Doesn't matter. The number of people who are willing to use their real phone number to file a fake report with law enforcement is going to be a lot less than the number who think they are being anonymous. And if not, it makes them even easier to track down for their summons. Stupid is as stupid does.
This is actually a super-easy fix. Change the call-in to a "leave your number" system. Prioritize calls where the call-in number matches the caller ID. If crank callers want to leave their real phone number, more power to them.
I watch his videos and agree with him most of the time. That said, he comes across as a bit of an asshole. Oddly, in videos where he has a talk with an ideological opponent, he's clearly not an asshole in one-on-one situations... these tend to be very civil affairs. But for a looooong time he was constantly clashing with creationists (among other religious people) and then feminists. Even if you agree with him, it was kind of repetitive, part of an echo chamber that I'm not really part of, and detracted from his science videos.
Birds, any bird, is a master of the sky. They can and regularly do see and avoid aircraft very well.
And yet, every year there are over 10,000 REPORTED bird strikes. And what? Zero drone strikes? I mean, QED? You claim to be a pilot, but I can easily see you are talking shit here.
Right, I'm not arguing whether Verizon sucks or not. I'm arguing that this disaster is being exploited politically by the writer of the summary, and dishonestly at that.
Because you don't own an invisible column straight up to infinity - that's why. You rent a small patch of land from the government, and only the surface dirt. Other people can go over or under you - you don't own a small portion of the earth's core, either.
What scenario do you have in your head where the fiber lines are snapped but the copper miraculously survive? Do you think that they still use copper as backhaul or something? You seem confused. Copper is a last-mile solution, not a replacement for fiber backhaul. An alternative backhaul would be microwave.
I guess the point is, there isn't much point in putting up towers if there isn't anything to hook them up to. Looking into it a little this morning, it looks like maybe AT&T has some microwave infrastructure - possibly inherited from its Cingular acquisition - and Verizon had moved to fiber optic backhaul.
Yeah, lets use government to fix problems that don't exist yet rather than to fix actual problems.
The number of drones out there is dwarfed by the number of birds, and aircraft are already expected to survive bird strikes. In the unlikely event that an aircraft ever hits a drone, we can expect similar damage to a bird strike. Some common sense mitigation is fine - don't allow drones where there are low-flying aircraft. Next....
I completely agree with all of that, and even if I didn't it is a nice honest argument. Unlike the summary, which is trying to link a tragedy to something at best distantly related to score political points.
This summary reads like a lobbyist wrote it. In Florida they can't even get the cell towers going because the backbone took such a hit - that would be the case with or without copper regulations. The copper rules would affect consumers during the rebuilding phase, not in the immediate aftermath. This is the kind of hyperbolic bullshit that has replaced actual discussion in this country.
It's good to hear some feedback about their outdoor stuff. I will add one if necessary but it looks like I get enough signal on my deck to cast to the outdoor speakers. If I add speakers at the patio I'll need more coverage, though. It can't be completely exposed, right? Needs to be under an eave or something? Thanks!
Agreed on Ubiquiti. Even though it is massive overkill, I just set up a few UAP-AC-Pro access points in my house and plopped the controller on my basement NAS. They work great, don't need to have AC power near the unit itself, and so far work with all our devices. My understanding is that the UAP-AC-Lite gives you much of the bang for half of the buck, but I haven't tried that myself.
There's never been a shortage of dreck - and the dreck is of course also helped out by the ease of publishing today. If you go to the thrift store and leaf through their LPs, there's almost nothing good left in the pile unless it is fresh.
Yeah, if your genre is dying, there's not much to be done about that. I don't know anything about old-school country. If you are looking for 90s-era rap there is Killer Mike off the top of my head. I haven't really been on the lookout for even older Sugarhill Gang type stuff so I have to plead ignorance there. "Alternative" is probably my main focus, whatever that means. Most recent likes include Milky Chance, War On Drugs, The Lumineers, Regina Spektor, Delta Spirit, and St. Vincent.
For me, the problem of balancing local and state power is a bit removed from whether non-humans should be granted free speech rights. It's a complicated issue with lots of nuance (e.g. freedom of "the press" when the press is a corporation), but I think that it's reasonable for congress to set the rules for corporate speech. After all, corporations only exist at the pleasure of the government via their charter.
Perhaps something can be done through tax law, similar to how churches are treated in a tax-advantaged way. Offer a type of IRS designation for corporations which do not engage in political activities. This doesn't curtail union money, but there might be a novel strategy there as well.
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That's a fine longer-term fix. I was thinking how to mitigate the problem in the short term.
Doesn't matter. The number of people who are willing to use their real phone number to file a fake report with law enforcement is going to be a lot less than the number who think they are being anonymous. And if not, it makes them even easier to track down for their summons. Stupid is as stupid does.
Because the number of people who can spoof a caller ID is vanishingly small compared to the number of people the system can handle.
