Heh. If its the 2.5Ghz spectrum cellular radio network I think it is, the base stations all use GPS-referenced 10MHz source oscillators to feed the radio stacks. If they did not choose the reference clock hardware wisely then I could see why its taking so long to get things back: they have to touch every base station.
Sprint continues to operate as its own company and build out its M-MIMO infrastructure. It has to, until the merger is approved. 5G NR ("New Radio") is really cool tech and between T-Mob's low-band stuff and Sprint's 2.5GHz stuff (80MHz channels, anyone?) they could tilt the tables away from VZW and the Death Star.
We have Four! Four places! Healthcare, Corrections, Education and Military.
Basically, anything that is funded by involuntary remittances (taxes) to provide some facet of defense to society should not have an unregulated profit potential.
Sensor fusion takes lots of power and code to come up with a product that someone in a high-stress environment can understand and act on. It also has to degrade gracefully or GTFOTW when its not operating properly. You can't blue-screen during a fire-fight. I don't know if Microsoft is the right choice for this. They make all their money in the "eh, close enough" product space. If this is purely a tech experiment/tech PoC project, OK.
OK, I thought I've never, ever see this happen but it looks like that site's slashdotted now. It's about as unlikely an occurrence as Sears.com melting down on Black Friday.
Well, yeah, there is; what do you think the total-price-per-print is for a shitty consumer-grade printer (that requires proprietary ink cartridges) vs a workgroup laser printer??
Workloads are not the same, which is why you don't see "workgroup" class printers sitting on kitchen counters, printing the occasional school report or car wash coupon, where color is probably needed. Color inkjet has a much lower price of entry for this class of service and I don't think your average home user has a budget line item for printing costs that they slice down to "cost per click".
I have a Canon Imagepress C8000VP in our print shop that I could send jobs to. I still use a $90 Brother home-gamer laser that sits on my desk for little stuff because its faster to the first page out.
You really should spend a little coin and try O365. A 5-user family plan is cheap and will allow you to go pretty far down the rabbit hole. With native apps on all major platforms (now that Chromebooks can run normal Play Store-sourced apps) I think Google has some catching up to do. My organization has both GApps and O365 available to its 14k+ users and a O365 has about a 7:1 use ratio over Google. Admittedly, there is a bias toward Microsoft because of the long institutional use of Office products.
We see that the new generation joining the workforce are more likely to start with GApps. They switch over to O365 after some time because working offline with full-fat applications is something they find they need.
Interestingly, my kids' school district used GApps for students, at least in grades 9-12. As my kids moved on to college (Cal State system schools for all of them) they were given O365 accounts by their schools. I expect that a lot of kids are learning both platforms and that's a net benefit to them.
I think GApps is going to start getting into a bind as people focus more on how their personal data and online activity is being used.
Everything old is new again. Remember Craftsman, Kenmore and Hotpoint? All well regarded brands and one point and all made by the same companies that competed with those brands. House brands are just the next step in the life-cycle of a retail organization.
From Marcus: "And Facebook is truly the only company that's singularly about people[.]"
To paraphrase Mark Twain in "Life on the Mississippi": "'People' is their God; how to monetize their online personalities, their religion". Seems about right. It makes the WhatsApp guy a heretic in their organization, to be sure.
I don't know if Linus is getting in front of something or if he's truly seen "the error of his ways" but this sure seems like a re-calibration of behavior to fit the "new normal" of PC. Age can do that, sure. But one has to wonder if maybe we're reached the point in our society where the collective opinion of the moment is overpowering the individual. History shows that doesn't end well.
This is just further alignment of services for the S/TMUS merger, nothing more. Ericsson was tapped by Sprint years ago to build out and maintain their networks.
This. At the time of Tesla's IPO I thought he should've gone to the bond market first. It's not as splashy but it keeps control of the company in what you'd hope are the right hands and allows for longer-term plans to work through. Yes, you have to service the bond debt but that should be part of the plan.
HFT systems play along sociological fault lines. Markets, like the concept of "money", are purely a sociological construct. We've seen what happens when systems running faster than human perception inject their presence into what is supposed to be a purely human endeavor: flash-crashes, flash-bubbles and other distortions that make the concept of "price discovery" a joke.
