I'd bet you'll find that a lot of people are interested in the state of their network practices if they're going to consider getting services from them. If a potential customer actually understands that the broken-off, laying-over in the landscaping splice point is how their service reaches their home or business and that Centurylink can only barely even be bothered to put a black garbage bag over it, they might well think twice about using that company for any service.
I have no love for cable either, but at least their vaults and pedestals are generally closed-up, covered-up, or otherwise not left exposed to the weather.
I wish it was as simple as "didn't stay closed" around here. Usually the covers are entirely missing. I swear that COX has directed their employees to hit the CL pedestals with their trucks as they're driving around the city!
More formidable competitor? Those assholes can't even be bothered to repair their broken pedestal covers throughout the city! They're literally leaving their twisted-pair splice points open to the weather!
They've made a choice to not maintain their network infrastructure, both for legacy and for their DSL broadband customer base. Why should we trust them do do any better with anything else, let alone a build-out that's not even really that far along yet?
I will say this much. It's a very well written "press release" which essentially is and ad, but on the other hand I only knew of one Linux-ready laptop that was vendor-supported out of th box, and that is the very expensive option from Dell.
I've been holding-off on a laptop because last time I bought a new laptop to put Linux on, it had a problem with how the real time clock was handled and it was essentially not usable as a Linux box. I've put it on used laptops since then (like the Alienware M17R2 that I'm typing this on) but I hadn't seen any good sources for immediately-supported hardware. This fixes that and gives me some thought as to what I am going to do in the future, especially since the Late-2011 Macbook Pro that I'm using has the video-chipset problem that I need to take in for recall-fix, and it's getting long in the tooth anyway.
Actually I'm probably being modded-up because of a little ditty from *My Fair Lady* where Eliza Doolittle is being taught to speak properly through several vocal exercises by Professor Henry Higgins, but it's okay if you couldn't be bothered to look up the reference.
This really pisses me off. We need *more* competition, not less. The phone company and the cable company are the only games in town and neither offers ubiquitous coverage, and both like to jack around their rates as they can because of that lack of competition.
It feels like Apple just missed being able to be the king of platforms for network admins too.
Just as they got their OS truly ready for Linux and UNIX users to jump-in, they removed some of the page navigation keys. Many users put up with it anyway. Then they started downsizing on the ports. Many users put up with that too even when they had to now use a dongle to connect to a friggin' Ethernet jack.
Now they're getting rid of the vast majority of physical ports, so no more console access, and they're now cutting-bone, not merely flesh, by removing the Escape key, a key used all the damn time by a lot of us.
A drone needs a camera to manually navigate the thing whilst out of line-of-sight.
And there is your problem. Operating it out of line-of-sight. Perhaps the Swedish ruling is based on the nature of constitutes acceptable use, and out of line-of-sight does not meet their criteria.
As to the argument about acceptable use versus unacceptable use, while the courts and legislatures often do side with if something has an acceptable use then it won't be banned for having an unacceptable use, there are exceptions, and those exceptions are often based on the nature of the unacceptable use, and how widespread that unacceptable use is compared to otherwise. Often that kind of consideration is based on how the unacceptable use affects other people.
The user of Google Glass is immediately identifiable because he has to be present. The owner of an RC aircraft with a camera on it may not be identifiable because that person does not have to be in line-of-sight to the people being filmed by the RC aircraft in order to control that RC aircraft.
Isn't this essentially what happened to Mars Polar Lander? Incorrect sensory interpretation leading to the computer taking the wrong actions, thinking it was on the ground when it wasn't?
...is a pair of 10 micron glass fibers coated in a reflective layer with a kevlar sleeve and a PVC outer jacket, with either 1310nm or 1550nm laser light shining down the center...
Actually it has everything to do with her decisions. She knows how to copy a file. She knows how to send a file to other people. One can even argue that she knows how to receive a file shared with her to then turn around and share it. It's not a great leap to the realization that anyone that receives the file can turn around and redistribute it.
The only failure here is that she did not consider the full ramifications for her actions, and she has paid a terrible price for those actions. People have tried to counsel against this in the past, "don't do anything that you wouldn't want your grandma reading about in the newspaper," "don't write down anything you don't want others to read," etc. This problem has been known forever, and basically boils down to not doing things that one will be ashamed of, or to at least not document those things.
