That's most likely because they're shaping your traffic to the video servers. They could easily offer you 10Gbps, if they shape every connection to 100kbps, you'll only get ~1Mbps of useful max out of your connection
Because once we define a standard, it's supposed to be set for the rest of time. You can't just "change" a standard. As with what the FCC is doing now, they're simply changing a "law" which is a hell of a lot easier to change than a standard and there is a hell of a lot of kickbacks from these providers to keep the status quo.
Also, once you have defined it, just as with current providers, the provider will just go with the lowest tier possible and call it broadband.
If anything, broadband should be defined at least 50Mbps these days, 10Mbps was broadband and around well over 10 years ago. It should keep track with storage increases - double every 12-14 months
That is already the case though. My coworker's flight was delayed and caused her to miss the last leg of the flight, they were supposed to arrange 'alternative transportation' from there on but since there weren't enough passengers at that point to fill a bus, they simply left them all with a meal voucher. She had to purchase a 2 hour cab ride to get to her destination.
She asked the airline for compensation, they claimed the ticket to her last leg of the flight was void because the initial flight got delayed (even though it was the same company). They offered her a voucher for the cost of the last leg of the flight, then after a lot of complaining, they kept giving her more vouchers.
She sued in small claims and got her transportation back + 4x the full cost of the ticket per FAA guidelines although their attorney (which they had to fly from TX to NY) claimed the FAA guidelines only applied to the last leg of the flight and didn't apply at that point because the initial flight was delayed. But who wants to go through the hassle of small claims? How many of the other passengers simply left with a worthless voucher?
If you're using MSAccess for that complex of a job, you're doing it wrong. Once SSN's and presumably HIPAA or otherwise private, protected data become involved, MSAccess or any home grown solution is the wrong solution, if not because it doesn't HAVE data protection, because it WILL eat up your database (once it grows beyond the 2GB data limit or has 2 people accessing the file at the same time)
Use a proper database on a properly managed server with properly managed controls. I'd say use FileMaker Server or MSSQL if you need an MS-centric system (Access/Excel DO allow you to use MSSQL data). But you should probably have a real developer look at it.
What particular about Access do you need that doesn't have it's like in the OS world?
If you need a single-instance, single-writer database, SQLite is your friend and there are a handful of GUI's. You've heard of Kexi and MariaDB and OpenOffice, so what exactly is it missing that MS Access has?
That's a $1000/camera before IT costs, that seems a tad excessive although it's well within range of any government program. You can get fully functional camcorders for $100.
Everything we build to blow shit up is a drain on the economy - there is no added value.
Spend a million dollars on a bridge to nowhere is more valuable than weaponry, it keeps the jobs local even if it doesn't add value. At least the bridge won't be used against anyone.
But regardless, kill switches are a dumb idea if your life depends on it. Given the current state of software development in government/large enterprise projects like this, it will have been hacked before it even gets deployed.
And even so, a bomb/rocket is still valuable even if the ignition is busted; ignitions are easy and any random DIY with a month of free time can build a very accurate delivery system; the nazis had it figured out 75 years ago.
The reason they're stagnant is because there is only one brand worth buying them from is Tesla.
Toyota/Honda has a decent lineup in the upper range with their plugin hybrids but if I'm going to plunk down 50k, it might as well be a Tesla or I can get a gas powered car with identical economy for half that price from better brands.
Perhaps one of the Germans will start entering the market with a better option but the Chevy Volt is crap, Ford and Fiat publicly state they rather don't do it, Fisker was legislated out of business, the rest of them are simply putting in a model because they have to and it shows; it's the same frame as a gas powered car with some batteries slapped into it.
The blame lies not with FB but with providers artificially limiting how much data your device can consume on a technically irrelevant time scale for profit.
1G of data is enough for ~1 hour of streaming video. So that means that you can easily burn through your allotment in a day or two for regular usage.
It's not like they can't provide you with the bandwidth, the bandwidth is not what's being measured after all. And they all collude with each other to provide the same crappy service.
You are confusing Microsoft Messenger with MSN Messenger. Both were services automatically installed and enabled when you installed Windows and needed to be turned off in the same location. MSN Messenger would keep popping up with login credentials even if you didn't have/needed it.
