I don't think I insinuated that youtube would change anything. I was using them as an example of the chilling effects seen by abuse of the DMCA and suggesting that other companies would be adopting similar or even more user untrusting policies.
User untrusting as in anyone makes a claim no matter how baseless and the content is removed automatically by machine trusting the accuser while the person who posted the content must defend themselves and prove they actually own it.
Like the recent EFF twitter debacle the company filing the DMCA couldn't even tell them what was being infringed on and they still pulled it.
It'd be like if someone said to the police "THAT MAN COMMITED A CRIME!" And the police asked "What did they do?" and they replied "I don't know arrest them!" Now in any normal scenario the police wouldn't take action in this case because the accuser is obviously being abusive because they aren't even able to form a valid complaint for what might have happened.
But with the DMCA (and many seem to think the new eu law will be much worse with preemptive blocking) they see the claim and are immediately "well this is an open shut case take all their stuff until they can prove they did not do that thing. What thing? Doesn't matter."
The EU law is expected to have preemptive scanning so like if a computer thinks your picture of your cat looks similar to someone else's cat you won't be able to upload it and you will likewise have to contest that your cat is not their cat instead of them in any way having to show that your cat is theirs.
One of the biggest issues on this is how compliance is demanded. I assume this will be like the DMCA where there isn't any real deterrent for false claims. Big companies can afford to hire people to validate the requests to ensure they aren't claiming things that aren't theirs.
Startup projects will simply honor all requests without validation as they don't have the time or money to do validation.
Even youtube run by one of the largest companies runs by a honor request then check only if someone disputes policy so even a bogus request can take legitimate content down for a while. Further last I heard if they just claim ownership they are able to steal whatever money is made from monetization until the dispute process is completed and even if the claim is successfully disputed the creator doesn't get that money back.
AFAIK the only company that is actually doing validation is google for their search product because they keep having companies take down things that aren't theirs, are their own websites or are overly broad like insisting slashdot be removed because one of the comments in 2008 quoted lyrics from a song.
From experience managed devices are also a PITA for recyclers/second hand dealers because: 1. The device makes no attempt to make it obvious the device is managed going as far as to put indicators in a different place than the existing activation locks people know to check for. 2. No online documentation suggests checking if a device is managed before. buying/selling/trading/donating so people who work in secondhand goods get bitten by it at least once.
But for the control it gives you it's freaking awesome for companies and other institutions that issue phones. Need a device unlocked? *click* need a device remotely reset? *click* want to remotely reroute its web traffic through your own servers for monitoring, filtering or security? *click*
It can't be removed by the person who has the phone and any apps you specify will automatically be reloaded whenever the device is reset for a consistent deployment.
I don't know why anyone issuing phones wouldn't be taking advantage of that.
Most cellphone companies charge extra if you want caller name ID. Also Verizon for example doesn't support it on all devices that use VoLTE so for example all of their customers using their wireless home phone replacement will lose access to caller name ID at the end of the year unless they do something to fix it.
Well considering on weekdays if I go to bed after I get home from work at a reasonable hour I have 2 hours of time at home per workday to handle anything that needs to be done and then whatever time is left over for entertainment an additional 6 hours would be the the ability to have a life outside of work.
Of course this is assuming that if this was all of a sudden a standard thing that employers wouldn't suddenly expect an extra 6 hours of work out of people and people wouldn't suddenly be ok with working an extra 6 hours a day.
Back with the fukushima disaster in japan they were raiding the batteries from the cars in the company parking lot to keep the controls and monitor equipment running.
Also 4 days?! I know a EV holds a lot of juice but if it can really run a home with lights and HVAC for days it should already be being sold as a home backup option.
Instead of being lauded for helping phone users get the thing they treasure most above all else - battery life - Apple was pummeled for helping out users, and even though this criticism was utterly unfair, Apple took the high road and said "well how about cheap replacement batteries all around that restore full performance!".
They would have been lauded if they had only did one very important thing; Told their customers they were doing it and maybe also given the option to opt out.
The omission is what got them in hot water because it made phones slower with age (battery degradation) without any indication to their users what the cause was.
Which would push people to get a new phone rather than replace the battery because why would a new battery improve performance?
So yes the criticism of their handling of that was entirely fair.
If you give the account info to a bunch of unknown individuals one of them is going to change the password and lock everyone else out. Then you lose all your viewing history and favorite lists and they jack your plan up to the ultra premium 50 user 8K video plan until you can get the card canceled or regain access to the account.
