xDSL at a distance of more than say 3Km and it ain't broad band. The telcos have only themselves to blame for this. For decades they continued to milk and squeeze the American consumer and businesses with their services that were built using government funds and support and their lobbied for monopolies. 25 years ago when the cable companies started to get serious about providing internet service on their trunks the fat and healthy telcos stood back and let it happen without a bit of a fight. They were so use to having their monopoly and way with the customers that they were drunk with profits and power. By the time they were awoken from their largess the cable companies were really and truly entrenched in the very same markets that the telcos had run rough shod over. The barn door being left open and the whole ranch having run out they did what any smart business does, they doubled down on their crappy and woefully out of date infrastructure and milked the customer even harder. Cable companies, laughing all the way to the bank, simply leveraged their installed cable backbones and offered more and better services. The cable companies were driving wooden stakes into the vampire telcos hearts from every direction. xDSL to the rescue! BUT, it ran on old lines that were in some cases over the age of the execs that were now bilking you and me. If you were lucky and close to the CO you might be able to get 7 or 8Mbps. Most of us were lucky to even be able to get xDSL at 1-1.5Mbps. Meanwhile the cable companies and their equipment suppliers invested heavily in their backbones and ran fiber to the neighborhood and the RT feeding the trunks, the last mile as it were. Now they were poised to deliver. All the while they are also able to take advantage of the laws the Telcos had managed to slip into the law books, and by extension the public's ass, making it illegal for municipalities to build out a backbone or last mile. This applied even in places where they had no economic interest or incentive to provide service due to low density of population and demand for high margin services. I am going to say it again. Repeal the laws blocking municipalities from building out backbones and feeding the last mile and take it back for the public. Make all the value added service providers route through the municipal CO and destroy their strangle hold on the public.
Just my thought too. All they had to do was arrest the guy and get the warrant to the on call judge. FUCKING SIT TIGHT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO IS ALL IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU FUCKING KEYSTONE COPS. Instead they seized the recordings outside of a warrant and the little prick goes free yet again. If I were the girl I would bring a suit against the department for bumbling my justice and letting the shit get away with it yet again. It is going to happen, people are getting tired of this sort of shit that the rich get away with. There is going to be that tripping point and watch out. Allot of these shits and their scumbag lawyers are gonna end up face down in a pile of their own blood. The public is tired of reading about this time and again. Keep in mind that they are working hard to make sure that they are able to own and carry guns while taking the right away from the common person... You work it out.
Funny this one, isn't it all there for anyone to see if you simply join? Oh my, they didn't join and yet still have access to the data? My O My, what are we to do? (wringing hands in consternation) I have a page but post not a single bit of truth or useful information on it. It is simply a place holder and nothing more. Enjoy that info you pulled from me, it is utterly without worth.
Actually, they can be a fair distance away and skim the transaction using the likes of a Yagi-Uda antenna. The very high frequencies the transactional data is transferred at it very small antennas have very high gains. In theory you could sit outside of a door in the comfort of your air conditioned car pointing the antenna at the register and snoop the traffic as it happens. From there...
We cut cable about 10 years ago and do Netflix, Amazon prime, and off air. Don't miss a thing on cable. All the adds and crap programming are soul draining. The solution is simple. We buy the set top box and they activate it just like usual. Problem resolved, or is it. The cable companies would not be able to make tons of money for old recycled boxes rented to their customers for ridiculous amounts and that will not due! CUT THE CABLE. Mine is only an internet provider.
I will not argue against that one bit. It is a simple fact that they are both in the pockets of the rich and the corporations to our detriment and their enrichment. Good point and one I am well aware of, I should have pointed it out as well. Thanks
As much as I agree with you it is far simpler than that. It is nothing more than subterfuge. If the morons focus on bullshit like porn they will not be looking at the fact that the banking and insurance industries are doing the very same bullshit that caused the crash in 2006. They will not be looking at the fact that the rich and the large multinationals are orders of magnitude better off at the expense of the middle and lower classes. They will not notice the fact that the separation of church and state is eroded to the point of being a farce and a joke now. They will not care that the churches protect pedophiles while at the same time they bring on out right attacks on the rights of woman to self determination and what they can and can't do with their own bodies. They will not notice the overwhelming body of evidence that the earth is on a path to extreme weather swings that will forever change the lives of their kids and every other creature on the planet. They will not notice that the control of the internet is being seeded to an international group of countries bent of the suppression of of free speech and the open exchange of ideas. They will not be focused on the continued war that kills their kids and makes the military industrial complex richer by the day. They will not be focused on the need to tighten up on weapons background checks as at least some measure to get the stupidity under control. Fuck it, the uneducated will vote for that fucking moron because they are just that, FUCKING MORONS!
