Throttling is a QoS tecnique of slowing down transmission of lower-priority packets in favor of higher priority packets. To be quite frank, when you're on a cable line (RCN is ia cable provider, FYI), you know you're sharing it with your neighbors. Cable is not a dedicated line, and there's no reasonable expectation of such regardless of how marketing material puff it up. That's the nature of the technology in question. If a home user wanted a dedicated line, they'd have to pay for a dedicated line, not cable broadband.
It's completely reasonable to expect slowing down the transmission of packets that simply have a lower priority for the purpose of QoS using a connection shared between many clients. If a connection drops because of a timeout, then that's too bad. It's not a big deal, because that happens too in QoS (in fact, it'd happen without QoS, but for all of the users), and is more a symptom of the timeout of the client being set too low.
You can't comapre that to Comcast, which was forging packet contents to force P2P and high-bandwidth connections to outright drop.
RCN used QoS techniques on their network, which is expected. They weren't filtering BT or P2P per se. I'm not completely sure what this is in regards to, but I've never seen them as the big bad that Comcast was.
Well, it'd be the same if it was something you wrote like your journal or something about others like Harriet's notebook.
Took it, made a photocopy, and the put the original back. That sums up copyright infringement right there. Oh wait, it is copyright infringement. But it isn't stealing.
They get paid by impressions, which is effectively page views. Thus, the winning formula is:
#Users X #Popular Pages = $$$
So the more "popular" the pages they put out, the more page views and hence the more money they make. It's their alternative to the industry standard method of splitting a short article into 5 pages. Engadget is the same.
Apple has a large fanboi base, which means they'll fervently click on any link with the word iPad, iPod, or iPhone in the title. They're taking advantage of the fanbois' unconscious impulse to click on anything Apple.
Thinking? Thinking? They aren't paid to think! They're paid to boss around students and teachers and convince parents that they're doing a good job.
All kidding aside, they're not proactive, they're reactive. Which means that they'll do something and if it somehow results in a lawsuit, they'll ban it. Otherwise, they'll just keep doing it.
Space is cold, but the rocky planets and most of the planet-sized moons of the gas planets have geothermal activity. So while the atmosphere and surface may be cold, subsurface temperatures can be much higher--high enough to allow for life.
1) The USPS is self-sufficient. They do not get money from the Congress' budget. 2) The Federal Reserve is not the one who prints money. The US Mint is. The Federal Reserve is what keeps the money worth what it is (or at least tries to). 3) A significant amount of tax money goes to defense research. While there is certainly trickle-down effect (the internet being one), the majority of the research stays behind closed doors. Yet, this "defense" budget has done little for US citizens except incite hatred in other parts of the world to the point where they take extreme actions in order to get revenge.
If there was one major source of funding for terrorism in the world, it's your tax dollars. And while the funding isn't always directly going to the terrorists (Iran), it certainly can be (Al Queda).
Careful using a broad brush when you paint your pictures, it smacks of an untrained eye and mind.
You can say the same the other way around too. Just like GP, you're cherry-picking the incidents that promote your world view. I'm sure there are plenty of protests in China that don't result in violence. As there are plenty of protests in the US that do.
Your excuse for the crap that the military has pulled is bad apples. I'm sure China can use the same excuse. But you can't say that approved torture (waterboarding) was done by a few bad apples. But I guess since it was done on non-Americans only, it doesn't count. Or is it because waterboarding isn't "torture" anymore?
If you want to be on the high horse, then you have to be squeaky clean. And from the excuses you're making, you obviously are not. So you're in no position to be on that high horse.
And yet there's still a lot of noise coming from the US and the US government about human rights violations in other countries. You don't see Chinese peopel or China making a lot of noise about US waterboarding. And then you have the gall to wonder why people abroad could ever possibly call Americans a bunch of nosy hypocrites.
Your house rules are pretty much the actual rules of the game, with maybe the exception of #2. But you don't really need #3. If you're playing English Scrabble, the spellings of foreign letters (in this case, they're not even latin letters) that have become words in the English langauge should be perfectly acceptable. E.g., alpha also means first or top, beta means in test or unfinished, delta means change or river delta, omega means last. But something like psi shouldn't be a valid word, nor rho, as neither has an English definition.
If SAM meant surface-to-air missile, then I suspect the sites may have been reactivated after 9/11. It's just speculation, but that would be the logical knee-jerk reaction. Then again, common sense is anything but common, so maybe not.
Just 'cause it's April 1st doesn't automatically mean that everything posted on this day is funny. Guess what? It's not funny! Insightful! Informative! But not funny!
I think hands free is a good compromise. If your Toyota suddenly accelerates out of control, your other hand wouldn't be too busy holding your phone to put your car into neutral.
It's far safer to drive with both hands unoccupied than just one hand. The second hand isn't always occupied, but in the few situations when you do need to use it, you really do.
Then it's just a matter of somebody writing up a proof of concept BT client that only connects to swarms, but does not download or upload. That probably wouldn't be sufficient to win the case, but it would put holes into the argument that a peer is automatically an infringer.
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You're right. This sounds like this'll easily run afoul of stalking laws.
network management practice called 'throttling,'
Throttling is a QoS tecnique of slowing down transmission of lower-priority packets in favor of higher priority packets. To be quite frank, when you're on a cable line (RCN is ia cable provider, FYI), you know you're sharing it with your neighbors. Cable is not a dedicated line, and there's no reasonable expectation of such regardless of how marketing material puff it up. That's the nature of the technology in question. If a home user wanted a dedicated line, they'd have to pay for a dedicated line, not cable broadband.
