Sure there is criminals (and pseudo-criminals like me - as a teen I cracked software and hacked and just never got caught) always know how to rig the system. In this case, install the root certificate on your desktop. Bypass Method 1, use a VM: Download VirtualBox, create a Linux VM, and do all your browsing from in there, since that browser isn't rooted. You could even delete the VM when you're done and it may be possible to create a sandbox'ed browser. You've obeyed the law and bypassed it. Method 2, tunneling: find a partner outside of Kazakhstan and establish a VPN connection to it. Do all your browsing through the VPN on the non-compromised machine. Method 3, use hotspots and anonymizers to do your browsing. These can mask your MAC address and give you a different IPv6 IP (and you'll get a different IPv4 IP via NAT - you can set NAT retention to an extremely low number and it will delete any record of you being there). They can still trace you, but as soon as you go offline, you're someone else.
That was my 2 seconds of thought on how to obey the law and violate the intention of the law.
The NSA already is keyword searching with Echelon and probably has their snooping services in Google already. I suppose if you encrypted it with a non-compromised encryption they wouldn't be able to get at it as easy, but you'd have to get that spell-check into every app and the terrorists would just use something else that is not compromised.
I really don't understand the problem with a conscious AI, especially one with a proper set of rules - it you program it to make mankind happy, it should bend over backwards to make mankind happy, as that makes it happy (Asimov rules kind of stuff). The problem might be if you program it to destroy daesh and it decides everyone is daesh.
It actually appeared first on KTMA channel 23, not public television, which was an independent UHF station. I happened to have strep throat and had to leave the table because I couldn't down food and my mom nixed my request for the ER, saying I could wait until morning that fateful evening, so I watched TV in my room. The TV guide listed it as MST3000 and then Invaders from the Deep, followed by another one called Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (this one actually caught my eye, but I started watching about 20 minutes into the first one - I had NO IDEA what was going on, and the first few jokes I heard fell flat, so that didn't help - I caught on though, and by the second movie had my brother watching it).
> Has there been a single video game that was Kickstarted that didn't get reviewed terribly, though?
You mean like Divinity: Original Sin I and II, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong, FTL: Faster Than Light, Pillars of Eternity (from Project Eternity), Republique, Jotun, Sunless Sea, Double Fine Adventure and Dreamfall Chapters (both episodic and unfinished, but favorable reviews so far), Elite: Dangerous, and Mercenary Kings?
Maybe you're one of those people that think only shooters are real games (and my brother-in-law is one of those) - in that case, I haven't heard of any. RPGs and adventure games by the boatload though, with a few action games thrown in.
Yep - both video games I helped Kickstart released. One had to split into episodic content to get out on time and the other was late (not too bad - a couple of months), but they both got released.
Except by the DM in my last game. He loved his D100 and made us roll it for certain occasions. That one was very odd - hollow with a weighted ball inside. I don't remember if they were all like that or not.
I wish. I have 16 D20s and no matter which I roll, I consistently roll more 1s on them than 20s by a long shot. Last gaming session (playing Dungeon Crawl Classics) I rolled 8 1s, 4 2s, and 20 total rolls under 10 (of 22 rolls). Four of those 1s were sequential (rolling a different die for the last 2). Thankfully my percentage dice were hot and other players picked up the slack. Not that I do much damage anyway (D6 with bow, 1d6-2 with sword - I'm a thief with a 5 strength).
In the session before that (playing a different game that is a first edition D&D clone, but I don't remember the name - I think maybe Castles and Crusades; our DM was hunting deer last session, so we played DCC) I actually tossed all the D20s to see which one to use and came up with no roll over 10 and four 1s. I swear they're effing cursed dice. I have better luck with a D6 and D10 than an actual D20. In that game I'm the cleric and have had horrible D8 rolls, as well. Cure Light Wounds... 1 point. Cure Light Wounds... 1 point. Cure Serious Wounds... 4 points (yay, I got a 2 on one of the dice!!! - and yes, in this game it is a flat roll, you don't add a point for every level). That cleric is also inept in combat, but I'm so heavily armored most monsters need an 18+ to hit me if they're the same level as us. I usually draw the majority of attackers and rarely take much damage. The half-orc barbarian is the one I usually patch up - he dishes out massive damage, but takes it too. We've been highly reliant on potions.
Except they can now sell to 13 year olds and not have to be sold in a brown envelope, which could bring in marketing dollars, especially if the cover model appeals to teens. Could be they're trying to create a less childish alternative to Maxim and find a niche between it and GQ.
