Comcast is consistently rated one of the most hated companies in America.
I wish I could get at least closer options from ANYONE else.... Just yesterday I received a letter in the mail from comcast. They're throttling my account to 1TB per month or pay an extra $50 per month for unlimited internet.... I ALREADY PAID FOR UNLIMITED INTERNET!! That was the option I selected just 2 years ago when I moved into my house. I already pay $150/mo for basic cable + internet, now the vultures want another $50... I have 3 teens at home plus a VPN for work, I push that cap. We need serious legal reform. It's pathetic the country that invented the internet has the worst service of civilized countries.
It's interesting and sad that we live in the time of absolute paralyzing fear of being politically incorrect
We can no longer refer to anyone as having just "AIDS", it has to be HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
It's never been "you have paramyxovirus, the virus that causes mumps", it's just "mumps", end of discussion
If it's true that "script kiddies" took out 1/2 the US internet, trillions of dollars in transactions hang on a perilously delicate thread.
If security of IoT is that poor, companies that produce them need to be held legally and financially responsible for any loss.
Keep in mind that job creators - and the GOP oligarchy in general - decry anytime someone wants to add "regulations" (aka cost) to an industry or product. It just gives more fuel to the off-shored fodder types.
As far as getting the globe to agree on "being nice", well as soon as human trafficking goes away, I'll believe it. Till then, the reality is nobody needs a camera in their toaster, fridge or Amazon echo.... Or if you think you want one, you need your head examined.
Till consumers decide privacy is a basic human right, is important and stop posting every silly pointless thought and picture on social media- this will only get worse.
Contrary to the claim in this "study", articles have been coming out over the past 6 years or so claiming just the opposite.
I guess results depend on who is funding the study.Also, I'm sure there's zero bias from the AMA.either way on this topic http://caledonianmercury.com/2... another from 2013:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5983991...
I have a 2010 Prius with navigation. Updates are $200 a pop, released once a year or so. I've always thought it was silly to have a table like interface in a car. I never gets updated. Since everyone already has a smart phone or tablet, why not just have an app that links the car and performs all the same options as that silly, buggy touch screen (read about Fords mess). Entertainment, HVAC, all those options could be controlled on the smartphone and just build a mount rather than an obsolete when sold display.
You can Power Shell right out of the box in Windows..NET framework has a free IDE or you can text it, or at least did not long ago... Then there are literally dozens open source interpreters you can install and code on. So I'm not sure what she's lamenting. Perhaps motivation?
There won't be any real progress till it's decriminalized at the federal level. Till then, banks won't get involved fearing account forfeitures and asset freezing - which can happen any time. Once it it's decriminalized however, there will be enormous and swift changes. Big tobacco will swoop in with billions and develop the supply chain, profit and squeeze out or buy up local growers and dispensaries.
Thinking just about personal information is way too simplistic. Think about corporations throwing IoT everywhere without a second inclination towards security. Step forward into a cyberattack where all those devices have cooling disabled and increase power consumption to break the device or start fires. We’re looking at a catastrophic loss of infrastructure not just the North Koreans knowing John Smith takes Viagra.
We have this now, Seattle has expedited lanes that charge fees that increase as traffic slows. It can cost $10 for a couple of miles in the expedited lanes while general traffic lanes sit bumper to bumper on interstates..
If you don't think America is all about pay to play, then you've not lived here long. Housing, education, health care, legal representation are all examples where people pay more for better treatment.
I would agree
Additionally, I predict: just as we now have "HOV lanes" or commuter lanes only, we will see "autonomous lanes only" to handle the increased speed and quicker response time of which humans are incapable
The real time savings will be seen in reduced commute times.
Less human errors, faster route and accident avoidance computations, increased speed on currently deadlocked roads - will all factor into less actual in the car time which WILL increase productivity.
Morning commutes from Everett to Seattle (30 miles) frequently require 1 - 2 hours per way. Accidents create hour + long traffic jams. Removing people from the equation once the "autonomous" piece is working will greatly alleviate traffic problems and greatly increase existing infrastructure capacity. Thus saving capital investments and time. There's the savings.
