No community can ban access to a public utility (as defined by the state law) beyond reasonable fees to inspect and monitor the construction in the public right-of-way (ROW) for preservation of that ROW. A franchise agreement that purports to enact such a ban is illegal and will be struck down the first time a city tries to enforce it. Not that any city would try to enforce such a claim, it's blatantly unconstitutional.
You don't understand the law, stop commenting on it.
They have a Napoleon complex. They want to be big and powerful, but they aren't anymore. When they were with their buddies in the Soviet Union they were big and powerful with a long reach, now they are pretty much landlocked Asian minor country.
Sure they have some pretty cool weapons and capabilities as that goes but their economy is entirely natural resource based, their governments are corrupt and their private enterprise is non-existent. Destroying the market for their resources destroys their entire economy because they have not bothered to diversify mostly because they are entirely focused on trying to rebuild the status of the former soviet empire. Russia won't fix these problems until all the old KGB bosses are gone. As organized crime is heavily embedded into the culture at this point it would take decades to reduce their influence. Look at how long it's taken Italy to reduce the influence of La Costa Nostra.
The single greatest threat to Russia is that the resources their entire economy is based on (Oil and Coal) are within 50 years going to be worthless. When that happens it will make the 90's look like a booming economy. But by the time it happens Putin will be dead and his progeny will be in Europe so he really doesn't care.
Fortunately you are wrong. Interstellar travel could be possible with current technology, just the investment would be massive and the people picked to travel would likely be on a suicide mission. Don't discount the discovery of future technology. We know barely the basics of physics. Though interstellar travel is certainly difficult it is not impossible.
They make decent money, rather consistently actually. But it's not growing very fast. That doesn't meet the hedge funds demands. The hedge funds aren't satisfied with 2% growth, they want 20%. So rather than see 2% they will see the company destroyed. They call these hedge funds "activist investors", but their goal is to squeeze every dime out then sell the stock. The actions they advocate are never good for the long term.
Certain states decided that it had better legibility, due to the research on it, than the freely available highway fonts (A-E). I know of one state that uses the font exclusively, North Dakota. AFAIK this font isn't in wide use.
Safety is all the matters in this regard, if the commercial font really does have better the standard fonts then it should be used. Yea it would be great if the font is freely available and all that but what matters above all is the legibility. If the font can be read at a greater distance than the traditional fonts it is worth the licensing costs because it could save a life.
He's already talked about doing so and I wouldn't be surprised if he's started. He wants to standardize pieces of linux that have been a nightmare of aging incompatible code. A natural stop on that path would be Linux package managers. As much as I love Apt-get, and I like emerge they all ultimately suck. They call it dependency hell for a reason.
Ultimately we'd all be better off if someone could figure out a better, more robust and more modern solution to Linux Package managers.
The FCC learned pretty good from how the Cable Companies subverted the Cable Card mandate. This one forces them to pass the data out of their system via open standards, it allows them to continue to pass on the restrictions and other stuff they are using but the key here is everything is in software. There won't be any hardware to rent from the cable company. This is going to make it very difficult for them to subvert like cable card.
They subverted cable card by getting the FCC to OK creating a certification laboratory. They called this cable labs and they used it to throw so much red tape in front of companies that it became nearly impossible to get hardware through. On top of this they would add conditions about software and other things that they had no business putting into the certification process. On top of this at first they made the cable card process extremely complex to begin with including partial implementation so that anyone that bought a cable card device would find the process either broken or impossibly hard which would bias the public about cable card being bad.
The software option is going to block all this. They have to pass the data out in an open published way. The FCC just basically made them implement an API and pass everything out. Because there is a lack of hardware there can't be a certification laboratory and because they are required to use open ISO approved standards they can't game the software side.
I'm sure if there is a way to subvert the process they will find it but this cuts almost all of their current methods off. It should be easy to develop hardware and software systems to implement the standards and if the cable company isn't complying with the standard you should be able to complain to the FCC.
Hell if you are an Comcast business sub with static ip's YOU MUST rent there hardware.
The modem rental is part of the price, there isn't an extra charge for it on the business side. Now if you want to argue the static IP costs are extravagant I would agree but the equipment rental is not a big deal IMO.
