So, FB is finally going down that last vestige of online moral prostitution and becoming a dating site. Picking up for all the lost Craigslist space...
Next they'll be selling sex toys online.
All the more reason to quit FB.
Given that the House, Senate and White House are held by the GOP, this is an exercise in futility.
The right is obsessed with "anything that Obama/Clinton touched must be evil and forever killed/dismantled" that it's not possible in the current administration. Plus given the hundreds of millions of lobbyist dollars dolled out in behalf of the communications cabal, there's no chance.
Put effort into things that actually can make changes....like campaign finance reform.
And yes, AT&T missed Q1 earning results, but that's likely due to FirstNet not being ready yet. https://www.firstnet.com/
firstnet is a $40B, 25 year deal that AT$T won the sole provider single contract to provide 1st repsonder communication services. One of the miles stones is that FN was to be operational by 1/1/2018, AT&T claims it is, but it's not. There's no fixed IP's yet *(necessary end point VPNs) and band 14 isn't live - without BOTH of these, FN is functionally useless.
Due to the Trump tax breaks and repeal of net neutrality, the communications cabal is racking in record profits:
Comcast Q1 2018 profit beats expectation: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/2...
These companies are carving up the internet (Comcast is "bundling Netflix", oh, and if you don't pay the higher Comcast rate, your traffic 'flix gets punished aka: deprioritized) and monetizing user data just EXACTLY as the NN supporters claimed would happen. The result is massive profits... which drive stock prices, higher consumer costs, and poorer user experience...
That a straw man argument.... pure posturing for political points.
* Being net neutrally is dead, there are no laws, rules or regulations that bind any ISP to any standard. Thus there's no rule to enforce or law broken. Municipalities can not enforce non-existent regulations.
* So they "promise" not do business with ISP's who violate non existent standards... who's left to do business with? nobody. every single ISP does it. All the big ones anyway, and they are ultimately the ones who supply all up stream connectivity. This stupid "municipal broadband" nonsense fails to understand where the data comes from. Municipalities don't just pull it from the air, it comes from an upstream ISP, that ultimately is one of the cabal who is blocking, throttling, and deprioritizing data to businesses and end accounts that are not part of their pay to play group.
* Most ISP cross state lines which is out of the jurisdiction and thus regulation of any municipality. Interstate commerce by law is regulated at the Federal lever.
Lastly - Funny how the author wrote "Pai caved to corporate interests"... Pai was a lawyer and lobbyist for the communications cabal prior to his appointment by Humpty-Trumpty. This was NOT a 'cave', it was THE GOAL - deliberate and premeditated. .
Americans can't "wake up". We no longer posses the ability to think for ourselves. By vilifying and subsequently defunding education the GOP accomplished 2 goals:
First - it frees up cash to give back to the oligarchy,
Second - undermine education to remove critical thinking and reasoning skills which harbor the ability to challenge the oligarchy and implement positive change.
Need proof, just look at the US global rankings http://hechingerreport.org/u-s... http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
This is yet another tale of corporate oligarchy extracting their government sponsored payola.
A pain killer that as $138 in 2013 is now $2979 (http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/investing/drug-prices-vimovo-horizon-painkiller/index.html ) https://www.chausa.org/publica...
This is how they (the GOP) will ultimately kill medicare.
If we ever want to bring health care costs, and being care to the masses, these companies must be broken. This is no longer about profit but gouging. The only way to get this country back is campaign finance reform.
Perspective.... the company doubled it's profit... as it has crushed competitors, it's using that market dominance to extract even more profit from already loyal users. The question is, just how much profit does one company or one individual need?
There's no new MUST HAVE features on the new model phones. Thus no impetus to spend money on them. Once 5G starts widely rolling out, there may be surge again, but my guess is the carriers will charge / throttle 5G nearly out of existence so that may not be all that cool either.
A report from Washington State on wages is hardly something to apply nationally (disclaimer: I live there). Sure, entry level IT jobs start at$70-$80K, up through $150K for the right gigs - but you can't live within 2 hours of Seattle for less than a $700K house. Housing has increased 12.6% annually over the past 3 years pricing most potential home buyers out of the market. Factor in 43% tax increases during that same period is pushing fixed/low income people out of their homes.
As far as using construction workers as a future job model - next recession, (and we're overdue by 2 years) construction workers will be sitting on their butts again for a couple years. That's a feast or famine job best avoided. Trades related to construction like HVAC and electrical wiring - things that need hands on and certifications - will always be a good bet.
