Where did those 150+ tanks magically appear from? Those 4000 troops that were sealifted within 48 hours? That kind of staging takes months to prepare.
48 hours? Oh, is that all?
I guarantee the USA could easily match that anywhere in the world, and not just at its own borders. 48 hours is nothing. Borders are easy. Russia probably created a divot in the map and its military just slid in.
The submitter notes that, while Google denies using deep packet inspection, if the traffic is a Google search or email to or from a Gmail account, Google does not need DPI to see the contents of the message.
Google can read your Gmail? Shocking! Who doesn't know this?
I'm going out on a limb here to talk about something I haven't a clue about, but it appears the problem with nitrates (nitrogen?) causing problems with algae has been debunked.
You forgot to include:
Punchline: "Phosphorus."
It's fairly recent research, so I don't blame people's ignorance. Although, dumping nitrates in the water should still be avoided.
If anything, the links you posted are hurting your argument:
From the first link:
11. THIRD PARTY ATTACHMENTS
11.1 ****** may allow a Third Party to attach its equipment and to charge and recover a fee from the Third Party provided:
(a) any lease or license agreement requires the Third Party to comply with all laws, statutes, by-laws, codes, ordinances, rules, orders and regulations of all governmental authorities in force, and that the Third Party shall obtain and maintain any and all permits, licenses, official inspections or any other approvals and consents necessary or required for the placement or operation of the Third Party's equipment; and
(b) ****** does not charge a fee for the Third Party's use of the Service Corridors.
and
20.5 This Agreement creates contractual rights only between the City and ****** and not an interest in the Service Corridors and ****** covenants and agrees with the City that ****** shall desist always from any registration of this Agreement or of any right howsoever arising under it.
The above is just boilerplate utility right-of-way. And it only mentions *attaching* third party equipment.
From the second link (SRDP's website):
SRDP offre tous les services requis pour assurer la construction d'un réseau privé tel l'ingénierie, la mise en plan, les droits de passage et la surveillance de chantier.
I was just checking that they also said rights-of-way in their primary language.:)
But I saw nothing, in English or French, that mentioned selling easements as part of the project in the article. Would you enter an agreement without the easement being spelled out? I wouldn't. It's not in the article, not in the municipal agreement, and not clearly specified even on their website (maybe they actually only get the utility easement secured, but under their own name).
It's an extremely important detail, and they're very silent on this. Someone going in on this should be very skeptical until it is spelled out in plain language. A judge may need to decide this someday.
And yes I would assume that in order to own the cable easement rights would have to be granted to the home owner who has paid off the cable cost.
You're assuming a lot. The article makes no mention of easements, so I'm rightfully figuring this is a marketing ploy. Owning a fiber strand is worthless if you don't have the right to put it there.
If this company really is selling easements, then I'd certainly love to be wrong. But I wouldn't make a $2700 investment without that information.
I buy a house. Later I find out there's "Fuck You" written by the builder somewhere in the house. But it's written in tiny letters on the inside of a sewer pipe underneath the house which is encased in a concrete wall.
Nevermind that I specifically requested my house to model Al Capone's.
You missed my point. Nowhere in that article does it say the homeowner receives an easement for the fiber, or a share of the company, like a co-op.
Without that, when that company dies or gets bought out, its easements will get transferred to someone else, and the homeowners are at the whim of the easement holder. The homeowners are only paying for a service. "Ownership" is a huge misnomer.
If by innovation you mean they bought the land and all the way down to the pump, AKA vertical integration, thereby controlling the price on every aspect, then yes. It's hard for Ma and Pa to compete on that level, especially when the station across the street can loss-lead until they're out of business, or your oil buyer can offer ridiculously low prices, then buy your land when you're bankrupt.
So, I pay $2700 for a company to "pull" fiber directly to my house/condo. But, according to the article, even though it throws around the word "ownership" there's nothing defining that ownership.
When this company goes belly up in the future, I will lose this fiber because I don't have an easement for it. And because there isn't an easement, nothing gets transferred with the property, except a gentleman's agreement. And what's to stop this company from doing something else with the fiber?
This sounds suspiciously like a cableco/telco that allows you to use another network on their physical line. I own nothing. I have no rights. It also sounds like a subscription music service.
A fiber isn't something you can just tap into without negative results. You'll need to cut it then add a splitter.
Assuming it went perfectly, you've just 1) Killed the network for everyone using that fiber for the time it was cut 2) degraded the signal(light) for everyone 3) ponied up for several (10's of?) thousands of dollars in equipment because that signal won't likely be usable by low-end short-haul consumer equipment.
