I don't wear a tinfoil hat. But I don't go around with my eyes shut and then decide to open my mouth.
Comcast has already blocked bit torrent for a while. Not just pirates, but the entirety of the protocol (and seriously hampered anything they misidentified as bit torrent), including at the time the update program for a game that 18 million+ people played at the time (World of Warcraft). Yeah, I had to go grab a direct download to bypass their bit torrent block for a few weeks... Until they lifted it after being threatened by the FCC over NN. So blocking entire protocols has already been done.
Comcast, Time Warner already set it up so that their own video on demand services didn't count against your bandwidth limit per month. Again, rolled back because of NN concerns. If I am not mistaken, Verizon is still doing this on their cellular network today.
Killing off Netflix is easy when you drop your bandwidth caps to 50GB per month, but their video services don't count against that limit. You can rent a movie from iTunes for $3.99, but you'll pay $5 in bandwidth "overages" ($8.99), or you can rent it from the ISP for $6.99 and it won't count against your bandwidth usage ($6.99). Yeah, that happened.
Comcast/Verizon routing all netflix traffic through a tiny overallocated route has happened already. And then refuse to reroute part of the traffic around the congestion, AND refuse to upgrade the connection AND also refuse to allow netflix CDN boxes to be installed on thier network (AT NO COST!).
Censor? No. How could they even do that to encrypted streams.
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I'll just ignore your ignorance for now because it's not relevant to the conversation. You are concerned about censoring parts of movies. Try censoring the entirity of netflix. AKA:
route add 35.153.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 blackhole
Oh, sorry Mr. Smith, we block netflix to improve customer satisfaction. By eliminating the traffic from netflix (which was using 80% of our bandwidth), our internet ping times and available bandwidth to your email client is vastly improved!
Sorry, are you seriously trying to say that Comcast, Time Warner, etc (The majority of ISPs are also TV providers) have no reason at all to want to censor Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu? They have no reason to try and get people to switch back (or slow down) people from getting out from under their $250+ cable bills?
I think you are mistaken. The next big thing will just happen elsewhere (China, or the EU) where they don't have ISP issues. It'll filter here once/if it gets big enough to be able to afford the fees, so we will only be 5-7 years behind the rest of the world.
Well, except in the IT field, if you are out of the business for 4-6 years, then you can't really reenter again very easily. Your skills unless you at the top of your field when you left are out of date. Most industries aren't that brutal.
Ah, but the codes aren't copyrighted. The digital movie is, and it is Disney themselves (or their authorized digital distributor) who are actually giving the copy of the movie to the person.
If redbox transfers ownership of the physical disk, and then destroys it, I doubt that would invalidate the legality of either the code or the digital download rights of the new owner of the physical disk. I think most people are assuming that redbox is separating the two. Continuing to rent out the physical disk while selling the digital download code, which isn't in the summary here, or the unpaywalled version of the original article.
Then I would ask your IT department why they go through citrix rather than just letting you VPN in and remote desktop to your machine in the office. I do this all the time, and it supports multiple monitors just fine. I have two monitors at the office, and two at home, although the ones are home are larger with a higher resolution.
I agree as part of the bailout, we should have broken the companies up. Both GM and Ford likely would be better today if they were (as well as the consumers).
Corvette comes in #3, while the Tesla Model S comes in #14. Unless the model 3 has radically increased it's sourcing from the US, I suspect the Model 3 will remain around the 14th rank.
Hmm...I'd say the Chevrolet Corvette is more american made than the model 3. Considering that the vast majority of all those expensive components in the model 3 batteries are mined in China, and those batteries make up a large portion of the cost of the car, it'd be hard to make a claim otherwise.
It was worse on my motherboard. If you used one of the NVMe connectors you lost 4 SATA ports. If you used two of the NVMe connectors, you lost all 6. With both in RAID, it was also bottlenecked via the DMI->CPU connect and limited to 4GB/s (in theory), and in practice it was closer to 3.4GB/s. I had multiple Samsung 950 PROs in a RAID-0, and it wasn't worth it the hassle, so I replaced both with a larger single Samsung 960 PRO.
Fair point. I was basing my answer on the Model S, but if you opt for the Model 3 SR with the smaller battery, I suspect the handling will actually be quite good. I haven't seen any formal tests of it yet though. The LR with it's larger battery will accelerate better, but likely handle worse. Depending on if you want better acceleration or better handling, there is an option for you.
I like teslas, but their handling is below average for a sports car. The lower center of mass helps stability (keeps the car from rolling over), but it is still a heavy car, and won't handle as well as a current generation sports car. It's not terrible, and it is likely good enough for the vast majority of drivers -- it handles like a 1990s car. It's good enough to have a bit of fun in it, but expect to get slaughtered if you ever decide to take it to a track or autocross event.
Lol. I don't have to read a trial, or perform any "revisionism". I was there and lived it. The fact that netscape killed themselves was always the case, and it was clear back then that was the case.
Don't confuse lawyer antics and court "findings" as facts. They aren't the same thing. Courts often get things wrong, and the quotes you pulled aren't about what happened, but taken from one idiot inside a company of over 100,000. I'd love you find any group of 100,000 people that doesn't include at least a few idiots in it.