Do you have any idea how long it took and how much effort they expended to make sure that the Cable Card standard was never actually usable? And this new standard basically says they have to pass the data to an outside provider without being able to force the electronics retailer to have to go to cable labs which helped to make sure the process is painful and you can't win without giving in?
My god, people might not have to spend $20 a month on a DVR they don't own!
Binge on allows T-Mobile to have a say in who wins the video streaming market. In time that ability to influence will be worth money and they will start charging for it.
The reality is the Binge on is T-Mobile using it's status as network provider to decide who will win the most video streaming business. That's bad for everyone, even if helps some of their customers.
It would be better if they were tampering with the video streaming market by favoring one group over another. That's the point of net neutrality, we don't want the phone and cable companies deciding the winners and losers in the video streaming market.
I doesn't matter if this is good for some consumers, it's bad for the market. Your support only means you are willing to sell out future use of the network for an immediate short term benefit.
People like you said the same thing about the Apple CEO from Pepsi that cut R&D and raised prices which maximized revenue for about 5 years, that is until the company began to flounder because the reduced R&D caused them to no longer be competitive once the in channel developments were used up (about 5 years later).
Bad CEO's generally aren't revealed for a number of years. Carly Fiorina was praised for the first 5 years, that is until the reduced R&D and focus on commodity printer market flatlined all growth.
Is Tim Cook as bad as Pepsi guy that was CEO? No, but is he as innovative and as big of an asshole as Jobs? No. Given that he hasn't been in charge that long the jury is still out on whether he's a good CEO.
Those foreign profits are stored in Dollars so it has no effect on their stored cash either. Grand Cayman and all the other "hide money offshore" tax havens uses the dollar.
This has not a thing to do with airspace. State governments have total control over where aircraft can land. Landing is not airspace, that's why it has the word LAND in it. This is totally a zoning issue and they were right to shut them down. Helicopters are not nearly as safe as winged aircraft. Their crash rate is far higher than fixed wings and their crashes are often far more violent. They are also very noisy and the wind effects are not trivial (they generate strong enough winds to rip shingles off roofs).
Park city and much of summit county is 90% residential (at least in the areas anywhere near the festival). To be landing these things in park city they are landing them right next to people's houses. Park city and summit county have every right to restrict aircraft landings as part of their zoning, and Utah state law gives them absolute sovereignty over where aircraft may land within their jurisdictional borders. And this is exactly as it should be as one property owners rights to use his property as he see's fit doesn't allow him to infringe on the rights of his neighbors to not have helicopters hovering over their homes.
Park city isn't even an hour from SLC international airport. If someone is so rich they need to waste $10k to save 1 hour then they should spend the money to get a proper landing permit from the county, of course they would probably make them land 40minutes from the venue so they aren't landing in a residential neighborhood.
If they went bankrupt because of a lawsuit related to an injury then there is clearly more financial backing there as the plaintiff was able to go after their assets. Someone like Uber would have walked away from the case and thrown the driver under the bus (which they've already done at least once) and the person that got hurt would have never gotten a dime.
The very fact that the victim here was able to go after corporate assets shows they are more financially liable than Uber. The result being the article proves the exact opposite of what the summary tries to say it does.
The magic quantum encryption cracking system is still *at least* a decade away.
I would agree it's a decade away form widespread commercial deployment. But this research is being heavily funded by the NSA and Google already has a quantum computer deployed, but the real question is how many the NSA has deployed. Every qubit makes the decryption about 10 times easier and early research has said you would only need double digits of qubits to make breaking RSA 256 possible. Google's quantum computer is 4 qubits for reference and the maker claimed to have built an 8 qubit just recently. The one worrying thing here is the NSA has vast resources to throw at these problems, both in money and people. On top of that they are doing state of the art research in these fields and funding much of said research that's going on outside their own labs. Quantum computers change the game entirely.
Given that you are the same idiot that claimed you can't add any address you want to your account you will have to prove your statements You lied once, I'm not going to take anything you say as truth without backup. I don't believe that the first digits of a credit card number indicate country of origin. The numbers on a card are two things, they are a bank identifier and an account identifier. The bank identifier is in no way tied to any country unless that bank only exists in one country.
