NN rules haven't expired yet. Also, given the number of state legislatures and attorneys general rumbling about both suing the FCC and implementing state level NN laws, this would not be a good time (politically speaking) to provide them ammunition.
I suspect there is quite an impact to that. I'm also fairly sure older iPhones in refurbished condition would enjoy a significant market. Apple itself sells them.
THIS PARTICULAR outage might not be Comcast's direct fault, but if not, it was the other side of a peering point. The more Comcast is worried about getting in trouble for NN violations, the more likely they are to pressure that operator to get it fixed. Or, Comcast drops the static route and let's BGP route around the damage.
I am quite familiar with large scale routing issues. In general, something like you propose will either affect only part of a national network (and then find an alternate route) or it will affect more than one provider (for example, if someone null routes the subnet)
Or buying a phone with comparable features that complies with the right to repair from someone else and avoiding the tax. Or Apple accepting a smaller profit in order to make their glueball cost about as much as a similar compliant phone.
A big reason to have a federal mandate (or occasionally state) is to get past manager's inertia and avoid nobody wanting to be the first mover who opens an hour before anyone cares and closes an hour before the competition. By moving the clock instead, everyone moves together and managers don't have to actually change anything to make it happen. Nobody has to reprint signage.
That hasn't been true for a very long time due to artificial lighting. If work actually started based on natural waking time, few would need alarm clocks and practically nobody over the age of 20 would hit the snooze button.
Never claimed anything revolutionary. I suspect most people would rather stay with timezones. It's one thing to have high noon at 1:00 P.M. and work starts at 9:00 A.M., wuite another to have high noon at 3:00 A.M.
It remains a measure of the day's progress even if the sun reaches it's height at 1. Even with the current timezones, there are very few places where solar noon coincides with exactly 12:00:00 anyway.
Even there, read carefully. Cheap products come with crappy or non-existent instructions. Some of the bad reviews are from people who don't know how to use the thing or expected something it clearly can't do.
It is. When something is public key encrypted, what actually happens is a symmetric cypher is uesd and then that key is encrypted by the public key and stored somewhere. You just encrypt another copy of the symmetric key with a different public key and store it.
BUT you have just severely compromised the safety of your data. There now exists an extremely valuable master key that can unlock every phone in America. Being kept safe by the same people who leaked a top secret bag of hacking tools to the world and had at least one of them incorporated into a cryptolocker style virus.
Would you give the local sheriff a copy of your house key if you and the whole county knew he'd keep it in an old shack on an abandoned property with no guard along with everybody else's house keys?
I might buy that if they went after NTP. As it is, they're just multiplying the problem. If someone rips me off, that doesn't give me a free pass to rip you off, does it?
The market came up with HMOs because the cost of major medical was rising fast. So to go back to what was working, we must first implement price controls to make major medical work again.
In other words, government control. But, with something like health care, we can't afford any gaps where prices are left out of control, the toll of that can be measured in actual lives lost. So step one is to curb the cost of major medical events. Next make uninsured general health care costs no more than an HMO. Then expand medicare/medicaid so everyone can afford that cost. Then ban HMOs. Somewhere in there we must mandate sane billing practices.
With all of that, the federal government will probably have to at least hold the possibility of single payer over the heads of insurance companies to make the premiums actually drop to match the reduced cost of major medical events. Without that threat, they'll just pocket the savings from the cost control.
A market approach just won't work otherwise. We tried letting the market solve the problem and the market promptly screwed the pooch.
That hasn't worked since the '70s when HMOs came into existence, supposedly to curb rising healthcare costs. They chose to pay for regular checkups and other routine care in order to avoid expensive major medical events. It was a market based "solution" to the already rising cost of major medical.
Clearly, the market was wrong. If fear of regulation hadn't paralyzed us for decades, perhaps healthcare wouldn't be such a disease ridden swamp today. At this point, I doubt the industry even knows how to operate in a reasonable manner. Half measures just won't do the job anymore. We have an industry that doesn't even understand the concept of prompt billing, accurate accounting, or even timely notification. The private bureaucracy is already so inefficient that the government bureaucracy actually looks pretty good.
The rest of the first world is doing much better with their single payer systems. Are you saying Americans are uniquely incompetent?
Even if employers just hand the money over as salary, the point remains, taxes + health insurance + copays in the U.S. are more expensive than taxes in Europe (which include better health insurance than you can buy in the U.S.).
It also remains irrational to demand that the situation not change in the U.S.
Your entire post is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Call their tech support some time. She may have an Indian accent now, but she definitely works there.
But then if the evidence is gathered and they are proven liars, it wouldn't go well for them.
Equipment failure is a well understood probllem, including about how long it should take to fix or work around.
NN rules haven't expired yet. Also, given the number of state legislatures and attorneys general rumbling about both suing the FCC and implementing state level NN laws, this would not be a good time (politically speaking) to provide them ammunition.
