Um... mind my asking a question: Where is fiber not fast?
It's certainly not the only way for high speeds, but I've yet to see fiber where bandwidth is an issue.
All in all, I'm expecting the US to dump wired internet altogether, and just go with 5G and its successors. The incumbent wired providers have the laws set so they can effectively prevent competitors from running new infrastructure, and have been rent seeking their current networks for decades.
With 5G providing 2-3 Gbps service (and room for 10Gbps in the future), their whole model just ended. They're soiling their collective underwear, and rebranding their antiquated networks as "10G".
I want... it NOT to run at 95c and use 300 watts please AMD!
I'm afraid those days are done. We're pretty much at the end of the road for die shrinks. There are some who are hopeful that we'll make it to 5nm, and some Cthulhu dreamers thinking we'll get to 3.5 in a few more years.
Welcome to the end of the road.
Next up is multi-layer dies, which have same surface area, but 2-4 layers of transistors -- meaning 2-4x the heat to transfer out of the same contact patch.
You thought heat was a problem before? Hold my beer.
I seem to recall hearing it’s a variant of a frequently used marketing con: do whatever you have to do to attach your name to a competitor’s, in order to get publicity.
For example, renaming your company to be the first name of Nikola Tesla, and then suing the familiar “Tesla” motor company for patent infringement.
Just let the news media gobble it up, drop the lawsuit, and pat yourself on the back for saving a few million dollars in advertising.
Companies quite often get a stock bump when they have layoffs
Investors aren’t fools, and they know laying off the entire workforce is a breath away from bankrupcy. There is a huge difference between that and laying off employees because they would otherwise be idle due to lack of demand.
You’re claiming that a complete layoff will raise value, and simultaneously saying the company would fold. They are mutually exclusive, so which is it?
If you're saying I've no right to choose where I shop, then who is the tyrant?
Of course I’m not saying you have no right where to shop.
On the flipside, Amazon is also free to refuse service.
Hold up... If you despite Amazon so much, why are you defending them as being powerless to help thwart dictators
I’m not a huge fan of Amazon, but I’m not going to let that blind me to what’s actually happened. Domain fronting is just as useful to malware authors, and is a threat to eveyone on the internet. Amazon is not actively helping a dictatorship, they plugged a security hole.
Much like the Meltdown thing: The consequences may suck, but the security hole must be plugged.
Design patents are always interesting, though, since Juries decide if it looks close enough to be violating the patent.
TFA's picture comparison is... well, dubious. If you ask me, the Nikola One looks a lot more like the bastard child of a Mistubishi Fuso and a Volvo Semi truck.
Ok, the CEO of google could fire EVERYBODY eliminate all that cost, maximizing cash on hand therefore maximizing value to the shareholders.
Your argument has zero basis in reality. Firing all the employees doesn’t provide value to shareholders, and it will destroy value of the company (and its stock). Stocks are valued not only on the basis of the company’s current assets, but upon their ability to provide additional return in the future. If all of the employees are fired, Google no longer has any ability to continue business, which reduces the company’s value to a fire sale of equipment. Moreover, in many contexts the employees (ie. “talent” are considered the company’s biggest assets, and without them, there is no value to the shareholders.
The rest of your “arguments” are no better: Shareholders ultimately have the power to remove a CEO that doesn’t perform as they see fit.,Shareholder rebellions are par for the course. It’s incredibly rare for a corporation to have a CEO with a majority share — Bezos owns 17% of Amazon, for example. Ultimately, the CEO has a fair amount of power, but shareholders can oust the entire board at the next stockholder’s meeting. When the Shareholders tell a CEO don’t like how much is being spent on R&D, they can oust the CEO if he doesn’t mend his ways.
“Maximizing shareholder value” is more often than not determined by the shareholders, not the executives.
But AMAZON isn't getting blocked. They're specifically TOO BIG TO BLOCK.
In the US and EU, perhaps. Several nations have been blocking them for yeras, and others, like China, have threatened to block them — and they have an economic incentive to do so.
... doing that for profit reinforces the idea that Amazon is a souless megacorporation that's bad for society and reminds me I need to start shopping elsewhere. Is that maximixzing value to shareholders in the long run?
Have you read anything about what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse? They are a soulless corporation, the very pinnacle of exploitave capitalism. Much like Walmart, the vast majority of customers don’t care - they want to buy stuff in a convenient cheap place. Until growth starts to become stagnant or fall, it’s hard do build up a case.
And, when Amazon starts to have PR issues (like Walmart has in recent years), they make a few token changes, and customers forgive them.
If you really support democracy, how about asking Amazon to change in the democratic way -- through a shareholder vote. Demanding that they do your bidding for any other reason is the very essence of the Tyranny you claim to despise.
In other words, a giant "F U" to enterprises that use internal CA's: Google is breaking working applications, and giving no solution that doesn't cost a significant investment of time and effort.
