I'm vaccinated, I have two 1y grandkids not through the regimen yet. Until then THEY are susceptible to any mobile Petri dish who's sure their opinions trump a century of factual data on vaccine efficacy. I'm not quite to the age range yet where my immune system will start ramping down regardless of what vaccinations I've had; then *I'm* vulnerable. Some people have naturally weak immune systems and vaccines "don't take"; THEY'RE vulnerable.
Part of the "social contract" if you will, is helping protect your neighbors, Vaccinating to avoid the chance of passing some damaging disease to them is part of the deal. The people who skip assuming The Other Guy will get THEIR kids covered and protect their Special Snowflake are the worst sort of societal leeches.
Just replaced my old Android tablet with the Samsung Tab S4 which came with demo versions of Microsoft Word/Excel/PP and has the DEX mode to go to a full desktop ; Samsung is offering a full Ubuntu build (though the older 16.04) as an option running in DEX. I may pop for one of the small USB-C adapters to play with it.
I'm on AT&T's FTTH service, and have the landline phone signed up on : http://nomorobo.com/ which they don't charge landlines for ($2/mo on mobile). One ring then silence; wonderful...
Lucent is best mapped to the legacy Western Electric (manufacturing arm), AT&T kept the legacy landline LD service, Bell Labs and the quickly-defunct Computer Systems Group. The seven Regional Operating Companies went through M&A in the 90s/00s leaving Southwest Bell/SBC swallowing up Pac Bell, Ameritech and finally Bellsouth, picking up the rump AT&T operation in the process and taking Mother's name. Nynex & Bell Atlantic picked up the remnants of MCI Worldcom & became Verizon. Mountain Bell -> US West was bought out by Qwest during the dot-bubble and is now CenturyLink. New-AT&T and Verizon are each now major wireless providers.
The current regulatory environment is not conducive to anything similar to the 80s breakup of the original Bell System. There'd have to be some major consumer fubar (serious service outage/security exposure) to trigger a repeat.
At the time, putting the writer/artists in the opening splash page was an innovation, so crediting "King Kirby", "Jazzy John Romita" (Sr...), "Scowling Steve Ditko" etc etc, was more credit than they'd received before, so the readers could match up artists they liked.
It's well known Lee & Kirby fought over credit for some of the titles they co-created, but my understanding was that the two reconciled before Kirby's passing.
To all the troll posts: given Stan's impact to the comics industry, given the happiness he gave multiple generations, you can all die screaming.
Wasn't going to go there, given the gravity of the situation, but if Musk has one of these in his back pocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... now is the time to get it packed up on TB2 & delivered...
They had thought to provision them in-place until the rainy season subsided, but more rains are expected, the pumps there now may be unable to keep up with the additional water, at which point the pocket they're in will become flooded as well.
Most divers agree cave diving is risky at the best of times and with experience (one experienced diver has already died trying to position air tanks along the exit route to potentially bring the kids out), and many of these kids are non-swimmers to begin with. WIth the current situation the only available hope may be to "dive them out" tethered to other divers, for roughly a five-hour trek, changing tanks enroute. This doesn't sound promising....
If Musk can either help locate another route out with radar, help power additional pumps with a battery wall to at least keep up with the new rains, or bore an escape route, then I for one say good luck and godspeed.
Without Rob & CmdrTaco this wouldn't be here. They may have moved on but their contributions made this one of the great geek blogs.
My deepest sympathies to family & friends.
In an interview, Musk said that both a towel and a hardcopy of THHGTTG was stowed in the glovebox.
Did you *really* think somebody who puts "Don't Panic" on the nav screen & names his landing barges after Iain Banks' (RIP) Culture ships is going to miss something like that?:-)
Assuming the 'third party' is an associated leasing operation under the same roof as the dealership, and both are owned by some parent company that may own additional dealerships elsewhere in the area.
Reality is still the lease was paid off, at which point the car belongs to Mr. Lallier, and remotely hacking it to recover a device that should have been pulled on paying off said lease is a crime. I'm sure there's an attorney that would be happy to dissect the shell game they're playing on Mr Lallier's behalf...
In Asian markets (i.e. China) they have to provide the Micro-USB adapter plug gratis in order to sell the phones.
In the glorious free-market USA, Apple gets to screw you over for an extra $xx for it and/or charge you extra for Lightning cables instead of the USB cables the other 90% of the market uses.
