That is good advice, but almost nobody will listen. I've been slowly weaning myself off personal internet use. Down to only using 5 web sites (this one being one of them). I've also been slowly weaning myself of using my debit card and using cash when possible.
You cannot be part of modern society and not use technology which could track you. I try to strike a balance. I consider most monthly bills a lost cause, there is no privacy for them, might as well have them automatically paid. What I want to do is leave only the minimum of electronic footprints. I cannot prevent the government knowing everything about my bank account, but I can prevent them from knowing what I'm buying by using cash. If they think I'm a threat, nothing will stop them. I do not plan on ever being a threat.
"the next big thing" has been moving between putting the compute power centrally (mainframe, mini, terminal server, etc) and putting compute power on the desk (PCs in various incarnations) since the mid 1980s. What people don't realize is IT is difficult and expensive to do well. At least if you keep your servers inhouse you can fire the asshole who screws up too badly. With sourced IT that doesn't happen. If you piss off your cloud provider they have your data so you do what they say. In a few years I expect compute power to move back to the desk top and someone will come up with some cool buzzword to extract money from stupid people by convincing them this new thing is so much better than the old thing you'd be a fool not to make the switch. No product ever lives up the the fantasies sales people have about it. I dream of the day when sales people will be legally accountable for what they tell the customer, much like a lawyer or doctor is.
Wrap your personal information inside some form of DRM and require acceptance of your EULA before opening it. Sort of a "technical jujitsu", take your opponents strengths and use it against them.
I wish I could do that to the DMV. Within a week of registering my car in FL I started receiving postal junk mail at my new address. I'd love to get involved in a class action lawsuit against them.
"SENDER of the content has had to always be the one to pay for their delivery costs to deliver data to the user. that's the way its' been for the last 20 some years."
This is blatantly untrue. For the past 20 years ISPs have used the "Bill and Keep" model. The ISP or provider on each end bills their own customers and keep the money. Netflix pays their ISP, the end user pays their ISP, everyone is happy. That is until the end user's ISP decides they want to hide the cost of updating their infrastructure to meet changing customer usage patterns and tries to extort money from other providers instead of raising their prices like every other company does when their costs change..
I don't recall ISPs trying to charge web sites extra money to deliver images when customer usage patterns changed from textual "browsing" to "graphic intensive browsing". ISPs simply upgraded their infrastructure.
They can either raise prices to cover the needed infrastructure or block Netflix with a message telling users they must upgrade to a higher tier in to be able to watch streaming video.
Where in the Intel video you posted a link to does it mention "3G" or "wireless". It infers "wireless" but I don't see anymore than that. Which standards do these "3G" chips support? EVDO? UMTS? Also, what frequency bands?
IPMI can do many of the management things Intel is crowing about in the video. Including powering on the server when it is powered off and getting KVM sessions.
Voicing your dissent by throttling FCC's access to networks you control is unlikely to get you in trouble. Trying to interfere with an election is an entirely different matter.
Telecommunications Act of 1996 forced local phone companies to sell access to their copper. In many parts of the country the wholesale price for a copper loop to the customer was MORE than the retail price for similar service from the ISP part of the telco. When those requirements were removed ISPs promptly stopped renewing the copper access contracts.
This is why you have a choice between the local phone company or the local cable company for internet service.
The USA has some of the highest statutory corporate tax rates. However, according to the GAO, their average effective tax rate after all the tax breaks is 12%, which is the lowest since 1972.
The anti-government nutjobs love to tell everyone the USA has some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. These people should start telling the whole truth, not just the parts they like.
Quorn is available in the USA in some supermarkets, but doesn't seem to get much press coverage. Soy based meat substitutes all have that "soy" taste, Quorn is made from mycoprotein and does not have that taste.
If an SMB does not have the resources to operate then they will not be successful. It doesn't matter what the resource is, office space, electricity, phone lines, etc. People who run SMBs seem to think electricity is important, but IT is not.
