Since when has it become a declared / definitive act to not be a flaming dumpster fire in public?
All of the social networking sites have toxic content, it's only the absolute worst of the worst that gets banned. For a site to specifically welcome it leads to stuff like has happened now.
I'll be waiting for the inevitable talking points about how the US will never get off coal and natural gas because _strawman_ won't let it.
Here's the reality, the rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels at a quick clip, the US will be left behind if we still allow industry to drive the ship (e.g. having oil company executives making energy policy that enriches themselves instead of the needs of the nation).
Net neutrality on a technical level is less regulation and complexity, not more.
The idea is very simple, treat all traffic equally and design your network to peer with the other guy's in such a way that it keeps costs down for both parties.
Netflix is the reason your customers are buying faster tiers of internet,.
Presently the driver has to issue a rating immediately at the end of every trip. The passenger has days to do their rating.
Practically speaking, if the driver leaves a bad rating, the passenger is guaranteed to leave a 1 star.. tit for tat retaliation.
And yeah, the system is setup where anything less than 5 stars is a bad review for the driver. If his/her rating goes below 4.6, they get kicked off the platform.
Libraries act as a backstop to services that have become critical to living in our world.
e.g. internet access for job search, research, free meeting spaces for students and community groups (sure those can happen in Starbucks, but not everyone has the desire or ability to pay for overpriced coffee), checking out media/movies / documentaries.
tutoring help, Librarians knowing how to navigate internet searches, old people.. simply holding a book in your hands and reading it.
My comment was about a consumer receiving a call from an AI, not calling into a business, as that is very common.
As far as "press 9 to speak to a live human".. I've seen many businesses that don't allow that at all, especially businesses that have quantified the customer's value to the business.
e.g. If you are a single prepaid cell phone user with a MRC of $20, you use automated tools or nothing, while the business customer with 20 lines of service and $500 MRC gets directed to a person.
Trump's administration is openly pay-to-play, which begs the question, what does Trump get out of this transaction?
Also, who will appoint the compliance team proposed? If it's Trump controlled cronies instead of competent engineering talent, what will that mean for national security going forward?
Uber charges passengers and pays drivers based on time and distance. The only modifier to a standard cab fare is the surge rate that acts as a multiplier on the fare.
So yes, they act exactly as a cab company in most respects save the "for hire" status that a licensed taxi can provide.
Can also be because gen-x and millenial generations are becoming dominant in the workplace.
My anecdote is my mother who worked as a receptionist and secretary for decades. It's ingrained in her culture not to hang up and to always answer the phone, even though she retired 20 years ago. This includes the obvious scammers from out of country that ask questions about her computer. "My computer is running fine, no I don't think I need to give you that, no thank you, no thank you, no thank you".
Anymore, 85% ((FTA) of calls are garbage, and with caller ID spoofing running rampant, you really don't know whom to answer that's outside your whitelist / phone book.
What might get interesting is that for some newly constructed homes, there's one choice or zero choices of broadband too.
At least new homes aren't being built with copper phone service, so no dialup, and if a cable company doesn't pick up the slack, you'll find no broadband other than cellular available.
He's right, when we went from 0.98/1.0 to 2.0 kernel, there were entire suits of new hardware supported, kernel modules, many new features, to say nothing of breaking existing functionality for many things.
20 years later and the major releases are functionally changing things only kernel programmers would care about.
Not to diminish those contributions, but by this point it's more slow roll evolution and iteration.
That's why they are doing very small scale trials.. 14 patients, typically on people with short life expectancy and/or that have not responded to more common protocols.
No one can really address all of the potential interactions, hence the need to do trials.
That's basically the NRA's line of thinking on gun control, that there is just so much wrongdoing (sorry, guns) that trying to enact or enforce any kind of controls is futile.
Laws will always be selectively enforced, if only because an officer isn't going to be aware of all of them at any given time. _Most_ police departments focus on health and safety first and revenue second. (with a noted few that focus on revenue, e.g. speed traps and papers please checkpoints on overtime.
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Maybe you should look at the cost structure of wind and solar and the payback over time.
E.g. larger up front cost - very low operating costs.
At this point in time, its cheaper per MW/h to build solar in a high sun exposure state than it is to build gas or nuclear.
So no, it's more economical to build solar than gas.
Since when has it become a declared / definitive act to not be a flaming dumpster fire in public?
All of the social networking sites have toxic content, it's only the absolute worst of the worst that gets banned. For a site to specifically welcome it leads to stuff like has happened now.
Yet they proudly host content to toxic and hateful for other networks.
This is why Twitter/Facebook/Paypal banned people and companies.
I'll be waiting for the inevitable talking points about how the US will never get off coal and natural gas because _strawman_ won't let it.
Here's the reality, the rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels at a quick clip, the US will be left behind if we still allow industry to drive the ship (e.g. having oil company executives making energy policy that enriches themselves instead of the needs of the nation).
Net neutrality on a technical level is less regulation and complexity, not more.
The idea is very simple, treat all traffic equally and design your network to peer with the other guy's in such a way that it keeps costs down for both parties.