IIRC, the Bouncy Castle crypto package , developed to get around the 90's US export controls on strong ciphers, originates from Down Under. Funny their govt is now expecting developers to install Magic Good-Guys-Only Backdoors into their software so the Five-Eyes Panopticon can snoop as wanted.
and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc are managing to produce these just fine, thanks.The cable-cutters are getting tired of paying for 200-channel packages they watch maybe a dozen from (i.e. Disney/ABC/ESPN , or Discovery channels). The major sports leagues are starting to offer streaming options , once people can get live sports online without a cable contract those companies are utterly fscked.
It's been shown time & again that given the crap contracts the major record labels sign their talent to (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml), that the only way an act makes any money is by touring, and that the recordings exist as promotion for said tours. On that basis additional distribution by piracy only acts as added tour publicity and musicians should be encouraging it, except I'm sure the contract language prohibits such.
The NN rules had ZERO to do with QoS traffic shaping, and *everything* to do with preventing ISPs from rent-seeking behavior against services they competed with (ref. Netflix, Hulu, vs. ISP premium/PPV offerings, wanting to charge major sites like FB, Google etc to reach their customer base, etc.). "Fast lanes" or "zero-rating" by the providers simply lets *them* pick market winners by their ability to pay for access to customers, which is NOT how the Net has traditionally worked, and will effectively strangle startups unable to pay the troll. It's anti-free-market in the extreme, which should have all these Republicans shouting it down, except for the wads of payola jammed in their mouths....
>> We devalued software development by going from license fee based software to open source.
I don't see Red Hat out begging at corners; what's happened is that money isn't paid upfront for some sort of license fee, it's paid out for *support* of the code. If you decide the code is crap, you find an alternative & support *them*. This actually simplifies things by not sinking money into licensing at the beginning, and frankly how most enterprises operate anyway, with the removal of the upfront license. You pay for maintenance. If the customers aren't willing to pay for it, maybe you need to be working on code they *do* want to support.
Minor advantage, at least here in Jacksonville: the prospect of GF arriving scared AT&T into stringing more fiber. I was able to get it at my place this summer, and already having DirecTV meant no data caps, a lower bill than the combined Comcast/DTV/Vonage bills I had been paying, and a jump from 75/12 Mb to 940 symmetric. And being able to call up Comcast and tell them to DIAF didn't hurt my well-being either.
Only problem now is what to do in two years when the contract expires and I won't have GF to threaten them with....
The latest model is impressive, but given the plummeting cost of hardware (thank you, smartphones), what features would you like to see in The Next Pi? More/faster CPU cores, better wireless, gigabit ethernet, USB 3.0 support, ???
The Pi was designed as a cheap-as-chips (pun unintended) computer for classroom education. Obviously since then it's been put to a myriad of Other Uses. Which of these have struck you as the "best" or most unexpected usage outside the classroom?
no, no, the internet is FTTH (they dropped a fiber off the pole, drilled through the wall, put a fiber-to-cat-6 box on my wall to their "gateway" box (4-port router + dual-band 802.11ac, plus two VOIP ports). My TV service is off the oval dish on the corner of my roof to two receivers. Ping is 7ms per speedtest
Same here in Jacksonville FL: Google announced this spring their interest in coming here. First part of July I get a postcard in the mail that AT&T has plumbed my neighborhood for FTTH and here's the package deal. Since I already had DirecTV the bundled cost for net/TV/VOIP was about $50/month less than my bills to Comcast, DirecTV & Vonage, and my bandwidth test via speedtest is now 940 Mb both ways vs. 80/10 with Comcast, and with the satellite bundle there's no data cap. Bundle cost is good for two years, by which point with any luck Google will be in town & I can decide *which* FTTH provider to go with. Embarrassment of riches...
cable-cutters going to Netflix, Sling, etc scare the crap out of Comcast, especially as a network owner themselves. Throttling these content providers into Comcast userspace is a (vain) effort to discourage the flood of people fleeing the lousy service and exorbitant pricing offered by Comcast.
Notice in the handful of towns deploying Google Fiber, the offers from Comcast suddenly become competitive (I'm in Jacksonville FL, a prospective GF site, and praying to Whatever Gods There Are it gets in here and my neighborhood has availability). I can live with torrenting my Walking Dead fix (Google TV service lacks AMC) for the chance to tell Comcast to take their pricey, lousy service and shove it.
