Yes! starting with Candy Crush! Please post a list of the True Names of apps that empowers you to remove them! BTW, does this method remove the app permanently... or will it just resurrect itself with the next Tuesday update?
(not a hater... with Classicshell, Win 10 Pro is quite ok. But the unsolicited bloat IS annoying, and with each forced major upgrade I sweat that some software, license, or hardware I depend on is not going to make it... and for what? 3-D in Paint? stuff I can already get with a 3rd-party application? life with Microsoft...)
don't forget that that Ajit Pai was put on the commission by Obama.
Yes, but details, son! Commissions like the FCC are required to have members from both parties. while the chair position may be chosen by the President. Obama installed Pai because he had to. Wikipedia: "He was initially nominated for a Republican Party position on the commission by President Barack Obama at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term."
He's a grandstanding tool (and former lawyer for Verizon through his old firm).
Sadly, this is quite true. Fox running the henhouse, and it's dinner-time.
I assume you're referring to all the anti-terrorism Snowden shit, that started under W. but continued under Obama (and six years of GOP-controlled Congress). And damn-well ain't gonna let up any under Trump.
But let's put it in context. The GOP, after years of screaming and gnashing of teeth, when the chips were finally down could NOT get enough of their own shit together to repeal Obamacare, that thing they say they hate more than anything in the whole world. But, just a few days later, these same guys managed to put their differences aside to crush a tiny consumer-protection rule for Internet users.
... and the punch line? They didn't even need to! The GOP-installed FCC chairman can and said he would do away with the rule all by himself. But no. All the GOP, from Congress to the White House, must, must take a courageous stand against opt-out Internet Privacy in the name of those good shareholders of the nation's ISP's. That's right, it turns out the GOP really can live with Obamacare, but a world where ISP's can't sell your data? Heavens-to-Betsy!
That's who we're dealing with here, people. Still insist that Dems are the worst? Ancient history, get over it. Out of the frying pan, into the fire, and shit it's only been 12 weeks!
but on the other hand, doesn't Ivanka's clothing line just look spanky!
True, but much more likely people will be flagged on suspicion of copyright violations. They could perhaps sell impure thoughts to extortionists, if they can find some who will pay, but ISP's can make more money selling out your efforts to download that unlicensed copy of that Disney movie. Some nice arrangement between the MPAA, the RIAA, and a consortium of ISP's willingly providing their data about you for the noble cause of fighting piracy (the evil-looking eagle says "Piracy is not a Victimless Crime").
Search torrent sites much? There'll be a red flag for that.
Could have left it well enough alone, they could have, but nope they just had to take bold action for the likes of Comcast and Verizon.
Agreed. This report smells like sensationalized bullshit that makes light of what things really cost. The cost to essentially re-tool after decades out of the business of anything beyond low-earth orbit space travel has to be paid, and since NASA has to carry out the mission, they're the ones who first have to have everything in place. Measuring this against what contractors get is a head-fake; contractors should be specialists paid just for the piece of the puzzle required from them, so they should get paid less and later, after NASA has figured out to an excruciating degree of certainty what they need and how to get it done right so that contractors don't wind up making something useless.
Besides, NASA is not for-profit like the private sector. Money doesn't disappear down a profit hole, CEO bonuses or golden parachutes. If money is being stolen or misappropriated at NASA, it will be found out - some of that overhead, after all, goes to paper-trailing all the funding. That's why I'm saying bullshit to this article. Unless there are examples of specific misappropriation, then the money's being spent where it's gotta be spent (it sure as fuck isn't going to big, giant salaries or bonuses). It's easy and fashionable to shit on public-sector spending... 'cause it's public so trolls can see it and troll it and feel smug without taking the time to dig into the details... unlike the private sector where their spending is none of your damn business. Pros and cons. Yes, government agencies fuck up every so often and spend tax-payer money on bridges to nowhere and other shit. But they get caught because of the paper trail and the armies of trolls looking to expose them and feel smug about themselves.
Given the high-exposure of NASA, and how crazy fucking hard it is to get a job there in spite of relatively meager salaries compared to what you could get in the private sector, I don't bet there's too much funny business really going on... except only for pork mandated by Congress, because a congressman wants something sweet in his state or district. In THAT case, don't blame NASA, blame the Congressman (and the people who voted for him).
Aren't we attempting to nearly be there with locations like NSA's Utah Data Center, Fort Meade, and similar places? And isn't data already being collected at a faster rate than we have resources to process it in real time?
