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> You're disagreeing with Kepler's first law? Do tell...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/thm-monocle-interactive/gpyRY5W1Xj/Figure_07_05_04a.jpg

The announcement makes it clear that it is a suspected problem with the product itself, regardless of its application. The press release from Electrify America says: “At the recommendation of its supplier, HUBER+SUHNER, (...), Electrify America is shutting down .... The recommendation was issued to all of HUBER+SUHNERS’ customers using the technology worldwide.”

major 5G patent holder

Wow.. sounds like they are the leaders of tech...until...
https://globebmg-cmsmedia-live...
https://www.iam-media.com/who-...
11,423 PATENTS FOR 5G...

Let's be real, no tech requires more than 1,000 patents. Just another example that the patent system is broken, and meaningless.

"I patented a way to make the 5G icon the color red"
I've already started my portfolio.

Nonsense, this is what fries are supposed to look like: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdnme...

I'll be honest, I've questioned the "real artists ship" idea ever since I did one ship that just wasn't meant to be. #WordplayOrDeath

This is much like the smoking/cancer research (except a more difficult problem to prove in many ways). If you do not accept the link between bowel cancer and meat (especially "well done" meats, and preserved / processed meats), then there are significant environmental and land use impacts.

The Democrats are not supporting nuclear in Iran, they are supporting supervision so they don't make bombs.

What are they supervising? That's right, a civilian nuclear power program. So, you admit that the Democrats will allow Iran to have a nuclear power program. What does the Democratic Party say on nuclear power in the USA? Oddly nothing. I checked:
https://democrats.org/wp-conte...

Trump wants to kill the supervision so he can claim they have the bomb and start a war.

That's irrelevant to the discussion. Iran has been quite successful in killing the supervision on their own, if they won't play by the rules then they need to be punished for it.

Trump wants to see nuclear power grow in the USA. I saw that in the Republican platform document.
https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s...

Iran has been violating every rule on the supervision of their nuclear power program. The Democrats aren't stopping Iran from building nuclear power but they are stopping nuclear power from being developed in the USA. So, which is it? Does the Democrat Party support nuclear power or not? It's quite obvious that they don't otherwise they would not have held up the construction of radioactive material disposal sites, and of nuclear power reactors, for the last 40 years.

The Democrats seem to think nuclear power is fine in Iran, so why not here? If they believe nuclear power is too much of a safety risk here then they are evil bastards for setting Iran up for their own nuclear accident.

Actually, it's more complicated. That exemption quoted in the article expired this year and this new law supercedes it.

Thankfully, the original specification language is not present in the car section (see section 1):
Accordingly, the Acting Register recommends that the Librarian adopt the following exemptions:
(1) Computer programs that are contained in and control the functioning of a lawfully acquired motorized land vehicle such as a personal automobile, commercial vehicle or mechanized agricultural vehicle, except for programs accessed through a separate subscription service, when circumvention is a necessary step to allow the diagnosis, repair or lawful modification of a vehicle function, where such circumvention does not constitute a violation of applicable law, including without limitation regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation or the Environmental Protection Agency, and is not accomplished for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access to other copyrighted works.
(2) Computer programs that are contained in and control the functioning of a lawfully acquired smartphone or home appliance or home system, such as a refrigerator, thermostat, HVAC or electrical system, when circumvention is a necessary step to allow the diagnosis, maintenance or repair of such a device or system, and is not accomplished for the purpose of gaining access to other copyrighted works. For purposes of this paragraph (b)(10):
(i) The “maintenance” of a device or system is the servicing of the device or system in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system; and
(ii) The “repair” of a device or system is the restoring of the device or system to the state of working in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that device or system.

The fact that a librarian needs to provide exemptions to keep the DMCA DRM restrictions reasonable implies that we really should fix the DMCA.

Source:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/publi...

The final ruling document isn't due to publish until tomorrow, but here is the 2018 exemptions ruling:
(PDF warning)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-23241.pdf

Scroll down to page 19

#8 Video games requiring server communication - for continued individual play and
preservation of games by libraries, archives, and museums

applies to discontinued game servers

Page 52 has some other limited uses of stripping drm on games specifically for preservation by a limited class.
Likely won't apply to you and I, but would to the internet archive for instance.

Basically pages 15-20 detail the various software exemptions but not games related.

McDonalds was everywhere.

If you're trying to say that home cooking and eating out did not change between 1960 and 2000, you're simply wrong.

https://america-loan-service.s...

also, ingredients in food changed dramatically, based on attempts to make food both cheaper and more addictive:

https://www.slickwellness.com/...

