There are already clear laws on the books prohibiting cell phones in prisons, yet the FCC will not allow cell jamming in prisons.
The number of cell phone induced accidents is GROSSLY inflated in another act of security theater. Cops are instructed to report cell phone involvement if the merely SEE a cell phone in an accident.
There are lots of places in Alaska where there is only one real carrier choice, and many of these places only get GSM. There is even one large state carrier up there that won't let anyone roam onto their network. How dumb is that! Roaming money is pure gravy for carriers.
FantasyLand, Or in the Android world, where I now dwell.
I'll just come out and say it, even tho the Apple Mod Nazis will mark it troll in no time flat:
At least 70% percent of AT&T's bad rap came from Infineon chip sets in Apple iPhones.
Since that was a huge percentage of the userbase, it made the carrier look much worse than it was. AT&T BB users had no where near the same percentage of complaints.
To tell you the truth, once the calls stopped being dropped (because I got off the iPhone with its crappy Infinion radios), I haven't paid a bit of attention to bars.
Phone works when I need it, and calls don't drop. Data rate not as fast as I'd like.
I know people in NYC are bleeding. (Or at least complaining loudly). But I'm not seeing that in the Pacific Northwest.
My cell area code is no where near where I live. Even the billing address (paid by my work) is in another state. I'd hate to start getting notifications from the area where headquarters is.
I hope (and suspect) that it is tower dependent. It may well be, because it is Alcatel-Lucent doing it (hardware vendor).
Its clearly(?) not JUST a software solution that could be cranked in at the Carrier's headquarters.
(Those carrier wide SMS solutions are not fast enough to do this, and they swamp the Signaling channel upon which SMS are delivered, meaning no incoming phone calls can be signaled just when you may need them most).
So it sounds like they are going to introduce something else at the radio tower level.
They (AT&T) have been shifting frequencies around and putting 3G services on the lower bands with better building penetration and shifting edge over to the higher bands.
Almost all Edge phones are quadband so you don't have to do anything at the headset, and may never notice this unless you live on the fringe of the Edge coverage zones.
Hope you have downloaded the Mark The Spot app and use it regularly.
This is Apple's Achilles Heel. When demand outstrips the AT&T bandwidth, an iXxx will no longer be as desirable.
Demand has already outstripped AT&T bandwidth. That happened two years ago. That's the whole point of the story.
With that as the historical base, we look at AT&T exclusivity ending just at the time when AT&T shows signs of catching up with demand.
Or is that iPhone new contracts actually tapering off. Even tho Apple is selling iPhones like crazy, it hasn't translated into that many new customers for AT&T. They activated a record 5.2 million of the devices last quarter, but gained a net of only 2.6 million new mobile customers. See. So clearly the bandwidth demand growth is starting to slow down.
No one else could have handled the iPhone bandwidth demand back in 2007-2009 period any better than AT&T did.
The Achilles heel of Apple may be when they release a CDMA iPhone for Verizon and people suddenly realize half the stuff they used to do on the iPhone does not work on CDMA where you get Talk OR Data. For that reason, I suspect Verizon does not get an iPhone till Verizon gets LTE.
Perhaps your expectations have altered drastically over the years.
You were probably happy to get EDGE and were probably amazed by it. I once took a trip guided only by google maps on a Razr for pete sake!!
Dropped calls have gone virtually to ZERO per month for me on AT&T. Wep page dwnload speeds increased noticeably as well. I first noticed a dramatic drop back in April of 2010.
Perhaps AT&T made dramatic improvements in Network Reliability and speed in my area. That is the date my Android phone arrived and I retired my iphone. I never worry about bars any more.
Its still not "fast enough", and it probably never will be, because "fast enough" is a moving target. But for all the flak AT&T gets, in my area is pretty darn good.
Would you be happier if no one mentioned any of these "parameters"? Would that make successful development more likely? When questions are suppressed or not addressed during the early stages disasters inevitably happen.
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Yes, exactly.
There is no new threat. This whole new procedure it to force people thru the new scanners and to shut people up about the visual invasion of privacy.
Boycot flying is the only real way to bring pressure.
