T-Mobile absolutely owns, maintains, and operates their own cellular network in the United States. Maybe in some other country they're an MVNO, but not anywhere I know of...
Give me a solid OS alternative to iOS or Android and I might be interested.
I am really tired of closed-source walled gardens and phones that leak personal information like a sieve. I want something better, and (since I use an iPhone currently) am obviously willing to pay for it.
Even non-scum phone trade-in companies won't be giving you a dime if you send them an iCloud-locked iPhone or FRP-locked Android. How do they get any guarantee you'll actually (or are actually able to/authorized to) unlock the phone after you get paid?
This would be ripe for abuse, since a criminal could just sell the company stolen phones all day long, get the money, then bail. Any company that wants to stay in business could never operate this way, because the chances of the phones ever being unlocked is slim to none.
Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.
The inescapable conclusion is that most people prefer a slightly less extreme site, one where there is considerable freedom to say what you like, but there are still some limits.
The inescapable conclusion, to me, is that the general public is too immature to be able to handle actual free speech and support it only until people start saying things they don't like, at which point those folks are to be silenced at any cost. You can frame it as "splitting the worst bits off", but there are plenty of radical "worst bits" still around on every site, Reddit and 4chan included, but they tend to just go along with the accepted narrative.
Disagreeing with someone while still protecting and accepting their right to say something is the key to a free and open society. It's the mature person's outlook on free speech, which unfortunately is dying more and more each day we continue to humor any group who wants to silence another.
Better that it's out in the open than hidden in the shadows, out of reach of security researchers.
This will motivate competent admins who, for whatever reason, haven't secured these kinds of devices already to get around to taking care of the issue. As for the incompetent admins and the average home user, they'll figure it out when their bandwidth costs go through the roof and be forced to take action one way or another.
But long story short, if a tool exists (good or bad) it's better that everyone can access it rather than just the bad guys.
So in Yakima, WA if you look at a woman, you're arrested? On what charge, just out of curiosity? Not saying I don't believe you, but I'd like to know more.
Since I'm the "techie" in the family, if I HAVE to watch something NOW, I can log into my parents' account and stream, as they haven't divorced themselves from TV.
So basically, someone else is subsidizing the few programs you do watch on live TV.
I've been paying Comcast roughly the same amount of money per month since 2007. Since then, my Internet speeds have gone from 8Mbps to 125Mbps, and I have a whole slew of HD channels I didn't used to get a decade ago. And never mind that I moved to Comcast to consolidate what, before, was phone and DSL from the telco and TV from satellite, and I was paying a lot more for less back in those days.
Oh, and if you take inflation into account, let's just say I'm paying a lot less than I ever have for my TV service. Stupid study is stupid.
At least the Trump subreddit is forthcoming about their ban on dissent.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it's just as bad in the Hillary sections, but they lie and act like they don't censor. Lies and deception are somehow superior than truth to leftists.
There are 930,097 subbreddits on Reddit. The other 930,096 (and almost the entirety of the Internet itself) is a safe space for the regressive left. Trump supporters have one subreddit, and that makes them "safe spacey alt-rights".
Not sure, but trust me this isn't the only forum "she" shits on. And on the others "she" gets banned, creates new accounts, and then is right back at it. It's a joke.
The odd part about this is that I was using the iOS 10 beta on T-Mobile since it was publicly available, and this issue only cropped up once the release version dropped and a carrier bundle update was received. I'm guessing it's IPv6 related, since it usually is when T-Mobile breaks something.
When they trot out these "feel good" stories about renewable energy, that this is a developing nation with an extremely temperate climate. Also remember this is the model for the United States and the rest of the modern first-world/western nations under globalism/leftism: reducing them to third-world status.
I'll be sticking with my iPhone 6S for years to come. Remember kids, never update your iOS past the next major revision after it was released. This ensures a long life and usability. I will stop at 10.0 to ensure slowness and battery draining doesn't kill my hardware prematurely.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to shit up the cellular network by using it as a fixed-line internet replacement. Are people really that cheap or just that stupid?
1. Ubiquitous coverage 2. Fast speeds 3. Cheap cost
Pick 2. If all you need are coverage and low cost, a Verizon MVNO or possibly Cricket would probably work best for you.
Besides, that 400Mbps isn't so you can get that speed on your phone all by yourself, it's so hundreds or thousands of people can use one cell site at the same time without it becoming so bogged down that you can't load any data. Congestion is becoming a real issue for T-Mobile in many places, these things can help alleviate those problems somewhat.
As for the 700Mhz not being available in your area, if their current native network isn't sufficient for you, why would you continue to use a carrier that doesn't provide the coverage that you need it to? If T-Mobile doesn't have 700MHz service live in a given location, it's because they don't own a license to use that spectrum there. That means Verizon, AT&T, or more likely US Cellular owns the license and one of those three providers would probably serve you better. If they do own a license, it should be online soon enough.
