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  1. We're talking about how the infrastructure is now, not how it might be.

    It might mean that temporary prioritization is fine during a disaster. But that's far from throttling an emergency service team who's over their data cap and giving priority to ordinary users who are under their monthly cap. And it's not like Verizon advertises anything that's not "unlimited."

  2. Re:Or you could pass a different law on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, if none of the suitable carriers have such a plan AND are unwilling to create such a plan for emergency agencies (which seems unlikely), THEN perhaps the FCC should step in.

    The price per MB for overage is outrageous (even at Verizon's old .002 CENTS per KB). If you think that taxpayer dollars shouldn't be spent on outrageous plans, then perhaps the FCC should step in.

  3. That whole methodology of deploying more smaller cells (along with a few other improvements) is being termed 5G. There are a lot of towers right now as it is, though.

  4. Re:Or you could pass a different law on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like instead of Above Unlimited or Beyond Unlimited, they should get the No, Really Unlimited Unlimited package? Did Verizon even give CA first responders an option that prevented throttling in that case?

  5. Re:Livestream on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The infrastructure is fine. But wireless spectrum is limited and the link can still be saturated. It should have never been advertised as something capable of unlimited.

  6. Re:Hard to take that seriously on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the one who claimed the summary said tar. It still doesn't. You're just as much taking implied meaning from it as you claim I am.

  7. Re:Hard to take that seriously on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And the word tar doesn't appear in the summary at all, despite your claim. Calling it a "second cover-up" with hot asphalt strongly implies that this is the composition of the first coating

  8. Re: Flat screens? on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's old CRT that used a single tube. An OLED uses a lot more tiny tubes.

  9. Re:humans too on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The legal system already need to archive and have their own access to these records. Additional retrievals are the only costs to be passed on, which are near-zero.

    Either the government funds it completely (indirect page fees via taxes) or partially (direct page fees via individual payments).

    And because of the above, funding it completely via taxes is far more equitable. Page fees often hit people who are at a disadvantage.

  10. Re:just like everything else on Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Live TV doesn't need to be de-interlaced with anything but doubling. Each field should be interpolated separately and shown at the full 60Hz. There is no reason to combine that down to 30 frames.

    Bad de-interlacing probably comes down to video that was not flagged as interlaced before it was compressed and ended up with bad artifacts as a result. Or your device was sending the video to your TV without it being flagged properly.

  11. Re:have the ITU revise the 5G spec to make it clea on Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So that just means that Sprint/FTC goes after them instead of AT&T. Or are you saying that anyone can just fund a trade group and shield themselves from scrutiny?

  12. Re:just like everything else on Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because 60p wasn't going to happen and sports broadcasting demands faster motion.

  13. Re:Where is the FTC? on Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone has to prove that "5G" actually means something when generational labels are mostly just marketing fluff.

  14. Re:Google showing what PoS they are on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's their parent company name, alpha-beta.

  15. Re:Hard to take that seriously on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    No kidding. They named their parent company by combining the words alpha and beta and that's all they do.

  16. Re:Hard to take that seriously on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary says hot asphalt. Are you sure you're reading the same summary?

  17. Re:Not surprised by any of this on Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless Broadband Than Countries Without It · · Score: 1

    Non-white Poor people in red states vote blue

    FTFY. And it's sill a minority of the poor people.

  18. Differences like "unlimited* (*see small print) and "data caps". Any company which uses unlimited can fuck right off.

    We're beyond that now. Verizon now has 3 different levels of Unlimited. "Unlimited" means about as much as the "free" in Amazon Prime's "Free" 2-Day shipping.

  19. It's still part of the glacier. It's an NBC news headline - what do you expect? The body of the article does use the term ice shelf specifically, but a glacier is still a glacier until it is an iceberg. A thing can have two names, even if one is less specific than the other.

  20. Re:I'll believe they truly are see a crisis on A Hole Opens Up Under Antarctic Glacier -- Big Enough To Fit Two-Thirds of Manhattan (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not saying inland ocean. Deeper/wider river, maybe. Talking about higher rainfall causing it if you read what I posted.

  21. So let's all move under the ozone hole in Antarctica.

  22. fresh water floats on top of salt water. Salt water has a lower freezing point. Warmer water can flow underneath. This part of the glacier is over water, not land.

  23. The library of congress doesn't really cover that much land mass. Only a couple hundred thousand square feet or less than a 1/100 of a square mile.

  24. Re:I'll believe they truly are see a crisis on A Hole Opens Up Under Antarctic Glacier -- Big Enough To Fit Two-Thirds of Manhattan (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Colonization? Yeah, we're colonized over here. All the land belongs to someone already. However, you have to wonder whether we'll end up with a mid-west coast and a mid-east coast if the mississippi rises along with sea levels. More global water probably means more rain, which means more water in the rivers too.

  25. As an ice age species, we have a vested interest in not accelerating the rate of change. Absolutely the glaciers are going to melt. We need to adapt, but we need to buy time too. The changes at play are much bigger than you're imagining.