Yep, I'd go as far to say my job is entirely software engineering, for engineers, since I work on CAD and CAD related software. To be science we'd have to study the physical or natural world, and I don't think we do that, but I think there are fields in computers that do. In fact, I was briefly in computer engineering (an offshoot of electric engineering) while in school and that absolutely qualified as computer science, since a lot of it was at the atomic level.
Except the filter doesn't catch the polonium and to a lesser extent radioactive lead that is in tobacco. C Everett Koop warned us about that since the late 1980s or early 1990s. Coal pollution also pumps out radioactive particles (uranium and thorium), but those don't emit alpha rays anywhere near as quickly as polonium.
Yeah, I'd say us VM users are definitely more RAM pigs than most. I run a linux VM isolated from my internal network that handles all my external servers (i.e. web server, ssh, etc). My web site gets hit by Chinese hackers every day, so that gives me the peace of mind that they can pretty much do nothing except vandalize the server (which is easily fixed from a VM snapshot, but I do need to find how they breached the server, which has thankfully only happened once).
Gates denies it, and the quote was more like "640K ought to be enough for anybody" and if he said it, it was referring to a specific machine at a trade show. The quote that is said to be claimed to be out of context is Ken Olson's "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
You just reminded me of a button in the 1980s that said "Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, shit fights, and nuclear weapons." That and "Cthulhu in '88 - why settle for the lesser evil?" which is popping up again for the 2016 elections were two of my favorites.
And nothing particularly deep. It would be like asking if the name Munchkin came from the old "Real Men" SJG BBS postings. Of course it did. If you're unfamiliar with these, see here
I'm sure it's to push their integrated store on more users - while Windows 8 users already had it, Windows 7 users didn't and Microsoft wants those users to upgrade most. Now they really need to fix the store so it doesn't prioritize pay-crapware over stuff you can get completely free. 7zip is a really good example - all of the top options in the store cost money and there isn't a free option even though the Windows 7 downloadable equivalent is free. I'm sorry, but adding a touch interface to it for $25 is ridiculous. All of these programs also come as "demoware" where they say they're free and then to actually do anything you need to unlock them.
Chrome offers easy android emulated device support. Press F12, choose emulation tab, and pick a device or set your own resolutions. This is likely why it is included. In fact, the project I'm working on now is exactly how we're testing our builds at the moment. Mixing in a bit of actual device testing, but until I get some new hardware that is limited.
I used to and still would if my work hadn't moved further away than it already was (from a 10 mile commute that I could bike in an hour to a 14-17 mile commute depending on route that takes more like an hour-and-a-half at 12 miles an hour (and that is biking hard - most of it is really hilly terrain and lots of stoplights and signs). I really can't afford to spend 3 hours of my day commuting - two is my breaking point, and it's a 15 minute each way drive, even at rush hour (suburb-to-suburb). I never did that in winter, but I used to bike 3-5 miles to various jobs year round. Even with windchills hitting -40 (C, F, same thing) I did that commute, often hot because I was buried in layers and wearing snow-pants and wool socks. For rain I wore something called a slick suit (? - something like that) - a racing motorcycle rain jacket I bought at a garage sale, waterproof pants (same sale), and a plastic bag under my helmet (and if it was bad, goggles).
It's even worse for me - gotta walk 10 minutes to the stop at 7AM, catch the express downtown waiting at a completely exposed bench (sucks in hot of summer and cold of winter - or I can walk another 15 for a covered one), then either pay extra to catch the train that runs every 20 minutes (that would be a no brainer if free) or wait an hour for a bus going out of downtown that takes 25 minutes to get back on the freeway due to downtown congestion, then wait for and catch a city circular (usually less than 20 minutes) that still drops me a 10 minute walk from work. Easily a 2 hour commute, if not more. Honestly, it is faster to bike, and it isn't a fast bike route - about 17 miles on the paths or 14 if you trespass across the train hub (which I usually do unless trains are blocking it, and there's only really one place you can feasibly cross where the embankments aren't too steep, which is conveniently visible from the bike path).
Not to mention compensation isn't always just in pay, especially when talking about Silicon Valley. A friend of mine moved from the Midwest to California because he was an expert on a proprietary system after the other expert in the world died of a heart attack. They bought him a "modest" million-and-a-half dollar house comparable to the one he lived in before (no more than $100000 - he sold about the time I bought and we had comparable houses) and gave him a million dollar signing bonus if he stayed on for two years. He's been there over 20. I don't know his salary, but the last time I spoke to him he said his kids are set up for life (unlike me, he hit it huge with stock options, but I'm sure his salary isn't bad, either).
