Greg F
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A great interview and worth the 4:50.
Prof Mark Blythe of Brown explains
the failure of neoliberalismregulatory capture globally and in the process sums up how Trump won, and Brexit occurred.FIFY
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Average of Right to Work states purchase power = $107.43
Average of non-Right to Work states purchase power = $98.31
That extra 3.2% is not looking very attractive.
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The last project I worked on removed 220,000 kWh a year from the customers electric usage ...
How long did it take you to change all those light bulbs?
Smoking doesn't cause cancer says 1 "doctor" out of 100. So D.C. Tom & LA Bills fan start smoking.
You no doubt would have jumped right on the Eugenics bandwagon.
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Even that site, which has the highest I've seen, has never had him at 60. And the trend isn't up on that site, it's down.
The samples are only 500 per day. The trend is roughly an order of magnitude smaller than the sampling error. There is no discernible trend.
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It is an empirical fact that right to work state workers make 3.2% less or $1500 less per year.
This should be interesting and put Trump at odds with the neoliberal recalcitrant GOP old guard.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-introduces-national-right-to-work-legislation/article/2613428
From BLS:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $32.27 per hour worked in September 2016. Total employer compensation costs for state and local government workers averaged $45.93 per hour worked in September 2016.
Private industry workers make almost 30% less than state and local government workers making the 3.2% a bit of a joke.
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Simplistic way to answer work backwards:
1024 GBs per month / 2,592,000 seconds per month = 0.000395061728395 GBs per second * 1024 = 0.404543209876543 MBs per second * 1024 = 414.2522469135802 KBs per second.
That's a lot of BitTorrent.
How about this:
1024 GB is not the precise number. It is actually 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
There are 8 bits to a byte so 1,099,511,627,776 * 8 = 8,796,093,022,208 bits
Now divide the bits by time 8,796,093,022,208 / 2,592,000 = 3,393,554 bits/sec
The precise numbers are:
kilobyte = 2^10 = 1024
megabyte = 2^20 = 1,048,576
gigabyte = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824
terabyte = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776
Transmission speeds are always specified in bits. Unlike files sizes where 1kB actually equals 1024 bytes, 1kb/sec is equal to exactly 1000 bits/sec.
By convention:
B = bytes
b = bits
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.404543 Mb/sec x 2,592,000 seconds in a month = 1,048,576 Mb / 1024 mb per gb = 1024 GB
1024 GB is bytes
.404543 Mb/sec is bits
There are 8 bits to a byte
Converting 1024 gigabytes to bits:
1024*8=8192 Gb
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Comcast gives me 1024GB a month or 1TB of data. I'm not sure what happens when I exceed this I assume I'll be throttled. Didn't realize they had a cap. Looks like I'll be getting some competitor quotes.
Based on 30 days in a month and 8 hours a day you would have to be using an average 9.5 Mb/sec to hit the 1024GB.
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Continued due to 'Quote' limits:
The person with the higher speed can't send packets at all if a DNS Server won't take them, or can only process their request slowly via allocation, until it has more room, regardless of time period. Period.
IOW, if it's broken it doesn't work. Good observation sparky.Thanks, but I'm pretty sure, given the above, that we've already established who needs to do some reading on networking.
Yeah, there are these magical things called buffers, that do everything, because "there is no server". These buffers exist in on the back of a giant turtle, otherwise known as a switch, and all these packets get stored there, until they get sent down the wire to the next giant turtle's buffers.They are called packet buffers. Of course we all know you know more than Cisco.
These giant turtle switches (actually don't really do anything except allow cables to connect to them, and temporarily store network packets to move them from one connected cable to another.) in GregF land, are actually all-powerful beings, which somehow instead of merely doing connectivity, are also capable of not only accepting requests, but sending them, and processing responses back...all by magic.
Sure, that is why a Cisco Catalyst 3750X-48P-S 48-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch will set you back a bit more than $10,000. Cus we all know it's just a bigger version of that crappy little $50 router/firewall you have.
Switches know where everybody in the world's devices are, because switches are as old as they are wise.
In reality they don't nor do they have to. For example, TW has a number of IP address blocks assigned to them. All the switches that are operating in Layer 3 will have routing tables that know where to send any packets destined for a address in their network. If the address doesn't match any of the IP blocks assigned to them the last entry in the routing table will send the packet to a external connecting network (usually tier 1). The tier 1 network doesn't need to know the exact destination either. All the tier 1 network needs to know is what provider has the block of numbers that contains that address.
So when I sent a request for Google TW looked at the address and determined it wasn't on their network. They then passed it off to XO Communications (a tier 1 network). XO Communications knew by the address that the number was in a block assigned to Google so they send it to Googles network. Google then routes it through their network to the correct location.