Not everyone can avoid it to be sure. But if employees start resisting business travel, or demanding financial accomodation for surrendering to sexual groping, employers will take notice. Airlines will take notice.
One day? Nobody will take notice, especially since most people planned and bought tickets in advance and have too much sunk costs to back out.
Lots of pre-programed mutations working perfectly in the laboratory to seal cracks of a known nature.
Activated when the reach the bottom. Bottom? What if there is no bottom? Most cracks in concrete go right thru the slab.
React to the specific PH of the concrete? If only all concrete were the same. Its been in use for several hundred years, and the formula has been constantly evolving.
And nothing is said about the strength. If the concrete was broken by whatever means, what are the chances some bio glue could hold it together against the next insult?
Unless its a fishing show (no acting required), I seriously doubt anyone could make a feature length single long shot picture. Perfection, or even acceptable levels of imperfection, simply don't come in one or two hour chunks.
Except that Google is still providing the content, (all Apple really did was write a thin wrapper around google maps - the web version).
Google sneaks in Traffic via croud sourcing, trails, bike routes and a lot of other content that Apple can't prevent, because all they are actually getting is images fed to them by google.
Its pretty funny really, Apple brags they wrote maps, only to have Traffic show up on the Exact day Google releases it and Apple was none the wiser (and by some reports pisses off).
But all the cool Google maps features added to Android are missing from from the iPhone.
I'm wondering why they restrict it to iPhone only...
The summary had the muddled statement:
An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now.
... which leads you to believe that Google Voice could be used on an ipod touch as a dialer for voip.
But GV still uses your Cell minutes to make and receive calls, it does not use Voip, it does not let you talk over wifi.
I suspect that GV could become a full fledged voip service at the flip of the switch but Google does not want to piss off the carriers just yet. So you would still need the carriers unless you had wifi, and that leaves out the ability to use it on an ipod.
However if you have an old iphone laying around after you upgraded to something newer, you can download and install it on that phone, (I tested this with a 3G) even if that iPhone does not have a sim card installed. BUT ONLY for SMS, and checking your Google Voicemail Not Voice calls.
You will find that self executing treaties are not all that rare, and even non self executing treaties often affect everything up to and including the USC.
But its worse than that, because the Supreme Court has NEVER declared a treaty unconstitutional. EVER.
So a ratified treaty ends up having the same effect as an amendment to the constitution. No judge will rule against it.
Therefore, The point remains that if this treaty is ratified, we are stuck with it just as much as we were stuck with any other amendment to our constitution, until repealed. If any provision violates our Constitution, history has demonstrated in EVERY instance that the Treaty will hold sway.
The overall context and purpose of that sentence seems to make it patently clear that is rather "{Constitution or Laws} of any State".
No, because there were no State Constitutions. There was only one State Constitution (MASS) predating the US Constitution. Most states still had Charters. It did not become in vogue to have a Constitution until AFTER the US Constitution 1789 ratification date.
The words "The Constitution" everywhere else in The Constitution refer to the Constitution of the United States (as proposed).
Its not about your friend. Its about some random kid you went to school with who you keep a link to for no other reason than to show how "connected" you are. You never talk to them, write to them or even read what they write.
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FCC will not allow this.
There are already clear laws on the books prohibiting cell phones in prisons, yet the FCC will not allow cell jamming in prisons.
The number of cell phone induced accidents is GROSSLY inflated in another act of security theater. Cops are instructed to report cell phone involvement if the merely SEE a cell phone in an accident.
You only need one story like this Bad Cell Phone Reception Made Reporting Bus Accident More Difficult to realize how dumb this would be. People dieing by the side of the road because no one can call for help due to all the vehicles jamming signals.
Not going to happen.
Sprint = CDMA.
Iphone = GSM
There are lots of places in Alaska where there is only one real carrier choice, and many of these places only get GSM.
There is even one large state carrier up there that won't let anyone roam onto their network. How dumb is that! Roaming money is pure gravy for carriers.
FantasyLand, Or in the Android world, where I now dwell.