A corporations putting an end to this for their own profit.... is not fine.
You don’t seem to understand how public corporations work. Ultimately, most executives can be forced out an executive for not serving their duties to their shareholders - a bunch who typically care only about profit.
Cloud provider’s goal is to connect to the most customers in the most markets and the most countries possible, while turning the highest profits possible. They can do neither when a government orders all traffic to them blocked.
The internet isn’t magic sauce; it’s a telecom network that crosses national borders — and can be cut off at them.
If you want to direct high minded rhetoric about censorship, then I suggest working with organizations which are actually in a place to effect change. The US Government, backed by the world’s most advanced military, unparalleled economic power, and enough nukes to sterilize the planet, has been unable to get dictators to play nice
Seriously, what is an internet retailer supposed to do? Ship teddy bears?
Probably not, and further you would be very right to not want me to do so.
Precisely why I don’t run a Tor exit node. It’s noble in theory, but the reality is there are no legal protections for exit node operators, just high minded rhetoric.
Unless Let's Encrypt has changed their policy since I started using them, a certificate has to have an FDQN that's routable on the open internet, and they verify the host(s) are listening on port 443 at least once during the creation or renewal process.
Let's Encrypt won't issue or renew certs for anybody's internal networks, which severely limits its utility.
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Um... mind my asking a question: Where is fiber not fast?
It's certainly not the only way for high speeds, but I've yet to see fiber where bandwidth is an issue.
All in all, I'm expecting the US to dump wired internet altogether, and just go with 5G and its successors. The incumbent wired providers have the laws set so they can effectively prevent competitors from running new infrastructure, and have been rent seeking their current networks for decades.
With 5G providing 2-3 Gbps service (and room for 10Gbps in the future), their whole model just ended. They're soiling their collective underwear, and rebranding their antiquated networks as "10G".
Ironically, I live in a city whose streets are marked in a Cartesian coordinate system.
In hundredths of a furlong.
Hey, they strap keyboards to tablets, why not have notebook cases with a fold-out keyboard?
The space shuttle is oft quoted at flying 250 nautical miles above Earth.
I'll leave it to pundits for why they chose a unit of measurement that's too obscure for even Americans to use.
I want ... it NOT to run at 95c and use 300 watts please AMD!
I'm afraid those days are done. We're pretty much at the end of the road for die shrinks. There are some who are hopeful that we'll make it to 5nm, and some Cthulhu dreamers thinking we'll get to 3.5 in a few more years.
Welcome to the end of the road.
Next up is multi-layer dies, which have same surface area, but 2-4 layers of transistors -- meaning 2-4x the heat to transfer out of the same contact patch.
You thought heat was a problem before? Hold my beer.
15% boost? sounds pretty underwhelming otherwise.
Welcome to the silicon wall. It took Nvidia 36 months and roughly 50% more transistors to get that 15% of performance.
The days of doubling your performance every couple of years is done.
I don't think a five year old would fall for that one.
Besides, what's so special about le grand K? There are dozens of duplicates, all equally valuable platinum.
So you’re saying that instead of fixing something that’s broken, the EU is thoughtfully and deliberately enacting laws that are even dumber?
That makes no sense.
It doesn't sound like they are looking for an exemption.
It's quite clear that YouTube is saying the proposed rules don't make sense, and shouldn't be implemented for anyone.
Correction: It's the oddly-specific $41,484 per call
So file the complaint with the FTC, and give the Government their chance at collecting the $20k fine per incident.
Seriously. Just put cameras on the outside of the plane, and make it so passengers can look in any direction and see the world around the plane.
Bonus points if Superman can visit.
Oh Please, you’re bullshitting and you can’t even be consistent.
Just like the FBI, Signal wants a secruity weakness to be opened “for the good guys.”
There is absolutely no acceptable reason for leaving a security hole open.
Period.
it stretches credulity that Amazon would only send a letter to Signal. You act like it’s a personal attack on Signal. It’s not.
It’s far more likely every paying customer who uses domain fronting received the same letter.
I seem to recall hearing it’s a variant of a frequently used marketing con: do whatever you have to do to attach your name to a competitor’s, in order to get publicity.
For example, renaming your company to be the first name of Nikola Tesla, and then suing the familiar “Tesla” motor company for patent infringement.
Just let the news media gobble it up, drop the lawsuit, and pat yourself on the back for saving a few million dollars in advertising.
I meant “Meltdown bug”... sorry.
Companies quite often get a stock bump when they have layoffs
Investors aren’t fools, and they know laying off the entire workforce is a breath away from bankrupcy. There is a huge difference between that and laying off employees because they would otherwise be idle due to lack of demand.
You’re claiming that a complete layoff will raise value, and simultaneously saying the company would fold. They are mutually exclusive, so which is it?
If you're saying I've no right to choose where I shop, then who is the tyrant?
Of course I’m not saying you have no right where to shop.
