Then why do I have two different competing fiber optic cable systems in my franchise-less region?
I'm in an unincorporated area just outside a city, that's semi-rural but rapidly growing, and there's no fibre optic available period. It's not that the government is stopping potential providers or granting monopolies; perhaps large providers choosing not to come in and build / compete out of their own free will, because it doesn't make sense as a long term investment.
There are many possible reasons that what's happening in one particular small area..... I think your area is an "Outlier". There always turn out to be some places that wind up with much better than others, with any number of possible causes. Hell..... there are cities where you could get almost free connectivity thanks to a municipal fiber service, Or Google fiber.
You probably have a temporary situation, where there are two small start-up projects, or Niche providers trying to meet a specialized local need, and neither has enough value or dominance of the local market yet to be worth acquiring or merging together.
There are likely distorting factors such as government incentives or grants for what they are doing, or they've forecasted growth in the area to justify building some.
We aren't rich, and we don't have magic dirt that is unusually easy to lay fiber in.
Installing fiber in an established city is expensive. It's often easier to lay fiber Per-Foot in a rural or unincorporated area, Because of fewer permitting requirements. That said, the downside, is you tend to need many more feet of fiber to get to many places, due to rural areas being populated less densely.
Putting it in cities is likely more profitable, because of the higher density: Assuming no competition, HOWEVER, It is much more expensive per Foot, And With competition, it may not be sufficiently profitable to entice further building at some point --- due to suppression of the necessary profit margin.
The problem is last mile. Currently there is no option for "last mile" other than government granted monopoly.
Negating the government-granted monopoly means that companies won't build infrastructure in areas, because it's not profitable enough. You have a "natural monopoly" called Cables in the ground, and the ability to put them there is massively expensive.
I think the only workable way is to keep the monopoly on the Cables, but require the 'feed' providers be separate companies and lease access to lines per end-user on Fair and Non-discriminatory terms.
Cable TV is not very amenable to that, since it's a broadcast medium..... you put a signal on the wire, and all subscribers receive it.
You would need changes to the cabling system and new ways and protocols of communicating over them.
It's going to remove the Lightning plug and all you have to do is say a 4 hour prayer....
They could design the phone so there's no port, And make the aluminum case itself an electrode for charging
Give you a USB cable with Apple-proprietary magnet/clips; one pair of magnets each to snap onto opposite ends of the phone.
Induce an electromagnetic field inside the case, and include a coil inside the phone capable of releasing energy stored in the EM field as electricity for charging the battery.
That's fine, they don't have to. Stop asking Apple for things if you don't want to buy their devices.
Who says I won't buy their devices? I will buy a lot more of their devices if they make these two improvements.
That the devices don't have these features doesn't mean that they're bad or deficient
No, but adding these features will add a LOT more value, then many of the other changes they have already done and have potentially taken for this iteration. It would also in some sense ameliorate some recent trouble they have caused with crazy removal of the headphone jack.....
a touch-sensitive home button that vibrates, double-lens cameras for the larger Plus edition
Sigh.... Vibrating button is a parlor trick, nothing useful or appealing...... Go do something useful, like 200GB of memory in the base model, and provide me a memory card slot, so I can load in data from external devices, archive things, or have additional storage available on my phone.
Also, longer battery runtime and an option to replace my battery on the go are necessary, until you do those things, Apple: I have no reason to upgrade.
Doesn't stack up. Auto manufacturers build entire vehicles including all the screws, not just the engine and powertrain.
The computer industry analog to an Auto manufacturer would be Dell, and the analog to an Engine manufacturer would be Intel.
Now the manufacturer of the paint and trim that gets applied to the body of the vehicles is trying to have a deal with the Engine manufacturer saying that the old colors of paint and trim pieces will not work on vehicles that have the newer engine models.
No. DMCA puts the onus on the accused to proof her innocense.
You just need to file a counternotice; you don't have to prove anything, but the problem is the damage is already done by the time your hosting provider processes your counter-notice. Your provider might choose not to put your site back online, Or if they're GoDaddy, they're likely bill you a $199 Administrative fee before your domain can be turned back on (Or transferred to a different registrar).
. He received large sums of money so others could exclusively use that name/brand.
And that Name/Brand is McAfee Antivirus, not John McAfee, and definitely not "John McAfee Global Technologies".
