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  1. Re: Verizon Lies and Throttles on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as what city? NOYB...You seem like one of those dickwads who enjoy nothing more then being a problem rather than a solution..

  2. Re: Verizon Lies and Throttles on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In those jurisdictions that use body cams, and currently in vehicles, recordings are stored in the recording devices and dumped.
    However , coward (ya, another COWARD), cops aren't IT guys and are notorious bad at most things electronic. Moving tiny memory cards from device to device or plugging in delicate USB cables multiple times a day (remember, cops work 24x7 so there's multiple shifts) is a recipe for breaking things. And they do break, and card do get corrupted.

  3. Re: Really? on Encrypted Communications Apps Failed To Protect Michael Cohen (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    gawd... please coward... (ya, typical, a COWARD).... The Clintons have been investigated for decades at the expense of millions in tax dollars. The result - a DOJ report saying "ya, the email server was probably a bad idea". Not - one - single - indictment. Yet, here were are less than 2 years into the Trumpkin presidency and we're 24 indictments, 8 guilty pleas and a conviction deep.. The only defense the Reichwingers can fall on is "oh. that corrupt US Justice Department".. Same story they try and use to discredit global warming and fracking linked to earth quakes (Oh, those corrupt scientists!). Just because opinions and facts differ from yours does not constitute corruption.

  4. As told over and over to the point of ad nauseam - hush money isn't illegal - UNTIL it's done to influence an election... Then it's a a crime that 100 years ago would have gotten Trump hanged.
    The fact that all the Trumpkins coming to defend this human shat bag is beyond astonishing. The GOP claims to have to moral high ground and also to be defenders of the budget. It's come to the point where anything goes so long as they can place Federal Judges, the ultimate prize .
    We're seeing history being made before our eyes. You're grand kids will ask you about this some day. Will you be able to respond in a way that doesn't make them gasp? Are you with the GOP and the legion of Climate Change deniers (aka Big Oil and their minions) and corporate oligarchs?

  5. Re:on the side of Verizon here on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, not really. Verizon changed their plan without changing the name of the plan or telling customers they were chaining. That's what happened to us and all Cities around us.

  6. There's no such thing as "free", someone pays for everything. If a communication provider allows municipalities to use their services at no fee to the municipalities, those providers will charge other users to make up the difference. Just like taxes and Levies are placed on the properties of citizens in the area to cover these communication costs. In the end, someone pays. It's just "how".

  7. Verizon Lies and Throttles on Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I run an IT Department for a City on the West Coast. Verizon has throttled "unlimited" plans for over a year now. It's a common pain. The biggest problem we're running into is dispatch. Old text based dispatch systems have been replaced with GIS based systems consuming significantly more bandwidth. Add citizens wanting dashcams and body cams and you're easily way over the 25Gb limit.
    Historically, Verizon has been deeply embedded in our infrastructure due to our need for coverage, and Verizon had the best. Enter a new game change, AT&T and FirstNet (1N). ( https://www.firstnet.gov/ ) , AT&T has been pouring billions it infrastructure to support 1N. I predict within 18 months, Verizon not only will lose it's stranglehold on municipal communications, but virtually every municipality will jump to AT&T. Stories like this will only accelerate the change.

  8. China is there on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds like a private corporation is taking the United States down the Chinese path of Social Credit.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    How long before businesses check your facebook "trustworthy rating" before you can get a loan, rent a home or even get a job.

  9. Re:Truth is not truth... on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We live in the era of "truthful fact" being subjective. For example, only 28% of white Evangelicals believe global warming is man made. Remember that "faith" is belief in something despite the preponderance of evidence to the contrary. Therefore, you discredit the messenger, refuse to accept the premises, align those who oppose your view with evil, etc.
    Trustworthiness is simply someone else who is aligned with your views.

  10. now THATs smart on Google Just Put an AI in Charge of Keeping Its Data Centers Cool (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    do
    if (temp(x)> 26) then ( ac.run(1) )
    while

    Let's throw in a Google Home to make it look cool and trendy.....

  11. Interesting - did you drop out of college and have an overwhelming desire to scream at underlings?

  12. Re:Taking away rights because 17 years ago airplan on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The incident I was referring to actually happened last month in Ballard, a North Seattle suburb. A woman trying to sell a mullion dollar house found squatters and camped in her back yard and when she called police it took 2 hours for them to arrive.
    You can show what ever "self reported" stats you want. I have other friends who live in Snohomish County - North of Seattle - who have called 911 and it takes over 1/2 hour for the PD to arrive. Pull what you want from the "never wrong" interwebie, or, live here and know facts. https://omny.fm/shows/the-dori...

