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> Under the net neutrality definition linked above, blocking specific ports is a clear violation.

I don't see how you can read that from the linked wikipedia page. I assume you're conflating blocking ports with blocking/slowing protocols.

> Please direct me to a source explaining why malicious network traffic is exempt from net neutrality.

It's not an exhaustive policy document of every possible reason why network access might be terminated/restricted. eg no discussion of terminating/filtering BGP peering announcements from a misconfigured device.

Few people, if any, have ever said that network management activities are would be prohibited under NN. If someone is actively disrupting the network, or is otherwise acting maliciously, then clearly as a network operator you're going to be permitted to block that traffic.

> Over the past decade, many residential customers have called to enable port 25 so they can run their own mail server

Sure, but even if they did permit it - the chances you will be able to run a mail relay from an IP that's clearly in the same network block as a bunch of other residential networks is near zero.

Most major mail providers will outright block you for existing in that range, and most others will block you for being unable to demonstrate control over the IP (by setting Reverse-DNS).
Would it be possible to grow bananas locally from the seed tip (provided you have a controlled growing environment)?

Also, seeing as these are clones.... Is there any way to breed this species of banana for more variety.
I mean, I think a study of iPhone addiction in general would be a good thing. Adults definitely know they are dependent on their devices, but it would be interesting to see if any long-term effects can be extrapolated. Moreso I'd just like to see any of the negative effects people claim are more than anecdotal.
I managed to get a banana cultivar called an ice cream banana [1] at a farmer's market in Oahu, Hawaii. It was the best banana I've ever had. I wish there was more of a willingness to explore selling a wider variety of bananas. We have 5-10 kinds of apples in my local grocery store in New York and the same is true for the other US states I've lived (including Oklahoma).

Why is only a single banana cultivar typically available in US stores when there are multiple cultivars of apples, pears, and even avocados typically for sale?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Java_banana
William Gibson used it. That's where I came across it. E.g. "Neuromancer", "Count Zero".
Good for you. Must be great to have enough energy and willpower from a carefree life.
1950's Can we have a study of Comic Book addiction in Children.

1960's Can we have a study of Television addiction in Children.

1970's Can we have a study of Dungeons and Dragons addiction in children

1980's Can we have a study of Console game addiction in Children.

1990's Can we have a study of Computer game addiction in Children.

2000's Can we have a study of Internet addiction in Children.

2010's Can we have a study of Facebook addiction in Children.

Oh would you please think of the children...
I wish TFA had opposed Facebook for the right reasons and in the right way. It really is a massive waste of our collective thought and attention, but apparently that's only bad because then we voted for the guy that the TV talked about all the time. (You know another era in which we voted exactly as TV told us to vote? Before the internet existed! Oh Facebook you have ruined us!) Also apparently the answer is to expand FCC's role until it defends Facebook against all competition in precisely the manner in which it has long defended Bell Telephone against all competition. Democracy in action!

(And Google? Does TFA actually contain an argument against Google, or did he just mention it a bunch of times? Oh right, they stopped funding a think tank. To a Washingtonian that would probably constitute a high crime. Out here in flyover country, that doesn't even rate a "meh".)

If the author really wanted to help, rather than insert himself and his cronies into the regulatory state, he'd be getting Sanders and Warren on a reality show with Snoop Dogg and Mama June, right away. Or he could act like what he claims to be, a "technology investor", and start funding the innovations that will eat the heart out of an increasingly old and ungainly Facebook. It's interesting that he made such a big deal about his visionary investment in Facebook without bothering to tell us if he is still invested. (Which, obviously, he is, which is why he wrote TFA about this wonderful "movement" which coincidentally totally aligns with Facebook's interests.)
I’ve seen kids ask silly questions to Siri and having a ball getting silly answers back. Is G-now any fun?
Thank you for your informed summary.

What are your thoughts about about the relative efficacy of cardiovascular exercise compared to anti-depressants (not that they are mutually exclusive). Thanks.
For the sake of time, scientists generally prefer to study questions that can't be immediately answered with basic physics.
>If a project can be predicted by a high enough level of certainty, I would say that there is nothing wrong with a detailed roadmap. Also here, a false dichotomy.

In large orgs, roadmaps come to be depended upon by stakeholders and other internal dependencies, who immediately base their roadmaps and thinking around yours. That means the cost of changing something on yours quickly mounts — it's no longer a matter of hoping your boss is flexible enough, almost your entire org has to be able to cope with a massive re-roadmapping exercise as the changes cascade through dependencies.

Sure, you said 'high enough level of certainty'. And that's fine for building bridges. Less so software. Not least because it needlessly constrains innovation. If a team comes up with a better idea part-way through building something that's on a published roadmap, what does it do? Change the roadmap and cause all the upheaval above? Try and hit the original date even by starting over on the new idea? Or just plough on building what it now knows is a less-than-best idea?

