When I was with Virgin Media they had the worst throttling, I'd literally see my 10M connections upload speed drop to dial-up speed. They still have crap download/upload ratios and the mandatory line rental is a complete ripoff.
So two things: Censor = block, these companies will happily block political / controversial sites even by default (O2). Not blocking is not just the problem if they are going to degrade the connection severely like VM do/did.
So when the price of oil goes back up to $120, they will suggest that philanthropists* re-invest? They should be divesting because fossil fuels are screwing up the planet, not because they are not giving the best returns.
*Leaches who take a lot more than their fair share and then think they are good because they invest is shitty corporations and then donate some of the interest to charity.
The summary, most of the article and most of the posts here are completely missing the point.
In November, when the U.S. and China announced a historic agreement to curb carbon emissions in coming decades, it sent a strong, if vastly overdue, message to the world's carbon kingpins: Global governments are mobilizing to meet the threat of climate change. If they're going to take that message seriously, more than two-thirds of established fossil-fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground.
The oil, coal and natural gas need to stay in the ground, regardless of what we are paying for it, $50, $150 per barrel, people still pay for it.
Is civilisation going to end when we stop using fossil fuels? Of course not.
June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere â" the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
So far, we've raised the average temperature of the planet just under 0.8 degrees Celsius, and that has caused far more damage than most scientists expected. (A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.)
And the individual's supervisor and the person who trained the individual and the person who devised the individual's test after the training and the person who checked that the test was suitable and the person that did the risk assessment for the work the individual was doing and the person who checked the risk assessment for the work.
There are methods for making sure accidents don't happen, if those methods aren't followed then a lot of people are responsible.
You'd think they could get this stuff right after half a century of dealing with waste.
Site linked launders over time which apart from extremely large transfers would destroy any trace. Any intelligent criminal would use bespoke software or arduous work to split the stolen coins into dozens or even hundreds of small wallets of varying size, those could then be sold for hard cash or goods etc.
So yes, bitcoins are ideal for traceless laundering.
Bitcoin is ideal for money Laundering and there are money laundering services.
You transfer $100 to the money laundering service wallet A, then the money laundering service transfers from wallet B $40 to your second wallet and $60 to your 3rd wallet. Trace lost.
My objection is that they're called smart meters, an actual smart meter would do something useful for the consumer like have a wireless webpage showing current and historical usage to help the consumer cut usage. It would also be very handy for detecting slow leaks.
How many water companies have analysis software that looks for slow leaks and then informs the consumer if they think they have one?
HDDs are of course faster at the beginning and slow towards the end. Not one graph in several pages of benchmarks showed how these drives compared after the first few gigabytes of storage.
Yeah, not many laughs, at the end of it I did feel like my time watching it was wasted. It's not just that it lacked laughs but it also lacked being a good action film. Kim was a thin character set in some weird dull bond lair type place in the middle of no-where. It made expendables 3 look like an awesome film and was about as funny.
I'd bet that it'll be well over a decade before they have a car that can drive without the map-every-inch-first system, and it'll still very much be an early prototype.
So, it's been decided that N'Korea attacked Sony and that is good enough reason to attack the whole countries internet.
Guilty until proven innocent, attack 1st, check facts later.
Never mind the only evidence points to some amateurs who have to use translation software to get their message across... I bet google keep a log of everything translated, I wonder if the hackers message went through them.
Slashdot Mirror
They charge £16.50 a month for NOT having a phone line, how does that make any sense?
http://store.virginmedia.com/b...
When I was with Virgin Media they had the worst throttling, I'd literally see my 10M connections upload speed drop to dial-up speed. They still have crap download/upload ratios and the mandatory line rental is a complete ripoff.
So two things:
Censor = block, these companies will happily block political / controversial sites even by default (O2).
Not blocking is not just the problem if they are going to degrade the connection severely like VM do/did.
It invented cats, I think that's cool, who knows what it'll invent next.
