Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 1) 186
So, since I'm reading Slashdot in USA, I shouldn't have to worry about links to goat.cx ?
Only worry if you enjoy them...
So, since I'm reading Slashdot in USA, I shouldn't have to worry about links to goat.cx ?
Only worry if you enjoy them...
Sure. I don't know what the "ass" part of the name signifies, but the second syllable is from the Greek phagein, to eat. That means this virus eats your butt. What a great name.
Chromium Chloride is purple, so clearly, this is a Purple People Eater... is it airborne?
Nobody believes you except for the fools and the gullible. US == liars. Obama == Hitler.
Hitler leads on countries invaded 24 to 4,
Hitler was also a far better public speaker; convinced millions of people that blonde haired people were superior - when he had brown hair.
I bet you could not tell the difference between a civilian plane and a military plane flying at 30,000 feet over a war zone either.
I could. The civilian plane would have a radar transponder that said "Hi, I am Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17".
It is absolutely technically possible to filter based on source IP address country.
Not unless you disallow VPNs at the border, it isn't.
If Google is censoring their results, they could do so no just on the basis of which version of Google receives the request, but on the basis of the requesting IP address.
Google blocks it by domain. Domain is specific to country by registrar. If someone in the UK goes to google.com instead of google.co.uk, it's up to the UK to dick with their ISP and DNS results to force redirect them into the UK legal sandbox where the content is controlled.
You know, just like China.
Legally forcing a commercial entity to act as part of your own implementation of "The Great Firewall of China" is not the same thing as not being censorious dicks yourself. An unfunded mandate to force someone to do your dirty work for you does not make it any less your dirty work.
"why haven't cellular data providers figured out a way to offer more than 5 GB per month at a reasonable price in the past decade".
They have. The FCC has. They need much more of the spectrum to do it which means shutting off broadcast TV which no one uses.
Funny. The way NTT solved the problem a quarter of a century ago was to increase cell density to decrease per cell load. They don't need more spectrum.
With cell towers your individual bandwidth is a function of how many people are using that tower. If you aren't getting enough you add towers, simple as that. It just costs money and the cell companies find it's more profitable to throttle than upgrade their network. Throttling your internet/cellphone is free, so long as everyone does it to prevent competition.
This.
Your gigabit network is nice and all, but this conversation is about phones.
The only imitation on phone is data rate.
Bandwidth is trivially addressed by cell density. NTT happily addressed this in Japan Circa 1998 or so by increasing cell density. For each increase in cell density, the radius containing devices an existing cell has to service is reduced. For something lice a femto-cell, or business femto cells, such as those on they ceilings of the conference rooms, offices, and hallways at Google and Apple, the effective load for a given cell is a couple of devices each, at most.
Is this because you can't multiple 60 x 60 and get 3600, and then divide it by 10 to get 360, and don't understand that the factor 10 should be used instead of the factor 8 due to the way CSMA/CD transports encode 8 bits?
Or are you just bad at math?
that takes 5 GB per month?
do you HAVE to stream entire movies and music to it?
why not copy stuff to its storage and maybe save some wireless bandwidth?
Maybe Verizon FIOS is his hem provider, and either way, he hits a dumb ass Verizon data cap because they've gotten state laws passed to prevent cities from building their own infrastructure?
I think $10/GB would be reasonable considering that they charge $30 for 3GB.
I think $10/GB is ridiculous; in South Korea, you can buy 1Gbit/s for $20/month - which would take you about 10 seconds to hit $10.
Given that there are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour, that's about $360/hour, or $8,460/day, or to put it another way, a quarter of a million dollars for February, and more than that for other months with more days in them.
Tell me again why they are selling other people's packets as if they were metering water, as opposed to renting us pipes for those packets based on pipe diameter, and getting the hell out of the way otherwise?
Netflix is perhaps the most ruthless corporation to have ever existed. They will stop at absolutely nothing to dominate the economy. In a year or two stopping them will be impossible. We must act now, otherwise it will be too late.
Why? Does their player mine Bitcoins for the Winklevii in the background while playing movies?
Reminds me of the stories of panhandlers begging at intersections
who get picked up by their chauffeurs at the end of the day to go back
to their mansions.
You mean complete imaginary bullshit made up by and propagated by greedy
sociopaths eager to rationalize their abandonment of their fellow man?
Especially these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Predicted the 1960's (Kerr-induced self-focusing: http://journals.aps.org/prl/ab... ), and it was a big part of SDI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... and was again applied to space-to-ground weapons systems in 2009: http://journals.aps.org/prl/ab...
It was ale demonstrated at LLNL in 2009: http://www.researchgate.net/pu... and 2010: http://www.researchgate.net/pu...
What's new about this one is that they've renamed the tunnel as the desired artifact, rather than describing it in beams going down the tunnel.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
