What you're talking about is "Application Neutrality", which is also discussed.
There may be good reasons to have Application Neutrality, but you don't get to re-define Network Neutrality because you have your own misunderstanding of the phrase.
Net Neutrality is not only about throttling one particular company. It's about applying any filter that causes some data to be treated differently to another.
The "Net" refers to networks. As in, I'm neutral as to how I treat packets from network A and network B.
You may want ISPs to be neutral about how they treat packets on criteria other than their source and destination, but that isn't Net Neutrality. That's something else entirely.
ISPs can throttle and apply QoS polices to traffic and maintain network neutrality as long as the selection criteria isn't based on src or dst.
How can the EU court rule on anything outside of Europe?
1. USACorp is based in the United States. They have done well, and have expanded across the globe. 2. They notice they can't sell ads or other products as well without local staff managing the language and cultural differences, so they setup a company based in the EU. This also makes it easier for their EU customers to purchase from them. 3. USACorp does something the people of France don't like. They are told to stop doing it in France, and they comply. 4. France notices that only stopping it in France doesn't really stop anything, so they demand USACorp stop doing it everywhere. 5. USACorp refuses. 6. France threatens to fine the French branch of USACorp countless Euros, or makes them close. 7. USACorp realizes that not being able to sell in France is more expensive than stopping whatever France didn't want them to do, so they volunteer to comply with French law globally.
So, no, the EU can't tell a company that is 100% based and served in the USA what to do. But they can, and do, tell companies that want to operate with servers and staff in the EU what they can do if they want to stay.
I wouldn't expect too much improvement on the algorithm side of things, we've already been optimizing those as much as possible for years because current hardware can't keep up.
I think that they're talking about doing more low-level programming instead of things like Java.
I know there are plenty of places where the latency won't matter, but geosynch satellites will never have widespread usage for internet.
I could see a mode where geosynch does the heavy lifting while other low latency & low bandwidth methods do the SSH and other low latency stuff.
Imagine browsing the Netflix list while on a LEO sat, and then when you click on the movie, the stream comes from a high-bandwidth, high latency GEO sat.
If that happens, then geosynch satellites may have a very high usage for Internet, in terms of bits moved.
I had a Pocket PC 2000 OS phone back in the day, and loved it. It could do stuff that today's iPhone still can't do.
However, it was slow and buggy as hell. One of the reasons is that it behaved like a Windows PC, and I could do whatever the hell I wanted. My ringtones, per contact, would change depending on where I was and what I was doing, silencing was controlled by my calendar and location as well.
Then, one day I needed to make a call for work, and my phone was BRICKED.
I realized I had a laptop I could fuck around with, but in the end, I wanted my phone to JUST WORK.
Once I got an iPhone 3GS, I was hooked. Sure, it was limited, but I was able to talk, text and email all the time, every time, and it didn't crash once. I also never jailbroke it. I've never seen the point to doing that with Apple products. If I wanted to fuck around with my phone, I'd have an Android. They are obviously more flexible, but they're also less stable, from what I've seen.
This is also why I don't use my own Linux homebrew box for a DVD player. All disk players on the market today are basically little Linux computers that are heavily locked down. They restrict your choices, and that makes them more stable.
I like the App Store model *for my phone*, and I like knowing there is only so much an app can fuck with on my OS.
Now, for my computer that I do work on, I want none of this. But for something that I value reliability over functionality, Apple's handheld devices (iPhone, Watch, iPad) work very well for me.
They have to obey local laws. What has to be the same is pricing.
Then that is bullshit.
If you want people in your country to have certain content banned, then it is completely reasonable to charge differently in that country. This should be a two-way street.
This is exactly the same thing that happened with Napster and others. It wasn't JUST the enforcement that caused music piracy to switch from widespread to niche, it was the ability to buy songs on iTunes, and more and more streaming options. Normal people will jump to piracy when they can see they're being screwed. The music industry wouldn't adapt until people started pirating at a widespread pace, and then they did. Sure, many people still pirate music, but a majority of people stream it, either by an ad-supported service or by paying for a subscription. The same thing has finally happened with video. HBO is a good one to use as an example. Game of Thrones was only available with HBO on a pay-TV subscription. They added the ability to buy seasons online, but that was too expensive for a single show. Then, they did HBO Now (again, Apple helped make that happen), and many people decided that the price was fair for the benefits it gave them, and far fewer people were torrenting it. The lesson is that when corporations get too greedy, people work around them. They can still be plenty greedy, though, and as long as people feel they're getting a reasonably fair deal, they'll go legit. Enforcement alone didn't kill TPB, businesses adapting caused fewer people to fight against the enforcement.