So when the price of oil goes back up to $120, they will suggest that philanthropists* re-invest? They should be divesting because fossil fuels are screwing up the planet, not because they are not giving the best returns.
*Leaches who take a lot more than their fair share and then think they are good because they invest is shitty corporations and then donate some of the interest to charity.
The summary, most of the article and most of the posts here are completely missing the point.
The oil, coal and natural gas need to stay in the ground, regardless of what we are paying for it, $50, $150 per barrel, people still pay for it.
Is civilisation going to end when we stop using fossil fuels? Of course not.
Far better article about global warming:Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
"It was a mistake by an individual"
And the individual's supervisor and the person who trained the individual and the person who devised the individual's test after the training and the person who checked that the test was suitable and the person that did the risk assessment for the work the individual was doing and the person who checked the risk assessment for the work.
There are methods for making sure accidents don't happen, if those methods aren't followed then a lot of people are responsible.
You'd think they could get this stuff right after half a century of dealing with waste.
Could be worse... The Mafia's Deadly Garbage: Italy's Growing Toxic Waste Scandal
In a perfect world everybody would be fixing the world's problems you say!!
https://bitlaunder.com/bitcoin...
Site linked launders over time which apart from extremely large transfers would destroy any trace. Any intelligent criminal would use bespoke software or arduous work to split the stolen coins into dozens or even hundreds of small wallets of varying size, those could then be sold for hard cash or goods etc.
So yes, bitcoins are ideal for traceless laundering.
Bitcoin is ideal for money Laundering and there are money laundering services.
You transfer $100 to the money laundering service wallet A, then the money laundering service transfers from wallet B $40 to your second wallet and $60 to your 3rd wallet. Trace lost.
My objection is that they're called smart meters, an actual smart meter would do something useful for the consumer like have a wireless webpage showing current and historical usage to help the consumer cut usage. It would also be very handy for detecting slow leaks.
How many water companies have analysis software that looks for slow leaks and then informs the consumer if they think they have one?
'should', 'should be'.
Oh why can't we edit slashdot? Disqus allows editing and it doesn't implode.
And how many of these drives protect against bit rot? Protection be built in as standard with Reed-Solomon error correction (magic afaik) or similar.
HDDs are of course faster at the beginning and slow towards the end. Not one graph in several pages of benchmarks showed how these drives compared after the first few gigabytes of storage.
No. Ad spend simply followed society as they moved from TV to internet, there's nothing bubble about that, the internet is not a fad.
That doesn't accurately reflect the majority of the web.
How about ads without tracking.
This law seems to be in contravention of several sections of the European Convention on Human Rights which Romania is party to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NSA is pissed because their tor nodes only make up half of the remaining nodes and this makes it difficult for them to eaves drop. ;-)
Yeah, not many laughs, at the end of it I did feel like my time watching it was wasted. It's not just that it lacked laughs but it also lacked being a good action film. Kim was a thin character set in some weird dull bond lair type place in the middle of no-where. It made expendables 3 look like an awesome film and was about as funny.
Human rights pffft who needs them, Cameron's getting rid of them soon:
Cameron's pledge to scrap Human Rights Act angers civil rights groups.
And it flushes itself! Awesome, where can I get one.
Recognise gestures - no.
Snow, 200% no, it can't even handle rain.
I'd bet that it'll be well over a decade before they have a car that can drive without the map-every-inch-first system, and it'll still very much be an early prototype.
So, it's been decided that N'Korea attacked Sony and that is good enough reason to attack the whole countries internet.
Guilty until proven innocent, attack 1st, check facts later.
Never mind the only evidence points to some amateurs who have to use translation software to get their message across... I bet google keep a log of everything translated, I wonder if the hackers message went through them.
Slashdotted apparently.
I am the only person that thinks that vandalising millions of customers PS3's is worse (Other OS feature removal).
Fine!! It's criminal fraud, nothing civil about it, people should go to prison*
*for a short period in a non-pound-em-in-the-ass prison, US has too many people in prison, you all need to calm down with that.