I can only wonder how much dirt Stevens has on other politicians. It might be better for everyone in Washington to just make it go away. The Cover Your Ass-ness of politics is impressive.
So skip the AP sources and listen to NPR, or the BBC. During the last pledge drive they talked how NPR has the most foreign journalists of any American media company.
I can only assume if the AP goes away the BBC and member supported NPR will keep on filling the holes that exist.
It's not just USF. ILECs also got nice tax breaks and other concessions because they 'promised to wire america'. Teletruth.org has more info. Since they were part of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee they know what they're talking about. The 200 billion dollar broadband scandal, talked about by Crigley and others, are based on this investigation.
Most of our telco laws are very corporatism in nature, monopolistic friendly. My local Rep was chairman of the telco subcommittee for years. His yearly donations from telco lobby groups were for last cycle $134,350. Hard to compete against those deep pockets no matter how many letters I write, letters to editor, etc.
I wish Google would have opened up some wireless competition. Android is cool and all but a real non ILEC competitor for the last mile would be even nicer.
It's marked funny but it just happened because the person, when asked why he had 4 grand in cash responded "Am I required by law to tell you?". It was caught all on tape, amusing and sad at the same time.
I'm surprised that Google, which owns part of Meraki, isn't pushing the latest Meraki outdoor units that have 802.11 b/g/N and claim 100M performance. At $1400 a pop I'm not eager to buy to test when my existing network of $100 outdoor meraki units operating at 6M is working well enough for me.
However it'd be nice to see those units actually deployed by the company that owns them. Since they're not I have to wonder what's wrong with them that they aren't being used?
They will still get DMCA notices for just a download. Having been in the ISP field I got a few for clients torrenting BSG and Dark Crystal - the few I can recall off the top of my head.
As Jeff from Coupling would suggest - that's what fast forward was invented for. "...you tend to fast forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening. "
The telco world is owned by monopolies with the government giving protectionist laws to the existing monopolies. The telco lobby is huge. We don't need new government rules, we need to get rid of many of the existing ones.
It's not a big surprise that verizon is the largest cell provider, the Incumbent providers are government mandated to be used by any telco usage. This is also true in the ISP world - the reason the big telcos (Other than cable) are the basically the only ISPs left standing.
Since most people keep voting for the same types of politician this won't be changing anytime soon. Maybe Google will get tired of cell phone providers enough to go ahead with making their own network. Only a multi billion powerhouse like Google could change up the existing structure. I doubt it but it'd be nice.
Does the same go for having gas? I mean seriously, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Can you imagine how many hits that sort of youtube video would have.
You could always try the claim that you use hotspots and don't want to be sniffed. I use openVPN everytime I'm out of the office just for that purpose.
What I'd be more concerned about would be some law that allowed the government or big business to take over the VPN service to track you easier. It's like the facebook/CIA ties - it makes enough sense that it's hard not to be a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy believer.
Asterisk with any SIP software works like a charm. The asterisk server backend will be linux or BSD but there are many cross platform clients for the end users.
After some of the major plotholes left and advertising that 'everything will be answered' they didn't live up to the promise. I didn't want everything gift wrapped and handed to me. I'm alright with Starbuck being an angel / ascended being/ whichever. While overall I think BSG was probably the best sci fi show I've seen there were enough plotlines hanging that I wasn't satisfied. Here's some of them, major and minor.
What happened to all the other 'bad cylons'? They won't know what happened at Cavil's base so they'll still be out there hunting down humanity. When I saw Hera look up at the end I was expecting a basestar to appear.
What about the other remnants of humanity on the 12 planets? Was sam's resistance the last group left?
No one got left behind on New Caprica?
No more human babies were being made? So you ditch technology and also give up sex? I just can't buy that.
Without technology at all that means Hera was furthering the population by the traditional method? There's some near bestiality in her future.
I'm actually surprised they didn't all land on the island of atlantis or mu. Those who wanted to leave tech behind could leave, those who wanted some staple of life would stay. Let the audience chuckle imagining what mishap caused the island to explode.
Then again I'm also the type to wonder why the idiots stranded on the island in Lost didn't put up a wooden palisade around their camp the first time a boar ran through it or someone was abducted. Advancing the plot is one thing, being stupid is another.