Nationally - there's a problem filling first law enforcement / fire fighter jobs. Kids can't pass background checks and don't have the mental toughness for the gigs. An average cop around here makes (c) $90K per year.
It's also true that high schools are telling kids you have to get a degree to scrub toilets. That's silly, irritating, down right wrong, and demeaning of degree programs. Keep in mind who preaches it (teachers) and what their motivations might be. (I believe they're mostly under paid, but they chose the career)
It doesn't have to be intact... All we're talking about here is "evidence"... ANY evidence. You don't need the Mona Lisa to prove artists existed, all you need is a hand print in the back of cave.
Fossilized bones of something intelligent that walked with or prior to dinosaurs (no, the creation museum is invented crap),
Millions of year old evidence of environmental tampering - remember, we've plundered iron ore to make steel, we've removed mountains for strip mining (ancient meteor strikes are clearly visible from space and some are millions of years old), we've dug tunnels lined with lead and concrete, we've detonated nuclear bombs and detected no explainable radiation prior to us, there are no non-naturally occurring compounds that pre-date us floating in the sea, air or ground. Everything - EVERYTHING fits the story line as we currently know it and dictates we are the first concentrated intelligent species and society on this planet. period.
If you have evidence, show it. Otherwise it's simply wishful thinking and fantasy.
No, but simple things like glass from a leaded glass window would survive. As a matter of fact ALL our resources that we extract from the ground were intact when we started mining them. So unless all they used was trees and grass, we are the only advanced society.
Rosie, quick, get me a fire extinguisher, the sauce has started on fire!
Mrs. Jetson, I see your extinguisher is getting old. Would you not prefer a new extinguisher certified in all 50 states including the new California standard? I find 7 models available, 4 with prime memberships and 2 with same day shipping? Shall I order the highest rated extinguisher for you?
No! Rosie, quick! bring me the one under the sink!
I'm sorry Mrs. Jetson, I see that your existing extinguisher does not comply with the latest OSHA standards, and as such, liability exclusions in section 34, sub paragraph 15 of the End user Licence agreement mandate I am not allowed to interface with non-compliant items. Would you like me to tell read that sub paragraph to you?
No thank you Rosie. the kitchen just burned down.
The main difference between an Amazon, Google or FB robot or any smart assistant is loyalty. All the shows and cartoons we grew up that had robots - we still wish for - have their loyalty to us, the owners. They assist us, perform tasks for us, and protect us, till their own demise if necessary.
Today's "robots" won't be "owned" by us. You will will "lease the right to use them for X period of time". Make no mistake, these self moving spy devices will maintain their allegiance to the corporate overlord for the sole purpose of injecting themselves into your most personal thoughts and decisions, in the very fabric of your personal life so they can continually monitor, digest, live stream and sell to the highest bidder. oh, and share with any acronym agency when the secret court demands.
Even if they "agree" not sell your data directly - it will be completely scrap able via api's.
This is a lie Zuck chirped on Capital Hill, that users (now we know non users as well) are tracked when their Not on FB for `secutity`.... WTF does FB security have to do with non users not on the FB platform.... Nothing. When youre caught in a lie, all testimony becomes suspect.
use what ever definition you want, "Imitation" is not intelligence. Intelligence is adaptability, intelligence is dynamic and self evolving, intelligence is the ability to apply one data to a new and unrelated problem (aka, the EUREKA moment). What we have today is "task programming"- nothing more. The "task" of converting spoken words to text with zero comprehension or experience of the information that is attempting to be conveyed. Siri for example is saturated with errors, auto corrects are hilarious, suggestions are nonsensical, and you you want to call that AL? bah. Even the best AI "autonomous" vehicles drive into fixed objects. Stop being amused by parlor tricks and see them for what they are - task programming.
Sean, if you really meant it, and lamented the monster you created, you would disassociate every last dime of the billions your monster made you.
Or at the very least, spend every last dime, every last breath, trying to put it back in the bottle with appropriate legislation.
till then, you're just a pontificating jester on a golden throng earned in position of all the ideals you spout.
Who are "they":: everyone learned, people who know how the internet works, and most techies.. http://fortune.com/2017/11/21/...
Here we are, exactly where everyone who understands the internet and online freedom knew we would be when net neutrality got repealed:
Facts:
- increased end user cost: instead of a regular $11 subscription, its now $14.
A "cable company" is "bundling" a specific website.. .
Yahoo has been purchase by "Oath" and is sharing information with Verizon. opt out features don't work https://www.cnet.com/news/yaho...