I could call my bank tomorrow and ask them to add a name and address in China to my account and if someone tried to use that as a valid card address the merchant system would validate it.
There is no way for a merchant that accepts credit cards to determine the location or origin of any card holder other than to submit an address received from the customer and have the bank validate it. No merchant has access to any of the personal information of a card holder unless they get it from the card holder themselves. And any card holder can add any information to their account they want including names and addresses.
The officers that distributed child pornography committed felonies. The government is not allowed to commit felonies in the pursuit of criminals. In fact with this knowledge in hand any attempt to prosecute anyone involved is under threat of having the evidence suppressed because of the felony.
This would be akin to officers selling drugs on the street and allowing everyone to drive off after purchasing in the hope that maybe they could catch a couple of them several weeks later. This would not be legal and the officers would be prosecuted for distribution of a controlled substance and sent to prison. All the FBI agents involved should be prosecuted for distribution of child pornography.
I'd be surprised if you could reliably pin down location by the number, as there are a large number of banks that are multi-national and operate out of dozens of countries.
The first digits indicate the issuing bank, but if the bank is multi-national that's utterly worthless as a reliable indicator of location.
Humanitarian crisis? Initially sure. But in the end....
This will end up in war, a really really nasty one as those nations with surplus population being displaced look to take land and resources from others. There have been very few situations in human history where a large population was displaced that didn't end up in war.
Most credit cards will let you add fake addresses that if queried will report as valid. This works because you can't ask the credit card company for the billing address, you can only ask them if the billing address you were supplied is correct.
The card companies do this because they recognize that there are some merchants that won't ship to anything but the card company verified address so the credit card companies have provided a work around in the form of a "fake" address that they will verify is correct even though it's not the actual billing address. It's trivial to add these, you just have to call and ask to add an address to the account.
Though this would likely work because most people aren't aware you can do this it wouldn't be long before word spread.
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No community can ban access to a public utility (as defined by the state law) beyond reasonable fees to inspect and monitor the construction in the public right-of-way (ROW) for preservation of that ROW. A franchise agreement that purports to enact such a ban is illegal and will be struck down the first time a city tries to enforce it. Not that any city would try to enforce such a claim, it's blatantly unconstitutional.
You don't understand the law, stop commenting on it.
They have a Napoleon complex. They want to be big and powerful, but they aren't anymore. When they were with their buddies in the Soviet Union they were big and powerful with a long reach, now they are pretty much landlocked Asian minor country.
Sure they have some pretty cool weapons and capabilities as that goes but their economy is entirely natural resource based, their governments are corrupt and their private enterprise is non-existent. Destroying the market for their resources destroys their entire economy because they have not bothered to diversify mostly because they are entirely focused on trying to rebuild the status of the former soviet empire. Russia won't fix these problems until all the old KGB bosses are gone. As organized crime is heavily embedded into the culture at this point it would take decades to reduce their influence. Look at how long it's taken Italy to reduce the influence of La Costa Nostra.
The single greatest threat to Russia is that the resources their entire economy is based on (Oil and Coal) are within 50 years going to be worthless. When that happens it will make the 90's look like a booming economy. But by the time it happens Putin will be dead and his progeny will be in Europe so he really doesn't care.
Fortunately you are wrong. Interstellar travel could be possible with current technology, just the investment would be massive and the people picked to travel would likely be on a suicide mission. Don't discount the discovery of future technology. We know barely the basics of physics. Though interstellar travel is certainly difficult it is not impossible.
They make decent money, rather consistently actually. But it's not growing very fast. That doesn't meet the hedge funds demands. The hedge funds aren't satisfied with 2% growth, they want 20%. So rather than see 2% they will see the company destroyed. They call these hedge funds "activist investors", but their goal is to squeeze every dime out then sell the stock. The actions they advocate are never good for the long term.
What's funny is they make money (the non alibaba part), just not enough for the hedge funds and not growing enough for the hedge funds.
Certain states decided that it had better legibility, due to the research on it, than the freely available highway fonts (A-E). I know of one state that uses the font exclusively, North Dakota. AFAIK this font isn't in wide use.