Almost certainly... because collection is the easy, achievable part of mass surveillance. Politically, you just win because your obstacles are only (1) funding and (2) privacy advocates, which you label as non-patriotic USA-hating ACLU nuts so that you win politically whether or not you lose to them in court. The funding just goes to buying the latest and greatest, and you can toot your success with metrics like terrabytes captured-per-second, and all the spooks love you and support you and protect you and arrange for free steak dinners while you enemies experience freak accidents. Everybody's fat and happy.
Doing something with all that data, OTOH, is subjective, and a politician can defer the question by saying that it's secret. Most likely, the secret is there's nothing today that can chew through all that data and produce useful results, and certainly not in real-time, all of which is top top secret because if the enemy knows that we're essentially asleep at the switch we will naturally have more terrorism, so keep your mouth shut. The politician can still justify massive budgets for NSA technology, growth and research, which makes contractors and vendors rich and happy. But since data collection is easy while automated analysis is hard, most of the money will simply go into expanding collection because it produces quick, measurable results you can take credit for in an election year. Maybe there's some budget for some kind of sci-fi AI research, but a workable result on the order of Eagle Eye or WOPR is probably like nuclear fusion: always ten or twenty years away.
I'll gamble that the first true thinking Neuromancer-like AI for sniffing and data-crunching the Internet will not be developed by a gov't agency, for precisely the reason above. It will be developed by Google, Amazon, or the like because they have a much more immediate, direct and continuous incentive to turn the money they spend on collecting and storing data into a profit. And if you're a super-star researcher, the pay and bennies are far better.
I would like to see one shred of evidence that having so-called backdoors would have prevented the London tragedy.
Maybe if some wacko Eagle Eye supercomputer were monitoring and evaluating all communications at all times in real-time, maybe something could be sniffed out, and on that day we shall all bow down to our robot overlords. Until then, you're talking about creating a mile-high haystack of data, and hiring humans to eaves-drop and search through it day and night for a needle. I mean, politicians really need to think before they speak. Already, London has more cameras than nearly anywhere else on Earth. The problem? If you're intent is to prevent crime, you need eyes watching all those cameras all the time. And there's nothing more boring than looking at security cameras all day.
For catching and prosecuting a guy who's committed a crime, maybe. Go back through the tape, catch him in the act, conviction, sentencing. Done. But for preventing the crime in the first place, particularly where the perp is not planning on walking out alive, backdoors and security cameras don't justify the legions of personnel it takes to watch and listen to everything just in case someone might pick up the perp maybe saying they're gonna do something. And who's to say it's real, or just some dumbass talking shit after drinking too much? An overworked, underpaid government-contracted data grunt, that's who... he's the reason the storm-troopers in riot gear tore your house down, zip-tied your family and shot your goldfish, only to find your 10-year-old pulling pranks on his iPad.
OTOH, the Concorde had horrible fuel consumption on the ground, could consume two tons of fuel to taxi to the runway. A new design might fix this by using electric motors in the gear.
You're right and wrong. To be clear, the Concorde was profitable on a day-to-day basis, enough to sustain it for for 27 years.
However, the expense for R&D was not recovered, true, and there just weren't enough of them, nor enough profits, to sustain an industry through Airbus or whoever to manufacture spare parts and replacement Concordes. So, they aged out. Had the problems of ozone depletion and sonic booms been addressed without being sensationalized (e.g., the Anti-Concorde Project), resulting in bans in most major airports, there may have been enough business to justify Airbus or Boeing tooling up to make replacement parts and even new SST's. Instead, the Concorde was orphaned, and doomed to die out when the supply of cannibalized parts from the few spare planes ran dry.
With modern materials, manufacturing, and avionics, there's no reason not to try again, and arrive at a much, much better result. Besides, there's more places to go. Right now, it takes more than 12 hours to fly from NY to Dubai, more than 14 to New Delhi or Seoul. Reducing that down to 6 would be well worth it to some folks with very deep pockets, deep enough perhaps to lobby away some antiquated restrictions, and justify a sustainable fleet of aircraft.
I don't care how much it will cost at first. The road to Ford's cheap, mass manufactured Model T was paved by a lot of unaffordable vehicles. If it gets built and it works, SST will become more affordable, and maybe stop the current race-to-the-bottom for current air travel.