Have you ever actually gone through the legal process of getting a favorable ruling and then trying to get that ruling enforced? Because you don't sound like you have any idea what that involves.
Trying to enforce this ruling would be playing whack-a-mole on an infinitely large grid where each time it pops up a new legal battle has to be mounted.
Despite the apparent acquiescence of neck-beards on Slashdot, having the ability to share personal information without sharing it with the entire world is something greatly desired by actual human beings.
And this capability has never, ever existed. Even huge corporations have tried to make it happen through a collection of technologies and laws called Digital Rights Management and despite tens of millions of dollars and system after system, DRM falls or is circumvented through the final 'analog hole'.
It's possible to have sympathy while still acknowledging that the risks that led to this outcome were entirely hers to bear in her obviously ill-thought actions that started this. The extreme nature of her particular extreme cultural influence is certainly abnormal, but it does show how ridiculous it is to expect the right to be forgotten to actually do a damn thing.
This is what I'm wondering, that and since a phone itself is a manufactured device that originated from a specific entity, if anyone could legitimately claim any kind of rights, that entity should have any copyrights and trademarks, not some media company attempting to use it.
I wish they'd ruled for the right reasons, but at least the ruling itself is better than if it'd gone the other way.
It's a network infrastructure device, but it's also a device installed in the workspace, not into the closet. It can be thought-of in the same fashion as the Ethernet Jack or the MUTOA.
As to your statement that 30' is fine and not in someone's workspace, I've encountered plenty of conditions where there is no place 30' from the workspace that isn't someone else's workspace. So it's going to end up in a workspace regardless.
I don't have a WAP in the bedroom. I have one in roughly the center of the ground floor, one in roughly the center of the basement, and one intended for the center of the detached workshop. Doesn't mean I like looking at it blinking at me when I'm watching TV.
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I'd bet you'll find that a lot of people are interested in the state of their network practices if they're going to consider getting services from them. If a potential customer actually understands that the broken-off, laying-over in the landscaping splice point is how their service reaches their home or business and that Centurylink can only barely even be bothered to put a black garbage bag over it, they might well think twice about using that company for any service.
I have no love for cable either, but at least their vaults and pedestals are generally closed-up, covered-up, or otherwise not left exposed to the weather.
I wish it was as simple as "didn't stay closed" around here. Usually the covers are entirely missing. I swear that COX has directed their employees to hit the CL pedestals with their trucks as they're driving around the city!
More formidable competitor? Those assholes can't even be bothered to repair their broken pedestal covers throughout the city! They're literally leaving their twisted-pair splice points open to the weather!
They've made a choice to not maintain their network infrastructure, both for legacy and for their DSL broadband customer base. Why should we trust them do do any better with anything else, let alone a build-out that's not even really that far along yet?
I will say this much. It's a very well written "press release" which essentially is and ad, but on the other hand I only knew of one Linux-ready laptop that was vendor-supported out of th box, and that is the very expensive option from Dell.
I've been holding-off on a laptop because last time I bought a new laptop to put Linux on, it had a problem with how the real time clock was handled and it was essentially not usable as a Linux box. I've put it on used laptops since then (like the Alienware M17R2 that I'm typing this on) but I hadn't seen any good sources for immediately-supported hardware. This fixes that and gives me some thought as to what I am going to do in the future, especially since the Late-2011 Macbook Pro that I'm using has the video-chipset problem that I need to take in for recall-fix, and it's getting long in the tooth anyway.
Actually I'm probably being modded-up because of a little ditty from *My Fair Lady* where Eliza Doolittle is being taught to speak properly through several vocal exercises by Professor Henry Higgins, but it's okay if you couldn't be bothered to look up the reference.
The Rain in Spain stays mainly out-of-the Plain...
Poor Lt. O'Brien... He dies in almost all of the movies that aren't *Star Trek*.
This really pisses me off. We need *more* competition, not less. The phone company and the cable company are the only games in town and neither offers ubiquitous coverage, and both like to jack around their rates as they can because of that lack of competition.
It feels like Apple just missed being able to be the king of platforms for network admins too.
Just as they got their OS truly ready for Linux and UNIX users to jump-in, they removed some of the page navigation keys. Many users put up with it anyway. Then they started downsizing on the ports. Many users put up with that too even when they had to now use a dongle to connect to a friggin' Ethernet jack.