So let me get this straight, I am a sicko because I call the republican stance regarding porn a distraction from the real issues that are actually doing real harm to you and your children? Good to know, be sure to get to the poles early so you can vote for that idiot and the occupants of his clown car. For the record I can't ever recall seeing anyone looking at porn in any place in public on their phone or laptop, ever!
So true, the middle class is shrinking and the more people are slipping into the poor class, the rich are an order of magnitude richer since the crash and corporations are far better off. BUT, some dude jerking off in the privacy of his own home is a public health crisis that needs to be dealt with. Fucking assholes. Yet another reason that Starbucks and McD suck and I don't go there.
Not impressed at all. Any group of IP thief's can throw a shit load of cores together and lie about the synthetic speeds they hit. The real trick is the interconnect and the storage, not cores. Willing to bet that they are not even close on that front to the likes of Cray and companies like Data Direct.
I have been whipping this horse for the better part of a decade as the only real way to stop the abuse of the customer by the ISPs and provide service to all. Of course the ISPs cry that it is unfair. In fact it takes the power of monopoly out of their pocket and puts them in the position of having to compete with other companies that they didn't have to compete with due to paying bribes to the counsels and utility commissions. This is great but you will never see it in medium and large cities as the incumbent ISPs and telcos will simply pay the ones making the decisions to back them and fuck the public.
A union is only as strong as their members and the other employees that may or may not support them in a protracted strike. Considering the state of the print news business I think it would have made little difference. Here is the silver lining. The IT staff are training their off shore "replacements" but you can be sure that there is a very large amount of intimate knowledge that will either not be forwarded or lost in the translation. IT staff are in demand right now so employment should be fairly easy to find. The IT staff that are getting screwed will move on and find work elsewhere. That elsewhere will likely be with a company that has tried the off shore IT "professionals" and found that the service is poor at best and the high turnover makes it nearly impossible to train and retain competent staff. This is the result companies like GE have found and are slowly, quietly, pulling back the work load stateside or to their respective country of operation. The short term savings are going to be lost by the truck load after the program flops. They will then try to rehire some key staff from before only to find that they may not come back or if they do will only come back at two times or more their previous salary plus allot more. Most will not return but those that do will be there to bail a Titanic sized sinking ship with little more than Dixie cups in hand. They will then be blamed for the complete failure and terminated. Rinse and repeat, NEXT!!!
I hate neither big business nor wall street. I just think they operate in a morally and ethically shitty fashion. They manipulate the government and the laws in a manner that is designed to do the maximum damage to the general public and enrich the few that are owners/ controllers of corporations. IE, moving the control and wealth from the middle class and the poor to themselves. I am also realistic enough to know that there is nothing that we can do about it at this point other than surrender our morals and ethics to become one of them. Dennis Leary put it best "Life sucks, get a fucking helmet!"
Maybe if American companies didn't put their most sensitive information on servers maintained by cheap out of country IT workers and protect said data with cheap off the shelf hardware configured by the cheapest IT staff they can lay hands on they would not find themselves being literally put out of business by their lesser competition.
True but they also have an economy in collapse. Smart money would be to put together a joint base on the moon that the major players in space all develop and use together. To bad that the politics of fuckheads gets in the way of science and exploration.
"Rapid advancements in technology grant consumers a wide variety of cable, internet and phone service products from which they may choose"
I don't know what planet this guy lives on but but here in the US of A we sure as hell don't have a "wide variety" by any stretch of the imagination. If he considers one cable provider and poorly maintained xDSL lines at the distance limit from the CO "wide variety" then maybe.
