Oh, you're totally right, the GOP is totally bought off except for social issues - but the democrats are only slightly better - looking back at history its the Dems doing what the lobbyists paid them to do (other than the wonderful FCC chairman we had last time from Obama - which was a total surprise because he was a former telco lobbyist).
So don't get me wrong, the GOP is totally bought off - but the FCC Net Neutrality that is likely to get restored by the courts will probably be much better than what we'll see in any bill in the House and Senate as Telco's, ISP's etc. will have wanted to pay them lots of money to put stuff in those bills.
The Dems have a long history of doing what the Telco's pay them to do, so it'll be interesting to see what's actually in these bills. As things stand right now - the Net Neutrality ruling in the FCC looks to be on its way to be defeated in court, restoring that good version of it. I'd prefer that version than one created by politicians, Democrats or not, and their lobbyist friends.
BTW, this was the playbook as leaked out - the FCC throws out Net Neutrality and the GOP House and Senate create one written by the telco lobbyists to "take its place". That didn't pan out, but the Telco's do not want to wait till FCC loses its fight in court and they go back to 100% Net Neutrality (when they could get back 25% or 50% now with the Dems). We'll have to see what the bills actually look like.
Financed by the Chinese who have set electric vehicles as one of the industry's to dominate in the future (they have these 25 year plans and EV's are part of it) - Faraday hired a bunch of folks from U.S. car companies (Tesla mostly), siphoned off whatever knowledge they wanted and then pulled the money out and left the U.S. company to die. The Chinese manufacturers vehicles look really good actually - SUV's that look like SUV's (the G3 especially).
Was thinking that as well, but requires a big if - if the orbits of the satellites are designed to give 100% world coverage (very high latitude) and not just the lower latitudes (where most of the people live and would probably cost less). I hope the orbits cover the world (including polar) and it'll work, as it would be perfect then.
Well, he said it right off there. Google search is the best and his customers are used to it. If Apple switched it over to DuckDuckGo it'd be a Apple Maps launch size of complaining and dissatisfaction.
Now the $3billion doesn't hurt of course. But DuckDuckGo isn't good enough for a switchover at this point. I use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine but need Google as a back up often enough. This is something that needs to be fixed - Apple probably needs to make DuckDuckGo or whatever better and then cast off Google and their billions, but at this point DuckDuckGo's results aren't good enough. JMHO....
Sergey Brin, one of the founder's of Google, was one of the main forces that pushed Google to leave China before. He has a Yacht named Dragonfly. Pichai has named this project to go back into China Dragonfly - from the outside it looks like a right in your face middle finger to Brin and what he said.
The market there is already saturated for search engines, so its not like Google is going to make alot of money - but the moral standing Google has for not being there is valuable which the Google CEO doesn't seem to comprehend. Pichai is doing great for the stock price, but seems to have no moral compass other than do what makes the most money right now - its as if Scrooge is running the place. He does need to go - but the shareholders are loving this no concern for moral issues type of management style (Facebook style really), so no.
This is a warning on why its foolish to count on for profit companies to guard your privacy (or anything else that might be "profitable"). Governments always control market access and in the end, if they are bad, they will make the tech in the country bad as well.
Hard to believe, but given an unexpected turn of events and the election of a tyrant as a President, throw in a compliant legislature and this kind of collusion could be forced in the U.S.. Current President isn't interested in this so we, thankfully, get a pass, for the time being.
When viewed from the narrow perspective of the FBI or law enforcement then total access (no privacy rights for citizens) makes total sense...they're only going after the bad guys (at least till some administration who wants the country to run like a dictator's paradise and the FBI become his/her personal police force and have the Justice Department run like his personal judicial system), cause you don't know when that kind of nutball will get elected...
But if you take a step back and look at the reason for the right to privacy (to protect the citizenry from the government abusing its power improperly at some point) then the tech industry's view (really just Apple at this point) makes sense.
The guy running the Justice Department is the guy that sounds like Forrest Gump at this point although taking orders from the President for the most part (very un Forest like there). JMHO...
