"The only true number that matters is aggregate peak demand. If aggregate peak demand exceeds network capacity then packets are going to drop. So if the ISPs were being truthful and selling real services instead of fictional ones, they would sell plans with bandwidth caps that kick in only during times of congestion"
You 100% got it. Cost to ISP's is about gigabit/sec peak not gigabytes per month. Only addition is some types of traffic are cheaper due to POP caching e.g Netflix caching servers.
A competitive ISP structure leasing last mile to POP as suggested would allow for much better indication in ISP choices between caching, transit purchases and peering. Also clever models based on customers who would pay premium for capacity at peak, latency etc.
I thought $200billion for Dementia per year in USA cannot be that high! But that is only $500 per capita and makes sense when each patient probably needs about $50,000 per year in care and drugs ( never mind unpaid family / friend support ).
"A block chain is just a signature verifiable log database with all of the issues a log database has plus limitations imposed by the verification requirements."
Good straight forward and simple description. Thanks
Looking in outstanding mode but have folk who * Actually read the act * Read amendments * Informed debate on how this cascades * Impact on companies and customers
Managing global downlink centres is a big and expensive business. You need diversity for not just resilience but also local weather conditions.
With only 2 downlink nodes for now not too useful except to experiment with. Also a lot depends on the quality control systems in place to manage signal acquisition and correction plus seemless switchover modes supported.
But definitely one for mix. Could open market for smaller rebroadcasters to consume sport 'world feeds' into OTT services without physical setup.
In good ole UK we use following system * Every year little form through post to register folk in household for election register ( can state if entry not public info ) * Get card through post about next election * On day of election go to polling station. * If you have polling card fine if not any proof of id or even just name and address * You get ticked off on paper list * Given your bit of paper go into little booth * Make X next to candidate ( for EU and local elections may be more than 1 ) * Fold up * Put in box * Someone outside will ask you who you vote for. I always decline ( exit poll I think it called )
Then those boxes are taped up and sent to counting station. Lots of paid folk count them out.
Also you don't have to be completely cashless for risk of this happening ( government monitoring and shutdown of accounts ). If cash payments become anomaly they will be tracked or become reason for suspicion.
You have a great career in front of you. Employed a few myself. Great combo of open network experience with hardened systems with thousands of smart little shits ( technical term ) trying it on daily.
Very good point. One benefit of pubically traded companies is larger transaction volumes leading to more accurate pricing ( although here effects still apply).
A related area is house prices in UK. Trading volumes are historically low so assumptions on price being made on small number of transactions.
"Maybe we'll have a specialized tumor/organ at some point in our bodies, holding just artificially inserted data and the mechanism to read that data and output it to one of our senses. Or even an Nth sense: "read DNA memory". Finally, a way for our species' knowledge to survive even if civilization collapses."
As another dune fan this is awesome! On side note the first breast implant was done in 1895 to actress who had mastectomy but surgeon used a benign growth on spine as implant. So idea of using such things as data storage is not completely nuts.
Slashdot Mirror
Personal data capture, analysis and sharing is part of Facebook DNA.
Hopefully the fines will hit where it hurts and cause a re-evaluation of culture.
"The only true number that matters is aggregate peak demand. If aggregate peak demand exceeds network capacity then packets are going to drop. So if the ISPs were being truthful and selling real services instead of fictional ones, they would sell plans with bandwidth caps that kick in only during times of congestion"
You 100% got it. Cost to ISP's is about gigabit/sec peak not gigabytes per month. Only addition is some types of traffic are cheaper due to POP caching e.g Netflix caching servers.
A competitive ISP structure leasing last mile to POP as suggested would allow for much better indication in ISP choices between caching, transit purchases and peering. Also clever models based on customers who would pay premium for capacity at peak, latency etc.
Programming ( as I like to call it ) is a great career. Afraid I came of generation of hackers at early days of mid 90's on the web front.
Dodgy CGI Perl scripts , SVN as version control - if any. Proud to see it mature over almost 25 years.
Not an unreasonable question. The USA when puts its mind to something gets shit done.
Other examples include Manhattan project 1939-1945.
