0 doesn't make sense because the FCC operates in the US and is headed by the biggest moron in the tech world. The problem with A is that is that companies that currently invest billions of dollars per year in R&D to develop the standards will stop. They'll wait until someone else does the work and then just implement it. If we took this approach we would still be waiting on LTE, not even dreaming about deploying 5G which has already begun in some areas. B is a bit more reasonable, but then device makers will be paying the same royalty on a $25 LTE feature phone sold in India compared to a $1100 flagship sold in Orange County. You basically make the royalty a regressive tax on tech by doing this.
I'm not a semiconductor fab expert either, but I do know that some times big jumps like that are counter-intuitively easier.
For example, 10gbps network connections were starting to push the physical limits of a single wavelength on fiber and of the electronics behind the laser and photodiode, 25gbps is about as good as it gets with single wavelength direct detection on-off keying photonics. However, with 100gbps optics (real ones, not LR4 or SR10) it forced the need to use DSPs to generate the transmit and process the receive. The side effect is that suddenly the 100gbps optics have much higher noise and dispersion tolerance than the previous generation of 10gbps stuff. Now you can go out and buy a single wavelength 400gbps optic if you have the need and the budget.
Maybe the move to 7nm fabs will also involve a fundamental change in some other aspect of lithography that makes it much easier than 10nm was.
"...remove the unsafe cars..." Maybe we should say remove less safe cars? Somehow I feel like those 293 are still safer than anything made by Fiat Chrysler
If Uber can be compelled to give access to records without a subpoena, we all can be. I'm not an Uber fan, but I don't have a problem with this behavior.
It would not necessarily be insecure by design. Some access technologies, like GPON, incorporate the option for AES encryption. Most networks I've seen don't enable the feature though. You'd need very specialized equipment to sniff GPON traffic anyway. There's no reason this system couldn't be encrypted between the modem and terminating device.
It's doubtful that it was an AT&T engineer. They don't engineer their own equipment anymore since the breakup and the Bell Labs / Lucent spin off. I don't know which of their vendors is pushing this solution. This announcement is a bit out of the blue, and it sounds like a turd.
Came here to say this. I have a Nokia Steel and a friend of mine has a Steel HR and they are no hassle and look like a real watch and not a kids toy or a device for monitoring livestock. I highly recommend them for someone who is looking for a fitness tracker that is durable as fuck, doesn't nag to be recharged, and looks good no matter what you're wearing.
The technology to do real-time deep packet inspection is getting more and more mature. It's possible now for ISPs, if they spend the money, to differentiate P2P, Video, Gaming, VOIP et cetera type traffic in real time using rules more sophisticated than simple IP filters. It is a big investment to install the equipment and software to implement, so the ISPs want to make sure there will be no legal challenges before they start rolling it out any more blatantly.
Unlikely. AT&T and VZ are gearing up for 5G expansion which is going to require them to have denser tower footprints. They'll still need all their existing tower locations as well, and will be using those existing towers in many cases as part of their fronthaul for the new towers.
The other carriers are going to have to solve this problem as well, which is one reason T-Mobile and Sprint were looking at getting hitched.
'Wood' has fewer letters than 'Concrete' therefore you save electricity every time you type it. Don't be such a climate change denier / fossil fuel apologist.
They scaled back the effort because it was much more difficult than expected and they are losing money on it. They found out they couldn't 'disrupt' fiber into the ground and that it's expensive to provide support for thousands of residential customers. They proved their point and scared a few of their competitors into moving forward with fiber rollout, in most cases more effectively than G-Fs.
Which is exactly what Apple is trying not to do. They are trying to use their size to squeeze their suppliers and the people who contributed to the R&D behind all the current technology.
...and by the time they're really integrated it will be time to roll out 5G anyway, which is likely a big driver of this merger. Without it neither will be able to afford to roll out 5G networks until long after AT&T and VZ are mostly finished.
The free market prioritizes both the buyer and seller pretty well in general. The problem here is that the 143 million people affected by this aren't really Equifax's customers. Their customers are the lenders, credit card agencies, landlords et cetera. The average person like you and me aren't really even part of the transaction and that's why the Free Market doesn't give us any recourse on it's own. We can't take our business elsewhere, because we didn't want to be in Equifax's database in the first place. Unfortunately, Equifax donated generously to both parties in 2016, especially to the eventual winning color, so they'll probably come out of this with a wrist slap. https://www.opensecrets.org/pa...
They're not losing money. They don't get charged per-byte for backhaul or peering. They are doing this to allow them to delay network upgrades and to provide a competitive advantage to their own product. https://www.verizonwireless.co...
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0 doesn't make sense because the FCC operates in the US and is headed by the biggest moron in the tech world.
The problem with A is that is that companies that currently invest billions of dollars per year in R&D to develop the standards will stop. They'll wait until someone else does the work and then just implement it. If we took this approach we would still be waiting on LTE, not even dreaming about deploying 5G which has already begun in some areas.
