Has nothing to do with the government, although their competence is questionable, too.
A few of the ISPs I work with have their act together. More often, there's a handful that are the Three Stooges. The Cpanel artists are perhaps the worst and least competent... followed by the VPS folks that offer IaaS that I swear are on I386-class hardware running at 10MHz clock and ST-225s for disk.
No heads will roll. No customers will leave, horrified. No FBI investigation, just business as usual will ensue. Have a nice day, please give us the code on the back of your credit card.
But you're not using the current consumer trope of being interested in something shiny and new, and of course, socially acceptable. That mentality varies from an engineer's mindset.
Instilling a mentality requires showing the money wasted (res-pent) and is obfuscated until it becomes a disposal/recycling problem. I think GM started it all when they introduced model years. Somehow, older is never as good as new/newer/new new new.
Yes, entropy is a law, but cutting the scope of repair, supply chain stock of spares, all of these are designed to serve short term profitability and fealty to Wall Street, not the health of nature or the long term economy.
The cost of disposal/devolution/recycling ought to be in the price of everything. The landfills are filled with junk, some benign, most of it not. No one wants to take out the trash, deal with it, or allow discussion of it.
When I take long walks in the forests, what do I find? Plastic grocery bags, brought by the breeze. I take a kayak out onto a lake far away from humanity, and there are pop bottles from decades ago... and more plastic. Tires litter the backroads along with landscaping brush.
I work in electronics and computing. It's equally disturbing in this perspective.
I say no. Business analysts want clean revenue cycles. They like planned obsolescence. Or they build only a few spares, moving on, because the design said that only a fraction of people would complain that there are no spares/replacement parts/people trained to fix them.
This behavior, however, is praised by the corporate hegemony. They like clean numbers, campaigns, so they can shift quickly in a highly competitive world. The consumers get the shaft, and not very much justice from bad equipment. Quality counts, but so does the supply chain for post-sale equipment support. The general public isn't taught to look for post-sale support, only to buy the shiny new object with easy third party financing.
Most every laptop I buy these days croaks early. Looking at you, Apple, Lenovo, Asus. Disposable electronics is a bad concept. And that's what happens when you can't fix it or get it fixed (or for a reasonable cost).
To my fellow engineers that design short lifecycle drek: you're evil.
The End-Time Christians have much to do with the coddling of Israeli malice towards the Palestinians (who are also not saints).
The Taliban wants to go to the stone ages. The evangelicals run in their own insular communities, ignoring the rest of the world, ignoring the corruption, the greed, and more. They are both cults. They are both sheep, and both humanity gone wrong. ISIS is a truly sick cult. So are some of the Assemblies of God. Listen to their dogma. Tell me the differences. You'll find them small. Both are armed, treat women as chattel, and want to conquer.
One gets their oil anyway they can, the other their heroin. Both have parts of the world addicted. It's orthodoxy. Cults by another prism lens. Both believe themselves the hand of $deity. Have words from $deity to back them up. Both believe themselves patriots.
Both proselytize the downtrodden and poor into armies, some armed better than others. They have mutual aid societies and are actually charitable. And this belief that they're doing $deity's work means they believe they have carte blanche, ends justifying the means, so that their protected $sect makes into $heaven.
Evangelicals don't blow themselves up, and are less suicidal than the Taliban. The Taliban is more murderous, unless you consider the dead in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, etc. dead in the ongoing oil war. I won't even touch the madness of orthodox Judaism, another $cult for another discussion. Pik Botha had nothing on Netanyahu. No, I'm not Arabic. Not even close.
And yes, these are the edges of each of the aforementioned $cults. Lots of great folks around that don't pay millions into anti-LGBT+ rights. Many that don't fund endless wars. Many that don't ascribe to convincing people to blow themselves up in front of police station, many who understand climate change, economic injustice, and many who just try to live day to day-- but these aren't the orthodoxy. Orthodoxies are very similar. Only a few variables change.
