Rural WiFi is not the same thing your home WiFi, although it does use the same frequencies and technologies.
Rural WiFi is used by wireless ISPs (that is, the rural equivalent to your urban cable modem or DSL connection). This is accomplished with directional antennas that concentrate the signal so that it can span five to 10 miles. They do this because it is prohibitively expensive to string fiber (or copper) when there are only a few customers per mile. Because the signal is so weak by the time it gets all the way to the receiver, interference anywhere along the "line of sight" path is more difficult to filter out.
An urban dweller needs maybe a 500-foot circle of no interference. The rural need is a non-interference rectangle 500 feet wide by maybe 10 miles long, stretching from his roof-mount antenna all the way to the ISP antenna which likely is mounted on a grain elevator in a nearby town.
LTE was a direct competitor. After LTE became popular, the ISPs (mostly sprint) converted their WiMAX towers/spectrum to LTE. Nowadays, LTE hotspots are the (near) equivalent to a WiMAX modem.
Which means that, five years ago, you have $300 of disposable income. Meanwhile, someone else who didn't had to spend $40 every six months on cheap boots that fell apart by the end of that time
Not really. It is called learning to live within your means, sacrifice and savings.
I don't think you understand poor. Poor is when your means are not sufficient to live, the sacrifices become overwhelming and the savings are not existent. Today, that is defined as under $231/week (2017 US FPL) and often much less. At that budget level, sacrifices are more about "prescriptions vs food", not "cable bill vs new car".
The "boots" analogy was pretty good. Maybe a bigger one will better resonate with an "upper middle income" mindset. Imagine 10 years ago you had $25,000 to invest in solar cells on your McMansion. Meanwhile, your neighbor did not have the necessary credit rating, so he continued to pay his $250/month electric bill. Now that the investment has paid off, your electricity is "free" and you were able to use the net savings for a swimming pool. Your "undisciplined" neighbor, on the other hand continues to pay his electric bill and has no pool. That is why it is so hard to escape "middle income".
I've always wanted to see a system that allowed most-anything for a password and selected an expiration date based on the complexity, so "password" gets about 5 minutes, "Denver17" gets about 5 hours and a 32-character generated password gets about 5 years.
What benefit do curved monitors give? I was told "the whole the screen is more evenly at the same distance from your eyes". But what I heard was "the screen is laid out in an unexpected and distorted way that screws with your brain"
Once you need reading glasses you will suddenly understand the value in having the screen more evenly at the same distance from your eyes. Today I accomplish this by carefully positioning my multiple monitors. At some point I probably will replace them all with a larger curved QHD display.
Am I missing something about their guarantee, or do I have to bitch and moan every time a late package costs me money? Will they limit this, and do they compensate you in some other way?
Yes, No, Yes and No. These and other questions can be answered on their help pages. Open a chat with them and say "Order # xxxx was due xx/xx/xxxx, but has not yet arrived. The shipper is now estimating the due date as xx/xx/xxxx . Would you please issue me a prime extension for the missed guarantee? Thanks so much." Takes about 5 minutes and "earns" me a tax-free $8.25 off of a bill I would otherwise pay.
Please provide a link where I can buy a cheap 16TB tape drive.
In a sense, TFA is the link you requested. Back in "the day" large data sets were stored on tapes and backed them up to additional tapes. Nowadays, large data sets are stored on HDDs and are backed up to additional HDDs.
There is also a requirement that the driver hold a valid operator's permit. Since the car is "driving", it seems like the car would need one. Carrying the analogy further, today I would think that the car basically would have its "temps".
I can understand how Uber may have gotten the car to pass the maneuverability portion of the test, but I do struggle to understand how it would pass the written portion.
10 minutes for a shirt is no big deal. I generate maybe 6 washable items a day, as do the others in my house. Until my house grows to 24 people, it will keep up.
I don't see how this solves the concern.
Identity and reputation are two different things. Cecil Adams may or may not be a real person, but still one tends to trust him to tell the truth. Trump, on the other hand is clearly a real person, but many more people would question his reputation for spreading only verifiable truth.