In fact.... I know another person named McAfee, who has a son named John, so this John doesn't have exclusive use of even 'John McAfee', either. There are other people on earth with this name. And it's a common custom / tradition to name projects or small businesses / ventures after yourself.
Just because you named a company so its name includes your name does not mean that selling your company transfers rights to your personal name. Only issue would be if the new company were going to be a security software maker and sell a security product with a confusingly-similar name on the product or point of retail.
I think we need industry authorities to come to conclusion that the Lithium-Ion chemistry is too unstable and mandate the use of a safer option such as LiFePO4.
However, now that operating systems and most commonly-used software tools are commodities, I don't think it is worth the effort.
So instead, they could come up with a deal with Intel to 'generate more revenue' for Intel by paying intel a license fee for every copy of Windows.
In turn, Intel would make all new chips require the proof of License to use the operating system with this CPU at boot-up.
This would help Intel by giving them revenue for every copy of Windows.
This would help Microsoft by excluding operating systems from running on new hardware which are not specifically licensed (All 'Free' operating systems such as Android or Linux fall into this category, unless the manufacturer of that OS is willing to meet a minimum required number of units and pay for CPU licensing their operating system; a license specific to the CPU Revision and OS copy, And the license will be permanently married to a specific hardware unit and specific operating system version.).
Sure they do something. They help the common harmless bacteria that is all around us evolve into MRSA.
The antibacterials used in the soap do not include Methicillin or other antibiotics, so no, they don't help the bacteria evolve into MRSA.
What does that is excessive use of the life-saving drugs.
Especially: Their widespread use on farm animals that live in horrible conditions which would kill the animals by disease or render them less productive, if they weren't being pumped with so many antibiotics, that higher concentrations of precious antibiotic have been found in sewage and natural bodies of water than would exist in the blood of a human being dosed with the antibiotics.....
So it's collusion when an auto manufacturer stops selling older model cars?
No.... It's collusion when the Auto manufacturer makes an agreement with the Auto shops to stop carrying the proper replacement parts that fit your older cars.
Or it's collusion, when diskette manufacturer X comes out with a new diskette size and makes a deal with laptop manufacturers to stop supporting the older diskette size on their laptops, only the new one.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence.
Planned obsolescence for hardware would be imposing an artificial restrictions to prevent a newer-than-current Windows version from running on hardware that is being sold..... E.g. making a board that can only run Windows 7, Windows 8, and perhaps Windows 10 up to a given version.
Planned obsolescence as in forcing users to run Windows 10 if they buy new hardware is not likely to help with the hardware sales.
I'm wondering if this is where they employ the 'secure boot' where the OS needs an Intel/MS-signed key for the chipset to run it.
I'm wondering how long before the Windows activation process during installation will involve Microsoft digitally signing your individual system's specific boot image and bootloader configuration of each computer, so Microsoft has to approve the hardware Windows is running on, before you'll be allowed to even boot the installed OS.
The thing is that humans can deal with a much larger range of scenarios
Humans can often deal with scenarios.
Humans are not very consistent, however.
Without exception for any individual..... every human is often 'inattentive' or negligent, or become distracted, and many people also willfully disobey traffic safety rules, and fail to handle scenarios that humans would normally be capable of handling.
This is an advantage that autopilot has out of the gate.... It's not going to miss something because it was texting; it's not going to become fatigued and fall into some form of waking sleep, or stare at one point ahead and become hypnotized by the road.
Come to think of that, if the human is still doing all the navigating and deciding where to go, regarding highway driving: humans set a really really low bar for Autopilot to exceed.
Or it will be deemed a suicide or terrorism, and the life insurance won't pay out.
Insurance adjusters are scumbags; However, pilot inattentiveness is negligence, not suicide, and is not likely to be legally ruled as such.
If the insurance will not cover such things, then they would likely not write the insurance policy to someone employed as a pilot in the first place. (If you are a licensed pilot, your insurer does ask, And if you are flying a plane, your Life insurance is extra-expensive, by the way.)
If the pilot fails to respond, there's a loud bang and a cut on his paycheck.
Actually....... the former pilot is likely awarded a massive paycheck from his life insurance company. Shame, that a good bit of that will wind up going to Uncle Sam, his Uncle Sam's cousin named Local State Government, and his child called Local County gov't, and the former pilot won't get to spend any of the pittance that remains himself/herself.
It will be ready, one day, but people shouldn't mistake the feature with "fully autonomous driving" until then.