I've seen teams do each of these things, and cause needless misery, all because of unnecessary roadmapping. It's such a seemingly innocuous request — "what things are you working on this year and what dates will we get them?" — yet answering it (as asked) can have dramatically outsized repercussions.
Honest question: what's the alternative?
No need to go back in history. Visit a psychiatric hospital, see those poor souls on first generation antipsychotics still in use. They walk around like zombies, slowly, with a parkinsonian gait. Staring vacantly or grimacing, some have their mouths constantly open and drooling (look up tardive dyskinesia). But hey, as long as they are docile, right?
You mean because ... could be code that can detect whether or not the monitor is held?

Yes, but I think it's an assumption so obvious as to be not worth stating that the author means as long as ... does not do that.
Modern Vim now available as a beta book
I am Kenton and that's pretty much what I would have said... :)
Somewhat related, if you want to see some thoughts on designing computing experiences to involve logging intentions / distractions better, check out Joel Edelman's talk "Is Anything Worth Maximizing" (2016) : http://nxhx.org/maximizing/

Related medium post: https://medium.com/what-to-build/is-anything-worth-maximizin...
Already done, Google CEFALO:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21795665/
I've seen this story about the Cavendish banana for close to 20 years now. I think the first time was on Slashdot in the late nineties or early aughts. Every time, the article predicts the imminent death of the varietal.

The articles always make a persuasive case. So, why hasn't it happened yet? What is the crucial detail that these articles always leave out?
This almost feels like a virtue signaling PR piece.
Probably because Apple is a hardware company and Google (read Android) is an advertising company. Stopping addiction is more harmful to Google than Apple. Hence it can improve their market share.
Casting a $20M Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope [video]
It looks like it's trading around between $1B and $8B a day: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/historical-data/

It doesn't seem that difficult to cash out at least few billion with that kind of volume.
I'm in the camp that quantum cryptography (i.e. quantum key exchange) is silly. If quantum key exchange is not easier to use than a one-time pad, that's an argument against both, not an argument for a one-time pad. One-time pads are approximately never worth their effort, and in the modal case would just encourage poorer security overall.
Yes. From what I understand researching this company and currency for a couple of months, ripple's technology eliminates the middle-man banks that are involved in cross-border payments , thereby eliminating the fees they all charge, and also reduces the time taken for the funds to reach destination from 3 - 5 days or more, down to 3 seconds.

They use XRP, the ripple crypto currency to hold the sender and receivers funds during the transaction.

See also this video that explains it really well => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2YHhLkOO9g

and this one, which is more technical and explains their blockchain technology / xCurrent software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU79HunxJp8
Fun stuff! I especially enjoyed classic question #5 (in Handout 2).
Here in Washington state, I've found that small grocers focused on Vietnamese and Asian markets often carry a variety of bananas. They are amazing both in texture and taste.
What if the project that requires order_pizza has no restriction on what version it pulls in?
Yes. CPAN is full of readable Perl. Spare us the unfair generalization.
Well, as long as your convinced.
I've been developing in Java for around 20 years and I never knew the JDK included a web server. This must be the thing I learned today ;)
Web application development tool for non techies
Sorry, would vouch but looks like I've lost the ability.

This is a valid opinion, backed by citing decades of various pointless moral panics, and should not have been flagged.
You're talking about changes in absolute costs. I'm talking about relative costs. It doesn't matter how good networking equipment gets. It will always cost providers more money to service users saturating their connections than more typical consumers that don't saturate but care about burst speed.

For every poor kid in Chicago that happens to be using a highly above average amount of total bandwidth per month there will be 50 poor kids in Chicago with more typical usage patterns that your plan would hurt.
Assuming you mean the user-visible Android permissions model, a big problem with it, compared to object-capabilities, is that you can't choose among different implementations of each permission. E.g. if an app wants permission to listen to the microphone, you can't substitute a fake microphone that is always silent, or a virtual microphone provided by another app. You can only give it "the" microphone.

The ability to substitute is critical to a good capability system, because it allows finer-grained control over what the app can or can't do. E.g. you could, say, implement a custom microphone that reads from the real microphone when you're out in public, but produces only silence when you're in your bedroom. Without the ability to substitute, we must rely on the OS designers to provide all possible options for us, and of course they don't care to implement many options.

