That is an interesting idea. Charge for speed rather than data cap.
One could even define a "speed" plan as: XXX megabits / second for first 22 GB of data, then YYY megabits / second for next 10 GB of data, then ZZZ megabits / second for as much data as you can use
And you could qualify it with "subject to availability" because you cannot guarantee that data rates might drop due to unexpected crowding -- but I don't want to open the door to abuse by ISPs.
But remember AOL almost got in serious trouble with state AGs back in the day, with one AG saying it is as if AOL sold 10,000 theater tickets to a theater with only 3,000 seats. The problem being AOL didn't have enough inbound phone lines to not get a busy signal.
It is ONLY a mere one million minutes of call data
That works out to a measly 1.9 years of call data. Since people, most people, aren't continuously on the phone, this probably represents quite a few more real time person-years of call data.
The police are just being extra careful in case more criminal activity occurs. To protect us all. Can't you imagine horrible threats to our way of life? It's like the potential monster under the bed. You need to wake up the police to come check under the bed and install permanent surveillance. In every bedroom, just in case.
Somewhere in that 1.9 years of call data, there might have been a call to a terrorist. Of course, to be sure, everyone contacted during that time needs to be investigated, and their contacts as well. Because terrorists.
Step 1: accuse anonymous doe of cyber bullying. Waaaaah! Step 2: once anonymity is unmasked, do not pursue further litigation.
Gee that recipe has a familiar sound to it? I wonder where I've seem something like that before where the court is used to discover someone's identity for a fraudulent extortion purpose?
Re: No tax returns, no presidency... You're fired Mr. Scrotum...
He could just be hiding his teeny tiny hands.
For someone supposedly so wealthy, Trump sure frowns a lot. If it's not a frown it is a feigned smile. Or an evil grin. Never a genuine smile of happy emotion.
Maybe he is not so wealthy as he would like everyone to think.
PURE SPECULATION follows since we are in a vacuum of facts.
What if he is in debt to many investors? What if the latest of those investors (foreign?) didn't understand how indebted he already was.
Imagine if his house of cards could come crashing down if it were to become known how in debt he is.
Maybe. Maybe not. Something is being hidden by not releasing the tax returns. The something might not be illegal, but could cause major trouble. Towers might not literally come crashing down. But loans might be called in.
Who knows what is hidden in those tax returns.
Or maybe the only thing to be revealed by the tax returns is that he really is extremely wealthy and it proves that wealth does not bring happiness. Or peace in the heart.
If you are suggesting that ISPs may be cutting off poor people to save money, that may not be so.
1. It might cost an ISP less than $10 a month to provide basic service that poor people could get a $10 subsidy for.
2. Even if it doesn't save the ISPs money, they might just want to cut off poor people for pure simple spite. Because they are poor. This would not conflict with the corporate values of most big ISPs.
It would be better to say "appointed by". It implies that some corporate power behind the scenes is doing the appointment and that the orange clown is really a puppet whose strings are pulled from behind the stage.
Ajit Pai, the Verizon appointment to the FCC.
In general:
${paid-lobbyist}, the ${corporation} appointment to the ${office}.
Let's talk about data blocks. Consider plaintext data block A.
B = random data block C = A XOR B
Now delete A. A can be reproduced with C XOR B. But neither B nor C are plaintext. Now store B and C in different countries, on purpose. (Note you could XOR with multiple random blocks so that there are three or more parts that must be recombined to reproduce block A.)
Now to reproduce block A, at least one block is required from a foreign country.
Blocks could be stored in multiple countries such that if some number of countries are inaccessible, all necessary blocks can still be retrieved to reproduce the original data.
This helps make data big-brother proof.
Note that you don't need quite as many random blocks as you think. Block B could be used again on some other customer's data block somewhere. Just don't use it too often. It still needs to be a drop in the ocean of random data blocks.
A design like that may have the unintended side effect of making data potentially inaccessible to all countries.
At the time of a law enforcement request, Google doesn't know where the data is located. Therefore, it's a crap shoot for law enforcement to try to get a foreign law enforcement agency to cooperate.