Who tries to use public spaces to enforce religious dogma? Who tries to stop symbols of other religions? Who attempts to shut out those of other beliefs? Who attempts to rigorously enforce literal translations of "holy scriptures? Who desires to have strong influence over public education shunning secular education while attempting to control it? Who enforces capital punishment? Who attempts to control women as chattel? Who wars with factions over religious principles? Who vehemently protects religious iconic cities, shunning "disbelievers"?
Substitute either label. Orthodoxy stinks. Not one of them speaks for $diety. People have been trying to lord over each other since the beginning of time. These are just two more forms of evil.
Anything, any kind of doc or media can be stored in a blockchain. Content doesn't matter, but it becomes part of the record and non-ambiguous.
It's costly and totally draconian. Makes Wall Street very happy. Will customers be happy? Currently agreed-upon statistics say: um, no.
Will that stop them? Um, no. Will Wall Street be happy? Maybe. Could astute public policy change this? Probably not, because public policy is inevitably guided by bribery, and rarely by altruism and common sense.
It's more about transactional integrity. Blockchain is more trivial to code and execute than you might think.
If one takes a vetted (!!) inventory of music and film and media and whatever, and wants to bank it among a group of producers, artists, media companies, and consumers, this method can work to achieve a transaction history of who owns what with what stipulations, and it's wickedly difficult to game.
Not that DRM works. Rather, this is transactional integrity for the lawyers and apps that will be used to assert "rights".
IMHO, it's folly and a waste of money, but rights protection is a mantra in the media business. I allows Wall Street to believe that there is asset protection, therefore stock value and price. In actuality, that's the real "customer" for this blockchain effort. And that's the charade's target: share price.
That's already Facebook. This will be uproarious. The AI anti-voter engines will be in full prime by Nov 8th. The analytics will be poised to do their best to achieve their algorithmic goals of domination, or just simply slipping past the desire finish.
While I wish them luck, I don't think this ends well.
Humans are a collective unto themselves. They comprise billions of cells per human. An exponentiation of humanity and their cells sounds like an interesting idea until you look at the very narrow ambient conditions that humans can tolerate without dismay or death.
Jeff just wants to keep selling selling selling, and the more customers the merrier, so please continue having sex, and none of that birth control, abortion, or homo stuff, please. Jeff needs more Amazon customers, and clearly, the solar system won't be enough.
Although you're marked troll at this point, I stand with you.
The evangelicals want to push their concept of morality on the US at every turn. They ignore so much to get ostensible anti-abortionists like Kavanaugh onto the SCOTUS, pathological narcissists for President, and just genuine haters at so many political points that I find them as gruesome as the Saudis in many areas. The anti-LGBT fundings (Thank you, LatterDayDudes), support for anti-healthcare, 1%er tax cuts, it's truly appalling. Are these the Pharisees or the Christians? Tough to tell.
The Saudis, like the 1%ers, pay people off. Launder their ill-gotten gain in tech. Ignore the inevitable climate change caused by manmade sources. Then they pat themselves on the back, believing themselves the hand of God, which they are not.
Go back to school, please. Read about how the FCC came into being. Learn its jurisdiction. Learn the Title II vs Title XIII controversy. Read about the Telecommunications Act, as amended, of 1996.
Rethink your answer. The reason for the current litigation has to do with both State's rights, but also their mis-classification of common carrier status, which would give them nexus, and their transformation of the concept of what defines telecommunications to arrive at ther ostensible lack of nexus and their assertion that the FTC has nexus over network traffic "fairness". It's convoluted, strange, and written by the telcos to deepen their monopolies, promote 5G turf, and suck money from your wallet while keeping their costs as low as possible.
It was answered IN LAW. See Title II and common carrier assertion that the previous FCC administration re-classified broadband directly into the scope of jurisdiction. Then Pai say, nope, mishandled the public input process with a faux astroturfing complaint, and proceeded to let the telcos have their ways-- no nexus under Title II.
So there WAS law. It treated all of those old fashioned 56K, ISDN, private line, inter-NAP, and other cricuits from SONET and ATM through to WDM lambas.... until it didn't, under Pai.
