Of course they would never "block" VPN access. Instead, they will create a service called "XFinity Business Premium!" and charge an extra $20 a month for the privilege to use VPN. They'll even throw in some worthless security software and explain how your data will be given extra special priority over other traffic. Naturally, if you DON'T purchase this service, VPN access will work like molasses.
Interns, particularly unpaid interns, do not "handle the paperwork". These efforts are done through a combination of high-priced lawyers, and even higher priced lobbyists. Add to this the high-priced accountants and businessmen crunching the numbers on cost-benefit analysis to make certain that it is worth the expense to charge all these expensive people.
That's exactly what they're talking about doing: Declaring that, unlike telephone service, internet connectivity stops being considered common carrier. Once it is no longer common carrier, ISPs can route your bits descriminately based on their contents.
An agreement to build a physical connection between a node in one state and a node in another state is interstate commerce. An end user's subscription to an ISP is local commerce. When that end user makes use of that internet connection to purchase something from an out-of-state store, it is interstate commerce. Agreements to form physical connections between a US company and a foreign nation is international commerce. End users purchasing items from stores in other nations is likewise international commerce. And Federal laws DO apply to international commerce, because the constitution says so.
Those are Google's front-end consumer products. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about things like Google's GIS services. Google's AI services and research, Google's in-house programming languages, the fact that Google has cars constantly driving around photographing the world. The fact that Google knows everyone who wants to do anything related to online advertising, the fact that Google knows everything about what people search for, the fact that Google is now a leader in translation services by its ability to parse the millions of hours of video that is uploaded to Youtube every single day. Google is happy to work with companies to varying degrees to share all of this stuff, and it is making companies billions of dollars. So feel free to hate Android, but given that something like 3/4ths of smartphones run it (too lazy to get the right number), if you want your stuff in people's eyes, you make it work with Android or you leave money on the table being an Apple fanboi until your venture capitalist gets wise, pulls out, and you're bankrupt.
They offer local advertisements in conjunction with people activating their location data. Not with these transmissions of cell-tower info. If you use Google Maps for live directions, you are sending location data.
That's an interesting thought. We don't know that they do this, but it'd be super easy to do technically speaking. Although this does not work if you use a VPN or other tunneling mechanism, or your if hotspot itself allows remote connections with a tunnel. That will either give you a unique IP in a separate location, or a shared IP, again, in a different location, with your requests aggragated with everyone else using the same IP. Also this doesn't exactly work if your have your wifi configured to use multiple issued IP addresses instead of Network Address Translation; it kind of does, but it requires making more assumptions.
You can set Airplane mode to with or without wifi. Airplane mode without wi-fi, you have no IP You don't talk to Google, Google doesn't talk to you. With wifi, at best, they can guess your ISP's location, but it is just as easily a VPN or other intermediate service, and those can be anywhere on the globe.
No. Your IP address is different from a wireless-telecom tower Identifier (even though 4G towers also use IP addresses in their identification, it's treated as a separate field). In other words, any code responsible for uploading your tower info would just effectively say "disconnected". Now whether or not your Android also sends your local IP address....I mean, yeah, it basically does or else you couldn't use google services. But your IP address doesn't necessarily reveal anything at all about your location. And people who act like it does do so at their peril.
Ex-wireless-telecom guy here. This sort of data collection doesn't get string location names from your phone; and I don't believe it gets coordinates. I'm a little rusty on my LTE architecture, but it would basically be the IP address of the eNodeB tower; maybe some information about the carrier company, maybe a public key. It would likely then check one or more of these things against a table of known installations. If the data isn't known, it basically gets tossed into the garbage as either invalid or not-useful data. If you were to successfully spoof, then, they probably wouldn't figure it out, and thus not have the opportunity to get mad about it. FWIW, if there was evidence that Google was using this information to point you to local advertisers, this story would've broken months ago, and angry privacy/ad-hating people would be losing their minds over it.
I mean, it all depends on your individual needs. As an end user, if you can afford it, then, sure, Apple tends to make good stuff; go for it. Where Google and Linux and other FOSS projects shine is when you're more than just an end user, and you want to get something novel done. When you need a server farm, you get a product running something like Linux. When your application needs to hook into vast information resources, you go to Google's APIs and tools. Like Google or not, they still undeniably have a ton of information, and they have lots of talented developers working on lots of useful tools related to computing things.
