Follow the money. New construction and the places they can get the greatest return on their investment get upgraded first. Don't live around internet-illiterate cheapskates if you want good service! (Actually, I'm surprised you can't get better service in downtown Seattle. You anywhere near Amazon? Tried getting a point-to-point connection? The only problem we had in downtown Seattle is the 100-year old buildings are wired for data OR power; we were constantly popping breakers with just a few dozen computer users.
I'd suggest bringing in that point-to-point connection, then having all your close neighbors subsidize it by providing drops to them, essentially running your own micro-ISP, but off the books. My parents have satellite (apparently every company uses the same satellites as HughesNet) and it sucks, plus if you exceed the monthly bandwidth cap, it throttles back to 2400 baud modem speed.
As a person that lives in Bumfuck Idaho, let me say... Yes, yes you should subside high-speed internet, high-speed highways, and good Chinese takeout for me! And while we're at it, can you have them fly in some fresh salmon? The sushi here sucks!
If you are going to force universal service, then 4Mbit should be good enough for anyone getting a subsidy. Anybody that wants better bandwidth should pay the difference in cost themselves! Or, here's an idea: don't let internet service providers charge $100/month for service? Stop internet service providers from bundling cable TV and phone with internet and forcing people to buy all three? Encourage competition instead of allowing mergers and consolidation so that most markets are served with only one or two providers?
Pretty much my thought... they claim they are "blocking" the Feds, when the Feds can just start up a "private" company and let it access the database for them (as if they don't already have plenty of fake companies they use to provide spies with resumes). Twitter keeps positive deniability about protecting users privacy, despite the fact that they are effectively allowing ANYONE to access the data! The only question is, does twitter know about the 3rd party company the Feds are going through for access or not?
Sure, that sounds appalling, but Facebook itself is disturbing when you realize it is intentionally structured as an "echo chamber" to reinforce people's existing beliefs. One can only "Like" posts, there is no mechanism for pointing out they are stupid, and one only receives updates about the posts from people one is friended with, which means you probably have conforming views to begin with!
From a scientific viewpoint, isn't the most important thing the free exchange of ideas? The conservatives were right about one thing: communism, which was based on the premise that people's behavior would change, failed, precisely because people are selfish and self-centered, exactly as conservatives said. Is this the stuff that "does not flatter the human ego" that you are referring to? Modern neo-cons take it a step further, by publicly acting as selfish, greedy, and corrupt as possible, in an apparent attempt to teach us that is the way humans really are. But all they succeed in doing is teaching us that conservatives are selfish, greed, and corrupt.
Wait... you mean solar doesn't work at night? Elon Musk thinks he going to improve battery technology enough to make it economically feasible for storage, but I have my doubts.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." It does cost Microsoft a lot of money to continue to maintain Windows 7 and 8, so it is in their best interest to "encourage" everyone to upgrade to 10, however.
But... if I stopped using Facebook, I'd have to go back to stalking cute women by going to their house and hiding the the bushes! Man, was that ever a drag! My daughter already considers Facebook the new MySpace, and hasn't been on it in months.
Could be like the tube-based radar on Russian fighter jets: used not because they engineers were way behind the times, but because unlike solid state transistors, the tubes were impervious to electromagnetic pulses, so they couldn't be disabled.
You can work a mechanical button without looking, buy sense of touch, just like you can type on a keyboard. Touch screens, on the other hand, provide no tactile feedback; you actually have to stare at the screen to confirm you are pressing the correct "button". So, what are all new cars now being equipped with? That's right, touch screens! Just a matter of time before car manufacturers start getting sued for accidents caused by drivers distracted by trying to use the touchscreen while driving.
PS. The reason the investigation is taking so long is not because they are trying to find something to put Hillary in jail for, it is because they are trying to determine if any information was leaked -- that is a lot more work and takes much longer to do a thorough job on. I know many Trumptards have wets dreams about Hillary getting arrested, but here in the real world, it simply isn't going to happen.
Hillary didn't intentionally disclose any classified information. As far as I know, her actions didn't result in any disclosures. Is she potentially guilty of mishandling classified information? Yes. But then, I have technically mishandled classified information myself, and there were zero penalties to me for that. (As a civilian employee at Cape Lisburne Air Force Station, I was given the access codes to the radome, despite the fact that I didn't have the security clearance necessary for unescorted access. However, since I needed unescorted access to do my job, we all pretended nothing happened.) Point is, she didn't knowingly violate any rules, and if she unknowingly violated a rule, usually consequences would be a stern talking to and a note in your personnel file, not several years in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Unless you're active military, in which case, you're screwed.
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I'll go with the Simpsons: "Florida, America's wang."
By that standard, shouldn't this guy be jailed for telling the bank they left their front door unlocked? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...
By "most people" you mean people that don't download porn? I've got news for you... downloading any kind of HQ video is undoable at that speed.
Cost?