And so the states litigating this are indeed correct, and if we don't bust the monopolies, they will indeed strangle you and I and have already started the processes to do so. While this is happening, 5G promises to unwind many decades of state control nexus over telecommunications IN IT'S ENTIRETY by a wholesale reclassification of all telephony away from telecommunications into something UNREGULATED. Don't be a fool. The regs were there, are there, and they're being end-run by countless telco attorneys that are sidestepping the law by FCC fiat.
Clearly, do no evil also includes telling everyone much later if the really screw things up. I'm not sure they have a method of knowing if there was data exfiltration, so it's just another day for the Alphabet soup.
Nice of them to give notice. Also nice of them to have fixed it first, before cashiering it with no rational replacement, just a failed experiment in giving Facebook heartburn. Blah.
Indeed there are sonograpic equipment combos that find tunnels. This isn't about tunnels. It's about failure to acknowledge that countries are often built on the backs of asylum seekers, migrants, refugees, and until recently, slaves. Cheap labor has its value.
The farce is "Build The Wall" believing that other people will suddenly stop their lifestyles and go back to work, because that's how John Calvin envisioned the world. Doesn't work that way.
There are tunnels from Israel to Egypt, Mexico to the USA, Bellingham to Vancouver. There are electronic money tunnels to The Caymans and Panama. Tunneling is a well-rewarded sport.
Confounding privacy invasion and poor data privacy controls is also a blood sport. Surveillance societies need the control; it's a power trip and info-asset-greed posture I like the collective idea, however, although it waffles a bit on the civility test. Civility counts.
A pirate radio station on a public service frequency is plainly stupid, because no one listens to those frequencies for that kind of content. Sure, if you jam those frequencies, they'll hunt you down like a dog, and for good reason.
But jamming an AM/FM pirate radio station doesn't work. Usually, the jammers bleed onto other adjacent frequencies (or harmonics of them) and are usually illegal themselves. Various governments used to jam each other's signals. One solution is the megawatt Chinese station that represents an impossibly huge signal to ignore, or frequency for ANY one else to use.
The FCC is otherwise toothless, unless you need to pimp 5G networks and bury other competitors..... perhaps like cable companies.
LOL. I do exactly that, as in rip the magazine and fold it over the display. If I knew of a connection jack, I would unplug it.
Going down the halls of any shopping mall, you'll be bombarded. Sitting in that airport with half of the laptops out, and 90% of the cell phones, it's easy to get distracted, if not by the over-driven headphones (should people remember to use them). For this, the cure is noise-blanking headphones. This is the cure for the visual problem. I look forward to it.
This rarely happens in the USA. A bigger transmitter doesn't really help, and jamming the signal, while trivial, is a cat and mouse game.
Radio regulations are plausibly damaged. Here's why. These voices need to be heard, and a diversity of them. But there isn't a lot of spectrum.
With podcasts and online videos, you can develop audiences. Fame is what some "pirates" go for. Others just love the music and/or content and want to disseminate it. Radio is crowded enough, with enough advertising/political/religious interests, that voices get crowded out.
Pirates started, and the ton of stuff on YouTube/etc. continuing, the Internet is the logical extension. Radio pirates remain. They could be stopped if the FCC had enough enforcement motivation, but they're budget-strapped, with a heavy agenda of making telcos rich via "5G".
Therefore, if you don't interfere with 5G, you can do what you want in the USA, because the FCC only does emblematic shutdowns on a good day.
The right to ignore blaring crap is manifest. I thank their inventors and truly and sincerely hope they make millions for their creativity.
This invention is the bane of marketers everywhere, and I wish the inventors tremendous success. I will buy a pair as soon as they're on the market. Maybe two.
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ROFL!!!! Only chickenshit Russian trolls use the phrase "libtard".
Has nothing to do with the government, although their competence is questionable, too.
A few of the ISPs I work with have their act together. More often, there's a handful that are the Three Stooges. The Cpanel artists are perhaps the worst and least competent... followed by the VPS folks that offer IaaS that I swear are on I386-class hardware running at 10MHz clock and ST-225s for disk.
