But they're not going to care about your router's stats.
Yea, but as I said, their modems also appear to be tracking this information as well. It'd be interesting to fight them with their own equipment's stats.
Yes. Before i was trying to think of how it was possible as well, then it hit me:
Digital Distribution.
It easily makes these limits attainable. In December, between purchasing on Steam and Xbox's Marketplace, I would've blown way over the 150gb limit set in place (I think at then end, I was around 260). And I'm not even a Netflix subscriber. Since most of my downloading happened overnight/during work hours, I would've still been able to watch movie and using even more bandwidth. Even with their metering display I can tell when Steam automatically updated things because my usage suddenly jumps into the neighborhood of 3-5gb for a single day.
As for accuracy in measuring usage - this a wire, and there's a single point which it leaves my house (router/modem), meaning I can simply monitor all traffic statistics on that interface. Even their modems track these statistics if you poke around in the interface. If your numbers don't match mine, than you're padding the traffic.
Steam is definitely an improvement, but it's not quite there yet. For some reason, some publishers still require abusive DRM on their games, on top of using Steam. Crysis and Crysis Warhead were two that are known to have this (SecuROM), and I've read that Crysis 2 has system files for TAGES/Solidshield, but the store page doesn't list any 3rd party DRM. You may want to check your system since you've purchased Crysis 2.
Can I point out that all the third-party candidates in 2008 were batshit fucking loco?
To be fair, the "third-party" candidates were actually a democrat (running under green) and a republican (running under libertarian). I'd say we really didn't have a major 3rd party candidate in the last election, just 2 dems, and 2 repubs.
Yes, the judge sided with the municipality (if my memory serves). It doesn't mean that the big Telcos will stop suing others, though. I know if I decided to go out and fire up my own ISP and got sued, I wouldn't have the resources to defend myself.
I'm curious how this will affect the 360. I haven't watched a video on mine since they removed the video marketplace and required you have Zune installed on your Xbox to do most things related to video. If they're discontinuing Zune, are they going to also roll back the Zune Marketplace requirements for the Xbox?
I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps.
We don't. We just don't have a choice. My only 2 options, in the Chicago suburbs, are either Comcast or AT&T. I went with AT&T because they don't have caps... well, used to not have caps. The irritating thing is Comcast recently implemented bandwidth throttling for streaming video services in my area, so AT&T is still the better of the two (for the time being).
You should read the e-mail before claiming it's obviously satire and the judge is clueless. The parts about the leprechaun and unicorn aren't so much the satire that the summary claims, but more flaming in a (and this is a direct quote) "go fuck yourself" sort of way.
I don't think Utah is doing this because of the word "democrat" or the word "republican" but instead to teach our children a better understanding of how our government is truly configured.
That little gem was actually the submitter trolling. FTFA:
HB220 would require schools to teach students that the U.S. is a compound constitutional republic and about other forms of government such as pure democracy, monarchy and oligarchy along with political philosophies and economic systems such as socialism, individualism and free-market capitalism.
It's not brainwashing nor nonsense. From the same dictionaries you referenced: Reference.com:
republic /rpblk/ Show Spelled[ri-puhb-lik] Show IPA
–noun 1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
Or Miriam Webster
Definition of REPUBLIC
a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
I think we're actually considered a Constitutional Republic.
There's plenty of room for improvement with the Xbox given today's standard cpu/gpu capabilities. It's still extremely rare to find a console game that runs in native 1080p. The cpu and gpu are woefully underpowered when compared to anything gaming-wise for the PC, and the system itself only has 512mb of ram.
As for innovating, I could see them trying to tie the hardware for Kinect directly into the system opposed to trying to supply it as a $150 add-on. My brief experience with Kinect is that it does need some work, but is it being limited by the hardware of the Xbox itself? One other thing that came to mind was a video from MS I saw last week that seems like they're working on some things. One of the points in the video is split screen gaming without a split screen. Pretty interesting.
It's a tricky line. In the event someone anonymously posts enough libelous information about you to ruin your life, what's your recourse? On the other hand, there's a huge capacity for abusing that information as well if its made too available. Ideally, a court order would be needed to get this information every time, but even then, you might get the idiot judge who sees those legit criticisms as 'evidence.'
