The solution to the banking crisis was regulation and control, which in today's age likely drives technical solutions (need an data archiving solution that can pull records in X amount of time? IT solution....). Breaking up big banks? Great, more entities that need new datacenters, more bandwidth, new IT staff, etc...
In the tech industry, regulation and control begets more technology and will drive demand and innovation for smarter, more integrated solutions. Facebook will look at "regulation" as a coding problem and work around what ever limits or control are put in place. GDPR? Great, hire more coders and treat it like any other problem faced in IT.
If Facebook, Google, Amazon are broken up I can only see this driving demand for newer more innovative platforms and may even drive growth.
Exactly this, all of the tablets coming out these days are terrible!
I'm patiently waiting for a stock Android tablet with equal or better specs than my OnePlus 3. Can not justify the current price tags for little or no hardware improvement.
It has nothing to do with media DRM, but accessory DRM.
If you make a set of earbuds and want them to be compatible with IOS devices you have to pay a licensing fee to Apple for the pleasure based on their connector (patented) and now their proprietary (and patented) wireless technology.
Any device or accessory where you see a "Works with IOS" or "Compatible with iPhone" had to pay a fee to Apple, this is their major source in income.
From the summary "AT&T overcharged two Florida school districts for phone service" "AT&T prices charged to the districts were almost 400 percent higher than they should have been" "AT&T violated the FCC's "lowest corresponding price rule" designed to ensure that schools and libraries "get the best rates available by prohibiting E-Rate service providers..." "AT&T charged the school districts prices for telephone service that were magnitudes higher than many other customers in Florida,"
So, where in the summary does it actually say the FCC pays for the services themselves? AT&T should repay $63,760 it improperly received from the FCC in subsidies and the fine should go the school district to cover their high telecom costs.
If we want to argue what the summary says, it specifically calls out the fact that the districts we're over charged AND AT&T improperly received the subsidies (and it wasn't FCC money, the subsidies specifically come from a surcharge on everyone's phone bills... so that was OUR money).
Why doesn't the $170K go directly to the school district? I doubt the FCC has anything to do with ensuring the school districts budgets are compensated.
Its going to be something like this that will bring along the the AI uprising, innocent infinite Tamagochi matrix develops a glitch and hello Robotic Tamagotchi uprising!
Its because of the "no one has ever lost a job buying Cisco" attitude that is so prevalent in the industry, many engineers drank the cool aid long ago and don't want to admit that Cisco is not completely infallible.
Almost every network engineer I know has some sort of Cisco certification, people have to continue to justify the heft price for the hardware and the expensive certifications.
Had there been no 4th or 6th grade levels, and had the "6th" graders grown up in a system where they themselves were mentors, the situation you described would not have existed.
having "grades" based on age creates a pseudo class system among students, 6th grade students feel superior to the 4th grade creating a situation where bullying is almost imminent. Strong personalities need a strong moral compass, putting the more developed kids in to a leadership role teaches them the necessary social skills to be effective leaders and not lash out at the week within the group.
Starting from the firewall, infrastructure hardware: Old PC with added NIC's running Astaro (now Sophos) UTM HP Procurve 1800-8G switch (in the server closet) Dlink 8 port gig switch in the basement (media access) HP Procurve 802.11G AP in the basement Qnap TS-419PII NAS (with 4x2TB drives) Meraki 802.11N AP (Demo unit, upstairs)
Clients 7x Android\iOS devices (phones and tablets) 3x PC\Laptops 4x TV\Media players (Smart TV with Netflix, XBMC, BoxOffice, AV Unit) 2x Audio streaming devices (Squeezebox) 1x Hot Tub (remote controlled over IP) 1x Brultech home energy monitor 1x Lexmark laser printer
The phones and tablets are capable of remote controlling the media centres, audio streaming and the hot tub, good wifi coverage on both side of the house (up and down).
Have you seen the new tractors and combines that are available now? GPS guided, fully automated harvesting, feeding, fertilizing, etc... Automation is making its way to all areas of employment, including farm hands.
I think there are lot of useful cases, but I don't think voice control would be useful however (nobody wants to have a conversation with their microwave).
Lighting automation would be useful in a number of ways; on\off\vacation schedule, see a list of all active lights with power consumption (and then turn them off remotely), auto on\off depending on your location, etc...
Appliance automation; coffee pots have timers but why not control the settings from your remote device? Preheat the oven remotely, schedule your slow cooker based on your schedule, notifications when timers are done (microwave, oven, washer, dryer, etc...)