I see this all the time, an SMB customer buys telephone or internet service from the company I work for and then the customer thinks we have become their IT department. They are desperate for IT help, but not desperate enough to actually hire someone to take care of it. I have little sympathy for such companies.
Using a drone makes assassination inexpensive, easy, and risk-free, as compared to physically sending people. I do not want assassination it to be inexpensive, easy, or risk free. I want it to be expensive, difficult, and risky.
Nobody will "boycott the internet". I tried living without a personal e-mail address for a couple of months, it was much more difficult than expected. I continue to use the internet, but far less than before. Seldom purchase anything online anymore, seldom use debit/credit cards anymore. I've reduced my personal web usage to only a few web sites (slashdot being one of them), Cell phone usage drastically reduced. You know what would stop the NSA? If everyone stopped buying stuff online, stop using credit / debit cards, reduce or eliminate cell phone use, etc then business will start to realize the NSA is causing them to lose money and might try to do something about it. That will never happen. I can't stop NSA spying but I can reduce my online footprint. Paying with cash is one of the best counter surveillance methods available.
I would be outraged if the soldiers were drafted (conscripted) and forced to go to war. This is not what happened.
They applied for a job, they were trained in their job, they get paid (poorly) for their work. If they didn't want to get killed in war then they should not have applied for a job with the military.
There is plenty of other things be outraged about with regards to the Iraq War.
The only way to win is to not play the game. Unfortunately most people won't stop playing the game. They won't stop using the internet and won't stop using credit/debit cards. I am slowly weaning myself off the internet. At this point I use the internet around 90% less than before the Snowden revelations. I can't seem to give up that last 10% (which includes).
Verizon's cellular replacement does not support fax, modem, postage machines, alarm systems etc. I would not want to be a small business in that area. Unlike the copper, Verizon is not required to lease capacity on their cellular replacement. A nice comparison table between POTS and Cellular is at http://teletruth.org/POTSvsvoicelink.pdf Also see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/verizons-wireless-voice-l_b_3451383.html
"they all pay their share to the owner of the cables" This is not how it works in the USA. In the USA the owner of the cable in the ground will not lease capacity to ANY company. The could if they wanted to. They don't want to. The exception to this is the copper telephone infrastructure, the government forces telephone companies to lease capacity on the telco's copper facilities to other companies. The regulations do not require the phone company to actually maintain the copper in the ground. For a long time the wholesale price for an ISP to lease the copper to the customer were higher than those same services sold to the telco owned ISP. The Nederlands has a reasonably sane telecom regulatory framework. Don't assume the USA has the same.
The opposite question is more interesting. What happened to people growing their own food when the supermarket came along? We know what happened -- people eventually stopped growing their own food.
You are welcome to observe what goes on in public and report on it. What I don't want you to do is drive around an automated license plate reader and sell the data.
My cat had an aggressive cancer of the mouth a few months ago. The vet took a biopsy to confirm. I was told I could euthanize him or I could spend thousands of dollars on chemo multiple times a week at a facility a 4 hour drive away and hope against odds it worked or I could do nothing and he would get worse and worse until he died. The best advice they gave me is that there is nothing wrong with choosing to euthanize your pet. After about 6 weeks of doting on my cat and trying to make his remaining time the most awesome ever -- when he stopped eating and slept all the time I took him to the vet one last time. It felt like I murdered my best friend, but I still believe it was the right thing to do.
I have used http://www.duplicate-finder.com/photo.html (MS Windows only) because I could not find anything on Linux with similar functionality. It does work very well, it can find similar, but not identical images, such as the same picture saved in a different format or with different compression settings. It tends to slow down when working directories with multiple thousands of images.
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That is good advice, but almost nobody will listen. I've been slowly weaning myself off personal internet use. Down to only using 5 web sites (this one being one of them). I've also been slowly weaning myself of using my debit card and using cash when possible.