- Less choice : If you don't pay their pay-o-la, they will cripple (or in the cable cabal term, deprioritize ) your service. there is no longer a rule to stop them.
There absolutely no consumer benefit. As we all knew would happen. It's an estimated 8 billion dollar gimme to the cable cabal. more cost, less choice.
If you want to say otherwise, give specific examples.
No, it's absolutely not the reason the government is dysfunctional. The government is dysfunctional because wealth people - the oligarchy - can donate as much money as they want to their personal puppets that push private / corporate agendas ahead of public well being. Want to make the government work for the people by the people - campaign finance reform.
What they're not saying is that if your subscription is NOT through comcast, comcast can now cripple your connection to Netflix. So instead of my $11/month Netflix watch anywhere account, I get the privilege of Comcast Netflix $14/ month...
Don't be a GOP mouth piece.
Some companies view technology as an expense. Those companies are short sighted, seldom successful and have weak IT leadership. It is the job of IT leadership (the CIO, IT Director, etc.) to educate the entity at the "C" risks and rewards of technology. Also as employee, it is your job to protect yourself and your family by working for those organizations that reward you. As someone who has run IT shops for many years now, I have been the highest paid of all my peer management. My job is risk mitigation and education. If my insights and experiences fall on deaf ears, it's my duty to myself and my family to go else where.
People tend to not give a sh!t about privacy (like freedom) till they lose it. Hence, billions willingly insert records into social media databases about their likes, fears, friends, enemies, purchasing habits, deviate behavior and any other random thought that might cross their brains then have the audacity to feign outrage when that information used against them.
The other part is that this information is the fuel driving most of the economy. Just over the past decade empires have fallen and replacements have risen as fortunes redistribute based on these records. Your not going to displace the current titans without fight.
The true retail battle is over how to acquire more - car companies are going to start collecting your driving / gps data for monetization, in home IoT devices are being pushed by every company imaginable, people flock to sites to get their DNA tested as they waive their rights to their own DNA forever... so go ahead and buy that Alexa, google home, Xfinity One, or any myriad of spyware toys companies are tying to insert into your personal lives....
Slashdot Mirror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Wiki godz state: " began on January 1, 2000 and will end on December 31, 2099".
So, FB is finally going down that last vestige of online moral prostitution and becoming a dating site. Picking up for all the lost Craigslist space...
Next they'll be selling sex toys online.
All the more reason to quit FB.
Given that the House, Senate and White House are held by the GOP, this is an exercise in futility. ..like campaign finance reform.
The right is obsessed with "anything that Obama/Clinton touched must be evil and forever killed/dismantled" that it's not possible in the current administration. Plus given the hundreds of millions of lobbyist dollars dolled out in behalf of the communications cabal, there's no chance.
Put effort into things that actually can make changes..
And yes, AT&T missed Q1 earning results, but that's likely due to FirstNet not being ready yet. https://www.firstnet.com/
firstnet is a $40B, 25 year deal that AT$T won the sole provider single contract to provide 1st repsonder communication services. One of the miles stones is that FN was to be operational by 1/1/2018, AT&T claims it is, but it's not. There's no fixed IP's yet *(necessary end point VPNs) and band 14 isn't live - without BOTH of these, FN is functionally useless.
Due to the Trump tax breaks and repeal of net neutrality, the communications cabal is racking in record profits:
Comcast Q1 2018 profit beats expectation:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/2...
Verizon : Q1 2018 MASSIVE profit boost of 32%
https://www.highgeekly.com/bus...
These companies are carving up the internet (Comcast is "bundling Netflix", oh, and if you don't pay the higher Comcast rate, your traffic 'flix gets punished aka: deprioritized) and monetizing user data just EXACTLY as the NN supporters claimed would happen. The result is massive profits... which drive stock prices, higher consumer costs, and poorer user experience...
That a straw man argument.... pure posturing for political points.
* Being net neutrally is dead, there are no laws, rules or regulations that bind any ISP to any standard. Thus there's no rule to enforce or law broken. Municipalities can not enforce non-existent regulations.
* So they "promise" not do business with ISP's who violate non existent standards... who's left to do business with? nobody. every single ISP does it. All the big ones anyway, and they are ultimately the ones who supply all up stream connectivity. This stupid "municipal broadband" nonsense fails to understand where the data comes from. Municipalities don't just pull it from the air, it comes from an upstream ISP, that ultimately is one of the cabal who is blocking, throttling, and deprioritizing data to businesses and end accounts that are not part of their pay to play group.
