Sure, go work for a "language learning" company in Pittsburgh... till the company gets acquired by another tech company and promptly terms everyone at the current location relocating the IP (intellectual property) back to Silicon Valley. Now your stuck in a location with a mortgage and next to zero tech job prospects.... then the blizzard starts...
BitCoin down (c) $650 today alone to $7200. I would imaging all those people who jumped on when it was $20K got a lesson on stock market trading.
Too bad for all the millennials who threw what little they had in retirement at this debacle. really, I feel bad for them. remember kids, real estate. Real land, real assets.
Trump lost the popular vote by (c) 3 million votes. The US is actually a representative republic rather than a true democracy so we vote for electors... Who get distributed by the ruling party in a process called gerrymandering giving enough advantages to those in power to allow them to maintain power.
As point of fact, the Republic Party has not won a first term presidential race by popular vote in 20 years. "W" Bush also lost the popular election and was appointed by the US Supreme Court.
Hence, the real purpose of staying in power in the US is the ability of appointing Federal & Supreme Court Judges. Changing laws is how you stay in power or keep money coming in for generations even if your "party" is a minority.
Not necessarily. Don't think for a second the cabal won't have agreements in place that punish non-cabal members. Remember, traffic doesn't go:
home.user --> netflix, but rather home.user --> local.isp --> verzion --> comcast --> att --> amazon --> neflix. Verizon/Comcast/ATT/Netflix all know the source IP belongs to a muni-ISP is not a member of the "group". Thus they would be able to slow, or in their terms "de-prioritize" traffic that hasn't "paid to play.". Since the Muni is down stream, they have not control over what happens upstream. I have personally experienced this for some of my customers. (again, I run a muni-ISP).
Local municipality's don't have "monitoring" resources. Local Governments are usually run by direct citizen elected councils. Local IT departments are understaffed with stretched budgets. For a city council to increase staffing/software/infrastructure is literally a vote to raise local taxes - a nonstarter for the most part.
If you think muni-broad band when implemented money maker, think again. It's really expensive and subsidized by tax payers. Just look at Tacoma (Washington State) ClickNet. https://www.clickcabletv.com/p...
It supplies municipal broadband, cable + content and runs a $18 Million Biennial loss.
This is false hood that needs die
I run the IT department for a municipality that already provides municipal broadband services. The fact is Public/ municipal does almost NOTHING to assist in net neutrality. IPS’s provide a conduit from the end user to the internet backbone. If the content is punished upstream, as it goes across say, Verizon’s backbone, the local pipe is already receiving degraded, delayed, punished data.
The one thing it does however, is stop your local ISP from tracking you and monetizing your online behavior which can be done more quickly and cheaply by use of a VPN.
The actual report states "land degradation now critical". Nowhere in the actual report does it use the term "broken". The writer at MOTHERBOARD.COM, Stephen Leahy used the word "broken" in his headline. Nor is there any asinine comparison to 3.2 billion people to cell phone use in the report. https://www.ipbes.net/news/med...
Not in today's scale - Back in the '90's when Microsoft was hit by the US DOJ for abuse of power, Janet Reno, US Attorney General threatened to fine Microsoft $1M per day. Purportedly as a response, Bill Gates laughed and quipped "let them, I make $1 million per hour!".
The point being today, companies are hundreds of thousands of times larger. Companies make billions, a few millions in fines here and there is just a budgeted line item under "legal fees". As an example, look at Wells Fargo, robo signing of home foreclosures after the 2008 crash (essentially steal homes), millions of fraudulent accounts created for fees dating back decades, and after 20 years of wrongdoing, they're still #3.
Today's business dollars are beyond any government oversight. The money and corruption are too high.
The only scandal here is the shear number of people unaware that the purpose of all social media is to sell your private information...
"Google isn't free, the cost is your information" - Eric Schmidt Former CEO Google.
so just go head, fill your house with Alexa, Google home, Nest, FitBit, Apple watch, use websites to analyze your DNA... and pay no attention to those annoying little ELUA popup's where you waive all your rights. Then be shocked when they sell that information..considering it's their business model.