It's completely reasonable to expect slowing down the transmission of packets that simply have a lower priority for the purpose of QoS using a connection shared between many clients. If a connection drops because of a timeout, then that's too bad. It's not a big deal, because that happens too in QoS (in fact, it'd happen without QoS, but for all of the users), and is more a symptom of the timeout of the client being set too low.
You can't comapre that to Comcast, which was forging packet contents to force P2P and high-bandwidth connections to outright drop.
Big brother is only as transparent and benign as he/it wants to be.
Benevolent dictatorship is still dictatorship. The vassals are still subject to the whims of the master.
RCN used QoS techniques on their network, which is expected. They weren't filtering BT or P2P per se. I'm not completely sure what this is in regards to, but I've never seen them as the big bad that Comcast was.
Well, it'd be the same if it was something you wrote like your journal or something about others like Harriet's notebook.
Took it, made a photocopy, and the put the original back. That sums up copyright infringement right there. Oh wait, it is copyright infringement. But it isn't stealing.
They get paid by impressions, which is effectively page views. Thus, the winning formula is:
#Users X #Popular Pages = $$$
So the more "popular" the pages they put out, the more page views and hence the more money they make. It's their alternative to the industry standard method of splitting a short article into 5 pages. Engadget is the same.
Apple has a large fanboi base, which means they'll fervently click on any link with the word iPad, iPod, or iPhone in the title. They're taking advantage of the fanbois' unconscious impulse to click on anything Apple.
The "eyes" part I can understand, but I really don't get why you'd need to be on your knees...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me dozens of times, I'm an Apple customer."
And I'll get fooled again.
But that's because Jersey is in the way.
What the hell are they thinking?
Thinking? Thinking? They aren't paid to think! They're paid to boss around students and teachers and convince parents that they're doing a good job.
All kidding aside, they're not proactive, they're reactive. Which means that they'll do something and if it somehow results in a lawsuit, they'll ban it. Otherwise, they'll just keep doing it.
Space is cold, but the rocky planets and most of the planet-sized moons of the gas planets have geothermal activity. So while the atmosphere and surface may be cold, subsurface temperatures can be much higher--high enough to allow for life.
Hence the reason why the whole 3D thing is and will be nothing more than a gimmick.
Some inaccuracies:
1) The USPS is self-sufficient. They do not get money from the Congress' budget.
2) The Federal Reserve is not the one who prints money. The US Mint is. The Federal Reserve is what keeps the money worth what it is (or at least tries to).
3) A significant amount of tax money goes to defense research. While there is certainly trickle-down effect (the internet being one), the majority of the research stays behind closed doors. Yet, this "defense" budget has done little for US citizens except incite hatred in other parts of the world to the point where they take extreme actions in order to get revenge.
If there was one major source of funding for terrorism in the world, it's your tax dollars. And while the funding isn't always directly going to the terrorists (Iran), it certainly can be (Al Queda).
US Navy Seals shot and killed 3 pirates last year.
Dick Cheney shot a lawyer.
Goldman Sachs.
1) Infiltrate government.
2) Remove regulations.
3) Profit!
Careful using a broad brush when you paint your pictures, it smacks of an untrained eye and mind.
You can say the same the other way around too. Just like GP, you're cherry-picking the incidents that promote your world view. I'm sure there are plenty of protests in China that don't result in violence. As there are plenty of protests in the US that do.
Your excuse for the crap that the military has pulled is bad apples. I'm sure China can use the same excuse. But you can't say that approved torture (waterboarding) was done by a few bad apples. But I guess since it was done on non-Americans only, it doesn't count. Or is it because waterboarding isn't "torture" anymore?
If you want to be on the high horse, then you have to be squeaky clean. And from the excuses you're making, you obviously are not. So you're in no position to be on that high horse.
And yet there's still a lot of noise coming from the US and the US government about human rights violations in other countries. You don't see Chinese peopel or China making a lot of noise about US waterboarding. And then you have the gall to wonder why people abroad could ever possibly call Americans a bunch of nosy hypocrites.
Who wouldn't?
Your house rules are pretty much the actual rules of the game, with maybe the exception of #2. But you don't really need #3. If you're playing English Scrabble, the spellings of foreign letters (in this case, they're not even latin letters) that have become words in the English langauge should be perfectly acceptable. E.g., alpha also means first or top, beta means in test or unfinished, delta means change or river delta, omega means last. But something like psi shouldn't be a valid word, nor rho, as neither has an English definition.
As for en, it actually is an English word with a meaning other than the letter "N". Of course, the meaning is derived from the letter (it came from the width of the letter "n" being half that of the letter "m"), but that's not relevant in determining whether it's an actual word or not.
Hm, weird... The original post in the "reply" page has a second list of numbers next to the first. It's also in the preview page.
Don't forget numerical digits; you can't spell "LOL!!11!" without "1".
Not a TLA.
If SAM meant surface-to-air missile, then I suspect the sites may have been reactivated after 9/11. It's just speculation, but that would be the logical knee-jerk reaction. Then again, common sense is anything but common, so maybe not.
Just 'cause it's April 1st doesn't automatically mean that everything posted on this day is funny. Guess what? It's not funny! Insightful! Informative! But not funny!
And here, I thought all along that it was because they surrendered easily...
I think hands free is a good compromise. If your Toyota suddenly accelerates out of control, your other hand wouldn't be too busy holding your phone to put your car into neutral.
It's far safer to drive with both hands unoccupied than just one hand. The second hand isn't always occupied, but in the few situations when you do need to use it, you really do.
Then it's just a matter of somebody writing up a proof of concept BT client that only connects to swarms, but does not download or upload. That probably wouldn't be sufficient to win the case, but it would put holes into the argument that a peer is automatically an infringer.