Oooo, I love talking about the evidence! My personal favorite is the ability to bounce radio transmissions off of the ionosphere (sometimes referred to as "skywave") using radio equipment that not only can the average enthusiast afford, if they were so inclined, they could build the equipment from parts, thus dismissing any magic secret stuff in the chips that allows you to target your friend on the other side of the globe. The shape of a flat earth that would be required to achieve the angles that you find, or the shape required of the dome screen on which the celestial bodies appear for the angles to work out right fails to match up with the shapes required to jam their flat peg into that oblate-spheroid hole for all the other astronomical things that they assert. I can't even imagine how mind-blowing that must have been to the first operators who managed this back in 1922. Nowadays, if you only want to receive, unlicensed people can often pull this off with a dirt-cheap shortwave radio.
You can also take that skywave bounce, along with some decent synchronized clocks (which are the norm on modern Internet connected computers) and use the coordinates of the receiver and the transmitter, and the speed of light, to calculate the altitude at which the radio bounce must have occurred. This is why "live via satellite" conversations have that awkward roughly 1-second delay.
Similarly, my father recounts stories of actually looking up the dates when Sputnik was flying overhead and tuning in his amateur radio. The broadcast frequency was published all over, because the Soviets were super proud of their accomplishment. And it didn't take long for the eggheads to work out and publish the dates/times when it would be flying overhead in your local area. It was right there in your local newspaper. The right frequency, the right antenna direction, the right time, and sure enough, he could hear the beeps of that very first satellite. Now the neat thing about satellites is (and this sorta relates to how GPS works too!): you just need 4 friends with directional antennas who are positioned at arbitrary but known coordinates on the globe and once everyone figures out the direction to point such that the signal is at its strongest, you can use fairly simple trigonometry to discover not only the relative position, but also the altitude of the signal's origin (this is also why no foreign governments doubted the moon landing! They knew where the broadcasts HAD to be coming from). Nowadays, there are plenty of satellites that you can do this same experiment upon. My dad didn't go this far, but other amateurs around the globe actively did (and astronomers continue to do with things like the ISS), and then they wrote everything up in their little hobbyist magazines There was no Internet, and they were nerds, they had nothing better to do. Remember, these are nerdy fanboys, generally between the ages of 13 and 35. These are people who would get super-excited to talk to other operators around the globe. They weren't the type to care about things like politics or conspiracies. Short of bribing them all with perfect girlfriends, there wouldn't be much you could to do get them not to share their knowledge with each other. They just liked the science. (naturally, none of them doubted that the earth is oblate-spheroid. And weren't particularly worried about confirming that, because we've known this for plenty of simpler reasons for centuries. My point is that the shape is required for their calculations to validate each other the way that they always do.)
Right? What if he crashes into the dome-shaped projection screen upon that the government has somehow projected the fake image of the moon for all of recorded and oral history?!?!?
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by: dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce. That is the semantics of fascism. You are trying to state that the etymology of the word fascism is it's definition, which is inaccurate.
You are more than welcome to condemn any organization calling themselves antifa that admit to being violent and are proud of that violence. I've visited a number of antifa websites, and they do not admit to violence, nor pride in violence. I've been to other sites that do admit to violence, and sure, fuck those guys. (Or better yet, help them to understand how vigilante violence outside of the law does not serve the cause of opposing fascism.) But it is absolutely possible to be nonviolent antifa.
Likewise, I believe that the best way to remove people from fascism is to welcome them, listen to them, and help them slowly to understand the the internal conflicts within their set of personal principles required for them to support fascist notions and demagogues.