I used Keepass for about 5 years. I finally switched a week ago. The driving factor for switching was its better ability to auto-fill, especially on Android (Nougat) and MSIE (required for a few of our company apps).
Lastpass's better features:
Lastpass android app fills in passwords; keepassdroid requires copy/paste or switching to the Keepass keyboard momentarily.
Lastpass auto-fills Chrome, Firefox, Explorer and Edge. Keepass only does Chrome and Firefox.
Lastapp auto-fills windows applications, not just web browsers.
Lastpass does its own sync. Keypass requires the use of something similar to One Drive, which required manually fixing occasional replication conflicts..
Keepass's better features:
Keeagent stored my ssh identity in my vault and made it automatically available to putty when I unlocked my vault.
Lastpass does not deal well with the fact that some, but not all of the servers in my own company share common credentials. I end up storing my AD credentials in a dozen entries in lastpass. Keepass's field references worked better.
Keepass is much more "do it yourself", Lastpass takes most of the hassle away at a cost of $12/year for some features.
Neither TFA nor the summary make it clear that this was just the Australia Red Cross. No indications so far that any other countries have suffered a similar breach.
what's to stop me and 4 friends from jumping out in front of the cars just to laugh as it crashes itself to "save" us.
This example is one of "malicious behavior", which is an issue for the courts. With any luck the "Just for laughs" comment would reach the judge.
It is not an example of malicious input. The car correctly sensed a risk to human life/health and correctly identified the best alternative to maintain its"prime directive". The vehicle's decision would have been exactly correct (presuming there were no better alternatives, such as stopping). An example of "malformed/malicious input" would be when the side of a truck gets confused for an overhead sign,
...Are we going to download the entirety of updates that have ever been released for Windows every month?...
If you update online you get just the changes. If you download and install you get the whole thing.
Microsoft answered this and many other concerns on their blog last month. Your particular answer can be found in the comments.....
Nathan Mercer September 15, 2016 at 8:37 am
... Monthly rollup will grow to be about the same size as Convenience rollup update. If you install via WU or WSUS you can take advantage of the Express feature to just have deltas going across the network. Security-only update will obviously be much smaller.
I have long wanted to be able to place a credit limit on my phone such that the phone company will cut me off when I have reached my limit. Much like the credit card companies do.
I skirt the issue by using a provider that pretends to offer unlimited voice and data for a fixed monthly cost, but there are still issues of roaming, cramming and the like.
Broadband refers to the bandwidth, not the technology. As of January 2015, the FCC defines "Broadband" as a minimum of 25/3 Mbps. Prior to then it was 4/1 Mbps.
There are technology efforts to boost DSL speed to Gigabit. Personally, I look forward to that as my cable provider needs a bit of competition.
"Almost certainly" is a bit of a stretch. Since 1900, the odds have been 72% (13 of 18) that a sitting president will be reelected (or elected to a second term in Ford's case). The eagle-eyed will note that I discounted Kennedy as he was unable to seek reelection.
I've never really understood why "the man" wants to make it hard for me to spend my money to legally access the content I want to watch.
Lets presume Neflix can identify 2000 European works in their existing global catalog. To attain 20% European content, their European Catalog suddenly becomes limited to 10,000 movies. This will be 8000 mainstream movies and 2000 European movies. Anyone who wants to watch Independents or Classics will be out of luck.
The real question is what the customers do next. Will they step in line and only watch the "Mass Media" movies? Or, will they find themselves driven to VPNs and PirateBay in search of the classics.
I think the bigger issue is a lack of significant competition. For example, look at cities where Google Fiber is even just a rumor. All the sudden, the incumbents start offering faster connections with greater bandwidth and for less money than they do in other locales. What we really need to do is to make it easier for Google and others to expand into more cities.
One of the most significant barriers to entry is that the telco and cable providers have exclusive use of the "low voltage" part of the pole. Requiring utility poles to be publicly owned and for space on them to be leased on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to all providers would go a long way towards encouraging this.