This always gets said, and again, it's false. BA did make money, which is why they flew it for as long as they did. It just didn't enough money to pay for spare parts as the planes aged (they cannibalized grounded Concordes until that became unsustainable) and, ultimately, replacement aircraft. Limited to only a few routes, Airbus wouldn't tool up to support a dozen or so planes when there's much more money to be made in fleets of subsonic aircraft. In short, the Concorde died of old age and lack of supporting infrastructure. But make no mistake, for 60's and 70's technology, the Concorde was really really great. Well loved by both passengers and pilots.
But the sonic "boom" is the BAD thing about supersonic, the thing they're trying so hard to minimize with modern design. Should call the company "not so much boom", or "minimal-boom", or "don't worry, this don't go as much boom as before".
THIS! Like how GM made a consumer version of the Hum-Vee, sold great until pricey gas squashed them. Now that gas is cheap again, why not a consumer-version of this monster? Bulldozer and water-turret part of the Premium option package, along with the rifle rack (don't go huntin' without one). Can just smell the money. Feel safe and warm in the sketchy part of town when buying drugs. Park it in front of your neighbor with the Prius, just for laughs.
Let me guess, you love firing lead bullets at firing ranges with your buddies, as much as possible.
Don't need to... got plenty enough lead from breathing car fumes, like tons of other kids. Great citations, though. In all seriousness, it's truly insane that engineers and, well, everybody, could be so completely careless of what blows out the tail pipe of an engine, like magic nature fairies just clean it all up as soon as it goes in the air. Lead. Fuck. Because it reduces engine knocking, boosts octane ratings, and helps with wear and tear on valve seats. Lead. Why not throw some mercury, asbestos and plutonium into the fuel if it makes cars start more reliably in the cold? I mean, lead in paint and pipes is bad, truly, but literally vaporizing it and blasting it through a pipe to the car behind you, stuck in traffic? What were these human thinking?
An ISP should rise up and announce they won't sell or collect this data. If that were to happen, the government wouldn't have to do anything.
I would love to see that happen. I really do. But you have to realize that an ISP is a natural monopoly. That's why the telephone industry was so heavily regulated in your grandfather's day, and why most people still have only one land-based option for broadband (their locally franchised cable company), or maybe two where fiber is available, because you can't have a dozen different competing cables or fibers running up to your house or apartment. You just can't. Yeah, the U.S. has 4 wireless carriers right now, but every year there's an effort to merge 'em down to 3, and anyway that's not enough competition for one carrier to be the "good guy" and pledge not sell or collect data, not when there's all that marketing money sitting on the table and there's so much debt to pay back for buying all that spectrum.
It may be a shit sandwich, but sometimes gov't regulation is the only way to level the playing field in favor of the consumer. There's a fine school of thought that competition is always best. But there's another school of thought that competition is for suckers, and if you have the means to simply get rid of the competition, like by locking in markets, spreading lies, or buying the other guy out, then that'll always make you richer much quicker than playing fair. Perhaps in a perfect world, consumers are educated and thoughtful and would boycott such a bad actor out of business. But you know we don't live in that kind of world. We live in a world where there's a sucker born every second, and we all pay the price for it.
What happened over the last eight years to stop the NSA and CIA from spying on each and everyone of us? Absolutely nothing. That's (apparently) what you get with Dems in charge.
Correct, and it's not cool. But the GOP hasn't lifted a finger to stop NSA and CIA spying so far on their watch, and I ain't holding my breath that Trump and Co. ever will. Are you?
OTOH, the GOP acted real quick to kill off this little squeak of consumer protection which the Dems managed to keep in place in spite of heavy ISP lobbying.
Besides, the NSA and CIA don't see dollar-signs from selling you out... but ISP's do, and that's the only reason they lobbied the GOP to do it. They will sell your info as many times as they can for whoever's willing to pay. That means a whole lot more people, companies, ad agencies, police departments, polling companies, employment contractors, local governments, anyone willing to pay up (even... the NSA and CIA) can learn what you do from the Internet service that you pay for.
Put this in perspective: to even half-way avoid this you have to dump your ISP, and either stay off the net entirely or only connect using other people's ISP's, like stealing someone's wi-fi or parking outside a McDonald's. Yeah, you can VPN, but your ISP will be aware that you're using a VPN, and they'll be happy to tell that to anyone who's willing to pay.
Well, lessee. Under Dem administration, FCC restricts ISP use of consumer info, protects privacy. Three months into a GOP administration, party-line vote takes it away so ISP's can sell you out to anyone willing to pay up. Don't need a math book to figure this one out. Remember that when the pornpolice break down your door, or sends you a friendly extortion note.