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I'm vaccinated, I have two 1y grandkids not through the regimen yet. Until then THEY are susceptible to any mobile Petri dish who's sure their opinions trump a century of factual data on vaccine efficacy. I'm not quite to the age range yet where my immune system will start ramping down regardless of what vaccinations I've had; then *I'm* vulnerable. Some people have naturally weak immune systems and vaccines "don't take"; THEY'RE vulnerable. Part of the "social contract" if you will, is helping protect your neighbors, Vaccinating to avoid the chance of passing some damaging disease to them is part of the deal. The people who skip assuming The Other Guy will get THEIR kids covered and protect their Special Snowflake are the worst sort of societal leeches.
Just replaced my old Android tablet with the Samsung Tab S4 which came with demo versions of Microsoft Word/Excel/PP and has the DEX mode to go to a full desktop ; Samsung is offering a full Ubuntu build (though the older 16.04) as an option running in DEX. I may pop for one of the small USB-C adapters to play with it.
I'm on AT&T's FTTH service, and have the landline phone signed up on : http://nomorobo.com/ which they don't charge landlines for ($2/mo on mobile). One ring then silence; wonderful...
Lucent is best mapped to the legacy Western Electric (manufacturing arm), AT&T kept the legacy landline LD service, Bell Labs and the quickly-defunct Computer Systems Group. The seven Regional Operating Companies went through M&A in the 90s/00s leaving Southwest Bell/SBC swallowing up Pac Bell, Ameritech and finally Bellsouth, picking up the rump AT&T operation in the process and taking Mother's name. Nynex & Bell Atlantic picked up the remnants of MCI Worldcom & became Verizon. Mountain Bell -> US West was bought out by Qwest during the dot-bubble and is now CenturyLink. New-AT&T and Verizon are each now major wireless providers. The current regulatory environment is not conducive to anything similar to the 80s breakup of the original Bell System. There'd have to be some major consumer fubar (serious service outage/security exposure) to trigger a repeat.
At the time, putting the writer/artists in the opening splash page was an innovation, so crediting "King Kirby", "Jazzy John Romita" (Sr...), "Scowling Steve Ditko" etc etc, was more credit than they'd received before, so the readers could match up artists they liked. It's well known Lee & Kirby fought over credit for some of the titles they co-created, but my understanding was that the two reconciled before Kirby's passing. To all the troll posts: given Stan's impact to the comics industry, given the happiness he gave multiple generations, you can all die screaming.
Wasn't going to go there, given the gravity of the situation, but if Musk has one of these in his back pocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... now is the time to get it packed up on TB2 & delivered...
They had thought to provision them in-place until the rainy season subsided, but more rains are expected, the pumps there now may be unable to keep up with the additional water, at which point the pocket they're in will become flooded as well. Most divers agree cave diving is risky at the best of times and with experience (one experienced diver has already died trying to position air tanks along the exit route to potentially bring the kids out), and many of these kids are non-swimmers to begin with. WIth the current situation the only available hope may be to "dive them out" tethered to other divers, for roughly a five-hour trek, changing tanks enroute. This doesn't sound promising.... If Musk can either help locate another route out with radar, help power additional pumps with a battery wall to at least keep up with the new rains, or bore an escape route, then I for one say good luck and godspeed.
Without Rob & CmdrTaco this wouldn't be here. They may have moved on but their contributions made this one of the great geek blogs. My deepest sympathies to family & friends.
> Do you have a link? https://blog.caranddriver.com/...
In an interview, Musk said that both a towel and a hardcopy of THHGTTG was stowed in the glovebox. Did you *really* think somebody who puts "Don't Panic" on the nav screen & names his landing barges after Iain Banks' (RIP) Culture ships is going to miss something like that? :-)
Assuming the 'third party' is an associated leasing operation under the same roof as the dealership, and both are owned by some parent company that may own additional dealerships elsewhere in the area. Reality is still the lease was paid off, at which point the car belongs to Mr. Lallier, and remotely hacking it to recover a device that should have been pulled on paying off said lease is a crime. I'm sure there's an attorney that would be happy to dissect the shell game they're playing on Mr Lallier's behalf...
In Asian markets (i.e. China) they have to provide the Micro-USB adapter plug gratis in order to sell the phones. In the glorious free-market USA, Apple gets to screw you over for an extra $xx for it and/or charge you extra for Lightning cables instead of the USB cables the other 90% of the market uses.