A quick look at my blocked scripts on this page show the following:
google-analytics.com
doubleclick.net
addthis.com
So there's 3 scripts on this page whose sole purpose is to track you. I'm also willing to bet there's enough information stored in various locations (for example timestamp on the message cross referenced with the log files) to figure out who posted those anonymous comments.
What he did isn't considered a crime in either Australia nor the UK.
That's not how it works, though. Unless you're one of the lucky few who have diplomatic immunity, you must abide by the laws of whatever country you're currently in.
Generally, good administrators tend to disable service that aren't wanted or needed in their systems. Who's to say that there's not going to be a vulnerability for the service discovered down the road (*coughSolariscough*) that would make you vulnerable?
That's actually exactly what's happening. According to the Tribune article (linked from the ZDnet article):
“We believe that she was driving and Facebooking right around the time of the accident,” said David Wise, Cabrales’ lawyer.
Wise acknowledged that he still needed to review whether the timing mechanisms in both cell phones were in sync and whether Beas’ Facebook page updated immediately after she sent her message.
“We will find out from the system how those times are recorded,” he said. “We are going to subpoena everything.”
Wise acknowledged that he still needed to review whether the timing mechanisms in both cell phones were in sync and whether Beas’ Facebook page updated immediately after she sent her message.
“We will find out from the system how those times are recorded,” he said. “We are going to subpoena everything.”
That's from the Tribune article. Depending on the facts, this could get very nasty for the girl driving if she's found to be facebooking while driving (a moving violation in Illinois, which could lead to vehicular homicide charges).
Why should she be banned for driving from life when she was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an accident)?
First, it's illegal to do exactly what she was doing while driving in Illinois. Second, she killed someone while doing so. What happened is pretty much a word-for-word description of vehicular homicide/manslaughter.
Just saw this article yesterday about how the Bioshock movie was put on hold indefinitely because of its R-rating. It's too bad because I think Bioshock could make for an interesting movie, especially since Gore Verbinski refused to censor the movie down to a PG-13 rating.
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Yes, yes it has. And there is actually a fix from EA that got mine working again. EA literally tells you to turn of the DLC authorization DRM.
Here's the link: http://support.ea.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/218
But they're not going to care about your router's stats.
Yea, but as I said, their modems also appear to be tracking this information as well. It'd be interesting to fight them with their own equipment's stats.
Do you really need to transfer 300 gb in a month?
Yes. Before i was trying to think of how it was possible as well, then it hit me:
Digital Distribution.
It easily makes these limits attainable. In December, between purchasing on Steam and Xbox's Marketplace, I would've blown way over the 150gb limit set in place (I think at then end, I was around 260). And I'm not even a Netflix subscriber. Since most of my downloading happened overnight/during work hours, I would've still been able to watch movie and using even more bandwidth. Even with their metering display I can tell when Steam automatically updated things because my usage suddenly jumps into the neighborhood of 3-5gb for a single day.
As for accuracy in measuring usage - this a wire, and there's a single point which it leaves my house (router/modem), meaning I can simply monitor all traffic statistics on that interface. Even their modems track these statistics if you poke around in the interface. If your numbers don't match mine, than you're padding the traffic.
Steam is definitely an improvement, but it's not quite there yet. For some reason, some publishers still require abusive DRM on their games, on top of using Steam. Crysis and Crysis Warhead were two that are known to have this (SecuROM), and I've read that Crysis 2 has system files for TAGES/Solidshield, but the store page doesn't list any 3rd party DRM. You may want to check your system since you've purchased Crysis 2.
no keys to have food get stuck between meaning you can clean it with a damp towel
Perhaps you haven't seen T-Pain inspired innovations for laptop keyboards.
Don't forget about willful neglect resulting in that whole oil thing in the Gulf...
He did an about face on telecom immunity before the election.
He did? I never recall him opposing it...
Can I point out that all the third-party candidates in 2008 were batshit fucking loco?
To be fair, the "third-party" candidates were actually a democrat (running under green) and a republican (running under libertarian). I'd say we really didn't have a major 3rd party candidate in the last election, just 2 dems, and 2 repubs.
Yes, the judge sided with the municipality (if my memory serves). It doesn't mean that the big Telcos will stop suing others, though. I know if I decided to go out and fire up my own ISP and got sued, I wouldn't have the resources to defend myself.
I'm curious how this will affect the 360. I haven't watched a video on mine since they removed the video marketplace and required you have Zune installed on your Xbox to do most things related to video. If they're discontinuing Zune, are they going to also roll back the Zune Marketplace requirements for the Xbox?
