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And this ladies and gentlemen is when healthy capitalism turns into corporate greed. Internet needs to become faster with more bandwidth so engineers can design products that utilizes it. I can think of several ideas that are stifled because of America's draconian internet service providers. I'm not a big fan of the government stepping in to fix things the free market wont, but this is one of those things where companies should be forced to innovate because they choose not to compete. Providing the internet is too profitable for them to need to compete. There is something wrong with that in a capitalist economy.
Yes, and they're also a corporation seeking profits, not a benevolent gift-giver who wants you to get the most fair rate possible. They own not only an ISP, but a cable company that they want you to subscribe to, and overage charges are pure profit.
Sonic.net is great but unfortunately DSL technology isn't. I've also had sonic.net in two locations but my speeds ranged from 5-7Mbits. So it's worth a shot but it's not perfect.
Wouldn't the upside be that at least they'd have to ask? Just saying there is a difference even if they get the data either way. Well, there should be at least.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be_on_the_horns_of_a_dilemma
Yes it is quite comforting this is post-authentication, so in most cases no big deal. Just tough luck for shared accounts.

I guess most people dont run sshd as root and capabilities either so that minimizes damage too. Another reason to not run ssh on port 22, no root, no special caps needed.
Actually worse. Most people still have a hard time just doing basic things on a laptop.

The difference is teenagers are teaching their parents how to use laptops or other new electronics so they are improving slowly.
This is handy for quick prototyping, but it seems that you can't solder on the parts and have to use "conductive double-sided tape or silver epoxy adhesive" instead.

To etch a PCB, the typical process is to (1) print a photo mask, (2) transfer it using photolithography or toner transfer, (3) dissolve away the exposed copper, and optionally drill holes. The coolest hack I've seen skips step (1) and (2) by directly "printing" onto the PCB using a UV laser, thus reducing the number of steps down to 2.

http://hackaday.com/2012/08/09/exposing-pcbs-with-a-home-mad...
They are quite open, you can pay on the download screen http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/questions?distro=desk...
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Bzzt, middlebrow dismissal. How about you make a concrete proposal on how you think Canonical's business model should be constructed, instead of "computer says no"?
Also WTF does it keep asking me if I want to use my real name. SAVE MY FUCKING PERF!!
Data caps is a completely brain dead idea. If they have problems with network congestion, they need to use bandwidth caps, not data caps. The later are just a rip off.
Open data and open source encourage the commons and sharing. Taxes goal is to have everyone contribute to common good. I see more of an alignment than a contradiction. Remember that taxes are poured back in public transportation, hospitals, social security, etc. (Not measured by PIB). Also remember that what you read about in the media is biased by those that are unhappy.
I call bullshit on this. The nordic countries have a pretty great tech sector too, and they don't suffer from this. Its a policy thing, and I was always under the impression that this is a choice that the USA has made consciously, and is widely acepted as a given - that cutthroat capitalism creates greater inequality, with (maybe) bigger growth rates.
I really like the disclaimer in the bottom right. Except for the "idiot" part at the beginning which I feel cheapens the message, it is very well written in clear language.
Quantify unlimited. Do you literally intend to saturate you connection 100% of the time? At what speed? Would you prefer they do not meter your traffic at 10Mbps or they give you 200 GB at 100 Mbps?

The simplistic view of GB/month doesn't work well for power users.
As embedded software becomes ever more complex

This is part of the problem in itself; the Toyota software appears to be far more complex than it needs to be.
It's actuall the part where you can't not pay for what you don't use. Otherwise it's just stupidly overpriced.
Met so many "IT professionals" who program mostly with drawings ;)
supposed to

What's with the ambiguity? Does it disable it or not?

I feel silly for asking, but the question was about ambiguous language, so the reply was ironic.
I'll be honest that I was very tempted to put on a suit, set up a fake newsroom and make a video because of this comic this morning.
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Last month I ran 345GB. Didn't pay extra. This month I will due to notification. counter claim: not misleading.
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> We will send you a courtesy "in-browser" notice and an email letting you know how much of the data included in your monthly plan you are using

That is the item that really bothers me. What Comcast is saying is that they will alter/inject their own content into a customer's HTTP requests when they deem it necessary.
True but this site also acts as criticism to the approach in the first place, and also guarantees that this information will remain available and findable in the future, should Canonical change its mind about making this information easy to find.
oh, that wouldn't change. but instead of:

$59.99 - 300GB @ 50mbps, $69.99 - 300 GB @ 75 MBPS, $79.99 - 300 GB @ 100MBPS

you'd see, in the future mind you,

$59.99 - 300GB @ 128 MBPS, $69.99 - 500 GB @ 128 MBPS, $79 - 800 GB (or, alternatively, $59.99 - 300GB, $0.n /GB afterwards)
I was able to properly scan "Spray painted code" and "ripped by gap" with the RedLaser iPhone app.