Not within 1 term mind. But still good question
Which any decent website will block due to weird traffic from set of ips or by behaviour blocking?
Am I missing something ?
You can get the car nice and toasty to a schedule or remote.
Also if extreme cold don't need to keep the ICE ticking overnight.
I thought $200billion for Dementia per year in USA cannot be that high! But that is only $500 per capita and makes sense when each patient probably needs about $50,000 per year in care and drugs ( never mind unpaid family / friend support ).
Totally agree underfunded. Good luck this trial.
"A block chain is just a signature verifiable log database with all of the issues a log database has plus limitations imposed by the verification requirements."
Good straight forward and simple description. Thanks
Looking in outstanding mode but have folk who
* Actually read the act
* Read amendments
* Informed debate on how this cascades
* Impact on companies and customers
Managing global downlink centres is a big and expensive business. You need diversity for not just resilience but also local weather conditions.
With only 2 downlink nodes for now not too useful except to experiment with. Also a lot depends on the quality control systems in place to manage signal acquisition and correction plus seemless switchover modes supported.
But definitely one for mix. Could open market for smaller rebroadcasters to consume sport 'world feeds' into OTT services without physical setup.
In good ole UK we use following system
* Every year little form through post to register folk in household for election register ( can state if entry not public info )
* Get card through post about next election
* On day of election go to polling station.
* If you have polling card fine if not any proof of id or even just name and address
* You get ticked off on paper list
* Given your bit of paper go into little booth
* Make X next to candidate ( for EU and local elections may be more than 1 )
* Fold up
* Put in box
* Someone outside will ask you who you vote for. I always decline ( exit poll I think it called )
Then those boxes are taped up and sent to counting station. Lots of paid folk count them out.
They announce vote about 8-12 hours later
Simples
Also you don't have to be completely cashless for risk of this happening ( government monitoring and shutdown of accounts ). If cash payments become anomaly they will be tracked or become reason for suspicion.
By Arthur C Clarke. Except a lot more detail on the transformation, why and relationship to monolith.
Why is this a new revelation? Kubrick and Clarke worked closely together on 2001 resulting in arguable best film/book combo ever.
The advertisers and data buyers are who get majority of upgrades and updates you cannot see. You are the product.
A bit like pigs complaining that the slop they eat is always the same. As long as it flattens them up then fit for purpose.
The difficulty level is set I think every 14 days or so.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
If all chinese BC mining farms went offline then after that time cost to compute for non chinese farms would drop to compensate
Impact: fun 14 days then normal.
I love your idea of using cargo ships as emergency power stores and producers.
You have a great career in front of you. Employed a few myself. Great combo of open network experience with hardened systems with thousands of smart little shits ( technical term ) trying it on daily.
If you want smarts buy a fire stick, chromecast or roku. Max $50.
Price point is a bit higher at equiv $20 per month. Also you sign up for 12 months.
Seems to be profitable. I stopped my sky cinema subscription to afford it.
I think they made my money from me. After initial Bing in first month averages around 3 visits a month.
So only new thing here is lower price point.
Am only looking at 'outstanding' answers but good mix of experts providing informed answers.
Just wish there was upvoted facility here.
Very good point. One benefit of pubically traded companies is larger transaction volumes leading to more accurate pricing ( although here effects still apply).
A related area is house prices in UK. Trading volumes are historically low so assumptions on price being made on small number of transactions.
"Maybe we'll have a specialized tumor/organ at some point in our bodies, holding just artificially inserted data and the mechanism to read that data and output it to one of our senses. Or even an Nth sense: "read DNA memory". Finally, a way for our species' knowledge to survive even if civilization collapses."
As another dune fan this is awesome! On side note the first breast implant was done in 1895 to actress who had mastectomy but surgeon used a benign growth on spine as implant. So idea of using such things as data storage is not completely nuts.
Mobile phone contracts with 'all you can eat' exceptions for Netflix. As one example.
Perfect unix. One job and does it well.
Saved my career on many occasions.
For those who don't know curl is open source command line tool for doing http (s) requests.
IRC but invite only channels. Works in browser without plugins.
API allows text commands to invoke external services like Google hangouts. Also allows bots ( again like IRC) to post in channels.