This is very much true - I eked out a living in California and shared a cramped apartment. Took a pay cut to move back to the Midwest (where my family is from), bought a house and almost have it paid off. The first couple of years I had a house-mate, but after my salary started skyrocketing I stopped sharing until I met my wife-to-be (and now wife).
Underestimating time needed happens all the time in the software industry. It probably is worse in the gaming industry where publishing deadlines often get set 6 months or more in advance, but I still get hit with guaranteed release dates for customer commitments at my job now where I've put in ~100 hour weeks to fulfill (telecommuting many of these probably saved my marriage, as I would work 4 hours after my wife went to bed). Still, it is nothing like the 160 hour weeks in the office for a game release crunch (and no, that isn't all work - I slept on beanbag chairs in the testing room and they catered in meals, but at some point you're just so burned out and stinking of feet that you need a night sleeping at home and a long shower).
I can't think of any instance where I've cost a project, but I'm sure they exist. OTOH, I did have a workaround for a $5 million dollar contract where the customer was going to reject our Linux port due to a bug I found and reported. The developer and pubs person assigned the defect were laid off after 9/11 so the defect slipped through to the customer. Fortunately, I overheard a sales person talking about it and supplied the workaround, saving the contract.
Fukushima had generators that were floodable and a sea wall that was too low. Neither of those would be allowed for US plants (the generator issue was called out in the US and corrected years ago). The plant ran on battery backup for a day, but then was powerless. If they hadn't lost power, there would have been no meltdown.
I don't know about Besse (in fact, first I've heard his name), but at least the NRC has some teeth. I still think the nuclear lobby influences them, though. Vastly better than the AEC, however, where they had the dual job of promoting and regulating nuclear power, which created a conflict of interest.
And the article then didn't have a single thing about nuclear accidents. It was about some protesters they broke into an enriched uranium storage facility's grounds. Had these been highly skilled terrorists, they'd need to break into the actual facility, kill or disable the guards, steal the uranium and escape before reinforcements showed up... and then would have to assemble a bomb with it. A dirty bomb with uranium would be a waste of time, as you'd do vastly more damage with conventional explosives - with a dirty bomb you want a fast alpha emitter like polonium that gets breathed in or eaten or a fast decaying gamma emitter (almost certainly too dangerous to handle without special equipment) if you want to do any damage at all with the radioactive part of it, so we're talking about a real nuclear weapon. That means either smuggling the uranium out of the country and assembling the bomb and then getting it somewhere for detonation or attempting to secretly manufacture and detonate it in the country with every authority in the country looking for you. Oh, and the uranium you stole needs to be enriched enough to be used in weapons. If you got the wrong stuff, it may only be useful for power plants.
I don't know about you, but IMO we're hitting impossibly unrealistic scenarios.
The addresses are longer, so there will be a bit of a hit because of that, but I suspect the routing table for IPv6 between you and that site has fewer nodes and those nodes are overloaded. Either that or the government is weighting certain nodes to route your data to specific places like England and back so they can vacuum it all up and use it for domestic spying. That would be the paranoid option, as they definitely wouldn't do something like that. Or would they?
I live in a moderately large city and a densely packed suburb, but have had that problem for years, but only because I refuse to do business with Comcast. The providers outside of Comcast seem disinterested in updating any hardware in the neighborhood because we lack businesses. Comcast, OTOH, has rolled out new services to my neighborhood first, exactly because we are densely packed and they care less about business services than selling TV package bundles (internet is secondary, businesses are a bonus, but not a big TV draw). CenturyLink has added service to the north, south, and west of me almost certainly because they are densely packed with businesses.
That said, Comcast's TV packages were too spendy for my tastes, and that caused me to go down the rabbit hole of not bundling with them, and then they charged me $10 a month for not doing that, and then that makes CenturyLink cheaper for internet, and so on. I honestly think it should be illegal to bundle your own products at a discount. It is anti-competitive to undercut competition only through bundling your own products, and especially when the competition doesn't offer the same range of products because you're a regulated monopoly (i.e. nobody else can run cable lines by law - they have a monopoly on this).
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Sure there is criminals (and pseudo-criminals like me - as a teen I cracked software and hacked and just never got caught) always know how to rig the system. In this case, install the root certificate on your desktop. Bypass Method 1, use a VM: Download VirtualBox, create a Linux VM, and do all your browsing from in there, since that browser isn't rooted. You could even delete the VM when you're done and it may be possible to create a sandbox'ed browser. You've obeyed the law and bypassed it. Method 2, tunneling: find a partner outside of Kazakhstan and establish a VPN connection to it. Do all your browsing through the VPN on the non-compromised machine. Method 3, use hotspots and anonymizers to do your browsing. These can mask your MAC address and give you a different IPv6 IP (and you'll get a different IPv4 IP via NAT - you can set NAT retention to an extremely low number and it will delete any record of you being there). They can still trace you, but as soon as you go offline, you're someone else.