All that said, it might be approaching time to fall back and concede this particular term. It's a term from the 30s from when organizations were fighting actual fascist regimes, at which point, violent conflict is potentially (arguably) required. It has a muddied meaning in the modern conversation because, like so many other modern movements, it is loosely organized, and does not have a formal statement of goals and values. You see similar problems with "alt-right", "occupywallstreet", "gamergate", and to a lesser extent, "Black Lives Matter". In each case, some people may hold to noble uncontroversial principles, but because they are not explicit and formalized, negative aspects latch on and any noble sentiment becomes silenced. I'd like to see our society stop trying to organically build their movements out of trending hash-tags and start building movements by coming up with beliefs first and a name second. It is otherwise just too easy to usurp a hashtag. Maybe, in time, there will be a separation of nonviolent anti-fascists, and violent antifa, splintering into two different names with more formalized positions. But that has not happened yet.
Respectfully, you are mistaken.
Communism is opposed to fascism and socialism is largely an economic principle unrelated to fascism. Fascism is about strong authoritarian dictatorial control. political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole, and true communism is about property being publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. (true communism has never existed on a national scale).
Destroying capitalism is not only done with fascism. It can theoretically be done democratically. It can also be done by an unorganized populist revolt. Again, to clarify, I think destroying capitalism is stupid, but it is not inherently fascist.
If ya didn't know, Hitler, and the Nazis were extremely anti-communist. I agree that the second quote is collectivist, but that is not inherently authoritarian.
I'll grant you that "the Third Reich will always retain it's right to control the owners of property" is a fascist statement. But, again, When you change the line to "the United States..." and you are not speaking as a leader of the United States, (As Hitler was a leader of the Third Reich when he made that statement, whereas this is just some random unnamed protester) then it comes off as a condemnation of the state of the united states government, not as a mandate. So, again, it's not fascist. It's decrying the current US government as being fascist. Again, being pro-US government, I don't approve of it. But, you can be antifa, and anti-us government.
Perhaps don't be so quick to dismiss a person's ideas as ludicrous. You're right to disagree with the statements made. But you're wrong to think that they can only be interpreted as promotion of fascism. They make no mention of nationalism, no mention of a dictatorial power, no mention of suppression, and only mention government control over property as a condemnation of the US.
If you want to condemn those particular antifa organizations that support violence, that's perfectly fine by me. I condemn them too. I believe that this is not the time for vigilantism by a long shot. But just because you condemn those particular organizations does not mean that you condemn antifa. Antifa merely means anti-fascism. It is up to the individual to decide for themselves how that shall oppose fascism, and I very much hope that they do so within the bounds of the law.
None of the quotes used by the gentleman in that video were fascist. None of it supported authoritarianism, dictatorial power, nationalism, forcible suppression of opposition nor control of industry and commerce. When taken out of context, the quotes in question were interpreted as a condemnation of the practices of America, not an endorsement of them.
That said, yeah, guess what, most people are morons. If you deliver a speech with the correct vocal inflections and you use enough big words and complicated sentences, you can get people to cheer for any damned thing. This is the same reason why shitty sitcoms use laugh-tracks. Just because it isn't particularly difficult to wield a crowd doesn't mean that the sentiment of antifa is invalid.
You hate fascism, so you are anti-fascism. You are antifa. It is not people's obligation to memorize every single thing that Adolf Hitler has ever said. And the fact that Hitler said something, does not inherently make that thing bad. Of the quotes used, only one was particularly objectionable, "It's not the truth that matters but victory", and even that can be argued to be woefully accurate, since it is effectively equivalent to "history is written by the winners", and, yeah, it is. I'd counter that both truth and victory matters. I think anti-capitalism sentiments are foolish, but I don't outright reject those who condemn certain aspects of capitalism. And I do reject pure laissez faire economics, as the concept ignores the tragedy of the commons. And the applause that the crowd gives is more of a "that was kinda weird, and you stumbled on your words a lot, but it was brave of you to come down here and say what you had to say. I didn't particularly disagree with any of it" sort of cheer.
The ones who destroy property and hurt people are called criminals. Nearly every movement has some dummies who break the law in it's name. In order for it to be a terrorist organization, the movement needs to endorse criminal activity, and antifa does not. The only thing antifa endorses is an opposition to fascism.
