Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 8 May 2014 @ 10:42am
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Sure, it'd be easy. We just need to do the analog equivalent of the "stop the script that is causing problems" on the people commissioning these dataless reports.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 8 May 2014 @ 10:32am
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+1.
In general, people are really bad at assessing risks from uncommon events.
You're much more at risk of injury/death from an accident in a car than from a plane crash. But the news for a month and a half has been about a plane crash, so people are more scared of flying and sometimes choose to drive instead. They've made themselves less safe in traveling.
Historically, people are far more at risk from their own government than an outside group. Governments already have a large degree of control over their citizens, so even the slightest abuse can cause massive harm. We're also far more at risk from criminals stealing money via data breaches and identity theft than we are from terrorists.
I'm not at all worried about terrorists encrypting their communication, since the likelihood of myself or the people I know being hurt in a terrorist attack is vanishingly small. But I am worried about the government having too much control and abusing the citizens they're supposed to be protecting and who the ones they're supposed to be answerable to (in a western democracy at least). And I am worried about my bank account or credit card information leaking from poor security and unfixed flaws, since it is more likely and will cause me far more hassle.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 7 May 2014 @ 11:04am
Re: Well...
If you consider laws passed to prevent competition written by lobbyists and bought politicians, then Adam Smith's invisible hand wants to punch you in the face.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 7 May 2014 @ 10:58am
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Agree.
Some percentage of any manufactured products is always going to break, or be defective. There are always going to be software bugs.
What matters to me is how a company responds to those perfectly ordinary things. If suing their customers is how they respond, I'm staying far, far away.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 7 May 2014 @ 10:55am
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Who is doing that? Retail price was never mentioned.
Since you brought it up, though, what would the retail price of a iPod that's been filled with major label music from iTunes? 10 or 20 times the cost of the iPod hardware sound about right?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 7 May 2014 @ 10:41am
Re: not really true
they are overwhelmed by demand on their network.
Maybe they should of used all those billions of dollars they got from local governments and their customers to upgrade their networks!
It should also be noted that heavy bandwidth use from these ISPs could also be a sign of heavy P2P activity, and the graphs seem to show a very high level of "reverse" traffic compared to the other 45. Yup, look at it, 20% outbound traffic, it makes you wonder what is going on.
So you're arguing that outbound traffic is growing? Yet Comcast's publicly stated reason for charging Level3 is because the traffic disparity is heavily tilted to inbound. Want to rethink that?
Blaming the ISPs because bandwidth hog services exist really isn't fair at all. The real issue is that companies like Level3 want to get paid twice for traffic - once when it gets sent (server side) and again when they let it out the other side (to the ISPs). If there is any double dipping going on, it's the transit companies that are doing it.
This is an outright lie. Level3 is getting paid by Netflix for transit service. Level3 is not getting paid by Comcast and doesn't want or need to be paid by Comcast.
Answer me this question:
Why should Level3 have to pay money to Comcast, when it is Comcast's customers who are requesting the traffic from Level3? Level3 is only sending the traffic that was requested.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 7 May 2014 @ 9:31am
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Comcast wants it's customers to pay to access content and the content providers to pay to access it's customers.
And what you're saying is that everyone needs to pay twice.
As a customer, I want to pay my ISP to access to the Internet (not to content, but to everything on the Internet and everything I myself can put on the Internet). As long as everyone else pays for their own access to the Internet, all the ISPs have to do is make sure there are enough interconnections that everyone can talk to everyone else.
I want a dumb pipe, because I know better what I want access to than Comcast or Time Warner does. I don't want my ISP deciding what is more valuable to me, and especially not basing it off who will pay to be able to get to me.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 6 May 2014 @ 11:45am
Protection
When even politicians are overly concerned with having enough protection when they're in bed with the copyright maximalists, what does that really say?
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 2 May 2014 @ 8:49am
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They're preparing for round two to kill off Aereo and anything like it.
They think it's possible that the court will rule Aereo legal under current law. This next step is to get the laws changed, which sometimes needs public opinion.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 28 Apr 2014 @ 12:18pm
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Gotta disagree.
Yes, it's true that computing power does increase, and a modern desktop has far more resources than room-sized equipment of the 1970s and 80s.
However, when you come to modern simulation of nuclear weapons, it's not just about making any nuclear weapon. Anyone with a decent understanding of physics and access to the right equipment and material (HE uranium, plutonium or other fissile element) could make a crude weapon. What a supercomputer or even a large cluster of high end systems can do in simulation is make far more powerful weapons possible with even smaller amounts of the materials. Exactly the kind of small amounts of those materials you might expect those countries might be able to get access to under the wrong circumstances. One desktop PC wouldn't be able to handle those types of simulations, but a cluster of thousands might.