Don't let the last one get you down.
My plan with Northland Cable is capped at 200GB. even with lots of Netflix streaming I've never hit my cap. the only thing that irritates me is that I have no way of knowing exactly how much data I use.
That's incorrect. The old comcast system took congestion into account. I routinely ran 500-600GB/month offsite backups, but I scheduled them for the middle of the night and midday, and I never got a nastygram for exceeding the cap. The new system pretends that all bits are equally expensive, regardless of whether the system is currently slammed or twiddling its thumbs, which is a profit-maximizing lie.
I use Steam on Debian stable and it works absolutely fine, I've never had an issue with it. The games run great too.
I have absolutely no reason to ever use this but I'm absolutely going to throw money at the author because I'm a sucker for pixel art and this looks incredible. (I spent like five minutes staring at the zombie .gif, slackjawed.)
I don't understand the "free" argument people keep making. Haven't you read the arguments debunking that point of view? It's only "free" in terms of there not being a transfer of money from you to Google. Google is trying to entice you into using their services so they can sell advertising. You are being pimped out by Google and they are paying you with their services. If Google wants to keep pimping me out to these advertisers, they better make the working conditions palatable and their services useful.

Google runs a business which users are a part of and if you think they are providing their services as a charity and have no right to complain about the business because you don't give them money, you really haven't thought about this very deeply. Since there is no charity here, the idea that we should be grateful is absurd.

Additionally, Google's huge control makes is difficult to participate in parts of the Internet (e.g. watching videos) without using their services. I think between their business model exploiting their users and their market stranglehold people absolutely have a right to complain when they make unwanted service changes.
Better option >> http://www.crunchbang.org
> And Most applications need "man in the middle" services anyway

For all instant communication (VoIP, chat, file transfer, setting your thermostat), a man in the middle schema is a hindrance. The communication where you publish, and then somebody reads data need a man in the middle.

If your thermostat does not have a public IP, you must buy it as a service, and it'll never really be your property. One can live with that in a thermostat (but let's not pretend it's a good thing), just think twice before automating more of your home...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_files...

Now what could the "RT" part possibly mean?
> even if the service is totally free

In my experience they get especially angry if the service is free. :)
There is some more info here:

http://cartodb.com/academy
Don't you think that's awfully close to 300GB without ANY STREAMING or GAMING !?!?!
It's definitely more serious than CouchApps ;) We concentrate on APIs only – the goal is therefore a little different from CouchApps.

If you're missing something, please ping me via the Issues
https://github.com/triAGENS/ArangoDB/issues?state=open
or via email
lucas at arangodb dot org
This model is completely idiotic, since they have no need to limit any data at all. The only reason for limiting can be if their network is overloaded with traffic. And then data caps are pointless either, they need to ration bandwidth, not the amount of data per month to solve it. And even that is not a proper solution, if they have network congestion, they need to build up their network, that's it.
Agreed. This is not the only required step. I am actually mostly concerned with minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency than anything else. Working from home means that I need a reliable connection more than anything. However, from what I have seen of all the different providers I had and researched, "unlimited" traffic is usually a very bad thing when you least expect it.
I'm actually of an opposing viewpoint about the visualization. It gets in the way of the information, why does this even need to be visualized and stylized? I know git is anything but stylish but this feels like visualization for the purpose of visualizing something.
Am I the only person looking at this and cringing and thinking "It's xkcd, not XKCD god damn it"
Fuck Comcast. I use around 500gb/month. So I'm looking an extra $40 onto of the $80 I'm already paying for Internet only.
bamfdaemon is quite important I think. It is responsible to coordinate windows and unity icons with .desktop files.

zeitgeist takes care of your used documents and applications?. I tried to get rid of it but the dependencies here are quite entangled and it's useful to have often used applications and documents at hand in Unity.

goa is GNOME online accounts. The dubious idea to connect your online account with your desktop. Some like it. Not sure how to get rid of it.

mission-control is probably part of the telepathy framework. The idea behind telepathy is probably pretty nice. However there is no OTR for telepathy and I'm happy using pidgin. It's probably safe to remove along the rest of telepathy if you don't need it.