Netflix is the reason your customers are buying faster tiers of internet,.
This will not dissuade bad passengers very much.
Presently the driver has to issue a rating immediately at the end of every trip. The passenger has days to do their rating.
Practically speaking, if the driver leaves a bad rating, the passenger is guaranteed to leave a 1 star .. tit for tat retaliation.
And yeah, the system is setup where anything less than 5 stars is a bad review for the driver. If his/her rating goes below 4.6, they get kicked off the platform.
Trump's administration will probably stamp out this complaint pretty quickly, or do some overreaching executive order to do the same.
No that's not a good thing.
I think the author of the article is one of those out of touch with anybody in the bottom 50% of income.
e.g. "If somebody is on the commercial do not fly list, they could always charter a plane". Ignoring that most people can't afford to charter a plane.
Libraries provide a necessary role that has gone way beyond simply checking books out.
Libraries act as a backstop to services that have become critical to living in our world.
e.g. internet access for job search, research, free meeting spaces for students and community groups (sure those can happen in Starbucks, but not everyone has the desire or ability to pay for overpriced coffee), checking out media/movies / documentaries.
tutoring help, Librarians knowing how to navigate internet searches, old people .. simply holding a book in your hands and reading it.
My comment was about a consumer receiving a call from an AI, not calling into a business, as that is very common.
As far as "press 9 to speak to a live human" .. I've seen many businesses that don't allow that at all, especially businesses that have quantified the customer's value to the business.
e.g. If you are a single prepaid cell phone user with a MRC of $20, you use automated tools or nothing, while the business customer with 20 lines of service and $500 MRC gets directed to a person.
The big pushback i could see is that people generally don't like talking to a bot.
If the AI identifies itself as a machine, a nontrivial number of people are going to immediately hang up on inbound calls they're receiving.
Your youtube example is also not targeted at the masses, it's someone sharing what they enjoy and educating people ion the process.
Otherwise known as a microtargeted or niche program, and it's what the majority of my educated and millenial age friends consume.
e.g. there are copious beauty application videos online .. a motivated person can just find a look they like and watch how to recreate it
Trump's whitehouse blocked free access to a bunch of previously free and widely available reports (mainly to do with EPA findings).
Somebody download this imagery quick, before they realize we're getting something for nothing (except for having funded NASA for all these years).
Trump's administration is openly pay-to-play, which begs the question, what does Trump get out of this transaction?
Also, who will appoint the compliance team proposed? If it's Trump controlled cronies instead of competent engineering talent, what will that mean for national security going forward?
Uber charges passengers and pays drivers based on time and distance. The only modifier to a standard cab fare is the surge rate that acts as a multiplier on the fare.
So yes, they act exactly as a cab company in most respects save the "for hire" status that a licensed taxi can provide.
Can also be because gen-x and millenial generations are becoming dominant in the workplace.
My anecdote is my mother who worked as a receptionist and secretary for decades. It's ingrained in her culture not to hang up and to always answer the phone, even though she retired 20 years ago. This includes the obvious scammers from out of country that ask questions about her computer. "My computer is running fine, no I don't think I need to give you that, no thank you, no thank you, no thank you".
Anymore, 85% ((FTA) of calls are garbage, and with caller ID spoofing running rampant, you really don't know whom to answer that's outside your whitelist / phone book.
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This might be more what you are thinking of...
Very little of TMO voice traffic is on GSM..
People lump the entire 3GPP standards under GSM when GSM itself is not used very much at all.
Effectively all phones sold by the carriers are UMTS at least, which uses a variant of CDMA for its air interface.
What might get interesting is that for some newly constructed homes, there's one choice or zero choices of broadband too.
At least new homes aren't being built with copper phone service, so no dialup, and if a cable company doesn't pick up the slack, you'll find no broadband other than cellular available.
He's right, when we went from 0.98/1.0 to 2.0 kernel, there were entire suits of new hardware supported, kernel modules, many new features, to say nothing of breaking existing functionality for many things.
20 years later and the major releases are functionally changing things only kernel programmers would care about.
Not to diminish those contributions, but by this point it's more slow roll evolution and iteration.
Sadly, I think this will likely result in even _more_ consolidation in the terrestrial radio market.
That and probably a bunch of smaller market or fully saturated markets transmitters shutting down.
Again, less voices, less venue.
That's why they are doing very small scale trials .. 14 patients, typically on people with short life expectancy and/or that have not responded to more common protocols.
No one can really address all of the potential interactions, hence the need to do trials.
That's basically the NRA's line of thinking on gun control, that there is just so much wrongdoing (sorry, guns) that trying to enact or enforce any kind of controls is futile.
Laws will always be selectively enforced, if only because an officer isn't going to be aware of all of them at any given time. _Most_ police departments focus on health and safety first and revenue second. (with a noted few that focus on revenue, e.g. speed traps and papers please checkpoints on overtime.
It might be noted I said 'this congress", not "this Republican congress".
Copywrite extension belongs to both parties while steaming turds like the recently passed budget are all on the republicans.
Don't worry, this congress and president will ensure nothing new falls to the public domain this or any other year.