Second, T-Mobile keeps claiming that most users can't tell the difference between 480p videos and higher quality HD videos, but that's bullshit. In many cases the difference in quality is quite obvious.
Actually that's probably the most legitimat thing he said in the whole piece. People like to say how much better high-resolution video looks, but actual tests show time and time again that they can't actually tell the difference reliably. In fact, most people will consistently rate a lower-res video as higher quality than a higher resolution one, if the low-res one is displayed on a larger screen.
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The FCC needs to define the terms ONCE,
and then never update them as technology improves?
It used to be that the definition of a supercomputer was 1 gigaflops of processing power. Today I've got a few hundred of those on my laptop, but nobody's calling it a supercomputer.
For instance this plan requires users pay $40 a month to add a tablet to the plan, which is only $10 a month if you remain on AT&T's metered data plans.
I tried to parse that and my brain threw an exception. Either this is a typo or I'm missing some important context.
I imagine that some will respond that this was really only because of the desire to see the new Star Wars flick, but isn't that simply proof that if you deliver what the public wants, they'll pay to go to the theater?
Perhaps, but that's not the point of that response. The Force Awakens is a statistical outlier big enough to skew overall aggregate calculations that include it. Remove it from the numbers and what does the rest of the year look like?
And to the credit of current FCC boss Tom Wheeler, the agency has probably done more on this front than the last four FCC leaders combined.
Not sure if it's true or not, but I'd like to believe that a good deal of the credit on that front actually belongs John Oliver. Look at the timeline and you'll see that the point at which Tom Wheeler began to take his job seriously sure seems to be marked by the words "I am not a dingo."
It's one thing for the left hand not to know what the right hand is doing. It's another thing entirely for the head to be ignorant of what the hands are up to...
The specifics of the hacking tool are unknown, but it intercepted a large amount of device-specific data, including the operating system used, Host Name, username, MAC address and whether or not a particular computer had previously been compromised by the FBI's hacking tool.
...all of which, except for the last item of course, are things any server receives as a matter of course while transacting ordinary business. Why do you present this scary-sounding list that's actually not scary at all to people who understand the technical terms involved, when you regularly criticize politicians for saying exactly equivalent things when attacking tech companies they don't like?
Wait, have they actually slowed down your tcpdump downloads? From what's been said, it appears that their system is at least intelligent enough to only throttle actual video.
Go ask the gaming industry how well that money-pit has turned out for them.
...or on second thought, don't. The fact that they continue to find it worthwhile to toss money into means you're not likely to get an objective answer out of them.
Here's my plan for what I will do with Wall Street when I am president:
Break up huge financial institutions in the first year of my administration. Within the first 100 days of my administration, I will require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a “Too Big to Fail” list of commercial banks, shadow banks, and insurance companies whose failure would pose a catastrophic risk to the U.S. economy without a taxpayer bailout. Within one year, my administration will break these institutions up so that they no longer pose a grave threat to the economy.
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End too-big-to-jail. We live in a country today that has an economy that is rigged, a campaign finance system which is corrupt, and a criminal justice system which often does not dispense justice. The average American sees kids being arrested and sometimes even jailed for possessing marijuana. But when it comes to Wall Street executives — some of the most wealthy and powerful people in this country whose illegal behavior hurt millions of Americans — somehow nothing happens to them. No jail time. No police record. No justice.
Not one major Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for causing the near collapse of our entire economy. That will change under my administration. “Equal Justice Under Law” will not just be words engraved on the entrance of the Supreme Court. It will be the standard that applies to Wall Street and all Americans.
-- Bernie Sanders
At the very least, it sounds like a better plan than sharpening up the ol' French National Razors.
Taking down someone's work under the DMCA, (which is a law,) by definition constitutes a legal remedy against an accused perpetrator. In any other context, punishing someone for breaking the law without a trial, on accusation only, is considered a legal abomination. Why does common sense go straight out the window when copyright is involved? It violates the concepts of Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence, both of which American jurisprudence is supposed to hold sacred and inviolable.
Under no circumstances should an allegedly copyright-infringing work be taken down without an actual guilty verdict.
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You say that as if Qualcomm didn't get there by standing on a whole tower of giants of its own...
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You say that as if it's a bad thing...
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Actually that's probably the most legitimat thing he said in the whole piece. People like to say how much better high-resolution video looks, but actual tests show time and time again that they can't actually tell the difference reliably. In fact, most people will consistently rate a lower-res video as higher quality than a higher resolution one, if the low-res one is displayed on a larger screen.
Sad, but true.
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and then never update them as technology improves?
It used to be that the definition of a supercomputer was 1 gigaflops of processing power. Today I've got a few hundred of those on my laptop, but nobody's calling it a supercomputer.
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Are you kidding? That's literally been the core strategy for corporatists everywhere since the 1970s!
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I tried to parse that and my brain threw an exception. Either this is a typo or I'm missing some important context.
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Re: Who *lost* broadband access?
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Perhaps, but that's not the point of that response. The Force Awakens is a statistical outlier big enough to skew overall aggregate calculations that include it. Remove it from the numbers and what does the rest of the year look like?
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Not sure if it's true or not, but I'd like to believe that a good deal of the credit on that front actually belongs John Oliver. Look at the timeline and you'll see that the point at which Tom Wheeler began to take his job seriously sure seems to be marked by the words "I am not a dingo."
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...all of which, except for the last item of course, are things any server receives as a matter of course while transacting ordinary business. Why do you present this scary-sounding list that's actually not scary at all to people who understand the technical terms involved, when you regularly criticize politicians for saying exactly equivalent things when attacking tech companies they don't like?
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Re: Speaking as a T-Mobile customer
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...or on second thought, don't. The fact that they continue to find it worthwhile to toss money into means you're not likely to get an objective answer out of them.
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Isn't one enough?
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At the very least, it sounds like a better plan than sharpening up the ol' French National Razors.
On the post: US Copyright Office Asks For Public Comments On DMCA's Notice And Takedown
Taking down someone's work under the DMCA, (which is a law,) by definition constitutes a legal remedy against an accused perpetrator. In any other context, punishing someone for breaking the law without a trial, on accusation only, is considered a legal abomination. Why does common sense go straight out the window when copyright is involved? It violates the concepts of Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence, both of which American jurisprudence is supposed to hold sacred and inviolable.
Under no circumstances should an allegedly copyright-infringing work be taken down without an actual guilty verdict.
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