Actually Netflix is paying for the CDN services, so the ISP isn't paying for upstream. Heck, in the case of Comcast, Netflix is even paying THEM too accept the CDN connection instead of going over their upstream providers.
The ISPs have over sold their lines. No surprise. It's not possible for an ISP to provite 100% (2000 customer in your example) 3Mbps service consuming 6Gbps of bandwidth for $30,000 in revenue. They can't even provide an order of magnitude LESS than that for $30,000.
Historically though, thanks to usage patterns, ISPs could grossly over sell their pipes, because significant quantities of viewers wouldn't all be hitting their cap constantly.
Usage patterns have changed. And ISPs will need to alter their sales patterns and pipe sizes to deal with it. Surprise, surprise, they can't keep selling the same 10 year old pipe to more and more users who have higher and higher demands.
Netflix has content delivery networks all over the country with partnerships with most major ISPs. The stream you are getting from them is likely not even coming over the back bone of the internet, but through a CDN linked directly to your ISP regional center.
Lose value? You must not have been looking at the TDIs.
In 2006 I was looking for a new car, the Golf TDI was just the ticket. Only problem was getting one. We looked for a few months for a used one. We found a number of 2000-2004 Golf TDIs with 50k+ miles on them. The cheapest one was $16,000, and had close to 100k miles on it. We finally tracked down a new 2006 model and paid $21k for it.
We actually refinanced the loan, using the Golf as collatoral, so we could merge our two car loans together a few years ago. Yup, over 40k miles on it at the time, and the blue book for the TDI was still 18k.
I did pay to have someone else do the timing belt. It took him about 45 minutes, but he did have a number of specialty tools. I probably could have done it myself, but it would have taken the better part of a day and the cost of the tools.
Over 90k miles now, and other than the regular maintenance, the only issues I've ever had with it was a bad oxygen sensor (covered under the warrenty), some pin prick paint bubbles (manufacturer defect, VW wouldn't cover them), and a slipping clutch after some exceptionally spirited racing through a hilly course. And I still get ~44 mpg on my daily commute to and from work (mostly highway/interstate).
If this little thing is half the car that the Golf TDI is, it'll be worth every penny.
I get probably a dozen emails delivered to my non-white listed folder every day (ie: through my providers spam filters) that are obviously phishing emails.
Really, any time an email comes in that contains a hyper link, where the content of the link is a URL, and that URL doesn't have the same domain as the src of the link, bounce the damn email as non-deliverable.
Yeah, I'm smart enough to not go to "us.battle.net.gonna.steal.your.password.com" or to "us.brttle.net" but really, why should these emails make it past even the most simple of filters?
In the.Net world, it's not quite that straight forward. For instance, Visual Studio 2010 is almost fully a.Net application (some parts are legacy C++ libraries/controls that just didn't get converted before launch). But being.Net just means that it was compiled to the.Net intermediate language. It could have been written in VB.Net, C#, J#, F#, PHP.Net, or any of the other high level.Net languages.
That's the awesome part of.Net. You can write in what ever language you are familiar with, against the same framework that everyone else uses. The majority of difference between C# and VB at this point are due to there having been 2 teams at MS working on the VB.Net and C# editors for Visual Studio. Now, those teams have been merged. VB.Net has single line parameters, C# has XML Literals, and they are continuing to become more and more similar functionally speaking. The only big difference left now is multi-line lambdas and that C# is case sensitive.
Communism is a totalitarian system of centralized control.
communism is a negligable system of decentralized control foundationed by communal property and respect.
The problem with communism (small-c communism) is that there isn't a central control point. The power vacuum allows for the worst possible candidates to assume a position of power, thus leading to a Communism (big-c Communism).
Small-c communism actually works really well, in geographically limited close knit communities. We see it in part in Amish communities, in the old agrarian south (yeah, the communist party of America used to be based out of the bibble belt), and in "simpler times" when communication and distribution were much more limited.