This is actually a super-easy fix. Change the call-in to a "leave your number" system. Prioritize calls where the call-in number matches the caller ID. If crank callers want to leave their real phone number, more power to them.
I watch his videos and agree with him most of the time. That said, he comes across as a bit of an asshole. Oddly, in videos where he has a talk with an ideological opponent, he's clearly not an asshole in one-on-one situations... these tend to be very civil affairs. But for a looooong time he was constantly clashing with creationists (among other religious people) and then feminists. Even if you agree with him, it was kind of repetitive, part of an echo chamber that I'm not really part of, and detracted from his science videos.
Birds, any bird, is a master of the sky. They can and regularly do see and avoid aircraft very well.
And yet, every year there are over 10,000 REPORTED bird strikes. And what? Zero drone strikes? I mean, QED? You claim to be a pilot, but I can easily see you are talking shit here.
Right, I'm not arguing whether Verizon sucks or not. I'm arguing that this disaster is being exploited politically by the writer of the summary, and dishonestly at that.
Would federal copper legislation/rules have given Verizon satellite backhaul?
Because you don't own an invisible column straight up to infinity - that's why. You rent a small patch of land from the government, and only the surface dirt. Other people can go over or under you - you don't own a small portion of the earth's core, either.
What scenario do you have in your head where the fiber lines are snapped but the copper miraculously survive? Do you think that they still use copper as backhaul or something? You seem confused. Copper is a last-mile solution, not a replacement for fiber backhaul. An alternative backhaul would be microwave.
Exactly - until otherwise shown, this is a non-problem. We are addressing theory when there are so many real problems to solve.
I guess the point is, there isn't much point in putting up towers if there isn't anything to hook them up to. Looking into it a little this morning, it looks like maybe AT&T has some microwave infrastructure - possibly inherited from its Cingular acquisition - and Verizon had moved to fiber optic backhaul.
Yeah, lets use government to fix problems that don't exist yet rather than to fix actual problems.
The number of drones out there is dwarfed by the number of birds, and aircraft are already expected to survive bird strikes. In the unlikely event that an aircraft ever hits a drone, we can expect similar damage to a bird strike. Some common sense mitigation is fine - don't allow drones where there are low-flying aircraft. Next....
AT&T apparently uses a different backhaul system. Actually, thanks, you've given me something to Google over coffee this morning :)
I completely agree with all of that, and even if I didn't it is a nice honest argument. Unlike the summary, which is trying to link a tragedy to something at best distantly related to score political points.
The "towers" aren't down, the fiber backhaul is. So, no, that never occured to me.
This summary reads like a lobbyist wrote it. In Florida they can't even get the cell towers going because the backbone took such a hit - that would be the case with or without copper regulations. The copper rules would affect consumers during the rebuilding phase, not in the immediate aftermath. This is the kind of hyperbolic bullshit that has replaced actual discussion in this country.
In their defense, they do at least mark the Vine reviews.
It's good to hear some feedback about their outdoor stuff. I will add one if necessary but it looks like I get enough signal on my deck to cast to the outdoor speakers. If I add speakers at the patio I'll need more coverage, though. It can't be completely exposed, right? Needs to be under an eave or something? Thanks!
If you want to Google it, Ubiquiti calls it "Fast Roaming". I believe it is on by default and it works well in my very small setup at home.
Right, I'm sure there is a big use-case for enterprise usage of Plex.
Agreed on Ubiquiti. Even though it is massive overkill, I just set up a few UAP-AC-Pro access points in my house and plopped the controller on my basement NAS. They work great, don't need to have AC power near the unit itself, and so far work with all our devices. My understanding is that the UAP-AC-Lite gives you much of the bang for half of the buck, but I haven't tried that myself.
use it to fuel extraterrestrial spacecraft
Wrong isotope. The boom boom kind is Pu239. The kind with the crazy alpha emission is Pu238.
There's never been a shortage of dreck - and the dreck is of course also helped out by the ease of publishing today. If you go to the thrift store and leaf through their LPs, there's almost nothing good left in the pile unless it is fresh.
Yeah, if your genre is dying, there's not much to be done about that. I don't know anything about old-school country. If you are looking for 90s-era rap there is Killer Mike off the top of my head. I haven't really been on the lookout for even older Sugarhill Gang type stuff so I have to plead ignorance there. "Alternative" is probably my main focus, whatever that means. Most recent likes include Milky Chance, War On Drugs, The Lumineers, Regina Spektor, Delta Spirit, and St. Vincent.
For me, the problem of balancing local and state power is a bit removed from whether non-humans should be granted free speech rights. It's a complicated issue with lots of nuance (e.g. freedom of "the press" when the press is a corporation), but I think that it's reasonable for congress to set the rules for corporate speech. After all, corporations only exist at the pleasure of the government via their charter.
Perhaps something can be done through tax law, similar to how churches are treated in a tax-advantaged way. Offer a type of IRS designation for corporations which do not engage in political activities. This doesn't curtail union money, but there might be a novel strategy there as well.