At the ISP level, yes. Net Neutrality can only work if no traffic shaping is allowed; the instant an ISP is allowed to use QOS as an excuse to throttle traffic (to make more bandwidth for *important* stuff), you can bet that Netflix video streaming will be considered way less important than access to (insert major corporation name here>'s customer portal website. Don't even ask me how traffic from the.GOV domain will be prioritized, that comes later. For now..NET and.ORG will suffer first - because no self-respecting business entity has anything but.COM addresses, right?
Sorry you lost access to everything in the.CA domain - but really, you don't need to buy 222's at a Canadian pharmacy. You should surf out to AmericanDrugStore.com for all your medical needs, so that's priority traffic.
QoS isn't just about ports - it's about content. Gamers want QoS so that their games play seamlessly and that shouldn't present a problem. But . . . when Ford Motor Company can demonstrate more "relevance" than the Tesla Electric Car company, the ISP's will certainly use QoS to ensure that Ford's (obviously more important) traffic is prioritized with competitors either stuck in the slow lane or outright run off the road.
Yeah, there's plenty we don't fuck up - we don't fuck up the shit the Democrats have already fucked up. We let the Democrats keep screwing up their shit while we Republicans screw up different shit. That's why we have a two-party system - and when both parties decide to fuck with the same thing, it's glorious.
Tastycrats and Fingerlicans alike seek to maximize their popularity (voting numbers) by selecting the side of any given issue which most appeals to their voter base. In most cases, this results in diametrically opposed highly polarized conditions with each party going to the extreme and laboring to show how it is different (and superior) to the other party. In the final analysis, I don't believe the Democrats care one jot or tittle for Net Neutrality; but if the Republicans are against it, the Democrats will defend it (or it could be vice versa - I can never keep one batch of lunatics separate from another, we should just lock 'em all away in Bedlam).
Wait'll the balance of power shifts again. The U.S. political landscape is about as stable as my Aunt Ethel's spastic colon - by design.
I am Joe Sixpack and I've never been able to afford a brand-new car in my life. In fact, I only know a few people who have ever even owned a new car. Used cars in excellent condition, sure. New cars? Yeah, someday when I'm rich and famous.
The systems on my Ford Fiesta aren't nearly as sophisticated as those on your Jaguar XJ-7, but I need to get across town as rapidly as you. If I don't have a manual override I guess I'm stuck with my crappy old Ford and its limited navigational abilities . . . *or* I could override those abilities and drive her myself. Shouldn't take but a wire snipped here and there . . . wish the government hadn't made me surrender my old gasoline-powered manually-driven automobile, at least that thing I could keep running by myself. Now I suppose I'm just part of the 95%.
There's way more at stake here than safety and technology. And there will always be guys like me actively looking for ways to defeat it. I don't even care if you think I'm sinner or saint for it. Screw your rights - if I want to drive my own vehicle, I'm going to. I'm not interested in letting some socialized nanny-state tell me I can no longer do the things which our forefathers busted their humps to make sure I could do. If the automated systems can't handle that, I win and the rest of you (society) lose. Y'know, sounds good to me!
Like back in the seventies - L.A.P.D. got a fleet of fifty brand new vehicles, I forget which model of Ford they were. First cop to catch a speeder in one of the new souped up cruisers stomps the gas, accelerates almost instantly to the vehicles maximum governed speed of 55mph, and watches his quota for the month go bye-bye. But the officer was safe at all times, the vehicle prevented him from placing himself in unnecessary danger by enforcing his compliance with the very laws he was supposed to be enforcing. That's good, right?
The only secure computing system is one which has had all power and I/O removed - oh, and storage wiped to prevent unauthorized access. Anything short of that and eventually Anonymous will be doing the driving. Now, if some form of organic computer could be devised, one with robust self-maintenance and internalized power management. Maybe something that can handle video and audio inputs, perhaps even other inputs I haven't named yet. A computer so sophisticated that it's still impossible to accurately measure the total computing power of the platform, a computer capable of participating in the construction of its successor system(s). Yeah, that's the computer for me!
Never mind that you're saying you nearly avoided collisions four times (got your fenders straightened out yet?), but if you've made the same (to my mind, young driver's) mistake four times in recent memory, perhaps you need to turn off the radio, put down the fast food, stop playing with your phone and pay attention to what you're doing. I'm sorry that some quantity of silicone is required to bring your driving skills up to par; how is that going to happen if you're constantly relying upon technology is beyond me - and don't insist that I use the same crutch so that your crutch will work better. I don't happen to fancy what'll happen when people start driving their cars Anonymously; talk about open sores! Never mind the Minority Report thing about having my car collect me up for the dread Secret Police, what about that guy at the end of the block who gets off watching traffic accidents which always seem to happen near that radio transponder he buried in the front yard?