It's a shame that modern desktop Linux has no decent manpages for most of this stuff. If you want to learn something about your system install apt-file and use apt-cache or Google to learn about all the stuff that is running.
I'm no Comcast defender (more clearly put: they are only below AT&T in terms of companies that I dislike), but I wouldn't say Netflix and online gaming eat up 300GB of data in "no time". I do both of those things regularly, and I stream around five HD basketball games per week, and I've only gone over 300GB once in twelve months. My average is around 220GB, which I'm on track for again this month so far. I rarely use torrents though, which I imagine would put a bigger squeeze on me.

That said, I'm looking forward to switching to Gigabit Seattle the moment I have the chance.
Quite interesting that gaming seems to be the least interesting part of the Xbox One, so far. I kind of want one.
> what I would really love to see is when you use a service for them to give you an option between the two

It's an interesting theory, but with something like a Linux distribution I don't see it working too well. Of course you will have a small percentage of fans who will be happy to pay, but everyone else will just use the free version. Of those who want the paid features, they will just find command strings like this to toggle the ENABLE_PAID flag (remember Linux users are usually quite savvy). Unless the paid features are closed source...
They pay for the traffic per GB you use. It is minimal but in the end I imagine it makes a difference whether the average user uses 300 GB or 300 TB.
With 4K streaming and displays coming soon, what are they thinking?
Was anyone else dumbfounded by the idea of selling the Xbox business? That's been one of the only bright points in MSFT's consumer products for the past decade.
I would say that I am probably about average in my consumption, and according to my router last month i did 217GB down and 22GB up. So I would say they are probably about right, not that I agree with what they are doing. My primary download usage is netflix / hulu plus, and primary upload usage is backblaze.
The use of idiot is necessary as no sane person will learn anything from reading that that they didn't already know.
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It's funny how the "equality" thing can depend on various notions - including assumptions.

Unless we are talking about unconditional equality (i.e. same for everyone including slackers), what about an equality based on how productive people are? It's called marginal productivity ethics, and following that theory our current society is very unequal, and the society envisioned by the articled (the so called "hyper meritocracy") is much more equal.

"In the aftermath of the marginal revolution in economics, a number of economists including John Bates Clark and Thomas Nixon Carver sought to derive an ethical theory of income distribution based on the idea that workers were morally entitled to receive a wage exactly equal to their marginal product" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_product_of_labor)

If anything, computers put an emphasis on the fact that waking up everyday and showing up for "work" with the only qualification of having a pulse is not sufficient anymore to command a salary, especially when machines can replace the worker for a fraction of the cost (and do a much better job)

Things change. I for one will not lament on the fact that our society is becoming so productive and efficient that (gasp!) some people also have to become more efficient!!
Yes, but incognito mode doesn't set itself up automatically when clicking on a link in an email, for example, whereas with the cookie-blocking solution, it's always on.
In Canada it's still 3-4 weeks
I Agree. I miss the time when I could control what I search and find anything in any part of the world in any language.

Now they believe that because I live in Spain I have to speak Spanish, or be interested first in Spanish stupid things, or be only interested on the topics I searched in the past.

Now while using gmail I search with Bing, so it does not mess anything.
My routers do, don't yours?
I think it's pretty clear it's written by someone who isn't a native English speaker. There is a difference between poorly written and expressing yourself in an unfamiliar grammar. When I started programming, someone could have looked at my code and said "This is poorly written" which technically would be true but wouldn't be a particularly generous way to judge the merits of my program. There are times when content and concepts are more important than exactly how they are expressed. Certainly, content and concepts are more powerful when expressed clearly but criticizing a piece like this because of grammatical mistakes seems to be missing the forest for the trees here.
IP Telephony is the only one I can think of.
Do they? Do you mean to the higher level networks? I doubt the amount they pay has a significant impact that mandates them to introduce data caps.

Here is a review of the issue: https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Industry-Finall...

In practice, data caps is an anticometitive junk devised by the cable networks to raise the price for those who stream video over the Web.

It would be proper for example to require to split any ISP business from any kind of video / TV service, since they have clear conflicts of interests there which have negative effect on user experience.
Why even use Ubuntu at this point? Why not Debian? Or even something totally different?
Adding another one to the list, I am the maintainer of Qtile, a tiling WM written and configured in python. We've even got an ubuntu ppa, so we're only an apt-get install away :-). http://qtile.org
I like the way you explained it. The way it was written above seems like he was just told he's wrong but not any of the reasons why. Might just be my lack of knowledge in the area but it made the teacher's response more understandable.
Yes and the only major difference i see compare to London is that the last mile is done with Cat5 instead of phone line.

Not that much of a feat.

You also forgot to factor in terrain it is quite a mountainous country.
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QuakeLive is basically Quake 3 right? They GPLed the source a while a go.
It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content.

Why should Amazon know what programs and files I'm using?
So, where exactly is the data coming from?