On the flipside, Amazon is also free to refuse service.
Hold up... If you despite Amazon so much, why are you defending them as being powerless to help thwart dictators
I’m not a huge fan of Amazon, but I’m not going to let that blind me to what’s actually happened. Domain fronting is just as useful to malware authors, and is a threat to eveyone on the internet. Amazon is not actively helping a dictatorship, they plugged a security hole.
Much like the Meltdown thing: The consequences may suck, but the security hole must be plugged.
Design patents are always interesting, though, since Juries decide if it looks close enough to be violating the patent.
TFA's picture comparison is... well, dubious. If you ask me, the Nikola One looks a lot more like the bastard child of a Mistubishi Fuso and a Volvo Semi truck.
Nikola's model definitely looks more like Thor Trucks' model.
Honestly, I think the lawsuit is primarily to get PR. I had no idea they existed until today, so they've succeeded.
Ok, the CEO of google could fire EVERYBODY eliminate all that cost, maximizing cash on hand therefore maximizing value to the shareholders.
Your argument has zero basis in reality. Firing all the employees doesn’t provide value to shareholders, and it will destroy value of the company (and its stock). Stocks are valued not only on the basis of the company’s current assets, but upon their ability to provide additional return in the future. If all of the employees are fired, Google no longer has any ability to continue business, which reduces the company’s value to a fire sale of equipment. Moreover, in many contexts the employees (ie. “talent” are considered the company’s biggest assets, and without them, there is no value to the shareholders.
The rest of your “arguments” are no better: Shareholders ultimately have the power to remove a CEO that doesn’t perform as they see fit.,Shareholder rebellions are par for the course. It’s incredibly rare for a corporation to have a CEO with a majority share — Bezos owns 17% of Amazon, for example. Ultimately, the CEO has a fair amount of power, but shareholders can oust the entire board at the next stockholder’s meeting. When the Shareholders tell a CEO don’t like how much is being spent on R&D, they can oust the CEO if he doesn’t mend his ways.
“Maximizing shareholder value” is more often than not determined by the shareholders, not the executives.
But AMAZON isn't getting blocked. They're specifically TOO BIG TO BLOCK.
In the US and EU, perhaps. Several nations have been blocking them for yeras, and others, like China, have threatened to block them — and they have an economic incentive to do so.
... doing that for profit reinforces the idea that Amazon is a souless megacorporation that's bad for society and reminds me I need to start shopping elsewhere. Is that maximixzing value to shareholders in the long run?
Have you read anything about what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse? They are a soulless corporation, the very pinnacle of exploitave capitalism. Much like Walmart, the vast majority of customers don’t care - they want to buy stuff in a convenient cheap place. Until growth starts to become stagnant or fall, it’s hard do build up a case.
And, when Amazon starts to have PR issues (like Walmart has in recent years), they make a few token changes, and customers forgive them.
If you really support democracy, how about asking Amazon to change in the democratic way -- through a shareholder vote. Demanding that they do your bidding for any other reason is the very essence of the Tyranny you claim to despise.
In other words, a giant "F U" to enterprises that use internal CA's: Google is breaking working applications, and giving no solution that doesn't cost a significant investment of time and effort.
Got it.
obfuscated URLs that hide their true destination are evil.
Which pretty much sums up Google AMP as well -- everything comes from google.com...
A corporations putting an end to this for their own profit.... is not fine.
You don’t seem to understand how public corporations work. Ultimately, most executives can be forced out an executive for not serving their duties to their shareholders - a bunch who typically care only about profit.
Cloud provider’s goal is to connect to the most customers in the most markets and the most countries possible, while turning the highest profits possible. They can do neither when a government orders all traffic to them blocked.
The internet isn’t magic sauce; it’s a telecom network that crosses national borders — and can be cut off at them.
If you want to direct high minded rhetoric about censorship, then I suggest working with organizations which are actually in a place to effect change. The US Government, backed by the world’s most advanced military, unparalleled economic power, and enough nukes to sterilize the planet, has been unable to get dictators to play nice
Seriously, what is an internet retailer supposed to do? Ship teddy bears?
Probably not, and further you would be very right to not want me to do so.
Precisely why I don’t run a Tor exit node. It’s noble in theory, but the reality is there are no legal protections for exit node operators, just high minded rhetoric.
And if they’re apps that are not open source, and it accesses the internal HTTPS server’s REST API (with an internal CA Certificate)?
For example, an enterprise install of HipChat, with users using Atlassian’s HipChat for Andoid?
It sounds like the App will be broken, and users will have to use the web interface (and not get things like notifications).
Unless Let's Encrypt has changed their policy since I started using them, a certificate has to have an FDQN that's routable on the open internet, and they verify the host(s) are listening on port 443 at least once during the creation or renewal process.
Let's Encrypt won't issue or renew certs for anybody's internal networks, which severely limits its utility.