Posted on 04/14/2018 4:47:19 PM PDT by HangnJudge
Executing 3 or 4 of the bastards who are responsible would soon put a stop to auto-play.
>In the early days of the Internet, if you wanted to make files available to others, you just ran an ftp server on your machine. Today that is no longer possible unless you pay recurring fees to your provider for a “real” Internet address
Yep; they quickly figured out that us having a static IP was useful to us and now sell that back to us. True, it’s easier for *them* to keep a range of IPs available rather than have an IP tied to you like a phone #...
My web hosting is static IP, even though it’s not a dedicated machine. People like to share files through services (dropbox/onedrive/google) but you can also drop files on a web host and link ftp://(place) or http://(place) at will, even if you prefer (w.x.y.z) instead of (domain).
Lastly, I keep seeing smaller fiber companies spring up; as they’re providing gigabit up/down and aren’t also/mainly MSM providers, they seem also happy to provide static IPs.
No, that dubious honor will go to Artificial Intelligence.
Mankind will be forced to fight a machine race of cyborgs one day.
bookmark
Ha! Great saying!
I’m sure you have discovered Adblock Plus add-on.
I haven’t seen an a pop-up in years.
“The internet has created irreversible changes in how we interract, even how our brains work...”
Agreed. I was just commenting to my kids about it - this will change society for the worse, as people don’t develop the one-on-one skills. My kids are still pretty bad with it, but at least when they have friends over they keep the cell phones in the background.
6 to 8 years ago was probably when my kids finally got cell phones. When the girls would have friends over, we made it a rule that the cell phones weren’t supposed to be out. (They would have a sleep-over, and everyone would be quiet, doing something on their own phones!).
But - my kids have gotten worse over time. But not too bad. The only thing I do on my phone is a few texts, calls, weather, traffic, and check into FR for the latest posts. (I haven’t figured out, nor want to, know how to post or access my account on my phone!).
Oh - and youtube music and once-in-awhile a video if I’m travelling. And the search engine. (Heh - so quite a lot.) BUT - no f***-ing games, no Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
Oh yea Algores command center....
i forgot about that place.
HA!
An old buddy of mine did that.
after a night of drinking walked into the next door neighbors almost identical house and went up to what he though was his bedroom and climbed into bed with the guy and passed out.
Made the local paper....pretty funny.
another bud did the same on Cape Cod around 1987....instead of going into his own bed he drunkenly crawled in bed with the 90 yr old grandfather that owned the house.
still remember the scene staring at him passed out the next morn.
He was banned from the beach house that day.
kinda sucked...
One fairly perceptive politician pointed out at the Zuck hearing that regulation would mainly serve to prevent competition for Facebook.
Wouldn't be difficult. Just need a mesh network with a technological fairness mechanism to keep the bandwidth hogs at bay. If you want to stream video, you would pay the provider. Otherwise you get full up and down bandwidth like everyone else. The key to success, IMO, is to incentivize the services like Amazon and Facebook to hook the mesh to the backbone in exchange for access to the customers in the mesh.
>>No, that dubious honor will go to Artificial Intelligence.
I don’t really buy in to Kurzweil’s Singularity theory. Even Kurzweil is backing off on it a little more each year as the people in the Developed World gets less capable of survival outside of the luxury of prosperity that is purchased with fiat currency and debt.
>>Mankind will be forced to fight a machine race of cyborgs one day.
It won’t be us fighting cyborgs so much as fighting for the life-extending technologies that will only be available to the hyper-wealthy and their inner circle of servants.
IPv6 takes care of that problem. They are not always routable but that is changing. But I get IPv4 addresses as part of the $5/month VPS deal. There is no reason to host content at your house when you can do it at a fast virtual server farm.
You can see that battle in action in Reston Va, as "luxury" skyrise condos shoot up amidst the metal workshops that characterize the slowly evaporating light industrial area. Shops where people make cabinets, fix cars, store plumbing supplies and so forth are going away and pretty soon the folks who have the mechanical skills to keep highrise land working will be banished to the hinterland.
It's a blight on the landscape, really.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.