It's more "ready" than human beings are, in many different driving scenarios. Don't be deluded into thinking blocking autopilot activation blocks accidents.
People get into accidents all the time without any help from autopilot.
even if A-P had caused some; it's apparently safer than human drivers.
... inside a locked box that requires a 10-digit code + retinal scan + penis imprint, stored at the bottom of a lake, filled with sharks, wearing lasers.
One of these days team A is going to dive down there with anti-shark enclosure and anti-shark weaponry wearing diving suits with laser-proof Googles, and haul the box away to be dissected.
And replicating what they do like monkey-see-monkey-do is not an advised way to protect yourself, even if you learned what they aren't telling you.
You can do things differently and recognize/avoid risks other people would not be able to avoid, when you're the security guy.
Protecting an organization's endpoints and servers, OR someone else's computers against themself... is very different than protecting your own computer that nobody else is allowed to touch (although you might put it on a hostile network).
Because no one has ever driven without a license. Especially those 'high risk drivers'.
Probably in the next few decades car manufacturers will have to implement a new standard, where to drive your car, there's a "slot" you have to insert your driver's license in, and a computer in your vehicle will verify the status of your license and your facial ID before allowing you to take the vehicle out of park.
You can't wear a mask while getting your DL photo.
No... you can't appear to be wearing a mask. If your mask is realistic enough to fool people and machines into thinking you're not wearing a mask, then you can probably still get your DL photo.
Here's the problem -- Clinton deleted these emails AFTER they were requested from the House as part of an official investigation. She chose to print out everything she claimed was relevant (probably to avoid giving away metadata in headers, etc.)
In other words, she willingly destroyed information she was required to hand over.
The full Headers and all Metadata are part of the Record and part of the E-mail; If you are requested to hand over the e-mails: you have no right to exclude or remove headers, even if your standard e-mail software does not normally display the headers when you are reading the message.
This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.
Disk sanitization of destroyed files is also standard in corporate IT with systems containing personal data or highly confidential data to safeguard against hackers recovering data and using for ID theft....
Many people concerned about their privacy want to make sure that files they've deleted stay deleted.
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Then why do I have two different competing fiber optic cable systems in my franchise-less region?
I'm in an unincorporated area just outside a city, that's semi-rural but rapidly growing, and there's no fibre optic available period. It's not that the government
is stopping potential providers or granting monopolies; perhaps large providers choosing not to come in and build / compete
out of their own free will, because it doesn't make sense as a long term investment.
There are many possible reasons that what's happening in one particular small area..... I think your area is an "Outlier".
There always turn out to be some places that wind up with much better than others, with any number of possible causes.
Hell..... there are cities where you could get almost free connectivity thanks to a municipal fiber service, Or Google fiber.
You probably have a temporary situation, where there are two small start-up projects, or Niche providers trying to meet a specialized local need,
and neither has enough value or dominance of the local market yet to be worth acquiring or merging together.
There are likely distorting factors such as government incentives or grants for what they are doing, or they've forecasted growth in the area to justify building some.
We aren't rich, and we don't have magic dirt that is unusually easy to lay fiber in.
Installing fiber in an established city is expensive. It's often easier to lay fiber Per-Foot in a rural or unincorporated area, Because of fewer permitting requirements. That said, the downside, is you tend to need many more feet of fiber to get to many places, due to rural areas being populated less densely.
Putting it in cities is likely more profitable, because of the higher density: Assuming no competition, HOWEVER,
It is much more expensive per Foot, And With competition, it may not be sufficiently profitable to entice further building at
some point --- due to suppression of the necessary profit margin.
The problem is last mile. Currently there is no option for "last mile" other than government granted monopoly.
Negating the government-granted monopoly means that companies won't build infrastructure in areas, because it's not profitable enough.
You have a "natural monopoly" called Cables in the ground, and the ability to put them there is massively expensive.
I think the only workable way is to keep the monopoly on the Cables, but require the 'feed' providers be separate companies and lease access to lines per end-user on Fair and Non-discriminatory terms.
Cable TV is not very amenable to that, since it's a broadcast medium..... you put a signal on the wire, and all subscribers receive it.
You would need changes to the cabling system and new ways and protocols of communicating over them.
Apple don't seem to like giving memory out cheaply.
They need to get with the times.... Flash is cheap.
I have a M.2 card with a 500GB SSD. The flash chip is about the size of a fingernail, and cost less than $200 brand new a year ago.