Good God yes. Detroit used to make a station wagon with a kid's seat in the way-back, and a back-window that would roll down just perfect to suck in all the leaded fumes from the tail pipe... right into the lungs and brains of the "leaders of tomorrow".
Of course, Dad's smoking his pipe in the front seat and Mom's hittin' the Virginia Slims, so there's really no escape. You can have either lead or nicotine with your carbon monoxide. And you wonder why you can't sit still in math class and those SAT's are so hard... maybe I'll just punch this nerdy kid next to me in the mouth!
> install a large panel costing tens of thousands that can generate as little as 45W???
He forgot to mention that it's night, and the only light is coming from the full moon and a street lamp in the parking lot.
The real problem is: 'one of those "this is how much energy you're generating, CO2 you've saved" screens'. Some people just get hopelessly irritated by stuff like that. These panels could be great, making free power, steak dinners, good jobs, curing erectile dysfunction and shitting out Tiffany cufflinks, but if there's a cartoon display of happy trees, spotted owls, and a smiley-face sun, some folks feel a moral duty to hate it.
Because iOS has it? Not because it's like killer-app useful or anything, but just because, wow, that's neat, we oughta do that so that we can say we got that?
Gnome has gone off the rails... rather than work on making it more useful, so people might want to use it and stick with it, they put all this effort into keep-up-with-the-Joneses sugar-coating shit? This has been going on for years! The Gnome project has their priorities fucked, kicking the bugs and non-useability down the road so they can toot about... sunset mode?????
Fuck my grandma and stuff a Twinkie up my ass! It's the year of the Linux Desktop because Gnome's got fucking sunset mode!!!
but who would own this fiber, and will it remain "dark"? There's always rumors and urban legends of tons of installed but unused for one reason or another. Laying more won't help, particularly if its owned by some investor putz intending to charge the Earth to any comm company who'd put it to use.
Anyway, the biggest problem is the last mile, particularly in rural neighborhoods, older neighborhoods, and cities where the roads are already built and too busy and expensive to tear up. That's the excuse Verizon's using for failing to light up New York City.
Alas, as the aliens observing us reluctantly realize, humans have short memories. Like environmental laws, civil rights (and even... democracy), collective bargaining came about because our great-grandparents went through hella crazy Pinkerton shit, and our grandparents stood up and got shot until they managed to force change. But alas, our grandparents died off and our parents grew up not knowing what the fuck, and anyway global markets came along so that everything is cheap in China, and now the politicians are telling us that the only thing between us and a trophy wife and the top-floor suite of the Trump Hotel is unions and job-killing environment and food-inspection laws.
and the aliens say, isn't that the shit these creatures fought so hard for just a few generations ago?
Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.
Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.
My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?
If you live in an area that offers decent over-the-air coverage, you owe it to yourself to at least try and see what you can get with an antenna. The FCC offers an online tool to determine what stations are near you by zip code, No Cable offers similar, and ChannelMaster discusses available antennas, signal-strength, and other useful stuff. We're talking full HD TV of the major networks, and probably a few TNT-like channels, all for free like your grandparents remember it when they were growing up, and all it takes is an investment in time and an antenna you can pick up at Radio Shack or Best Buy.
Seriously, it's great. I'm watching the game in full non-compressed HD and not dropping a damn dime for it, thanks to a 14-inch square of plastic I put in the attic.
And the best part, if you already have coax installed throughout your place for delivering Cable, you can re-purpose that same coax to deliver signal from your antenna to every room outlet. Even with a little antenna, coax is so good, even with splitters, the signal from the antenna can deliver HD to all your TV's. The secret is to use as much coax as necessary to place the antenna in a spot in your home where you get best reception, like your attic if you have one, or outside a window. I ran coax from a cable outlet in an unused bedroom into a closet and up through the ceiling into the attic. That connection lit up the remainder of the coax network, via a 1-5 splitter, so that every remaining outlet now supports over 30 channels. Who the hell needs Cable?
Now truly, it all depends on where you live. YMMV. But if you're in an area with good coverage, paying for cable TV is probably losing you money, with or without promotional triple-play deals (there's all those added fees for taxes and cable-box rentals). With an antenna, Internet, and maybe a subscription to Netflix or Sling, most people would have all they need. You got a perfectly good tuner in your TV, so use it.
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allow to completely disable telemetry (or won't include it at all)
Telemetry. How quaint. My ISP is probably now tracking and selling all my Internet usage regardless of what OS I'm using.
