A. Number portability. I can no longer be certain that an AT&T assigned number is still with AT&T.
Why does this require 3rd party number spoofing?
B. Many companies assign the main corporate number to all outbound calls. This is a feature that shouldn't be broken.
C. VOIP service. I want calls from my cell and voip to be transparent. It's also nice to be able to call as, so I can call as me or as my corporate phone number from one phone.
Neither of these require 3rd party number spoofing.
Spoofing is fine if the same company owns both numbers. That is legal almost everywhere.
Expect some unexpected developments, either in the media or on some legislative subcommittee or both, to try to slow Elon down.
Yup. That's how they got the KC-46 contract. The military rejected their crappy overpriced plane, so Boeing went whining to Congress, and the USAF was forced to accept it. Lemon socialism at its worst.
Except Rockefeller's foundation spent the money far more wisely than the government would have.
Same for Bill Gates. His foundation's spending on nutrition and anti-malaria programs have saved millions of lives for less than the government spends on one aircraft carrier.
The USA will never complete another nuclear reactor for landbased power.
Very likely true. The last attempt was in South Carolina, which halted construction last year after spending $9 billion.
Nuclear is dead in America until there are some radically new designs. Maybe thorium, maybe fusion. But no more pressurized uranium reactors will be built.
But nuclear is still moving forward in China and India. China has 13 nuclear power plants under construction.
For people like me, who are largely deaf, it isn't any fun
You can learn it visually. Just watch an LED blink. Your brain will soon learn the patterns, and you will be able to recognize entire words and phrases reflexively.
I learned Morse code visually, by watching the signal lamps used for ship-to-ship communication. There wasn't much else to do on a long deployment.
There's no such thing as a safe car, therefore we should not drive... There's no such thing as safe food, therefore we should not eat.
Those are silly analogies. What are the alternatives to driving cars or eating food?
But nukes have good alternatives: solar+wind+storage.
The biggest issue is not even safety, but economics. Solar and wind are cheaper and declining in price. Nukes are expensive and getting more so. The "standardized" AP1000 design was supposed to cut costs. Guess what? It didn't.
Barriers to entry are good if they involve a relevant and useful skill.
For instance, handling emergency braking in a turn would be a useful skill to require of car drivers. Requiring them to calculate a square root is not, since that has nothing to do with driving.
Morse code is useless. How do I know? Because I know Morse code. Haven't used it in decades.
This shows that the accusation against China forcing American companies to share technologies is exaggerated
No. Under WTO rules, American companies should have access to do business in China WITHOUT A PARTNER. They should be able to set up their own fully owned subsidiaries, just as Chinese companies can do in America. It is not an exaggeration to say that China uses illegal trade barriers to restrict market access.
Nukes are hecka expensive. If you need globe traversing subs to support your blue water navy, they make sense. If you just want coastal defense in the East China Sea, they do not.
If they are asking for help, they are already in over their heads.
If you give them a solution based on Python+SQL, they can run it from a GUI with a click, and it can give them meaningful error messages, telling them exactly which cells have badly formatted values, so they can fix them on their own and try again.
If you instead write them a convoluted macro, they will still not understand it, but it will be fragile and opaque. It will be harder for them to use, and harder for you to troubleshoot. So they will get frustrated, you will fall behind on your other tasks, and guess who is going to get the ax at the end of the quarter. After all, you should be easy to replace since it is "just a macro".
SQL doesn't mean having to store it on a server somewhere.
Indeed. Any Android or iPhone has SQLite built-in as a shared library. Your phone likely has dozens of apps that use it. SQL can have a very small footprint.
Some people just have 10,000 rows of data and its kinda overkill to put that small dataset into a database.
How is that "overkill"? After all, Excell IS a database, just very heavyweight and with weak features. 10,000 rows is 200 screen pages. It is insane to try to process something like that with fragile macros.
Whip up a Python script to slurp it into a CSV file, run error and consistency checks, and then insert it into an SQL database. Run your updates and queries, then slurp it back into CSV, and insert it back into Excel. This is powerful, robust, and will give you solid job security, since no one else will have a clue what you are doing.
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A. Number portability. I can no longer be certain that an AT&T assigned number is still with AT&T.
Why does this require 3rd party number spoofing?
B. Many companies assign the main corporate number to all outbound calls. This is a feature that shouldn't be broken.
C. VOIP service. I want calls from my cell and voip to be transparent. It's also nice to be able to call as, so I can call as me or as my corporate phone number from one phone.
Neither of these require 3rd party number spoofing.
Spoofing is fine if the same company owns both numbers. That is legal almost everywhere.
backwards compatibility be damned.
What is the legitimate use case for 3rd party number spoofing?
it's 2018 why haven't we solved the SPAM problem yet????
Stupid analogy. Spam is a problem worldwide. There is no obvious solution.
3d party number spoofing is an America+Canada only problem. The solution is obvious, and most of the world has already done it.
making things illegal won't stop criminals.
We don't need to stop the criminals. We only need to stop the telecoms from enabling them.
They can spoof the legitimate bank customer service number.
But only because the telecom companies let them, and the government has done nothing to ban the practice.
Spoofing should be illegal unless the company doing the spoofing owns both numbers.
That this is mostly an American+Canadian problem. The practice is illegal in most other countries.
Expect some unexpected developments, either in the media or on some legislative subcommittee or both, to try to slow Elon down.