Let's start with the point that "45% use the aforementioned digital concierges"... use and useful are two different standards. I have both an android and Iphone. The degree to which digital assistants are useful is not measurable. Speech recognition is too slow and error prone, it doen't interact with apps in a useful way, and tends to be more of a pain then it's worth - but yes, I try and do things with them once in a while just to reinvigorate my frustration with them.
Let's do a mental experiment - so you displace 30% of all workers... who's left with actual income to purchase the goods or services these robots provide?
With fewer and fewer able to pay, how do you cost justify the expense?
As the multitudes on public assistance swells due to all the displaced workers, how do you fund Governmental budgets?
Either globally the entire financial eco system evolves to socialism, or it collapses.
The author’s last sentence insinuates that vulnerabilities are bugs If code is designed to accomplish specific tasks using specific input, is it a bug when someone nefariously alters input to derive unintended results?
What? Microsoft suggested charging annual subscription fees for Windows and Office? Preposterous!!
- when it was suggested that WinXP had built in turn off code....
Just 2 articles down./ is an article about how the GOP plans to gut the FCC with it's big telco donors. Apparently their party boy Ryan is top of the donation list and is all about making cable companies cash flow friendly...
It's even more insidious that that....FB creates "dark profiles", these are profiles on people who don't even have or want accounts. For example you go to visit your 80 year old mother who's not on FB, but you mention the fact that you're going to visit in a post.... they create her as a "dark profile". every time someone mentions her in a post, they continue to data mine and aggregate attributes... age, geographic location, income, relatives, what she likes, gifts given,... etc. You post a selfie with her while visiting - now they have facial recognition to add to the profile - all for marketing purposes and clearly without her consent.
Ok, lets NOT talk about a power grid that would be completely overwhelmed and collapse without billions in investment..
I grew up in the mid west, where winter temperatures frequently spend weeks in the below zero range - battery efficiency simply doesn't work well enough there... so cross off 1/3 of the country..
Now I live in the PNW (pacific northwest, for you non-tree huggers) , I commute about 15 miles to work, and yes and EV would suit my commute need - BUT, I pull a camper for vacations and hunting, so my usual driver is a Ford F350 diesel... I have no room to park another vehicle. So either I give up all my hobbies, or 'they' build a 4x4 EV with a 300 mile range while pulling a 30' travel trailer. (Actually, I usually drive a motorcycle to work, unless it's raining - remember, the PNW thing, so that happens alot)
In full disclosure, my wife drives a Prius. Her commutes are anywhere from 2-4 hours, depending on destination. (she's a corporate officer for a company with many locations) The 50 MPG is good enough, and we don't have to worry about a charge problem or availability when she's a couple hours away.
So between the Plains/Midwest temperatures, lack of infrastructure across the entire US, or lifestyle - I'm would be willing to bet the actual number of people who COULD switch on a practical basis to an EV is fractional of their WAG number.
Liability is funky dance between ownership and what an attorney can convince a jury/judge.
I know plenty of people who don't own cars, yet have drivers insurance. The reality is in our litigious society, everyone is going to get sued in an accident. You're still going to need insurance to protect your assets and future income.
The problem with Imessage is that it can't be tracked and recorded - for Government users, freedom of information and sunshine laws make this unacceptable. The only way to ensure compliance for Govt organizations is to manage the devices and disable imessage functionality.
Speculation has a higher survival then 100% guarantee of death.
How many of the dead in that room wished they would have had a weapon? If a business you were visiting happened to come under attack by someone mentally ill, would a "wish for a gun" be the last thought through your brain before the perpetrators bullet?
On my way to work this morning, a guy was on a corner with an anti-gun message -
We need to take a step back and not look at the results, but rather the cause.
When will the US deal with a failed mental health system?
When will the US deal with a radical religion?
If just 1 person in the room had a gun, or if the bar had bothered to hire security, this wouldn't have happened.....
In the 2 largest, most life costing attacks in the US (911 & Oklahoma City bombing), there were NO guns involved.
When you have a leak in your basement, you hire a plumber to fix the leak, not a janitor to continually mop up water - till we deal with the cause, the results won't change and removing a vector only changes the course.
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Comcast is consistently rated one of the most hated companies in America.