More cheeses eaten (just an example, you can try finding graphs for all kinds of high calorie junk food)

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdo...

Was there a dramatic increase in plastics in the 80s ? Does increase in plastic cause people to eat more cheese ?

Credible source

Same data as time series of total emissions of all developed countries in a JSON format, make your own graph.

More about the dataset and how to get disaggregated data (by sector, source etc.)

The last two years were not the best but as GGP pointed out this is irrelevant. EU emissions are in a stable downward trend since the beginning of UN-watched observations (1990). US emissions were growing till 2007, and show a slight downward trend since.

What about her. She surely knows how to handle men.

While Congress passed a law requiring food makers to disclose genetically modified ingredients in 2016, those rules will probably not apply to foods made with newer gene-editing techniques, said experts who had reviewed it.

From the DOA standard

"The amended Act defines “bioengineering” with respect to a food, as referring to a food “(A) that contains genetic material that has been modified through in vitro recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) techniques; and (B) for which the modification could not otherwise be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature."

So the interesting part is "could not". Evidently Calyxt is claiming that their edits could have resulted naturally.

Agreed.

You man enjoy N. Stephan Kinsella's book -- a patent attorney of many years' experience who is Against Intellectual Property -- IMHO it should have been titled "Against Imaginary Property"

Your point is invalid.

"Both sides are bad" is a joke. The horrid, hyperpartisan ACA that Obama "crammed down your throat" was based on REPUBLICAN policy. Don't take my word for it, consult the paper from the Heritage Foundation(Direct PDF link shown on HF website, see page 8 of the PDF for page 6 of the document) to see the conservatives arguing for the mandate, which is the only part of the ACA I've ever heard coherent objections to. Moderates are only endangered on the GOP side of the aisle, Obama bent over backwards to try and compromise, and the likes of Pelosi and Manchin regularly take fire from the left for not fighting hard enough in their eyes.

Of course, elections DO have consequences, so the left seeing the repeated electoral victories of the extremist and politically incorrect Trump playbook (Extending back to the Tea Party) may mean that moderation is endangered after all because you supposed moderates can't be arsed to VOTE for moderation. But that's about the future-Democrats are regularly voting for Trump's confirmations in the current congress, to the dissatisfation of their left base.

An even simpler solution.

resistant hypothesized:

The thought occurs that an inevitable explosion of fake video and audio recordings will drive the development of encrypted authentication networks that verify that a supposed recording came from a sealed, supposedly tamper-proof recording device from a manufacturer whose production lines, parts suppliers, and design teams are closely monitored by government agencies and nonprofit organizations against the possibility of firmware tampering. Recordings produced by unvetted devices will be automatically assumed by courts and other interested parties to be inherently unreliable and very likely fake in all cases of controversy.

I don't think you have a lot of experience with how courts work in actual practice - or legislatures, either.

Judges are basically free to accept or reject evidence according to their own rules. In the USA, for instance, some of them still admit latent fingerprint testimony, despite the fact that an AAAS panel of expert forensic scientists has completely debunked the science behind it. Another such AAAS panel also determined that much of the "science" behind forensic arson analysis is equally worthless. And the National Commission on Forensic Science - whose members included career prosecutors, forensics experts, and criminal defense groups - called for the establishment of a comprehensive, national set of forensic standards for evidence submitted to criminal justice courts.

And don't get me started on bite mark analysis.

(Jeff Sessions has disbanded the NCFS, and is planning to replace it with a panel composed of prosecutors and forensics "experts", because, of course he has.)

Despite all the accumulated evidence that much of forensic science is largely based on handwaving and bullshit, there are no prohibitions against its use in criminal courts, even for capital crimes.

Meanwhile, I can't speak knowledgeably about other countries' criminal justice systems (although I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth countries and a bunch of EU member states have equally screwed up standards), but here in the USA, there is little sign that either state legislatures or Congress have any trace of will to fix these problems - although, to be fair, the Texas Forensic Science Commission, of all unlikely bellwethers, has determined that bite mark analysis has no scientific basis, and recommended that it be banned from being used in state courts.

Naturally, the Texas legislature has not enacted the recommended ban, so even Texas criminal court judges are still free to admit bite mark analysis into evidence - including in capital cases.

So, your prediction seems to me to have little in the way of either fact or precedent to support it.