Yup. That's how they got the KC-46 contract. The military rejected their crappy overpriced plane, so Boeing went whining to Congress, and the USAF was forced to accept it. Lemon socialism at its worst.
Except Rockefeller's foundation spent the money far more wisely than the government would have.
Same for Bill Gates. His foundation's spending on nutrition and anti-malaria programs have saved millions of lives for less than the government spends on one aircraft carrier.
The USA will never complete another nuclear reactor for landbased power.
Very likely true. The last attempt was in South Carolina, which halted construction last year after spending $9 billion.
Nuclear is dead in America until there are some radically new designs. Maybe thorium, maybe fusion. But no more pressurized uranium reactors will be built.
But nuclear is still moving forward in China and India. China has 13 nuclear power plants under construction.
It's easy to show nuclear is cheaper than solar.
https://www.lazard.com/perspec...
Your citation says the OPPOSITE of what you claim:
Cost of grid-scale PV solar: 4.6 cents/kwh
Cost of nuclear: 11.2 cents/kwh
Even that is not a fair comparison, because it is looking at the cost of existing nukes, while the cost of NEW nukes is considerably higher.
For people like me, who are largely deaf, it isn't any fun
You can learn it visually. Just watch an LED blink. Your brain will soon learn the patterns, and you will be able to recognize entire words and phrases reflexively.
I learned Morse code visually, by watching the signal lamps used for ship-to-ship communication. There wasn't much else to do on a long deployment.
I am concerned about the natural beauty of the region.
They are eight miles out. They are barely visible from the shoreline, even on a clear day.
There is nothing wrong with having that debate.
You really think you are going to win a debate based on the "natural beauty" of Cleveland, Ohio?
Bird lives matter.
Annual bird deaths in America from wind turbines: 60,000
Annual bird deaths in America from domestic cats: 3,700,000,000
Pro-tip: If you grind up cats and put them into an anaerobic digester, you can produce bio-gas.
There's no such thing as a safe car, therefore we should not drive ... There's no such thing as safe food, therefore we should not eat.
Those are silly analogies. What are the alternatives to driving cars or eating food?
But nukes have good alternatives: solar+wind+storage.
The biggest issue is not even safety, but economics. Solar and wind are cheaper and declining in price. Nukes are expensive and getting more so. The "standardized" AP1000 design was supposed to cut costs. Guess what? It didn't.
It's called talking. We've been doing it for a long time.
Talking to my wife gives me little insight into what she is actually thinking.
This new invention may save my marriage.
You would think that page criticizing Google would make it easy to find in this lengthy text how to switch that feature off...
As a general rule, people are more interested in winning arguments than in solving problems.
Showing how easy it is to disable solves the problem, but weakens the argument.
These guys are arguing over the placement of the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The deck chairs should face forward, so approaching icebergs get noticed.
Operators need to know and understand the equipment, how to control radiated power, prevent a distorted signal,
That sounds hard. Why can't the software handle all of that?
Barriers to entry are a good thing.
Barriers to entry are good if they involve a relevant and useful skill.
For instance, handling emergency braking in a turn would be a useful skill to require of car drivers. Requiring them to calculate a square root is not, since that has nothing to do with driving.
Morse code is useless. How do I know? Because I know Morse code. Haven't used it in decades.
This shows that the accusation against China forcing American companies to share technologies is exaggerated
No. Under WTO rules, American companies should have access to do business in China WITHOUT A PARTNER. They should be able to set up their own fully owned subsidiaries, just as Chinese companies can do in America. It is not an exaggeration to say that China uses illegal trade barriers to restrict market access.
If you want a platform people can post to that has those protections it needs to be government run.
No it doesn't. There are many privately run forums on the Internet that do not censor anyone.
For example: Slashdot
Nuclear for the win
Nukes are hecka expensive. If you need globe traversing subs to support your blue water navy, they make sense. If you just want coastal defense in the East China Sea, they do not.
Kamikaze tactics had nothing to do with submarines.
Yes they did: Kaiten suicide subs.
good luck sharing that with non-technical people.
If they are asking for help, they are already in over their heads.
If you give them a solution based on Python+SQL, they can run it from a GUI with a click, and it can give them meaningful error messages, telling them exactly which cells have badly formatted values, so they can fix them on their own and try again.
If you instead write them a convoluted macro, they will still not understand it, but it will be fragile and opaque. It will be harder for them to use, and harder for you to troubleshoot. So they will get frustrated, you will fall behind on your other tasks, and guess who is going to get the ax at the end of the quarter. After all, you should be easy to replace since it is "just a macro".
China is not going to arrest anyone for spoofing a video game.
It is America, not China, that imprisons people for petty nonsense.
The incarceration rate in America is FOUR TIMES what it is in China.
SQL doesn't mean having to store it on a server somewhere.
Indeed. Any Android or iPhone has SQLite built-in as a shared library. Your phone likely has dozens of apps that use it. SQL can have a very small footprint.
Some people just have 10,000 rows of data and its kinda overkill to put that small dataset into a database.
How is that "overkill"? After all, Excell IS a database, just very heavyweight and with weak features. 10,000 rows is 200 screen pages. It is insane to try to process something like that with fragile macros.
Whip up a Python script to slurp it into a CSV file, run error and consistency checks, and then insert it into an SQL database. Run your updates and queries, then slurp it back into CSV, and insert it back into Excel. This is powerful, robust, and will give you solid job security, since no one else will have a clue what you are doing.