Now they're getting rid of the vast majority of physical ports, so no more console access, and they're now cutting-bone, not merely flesh, by removing the Escape key, a key used all the damn time by a lot of us.
A drone needs a camera to manually navigate the thing whilst out of line-of-sight.
And there is your problem. Operating it out of line-of-sight. Perhaps the Swedish ruling is based on the nature of constitutes acceptable use, and out of line-of-sight does not meet their criteria.
As to the argument about acceptable use versus unacceptable use, while the courts and legislatures often do side with if something has an acceptable use then it won't be banned for having an unacceptable use, there are exceptions, and those exceptions are often based on the nature of the unacceptable use, and how widespread that unacceptable use is compared to otherwise. Often that kind of consideration is based on how the unacceptable use affects other people.
The user of Google Glass is immediately identifiable because he has to be present. The owner of an RC aircraft with a camera on it may not be identifiable because that person does not have to be in line-of-sight to the people being filmed by the RC aircraft in order to control that RC aircraft.
In that case the nature of intent comes into play, and they very much would be considered criminal.
Isn't this essentially what happened to Mars Polar Lander? Incorrect sensory interpretation leading to the computer taking the wrong actions, thinking it was on the ground when it wasn't?
Just because you want someone doesn't mean there's a snowball's chance in hell of them going along with what you'd like.
...is a pair of 10 micron glass fibers coated in a reflective layer with a kevlar sleeve and a PVC outer jacket, with either 1310nm or 1550nm laser light shining down the center...
Look up to the sky and SEEEEE!
Actually it has everything to do with her decisions. She knows how to copy a file. She knows how to send a file to other people. One can even argue that she knows how to receive a file shared with her to then turn around and share it. It's not a great leap to the realization that anyone that receives the file can turn around and redistribute it.
The only failure here is that she did not consider the full ramifications for her actions, and she has paid a terrible price for those actions. People have tried to counsel against this in the past, "don't do anything that you wouldn't want your grandma reading about in the newspaper," "don't write down anything you don't want others to read," etc. This problem has been known forever, and basically boils down to not doing things that one will be ashamed of, or to at least not document those things.
Have you ever actually gone through the legal process of getting a favorable ruling and then trying to get that ruling enforced? Because you don't sound like you have any idea what that involves. Trying to enforce this ruling would be playing whack-a-mole on an infinitely large grid where each time it pops up a new legal battle has to be mounted.
Despite the apparent acquiescence of neck-beards on Slashdot, having the ability to share personal information without sharing it with the entire world is something greatly desired by actual human beings.
And this capability has never, ever existed. Even huge corporations have tried to make it happen through a collection of technologies and laws called Digital Rights Management and despite tens of millions of dollars and system after system, DRM falls or is circumvented through the final 'analog hole'.
It's possible to have sympathy while still acknowledging that the risks that led to this outcome were entirely hers to bear in her obviously ill-thought actions that started this. The extreme nature of her particular extreme cultural influence is certainly abnormal, but it does show how ridiculous it is to expect the right to be forgotten to actually do a damn thing.
YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community
Is that what these goddamn alerts on my cell phone are? Jeeezus.
And here I am on IOS 15 and have been for a couple of years. Except for the devices that are stuck on 12.55...
Why didn't the copyright flunkies say, "Sorry, prior art. Tough noogies."?
This is what I'm wondering, that and since a phone itself is a manufactured device that originated from a specific entity, if anyone could legitimately claim any kind of rights, that entity should have any copyrights and trademarks, not some media company attempting to use it.
I wish they'd ruled for the right reasons, but at least the ruling itself is better than if it'd gone the other way.
It's a network infrastructure device, but it's also a device installed in the workspace, not into the closet. It can be thought-of in the same fashion as the Ethernet Jack or the MUTOA.
As to your statement that 30' is fine and not in someone's workspace, I've encountered plenty of conditions where there is no place 30' from the workspace that isn't someone else's workspace. So it's going to end up in a workspace regardless.
I don't have a WAP in the bedroom. I have one in roughly the center of the ground floor, one in roughly the center of the basement, and one intended for the center of the detached workshop. Doesn't mean I like looking at it blinking at me when I'm watching TV.
I'm using a central controller, trying to avoid the CLI on the end WAPs. I'll have to see what options exist.
I love CLI but it's not practical for managing 20,000 WAPs at work.