For news, radio is inferior to streaming in every way. You can't control the timing, the pace, the content, or the prioritization. I can use voice activated streaming to get exactly what I want, when I want it. I get the headlines first, then the weather, then the details. Since I have zero interest in sports, that is left out of my customized news report. Instead, I get an extra briefing on science and tech news. If I find a topic boring, I can just skip it and move on to the next topic. I can't imagine ever going back to radio.
Why would I turn on the radio and listen to some random "original programming" that I am unlikely to find interesting, when I can choose from millions of options on Youtube, listen anytime I want, pause when I am interrupted, and fast forward through the boring parts?
Radio makes no sense for music, news, or discussion/commentary. Streaming is superior in every way for any content. Even I can see that, and I am a geezer.
Bullcrap. Productivity growth is stagnant and job losses to automation are mostly not happening. The easy gains in automation of manufacturing are mostly over, and service jobs are proving much harder to automate.
It is fun to hypothesize about robots taking over, and how society is going to adapt to post-scarcity, but that is theoretical conjecture, and not based on the reality of what is actually happening today. The truth is that improvements in automation are happening far too slowly to produce the higher living standards that people have come to expect.
Everybody in the US has access to reliable, affordable electricity, no matter where they are.
No they don't. Nor should they. If you choose to live on a remote Aleutian island, that is YOUR choice, and nobody else should be forced to subsidize you.
Fake orders and robbery setups will this system fall victim to them.
Even now, many pizza shops require caller ID to place an order by phone, or pre-payment with a credit card.
The delivery vehicle will have a camera, and require presentation of a texted QR code to dispense the pizza.
I have a hard time seeing how either fake orders or robberies could be a problem. At least the robberies will be much LESS of a problem than with human drivers, since there will be no wallet to steal.
Nobody benefits from pointless busywork, so why not just spend the "few bucks" on something you actually want, so someone can be employed to create it?
Being audited requires production of huge amounts of paperwork
If you get audited, the first thing you should do is hire the best tax attorney that you can afford. Once you have legal representation, the IRS is required to deal directly with your tax lawyer, and can not contact you directly. Your attorney can cut way down on excessive demands for paperwork and documentation, which are mostly just fishing expeditions to intimidate naive taxpayers into agreeing to a "settlement" just to get the harassment to stop.
Of course, if you are poor, and can't afford a tax attorney, then you are screwed.
If I am going to have a currency that is unstable, I would rather have Bitcoin, which tends to be unstable in an upward direction, than in any government fiat currencies, which tend to be unstable in a downward direction. Since its introduction in 1973, this is the number of years that the Nigerian naira has risen in value: 0.
You are missing the point. Without NN, the ISPs will be able to charge arbitrary fees precisely because they are monopolies or near monopolies in most areas where they operate. If you are actually able to take your business to a competitor, then you are in a small minority.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources.
They do. Iceland gets about 25% of their electricity from geothermal. The rest is from hydropower (dams). California, China, Italy, and many other places also tap power from hot rocks.
The geology of the Yellowstone magma dome is well understood, and this drilling proposal has no chance of triggering a premature eruption.
To elaborate on this: Yellowstone is a "bimodal" volcano. Magma comes in two types: mafic and felsic. Mafic lava is heavier and more fluid, and comes from deep in the earth. Felsic is lighter and "gooey" like honey or molten glass. Yellowstone has both. After a long quiescent period, it will erupt with felsic lava first, and then later erupt with mafic lava. This is because the felsic magma is lighter, so it floats on the heavier mafic lava.
So even if the drilling breaks a pressure barrier, any magma that comes through will be felsic, and it will get higher in viscosity as it rises and cools, thus forming a plug that will block further flow. This self-plugging action is one reason that felsic volcanoes tend to explode violently once they finally blow. Mafic volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii, tend to have lots of small eruptions that can flow for years or decades, rather than one big blowout.
Felsic volcanoes are also called stratovolcanoes since they tend to be tall and narrow as the viscous lava doesn't flow far. The most common felsic rock is granite.
Mafic volcanoes are also called shield volcanoes, because their wide base makes them look like a shield laying on the ground. The most common mafic rock is basalt.
NASA's proposed solution may very well trigger the damned thing.
That could only happen if they broke through a pressure barrier. The geology of the Yellowstone magma dome is well understood, and this drilling proposal has no chance of triggering a premature eruption.