It's going to remove the Lightning plug and all you have to do is say a 4 hour prayer ....
They could design the phone so there's no port, And make the aluminum case itself an electrode for charging
Give you a USB cable with Apple-proprietary magnet/clips; one pair of magnets each to snap onto opposite ends of the phone.
Induce an electromagnetic field inside the case, and include a coil inside the phone capable of releasing energy stored in the EM field as electricity for charging the battery.
That's fine, they don't have to. Stop asking Apple for things if you don't want to buy their devices.
Who says I won't buy their devices? I will buy a lot more of their devices if they make these two improvements.
That the devices don't have these features doesn't mean that they're bad or deficient
No, but adding these features will add a LOT more value, then many of the other changes they have already done
and have potentially taken for this iteration. It would also in some sense ameliorate some recent trouble they have caused
with crazy removal of the headphone jack.....
a touch-sensitive home button that vibrates, double-lens cameras for the larger Plus edition
Sigh.... Vibrating button is a parlor trick, nothing useful or appealing...... Go do something useful, like 200GB of memory in the base
model, and provide me a memory card slot, so I can load in data from external devices, archive things, or have additional storage available on
my phone.
Also, longer battery runtime and an option to replace my battery on the go are necessary,
until you do those things, Apple: I have no reason to upgrade.
won't support the screws used in older models.
Doesn't stack up. Auto manufacturers build entire vehicles including all the screws, not just the engine and powertrain.
The computer industry analog to an Auto manufacturer would be Dell, and the analog to an Engine manufacturer would be Intel.
Now the manufacturer of the paint and trim that gets applied to the body of the vehicles is trying to have a deal with the Engine manufacturer saying that the old colors of paint and trim pieces will not work on vehicles that have the newer engine models.
No. DMCA puts the onus on the accused to proof her innocense.
You just need to file a counternotice; you don't have to prove anything, but the problem is the damage is already done by the time your hosting provider processes your counter-notice. Your provider might choose not to put your site back online, Or if they're GoDaddy, they're likely bill you a $199 Administrative fee before your domain can be turned back on (Or transferred to a different registrar).
. He received large sums of money so others could exclusively use that name/brand.
And that Name/Brand is McAfee Antivirus, not John McAfee, and definitely not "John McAfee Global Technologies" .
In fact.... I know another person named McAfee, who has a son named John, so this John doesn't have exclusive use of even 'John McAfee', either.
There are other people on earth with this name. And it's a common custom / tradition to name projects or small businesses / ventures after yourself.
Just because you named a company so its name includes your name does not mean that selling your company transfers rights to your personal name.
Only issue would be if the new company were going to be a security software maker and sell a security product with a confusingly-similar name on the product or point of retail.
I think we need industry authorities to come to conclusion that the Lithium-Ion chemistry is too unstable and mandate the use of a safer option such as LiFePO4.
However, now that operating systems and most commonly-used software tools are commodities, I don't think it is worth the effort.
So instead, they could come up with a deal with Intel to 'generate more revenue' for Intel by paying intel a license fee for every copy of Windows.
In turn, Intel would make all new chips require the proof of License to use the operating system with this CPU at boot-up.
This would help Intel by giving them revenue for every copy of Windows.
This would help Microsoft by excluding operating systems from running on new hardware which are not specifically licensed (All 'Free' operating systems such as Android or Linux fall into this category, unless the manufacturer of that OS is willing to meet a minimum required number of units and pay for CPU licensing their operating system; a license specific to the CPU Revision and OS copy, And the license will be permanently married to a specific hardware unit and specific operating system version.).
Sure they do something. They help the common harmless bacteria that is all around us evolve into MRSA.
The antibacterials used in the soap do not include Methicillin or other antibiotics, so no, they don't help the bacteria evolve into MRSA.
What does that is excessive use of the life-saving drugs.
Especially: Their widespread use on farm animals that live in horrible conditions which would kill the animals by disease or render them less productive, if they weren't being pumped with so many antibiotics, that higher concentrations of precious antibiotic have been found in sewage and natural bodies of water than would exist in the blood of a human being dosed with the antibiotics.....
So it's collusion when an auto manufacturer stops selling older model cars?
No.... It's collusion when the Auto manufacturer makes an agreement with the Auto shops to stop carrying the
proper replacement parts that fit your older cars.
