I'm a daily newspaper reader. I've watched both the quality and the quantity of in-depth reporting at the Los Angeles Times decline dramatically in recent years. I'm also an avid reader of online news. Having said that, I tend to find out what's happening online and then I count on the paper to actually delve into the subject and more fully explore the meaning of the, usually, superficial articles I read online the previous day.
The real value, at least for me, comes from the depth of the investigating and reporting from articles in the paper. Basically, I pay for a newspaper because they've gone out and done the work to weed out the BS and give me a (hopefully) less biased, fuller, richer perspective of the topic. I am willing to pay for that because I do not have the time to research and vet every single topic I find interesting each day.
If modern newspapers do not adapt and move that same in-depth research and investigating online instead of simply cutting it down and reducing their already thin staff, they will cease to offer anything of value over the other alternatives and we will all be worse off for it.
Being first to report something is virtually meaningless if what you're reporting has no real depth or meaningful context.
I live in Los Angeles where, whenever it rains, our freeways turn into a huge red (as in the color on traffic maps) disaster zone just from a few millimeters of 3-dimensionality caused by water. It scares me to death to think of these same 'drivers' moving on to fully 3-d travel. Car accidents cause a huge amount of deaths each year. Without a fully automated process controlling these things, I only see the statistics of deaths going up if flying cars ever become as ubiquitous as current cars.
Please correct me if I am wrong here, but you're leaving out an important part of the equation... adding 30 lbs to each person also increases the amount of energy required for various things. How much extra fuel will it take to fly a plane full of people all 30lbs heavier? How much energy will an elevator use to lift X amount of people all of which are 30 lbs heavier? You think that 30 lbs of fat which started out as food magically got to their table for them to eat without using any extra energy? And we won't even get into the overall energy costs associated with reduced health of every person who is now 30lbs heavier.
I'm not saying your point about carbon trading is right or wrong, just that I wish people actually considered all sides of equations, rather than just the one side that fits their argument (or parody, in this case).
Considering AT&T has an in-house system to get into the configurations of 2-Wire routers (provided by them) anytime they want, they apparently get access to something.
On one call to AT&T tech support for a customer, a tech read me back the internal settings for the router, including which local IPs were being used by various computers behind the NAT.
Unfortunately, in this regard you are wrong too. Minority report used the telepathic trio to see/prevent murders. It used retinal scanners to actually track the day-to-day activities of the citizens' movements/actions. Thus the reasons he had his eyes replaced.
So the law, in plain English, says "We realize most people are not, but if you're a nosy little wifi sysadmin who looks through your customers emails, websites, online storage, intercepts their traffic or otherwise invade their privacy and notice them engaged in child pornography you are required by law to report it."
That's all good and well on the child pornography front, but what about the rest of our information that we will then know they are actively snooping?
How many of these providers (thinking along the lines of hotspots, not Joe Schmoe with open wifi) will be used by ANYONE after the initial reports come in that someone got convicted based on that provider's general anti-privacy intrusiveness and nosey employees?
I wonder, are the Geek Squads of the country under the same requirements to disclose what they find (and recently, pilfer) from their customers private data?
And over the years I've seen all of those mail clients exploited at one time or another, yet my qmail gateways have never been exploited through qmail. Odd that.
Considering most major computer sellers who offer tech support have a flow-chart default of "Please insert your recovery CD and wipe your drive to its original state" and that the cost of their tech support is already factored into the price of the PC anyway, I don't see your first argument as an issue. One of the caveats of the OEM version of Windows is that you get tech support from the seller, not from Microsoft, thus reducing the price. Windows, Linux, etc - what's the difference if you're paying for the tech support from that seller already anyway?
I've seen advertisements for this guy too many times to count and yet I've never seen anything that says you will be automagically signed up for more products. Closest he comes is saying something to the affect of 'Why am I giving you a CD for free? Because I'm so sure you'll like my product that you'll come back for all your other computer learning needs.'
Google did a nice job of explaining how the whole spectrum auction works, what advantages and disadvantages incumbents and new entrants face, and how the incumbents will pay a "blocking premium" to keep others from winning the auction which removes a lot of bidders from the get-go causing a "dilution discount" which makes the spectrum cheaper in the long run (thus the reason Google said they would ante up at least the minimum acceptable bid proposed by the FCC - it adds a floor to the dilution discount side).