I realize that's likely a trade secret, but there's a difference between having data and good data, and "analysts working around the clock validating [the data]" doesn't help when the data is flat-out missing.
Please don't break my back button.
In a world that is moving towards gigabit internet, which genius in Comcast thought 300GB is enough for most people? The internet is far from its peak. Already, we see more and more websites with background videos, beautiful images, and all kinds of wonderful media. At the rate of advancement we will consume even more amazing media on the internet (3D?) that will take up even more bandwidth as time goes on. By introducing a bandwidth saving mindset and forcing consumers to browse conservatively, Comcast is really going against the evolution of the internet. Like most companies that is destined to fail, Comcast makes decisions based on old and current data. They fail to take into account rate of growth and make policies that benefits and embraces the future.
GNOME (the devs, not the libraries or shell) is what's wrong with nautilus. They kept removing useful features. That was the very reason why Nemo was forked in the first place.
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My memory is fuzzy about this, but at that time, the mpaa/riaa/etc had been coming down real hard on YouTube. Without the G or another big boy coming in, their ship would have been in a precarious situation with all of the lawsuits rolling in.
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They're not an illegal monopoly though. Paying for what bandwidth costs is the crux of my argument. We're both arguing for what is essentially usage-based-billing ;-)
The source code for the Quake 3 engine was also released under the GPL and is available from the ioquake3[1] project. It's currently ported to work under at least Windows, Mac (Universal Binaries), Linux (x86, x86_64, and PPC), and Solaris (both SPARC and x86).

[1] http://ioquake3.org/
Could be a bug that was fixed but that was the first thing I tried and it didn't work. Even now I get buggy behavior with things like preferences. I set as many things to private as possible after the merge in addition to my language (don't live in the US). Yet I occasionally get popups asking if I want a new subscription to be shared publically or made private. And I get told that my lang has been set to English for me even though I live in Japan which I'm well aware of cause I set it myself already.
Yeah, because the ability to drive a car is something that takes years of specialized training to accomplish, right?
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The Unreal demo has some annoying micro stuttering that a Quake Live player would never put up with. Besides rendering there's also sound, input and networking to sort out. It's not insurmountable, but there's a big difference between a tech demo and a final product.
The cap is not the frightening bit of this announcement. That Comcast has declared they will MITM and hack user connections to all websites not using SSL is frightening.
There's no post API and all sharing is done manually so spamming anyone with G+ is impossible unless you actively use it.

That's a little naive. Of course there's an "API", it's what your browser uses to post something. Just because it's not designed for automated programs it doesn't mean it can't and won't be used.
That would be ideal, but a lot of people are uncomfortable doing that, and you would not get critical feedback as often or as reliably.
Ouch! Was that 10K lesson worth all the classes it would have paid for? (I suspect it might be)
I'm surprised there isn't an offshoot distro that is exactly identical except has all of these features disabled by default.
Can I call nonsense on that? Nothing prevents you from encrypting your actual message and there are plenty of options available to secure transit.

The reason such a platform may not yet exist is that it security is HARD (or cumbersome, or both).
>Those are hydraulic

Are they hydraulic from the brake pedal to the brake pad, or is the brake pedal just a software input to a brake control system?

From one of the other articles on the Camry unexpected acceleration issue, emphasis theirs:

"Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration".

The natural approach seems to cause as many problems as it might otherwise fix!
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> If you think I am wrong about this, please explain the mechanism by which you think QE increases the ability of private banks to make loans.

Not the parent but I thought depository and possibly other types of loans were limited by the size of reserves.
Nearly 500 signups already and it isn't even noon! :)
Facebook is dying.
So in order to preserve a small minority who have somehow carved out a working system (which I'll assume exist despite never seeing them) in the overwhelming onslaught of vitriol and crap, we just have to deal with said vitriol and crap continue as is?

This also assumes that Google+ comments will kill off these high quality comment channels. I am sure it is true for some, but it is hardly the absolute death knell for quality conversation to require a Google+ account.
Can't Microsoft do better than Elop ? Gates and Balmer were visionary founders in their time. I am not sure Elop will measure up ; he seems to be only looking out for himself.
I'm an emacs person myself, but when I teach Python I have students install Geany. I love it for working with beginners.

I'm curious, what do you use Geany for?
Great idea! How much of my data are you mining?

EDIT: Not much, it seems! http://getrather.com/privacy-policy.php
It is worth recognizing that our economic system fails to monetize the development of quality software.

Software Freedom is a highly regarded aspect of software (users want it, developers want to provide it), but we can't find a way to monetize its development without destroying the product. This has always been the problem, and it's worth recognizing it as such.