It appears that the future of ISPs is 5G wireless. If this net neutrality does not address wireless Internet connectivity, it will be of limited use going forward. My understanding is that the previous net neutrality declaration mostly did not apply to wireless. Many of the ISPs have stopped building out their wired infrastructure because they expect to be able to provide service wirelessly saving the large expense of maintaining the last mile to peoples homes.
With 5G phone, cable, and Internet will be delivered wirelessly, the last wire to the house is electrical. The power companies are going to have to pay the full cost of maintaining the last mile of wires to the house. This cost has always been split across the different providers. Power bills are going to increase and the companies are going to need to figure out ways of limiting expenses. Wirelessly providing energy is going to be looked at again. We may see a distributed generation of power or some kind of wireless transmission of power.
There is no official Facebook or Twitter account. They are accounts used by a politician. Should any politician be able to refuse my phone call? It is their official phone.
If you are holding a public meeting and I am given the floor and politely and professionally say something you don't like you have no right or recourse to remove me, just as she doesn't with her Facebook page.
What if the person is not acting politely. Most of the banning has occurred for non-polite behavior. Interesting thing is that the politician could use groups and change from interactive communication to merely a push.
Does free speech give me the right to go into private meetings? How about a politician's home? They are not being blocked from expressing themselves, but being blocked from expressing themselves in a specific place. The question is are the online accounts private or public places. If the answer is online is a public place, then there is little privacy online.
I think the danger here is this could be the "Don't hire poor people act". If they are punished for hiring people receiving government benefits, then they won't hire them. So this act might just wind up preventing people from being able to take jobs that allow them to get off government benefits.
How about illegal campaign contributions? If they are censoring political speech, that is a tremendous campaign contribution to the politics of the other side. If they are only allowing one view point to reach an audience of millions, how much is that worth? Is it fair that other people are limited in the amount political contributions, while social media and search engine companies can make essentially billion dollar campaign contributions?
Florida did not have a confusing ballot. Each county in Florida has a different ballot. It was Palm Beach County that had a confusing ballot, which is developed by their Democratic Supervisor of Election.
From the article "Using automated scans and test programs, the team identified multiple vulnerabilities, including problems with digital certificates used to verify secure connections with users, Franklin told Reuters ahead of the presentation." This may or may not be an issue. If the site is simply providing information and/or collecting email addresses this is not really an issue. If the site is collecting credit card info it would be an issue, but that is usually done through a third party. Basically they ran something that tested the web sites SSL implementation and without more information we cannot determine if that is really an issue.
If Facebook is promoting a certain candidate or party, then it can run afoul of campaign finance laws. If it is shown they are acting in a political manner, they open themselves up to being prosecuted for illegal contributions. If they are running ads, for the benefit of political entities it is clear cut that they are making in-kind contributions to the political entity. If they are suppressing one side of political speak it is less clear cut, but the same argument could be made. How much is exclusive advertising worth? The value in the commercial world is real. A bank could sign and exclusive contract with the local newspaper to be the only bank that runs ads in the newspaper. This generally requires significantly more money than a normal ad buy, since the newspaper is forgoing the opportunity to receive ads from competing banks.
The article says "276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots... later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct." So the issue is that a bad number of registered voters was reported. Actually 3,704 registered voters cast 670 ballots. So slightly less than 1 in 5 registered voters casted votes. The initial reporting of the wrong number of registered voters did not have any affect on the election, it is a non story.
The City of Miami may be close to a perfect grid, but add in Coral Gables and that would all fall apart. Coral Gables would be interesting since the since the streets cross over each other. So in Coral Gables you may pass 27th, 40th, then 37th, in other areas they would be in order. I wonder if that is true of other areas. When you add in the surrounding communities the gridness goes away, since there was no longer central control.
Rocco
Irma was forecast to go up off the east coast of Florida. Then the track moved westward until it was in the Gulf of Mexico. Then Irma's path moved back east before the storm finally came up the west coast of Florida. This caused many people from the east coast of Florida to evacuate to the west coast of Florida which was directly in the hurricane's path.