So really you don't want to share your account with individuals you don't trust.
Pretty much best case scenario for sharing with a large number of people is they all turn out to be trustworthy and then you never get the chance to use your own account because the max concurrent number of streams are always in use.
I kind of doubt it as the majority of games seem to be using servers now that can act as a go between to establish NAT to NAT connections.
The cell carriers have short changed their customers with IPv6.
With IPv4 on cellular you got a public IPv4 address that you could host a webcam or whatever you wanted and access it remotely with just the IP and port number.
With IPv6 on cellular they give you a IPv6 address that blocks all incoming connections so even if you know the IP address and port you still can't make the connection.
You still have to have a go between server to start the connection, just like you would if you were still using NAT'd IPv4.
I wonder how many of the wireline ISPs have done the same to their customers?
The gov't never mandated the use of CFLs, they made the manufacture and sale of lower efficiency bulbs illegal and left it up to the market to fill in the gaps, even halogen bulbs are still allowed but they are expensive, and don't last as well as the incandecents did while only having a little better effeciency. 60w incandecent = 43w halogen = 13w CFL = 8.5W LED
Would we be using primarily LEDs today if the govt had not mandated they stop the sale and manufacture of low efficiency bulbs?
There is a big difference in usability between the CFLs and LEDs, CFLs are dim at startup and then warm up and aside from CCFLs (not a typo) can't stand rapidly switched installs like signs and motion switches and afaik they still don't handle dimming well.
LEDs suffer from none of those issues, neither did incandecents, LED bulbs are a very visible upgrade from CFLs.
Put a modern led and an incandecent side by side and most people can't tell the difference by the light output, with some of the newer ones you can hardly tell even by looking directly at them.
IMHO we only ended up going with CFL because LED wasn't ready at the time, in some cases CFL is still not ready as you can't readily buy higher wattage (like 300w equivilent) LEDs while you can CFLs.
Still I think we would have ended up here eventually on a cost basis but without the low efficiency bulbs ban I think it would have taken much longer.
Same sort of issue with my home heating here, ~2005ish heat pump with LP aux heat, heat pump doesn't work below about 30F which ends up being most of the winter nights here. Just the hardware costs to replace both units would be something like $24K. Luckily LP is about as cheap to run as a decent heat pump when bought in bulk or at least it is right now.
At work we have a unit on NG and a unit on resistive electric, the resistive electric costs about 4x more to run than the NG but again many thousands to replace.
My rough estimate was that switching both units over to a modern heat pump that works in below freezing temps would save a bit over $1K/yr so looking like a minimum of 24 years for break even assuming the install was free, switching the electric unit over to NG would save about $650/yr so like 7 year break even.
NG is cheap per therm but has year round charges that make it total out at 3/4 the cost of electric; 1 year of electric heat costs $850 1 year of NG heat and service charges costs $610 but the cost for the NG alone is just $202
Yeah i'm sure the prices will come down eventually but right now the tech is often cost prohibitive even though it's cost effective long term. It's something you would consider for a new install or a replacement for a failed unit but isn't usually considered worth replacing a working existing unit that's already paid for.
Solar's in much the same spot but IIUC solar has gotten so cheap that the installation makes up the majority of the cost now.
People will always go with the options that cost them the least money, and give them the most benefit. Improve cleaner energy alternatives so they're cheaper and better, and people will gladly stop burning oil, natural gas and coal!
It's not always obvious and many if not most people will go with what is cheapest now rather than what's cheapest in the long term.
My lights are out, I can (or could before gov't intervention) get a whole box of incandescent bulbs that use 4-8x more electricity than modern options and only last about a year for like $8. Or I could buy a single LED bulb for $10 that uses 1/8th the electric and will last 5+ years.
My house is cold, electric resistive heating equipment is cheap to buy. Costs roughly 4x more to run than NG or heat pump but it's cheaper to get and doesn't have any additional monthly fees.
The UK seems to be getting something that's targeting 100Mbps while the early installs here in the USA are already doing near gigabit with a 300Mbps standard target.
Seems to be pretty much entirely lost to time now but back around 2007 there was a site that would let you watch and control people by voting on actions. Of course this was 2007 and LTE didn't exist yet but it was live streamed over the existing 3G at the time, it worked remarkably well.