I suspect there is quite an impact to that. I'm also fairly sure older iPhones in refurbished condition would enjoy a significant market. Apple itself sells them.
THIS PARTICULAR outage might not be Comcast's direct fault, but if not, it was the other side of a peering point. The more Comcast is worried about getting in trouble for NN violations, the more likely they are to pressure that operator to get it fixed. Or, Comcast drops the static route and let's BGP route around the damage.
I am quite familiar with large scale routing issues. In general, something like you propose will either affect only part of a national network (and then find an alternate route) or it will affect more than one provider (for example, if someone null routes the subnet)
Except that when they happen, rather than working hard to fix the issue, they can just say "We don't care. We don't have to".
Or buying a phone with comparable features that complies with the right to repair from someone else and avoiding the tax. Or Apple accepting a smaller profit in order to make their glueball cost about as much as a similar compliant phone.
Then slap them with a tax or surcharge for creating an unusually large volume of e-waste.
A big reason to have a federal mandate (or occasionally state) is to get past manager's inertia and avoid nobody wanting to be the first mover who opens an hour before anyone cares and closes an hour before the competition. By moving the clock instead, everyone moves together and managers don't have to actually change anything to make it happen. Nobody has to reprint signage.
Too much signage would have to change, too many other changes to various records and policies.
That hasn't been true for a very long time due to artificial lighting. If work actually started based on natural waking time, few would need alarm clocks and practically nobody over the age of 20 would hit the snooze button.
Never claimed anything revolutionary. I suspect most people would rather stay with timezones. It's one thing to have high noon at 1:00 P.M. and work starts at 9:00 A.M., wuite another to have high noon at 3:00 A.M.
I'd be fine with the whole country staying sprung ahead.
It remains a measure of the day's progress even if the sun reaches it's height at 1. Even with the current timezones, there are very few places where solar noon coincides with exactly 12:00:00 anyway.
Other than sunrise, sunset, and high noon, all of our measured time is "fake". Since the clocks don't care, might as well set them conveniently.
Fortunately, most failures are the battery, the screen, or a broken connector. Those can be easy fixes if they're allowed to be.
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Even there, read carefully. Cheap products come with crappy or non-existent instructions. Some of the bad reviews are from people who don't know how to use the thing or expected something it clearly can't do.
It is. When something is public key encrypted, what actually happens is a symmetric cypher is uesd and then that key is encrypted by the public key and stored somewhere. You just encrypt another copy of the symmetric key with a different public key and store it.
BUT you have just severely compromised the safety of your data. There now exists an extremely valuable master key that can unlock every phone in America. Being kept safe by the same people who leaked a top secret bag of hacking tools to the world and had at least one of them incorporated into a cryptolocker style virus.
Would you give the local sheriff a copy of your house key if you and the whole county knew he'd keep it in an old shack on an abandoned property with no guard along with everybody else's house keys?
Then the government of India asked them for the gold keys to the kingdom and they instantly caved, forever destroying their own reputation.
I might buy that if they went after NTP. As it is, they're just multiplying the problem. If someone rips me off, that doesn't give me a free pass to rip you off, does it?
The users consent in the same way a homeowner "consents" to burglars taking all their stuff while they're away on vacation.
The market came up with HMOs because the cost of major medical was rising fast. So to go back to what was working, we must first implement price controls to make major medical work again.
In other words, government control. But, with something like health care, we can't afford any gaps where prices are left out of control, the toll of that can be measured in actual lives lost. So step one is to curb the cost of major medical events. Next make uninsured general health care costs no more than an HMO. Then expand medicare/medicaid so everyone can afford that cost. Then ban HMOs. Somewhere in there we must mandate sane billing practices.
With all of that, the federal government will probably have to at least hold the possibility of single payer over the heads of insurance companies to make the premiums actually drop to match the reduced cost of major medical events. Without that threat, they'll just pocket the savings from the cost control.
A market approach just won't work otherwise. We tried letting the market solve the problem and the market promptly screwed the pooch.
That hasn't worked since the '70s when HMOs came into existence, supposedly to curb rising healthcare costs. They chose to pay for regular checkups and other routine care in order to avoid expensive major medical events. It was a market based "solution" to the already rising cost of major medical.
Clearly, the market was wrong. If fear of regulation hadn't paralyzed us for decades, perhaps healthcare wouldn't be such a disease ridden swamp today. At this point, I doubt the industry even knows how to operate in a reasonable manner. Half measures just won't do the job anymore. We have an industry that doesn't even understand the concept of prompt billing, accurate accounting, or even timely notification. The private bureaucracy is already so inefficient that the government bureaucracy actually looks pretty good.
The rest of the first world is doing much better with their single payer systems. Are you saying Americans are uniquely incompetent?
Even if employers just hand the money over as salary, the point remains, taxes + health insurance + copays in the U.S. are more expensive than taxes in Europe (which include better health insurance than you can buy in the U.S.).
It also remains irrational to demand that the situation not change in the U.S.
Your entire post is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.