Why is this even a story? It's the stated purpose of these companies to sell your information. Eric Schmidt even stated "Google isn't free, the cost is your information".
It's simple, keep your personal information... personal.
To all you sheep who purchased Alexa, google home, or Nest.... do you really believe these things are not sending your personal behavior out to be sold, scrutinized, and monetized...
Do you know there's a HIPAA waiver you release when you accept the ELUA of FitBit or Apple smartwatch?
Come one people... think.
I see quite a few comments claiming it's her fault since she J walked... What happens when the 5 year old runs out into the street to get his ball?
This technology has to be better than people before it can be let loose on public streets. Things happen, millions of times a day - tires blow, rocks fall off trucks, things happen, and we drivers expect and anticipate.
The kid chasing a ball scenario will happen, with regularity. What can also be expected with regularity is company ending lawsuits and NTSB investigations that may end this till it can be proven safe.
Same with air taxis. None have been certified by the FAA - which is required for commercial work - and the FAA has already slapped down "ride share" for non commercial pilots. Don't hold your breath.
The reality is we are years from this being ready for prime time- aka safe. Unfortunately it will take people dying to separate the truth from the hype.
Nope hypemaster... If this was not an autonomous vehicle, the driver would be in prison already.. In case you didn't read the details, the Uber Testing program has been halted. Now comes the lawyers and the manslaughter charges, or at minimum wrongful death suite. The NTSB hasn't even started looking at self driving vehicles and public safety trumps everything (ha, what oxymoron, but I digress). This could financially wipe out Uber, so just keep you head in the sand oblivious to laws, regulations and public safety.
All true...However it will take a couple of company busting lawsuits to stop the hype and inject some reality into the public.... and this will likely be the first.
First of all, you mindless sheep willingly handed over your personal information to a public forum... how shocking that it should used for nefarious activities... The business model of FaceBook is to sell you. Don't be surprised about anything they do with you, ever.. Once you give it away, it's not yours anymore.
Maybe you should just get off FB and go explore meatspace... There's real flowers, roads, mountains, rivers, and people out there. Your social skills might improve too!
Sorry dude, you're already using other ISPs..... Your ISP, DSLExtreme is just the conduit from your house the back bone of the intenet. When you watch Netflix at home, the IP path is not NETFFLIX --> DLSExtreme ---> your house, but rather....
NETFLIX --> Amazon --> Verizon --> AT&T --> COX ---> Comcast --> DSLExtreme --> Your house...
So throttling is already happening upstream of your provider if ANY upstream oligarchy want's Netflix payola to let the traffic through unmolested. This is exactly why Municipal ISP's are BS because people do not understand how the dataflow works.
Here's just an example of 2 ISP back bone providers finger pointing resulting in any down stream customer getting screwed. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/...
It has flopped because there is NO AI. There are no systems that have any comprehension of your context, your experiences or your insight. That is AI. Everything else is a "parlor trick" to try and make you believe it's intelligence.
Because true AI is generations away from current technology architecture?
Task programming (ie, the "task" of converting speech to text) is in no way, artificial intelligence. The ability to recognize patterns (when an algorithm is designed to recognize patterns) is in no way, AI either. Don't let parlor tricks fool you. We have nothing that approaches AI today. Nothing.
Ya, that's what I was told in science & biology classes in the 1970's, you have what your born with. If an area gets damaged, another area attempts to take over. That's why at any one time there's such a low utilization percentage.
When someone becomes a Doctor, they take a "hippocratic oath", so named after the Greek physician Hippocrates... who lived 2 thousand years ago....which by most life times (except a couple of biblical references) exceeds 2 generations.
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Sure, go work for a "language learning" company in Pittsburgh... till the company gets acquired by another tech company and promptly terms everyone at the current location relocating the IP (intellectual property) back to Silicon Valley. Now your stuck in a location with a mortgage and next to zero tech job prospects.... then the blizzard starts...