Want to remove any others?
Yes! starting with Candy Crush! Please post a list of the True Names of apps that empowers you to remove them!
BTW, does this method remove the app permanently...
or will it just resurrect itself with the next Tuesday update?
(not a hater... with Classicshell, Win 10 Pro is quite ok. But the unsolicited bloat IS annoying, and with each forced major upgrade I sweat that some software, license, or hardware I depend on is not going to make it... and for what? 3-D in Paint? stuff I can already get with a 3rd-party application? life with Microsoft...)
don't forget that that Ajit Pai was put on the commission by Obama.
Yes, but details, son! Commissions like the FCC are required to have members from both parties. while the chair position may be chosen by the President. Obama installed Pai because he had to. Wikipedia: "He was initially nominated for a Republican Party position on the commission by President Barack Obama at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term."
He's a grandstanding tool (and former lawyer for Verizon through his old firm).
Sadly, this is quite true. Fox running the henhouse, and it's dinner-time.
I assume you're referring to all the anti-terrorism Snowden shit, that started under W. but continued under Obama (and six years of GOP-controlled Congress). And damn-well ain't gonna let up any under Trump.
But let's put it in context. The GOP, after years of screaming and gnashing of teeth, when the chips were finally down could NOT get enough of their own shit together to repeal Obamacare, that thing they say they hate more than anything in the whole world. But, just a few days later, these same guys managed to put their differences aside to crush a tiny consumer-protection rule for Internet users.
That's who we're dealing with here, people. Still insist that Dems are the worst? Ancient history, get over it. Out of the frying pan, into the fire, and shit it's only been 12 weeks!
but on the other hand, doesn't Ivanka's clothing line just look spanky!
Have had an impure thought? Your ISP will know!
True, but much more likely people will be flagged on suspicion of copyright violations. They could perhaps sell impure thoughts to extortionists, if they can find some who will pay, but ISP's can make more money selling out your efforts to download that unlicensed copy of that Disney movie. Some nice arrangement between the MPAA, the RIAA, and a consortium of ISP's willingly providing their data about you for the noble cause of fighting piracy (the evil-looking eagle says "Piracy is not a Victimless Crime").
Search torrent sites much? There'll be a red flag for that.
Could have left it well enough alone, they could have, but nope they just had to take bold action for the likes of Comcast and Verizon.
Agreed. This report smells like sensationalized bullshit that makes light of what things really cost. The cost to essentially re-tool after decades out of the business of anything beyond low-earth orbit space travel has to be paid, and since NASA has to carry out the mission, they're the ones who first have to have everything in place. Measuring this against what contractors get is a head-fake; contractors should be specialists paid just for the piece of the puzzle required from them, so they should get paid less and later, after NASA has figured out to an excruciating degree of certainty what they need and how to get it done right so that contractors don't wind up making something useless.
Besides, NASA is not for-profit like the private sector. Money doesn't disappear down a profit hole, CEO bonuses or golden parachutes. If money is being stolen or misappropriated at NASA, it will be found out - some of that overhead, after all, goes to paper-trailing all the funding. That's why I'm saying bullshit to this article. Unless there are examples of specific misappropriation, then the money's being spent where it's gotta be spent (it sure as fuck isn't going to big, giant salaries or bonuses). It's easy and fashionable to shit on public-sector spending... 'cause it's public so trolls can see it and troll it and feel smug without taking the time to dig into the details... unlike the private sector where their spending is none of your damn business. Pros and cons. Yes, government agencies fuck up every so often and spend tax-payer money on bridges to nowhere and other shit. But they get caught because of the paper trail and the armies of trolls looking to expose them and feel smug about themselves.
Given the high-exposure of NASA, and how crazy fucking hard it is to get a job there in spite of relatively meager salaries compared to what you could get in the private sector, I don't bet there's too much funny business really going on... except only for pork mandated by Congress, because a congressman wants something sweet in his state or district. In THAT case, don't blame NASA, blame the Congressman (and the people who voted for him).
Aren't we attempting to nearly be there with locations like NSA's Utah Data Center, Fort Meade, and similar places? And isn't data already being collected at a faster rate than we have resources to process it in real time?
Almost certainly... because collection is the easy, achievable part of mass surveillance. Politically, you just win because your obstacles are only (1) funding and (2) privacy advocates, which you label as non-patriotic USA-hating ACLU nuts so that you win politically whether or not you lose to them in court. The funding just goes to buying the latest and greatest, and you can toot your success with metrics like terrabytes captured-per-second, and all the spooks love you and support you and protect you and arrange for free steak dinners while you enemies experience freak accidents. Everybody's fat and happy.
Doing something with all that data, OTOH, is subjective, and a politician can defer the question by saying that it's secret. Most likely, the secret is there's nothing today that can chew through all that data and produce useful results, and certainly not in real-time, all of which is top top secret because if the enemy knows that we're essentially asleep at the switch we will naturally have more terrorism, so keep your mouth shut. The politician can still justify massive budgets for NSA technology, growth and research, which makes contractors and vendors rich and happy. But since data collection is easy while automated analysis is hard, most of the money will simply go into expanding collection because it produces quick, measurable results you can take credit for in an election year. Maybe there's some budget for some kind of sci-fi AI research, but a workable result on the order of Eagle Eye or WOPR is probably like nuclear fusion: always ten or twenty years away.
I'll gamble that the first true thinking Neuromancer-like AI for sniffing and data-crunching the Internet will not be developed by a gov't agency, for precisely the reason above. It will be developed by Google, Amazon, or the like because they have a much more immediate, direct and continuous incentive to turn the money they spend on collecting and storing data into a profit. And if you're a super-star researcher, the pay and bennies are far better.
I would like to see one shred of evidence that having so-called backdoors would have prevented the London tragedy.
Maybe if some wacko Eagle Eye supercomputer were monitoring and evaluating all communications at all times in real-time, maybe something could be sniffed out, and on that day we shall all bow down to our robot overlords. Until then, you're talking about creating a mile-high haystack of data, and hiring humans to eaves-drop and search through it day and night for a needle. I mean, politicians really need to think before they speak. Already, London has more cameras than nearly anywhere else on Earth. The problem? If you're intent is to prevent crime, you need eyes watching all those cameras all the time. And there's nothing more boring than looking at security cameras all day.
For catching and prosecuting a guy who's committed a crime, maybe. Go back through the tape, catch him in the act, conviction, sentencing. Done. But for preventing the crime in the first place, particularly where the perp is not planning on walking out alive, backdoors and security cameras don't justify the legions of personnel it takes to watch and listen to everything just in case someone might pick up the perp maybe saying they're gonna do something. And who's to say it's real, or just some dumbass talking shit after drinking too much? An overworked, underpaid government-contracted data grunt, that's who... he's the reason the storm-troopers in riot gear tore your house down, zip-tied your family and shot your goldfish, only to find your 10-year-old pulling pranks on his iPad.
The point is to dramatically reduce the sonic-boom effect with better, modern designs.
OTOH, the Concorde had horrible fuel consumption on the ground, could consume two tons of fuel to taxi to the runway. A new design might fix this by using electric motors in the gear.
You're right and wrong. To be clear, the Concorde was profitable on a day-to-day basis, enough to sustain it for for 27 years.
However, the expense for R&D was not recovered, true, and there just weren't enough of them, nor enough profits, to sustain an industry through Airbus or whoever to manufacture spare parts and replacement Concordes. So, they aged out. Had the problems of ozone depletion and sonic booms been addressed without being sensationalized (e.g., the Anti-Concorde Project), resulting in bans in most major airports, there may have been enough business to justify Airbus or Boeing tooling up to make replacement parts and even new SST's. Instead, the Concorde was orphaned, and doomed to die out when the supply of cannibalized parts from the few spare planes ran dry.
With modern materials, manufacturing, and avionics, there's no reason not to try again, and arrive at a much, much better result. Besides, there's more places to go. Right now, it takes more than 12 hours to fly from NY to Dubai, more than 14 to New Delhi or Seoul. Reducing that down to 6 would be well worth it to some folks with very deep pockets, deep enough perhaps to lobby away some antiquated restrictions, and justify a sustainable fleet of aircraft.
I don't care how much it will cost at first. The road to Ford's cheap, mass manufactured Model T was paved by a lot of unaffordable vehicles. If it gets built and it works, SST will become more affordable, and maybe stop the current race-to-the-bottom for current air travel.
This always gets said, and again, it's false. BA did make money, which is why they flew it for as long as they did. It just didn't enough money to pay for spare parts as the planes aged (they cannibalized grounded Concordes until that became unsustainable) and, ultimately, replacement aircraft. Limited to only a few routes, Airbus wouldn't tool up to support a dozen or so planes when there's much more money to be made in fleets of subsonic aircraft. In short, the Concorde died of old age and lack of supporting infrastructure. But make no mistake, for 60's and 70's technology, the Concorde was really really great. Well loved by both passengers and pilots.