But as soon as a small-c communism grows, things get ugly. You wind up with individual communities favoring themselves over the other communities, so you need someone to over see the whole lot to ensure that things are being done in the interest of the whole. But that immediately creates a position and a system for abuse and fraud. And eventually, those in power will seek more power (just like all political systems, even/especially democracy). And before you know it you have a big-c Communism with a centralized totalitarian government controling wages, production, distribution, and enjoying a level of comfort that is not inline with their citizens.
communism isn't inherantly evil or wrong. It's a governing tool, just like a monarchy, democracy, republic, etc... In some cases it works well. In some cases it works poorly.
Years ago as a capstone project for college, myself and a few friends set up a media PC, web server, and PDA (Dell Axiom 3i) to allow us to use the PDA as a remote for the TV and Media PC.
It worked, and worked rather well IMO. But you can imagine the hassle and costs associated with setting up such a set up.
Using this technology, I could effectively strip it down to a single media PC. Sure, I'd lose the ability to set record schedules on my media PC from work, but I never really used that feature anyway;)
Get a small LCD monitor (7-9" or so), put a touch screen over it, run that through a wireless mouse connection, put a lithium battery under it, shrink it up in some plastic and I could have a full media PC that I could use the mobile monitor for C&C and previews/commercial break channel flipping with out changing the main TV's output. Kinda like picture in picture only the in picture would be on your lap.
It would work. Not that I'll invest in it these days, but if I were a college student with a hankering for electronics and media systems again, it could be a fun project. And if you could get it to market for under $300 (mobile monitor and RF graphics card included) you might even be able to sell it.
They don't know. They are list as "Jane Doe" and "John Doe" usually when the claiment wants to start things up before they know who they are sueing. RIAA cases are often like this when they are seeking injunctions/information from ISPs. They'll sue the "Does" so they can get a court order for the ISP to turn over the identities of people associated with the IP's they do have.
Nope. It was settled out of court and even then, it was a tort, handled in civil court. No presidence, but it can likely be pointed at if the judge allows it as evidence. It might be of more use to people appealing the fines though.
At what point does it become made available then? If Manning told 1 person all of the secrets, would he still be guilty?
If he had taken the CD and forgotten it in the back of a taxi, would he still be guilty?
What if he took the files, but just left them in a safe deposit box the rest of his life, would he still be guilty?
He broke protocol as soon as he moved the files off the secured network. What HE does with the files, HE will be punished for.
But if HE had sold them to a the Chinesse state run news agency instead, we wouldn't be going bonkers over arresting the board and shutting down the paper.
Likewise, if the NYT had published the leaks, we would not likely be seeing the CEO being locked up with a bail an order of magnitude larger than his net worth and limited to house arrest there after.
No, it is a matter of convenience. Wikileaks presents itself as a target that the US Federal government MAY be able to use to reduce the power of the press. Where a long established and financially sound corporation with lawyers and money on hand were to be targeted, an outrage would be spread by the mass media. But for Wikileaks, limited funds, limited legal backing, and limited social standing, coupled with the current legal challenges surrounding the word "journalist" and it creates a piniata for the expanse of federal power.
If the feds go after Wikileaks, and we do not see an increase in scope and power of the federal government through legislative or presidence setting rulings, I would be truely amazed.
Because lets face it. Wikileaks could be shut down tomorrow, and before dawn Wednesday, it's contents would be reposted on servers around the world and a dozen more leak-clones would appear.
If the US is going to shut down Wikileaks, they're going to go for the power grab to shut out a whole lot more.
The moment Manning took the docs out of the secured environment, they were available to the world.
Whether Manning sold them to the NYT, gave them to WL, shouted them from a soap box, or forgot them in a taxi. The cat was out of the bag.
If the law comes down on the first publisher to increase the spread of the information, then no major media outlets will be willing to break the ice. And once you have the mass media effectively silenced from releasing anything that could be considered sensitive (most of this stuff wasn't even classified) that the feds don't want released, you've taken a huge step away from democracy.
What's the difference between a state run news agency and an independent news agency that can be shut down and employees jailed for publishing information the government doesn't want them to?
So by your argument, NYT, MSNBC, FOX, Guardian, and many other corporations are also guilty of the espionage equivilant of 'recieving stolen property'?
It's not like they don't know where the stuff is coming from. Or that they don't have a financial interest in seeing the information distributed. They are effectively laundering it, while turning a profit.