The sentence is poorly worded, but you can figure it out by reading the rest of the paragraph. The information it intends to convey is "there are no government rules regarding the rate at which an oil tank must drain". The rules regarding oil tank design come from 40 CFR 112. And while it is true that they mandate that a drainage mechanism must exist, it does not in fact make any mention of the level of rain-flow a tank must be able to drain. The paragraph goes on to say, "But the American Petroleum Institute has established industry standards for tank construction that call for tanks to be able to drain at a minimum 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain over a 24-hour period." in other words, in addition to the government, the industry also self-regulates via the API, and that this storm was so bad that it could not handle this.
It sucks when news reporters are confusing like this, but again, that's not a fabrication.
Yup! The acrylic is about 5'' thick, each piece is like 10-15 feet long, takes a month to cure, and it would cost about something like a trillion dollars to make it from LA to SF with that material. But it'd work just great!
That'd work just fine, you're right; especially if underground, made with reinforced concrete and super-rugged sleeved expansion joints. But they've never shown a single design that remotely looks like that. They show sleek snazzy tubes. If they showed what it would need to actually look like, people would say, "Oh dear, 600km of that? That looks unbelievably expensive. That looks like a 100 billion dollar project. We can't make that profitable or remotely break even!"
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Of course they would never "block" VPN access. Instead, they will create a service called "XFinity Business Premium!" and charge an extra $20 a month for the privilege to use VPN. They'll even throw in some worthless security software and explain how your data will be given extra special priority over other traffic. Naturally, if you DON'T purchase this service, VPN access will work like molasses.
Interns, particularly unpaid interns, do not "handle the paperwork". These efforts are done through a combination of high-priced lawyers, and even higher priced lobbyists. Add to this the high-priced accountants and businessmen crunching the numbers on cost-benefit analysis to make certain that it is worth the expense to charge all these expensive people.
That's exactly what they're talking about doing: Declaring that, unlike telephone service, internet connectivity stops being considered common carrier. Once it is no longer common carrier, ISPs can route your bits descriminately based on their contents.
The federal government does have authority in international trade though. Constitution says so. Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 3.
No, the actual plan comes out in a couple weeks.
An agreement to build a physical connection between a node in one state and a node in another state is interstate commerce. An end user's subscription to an ISP is local commerce. When that end user makes use of that internet connection to purchase something from an out-of-state store, it is interstate commerce. Agreements to form physical connections between a US company and a foreign nation is international commerce. End users purchasing items from stores in other nations is likewise international commerce. And Federal laws DO apply to international commerce, because the constitution says so.
Those are Google's front-end consumer products. I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about things like Google's GIS services. Google's AI services and research, Google's in-house programming languages, the fact that Google has cars constantly driving around photographing the world. The fact that Google knows everyone who wants to do anything related to online advertising, the fact that Google knows everything about what people search for, the fact that Google is now a leader in translation services by its ability to parse the millions of hours of video that is uploaded to Youtube every single day. Google is happy to work with companies to varying degrees to share all of this stuff, and it is making companies billions of dollars. So feel free to hate Android, but given that something like 3/4ths of smartphones run it (too lazy to get the right number), if you want your stuff in people's eyes, you make it work with Android or you leave money on the table being an Apple fanboi until your venture capitalist gets wise, pulls out, and you're bankrupt.
They offer local advertisements in conjunction with people activating their location data. Not with these transmissions of cell-tower info. If you use Google Maps for live directions, you are sending location data.
That's an interesting thought. We don't know that they do this, but it'd be super easy to do technically speaking. Although this does not work if you use a VPN or other tunneling mechanism, or your if hotspot itself allows remote connections with a tunnel. That will either give you a unique IP in a separate location, or a shared IP, again, in a different location, with your requests aggragated with everyone else using the same IP. Also this doesn't exactly work if your have your wifi configured to use multiple issued IP addresses instead of Network Address Translation; it kind of does, but it requires making more assumptions.
You can set Airplane mode to with or without wifi. Airplane mode without wi-fi, you have no IP You don't talk to Google, Google doesn't talk to you. With wifi, at best, they can guess your ISP's location, but it is just as easily a VPN or other intermediate service, and those can be anywhere on the globe.
No. Your IP address is different from a wireless-telecom tower Identifier (even though 4G towers also use IP addresses in their identification, it's treated as a separate field). In other words, any code responsible for uploading your tower info would just effectively say "disconnected". Now whether or not your Android also sends your local IP address....I mean, yeah, it basically does or else you couldn't use google services. But your IP address doesn't necessarily reveal anything at all about your location. And people who act like it does do so at their peril.
