When a parent tells a child to commit a crime there isn't really a point to punish the kid. The government asked them to do something. Even if it is illegal the boss of the country asked them. It would be silly for the boss to then punish the kid for doing as told. It would be like punishing your router for sending emails to the wrong person when you typed in the wrong name. Or scrapping your car for violating a traffic measure. (am i missing any metaphors?... something about tubes on a truck...)
"Free buses, shelter, and health care are specific types of regulation that are designed to encourage capitalism and competition rather than to limit it."
I completely agree with you. If people are too poor to get cleaned up and get to work they are not competitive employees. Nor are they competitive in creating businesses. If you cannot get to work it hurts capitalism. If you are too sick to work it hurts capitalism.
The media hailed blogging more than they did anything else in past (internet related). Streaming video, radio, chat programs and the internet itself all combined didn't make as much of a media fuss as blogging.
Now comes twitter. What do these two things have in common? Target Audience. They both target socially starved people addicted to attention. People that think they are so important that people CARE if they are drinking a coffee or taking a dump. And these same people are those attracted to the mass media industry or some sort of acting/singing scenario. All the famous people see the attraction, all the people writing news see the attraction.
It wouldn't if 90% of the world was blindingly enraged by the idea of twitter. It would still be popular.
Whut? US has pretty bad commute time on average I thought. You all live in suburbia so that adds like 10minutes to get out of. Can't be better than Europe or Asia... And poorer countries all live within a stones throw or actually in work. Maybe better than Canada? Atleast Hamilton gets a 70minute commute average or something retarded.
Really? Dell usually arrives within a few days and fixes the laptop in your house. That means no mailing. And assuming your laptop is just broken but still usable it gets you extra usable time. Plus it means you don't have to move your HDD (no idea how hard this is on macs.... thinking the Air).
You ARE talking about the people that go on MySpace... I'm sure you can convince them ANYTHING is cool. I could see them posting vblogs about weird rashes and vaginal warts within a year.
The teksavvy email every customer got, nice to see an ISP fighting filtering even if it is for their benefit. The enemy of my enemy I guess...
Dear Valued Customer,
We are writing to you today as many activities are underway to shape/reshape
Internet use as you all know it. Over the last year some of you have been
made aware and/or have seen activities on throttling in the news or in your
daily lives. Another proceeding relating to the Internet in Canada required
Telecom providers (Bell/Telus/etc.) to provide ISPs with wholesale service
speeds that match those that they offer to their own retail customers.
Specifically, Bell has been directed by the CRTC to provide matching speeds
which would allow us all to have more flexibility in our day to day online
requirements. Instead of adhering to these directives, Bell decided to take
this issue to the federal Cabinet and at the same time file a tariff
application with the CRTC proposing to introduce Usage Based Billing (UBB)
on its wholesale customer accounts.
What does this mean for you, the consumer?
Bell provides TekSavvy with last mile, wholesale DSL access services, which
TekSavvy uses to provide you with your Internet access. If Bell were to be
allowed to introduce UBB on this service, a cap of 60GB would be imposed on
all of its users, with very heavy penalties per Gigabyte afterwards
(multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of $0.25/GB on
overages). This would inherently all but remove Unlimited internet services
in Ontario/Quebec and potentially cause large increases in internet costs
from month to month.
If you'd like to make your comments/concerns known about what Bell is
attempting to do, please do so here:
It isn't Bell raising it's prices. Bell owns the last mile lines which it is forced to lease out to competition. Bell is raising it's competitors prices. That this would even get considered is scary.
The problem is that Bell has a monopoly. To deal with this they are forced to sell their lines to other companies to compete with them. But now they are charging said companies per usage which is not how it is supposed to work for backbones. This will result in tripling the cost of competitors services. Which will in turn kill their competition and give them another monopoly. Teksavvy customers paying for the over 200GB/mo service (40$) will end up paying almost 200$ a month in the low end.
Another thing that Bell has been doing is shaping. They have been shaping Teksavvy's customers for years now. Which I think is another fairly clear abuse of monopoly power. Teksavvy is completely against the practice, had they their own lines they would not throttle torrent users or anything like that...
My Internet service has gotten progressively worse for almost a full 10 years now. Its not that we aren't doing ok on a global scheme it is that our services we once had are deteriorating and I've no idea why that is so.
That is depressing to learn. Stupid politicians pandering to ignorant populace. The CANDU reactor has the ability to use the waste from LWR directly. And the option to reprocess it before using it again (higher efficiency). Well.... atleast CANDU reactors are probably getting used elsewhere in the world:/
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go!
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4836368/SONY_BMG_Music_Entertainment_v._Tenenbaum.4836368.TPB.torrent
Not your point I know but during the enlightenment copying work was pretty fricken important.
When a parent tells a child to commit a crime there isn't really a point to punish the kid. The government asked them to do something. Even if it is illegal the boss of the country asked them. It would be silly for the boss to then punish the kid for doing as told. It would be like punishing your router for sending emails to the wrong person when you typed in the wrong name. Or scrapping your car for violating a traffic measure. (am i missing any metaphors? ... something about tubes on a truck...)
No. Slashdot is on the internet. Therefore people from outside the US are members. And that brings you closer to center (Far left US).
