Comment Re:Careful with those quotation marks (Score 1) 332
Fiction is an exception to "British style".
Fiction is an exception to "British style".
Google has one source of revenue (ads). Everything Google does on the side is a "hobby."
No, wrong Steve: There's "The Steve" (Jobs), "The Other Steve" (Woz) and "The Other Other Steve" (Ballmer).
The problem here would be your power company who promised both you and the guy next door to provide more electricity than the power company is capable of providing.
As I read, the proposal addresses exactly this. The "open internet" would have some reasonable minimum guaranteed throughput. If 100 houses are sold 1Mbps, there had better be a 100Mbps (or some reasonable percentage) upstream pipe to support them that is unmanaged. I get my minimum, but also realize there's no priority for my traffic over anyone else. Basically what I have now, where I can use VoIP, streaming, etc. but there's no priority applied to any packets. No amount of other's Netflix streaming or VoIP or downloading should affect my minimum throughput, either. ---- That's how I read it. Whether that's feasible or not is debatable.
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Now wait a second, either that involves some amount of throttling (not unmanaged) or I'm misreading you, since if everyone is using 1Mbps and someone decides to start streaming at 10Mbps, none of the other people will get a full 1Mbps unless you directly throttle the hog to 1Mbps.
Still not ideal. I mean, why not use metric time?
Because then you'd just be talking about kJ (W=J/s), and electrical engineers get grumpy when you start telling them about "Joules" and such (but for some odd reason BTUs are absolutely fine -- just not for the same things as kWh).
Also: Kwh=Kelvin * ??? * hour. Generally you want kWh=kilowatt hour.
Honestly, nowhere else than the world of Internet connections in the US would the line "Yes, we sold it but it's unreasonable to expect us to actually deliver it" fly.
FTFY.
That's why we have
Since the Justice Department has been asleep at the wheel for the past several decades, Google will not be broken up as it should be. It will become both "too big to fail" and "big enough to fuck everything up".
I thought that was the SEC. Or was it the FTC? It certainly isn't the Justice Dpt.
ObTopic: If they can "see" it from the street, how is it "private" in any sane sense of the word?
While Censorship and restraint are very different issues. One I wish Wikipedia would learn when clicking on various biology articles. Oh I wonder what that illness is (MY EYES!!).
Offtopic:this
ObTopic: new RFC: To perform a (D)DoS, one MUST go through 4chan first.
Yes, but the 14th amendment fucked that up pretty well... Maybe that's why the tea party wants to repeal it? If so, I'm now even more afraid of them than I already was!
She was still splitting hairs, I saw the thing. Although "separation" doesn't appear, it's pretty well established. She also asked her opponent what the 14th amendment says... when it's on the Tea Party's platform!
Yes, it was called xscreensaver and it's supposedly still maintained (it's in the Ubuntu repo's anyway).
Try Googling "Security theater".
How about WiFi tethering (i.e. the phone makes its own WiFi network)?
"Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie
