Cost vs reward. How much does it cost to roll out fiber to a home? How much will they recoup from the little old lady on a fixed income who complains that her $17.90 phone bill is too high?
Are AT&T/Comcast attempting to use their political influence to make things work their way? Absolutely.
Are AT&T/Comcast automatically lazy and/or greedy for not rolling fiber before now? No. Notice that even Google Fiber is only rolling on major cities.
If AT&T/Comcast haven't rolled fiber to the node, that's probably lazy and/or greedy, definitely a lack of foresight. It hampers their business opportunities. However, fiber from the node to the home is often overkill and not cost effective.
Let's not forget, small businesses includes farmers. With the cost of land, farming equipment, and livestock, the farm might very well be over the limit.
The FBI inde developer hyped it as multi-player, and promised it would be. However, after go-live, there were two sheep who were supposedly in the same field, but they couldn't see each other.
A FREE market is a place that would completely tolerate whatever the companies wanted to do. I believe you want a REGULATED market.
Please note: the lack of competitors is due to the high capital costs of infrastructure. (Turns out running thousands of miles of copper to central offices with millions of dollars of equipment is expensive, so few companies want to do it.) Please do not conflate the results of driving market forces (lack of competition) with a lack of free market.
There’s a difference between exposing a lack of security and hacking.
For example, I once found a site that sent me my plaintext password in an email. After receiving no response, I reported the site (which had a local, physical presence) to my Attorney General. I argued that the site’s Privacy Policy said they would take reasonable steps to protect my information, and sending out my password as unencrypted plaintext fell short of that standard. I also argued that they should follow a generally accepted security practice, like PBKDF2 as an example.
The AG letter got the site to respond. They specifically refuted the need to store the passwords according to any generally accepted standard, saying there was no law requiring them to. However, I got them to stop sending out unencrypted passwords in plaintext.
You might think this is a hollow victory, but the victory comes if/when the site is hacked. If hacked, and if someone sues the site over the hack, the site’s refusal to implement generally accepted password encryption will show up during discovery. It will be very damaging to their case, and it may even make the case eligible for punitive damages.
Given an uncooperative/hostile site, I think this is the best anyone can do.
I disagree. Automation would have been a tremendous help, if Google had automated the takedown of WB's sites. WB would have at least reformed its own internal processes, and maybe fire someone who deserved it.
To expand on your point, there's no measure of the quality of the project for which the language is being used. For example, I would give far more weight to languages used by projects like Apache, nginx, Sendmail, procmail, postgresql, operating systems and device drivers.
How many people would be impacted if the project went away? If a lot, then give the project and its language more weight.
Given that, I would think one or two dozen C and C++ projects could squash 1,000 Java, Python, PHP, and Javascript projects combined.
Your right to vote comes from the fact that you are a citizen of the United States, and not from the possession of any type of ID.
Totally agree. Now, how do I know that you are a citizen of the United States if I can't check your ID? Sure, we checked that you were a citizen when you registered, but how do I know that you are who you claim to be? See: US Attorney General Eric Holder's Ballot to Vote Offered to Total Stranger
If you couple the possession of an ID to the right to vote, then the ID has to be provided to every citizen of the United States without any further restrictions. The possession of the ID can not be a priviledge, otherwise it would run afoul the right to vote.
Totally agree. This is why states that passed voter ID laws also changed their laws to allow citizens to get free IDs. A cursory google search reveals the process for getting free ID's from Alabama, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.
We keep telling those pesky activist judges that simple fact, but they continue to ignore it.
Getting an ID costs money in the US, so requiring an ID puts more strain on the poor than the working class.
Every state that implemented those voting "restrictions" allowed poor people to get free ID's (not drivers licenses, but ID's).
Due to federal regulations, you are required to present ID when opening a bank account, getting a loan (house/car), filing for government benefits, and buying the good cold medicine. My state (WA) even goes so far as to require ID to by COUGH SYRUP. I don't see anyone complaining that those restrictions are keeping poor people from cold medicine.
and the millennials who will have to pay for everything.
Fixed that for you
I was born owing about $4,400 in debt (US National Debt). I was not consulted about this. I did not consent to this. It was just forced upon me. Before being able to vote, my share of the debt grew to $21,000. It did not cost the government $4,000 for my mother to give birth to me, and it did not cost the government $21,000 to raise me. So who got the money? The Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers.
Today, 15 years later, my share of the debt is $60,000, despite voting for people who promised to lower that number. Yet, I am paying for (via taxes) debt that I neither benefited from nor authorized. Maybe I have a legitimate reason to whine?
I would rather sink in my personal boat due to the choices I make, than be forced on the Titanic and sink due to other people's choices completely out of my control.
"Great for old hardware" is a myth at best, and sometimes a farce.
Myth example: I had an old Pentium III 650 Mhz machine with 256 MB of ram. It was consuming more power than my AMD Athlon 2.0 Ghz with dual core and 4 GB of ram. I have the same story with a bunch of old IDE 80 GB drives. I could string together 12 of them in a JOBD to get 1 TB, or I could just buy a 1 TB drive. At some point you have diminishing returns on that old hardware.
Farce example: GCC was generating the CMOV instruction for 486, even though cmov was first invented on 586. Obviously, no one was using that old hardware, or their programs would have all crashed. (I think this is the thread. https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2004-09/msg00157.html)
Let's not forget, the 27.79% who didn't show up -- in effect -- voted the I-don't-care option. People don't get to have a do-over on an election. If they now want to change their vote from I-don't-care to something else, that's too bad IMHO.
And yet, rather than opening your mind to new possibilities, rather than asking what the tin foil hat brigade knew that they could successfully predict this, you plea to Obama like he's a friend that has just gone a little awry.
Dude... chaboud... wake up. He was never your friend. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can see the world for what it is and stop people from screwing you over.
The early adopters who pay a higher price are the ones who start the avalanche. By raising the minimum wage, you're making with cost effective to be an early adopter, pay that higher price, and get the snowball rolling.
That's a hell of a lot less fuel efficiency than a jetliner or passenger car at capacity, let alone a motorbus.
But most jetliners, passengers cars, and motor buses don't have 3 swimming pools, 4 fitness rooms, 2 dinning halls, and place to go rock climbing. It's designed to be a floating amusement park, not a mode of transportation. If you factor in all the "stuff" that a cruise liner lugs around for entertainment purposes, the fuel efficiency isn't so bad.
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Cost vs reward. How much does it cost to roll out fiber to a home? How much will they recoup from the little old lady on a fixed income who complains that her $17.90 phone bill is too high?
Are AT&T/Comcast attempting to use their political influence to make things work their way? Absolutely.
Are AT&T/Comcast automatically lazy and/or greedy for not rolling fiber before now? No. Notice that even Google Fiber is only rolling on major cities.
If AT&T/Comcast haven't rolled fiber to the node, that's probably lazy and/or greedy, definitely a lack of foresight. It hampers their business opportunities. However, fiber from the node to the home is often overkill and not cost effective.
A single 5MB file will be 5,242,880 counts of infringement, because each byte will be counted separately.
Damn straight! We need to stop this conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Let's not forget, small businesses includes farmers. With the cost of land, farming equipment, and livestock, the farm might very well be over the limit.
The FBI inde developer hyped it as multi-player, and promised it would be. However, after go-live, there were two sheep who were supposedly in the same field, but they couldn't see each other.
A FREE market is a place that would completely tolerate whatever the companies wanted to do. I believe you want a REGULATED market.
Please note: the lack of competitors is due to the high capital costs of infrastructure. (Turns out running thousands of miles of copper to central offices with millions of dollars of equipment is expensive, so few companies want to do it.) Please do not conflate the results of driving market forces (lack of competition) with a lack of free market.
There’s a difference between exposing a lack of security and hacking.
For example, I once found a site that sent me my plaintext password in an email. After receiving no response, I reported the site (which had a local, physical presence) to my Attorney General. I argued that the site’s Privacy Policy said they would take reasonable steps to protect my information, and sending out my password as unencrypted plaintext fell short of that standard. I also argued that they should follow a generally accepted security practice, like PBKDF2 as an example.
The AG letter got the site to respond. They specifically refuted the need to store the passwords according to any generally accepted standard, saying there was no law requiring them to. However, I got them to stop sending out unencrypted passwords in plaintext.
You might think this is a hollow victory, but the victory comes if/when the site is hacked. If hacked, and if someone sues the site over the hack, the site’s refusal to implement generally accepted password encryption will show up during discovery. It will be very damaging to their case, and it may even make the case eligible for punitive damages.
Given an uncooperative/hostile site, I think this is the best anyone can do.
This is going to be used by intelligence agencies to scan documents without having to look at individual pages.
What does this mean for Big Bang and Steady State?
I disagree. Automation would have been a tremendous help, if Google had automated the takedown of WB's sites. WB would have at least reformed its own internal processes, and maybe fire someone who deserved it.
To expand on your point, there's no measure of the quality of the project for which the language is being used. For example, I would give far more weight to languages used by projects like Apache, nginx, Sendmail, procmail, postgresql, operating systems and device drivers.
How many people would be impacted if the project went away? If a lot, then give the project and its language more weight.
Given that, I would think one or two dozen C and C++ projects could squash 1,000 Java, Python, PHP, and Javascript projects combined.
Totally agree. Now, how do I know that you are a citizen of the United States if I can't check your ID? Sure, we checked that you were a citizen when you registered, but how do I know that you are who you claim to be? See: US Attorney General Eric Holder's Ballot to Vote Offered to Total Stranger
Totally agree. This is why states that passed voter ID laws also changed their laws to allow citizens to get free IDs. A cursory google search reveals the process for getting free ID's from Alabama, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.
We keep telling those pesky activist judges that simple fact, but they continue to ignore it.
Wait, isn't requiring a specific picture id more difficult than requiring any picture id?
The odds of meeting another species in space are about the same odds of meeting another player in No Man's Sky.
Every state that implemented those voting "restrictions" allowed poor people to get free ID's (not drivers licenses, but ID's).
Due to federal regulations, you are required to present ID when opening a bank account, getting a loan (house/car), filing for government benefits, and buying the good cold medicine. My state (WA) even goes so far as to require ID to by COUGH SYRUP. I don't see anyone complaining that those restrictions are keeping poor people from cold medicine.
Fixed that for you
I was born owing about $4,400 in debt (US National Debt). I was not consulted about this. I did not consent to this. It was just forced upon me. Before being able to vote, my share of the debt grew to $21,000. It did not cost the government $4,000 for my mother to give birth to me, and it did not cost the government $21,000 to raise me. So who got the money? The Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers.
Today, 15 years later, my share of the debt is $60,000, despite voting for people who promised to lower that number. Yet, I am paying for (via taxes) debt that I neither benefited from nor authorized. Maybe I have a legitimate reason to whine?
I would rather sink in my personal boat due to the choices I make, than be forced on the Titanic and sink due to other people's choices completely out of my control.
"Great for old hardware" is a myth at best, and sometimes a farce.
Myth example: I had an old Pentium III 650 Mhz machine with 256 MB of ram. It was consuming more power than my AMD Athlon 2.0 Ghz with dual core and 4 GB of ram. I have the same story with a bunch of old IDE 80 GB drives. I could string together 12 of them in a JOBD to get 1 TB, or I could just buy a 1 TB drive. At some point you have diminishing returns on that old hardware.
Farce example: GCC was generating the CMOV instruction for 486, even though cmov was first invented on 586. Obviously, no one was using that old hardware, or their programs would have all crashed. (I think this is the thread. https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2004-09/msg00157.html)
Let's not forget, the 27.79% who didn't show up -- in effect -- voted the I-don't-care option. People don't get to have a do-over on an election. If they now want to change their vote from I-don't-care to something else, that's too bad IMHO.
Hahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahhah! Oh that was a good one.
And yet, rather than opening your mind to new possibilities, rather than asking what the tin foil hat brigade knew that they could successfully predict this, you plea to Obama like he's a friend that has just gone a little awry.
Dude... chaboud... wake up. He was never your friend. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can see the world for what it is and stop people from screwing you over.
Sincerely,
The Tin Foil Hat Brigade
Kill two birds with one stone. Send the homeless into space.
The early adopters who pay a higher price are the ones who start the avalanche. By raising the minimum wage, you're making with cost effective to be an early adopter, pay that higher price, and get the snowball rolling.
Oh please! This ship is floating on the world's largest supply of coolant (water). What could possibly go wrong?
But most jetliners, passengers cars, and motor buses don't have 3 swimming pools, 4 fitness rooms, 2 dinning halls, and place to go rock climbing. It's designed to be a floating amusement park, not a mode of transportation. If you factor in all the "stuff" that a cruise liner lugs around for entertainment purposes, the fuel efficiency isn't so bad.