The gimmicky "video transcoding" (actually just throttling of video streams to 1.5Mbps, no transcoding happens) is also fine by me. I'm all for net neutrality, but I don't need 4K video on my cellphone. If I need to watch videos on the go, I'd much rather be conservative with my use of the shared wireless resources and still be able to consume my content. My home internet is where I need blazing speeds for UHD video and downloading large files, and people who are using their cellphone as a home internet replacement are a large part of the congestion problems we're seeing today.
I know it's Slashdot and all, but damn the dupes and general quality are so bad around here these days, I'm starting to think the FBI guy might be on to something!
Holy fuck. While I agree with your sentiment, absolutely, 100%, I had no idea anyone (maybe besides myself) still had the concept in their mind that ANYBODY on the internet was still interested in being a "good netizen" in 2016.
Yeah, it really is a joke. Even the Google car only operates in autonomous mode a bit over half the time, the rest of the time being piloted by a real person. That's about the same percentage of time you can text, eat, change the radio, etc. as a person and not pay attention to the road. So what we're really being told is that we've finally gotten a computer to be able to do what a human can do with spare background cycles.
Whoo-hoo!
Although if we're being truthfully honest about all AI and all autonomous cars and all this hype, the real story is:
Objective: Eliminate humans. Eliminate the human experience, eliminate the human element and turn the world into one big machine.
But that's the elephant in the room that no one will admit, that the entire agenda is one that's anti-humanity, period. Too bad the computers will NEVER be able to reliably make the kinds of judgment calls that humans can and the entire AI borg system is going to come crashing down sooner or later, so we really won't have to worry about the anti-humanist ilk ever really doing much of anything to worry about.
I'd say most everyone doesn't realize that. If anything, the vast majority of people's only experience with autopilot is in an airplane they've seen in a Hollywood movie flying itself while the pilot goes to the john or uses a stewardess. I don't know why Musk continues to call his system autopilot when it clearly means "adaptive cruise control with lane detection system". Even Cadillac was smart enough to call it "Super Cruise".
They've since corrected the error in translation to better convey the meaning behind the English "autopilot".
You're referring to the meaning that, to the 95% of the English-speaking population who have never flown an airplane or have any background or knowledge of aviation, means "self-flying", no?
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T-Mobile absolutely owns, maintains, and operates their own cellular network in the United States. Maybe in some other country they're an MVNO, but not anywhere I know of...
What the hell are you smoking?
Give me a solid OS alternative to iOS or Android and I might be interested.
I am really tired of closed-source walled gardens and phones that leak personal information like a sieve. I want something better, and (since I use an iPhone currently) am obviously willing to pay for it.
Even non-scum phone trade-in companies won't be giving you a dime if you send them an iCloud-locked iPhone or FRP-locked Android. How do they get any guarantee you'll actually (or are actually able to/authorized to) unlock the phone after you get paid?
This would be ripe for abuse, since a criminal could just sell the company stolen phones all day long, get the money, then bail. Any company that wants to stay in business could never operate this way, because the chances of the phones ever being unlocked is slim to none.
Because I think we know what the outcome would be.
Here's the latest activity report: https://static.googleuserconte...
Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.
More non-news to promote an agenda, that's all.
The inescapable conclusion is that most people prefer a slightly less extreme site, one where there is considerable freedom to say what you like, but there are still some limits.
The inescapable conclusion, to me, is that the general public is too immature to be able to handle actual free speech and support it only until people start saying things they don't like, at which point those folks are to be silenced at any cost. You can frame it as "splitting the worst bits off", but there are plenty of radical "worst bits" still around on every site, Reddit and 4chan included, but they tend to just go along with the accepted narrative.
Disagreeing with someone while still protecting and accepting their right to say something is the key to a free and open society. It's the mature person's outlook on free speech, which unfortunately is dying more and more each day we continue to humor any group who wants to silence another.
Better that it's out in the open than hidden in the shadows, out of reach of security researchers.
This will motivate competent admins who, for whatever reason, haven't secured these kinds of devices already to get around to taking care of the issue. As for the incompetent admins and the average home user, they'll figure it out when their bandwidth costs go through the roof and be forced to take action one way or another.
But long story short, if a tool exists (good or bad) it's better that everyone can access it rather than just the bad guys.
So in Yakima, WA if you look at a woman, you're arrested? On what charge, just out of curiosity? Not saying I don't believe you, but I'd like to know more.
What possible uses does this have other than censorship?
Or are they just silently applying it to everyone, and getting rid of the target ads and the opt-out so no one actually knows they're being tracked?
Since I'm the "techie" in the family, if I HAVE to watch something NOW, I can log into my parents' account and stream, as they haven't divorced themselves from TV.
So basically, someone else is subsidizing the few programs you do watch on live TV.
I've been paying Comcast roughly the same amount of money per month since 2007. Since then, my Internet speeds have gone from 8Mbps to 125Mbps, and I have a whole slew of HD channels I didn't used to get a decade ago. And never mind that I moved to Comcast to consolidate what, before, was phone and DSL from the telco and TV from satellite, and I was paying a lot more for less back in those days.