(OTOH, if you were talking about Intents, they are pretty capability-ish, though not always used well. Or if you were talking about some of the system internals like Binder, yeah, there's a bunch of capability-ish stuff in there.)
hey I didn't know
about the syllables thing—
what else don't I know?
I bought a Touch Bar MBP because it was finally time to retire my 2011 MBP and I think it's the best computer I've ever owned, period. I do video editing and media production (podcasts, company videos, etc.) and I feel like I put this thing though its paces regularly. On top of that, although I mainly have it hooked up to a separate display, keyboard, and mouse, the Touch Bar is amazing when I'm editing on the go. I kinda wish that my regular keyboard had it because I can scrub through all my media without having to jump back and forth between keyboard and mouse. On top of that, I installed Better Touch Tool and I can customize the Touch Bar to do pretty much anything I want and that's made it infinitely more usable. I also do app development and web development for our shop so having the terminal and being able to run node locally is wonderful.

I think the people that complained about it are people that either 1) didn't actually use one at all, 2) are 100% resistant to anything changing in their workflow, even if it might improve it in other ways (I'm looking at you ESC key nihilists in VIM), or 3) would never buy a Mac anyways because they like to tinker and/or upgrade their PCs regularly.

Frankly, I don't understand when these types of people get butthurt about a product that they will never buy and don't intend to buy just because others might get them. Just don't buy the damn thing and get on with your life. For those that do buy it because it fits their workflow and lifestyle, I think the damn thing is amazing.
I think a lot of that happens due to the length of time a fruit is ripe (and, specifically, tastes good) and how hardy it is to ship.
Sorry, poor wording on my part. I meant slower in the evening (peak time), and you're right: late at night is typically the least busy and thus fastest time.
The letter in question is here: https://thinkdifferentlyaboutkids.com

Note that, when you first go there, a "Terma & Conditions" popup appears once the page finishes loading. But, I think that requires JavaScript in order to trigger. Also, at least in Safari, reader mode was able to show the letter's contents without having to click through (or around) the T&C popup.
I have yet to see a use of "virtue signaling" that usefully distinguishes it from "believing that certain things are good and certain things are bad, and publicly saying as much, and advocating for a society that supports the good things and not the bad things," something that every generation in humanity has considered essential (and something that has traditionally been a thing conservatives have accused liberals of not doing, incidentally).
People have gone to great lengths to stop the propagation of the disease. Up to the point that entire fields are destroyed, and lands abandoned (for bananas) for years.
Bogus clickbait title. The drug improves the healing ability (dentin replacement) of intact teeth; it doesn't cause regrowth of missing or healing of internally-damaged teeth.
In my experience, most software development projects have been more like "build half of it, throw it over the wall, and make yourself scarce."

Especially when consultants are involved.

I have never seen traditional project management techniques successfully applied to software.
Very interesting. Did they publish the code that takes MIDI and turns it into such visualization, or it's hand crafted?
s iPhone X best? Searching for Apple store staff who think so
This kind of observation would already require physical access to the communications medium (e.g. a fiber optic cable). So if you could DoS a quantum encrypted channel by measuring it, you could equally well DoS a classical channel by just cutting the fiber.
Can I look at any other recent artist but Koons?
1. Juniper and Cisco aren't nearly as important as they used to be and their importance is growing less every day. Networking gear is headed towards commodity pricing.

2. Network technology almost certainly improves by 25%+ per year in terms of price-to-performance. Generational upgrades will make it uneven but that's not an unrealistic number to hit on average.

3. The "last mile" is the hard part but sticking with cable (DOCSIS) technology is not a requirement. There's no reason we couldn't have a massive federal Fiber To The Home program that cuts through current regulations.

The one-time costs are undeniable but they can be easily and predictably amortized over a long period of time. The theory that networking technology can't keep up is technically baseless.
A substantial group that memorizes a foreign-language (to many) text are Muslim huffaz, who commit the entire Koran to memory. They'd make a good comparison group, given their large numbers, ethnic heterogeneity and worldwide distribution.
I think there's a generational thing going on here.

I'd love nothing more than to be able to buy stocks, real-estate etc through an online interface with 0 human interaction. Everyone I know above 40 seems to be the exact opposite.

Sometimes progress is made one funeral at a time.
> My personal biases tell me that people don’t have great self control. Shifting social norms, such that over-consumption is less socially acceptable might help.

This is the key. We are social animals and we heavily regulate what we eat based on what other people eat.

But we have been socialised to avoid strong judgement of obese people.

Personally, I refuse to eat with obese friends unless they are actively trying to eat a healthy and well proportioned meal.

In the same way that I don't hang out with friends when they smoke.

Think about the difference in social response you will get if you admit you don't eat with obese people vs you won't sit at a table of smokers while they smoke!

But I don't care. I've been obese and I'm not going back.
It's a waste of money and time. What will they really have achieved from this study? "Societal unease", what does that even mean? They never even addressed the issue at all in the article from what I read.

