At least they correct their mistakes. I assume Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom are still busy blaming Netflix and YouTube for whatever capacity problems they have.
Yes, but said families and students don't need to read books, the Authors Guild incredibly claimed. If you don't like the books you've already got from the generous publishers, just do something else, like playing videogames or something. Don't ever think of borrowing a book they didn't mean to provide you when you were locked at home.
The job of every good CEO is to fire as many people as possible to increase short term profits and stock value, everyone knows it. Can you imagine what long hours he must have worked to fire 37,000 people? He earned it!
Indeed. However the Austrian regulator felt the need to intervene to (allow ISPs to) cap Netflix network usage and the European Commission asked Netflix to avoid congesting the network...
A statement from the executive on Wednesday evening read that “abnormal traffic distribution risks putting Internet infrastructure under strain right when we need it to be operational at the best possible level.”
Don't forget millions of students at home playing games or using streaming services. (Unless you think they'll all flock to read books on OpenLibrary.org instead!)
Yes, but only the need to shoulder random spikes can prepare the network to handle a sudden increase of network usage of say 50 % across the board (everywhere at all times).
Netflix may create big peaks when it releases a new TV series, but how big are they? I'd expect them to come relatively staggered. A better stress test might be a sudden contemporary download of very big software packages, like the game download anonymous mentioned above or maybe some urgent M$ Windows software pack mistakenly triggered on millions or billions of machines at once. Even that may not suffice as comparable stress test, because the CDN (cf. https://security.stackexchange.com/a/14079/47770 ) or even tier1 provider may saturate their cables before the rest of the network does.
Good point, but I'll note that LINX spike wasn't nearly as remarkable as the MIX spike I've mentioned: their daily peak is already around 4 Tb/s, so a peak ot 4.7 is not even 20 % more. Interesting that it seems to hold up in the following days though (which suggests there were multiple factors at play, unless the game downloads are continuing for 9 days in a row already). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/2020-03_LINX_traffic_statistics.png ht tps://portal.linx.net/stats/lans
For hard numbers on how much the Internet consumption has grown, the statistics from MIX (Milan Internet eXchange) are about as good as it can get: most of the traffic from/to Italy eventually goes through it.
More likely that the maker of the 3D printed valve will end up getting some criminal charge down the road, when (inevitably) one out of thousands will malfunction and (likely) the patient will see an opportunity for quick cash.
That's incorrect. The biggest hospitals in Italy are those which have the "IRCSS" label, meaning they can do both healthcare and research. They're usually connected to a university so they can train and employ undergraduates and graduates before they've completed their education ("specializzazione").
Granted, many of the other 30 are non-profit foundations, often ultimately controlled or semi-controlled by some public administration (like a university or a municipality), but some are just normal businesses, including (most famously) the San Raffaele hospital owned by the Vatican. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Raffaele_Hospital
Thank you for the honest communication about the circumstances. Most of the announcements I've read in this period by businesses (and not only businesses) were disgustingly self-serving. When I saw the title I was bracing for the worst but as usual Mike has surprised for the best.
Ah, and after the suicide attempt it had to be buried further! Page 19 and 20.
A version of this article appears in print on March 12, 2020, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Manning Tried To Kill Herself, Lawyers Say.
A version of this article appears in print on March 13, 2020, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Judge Orders Manning to Be Released From Jail One Day After a Suicide Attempt.
Well let's see how the New York Times handled it before the suicide attempt:
A version of this article appears in print on May 10, 2019, Section A, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Manning Freed From Jail, But She May Return Soon
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Internet Archive too
The Internet Archive made the same move at the same time as the Wikimedia Foundation, see https://www.infodocket.com/2020/03/13/report-wikimedia-internet-archive-want-patent-infringement-cla ims-kicked-out/
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ISPs hit reality
Meanwhile TIM/Telecom Italia, the Italian incumbent, was forced to resume peering at the main Italian internet exchange, the MIX.
https://twitter.com/MIX_exchange/status/1245028914029879297
At least they correct their mistakes. I assume Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom are still busy blaming Netflix and YouTube for whatever capacity problems they have.
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Re: Families locked down
Yes, but said families and students don't need to read books, the Authors Guild incredibly claimed. If you don't like the books you've already got from the generous publishers, just do something else, like playing videogames or something. Don't ever think of borrowing a book they didn't mean to provide you when you were locked at home.
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Patry on copying is not theft
Patry (2009) is a useful source to link when explaining that copying is not theft (preview works without registration):
https://archive.org/details/moralpanicscopy00patr/page/92
For the lazy you can also link a short summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Copyright_infringement&oldid=948161637#%22Th eft%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985)
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A new Korematsu v. United States?