After all, Google Glass (T) used to be a staple of all the spy shows back in the (nineteen) sixties. Some of the sci-fi of the day as well. Regardless, an eyeglasses mounted interface with HUD seems pretty obvious to me. They might get away with patenting the particulars, but from what I can tell the folks at ChipSip are doing something different at the implementation level.
And - yeah - I'm pretty sure Google is already well down the path to the next version of Glass, which may be a match for ChipSip's product. I'm a lot less sure that Google would want the negative publicity a high-profile lawsuit might bring were they to sue. After all, their name alone guarantees them both incredibly broad exposure and buzz on the street when they market their product; they may well consider it to be to their advantage to permit or even encourage competition in this arena. Let us remember that (so far) this is happening within the Android ecosystem, not MicroSoft or Apple Computers. Google has a vested stake there, and so may be fairly selective about using the patent weapon in court.
That leaves . . . Antarctica, Luna and Mars, right? Or were you planning to trust the Russians/Chinese/Pakistanis/Tanzians/Aborigines to design, prototype, test, manufacture and market your solution. May I recommend Elbonia?
So what do you do when the grim-looking man with the black robe and no sense of humor orders that no such measures be employed on your website (i.e., don't kill the canary)? Go to jail just as if you'd refused to comply with the MIB, or give the world a false sense of security not by saying nothing about government oversight but by actively keeping the indicator (HTML tag?) in place. Your call
Oh, incidentally - CONTROL has agents ready to take over the administration and operation of your website should you prove uncooperative. Max and Hieme will see to it that the canary tags stay right where they belong, while the nice people with Federal Corrections see to it that you stay right where you belong.
That's what I am. I use my cellular phone in an unencrypted way to communicate over our nation's monitored cellular and telephone networks. I talk about drugs, hookers, fast cars . . . football, beer, our government's successes and failures . . . smuggling, work, stuff I read in the Anarchists Cookbook, the latest game on Google Play . . . I'm white noise.
Incidentally, the secret police haven't visited my hoa jlk -]=6y\ 9 90u[5y-gfdl;n;vzo8j......
Well, Imperial units are binary (1/2", 1/4", 1/8" tools, for example). Twelve inches in a foot divides evenly by two, three, four, six. Thirty-six inches in a yard has a lot of factors too. 5,280 feet in a mile seems arbitrary until you start counting the factors. Three hundred sixty degrees in a circle can evenly be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18... - tried that with radians lately? One hundred eighty degrees separate water freezing from water boiling - 180, another composite number with lots of factors. If you're an engineer, there's a lot to be said for Imperial or SAE units - they sure make a lot of the math easier.
On the other hand, Metric is decimal. Last time I checked, everyone had ten fingers. We count base ten. Computers may be great at binary, but most of us do arithmetic for our daily tasks at base ten.
Binary (Imperial) has its place. Decimal (Metric) has its place. And never the two shall meet . . .
Well, if you're smart you do. Isn't any law says an employer has to give you a raise just because your cost of living went up. An International Business Machines manufacturer I've heard of can (and does) move guys from one place to another without changing their pay by one penny (unless local law requires it). When they come from countries where the Caste system is still in force or where indoor plumbing and electricity are still novelties, that results in real savings for this unnamed firm.
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Not so. I've reniced SEX to 20 and it stays at the very TOP of my 'top'. Granted, it eats a TON of CPU and the RAM, well...it's worth it.
Wrapped in a gooey layer of DNC.
Sorry you lost access to everything in the .CA domain - but really, you don't need to buy 222's at a Canadian pharmacy. You should surf out to AmericanDrugStore.com for all your medical needs, so that's priority traffic.
QoS isn't just about ports - it's about content. Gamers want QoS so that their games play seamlessly and that shouldn't present a problem. But . . . when Ford Motor Company can demonstrate more "relevance" than the Tesla Electric Car company, the ISP's will certainly use QoS to ensure that Ford's (obviously more important) traffic is prioritized with competitors either stuck in the slow lane or outright run off the road.
Yeah, there's plenty we don't fuck up - we don't fuck up the shit the Democrats have already fucked up. We let the Democrats keep screwing up their shit while we Republicans screw up different shit. That's why we have a two-party system - and when both parties decide to fuck with the same thing, it's glorious.
Wait'll the balance of power shifts again. The U.S. political landscape is about as stable as my Aunt Ethel's spastic colon - by design.
Digital Rights Management manages digital rights in much the same way that Federal Prison manages freedom.
So why can't I have the real Original Recipe of KFC. I've acquired all eleven components . . .
Never mind - I'm changing my name to "Null Reg".
KARR.
I.e., every privately owned automobile on the street just became a "Bait Car". Officer O'mally just flips this little old chromium switch here . . .