Ex-wireless-telecom guy here. This sort of data collection doesn't get string location names from your phone; and I don't believe it gets coordinates. I'm a little rusty on my LTE architecture, but it would basically be the IP address of the eNodeB tower; maybe some information about the carrier company, maybe a public key. It would likely then check one or more of these things against a table of known installations. If the data isn't known, it basically gets tossed into the garbage as either invalid or not-useful data. If you were to successfully spoof, then, they probably wouldn't figure it out, and thus not have the opportunity to get mad about it. FWIW, if there was evidence that Google was using this information to point you to local advertisers, this story would've broken months ago, and angry privacy/ad-hating people would be losing their minds over it.
I mean, it all depends on your individual needs. As an end user, if you can afford it, then, sure, Apple tends to make good stuff; go for it. Where Google and Linux and other FOSS projects shine is when you're more than just an end user, and you want to get something novel done. When you need a server farm, you get a product running something like Linux. When your application needs to hook into vast information resources, you go to Google's APIs and tools. Like Google or not, they still undeniably have a ton of information, and they have lots of talented developers working on lots of useful tools related to computing things.
You can also take that skywave bounce, along with some decent synchronized clocks (which are the norm on modern Internet connected computers) and use the coordinates of the receiver and the transmitter, and the speed of light, to calculate the altitude at which the radio bounce must have occurred. This is why "live via satellite" conversations have that awkward roughly 1-second delay.
Similarly, my father recounts stories of actually looking up the dates when Sputnik was flying overhead and tuning in his amateur radio. The broadcast frequency was published all over, because the Soviets were super proud of their accomplishment. And it didn't take long for the eggheads to work out and publish the dates/times when it would be flying overhead in your local area. It was right there in your local newspaper. The right frequency, the right antenna direction, the right time, and sure enough, he could hear the beeps of that very first satellite. Now the neat thing about satellites is (and this sorta relates to how GPS works too!): you just need 4 friends with directional antennas who are positioned at arbitrary but known coordinates on the globe and once everyone figures out the direction to point such that the signal is at its strongest, you can use fairly simple trigonometry to discover not only the relative position, but also the altitude of the signal's origin (this is also why no foreign governments doubted the moon landing! They knew where the broadcasts HAD to be coming from). Nowadays, there are plenty of satellites that you can do this same experiment upon. My dad didn't go this far, but other amateurs around the globe actively did (and astronomers continue to do with things like the ISS), and then they wrote everything up in their little hobbyist magazines There was no Internet, and they were nerds, they had nothing better to do. Remember, these are nerdy fanboys, generally between the ages of 13 and 35. These are people who would get super-excited to talk to other operators around the globe. They weren't the type to care about things like politics or conspiracies. Short of bribing them all with perfect girlfriends, there wouldn't be much you could to do get them not to share their knowledge with each other. They just liked the science. (naturally, none of them doubted that the earth is oblate-spheroid. And weren't particularly worried about confirming that, because we've known this for plenty of simpler reasons for centuries. My point is that the shape is required for their calculations to validate each other the way that they always do.)
Right? What if he crashes into the dome-shaped projection screen upon that the government has somehow projected the fake image of the moon for all of recorded and oral history?!?!?
You are more than welcome to condemn any organization calling themselves antifa that admit to being violent and are proud of that violence. I've visited a number of antifa websites, and they do not admit to violence, nor pride in violence. I've been to other sites that do admit to violence, and sure, fuck those guys. (Or better yet, help them to understand how vigilante violence outside of the law does not serve the cause of opposing fascism.) But it is absolutely possible to be nonviolent antifa.
Likewise, I believe that the best way to remove people from fascism is to welcome them, listen to them, and help them slowly to understand the the internal conflicts within their set of personal principles required for them to support fascist notions and demagogues.