Now imagine all your neighbors doing that.
You'll need some type of remote terminal for your neighborhood.
Even in the old days of vampire taps on coax there were limits.
Like I'm going to switch out my name server on a high-availability server farm, which would require even more testing.
"During the development cycle, we became aware of a potential performance issue on high-traffic recursive servers, defined as those seeing a query volume of greater than 10,000/queries per second," said Vixie.
Emphasis mine.
It's almost as useful as saying the solution to BSoD is Linux. Amusing though.:)
How did you get a +5 Informative when you're wrong?
First off, which MPEG spec has a K-frame? An I-frame is not a delta frame, it's more like your "keyframe." P and B are the delta frames.
Secondly, there's very little to parallelize if you're working with open Groups of Pictures (GOP), that is to say every GOP references into the next GOP. If you have closed GOPs, then you can do this a little better by putting the next GOP on another core/CPU.
But will you gain a significant speedup? The problem is not just chugging away on code. It's all the data that needs to fly around. Your core will be IO bound while your data cache and bus gets hammered.
You'll find more benefits from encoding shortcuts than you will by simply flinging another core at it.
By that, I mean that I learned on my own because I wanted to learn. He has to want to learn. Maybe he likes something else. Are you afraid that he'll want to be a fire fighter, lawyer, or some other profession you might not like?
What does he like to do? Try encouraging that. But don't discourage.
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I spent more time looking for the other e-mails and scanning the comments for what might have happened than actually reading the e-mails.
It's like an important test that was so easy, you spend time making sure it wasn't filled with trick questions.
Where did those 150+ tanks magically appear from? Those 4000 troops that were sealifted within 48 hours? That kind of staging takes months to prepare.
48 hours? Oh, is that all?
I guarantee the USA could easily match that anywhere in the world, and not just at its own borders. 48 hours is nothing. Borders are easy. Russia probably created a divot in the map and its military just slid in.
The submitter notes that, while Google denies using deep packet inspection, if the traffic is a Google search or email to or from a Gmail account, Google does not need DPI to see the contents of the message.
Google can read your Gmail? Shocking! Who doesn't know this?
I'm going out on a limb here to talk about something I haven't a clue about, but it appears the problem with nitrates (nitrogen?) causing problems with algae has been debunked.
You forgot to include:
Punchline: "Phosphorus."
It's fairly recent research, so I don't blame people's ignorance. Although, dumping nitrates in the water should still be avoided.
Hey! Who turned out the lights?
If anything, the links you posted are hurting your argument:
From the first link:
11. THIRD PARTY ATTACHMENTS
11.1 ****** may allow a Third Party to attach its equipment and to charge and recover a fee from the Third Party provided:
(a) any lease or license agreement requires the Third Party to comply with all laws, statutes, by-laws, codes, ordinances, rules, orders and regulations of all governmental authorities in force, and that the Third Party shall obtain and maintain any and all permits, licenses, official inspections or any other approvals and consents necessary or required for the placement or operation of the Third Party's equipment; and
(b) ****** does not charge a fee for the Third Party's use of the Service Corridors.
and
20.5 This Agreement creates contractual rights only between the City and ****** and not an interest in the Service Corridors and ****** covenants and agrees with the City that ****** shall desist always from any registration of this Agreement or of any right howsoever arising under it.
The above is just boilerplate utility right-of-way. And it only mentions *attaching* third party equipment.
From the second link (SRDP's website):
SRDP offre tous les services requis pour assurer la construction d'un réseau privé tel l'ingénierie, la mise en plan, les droits de passage et la surveillance de chantier.
I was just checking that they also said rights-of-way in their primary language. :)
But I saw nothing, in English or French, that mentioned selling easements as part of the project in the article. Would you enter an agreement without the easement being spelled out? I wouldn't. It's not in the article, not in the municipal agreement, and not clearly specified even on their website (maybe they actually only get the utility easement secured, but under their own name).
It's an extremely important detail, and they're very silent on this. Someone going in on this should be very skeptical until it is spelled out in plain language. A judge may need to decide this someday.
Well, now we know who's trolling me. You forgot the AC checkbox.
So you concede that biodiesel is not a substitute for gasoline which was the original point. :)
Ad hominem now? Can't win on facts?
Again, fiber strand does not equal easement.