But the sonic "boom" is the BAD thing about supersonic, the thing they're trying so hard to minimize with modern design.
Should call the company "not so much boom", or "minimal-boom", or "don't worry, this don't go as much boom as before".
Yeah, change the name.
THIS! Like how GM made a consumer version of the Hum-Vee, sold great until pricey gas squashed them. Now that gas is cheap again, why not a consumer-version of this monster? Bulldozer and water-turret part of the Premium option package, along with the rifle rack (don't go huntin' without one). Can just smell the money. Feel safe and warm in the sketchy part of town when buying drugs. Park it in front of your neighbor with the Prius, just for laughs.
Let me guess, you love firing lead bullets at firing ranges with your buddies, as much as possible.
Don't need to... got plenty enough lead from breathing car fumes, like tons of other kids.
Great citations, though. In all seriousness, it's truly insane that engineers and, well, everybody, could be so completely careless of what blows out the tail pipe of an engine, like magic nature fairies just clean it all up as soon as it goes in the air. Lead. Fuck. Because it reduces engine knocking, boosts octane ratings, and helps with wear and tear on valve seats. Lead. Why not throw some mercury, asbestos and plutonium into the fuel if it makes cars start more reliably in the cold? I mean, lead in paint and pipes is bad, truly, but literally vaporizing it and blasting it through a pipe to the car behind you, stuck in traffic?
What were these human thinking?
An ISP should rise up and announce they won't sell or collect this data. If that were to happen, the government wouldn't have to do anything.
I would love to see that happen. I really do. But you have to realize that an ISP is a natural monopoly. That's why the telephone industry was so heavily regulated in your grandfather's day, and why most people still have only one land-based option for broadband (their locally franchised cable company), or maybe two where fiber is available, because you can't have a dozen different competing cables or fibers running up to your house or apartment. You just can't. Yeah, the U.S. has 4 wireless carriers right now, but every year there's an effort to merge 'em down to 3, and anyway that's not enough competition for one carrier to be the "good guy" and pledge not sell or collect data, not when there's all that marketing money sitting on the table and there's so much debt to pay back for buying all that spectrum.
It may be a shit sandwich, but sometimes gov't regulation is the only way to level the playing field in favor of the consumer. There's a fine school of thought that competition is always best. But there's another school of thought that competition is for suckers, and if you have the means to simply get rid of the competition, like by locking in markets, spreading lies, or buying the other guy out, then that'll always make you richer much quicker than playing fair. Perhaps in a perfect world, consumers are educated and thoughtful and would boycott such a bad actor out of business. But you know we don't live in that kind of world. We live in a world where there's a sucker born every second, and we all pay the price for it.
What happened over the last eight years to stop the NSA and CIA from spying on each and everyone of us? Absolutely nothing. That's (apparently) what you get with Dems in charge.
Correct, and it's not cool. But the GOP hasn't lifted a finger to stop NSA and CIA spying so far on their watch, and I ain't holding my breath that Trump and Co. ever will. Are you?
OTOH, the GOP acted real quick to kill off this little squeak of consumer protection which the Dems managed to keep in place in spite of heavy ISP lobbying.
Besides, the NSA and CIA don't see dollar-signs from selling you out... but ISP's do, and that's the only reason they lobbied the GOP to do it. They will sell your info as many times as they can for whoever's willing to pay. That means a whole lot more people, companies, ad agencies, police departments, polling companies, employment contractors, local governments, anyone willing to pay up (even... the NSA and CIA) can learn what you do from the Internet service that you pay for.
Put this in perspective: to even half-way avoid this you have to dump your ISP, and either stay off the net entirely or only connect using other people's ISP's, like stealing someone's wi-fi or parking outside a McDonald's. Yeah, you can VPN, but your ISP will be aware that you're using a VPN, and they'll be happy to tell that to anyone who's willing to pay.
Well, lessee. Under Dem administration, FCC restricts ISP use of consumer info, protects privacy. Three months into a GOP administration, party-line vote takes it away so ISP's can sell you out to anyone willing to pay up. Don't need a math book to figure this one out.
Remember that when the pornpolice break down your door, or sends you a friendly extortion note.