No heads will roll. No customers will leave, horrified. No FBI investigation, just business as usual will ensue. Have a nice day, please give us the code on the back of your credit card.
Amen.
But you're not using the current consumer trope of being interested in something shiny and new, and of course, socially acceptable. That mentality varies from an engineer's mindset.
Instilling a mentality requires showing the money wasted (res-pent) and is obfuscated until it becomes a disposal/recycling problem. I think GM started it all when they introduced model years. Somehow, older is never as good as new/newer/new new new.
Yes, entropy is a law, but cutting the scope of repair, supply chain stock of spares, all of these are designed to serve short term profitability and fealty to Wall Street, not the health of nature or the long term economy.
The cost of disposal/devolution/recycling ought to be in the price of everything. The landfills are filled with junk, some benign, most of it not. No one wants to take out the trash, deal with it, or allow discussion of it.
When I take long walks in the forests, what do I find? Plastic grocery bags, brought by the breeze. I take a kayak out onto a lake far away from humanity, and there are pop bottles from decades ago... and more plastic. Tires litter the backroads along with landscaping brush.
I work in electronics and computing. It's equally disturbing in this perspective.
I say no. Business analysts want clean revenue cycles. They like planned obsolescence. Or they build only a few spares, moving on, because the design said that only a fraction of people would complain that there are no spares/replacement parts/people trained to fix them.
This behavior, however, is praised by the corporate hegemony. They like clean numbers, campaigns, so they can shift quickly in a highly competitive world. The consumers get the shaft, and not very much justice from bad equipment. Quality counts, but so does the supply chain for post-sale equipment support. The general public isn't taught to look for post-sale support, only to buy the shiny new object with easy third party financing.
Most every laptop I buy these days croaks early. Looking at you, Apple, Lenovo, Asus. Disposable electronics is a bad concept. And that's what happens when you can't fix it or get it fixed (or for a reasonable cost).
To my fellow engineers that design short lifecycle drek: you're evil.
Hmmmm.
The End-Time Christians have much to do with the coddling of Israeli malice towards the Palestinians (who are also not saints).
The Taliban wants to go to the stone ages. The evangelicals run in their own insular communities, ignoring the rest of the world, ignoring the corruption, the greed, and more. They are both cults. They are both sheep, and both humanity gone wrong. ISIS is a truly sick cult. So are some of the Assemblies of God. Listen to their dogma. Tell me the differences. You'll find them small. Both are armed, treat women as chattel, and want to conquer.
One gets their oil anyway they can, the other their heroin. Both have parts of the world addicted. It's orthodoxy. Cults by another prism lens. Both believe themselves the hand of $deity. Have words from $deity to back them up. Both believe themselves patriots.
Both proselytize the downtrodden and poor into armies, some armed better than others. They have mutual aid societies and are actually charitable. And this belief that they're doing $deity's work means they believe they have carte blanche, ends justifying the means, so that their protected $sect makes into $heaven.
Evangelicals don't blow themselves up, and are less suicidal than the Taliban. The Taliban is more murderous, unless you consider the dead in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, etc. dead in the ongoing oil war. I won't even touch the madness of orthodox Judaism, another $cult for another discussion. Pik Botha had nothing on Netanyahu. No, I'm not Arabic. Not even close.
And yes, these are the edges of each of the aforementioned $cults. Lots of great folks around that don't pay millions into anti-LGBT+ rights. Many that don't fund endless wars. Many that don't ascribe to convincing people to blow themselves up in front of police station, many who understand climate change, economic injustice, and many who just try to live day to day-- but these aren't the orthodoxy. Orthodoxies are very similar. Only a few variables change.
Who tries to use public spaces to enforce religious dogma?
Who tries to stop symbols of other religions?
Who attempts to shut out those of other beliefs?
Who attempts to rigorously enforce literal translations of "holy scriptures?
Who desires to have strong influence over public education shunning secular education while attempting to control it?
Who enforces capital punishment?
Who attempts to control women as chattel?