Not to mention the chorus of outrage that would undoubtedly follow the instant any bill is introduced to mandate the authenticity verification scheme you propose would pretty much guarantee its instant demise ...

resistant hypothesized:

The thought occurs that an inevitable explosion of fake video and audio recordings will drive the development of encrypted authentication networks that verify that a supposed recording came from a sealed, supposedly tamper-proof recording device from a manufacturer whose production lines, parts suppliers, and design teams are closely monitored by government agencies and nonprofit organizations against the possibility of firmware tampering. Recordings produced by unvetted devices will be automatically assumed by courts and other interested parties to be inherently unreliable and very likely fake in all cases of controversy.

I don't think you have a lot of experience with how courts work in actual practice - or legislatures, either.

Judges are basically free to accept or reject evidence according to their own rules. In the USA, for instance, some of them still admit latent fingerprint testimony, despite the fact that an AAAS panel of expert forensic scientists has completely debunked the science behind it. Another such AAAS panel also determined that much of the "science" behind forensic arson analysis is equally worthless. And the National Commission on Forensic Science - whose members included career prosecutors, forensics experts, and criminal defense groups - called for the establishment of a comprehensive, national set of forensic standards for evidence submitted to criminal justice courts.

And don't get me started on bite mark analysis.

(Jeff Sessions has disbanded the NCFS, and is planning to replace it with a panel composed of prosecutors and forensics "experts", because, of course he has.)

Despite all the accumulated evidence that much of forensic science is largely based on handwaving and bullshit, there are no prohibitions against its use in criminal courts, even for capital crimes.

Meanwhile, I can't speak knowledgeably about other countries' criminal justice systems (although I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth countries and a bunch of EU member states have equally screwed up standards), but here in the USA, there is little sign that either state legislatures or Congress have any trace of will to fix these problems - although, to be fair, the Texas Forensic Science Commission, of all unlikely bellwethers, has determined that bite mark analysis has no scientific basis, and recommended that it be banned from being used in state courts.

Naturally, the Texas legislature has not enacted the recommended ban, so even Texas criminal court judges are still free to admit bite mark analysis into evidence - including in capital cases.

So, your prediction seems to me to have little in the way of either fact or precedent to support it.

Not to mention the chorus of outrage that would undoubtedly follow the instant any bill is introduced to mandate the authenticity verification scheme you propose would pretty much guarantee its instant demise ...

Almost all public health data can be used once it's de-identified.

On what basis do you make that claim? There are literally a thousand scientists who say otherwise.

Excerpt from a letter signed by 1000 scientists urging Pruitt not to do this:

Proponents for these radical restrictions purport to raise two sets of concerns: reproducibility and
transparency. In reality, these are phony issues that weaponize ‘transparency’ to facilitate political
interference in science-based decisionmaking, rather than genuinely address either. The result will be
policies and practices that will ignore significant risks to the health of every American.

First, many public health studies cannot be replicated, as doing so would require intentionally and
unethically exposing people and the environment to harmful contaminants or recreating one-time events
(such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill).

Second, there are multiple valid reasons why requiring the release of all data does not improve scientific
integrity and could actually compromise research, including intellectual property, proprietary, and
privacy concerns. Further, EPA has historically been transparent in demonstrating the scientific basis of
its decisions, so the public can hold the agency accountable to establish evidence-based safeguards; any
changes should be made with the full consultation with and support of the scientific community.

/sarcasm I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you that people are sharing files / video / music on the internet! Back in MY day we hoarded our one's and zero's! Only communists shared their data with a stranger. We practiced safe hex by being our corporate master's bitch!

Instead of asking the question: "When this many people are just outright ignoring copyright maybe this civil disobediance of Against Intellectual Property (written by a lawyer, go figure) is a call to re-think the archaic, capitalist concept of Copyright? Nah, let's go after Apple and Google instead which have NOTHING to do with this. "

Wait till these people find out that you can share "illegal numbers" through Skype, Google Drive, or even email !

That ethanol kills many germs isn't disputed, but it doesn't kill enough of them to really sanitize, and leaves the bacteria's food source, just smeared around.
It's like if you scrape off most of the mold on a piece of cheese, smearing it around a bit in the process. What do you think happens then?

It's not supposed to sanitize. That would be just silly. Your body is completely covered in bacteria, and any process which could get rid of all of them would kill you. And you can't get rid of the food source because that would also kill you (it literally is you).