Australia relies on radio, TV and SMS/phone alerts - no sirens.
Part of the reason sirens are used is that they don't depend on the same centralized systems, normally.
If the storms have knocked out power, the only likely remaining source active is SMS, and not everyone has it, or has it charged. It is not uncommon for a storm to knock out power, preventing everyone with their phone charge level in the single digits from recharging, and then a more severe storm to show up a few hours later.
The sirens are almost always equipped with battery backup and can be activated without a central system. That distributed nature may also be what was leveraged to commit this attack.
Are the major of people killed by handguns killed in justifiable self-defense?
Are most defensive gun uses reported, or even result in a gun being fired?
That's honestly the hardest part with this debate. We simply have no idea when the mere brandishing of a gun caused a potential victim to move on unharmed while the attacker left.
I'd love to actually see some method of reporting an tracking DGU, just do know the answer, whatever it is.
I really hate these studies, because they don't give us actionable information. What I'd like to see:
-Those that never drank in their lives vs those that drank moderately vs those that were heavy drinkers at a younger age and drink moderately now vs those that were moderate drinkers and quit, and several other permutations. -"Drinks per day/week" replaced with "ml of pure alcohol per kg of body weight, per day/week". A woman drinking a "glass" of wine at 110 lbs is not the same as a man drinking a "beer" at 300 lbs, and both the wine and the beer can vary wildly from one size glass to another, or a 5% standard beer vs a 7-10% craft beer.
-I don't care what my local chain thinks -I know a lot of people with families that would FAR rather pay $30 for their family to watch a movie at home (with pause and rewind) than pay $60+ to go to the movies -These same people already pay for their home theater to be the way THEY want, which includes no sticky floors and annoying assholes that disrupt movies. -There are many films, like comedies, that some of us REFUSE to see in the theater. The jokes that come second, and you can't hear because people are already laughing, are often the best ones. -I recently saw a movie on my own. I paid $14 between my ticket and food/drink. That wasn't a bad deal. My family was mildly interested, but not enough to spring for all of them to go. I would have gladly paid $30 to watch at home with them, and the studio would have got far more out of me.
To make things more human friendly, you can do the 15minute blocks thing, and base it on UTC.
That's my point from the start.
Once you realize that in order to have blocks of time available for everyone to come together, you've accepted work meetings are best done in UTC, and personal time done in solar time if you wish.
I've worked in exactly one business that did everything in UTC, and it was awesome.
The iCalendar/iCal format, and many others, already solved that
How do they solve the inconsistent start times?
Let's say I want to meet right when I start my day, at 8:00am solar time. I'm going to have a 30 minute meeting with people in 3 other places. Person A accepts my invite, and they get a meeting start time of 7:47am solar. They're cool, so they start 13 minutes early. Person B gets 10:11am solar. They'll have to leave 11 minutes early, because they have a 10:30am solar meeting. Person C gets 1:29pm solar, and they can only stay for 5 minutes before running to another invite they got at 1:34pm.
The point is that even with calendaring software, having set start times in 15 minute intervals eliminates a lot of overlap that happens when you do meetings starting at any 1 of 60 minutes.
It is hard enough to find a meeting with everyone starting at 15 minutes after the hour. I would likely never get a meeting if we all started a different times.
There's very little difference between driving at 40 mph and 120 mph when the car is autonomous.
Yet, there is a HUGE difference on how much kinetic energy a self-propelled 1,500kg projectile will transfer at 40 mph and 120 mph.
The point is, until they get them well-proven, (and they will, in time), let's limit the damage a minor programming error can cause.
After that, yes, let's start zipping down the highway at 180mph in a NASCAR-esqe parade only inches from the car in front. Automatic cars can join the high-speed lane for the bulk of their trip and cleanly permit cars to leave and join the train.
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Try again. This is the document that coined the phrase "Network Neutrality".
http://www.jthtl.org/content/a...
What you're talking about is "Application Neutrality", which is also discussed.
There may be good reasons to have Application Neutrality, but you don't get to re-define Network Neutrality because you have your own misunderstanding of the phrase.
Net Neutrality is not only about throttling one particular company. It's about applying any filter that causes some data to be treated differently to another.
The "Net" refers to networks. As in, I'm neutral as to how I treat packets from network A and network B.
You may want ISPs to be neutral about how they treat packets on criteria other than their source and destination, but that isn't Net Neutrality. That's something else entirely.
ISPs can throttle and apply QoS polices to traffic and maintain network neutrality as long as the selection criteria isn't based on src or dst.
I suspect this is for the Apple Music platform, which is one of the few things Apple has let go outside their hardware.
They need something that makes buying their service at $10 a month better than Google's YouTube/Music service at $10 a month.