(For the rest of you, a DNS server determines where to send things, and routers give things addresses, for things to be sent...which is where you get your IP ADDRESS from. Ever heard of it? No such thing in GregF land.)
Wrong again. Routers don't assign addresses. Addresses are either assigned static or by DHCP. You are confused because you home 'router' is actually a combination of a switch, router, DHCP server, and NAT firewall (and perhaps includes a WAP) and you apparently don't understand the different functions. In the commercial world these functions are not usually combined in one box. Once again, DNS simply resolves the IP address with the domain name and sends it back to you.
Giant, All-powerful, Turtle Switch. I'm a fool? Where do the IP addresses, for the modems you work on every single day, come from? Switches?
I don't work with modems every single day as I don't work for the cable company. When you have nothing better you resort to insults. Good to know.
The addresses for the modems are assigned pretty much the same way everything else gets an address. Either statically assigned or by a DHCP server.
Right, because a modem doesn't have a config file, that has settings, which look at traffic...because...um, you may want to check your own post above, just saying. I can't use software, that uses my modem, to measure my network traffic. When I call the cable company, they don't monitor my modem, to see...my network traffic.
WTF are you talking about. Are you once again confused with the difference between a modem and a router? It appears so. A modem is a Modulator/Demodulator for converting your Ethernet signal to one compatible with their coax. The cable company has a Modulator/Demodulator at the head end that converts the signal back to Ethernet. FYI, here is an example of how to create a configuration file for a modem. They don't monitor your modem because it isn't a function of the modem and they don't give a crap. You could measure your network traffic but it won't be done using the modem. If your modem is one of the combination router, firewall, DHCP server, and switch too bad for you.
The go to tool for capturing network traffic is an open source project called Wireshark. Commercial firewalls only have limited packet capture capabilities and usually don't supply the detail or tools Wireshark provides.
Yeah. Um, did somebody put you up to this? Sorry, but it sounds a lot like somebody put you up to this. Protip: don't listen next time you get a PM. You'll only end up looking like the fool you look like right now.
Your insults are only exceeded by your ignorance.
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What? Google: DNS Server. I once built an old 286 into a DNS Server/TCP IP Router for networking Macs, and you are gonna talk to me...about learning networking?
So you don't know the difference between DNS and routing. Not that I am surprised. Let me educate you. Routing is based on IP addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses.
Every single request in the world travels through a series of DNS servers.
Nope. DNS servers translate domain names to IP addresses. When you type www.google.com into your web browser a request is sent to a DNS server. What happens is eventually you get a response back with the IP address. At that point your use of the DNS server is done. Your web browser uses the IP address to send your request to google. In fact, if you know the IP address you don't need DNS. Simply type the IP address in the address bar of your browser and you will get there just the same, actually faster as you avoid the lookup. Computer (and DNS servers) maintain a cache of recently visited web sites and their associated IP addresses so you might not even do a DNS lookup. Here is a little video on what and how DNS works.
The company you work for has 100s of them, if not 1000s. And, yes, packets move from one DNS to the next.
No. The company I work for has exactly 3 which are not public facing.
No sever. How absurd. I hope the rest of your post is better than this. I hope I'm not going to spend the rest of it teaching the cable guy how the internet actually works, but this tells me I am. Perhaps you are trolling? Whatever. I can't let this stupidity stand either way.
I have just shown unequivocally that you don't understand either how DNS or routing works.
What? Packets travel at whatever speed they can, depending on how many of them there are, and how thick the "pipe". Christ, read this. Notice the equations and variables here? Yeah, packets don't EVER move at the same speed.
Lot of hand waving going on by you.
How many tests have you run? Do they all come back with the same answer? No, they don't. And those are tests, using the exact same data and process every single time.Then how can packets move at the same speed? Volume of packets alone should tell you...never mind. I'm done with this idiocy.
On any given link the speed is set. It doesn't matter how many packets you send. Perhaps you should have read the Wiki article you linked to. The bit time is determined by the link speed. Every bit on a given link takes up exactly the same amount of time.
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Could it be that overages in the lower bandwidth ranges, or giving people more than they paid for, is...because it's cheaper to clear those requests off of a server than to hold them up?
There is no server. Perhaps you should learn a bit about networking before you ramble on about something you obviously know nothing about.
Why would the cable company want to intentionally slow down a request, when it could clear it, and risk having that slowed-down request still be hanging around...when a new "I paid for my speed, dammit!" request comes in from GG?
They don't "slow down a request". All the packets travel at the same speed. What they do is limit the number of request you can make over a given time period. The person with the higher speed can send more packets over the same given time period.
Nah, they'd rather have packets hanging around in buffers instead of moving them out, and have GG pull his hair out because his Little House on the Prarie video is choppy. Yeah, they want that phone call.
