This message ostensibly was sent to every cell phone in Hawaii - didn't the guy who "pushed the wrong button" get the alert as well?
Off hand, I'd expect that the kind of place that monitors for ICBM's and issues that sort of warning probably doesn't allow cell phones or many other kinds of wireless device. In a lot of cases, things like Internet access might also be locked down.
Every time I updated my samsung s3 (i still use it) it got slower and slower.. until i just gave up.
Lose the bloat.
Every Android device I've owned back to an HTC One S has run faster with better battery life once I gave up on vendor updates and switched to CM/LineageOS.
If I lived somewhere with actual telecom competition and a government willing to enforce it, then yeah, I could see it being somewhat useful.
Since I live in a rural part of Canada and I'm not rich, good 'ol wifi and a 12-hour battery life suits me just fine and I'll keep my cellular devices to the bare minimum.
There's a long, long history of people who should know better brushing off vulnerabities as impractical, unproven, theoretical, etc and being shown to be very wrong. "Panic" is a bit of a strong word, but you have to be seriously ignorant to brush off something like this with a "don't worry, there's no exploit".
Force the government to decide what is and isn't hate speech, on a post-by-post basis.
1. temporarily take down every post that looks like hate speech 2. forward the details and poster contact information to the authorities 3. if the government fails to respond with an investigation and/or charges, then it's obviously permissible speech; restore the post
The Youtube comment section alone should generate enough "hate speech" to completely shutdown the German beaurocracy within days.
Show of hands if you are tired of the bitcoin stories?
They used to be really annoying, but it's actually starting to get interesting; I feel like I'm watching the financial equivalent to a Russian dashcam live video stream.
Paying $3 for a cup of coffee every morning for 40 years = $43,800
Worse yet, there are people who will regularly leave their home/workplace and drive somewhere for the sole purpose of getting a cup of coffee and bringing it back to where they were. Sometimes they'll do this multiple times per day!
And thus we learned that the true meaning of Christmas is not in buying whatever mass-produced junk is trendy at the moment, but in joining together in anger on the internet.
Hear, hear. MY favorite part in the celebration is still where we all gather around the tree and call each other "Nazi"... never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
I appreciate that people have gotta make money, but I'm not paying for a news subscription. Someone needs to figure out a sane microtransaction platform sooner than later.
"Robert Cringely" are the key words. This idiot has a long, long history of trolling slashdot. My working theory is that he keeps finding backdoors in the article submission code because I can't imagine even the dumbest slashdot editor (it's a low bar, I know) hitting accept on his garbage.
Not saying that the entire process isn't shady as hell, but I'm honestly a bit puzzled why anyone would bother... it's been obvious to anyone with half a clue that Pai was going to ram this through with zero consideration of opposing viewpoints, so what's the point in faking a million comments either way?
It seems like if CloudFlare can legally slow down traffic of any arbitrary individual they don't like, legally, we've already lost the battle.
As soon as the FCC makes it legal, the battle is lost.
Personally, I think that the instant the FCC votes to kill net neutrality, every Internet service should just geoblock Pai's home zip code. Don't just slow it down or put up a protest interstitial; just silently drop every packet.
Even without NN rues in place all of the things you list would be stopped by today's FCC
Even without the NN rules in place, those things we're stopped by yesterday's FCC. The same FCC that passed the NN rules that today's FCC is trying to dismantle.
There isn't a terribly long track history to really tell us how today's FCC would have those same situations, but what they've shown so far doesn't look too promising.
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Keep in mind that then people who tend to believe that abstinence works also believe a story about "virgin birth".
Good point. You think she should run for President instead?
Off hand, I'd expect that the kind of place that monitors for ICBM's and issues that sort of warning probably doesn't allow cell phones or many other kinds of wireless device. In a lot of cases, things like Internet access might also be locked down.
I wasn't aware that the FBI was allowed to torture the keys out of suspects? Yet.
Lose the bloat.
Every Android device I've owned back to an HTC One S has run faster with better battery life once I gave up on vendor updates and switched to CM/LineageOS.
If I lived somewhere with actual telecom competition and a government willing to enforce it, then yeah, I could see it being somewhat useful.
Since I live in a rural part of Canada and I'm not rich, good 'ol wifi and a 12-hour battery life suits me just fine and I'll keep my cellular devices to the bare minimum.
Seriously?
There's a long, long history of people who should know better brushing off vulnerabities as impractical, unproven, theoretical, etc and being shown to be very wrong. "Panic" is a bit of a strong word, but you have to be seriously ignorant to brush off something like this with a "don't worry, there's no exploit".
Force the government to decide what is and isn't hate speech, on a post-by-post basis.
1. temporarily take down every post that looks like hate speech
2. forward the details and poster contact information to the authorities
3. if the government fails to respond with an investigation and/or charges, then it's obviously permissible speech; restore the post
The Youtube comment section alone should generate enough "hate speech" to completely shutdown the German beaurocracy within days.
Beware... commenting on a low digit ID is near guaranteed to summon the Elder Gods of slashdot. There's still a few three's that troll this realm.
One of the saner ones, I'm afraid.
If you wanted to damage your eyes, it would be cheaper, faster, and more reliable to just stab them with a fork.
If the GOP were in charge of single-payer, they'd make it true.
So, a president with impulse control?
Well, good luck next time...
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They used to be really annoying, but it's actually starting to get interesting; I feel like I'm watching the financial equivalent to a Russian dashcam live video stream.
Naw. The old owners pushed Bitcoin stories... minimum one story per week. It was annoying then, too.
I suspect the new guys just haven't figured out where the Bitcoin-story-approval cron job is being run from.
Worse yet, there are people who will regularly leave their home/workplace and drive somewhere for the sole purpose of getting a cup of coffee and bringing it back to where they were. Sometimes they'll do this multiple times per day!
Hear, hear. MY favorite part in the celebration is still where we all gather around the tree and call each other "Nazi"... never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
Got my back button primed and everything.
I appreciate that people have gotta make money, but I'm not paying for a news subscription. Someone needs to figure out a sane microtransaction platform sooner than later.
The answer is "no", and someone seriously needs to loosen their tinfoil hat.
"Robert Cringely" are the key words. This idiot has a long, long history of trolling slashdot. My working theory is that he keeps finding backdoors in the article submission code because I can't imagine even the dumbest slashdot editor (it's a low bar, I know) hitting accept on his garbage.
Not saying that the entire process isn't shady as hell, but I'm honestly a bit puzzled why anyone would bother... it's been obvious to anyone with half a clue that Pai was going to ram this through with zero consideration of opposing viewpoints, so what's the point in faking a million comments either way?
As soon as the FCC makes it legal, the battle is lost.
Personally, I think that the instant the FCC votes to kill net neutrality, every Internet service should just geoblock Pai's home zip code. Don't just slow it down or put up a protest interstitial; just silently drop every packet.
Even without the NN rules in place, those things we're stopped by yesterday's FCC. The same FCC that passed the NN rules that today's FCC is trying to dismantle.
There isn't a terribly long track history to really tell us how today's FCC would have those same situations, but what they've shown so far doesn't look too promising.
I wouldn't be shocked to find a similar spread of rich black people vs neighbourhood wealth.