The forecasting is still not accurate enough for you to safely evacuate and stay in Florida. The majority of hotel rooms in Florida are on the coast. You can evacuate and find yourself in the direct path of the storm in a hotel on the beach.
Many of the traditional news outlets cover things that are trending on twitter. This means that trending twitter subjects leads to news coverage. If twitter is mostly bots, trending on twitter is meaningless and news is doing us a disservice by covering it.
Why do the news organizations rely on twitter? One reason is that it a great way to get quotes on a subject. John Jones "calls for more investigation". Previously, it could take many phone calls to get a good quote. With twitter you can sort through hundreds of potential quotes until you find one that makes your point.
It seems amazing that the GRU internet access would have IPs pointing back to them. The end point of their network would be set to something innocuous by default. This would be done be done at the network level, so it would be impossible to screw up and give your real ip. This is equivalent to "the professional assassin slipped up and left his passport on top of the victim".
This is a wake up call to Public Transportation. Public Transportation needs to improve its service. If given a choice people will choose the cheapest/easiest/most convenient option. So public transportation needs to provide better service if it wants to out compete Uber/Ride Sharing.
When I visit a city, I usually usually use public transportation. Many times, I found it counter intuitive. There is little to no convenience. Last time I was in NY the subway credit card machines were broken and you had to purchase your fares with cash. You were only allowed to buy in certain denominations. The trains arrived on different platforms than marked, because it was after 10pm. Fix those issues, before there is any talk of banning Uber/Ride Sharing.
Many salmonella strains spread via infected food or water, and may have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animals brought by the Spanish, the research team said.
My understanding is that salmonella is always around. To this day we periodically have outbreaks due to contamination. Why would it be more likely to have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animals brought by the Spanish rather than just come from the local environment? I have not seen any explanation of why it is more likely to have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animal.
When Comey was fired most of the media led that story with the claim that Comey was requesting more money for the Russia probe. That was false. Not only false, but that is not even how the budgeting for the probe works. It was drawn from the FBI budget, the person Comey would have had to ask for money for the probe was Comey. That he was asking for money was a major story mentioned over and over in the Wash Post and NY Times along with many others. It was used to explain why Trump fired Comey at that specific time, since the Russia probe was heating up. Then Rod Rosenstein testified before congress and said that the story was ridiculous. That was not how probes budget worked. After that you did not see retractions, but the story disappeared.
There was the list of Russian propaganda outfits who helped trump supplied by PropOrNot.
There was the Russians Hacking the electrical grid. They linked that to Trump via the Trump Russia hacking angle.
The was the WaPo Op-Ed claiming Trump’s OMB Pick was unqualified because he never served on Budget Committee, except he did.
http://www.mediaite.com/online...
A return to table layouts was exactly what I was thinking. Funny that it is sold as a table layout better supports responsive design, since the reason tables layouts were phases out is that they were inflexible. Now table layouts are being sold as a fix to the difficulty of floating layouts. Everything that is old is new again.
When Trump made the claim that the election was rigged Politifact ruled it "Pants on Fire", because "Given the decentralized nature of our elections, there would be no single way to throw the results," said Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
It is a false claim that the information was "retroactively classified". It was classified at the time of sending and receiving. There was information that is always classified highly, information about methods and sources. Even Hillary does not make that claim that it was "retroactively classified" anymore. She says it was not marked at the time, which is a meaningless distinction. Classified information is about what the information is about not the markings. A number of people have been sentenced for information that was not marked. Leaking the name of Valerie Plame a CIA agent led to a long investigation with Scooter Libby going to prison. This information was not marked. David Petraeus was disgraced and sentenced to two years probation and fined $100,000 for having person journals of his time serving this country and sharing them with his biographer. I doubt his personal journals contained security markings. Many people thought he got off too easy. In summary, if Hillary was a regular person she would most likely be going to prison.