I'll just come out and say it, even tho the Apple Mod Nazis will mark it troll in no time flat:
At least 70% percent of AT&T's bad rap came from Infineon chip sets in Apple iPhones.
Since that was a huge percentage of the userbase, it made the carrier look much worse than it was. AT&T BB users had no where near the same percentage of complaints.
My problems went away with the iPhone. YMMV.
To tell you the truth, once the calls stopped being dropped (because I got off the iPhone with its crappy Infinion radios), I haven't paid a bit of attention to bars.
Phone works when I need it, and calls don't drop. Data rate not as fast as I'd like.
I know people in NYC are bleeding. (Or at least complaining loudly). But I'm not seeing that in the Pacific Northwest.
Go with the mass opt-out and suddenly TSA is dealing with massive lines of people they have to grope,
So just like last year then.....?
Isn't that exactly what was done in the past?
But you don't know how it will work in practice.
My cell area code is no where near where I live. Even the billing address (paid by my work) is in another state. I'd hate to start getting notifications from the area where headquarters is.
I hope (and suspect) that it is tower dependent. It may well be, because it is Alcatel-Lucent doing it (hardware vendor).
Its clearly(?) not JUST a software solution that could be cranked in at the Carrier's headquarters.
(Those carrier wide SMS solutions are not fast enough to do this, and they swamp the Signaling channel upon which SMS are delivered, meaning no incoming phone calls can be signaled just when you may need them most).
So it sounds like they are going to introduce something else at the radio tower level.
You are correct about that to a certain degree.
They (AT&T) have been shifting frequencies around and putting 3G services on the lower bands with better building penetration and shifting edge over to the higher bands.
Almost all Edge phones are quadband so you don't have to do anything at the headset, and may never notice this unless you live on the fringe of the Edge coverage zones.
Hope you have downloaded the Mark The Spot app and use it regularly.
This is Apple's Achilles Heel. When demand outstrips the AT&T bandwidth, an iXxx will no longer be as desirable.
Demand has already outstripped AT&T bandwidth. That happened two years ago. That's the whole point of the story.
With that as the historical base, we look at AT&T exclusivity ending just at the time when AT&T shows signs of catching up with demand.
Or is that iPhone new contracts actually tapering off. Even tho Apple is selling iPhones like crazy, it hasn't translated into that many new customers for AT&T. They activated a record 5.2 million of the devices last quarter, but gained a net of only 2.6 million new mobile customers. See. So clearly the bandwidth demand growth is starting to slow down.
No one else could have handled the iPhone bandwidth demand back in 2007-2009 period any better than AT&T did.
The Achilles heel of Apple may be when they release a CDMA iPhone for Verizon and people suddenly realize half the stuff they used to do on the iPhone does not work on CDMA where you get Talk OR Data. For that reason, I suspect Verizon does not get an iPhone till Verizon gets LTE.
Perhaps your expectations have altered drastically over the years.
You were probably happy to get EDGE and were probably amazed by it. I once took a trip guided only by google maps on a Razr for pete sake!!
Dropped calls have gone virtually to ZERO per month for me on AT&T. Wep page dwnload speeds increased noticeably as well. I first noticed a dramatic drop back in April of 2010.
Perhaps AT&T made dramatic improvements in Network Reliability and speed in my area. That is the date my Android phone arrived and I retired my iphone. I never worry about bars any more.
Its still not "fast enough", and it probably never will be, because "fast enough" is a moving target. But for all the flak AT&T gets, in my area is pretty darn good.
Exactly my thoughts.
Yet here, a phone with just as few features is readily available on the market for 20 bucks.
And it looks more intuitive than the phone pictured in TFA.
Cities, or fishing villages built intentionally close to the sea with no expectation of permanence?
Would you be happier if no one mentioned any of these "parameters"? Would that make successful development more likely? When questions are suppressed or not addressed during the early stages disasters inevitably happen.
Yes, exactly.
There is no new threat. This whole new procedure it to force people thru the new scanners and to shut people up about the visual invasion of privacy.
Goon squad tactics at best.
Opt-out DAY is in itself Theater.
Boycot flying is the only real way to bring pressure.