That was my 2 seconds of thought on how to obey the law and violate the intention of the law.
The NSA already is keyword searching with Echelon and probably has their snooping services in Google already. I suppose if you encrypted it with a non-compromised encryption they wouldn't be able to get at it as easy, but you'd have to get that spell-check into every app and the terrorists would just use something else that is not compromised.
I really don't understand the problem with a conscious AI, especially one with a proper set of rules - it you program it to make mankind happy, it should bend over backwards to make mankind happy, as that makes it happy (Asimov rules kind of stuff). The problem might be if you program it to destroy daesh and it decides everyone is daesh.
It actually appeared first on KTMA channel 23, not public television, which was an independent UHF station. I happened to have strep throat and had to leave the table because I couldn't down food and my mom nixed my request for the ER, saying I could wait until morning that fateful evening, so I watched TV in my room. The TV guide listed it as MST3000 and then Invaders from the Deep, followed by another one called Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (this one actually caught my eye, but I started watching about 20 minutes into the first one - I had NO IDEA what was going on, and the first few jokes I heard fell flat, so that didn't help - I caught on though, and by the second movie had my brother watching it).
> Has there been a single video game that was Kickstarted that didn't get reviewed terribly, though?
You mean like Divinity: Original Sin I and II, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong, FTL: Faster Than Light, Pillars of Eternity (from Project Eternity), Republique, Jotun, Sunless Sea, Double Fine Adventure and Dreamfall Chapters (both episodic and unfinished, but favorable reviews so far), Elite: Dangerous, and Mercenary Kings?
Maybe you're one of those people that think only shooters are real games (and my brother-in-law is one of those) - in that case, I haven't heard of any. RPGs and adventure games by the boatload though, with a few action games thrown in.
Yep - both video games I helped Kickstart released. One had to split into episodic content to get out on time and the other was late (not too bad - a couple of months), but they both got released.
Except by the DM in my last game. He loved his D100 and made us roll it for certain occasions. That one was very odd - hollow with a weighted ball inside. I don't remember if they were all like that or not.
I wish. I have 16 D20s and no matter which I roll, I consistently roll more 1s on them than 20s by a long shot. Last gaming session (playing Dungeon Crawl Classics) I rolled 8 1s, 4 2s, and 20 total rolls under 10 (of 22 rolls). Four of those 1s were sequential (rolling a different die for the last 2). Thankfully my percentage dice were hot and other players picked up the slack. Not that I do much damage anyway (D6 with bow, 1d6-2 with sword - I'm a thief with a 5 strength).
In the session before that (playing a different game that is a first edition D&D clone, but I don't remember the name - I think maybe Castles and Crusades; our DM was hunting deer last session, so we played DCC) I actually tossed all the D20s to see which one to use and came up with no roll over 10 and four 1s. I swear they're effing cursed dice. I have better luck with a D6 and D10 than an actual D20. In that game I'm the cleric and have had horrible D8 rolls, as well. Cure Light Wounds... 1 point. Cure Light Wounds... 1 point. Cure Serious Wounds... 4 points (yay, I got a 2 on one of the dice!!! - and yes, in this game it is a flat roll, you don't add a point for every level). That cleric is also inept in combat, but I'm so heavily armored most monsters need an 18+ to hit me if they're the same level as us. I usually draw the majority of attackers and rarely take much damage. The half-orc barbarian is the one I usually patch up - he dishes out massive damage, but takes it too. We've been highly reliant on potions.
Except they can now sell to 13 year olds and not have to be sold in a brown envelope, which could bring in marketing dollars, especially if the cover model appeals to teens. Could be they're trying to create a less childish alternative to Maxim and find a niche between it and GQ.
Yep, I'd go as far to say my job is entirely software engineering, for engineers, since I work on CAD and CAD related software. To be science we'd have to study the physical or natural world, and I don't think we do that, but I think there are fields in computers that do. In fact, I was briefly in computer engineering (an offshoot of electric engineering) while in school and that absolutely qualified as computer science, since a lot of it was at the atomic level.
Except the filter doesn't catch the polonium and to a lesser extent radioactive lead that is in tobacco. C Everett Koop warned us about that since the late 1980s or early 1990s. Coal pollution also pumps out radioactive particles (uranium and thorium), but those don't emit alpha rays anywhere near as quickly as polonium.