Was looking at this. The page to Opt Out must identify you first with my adblocker / tracker blocker saying don't go here. This is from a company Adobe bought - the idea is to use things like IP addresses etc. to start linking (machines, phones ?) to a user. It's quite underhanded and nasty and perfect for Adobe to fall into.
Seeing Intel and Lenovo (ThinkPad and Moto smartphone owner) in the list. Presumably they'd be coordinating by giving CPU id for Intel and whatever Lenovo can be paid for. This has gone way too far. Time to outlaw the owning and trading of people's data without their opt in (with no affect on getting the service they want).
Expect the Trump admin to kill off the Iranian deal (even the Prez can't say why its actually bad) - I think that comes up within a month. Would not be surprised if this the beginning of the drumbeat for regime change by this administration.
It's also good to point out that the Patriot Act that was originally passed was completely different than the bipartisan one the Senate created back at the time. The original bipartisan version created in the Senate had actual privacy balance - the Bush Administration created their own version and got the Senate leadership (Republican at the time I believe) to switch it at the last minute with the version created by the Senate in a up or down vote (shortly after 9/11). And the rest is history....
At the big picture level it seems like none of this govt monitoring stuff is getting better - as can be seen here. The results of Snowden's huge personal risk has been better private user software, but almost no impact on government surveillance, perhaps a slowdown of the increase of it.
The President thinks he's getting good visibility / PR with these free form live discussions where he can say whatever he wants (without following through on anything). I would expect the same with this one as was done with gun session and the dreamers sessions - and expect more of this. Echoing back to the Apprentice and him talking at the board room scenes....he probably really likes this - even if nothing gets done legislatively. He's getting back to being able to be on talk TV again.
JMHO, but if folks wanted to take the bus (walking to & from the bus stop), they'd take the bus. A big part of the reason Uber and Lyft are so successful is the pick you up at the door and drop you off at the door service - not to mention the low price of the ride (we'll see if that can be maintained after going public and they can't bleed money in huge amounts anymore).
This is when someone from the industry or similar industry being regulated gets someone who was their former employee to head the agency that is charged with regulation or in this case protecting consumers from these industries put in as head of the regulating agency to effectively prevent it from acting on behalf of the citizens of the U.S..
This condition is pretty new (at least on the widespread scale it is). In 1970, lobbyists who didn't work for companies and were policy or foreign policy specialists numbered around 100. By 1990 that number was more than 10,000 and nearly all worked directly for companies. Effectively the U.S. government has been taken over by corporate interests in that time (its far more blatant like here with Mr. Mulvaney with the Republicans who have no shame in it being public). Not sure how we get out of it either, seems self reinforcing.
In retrospect, its very ironic. Wells Fargo didn't actively pump up and create sham mortgages and was considered one of the few good larger banks at the time - in the mean time their Execs goals only mentality had their employees creating fake accounts etc...
In the past (prior to the financial crisis) the highest WF officers knowingly associated with this behavior would have been marched off to prison. None of that, just like the financial crisis, none of the actual actors get punished, again...
Don't think so, their encryption has been checked and verified. To our surveillance corporations and the governments they work with, the critical thing is keeping a permanent record of who you talk to and when - and that is preserved here for Microsoft and any govt asking just fine. Microsoft might have been feeling some pressure with their lack of encryption at this point as well since Facebook had it. JMHO...
The important thing for the surveillers is keeping a running log of who you talk to and when you talk to them and that is still preserved and not encrypted. Having the actual messages is nice, but not nearly as important as knowing who you talk to and when. This is also why Facebook, of all people, allows it on their programs.
At least so far, using headphone jack / headphones for the antenna for FM is the only way. I rag on Samsung for alot of things, but this is really cool and makes me want their smartphone (having batteries that resist degradation s8 onward and SamsungPay working at registers that don't take normal wireless payments are two others).
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These are squared off tabs, not rounded....courage! /s
Oh, you're totally right, the GOP is totally bought off except for social issues - but the democrats are only slightly better - looking back at history its the Dems doing what the lobbyists paid them to do (other than the wonderful FCC chairman we had last time from Obama - which was a total surprise because he was a former telco lobbyist).