Did Microsoft want to "win" the browser wars? Sure. Did they make all kinds of plans to do so? Sure. And lots of people discussed lots of things that never happened, never got approved, and had nothing to do with the demise of netscape. Was it any of those plans that actually killed off Netscape? Nope. As I said, I was there. It wasn't hard to download another browser, and it definitely wasn't hard to update the browser I was already using, but the new version just sucked and Microsoft offered a better alternative. And I'm not an IE fan. Haven't used it (for other than comparability testing) in a very very long time (8-9 years maybe?)
Was going to reply to AC, but your post was spot on.
I too was right there, and I used netscape right up until it started sucking. That was right around the netscape 4.0/IE 5.0 timeframe. Then when IE started sucking (stuck at IE 6.0 forever), I switched back to firefox. Now I use chrome because it's much better than firefox.
That is a load of crap. Microsoft didn't kill netscape. Netscape killed netscape. Netscape died when they went to release version 4.0 and it was late, and a polished turd that was slow and ate memory. Microsoft released a better product and people switched.
As for Microsoft giving it away for free, well, netscape gave theirs away free FIRST. They included it in mailers, and made deals with ISPs to be given away for free for every person who signed up with the ISP. Microsoft just followed suit really. And well, if giving away a browser for free is so evil, why don't you complain about google, apple, samsung and everyone else who also gives away a free browser?
Ah, but it absolutely IS unique. There may be someone else incorrectly claiming that number was assigned to them, and it does happen, but the number absolutely is unique. Your father may "share" a number with someone else, but only one of them is correct.
The SSA attempted a few times to correct these errors, but were shut down by immigration lobbyists. That needs to change. If immigrants want to work here, fine, and if they want or need a SSN, then they should get one rather than just "borrowing" someone elses.
And stop being an anonymous coward. If you are going make incorrect statements like an idiot, then please, put your name to it, or don't post.
Why would you even bother? If you give access to the storage API, just generate a GUID and store that for retrieval on each subsequent hit. It's a much better beacon than what you proposed.
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I don't wear a tinfoil hat. But I don't go around with my eyes shut and then decide to open my mouth.
Comcast has already blocked bit torrent for a while. Not just pirates, but the entirety of the protocol (and seriously hampered anything they misidentified as bit torrent), including at the time the update program for a game that 18 million+ people played at the time (World of Warcraft). Yeah, I had to go grab a direct download to bypass their bit torrent block for a few weeks... Until they lifted it after being threatened by the FCC over NN. So blocking entire protocols has already been done.
Comcast, Time Warner already set it up so that their own video on demand services didn't count against your bandwidth limit per month. Again, rolled back because of NN concerns. If I am not mistaken, Verizon is still doing this on their cellular network today.
Killing off Netflix is easy when you drop your bandwidth caps to 50GB per month, but their video services don't count against that limit. You can rent a movie from iTunes for $3.99, but you'll pay $5 in bandwidth "overages" ($8.99), or you can rent it from the ISP for $6.99 and it won't count against your bandwidth usage ($6.99). Yeah, that happened.
Comcast/Verizon routing all netflix traffic through a tiny overallocated route has happened already. And then refuse to reroute part of the traffic around the congestion, AND refuse to upgrade the connection AND also refuse to allow netflix CDN boxes to be installed on thier network (AT NO COST!).
Censor? No. How could they even do that to encrypted streams.
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I'll just ignore your ignorance for now because it's not relevant to the conversation. You are concerned about censoring parts of movies. Try censoring the entirity of netflix. AKA:
route add 35.153.0.0 MASK 255.255.0.0 blackhole
Oh, sorry Mr. Smith, we block netflix to improve customer satisfaction. By eliminating the traffic from netflix (which was using 80% of our bandwidth), our internet ping times and available bandwidth to your email client is vastly improved!
The ISP's have no reason to censor
Sorry, are you seriously trying to say that Comcast, Time Warner, etc (The majority of ISPs are also TV providers) have no reason at all to want to censor Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu? They have no reason to try and get people to switch back (or slow down) people from getting out from under their $250+ cable bills?
Wow.
I think you are mistaken. The next big thing will just happen elsewhere (China, or the EU) where they don't have ISP issues. It'll filter here once/if it gets big enough to be able to afford the fees, so we will only be 5-7 years behind the rest of the world.
Well, except in the IT field, if you are out of the business for 4-6 years, then you can't really reenter again very easily. Your skills unless you at the top of your field when you left are out of date. Most industries aren't that brutal.
Ah, but the codes aren't copyrighted. The digital movie is, and it is Disney themselves (or their authorized digital distributor) who are actually giving the copy of the movie to the person.
If redbox transfers ownership of the physical disk, and then destroys it, I doubt that would invalidate the legality of either the code or the digital download rights of the new owner of the physical disk. I think most people are assuming that redbox is separating the two. Continuing to rent out the physical disk while selling the digital download code, which isn't in the summary here, or the unpaywalled version of the original article.