I would if they were of newer inherently safe designs that self moderate when things go south. Second, only smaller units that are in the 10s of Mega Watts at most of output. Third, Thorium/Uranium cycle, not Uranium?Plutonium cycle. Fourth, funds forced into long term investments that are locked into only being available for decommissioning and are not under the control of the power producer. Fifth, Scaled production of standardized parts. Sixth, shared tech with other countries and at cost assistance to help them.
Simple and there are already a number of designs ready to go for this.
The lesson here is do not defraud the rich. They have the power of the government and the law to manipulate to their own benefit. You steal from the poor. You know, like the banks, investment houses, and the insurance companies did and continue to do to you and me. The government will even reward you for be so damn good at it!
So what you are saying is let a guy fuck children, get caught, do a little time, then forget about him. Just because remembering him means that the victims are gonna feel uncomfortable. Got news for you moron, they do every day regardless. Forgetting a real criminals deeds is to invite him/her to do it again and lull the public into thinking that he/she is normal. These people are broken. A little jail time and counseling seldom keeps them from committing the same shit again. I am all for forgetting about minor shit like cites for spitting on the ground in front of idiots like you. I am not in favor of forgetting rapists and child pornographers. Bet that the very vast majority of the public is there with me on this.
Alledged? The guy was convicted from what can be told. And worst of all the victims were children! Getting drunk and fighting with the cops is worthy of being forgotten, Child pornography is not.
They both received large donations from the People "corporations" that are trying to force us and content providers to pay for normal access to the very same content we should get unfettered already. Both are shit bags and do not deserve anyones support nor re-election.
Agreed. I simply us it to put the optical disk on a network storage array so I can play a movie from any room that I am in. DVDs and Blueray disks are a pain. The encryption is there to force issues and make you more likely to buy the disk rather than copy it. Hello assholes, I bought the fuckin thing, gonna watch it how I want and in the most convenient way too. Keep up the crap and I will start ripping the Netflix disks I get daily...
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Wait, does this mean I can be a gargoyle and stringer for the NSA/CIA now?
xDSL at a distance of more than say 3Km and it ain't broad band. The telcos have only themselves to blame for this. For decades they continued to milk and squeeze the American consumer and businesses with their services that were built using government funds and support and their lobbied for monopolies. 25 years ago when the cable companies started to get serious about providing internet service on their trunks the fat and healthy telcos stood back and let it happen without a bit of a fight. They were so use to having their monopoly and way with the customers that they were drunk with profits and power. By the time they were awoken from their largess the cable companies were really and truly entrenched in the very same markets that the telcos had run rough shod over. The barn door being left open and the whole ranch having run out they did what any smart business does, they doubled down on their crappy and woefully out of date infrastructure and milked the customer even harder. Cable companies, laughing all the way to the bank, simply leveraged their installed cable backbones and offered more and better services. The cable companies were driving wooden stakes into the vampire telcos hearts from every direction. xDSL to the rescue! BUT, it ran on old lines that were in some cases over the age of the execs that were now bilking you and me. If you were lucky and close to the CO you might be able to get 7 or 8Mbps. Most of us were lucky to even be able to get xDSL at 1-1.5Mbps. Meanwhile the cable companies and their equipment suppliers invested heavily in their backbones and ran fiber to the neighborhood and the RT feeding the trunks, the last mile as it were. Now they were poised to deliver. All the while they are also able to take advantage of the laws the Telcos had managed to slip into the law books, and by extension the public's ass, making it illegal for municipalities to build out a backbone or last mile. This applied even in places where they had no economic interest or incentive to provide service due to low density of population and demand for high margin services. I am going to say it again. Repeal the laws blocking municipalities from building out backbones and feeding the last mile and take it back for the public. Make all the value added service providers route through the municipal CO and destroy their strangle hold on the public.