(pats his MIJI-matic, smiles)
I am Joe Sixpack and I've never been able to afford a brand-new car in my life. In fact, I only know a few people who have ever even owned a new car. Used cars in excellent condition, sure. New cars? Yeah, someday when I'm rich and famous.
There's way more at stake here than safety and technology. And there will always be guys like me actively looking for ways to defeat it. I don't even care if you think I'm sinner or saint for it. Screw your rights - if I want to drive my own vehicle, I'm going to. I'm not interested in letting some socialized nanny-state tell me I can no longer do the things which our forefathers busted their humps to make sure I could do. If the automated systems can't handle that, I win and the rest of you (society) lose. Y'know, sounds good to me!
Like back in the seventies - L.A.P.D. got a fleet of fifty brand new vehicles, I forget which model of Ford they were. First cop to catch a speeder in one of the new souped up cruisers stomps the gas, accelerates almost instantly to the vehicles maximum governed speed of 55mph, and watches his quota for the month go bye-bye. But the officer was safe at all times, the vehicle prevented him from placing himself in unnecessary danger by enforcing his compliance with the very laws he was supposed to be enforcing. That's good, right?
The only secure computing system is one which has had all power and I/O removed - oh, and storage wiped to prevent unauthorized access. Anything short of that and eventually Anonymous will be doing the driving. Now, if some form of organic computer could be devised, one with robust self-maintenance and internalized power management. Maybe something that can handle video and audio inputs, perhaps even other inputs I haven't named yet. A computer so sophisticated that it's still impossible to accurately measure the total computing power of the platform, a computer capable of participating in the construction of its successor system(s). Yeah, that's the computer for me!
Never mind that you're saying you nearly avoided collisions four times (got your fenders straightened out yet?), but if you've made the same (to my mind, young driver's) mistake four times in recent memory, perhaps you need to turn off the radio, put down the fast food, stop playing with your phone and pay attention to what you're doing. I'm sorry that some quantity of silicone is required to bring your driving skills up to par; how is that going to happen if you're constantly relying upon technology is beyond me - and don't insist that I use the same crutch so that your crutch will work better. I don't happen to fancy what'll happen when people start driving their cars Anonymously; talk about open sores! Never mind the Minority Report thing about having my car collect me up for the dread Secret Police, what about that guy at the end of the block who gets off watching traffic accidents which always seem to happen near that radio transponder he buried in the front yard?
Ordinarily I don't feed the trolls, but that was hilarious!. Well done, sir. Well done.
And - yeah - I'm pretty sure Google is already well down the path to the next version of Glass, which may be a match for ChipSip's product. I'm a lot less sure that Google would want the negative publicity a high-profile lawsuit might bring were they to sue. After all, their name alone guarantees them both incredibly broad exposure and buzz on the street when they market their product; they may well consider it to be to their advantage to permit or even encourage competition in this arena. Let us remember that (so far) this is happening within the Android ecosystem, not MicroSoft or Apple Computers. Google has a vested stake there, and so may be fairly selective about using the patent weapon in court.
Encryption doesn't do you any good. Have you forgotten about the analog hole? I'm sure the wonderful folks at NSA haven't.
That leaves . . . Antarctica, Luna and Mars, right? Or were you planning to trust the Russians/Chinese/Pakistanis/Tanzians/Aborigines to design, prototype, test, manufacture and market your solution. May I recommend Elbonia?
So what do you do when the grim-looking man with the black robe and no sense of humor orders that no such measures be employed on your website (i.e., don't kill the canary)? Go to jail just as if you'd refused to comply with the MIB, or give the world a false sense of security not by saying nothing about government oversight but by actively keeping the indicator (HTML tag?) in place. Your call
Oh, incidentally - CONTROL has agents ready to take over the administration and operation of your website should you prove uncooperative. Max and Hieme will see to it that the canary tags stay right where they belong, while the nice people with Federal Corrections see to it that you stay right where you belong.
Incidentally, the secret police haven't visited my hoa jlk -]=6y\ 9 90u[5y-gfdl;n;vzo8j......
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On the other hand, Metric is decimal. Last time I checked, everyone had ten fingers. We count base ten. Computers may be great at binary, but most of us do arithmetic for our daily tasks at base ten.
Binary (Imperial) has its place. Decimal (Metric) has its place. And never the two shall meet . . .
Well, if you're smart you do. Isn't any law says an employer has to give you a raise just because your cost of living went up. An International Business Machines manufacturer I've heard of can (and does) move guys from one place to another without changing their pay by one penny (unless local law requires it). When they come from countries where the Caste system is still in force or where indoor plumbing and electricity are still novelties, that results in real savings for this unnamed firm.
No more JAVA, OpenOffice or MySQL for you.