Look, if they're going to offer subsidized internet access to low-income households, I think the real move should be to nationalize it altogether.
That'll never happen as we're not socialist enough. If all ISP's were required to be a utility that would at least require approval from a public utility commission to raise rates etc and you would have another means of resolving your service issues.
Oh please not the seniors. I hate to be discriminatory but those with a sharp learning curve need some training before they call me. I'm patient and nice but all calls are timed and they blow me out of the water with those long calls. Since I'm in a position of talking to a wide variety of customers every day it really drives home just how poor basic computer education is for the older people who may be one or two generations behind me.
As far as I know there are only some parts of the Comcast footprint that are currently using IPv6 right now so I think that most will be on IPv4 for the time being.
Comcast is in the process of rolling out IPv6 to all areas of the company so I can't see why this would be any different. Bandwidth will be minimal at 1.5 mb per second download and 384 kb per second upload. This program is designed to bring internet to homes that otherwise would not be able to afford the regular rate of 44.95. There are some conditions that apply for this service. Your child must be getting a subsidized school lunch and you are not elligible if you have paid for comcast internet at any other price in the last 3 months. It's not a bad idea but I can't even think of what it must be like to surf at that speed. It reminds me of dial up.
They should be banning private ownership of cellphones, which are obviously highly effective as terrorist weapons.
How are cellphones effective as terrorist weapons? Terrorists kill 10's 100's or 1000's of people but as far as I can tell here only one guy got critically injured and a few people were assulted. Hardly a terrorist action.
It doesn't help that many of the nicer parts of center city (and south philly) are only a few blocks away from some housing projects etc. The have's and the have not's don't usually play nice with each other.
Because the second link was a bit light on information and the NY Times still seems to think that dumbass John Street is still the mayor of Philadelphia I give you the local source.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/126902753.html
it really was a shame what they did to one of those guys but this is hardly a flash mob. What somone had a cell phone and all of a sudden it's "News for Nerds"? Please. I don't even live in Philadelphia (anymore) and I know it's not safe to walk around downtown at 10:00PM. Brotherly Love my ass.
Washington will take care of Main Street when the people in Main Street stop making it very clear with their votes that the people in Richville are their main concern.
I'd like to believe that but more than likely Washington will pay attention when people revolt and start burning down houses in Richville. They (Washington) haven't listened to main street for quite a while and I don't see this happening any time soon.
I completely agree that you need to raise revenue in order to find our way out of this fiscal jam we created. Congress is the problem here. They can't even scratch their collective asses without engaging in some bullshit partisan battle. The congress hasn't represented the people for quite some time now and until they do the only way I see out of this is to earn revenue through taxation of those that have the money (big corporations and people with million dollar incomes). In reality that probably won't happen either as these people have power and better representation than middle income folks such as my self. So until the president bitchslaps each and every one of them (not likely either) we're just going to have a whole lot of finger pointing on both sides of the aisle and no progress on the issue (or in other words, more of the same).
Not really. Not raising the debt ceiling would be tantamount to "daddy taking away the credit card" and is not the same as "not paying on what you currently owe on the credit card."
Yes but if Moody's lowers the rating (which they may yet do) it will impact our ability to borrow money and eventually we will have to make severe cuts to balance the budget. So in a way we are just buying time until the inevitable or till someone comes up with a good idea (like stopping corporate welfare and raising taxes for the rich).
Or it's due to the fact that China could bankrupt the US by simply refusing to buy any more treasury bonds.
Please. Ok China already owns a huge amount (roughly 30% last I heard) of T bonds. Ever hear the saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket"? If those bastards in congress did not find a way to increase the debt ceiling our precious triple A credit rating would have dropped significantly and the value of those treasury bonds would have went with it. China has emough trouble with their own economy growing too fast so they don't need additional problems from us. But that's just what will happen. Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrials dropped 1% and Nasdaq was down bout 2%. The markets are concerned about job growth among other things. The Euro zone is not doing much better. Greece has been bailed out once and will probably have to have a second bailout before they are out of hot water. Ireland, Portugal and Spainare also having trouble and may need to be bailed out as well. All of these things and more combine for very unsteady world markets and devalued currency. Allthough China has a stronger economy than most of the western world they too will be in trouble if their investments are devalued. None of this has to do with their brazen penetration of our networks and secrets stolen. I threw all of that out there simply to illustrate your ignorance and to show that China too has problems she must overcome.
when the local district attorney is in bed with the local police department. Prosecutors are supposed to be objective and review all cases with an impartial eye for this kind of bullshit. You would figure any judge would throw this obvious trumped up charge out but he's also in be with the PD too. Welcome to Amerika.