Just my thought too. All they had to do was arrest the guy and get the warrant to the on call judge. FUCKING SIT TIGHT FOR AN HOUR OR TWO IS ALL IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN YOU FUCKING KEYSTONE COPS. Instead they seized the recordings outside of a warrant and the little prick goes free yet again. If I were the girl I would bring a suit against the department for bumbling my justice and letting the shit get away with it yet again. It is going to happen, people are getting tired of this sort of shit that the rich get away with. There is going to be that tripping point and watch out. Allot of these shits and their scumbag lawyers are gonna end up face down in a pile of their own blood. The public is tired of reading about this time and again. Keep in mind that they are working hard to make sure that they are able to own and carry guns while taking the right away from the common person... You work it out.
Funny this one, isn't it all there for anyone to see if you simply join? Oh my, they didn't join and yet still have access to the data? My O My, what are we to do? (wringing hands in consternation) I have a page but post not a single bit of truth or useful information on it. It is simply a place holder and nothing more. Enjoy that info you pulled from me, it is utterly without worth.
Actually, they can be a fair distance away and skim the transaction using the likes of a Yagi-Uda antenna. The very high frequencies the transactional data is transferred at it very small antennas have very high gains. In theory you could sit outside of a door in the comfort of your air conditioned car pointing the antenna at the register and snoop the traffic as it happens. From there...
We cut cable about 10 years ago and do Netflix, Amazon prime, and off air. Don't miss a thing on cable. All the adds and crap programming are soul draining. The solution is simple. We buy the set top box and they activate it just like usual. Problem resolved, or is it. The cable companies would not be able to make tons of money for old recycled boxes rented to their customers for ridiculous amounts and that will not due! CUT THE CABLE. Mine is only an internet provider.
I will not argue against that one bit. It is a simple fact that they are both in the pockets of the rich and the corporations to our detriment and their enrichment. Good point and one I am well aware of, I should have pointed it out as well. Thanks
As much as I agree with you it is far simpler than that. It is nothing more than subterfuge. If the morons focus on bullshit like porn they will not be looking at the fact that the banking and insurance industries are doing the very same bullshit that caused the crash in 2006. They will not be looking at the fact that the rich and the large multinationals are orders of magnitude better off at the expense of the middle and lower classes. They will not notice the fact that the separation of church and state is eroded to the point of being a farce and a joke now. They will not care that the churches protect pedophiles while at the same time they bring on out right attacks on the rights of woman to self determination and what they can and can't do with their own bodies. They will not notice the overwhelming body of evidence that the earth is on a path to extreme weather swings that will forever change the lives of their kids and every other creature on the planet. They will not notice that the control of the internet is being seeded to an international group of countries bent of the suppression of of free speech and the open exchange of ideas. They will not be focused on the continued war that kills their kids and makes the military industrial complex richer by the day. They will not be focused on the need to tighten up on weapons background checks as at least some measure to get the stupidity under control. Fuck it, the uneducated will vote for that fucking moron because they are just that, FUCKING MORONS!
So let me get this straight, I am a sicko because I call the republican stance regarding porn a distraction from the real issues that are actually doing real harm to you and your children? Good to know, be sure to get to the poles early so you can vote for that idiot and the occupants of his clown car. For the record I can't ever recall seeing anyone looking at porn in any place in public on their phone or laptop, ever!
So true, the middle class is shrinking and the more people are slipping into the poor class, the rich are an order of magnitude richer since the crash and corporations are far better off. BUT, some dude jerking off in the privacy of his own home is a public health crisis that needs to be dealt with. Fucking assholes. Yet another reason that Starbucks and McD suck and I don't go there.
Not impressed at all. Any group of IP thief's can throw a shit load of cores together and lie about the synthetic speeds they hit. The real trick is the interconnect and the storage, not cores. Willing to bet that they are not even close on that front to the likes of Cray and companies like Data Direct.
I have been whipping this horse for the better part of a decade as the only real way to stop the abuse of the customer by the ISPs and provide service to all. Of course the ISPs cry that it is unfair. In fact it takes the power of monopoly out of their pocket and puts them in the position of having to compete with other companies that they didn't have to compete with due to paying bribes to the counsels and utility commissions. This is great but you will never see it in medium and large cities as the incumbent ISPs and telcos will simply pay the ones making the decisions to back them and fuck the public.
This report according to Monsanto and funded by the large farming conglomerates.