I have never understood why macros need access to the Internet or to run an external program. Personally, I would rather be prompted if a macros needs to connect outside of the document. It would make more sense to me than telling me that a document is scary simply because I emailed it to my self via gmail,
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Rural WiFi is not the same thing your home WiFi, although it does use the same frequencies and technologies.
Rural WiFi is used by wireless ISPs (that is, the rural equivalent to your urban cable modem or DSL connection). This is accomplished with directional antennas that concentrate the signal so that it can span five to 10 miles. They do this because it is prohibitively expensive to string fiber (or copper) when there are only a few customers per mile. Because the signal is so weak by the time it gets all the way to the receiver, interference anywhere along the "line of sight" path is more difficult to filter out.
An urban dweller needs maybe a 500-foot circle of no interference. The rural need is a non-interference rectangle 500 feet wide by maybe 10 miles long, stretching from his roof-mount antenna all the way to the ISP antenna which likely is mounted on a grain elevator in a nearby town.
LTE was a direct competitor. After LTE became popular, the ISPs (mostly sprint) converted their WiMAX towers/spectrum to LTE. Nowadays, LTE hotspots are the (near) equivalent to a WiMAX modem.
Not really. It is called learning to live within your means, sacrifice and savings.
I don't think you understand poor. Poor is when your means are not sufficient to live, the sacrifices become overwhelming and the savings are not existent. Today, that is defined as under $231/week (2017 US FPL) and often much less. At that budget level, sacrifices are more about "prescriptions vs food", not "cable bill vs new car".
The "boots" analogy was pretty good. Maybe a bigger one will better resonate with an "upper middle income" mindset. Imagine 10 years ago you had $25,000 to invest in solar cells on your McMansion. Meanwhile, your neighbor did not have the necessary credit rating, so he continued to pay his $250/month electric bill. Now that the investment has paid off, your electricity is "free" and you were able to use the net savings for a swimming pool. Your "undisciplined" neighbor, on the other hand continues to pay his electric bill and has no pool. That is why it is so hard to escape "middle income".
I've always wanted to see a system that allowed most-anything for a password and selected an expiration date based on the complexity, so "password" gets about 5 minutes, "Denver17" gets about 5 hours and a 32-character generated password gets about 5 years.
What benefit do curved monitors give? I was told "the whole the screen is more evenly at the same distance from your eyes". But what I heard was "the screen is laid out in an unexpected and distorted way that screws with your brain"
Once you need reading glasses you will suddenly understand the value in having the screen more evenly at the same distance from your eyes. Today I accomplish this by carefully positioning my multiple monitors. At some point I probably will replace them all with a larger curved QHD display.
Am I missing something about their guarantee, or do I have to bitch and moan every time a late package costs me money? Will they limit this, and do they compensate you in some other way?
Yes, No, Yes and No. These and other questions can be answered on their help pages. Open a chat with them and say "Order # xxxx was due xx/xx/xxxx, but has not yet arrived. The shipper is now estimating the due date as xx/xx/xxxx . Would you please issue me a prime extension for the missed guarantee? Thanks so much." Takes about 5 minutes and "earns" me a tax-free $8.25 off of a bill I would otherwise pay.
Most people that care about "forensic purposes" purchase a device called a "hardware write blocker".
Please provide a link where I can buy a cheap 16TB tape drive.
In a sense, TFA is the link you requested. Back in "the day" large data sets were stored on tapes and backed them up to additional tapes. Nowadays, large data sets are stored on HDDs and are backed up to additional HDDs.
There is also a requirement that the driver hold a valid operator's permit. Since the car is "driving", it seems like the car would need one. Carrying the analogy further, today I would think that the car basically would have its "temps". I can understand how Uber may have gotten the car to pass the maneuverability portion of the test, but I do struggle to understand how it would pass the written portion.
Coal, Oil, Gas, Wind, Solar all get their energy from fusion. Some of them are even pretty effective long-term storage mechanisms for fusion energy.