Soon enough these streaming game services will be sending entire binaries to run on the client in order to render something quicker. First it will be the background binary, then pre-send all the textures. Soon enough the entire game will be running on the client.
What is the big idea around streaming games? You'll have to send a 1080p stream for ~60m and it will generate about 500MB of data. An average game will take you 10h to complete so that is 5GB of data. The average game in my Steam library is about 1GB, some are 10 or 15GB but those are the biggest and hopefully will give me a lot more enjoyment than 10h.
Just send/rent me out the game and install it locally. No need to stream it and invoke 200ms response times.
All crime has decreased since the '90s. Car thefts still occur regardless of anti-theft features. Some thieves will even present as 'licensed' tow truck operators, removing an illegally parked car.
The reason car thefts are prevalent is not for the car, it's for the car parts. The same is happening for these devices. Regardless of kill switch, the display still works, the buttons still work, the battery still works. Take the thing apart and sell it for parts in your local mall 'iPhone repair shoppe'
Anyone with any experience in IED's will tell you that you don't just disconnect/disable the trigger device. With smartphones it's even worse as you don't know whether a communication channel is being used (regular cell phones only have 1 connection which is already under "state" control, a smartphone may have 2 or 3 ways of communicating, at least 1 of which is relatively unlicensed).
There is no reason beyond theft prevention that requires a kill switch. And that is already available, implemented by many companies and up to the consumer to use. Some companies outside the US even have blacklists of stolen devices.
The industry has already solved that problem. It has a big red "stop" button and a big green "start" button. Depending on the industry it might also have a big red stop button in multiple locations and a covered and sealed panic button. The stop button stops the process safely, the panic button stops the process abruptly in case of immediate danger to life but may also cause severe damage and present other dangers.
Besides a start and a stop and a panic button, I don't think it requires much more. Even physical brake systems these days are powered and you need substantially more force when it's not powered (and many drivers don't know how to stop their cars when they lose power braking and power steering)
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
Why not? The whole proof beyond reasonable doubt comes into play here (criminal charges). If the prosecution can't prove anything, he walks. If he used TOR in order to hide suspected illegal activities, then they'll have to prove that, using TOR in itself is not a criminal activity.
AppleTV is alive and well. It's a piece of hardware like the Roku. As far as digital receivers go, AppleTV is the largest segment in the market and at 56% market share it's eclipsing all of it's competitors (Roku, Boxee, ChromeCast). The reason is simple, it offers everything I need and more and is truly plug and play (unlike either Boxee or Chrome) and doesn't nickel-and-dime the customer for channels like Roku does.
Apple never got into streaming movies/TV shows due to licensing costs. Netflix came way before Apple started doing movies on iTunes and Apple is happy to provide the device Netflix runs on.
Win.ini could only offer things if the core was already exposed in config.sys and autoexec.bat; 32-bit drivers could not be loaded by Windows and it was pointless to load drivers for windows only as it was easier and more stable to targe DOS.
win3.11 didn't have it's own drivers besides netbeui and other windows crapola but it required a tcpip and network drivers to be loaded in DOS.
Win95 did also have win.ini but already had 16 bit driver support and a registry. However most things still had to be loaded in DOS. This didn't change for desktop systems until windows XP. So when it came out there was no driver support for anything.
The Linux kernel does have a relatively stable API for drivers, I wrote a USB driver for kernel 2.2 which still works for 2.6. Most drivers do not change, there are several in source that work and haven't changed in a decade. Even old nVidia drivers work with current kernels. If you want a binary driver, you may have to write your own shim but that's trivial if you're really bent on protecting your imaginary property.
Some things change but these days all of the common stuff is stable. Sometimes stuff had to be fixed to conform to standards, that happens in windows too although windows rather breaks the standard to support legacy and expects everyone to follow a broken design.
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That's most likely because they're shaping your traffic to the video servers. They could easily offer you 10Gbps, if they shape every connection to 100kbps, you'll only get ~1Mbps of useful max out of your connection
Because once we define a standard, it's supposed to be set for the rest of time. You can't just "change" a standard. As with what the FCC is doing now, they're simply changing a "law" which is a hell of a lot easier to change than a standard and there is a hell of a lot of kickbacks from these providers to keep the status quo.