Safety is all the matters in this regard, if the commercial font really does have better the standard fonts then it should be used. Yea it would be great if the font is freely available and all that but what matters above all is the legibility. If the font can be read at a greater distance than the traditional fonts it is worth the licensing costs because it could save a life.
He's already talked about doing so and I wouldn't be surprised if he's started. He wants to standardize pieces of linux that have been a nightmare of aging incompatible code. A natural stop on that path would be Linux package managers. As much as I love Apt-get, and I like emerge they all ultimately suck. They call it dependency hell for a reason.
Ultimately we'd all be better off if someone could figure out a better, more robust and more modern solution to Linux Package managers.
No. But the people that wrote UEFI are evil fucking bastards.
The FCC learned pretty good from how the Cable Companies subverted the Cable Card mandate. This one forces them to pass the data out of their system via open standards, it allows them to continue to pass on the restrictions and other stuff they are using but the key here is everything is in software. There won't be any hardware to rent from the cable company. This is going to make it very difficult for them to subvert like cable card.
They subverted cable card by getting the FCC to OK creating a certification laboratory. They called this cable labs and they used it to throw so much red tape in front of companies that it became nearly impossible to get hardware through. On top of this they would add conditions about software and other things that they had no business putting into the certification process. On top of this at first they made the cable card process extremely complex to begin with including partial implementation so that anyone that bought a cable card device would find the process either broken or impossibly hard which would bias the public about cable card being bad.
The software option is going to block all this. They have to pass the data out in an open published way. The FCC just basically made them implement an API and pass everything out. Because there is a lack of hardware there can't be a certification laboratory and because they are required to use open ISO approved standards they can't game the software side.
I'm sure if there is a way to subvert the process they will find it but this cuts almost all of their current methods off. It should be easy to develop hardware and software systems to implement the standards and if the cable company isn't complying with the standard you should be able to complain to the FCC.
The modem rental is part of the price, there isn't an extra charge for it on the business side. Now if you want to argue the static IP costs are extravagant I would agree but the equipment rental is not a big deal IMO.
Do you have any idea how long it took and how much effort they expended to make sure that the Cable Card standard was never actually usable? And this new standard basically says they have to pass the data to an outside provider without being able to force the electronics retailer to have to go to cable labs which helped to make sure the process is painful and you can't win without giving in?
My god, people might not have to spend $20 a month on a DVR they don't own!
Binge on allows T-Mobile a say in who wins the video streaming business by deciding who's free and who's not. That's bad.
Binge on allows T-Mobile to have a say in who wins the video streaming market. In time that ability to influence will be worth money and they will start charging for it.
The reality is the Binge on is T-Mobile using it's status as network provider to decide who will win the most video streaming business. That's bad for everyone, even if helps some of their customers.
It would be better if they were tampering with the video streaming market by favoring one group over another. That's the point of net neutrality, we don't want the phone and cable companies deciding the winners and losers in the video streaming market.
I doesn't matter if this is good for some consumers, it's bad for the market. Your support only means you are willing to sell out future use of the network for an immediate short term benefit.
People like you said the same thing about the Apple CEO from Pepsi that cut R&D and raised prices which maximized revenue for about 5 years, that is until the company began to flounder because the reduced R&D caused them to no longer be competitive once the in channel developments were used up (about 5 years later).
Bad CEO's generally aren't revealed for a number of years. Carly Fiorina was praised for the first 5 years, that is until the reduced R&D and focus on commodity printer market flatlined all growth.
Is Tim Cook as bad as Pepsi guy that was CEO? No, but is he as innovative and as big of an asshole as Jobs? No. Given that he hasn't been in charge that long the jury is still out on whether he's a good CEO.
Those foreign profits are stored in Dollars so it has no effect on their stored cash either. Grand Cayman and all the other "hide money offshore" tax havens uses the dollar.
This has not a thing to do with airspace. State governments have total control over where aircraft can land. Landing is not airspace, that's why it has the word LAND in it. This is totally a zoning issue and they were right to shut them down. Helicopters are not nearly as safe as winged aircraft. Their crash rate is far higher than fixed wings and their crashes are often far more violent. They are also very noisy and the wind effects are not trivial (they generate strong enough winds to rip shingles off roofs).
