirk having a green girlfriend in every port - but you know what I mean ;-)
I was going to offer Switzerland, but since they copped to the US about secret bank accounts, that wouldn't work. ;-)
Perhaps two failed wars in the MidEast, and what used to be known as the Global War On Terror (GWOT), the US Administration has finally realized that a carrot is better than a stick? Now if we can just convince Congress and its Florida faction...
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Good point. Now be a dear and go sanitize my telephone...
For the sarcasm impaired: that's a joke. Or maybe it isn't. Hmmm...
NASA could only do what Congress gave them the money to do. Same could be said with the SSC. The Luddites we kept sending to Congress made sure that the money Congress appropriated for federal spending, federal subsidies, and federal tax relief benefited the "people" who put them there. As in - not us, but - their real financial contributors. Remember - you get the NASA and the Congress that you pay for!
This is basically what happened in Canada. Here's my only problem. Since they are in charge of the last mile, when something goes wrong with the lines, they prioritize based on who is their customer. The only way the other ISPs can communicate with them is via email , and they can't really do too much if the big boys are being slow about fixing the problem. This is why the lines should be taken back, and managed by an impartial third party, who's only job it is to manage the lines, and isn't involved in selling internet service.
The situation here in the US after a similar arrangement was required by the Telecom Act of 1996 was even worse: the incumbent local exchange carriers (who owned the last mile drop) were required to resell access to CLECs, and the trouble resolution system was even worse: they (the ILECs) required trouble tickets on re-sold lines to be submitted via fax, rather than a computerized ticketing system . You can just imagine the nightmares the customers suffering from outages faced. They'd call their ILEC they were (not ;-) getting service from, but all the ILEC could do was to submit ticket queries via fax. The ILEC's met the letter of the law, but gave the finger to the spirit of it.
Like Anonymous Coward, yours were my thoughts exactly. Why would one use TCP to stream video? It's one of the tenants of networking that losing packets is preferable to increasing jitter in the video or audio feed. And off the top of my head, I'd say that there hasn't been a widely used connection-based layer 2 protocol since X.25. Hell, that's why Frame Relay and later ATM were invented - to let the transport layer handle error detection (and retransmission if required). Even Ethernet uses just a CRC for forward error correction - if the receiver can't fix errors, the frame is dropped. It's up to the upper layers do actually do anything about it. And let's not get started about a 3% random error distribution in a wireless link - everyone knows that fading causes a whole stream of consecutive packets to be lost, not just an even statistical distribution of them. Stephen Max Patterson at Network World just proved he isn't qualified to write for Network World... And just a nit for you, AK Marc - if someone says UDP is "running over TCP/IP", tell them to put down the router and step away from the rack. They just aren't qualified.
Encryption on a link, however good, looks not like white noise but like "pink" noise - as it isn't truly random. Just as we're getting better at detecting gravity waves, the Higgs field, we'll eventually be able to separate pseudo-random "pink" noise from the cosmic background radiation. Another problem will be the fact that for the galactic Internet, the current IPv8 standard is running out of addresses, so everyone's hiding private address behind NAT/PAT firewalls. The upside, though, is that even with IPSec encryption, we'd still be able to tell that there's a connection out there since the address headers will still have to be in the clear ;-)
Under the current rules, treating the Internet as an "information service" treats it exactly like Compuserve, AOL and Prodigy - virtually all content is presented by the service themselves, rather than relaying information content from providers to consumers. And we all know that the prior is exactly how the Verizons, the AT&Ts, the Comcasts and the TimeWarners of the world want it to be. The fairest way is to treat the ISP portion of the business as a common carrier - they have to treat "internal customers", like NBC/Universal in TWC's case, exactly the same as they treat external customers, like Netflix. It's fine to charge extra for expedited service handling for real-time data like voice or streaming video - but you have to treat all comers the same - using published tariffs, with allowable discounts based on volume of data and # of endpoints. But to allow things like Comcast used to do - purposely degrade certain traffic types from certain providers because it competed with their own offerings - that should be illegal. Net Neutrality is not about treating all traffic equally - realtime data like voice or video telephony and streaming video should always be treated with expedited handling with a minimum of queuing delay and jitter. But similar traffic types need to be treated similarly - else the whole thing falls apart. That's what any internet engineer familiar with traffic engineering will tell you.
Technically, it was post-DMCA. It was signed into law in 1998 - same year Auerbach graduated. But the lawsuits didn't really begin until Napster hit it big and was sued by Metallica in 2000. AOL wasn't as smart as a bunch of metal-heads, I guess.
At 52 I can tell you it gets much, much worse. I have a BSEE and an MS. I've gone from being a principal network engineer at 38 to taking a career sabbatical at 45 - but continuing to work part-time on various projects. Last year I decided I had enough fun so I'm trying to find work in a different city (my old employer will take me back, but wants me to move back.) I can't find decent work. I apply for mid-level or even low-level NE roles, and get rejected because they think I'll be too expensive with my experience. I apply for senior roles and they say I don't have the requisite experience. I apply for management roles, and they say I don't have enough management experience (even though I've managed people before). Blatant age discrimination - or they want an H1-B who'll work for peanuts.