Or it's collusion, when diskette manufacturer X comes out with a new diskette size and makes a deal with laptop manufacturers to stop supporting the older diskette size on their laptops, only the new one.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence.
Planned obsolescence for hardware would be imposing an artificial restrictions to prevent a newer-than-current Windows version from running on hardware that is being sold..... E.g. making a board that can only run Windows 7, Windows 8, and perhaps Windows 10 up to a given version.
Planned obsolescence as in forcing users to run Windows 10 if they buy new hardware is not likely to help with the hardware sales.
I'm wondering if this is where they employ the 'secure boot' where the OS needs an Intel/MS-signed key for the chipset to run it.
I'm wondering how long before the Windows activation process during installation will involve Microsoft digitally signing your individual system's specific boot image and bootloader configuration of each computer, so Microsoft has to approve the hardware Windows is running on, before you'll be allowed to even boot the installed OS.
The thing is that humans can deal with a much larger range of scenarios
Humans can often deal with scenarios.
Humans are not very consistent, however.
Without exception for any individual..... every human is often 'inattentive' or negligent, or become distracted, and many people also willfully disobey traffic safety rules, and fail to handle scenarios that humans would normally be capable of handling.
This is an advantage that autopilot has out of the gate.... It's not going to miss something because it was texting; it's not going to become fatigued and fall into some form of waking sleep, or stare at one point ahead and become hypnotized by the road.
Come to think of that, if the human is still doing all the navigating and deciding where to go, regarding highway driving: humans set a really really low bar for Autopilot to exceed.
Or it will be deemed a suicide or terrorism, and the life insurance won't pay out.
Insurance adjusters are scumbags; However, pilot inattentiveness is negligence, not suicide, and is not likely to be legally ruled as such.
If the insurance will not cover such things, then they would likely not write the insurance policy to someone employed as a pilot in the first place. (If you are a licensed pilot, your insurer does ask, And if you are flying a plane, your Life insurance is extra-expensive, by the way.)
If the pilot fails to respond, there's a loud bang and a cut on his paycheck.
Actually....... the former pilot is likely awarded a massive paycheck from his life insurance company.
Shame, that a good bit of that will wind up going to Uncle Sam, his Uncle Sam's cousin named Local State Government, and his child called Local County gov't, and the former pilot won't get to spend any of the pittance that remains himself/herself.
It will be ready, one day, but people shouldn't mistake the feature with "fully autonomous driving" until then.
It's more "ready" than human beings are, in many different driving scenarios. Don't be deluded into thinking blocking autopilot activation blocks accidents.
People get into accidents all the time without any help from autopilot.
even if A-P had caused some; it's apparently safer than human drivers.
One of these days team A is going to dive down there with anti-shark enclosure and anti-shark weaponry wearing diving suits with laser-proof Googles,
and haul the box away to be dissected.
And replicating what they do like monkey-see-monkey-do is not an advised way to protect yourself, even if you learned what they aren't telling you.
You can do things differently and recognize/avoid risks other people would not be
able to avoid, when you're the security guy.
Protecting an organization's endpoints and servers, OR someone else's computers against themself... is very different than protecting your own computer that nobody else is allowed to touch (although you might put it on a hostile network).
Because no one has ever driven without a license. Especially those 'high risk drivers'.
Probably in the next few decades car manufacturers will have to implement a new standard, where to drive your car, there's a "slot" you have to insert your driver's license in, and a computer in your vehicle will verify the status of your license and your facial ID before allowing you to take the vehicle out of park.
You can't wear a mask while getting your DL photo.
No... you can't appear to be wearing a mask. If your mask is realistic enough to fool people and machines into thinking you're not wearing a mask, then you can probably still get your DL photo.
Here's the problem -- Clinton deleted these emails AFTER they were requested from the House as part of an official investigation. She chose to print out everything she claimed was relevant (probably to avoid giving away metadata in headers, etc.)
In other words, she willingly destroyed information she was required to hand over.
The full Headers and all Metadata are part of the Record and part of the E-mail; If you are requested to hand over the e-mails: you have no right to exclude or remove headers, even if your standard e-mail software does not normally display the headers when you are reading the message.
This isn't mud slinging. This is technology news about obfuscating forensic evidence in practice on a technology website.
Disk sanitization of destroyed files is also standard in corporate IT with systems containing personal data or highly confidential data to safeguard against hackers recovering data and using for ID theft....
Many people concerned about their privacy want to make sure that files they've deleted stay deleted.