Actually, April of 2017 Btc was 3300. Given it's currently 6900, that's a bit more than double - nowhere near your claimed 700%.
BitCoin down (c) $650 today alone to $7200. I would imaging all those people who jumped on when it was $20K got a lesson on stock market trading.
Too bad for all the millennials who threw what little they had in retirement at this debacle. really, I feel bad for them. remember kids, real estate. Real land, real assets.
Trump lost the popular vote by (c) 3 million votes. The US is actually a representative republic rather than a true democracy so we vote for electors... Who get distributed by the ruling party in a process called gerrymandering giving enough advantages to those in power to allow them to maintain power.
As point of fact, the Republic Party has not won a first term presidential race by popular vote in 20 years. "W" Bush also lost the popular election and was appointed by the US Supreme Court.
Hence, the real purpose of staying in power in the US is the ability of appointing Federal & Supreme Court Judges. Changing laws is how you stay in power or keep money coming in for generations even if your "party" is a minority.
Not necessarily. Don't think for a second the cabal won't have agreements in place that punish non-cabal members. Remember, traffic doesn't go:
home.user --> netflix, but rather home.user --> local.isp --> verzion --> comcast --> att --> amazon --> neflix. Verizon/Comcast/ATT/Netflix all know the source IP belongs to a muni-ISP is not a member of the "group". Thus they would be able to slow, or in their terms "de-prioritize" traffic that hasn't "paid to play.". Since the Muni is down stream, they have not control over what happens upstream. I have personally experienced this for some of my customers. (again, I run a muni-ISP).
Local municipality's don't have "monitoring" resources. Local Governments are usually run by direct citizen elected councils. Local IT departments are understaffed with stretched budgets. For a city council to increase staffing/software/infrastructure is literally a vote to raise local taxes - a nonstarter for the most part.
If you think muni-broad band when implemented money maker, think again. It's really expensive and subsidized by tax payers. Just look at Tacoma (Washington State) ClickNet. https://www.clickcabletv.com/p...
It supplies municipal broadband, cable + content and runs a $18 Million Biennial loss.
This is false hood that needs die
I run the IT department for a municipality that already provides municipal broadband services. The fact is Public/ municipal does almost NOTHING to assist in net neutrality. IPS’s provide a conduit from the end user to the internet backbone. If the content is punished upstream, as it goes across say, Verizon’s backbone, the local pipe is already receiving degraded, delayed, punished data.
The one thing it does however, is stop your local ISP from tracking you and monetizing your online behavior which can be done more quickly and cheaply by use of a VPN.
sure, a 6 figure loan for a philosophy degree with 20K of it used for cryptocurrency - might as well burn crypocurrency along with the sheepskin......
The actual report states "land degradation now critical". Nowhere in the actual report does it use the term "broken". The writer at MOTHERBOARD.COM, Stephen Leahy used the word "broken" in his headline. Nor is there any asinine comparison to 3.2 billion people to cell phone use in the report.
https://www.ipbes.net/news/med...
Not in today's scale - Back in the '90's when Microsoft was hit by the US DOJ for abuse of power, Janet Reno, US Attorney General threatened to fine Microsoft $1M per day. Purportedly as a response, Bill Gates laughed and quipped "let them, I make $1 million per hour!".
The point being today, companies are hundreds of thousands of times larger. Companies make billions, a few millions in fines here and there is just a budgeted line item under "legal fees". As an example, look at Wells Fargo, robo signing of home foreclosures after the 2008 crash (essentially steal homes), millions of fraudulent accounts created for fees dating back decades, and after 20 years of wrongdoing, they're still #3.
Today's business dollars are beyond any government oversight. The money and corruption are too high.
The only scandal here is the shear number of people unaware that the purpose of all social media is to sell your private information...
"Google isn't free, the cost is your information" - Eric Schmidt Former CEO Google.
so just go head, fill your house with Alexa, Google home, Nest, FitBit, Apple watch, use websites to analyze your DNA... and pay no attention to those annoying little ELUA popup's where you waive all your rights. Then be shocked when they sell that information..considering it's their business model.
even then, if it can be monetized, you're still being sold.