All that said, it might be approaching time to fall back and concede this particular term. It's a term from the 30s from when organizations were fighting actual fascist regimes, at which point, violent conflict is potentially (arguably) required. It has a muddied meaning in the modern conversation because, like so many other modern movements, it is loosely organized, and does not have a formal statement of goals and values. You see similar problems with "alt-right", "occupywallstreet", "gamergate", and to a lesser extent, "Black Lives Matter". In each case, some people may hold to noble uncontroversial principles, but because they are not explicit and formalized, negative aspects latch on and any noble sentiment becomes silenced. I'd like to see our society stop trying to organically build their movements out of trending hash-tags and start building movements by coming up with beliefs first and a name second. It is otherwise just too easy to usurp a hashtag. Maybe, in time, there will be a separation of nonviolent anti-fascists, and violent antifa, splintering into two different names with more formalized positions. But that has not happened yet.
Destroying capitalism is not only done with fascism. It can theoretically be done democratically. It can also be done by an unorganized populist revolt. Again, to clarify, I think destroying capitalism is stupid, but it is not inherently fascist.
If ya didn't know, Hitler, and the Nazis were extremely anti-communist. I agree that the second quote is collectivist, but that is not inherently authoritarian. I'll grant you that "the Third Reich will always retain it's right to control the owners of property" is a fascist statement. But, again, When you change the line to "the United States..." and you are not speaking as a leader of the United States, (As Hitler was a leader of the Third Reich when he made that statement, whereas this is just some random unnamed protester) then it comes off as a condemnation of the state of the united states government, not as a mandate. So, again, it's not fascist. It's decrying the current US government as being fascist. Again, being pro-US government, I don't approve of it. But, you can be antifa, and anti-us government.
Perhaps don't be so quick to dismiss a person's ideas as ludicrous. You're right to disagree with the statements made. But you're wrong to think that they can only be interpreted as promotion of fascism. They make no mention of nationalism, no mention of a dictatorial power, no mention of suppression, and only mention government control over property as a condemnation of the US.
If you want to condemn those particular antifa organizations that support violence, that's perfectly fine by me. I condemn them too. I believe that this is not the time for vigilantism by a long shot. But just because you condemn those particular organizations does not mean that you condemn antifa. Antifa merely means anti-fascism. It is up to the individual to decide for themselves how that shall oppose fascism, and I very much hope that they do so within the bounds of the law.
That said, yeah, guess what, most people are morons. If you deliver a speech with the correct vocal inflections and you use enough big words and complicated sentences, you can get people to cheer for any damned thing. This is the same reason why shitty sitcoms use laugh-tracks. Just because it isn't particularly difficult to wield a crowd doesn't mean that the sentiment of antifa is invalid.
You hate fascism, so you are anti-fascism. You are antifa. It is not people's obligation to memorize every single thing that Adolf Hitler has ever said. And the fact that Hitler said something, does not inherently make that thing bad. Of the quotes used, only one was particularly objectionable, "It's not the truth that matters but victory", and even that can be argued to be woefully accurate, since it is effectively equivalent to "history is written by the winners", and, yeah, it is. I'd counter that both truth and victory matters. I think anti-capitalism sentiments are foolish, but I don't outright reject those who condemn certain aspects of capitalism. And I do reject pure laissez faire economics, as the concept ignores the tragedy of the commons. And the applause that the crowd gives is more of a "that was kinda weird, and you stumbled on your words a lot, but it was brave of you to come down here and say what you had to say. I didn't particularly disagree with any of it" sort of cheer.
The ones who destroy property and hurt people are called criminals. Nearly every movement has some dummies who break the law in it's name. In order for it to be a terrorist organization, the movement needs to endorse criminal activity, and antifa does not. The only thing antifa endorses is an opposition to fascism.
I learned something today!
It sucks when news reporters are confusing like this, but again, that's not a fabrication.
Yup! The acrylic is about 5'' thick, each piece is like 10-15 feet long, takes a month to cure, and it would cost about something like a trillion dollars to make it from LA to SF with that material. But it'd work just great!
That'd work just fine, you're right; especially if underground, made with reinforced concrete and super-rugged sleeved expansion joints. But they've never shown a single design that remotely looks like that. They show sleek snazzy tubes. If they showed what it would need to actually look like, people would say, "Oh dear, 600km of that? That looks unbelievably expensive. That looks like a 100 billion dollar project. We can't make that profitable or remotely break even!"