Park city and much of summit county is 90% residential (at least in the areas anywhere near the festival). To be landing these things in park city they are landing them right next to people's houses. Park city and summit county have every right to restrict aircraft landings as part of their zoning, and Utah state law gives them absolute sovereignty over where aircraft may land within their jurisdictional borders. And this is exactly as it should be as one property owners rights to use his property as he see's fit doesn't allow him to infringe on the rights of his neighbors to not have helicopters hovering over their homes.
Park city isn't even an hour from SLC international airport. If someone is so rich they need to waste $10k to save 1 hour then they should spend the money to get a proper landing permit from the county, of course they would probably make them land 40minutes from the venue so they aren't landing in a residential neighborhood.
If they went bankrupt because of a lawsuit related to an injury then there is clearly more financial backing there as the plaintiff was able to go after their assets. Someone like Uber would have walked away from the case and thrown the driver under the bus (which they've already done at least once) and the person that got hurt would have never gotten a dime.
The very fact that the victim here was able to go after corporate assets shows they are more financially liable than Uber. The result being the article proves the exact opposite of what the summary tries to say it does.
The magic quantum encryption cracking system is still *at least* a decade away.
I would agree it's a decade away form widespread commercial deployment. But this research is being heavily funded by the NSA and Google already has a quantum computer deployed, but the real question is how many the NSA has deployed. Every qubit makes the decryption about 10 times easier and early research has said you would only need double digits of qubits to make breaking RSA 256 possible. Google's quantum computer is 4 qubits for reference and the maker claimed to have built an 8 qubit just recently. The one worrying thing here is the NSA has vast resources to throw at these problems, both in money and people. On top of that they are doing state of the art research in these fields and funding much of said research that's going on outside their own labs. Quantum computers change the game entirely.
Given that you are the same idiot that claimed you can't add any address you want to your account you will have to prove your statements You lied once, I'm not going to take anything you say as truth without backup. I don't believe that the first digits of a credit card number indicate country of origin. The numbers on a card are two things, they are a bank identifier and an account identifier. The bank identifier is in no way tied to any country unless that bank only exists in one country.
I could call my bank tomorrow and ask them to add a name and address in China to my account and if someone tried to use that as a valid card address the merchant system would validate it.
There is no way for a merchant that accepts credit cards to determine the location or origin of any card holder other than to submit an address received from the customer and have the bank validate it. No merchant has access to any of the personal information of a card holder unless they get it from the card holder themselves. And any card holder can add any information to their account they want including names and addresses.
The officers that distributed child pornography committed felonies. The government is not allowed to commit felonies in the pursuit of criminals. In fact with this knowledge in hand any attempt to prosecute anyone involved is under threat of having the evidence suppressed because of the felony.
This would be akin to officers selling drugs on the street and allowing everyone to drive off after purchasing in the hope that maybe they could catch a couple of them several weeks later. This would not be legal and the officers would be prosecuted for distribution of a controlled substance and sent to prison. All the FBI agents involved should be prosecuted for distribution of child pornography.
I'd be surprised if you could reliably pin down location by the number, as there are a large number of banks that are multi-national and operate out of dozens of countries.
The first digits indicate the issuing bank, but if the bank is multi-national that's utterly worthless as a reliable indicator of location.
Visa, Mastercard, American Express. I'm not sure about Discover card or Diner's Club and some of the more fringe ones.
I've done this on all three I listed. It's extremely common and trivially easy to do.
Humanitarian crisis? Initially sure. But in the end....
This will end up in war, a really really nasty one as those nations with surplus population being displaced look to take land and resources from others. There have been very few situations in human history where a large population was displaced that didn't end up in war.
Most credit cards will let you add fake addresses that if queried will report as valid. This works because you can't ask the credit card company for the billing address, you can only ask them if the billing address you were supplied is correct.
The card companies do this because they recognize that there are some merchants that won't ship to anything but the card company verified address so the credit card companies have provided a work around in the form of a "fake" address that they will verify is correct even though it's not the actual billing address. It's trivial to add these, you just have to call and ask to add an address to the account.
Though this would likely work because most people aren't aware you can do this it wouldn't be long before word spread.