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It appears that the future of ISPs is 5G wireless. If this net neutrality does not address wireless Internet connectivity, it will be of limited use going forward. My understanding is that the previous net neutrality declaration mostly did not apply to wireless. Many of the ISPs have stopped building out their wired infrastructure because they expect to be able to provide service wirelessly saving the large expense of maintaining the last mile to peoples homes.
With 5G phone, cable, and Internet will be delivered wirelessly, the last wire to the house is electrical. The power companies are going to have to pay the full cost of maintaining the last mile of wires to the house. This cost has always been split across the different providers. Power bills are going to increase and the companies are going to need to figure out ways of limiting expenses. Wirelessly providing energy is going to be looked at again. We may see a distributed generation of power or some kind of wireless transmission of power.
There is no official Facebook or Twitter account. They are accounts used by a politician. Should any politician be able to refuse my phone call? It is their official phone.
If you are holding a public meeting and I am given the floor and politely and professionally say something you don't like you have no right or recourse to remove me, just as she doesn't with her Facebook page.
What if the person is not acting politely. Most of the banning has occurred for non-polite behavior. Interesting thing is that the politician could use groups and change from interactive communication to merely a push.
Does free speech give me the right to go into private meetings? How about a politician's home? They are not being blocked from expressing themselves, but being blocked from expressing themselves in a specific place. The question is are the online accounts private or public places. If the answer is online is a public place, then there is little privacy online.
I think the danger here is this could be the "Don't hire poor people act". If they are punished for hiring people receiving government benefits, then they won't hire them. So this act might just wind up preventing people from being able to take jobs that allow them to get off government benefits.
How about illegal campaign contributions? If they are censoring political speech, that is a tremendous campaign contribution to the politics of the other side. If they are only allowing one view point to reach an audience of millions, how much is that worth? Is it fair that other people are limited in the amount political contributions, while social media and search engine companies can make essentially billion dollar campaign contributions?
Florida did not have a confusing ballot. Each county in Florida has a different ballot. It was Palm Beach County that had a confusing ballot, which is developed by their Democratic Supervisor of Election.
From the article "Using automated scans and test programs, the team identified multiple vulnerabilities, including problems with digital certificates used to verify secure connections with users, Franklin told Reuters ahead of the presentation." This may or may not be an issue. If the site is simply providing information and/or collecting email addresses this is not really an issue. If the site is collecting credit card info it would be an issue, but that is usually done through a third party. Basically they ran something that tested the web sites SSL implementation and without more information we cannot determine if that is really an issue.
If Facebook is promoting a certain candidate or party, then it can run afoul of campaign finance laws. If it is shown they are acting in a political manner, they open themselves up to being prosecuted for illegal contributions. If they are running ads, for the benefit of political entities it is clear cut that they are making in-kind contributions to the political entity. If they are suppressing one side of political speak it is less clear cut, but the same argument could be made. How much is exclusive advertising worth? The value in the commercial world is real. A bank could sign and exclusive contract with the local newspaper to be the only bank that runs ads in the newspaper. This generally requires significantly more money than a normal ad buy, since the newspaper is forgoing the opportunity to receive ads from competing banks.
The article says "276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots ... later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct." So the issue is that a bad number of registered voters was reported. Actually 3,704 registered voters cast 670 ballots. So slightly less than 1 in 5 registered voters casted votes. The initial reporting of the wrong number of registered voters did not have any affect on the election, it is a non story.
The City of Miami may be close to a perfect grid, but add in Coral Gables and that would all fall apart. Coral Gables would be interesting since the since the streets cross over each other. So in Coral Gables you may pass 27th, 40th, then 37th, in other areas they would be in order. I wonder if that is true of other areas. When you add in the surrounding communities the gridness goes away, since there was no longer central control. Rocco
Irma was forecast to go up off the east coast of Florida. Then the track moved westward until it was in the Gulf of Mexico. Then Irma's path moved back east before the storm finally came up the west coast of Florida. This caused many people from the east coast of Florida to evacuate to the west coast of Florida which was directly in the hurricane's path.
The forecasting is still not accurate enough for you to safely evacuate and stay in Florida. The majority of hotel rooms in Florida are on the coast. You can evacuate and find yourself in the direct path of the storm in a hotel on the beach.