Power Monitoring; get a detailed report on power consumption per appliance, room, season and setup automation depending on peak hour usage rates.
Audio\Video: Crestron has some great automation, Logitech has excellent remotes, imagine if you could control the lights when settling in to watch a movie.
Security; get live feeds from your house, pickup audio, two way communication, remotely control locks (real security concern here however), random light control when on vacation.
All of these things can be done but are not integrated. If all these devices worked together we could think of some really creative ways to automate, making a phone or tablet the central control device for the home would be genius!
I've been attempting to connect, network and control as much of my house as possible with little success. Too many companies are trying (and failing) to offer up an integrated solution, none have the ability to truly integrated across the board.
Key systems that need this: HVAC - Nest is doing great things for automation and remote control, limited reach however Lighting - a bunch of half baked solutions out there, each with their own app and control interface Security - sound, video, motion detection, garage door control, etc... Appliances - remote control certain appliances, pre-heat your stove, notification when the dryer is done, etc... Power Monitoring - Semi decent solution out there, however needs better apps and integration Audio\Video - Remote control
If all of these systems used a common protocol we can focus on developing great apps and home automation, as long as manufacturer dick around with their own setup we'll never move forward.
Let us not forget that in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) pot is still technically a controlled substance in their law books. They have a policy of "non-enforcement" similar to what Obama is introducing.
The competition to get to the story first is too great and often over shadows the duty of the new to check facts and report an unbiased account of events.
What is missing is any sort of repercussions for reporting false facts, who do we hold accountable? Unfortunately good news simply does not pull in the desired ratings and ad revenues.
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Came here to post this, the term "activist" investor threw me off like this is a bad thing?
What the opposite of an "Activist Investor"? Pacifist investors?
The solution to the banking crisis was regulation and control, which in today's age likely drives technical solutions (need an data archiving solution that can pull records in X amount of time? IT solution....). Breaking up big banks? Great, more entities that need new datacenters, more bandwidth, new IT staff, etc...
In the tech industry, regulation and control begets more technology and will drive demand and innovation for smarter, more integrated solutions. Facebook will look at "regulation" as a coding problem and work around what ever limits or control are put in place. GDPR? Great, hire more coders and treat it like any other problem faced in IT.
If Facebook, Google, Amazon are broken up I can only see this driving demand for newer more innovative platforms and may even drive growth.
Exactly this, all of the tablets coming out these days are terrible!
I'm patiently waiting for a stock Android tablet with equal or better specs than my OnePlus 3. Can not justify the current price tags for little or no hardware improvement.
Still have to carry wired headphones when you travel anyways, until they install Bluetooth at each individual seat on the airplane!
No.
Follow up to "The markets are tanking"
Seems like so everywhere except the US:
http://money.cnn.com/data/mark...
The DOW is up 171 points at the time of this posting.
It has nothing to do with media DRM, but accessory DRM.
If you make a set of earbuds and want them to be compatible with IOS devices you have to pay a licensing fee to Apple for the pleasure based on their connector (patented) and now their proprietary (and patented) wireless technology.
Any device or accessory where you see a "Works with IOS" or "Compatible with iPhone" had to pay a fee to Apple, this is their major source in income.
"you're"
TL;DR your wrong, please go read the summary again.
From the summary
"AT&T overcharged two Florida school districts for phone service"
"AT&T prices charged to the districts were almost 400 percent higher than they should have been"
"AT&T violated the FCC's "lowest corresponding price rule" designed to ensure that schools and libraries "get the best rates available by prohibiting E-Rate service providers..."
"AT&T charged the school districts prices for telephone service that were magnitudes higher than many other customers in Florida,"
So, where in the summary does it actually say the FCC pays for the services themselves? AT&T should repay $63,760 it improperly received from the FCC in subsidies and the fine should go the school district to cover their high telecom costs.
If we want to argue what the summary says, it specifically calls out the fact that the districts we're over charged AND AT&T improperly received the subsidies (and it wasn't FCC money, the subsidies specifically come from a surcharge on everyone's phone bills... so that was OUR money).
Why doesn't the $170K go directly to the school district? I doubt the FCC has anything to do with ensuring the school districts budgets are compensated.
Seconded.
Everyone Else.
Its going to be something like this that will bring along the the AI uprising, innocent infinite Tamagochi matrix develops a glitch and hello Robotic Tamagotchi uprising!
