Note that, as per TFA, all Continuity customers "will be able to use GMC for the duration of their contract." Google is providing its enterprise customers exactly the amount of service permanence that it promised and that its customers agreed to when they signed those contracts.
I've been using VpnPop.com's OpenVPN service for about 6 months now. A good distribution of endpoints, very fast bandwidth, and low prices. Right now I'm registered for the 0.5 Mb/s full-duplex at $3-some a month, but I'm often able to get speeds of up to around 2MB/s (yes, B).
Besides the questionable decision regarding the severity of a 6 foot fall, the flaw here seems to be the order in which the conditions were evaluated when determining which category should be assigned. It sounds like when they made the modification, they introduced a bug where a 6+ foot fall would force the call into category B, ignoring other serious condition entries that should have forced it into category A by themselves.
Blocking illegal activities and blocking specific protocols because they tend to use up more bandwidth than the ISPs like are two totally different things, don't confuse the issue.
(IANAL) It seems completely obvious to me that prohibitions to selling below cost do not apply to free software. Ignoring the whole "software is not an actual good" argument, charities and other "freebie" programs offer things below cost all the time. Even calling these cases "sales" is dubious, and the same distinction should hold for F/OSS. A law designed to prevent anti-competition by banning loss-leaders and the like should only apply to an entity that can compete! Charging for service or distribution is another matter entirely.
Besides, although the R&D cost of software may be high, the marginal cost of production (the cost to produce one more unit) is essentially zero. It is hard to sell something for less than zero.
I saw your little substitution during my fist read-through, in fact it was quite obvious. However, that is completely beside the point. Whether someone notices a one-letter substitution in a long block of text (where there is no reason to expect a substitution nor anything to gain by doing it) is entirely different from someone noticing a substitution in their bank's URL. Taking the time to carefully double-check the URL before typing in sensitive information is certainly reasonable. Examining the site's certificate would be even better, but would also be beyond most people.
Re a) There may be many different kinds of cell phones, but they are much more accessible than a Linux distro. First off, they are a LOT easier to get a feel for as they are much less complex. They also come with a salesperson. Looking at a cell phone takes a lot less time than installing and trying a distro.
Re b) The problem is not so much that there are many different programs, it is that each program tends to be very specialized. While this gives better quality, it can be confusing.
Re c) While there are some non-technical distros out there now, the general perception is that Linux is technical. And a perception is unfortunately more powerful than fact.
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Note that, as per TFA, all Continuity customers "will be able to use GMC for the duration of their contract." Google is providing its enterprise customers exactly the amount of service permanence that it promised and that its customers agreed to when they signed those contracts.
I've been using VpnPop.com's OpenVPN service for about 6 months now. A good distribution of endpoints, very fast bandwidth, and low prices. Right now I'm registered for the 0.5 Mb/s full-duplex at $3-some a month, but I'm often able to get speeds of up to around 2MB/s (yes, B).
This will be really cool in a week or so when the servers recover from having 10 gigapixel images slash-dotted...
So one square meter isn't a square with 1 meter sides?
It is, but two square meters is not a square with 2 meter sides. :)
it makes much better sense to have ALL software updated through one repository which, obviously, has to be microsoft
Yes of course - why waste time finding exploits in individual update services when it's so much easier to just go ahead and infect everything at once.
Besides the questionable decision regarding the severity of a 6 foot fall, the flaw here seems to be the order in which the conditions were evaluated when determining which category should be assigned. It sounds like when they made the modification, they introduced a bug where a 6+ foot fall would force the call into category B, ignoring other serious condition entries that should have forced it into category A by themselves.
Blocking illegal activities and blocking specific protocols because they tend to use up more bandwidth than the ISPs like are two totally different things, don't confuse the issue.
Open Identification Identifier, the OpenID ID. It doesn't quite repeat itself.
(IANAL) It seems completely obvious to me that prohibitions to selling below cost do not apply to free software. Ignoring the whole "software is not an actual good" argument, charities and other "freebie" programs offer things below cost all the time. Even calling these cases "sales" is dubious, and the same distinction should hold for F/OSS. A law designed to prevent anti-competition by banning loss-leaders and the like should only apply to an entity that can compete! Charging for service or distribution is another matter entirely.
Besides, although the R&D cost of software may be high, the marginal cost of production (the cost to produce one more unit) is essentially zero. It is hard to sell something for less than zero.
I saw your little substitution during my fist read-through, in fact it was quite obvious. However, that is completely beside the point. Whether someone notices a one-letter substitution in a long block of text (where there is no reason to expect a substitution nor anything to gain by doing it) is entirely different from someone noticing a substitution in their bank's URL. Taking the time to carefully double-check the URL before typing in sensitive information is certainly reasonable. Examining the site's certificate would be even better, but would also be beyond most people.
Not that I don't love Linux, but...
Re a) There may be many different kinds of cell phones, but they are much more accessible than a Linux distro. First off, they are a LOT easier to get a feel for as they are much less complex. They also come with a salesperson. Looking at a cell phone takes a lot less time than installing and trying a distro.
Re b) The problem is not so much that there are many different programs, it is that each program tends to be very specialized. While this gives better quality, it can be confusing.
Re c) While there are some non-technical distros out there now, the general perception is that Linux is technical. And a perception is unfortunately more powerful than fact.