And even though the original deal was made in the days of modems and CompuServe, its crafters had the foresight to define broadband as 45Mbps
Not really. If you read what Verizon agreed to it was "up to 45 Mbps". Which obviously means nothing. If you can watch video they met their obligation. I don't think the agreement mentions anything about a cap either.
Millions of races could have (and probably did) come into existence and gone extinct since the beginning of the Universe. Life on Earth has only been able to do more than look up at the stars for an extremely short time.
Needs to be some non-compete in their contracts that prevents them from taking a job in the industry they regulated for a certain amount of time
There already is. Although it probably doesn't apply in this case since she's working for a lobbying group, which the FCC would not have any regulatory authority over.
Maybe I'm missing something here too. Looks like a twisted up rubber band to me. Although I'm pretty sure I invented a new shape the first time I used monofilament fishing line.
Not sure what you mean by that. But compromises have to be made in any form of government, especially in a Democracy. Allowing people to move back and forth from government to private industry is one of the compromises needed to make both work reasonably well. Would it be this way in a perfect society? Perhaps, perhaps not. We'll never know because there will never be one.
In general a person who makes contracting or regulatory decisions must wait a year after leaving government before working for a company related to their government work in the US. Other countries have different waiting periods (e.g. France is three years).
That's not perfect, but I don't see anyone suggesting a better alternative. A permanent ban on working in the industry after government service is unrealistic; Ms. Baker is 45 years old and has spent her entire career in telecom, I doubt you could get anyone with telecom experience if it meant their career was over when they left the government job.
I suppose you could eliminate political appointees altogether and fill those positions from career civil servants, but that has its own problems.
I don't think that's what they did though; early spy satellites didn't process the film onboard, they dropped it for recovery and processing on Earth. It sounds like these guys used the optics they had and coupled them to some kind of analog sensors.
The brilliant and ballsy engineering was typical of NASA during its golden age, a time when it was also more closely linked to other government agencies with an interest in taking pictures from space.
“These guys were operating right at the edge,” Cowing says with a reverence for these NASA engineers that’s shared by his team. “There’s a certain spy program heritage to all this, but these guys went above that, because those spy satellites would send their images back. These didn’t. They couldn’t. They were in lunar orbit.”
So NASA sent a few extra spy satellites to the Moon to do a little snooping around. That makes this even better.
I'm pretty sure the people in Russia noticed that one last year. But yea, when it releases that energy high in the atmosphere it doesn't usually do any damage on the ground. Plus about 70% of the time it happens over an ocean.
What you say about image quality is true today, but not necessarily true next year. The reason I used "Point and shoot" as the subject is because most people who take pictures don't have the skill or knowledge to make depth of field or even focusing decisions when a shot presents itself. They set it on auto exposure/auto focus and hope it comes out. Lytro's technology gives the option of making those decisions during post-processing.
I assume you can post-process to get super depth of field without needing to stack images (which is obviously a problem when the subject is moving). Pretty cool product.
I'd be very surprised if they didn't publish opinions from both sides of a topic. So sure, you'll see plenty of opinions on the editorial pages that you'll disagree with no matter where you stand. This isn't the Daily Kos.
Despite the high news coverage that large breaches receive, and despite tales told by their friends about losing their laptops for a few days while a malware infection is cleared up, employees generally believe they are immune to security risks. They think those types of things happen to other, less careful people.
Untrained users are not the cause of large breaches. Malware infections happen to even the most careful users. In other words, training users and trying to change your company's culture won't make a significant difference.
Encrypt the laptop before a user can touch it. Make sure a decent virus scanner is running (and keep your fingers crossed). Get well trained sysadmins who see their job as keeping your network and servers as secure as reasonably possible.
As I read ATT's announcement, they've committed to four cities and are in discussions with twenty one more.
The response seems to be "They haven't committed to spending any money this year in those twenty one cities, this is clearly bogus!". Geez, don't they have anything important to write about?
If your net worth is over 2 million, you are wealthy. If your net worth is more than your age in thousands, you are middle class. Otherwise, you are poor. I don't care if you make $300,000 a year, if your net worth is negative,you are poor.
That is a reasonable definition of wealth. But I suggest that a person with a $300K/yr income will (usually) have a better lifestyle than someone sitting on $2M with no other income.
A study in 2006 revealed that Americans with a household income of more than $100,000 indulged in 40% less “passive leisure” (such as watching TV) than those earning less than $20,000.
I'd rather work for free rather than sit on a couch watching television.
Next time Putin is taking questions on Russian TV this guy should submit one about "blah, blah, blah" so Putin can respond with his own "blah, blah, blah...next question?". Seems to work for other people.
"ex boyfriend" is relevant in this context. She's claiming she was bullied by a coworker at GitHub. If fact she's having relationship issues with an ex-boyfriend who also also worked at GitHub, and has caused additional problems for herself by dating the friend of a GitHub manager and getting into a pissing contest with the manager's wife over that relationship.
That said, GitHub management should have sat everyone down and told them to act like adults or find somewhere else to work, her included.
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They always overbook by a little to be sure all seats are filled. No doubt they have statistics to guide them...
Technical books are pretty much obsolete by the time they're published. If you want to get some attractive classics to put on a shelf, go for it.
The US isn't supposed to be a democracy, it's a republic.
Republic is a type of Democracy.