A union is only as strong as their members and the other employees that may or may not support them in a protracted strike. Considering the state of the print news business I think it would have made little difference. Here is the silver lining. The IT staff are training their off shore "replacements" but you can be sure that there is a very large amount of intimate knowledge that will either not be forwarded or lost in the translation. IT staff are in demand right now so employment should be fairly easy to find. The IT staff that are getting screwed will move on and find work elsewhere. That elsewhere will likely be with a company that has tried the off shore IT "professionals" and found that the service is poor at best and the high turnover makes it nearly impossible to train and retain competent staff. This is the result companies like GE have found and are slowly, quietly, pulling back the work load stateside or to their respective country of operation. The short term savings are going to be lost by the truck load after the program flops. They will then try to rehire some key staff from before only to find that they may not come back or if they do will only come back at two times or more their previous salary plus allot more. Most will not return but those that do will be there to bail a Titanic sized sinking ship with little more than Dixie cups in hand. They will then be blamed for the complete failure and terminated. Rinse and repeat, NEXT!!!
I hate neither big business nor wall street. I just think they operate in a morally and ethically shitty fashion. They manipulate the government and the laws in a manner that is designed to do the maximum damage to the general public and enrich the few that are owners/ controllers of corporations. IE, moving the control and wealth from the middle class and the poor to themselves. I am also realistic enough to know that there is nothing that we can do about it at this point other than surrender our morals and ethics to become one of them. Dennis Leary put it best "Life sucks, get a fucking helmet!"
Maybe if American companies didn't put their most sensitive information on servers maintained by cheap out of country IT workers and protect said data with cheap off the shelf hardware configured by the cheapest IT staff they can lay hands on they would not find themselves being literally put out of business by their lesser competition.
True but they also have an economy in collapse. Smart money would be to put together a joint base on the moon that the major players in space all develop and use together. To bad that the politics of fuckheads gets in the way of science and exploration.
"Rapid advancements in technology grant consumers a wide variety of cable, internet and phone service products from which they may choose" I don't know what planet this guy lives on but but here in the US of A we sure as hell don't have a "wide variety" by any stretch of the imagination. If he considers one cable provider and poorly maintained xDSL lines at the distance limit from the CO "wide variety" then maybe.
I would if they were of newer inherently safe designs that self moderate when things go south. Second, only smaller units that are in the 10s of Mega Watts at most of output. Third, Thorium/Uranium cycle, not Uranium?Plutonium cycle. Fourth, funds forced into long term investments that are locked into only being available for decommissioning and are not under the control of the power producer. Fifth, Scaled production of standardized parts. Sixth, shared tech with other countries and at cost assistance to help them. Simple and there are already a number of designs ready to go for this.
The lesson here is do not defraud the rich. They have the power of the government and the law to manipulate to their own benefit. You steal from the poor. You know, like the banks, investment houses, and the insurance companies did and continue to do to you and me. The government will even reward you for be so damn good at it!
So what you are saying is let a guy fuck children, get caught, do a little time, then forget about him. Just because remembering him means that the victims are gonna feel uncomfortable. Got news for you moron, they do every day regardless. Forgetting a real criminals deeds is to invite him/her to do it again and lull the public into thinking that he/she is normal. These people are broken. A little jail time and counseling seldom keeps them from committing the same shit again. I am all for forgetting about minor shit like cites for spitting on the ground in front of idiots like you. I am not in favor of forgetting rapists and child pornographers. Bet that the very vast majority of the public is there with me on this.
Alledged? The guy was convicted from what can be told. And worst of all the victims were children! Getting drunk and fighting with the cops is worthy of being forgotten, Child pornography is not.
Team rodent at it again... Fuck Disney!
They both received large donations from the People "corporations" that are trying to force us and content providers to pay for normal access to the very same content we should get unfettered already. Both are shit bags and do not deserve anyones support nor re-election.
Agreed. I simply us it to put the optical disk on a network storage array so I can play a movie from any room that I am in. DVDs and Blueray disks are a pain. The encryption is there to force issues and make you more likely to buy the disk rather than copy it. Hello assholes, I bought the fuckin thing, gonna watch it how I want and in the most convenient way too. Keep up the crap and I will start ripping the Netflix disks I get daily...