IIRC, they are requesting the followers for all of these individuals. If you have followed any of these people on Twitter, your name will be included.
Additionally, none of these people had anything to do with the leak. The leak was performed by a single man. A private in the Army who is currently being tried in a military court for leaking the documents where he will likely be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison.
These people are people who may have had some involvement in the publishing of the documents, or in supporting Julian Assange. The feds are likely trying to build out a profile to see if any of these assets can be leveraged against Assange (be it diplomatically or in court).
Go to a private unsubsidized school? Go ahead and squander it.
Go to a public school where the tax payers are offsetting your costs, you better learn something.
I went to a private tech college. I don't think the quality of the education differed in any significant way from the local public tech colleges. The services were an order of magnitude better, but the education was virtually identical.
But most of the guys who had laptops in my classes, especially the lectures and non-computer related classes, sat in the back row and played unreal tournament. Laptops were providing nothing of value to those classes.
Dude, you realize there are gay people serving with you RIGHT NOW. There were gay guys in the 90's. There were gay guys in the 2000's. And there are still gay guys now. (I'm sure there are gay women as well, but I only personally know of a number of gay men serving)
So if they didn't try to full fill your ass rape fantasy over your tour so far, they probably won't after DADT is repealed either.
From the makers of "Dorkness Rising" (Greatest indi movie EVER MADE!) Journey Quest follows a humorous troop of adventures along their quest... err... journey... err... well... you get the picture.
Anyway, great series. I think most of Season 1 is up and their funding for Season 2 is coming along.
Question though. The Lawyers and the Judge are what we would call 'Domain Experts'. They are intimately familiar with the laws, concepts, and issues that will be introduced to the jury. The jurors are not Domain Experts. They are lay people. They may (and often are) of less educated back grounds.
If the judge and lawyers come up with the jury instructions as domain experts, I can say with out a doubt that the average jury will almost always have some portion of the members not understand, that forget, or remember incorrectly.
Additionally, I would like to know (as I have never had the opportunity to serve on jury duty) what are jurors suppose to do if a lawyer or the judge uses words/phrases they are unfamiliar with or procedures that they do not understand? Can they raise their hands in the middle of an opening statement and ask the judge for a clarification? Do they have to write down their question and ask at a recess? Or are they left to just 'figure it out' on their own, with out being allowed to see any other reference material?
I'm just interested in how this is intended to play out, because as you point out, if I were a defendant, I wouldn't want my jurors looking up biased or incorrect information online. But not too long ago I heard about a trial where the jury requested a copy of the law that was allegedly violated in text, and it was refused. How can the jury make an informed decision if they aren't even allowed to understand the laws and concepts being debated.
It turns court rooms into nothing more that sales men with marketing campaigns. Which brand do you like better, Prosecutor Co. or Defendants Inc?
Nope. Atleast, not per mile driven. If you just light a gallon of gas and a gallon of diesel on fire, yeah, the diesel would probably be worse. But Diesels get on average ~30% better gas mileage then gas engines. So to get the same use out of the two fuels, you'd have to burn one gallon of gas and 2/3rds a gallon of Diesel.
As far as CO2 goes, Diesels are way better. But the trade off is that they generate more NOX. So you trade green house gases for smog.
Most of what you see coming out of Diesel exhaust is actually particulate matter. Primarily just carbon and some unburnt fuel. It looks bad, but it isn't nearly as bad for you or the environment as CO2 or NOX.
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Actually Netflix is paying for the CDN services, so the ISP isn't paying for upstream. Heck, in the case of Comcast, Netflix is even paying THEM too accept the CDN connection instead of going over their upstream providers.
The ISPs have over sold their lines. No surprise. It's not possible for an ISP to provite 100% (2000 customer in your example) 3Mbps service consuming 6Gbps of bandwidth for $30,000 in revenue. They can't even provide an order of magnitude LESS than that for $30,000.
Historically though, thanks to usage patterns, ISPs could grossly over sell their pipes, because significant quantities of viewers wouldn't all be hitting their cap constantly.