Oh, and if you take inflation into account, let's just say I'm paying a lot less than I ever have for my TV service. Stupid study is stupid.
At least the Trump subreddit is forthcoming about their ban on dissent.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it's just as bad in the Hillary sections, but they lie and act like they don't censor. Lies and deception are somehow superior than truth to leftists.
Oh give it up.
There are 930,097 subbreddits on Reddit. The other 930,096 (and almost the entirety of the Internet itself) is a safe space for the regressive left. Trump supporters have one subreddit, and that makes them "safe spacey alt-rights".
Liberal logic at it's finest, kiddos.
Not sure, but trust me this isn't the only forum "she" shits on. And on the others "she" gets banned, creates new accounts, and then is right back at it. It's a joke.
The odd part about this is that I was using the iOS 10 beta on T-Mobile since it was publicly available, and this issue only cropped up once the release version dropped and a carrier bundle update was received. I'm guessing it's IPv6 related, since it usually is when T-Mobile breaks something.
When they trot out these "feel good" stories about renewable energy, that this is a developing nation with an extremely temperate climate. Also remember this is the model for the United States and the rest of the modern first-world/western nations under globalism/leftism: reducing them to third-world status.
I'll be sticking with my iPhone 6S for years to come. Remember kids, never update your iOS past the next major revision after it was released. This ensures a long life and usability. I will stop at 10.0 to ensure slowness and battery draining doesn't kill my hardware prematurely.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to shit up the cellular network by using it as a fixed-line internet replacement. Are people really that cheap or just that stupid?
1. Ubiquitous coverage
2. Fast speeds
3. Cheap cost
Pick 2. If all you need are coverage and low cost, a Verizon MVNO or possibly Cricket would probably work best for you.
Besides, that 400Mbps isn't so you can get that speed on your phone all by yourself, it's so hundreds or thousands of people can use one cell site at the same time without it becoming so bogged down that you can't load any data. Congestion is becoming a real issue for T-Mobile in many places, these things can help alleviate those problems somewhat.
As for the 700Mhz not being available in your area, if their current native network isn't sufficient for you, why would you continue to use a carrier that doesn't provide the coverage that you need it to? If T-Mobile doesn't have 700MHz service live in a given location, it's because they don't own a license to use that spectrum there. That means Verizon, AT&T, or more likely US Cellular owns the license and one of those three providers would probably serve you better. If they do own a license, it should be online soon enough.
The gimmicky "video transcoding" (actually just throttling of video streams to 1.5Mbps, no transcoding happens) is also fine by me. I'm all for net neutrality, but I don't need 4K video on my cellphone. If I need to watch videos on the go, I'd much rather be conservative with my use of the shared wireless resources and still be able to consume my content. My home internet is where I need blazing speeds for UHD video and downloading large files, and people who are using their cellphone as a home internet replacement are a large part of the congestion problems we're seeing today.
I know it's Slashdot and all, but damn the dupes and general quality are so bad around here these days, I'm starting to think the FBI guy might be on to something!
Holy fuck. While I agree with your sentiment, absolutely, 100%, I had no idea anyone (maybe besides myself) still had the concept in their mind that ANYBODY on the internet was still interested in being a "good netizen" in 2016.
Yeah, it really is a joke. Even the Google car only operates in autonomous mode a bit over half the time, the rest of the time being piloted by a real person. That's about the same percentage of time you can text, eat, change the radio, etc. as a person and not pay attention to the road. So what we're really being told is that we've finally gotten a computer to be able to do what a human can do with spare background cycles.
Whoo-hoo!
Although if we're being truthfully honest about all AI and all autonomous cars and all this hype, the real story is:
Objective: Eliminate humans. Eliminate the human experience, eliminate the human element and turn the world into one big machine.
But that's the elephant in the room that no one will admit, that the entire agenda is one that's anti-humanity, period. Too bad the computers will NEVER be able to reliably make the kinds of judgment calls that humans can and the entire AI borg system is going to come crashing down sooner or later, so we really won't have to worry about the anti-humanist ilk ever really doing much of anything to worry about.
OMG Uber is testing SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!!!! *
*Self driving only under ideal, open conditions, human operator at the controls about half the time.
I'd say most everyone doesn't realize that. If anything, the vast majority of people's only experience with autopilot is in an airplane they've seen in a Hollywood movie flying itself while the pilot goes to the john or uses a stewardess. I don't know why Musk continues to call his system autopilot when it clearly means "adaptive cruise control with lane detection system". Even Cadillac was smart enough to call it "Super Cruise".
They've since corrected the error in translation to better convey the meaning behind the English "autopilot".
You're referring to the meaning that, to the 95% of the English-speaking population who have never flown an airplane or have any background or knowledge of aviation, means "self-flying", no?