If someone is really worried about radiation from wifi, they'd be well advised to not have _any_ wifi devices in the home, if not actually living some large distance from anyone else with same devices.
They'd also want to avoid cell phones too..
Actually, such a person would just become a hermit.
If he had been serious, he could have lodged a nominal filibuster (e.g say "I am speaking" that could only be overridden with a majority vote of the senate.
Since his party controls the senate, and he basically just did a political stunt, I question if he is actually against the Patriot Act, or if he was just playing political theater for his doomed presidential campaign.
Rural Kansas gets much more in state funding benefits than they do in taxes paid.
if KS did what you suggest, the per-pupil expenditures would plummet in the rural counties and stay the same in the urban / suburban ones.
All that would be great.. in a amoral libertarian world.
The "secret sauce" of Johnson County has been the citizens willingness to pay for the schools. No other county I am aware of has been as willing to approve the bond issues, property tax and sales tax increases that joco has.
Schools in KS are messed up, there is no reason to mess it up more.
I have no problem with this, if the CA can't be trusted than they should be de-listed from browser default behavior as soon as possible.
However, I do see the Chinese government reacting in a particular way. They could start requiring that _only_ government approved CA are used within China's borders (with the little detail of Google's certs not be accepted / listed).
Back in those days, you didn't have serial/parallel, floppy, or IDE/disk controllers built into the motherboard,. At least not on non-Dell/Gateway/Micron/IBM computers.
All of those functions were built onto a VESA slot board alongside the video card.
You _could_ have that stuff on an ISA board, but you lost quite a bit of performance.
It might be noted that this move to automation occured _without_ an increase in the minimum wage.
i.e. they are doing it because it can contribute to their bottom line and "enhance" customer satisfaction.
-- time to order in this kind of business is a large part of the expense, hence why they flocked to credit card systems to lose ~3% of their revenue, because it essentially eliminates cash handling time and balancing the books at the end of the shift (for that portion of sales).
(just out of high school, I worked at a Burger King in the drive through (1992). You had to make change in my head,. I could do it without error. Most others could not)).
Ham radio (well, packet ax25) is/was so slow that any kind of peer to peer exchange would be almost worthless by modern standards.
1200/9600baud is fine for station to station packet, but again, worthless for anything more modern.
Also, the cellular network interfaces with the PSTN, something HAM could technically do, but with a ton of restrictions on content and open to anyone to listen to.
ham radio has a good place in the toolkit in terms of emergency communications, but only than and only in small pieces until the cell networks recover.
You are misunderstanding the market that exists in areas served / subsidized by these funds.. Rural markets that lack infrastructure currently.
e.g. there is no competition to encourage.. in areas where it is high cost - low return, most companies won't take on the expense themselves with no possibility of payback.
Currently for these customers, the only option available is cellular data access, at high prices for comparatively small amounts of data.
With that mentality, the US would never have completed rural electrification nor rural telephone service.. with a net effect of some parts of the US having never gotten out of third world nation conditions.
Is it sad that we've come so far as to have a company make a press release assuring customers and peering partners, that they will continue to abide by industry practices that have existed for decades?
People pay for speed of delivery, but that doesn't necessarily mean fast.. just predictable.
It's that time-to-market that has gotten some companies in trouble when dealing with chinese suppliers (capital is tied up for the 3 month lead time when ordering from China and shipping via container ship.. if someone is in a highly cyclical market than that lag time can put you out of business if you are not careful.
Completely impossible.. according to their ownership structure, 83% of the outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors.
Meaning, even if you created an artificial scarcity by buying up all shares available at any given time.. you'd still be way short of enough to effect change (and in any event, a bunch of individual investors wouldn't have any representation on the board).
You might be able to do it with an activist institutional investor like Carl Icahn.. but someone like him wouldn't be motivated to do anything like that. (e.g. against his own interests).
Goes without saying with most people here.. but please tell me there is a court challenge in progress, as religious indoctrination has no place in public schools...
and we wonder why STEM involvement is perpetually an issue in the US.
The larger problem isn't the actual contractor, it's in the selection process.
At least, the companies that get these huge jobs are the ones that can successfully navigate the bidding process, as well as those that have a track record of complying with that process.
It's a matter of the metrics used not matching the result desired.
ACA/Obamacare health exchanges have had a lot of screwups, but I don't know if it'd work any other way initially (based on the fact that there are hundreds of agencies and different systems to interact with,. any end to end testing would have to be on "friendly" / fake results.
I may or may not agree with their mission and goals, but given the fact that the government shutdown was more or less known about for months ahead of occurring, I'd like to think that the bureaucrats at the pentagon were simply doing their job by making these large contract awards instead of pretending that the shutdown wasn't going to happen.
e.g. it's a lot easier to deal with a delay in paying for spare parts on the tail end than it is to do without those parts on the front end.
Somehow I'd doubt the US would commit an international incident to get one guy.
To my knowledge, the US doesn't have ad-hoc military access to Russian airspace. To say nothing of the loss of life for what would at that point be an extrajudicial killing (aka - murder).