Many of the traditional news outlets cover things that are trending on twitter. This means that trending twitter subjects leads to news coverage. If twitter is mostly bots, trending on twitter is meaningless and news is doing us a disservice by covering it.
Why do the news organizations rely on twitter? One reason is that it a great way to get quotes on a subject. John Jones "calls for more investigation". Previously, it could take many phone calls to get a good quote. With twitter you can sort through hundreds of potential quotes until you find one that makes your point.
It seems amazing that the GRU internet access would have IPs pointing back to them. The end point of their network would be set to something innocuous by default. This would be done be done at the network level, so it would be impossible to screw up and give your real ip. This is equivalent to "the professional assassin slipped up and left his passport on top of the victim".
This is a wake up call to Public Transportation. Public Transportation needs to improve its service. If given a choice people will choose the cheapest/easiest/most convenient option. So public transportation needs to provide better service if it wants to out compete Uber/Ride Sharing. When I visit a city, I usually usually use public transportation. Many times, I found it counter intuitive. There is little to no convenience. Last time I was in NY the subway credit card machines were broken and you had to purchase your fares with cash. You were only allowed to buy in certain denominations. The trains arrived on different platforms than marked, because it was after 10pm. Fix those issues, before there is any talk of banning Uber/Ride Sharing.
Many salmonella strains spread via infected food or water, and may have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animals brought by the Spanish, the research team said.
My understanding is that salmonella is always around. To this day we periodically have outbreaks due to contamination. Why would it be more likely to have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animals brought by the Spanish rather than just come from the local environment? I have not seen any explanation of why it is more likely to have travelled to Mexico with domesticated animal.
Probably for IE compatibility. There was so much redundant code to maintain IE compatibility during those years.
When Comey was fired most of the media led that story with the claim that Comey was requesting more money for the Russia probe. That was false. Not only false, but that is not even how the budgeting for the probe works. It was drawn from the FBI budget, the person Comey would have had to ask for money for the probe was Comey. That he was asking for money was a major story mentioned over and over in the Wash Post and NY Times along with many others. It was used to explain why Trump fired Comey at that specific time, since the Russia probe was heating up. Then Rod Rosenstein testified before congress and said that the story was ridiculous. That was not how probes budget worked. After that you did not see retractions, but the story disappeared.
There was the list of Russian propaganda outfits who helped trump supplied by PropOrNot. There was the Russians Hacking the electrical grid. They linked that to Trump via the Trump Russia hacking angle. The was the WaPo Op-Ed claiming Trump’s OMB Pick was unqualified because he never served on Budget Committee, except he did. http://www.mediaite.com/online...
A return to table layouts was exactly what I was thinking. Funny that it is sold as a table layout better supports responsive design, since the reason tables layouts were phases out is that they were inflexible. Now table layouts are being sold as a fix to the difficulty of floating layouts. Everything that is old is new again.
When Trump made the claim that the election was rigged Politifact ruled it "Pants on Fire", because "Given the decentralized nature of our elections, there would be no single way to throw the results," said Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine. http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Someone is bad at acronyms or it should be NAD. Google's first result is National Advertising Division (NAD) - Better Business Bureau
Hillary is the only Secretary of State who had a private email server.
It is a false claim that the information was "retroactively classified". It was classified at the time of sending and receiving. There was information that is always classified highly, information about methods and sources. Even Hillary does not make that claim that it was "retroactively classified" anymore. She says it was not marked at the time, which is a meaningless distinction. Classified information is about what the information is about not the markings. A number of people have been sentenced for information that was not marked. Leaking the name of Valerie Plame a CIA agent led to a long investigation with Scooter Libby going to prison. This information was not marked. David Petraeus was disgraced and sentenced to two years probation and fined $100,000 for having person journals of his time serving this country and sharing them with his biographer. I doubt his personal journals contained security markings. Many people thought he got off too easy. In summary, if Hillary was a regular person she would most likely be going to prison.