Comment Damned Illegal Aliens (Score 5, Funny) 73
Curse you Marvin the Martian.
until the election was pretty much decided.
But given the choice of keeping Biden as President or getting him thrown out for "mental health"....you want Biden as President.
If Biden is thrown out for "mental health"...Kamala becomes President...and if she's smart....she picks Hillary Clinton as VP.
Expand the 4GB of ram to 400 GB? Or the 64 GB to 400GB?
BTW - what's the purpose of a swap drive in Linux again?
I'm voting for Trump because the other guy's coalition consists of people who have no qualms about labeling people who don't agree with their opinions as subhuman, and a number of them have no qualms about taking that rhetoric to its logical, practical, conclusion.
Yeah!
Vote for Trump because of some stupid libtard.
We don't label those subhumans who can't think!
We don't rely on taking rhetoric to it's logical, practical conclusion.
Itâ(TM)s done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services, from streaming video to managing its employee and customer data.
The term "unlimited" was used to distinguish between the old plans that had X GB/month before you got cut off or got overage charges, vs a new type of plan that has no cut off or overage charge. On the newer "unlimited" plans, the customer instead gets their connections marked high priority until they use more than "their fair share", then after that additional traffic is lower priority than customers who haven't used as much.
Well, if you go back far enough (I'm an old fart), even dial-up connections were charged on a per hour basis (think CompuServe).
The idea that you have high-speed and it eventually throttles back is a fairly recent idea that really played into the 4G networks. IMO, it's deceptive advertising but politicians seem to be letting them get away with it because so few people are really affected.
Basically, starting in 2013 Netflix didn't want to pay their web hosting bill. They wanted 10 Gbps internet connections for free. That's what started network neutrality. More on that in a minute.
Last *I* checked, Netflix primarily runs on AWS and they pay their bills (pretty hefty bills, I might add).
And I know of the "settlement free peering"...that argument is misleading to the extreme. Is Netflix the customer or AWS? Who's backbone gets used - other providers (Level III, etc) or AWS Global Accelerator? Neither of which matters to charter unless charter has been putting up transatlantic cables and cross-country backbones.
I referenced Cable content producers for a reason. Charter hopes to change the game -- but they pay ESPN for a reason. If they want to shoot them in the foot, they can.
Here's the real kicker - you tell FedEx whether you want overnight delivery by 9AM (important legal or medical document, such as related to selling a house) or if you want it sent via the slow boat from China. They provide the service you ask for for each parcel. Your ISP has to figure that out FOR you, 30,000 times per second. The network engineers have to configure that traffic from Netflix is "bulk cargo" - there are going to be a lot of packets, you don't care of they take thousands of milliseconds to arrive, you don't care if some arrive faster, you don't even care if a few packets get lost - you just want the ISP to deliver a crapload of packets, so they send those on an appropriate route, analogous to an ocean-going freighter. Traffic from Fortnite has totally different requirements, and should NOT be in the same queue. It goes into a different queue. The ISP has to figure that out for you and queue each packet in the best way, because you don't even know what jitter *is*, much less how jitter effects different kinds of flows. You don't know whether you want media mail or express mail.
But if you want to get technical, you can ask for a package to be sent several different ways with different legal requirement and different meta-data being kept with the package. (Particularly for internal packages where the same item can be taxed multiple different ways depending on whom is sending it, where it's being sent from and who is receiving it.) Some of that meta data has to arrive WAY before the package does.
None of this is really what was behind the concerns of Net Neutrality. Forget NetFlix and packet ordering - Charter wants to impose data caps for unlimited service. Unlimited service ALREADY HAD A DATA CAP. No day has more than 25 hours in it...no month has more than 32 days in it. There's already an agreed upon max rate per second.
Charter wants to ring out extra cash from video users.
The funny part is that this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of their Cable model. Charter *PAYS* ESPN, Disney, etc. to carry their content. They are literally playing into the hands on the content providers who, once net neutrality is defeated, can argue that they can SLOW bandwidth to Charter customer unless they pony up extra cash.
Suddenly that $39 a month unlimited charter service is worthless to a NetFlix subscriber unless you pay charter an extra $50 a month (or more).
Charter believes that customers won't switch Internet providers...but like winter....5 G (and others) are coming.
can't distinguish between criticism of Trump's response to the virus itself and of criticism of the Travel Ban with China.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.