Then I would ask your IT department why they go through citrix rather than just letting you VPN in and remote desktop to your machine in the office. I do this all the time, and it supports multiple monitors just fine. I have two monitors at the office, and two at home, although the ones are home are larger with a higher resolution.
I agree as part of the bailout, we should have broken the companies up. Both GM and Ford likely would be better today if they were (as well as the consumers).
The gasoline and oil in the corvette uses, is almost completely produced in the US.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
Let's see.
http://www.american.edu/kogod/...
Corvette comes in #3, while the Tesla Model S comes in #14. Unless the model 3 has radically increased it's sourcing from the US, I suspect the Model 3 will remain around the 14th rank.
Hmm...I'd say the Chevrolet Corvette is more american made than the model 3. Considering that the vast majority of all those expensive components in the model 3 batteries are mined in China, and those batteries make up a large portion of the cost of the car, it'd be hard to make a claim otherwise.
I think it's mostly a new user base, and the scales tipped enough that many of the old user base either left, or just stopped commenting.
It was worse on my motherboard. If you used one of the NVMe connectors you lost 4 SATA ports. If you used two of the NVMe connectors, you lost all 6. With both in RAID, it was also bottlenecked via the DMI->CPU connect and limited to 4GB/s (in theory), and in practice it was closer to 3.4GB/s. I had multiple Samsung 950 PROs in a RAID-0, and it wasn't worth it the hassle, so I replaced both with a larger single Samsung 960 PRO.
Sounds like you are looking for a browser add-on so it lies about the window size. Feel free to write one.
Fair point. I was basing my answer on the Model S, but if you opt for the Model 3 SR with the smaller battery, I suspect the handling will actually be quite good. I haven't seen any formal tests of it yet though. The LR with it's larger battery will accelerate better, but likely handle worse. Depending on if you want better acceleration or better handling, there is an option for you.
I like teslas, but their handling is below average for a sports car. The lower center of mass helps stability (keeps the car from rolling over), but it is still a heavy car, and won't handle as well as a current generation sports car. It's not terrible, and it is likely good enough for the vast majority of drivers -- it handles like a 1990s car. It's good enough to have a bit of fun in it, but expect to get slaughtered if you ever decide to take it to a track or autocross event.
Must suck to be an android user.
Make your own cert then. Nothing is stopping you from self-signing a cert and then telling your browsers to trust it -- for free.
Lol. I don't have to read a trial, or perform any "revisionism". I was there and lived it. The fact that netscape killed themselves was always the case, and it was clear back then that was the case.
Don't confuse lawyer antics and court "findings" as facts. They aren't the same thing. Courts often get things wrong, and the quotes you pulled aren't about what happened, but taken from one idiot inside a company of over 100,000. I'd love you find any group of 100,000 people that doesn't include at least a few idiots in it.
Did Microsoft want to "win" the browser wars? Sure.
Did they make all kinds of plans to do so? Sure. And lots of people discussed lots of things that never happened, never got approved, and had nothing to do with the demise of netscape.
Was it any of those plans that actually killed off Netscape? Nope. As I said, I was there. It wasn't hard to download another browser, and it definitely wasn't hard to update the browser I was already using, but the new version just sucked and Microsoft offered a better alternative. And I'm not an IE fan. Haven't used it (for other than comparability testing) in a very very long time (8-9 years maybe?)
And that's why Microsoft is scared. As that ratio grows, Windows looks less and less compelling.
And what makes you think that Microsoft considers Windows a critical piece of their future? Take off your blinders, and wake up to 5 years ago.
Was going to reply to AC, but your post was spot on.
I too was right there, and I used netscape right up until it started sucking. That was right around the netscape 4.0/IE 5.0 timeframe. Then when IE started sucking (stuck at IE 6.0 forever), I switched back to firefox. Now I use chrome because it's much better than firefox.
That is a load of crap. Microsoft didn't kill netscape. Netscape killed netscape. Netscape died when they went to release version 4.0 and it was late, and a polished turd that was slow and ate memory. Microsoft released a better product and people switched.
As for Microsoft giving it away for free, well, netscape gave theirs away free FIRST. They included it in mailers, and made deals with ISPs to be given away for free for every person who signed up with the ISP. Microsoft just followed suit really. And well, if giving away a browser for free is so evil, why don't you complain about google, apple, samsung and everyone else who also gives away a free browser?
No, it is not since it is not unique
Ah, but it absolutely IS unique. There may be someone else incorrectly claiming that number was assigned to them, and it does happen, but the number absolutely is unique. Your father may "share" a number with someone else, but only one of them is correct.
The SSA attempted a few times to correct these errors, but were shut down by immigration lobbyists. That needs to change. If immigrants want to work here, fine, and if they want or need a SSN, then they should get one rather than just "borrowing" someone elses.
And stop being an anonymous coward. If you are going make incorrect statements like an idiot, then please, put your name to it, or don't post.
It's plenty good. 20Mbps upload is pretty good. Not great, but most people really don't need more than that.
Why would you even bother? If you give access to the storage API, just generate a GUID and store that for retrieval on each subsequent hit. It's a much better beacon than what you proposed.