Also, once you have defined it, just as with current providers, the provider will just go with the lowest tier possible and call it broadband.
If anything, broadband should be defined at least 50Mbps these days, 10Mbps was broadband and around well over 10 years ago. It should keep track with storage increases - double every 12-14 months
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A LOT of (embedded) appliances. VxWorks, Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, Check Point, NetApp...
That is already the case though. My coworker's flight was delayed and caused her to miss the last leg of the flight, they were supposed to arrange 'alternative transportation' from there on but since there weren't enough passengers at that point to fill a bus, they simply left them all with a meal voucher. She had to purchase a 2 hour cab ride to get to her destination.
She asked the airline for compensation, they claimed the ticket to her last leg of the flight was void because the initial flight got delayed (even though it was the same company). They offered her a voucher for the cost of the last leg of the flight, then after a lot of complaining, they kept giving her more vouchers.
She sued in small claims and got her transportation back + 4x the full cost of the ticket per FAA guidelines although their attorney (which they had to fly from TX to NY) claimed the FAA guidelines only applied to the last leg of the flight and didn't apply at that point because the initial flight was delayed. But who wants to go through the hassle of small claims? How many of the other passengers simply left with a worthless voucher?
If you're using MSAccess for that complex of a job, you're doing it wrong. Once SSN's and presumably HIPAA or otherwise private, protected data become involved, MSAccess or any home grown solution is the wrong solution, if not because it doesn't HAVE data protection, because it WILL eat up your database (once it grows beyond the 2GB data limit or has 2 people accessing the file at the same time)
Use a proper database on a properly managed server with properly managed controls. I'd say use FileMaker Server or MSSQL if you need an MS-centric system (Access/Excel DO allow you to use MSSQL data). But you should probably have a real developer look at it.
What particular about Access do you need that doesn't have it's like in the OS world?
If you need a single-instance, single-writer database, SQLite is your friend and there are a handful of GUI's. You've heard of Kexi and MariaDB and OpenOffice, so what exactly is it missing that MS Access has?
That's a $1000/camera before IT costs, that seems a tad excessive although it's well within range of any government program. You can get fully functional camcorders for $100.
Man, I hope some time a mushroom will break down toxins into world peace or at least peace in the Middle East.
Everything we build to blow shit up is a drain on the economy - there is no added value.
Spend a million dollars on a bridge to nowhere is more valuable than weaponry, it keeps the jobs local even if it doesn't add value. At least the bridge won't be used against anyone.
But regardless, kill switches are a dumb idea if your life depends on it. Given the current state of software development in government/large enterprise projects like this, it will have been hacked before it even gets deployed.
And even so, a bomb/rocket is still valuable even if the ignition is busted; ignitions are easy and any random DIY with a month of free time can build a very accurate delivery system; the nazis had it figured out 75 years ago.
The reason they're stagnant is because there is only one brand worth buying them from is Tesla.
Toyota/Honda has a decent lineup in the upper range with their plugin hybrids but if I'm going to plunk down 50k, it might as well be a Tesla or I can get a gas powered car with identical economy for half that price from better brands.
Perhaps one of the Germans will start entering the market with a better option but the Chevy Volt is crap, Ford and Fiat publicly state they rather don't do it, Fisker was legislated out of business, the rest of them are simply putting in a model because they have to and it shows; it's the same frame as a gas powered car with some batteries slapped into it.
The blame lies not with FB but with providers artificially limiting how much data your device can consume on a technically irrelevant time scale for profit.
1G of data is enough for ~1 hour of streaming video. So that means that you can easily burn through your allotment in a day or two for regular usage.
It's not like they can't provide you with the bandwidth, the bandwidth is not what's being measured after all. And they all collude with each other to provide the same crappy service.
You are confusing Microsoft Messenger with MSN Messenger. Both were services automatically installed and enabled when you installed Windows and needed to be turned off in the same location. MSN Messenger would keep popping up with login credentials even if you didn't have/needed it.