B is a bit more reasonable, but then device makers will be paying the same royalty on a $25 LTE feature phone sold in India compared to a $1100 flagship sold in Orange County. You basically make the royalty a regressive tax on tech by doing this.
At how many herz?
I'm not a semiconductor fab expert either, but I do know that some times big jumps like that are counter-intuitively easier.
For example, 10gbps network connections were starting to push the physical limits of a single wavelength on fiber and of the electronics behind the laser and photodiode, 25gbps is about as good as it gets with single wavelength direct detection on-off keying photonics. However, with 100gbps optics (real ones, not LR4 or SR10) it forced the need to use DSPs to generate the transmit and process the receive. The side effect is that suddenly the 100gbps optics have much higher noise and dispersion tolerance than the previous generation of 10gbps stuff. Now you can go out and buy a single wavelength 400gbps optic if you have the need and the budget.
Maybe the move to 7nm fabs will also involve a fundamental change in some other aspect of lithography that makes it much easier than 10nm was.
SUVs are minivans for insecure people.
"...remove the unsafe cars..." Maybe we should say remove less safe cars? Somehow I feel like those 293 are still safer than anything made by Fiat Chrysler
The 200 IQ play is to patent the concept of even having a name in the first place.
The article is the example, less the 'really smart people'.
If Uber can be compelled to give access to records without a subpoena, we all can be. I'm not an Uber fan, but I don't have a problem with this behavior.
We could call it something like "Capital Gains Tax" maybe?
It would not necessarily be insecure by design. Some access technologies, like GPON, incorporate the option for AES encryption. Most networks I've seen don't enable the feature though. You'd need very specialized equipment to sniff GPON traffic anyway. There's no reason this system couldn't be encrypted between the modem and terminating device.
It's doubtful that it was an AT&T engineer. They don't engineer their own equipment anymore since the breakup and the Bell Labs / Lucent spin off. I don't know which of their vendors is pushing this solution. This announcement is a bit out of the blue, and it sounds like a turd.
Came here to say this. I have a Nokia Steel and a friend of mine has a Steel HR and they are no hassle and look like a real watch and not a kids toy or a device for monitoring livestock. I highly recommend them for someone who is looking for a fitness tracker that is durable as fuck, doesn't nag to be recharged, and looks good no matter what you're wearing.
Amazon is not an ISP and Google is not using their ISP unit, Google Fiber, to block Amazon. This has nothing to do with Net Neutrality.
The technology to do real-time deep packet inspection is getting more and more mature. It's possible now for ISPs, if they spend the money, to differentiate P2P, Video, Gaming, VOIP et cetera type traffic in real time using rules more sophisticated than simple IP filters. It is a big investment to install the equipment and software to implement, so the ISPs want to make sure there will be no legal challenges before they start rolling it out any more blatantly.
Unlikely. AT&T and VZ are gearing up for 5G expansion which is going to require them to have denser tower footprints. They'll still need all their existing tower locations as well, and will be using those existing towers in many cases as part of their fronthaul for the new towers.
The other carriers are going to have to solve this problem as well, which is one reason T-Mobile and Sprint were looking at getting hitched.
'Wood' has fewer letters than 'Concrete' therefore you save electricity every time you type it. Don't be such a climate change denier / fossil fuel apologist.
They scaled back the effort because it was much more difficult than expected and they are losing money on it. They found out they couldn't 'disrupt' fiber into the ground and that it's expensive to provide support for thousands of residential customers. They proved their point and scared a few of their competitors into moving forward with fiber rollout, in most cases more effectively than G-Fs.
Which is exactly what Apple is trying not to do. They are trying to use their size to squeeze their suppliers and the people who contributed to the R&D behind all the current technology.
I use the fingerprint reader. It's quick enough that you wouldn't see me doing it unless you were paying attention.
...and by the time they're really integrated it will be time to roll out 5G anyway, which is likely a big driver of this merger. Without it neither will be able to afford to roll out 5G networks until long after AT&T and VZ are mostly finished.
Nobody is that interested in selling ads to virgins though.
The free market prioritizes both the buyer and seller pretty well in general. The problem here is that the 143 million people affected by this aren't really Equifax's customers. Their customers are the lenders, credit card agencies, landlords et cetera. The average person like you and me aren't really even part of the transaction and that's why the Free Market doesn't give us any recourse on it's own. We can't take our business elsewhere, because we didn't want to be in Equifax's database in the first place. Unfortunately, Equifax donated generously to both parties in 2016, especially to the eventual winning color, so they'll probably come out of this with a wrist slap.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pa...
Privacy Badger from the EFF in my case. It's currently blocking 20 trackers on this page.
They're not losing money. They don't get charged per-byte for backhaul or peering. They are doing this to allow them to delay network upgrades and to provide a competitive advantage to their own product. https://www.verizonwireless.co...
Sounds like he's a diploma-mill coder who doesn't understand such things. 3 months was probably his entire career...