It will no doubt be another biased study distracting us from something else we should be investing our time and monies on.
I suspect “virtue signaling” implies shallowness or insincerity, and that one is stating a position for affiliation instead of advocacy.
I agree, especially on a small screen. Though it does seem to have elements of a pot plant too.
I agree with this guy.
Weird. I was expecting some wacko motion on the agenda for their annual shareholders' meeting but it is just a letter to management from two major investors.

I doubt anything will actually come of this.
Then it is not being provided over internet and so is out of scope for net neutrality.

This needs to be explained. If the zero-rated service is being provided as part of the same subscription, I don't see why it matter where the servers are located.
Virtue signaling is used when someone (in this case Apple) is just trying to _look_ like they care. As the primary drivers of iPhone addiction, it is easy to assume that they are only doing this study as PR
How were you able to tell that there were the same number of hams?
I'll be watching this closely as a precursor of more damage to come. If the fungus is able to make it from Southeast Asia to the Americas, then the rubber plants in Southeast Asia may soon fall to the South American leaf blight. That would cause the complete destruction of the global natural rubber market.

Excellent additional reading in Growing American Rubber by Mark R. Finlay.
I think this is a super silly debate, but yes, Google Now is tons of fun. It will tell stories to you (way more than Siri knows), it will play games with you (way more games than Siri can play), it will do all kinds of unexpected and fun, nearly-natural things that are not just search.

Siri's answers are monotonous and boring compared to Google's.
Distributed systems. Mirrors. Tools that are agnostic about sources for packages.

There's no reason that we must have a single, centralised package repository for a language and the dominant tool chain for that language relying on it by default.
Sweet! They should do the third movement!
Some varieties of banana do rarely breed. IFAIK, cavendish doesn't.

I just don't get why people want to import only that variety. It's not great any any way besides being easy to package. Transportation is quite fast nowadays, it shouldn't be that big a problem.
> It's interesting because upgradability doesn't seem like a very big concern to anyone buying this

From my discussions with an iMac hardware engineer, he explained that the component set that these machines are made with are at least 7-10 years away from being replaced because the software catches up. Whereas, traditionally, we're used to machines that last 3-5 years, but you can easily upgrade in the future.

If true, it appears to be a major paradigm shift, which rightfully the market is having a hard time trying to swallow.
What do you think about Cray-style vectors, which are coming back in the form of ARM SVE and the RISC-V V extension?

At least the latter claims code compiled once is compatible with all possible hardware configurations, from the start (by way of giving the CPU a "remaining iterations count" and having it reply with how many it can do for the chosen vector lane shapes).

IMO, if it does end up working that well in practice, it does put all of the various incompatible versions of packed SIMD extensions in a pretty awkward spot - could we have skipped all of MMX, SSE, AVX, NEON, etc. versions with technology that has been around for almost half a century?
I really hope that this doesn't get caught up in/confused with the moral panic of teenage phone use—which is 99% just "teenagers want to be socializing 100% of the time" and has nothing to do with the medium they use to do that.
I think it's worth taking a look at the parental controls that Nintendo put in for the Switch. They have a video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bAayBtcb0

I think it's worth watching, if for no other reason than to see Bowser & Bowser Jr..

iOS app link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1190074407
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nintendo.z...

For me, the only annoyance is that the controls apply to the entire console, not to individual users of the console. But, that makes sense as things are today, since I don't think there's any way to authenticate individual users every time someone wants to use the console. Also, that may conflict with the way that games stay "running" most of the time, even when you come back to the console later.
The capabilities model doesn't prohibit you from creating a UI that implements those features. It just acknowledges that you're making UI restrictions, you're not really prohibiting delegation, because prohibiting delegation is impossible.

For example, a good capability-based sharing system should have a way for a user to indicate that resharing of some resource is not allowed. The effect of enabling this is that the regular sharing UI will be disabled for those people who "aren't supposed to" reshare. This UI might look exactly the same to the user as an ACL-based implementation would.

This may sound "weaker" somehow than the ACL system, but it actually isn't, because neither system actually securely prevents resharing. Both merely make it inconvenient, forcing the user to go out of their way to break policy.
I bought a business line from CenturyLink at 140/20 for $65/mn with no cap because it's a business line.
I liked his work until I saw it in person. Then I loved it.
Why is scientific inquiry bad? It was certainly warranted for television, and the deregulation of children's telvision in the US is widely regarded as a mistake.

If there is no evidence (as for example, there is no evidence of anytbing more than a small group of people causing a brief TV panic about D&D, a remarkable preview of Facebook-like credulitiy culture?), then intentional reflection on the impact of the products we make on society is a rational and reasonable precaution.