I've got another idea for why 2-tier would suck. Or, more accurately, why 2-tier using QoS flags would suck. Let's say that you pay for QoS. Great, your packets have some some flag saying "I'm high priority" that your ISP will honor. What happens as soon as they leave the boundaries of your ISP? Do you have any guarantee that some router between you and your destination won't simply strip the flag off the packet? Nope, your ISP can't guarantee anything beyond their boundaries. How about packets coming back from the other end? Once again no guarantees. QoS... hmph!
Oh, and it also turns out that simply downloading the tools to break DRM ("trafficking" in the law's terms) is also a felony, even if you never actually crack the DRM.
Okay, so according to the DMCA we can't decrypt the thing ourselves, and we can't download tools to break the DRM. Is it still illegal if someone in another country decrypts the stuff for me, then sends me a CD with the decrypted contents? Since I "own" the content in the form of the DRM files, is it still against the DMCA to access non-DRM'd stuff?
Eh, I'd just tack on some phony-baloney apartment number to the address for each account. Lots of apartment complexes have a single street address for multiple apartments, and if I live in a house, then everything will come to my house anyway. They'd have to be pretty stupid to throttle what appears to be an apartment complex, not that I'd put that past them.
Oh! You thought I was talking about TFA? Haha, nah. Reading TFA smacks of effort. With a summary like that, why bother?! I have better things to do, like sawing my legs off with a dull hacksaw and pouring lemon juice in my eyes. Ah... memories.
It appears that politicians and bureaucrats are, after all, mental retards, because they will indeed buy into the notion that if a convicted monopolist puts the word "open" in front of some non-open "standard" (which is itself an abuse of the very notion of a standard), then everything is A-okay.
Good call. Certainly even these politicians have been around long enough to drop off their dry-cleaning at "1-Hour Dry-Kleeners" just to have the person behind the counter tell them "Okay, your clothes will be ready for pick up in two days." You learn quickly in this world that what someone calls something and what it actually is are two very different things. People signing up for AOL in Europe, America's Funniest Home Videos, a company named Microsoft when there's nothing micro about it, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"... Hmmph!
Try configuring the controls. Once I found out that I can change nearly every control to the key combination of my choice, I was delighted. Besides, why use the mouse when you can do the same thing much quicker from the keyboard?
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Wow, just cram in another paragraph and you could fit the whole "article" into the summary.
And yes, I did check the the other links on the page, but they didn't lead to much more information.
I've got another idea for why 2-tier would suck. Or, more accurately, why 2-tier using QoS flags would suck. Let's say that you pay for QoS. Great, your packets have some some flag saying "I'm high priority" that your ISP will honor. What happens as soon as they leave the boundaries of your ISP? Do you have any guarantee that some router between you and your destination won't simply strip the flag off the packet? Nope, your ISP can't guarantee anything beyond their boundaries. How about packets coming back from the other end? Once again no guarantees. QoS... hmph!
Oh, and it also turns out that simply downloading the tools to break DRM ("trafficking" in the law's terms) is also a felony, even if you never actually crack the DRM.
Okay, so according to the DMCA we can't decrypt the thing ourselves, and we can't download tools to break the DRM. Is it still illegal if someone in another country decrypts the stuff for me, then sends me a CD with the decrypted contents? Since I "own" the content in the form of the DRM files, is it still against the DMCA to access non-DRM'd stuff?
You suck? Well... okay, if you say so.
Eh, I'd just tack on some phony-baloney apartment number to the address for each account. Lots of apartment complexes have a single street address for multiple apartments, and if I live in a house, then everything will come to my house anyway. They'd have to be pretty stupid to throttle what appears to be an apartment complex, not that I'd put that past them.
Next thing you know, someone else is taking this info and posting it saying "It has to be true, I read it on Slashdot!"
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Wouldn't even surprise me if that article/blog/post then gets referenced in a "new" Slashdot article.
Which brings up another point: Could the Slashdot dupe generator get a stack overflow from infinite recursion?
Oh! You thought I was talking about TFA? Haha, nah. Reading TFA smacks of effort. With a summary like that, why bother?! I have better things to do, like sawing my legs off with a dull hacksaw and pouring lemon juice in my eyes. Ah... memories.
It appears that politicians and bureaucrats are, after all, mental retards, because they will indeed buy into the notion that if a convicted monopolist puts the word "open" in front of some non-open "standard" (which is itself an abuse of the very notion of a standard), then everything is A-okay.
... Hmmph!
Good call. Certainly even these politicians have been around long enough to drop off their dry-cleaning at "1-Hour Dry-Kleeners" just to have the person behind the counter tell them "Okay, your clothes will be ready for pick up in two days." You learn quickly in this world that what someone calls something and what it actually is are two very different things. People signing up for AOL in Europe, America's Funniest Home Videos, a company named Microsoft when there's nothing micro about it, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"
Ahem. Can it really be respectfully called a "mirror" when only the win32 version is available? Sigh... - Patiently Waiting Linux User
Try configuring the controls. Once I found out that I can change nearly every control to the key combination of my choice, I was delighted. Besides, why use the mouse when you can do the same thing much quicker from the keyboard?