  13. When the entire economic system depends on it's users not understanding the system, and introducing the ability to understand the system threatens it's complete collapse - it sounds like that "system" is phucked from inception.

  14. Re:Taking away rights because 17 years ago airplan on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to say you're wrong. It's just that 2A makes it really difficult to ban any weapon. It's a right the founding fathers felt so important, they specifically wrote it into our Constitution. Additionally, so long as you're willing to go through the Federal tax stamp process and can pass a back ground check, there's not much you can't buy. You can get an FFL (Federal Firearms License) for $150 and be an arms dealer which gets you access to anything for the most part. Being a dealer can even skate you past many State regs as well.

  15. Re:Taking away rights because 17 years ago airplan on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In Seattle, when calling 911 takes 2 hours for police to show up, crime is going through the roof, homeless populations are spiking, and homeless encampments allow their destitute transients to rape and openly use drugs - you might rethink that not arming yourself plan...

  16. Re:Taking away rights because 17 years ago airplan on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it IS technically legal to own an anti-aircraft gun. Anything above .50 cal requires a special license as does a fully automatic machine gun. The problem comes with the ammunition, which is typically explosive rounds - that's different story.

  17. Re:Taking away rights because 17 years ago airplan on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or 2nd amendment right. Washington State (Where I live), permits concealed carry. You can take your concealed loaded handgun on any public transportation, (except planes, because that's federally controlled. It is legal to bring a locked gun with you in an airplane, if you're legal to have the firearm in the leaving and destination locations and you declare it. That's US wide).
    The difference in CA is that they've so removed gun ownership rights.

  18. Re:disgraced youth on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, the "gig" economy is sham. Lyft and Uber are corporate parasites the cash in off the lowest possible rung, the driver. A "taxi" driver gets a wage and benefits. Gig drivers work for sub-minimum wage, often pennies per hour. (http://fortune.com/2018/03/02/uber-lyft-driver-income/ ), You're living off the equity in your vehicle, which is non-sustainable. By driving for or using these services, you perpetuate the inequality.
    Tiny houses are brain damaged. They're really expensive RV's. period. Re-estate has a value and appreciates over time. Tiny houses lose value ....
    When it comes to the gig economy, tiny houses, looking for unicorns - "but I get to live life on my terms", well, then you've decided your terms are poverty.

  19. disgraced youth on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    whoa is me, I got a social liberal arts degree from a private school now I can't cash flow my student loan! Capitalism sucks, whine, whine, whine....
    Hardly, true capitalism punishes bad choices and rewards hard work. Believing 20 somethings run the world is movie BS. Study hard, do a good job, pay your dues and when you hit 40 or 50, you get ahead and have enough experience to run the show.
    One of the problems is you've all been babied by "everyone is a winner and gets a ribbon!", that's not reality. The real world is full of winners and losers. Some ideas a bad. Some people are bad. That's life.

  20. Denier fodder on AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great, more denier fodder - here come the Trumpkins claiming GLobal Warming is false and sighting this study to prove it.

  21. If such comments don't indicate the need to evoke the Anti-monopoly Sherman Act against a strong arm bullying Corporation, then our legislators are bought and pwned by the Oligarchs. oops.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. I live in the Seattle area and know lots of current /former "Softies" and "Amazombies". Those large tech companies have huge turn over and incredible burn out rates Both companies threw out Stack ranking some years ago, https://whatis.techtarget.com/... but the mentality that put it in place is still ingrained in the corporate manta. Ie: "for you to get ahead, someone else must fail". It's the major reason pay is so high, you have to pay ridiculous money to keep good people.

  23. Re:It's your own fault for paying attention. on 'It's Time to End the Yearly Smartphone Launch Event' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! "Yearly Smartphone event!".... yawn...

  24. As trustworthy as Pai on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We believe a corporate oligarch hell bent on profit over people (as proven by work force conditions in Foxconn plants) less than we believe an appointed government official / ex-lobbyist when he says his department's public feedback was taken down by an attack .. oops.
    https://www.theguardian.com/te...
    https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  25. Not Learning anything on Engineers Teach a Drone To Herd Birds Away From Airports Autonomously (techxplore.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please stop implying there's some type of learning or AI going - there isn't. A "herding algorithm" reverse engineered form "mathematical description of flocking behaviors" is not a learned behavior. It's a programmed algorithm... computer code. Leaning implies an automaton developed some insight independently... Just like a self driving car will never know where left your sock in the bedroom... let alone understand the context of what a sock is....