No you aren't using the internet to it's fullest if you're limiting yourself to just what you can get to on a smartphone with voice to text.
There is a lot you can do on a smart phone but there is even more you can't.
It's like someone on dialup today saying "we are enjoying the internet to the fullest." Sure you can still communicate with it but you're pretending a lot of things just don't exist.
So 1Gbps capped to 550GB at $110/mo is somehow fair compared to a ADSL2+ connection for less than half the price with a 1TB cap?
It's news because it's a slow march toward being double billed. With cellular you are billed for data not speed. With broadband you are billed for speed.
The introduction of caps allows them to bill for speed and data.
Only if it was only done because they think he is an asshole. That guy is an asshole is not just cause to go through all their activities for the last 20 years. Reports of actual fraud would be.
Jacking up the prices of a vital drug for no reason other than $$$$s is likely to have made a lot of enemies. So I was curious if this was just done to get back at him over that.
I'm not really sure how hiking drug prices and securities fraud are related but that's probably because I don't know anything about securities fraud.
I think he deserved it but that's beside the point.
The concern is that they can do this to anyone for any reason. Suing the state over non functioning stoplights? That's going to piss a bunch of people off who will then start looking through what records they have until they find something anything that they can make stick.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Cardinal Richelieu
That's the deal you can find something wrong with anyone if you look hard enough stuff they probably don't even know they are doing wrong.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -H. L. Mencken
And I ain't defending him I think he's a greedy asshole but I still think it's dangerous to find a crime to fit the person instead of finding crime to find the person.
It's the difference between hey look at that jerk he's got a backpack lets search his backpack hey he's got spray cans but that's not illegal 10 years for jaywalking and Hey look at that jerk he's spray painting over that no punching babies sign 5 years for vandalism.
I'm afraid this is one of those we don't have a law related to this guy doing things that are legal but morally wrong so we're going to pick through everything until we can find something to nail him with.
Does anyone know if the investigation was started before or after he jacked prices from $13.50 to $750 and got tons of media and legal attention as a result?
Yes he's an asshole but it doesn't make it any less of a dangerous road to be going down.
Seems to be a good argument in favor of universal health care. UHC like regular insurance tends to not like new things so it wouldn't be available at first but if it was found to be beneficial (improving long term health and thus lowering needed health care spending) they would eventually cover it too.
Without it it will happen exactly like you said.
Yes some people won't do it. I wonder if those people will be thought of the same as the anti vaxxers are today.
It's interesting to think about but it's all still fairly distant and there are a lot of problems left to solve.
I agree with this. We should start calling antennas piracy too.
Then there is the BS of refusing service to people who have actually paid for your product. Such as the current blocking of netflix VPN users and HDCP copy protection, copy protection in general.
Then there is the poor treatment of paying customers The unskippable anti piracy warnings and ads on blurays and dvds that you don't see on a pirated copy, DRM that makes your game run slow but the cracked versions run better (Rime). (Rime was released DRM free shortly after as a result tho.)
In the story gene editing was causing spontaneous death later in life due to flaw in the edit that was used for nearly an entire generation.
Gene editing was being used to make people pretty smart and fit.
So i'd think the moral was supposed to be gene editing bad.
Great so you don't even know what it does and you're using it on millions of children.
There was a non GMO complaining that they weren't as good as the GMOs then the GMOs started dying because the scientists royally screwed up..then the non GMO didn't feel so bad about themselves anymore.
Still the non GMO just lucked out to begin with being normal and healthy.
Due mainly to survivorship bias most everyone thinks this is fine because they turned out fine.
IMHO Gene editing is going to be a net positive by large. As Baljeet said "Choices left to random chance are highly irresponsible"
You could have a normal child or you could have one that's dumber than a rock and only has one hand or anything in between.
Or you can have most of the really bad combinations removed so you have a almost guaranteed chance of having a normal healthy child.