Not everyone can avoid it to be sure. But if employees start resisting business travel, or demanding financial accomodation for surrendering to sexual groping, employers will take notice. Airlines will take notice.
One day? Nobody will take notice, especially since most people planned and bought tickets in advance and have too much sunk costs to back out.
This really needs a legal test.
Seems like a giant "Just So" story if you ask me.
Lots of pre-programed mutations working perfectly in the laboratory to seal cracks of a known nature.
Activated when the reach the bottom. Bottom? What if there is no bottom? Most cracks in concrete go right thru the slab.
React to the specific PH of the concrete? If only all concrete were the same. Its been in use for several hundred years, and the formula has been constantly evolving.
And nothing is said about the strength. If the concrete was broken by whatever means, what are the chances some bio glue could hold it together against the next insult?
But, ah, Spiderman was a cartoon.
Are you sure that wasn't by intent of the director to be true to the subject matter?
After all, it would have been in even higher def on the big screen, No?
So not long shot then, just cut to look like it.
Unless its a fishing show (no acting required), I seriously doubt anyone could make a feature length single long shot picture. Perfection, or even acceptable levels of imperfection, simply don't come in one or two hour chunks.
Except that Google is still providing the content, (all Apple really did was write a thin wrapper around google maps - the web version).
Google sneaks in Traffic via croud sourcing, trails, bike routes and a lot of other content that Apple can't prevent, because all they are actually getting is images fed to them by google.
Its pretty funny really, Apple brags they wrote maps, only to have Traffic show up on the Exact day Google releases it and Apple was none the wiser (and by some reports pisses off).
But all the cool Google maps features added to Android are missing from from the iPhone.
I'm wondering why they restrict it to iPhone only...
The summary had the muddled statement:
An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now.
... which leads you to believe that Google Voice could be used on an ipod touch as a dialer for voip.
But GV still uses your Cell minutes to make and receive calls, it does not use Voip, it does not let you talk over wifi.
I suspect that GV could become a full fledged voip service at the flip of the switch but Google does not want to piss off the carriers just yet. So you would still need the carriers unless you had wifi, and that leaves out the ability to use it on an ipod.
However if you have an old iphone laying around after you upgraded to something newer, you can download and install it on that phone, (I tested this with a 3G) even if that iPhone does not have a sim card installed. BUT ONLY for SMS, and checking your Google Voicemail Not Voice calls.
You will find that self executing treaties are not all that rare, and even non self executing treaties often affect everything up to and including the USC.
But its worse than that, because the Supreme Court has NEVER declared a treaty unconstitutional. EVER.
So a ratified treaty ends up having the same effect as an amendment to the constitution. No judge will rule against it.
The effect of treaties is to amend the constitution.
A ratified treaty holds the same sway as an ammendment.
Argue ans split hairs all you want, the fact remains that the Supreme Court has yet to hold a treaty unconstitutional.
It has NEVER happened.
Therefore, The point remains that if this treaty is ratified, we are stuck with it just as much as we were stuck with any other amendment to our constitution, until repealed. If any provision violates our Constitution, history has demonstrated in EVERY instance that the Treaty will hold sway.
Exactly my point.
So tell me why again it should be come law of the land?
The overall context and purpose of that sentence seems to make it patently clear that is rather "{Constitution or Laws} of any State".
No, because there were no State Constitutions. There was only one State Constitution (MASS) predating the US Constitution.
Most states still had Charters. It did not become in vogue to have a Constitution until AFTER the US Constitution 1789 ratification date.
The words "The Constitution" everywhere else in The Constitution refer to the Constitution of the United States (as proposed).
While in effect, Treaties are the same as amendments.
They CHANGE the Constitution.
The fact that Amendments and Treaties can be repealed does not change that fact.
Amendments and Treaties carry the full force of the Constitution. They become a part of the constitution.
The point is you still can't read.
Its not about your friend. Its about some random kid you went to school with who you keep a link to for no other reason than to show how "connected" you are. You never talk to them, write to them or even read what they write.
Not a friend.
Do you even understand what a facebook poke is?