And even though the original deal was made in the days of modems and CompuServe, its crafters had the foresight to define broadband as 45Mbps
Not really. If you read what Verizon agreed to it was "up to 45 Mbps". Which obviously means nothing. If you can watch video they met their obligation. I don't think the agreement mentions anything about a cap either.
Please explain how Republicans, Congress, your local dogcatcher, or anyone else outside of the Executive Branch is behind this.
Millions of races could have (and probably did) come into existence and gone extinct since the beginning of the Universe. Life on Earth has only been able to do more than look up at the stars for an extremely short time.
Needs to be some non-compete in their contracts that prevents them from taking a job in the industry they regulated for a certain amount of time
There already is. Although it probably doesn't apply in this case since she's working for a lobbying group, which the FCC would not have any regulatory authority over.
Maybe I'm missing something here too. Looks like a twisted up rubber band to me. Although I'm pretty sure I invented a new shape the first time I used monofilament fishing line.
Not sure what you mean by that. But compromises have to be made in any form of government, especially in a Democracy. Allowing people to move back and forth from government to private industry is one of the compromises needed to make both work reasonably well. Would it be this way in a perfect society? Perhaps, perhaps not. We'll never know because there will never be one.
In general a person who makes contracting or regulatory decisions must wait a year after leaving government before working for a company related to their government work in the US. Other countries have different waiting periods (e.g. France is three years).
That's not perfect, but I don't see anyone suggesting a better alternative. A permanent ban on working in the industry after government service is unrealistic; Ms. Baker is 45 years old and has spent her entire career in telecom, I doubt you could get anyone with telecom experience if it meant their career was over when they left the government job.
I suppose you could eliminate political appointees altogether and fill those positions from career civil servants, but that has its own problems.
I don't think that's what they did though; early spy satellites didn't process the film onboard, they dropped it for recovery and processing on Earth. It sounds like these guys used the optics they had and coupled them to some kind of analog sensors.
The brilliant and ballsy engineering was typical of NASA during its golden age, a time when it was also more closely linked to other government agencies with an interest in taking pictures from space.
“These guys were operating right at the edge,” Cowing says with a reverence for these NASA engineers that’s shared by his team. “There’s a certain spy program heritage to all this, but these guys went above that, because those spy satellites would send their images back. These didn’t. They couldn’t. They were in lunar orbit.”
So NASA sent a few extra spy satellites to the Moon to do a little snooping around. That makes this even better.
I'm pretty sure the people in Russia noticed that one last year. But yea, when it releases that energy high in the atmosphere it doesn't usually do any damage on the ground. Plus about 70% of the time it happens over an ocean.
What you say about image quality is true today, but not necessarily true next year. The reason I used "Point and shoot" as the subject is because most people who take pictures don't have the skill or knowledge to make depth of field or even focusing decisions when a shot presents itself. They set it on auto exposure/auto focus and hope it comes out. Lytro's technology gives the option of making those decisions during post-processing.
I assume you can post-process to get super depth of field without needing to stack images (which is obviously a problem when the subject is moving). Pretty cool product.
I'd be very surprised if they didn't publish opinions from both sides of a topic. So sure, you'll see plenty of opinions on the editorial pages that you'll disagree with no matter where you stand. This isn't the Daily Kos.
Despite the high news coverage that large breaches receive, and despite tales told by their friends about losing their laptops for a few days while a malware infection is cleared up, employees generally believe they are immune to security risks. They think those types of things happen to other, less careful people.
Untrained users are not the cause of large breaches. Malware infections happen to even the most careful users. In other words, training users and trying to change your company's culture won't make a significant difference.
Encrypt the laptop before a user can touch it. Make sure a decent virus scanner is running (and keep your fingers crossed). Get well trained sysadmins who see their job as keeping your network and servers as secure as reasonably possible.
As I read ATT's announcement, they've committed to four cities and are in discussions with twenty one more.
The response seems to be "They haven't committed to spending any money this year in those twenty one cities, this is clearly bogus!". Geez, don't they have anything important to write about?
If your net worth is over 2 million, you are wealthy. If your net worth is more than your age in thousands, you are middle class. Otherwise, you are poor. I don't care if you make $300,000 a year, if your net worth is negative,you are poor.
That is a reasonable definition of wealth. But I suggest that a person with a $300K/yr income will (usually) have a better lifestyle than someone sitting on $2M with no other income.
This is an article in The Economist. That publication is one of the very few that can honestly claim to be Progressive.
That sometimes it is better to "sell" your achievements than actually work to achieve something.
Brown nosing the boss has been around forever. But the concept of working hard to get ahead isn't "wrong at so many levels".
even if Nissan comes up with equivalent models for cheaper, hipsters will still prefer Teslas
A study in 2006 revealed that Americans with a household income of more than $100,000 indulged in 40% less “passive leisure” (such as watching TV) than those earning less than $20,000.
I'd rather work for free rather than sit on a couch watching television.
Next time Putin is taking questions on Russian TV this guy should submit one about "blah, blah, blah" so Putin can respond with his own "blah, blah, blah...next question?". Seems to work for other people.
"ex boyfriend" is relevant in this context. She's claiming she was bullied by a coworker at GitHub. If fact she's having relationship issues with an ex-boyfriend who also also worked at GitHub, and has caused additional problems for herself by dating the friend of a GitHub manager and getting into a pissing contest with the manager's wife over that relationship.
That said, GitHub management should have sat everyone down and told them to act like adults or find somewhere else to work, her included.