I'm sure we will get where we can play around with genetics like that in the future but that's not what's being discussed today. What's being discussed today is the minimum we want out of this research making sure children will be healthy by avoiding known bad combinations.
Once they finally get it going where they can actually make designer children (designer example: I want it to be 14ft tall, male, bright purple eyes, fast runner with bright green hair.) we're going to see a lot of crazy shit but still it should be better in most every case than people having children they don't even want in the first place. So with this in a few years we will be able to have children that have a much lower risk than normal of having a debilitating disease from birth but will otherwise share the traits of their parents.
I'm not even sure if most people (today anyway) would even want their child customised most seem to be most concerned with them looking like them and being healthy. Usually in that order.
Verizon Wireless has IPv6 support yet the addresses they give out are not reachable from the internet or even from another Verizon Wireless IP. IIUC they have a stateful firewall "protecting" it. Destroying it's usefulness for easily hosting services and quick remote access.
Expanding on this the cheap option is the att mobley for $20/mo just tether it to a router and you get decent speeds. Otherwise for $90/mo you can just get unlimited on any att hotspot the unite allows 15 devices if that's not enough either tether to a router or buy a router that can do cellular like one of the pepwave or cradlepoint routers. The cheap end of the cellular routers is the MOFI line. Well $300 isn't that cheap but it is by comparison.
Back when dial up was the thing did you want to open a search page to find something or did you want to wait a minute for yahoo to pull up a full page of shit then try to find whatever it was?
The thing is I actually liked yahoo's search better but it was just too slow to open.
Sure for the most part connections are way faster today than they were back then but I don't want a bunch of crap cluttering up the search page.
They are slowly hiding features that made them great and adding features people don't like nor want.
The cached page view is GONE from many devices (unless javascript is disabled) and i've noticed some pages will have 3 text ads before the search result now instead of the usual two.
The lenovo laptop i'm typing this on has a bunch of oddball issues i've yet to figure out. If you have windows driver issues in the future I recommend drp.su it's a advertising riddled mess but it works great!
This laptop in windows 7 has a couple minute delay after startup before the wifi will work also if I connect a usb wifi dongle it also has a few minute delay before it will work my best guess is tinywall is doing something it shouldn't.
I dual boot XP to run some old games that won't run in anything newer the wifi driver works but for whatever reason greatly limits my connection speed everything works it's just slow.
In this same vein with browsers as the ads or whatever else loads in the page jumps around so when you think it's done loading and you go to click and BAM one more ad loads and magicly rearranges the page just enough to push the ad under your mouse where the menu button was a few milliseconds before.
I agree with this if the gov't wants us to go cashless they need to be footing the cost as they currently do with cash.
It costs many many times less to maintain the digital systems for transactions than it does to monitor maintain secure and replace the paper currency in circulation so they shouldn't have a problem with this.
However from what i've seen with countries actually trying to go cashless this is not being done it's being given over to private companies although at a much lower allowed transaction rate than here in the states closer to 0.3% instead of 3% and while 0.3% is much more reasonable it shouldn't be acceptable for what it is.
Here in the states we already have a 10% sales tax adding in another 3% for a "people don't use cash anymore not a tax tax" seems unreasonable.
IMHO they shouldn't have access to that information but since they are going to do it anyway it should at least be to our benefit.
Now if I remember correctly lavabit had a setup like this so they couldn't access the information so the gov't demanded their SSL key so they could pull a MITM and intercept the user's key.
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No you aren't using the internet to it's fullest if you're limiting yourself to just what you can get to on a smartphone with voice to text.
There is a lot you can do on a smart phone but there is even more you can't.
It's like someone on dialup today saying "we are enjoying the internet to the fullest." Sure you can still communicate with it but you're pretending a lot of things just don't exist.
I ain't agreeing to that.
I don't use that much now but I'm sure if I had gigabit I could hit that cap easily.
As of yet no ISP in town is offering anything over 50Mbps
As it happens neither ISP offering 50mbps service has caps.
