On the 33c3 (last year‘s Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg), some folks brought their self made directional loudspeaker, mounted on a camera tripod.
They set it up so it hit the ceiling right above an escalator, so everybody on the escalator was rickrolled, but only for like 2-3 seconds. Short enough to get confused, but not long enough to be sure it was actually meant for them.
At the top of the escalator was a growing crowd of confused people looking around for what the hell did just happen ;-)
I don't see how this benefits anybody besides the ISP. It just makes them find a multitude of reasons why $everybody should pay double and triple to get a proper connection.
Portugal (EU) has a slightly nuanced problem within Net Neutrality. EU does have net neutrality but they also allow Zero Rating based on some criteria [0]. I am unsure on the procedure to allow Zero Rated services. If the default choice is "Allow until regulations violated", a simple change in default choice to "Ask for EU Approval" would prevent such scenarios.
Khanna’s original tweet implies that Meo is blocking or limiting certain “packages” unless you pay for them, the way that you can’t watch HBO without the right cable plan. But that's wrong.
It’s an add-on to general-purpose mobile subscriptions, which let you access any service — including the ones above. The idea is apparently that if you’re into apps like Snapchat and Facebook (or... LinkedIn, I guess), you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else. It looks a lot like the “Vodafone Pass” service in the UK, where subscribers can pay for unlimited access to a similar stable of services.
As was pointed-out repeatedly yesterday, those are add-ons for mobile data.
You pay your base fee ( to access anything ) and you can then add particular bundles to get flat-rated access to certain websites. Or you can just continue to pay by the MB.
> As was pointed-out repeatedly yesterday, those are add-ons for mobile data.
I don't see how that changes anything about the situation. Just because mobile providers have already been far more ruthless doesn't suddenly excuse these practices, some would argue that mobile providers have pretty much normalized this in the very first place.
I consider the vast majority of mobile plans, with data volume caps, straight up rip-offs: The moment you go past your volume cap you might as well not have any plan at all, as the throttled bandwidths usually ain't even fast enough for just regular browsing on the www.
Yes, I realize there are differences in the medium, mobile being shared and all, I still can't shake the feeling that the vast majority of mobile providers use this as an excuse for not expanding capacities and instead nickle&dimming everybody trough data volume.
One could draw a comparison between what these packages mean - they only bundle the big services, making it even harder for small alternatives to compete. Same would be possible if ISPs would start to play the big money game the other way round - serving faster access on cable lines, which I would view essentially as the "landline" version of free traffic on mobile connections.
That might not be a fast lane, but it's certainly an anti-competitive practice that reduces consumer choice and nudges them toward the "free" services.
"Our company doesn't discriminate against colored people, we are just very picky about or employees and white people happens to satisfy our requirements"
I've been overweight for almost all of my adult life, and the level has been either steady or rising over the years (31 now).
The only thing making me loose weight was 5 month studying abroad in Ghana (I'm from Germany).
The ridiculous thing about it was: I didn't intend on loosing weight there. I ate as much as I liked whenever I liked it.
Still, I lost about 15 kg in 5 months, and I didn't even notice it until the end of the trip when another student told me that I looked like it.
What I noticed as a big difference in my habits:
* no Drive-In, no McDonald's, no Burger King, no other franchise. So, no junk eating while driving (e.g. from work)
* no fridge at the hostel (at least none you would want to use). So, no "I'm bored and will just get something from the fridge"
* I'm not a cooking person, so almost all food required walking the 5 minutes to the small market. Not a long way, but it keeps somebody like me from boredom eating
* the fucking heat =D no movement and a lot of sweating ;-)
This was in response to your original comment that got flagged:
There's a few ways it can do so.
1. Depression: if life itself feels pointless, why care about your health?
2. Environment: lots of snacks, lots of work, little free time can add several kilograms.
3. Upbringing: if all you did in your high school and university life was hang out with friends and play computer games or generally un-athletic activities, the habit and drive to keep pounds off is absent.
4. Stress: if you're dealing with a really hard project at work or school, you may "put off" exercise and eating well, in order to give you time to finish it and comfort for the hardship. And when you do get some free time you may want to just lie around.
5. Money: if you're poor cheap snacks and unhealthy but high calorie meals are readily available at almost every corner of your city or town. There's no place in my downtown area where I can grab some roasted vegetables quickly to take back to the office. The salad places are expensive and also have high calories from dressing and lots of nuts and cheese.
6. Disorders: addictive personality being the foremost in my mind. If it feels good, keep doing it. Even if you don't need it. Even if you're almost full to bursting.
There's more I'm sure, but those are off the top of my head.
That gripe is different from what I responded to. You originally said it's unfathomable how someone could get 100 pounds out of shape, and I listed a few ways that it can easily happen.
It sucks your original comment was flagged - I can see how people may have thought it was a bit harsh, but it was true. You don't see how it can happen.
Speaking only for myself, it's simple: I'd never known anything different. I'm 6'2", and was ~230lb when I graduated high school. On January 9th of this year I was 318lbs, and decided to make a change.
I'm 285lbs now and still dropping a few pounds every week. My clothes are starting to fit poorly, I've had to adjust my watchband twice now, and my wedding ring will barely stay on my finger.
I hit 100 lbs. overweight after Hashimoto's destroyed my thyroid. Now, on thyroid meds, I'm about 20 lbs. overweight, but it's hard to maintain even this. If I'm not careful, I can gain twenty pounds in a month without batting an eye. I've yoyo'd several times since being diagnosed.
Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic about it making sense. Due to that I explained why it makes sense for someone to belive something that external objective viewers would consider irrational.
At the top of the escalator was a growing crowd of confused people looking around for what the hell did just happen ;-)