All the ethanol is supposed to do is knock the bacteria population down enough to where it'll take them a while to build up enough in numbers again to spread every time you touch something. That's why they advertise things like "kills 99.99% of germs." Not 100%. You're trying to keep the bacteria population in the flat bottom portion of the exponential growth curve. That maximizes the time when their population is low, and thus minimizes the chances of spreading them around. It's impossible to reduce them to zero, but there's a lot to be gained by reducing them close to zero.

I agree the extent to which marketers have pushed hand sanitizers onto OCD people is ridiculous, and that washing is more effective. But there isn't always a faucet and soap handy, and hand sanitizers are a good second line of defense.

And in public facilities, turn off the tap with a paper towel, not your hand, and open the door with your foot or elbow, not your still moist hand.

That's a pet peeve of mine. Most bathroom doors are designed backwards - they open inward. That forces you to grab the handle to open them when you leave.

Another are those tongs for picking up bread at cafeterias. I always avoid them and pick up the bread with my hand. If I accidentally brush another piece of bread with my hand while doing this, that's one person whose bacteria has gotten onto someone else's bread. But if everyone uses the tongs, then everyone's bacteria has gotten onto everyone else's hands. And since most people eat bread with their hands, that means everyone's bacteria has gotten onto everyone's bread. Unless you wash your hands before eating your bread (or eat your bread with a knife and fork), tongs are much more effective at spreading bacteria around than just having everyone pick up a bread with their hand.

If cost is no object, then yes, it is possible that we can power the country with wind and solar. However, it is not currently cost effective and will not likely be cost effective for a very long time.

Today, that is true (if you are considering the 100% case-- it is cost effective in some markets).

I don't think you have any basis to say "will not likely be cost effective for a very long time." That becomes untrue if you have efficient storage or efficient long-distance power transfer. Both of these technologies are improving rapidly.

Solar electricity generation is highly inefficient.

No, it's pretty efficient. you can buy 20% efficient solar panels today. That's roughly the same efficiency as your car's engine. You can make 35% efficient cells, but they're expensive. You can also make 35% efficient car engines, but they're expensive, too.

If it were cost effective, we'd all be doing it. Same goes with electric cars.

And, in fact, the world is rapidly installing solar capacity. https://octoenergy-production-...

So, in 10 years everyone on this planet will have internet access

We're actually nearly there already thanks to cheap smartphones

Physically thrown away, and replaced by a known good brand, perhaps something running PFSense on a small scale.

My ISP requires these devices for their sort of frame relay tunnel thing they got going. I have not been able to replicate that connection on pfsense. So i have a mikrotik router that i own, sitting infront of my pfsense on the wan side.

Yikes. gonna patch it tonight when i get home! thing cost like $100 bucks so i am not going to throw it away. i did restrict all access to it externally, so hopefully whatever mikrotik exploit this is requires some sort of port to be open to work...

ah found some info. it seems to have only infected africa and middle east and uses copies the dll to a windows machine when you use winbox to configure. I do remember using winbox at some point but i think it didnt work very well. still scarily close to home!

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws...

The full technical paper can be found here:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws...

1) look at your graph again - it's rising, but that rise is definitely not consistent - it changes slope all the time, accelerating significantly at times

2) the keeling curve is also rising, but it is doing so consistently - it does not regularly change slope.

It's even worse at matching temperature:

http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com...

Of course, as pattern seeking animals, we can look at the took curves and say "they look alike", but they really don't correlate that well.

Shall we break out R and see if we can get a few data sets to do some p-hacking? :)

... will just have to adapt.

Good luck AI-bot.

> This balance was moved with flights where sharp objects and liquids are banned.

You mean 9/11 being used as the excuse for the complete and total joke of Theater Security Logic or Security Retards ?

The bigger crime is that the sheeple do fuck all about it.

You realize the Americans you're calling Nazis aren't actually Nazis, right?

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Po...

https://clarionproject.org/wp-...

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0-ldnkx...

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-co...

Why wouldn't they want to stick with this? https://urban-fonts.s3.amazona...

think about how you'd feel about anybody who did that to a woman for any reason.

As James Damore pointed out in his very well-sourced ten-page treatise on gender differences, women don't have a sense of humor because they lack a particular bone in their ankles.

And here is an unretouched photo of James Damore for reference purposes only:

https://everipedia-storage.s3-...

The slashdot link is really useless. Further rant: I really hate sites that highlight a word/organisation/site and then when you click on that link will show all articles on that subject in their own site (Looking at you, engadget! )That's what bloomberg seems to do.
Here's the original link
https://public.wmo.int/en/medi...
and the actual bulletin:

https://ane4bf-datap1.s3-eu-we...