But you waving vs. a cop waving is a big difference. Otherwise it would be a very effective DoS.
It IS a scam. She collected $150k to make ~10 vlogs. Not high-production-value videos. 10 ranting videos you can find on any random vlogging site.
Soon enough these streaming game services will be sending entire binaries to run on the client in order to render something quicker. First it will be the background binary, then pre-send all the textures. Soon enough the entire game will be running on the client.
What is the big idea around streaming games? You'll have to send a 1080p stream for ~60m and it will generate about 500MB of data. An average game will take you 10h to complete so that is 5GB of data. The average game in my Steam library is about 1GB, some are 10 or 15GB but those are the biggest and hopefully will give me a lot more enjoyment than 10h.
Just send/rent me out the game and install it locally. No need to stream it and invoke 200ms response times.
All crime has decreased since the '90s. Car thefts still occur regardless of anti-theft features. Some thieves will even present as 'licensed' tow truck operators, removing an illegally parked car.
The reason car thefts are prevalent is not for the car, it's for the car parts. The same is happening for these devices. Regardless of kill switch, the display still works, the buttons still work, the battery still works. Take the thing apart and sell it for parts in your local mall 'iPhone repair shoppe'
Anyone with any experience in IED's will tell you that you don't just disconnect/disable the trigger device. With smartphones it's even worse as you don't know whether a communication channel is being used (regular cell phones only have 1 connection which is already under "state" control, a smartphone may have 2 or 3 ways of communicating, at least 1 of which is relatively unlicensed).
There is no reason beyond theft prevention that requires a kill switch. And that is already available, implemented by many companies and up to the consumer to use. Some companies outside the US even have blacklists of stolen devices.
The industry has already solved that problem. It has a big red "stop" button and a big green "start" button. Depending on the industry it might also have a big red stop button in multiple locations and a covered and sealed panic button. The stop button stops the process safely, the panic button stops the process abruptly in case of immediate danger to life but may also cause severe damage and present other dangers.
Besides a start and a stop and a panic button, I don't think it requires much more. Even physical brake systems these days are powered and you need substantially more force when it's not powered (and many drivers don't know how to stop their cars when they lose power braking and power steering)
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
Yes, but if they're using illegal searches and wiretaps, they'll have to reveal it in court... and may not be admissible as evidence.
Why not? The whole proof beyond reasonable doubt comes into play here (criminal charges). If the prosecution can't prove anything, he walks. If he used TOR in order to hide suspected illegal activities, then they'll have to prove that, using TOR in itself is not a criminal activity.
AppleTV is alive and well. It's a piece of hardware like the Roku. As far as digital receivers go, AppleTV is the largest segment in the market and at 56% market share it's eclipsing all of it's competitors (Roku, Boxee, ChromeCast). The reason is simple, it offers everything I need and more and is truly plug and play (unlike either Boxee or Chrome) and doesn't nickel-and-dime the customer for channels like Roku does.
Apple never got into streaming movies/TV shows due to licensing costs. Netflix came way before Apple started doing movies on iTunes and Apple is happy to provide the device Netflix runs on.
Win.ini could only offer things if the core was already exposed in config.sys and autoexec.bat; 32-bit drivers could not be loaded by Windows and it was pointless to load drivers for windows only as it was easier and more stable to targe DOS.
win3.11 didn't have it's own drivers besides netbeui and other windows crapola but it required a tcpip and network drivers to be loaded in DOS.
Win95 did also have win.ini but already had 16 bit driver support and a registry. However most things still had to be loaded in DOS. This didn't change for desktop systems until windows XP. So when it came out there was no driver support for anything.
The Linux kernel does have a relatively stable API for drivers, I wrote a USB driver for kernel 2.2 which still works for 2.6. Most drivers do not change, there are several in source that work and haven't changed in a decade. Even old nVidia drivers work with current kernels. If you want a binary driver, you may have to write your own shim but that's trivial if you're really bent on protecting your imaginary property.
Some things change but these days all of the common stuff is stable. Sometimes stuff had to be fixed to conform to standards, that happens in windows too although windows rather breaks the standard to support legacy and expects everyone to follow a broken design.