So don't get me wrong, the GOP is totally bought off - but the FCC Net Neutrality that is likely to get restored by the courts will probably be much better than what we'll see in any bill in the House and Senate as Telco's, ISP's etc. will have wanted to pay them lots of money to put stuff in those bills.
The Dems have a long history of doing what the Telco's pay them to do, so it'll be interesting to see what's actually in these bills. As things stand right now - the Net Neutrality ruling in the FCC looks to be on its way to be defeated in court, restoring that good version of it. I'd prefer that version than one created by politicians, Democrats or not, and their lobbyist friends.
BTW, this was the playbook as leaked out - the FCC throws out Net Neutrality and the GOP House and Senate create one written by the telco lobbyists to "take its place". That didn't pan out, but the Telco's do not want to wait till FCC loses its fight in court and they go back to 100% Net Neutrality (when they could get back 25% or 50% now with the Dems). We'll have to see what the bills actually look like.
Financed by the Chinese who have set electric vehicles as one of the industry's to dominate in the future (they have these 25 year plans and EV's are part of it) - Faraday hired a bunch of folks from U.S. car companies (Tesla mostly), siphoned off whatever knowledge they wanted and then pulled the money out and left the U.S. company to die. The Chinese manufacturers vehicles look really good actually - SUV's that look like SUV's (the G3 especially).
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
Was thinking that as well, but requires a big if - if the orbits of the satellites are designed to give 100% world coverage (very high latitude) and not just the lower latitudes (where most of the people live and would probably cost less).
I hope the orbits cover the world (including polar) and it'll work, as it would be perfect then.
Well, he said it right off there. Google search is the best and his customers are used to it. If Apple switched it over to DuckDuckGo it'd be a Apple Maps launch size of complaining and dissatisfaction.
Now the $3billion doesn't hurt of course. But DuckDuckGo isn't good enough for a switchover at this point. I use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine but need Google as a back up often enough. This is something that needs to be fixed - Apple probably needs to make DuckDuckGo or whatever better and then cast off Google and their billions, but at this point DuckDuckGo's results aren't good enough. JMHO....
Sergey Brin, one of the founder's of Google, was one of the main forces that pushed Google to leave China before. He has a Yacht named Dragonfly. Pichai has named this project to go back into China Dragonfly - from the outside it looks like a right in your face middle finger to Brin and what he said.
The market there is already saturated for search engines, so its not like Google is going to make alot of money - but the moral standing Google has for not being there is valuable which the Google CEO doesn't seem to comprehend. Pichai is doing great for the stock price, but seems to have no moral compass other than do what makes the most money right now - its as if Scrooge is running the place. He does need to go - but the shareholders are loving this no concern for moral issues type of management style (Facebook style really), so no.
Here's where you can actually comment (sort of the point of the article), go to it folks: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/feder...
This is a warning on why its foolish to count on for profit companies to guard your privacy (or anything else that might be "profitable"). Governments always control market access and in the end, if they are bad, they will make the tech in the country bad as well.
Hard to believe, but given an unexpected turn of events and the election of a tyrant as a President, throw in a compliant legislature and this kind of collusion could be forced in the U.S.. Current President isn't interested in this so we, thankfully, get a pass, for the time being.
Agreed, this is nice to see.
So right! /s
Just from yesterday, the going dark thing wasn't real... https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
When viewed from the narrow perspective of the FBI or law enforcement then total access (no privacy rights for citizens) makes total sense...they're only going after the bad guys (at least till some administration who wants the country to run like a dictator's paradise and the FBI become his/her personal police force and have the Justice Department run like his personal judicial system), cause you don't know when that kind of nutball will get elected...
But if you take a step back and look at the reason for the right to privacy (to protect the citizenry from the government abusing its power improperly at some point) then the tech industry's view (really just Apple at this point) makes sense.
The guy running the Justice Department is the guy that sounds like Forrest Gump at this point although taking orders from the President for the most part (very un Forest like there). JMHO...