You cannot be part of modern society and not use technology which could track you. I try to strike a balance. I consider most monthly bills a lost cause, there is no privacy for them, might as well have them automatically paid. What I want to do is leave only the minimum of electronic footprints. I cannot prevent the government knowing everything about my bank account, but I can prevent them from knowing what I'm buying by using cash. If they think I'm a threat, nothing will stop them. I do not plan on ever being a threat.
"the next big thing" has been moving between putting the compute power centrally (mainframe, mini, terminal server, etc) and putting compute power on the desk (PCs in various incarnations) since the mid 1980s. What people don't realize is IT is difficult and expensive to do well. At least if you keep your servers inhouse you can fire the asshole who screws up too badly. With sourced IT that doesn't happen. If you piss off your cloud provider they have your data so you do what they say. In a few years I expect compute power to move back to the desk top and someone will come up with some cool buzzword to extract money from stupid people by convincing them this new thing is so much better than the old thing you'd be a fool not to make the switch. No product ever lives up the the fantasies sales people have about it. I dream of the day when sales people will be legally accountable for what they tell the customer, much like a lawyer or doctor is.
Wrap your personal information inside some form of DRM and require acceptance of your EULA before opening it. Sort of a "technical jujitsu", take your opponents strengths and use it against them.
I wish I could do that to the DMV. Within a week of registering my car in FL I started receiving postal junk mail at my new address. I'd love to get involved in a class action lawsuit against them.
"SENDER of the content has had to always be the one to pay for their delivery costs to deliver data to the user. that's the way its' been for the last 20 some years."
This is blatantly untrue. For the past 20 years ISPs have used the "Bill and Keep" model. The ISP or provider on each end bills their own customers and keep the money. Netflix pays their ISP, the end user pays their ISP, everyone is happy. That is until the end user's ISP decides they want to hide the cost of updating their infrastructure to meet changing customer usage patterns and tries to extort money from other providers instead of raising their prices like every other company does when their costs change..
I don't recall ISPs trying to charge web sites extra money to deliver images when customer usage patterns changed from textual "browsing" to "graphic intensive browsing". ISPs simply upgraded their infrastructure.
They can either raise prices to cover the needed infrastructure or block Netflix with a message telling users they must upgrade to a higher tier in to be able to watch streaming video.
Where in the Intel video you posted a link to does it mention "3G" or "wireless". It infers "wireless" but I don't see anymore than that. Which standards do these "3G" chips support? EVDO? UMTS? Also, what frequency bands?
IPMI can do many of the management things Intel is crowing about in the video. Including powering on the server when it is powered off and getting KVM sessions.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Do you have any evidence other than the web site of a known conspiracy theorist or a marketing video from Intel?
Voicing your dissent by throttling FCC's access to networks you control is unlikely to get you in trouble. Trying to interfere with an election is an entirely different matter.
Verizon has a public peering policy. https://business.verizon.com/MyBusinessAccount/one.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=gb_policy&page_id=peering_policy
I've not read through it carefully.
No, I don't know how much you pay in federal income tax. Why don't you tell us what percentage you pay in federal income taxes?
Would you prefer we go back to the federal income tax rates we had in the 1950's - 1970's?
Telecommunications Act of 1996 forced local phone companies to sell access to their copper. In many parts of the country the wholesale price for a copper loop to the customer was MORE than the retail price for similar service from the ISP part of the telco. When those requirements were removed ISPs promptly stopped renewing the copper access contracts.
This is why you have a choice between the local phone company or the local cable company for internet service.
Not bad cheese, bad (rye) bread.
The USA has some of the highest statutory corporate tax rates. However, according to the GAO, their average effective tax rate after all the tax breaks is 12%, which is the lowest since 1972.
The anti-government nutjobs love to tell everyone the USA has some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. These people should start telling the whole truth, not just the parts they like.
Quorn is available in the USA in some supermarkets, but doesn't seem to get much press coverage. Soy based meat substitutes all have that "soy" taste, Quorn is made from mycoprotein and does not have that taste.