Ha!

Here's the "simple calculator" that doesn't even cover all of the services:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...

Put it on S3? S3 is storage! You need it to be on EC2. Possibly behind Beanstalk. Oh, you want to actually make use of the fancy cloud features for internet-accessible shit? You'll need Route 53, too, and the Elastic Load Balancer.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pric...
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pri...
https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
https://aws.amazon.com/elastic...

Beanstalk is free, though!

Take a look at this fucking list. https://i.imgur.com/nBasljK.pn...

We've also had a steady rise in the complexity and abundance of infotainment systems that needlessly complicate the few tasks you legitimately need to attend to while driving.

Which manufacturers are you talking about?

I bought a new BMW 2 series earlier this year and the infotainment system is extremely discrete and non-invasive, not to mention ergonomic. Most tasks have a single button to access them (Nav, Music, Radio) and the scroll wheel is very easy to use, not to mention the steering wheel controls. Here's a picture. its positioned so that your hand can easily reach it without turning, in fact its positioned so that it's uncomfortable to use if you're looking at it.

Its also pretty damn customisable, so you can set it up so you dont need to mess around with it. The BMW even recognises which key is in the car and changes the settings to that drivers customisations.

Infotainment systems dont have to be terrible to use in order to be complex, I guess it depends on which manufacturer you get, I suspect cheap brands like Chevrolet and Citroen are pretty terrible.

whitewash history much?

it's not a myth. and iit was far more than "just a fragment". the tax penalty "punishment" came from them too.
really, the only things dems did was tack on minimum coverage, and a public optopn (that later got dropped).

you folks can try to whitewash the history all you want.
but no one is falling for it.

http://americablog.com/2013/10...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/h...
https://healthcarereform.proco...

and of course, the original document, in full, for your reading pleasure: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws....

We will always need humans to supervise the robots, deal with unexpected situations that the robots can't figure out, etc. We can pay to train and pay those humans more since the work done is significantly larger than what they could do alone.

And there are a lot of other areas that Amazon can do better at, like quality control and developing stable, consistent products. Importing tons of cheap Chinese items may have expanded Amazon's listings dramatically, but it has also resulted in buyers being unsure of the product in many cases (especially for more niche items that don't have many or any reviews).

Beyond that, the economy is not a zero sum game. Under Trump it is now growing at 3%, which is typical of the US economy (post WW2 average is 2.9% growth rate) https://s3.amazonaws.com/media... in 8 years the economy will have grown roughly 25%. Someone has to make up that growth, and since birth rates aren't what they used to be, robotics is a good way to further leverage and grow the economy without an equivalent growth in the work force.

There was this guy who pulled up a 20-year-old bug in Bugzilla that works because lists are processed by iterating as an expression (e.g. if you do $x = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), you get $x=1; $=x2; $x=3... and end up with $x=5). As a result, if you put the same entry in a hash twice, you get the second one--and, along with a flaw in DBI, he managed to get admin access to Mozilla's bugzilla.

So everyone whined a lot, and said he's just dumb, and he came back a year later and (at 21:45) shot a remote code execution at something he found in perl's CGI docs by using a special case of file handle interpretation.

So there are a number of things going on here. For one, perl does some really strange things, and so stuff needs extreme defensive programming because the very language is trying to fuck it all up for you. On top of that, libraries on the back-end--like DBI and the CGI library--don't handle shit very well, at all, and so it becomes possible to pass a parameter as a list and end up overwriting the next parameter to a subroutine call, which lets you do such fun things as disable input validation in DBI; or, even better, actually use perl right, except that the CGI module had a check to see if a variable is a file, but if you gave it a list containing any file it would return true even though many things in the list aren't files. This was all exacerbated by some core perl modules handling user input by turning it into lists, which means end-user input caused polymorphic code.

So imagine what it's like to be a programmer. Can you tell me every function call you make is only doing exactly what you expect? Of course not; there's too much code back there for you to review. You can verify that it also does what you expect--but not that it does nothing and also what you expect. You've got limited time to invest in gaining the certainty of what any particular library or function does in total, so there will only be a subset of such things to which you can attest.

Interestingly, Reveal Mobile has this in their documentation:

"While traditional lat/long audiences require the app to be open and running, detecting or 'bumping' beacons can occur when apps are not in use," the company writes. "This allows Reveal Mobile to build larger, and more accurate, location-based audiences."