"Free buses, shelter, and health care are specific types of regulation that are designed to encourage capitalism and competition rather than to limit it."
I completely agree with you. If people are too poor to get cleaned up and get to work they are not competitive employees. Nor are they competitive in creating businesses. If you cannot get to work it hurts capitalism. If you are too sick to work it hurts capitalism.
The media hailed blogging more than they did anything else in past (internet related). Streaming video, radio, chat programs and the internet itself all combined didn't make as much of a media fuss as blogging.
Now comes twitter. What do these two things have in common? Target Audience. They both target socially starved people addicted to attention. People that think they are so important that people CARE if they are drinking a coffee or taking a dump. And these same people are those attracted to the mass media industry or some sort of acting/singing scenario. All the famous people see the attraction, all the people writing news see the attraction.
It wouldn't if 90% of the world was blindingly enraged by the idea of twitter. It would still be popular.
Whut? US has pretty bad commute time on average I thought. You all live in suburbia so that adds like 10minutes to get out of. Can't be better than Europe or Asia... And poorer countries all live within a stones throw or actually in work. Maybe better than Canada? Atleast Hamilton gets a 70minute commute average or something retarded.
Good thing you almost exactly listed word for word the planned routes from the article.
You are massively overestimating the size of the North East coast of the US.
Totally off topic but why do people feel the need to type their own sig in addition to ... their sig?
-Signed, I love my name so much I must type it every time I speak
Voting for the lesser evil is a lie and a sin against the libertarian party. The only right answer is to NEVER use the internet.
Their monitors are nowhere near what they used to be... And screens on the macbooks
Apple's business practices are much much MUCH worse than MS' but they simply don't have the market share for it to be as terrifying.
Really? Dell usually arrives within a few days and fixes the laptop in your house. That means no mailing. And assuming your laptop is just broken but still usable it gets you extra usable time. Plus it means you don't have to move your HDD (no idea how hard this is on macs .... thinking the Air).
More emails will always help regardless of whether they come a day late or not.
You ARE talking about the people that go on MySpace... I'm sure you can convince them ANYTHING is cool. I could see them posting vblogs about weird rashes and vaginal warts within a year.
How about flutter ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s
The CRTC is probably used to getting 2~3 emails a day. I'm sure getting a hundred even a few days late will be of interest to them haha.
The teksavvy email every customer got, nice to see an ISP fighting filtering even if it is for their benefit. The enemy of my enemy I guess...
Dear Valued Customer,
We are writing to you today as many activities are underway to shape/reshape
Internet use as you all know it. Over the last year some of you have been
made aware and/or have seen activities on throttling in the news or in your
daily lives. Another proceeding relating to the Internet in Canada required
Telecom providers (Bell/Telus/etc.) to provide ISPs with wholesale service
speeds that match those that they offer to their own retail customers.
Specifically, Bell has been directed by the CRTC to provide matching speeds
which would allow us all to have more flexibility in our day to day online
requirements. Instead of adhering to these directives, Bell decided to take
this issue to the federal Cabinet and at the same time file a tariff
application with the CRTC proposing to introduce Usage Based Billing (UBB)
on its wholesale customer accounts.
What does this mean for you, the consumer?
Bell provides TekSavvy with last mile, wholesale DSL access services, which
TekSavvy uses to provide you with your Internet access. If Bell were to be
allowed to introduce UBB on this service, a cap of 60GB would be imposed on
all of its users, with very heavy penalties per Gigabyte afterwards
(multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of $0.25/GB on
overages). This would inherently all but remove Unlimited internet services
in Ontario/Quebec and potentially cause large increases in internet costs
from month to month.
If you'd like to make your comments/concerns known about what Bell is
attempting to do, please do so here:
http://support.crtc.gc.ca/crtcsubmissionmu/forms/Telecom.aspx?lang=e [crtc.gc.ca]
Select the word "Tariff" from the drop down list.
Add the following in Subject Line "File Number # 8740-B2-200904989 - Bell
Canada - TN 7181" and make your thoughts known!
It isn't Bell raising it's prices. Bell owns the last mile lines which it is forced to lease out to competition. Bell is raising it's competitors prices. That this would even get considered is scary.
The problem is that Bell has a monopoly. To deal with this they are forced to sell their lines to other companies to compete with them. But now they are charging said companies per usage which is not how it is supposed to work for backbones. This will result in tripling the cost of competitors services. Which will in turn kill their competition and give them another monopoly. Teksavvy customers paying for the over 200GB/mo service (40$) will end up paying almost 200$ a month in the low end.
Another thing that Bell has been doing is shaping. They have been shaping Teksavvy's customers for years now. Which I think is another fairly clear abuse of monopoly power. Teksavvy is completely against the practice, had they their own lines they would not throttle torrent users or anything like that...
My Internet service has gotten progressively worse for almost a full 10 years now. Its not that we aren't doing ok on a global scheme it is that our services we once had are deteriorating and I've no idea why that is so.
forgot to add... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/CANDU_fuel_cycles.jpg
That is depressing to learn. Stupid politicians pandering to ignorant populace. The CANDU reactor has the ability to use the waste from LWR directly. And the option to reprocess it before using it again (higher efficiency). Well.... atleast CANDU reactors are probably getting used elsewhere in the world :/
How is this offtopic?