I'd put superdelegates before the Electoral College. At least states, as sovereign entities, have some legitimacy to give input to the process. Political parties, being evil perversions of democracy that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place, do not.
Just as Trump has problems with women, Hillary has problems with men... including Democrat men.
I don't think those problems are congruent, though. Trump has problems with women directly because of his sexism. In contrast, Clinton's problems with Democrat men aren't because of her feminism, but rather are because of all her other issues as a candidate, which men are less willing than women to give her a pass for.
There exist third-party companies (e.g. Inrix) that monitor cellphone emissions in aggregate and then sell that information to Google, state DOTs, etc. (In some cases the cellular providers themselves may collect the data; in others, the traffic-data company may install sensors along the roadway.)
Waze does indeed report location directly using each phone's data connection, but that's hardly the only (or even the most common) way to do it. Google maps was providing Inrix-sourced traffic data long before it bought Waze.
Now, with that said, there is one thing I'll say about Google Maps that might be a saving (?) grace: anyone using Google on their cell is "phoning home" a ton of information... including location (wonder how Google knows about traffic conditions when they don't have implanted sensors/cameras on the roads?).
FYI, that doesn't necessarily happen the way you think it does. There are companies that make devices to track all cellphones (including iPhones and dumbphones) by their cellular emissions, or sometimes Bluetooth, and then sell that (aggregated) traffic data to Google, state DOTs, etc. (See this article, for example.) It's not that Google programmed the phone to report its location over its data connection; it's getting tracked much more indirectly.
Of course, if you're using Waze then that really is directly reporting your location over your data connection.
A cursory search suggests that an HD video stream requires about 4Mbps. (4K requires about 15Mbps.) Both of those are well within the range of cable internet speeds, even for multiple TVs (although perhaps not at some of the lowest billing tiers). The only question is whether the ISP oversubscribed their backhaul too much...
As for "broadcast over IP," there is broadcast addressing for IPv4 and IP multicast for IPv4 and IPv6. And Bittorrent, of course! : )
If the FCC really cared about doing what's best for the public, they'd simply say "Cable TV is over; you are all plain common-carrier ISPs now. Spin off your content divisions into separate companies and they can become streaming services. You are no longer allowed to be both at once."
Don't like big corporations? Why do you think big government is better? Maybe small both is best. Bernie Sanders?
Which candidate, exactly, do you think would reduce the sum of corporate + government power more than Sanders? I mean, at least he wants to break up corporate power; every other candidate wants to make it even worse.
Clinton? Nope, she likes the status quo.
Trump? Nope, jackbooted thugs and racist pogroms aren't "small government."
Given the backfiring plus the unexpected competitiveness of Bernie Sanders (not to mention stuff like the still-possibly-pending email indictment), I'd say Clinton might be an exceptionally unlucky candidate! I mean, considering how much of a shoe-in the media declared her to be back six months ago (let alone in 2012), how much worse could she have possibly fucked it up than she has?
I still half-suspect that Clinton asked Trump to run in order to screw up the Republican party so she had a better chance of winning (which explains his "I-don't-give-a-shit-about-electability-or-the-moral-event-horizon" rhetoric), but then the strategy backfired when Trump realized he had an actual shot to win.
Theoretically, a sufficiently-advanced compromised device could present itself as a USB keyboard and send keystrokes to the shell to type the malware executable in and then run it.
It would be very hypocritical if you also didn't think i devices are also toys.
I didn't say Windows was a "toy," I said it should never be used for anything important. That's a very large difference! Toys are supposed to be safe, but Windows is dangerous.
Of course, I will happily and wholeheartedly condemn Apple (and Google, and anybody else) for the same "you don't own your device, we do" bullshit, as applicable!
If only the meteorologist had said "and this is a perfect example of why Microsoft is shit and should never be used for anything important," it would have been great.
Bullshit. I'm a relatively well-off Millennial and am in favor of lots of Wall Street reform anyway. Just because I shovel a lot of money into index funds doesn't mean I support the business practices of all of the companies I end up invested in!
In 1997, a group of developers formed Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System (EGCS) to merge several experimental forks into a single project.[18][19] The basis of the merger was a GCC development snapshot taken between the 2.7 and 2.81 releases. Projects merged included g77 (Fortran), PGCC (P5 Pentium-optimized GCC), many C++ improvements, and many new architectures and operating system variants.[20] EGCS development proved considerably more vigorous than GCC development, so much so that the FSF officially halted development on their GCC 2.x compiler, blessed EGCS as the official version of GCC and appointed the EGCS project as the GCC maintainers in April 1999. With the release of GCC 2.95 in July 1999 the two projects were once again united.
The harm it can do is to get these millions of students (theoretically) trained up and indoctrinated on proprietary bullshit (not to mention indoctrinated on seeing copyright law as an entitlement to authors as opposed to a means to the end of enriching the Public Domain), so as to further marginalize open standards and Free Software.
What does that have to do with anything? By "direct connection" I mean peer-to-peer over the Internet -- you know, without a "cloud service" middleman. I don't mean literally direct as in on the same network segment without so much as a hub between.
And these guys offer a native client as well. But when you want several people working on the same document, it has to be non-local for someone.
The document does, but not the application. Not to mention, there's no inherent reason a "cloud" should be required: you could have a direct connection between the clients instead.