Good God yes. Detroit used to make a station wagon with a kid's seat in the way-back, and a back-window that would roll down just perfect to suck in all the leaded fumes from the tail pipe... right into the lungs and brains of the "leaders of tomorrow".
Of course, Dad's smoking his pipe in the front seat and Mom's hittin' the Virginia Slims, so there's really no escape. You can have either lead or nicotine with your carbon monoxide. And you wonder why you can't sit still in math class and those SAT's are so hard... maybe I'll just punch this nerdy kid next to me in the mouth!
> install a large panel costing tens of thousands that can generate as little as 45W???
He forgot to mention that it's night, and the only light is coming from the full moon and a street lamp in the parking lot.
The real problem is: 'one of those "this is how much energy you're generating, CO2 you've saved" screens'. Some people just get hopelessly irritated by stuff like that. These panels could be great, making free power, steak dinners, good jobs, curing erectile dysfunction and shitting out Tiffany cufflinks, but if there's a cartoon display of happy trees, spotted owls, and a smiley-face sun, some folks feel a moral duty to hate it.
Seriously, why is this a thing?
Because iOS has it? Not because it's like killer-app useful or anything, but just because, wow, that's neat, we oughta do that so that we can say we got that?
Gnome has gone off the rails... rather than work on making it more useful, so people might want to use it and stick with it, they put all this effort into keep-up-with-the-Joneses sugar-coating shit? This has been going on for years! The Gnome project has their priorities fucked, kicking the bugs and non-useability down the road so they can toot about... sunset mode?????
Fuck my grandma and stuff a Twinkie up my ass! It's the year of the Linux Desktop because Gnome's got fucking sunset mode!!!
but who would own this fiber, and will it remain "dark"? There's always rumors and urban legends of tons of installed but unused for one reason or another. Laying more won't help, particularly if its owned by some investor putz intending to charge the Earth to any comm company who'd put it to use.
Anyway, the biggest problem is the last mile, particularly in rural neighborhoods, older neighborhoods, and cities where the roads are already built and too busy and expensive to tear up. That's the excuse Verizon's using for failing to light up New York City.
Alas, as the aliens observing us reluctantly realize, humans have short memories. Like environmental laws, civil rights (and even... democracy), collective bargaining came about because our great-grandparents went through hella crazy Pinkerton shit, and our grandparents stood up and got shot until they managed to force change. But alas, our grandparents died off and our parents grew up not knowing what the fuck, and anyway global markets came along so that everything is cheap in China, and now the politicians are telling us that the only thing between us and a trophy wife and the top-floor suite of the Trump Hotel is unions and job-killing environment and food-inspection laws.
and the aliens say, isn't that the shit these creatures fought so hard for just a few generations ago?
Yep. Boss Trump is rallying the fans in Kentucky, promising to bring back coal jobs. Or, at least, bring back coal by letting up on silly environmental rules like the Stream Protection Rule.
Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.
Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.
My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?
If you live in an area that offers decent over-the-air coverage, you owe it to yourself to at least try and see what you can get with an antenna. The FCC offers an online tool to determine what stations are near you by zip code, No Cable offers similar, and ChannelMaster discusses available antennas, signal-strength, and other useful stuff. We're talking full HD TV of the major networks, and probably a few TNT-like channels, all for free like your grandparents remember it when they were growing up, and all it takes is an investment in time and an antenna you can pick up at Radio Shack or Best Buy.
Seriously, it's great. I'm watching the game in full non-compressed HD and not dropping a damn dime for it, thanks to a 14-inch square of plastic I put in the attic.
And the best part, if you already have coax installed throughout your place for delivering Cable, you can re-purpose that same coax to deliver signal from your antenna to every room outlet. Even with a little antenna, coax is so good, even with splitters, the signal from the antenna can deliver HD to all your TV's. The secret is to use as much coax as necessary to place the antenna in a spot in your home where you get best reception, like your attic if you have one, or outside a window. I ran coax from a cable outlet in an unused bedroom into a closet and up through the ceiling into the attic. That connection lit up the remainder of the coax network, via a 1-5 splitter, so that every remaining outlet now supports over 30 channels. Who the hell needs Cable?
Now truly, it all depends on where you live. YMMV. But if you're in an area with good coverage, paying for cable TV is probably losing you money, with or without promotional triple-play deals (there's all those added fees for taxes and cable-box rentals). With an antenna, Internet, and maybe a subscription to Netflix or Sling, most people would have all they need. You got a perfectly good tuner in your TV, so use it.