In other words, this may be the very thing that causes Apple to branch out more and tear their walls down a little.
I am long aware of it, yet I still think it is a bullshit policy.
I can find their products better than the alternative and still take issue with their silence on bugs and security issues.
I'd like to hear Apple's rationale - too often, security is sacrificed in the name of "safety"
As an Apple customer, so would I.
Sadly, Apple has not commented on it.
If they have good reasons for not doing it, fine. Tell us about it, then.
There's no option for "while using".
IIRC, this is fixed in iOS 11. The OS will force apps to have the "while using" as an option for all apps.
How can the EU court rule on anything outside of Europe?
1. USACorp is based in the United States. They have done well, and have expanded across the globe.
2. They notice they can't sell ads or other products as well without local staff managing the language and cultural differences, so they setup a company based in the EU. This also makes it easier for their EU customers to purchase from them.
3. USACorp does something the people of France don't like. They are told to stop doing it in France, and they comply.
4. France notices that only stopping it in France doesn't really stop anything, so they demand USACorp stop doing it everywhere.
5. USACorp refuses.
6. France threatens to fine the French branch of USACorp countless Euros, or makes them close.
7. USACorp realizes that not being able to sell in France is more expensive than stopping whatever France didn't want them to do, so they volunteer to comply with French law globally.
So, no, the EU can't tell a company that is 100% based and served in the USA what to do. But they can, and do, tell companies that want to operate with servers and staff in the EU what they can do if they want to stay.
How do you know that repairability is so much more expensive?
Because companies are still going to plan on making money at the same rate.
If something lasts longer, they'll charge more for it.
I wouldn't expect too much improvement on the algorithm side of things, we've already been optimizing those as much as possible for years because current hardware can't keep up.
I think that they're talking about doing more low-level programming instead of things like Java.
Upgrading to 10 was a disaster for us since we had to find alternatives for programs we had used for many years.
You kids. Try upgrading from Netware 3.11 to Netware 4.0, only 2 years later. You couldn't even have the versions co-exist on the same LAN at first!
You've used the same programs for "many years" and bitch about having to find a version that actually stays current after all that time?
I know there are plenty of places where the latency won't matter, but geosynch satellites will never have widespread usage for internet.
I could see a mode where geosynch does the heavy lifting while other low latency & low bandwidth methods do the SSH and other low latency stuff.
Imagine browsing the Netflix list while on a LEO sat, and then when you click on the movie, the stream comes from a high-bandwidth, high latency GEO sat.
If that happens, then geosynch satellites may have a very high usage for Internet, in terms of bits moved.
I had a Pocket PC 2000 OS phone back in the day, and loved it.
It could do stuff that today's iPhone still can't do.
However, it was slow and buggy as hell. One of the reasons is that it behaved like a Windows PC, and I could do whatever the hell I wanted. My ringtones, per contact, would change depending on where I was and what I was doing, silencing was controlled by my calendar and location as well.
Then, one day I needed to make a call for work, and my phone was BRICKED.
I realized I had a laptop I could fuck around with, but in the end, I wanted my phone to JUST WORK.
Once I got an iPhone 3GS, I was hooked. Sure, it was limited, but I was able to talk, text and email all the time, every time, and it didn't crash once. I also never jailbroke it. I've never seen the point to doing that with Apple products. If I wanted to fuck around with my phone, I'd have an Android. They are obviously more flexible, but they're also less stable, from what I've seen.
This is also why I don't use my own Linux homebrew box for a DVD player. All disk players on the market today are basically little Linux computers that are heavily locked down. They restrict your choices, and that makes them more stable.
I like the App Store model *for my phone*, and I like knowing there is only so much an app can fuck with on my OS.
Now, for my computer that I do work on, I want none of this. But for something that I value reliability over functionality, Apple's handheld devices (iPhone, Watch, iPad) work very well for me.
They have to obey local laws. What has to be the same is pricing.
Then that is bullshit.
If you want people in your country to have certain content banned, then it is completely reasonable to charge differently in that country.
This should be a two-way street.
Yeah, that's what ARIN says, but I've seen several companies sell off their IPv4 space to other companies, and ARIN doesn't revoke the transfer.
Trump will release full visitor logs five years after the current term ends.
Sure he will. Right after he released his tax returns.
This is exactly the same thing that happened with Napster and others.
It wasn't JUST the enforcement that caused music piracy to switch from widespread to niche, it was the ability to buy songs on iTunes, and more and more streaming options.
Normal people will jump to piracy when they can see they're being screwed. The music industry wouldn't adapt until people started pirating at a widespread pace, and then they did.
Sure, many people still pirate music, but a majority of people stream it, either by an ad-supported service or by paying for a subscription.