* Most ISP cross state lines which is out of the jurisdiction and thus regulation of any municipality. Interstate commerce by law is regulated at the Federal lever.
Lastly - Funny how the author wrote "Pai caved to corporate interests"... Pai was a lawyer and lobbyist for the communications cabal prior to his appointment by Humpty-Trumpty. This was NOT a 'cave', it was THE GOAL - deliberate and premeditated. .
Americans can't "wake up". We no longer posses the ability to think for ourselves. By vilifying and subsequently defunding education the GOP accomplished 2 goals:
First - it frees up cash to give back to the oligarchy,
Second - undermine education to remove critical thinking and reasoning skills which harbor the ability to challenge the oligarchy and implement positive change.
Need proof, just look at the US global rankings
http://hechingerreport.org/u-s...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
This is yet another tale of corporate oligarchy extracting their government sponsored payola.
A pain killer that as $138 in 2013 is now $2979 (http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/15/investing/drug-prices-vimovo-horizon-painkiller/index.html )
https://www.chausa.org/publica...
This is how they (the GOP) will ultimately kill medicare.
If we ever want to bring health care costs, and being care to the masses, these companies must be broken. This is no longer about profit but gouging. The only way to get this country back is campaign finance reform.
Perspective.... the company doubled it's profit... as it has crushed competitors, it's using that market dominance to extract even more profit from already loyal users. The question is, just how much profit does one company or one individual need?
There's no new MUST HAVE features on the new model phones. Thus no impetus to spend money on them. Once 5G starts widely rolling out, there may be surge again, but my guess is the carriers will charge / throttle 5G nearly out of existence so that may not be all that cool either.
A report from Washington State on wages is hardly something to apply nationally (disclaimer: I live there). Sure, entry level IT jobs start at$70-$80K, up through $150K for the right gigs - but you can't live within 2 hours of Seattle for less than a $700K house. Housing has increased 12.6% annually over the past 3 years pricing most potential home buyers out of the market. Factor in 43% tax increases during that same period is pushing fixed/low income people out of their homes.
As far as using construction workers as a future job model - next recession, (and we're overdue by 2 years) construction workers will be sitting on their butts again for a couple years. That's a feast or famine job best avoided. Trades related to construction like HVAC and electrical wiring - things that need hands on and certifications - will always be a good bet.
Nationally - there's a problem filling first law enforcement / fire fighter jobs. Kids can't pass background checks and don't have the mental toughness for the gigs. An average cop around here makes (c) $90K per year.
It's also true that high schools are telling kids you have to get a degree to scrub toilets. That's silly, irritating, down right wrong, and demeaning of degree programs. Keep in mind who preaches it (teachers) and what their motivations might be. (I believe they're mostly under paid, but they chose the career)
It doesn't have to be intact... All we're talking about here is "evidence"... ANY evidence. You don't need the Mona Lisa to prove artists existed, all you need is a hand print in the back of cave.
Fossilized bones of something intelligent that walked with or prior to dinosaurs (no, the creation museum is invented crap),
Millions of year old evidence of environmental tampering - remember, we've plundered iron ore to make steel, we've removed mountains for strip mining (ancient meteor strikes are clearly visible from space and some are millions of years old), we've dug tunnels lined with lead and concrete, we've detonated nuclear bombs and detected no explainable radiation prior to us, there are no non-naturally occurring compounds that pre-date us floating in the sea, air or ground. Everything - EVERYTHING fits the story line as we currently know it and dictates we are the first concentrated intelligent species and society on this planet. period.
If you have evidence, show it. Otherwise it's simply wishful thinking and fantasy.
No, but simple things like glass from a leaded glass window would survive. As a matter of fact ALL our resources that we extract from the ground were intact when we started mining them. So unless all they used was trees and grass, we are the only advanced society.
Rosie, quick, get me a fire extinguisher, the sauce has started on fire!
Mrs. Jetson, I see your extinguisher is getting old. Would you not prefer a new extinguisher certified in all 50 states including the new California standard? I find 7 models available, 4 with prime memberships and 2 with same day shipping? Shall I order the highest rated extinguisher for you?
No! Rosie, quick! bring me the one under the sink!
I'm sorry Mrs. Jetson, I see that your existing extinguisher does not comply with the latest OSHA standards, and as such, liability exclusions in section 34, sub paragraph 15 of the End user Licence agreement mandate I am not allowed to interface with non-compliant items. Would you like me to tell read that sub paragraph to you?
No thank you Rosie. the kitchen just burned down.