Someone seriously under counted the Earths population!
Why is this even a story? It's the stated purpose of these companies to sell your information. Eric Schmidt even stated "Google isn't free, the cost is your information".
It's simple, keep your personal information... personal.
To all you sheep who purchased Alexa, google home, or Nest.... do you really believe these things are not sending your personal behavior out to be sold, scrutinized, and monetized...
Do you know there's a HIPAA waiver you release when you accept the ELUA of FitBit or Apple smartwatch?
Come one people... think.
I see quite a few comments claiming it's her fault since she J walked... What happens when the 5 year old runs out into the street to get his ball?
This technology has to be better than people before it can be let loose on public streets. Things happen, millions of times a day - tires blow, rocks fall off trucks, things happen, and we drivers expect and anticipate.
The kid chasing a ball scenario will happen, with regularity. What can also be expected with regularity is company ending lawsuits and NTSB investigations that may end this till it can be proven safe.
Same with air taxis. None have been certified by the FAA - which is required for commercial work - and the FAA has already slapped down "ride share" for non commercial pilots. Don't hold your breath.
The reality is we are years from this being ready for prime time- aka safe. Unfortunately it will take people dying to separate the truth from the hype.
Nope hypemaster... If this was not an autonomous vehicle, the driver would be in prison already.. In case you didn't read the details, the Uber Testing program has been halted. Now comes the lawyers and the manslaughter charges, or at minimum wrongful death suite. The NTSB hasn't even started looking at self driving vehicles and public safety trumps everything (ha, what oxymoron, but I digress). This could financially wipe out Uber, so just keep you head in the sand oblivious to laws, regulations and public safety.
J walking isn't a capital offence. However, wrongful death suits, or possibly manslaughter charges can bring down companies.
All true...However it will take a couple of company busting lawsuits to stop the hype and inject some reality into the public.... and this will likely be the first.
First of all, you mindless sheep willingly handed over your personal information to a public forum... how shocking that it should used for nefarious activities... The business model of FaceBook is to sell you. Don't be surprised about anything they do with you, ever.. Once you give it away, it's not yours anymore.
Maybe you should just get off FB and go explore meatspace... There's real flowers, roads, mountains, rivers, and people out there. Your social skills might improve too!
Sorry dude, you're already using other ISPs..... Your ISP, DSLExtreme is just the conduit from your house the back bone of the intenet. When you watch Netflix at home, the IP path is not NETFFLIX --> DLSExtreme ---> your house, but rather ....
NETFLIX --> Amazon --> Verizon --> AT&T --> COX ---> Comcast --> DSLExtreme --> Your house...
So throttling is already happening upstream of your provider if ANY upstream oligarchy want's Netflix payola to let the traffic through unmolested. This is exactly why Municipal ISP's are BS because people do not understand how the dataflow works.
Here's just an example of 2 ISP back bone providers finger pointing resulting in any down stream customer getting screwed.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/...
It has flopped because there is NO AI. There are no systems that have any comprehension of your context, your experiences or your insight. That is AI. Everything else is a "parlor trick" to try and make you believe it's intelligence.
Because true AI is generations away from current technology architecture?
Task programming (ie, the "task" of converting speech to text) is in no way, artificial intelligence. The ability to recognize patterns (when an algorithm is designed to recognize patterns) is in no way, AI either. Don't let parlor tricks fool you. We have nothing that approaches AI today. Nothing.
Ya, that's what I was told in science & biology classes in the 1970's, you have what your born with. If an area gets damaged, another area attempts to take over. That's why at any one time there's such a low utilization percentage.
When someone becomes a Doctor, they take a "hippocratic oath", so named after the Greek physician Hippocrates... who lived 2 thousand years ago....which by most life times (except a couple of biblical references) exceeds 2 generations.
of cognitive dissonance at it's best...