I wish I could get at least closer options from ANYONE else.... Just yesterday I received a letter in the mail from comcast. They're throttling my account to 1TB per month or pay an extra $50 per month for unlimited internet.... I ALREADY PAID FOR UNLIMITED INTERNET!! That was the option I selected just 2 years ago when I moved into my house. I already pay $150/mo for basic cable + internet, now the vultures want another $50... I have 3 teens at home plus a VPN for work, I push that cap. We need serious legal reform. It's pathetic the country that invented the internet has the worst service of civilized countries.
It's interesting and sad that we live in the time of absolute paralyzing fear of being politically incorrect
We can no longer refer to anyone as having just "AIDS", it has to be HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
It's never been "you have paramyxovirus, the virus that causes mumps", it's just "mumps", end of discussion
If it's true that "script kiddies" took out 1/2 the US internet, trillions of dollars in transactions hang on a perilously delicate thread.
If security of IoT is that poor, companies that produce them need to be held legally and financially responsible for any loss.
Keep in mind that job creators - and the GOP oligarchy in general - decry anytime someone wants to add "regulations" (aka cost) to an industry or product. It just gives more fuel to the off-shored fodder types.
As far as getting the globe to agree on "being nice", well as soon as human trafficking goes away, I'll believe it. Till then, the reality is nobody needs a camera in their toaster, fridge or Amazon echo.... Or if you think you want one, you need your head examined.
Till consumers decide privacy is a basic human right, is important and stop posting every silly pointless thought and picture on social media- this will only get worse.
Contrary to the claim in this "study", articles have been coming out over the past 6 years or so claiming just the opposite.
I guess results depend on who is funding the study.Also, I'm sure there's zero bias from the AMA.either way on this topic
http://caledonianmercury.com/2...
another from 2013: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5983991...
Yet another from 2013
https://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/...
I have a 2010 Prius with navigation. Updates are $200 a pop, released once a year or so. I've always thought it was silly to have a table like interface in a car. I never gets updated. Since everyone already has a smart phone or tablet, why not just have an app that links the car and performs all the same options as that silly, buggy touch screen (read about Fords mess). Entertainment, HVAC, all those options could be controlled on the smartphone and just build a mount rather than an obsolete when sold display.
You can Power Shell right out of the box in Windows. .NET framework has a free IDE or you can text it, or at least did not long ago... Then there are literally dozens open source interpreters you can install and code on. So I'm not sure what she's lamenting. Perhaps motivation?
There won't be any real progress till it's decriminalized at the federal level. Till then, banks won't get involved fearing account forfeitures and asset freezing - which can happen any time. Once it it's decriminalized however, there will be enormous and swift changes. Big tobacco will swoop in with billions and develop the supply chain, profit and squeeze out or buy up local growers and dispensaries.
sounds like the base logic for a terminator. Stick the same code in a robot with a gun and we're all screwed.
Thinking just about personal information is way too simplistic. Think about corporations throwing IoT everywhere without a second inclination towards security. Step forward into a cyberattack where all those devices have cooling disabled and increase power consumption to break the device or start fires. We’re looking at a catastrophic loss of infrastructure not just the North Koreans knowing John Smith takes Viagra.
We have this now, Seattle has expedited lanes that charge fees that increase as traffic slows. It can cost $10 for a couple of miles in the expedited lanes while general traffic lanes sit bumper to bumper on interstates..
If you don't think America is all about pay to play, then you've not lived here long. Housing, education, health care, legal representation are all examples where people pay more for better treatment.
I would agree
Additionally, I predict: just as we now have "HOV lanes" or commuter lanes only, we will see "autonomous lanes only" to handle the increased speed and quicker response time of which humans are incapable
The real time savings will be seen in reduced commute times.
Less human errors, faster route and accident avoidance computations, increased speed on currently deadlocked roads - will all factor into less actual in the car time which WILL increase productivity.
Morning commutes from Everett to Seattle (30 miles) frequently require 1 - 2 hours per way. Accidents create hour + long traffic jams. Removing people from the equation once the "autonomous" piece is working will greatly alleviate traffic problems and greatly increase existing infrastructure capacity. Thus saving capital investments and time. There's the savings.
Let's start with the point that "45% use the aforementioned digital concierges"... use and useful are two different standards. I have both an android and Iphone. The degree to which digital assistants are useful is not measurable. Speech recognition is too slow and error prone, it doen't interact with apps in a useful way, and tends to be more of a pain then it's worth - but yes, I try and do things with them once in a while just to reinvigorate my frustration with them.