The main difference between an Amazon, Google or FB robot or any smart assistant is loyalty. All the shows and cartoons we grew up that had robots - we still wish for - have their loyalty to us, the owners. They assist us, perform tasks for us, and protect us, till their own demise if necessary.
Today's "robots" won't be "owned" by us. You will will "lease the right to use them for X period of time". Make no mistake, these self moving spy devices will maintain their allegiance to the corporate overlord for the sole purpose of injecting themselves into your most personal thoughts and decisions, in the very fabric of your personal life so they can continually monitor, digest, live stream and sell to the highest bidder. oh, and share with any acronym agency when the secret court demands.
Even if they "agree" not sell your data directly - it will be completely scrap able via api's.
So, Zuckerberg.... repeat again that you don't sell data..
This is a lie Zuck chirped on Capital Hill, that users (now we know non users as well) are tracked when their Not on FB for `secutity`.... WTF does FB security have to do with non users not on the FB platform.... Nothing. When youre caught in a lie, all testimony becomes suspect.
use what ever definition you want, "Imitation" is not intelligence. Intelligence is adaptability, intelligence is dynamic and self evolving, intelligence is the ability to apply one data to a new and unrelated problem (aka, the EUREKA moment). What we have today is "task programming"- nothing more. The "task" of converting spoken words to text with zero comprehension or experience of the information that is attempting to be conveyed. Siri for example is saturated with errors, auto corrects are hilarious, suggestions are nonsensical, and you you want to call that AL? bah. Even the best AI "autonomous" vehicles drive into fixed objects. Stop being amused by parlor tricks and see them for what they are - task programming.
Sean, if you really meant it, and lamented the monster you created, you would disassociate every last dime of the billions your monster made you.
Or at the very least, spend every last dime, every last breath, trying to put it back in the bottle with appropriate legislation.
till then, you're just a pontificating jester on a golden throng earned in position of all the ideals you spout.
Who are "they":: everyone learned, people who know how the internet works, and most techies..
http://fortune.com/2017/11/21/...
Here we are, exactly where everyone who understands the internet and online freedom knew we would be when net neutrality got repealed:
Facts:
- increased end user cost: instead of a regular $11 subscription, its now $14.
A "cable company" is "bundling" a specific website..
. Yahoo has been purchase by "Oath" and is sharing information with Verizon. opt out features don't work
https://www.cnet.com/news/yaho...
- Less choice : If you don't pay their pay-o-la, they will cripple (or in the cable cabal term, deprioritize ) your service. there is no longer a rule to stop them.
There absolutely no consumer benefit. As we all knew would happen. It's an estimated 8 billion dollar gimme to the cable cabal. more cost, less choice. If you want to say otherwise, give specific examples.
No, it's absolutely not the reason the government is dysfunctional. The government is dysfunctional because wealth people - the oligarchy - can donate as much money as they want to their personal puppets that push private / corporate agendas ahead of public well being. Want to make the government work for the people by the people - campaign finance reform.
What they're not saying is that if your subscription is NOT through comcast, comcast can now cripple your connection to Netflix. So instead of my $11/month Netflix watch anywhere account, I get the privilege of Comcast Netflix $14/ month...
Don't be a GOP mouth piece.
Unless it's information about rich and powerful people... In which case it paid off for silence aka "catch and kill".
Some companies view technology as an expense. Those companies are short sighted, seldom successful and have weak IT leadership. It is the job of IT leadership (the CIO, IT Director, etc.) to educate the entity at the "C" risks and rewards of technology. Also as employee, it is your job to protect yourself and your family by working for those organizations that reward you. As someone who has run IT shops for many years now, I have been the highest paid of all my peer management. My job is risk mitigation and education. If my insights and experiences fall on deaf ears, it's my duty to myself and my family to go else where.
People tend to not give a sh!t about privacy (like freedom) till they lose it. Hence, billions willingly insert records into social media databases about their likes, fears, friends, enemies, purchasing habits, deviate behavior and any other random thought that might cross their brains then have the audacity to feign outrage when that information used against them. ...
The other part is that this information is the fuel driving most of the economy. Just over the past decade empires have fallen and replacements have risen as fortunes redistribute based on these records. Your not going to displace the current titans without fight.
The true retail battle is over how to acquire more - car companies are going to start collecting your driving / gps data for monetization, in home IoT devices are being pushed by every company imaginable, people flock to sites to get their DNA tested as they waive their rights to their own DNA forever... so go ahead and buy that Alexa, google home, Xfinity One, or any myriad of spyware toys companies are tying to insert into your personal lives.