Just because you have the computer muscle and the 0.997c fiber connections to the exchange "book" to insert yourself into the floor action you think that you're morally entitled to rake in a percentage. The reality is that if you add no value to the market you're a vampire. This comes from someone who worked in the back-office of an exchange, supporting the "ticker plant". This kind of gaming has been going on as long as we've had communications systems that travel at a substantial fraction of light speed...
After reading up on several large failures over the past years it seems like most UK banks cyber-DR plans seem to be lifted straight from the military: "When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
The one nice thing about having people use Skype/Teams on O365 is that Skype tracks your calendar and will put you in "busy" status when you have calendar items marked certain ways. It's been a real benefit to some of my staff since they can declare parts of their day in their calendar as "leave me alone" time blocks, like when they're coding.
Of course, you have to have pretty heavy buy-in to the O365 platform for this to be effective.
Given the fact that the principals working at Grayshift are ex U.S. intelligence agency contractors and ex-Apple security engineers, I wouldn't be so quick to bet against them having a few zero-days lying around...
...and we know that ex-spooks and ex-Apple employees are all-knowing and all-powerful and that Apple will *never* change out the current interfaces for something different, right?
The problem with zero-day xploits is that they have a "best by" date and once you open them up they tend to get fixed quickly.
Greyshift is sitting on rotting inventory and has to resort to "ooh, scary" tactics to shift product. Not a sustainable business model. This kind of stuff is like using K-9s anyway. If a LEO likes you for something they'll find a way to git-r-done.
In states where marijuana is legal the "average" person could very well violate the Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) on a daily basis. Just because it's not a "priority" for Federal prosecutors doesn't mean the law isn't being broken...
TLS only provides encryption "on the wire" and not within the MTA. You'll want to use some sort of envelope encryption like S/MIME if you want to keep intermediate MTAs out of your mail contents. It's the MUA that needs to handle envelope encryption and that's been a big miss for some time. Outlook gets it sort-of right if you're inside an organization that bought in to the full X.509 thing. G Suite Enterprise and Education offerings have S/MIME support as well but it seems kind of buried and you're still originating your content inside of Google's data-slurping machinery so they get first crack at reading it anyway.
I believe that the correct procedure is to have an enema AFTER you deal with Comcast support. Something medicated to soothe the burning sensation from the encounter.
When you're 80 years old you won't move around as well as when you were 20, either. That's the point. Sears is the old man in the story I paint, having his lunch eaten by the young up-start. The point is that Amazon will grow old, too. We're just seeing the next candle being added to its birthday cake now.
It's almost funny in a way. As humans age they look to establish a solid homestead and will fight to the death over it. Businesses, being run by humans, have similar desires. I see Amazon's foray into the brick-and-mortar an attempt to establish such a homestead.
Funny how history repeats itself. Sears, Roebuck and Co. was founded in 1893 as a mail-order only retailer and caused a shift away from local "general store" operators by making price discovery easier with their widely published catalogs. Local retailers would mark things up as they could; Sears kept them honest.
As Sears found out, and as Amazon is finding out, people still need a local retailer for some purchases.
The actors may change but the play is always the same.
[THIS finally made me create an account after many years of lurking] I doubt anyone paid off Google since they have enough cash to buy a telco.
No, this is the problem with so-called "fast innovators". Infrastructure is a long con, played out over 30 years, and companies like Google can't see that far out. Like Google Fiber, which has stalled outright, Webpass requires significant infrastructure outlay for growth and that infrastructure requires significant expense in man-hours to get permits, space leased and palms greased before the first foot of cable can be unspooled at a site.
ILECs and franchised operators have 40+ years (100+ in some cases) dealing with government entities, property owners and suppliers and have built institutional organs that know how to deal with those animals. It's actually not too hard to build communications infrastructure anymore and the telco resistance to muni-chartered systems is proof of that. It's not the cost of the hardware and installation that's the barrier to entry any more, it's the jurisdictional processes (ROW access, easements, etc. etc.) that kill infrastructure innovation. Google, with all its brainy puzzle-solvers and with all its peeking into billions of lives, can't seem to crack the nut that is your local cigar-chomping county commissioner and the planning board he sits on. It's like they're scared to get into political knife-fights. Too bad; that's the way infrastructure in the US has always been built forever. You think the Interstate system doesn't have a little graft and blackmail on its ledger?