Josh in CharlotteNC (profile), 1 Jan 2014 @ 11:30am
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In terms of costs and benefits, I would rather be "responsible" for the next terrorist attack because I complained, instead of responsible for the next step into an Orwellian dystopia because I did not complain.
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In general, people are really bad at assessing risks from uncommon events.
You're much more at risk of injury/death from an accident in a car than from a plane crash. But the news for a month and a half has been about a plane crash, so people are more scared of flying and sometimes choose to drive instead. They've made themselves less safe in traveling.
Historically, people are far more at risk from their own government than an outside group. Governments already have a large degree of control over their citizens, so even the slightest abuse can cause massive harm. We're also far more at risk from criminals stealing money via data breaches and identity theft than we are from terrorists.
I'm not at all worried about terrorists encrypting their communication, since the likelihood of myself or the people I know being hurt in a terrorist attack is vanishingly small. But I am worried about the government having too much control and abusing the citizens they're supposed to be protecting and who the ones they're supposed to be answerable to (in a western democracy at least). And I am worried about my bank account or credit card information leaking from poor security and unfixed flaws, since it is more likely and will cause me far more hassle.
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Re: Well...
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Some percentage of any manufactured products is always going to break, or be defective. There are always going to be software bugs.
What matters to me is how a company responds to those perfectly ordinary things. If suing their customers is how they respond, I'm staying far, far away.
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Since you brought it up, though, what would the retail price of a iPod that's been filled with major label music from iTunes? 10 or 20 times the cost of the iPod hardware sound about right?
On the post: How Comcast Is Trying To Turn The Internet Into The Old, Broken Phone System
Re: not really true
Maybe they should of used all those billions of dollars they got from local governments and their customers to upgrade their networks!
It should also be noted that heavy bandwidth use from these ISPs could also be a sign of heavy P2P activity, and the graphs seem to show a very high level of "reverse" traffic compared to the other 45. Yup, look at it, 20% outbound traffic, it makes you wonder what is going on.
So you're arguing that outbound traffic is growing? Yet Comcast's publicly stated reason for charging Level3 is because the traffic disparity is heavily tilted to inbound. Want to rethink that?
Blaming the ISPs because bandwidth hog services exist really isn't fair at all. The real issue is that companies like Level3 want to get paid twice for traffic - once when it gets sent (server side) and again when they let it out the other side (to the ISPs). If there is any double dipping going on, it's the transit companies that are doing it.
This is an outright lie. Level3 is getting paid by Netflix for transit service. Level3 is not getting paid by Comcast and doesn't want or need to be paid by Comcast.
Answer me this question:
Why should Level3 have to pay money to Comcast, when it is Comcast's customers who are requesting the traffic from Level3? Level3 is only sending the traffic that was requested.
On the post: How Comcast Is Trying To Turn The Internet Into The Old, Broken Phone System
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And what you're saying is that everyone needs to pay twice.
As a customer, I want to pay my ISP to access to the Internet (not to content, but to everything on the Internet and everything I myself can put on the Internet). As long as everyone else pays for their own access to the Internet, all the ISPs have to do is make sure there are enough interconnections that everyone can talk to everyone else.
I want a dumb pipe, because I know better what I want access to than Comcast or Time Warner does. I don't want my ISP deciding what is more valuable to me, and especially not basing it off who will pay to be able to get to me.
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Protection
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They think it's possible that the court will rule Aereo legal under current law. This next step is to get the laws changed, which sometimes needs public opinion.
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They flew away like birds.
My mouth has not even an ahem.
Dr. Suess must have stole them.
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Yes, it's true that computing power does increase, and a modern desktop has far more resources than room-sized equipment of the 1970s and 80s.
However, when you come to modern simulation of nuclear weapons, it's not just about making any nuclear weapon. Anyone with a decent understanding of physics and access to the right equipment and material (HE uranium, plutonium or other fissile element) could make a crude weapon. What a supercomputer or even a large cluster of high end systems can do in simulation is make far more powerful weapons possible with even smaller amounts of the materials. Exactly the kind of small amounts of those materials you might expect those countries might be able to get access to under the wrong circumstances. One desktop PC wouldn't be able to handle those types of simulations, but a cluster of thousands might.
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Re: Does this directive cover James Clapper?
On the post: Washington Post Columnist Says 'Complainers' Will Be At Fault For Next Terrorist Attack
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Next they came... oh, wait.
The End.
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Since when have the major labels ever given the artist 70% of their revenue?
On the post: Why Pulling Music From Spotify Only Holds Back The Artist Doing The Pulling
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/raises hand
Me.
98% of my music listening time is now spent on Spotify.
The other 2% is occasional channel swapping to the single terrestrial radio station that (sometimes) plays music I enjoy between NPR segments.
My $10 a month to Spotify is all I ever plan to pay for music ever again - and it's more than I spent on recorded music while a teenager or in my 20s.
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