Usage patterns have changed. And ISPs will need to alter their sales patterns and pipe sizes to deal with it. Surprise, surprise, they can't keep selling the same 10 year old pipe to more and more users who have higher and higher demands.
-Rick
Netflix has content delivery networks all over the country with partnerships with most major ISPs. The stream you are getting from them is likely not even coming over the back bone of the internet, but through a CDN linked directly to your ISP regional center.
-Rick
Agreed, and:
he can no longer 'engage in acts of circumvention of TPMS in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.'
So he CAN still engage in acts of circumvention of TPMS in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in NON-copyrighted works.
-Rick
Lose value? You must not have been looking at the TDIs.
In 2006 I was looking for a new car, the Golf TDI was just the ticket. Only problem was getting one. We looked for a few months for a used one. We found a number of 2000-2004 Golf TDIs with 50k+ miles on them. The cheapest one was $16,000, and had close to 100k miles on it. We finally tracked down a new 2006 model and paid $21k for it.
We actually refinanced the loan, using the Golf as collatoral, so we could merge our two car loans together a few years ago. Yup, over 40k miles on it at the time, and the blue book for the TDI was still 18k.
I did pay to have someone else do the timing belt. It took him about 45 minutes, but he did have a number of specialty tools. I probably could have done it myself, but it would have taken the better part of a day and the cost of the tools.
Over 90k miles now, and other than the regular maintenance, the only issues I've ever had with it was a bad oxygen sensor (covered under the warrenty), some pin prick paint bubbles (manufacturer defect, VW wouldn't cover them), and a slipping clutch after some exceptionally spirited racing through a hilly course. And I still get ~44 mpg on my daily commute to and from work (mostly highway/interstate).
If this little thing is half the car that the Golf TDI is, it'll be worth every penny.
-Rick
I get probably a dozen emails delivered to my non-white listed folder every day (ie: through my providers spam filters) that are obviously phishing emails.
Really, any time an email comes in that contains a hyper link, where the content of the link is a URL, and that URL doesn't have the same domain as the src of the link, bounce the damn email as non-deliverable.
Yeah, I'm smart enough to not go to "us.battle.net.gonna.steal.your.password.com" or to "us.brttle.net" but really, why should these emails make it past even the most simple of filters?
-Rick
You do realise that VB.Net != VB, correct?
Saying VB.Net is dead is akin to saying that C# is dead. Which makes virtually no sense.
So long as Microsoft continues developing the .Net framework, there will be a VB.Net and C#, along with all the other .Net languages.
-Rick
In the .Net world, it's not quite that straight forward. For instance, Visual Studio 2010 is almost fully a .Net application (some parts are legacy C++ libraries/controls that just didn't get converted before launch). But being .Net just means that it was compiled to the .Net intermediate language. It could have been written in VB.Net, C#, J#, F#, PHP.Net, or any of the other high level .Net languages.
That's the awesome part of .Net. You can write in what ever language you are familiar with, against the same framework that everyone else uses. The majority of difference between C# and VB at this point are due to there having been 2 teams at MS working on the VB.Net and C# editors for Visual Studio. Now, those teams have been merged. VB.Net has single line parameters, C# has XML Literals, and they are continuing to become more and more similar functionally speaking. The only big difference left now is multi-line lambdas and that C# is case sensitive.
-Rick
Communism is a totalitarian system of centralized control.
communism is a negligable system of decentralized control foundationed by communal property and respect.
The problem with communism (small-c communism) is that there isn't a central control point. The power vacuum allows for the worst possible candidates to assume a position of power, thus leading to a Communism (big-c Communism).
Small-c communism actually works really well, in geographically limited close knit communities. We see it in part in Amish communities, in the old agrarian south (yeah, the communist party of America used to be based out of the bibble belt), and in "simpler times" when communication and distribution were much more limited.
But as soon as a small-c communism grows, things get ugly. You wind up with individual communities favoring themselves over the other communities, so you need someone to over see the whole lot to ensure that things are being done in the interest of the whole. But that immediately creates a position and a system for abuse and fraud. And eventually, those in power will seek more power (just like all political systems, even/especially democracy). And before you know it you have a big-c Communism with a centralized totalitarian government controling wages, production, distribution, and enjoying a level of comfort that is not inline with their citizens.
communism isn't inherantly evil or wrong. It's a governing tool, just like a monarchy, democracy, republic, etc... In some cases it works well. In some cases it works poorly.