You can find this explanation on their Policy Blog at http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/res toring-competitive-balance-to.html
This is a link to an entry in Google's Public Policy blog explaining their answer to the "put up or shut up" comment from AT&T. It also explains quite nicely how the auction is slanted from the beginning to favor the incumbents.
Here's some statistics for you based on a small ISP (3500 mailboxes) I do work for... keep in mind these stats are for ONE inbound relay box - multiply stats by 5 (total relay boxes) to get the full picture of spam vs. legit email and how much bandwidth is consumed overall for mearly 3500 mailboxes over a 24 hour period:
Particular SMTP sessions (Statistics)
qmail-smtpd has processed 62 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::Invalid_Relay
qmail-smtpd has processed 1932 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::Bad_Helo
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::No_DNSMX
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::SPF_Check
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Bad_Mailfrom
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Invalid_Bounce
qmail-smtpd has processed 559 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::No_DNSMX
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Black_Holed
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Invalid_Sender
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Failed_Auth
qmail-smtpd has processed 75354 sessions with condition: Reject::RCPT::Failed_Rcptto
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::RCPT::Toomany_Rcptto
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::DATA::Invalid_Size
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::DATA::Bad_MIME
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Accept::ORIG::Valid_Auth
qmail-smtpd has processed 25816 sessions with condition: tcpserver: deny
qmail-smtpd has processed 14801 sessions with condition: Too many connections from host
qmail-smtpd has processed 213 sessions with condition: Too many connections from net
qmail-smtpd has processed 87644 sessions with condition: : 553
206381 particular SMTP sessions encountered.
Completed messages: 1623
Inbound bandwidth to port 25 (per relay):
Max Out 433.1 Kb/s
Max In: 554.6 Kb/s
Avg Out 20.7 Kb/s
Avg In: 46.3 Kb/s
Tot Usage: 1.001 GB
Note: This is a LIGHT day - we often times average 100-200Kb/sec Avg In (24 hour period) and at least 1-2 times a week average 500Kb+ Avg In (24 hour period) during intense spam runs.
Also note: The Completed Messages are further filtered by our main mail server and approximatly 35% are quarantined as spam, reducing the total count of legitimate emails even further.
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Pfft, that was the last codeword, it's now referred to as GSpot (BETA).
There, fixed that for ya. And don't feel bad if you can't find it - submitter had to dig deep in the code to even know it existed, too.
I'm a daily newspaper reader. I've watched both the quality and the quantity of in-depth reporting at the Los Angeles Times decline dramatically in recent years. I'm also an avid reader of online news. Having said that, I tend to find out what's happening online and then I count on the paper to actually delve into the subject and more fully explore the meaning of the, usually, superficial articles I read online the previous day.
The real value, at least for me, comes from the depth of the investigating and reporting from articles in the paper. Basically, I pay for a newspaper because they've gone out and done the work to weed out the BS and give me a (hopefully) less biased, fuller, richer perspective of the topic. I am willing to pay for that because I do not have the time to research and vet every single topic I find interesting each day.
If modern newspapers do not adapt and move that same in-depth research and investigating online instead of simply cutting it down and reducing their already thin staff, they will cease to offer anything of value over the other alternatives and we will all be worse off for it.
Being first to report something is virtually meaningless if what you're reporting has no real depth or meaningful context.
I live in Los Angeles where, whenever it rains, our freeways turn into a huge red (as in the color on traffic maps) disaster zone just from a few millimeters of 3-dimensionality caused by water. It scares me to death to think of these same 'drivers' moving on to fully 3-d travel. Car accidents cause a huge amount of deaths each year. Without a fully automated process controlling these things, I only see the statistics of deaths going up if flying cars ever become as ubiquitous as current cars.
Please correct me if I am wrong here, but you're leaving out an important part of the equation... adding 30 lbs to each person also increases the amount of energy required for various things. How much extra fuel will it take to fly a plane full of people all 30lbs heavier? How much energy will an elevator use to lift X amount of people all of which are 30 lbs heavier? You think that 30 lbs of fat which started out as food magically got to their table for them to eat without using any extra energy? And we won't even get into the overall energy costs associated with reduced health of every person who is now 30lbs heavier. I'm not saying your point about carbon trading is right or wrong, just that I wish people actually considered all sides of equations, rather than just the one side that fits their argument (or parody, in this case).
Considering AT&T has an in-house system to get into the configurations of 2-Wire routers (provided by them) anytime they want, they apparently get access to something.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/1946214 (read the update/comments)
On one call to AT&T tech support for a customer, a tech read me back the internal settings for the router, including which local IPs were being used by various computers behind the NAT.
