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river-wind39 karma

The Cobra Effect is named for this happening to the British in India, trying to limit the snake population by offering rewards, and ending up with more snakes than they started with.

river-wind39 karma

Found it on Netflix just this past week, and have been enjoying the hell out of it. Are the actors getting any residuals/secondary commissions for netflix watches?

river-wind33 karma

Keep in mind that while these things were occurring, there were already rules banning them, fines/threats of fines from the FCC, or ongoing legal battles over said rules/fines. So all the items which occurred in the US were things that were done despite the regulatory pressure to not abuse the ISP's gatekeeper position. That pressure had, without question, a chilling effect on more egregious actions.

Think what additional actions would have occurred if no pressure from the government existed, where blocking competing VoIP services or P2P technology was perfectly fine. What other services would have been blocked or hamstrung to favor the ISP's own services? What monthly website packages would have been created; limited internet access plans favoring established companies over small start-ups who wouldn't be included in those plans?

river-wind29 karma

It's attempting to demonstrate different noise levels across an image; the noise being a side effect of jpg compression during the process of saving the file. Uneven noise levels suggests that parts of the image were saved more times than others, hinting at those areas being edited.

However, noise levels can vary across an image and depend on the content of a given region, so as AwSMO says, this analysis by itself isn't sufficient.