I suspect that on average the opportunity cost of leaving your six months of expenses uninvested exceeds the risk-adjusted cost of taking a loss during a poorly-timed emergency. Not to mention, there's no reason you couldn't temper that possible loss by investing in something like a balanced index fund (as opposed to a total stock market fund).
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I'd put superdelegates before the Electoral College. At least states, as sovereign entities, have some legitimacy to give input to the process. Political parties, being evil perversions of democracy that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place, do not.
I don't think those problems are congruent, though. Trump has problems with women directly because of his sexism. In contrast, Clinton's problems with Democrat men aren't because of her feminism, but rather are because of all her other issues as a candidate, which men are less willing than women to give her a pass for.
Your signature makes your post even more disturbing!
What we really need is to make a concerted effort towards replacing all these centralized web services with distributed equivalents:
There exist third-party companies (e.g. Inrix) that monitor cellphone emissions in aggregate and then sell that information to Google, state DOTs, etc. (In some cases the cellular providers themselves may collect the data; in others, the traffic-data company may install sensors along the roadway.)
Waze does indeed report location directly using each phone's data connection, but that's hardly the only (or even the most common) way to do it. Google maps was providing Inrix-sourced traffic data long before it bought Waze.
FYI, that doesn't necessarily happen the way you think it does. There are companies that make devices to track all cellphones (including iPhones and dumbphones) by their cellular emissions, or sometimes Bluetooth, and then sell that (aggregated) traffic data to Google, state DOTs, etc. (See this article, for example.) It's not that Google programmed the phone to report its location over its data connection; it's getting tracked much more indirectly.
Of course, if you're using Waze then that really is directly reporting your location over your data connection.
A cursory search suggests that an HD video stream requires about 4Mbps. (4K requires about 15Mbps.) Both of those are well within the range of cable internet speeds, even for multiple TVs (although perhaps not at some of the lowest billing tiers). The only question is whether the ISP oversubscribed their backhaul too much...
As for "broadcast over IP," there is broadcast addressing for IPv4 and IP multicast for IPv4 and IPv6. And Bittorrent, of course! : )
If the FCC really cared about doing what's best for the public, they'd simply say "Cable TV is over; you are all plain common-carrier ISPs now. Spin off your content divisions into separate companies and they can become streaming services. You are no longer allowed to be both at once."
NDAs do not and cannot be allowed to trump FOIA requests!
Which candidate, exactly, do you think would reduce the sum of corporate + government power more than Sanders? I mean, at least he wants to break up corporate power; every other candidate wants to make it even worse.
Clinton? Nope, she likes the status quo.
Trump? Nope, jackbooted thugs and racist pogroms aren't "small government."
Cruz? Nope, dominionist theocracy isn't "small government" either.
Given the backfiring plus the unexpected competitiveness of Bernie Sanders (not to mention stuff like the still-possibly-pending email indictment), I'd say Clinton might be an exceptionally unlucky candidate! I mean, considering how much of a shoe-in the media declared her to be back six months ago (let alone in 2012), how much worse could she have possibly fucked it up than she has?
I still half-suspect that Clinton asked Trump to run in order to screw up the Republican party so she had a better chance of winning (which explains his "I-don't-give-a-shit-about-electability-or-the-moral-event-horizon" rhetoric), but then the strategy backfired when Trump realized he had an actual shot to win.
Theoretically, a sufficiently-advanced compromised device could present itself as a USB keyboard and send keystrokes to the shell to type the malware executable in and then run it.
I actually like the Windows 7 theme. (Can't say the same about XP or 10 though.)
I didn't say Windows was a "toy," I said it should never be used for anything important. That's a very large difference! Toys are supposed to be safe, but Windows is dangerous.
Of course, I will happily and wholeheartedly condemn Apple (and Google, and anybody else) for the same "you don't own your device, we do" bullshit, as applicable!
Chrome OS is Linux (and if you don't like the Chrome UI, a normal DE is just a chroot away). Are you saying Linux isn't a real OS?
If only the meteorologist had said "and this is a perfect example of why Microsoft is shit and should never be used for anything important," it would have been great.
Bullshit. I'm a relatively well-off Millennial and am in favor of lots of Wall Street reform anyway. Just because I shovel a lot of money into index funds doesn't mean I support the business practices of all of the companies I end up invested in!
Yeah, Sharia law! (Or more precisely, the Christian Dominionist equivalent of it.)
EGCS:
The harm it can do is to get these millions of students (theoretically) trained up and indoctrinated on proprietary bullshit (not to mention indoctrinated on seeing copyright law as an entitlement to authors as opposed to a means to the end of enriching the Public Domain), so as to further marginalize open standards and Free Software.
Look up "PTA fundraising" and be enlightened.
What does that have to do with anything? By "direct connection" I mean peer-to-peer over the Internet -- you know, without a "cloud service" middleman. I don't mean literally direct as in on the same network segment without so much as a hub between.
The document does, but not the application. Not to mention, there's no inherent reason a "cloud" should be required: you could have a direct connection between the clients instead.
I suspect that on average the opportunity cost of leaving your six months of expenses uninvested exceeds the risk-adjusted cost of taking a loss during a poorly-timed emergency. Not to mention, there's no reason you couldn't temper that possible loss by investing in something like a balanced index fund (as opposed to a total stock market fund).
Besides, for me, six months of expenses would only be $12,000 or so anyway. (I'm on the "live inexpensively so I can retire super early" plan.) Even so, I've opted for springy debt instead.