I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps.
We don't. We just don't have a choice. My only 2 options, in the Chicago suburbs, are either Comcast or AT&T. I went with AT&T because they don't have caps... well, used to not have caps. The irritating thing is Comcast recently implemented bandwidth throttling for streaming video services in my area, so AT&T is still the better of the two (for the time being).
You should read the e-mail before claiming it's obviously satire and the judge is clueless. The parts about the leprechaun and unicorn aren't so much the satire that the summary claims, but more flaming in a (and this is a direct quote) "go fuck yourself" sort of way.
I don't think Utah is doing this because of the word "democrat" or the word "republican" but instead to teach our children a better understanding of how our government is truly configured.
That little gem was actually the submitter trolling. FTFA:
HB220 would require schools to teach students that the U.S. is a compound constitutional republic and about other forms of government such as pure democracy, monarchy and oligarchy along with political philosophies and economic systems such as socialism, individualism and free-market capitalism.
It's not brainwashing nor nonsense. From the same dictionaries you referenced:
/rpblk/ Show Spelled[ri-puhb-lik] Show IPA
Reference.com:
republic
–noun
1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
Or Miriam Webster
Definition of REPUBLIC
a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
I think we're actually considered a Constitutional Republic.
There's plenty of room for improvement with the Xbox given today's standard cpu/gpu capabilities. It's still extremely rare to find a console game that runs in native 1080p. The cpu and gpu are woefully underpowered when compared to anything gaming-wise for the PC, and the system itself only has 512mb of ram.
As for innovating, I could see them trying to tie the hardware for Kinect directly into the system opposed to trying to supply it as a $150 add-on. My brief experience with Kinect is that it does need some work, but is it being limited by the hardware of the Xbox itself? One other thing that came to mind was a video from MS I saw last week that seems like they're working on some things. One of the points in the video is split screen gaming without a split screen. Pretty interesting.
It's a tricky line. In the event someone anonymously posts enough libelous information about you to ruin your life, what's your recourse? On the other hand, there's a huge capacity for abusing that information as well if its made too available. Ideally, a court order would be needed to get this information every time, but even then, you might get the idiot judge who sees those legit criticisms as 'evidence.'
So there's 3 scripts on this page whose sole purpose is to track you. I'm also willing to bet there's enough information stored in various locations (for example timestamp on the message cross referenced with the log files) to figure out who posted those anonymous comments.
What he did isn't considered a crime in either Australia nor the UK.
That's not how it works, though. Unless you're one of the lucky few who have diplomatic immunity, you must abide by the laws of whatever country you're currently in.
What ever is wrong with American people?
I like staying employed. Naked breasts fall pretty squarely in the NSFW realm these days.
Why should I bother disabling it?
Generally, good administrators tend to disable service that aren't wanted or needed in their systems. Who's to say that there's not going to be a vulnerability for the service discovered down the road (*coughSolariscough*) that would make you vulnerable?
“We believe that she was driving and Facebooking right around the time of the accident,” said David Wise, Cabrales’ lawyer. Wise acknowledged that he still needed to review whether the timing mechanisms in both cell phones were in sync and whether Beas’ Facebook page updated immediately after she sent her message. “We will find out from the system how those times are recorded,” he said. “We are going to subpoena everything.”
Wise acknowledged that he still needed to review whether the timing mechanisms in both cell phones were in sync and whether Beas’ Facebook page updated immediately after she sent her message.
“We will find out from the system how those times are recorded,” he said. “We are going to subpoena everything.”
That's from the Tribune article. Depending on the facts, this could get very nasty for the girl driving if she's found to be facebooking while driving (a moving violation in Illinois, which could lead to vehicular homicide charges).
Why should she be banned for driving from life when she was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an accident)?
First, it's illegal to do exactly what she was doing while driving in Illinois. Second, she killed someone while doing so. What happened is pretty much a word-for-word description of vehicular homicide/manslaughter.
Not only is it owned by Oracle, it's even listed at one of the patents being infringed upon in the original complaint.
Just saw this article yesterday about how the Bioshock movie was put on hold indefinitely because of its R-rating. It's too bad because I think Bioshock could make for an interesting movie, especially since Gore Verbinski refused to censor the movie down to a PG-13 rating.