Let's do a mental experiment - so you displace 30% of all workers... who's left with actual income to purchase the goods or services these robots provide?
With fewer and fewer able to pay, how do you cost justify the expense?
As the multitudes on public assistance swells due to all the displaced workers, how do you fund Governmental budgets?
Either globally the entire financial eco system evolves to socialism, or it collapses.
The author’s last sentence insinuates that vulnerabilities are bugs If code is designed to accomplish specific tasks using specific input, is it a bug when someone nefariously alters input to derive unintended results?
Thoughts?
What? Microsoft suggested charging annual subscription fees for Windows and Office? Preposterous!! - when it was suggested that WinXP had built in turn off code....
Just 2 articles down ./ is an article about how the GOP plans to gut the FCC with it's big telco donors. Apparently their party boy Ryan is top of the donation list and is all about making cable companies cash flow friendly...
It's even more insidious that that....FB creates "dark profiles", these are profiles on people who don't even have or want accounts. For example you go to visit your 80 year old mother who's not on FB, but you mention the fact that you're going to visit in a post.... they create her as a "dark profile". every time someone mentions her in a post, they continue to data mine and aggregate attributes... age, geographic location, income, relatives, what she likes, gifts given,... etc. You post a selfie with her while visiting - now they have facial recognition to add to the profile - all for marketing purposes and clearly without her consent.
Ok, lets NOT talk about a power grid that would be completely overwhelmed and collapse without billions in investment..
I grew up in the mid west, where winter temperatures frequently spend weeks in the below zero range - battery efficiency simply doesn't work well enough there... so cross off 1/3 of the country..
Now I live in the PNW (pacific northwest, for you non-tree huggers) , I commute about 15 miles to work, and yes and EV would suit my commute need - BUT, I pull a camper for vacations and hunting, so my usual driver is a Ford F350 diesel... I have no room to park another vehicle. So either I give up all my hobbies, or 'they' build a 4x4 EV with a 300 mile range while pulling a 30' travel trailer. (Actually, I usually drive a motorcycle to work, unless it's raining - remember, the PNW thing, so that happens alot)
In full disclosure, my wife drives a Prius. Her commutes are anywhere from 2-4 hours, depending on destination. (she's a corporate officer for a company with many locations) The 50 MPG is good enough, and we don't have to worry about a charge problem or availability when she's a couple hours away. So between the Plains/Midwest temperatures, lack of infrastructure across the entire US, or lifestyle - I'm would be willing to bet the actual number of people who COULD switch on a practical basis to an EV is fractional of their WAG number.
Because knowledge and freedom means imprisoning and removing the legal rights from those who's belief system differs. Well done Newt... Sieg Heil!!
I live in the Seattle area - lots of jobs. More like use of his site is down. Indeed, Careerbuilder, Craigslist - all full of jobs.
Liability is funky dance between ownership and what an attorney can convince a jury/judge.
I know plenty of people who don't own cars, yet have drivers insurance. The reality is in our litigious society, everyone is going to get sued in an accident. You're still going to need insurance to protect your assets and future income.
The problem with Imessage is that it can't be tracked and recorded - for Government users, freedom of information and sunshine laws make this unacceptable. The only way to ensure compliance for Govt organizations is to manage the devices and disable imessage functionality.
Speculation has a higher survival then 100% guarantee of death.
How many of the dead in that room wished they would have had a weapon? If a business you were visiting happened to come under attack by someone mentally ill, would a "wish for a gun" be the last thought through your brain before the perpetrators bullet?
On my way to work this morning, a guy was on a corner with an anti-gun message -
We need to take a step back and not look at the results, but rather the cause.
When will the US deal with a failed mental health system?
When will the US deal with a radical religion?
If just 1 person in the room had a gun, or if the bar had bothered to hire security, this wouldn't have happened.....
In the 2 largest, most life costing attacks in the US (911 & Oklahoma City bombing), there were NO guns involved.
When you have a leak in your basement, you hire a plumber to fix the leak, not a janitor to continually mop up water - till we deal with the cause, the results won't change and removing a vector only changes the course.