Who wars with factions over religious principles?
Who vehemently protects religious iconic cities, shunning "disbelievers"?
Substitute either label. Orthodoxy stinks. Not one of them speaks for $diety. People have been trying to lord over each other since the beginning of time. These are just two more forms of evil.
Anything, any kind of doc or media can be stored in a blockchain. Content doesn't matter, but it becomes part of the record and non-ambiguous.
It's costly and totally draconian. Makes Wall Street very happy. Will customers be happy? Currently agreed-upon statistics say: um, no.
Will that stop them? Um, no. Will Wall Street be happy? Maybe. Could astute public policy change this? Probably not, because public policy is inevitably guided by bribery, and rarely by altruism and common sense.
It's more about transactional integrity. Blockchain is more trivial to code and execute than you might think.
If one takes a vetted (!!) inventory of music and film and media and whatever, and wants to bank it among a group of producers, artists, media companies, and consumers, this method can work to achieve a transaction history of who owns what with what stipulations, and it's wickedly difficult to game.
Not that DRM works. Rather, this is transactional integrity for the lawyers and apps that will be used to assert "rights".
IMHO, it's folly and a waste of money, but rights protection is a mantra in the media business. I allows Wall Street to believe that there is asset protection, therefore stock value and price. In actuality, that's the real "customer" for this blockchain effort. And that's the charade's target: share price.
Open can of worms.
Insert hands.
That's already Facebook. This will be uproarious. The AI anti-voter engines will be in full prime by Nov 8th. The analytics will be poised to do their best to achieve their algorithmic goals of domination, or just simply slipping past the desire finish.
While I wish them luck, I don't think this ends well.
Humans are a collective unto themselves. They comprise billions of cells per human. An exponentiation of humanity and their cells sounds like an interesting idea until you look at the very narrow ambient conditions that humans can tolerate without dismay or death.
Jeff just wants to keep selling selling selling, and the more customers the merrier, so please continue having sex, and none of that birth control, abortion, or homo stuff, please. Jeff needs more Amazon customers, and clearly, the solar system won't be enough.
Although you're marked troll at this point, I stand with you.
The evangelicals want to push their concept of morality on the US at every turn. They ignore so much to get ostensible anti-abortionists like Kavanaugh onto the SCOTUS, pathological narcissists for President, and just genuine haters at so many political points that I find them as gruesome as the Saudis in many areas. The anti-LGBT fundings (Thank you, LatterDayDudes), support for anti-healthcare, 1%er tax cuts, it's truly appalling. Are these the Pharisees or the Christians? Tough to tell.
The Saudis, like the 1%ers, pay people off. Launder their ill-gotten gain in tech. Ignore the inevitable climate change caused by manmade sources. Then they pat themselves on the back, believing themselves the hand of God, which they are not.
Go back to school, please. Read about how the FCC came into being. Learn its jurisdiction. Learn the Title II vs Title XIII controversy. Read about the Telecommunications Act, as amended, of 1996.
Rethink your answer. The reason for the current litigation has to do with both State's rights, but also their mis-classification of common carrier status, which would give them nexus, and their transformation of the concept of what defines telecommunications to arrive at ther ostensible lack of nexus and their assertion that the FTC has nexus over network traffic "fairness". It's convoluted, strange, and written by the telcos to deepen their monopolies, promote 5G turf, and suck money from your wallet while keeping their costs as low as possible.
It was answered IN LAW. See Title II and common carrier assertion that the previous FCC administration re-classified broadband directly into the scope of jurisdiction. Then Pai say, nope, mishandled the public input process with a faux astroturfing complaint, and proceeded to let the telcos have their ways-- no nexus under Title II.
So there WAS law. It treated all of those old fashioned 56K, ISDN, private line, inter-NAP, and other cricuits from SONET and ATM through to WDM lambas.... until it didn't, under Pai.