All packets go through the buffers. Generally first in first out unless QoS is involved. It is called stored and forwarded. It is stored so the switch can figure out where it is suppose to be sent. There are some basic networking resources on the Internet. You should check them out.
This is silly.
What is silly is you have not the first clue how networking works yet you persist in making a fool of yourself.
Sure, at an individual home, testing packets is going to show...whatever the modem is supposed to show.
Again, your ignorant. A modem is not a tool to look at network traffic.
But, when we get out onto the real network...
Let us know when you have a fundamental understanding of how networks work.
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Google wants to be able to do that, slow everybody down with poorly optimized, but "new, fresh, thingys"!, but not have to pay for it.
One problem. Google is not a tier 1 (Internet backbone) provider. This means that Google in fact has to pay a other providers to reach other networks. I did a traceroute to Google from TW. It goes through XO communications which is tier 1 provider. So in fact Google has to pay XO communications to get to me. Other tier 1 providers are Verizon Business, Sprint, AT&T, Tata Communications, Century Link and TeliaSonera (this is not an inclusive list).
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That's the upshot.
My question is why do they allow that .2 extra bandwidth to escape their clutches, since, in GG world, everyone is getting exactly what they pay for, nothing less and nothing more?
Could there be a technical reason? Hmm. One wonders....
More like political reason. The extra bandwidth is cheap, a subpoena from the state Attorney General not so much.
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So, GregF, what's your theory on why "speeds tend to run a little higher then[sic] the quoted tier speeds"?
Everybody hates the cable company. Right? So if they are paying for 25/5 and get slightly higher it is one less thing for people to complain about.
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Be more specific. How and why do they tier their service? Do you think they've got a throttle just for you? Answer that question.
How - With cable modems the provider uploads a configuration file that contains the speed limits.
Why - Any network has limits. The switches and router have buffers that store and forward packets as they come in. If the number of packets exceeds the buffer size subsequent packets are dropped. TCP packets end up having to be re-transmitted, UDP packets (typically voice and video) are simply lost.
Every modem has speed limits that are set by the configuration file when the modem is registered.
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EDIT: And praytell, why does TIme Warner have "Business Class" which costs 2x what normal cable does? Why do they have tiers in their consumer offering at all? This is bandwidth. Clearly a concept you don't understand at all. Do you really think that if I am consuming bandwidth right now, and nobody else in my range is, that the cable company is going to slow me down, because I am getting higher speeds than I am supposed to get?
Time Warner (now Spectrum) sets your max speed based on what tier you are paying for. I have run speed tests on hundreds of Time Warner connections for customers and the results are always consistent with the tier they are paying for. It you are suppose to get 5 up you might get 5.2 on a good day. The speeds tend to run a little higher then the quoted tier speeds.
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He has governed thus far by presidential fiat through a flurry of ill-considered and incompetent executive orders, completely ignoring and bypassing the legislative branch. His recent immigration ban in all likelihood violates both the establishment clause in the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment; the administration is now ordering executive branch personnel to continue implementing the ban, despite a stay ordered by a Federal Court. In little over a week he has through both words and actions, displayed disdain and contempt for the press, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and the rule of law. You find none of this alarming?
I thought you were talking about Obama.
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How was Kyle?
It was like someone else was wearing his jersey. Wasn't the Kyle I am used to seeing.
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Buffalo has high property taxes, but relatively reasonable state income taxes about 7.90%. That's $197k on 2.5 million. Federal at 35.6% would be $893k.
For the players it is far more complex since they play in more than one state. Interesting read:
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/taxes-cost-professional-athlete.aspx#slide=1
Professional sports players get taxed by pretty much every city and state in which they play, says Ryan Losi, CPA and executive vice president of Piascik & Associates, a Glen Allen, Va., accounting firm that represents more than 70 professional athletes.
"NFL players typically file in 10 to 12 jurisdictions. NBA is somewhere between 16 and 20. MLB is somewhere between 20 and 26, and the NHL is between 14 and 16," says Losi.
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Can I take a stab! I lived next to an old Serbian couple for 20 years. Let me just say this... SHE RULED THE ROOST!
And what makes you think behind closed doors the Trumps are not the same?
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Interesting topic. Not sure where I stand. Where does a place (board owner) stand on it? Would it help or hurt this place? Or not make a difference?
Not being able to prioritize traffic is about the dumbest thing you could propose. See VoIP.
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I see gator is projecting again.
Buffalo mother arrested after homeschooling children
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Posted
Homeschooling Statistics
Source:National Household Education Survey, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
March 2013
An Evaluative Study of the Academic Achievement of Homeschooled
Students Versus Traditionally Schooled Students
Attending a Catholic University