Some types are business are inherently more IT dependent than others.
At least, once upon a time I contracted to/ in an industrial factory making insulation.
The permanent IT staff was 7 for a workforce of around 1200.. and most of those were dedicated to the production control systems in the plant (ancient honeywell machines).
Most of the workers were union tradesmen.. whom responded to the new email system training materials was to circular file them before I had left (and tried to use the shared computer to access playboy.com (mid 90s).
Contrast that to today, where my job and industry is essentially all IT ((what with people carrying a network enabled computer in their pocket that happens to make phone calls and is still called a phone).
I don't know about the incompetent doctors being rural.. There are programs around my part of Kansas practically begging doctors and dentists to locate in rural areas, offering signing bonuses, accelerated payoff of student loans (as part of the compensation package),
There are companies that make a living refurbishing PDP11 machines.
I know of a couple companies that keep them around for their call center ACD controllers (Rockwell Galaxy - PDP11/94).
A lot of these machines still use discrete components.. so fixing them is economically feasible.
ACD integration has a funny way of becoming very very customized. The nominal savings of going to a newer platform is outweighed by the changes required in support and IVR systems that feed into it.
err, the US has no shortage of backhaul capacity.. we have dark fiber going every which way that has not needed to be utilized due to DWDM advances of the last decade or two.
The problem has been in getting that capacity to the consumer, the "last mile".
At least, our phone companies have generally been spending the absolute minimum on infrastructure that they can get away with for the last 15 years.. our cable companies doing likewise, and our wireless ISPs of last resort (aka Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mo) charge such a premium so as to make true broadband "living" economically impossible.
There are other efforts of course, such as Google Fiber, Verizon FIOS and regional FTTH services like SureWest.. but those tend to cherry pick neighborhoods and municipalities that are likely to be very profitable, rather than the near-utility requirements broadband has become for many americans.. and again, mainly in urban / dense areas.
e.g. not everyone can pick from 4 different broadband providers as I can (Google Fiber, Surewest, AT&T, Time Warner).
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If someone is really worried about radiation from wifi, they'd be well advised to not have _any_ wifi devices in the home, if not actually living some large distance from anyone else with same devices.
They'd also want to avoid cell phones too..
Actually, such a person would just become a hermit.
zyxel is still a thing?
You'd think that brand (name) would have died a decade ago.
This was a fake filibuster ..
If he had been serious, he could have lodged a nominal filibuster (e.g say "I am speaking" that could only be overridden with a majority vote of the senate.
Since his party controls the senate, and he basically just did a political stunt, I question if he is actually against the Patriot Act, or if he was just playing political theater for his doomed presidential campaign.
Rural Kansas gets much more in state funding benefits than they do in taxes paid.
if KS did what you suggest, the per-pupil expenditures would plummet in the rural counties and stay the same in the urban / suburban ones.
All that would be great .. in a amoral libertarian world.
The "secret sauce" of Johnson County has been the citizens willingness to pay for the schools. No other county I am aware of has been as willing to approve the bond issues, property tax and sales tax increases that joco has.
Schools in KS are messed up, there is no reason to mess it up more.
I have no problem with this, if the CA can't be trusted than they should be de-listed from browser default behavior as soon as possible.
However, I do see the Chinese government reacting in a particular way. They could start requiring that _only_ government approved CA are used within China's borders (with the little detail of Google's certs not be accepted / listed).
Not entirely true ..
Back in those days, you didn't have serial/parallel, floppy, or IDE/disk controllers built into the motherboard,. At least not on non-Dell/Gateway/Micron/IBM computers.
All of those functions were built onto a VESA slot board alongside the video card.
You _could_ have that stuff on an ISA board, but you lost quite a bit of performance.
It might be noted that this move to automation occured _without_ an increase in the minimum wage.
i.e. they are doing it because it can contribute to their bottom line and "enhance" customer satisfaction.
-- time to order in this kind of business is a large part of the expense, hence why they flocked to credit card systems to lose ~3% of their revenue, because it essentially eliminates cash handling time and balancing the books at the end of the shift (for that portion of sales).
(just out of high school, I worked at a Burger King in the drive through (1992). You had to make change in my head,. I could do it without error. Most others could not)).
Ham radio (well, packet ax25) is/was so slow that any kind of peer to peer exchange would be almost worthless by modern standards.
1200/9600baud is fine for station to station packet, but again, worthless for anything more modern.
Also, the cellular network interfaces with the PSTN, something HAM could technically do, but with a ton of restrictions on content and open to anyone to listen to.
ham radio has a good place in the toolkit in terms of emergency communications, but only than and only in small pieces until the cell networks recover.
You are misunderstanding the market that exists in areas served / subsidized by these funds.. Rural markets that lack infrastructure currently.
e.g. there is no competition to encourage .. in areas where it is high cost - low return, most companies won't take on the expense themselves with no possibility of payback.
Currently for these customers, the only option available is cellular data access, at high prices for comparatively small amounts of data.
