Posts by russsh 69 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2011
The gist of this article is that MPTCP may be restricted - and therefore we have a slower and less reliable service - because it makes it difficult to "undetectably alter or sniff your traffic".
Since when is this a socially legitimate rationale?
Is this the ultimate legacy of Snowden and WikiLeaks - that it becomes mandatory to build in the ability for the powers that be (corporate, governments, Silicon Valley firms) to view and meddle with your ostensibly private network traffic?
IIRC, the last time we were all wondering why anyone would want to upgrade their phone, was around the turn of the century.
Then, the industry invented MMS which of course requires a camera. MMS turned out to be useless, but the camera became a must-have feature and all were saved by a new round of trading up.
I'm not quite old enough to have seen LED digital watches when they came out, but I heard the relief when LCD arrived and you no longer had to press a button to see the time.
Sounds like the same here - a power-gobbling screen that can't be on all the time, so you need to use your non-watch hand to touch something on your watch hand, before it can perform any useful function. I struggle to see how this is better than a single-handed action to retrieve a smartphone from a pocket or handbag and press the wake button.
The more they fiddle with Yahoo mail (in browser), the less reliable it seems to become. When the connection is not lightning fast (though fast enough for most other browsing) it's almost impossible to follow what's going on with the UI and whether to try clicking on something to make it refresh, or leave it alone for a bit longer. And last time I used it, the Search Mail button searched on the web instead.
BTW good work with the slanted !, but you missed one in the last paragraph.
What a bizarrely mangled piece of logic.
NBN Co leases facilities (exchange space, duct space, transport links, and, if Mr Turnbull's negotiation's succeed, copper pairs) from Telstra. NBN Co then provides services back into the market on non-discriminatory terms to all players including Telstra. Copper or no copper the market structure is the same.
Here in Oz at least, the top brands - at least those that people will seek out, rather than those that need passing traffic - are moving to an agency model, where the customer deals with the brand owner (facilitated on-line in the retailer's shop!) and then the retailer is paid a commission.
This means that the goods are the same price everywhere. (We can only guess the competition regulator's view on this, maybe they also realise how rapidly the retail game is changing.)
So working through the consequences for eBay -
Would the brand owner allow a different price on the net - don't think so
Would eBay get a different commission compared to a retailer - probably
Would it be more or less than a retailer gets - the retailer provides a much more valuable service, so probably less
So, the conclusion seems to be: brand owner takes all, eBay gets not much.
This aligns with the viewpoint of the brand owner - would they get an additional sale by selling through eBay? Seems unlikely.
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