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Heh. If its the 2.5Ghz spectrum cellular radio network I think it is, the base stations all use GPS-referenced 10MHz source oscillators to feed the radio stacks. If they did not choose the reference clock hardware wisely then I could see why its taking so long to get things back: they have to touch every base station.
Sprint continues to operate as its own company and build out its M-MIMO infrastructure. It has to, until the merger is approved. 5G NR ("New Radio") is really cool tech and between T-Mob's low-band stuff and Sprint's 2.5GHz stuff (80MHz channels, anyone?) they could tilt the tables away from VZW and the Death Star.
We have Four! Four places! Healthcare, Corrections, Education and Military.
Basically, anything that is funded by involuntary remittances (taxes) to provide some facet of defense to society should not have an unregulated profit potential.
Sensor fusion takes lots of power and code to come up with a product that someone in a high-stress environment can understand and act on. It also has to degrade gracefully or GTFOTW when its not operating properly. You can't blue-screen during a fire-fight. I don't know if Microsoft is the right choice for this. They make all their money in the "eh, close enough" product space. If this is purely a tech experiment/tech PoC project, OK.
No, it's not. If you cracked that open you could pretty easily asphyxiate everyone in the house.
Yes, but it might be worth it to have everyone squeak like a chipmunk as they went...
OK, I thought I've never, ever see this happen but it looks like that site's slashdotted now. It's about as unlikely an occurrence as Sears.com melting down on Black Friday.
Well, yeah, there is; what do you think the total-price-per-print is for a shitty consumer-grade printer (that requires proprietary ink cartridges) vs a workgroup laser printer??
Workloads are not the same, which is why you don't see "workgroup" class printers sitting on kitchen counters, printing the occasional school report or car wash coupon, where color is probably needed. Color inkjet has a much lower price of entry for this class of service and I don't think your average home user has a budget line item for printing costs that they slice down to "cost per click".
I have a Canon Imagepress C8000VP in our print shop that I could send jobs to. I still use a $90 Brother home-gamer laser that sits on my desk for little stuff because its faster to the first page out.
You really should spend a little coin and try O365. A 5-user family plan is cheap and will allow you to go pretty far down the rabbit hole. With native apps on all major platforms (now that Chromebooks can run normal Play Store-sourced apps) I think Google has some catching up to do. My organization has both GApps and O365 available to its 14k+ users and a O365 has about a 7:1 use ratio over Google. Admittedly, there is a bias toward Microsoft because of the long institutional use of Office products.
We see that the new generation joining the workforce are more likely to start with GApps. They switch over to O365 after some time because working offline with full-fat applications is something they find they need.
Interestingly, my kids' school district used GApps for students, at least in grades 9-12. As my kids moved on to college (Cal State system schools for all of them) they were given O365 accounts by their schools. I expect that a lot of kids are learning both platforms and that's a net benefit to them.
I think GApps is going to start getting into a bind as people focus more on how their personal data and online activity is being used.
Everything old is new again. Remember Craftsman, Kenmore and Hotpoint? All well regarded brands and one point and all made by the same companies that competed with those brands. House brands are just the next step in the life-cycle of a retail organization.
From Marcus: "And Facebook is truly the only company that's singularly about people[.]"
To paraphrase Mark Twain in "Life on the Mississippi": "'People' is their God; how to monetize their online personalities, their religion". Seems about right. It makes the WhatsApp guy a heretic in their organization, to be sure.
I don't know if Linus is getting in front of something or if he's truly seen "the error of his ways" but this sure seems like a re-calibration of behavior to fit the "new normal" of PC. Age can do that, sure. But one has to wonder if maybe we're reached the point in our society where the collective opinion of the moment is overpowering the individual. History shows that doesn't end well.
This is just further alignment of services for the S/TMUS merger, nothing more. Ericsson was tapped by Sprint years ago to build out and maintain their networks.
This. At the time of Tesla's IPO I thought he should've gone to the bond market first. It's not as splashy but it keeps control of the company in what you'd hope are the right hands and allows for longer-term plans to work through. Yes, you have to service the bond debt but that should be part of the plan.
HFT systems play along sociological fault lines. Markets, like the concept of "money", are purely a sociological construct. We've seen what happens when systems running faster than human perception inject their presence into what is supposed to be a purely human endeavor: flash-crashes, flash-bubbles and other distortions that make the concept of "price discovery" a joke.