Follow the money. New construction and the places they can get the greatest return on their investment get upgraded first. Don't live around internet-illiterate cheapskates if you want good service! (Actually, I'm surprised you can't get better service in downtown Seattle. You anywhere near Amazon? Tried getting a point-to-point connection? The only problem we had in downtown Seattle is the 100-year old buildings are wired for data OR power; we were constantly popping breakers with just a few dozen computer users.
I'd suggest bringing in that point-to-point connection, then having all your close neighbors subsidize it by providing drops to them, essentially running your own micro-ISP, but off the books. My parents have satellite (apparently every company uses the same satellites as HughesNet) and it sucks, plus if you exceed the monthly bandwidth cap, it throttles back to 2400 baud modem speed.
As a person that lives in Bumfuck Idaho, let me say... Yes, yes you should subside high-speed internet, high-speed highways, and good Chinese takeout for me! And while we're at it, can you have them fly in some fresh salmon? The sushi here sucks!
If you are going to force universal service, then 4Mbit should be good enough for anyone getting a subsidy. Anybody that wants better bandwidth should pay the difference in cost themselves! Or, here's an idea: don't let internet service providers charge $100/month for service? Stop internet service providers from bundling cable TV and phone with internet and forcing people to buy all three? Encourage competition instead of allowing mergers and consolidation so that most markets are served with only one or two providers?
So, you're a "twitter shitter", then?
Hackerspace is the millenial term for the place that the guys that aren't getting laid hang out... (and I should know!)
Pretty much my thought... they claim they are "blocking" the Feds, when the Feds can just start up a "private" company and let it access the database for them (as if they don't already have plenty of fake companies they use to provide spies with resumes). Twitter keeps positive deniability about protecting users privacy, despite the fact that they are effectively allowing ANYONE to access the data! The only question is, does twitter know about the 3rd party company the Feds are going through for access or not?
Sure, that sounds appalling, but Facebook itself is disturbing when you realize it is intentionally structured as an "echo chamber" to reinforce people's existing beliefs. One can only "Like" posts, there is no mechanism for pointing out they are stupid, and one only receives updates about the posts from people one is friended with, which means you probably have conforming views to begin with!
From a scientific viewpoint, isn't the most important thing the free exchange of ideas? The conservatives were right about one thing: communism, which was based on the premise that people's behavior would change, failed, precisely because people are selfish and self-centered, exactly as conservatives said. Is this the stuff that "does not flatter the human ego" that you are referring to? Modern neo-cons take it a step further, by publicly acting as selfish, greedy, and corrupt as possible, in an apparent attempt to teach us that is the way humans really are. But all they succeed in doing is teaching us that conservatives are selfish, greed, and corrupt.
Nope, only stuff written by older, white, Christian men. Like Ted Cruz. Which might not be such a bad thing!
They can't do it without storage.
Wait... you mean solar doesn't work at night? Elon Musk thinks he going to improve battery technology enough to make it economically feasible for storage, but I have my doubts.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." It does cost Microsoft a lot of money to continue to maintain Windows 7 and 8, so it is in their best interest to "encourage" everyone to upgrade to 10, however.
Just collect all the methane generated by the sewage they pipe in from Tijuana, and use that to run generators!
But... if I stopped using Facebook, I'd have to go back to stalking cute women by going to their house and hiding the the bushes! Man, was that ever a drag! My daughter already considers Facebook the new MySpace, and hasn't been on it in months.
Could be like the tube-based radar on Russian fighter jets: used not because they engineers were way behind the times, but because unlike solid state transistors, the tubes were impervious to electromagnetic pulses, so they couldn't be disabled.
You can work a mechanical button without looking, buy sense of touch, just like you can type on a keyboard. Touch screens, on the other hand, provide no tactile feedback; you actually have to stare at the screen to confirm you are pressing the correct "button". So, what are all new cars now being equipped with? That's right, touch screens! Just a matter of time before car manufacturers start getting sued for accidents caused by drivers distracted by trying to use the touchscreen while driving.
How else are you going to capture that awesome video though the 3rd floor window of the woman's dorm?
Sure, minimized JavaScript is hard to decipher, but it's still easier to read than your average Perl program!
PS. The reason the investigation is taking so long is not because they are trying to find something to put Hillary in jail for, it is because they are trying to determine if any information was leaked -- that is a lot more work and takes much longer to do a thorough job on. I know many Trumptards have wets dreams about Hillary getting arrested, but here in the real world, it simply isn't going to happen.
Hillary didn't intentionally disclose any classified information. As far as I know, her actions didn't result in any disclosures. Is she potentially guilty of mishandling classified information? Yes. But then, I have technically mishandled classified information myself, and there were zero penalties to me for that. (As a civilian employee at Cape Lisburne Air Force Station, I was given the access codes to the radome, despite the fact that I didn't have the security clearance necessary for unescorted access. However, since I needed unescorted access to do my job, we all pretended nothing happened.) Point is, she didn't knowingly violate any rules, and if she unknowingly violated a rule, usually consequences would be a stern talking to and a note in your personnel file, not several years in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. Unless you're active military, in which case, you're screwed.
What part of the word "civilian" did you not understand? Military courts are very different. Hillary wasn't in the military!