And yes I would assume that in order to own the cable easement rights would have to be granted to the home owner who has paid off the cable cost.
You're assuming a lot. The article makes no mention of easements, so I'm rightfully figuring this is a marketing ploy. Owning a fiber strand is worthless if you don't have the right to put it there.
If this company really is selling easements, then I'd certainly love to be wrong. But I wouldn't make a $2700 investment without that information.
I buy a house. Later I find out there's "Fuck You" written by the builder somewhere in the house. But it's written in tiny letters on the inside of a sewer pipe underneath the house which is encased in a concrete wall.
Nevermind that I specifically requested my house to model Al Capone's.
You missed my point. Nowhere in that article does it say the homeowner receives an easement for the fiber, or a share of the company, like a co-op.
Without that, when that company dies or gets bought out, its easements will get transferred to someone else, and the homeowners are at the whim of the easement holder. The homeowners are only paying for a service. "Ownership" is a huge misnomer.
susceptible to shutoffs at a whim
Your friend had a fractional T1 and didn't have an SLA?
If by innovation you mean they bought the land and all the way down to the pump, AKA vertical integration, thereby controlling the price on every aspect, then yes. It's hard for Ma and Pa to compete on that level, especially when the station across the street can loss-lead until they're out of business, or your oil buyer can offer ridiculously low prices, then buy your land when you're bankrupt.
Antitrust laws weren't a knee-jerk reaction.
Kind sir, please explain to me how I can simply run my gasoline powered automobile on biodiesel, and which fuel stations carry it.
So, I pay $2700 for a company to "pull" fiber directly to my house/condo. But, according to the article, even though it throws around the word "ownership" there's nothing defining that ownership.
When this company goes belly up in the future, I will lose this fiber because I don't have an easement for it. And because there isn't an easement, nothing gets transferred with the property, except a gentleman's agreement. And what's to stop this company from doing something else with the fiber?
This sounds suspiciously like a cableco/telco that allows you to use another network on their physical line. I own nothing. I have no rights. It also sounds like a subscription music service.
A fiber isn't something you can just tap into without negative results. You'll need to cut it then add a splitter.
Assuming it went perfectly, you've just
1) Killed the network for everyone using that fiber for the time it was cut
2) degraded the signal(light) for everyone
3) ponied up for several (10's of?) thousands of dollars in equipment because that signal won't likely be usable by low-end short-haul consumer equipment.
Now imagine all your neighbors doing that.
You'll need some type of remote terminal for your neighborhood.
Even in the old days of vampire taps on coax there were limits.
Is your widget's price controlled by a cartel/oligopoly? And am I able to find a substitute at a lower price that gets me from point A to B?
No?
Perhaps you should study Standard Oil, the railroads, and why there are antitrust regulations in the first place.
You had it easy. Back in my day, trolls had to use bridges.
You know who else used pseudo-naive tactics?
What's a troll?
Like I'm going to switch out my name server on a high-availability server farm, which would require even more testing.
"During the development cycle, we became aware of a potential performance issue on high-traffic recursive servers, defined as those seeing a query volume of greater than 10,000/queries per second," said Vixie.
Emphasis mine.
It's almost as useful as saying the solution to BSoD is Linux. Amusing though. :)
Huh. Eisenhower saw UFOs as well. Why label Kucinich?
How did you get a +5 Informative when you're wrong?
First off, which MPEG spec has a K-frame? An I-frame is not a delta frame, it's more like your "keyframe." P and B are the delta frames.
Secondly, there's very little to parallelize if you're working with open Groups of Pictures (GOP), that is to say every GOP references into the next GOP. If you have closed GOPs, then you can do this a little better by putting the next GOP on another core/CPU.
But will you gain a significant speedup? The problem is not just chugging away on code. It's all the data that needs to fly around. Your core will be IO bound while your data cache and bus gets hammered.
You'll find more benefits from encoding shortcuts than you will by simply flinging another core at it.
By that, I mean that I learned on my own because I wanted to learn. He has to want to learn. Maybe he likes something else. Are you afraid that he'll want to be a fire fighter, lawyer, or some other profession you might not like?
What does he like to do? Try encouraging that. But don't discourage.
Oregon's vote by mail system does not protect against vote buying. However, Oregon citizens are willing to risk that potential danger in exchange for the ability to have voting parties, where a group of friends can get together, discuss each issue on the ballot, answer each other's questions, and make an informed decision while eating cookies and generally enjoying each other's company.
Ah yes. Voting by peer pressure. Much better.