The same thing has finally happened with video. HBO is a good one to use as an example. Game of Thrones was only available with HBO on a pay-TV subscription. They added the ability to buy seasons online, but that was too expensive for a single show.
Then, they did HBO Now (again, Apple helped make that happen), and many people decided that the price was fair for the benefits it gave them, and far fewer people were torrenting it.
The lesson is that when corporations get too greedy, people work around them. They can still be plenty greedy, though, and as long as people feel they're getting a reasonably fair deal, they'll go legit.
Enforcement alone didn't kill TPB, businesses adapting caused fewer people to fight against the enforcement.
Oh, cool! I can't wait to see if I got something neat!
Oh, yeah. Ocean.
Australia relies on radio, TV and SMS/phone alerts - no sirens.
Part of the reason sirens are used is that they don't depend on the same centralized systems, normally.
If the storms have knocked out power, the only likely remaining source active is SMS, and not everyone has it, or has it charged. It is not uncommon for a storm to knock out power, preventing everyone with their phone charge level in the single digits from recharging, and then a more severe storm to show up a few hours later.
The sirens are almost always equipped with battery backup and can be activated without a central system.
That distributed nature may also be what was leveraged to commit this attack.
Are the major of people killed by handguns killed in justifiable self-defense?
Are most defensive gun uses reported, or even result in a gun being fired?
That's honestly the hardest part with this debate. We simply have no idea when the mere brandishing of a gun caused a potential victim to move on unharmed while the attacker left.
I'd love to actually see some method of reporting an tracking DGU, just do know the answer, whatever it is.
A scientifically-standard drink is 10mL of pure ethanol in carrier medium.
Yet a standard drink is useless without a standard amount of blood for said drink to swim through before it hits the brain.
I really hate these studies, because they don't give us actionable information.
What I'd like to see:
-Those that never drank in their lives vs those that drank moderately vs those that were heavy drinkers at a younger age and drink moderately now vs those that were moderate drinkers and quit, and several other permutations.
-"Drinks per day/week" replaced with "ml of pure alcohol per kg of body weight, per day/week". A woman drinking a "glass" of wine at 110 lbs is not the same as a man drinking a "beer" at 300 lbs, and both the wine and the beer can vary wildly from one size glass to another, or a 5% standard beer vs a 7-10% craft beer.
-I don't care what my local chain thinks
-I know a lot of people with families that would FAR rather pay $30 for their family to watch a movie at home (with pause and rewind) than pay $60+ to go to the movies
-These same people already pay for their home theater to be the way THEY want, which includes no sticky floors and annoying assholes that disrupt movies.
-There are many films, like comedies, that some of us REFUSE to see in the theater. The jokes that come second, and you can't hear because people are already laughing, are often the best ones.
-I recently saw a movie on my own. I paid $14 between my ticket and food/drink. That wasn't a bad deal. My family was mildly interested, but not enough to spring for all of them to go. I would have gladly paid $30 to watch at home with them, and the studio would have got far more out of me.
To make things more human friendly, you can do the 15minute blocks thing, and base it on UTC.
That's my point from the start.
Once you realize that in order to have blocks of time available for everyone to come together, you've accepted work meetings are best done in UTC, and personal time done in solar time if you wish.
I've worked in exactly one business that did everything in UTC, and it was awesome.
The iCalendar/iCal format, and many others, already solved that
How do they solve the inconsistent start times?
Let's say I want to meet right when I start my day, at 8:00am solar time. I'm going to have a 30 minute meeting with people in 3 other places.
Person A accepts my invite, and they get a meeting start time of 7:47am solar. They're cool, so they start 13 minutes early.
Person B gets 10:11am solar. They'll have to leave 11 minutes early, because they have a 10:30am solar meeting.
Person C gets 1:29pm solar, and they can only stay for 5 minutes before running to another invite they got at 1:34pm.
The point is that even with calendaring software, having set start times in 15 minute intervals eliminates a lot of overlap that happens when you do meetings starting at any 1 of 60 minutes.
It is hard enough to find a meeting with everyone starting at 15 minutes after the hour. I would likely never get a meeting if we all started a different times.
There's very little difference between driving at 40 mph and 120 mph when the car is autonomous.
Yet, there is a HUGE difference on how much kinetic energy a self-propelled 1,500kg projectile will transfer at 40 mph and 120 mph.
The point is, until they get them well-proven, (and they will, in time), let's limit the damage a minor programming error can cause.
After that, yes, let's start zipping down the highway at 180mph in a NASCAR-esqe parade only inches from the car in front. Automatic cars can join the high-speed lane for the bulk of their trip and cleanly permit cars to leave and join the train.