And of course the skeptical take comment section is filled with non-researched and non-constructive comments about wind energy.
Almost as if being for or against green energy were an overt political statement than a well thought out business plan and energy policy.
(I'm from Kansas, we have nowhere near enough utilization of wind energy, despite several large wind farms in the western part of the state).
With that mentality, the US would never have completed rural electrification nor rural telephone service .. with a net effect of some parts of the US having never gotten out of third world nation conditions.
Is it sad that we've come so far as to have a company make a press release assuring customers and peering partners, that they will continue to abide by industry practices that have existed for decades?
People pay for speed of delivery, but that doesn't necessarily mean fast.. just predictable.
It's that time-to-market that has gotten some companies in trouble when dealing with chinese suppliers (capital is tied up for the 3 month lead time when ordering from China and shipping via container ship .. if someone is in a highly cyclical market than that lag time can put you out of business if you are not careful.
While Kansas City has some tech companies (Sprint, Cerner, Garmin) and a fair number of engineering firms .. it's not exactly a burgeoning tech center.
Completely impossible .. according to their ownership structure, 83% of the outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors.
Meaning, even if you created an artificial scarcity by buying up all shares available at any given time .. you'd still be way short of enough to effect change (and in any event, a bunch of individual investors wouldn't have any representation on the board).
You might be able to do it with an activist institutional investor like Carl Icahn .. but someone like him wouldn't be motivated to do anything like that. (e.g. against his own interests).
More specifically, Industrial, Scientific and Medical .. with the 2.4ghz band also being where microwave ovens "live"
Goes without saying with most people here .. but please tell me there is a court challenge in progress, as religious indoctrination has no place in public schools ...
and we wonder why STEM involvement is perpetually an issue in the US.
While FTTH everywhere is laudable, it might turn out to be impractical in the more rural areas and existing dense housing.
VDSL+ _should_ be enough for most uses if priced appropriately.
The larger problem isn't the actual contractor, it's in the selection process.
At least, the companies that get these huge jobs are the ones that can successfully navigate the bidding process, as well as those that have a track record of complying with that process.
It's a matter of the metrics used not matching the result desired.
ACA/Obamacare health exchanges have had a lot of screwups, but I don't know if it'd work any other way initially (based on the fact that there are hundreds of agencies and different systems to interact with,. any end to end testing would have to be on "friendly" / fake results.
I may or may not agree with their mission and goals, but given the fact that the government shutdown was more or less known about for months ahead of occurring, I'd like to think that the bureaucrats at the pentagon were simply doing their job by making these large contract awards instead of pretending that the shutdown wasn't going to happen.
e.g. it's a lot easier to deal with a delay in paying for spare parts on the tail end than it is to do without those parts on the front end.
Somehow I'd doubt the US would commit an international incident to get one guy.
To my knowledge, the US doesn't have ad-hoc military access to Russian airspace. To say nothing of the loss of life for what would at that point be an extrajudicial killing (aka - murder).
Probably depends on the nature of the business.
Some types are business are inherently more IT dependent than others.
At least, once upon a time I contracted to/ in an industrial factory making insulation.
The permanent IT staff was 7 for a workforce of around 1200 .. and most of those were dedicated to the production control systems in the plant (ancient honeywell machines).
Most of the workers were union tradesmen .. whom responded to the new email system training materials was to circular file them before I had left (and tried to use the shared computer to access playboy.com (mid 90s).
Contrast that to today, where my job and industry is essentially all IT ((what with people carrying a network enabled computer in their pocket that happens to make phone calls and is still called a phone).
I don't know about the incompetent doctors being rural .. There are programs around my part of Kansas practically begging doctors and dentists to locate in rural areas, offering signing bonuses, accelerated payoff of student loans (as part of the compensation package),
There are companies that make a living refurbishing PDP11 machines.
I know of a couple companies that keep them around for their call center ACD controllers (Rockwell Galaxy - PDP11/94).
A lot of these machines still use discrete components .. so fixing them is economically feasible.
ACD integration has a funny way of becoming very very customized. The nominal savings of going to a newer platform is outweighed by the changes required in support and IVR systems that feed into it.
err, the US has no shortage of backhaul capacity .. we have dark fiber going every which way that has not needed to be utilized due to DWDM advances of the last decade or two.
The problem has been in getting that capacity to the consumer, the "last mile".
At least, our phone companies have generally been spending the absolute minimum on infrastructure that they can get away with for the last 15 years .. our cable companies doing likewise, and our wireless ISPs of last resort (aka Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mo) charge such a premium so as to make true broadband "living" economically impossible.
There are other efforts of course, such as Google Fiber, Verizon FIOS and regional FTTH services like SureWest .. but those tend to cherry pick neighborhoods and municipalities that are likely to be very profitable, rather than the near-utility requirements broadband has become for many americans .. and again, mainly in urban / dense areas.
e.g. not everyone can pick from 4 different broadband providers as I can (Google Fiber, Surewest, AT&T, Time Warner).