This is superior to Microsoft's approach. Microsoft knew the data was in Ireland. Microsoft argued that Irish law enforcement could require Microsoft to produce the data.
With Google's approach, law enforcement doesn't know what jurisdiction to cooperate with to produce the data. This could get national jurisdictions into a pissing match.
The FBI could try to get all jurisdictions where Google data centers are located to all simultaneously serve a warrant for the sought after data. But that is a much higher bar to jump over.
Re: Anyone have the metrics for 'lowest tier of subscriber'?
I'm not sure what you're asking for.
A few years ago, we went in to cut our cable off completely because we were already on the lowest tier. They said that there was an even lower tier that they didn't advertise. So we got that for a couple years. Eventually we cut even that off. We discovered that all we really watched on cable was the evening news ABC / NBC / CBS. Everything else was Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Starz, HBO, PBS, YouTube.
Although my cable market area is not afflicted with Comcast, I would say: go ahead Comcast, but it's too late. I already cut the cord.
On the post: A Little Something Called Competition Forces Verizon To Bring Back Unlimited* Data
Re: Re:
One could even define a "speed" plan as:
XXX megabits / second for first 22 GB of data, then
YYY megabits / second for next 10 GB of data, then
ZZZ megabits / second for as much data as you can use
And you could qualify it with "subject to availability" because you cannot guarantee that data rates might drop due to unexpected crowding -- but I don't want to open the door to abuse by ISPs.
But remember AOL almost got in serious trouble with state AGs back in the day, with one AG saying it is as if AOL sold 10,000 theater tickets to a theater with only 3,000 seats. The problem being AOL didn't have enough inbound phone lines to not get a busy signal.
On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets
Re: Uncollectible debt?
We're being treated so UNFAIR by a so called judge.
Hey judge, we'll see you in court!
Trust me! I promise!
On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets
Re: Want to make a million$?
If you want to make milliion$, become a speed camera vendor and approach a mayor gullible enough to pay you 35 percent of the scam.
It is the TOWN not the speed camera company that has to pay restitution. Speed camera company is off the hook. Probably looking for the next sucker.
On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets
Re:
I think the saying is:
those who do not learn HISTORY are doomed to repeat it.
(Usually repeated during summer school.)
On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets
Re: No need to screw the residents
On the post: Court Orders Small Ohio Speed Trap Town To Refund $3 Million In Unconstitutional Speeding Tickets
Re:
On the post: UK Police Spy On Journalists At Small Town Paper, Gather One Million Minutes Worth Of Call Data
It is ONLY a mere one million minutes of call data
The police are just being extra careful in case more criminal activity occurs. To protect us all. Can't you imagine horrible threats to our way of life? It's like the potential monster under the bed. You need to wake up the police to come check under the bed and install permanent surveillance. In every bedroom, just in case.
Somewhere in that 1.9 years of call data, there might have been a call to a terrorist. Of course, to be sure, everyone contacted during that time needs to be investigated, and their contacts as well. Because terrorists.
On the post: Cyberbullying Bill Would Grant Power To Strip Online Anonymity Before Legal Proceedings Begin
How to strip someone's online anonymonity
Step 2: once anonymity is unmasked, do not pursue further litigation.
Gee that recipe has a familiar sound to it? I wonder where I've seem something like that before where the court is used to discover someone's identity for a fraudulent extortion purpose?
Step 3: send extortion letter demanding money.
On the post: UK Search Engines Will Sign Up To A 'Voluntary' Code On Piracy -- Or Face The Consequences
Voluntary -- or face the consequences?
On the post: President Trump's White House Reaching New Lows In Accountability And Transparency
Re: No tax returns, no presidency... You're fired Mr. Scrotum...
For someone supposedly so wealthy, Trump sure frowns a lot. If it's not a frown it is a feigned smile. Or an evil grin. Never a genuine smile of happy emotion.
Maybe he is not so wealthy as he would like everyone to think.
PURE SPECULATION follows since we are in a vacuum of facts.
What if he is in debt to many investors? What if the latest of those investors (foreign?) didn't understand how indebted he already was.
Imagine if his house of cards could come crashing down if it were to become known how in debt he is.