Just because you have the computer muscle and the 0.997c fiber connections to the exchange "book" to insert yourself into the floor action you think that you're morally entitled to rake in a percentage. The reality is that if you add no value to the market you're a vampire. This comes from someone who worked in the back-office of an exchange, supporting the "ticker plant". This kind of gaming has been going on as long as we've had communications systems that travel at a substantial fraction of light speed...
After reading up on several large failures over the past years it seems like most UK banks cyber-DR plans seem to be lifted straight from the military: "When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
The one nice thing about having people use Skype/Teams on O365 is that Skype tracks your calendar and will put you in "busy" status when you have calendar items marked certain ways. It's been a real benefit to some of my staff since they can declare parts of their day in their calendar as "leave me alone" time blocks, like when they're coding.
Of course, you have to have pretty heavy buy-in to the O365 platform for this to be effective.
Given the fact that the principals working at Grayshift are ex U.S. intelligence agency contractors and ex-Apple security engineers, I wouldn't be so quick to bet against them having a few zero-days lying around...
...and we know that ex-spooks and ex-Apple employees are all-knowing and all-powerful and that Apple will *never* change out the current interfaces for something different, right?
The problem with zero-day xploits is that they have a "best by" date and once you open them up they tend to get fixed quickly.
Greyshift is sitting on rotting inventory and has to resort to "ooh, scary" tactics to shift product. Not a sustainable business model. This kind of stuff is like using K-9s anyway. If a LEO likes you for something they'll find a way to git-r-done.
In states where marijuana is legal the "average" person could very well violate the Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) on a daily basis. Just because it's not a "priority" for Federal prosecutors doesn't mean the law isn't being broken...
TLS only provides encryption "on the wire" and not within the MTA. You'll want to use some sort of envelope encryption like S/MIME if you want to keep intermediate MTAs out of your mail contents. It's the MUA that needs to handle envelope encryption and that's been a big miss for some time. Outlook gets it sort-of right if you're inside an organization that bought in to the full X.509 thing. G Suite Enterprise and Education offerings have S/MIME support as well but it seems kind of buried and you're still originating your content inside of Google's data-slurping machinery so they get first crack at reading it anyway.
I believe that the correct procedure is to have an enema AFTER you deal with Comcast support. Something medicated to soothe the burning sensation from the encounter.
When you're 80 years old you won't move around as well as when you were 20, either. That's the point. Sears is the old man in the story I paint, having his lunch eaten by the young up-start. The point is that Amazon will grow old, too. We're just seeing the next candle being added to its birthday cake now.
It's almost funny in a way. As humans age they look to establish a solid homestead and will fight to the death over it. Businesses, being run by humans, have similar desires. I see Amazon's foray into the brick-and-mortar an attempt to establish such a homestead.
Funny how history repeats itself. Sears, Roebuck and Co. was founded in 1893 as a mail-order only retailer and caused a shift away from local "general store" operators by making price discovery easier with their widely published catalogs. Local retailers would mark things up as they could; Sears kept them honest.
As Sears found out, and as Amazon is finding out, people still need a local retailer for some purchases.
The actors may change but the play is always the same.
[THIS finally made me create an account after many years of lurking]
I doubt anyone paid off Google since they have enough cash to buy a telco.
No, this is the problem with so-called "fast innovators". Infrastructure is a long con, played out over 30 years, and companies like Google can't see that far out. Like Google Fiber, which has stalled outright, Webpass requires significant infrastructure outlay for growth and that infrastructure requires significant expense in man-hours to get permits, space leased and palms greased before the first foot of cable can be unspooled at a site.
ILECs and franchised operators have 40+ years (100+ in some cases) dealing with government entities, property owners and suppliers and have built institutional organs that know how to deal with those animals. It's actually not too hard to build communications infrastructure anymore and the telco resistance to muni-chartered systems is proof of that. It's not the cost of the hardware and installation that's the barrier to entry any more, it's the jurisdictional processes (ROW access, easements, etc. etc.) that kill infrastructure innovation. Google, with all its brainy puzzle-solvers and with all its peeking into billions of lives, can't seem to crack the nut that is your local cigar-chomping county commissioner and the planning board he sits on. It's like they're scared to get into political knife-fights. Too bad; that's the way infrastructure in the US has always been built forever. You think the Interstate system doesn't have a little graft and blackmail on its ledger?