I'm reading Stephen Breyer's "Making our democracy work" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Breyer and I get a déjà vu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
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CEO's job
The job of every good CEO is to fire as many people as possible to increase short term profits and stock value, everyone knows it. Can you imagine what long hours he must have worked to fire 37,000 people? He earned it!
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YouTube and Netflix switch off HD by default
And there we go
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/youtube-to-reduce-streaming-quality-in-europe-due-t o-coronavirus/
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/netflix-to-scale-down-european-network- traffic-after-eu-pressure/
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Re: Re: Re: We may have Netflix to thank
Indeed. However the Austrian regulator felt the need to intervene to (allow ISPs to) cap Netflix network usage and the European Commission asked Netflix to avoid congesting the network...
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/commission-internet-under-strain-amid-covid -19-overuse/
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Re: Sources on social
Tip: if you want to convince someone that social media is good, link some sources which are not themselves social media.
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Re: Sources of extra traffic
Don't forget millions of students at home playing games or using streaming services. (Unless you think they'll all flock to read books on OpenLibrary.org instead!)
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Re: We may have Netflix to thank
Yes, but only the need to shoulder random spikes can prepare the network to handle a sudden increase of network usage of say 50 % across the board (everywhere at all times).
Netflix may create big peaks when it releases a new TV series, but how big are they? I'd expect them to come relatively staggered. A better stress test might be a sudden contemporary download of very big software packages, like the game download anonymous mentioned above or maybe some urgent M$ Windows software pack mistakenly triggered on millions or billions of machines at once. Even that may not suffice as comparable stress test, because the CDN (cf. https://security.stackexchange.com/a/14079/47770 ) or even tier1 provider may saturate their cables before the rest of the network does.
I'd like to know what caused the 6.7 Tb/s spikes at AMS-IX in April and June 2019. That might be more likely to tell you who to thank for network robustness. :)
https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo ns/0/06/2020-03_AMSIX_yearly_traffic_statistics.png
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Re: Re: Traffic statistics
Good point, but I'll note that LINX spike wasn't nearly as remarkable as the MIX spike I've mentioned: their daily peak is already around 4 Tb/s, so a peak ot 4.7 is not even 20 % more. Interesting that it seems to hold up in the following days though (which suggests there were multiple factors at play, unless the game downloads are continuing for 9 days in a row already).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/2020-03_LINX_traffic_statistics.png
ht tps://portal.linx.net/stats/lans
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Traffic statistics
For hard numbers on how much the Internet consumption has grown, the statistics from MIX (Milan Internet eXchange) are about as good as it can get: most of the traffic from/to Italy eventually goes through it.
Typical traffic went from ~800 to ~1100 Gbps, which is not a giant leap but isn't insignificant either.
https://www.mix-it.net/2020/03/11/superati-1-1-tb-di-traffico-al-mix/
https://www.mix-it.net /statistiche/
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Re: Re: Non-profit hospitals in Italy
I mean, it's incorrect that if you sue a hospital you're suing the state. It was not incorrect what you said (that you don't know about Italy).
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Re: Criminal charges
More likely that the maker of the 3D printed valve will end up getting some criminal charge down the road, when (inevitably) one out of thousands will malfunction and (likely) the patient will see an opportunity for quick cash.
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Re: Non-profit hospitals in Italy
That's incorrect. The biggest hospitals in Italy are those which have the "IRCSS" label, meaning they can do both healthcare and research. They're usually connected to a university so they can train and employ undergraduates and graduates before they've completed their education ("specializzazione").
There are 51 such hospitals and only 21 are considered "public" (~state-owned):
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istituto_di_ricovero_e_cura_a_carattere_scientifico
ht tp://www.salute.gov.it/portale/temi/p2_6.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=794&area=Ricerca%20sanitaria &menu=ssn
Granted, many of the other 30 are non-profit foundations, often ultimately controlled or semi-controlled by some public administration (like a university or a municipality), but some are just normal businesses, including (most famously) the San Raffaele hospital owned by the Vatican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Raffaele_Hospital
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More coming thanks to coronavirus/covid-19
"Federal government in talks with tech groups to use phone location data to track coronavirus: report"
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/488075-federal-government-in-talks-with-tech-grou ps-to-use-phone-location-data-to
I'm surprised there is still any data they don't have.
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Honest talking
Thank you for the honest communication about the circumstances. Most of the announcements I've read in this period by businesses (and not only businesses) were disgustingly self-serving. When I saw the title I was bracing for the worst but as usual Mike has surprised for the best.
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Re: Re: How can anyone side with the DOJ here?
Ah, and after the suicide attempt it had to be buried further! Page 19 and 20.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/chelsea-manning-suicide-attempt.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/chelsea-manning-released-jail.html
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Re: How can anyone side with the DOJ here?
Well let's see how the New York Times handled it before the suicide attempt:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/chelsea-manning-jail.html
Page 14. What page do you think they'd use for one of their journalists held in jail?
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