Was looking at this. The page to Opt Out must identify you first with my adblocker / tracker blocker saying don't go here. This is from a company Adobe bought - the idea is to use things like IP addresses etc. to start linking (machines, phones ?) to a user. It's quite underhanded and nasty and perfect for Adobe to fall into.
Seeing Intel and Lenovo (ThinkPad and Moto smartphone owner) in the list. Presumably they'd be coordinating by giving CPU id for Intel and whatever Lenovo can be paid for. This has gone way too far. Time to outlaw the owning and trading of people's data without their opt in (with no affect on getting the service they want).
Expect the Trump admin to kill off the Iranian deal (even the Prez can't say why its actually bad) - I think that comes up within a month. Would not be surprised if this the beginning of the drumbeat for regime change by this administration.
It's also good to point out that the Patriot Act that was originally passed was completely different than the bipartisan one the Senate created back at the time. The original bipartisan version created in the Senate had actual privacy balance - the Bush Administration created their own version and got the Senate leadership (Republican at the time I believe) to switch it at the last minute with the version created by the Senate in a up or down vote (shortly after 9/11). And the rest is history....
At the big picture level it seems like none of this govt monitoring stuff is getting better - as can be seen here. The results of Snowden's huge personal risk has been better private user software, but almost no impact on government surveillance, perhaps a slowdown of the increase of it.
The President thinks he's getting good visibility / PR with these free form live discussions where he can say whatever he wants (without following through on anything). I would expect the same with this one as was done with gun session and the dreamers sessions - and expect more of this. Echoing back to the Apprentice and him talking at the board room scenes....he probably really likes this - even if nothing gets done legislatively. He's getting back to being able to be on talk TV again.
Just an FYI, the slider is not spring loaded, like it was in the Matrix (something they added for the movie).
Nice to hear Sammy is doing this. Just for the record I believe Opera is now a Chinese controlled company.
JMHO, but if folks wanted to take the bus (walking to & from the bus stop), they'd take the bus. A big part of the reason Uber and Lyft are so successful is the pick you up at the door and drop you off at the door service - not to mention the low price of the ride (we'll see if that can be maintained after going public and they can't bleed money in huge amounts anymore).
This is when someone from the industry or similar industry being regulated gets someone who was their former employee to head the agency that is charged with regulation or in this case protecting consumers from these industries put in as head of the regulating agency to effectively prevent it from acting on behalf of the citizens of the U.S..
This condition is pretty new (at least on the widespread scale it is). In 1970, lobbyists who didn't work for companies and were policy or foreign policy specialists numbered around 100. By 1990 that number was more than 10,000 and nearly all worked directly for companies. Effectively the U.S. government has been taken over by corporate interests in that time (its far more blatant like here with Mr. Mulvaney with the Republicans who have no shame in it being public). Not sure how we get out of it either, seems self reinforcing.
In retrospect, its very ironic. Wells Fargo didn't actively pump up and create sham mortgages and was considered one of the few good larger banks at the time - in the mean time their Execs goals only mentality had their employees creating fake accounts etc...
In the past (prior to the financial crisis) the highest WF officers knowingly associated with this behavior would have been marched off to prison. None of that, just like the financial crisis, none of the actual actors get punished, again...
Don't think so, their encryption has been checked and verified. To our surveillance corporations and the governments they work with, the critical thing is keeping a permanent record of who you talk to and when - and that is preserved here for Microsoft and any govt asking just fine. Microsoft might have been feeling some pressure with their lack of encryption at this point as well since Facebook had it. JMHO...
The important thing for the surveillers is keeping a running log of who you talk to and when you talk to them and that is still preserved and not encrypted. Having the actual messages is nice, but not nearly as important as knowing who you talk to and when. This is also why Facebook, of all people, allows it on their programs.
Next Radio will use either if memory serves. You have to set it up correctly. Google is your friend on that.
You asked.... AM is amplitude modulation.
At least so far, using headphone jack / headphones for the antenna for FM is the only way. I rag on Samsung for alot of things, but this is really cool and makes me want their smartphone (having batteries that resist degradation s8 onward and SamsungPay working at registers that don't take normal wireless payments are two others).