-Rick
is now, "... on the phone"
-Rick
Years ago as a capstone project for college, myself and a few friends set up a media PC, web server, and PDA (Dell Axiom 3i) to allow us to use the PDA as a remote for the TV and Media PC.
It worked, and worked rather well IMO. But you can imagine the hassle and costs associated with setting up such a set up.
Using this technology, I could effectively strip it down to a single media PC. Sure, I'd lose the ability to set record schedules on my media PC from work, but I never really used that feature anyway ;)
Get a small LCD monitor (7-9" or so), put a touch screen over it, run that through a wireless mouse connection, put a lithium battery under it, shrink it up in some plastic and I could have a full media PC that I could use the mobile monitor for C&C and previews/commercial break channel flipping with out changing the main TV's output. Kinda like picture in picture only the in picture would be on your lap.
It would work. Not that I'll invest in it these days, but if I were a college student with a hankering for electronics and media systems again, it could be a fun project. And if you could get it to market for under $300 (mobile monitor and RF graphics card included) you might even be able to sell it.
-Rick
They don't know. They are list as "Jane Doe" and "John Doe" usually when the claiment wants to start things up before they know who they are sueing. RIAA cases are often like this when they are seeking injunctions/information from ISPs. They'll sue the "Does" so they can get a court order for the ISP to turn over the identities of people associated with the IP's they do have.
-Rick
Writing an application that can solve any Soduku you give it.
Both can be enjoyable.
-Rick
Nope. It was settled out of court and even then, it was a tort, handled in civil court. No presidence, but it can likely be pointed at if the judge allows it as evidence. It might be of more use to people appealing the fines though.
-Rick
But you can only get the missing front license plate ticket instead of the speeding ticket if someone is paying you to speed.
All normal citizens would get slammed with both fines.
-Rick
At what point does it become made available then? If Manning told 1 person all of the secrets, would he still be guilty?
If he had taken the CD and forgotten it in the back of a taxi, would he still be guilty?
What if he took the files, but just left them in a safe deposit box the rest of his life, would he still be guilty?
He broke protocol as soon as he moved the files off the secured network. What HE does with the files, HE will be punished for.
But if HE had sold them to a the Chinesse state run news agency instead, we wouldn't be going bonkers over arresting the board and shutting down the paper.
Likewise, if the NYT had published the leaks, we would not likely be seeing the CEO being locked up with a bail an order of magnitude larger than his net worth and limited to house arrest there after.
No, it is a matter of convenience. Wikileaks presents itself as a target that the US Federal government MAY be able to use to reduce the power of the press. Where a long established and financially sound corporation with lawyers and money on hand were to be targeted, an outrage would be spread by the mass media. But for Wikileaks, limited funds, limited legal backing, and limited social standing, coupled with the current legal challenges surrounding the word "journalist" and it creates a piniata for the expanse of federal power.
If the feds go after Wikileaks, and we do not see an increase in scope and power of the federal government through legislative or presidence setting rulings, I would be truely amazed.
Because lets face it. Wikileaks could be shut down tomorrow, and before dawn Wednesday, it's contents would be reposted on servers around the world and a dozen more leak-clones would appear.
If the US is going to shut down Wikileaks, they're going to go for the power grab to shut out a whole lot more.
"How were they available to the world?"
Where he put them is inmaterial. That he removed them from the secured network in and of itself was the violation.
"Right, because doing so in the way Assange is doing it in this case is breaking the law."
So in what way can they do it and not break the law?
And for those that are currently doing it in the exact same way as Wikileaks (reposting leaked documents) why are they not liable as well?
-Rick
The moment Manning took the docs out of the secured environment, they were available to the world.
Whether Manning sold them to the NYT, gave them to WL, shouted them from a soap box, or forgot them in a taxi. The cat was out of the bag.
If the law comes down on the first publisher to increase the spread of the information, then no major media outlets will be willing to break the ice. And once you have the mass media effectively silenced from releasing anything that could be considered sensitive (most of this stuff wasn't even classified) that the feds don't want released, you've taken a huge step away from democracy.