Somehow there doesn't appear to be any videos of the site in operation but it was pretty fun.
It didn't have any goals or anything tho they just wandered around messing with people.
BeeMe appears like it will be a story driven based game.
I'll be sure and check it out it looks like it could be fun.
That's nuts. The cellco's have the highest rates in the state's i'm aware of and they only charge $15/GB overage. Of course a 250GB plan isn't available on those. AT&T does a fixed wireless offering with 170GB then $10/50GB overage.
They don't. Everything sits as it was shipped and the reduced costs make up the difference.
It's even filled with nitrogen to eliminate the possibility of fires.
I'm interested to know what they are running on it. Like are they using it for commercial services? Or are they really just running through endless test cycles on 27PB of storage?
It's much easier to type on a cellphone than a 63 character random standard password like: IZvmnyD.GI2HCv*SK!nkB2%JYFLV6y:p%QD;Zz6fS,7PH45pDW7E3PzEXZ=wl5;
Uppercase, lowercase is that an I, l, | or 1? o, O or 0?
I think this would only work for bypassing a MAC address filter.
WPA2 uses a 4 way handshake or something meaning its not possible for a computer to carry on a conversation with the network without knowing the key.
WPA2 isn't just authentication it's also encryption. It's the diffrence between using a site that uses https only for the login page (only initial authentication secured) and a site that uses https for all pages (fully encrypted).
I had that problem too using a random 63 character standard password but there are just too many characters that look the same under most fonts.
So I switched to a 64 character hexidecimal password. Hexidecimal is limited to characters A-F and 0-9 So no o 0 problem anymore as hexidecimal doesn't have "o"s.
An alternative is just using a password generator that avoids using easily mistaken characters.
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I don't think I insinuated that youtube would change anything. I was using them as an example of the chilling effects seen by abuse of the DMCA and suggesting that other companies would be adopting similar or even more user untrusting policies.
User untrusting as in anyone makes a claim no matter how baseless and the content is removed automatically by machine trusting the accuser while the person who posted the content must defend themselves and prove they actually own it.
Like the recent EFF twitter debacle the company filing the DMCA couldn't even tell them what was being infringed on and they still pulled it.
It'd be like if someone said to the police "THAT MAN COMMITED A CRIME!"
And the police asked "What did they do?" and they replied "I don't know arrest them!"
Now in any normal scenario the police wouldn't take action in this case because the accuser is obviously being abusive because they aren't even able to form a valid complaint for what might have happened.
But with the DMCA (and many seem to think the new eu law will be much worse with preemptive blocking)
they see the claim and are immediately "well this is an open shut case take all their stuff until they can prove they did not do that thing. What thing? Doesn't matter."
The EU law is expected to have preemptive scanning so like if a computer thinks your picture of your cat looks similar to someone else's cat you won't be able to upload it and you will likewise have to contest that your cat is not their cat instead of them in any way having to show that your cat is theirs.
One of the biggest issues on this is how compliance is demanded.
I assume this will be like the DMCA where there isn't any real deterrent for false claims.
Big companies can afford to hire people to validate the requests to ensure they aren't claiming things that aren't theirs.
Startup projects will simply honor all requests without validation as they don't have the time or money to do validation.
Even youtube run by one of the largest companies runs by a honor request then check only if someone disputes policy so even a bogus request can take legitimate content down for a while. Further last I heard if they just claim ownership they are able to steal whatever money is made from monetization until the dispute process is completed and even if the claim is successfully disputed the creator doesn't get that money back.
AFAIK the only company that is actually doing validation is google for their search product because they keep having companies take down things that aren't theirs, are their own websites or are overly broad like insisting slashdot be removed because one of the comments in 2008 quoted lyrics from a song.
IIUC this is the current status:
Oneweb has 6 in orbit.
Starlink has 2 in orbit.
Telesat has 1 in orbit.
Then there are at least four others Boeing, Facebook, Leosat and Amazon who have announced intent and don't have anything in orbit yet.
From experience managed devices are also a PITA for recyclers/second hand dealers because:
1. The device makes no attempt to make it obvious the device is managed going as far as to put indicators in a different place than the existing activation locks people know to check for.
2. No online documentation suggests checking if a device is managed before.
buying/selling/trading/donating so people who work in secondhand goods get bitten by it at least once.
But for the control it gives you it's freaking awesome for companies and other institutions that issue phones.