Having said that, I still despise the Iranian leadership
Therein lies the problem. I suspect eventually there will be two outcomes to the Iranian leadership problem: Either the students/young people will rise up against the regime (history repeating itself) or somone will bomb their uranium plants (at least the one's we know about) back to the stone age.
Looks like Juno got the short end of the design stick. Where the other two characters got custom beards, tools and whatnot...she got flowing hair and a frying pan?
Flowing hair = good frying pan = magnifying glass OOHHH DOH
Yep, you showed Iran alright. Unfortunately, you also created a whole new giant pain in the world's ass.
Considering the tradeoff I'll take the giant pain in the ass any day. Those folks "running" Iran should most definitly NOT have access to enriched uranium.
I always knew there was something special about the Dark Side of the Moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark." Queue the "get off my lawn dirty hippie" remarks.
We haven't given any weapons or training to the Taliban as far as I know of. Are you referring to the stinger missiles that we gave the Afghan Mujahideen back in the early to mid 80's? I'm sure we gave them a bunch of AK's and other assorted weapons too. The Stingers were the best because they could take down those big nasty MI-24 (Hind) helicopters. If so then we are talking about a war that ended with the Soviet withdrawal back in 1985. I agree with your takeaway though. Unfortunately our government seems to think it knows best.
Cue picture of IBM engineers scratching heads and saying "I thought you said this was secure". I hope they didn't have anything of value behind that network. Oh yeah.... their reputation. Might as well have put that in the DMZ for all the good it will do ya.
We have pretty good relations with the UK so I assume we would know about something this big. Israel maybe but they have been at the spy game for a while and I think they're slick enough to get in and out without making it obvious. Russia is in the cybercrime business but shouldn't be ruled out. Don't really know anything about stae sponsored hacking in the US or Germany for that matter but I'm sure all of the above are engaged in state sponsored hacking but China (if it is them) appears to be the most blatent.
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Look, if they're going to offer subsidized internet access to low-income households, I think the real move should be to nationalize it altogether.
That'll never happen as we're not socialist enough. If all ISP's were required to be a utility that would at least require approval from a public utility commission to raise rates etc and you would have another means of resolving your service issues.
Oh please not the seniors. I hate to be discriminatory but those with a sharp learning curve need some training before they call me. I'm patient and nice but all calls are timed and they blow me out of the water with those long calls. Since I'm in a position of talking to a wide variety of customers every day it really drives home just how poor basic computer education is for the older people who may be one or two generations behind me.
As far as I know there are only some parts of the Comcast footprint that are currently using IPv6 right now so I think that most will be on IPv4 for the time being.
Comcast is in the process of rolling out IPv6 to all areas of the company so I can't see why this would be any different. Bandwidth will be minimal at 1.5 mb per second download and 384 kb per second upload. This program is designed to bring internet to homes that otherwise would not be able to afford the regular rate of 44.95. There are some conditions that apply for this service. Your child must be getting a subsidized school lunch and you are not elligible if you have paid for comcast internet at any other price in the last 3 months. It's not a bad idea but I can't even think of what it must be like to surf at that speed. It reminds me of dial up.
They should be banning private ownership of cellphones, which are obviously highly effective as terrorist weapons.
How are cellphones effective as terrorist weapons? Terrorists kill 10's 100's or 1000's of people but as far as I can tell here only one guy got critically injured and a few people were assulted. Hardly a terrorist action.
It doesn't help that many of the nicer parts of center city (and south philly) are only a few blocks away from some housing projects etc. The have's and the have not's don't usually play nice with each other.
Because the second link was a bit light on information and the NY Times still seems to think that dumbass John Street is still the mayor of Philadelphia I give you the local source. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/126902753.html it really was a shame what they did to one of those guys but this is hardly a flash mob. What somone had a cell phone and all of a sudden it's "News for Nerds"? Please. I don't even live in Philadelphia (anymore) and I know it's not safe to walk around downtown at 10:00PM. Brotherly Love my ass.
Washington will take care of Main Street when the people in Main Street stop making it very clear with their votes that the people in Richville are their main concern.
I'd like to believe that but more than likely Washington will pay attention when people revolt and start burning down houses in Richville. They (Washington) haven't listened to main street for quite a while and I don't see this happening any time soon.