So 1Gbps capped to 550GB at $110/mo is somehow fair compared to a ADSL2+ connection for less than half the price with a 1TB cap?
It's news because it's a slow march toward being double billed.
With cellular you are billed for data not speed. With broadband you are billed for speed.
The introduction of caps allows them to bill for speed and data.
Only if it was only done because they think he is an asshole.
That guy is an asshole is not just cause to go through all their activities for the last 20 years. Reports of actual fraud would be.
Jacking up the prices of a vital drug for no reason other than $$$$s is likely to have made a lot of enemies. So I was curious if this was just done to get back at him over that.
I'm not really sure how hiking drug prices and securities fraud are related but that's probably because I don't know anything about securities fraud.
I think he deserved it but that's beside the point.
Good that makes this all much less questionable.
The concern is that they can do this to anyone for any reason.
Suing the state over non functioning stoplights? That's going to piss a bunch of people off who will then start looking through what records they have until they find something anything that they can make stick.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Cardinal Richelieu
That's the deal you can find something wrong with anyone if you look hard enough stuff they probably don't even know they are doing wrong.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -H. L. Mencken
And I ain't defending him I think he's a greedy asshole but I still think it's dangerous to find a crime to fit the person instead of finding crime to find the person.
It's the difference between hey look at that jerk he's got a backpack lets search his backpack hey he's got spray cans but that's not illegal 10 years for jaywalking and
Hey look at that jerk he's spray painting over that no punching babies sign 5 years for vandalism.
IIRC the deal wasn't that no one else made the drug it was that they had managed to secure exclusive rights to sell it in the united states.
I'm afraid this is one of those we don't have a law related to this guy doing things that are legal but morally wrong so we're going to pick through everything until we can find something to nail him with.
Does anyone know if the investigation was started before or after he jacked prices from $13.50 to $750 and got tons of media and legal attention as a result?
Yes he's an asshole but it doesn't make it any less of a dangerous road to be going down.
Wouldn't it be easier to just move to the moon? It's already air free.
Seems to be a good argument in favor of universal health care.
UHC like regular insurance tends to not like new things so it wouldn't be available at first but if it was found to be beneficial (improving long term health and thus lowering needed health care spending) they would eventually cover it too.
Without it it will happen exactly like you said.
Yes some people won't do it.
I wonder if those people will be thought of the same as the anti vaxxers are today.
It's interesting to think about but it's all still fairly distant and there are a lot of problems left to solve.
Yeah i've been using libraries for years and still don't understand how they work.
The local one even lets you borrow ebooks now :)
No but my tablet works in the dark by itself i'd have to have a flashlight and a newspaper to read in a dark room.
I agree with this.
We should start calling antennas piracy too.
Then there is the BS of refusing service to people who have actually paid for your product.
Such as the current blocking of netflix VPN users and HDCP copy protection, copy protection in general.
Then there is the poor treatment of paying customers
The unskippable anti piracy warnings and ads on blurays and dvds that you don't see on a pirated copy, DRM that makes your game run slow but the cracked versions run better (Rime). (Rime was released DRM free shortly after as a result tho.)
Trial, error and random chance.
Yes we can do better.
Doing better isn't hard when you have a existing product.
We don't have to reinvent the wheel just tweak it a bit.
In the story gene editing was causing spontaneous death later in life due to flaw in the edit that was used for nearly an entire generation.
Gene editing was being used to make people pretty smart and fit.
So i'd think the moral was supposed to be gene editing bad.
Great so you don't even know what it does and you're using it on millions of children.
There was a non GMO complaining that they weren't as good as the GMOs then the GMOs started dying because the scientists royally screwed up..then the non GMO didn't feel so bad about themselves anymore.
Still the non GMO just lucked out to begin with being normal and healthy.
Due mainly to survivorship bias most everyone thinks this is fine because they turned out fine.