If they are going to drill, they could make the project self funding by bleeding out steam for electricity generation. Yellowstone has enough heat to generate 100% of America's power needs for centuries.
Can't stop it. We have limited choices on who to elect, and they're all corrupt.
That is Bullcrap. No politician is 100% pure, but it is absurd to say they are all equally corrupt. Denmark is not as corrupt as Nigeria, and Minnesota is not as corrupt as Louisiana. We can do better, and by just giving up and apathetically saying we "Can't stop it" you are part of the problem.
... that everyone agreed were ineffective at actually enforcing net neutrality anyway.
Not everyone agreed with that. Since I do not pay a surcharge to Comcast for Netflix and Amazon content, the current rules are working effectively for me. I expect that to change. The toll booths will be going up soon.
Companies like to strong arm small communities as presented in the article you linked to...
That is not what the article says. It describes STATE governments placing restrictions on local governments.
that's not the government doing that..
Yes it is.
it's the private sector.
The corporations are only able to do this because the government is too big and too centralized.
So you think that weakening the government and strengthening the private sector...
Power to make broadband decisions should be at the local level, not the state level. States that leave the decisions up to local jurisdictions have better coverage and lower prices.
Slashdot Mirror
And this is how we wind up with society as it is today. IMNSHO, it's important for people to be informed about things, and events
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that people were better informed at some point in the past?
even if they are outside their interests
I fail to see how forcing myself to listen to high school football scores is going to make the world a better place.
you're going to miss the larger picture.
CNN slogan is "give us 20 minutes and we'll give you the world". I doubt if that kind of shallow journalism is really giving you "the larger picture".
radio is perfect for news.
For news, radio is inferior to streaming in every way. You can't control the timing, the pace, the content, or the prioritization. I can use voice activated streaming to get exactly what I want, when I want it. I get the headlines first, then the weather, then the details. Since I have zero interest in sports, that is left out of my customized news report. Instead, I get an extra briefing on science and tech news. If I find a topic boring, I can just skip it and move on to the next topic. I can't imagine ever going back to radio.
as soon as they realize it's exponentially cheaper to produce
What? How is licensing, maintaining, and running a radio station "exponentially cheaper" than running a website?
Maybe they should go back to original programming
Why would I turn on the radio and listen to some random "original programming" that I am unlikely to find interesting, when I can choose from millions of options on Youtube, listen anytime I want, pause when I am interrupted, and fast forward through the boring parts?
Radio makes no sense for music, news, or discussion/commentary. Streaming is superior in every way for any content. Even I can see that, and I am a geezer.
Currently the number of jobs is shrinking
Bullcrap. Productivity growth is stagnant and job losses to automation are mostly not happening. The easy gains in automation of manufacturing are mostly over, and service jobs are proving much harder to automate.
It is fun to hypothesize about robots taking over, and how society is going to adapt to post-scarcity, but that is theoretical conjecture, and not based on the reality of what is actually happening today. The truth is that improvements in automation are happening far too slowly to produce the higher living standards that people have come to expect.
I will not voluntarily have something in my home that constantly spies on me and reports to somebody else.
So then no cellphone?
I am currently working in Shanghai, and Slashdot is not blocked here.
So India is finally ahead of China on something.
Everybody in the US has access to reliable, affordable electricity, no matter where they are.
No they don't. Nor should they. If you choose to live on a remote Aleutian island, that is YOUR choice, and nobody else should be forced to subsidize you.
Fake orders and robbery setups will this system fall victim to them.
Even now, many pizza shops require caller ID to place an order by phone, or pre-payment with a credit card.
The delivery vehicle will have a camera, and require presentation of a texted QR code to dispense the pizza.
I have a hard time seeing how either fake orders or robberies could be a problem. At least the robberies will be much LESS of a problem than with human drivers, since there will be no wallet to steal.
I'd just as soon pay a few bucks more and let the kid keep his delivery job.
You can create even more jobs if you pay him to smash windows.
Nobody benefits from pointless busywork, so why not just spend the "few bucks" on something you actually want, so someone can be employed to create it?
People are going to abuse the hell out of this.
Domino's will have your phone number, your credit card number, and a video recording of your misbehavior.
Since I don't have to tip, I am for it.
Being audited requires production of huge amounts of paperwork
If you get audited, the first thing you should do is hire the best tax attorney that you can afford. Once you have legal representation, the IRS is required to deal directly with your tax lawyer, and can not contact you directly. Your attorney can cut way down on excessive demands for paperwork and documentation, which are mostly just fishing expeditions to intimidate naive taxpayers into agreeing to a "settlement" just to get the harassment to stop.