I completely agree that you need to raise revenue in order to find our way out of this fiscal jam we created. Congress is the problem here. They can't even scratch their collective asses without engaging in some bullshit partisan battle. The congress hasn't represented the people for quite some time now and until they do the only way I see out of this is to earn revenue through taxation of those that have the money (big corporations and people with million dollar incomes). In reality that probably won't happen either as these people have power and better representation than middle income folks such as my self. So until the president bitchslaps each and every one of them (not likely either) we're just going to have a whole lot of finger pointing on both sides of the aisle and no progress on the issue (or in other words, more of the same).
Not really. Not raising the debt ceiling would be tantamount to "daddy taking away the credit card" and is not the same as "not paying on what you currently owe on the credit card." Yes but if Moody's lowers the rating (which they may yet do) it will impact our ability to borrow money and eventually we will have to make severe cuts to balance the budget. So in a way we are just buying time until the inevitable or till someone comes up with a good idea (like stopping corporate welfare and raising taxes for the rich).
Or it's due to the fact that China could bankrupt the US by simply refusing to buy any more treasury bonds.
Please. Ok China already owns a huge amount (roughly 30% last I heard) of T bonds. Ever hear the saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket"? If those bastards in congress did not find a way to increase the debt ceiling our precious triple A credit rating would have dropped significantly and the value of those treasury bonds would have went with it. China has emough trouble with their own economy growing too fast so they don't need additional problems from us. But that's just what will happen. Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrials dropped 1% and Nasdaq was down bout 2%. The markets are concerned about job growth among other things. The Euro zone is not doing much better. Greece has been bailed out once and will probably have to have a second bailout before they are out of hot water. Ireland, Portugal and Spainare also having trouble and may need to be bailed out as well. All of these things and more combine for very unsteady world markets and devalued currency. Allthough China has a stronger economy than most of the western world they too will be in trouble if their investments are devalued. None of this has to do with their brazen penetration of our networks and secrets stolen. I threw all of that out there simply to illustrate your ignorance and to show that China too has problems she must overcome.
And one Master API to bind them all. Ok so it's not really funny but I'm in a goofy mood today.
when the local district attorney is in bed with the local police department. Prosecutors are supposed to be objective and review all cases with an impartial eye for this kind of bullshit. You would figure any judge would throw this obvious trumped up charge out but he's also in be with the PD too. Welcome to Amerika.
+1 parent. Sorry spent my points earlier today.
Having said that, I still despise the Iranian leadership
Therein lies the problem. I suspect eventually there will be two outcomes to the Iranian leadership problem: Either the students/young people will rise up against the regime (history repeating itself) or somone will bomb their uranium plants (at least the one's we know about) back to the stone age.
They will get there anyway. This was a delay only. Only now they'll be MORE pissed off.
Queue the bombers. If they get that far Israel or USA will bomb their factory back to the stone age.
Looks like Juno got the short end of the design stick. Where the other two characters got custom beards, tools and whatnot...she got flowing hair and a frying pan?
Flowing hair = good frying pan = magnifying glass OOHHH DOH
Yep, you showed Iran alright. Unfortunately, you also created a whole new giant pain in the world's ass.
Considering the tradeoff I'll take the giant pain in the ass any day. Those folks "running" Iran should most definitly NOT have access to enriched uranium.
I always knew there was something special about the Dark Side of the Moon. "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark." Queue the "get off my lawn dirty hippie" remarks.
We haven't given any weapons or training to the Taliban as far as I know of. Are you referring to the stinger missiles that we gave the Afghan Mujahideen back in the early to mid 80's? I'm sure we gave them a bunch of AK's and other assorted weapons too. The Stingers were the best because they could take down those big nasty MI-24 (Hind) helicopters. If so then we are talking about a war that ended with the Soviet withdrawal back in 1985. I agree with your takeaway though. Unfortunately our government seems to think it knows best.
Cue picture of IBM engineers scratching heads and saying "I thought you said this was secure". I hope they didn't have anything of value behind that network. Oh yeah.... their reputation. Might as well have put that in the DMZ for all the good it will do ya.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for a room full of black hats to take this thing down?
LMAO classic.
We have pretty good relations with the UK so I assume we would know about something this big. Israel maybe but they have been at the spy game for a while and I think they're slick enough to get in and out without making it obvious. Russia is in the cybercrime business but shouldn't be ruled out. Don't really know anything about stae sponsored hacking in the US or Germany for that matter but I'm sure all of the above are engaged in state sponsored hacking but China (if it is them) appears to be the most blatent.
but there is speculation that China may be behind the attacks
OMG ya think? Who else has the ability to put something this massive together?