Unfortunately, in this regard you are wrong too. Minority report used the telepathic trio to see/prevent murders. It used retinal scanners to actually track the day-to-day activities of the citizens' movements/actions. Thus the reasons he had his eyes replaced.
So the law, in plain English, says "We realize most people are not, but if you're a nosy little wifi sysadmin who looks through your customers emails, websites, online storage, intercepts their traffic or otherwise invade their privacy and notice them engaged in child pornography you are required by law to report it."
That's all good and well on the child pornography front, but what about the rest of our information that we will then know they are actively snooping?
How many of these providers (thinking along the lines of hotspots, not Joe Schmoe with open wifi) will be used by ANYONE after the initial reports come in that someone got convicted based on that provider's general anti-privacy intrusiveness and nosey employees?
I wonder, are the Geek Squads of the country under the same requirements to disclose what they find (and recently, pilfer) from their customers private data?
And over the years I've seen all of those mail clients exploited at one time or another, yet my qmail gateways have never been exploited through qmail. Odd that.
Considering most major computer sellers who offer tech support have a flow-chart default of "Please insert your recovery CD and wipe your drive to its original state" and that the cost of their tech support is already factored into the price of the PC anyway, I don't see your first argument as an issue. One of the caveats of the OEM version of Windows is that you get tech support from the seller, not from Microsoft, thus reducing the price. Windows, Linux, etc - what's the difference if you're paying for the tech support from that seller already anyway?
I've seen advertisements for this guy too many times to count and yet I've never seen anything that says you will be automagically signed up for more products. Closest he comes is saying something to the affect of 'Why am I giving you a CD for free? Because I'm so sure you'll like my product that you'll come back for all your other computer learning needs.'
Google did a nice job of explaining how the whole spectrum auction works, what advantages and disadvantages incumbents and new entrants face, and how the incumbents will pay a "blocking premium" to keep others from winning the auction which removes a lot of bidders from the get-go causing a "dilution discount" which makes the spectrum cheaper in the long run (thus the reason Google said they would ante up at least the minimum acceptable bid proposed by the FCC - it adds a floor to the dilution discount side). You can find this explanation on their Policy Blog at http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/res toring-competitive-balance-to.html
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2007/07/res toring-competitive-balance-to.html
This is a link to an entry in Google's Public Policy blog explaining their answer to the "put up or shut up" comment from AT&T. It also explains quite nicely how the auction is slanted from the beginning to favor the incumbents.
Here's some statistics for you based on a small ISP (3500 mailboxes) I do work for... keep in mind these stats are for ONE inbound relay box - multiply stats by 5 (total relay boxes) to get the full picture of spam vs. legit email and how much bandwidth is consumed overall for mearly 3500 mailboxes over a 24 hour period:
Particular SMTP sessions (Statistics)
qmail-smtpd has processed 62 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::Invalid_Relay
qmail-smtpd has processed 1932 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::Bad_Helo
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::No_DNSMX
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::SNDR::SPF_Check
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Bad_Mailfrom
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Invalid_Bounce
qmail-smtpd has processed 559 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::No_DNSMX
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Black_Holed
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Invalid_Sender
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::ORIG::Failed_Auth
qmail-smtpd has processed 75354 sessions with condition: Reject::RCPT::Failed_Rcptto
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::RCPT::Toomany_Rcptto
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::DATA::Invalid_Size
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Reject::DATA::Bad_MIME
qmail-smtpd has processed 0 sessions with condition: Accept::ORIG::Valid_Auth
qmail-smtpd has processed 25816 sessions with condition: tcpserver: deny
qmail-smtpd has processed 14801 sessions with condition: Too many connections from host
qmail-smtpd has processed 213 sessions with condition: Too many connections from net
qmail-smtpd has processed 87644 sessions with condition: : 553
206381 particular SMTP sessions encountered.
Completed messages: 1623
Inbound bandwidth to port 25 (per relay):
Max Out 433.1 Kb/s
Max In: 554.6 Kb/s
Avg Out 20.7 Kb/s
Avg In: 46.3 Kb/s
Tot Usage: 1.001 GB
Note: This is a LIGHT day - we often times average 100-200Kb/sec Avg In (24 hour period) and at least 1-2 times a week average 500Kb+ Avg In (24 hour period) during intense spam runs.
Also note: The Completed Messages are further filtered by our main mail server and approximatly 35% are quarantined as spam, reducing the total count of legitimate emails even further.