I agree, who'd want a degree like philosophy that includes critical analysis or that forms the basis of logic. If more people suffered through philosophy it may put an end to Internet flames. Slashdot would never be the same again.
With the two party system being virtually identical, 3rd parties getting no real attention, it gets hard to be upset by who gets elected by a buggy machine. Apathy has set in, people won't get upset until they can't watch the next staged "reality show".
All kidding aside you're right in that projects like the $5000 cruise missile are the real potential game changers. Of course the idea of these being built by the wrong people is scary. Ubiquitous knowledge has changed the world.
Our founding fathers recognized the need for militias and being able to bear arms. "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. " - Jefferson
Well if I wasn't on the watchlist before.. I probably am now!
My little neck of the woods cable in Michigan is 500K. Yes, 1/2 a meg. Sparsely populated areas just are not profit motivators for rolling out new services. If you have a few lakes of say, 50 houses per lake, but only 2 are year around residences, the people aren't willing to pay what's required to have broadband.
Heck, when I sold off my dialup ISP years ago I kept a few T1s to do a small area WISP so I would have something near reasonable speeds for myself. I'd love to have something cheaper even if I didn't provide it myself.
Much of rural America can be out of reach of broadband and the telco monopolies make it very hard to do much about it.
Most ISP contracts allow them to change the terms at their whim. Since most would be month to month clients it makes it even easier, when they come up to the new billing cycle it's the new TOS. Of course if they didn't have such a clause in their original TOS well... that's their oversight they need to fix.
Didn't you hear? O will take a year to worry about earmarks for the next budget. I love the excuse - he didn't want to change a budget created before he was president. So by this rational he won't care about Gitmo, the Iraq war, or the economy since it was all from policies created before he was pres. Oh wait, I'm apply rationality to politics. Oops
Doesn't Google also pay for being the default search for Opera? Also it would seem 40 odd million a year would be enough for developing a web browser without needing a big blue to save them.
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I can only wonder how much dirt Stevens has on other politicians. It might be better for everyone in Washington to just make it go away. The Cover Your Ass-ness of politics is impressive.
So skip the AP sources and listen to NPR, or the BBC. During the last pledge drive they talked how NPR has the most foreign journalists of any American media company.
I can only assume if the AP goes away the BBC and member supported NPR will keep on filling the holes that exist.
It's not just USF. ILECs also got nice tax breaks and other concessions because they 'promised to wire america'. Teletruth.org has more info. Since they were part of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee they know what they're talking about. The 200 billion dollar broadband scandal, talked about by Crigley and others, are based on this investigation.
Most of our telco laws are very corporatism in nature, monopolistic friendly. My local Rep was chairman of the telco subcommittee for years. His yearly donations from telco lobby groups were for last cycle $134,350. Hard to compete against those deep pockets no matter how many letters I write, letters to editor, etc.
I wish Google would have opened up some wireless competition. Android is cool and all but a real non ILEC competitor for the last mile would be even nicer.
It's marked funny but it just happened because the person, when asked why he had 4 grand in cash responded "Am I required by law to tell you?". It was caught all on tape, amusing and sad at the same time.
I'm surprised that Google, which owns part of Meraki, isn't pushing the latest Meraki outdoor units that have 802.11 b/g/N and claim 100M performance. At $1400 a pop I'm not eager to buy to test when my existing network of $100 outdoor meraki units operating at 6M is working well enough for me.
However it'd be nice to see those units actually deployed by the company that owns them. Since they're not I have to wonder what's wrong with them that they aren't being used?
They will still get DMCA notices for just a download. Having been in the ISP field I got a few for clients torrenting BSG and Dark Crystal - the few I can recall off the top of my head.
As Jeff from Coupling would suggest - that's what fast forward was invented for. "...you tend to fast forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening. "
The telco world is owned by monopolies with the government giving protectionist laws to the existing monopolies. The telco lobby is huge. We don't need new government rules, we need to get rid of many of the existing ones.
It's not a big surprise that verizon is the largest cell provider, the Incumbent providers are government mandated to be used by any telco usage. This is also true in the ISP world - the reason the big telcos (Other than cable) are the basically the only ISPs left standing.