I just know it!
One server, run virtual desktops and have 35-50 thin clients driving your monitors.
Its because of the "no one has ever lost a job buying Cisco" attitude that is so prevalent in the industry, many engineers drank the cool aid long ago and don't want to admit that Cisco is not completely infallible.
Almost every network engineer I know has some sort of Cisco certification, people have to continue to justify the heft price for the hardware and the expensive certifications.
Had there been no 4th or 6th grade levels, and had the "6th" graders grown up in a system where they themselves were mentors, the situation you described would not have existed.
having "grades" based on age creates a pseudo class system among students, 6th grade students feel superior to the 4th grade creating a situation where bullying is almost imminent. Strong personalities need a strong moral compass, putting the more developed kids in to a leadership role teaches them the necessary social skills to be effective leaders and not lash out at the week within the group.
I don't understand the "defusing" of a kitten by a laser pointer...
You distract the kitten with the laser pointer before it explodes! Duh....
Starting from the firewall, infrastructure hardware:
Old PC with added NIC's running Astaro (now Sophos) UTM
HP Procurve 1800-8G switch (in the server closet)
Dlink 8 port gig switch in the basement (media access)
HP Procurve 802.11G AP in the basement
Qnap TS-419PII NAS (with 4x2TB drives)
Meraki 802.11N AP (Demo unit, upstairs)
Clients
7x Android\iOS devices (phones and tablets)
3x PC\Laptops
4x TV\Media players (Smart TV with Netflix, XBMC, BoxOffice, AV Unit)
2x Audio streaming devices (Squeezebox)
1x Hot Tub (remote controlled over IP)
1x Brultech home energy monitor
1x Lexmark laser printer
The phones and tablets are capable of remote controlling the media centres, audio streaming and the hot tub, good wifi coverage on both side of the house (up and down).
Sounds like your typical corporate junket.... except these aren't corporation!
Beat me to it!
Now we have to deal with peer pressure in the datacenter! Dirty cloud huggers!
Two cases of beer have been delivered to Harper already!
The U.S. just needs to lock up Bieber and we're good.
Have you seen the new tractors and combines that are available now? GPS guided, fully automated harvesting, feeding, fertilizing, etc... Automation is making its way to all areas of employment, including farm hands.
I think there are lot of useful cases, but I don't think voice control would be useful however (nobody wants to have a conversation with their microwave).
Lighting automation would be useful in a number of ways; on\off\vacation schedule, see a list of all active lights with power consumption (and then turn them off remotely), auto on\off depending on your location, etc...
Appliance automation; coffee pots have timers but why not control the settings from your remote device? Preheat the oven remotely, schedule your slow cooker based on your schedule, notifications when timers are done (microwave, oven, washer, dryer, etc...)
Power Monitoring; get a detailed report on power consumption per appliance, room, season and setup automation depending on peak hour usage rates.
Audio\Video: Crestron has some great automation, Logitech has excellent remotes, imagine if you could control the lights when settling in to watch a movie.
Security; get live feeds from your house, pickup audio, two way communication, remotely control locks (real security concern here however), random light control when on vacation.
All of these things can be done but are not integrated. If all these devices worked together we could think of some really creative ways to automate, making a phone or tablet the central control device for the home would be genius!
I've been attempting to connect, network and control as much of my house as possible with little success. Too many companies are trying (and failing) to offer up an integrated solution, none have the ability to truly integrated across the board.
Key systems that need this:
HVAC - Nest is doing great things for automation and remote control, limited reach however
Lighting - a bunch of half baked solutions out there, each with their own app and control interface
Security - sound, video, motion detection, garage door control, etc...
Appliances - remote control certain appliances, pre-heat your stove, notification when the dryer is done, etc...
Power Monitoring - Semi decent solution out there, however needs better apps and integration
Audio\Video - Remote control
If all of these systems used a common protocol we can focus on developing great apps and home automation, as long as manufacturer dick around with their own setup we'll never move forward.
Let us not forget that in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) pot is still technically a controlled substance in their law books. They have a policy of "non-enforcement" similar to what Obama is introducing.
Where to begin...
The competition to get to the story first is too great and often over shadows the duty of the new to check facts and report an unbiased account of events.
What is missing is any sort of repercussions for reporting false facts, who do we hold accountable? Unfortunately good news simply does not pull in the desired ratings and ad revenues.