Of course, if you are poor, and can't afford a tax attorney, then you are screwed.
If you don't cheat on your taxes, you have nothing to worry about no matter how they decide whom to audit.
Not true. I was audited and fined for honest mistakes. The auditor didn't even catch the cheating.
If I am going to have a currency that is unstable, I would rather have Bitcoin, which tends to be unstable in an upward direction, than in any government fiat currencies, which tend to be unstable in a downward direction. Since its introduction in 1973, this is the number of years that the Nigerian naira has risen in value: 0.
I'll be hastily looking for a different ISP
You are missing the point. Without NN, the ISPs will be able to charge arbitrary fees precisely because they are monopolies or near monopolies in most areas where they operate. If you are actually able to take your business to a competitor, then you are in a small minority.
To be honest, I'm curious why someone hasn't already looked into tapping underground magma pools for power sources.
They do. Iceland gets about 25% of their electricity from geothermal. The rest is from hydropower (dams). California, China, Italy, and many other places also tap power from hot rocks.
The geology of the Yellowstone magma dome is well understood, and this drilling proposal has no chance of triggering a premature eruption.
To elaborate on this: Yellowstone is a "bimodal" volcano. Magma comes in two types: mafic and felsic. Mafic lava is heavier and more fluid, and comes from deep in the earth. Felsic is lighter and "gooey" like honey or molten glass. Yellowstone has both. After a long quiescent period, it will erupt with felsic lava first, and then later erupt with mafic lava. This is because the felsic magma is lighter, so it floats on the heavier mafic lava.
So even if the drilling breaks a pressure barrier, any magma that comes through will be felsic, and it will get higher in viscosity as it rises and cools, thus forming a plug that will block further flow. This self-plugging action is one reason that felsic volcanoes tend to explode violently once they finally blow. Mafic volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii, tend to have lots of small eruptions that can flow for years or decades, rather than one big blowout.
Felsic volcanoes are also called stratovolcanoes since they tend to be tall and narrow as the viscous lava doesn't flow far. The most common felsic rock is granite.
Mafic volcanoes are also called shield volcanoes, because their wide base makes them look like a shield laying on the ground. The most common mafic rock is basalt.
NASA's proposed solution may very well trigger the damned thing.
That could only happen if they broke through a pressure barrier. The geology of the Yellowstone magma dome is well understood, and this drilling proposal has no chance of triggering a premature eruption.
If they are going to drill, they could make the project self funding by bleeding out steam for electricity generation. Yellowstone has enough heat to generate 100% of America's power needs for centuries.
Can't stop it. We have limited choices on who to elect, and they're all corrupt.
That is Bullcrap. No politician is 100% pure, but it is absurd to say they are all equally corrupt. Denmark is not as corrupt as Nigeria, and Minnesota is not as corrupt as Louisiana. We can do better, and by just giving up and apathetically saying we "Can't stop it" you are part of the problem.
... that everyone agreed were ineffective at actually enforcing net neutrality anyway.
Not everyone agreed with that.
Since I do not pay a surcharge to Comcast for Netflix and Amazon content, the current rules are working effectively for me.
I expect that to change.
The toll booths will be going up soon.
Everybody in the US should have access to affordable, reliable Internet access.
... then fuck 'em. Let them pay for their own Internet access.
These two sentences express opposite views.
Companies like to strong arm small communities as presented in the article you linked to...
That is not what the article says. It describes STATE governments placing restrictions on local governments.
that's not the government doing that..
Yes it is.
it's the private sector.
The corporations are only able to do this because the government is too big and too centralized.
So you think that weakening the government and strengthening the private sector ...
Power to make broadband decisions should be at the local level, not the state level. States that leave the decisions up to local jurisdictions have better coverage and lower prices.
It is usually the smaller communities, with less knowledge and resources which are easier to co-opt than larger entities.
Perhaps. But if you don't like the government, it is easier to move to a different town than a different country.
As soon as you educate an Appalachian, they realize that the sensible thing to do is to move somewhere else.
I grew up in the Cumberland coal region of eastern Tennessee, and in my HS graduating class, everyone with better than a 3.5 GPA has moved elsewhere.
We graduated on a Wednesday. I left on Thursday.