And so the states litigating this are indeed correct, and if we don't bust the monopolies, they will indeed strangle you and I and have already started the processes to do so. While this is happening, 5G promises to unwind many decades of state control nexus over telecommunications IN IT'S ENTIRETY by a wholesale reclassification of all telephony away from telecommunications into something UNREGULATED. Don't be a fool. The regs were there, are there, and they're being end-run by countless telco attorneys that are sidestepping the law by FCC fiat.
Get off my lawn.
We use apps.
Australians have truckies.
It's English. Get over it. Changes.
I'd give you mod points if I had them.
Clearly, do no evil also includes telling everyone much later if the really screw things up. I'm not sure they have a method of knowing if there was data exfiltration, so it's just another day for the Alphabet soup.
Nice of them to give notice. Also nice of them to have fixed it first, before cashiering it with no rational replacement, just a failed experiment in giving Facebook heartburn. Blah.
Have you seen what happens when people do that? Look on sfgate.com for the District Poop Maps. I suspect many are similarly employed (or not even).
Slavery exists everywhere. The context nexus was Germany (see post) and by my citation, the USA.
As mentioned, we agree. The terminology is just different.
Didn't say anything like that. Can I call you a nutjob, too?
Slavery still exists.... we call it a job at Amazon, these days.
Indeed there are sonograpic equipment combos that find tunnels. This isn't about tunnels. It's about failure to acknowledge that countries are often built on the backs of asylum seekers, migrants, refugees, and until recently, slaves. Cheap labor has its value.
The farce is "Build The Wall" believing that other people will suddenly stop their lifestyles and go back to work, because that's how John Calvin envisioned the world. Doesn't work that way.
There are tunnels from Israel to Egypt, Mexico to the USA, Bellingham to Vancouver. There are electronic money tunnels to The Caymans and Panama. Tunneling is a well-rewarded sport.
Confounding privacy invasion and poor data privacy controls is also a blood sport. Surveillance societies need the control; it's a power trip and info-asset-greed posture I like the collective idea, however, although it waffles a bit on the civility test. Civility counts.
A pirate radio station on a public service frequency is plainly stupid, because no one listens to those frequencies for that kind of content. Sure, if you jam those frequencies, they'll hunt you down like a dog, and for good reason.
But jamming an AM/FM pirate radio station doesn't work. Usually, the jammers bleed onto other adjacent frequencies (or harmonics of them) and are usually illegal themselves. Various governments used to jam each other's signals. One solution is the megawatt Chinese station that represents an impossibly huge signal to ignore, or frequency for ANY one else to use.
The FCC is otherwise toothless, unless you need to pimp 5G networks and bury other competitors..... perhaps like cable companies.
LOL. I do exactly that, as in rip the magazine and fold it over the display. If I knew of a connection jack, I would unplug it.
Going down the halls of any shopping mall, you'll be bombarded. Sitting in that airport with half of the laptops out, and 90% of the cell phones, it's easy to get distracted, if not by the over-driven headphones (should people remember to use them). For this, the cure is noise-blanking headphones. This is the cure for the visual problem. I look forward to it.
This rarely happens in the USA. A bigger transmitter doesn't really help, and jamming the signal, while trivial, is a cat and mouse game.
Radio regulations are plausibly damaged. Here's why. These voices need to be heard, and a diversity of them. But there isn't a lot of spectrum.
With podcasts and online videos, you can develop audiences. Fame is what some "pirates" go for. Others just love the music and/or content and want to disseminate it. Radio is crowded enough, with enough advertising/political/religious interests, that voices get crowded out.
Pirates started, and the ton of stuff on YouTube/etc. continuing, the Internet is the logical extension. Radio pirates remain. They could be stopped if the FCC had enough enforcement motivation, but they're budget-strapped, with a heavy agenda of making telcos rich via "5G".
Therefore, if you don't interfere with 5G, you can do what you want in the USA, because the FCC only does emblematic shutdowns on a good day.
The right to ignore blaring crap is manifest. I thank their inventors and truly and sincerely hope they make millions for their creativity.
This invention is the bane of marketers everywhere, and I wish the inventors tremendous success. I will buy a pair as soon as they're on the market. Maybe two.