IIRC, the Bouncy Castle crypto package , developed to get around the 90's US export controls on strong ciphers, originates from Down Under. Funny their govt is now expecting developers to install Magic Good-Guys-Only Backdoors into their software so the Five-Eyes Panopticon can snoop as wanted.
and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon etc are managing to produce these just fine, thanks.The cable-cutters are getting tired of paying for 200-channel packages they watch maybe a dozen from (i.e. Disney/ABC/ESPN , or Discovery channels). The major sports leagues are starting to offer streaming options , once people can get live sports online without a cable contract those companies are utterly fscked.
It's been shown time & again that given the crap contracts the major record labels sign their talent to (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml), that the only way an act makes any money is by touring, and that the recordings exist as promotion for said tours. On that basis additional distribution by piracy only acts as added tour publicity and musicians should be encouraging it, except I'm sure the contract language prohibits such.
The NN rules had ZERO to do with QoS traffic shaping, and *everything* to do with preventing ISPs from rent-seeking behavior against services they competed with (ref. Netflix, Hulu, vs. ISP premium/PPV offerings, wanting to charge major sites like FB, Google etc to reach their customer base, etc.). "Fast lanes" or "zero-rating" by the providers simply lets *them* pick market winners by their ability to pay for access to customers, which is NOT how the Net has traditionally worked, and will effectively strangle startups unable to pay the troll. It's anti-free-market in the extreme, which should have all these Republicans shouting it down, except for the wads of payola jammed in their mouths....
About time they weighed in on "venue-shopping" by trolls. Either of the defendant or plaintiff's headquarters' locations.
>> We devalued software development by going from license fee based software to open source.
I don't see Red Hat out begging at corners; what's happened is that money isn't paid upfront for some sort of license fee, it's paid out for *support* of the code. If you decide the code is crap, you find an alternative & support *them*. This actually simplifies things by not sinking money into licensing at the beginning, and frankly how most enterprises operate anyway, with the removal of the upfront license. You pay for maintenance. If the customers aren't willing to pay for it, maybe you need to be working on code they *do* want to support.
Minor advantage, at least here in Jacksonville: the prospect of GF arriving scared AT&T into stringing more fiber. I was able to get it at my place this summer, and already having DirecTV meant no data caps, a lower bill than the combined Comcast/DTV/Vonage bills I had been paying, and a jump from 75/12 Mb to 940 symmetric. And being able to call up Comcast and tell them to DIAF didn't hurt my well-being either. Only problem now is what to do in two years when the contract expires and I won't have GF to threaten them with....
The latest model is impressive, but given the plummeting cost of hardware (thank you, smartphones), what features would you like to see in The Next Pi? More/faster CPU cores, better wireless, gigabit ethernet, USB 3.0 support, ???
The Pi was designed as a cheap-as-chips (pun unintended) computer for classroom education. Obviously since then it's been put to a myriad of Other Uses. Which of these have struck you as the "best" or most unexpected usage outside the classroom?
no, no, the internet is FTTH (they dropped a fiber off the pole, drilled through the wall, put a fiber-to-cat-6 box on my wall to their "gateway" box (4-port router + dual-band 802.11ac, plus two VOIP ports). My TV service is off the oval dish on the corner of my roof to two receivers. Ping is 7ms per speedtest
Same here in Jacksonville FL: Google announced this spring their interest in coming here. First part of July I get a postcard in the mail that AT&T has plumbed my neighborhood for FTTH and here's the package deal. Since I already had DirecTV the bundled cost for net/TV/VOIP was about $50/month less than my bills to Comcast, DirecTV & Vonage, and my bandwidth test via speedtest is now 940 Mb both ways vs. 80/10 with Comcast, and with the satellite bundle there's no data cap. Bundle cost is good for two years, by which point with any luck Google will be in town & I can decide *which* FTTH provider to go with. Embarrassment of riches...
Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10/32 Gb, Android Marshmallow
NAS: Synology DS212, 2x HGST 4Gb
Connectivity : Just got in AT&T Gigapower (showing 940 Mb symmetric).
cable-cutters going to Netflix, Sling, etc scare the crap out of Comcast, especially as a network owner themselves. Throttling these content providers into Comcast userspace is a (vain) effort to discourage the flood of people fleeing the lousy service and exorbitant pricing offered by Comcast. Notice in the handful of towns deploying Google Fiber, the offers from Comcast suddenly become competitive (I'm in Jacksonville FL, a prospective GF site, and praying to Whatever Gods There Are it gets in here and my neighborhood has availability). I can live with torrenting my Walking Dead fix (Google TV service lacks AMC) for the chance to tell Comcast to take their pricey, lousy service and shove it.