What's the difference between a state run news agency and an independent news agency that can be shut down and employees jailed for publishing information the government doesn't want them to?
-Rick
So by your argument, NYT, MSNBC, FOX, Guardian, and many other corporations are also guilty of the espionage equivilant of 'recieving stolen property'?
It's not like they don't know where the stuff is coming from. Or that they don't have a financial interest in seeing the information distributed. They are effectively laundering it, while turning a profit.
-Rick
So anyone who has ever recieved stolen property is guilty of the original theft?
-Rick
IIRC, they are requesting the followers for all of these individuals. If you have followed any of these people on Twitter, your name will be included.
Additionally, none of these people had anything to do with the leak. The leak was performed by a single man. A private in the Army who is currently being tried in a military court for leaking the documents where he will likely be found guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison.
These people are people who may have had some involvement in the publishing of the documents, or in supporting Julian Assange. The feds are likely trying to build out a profile to see if any of these assets can be leveraged against Assange (be it diplomatically or in court).
-Rick
Go to a private unsubsidized school? Go ahead and squander it.
Go to a public school where the tax payers are offsetting your costs, you better learn something.
I went to a private tech college. I don't think the quality of the education differed in any significant way from the local public tech colleges. The services were an order of magnitude better, but the education was virtually identical.
But most of the guys who had laptops in my classes, especially the lectures and non-computer related classes, sat in the back row and played unreal tournament. Laptops were providing nothing of value to those classes.
-Rick
Dude, you realize there are gay people serving with you RIGHT NOW. There were gay guys in the 90's. There were gay guys in the 2000's. And there are still gay guys now. (I'm sure there are gay women as well, but I only personally know of a number of gay men serving)
So if they didn't try to full fill your ass rape fantasy over your tour so far, they probably won't after DADT is repealed either.
-Rick
From the makers of "Dorkness Rising" (Greatest indi movie EVER MADE!) Journey Quest follows a humorous troop of adventures along their quest... err... journey... err... well... you get the picture.
Anyway, great series. I think most of Season 1 is up and their funding for Season 2 is coming along.
http://www.journey-quest.com/
-Rick
Question though. The Lawyers and the Judge are what we would call 'Domain Experts'. They are intimately familiar with the laws, concepts, and issues that will be introduced to the jury. The jurors are not Domain Experts. They are lay people. They may (and often are) of less educated back grounds.
If the judge and lawyers come up with the jury instructions as domain experts, I can say with out a doubt that the average jury will almost always have some portion of the members not understand, that forget, or remember incorrectly.
Additionally, I would like to know (as I have never had the opportunity to serve on jury duty) what are jurors suppose to do if a lawyer or the judge uses words/phrases they are unfamiliar with or procedures that they do not understand? Can they raise their hands in the middle of an opening statement and ask the judge for a clarification? Do they have to write down their question and ask at a recess? Or are they left to just 'figure it out' on their own, with out being allowed to see any other reference material?
I'm just interested in how this is intended to play out, because as you point out, if I were a defendant, I wouldn't want my jurors looking up biased or incorrect information online. But not too long ago I heard about a trial where the jury requested a copy of the law that was allegedly violated in text, and it was refused. How can the jury make an informed decision if they aren't even allowed to understand the laws and concepts being debated.
It turns court rooms into nothing more that sales men with marketing campaigns. Which brand do you like better, Prosecutor Co. or Defendants Inc?
-Rick
Nope. Atleast, not per mile driven. If you just light a gallon of gas and a gallon of diesel on fire, yeah, the diesel would probably be worse. But Diesels get on average ~30% better gas mileage then gas engines. So to get the same use out of the two fuels, you'd have to burn one gallon of gas and 2/3rds a gallon of Diesel.
As far as CO2 goes, Diesels are way better. But the trade off is that they generate more NOX. So you trade green house gases for smog.
Most of what you see coming out of Diesel exhaust is actually particulate matter. Primarily just carbon and some unburnt fuel. It looks bad, but it isn't nearly as bad for you or the environment as CO2 or NOX.
-Rick