Need a device unlocked? *click* need a device remotely reset? *click* want to remotely reroute its web traffic through your own servers for monitoring, filtering or security? *click*
It can't be removed by the person who has the phone and any apps you specify will automatically be reloaded whenever the device is reset for a consistent deployment.
I don't know why anyone issuing phones wouldn't be taking advantage of that.
Most cellphone companies charge extra if you want caller name ID.
Also Verizon for example doesn't support it on all devices that use VoLTE so for example all of their customers using their wireless home phone replacement will lose access to caller name ID at the end of the year unless they do something to fix it.
Well considering on weekdays if I go to bed after I get home from work at a reasonable hour I have 2 hours of time at home per workday to handle anything that needs to be done and then whatever time is left over for entertainment an additional 6 hours would be the the ability to have a life outside of work.
Of course this is assuming that if this was all of a sudden a standard thing that employers wouldn't suddenly expect an extra 6 hours of work out of people and people wouldn't suddenly be ok with working an extra 6 hours a day.
Seriously why doesn't it do that now??
Back with the fukushima disaster in japan they were raiding the batteries from the cars in the company parking lot to keep the controls and monitor equipment running.
Also 4 days?! I know a EV holds a lot of juice but if it can really run a home with lights and HVAC for days it should already be being sold as a home backup option.
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We've gotten to talk about PCs here before.
Instead of being lauded for helping phone users get the thing they treasure most above all else - battery life - Apple was pummeled for helping out users, and even though this criticism was utterly unfair, Apple took the high road and said "well how about cheap replacement batteries all around that restore full performance!".
They would have been lauded if they had only did one very important thing; Told their customers they were doing it and maybe also given the option to opt out.
The omission is what got them in hot water because it made phones slower with age (battery degradation) without any indication to their users what the cause was.
Which would push people to get a new phone rather than replace the battery because why would a new battery improve performance?
So yes the criticism of their handling of that was entirely fair.
If you give the account info to a bunch of unknown individuals one of them is going to change the password and lock everyone else out.
Then you lose all your viewing history and favorite lists and they jack your plan up to the ultra premium 50 user 8K video plan until you can get the card canceled or regain access to the account.
So really you don't want to share your account with individuals you don't trust.
Pretty much best case scenario for sharing with a large number of people is they all turn out to be trustworthy and then you never get the chance to use your own account because the max concurrent number of streams are always in use.
I kind of doubt it as the majority of games seem to be using servers now that can act as a go between to establish NAT to NAT connections.
The cell carriers have short changed their customers with IPv6.
With IPv4 on cellular you got a public IPv4 address that you could host a webcam or whatever you wanted and access it remotely with just the IP and port number.
With IPv6 on cellular they give you a IPv6 address that blocks all incoming connections so even if you know the IP address and port you still can't make the connection.
You still have to have a go between server to start the connection, just like you would if you were still using NAT'd IPv4.
I wonder how many of the wireline ISPs have done the same to their customers?
The gov't never mandated the use of CFLs, they made the manufacture and sale of lower efficiency bulbs illegal and left it up to the market to fill in the gaps, even halogen bulbs are still allowed but they are expensive, and don't last as well as the incandecents did while only having a little better effeciency. 60w incandecent = 43w halogen = 13w CFL = 8.5W LED
Would we be using primarily LEDs today if the govt had not mandated they stop the sale and manufacture of low efficiency bulbs?
There is a big difference in usability between the CFLs and LEDs, CFLs are dim at startup and then warm up and aside from CCFLs (not a typo) can't stand rapidly switched installs like signs and motion switches and afaik they still don't handle dimming well.
LEDs suffer from none of those issues, neither did incandecents, LED bulbs are a very visible upgrade from CFLs.
Put a modern led and an incandecent side by side and most people can't tell the difference by the light output, with some of the newer ones you can hardly tell even by looking directly at them.
IMHO we only ended up going with CFL because LED wasn't ready at the time, in some cases CFL is still not ready as you can't readily buy higher wattage (like 300w equivilent) LEDs while you can CFLs.
Still I think we would have ended up here eventually on a cost basis but without the low efficiency bulbs ban I think it would have taken much longer.
Same sort of issue with my home heating here,
~2005ish heat pump with LP aux heat, heat pump doesn't work below about 30F which ends up being most of the winter nights here.
Just the hardware costs to replace both units would be something like $24K.