And they issued this statement:

We don't attempt to reverse engineer a device's location if someone opts out of location services, regardless of the data signal it comes from. In looking at our current SDK's behavior, we see how that can be misconstrued. In response to that, we're releasing a new version of our SDK today which will no longer send any data points which could be used to infer location when someone opts out of location sharing.

"It sends things, but we don't use those things for that purpose. I know, it looks weird, but trust us."

......... well okay then!

He wrote a manifesto about some rather contentious points filled with logical fallacies, poor referencing, wild extrapolation and outright un-sourced claims (yes, I did in fact read it).

Did you though? Here's a link to it for people to decide for themselves if your claims are correct.

Captcha: vilified

Didn't read the memo, huh? Just the media articles about it, right? It's obvious.

Here's a link for you; https://diversitymemo-static.s...

Well, the author of the memo got that idea from the meetings he was dragged into to discuss the need for diversity.

Do you write a 10-page memo to your company for every meeting they had that you think was a waste of time?

He was presented with statements and then he researched and produced a document showing that those statements didn't hold up.

Did the company ask him to do that? Do you know what they call spending time researching a producing a document that the company didn't ask for? Not doing your job.

For doing such research and sharing it privately with people who call themselves "skeptics"

By "sharing it privately", I think you mean, "sharing it on company resources".

he was publicly exposed and summarily fired without cause

California is an "at will" employment state. The cause he was given is all the cause Google needs. If you want to discuss the need for unions at tech companies, then we have something to talk about. Otherwise, James Damore (pictured below) is going to need to find a job (and good luck finding one that doesn't mind him writing 10-page manifestos instead of doing his job).

Photo of James Damore, standing between two males:

https://everipedia-storage.s3....

http://quillette.com/2017/08/0...

Science would appear to disagree with you, but maybe you didn't read the memo with the citations:

https://diversitymemo-static.s...

creimer on the right eating his single plate of food.

Here's a small sample of 848 criminal voter fraud convictions - not just charges.

And how many of them are related to the possession of ID by the voter? How many of them would be prevented by that ID being presented. It's your only demand, consistently and repetitively insisted upon, so it must be your only solution. Please tell us your count. It will be less than 848. But you chose to inflate the numbers.

But here's one, that wasn't prosecuted: In North Carolina.

Let's see you demand her prosecution. Let's see you demand this district attorney be removed.

Oh wait, crickets.

How many cases of proven voter fraud (you know, where a conviction is reached) do you need before you consider it an issue?

More than zero, since you're confusing "ELECTORAL fraud" with "voter fraud" and that lack of discernment is costing you.

How many shall be disenfranchised before you care?

Good question for you to answer. How many people must lose their votes to discriminatory and abusive demands before you care? Read this and tell us what you think.

What is your tolerance to stealing votes?

What's yours? Do you reject the notion that the state can deny citizens their right to vote based on arbitrary and capricious actions, or is the state affirmatively required to ensure that voters are afforded their right to vote?

Here's a small sample of 848 criminal voter fraud convictions - not just charges. How many cases of proven voter fraud (you know, where a conviction is reached) do you need before you consider it an issue? How many shall be disenfranchised before you care? What is your tolerance to stealing votes?

848 documented criminal convictions, and this is just a sampling. Or perhaps you'd like to hear from the Pew Trusts and their finding of "Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.", not to mention millions of dead still registered to vote... Is that enough evidence for you? How much is needed before it becomes a concern - is it only dismissed because it tends to overwhelmingly break one way?

Simulcast.

I think this is syndication network complaining that content they buy is "outdated" because of hopelessly outdated market segmentation stratagems (NZ and AU getting especially short end of the stick).

Anyone relevant moved to simulcast, these people are dinosaurs.

There were other issues besides spectrum that kept cellular from being practical until the early 1970s. For example, solid-state UHF devices were in their infancy in the 1970s and a 1960s era mobile phone would have had to be powered by vacuum tubes and would be the size of a suitcase. Earlier than that it would simply not have been practical. It took the developments in miniaturized and low-power electronics for the space race and military to get to the point where cell phones were practical and economically viable. In the era of the 40s to 70s there was little of the current suspicion of "big government" and corporations (Motorola, as mentioned in the article) were very risk-averse. By the late 70s the combination of technology and a younger, more mobile and tech adopting population (boomers) made cellular an attractive commercial proposition. Note how slow the uptake of mobile was once it was announced. We take multiple mobile phones per family for granted now, but It was the 1990s before more than 10% of US households had one. http://visualeconsite.s3.amazo...