IMHO
Gene editing is going to be a net positive by large.
As Baljeet said "Choices left to random chance are highly irresponsible"
You could have a normal child or you could have one that's dumber than a rock and only has one hand or anything in between.
Or you can have most of the really bad combinations removed so you have a almost guaranteed chance of having a normal healthy child.
I'm sure we will get where we can play around with genetics like that in the future but that's not what's being discussed today.
What's being discussed today is the minimum we want out of this research making sure children will be healthy by avoiding known bad combinations.
Once they finally get it going where they can actually make designer children (designer example: I want it to be 14ft tall, male, bright purple eyes, fast runner with bright green hair.) we're going to see a lot of crazy shit but still it should be better in most every case than people having children they don't even want in the first place.
So with this in a few years we will be able to have children that have a much lower risk than normal of having a debilitating disease from birth but will otherwise share the traits of their parents.
I'm not even sure if most people (today anyway) would even want their child customised most seem to be most concerned with them looking like them and being healthy. Usually in that order.
Verizon Wireless has IPv6 support yet the addresses they give out are not reachable from the internet or even from another Verizon Wireless IP. IIUC they have a stateful firewall "protecting" it. Destroying it's usefulness for easily hosting services and quick remote access.
Expanding on this the cheap option is the att mobley for $20/mo just tether it to a router and you get decent speeds.
Otherwise for $90/mo you can just get unlimited on any att hotspot the unite allows 15 devices if that's not enough either tether to a router or buy a router that can do cellular like one of the pepwave or cradlepoint routers. The cheap end of the cellular routers is the MOFI line. Well $300 isn't that cheap but it is by comparison.
Back when dial up was the thing did you want to open a search page to find something or did you want to wait a minute for yahoo to pull up a full page of shit then try to find whatever it was?
The thing is I actually liked yahoo's search better but it was just too slow to open.
Sure for the most part connections are way faster today than they were back then but I don't want a bunch of crap cluttering up the search page.
They are slowly hiding features that made them great and adding features people don't like nor want.
The cached page view is GONE from many devices (unless javascript is disabled) and i've noticed some pages will have 3 text ads before the search result now instead of the usual two.
Well IME windows 10 is getting more buggy with each update so quite a bit actually.
The lenovo laptop i'm typing this on has a bunch of oddball issues i've yet to figure out.
If you have windows driver issues in the future I recommend drp.su it's a advertising riddled mess but it works great!
This laptop in windows 7 has a couple minute delay after startup before the wifi will work also if I connect a usb wifi dongle it also has a few minute delay before it will work my best guess is tinywall is doing something it shouldn't.
I dual boot XP to run some old games that won't run in anything newer the wifi driver works but for whatever reason greatly limits my connection speed everything works it's just slow.
In this same vein with browsers as the ads or whatever else loads in the page jumps around so when you think it's done loading and you go to click and BAM one more ad loads and magicly rearranges the page just enough to push the ad under your mouse where the menu button was a few milliseconds before.
That never made any sense to me.
If you want pudding then buy pudding If you don't want meat don't buy meat.
I agree with this if the gov't wants us to go cashless they need to be footing the cost as they currently do with cash.
It costs many many times less to maintain the digital systems for transactions than it does to monitor maintain secure and replace the paper currency in circulation so they shouldn't have a problem with this.
However from what i've seen with countries actually trying to go cashless this is not being done it's being given over to private companies although at a much lower allowed transaction rate than here in the states closer to 0.3% instead of 3% and while 0.3% is much more reasonable it shouldn't be acceptable for what it is.
Here in the states we already have a 10% sales tax adding in another 3% for a "people don't use cash anymore not a tax tax" seems unreasonable.
IMHO they shouldn't have access to that information but since they are going to do it anyway it should at least be to our benefit.
Now if I remember correctly lavabit had a setup like this so they couldn't access the information so the gov't demanded their SSL key so they could pull a MITM and intercept the user's key.