Since most people keep voting for the same types of politician this won't be changing anytime soon. Maybe Google will get tired of cell phone providers enough to go ahead with making their own network. Only a multi billion powerhouse like Google could change up the existing structure. I doubt it but it'd be nice.
Does the same go for having gas? I mean seriously, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Can you imagine how many hits that sort of youtube video would have.
Don't forget that they're sending everything through the NSA. After that breach of privacy to clients AT&T doesn't deserve any kudos.
You could always try the claim that you use hotspots and don't want to be sniffed. I use openVPN everytime I'm out of the office just for that purpose.
What I'd be more concerned about would be some law that allowed the government or big business to take over the VPN service to track you easier. It's like the facebook/CIA ties - it makes enough sense that it's hard not to be a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy believer.
CNN just had a commentary on legalization. Although I can only assume the prison industry is lobbying hard to keep the laws as harsh as possible.
Spiceworks is a spiffy tool. It'll get all the software and hardware info you need for your network. Borrow it on their website - it's free!
Asterisk with any SIP software works like a charm. The asterisk server backend will be linux or BSD but there are many cross platform clients for the end users.
Ok, I suck at writing, but you get my drift.
That's alright, so do the BSG writers.
After some of the major plotholes left and advertising that 'everything will be answered' they didn't live up to the promise. I didn't want everything gift wrapped and handed to me. I'm alright with Starbuck being an angel / ascended being/ whichever. While overall I think BSG was probably the best sci fi show I've seen there were enough plotlines hanging that I wasn't satisfied. Here's some of them, major and minor.
Then again I'm also the type to wonder why the idiots stranded on the island in Lost didn't put up a wooden palisade around their camp the first time a boar ran through it or someone was abducted. Advancing the plot is one thing, being stupid is another.
I agree, who'd want a degree like philosophy that includes critical analysis or that forms the basis of logic. If more people suffered through philosophy it may put an end to Internet flames. Slashdot would never be the same again.
Anyone else feel like it's all a show nowadays? Remember those millions of missing Bush emails the federal courts wanted? Obama is siding with Bush on getting the suit dismissed. Now that's change I can believe in!
With the two party system being virtually identical, 3rd parties getting no real attention, it gets hard to be upset by who gets elected by a buggy machine. Apathy has set in, people won't get upset until they can't watch the next staged "reality show".
It exists just fine, run firefox and go to chrome://browser/content/browser.xul.
Has history taught you nothing? Kids with simple hunting rifles can defeat an invading superpower.
All kidding aside you're right in that projects like the $5000 cruise missile are the real potential game changers. Of course the idea of these being built by the wrong people is scary. Ubiquitous knowledge has changed the world.
Our founding fathers recognized the need for militias and being able to bear arms. "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. " - Jefferson
Well if I wasn't on the watchlist before.. I probably am now!
I agree, I mean how is the Peter outfarts Michael Moore not laugh worthy?
My little neck of the woods cable in Michigan is 500K. Yes, 1/2 a meg. Sparsely populated areas just are not profit motivators for rolling out new services. If you have a few lakes of say, 50 houses per lake, but only 2 are year around residences, the people aren't willing to pay what's required to have broadband.
Heck, when I sold off my dialup ISP years ago I kept a few T1s to do a small area WISP so I would have something near reasonable speeds for myself. I'd love to have something cheaper even if I didn't provide it myself.
Much of rural America can be out of reach of broadband and the telco monopolies make it very hard to do much about it.
Most ISP contracts allow them to change the terms at their whim. Since most would be month to month clients it makes it even easier, when they come up to the new billing cycle it's the new TOS. Of course if they didn't have such a clause in their original TOS well... that's their oversight they need to fix.
Didn't you hear? O will take a year to worry about earmarks for the next budget. I love the excuse - he didn't want to change a budget created before he was president. So by this rational he won't care about Gitmo, the Iraq war, or the economy since it was all from policies created before he was pres. Oh wait, I'm apply rationality to politics. Oops
Doesn't Google also pay for being the default search for Opera? Also it would seem 40 odd million a year would be enough for developing a web browser without needing a big blue to save them.