10 minutes for a shirt is no big deal. I generate maybe 6 washable items a day, as do the others in my house. Until my house grows to 24 people, it will keep up.
I'd be much more interested if I could throw in dirty clothes into the drawer and have it start by sorting and washing them.
I don't see how this solves the concern. Identity and reputation are two different things. Cecil Adams may or may not be a real person, but still one tends to trust him to tell the truth. Trump, on the other hand is clearly a real person, but many more people would question his reputation for spreading only verifiable truth.
Keepass's better features:
Keepass is much more "do it yourself", Lastpass takes most of the hassle away at a cost of $12/year for some features.
Neither TFA nor the summary make it clear that this was just the Australia Red Cross. No indications so far that any other countries have suffered a similar breach.
what's to stop me and 4 friends from jumping out in front of the cars just to laugh as it crashes itself to "save" us.
This example is one of "malicious behavior", which is an issue for the courts. With any luck the "Just for laughs" comment would reach the judge.
It is not an example of malicious input. The car correctly sensed a risk to human life/health and correctly identified the best alternative to maintain its"prime directive". The vehicle's decision would have been exactly correct (presuming there were no better alternatives, such as stopping). An example of "malformed/malicious input" would be when the side of a truck gets confused for an overhead sign,
...Are we going to download the entirety of updates that have ever been released for Windows every month? ...
If you update online you get just the changes. If you download and install you get the whole thing.
Microsoft answered this and many other concerns on their blog last month. Your particular answer can be found in the comments.....
Nathan Mercer
September 15, 2016 at 8:37 am
... Monthly rollup will grow to be about the same size as Convenience rollup update. If you install via WU or WSUS you can take advantage of the Express feature to just have deltas going across the network. Security-only update will obviously be much smaller.
I have long wanted to be able to place a credit limit on my phone such that the phone company will cut me off when I have reached my limit. Much like the credit card companies do.
I skirt the issue by using a provider that pretends to offer unlimited voice and data for a fixed monthly cost, but there are still issues of roaming, cramming and the like.
White tape pretty much blocks the intensity, but still allows the color to be visible.
Broadband refers to the bandwidth, not the technology. As of January 2015, the FCC defines "Broadband" as a minimum of 25/3 Mbps. Prior to then it was 4/1 Mbps.
There are technology efforts to boost DSL speed to Gigabit. Personally, I look forward to that as my cable provider needs a bit of competition.
"Almost certainly" is a bit of a stretch. Since 1900, the odds have been 72% (13 of 18) that a sitting president will be reelected (or elected to a second term in Ford's case). The eagle-eyed will note that I discounted Kennedy as he was unable to seek reelection.
How about an app for my phone that can send video and text to/from 9-1-1.
Imagine the situational awareness we could add in hostage situations.
I've never really understood why "the man" wants to make it hard for me to spend my money to legally access the content I want to watch.
Lets presume Neflix can identify 2000 European works in their existing global catalog. To attain 20% European content, their European Catalog suddenly becomes limited to 10,000 movies. This will be 8000 mainstream movies and 2000 European movies. Anyone who wants to watch Independents or Classics will be out of luck.
The real question is what the customers do next. Will they step in line and only watch the "Mass Media" movies? Or, will they find themselves driven to VPNs and PirateBay in search of the classics.
I think the bigger issue is a lack of significant competition. For example, look at cities where Google Fiber is even just a rumor. All the sudden, the incumbents start offering faster connections with greater bandwidth and for less money than they do in other locales. What we really need to do is to make it easier for Google and others to expand into more cities.
One of the most significant barriers to entry is that the telco and cable providers have exclusive use of the "low voltage" part of the pole. Requiring utility poles to be publicly owned and for space on them to be leased on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to all providers would go a long way towards encouraging this.
I have never understood why macros need access to the Internet or to run an external program. Personally, I would rather be prompted if a macros needs to connect outside of the document. It would make more sense to me than telling me that a document is scary simply because I emailed it to my self via gmail,