Maybe. Maybe not. Something is being hidden by not releasing the tax returns. The something might not be illegal, but could cause major trouble. Towers might not literally come crashing down. But loans might be called in.
Who knows what is hidden in those tax returns.
Or maybe the only thing to be revealed by the tax returns is that he really is extremely wealthy and it proves that wealth does not bring happiness. Or peace in the heart.
On the post: Australian Guy Demands Techdirt Story Be Blocked In Australia Over Comments
Australia should Build A Wall !!
On the post: GOP Senate Streisands Elizabeth Warren And Coretta King In Attempt To Silence Her
Re: Re:
Assuming there is a next election.
On the post: New FCC Boss Kills Zero Rating Inquiry, Signals Death Of Net Neutrality Enforcement
Re:
1. It might cost an ISP less than $10 a month to provide basic service that poor people could get a $10 subsidy for.
2. Even if it doesn't save the ISPs money, they might just want to cut off poor people for pure simple spite. Because they are poor. This would not conflict with the corporate values of most big ISPs.
On the post: New FCC Boss Kills Zero Rating Inquiry, Signals Death Of Net Neutrality Enforcement
Re: Re:
Ajit Pai, the Verizon appointment to the FCC.
In general:
${paid-lobbyist}, the ${corporation} appointment to the ${office}.
On the post: Pennsylvania Court Shrugs Off Microsoft Decision; Says Google Must Turn Over Emails Stored At Overseas Data Centers
Re: Distributed File Systems
B = random data block
C = A XOR B
Now delete A. A can be reproduced with C XOR B. But neither B nor C are plaintext. Now store B and C in different countries, on purpose. (Note you could XOR with multiple random blocks so that there are three or more parts that must be recombined to reproduce block A.)
Now to reproduce block A, at least one block is required from a foreign country.
Blocks could be stored in multiple countries such that if some number of countries are inaccessible, all necessary blocks can still be retrieved to reproduce the original data.
This helps make data big-brother proof.
Note that you don't need quite as many random blocks as you think. Block B could be used again on some other customer's data block somewhere. Just don't use it too often. It still needs to be a drop in the ocean of random data blocks.
On the post: Pennsylvania Court Shrugs Off Microsoft Decision; Says Google Must Turn Over Emails Stored At Overseas Data Centers
Re:
At the time of a law enforcement request, Google doesn't know where the data is located. Therefore, it's a crap shoot for law enforcement to try to get a foreign law enforcement agency to cooperate.
This is superior to Microsoft's approach. Microsoft knew the data was in Ireland. Microsoft argued that Irish law enforcement could require Microsoft to produce the data.
With Google's approach, law enforcement doesn't know what jurisdiction to cooperate with to produce the data. This could get national jurisdictions into a pissing match.
The FBI could try to get all jurisdictions where Google data centers are located to all simultaneously serve a warrant for the sought after data. But that is a much higher bar to jump over.
On the post: How Is 'Non-Literally Copying' Code Still Copyright Infringement?
Re: Not so good for the academy
On the post: Federal Court Basically Says It's Okay To Copyright Parts Of Our Laws
Re: Sounds like this judge needs to have every law possible used against them
Or bad court rulings.
On the post: Denmark Says Tech Giants Affect It More Than Entire Countries, Decides To Appoint Official 'Digital Ambassador' To Them
Digital Ambasador To Cyberspace
It would be funny, amusing if Cyberspace eventually gets some sort of de-facto recognition, even if there is no organized government of it.
On the post: How Comcast's Growing Broadband Monopoly Is Helping It Temporarily Fend Off The TV Cord Cutting Threat
Re: Anyone have the metrics for 'lowest tier of subscriber'?
A few years ago, we went in to cut our cable off completely because we were already on the lowest tier. They said that there was an even lower tier that they didn't advertise. So we got that for a couple years. Eventually we cut even that off. We discovered that all we really watched on cable was the evening news ABC / NBC / CBS. Everything else was Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Starz, HBO, PBS, YouTube.
Although my cable market area is not afflicted with Comcast, I would say: go ahead Comcast, but it's too late. I already cut the cord.
Next >>