If an SMB does not have the resources to operate then they will not be successful. It doesn't matter what the resource is, office space, electricity, phone lines, etc. People who run SMBs seem to think electricity is important, but IT is not.
I see this all the time, an SMB customer buys telephone or internet service from the company I work for and then the customer thinks we have become their IT department. They are desperate for IT help, but not desperate enough to actually hire someone to take care of it. I have little sympathy for such companies.
Using a drone makes assassination inexpensive, easy, and risk-free, as compared to physically sending people. I do not want assassination it to be inexpensive, easy, or risk free. I want it to be expensive, difficult, and risky.
Do you have suggestions for other ways to accomplish the same thing?
Nobody will "boycott the internet". I tried living without a personal e-mail address for a couple of months, it was much more difficult than expected. I continue to use the internet, but far less than before. Seldom purchase anything online anymore, seldom use debit/credit cards anymore. I've reduced my personal web usage to only a few web sites (slashdot being one of them), Cell phone usage drastically reduced. You know what would stop the NSA? If everyone stopped buying stuff online, stop using credit / debit cards, reduce or eliminate cell phone use, etc then business will start to realize the NSA is causing them to lose money and might try to do something about it. That will never happen. I can't stop NSA spying but I can reduce my online footprint. Paying with cash is one of the best counter surveillance methods available.
I would be outraged if the soldiers were drafted (conscripted) and forced to go to war. This is not what happened.
They applied for a job, they were trained in their job, they get paid (poorly) for their work. If they didn't want to get killed in war then they should not have applied for a job with the military.
There is plenty of other things be outraged about with regards to the Iraq War.
The only way to win is to not play the game. Unfortunately most people won't stop playing the game. They won't stop using the internet and won't stop using credit/debit cards. I am slowly weaning myself off the internet. At this point I use the internet around 90% less than before the Snowden revelations. I can't seem to give up that last 10% (which includes).
Verizon's cellular replacement does not support fax, modem, postage machines, alarm systems etc. I would not want to be a small business in that area. Unlike the copper, Verizon is not required to lease capacity on their cellular replacement. A nice comparison table between POTS and Cellular is at http://teletruth.org/POTSvsvoicelink.pdf Also see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/verizons-wireless-voice-l_b_3451383.html
"they all pay their share to the owner of the cables" This is not how it works in the USA. In the USA the owner of the cable in the ground will not lease capacity to ANY company. The could if they wanted to. They don't want to. The exception to this is the copper telephone infrastructure, the government forces telephone companies to lease capacity on the telco's copper facilities to other companies. The regulations do not require the phone company to actually maintain the copper in the ground. For a long time the wholesale price for an ISP to lease the copper to the customer were higher than those same services sold to the telco owned ISP. The Nederlands has a reasonably sane telecom regulatory framework. Don't assume the USA has the same.
The opposite question is more interesting. What happened to people growing their own food when the supermarket came along? We know what happened -- people eventually stopped growing their own food.
You are welcome to observe what goes on in public and report on it. What I don't want you to do is drive around an automated license plate reader and sell the data.
My cat had an aggressive cancer of the mouth a few months ago. The vet took a biopsy to confirm. I was told I could euthanize him or I could spend thousands of dollars on chemo multiple times a week at a facility a 4 hour drive away and hope against odds it worked or I could do nothing and he would get worse and worse until he died. The best advice they gave me is that there is nothing wrong with choosing to euthanize your pet. After about 6 weeks of doting on my cat and trying to make his remaining time the most awesome ever -- when he stopped eating and slept all the time I took him to the vet one last time. It felt like I murdered my best friend, but I still believe it was the right thing to do.
I have used http://www.duplicate-finder.com/photo.html (MS Windows only) because I could not find anything on Linux with similar functionality. It does work very well, it can find similar, but not identical images, such as the same picture saved in a different format or with different compression settings. It tends to slow down when working directories with multiple thousands of images.
I was thinking more along the lines of starting a nice public push for muni fiber.