Luckily LP is about as cheap to run as a decent heat pump when bought in bulk or at least it is right now.
At work we have a unit on NG and a unit on resistive electric, the resistive electric costs about 4x more to run than the NG but again many thousands to replace.
My rough estimate was that switching both units over to a modern heat pump that works in below freezing temps would save a bit over $1K/yr so looking like a minimum of 24 years for break even assuming the install was free, switching the electric unit over to NG would save about $650/yr so like 7 year break even.
NG is cheap per therm but has year round charges that make it total out at 3/4 the cost of electric;
1 year of electric heat costs $850
1 year of NG heat and service charges costs $610
but the cost for the NG alone is just $202
Yeah i'm sure the prices will come down eventually but right now the tech is often cost prohibitive even though it's cost effective long term.
It's something you would consider for a new install or a replacement for a failed unit but isn't usually considered worth replacing a working existing unit that's already paid for.
Solar's in much the same spot but IIUC solar has gotten so cheap that the installation makes up the majority of the cost now.
People will always go with the options that cost them the least money, and give them the most benefit. Improve cleaner energy alternatives so they're cheaper and better, and people will gladly stop burning oil, natural gas and coal!
It's not always obvious and many if not most people will go with what is cheapest now rather than what's cheapest in the long term.
My lights are out, I can (or could before gov't intervention) get a whole box of incandescent bulbs that use 4-8x more electricity than modern options and only last about a year for like $8.
Or I could buy a single LED bulb for $10 that uses 1/8th the electric and will last 5+ years.
My house is cold, electric resistive heating equipment is cheap to buy.
Costs roughly 4x more to run than NG or heat pump but it's cheaper to get and doesn't have any additional monthly fees.
How can that be addressed?
So far it looks like we are getting the better flavor of 5G this time https://venturebeat.com/2018/1...
The UK seems to be getting something that's targeting 100Mbps while the early installs here in the USA are already doing near gigabit with a 300Mbps standard target.
Verizon considers 3G speed to be 600kbps.
Seems to be pretty much entirely lost to time now but back around 2007 there was a site that would let you watch and control people by voting on actions.
Of course this was 2007 and LTE didn't exist yet but it was live streamed over the existing 3G at the time, it worked remarkably well.
Somehow there doesn't appear to be any videos of the site in operation but it was pretty fun.
It didn't have any goals or anything tho they just wandered around messing with people.
BeeMe appears like it will be a story driven based game.
I'll be sure and check it out it looks like it could be fun.
That's nuts.
The cellco's have the highest rates in the state's i'm aware of and they only charge $15/GB overage.
Of course a 250GB plan isn't available on those.
AT&T does a fixed wireless offering with 170GB then $10/50GB overage.
It's no small sum to loose either, the 27PB alone has to be about 500k as a low estimate.
They don't.
Everything sits as it was shipped and the reduced costs make up the difference.
It's even filled with nitrogen to eliminate the possibility of fires.
I'm interested to know what they are running on it. Like are they using it for commercial services? Or are they really just running through endless test cycles on 27PB of storage?
It's much easier to type on a cellphone than a 63 character random standard password like: IZvmnyD.GI2HCv*SK!nkB2%JYFLV6y:p%QD;Zz6fS,7PH45pDW7E3PzEXZ=wl5;
Uppercase, lowercase is that an I, l, | or 1? o, O or 0?
I think this would only work for bypassing a MAC address filter.
WPA2 uses a 4 way handshake or something meaning its not possible for a computer to carry on a conversation with the network without knowing the key.
WPA2 isn't just authentication it's also encryption.
It's the diffrence between using a site that uses https only for the login page (only initial authentication secured) and a site that uses https for all pages (fully encrypted).
I had that problem too using a random 63 character standard password but there are just too many characters that look the same under most fonts.
So I switched to a 64 character hexidecimal password.
Hexidecimal is limited to characters A-F and 0-9
So no o 0 problem anymore as hexidecimal doesn't have "o"s.
An alternative is just using a password generator that avoids using easily mistaken characters.
Ahahaha.
I really hope you were being sarcastic.
Like: 112364AB5F777752452A57CAC066DE0737DE451E0CC21BE86D01278A6050297B
64 character pseudo random hexadecimal key the max length supported by the standard.
Is that still considered secure or would that only take a few days to crack?
From what I read it looks like it should still be secure enough.