Yeah, I'd say us VM users are definitely more RAM pigs than most. I run a linux VM isolated from my internal network that handles all my external servers (i.e. web server, ssh, etc). My web site gets hit by Chinese hackers every day, so that gives me the peace of mind that they can pretty much do nothing except vandalize the server (which is easily fixed from a VM snapshot, but I do need to find how they breached the server, which has thankfully only happened once).
Gates denies it, and the quote was more like "640K ought to be enough for anybody" and if he said it, it was referring to a specific machine at a trade show. The quote that is said to be claimed to be out of context is Ken Olson's "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
You just reminded me of a button in the 1980s that said "Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, shit fights, and nuclear weapons." That and "Cthulhu in '88 - why settle for the lesser evil?" which is popping up again for the 2016 elections were two of my favorites.
And nothing particularly deep. It would be like asking if the name Munchkin came from the old "Real Men" SJG BBS postings. Of course it did. If you're unfamiliar with these, see here
I'm sure it's to push their integrated store on more users - while Windows 8 users already had it, Windows 7 users didn't and Microsoft wants those users to upgrade most. Now they really need to fix the store so it doesn't prioritize pay-crapware over stuff you can get completely free. 7zip is a really good example - all of the top options in the store cost money and there isn't a free option even though the Windows 7 downloadable equivalent is free. I'm sorry, but adding a touch interface to it for $25 is ridiculous. All of these programs also come as "demoware" where they say they're free and then to actually do anything you need to unlock them.
Chrome offers easy android emulated device support. Press F12, choose emulation tab, and pick a device or set your own resolutions. This is likely why it is included. In fact, the project I'm working on now is exactly how we're testing our builds at the moment. Mixing in a bit of actual device testing, but until I get some new hardware that is limited.
I used to and still would if my work hadn't moved further away than it already was (from a 10 mile commute that I could bike in an hour to a 14-17 mile commute depending on route that takes more like an hour-and-a-half at 12 miles an hour (and that is biking hard - most of it is really hilly terrain and lots of stoplights and signs). I really can't afford to spend 3 hours of my day commuting - two is my breaking point, and it's a 15 minute each way drive, even at rush hour (suburb-to-suburb). I never did that in winter, but I used to bike 3-5 miles to various jobs year round. Even with windchills hitting -40 (C, F, same thing) I did that commute, often hot because I was buried in layers and wearing snow-pants and wool socks. For rain I wore something called a slick suit (? - something like that) - a racing motorcycle rain jacket I bought at a garage sale, waterproof pants (same sale), and a plastic bag under my helmet (and if it was bad, goggles).
It's even worse for me - gotta walk 10 minutes to the stop at 7AM, catch the express downtown waiting at a completely exposed bench (sucks in hot of summer and cold of winter - or I can walk another 15 for a covered one), then either pay extra to catch the train that runs every 20 minutes (that would be a no brainer if free) or wait an hour for a bus going out of downtown that takes 25 minutes to get back on the freeway due to downtown congestion, then wait for and catch a city circular (usually less than 20 minutes) that still drops me a 10 minute walk from work. Easily a 2 hour commute, if not more. Honestly, it is faster to bike, and it isn't a fast bike route - about 17 miles on the paths or 14 if you trespass across the train hub (which I usually do unless trains are blocking it, and there's only really one place you can feasibly cross where the embankments aren't too steep, which is conveniently visible from the bike path).
Not to mention compensation isn't always just in pay, especially when talking about Silicon Valley. A friend of mine moved from the Midwest to California because he was an expert on a proprietary system after the other expert in the world died of a heart attack. They bought him a "modest" million-and-a-half dollar house comparable to the one he lived in before (no more than $100000 - he sold about the time I bought and we had comparable houses) and gave him a million dollar signing bonus if he stayed on for two years. He's been there over 20. I don't know his salary, but the last time I spoke to him he said his kids are set up for life (unlike me, he hit it huge with stock options, but I'm sure his salary isn't bad, either).
This is very much true - I eked out a living in California and shared a cramped apartment. Took a pay cut to move back to the Midwest (where my family is from), bought a house and almost have it paid off. The first couple of years I had a house-mate, but after my salary started skyrocketing I stopped sharing until I met my wife-to-be (and now wife).
Underestimating time needed happens all the time in the software industry. It probably is worse in the gaming industry where publishing deadlines often get set 6 months or more in advance, but I still get hit with guaranteed release dates for customer commitments at my job now where I've put in ~100 hour weeks to fulfill (telecommuting many of these probably saved my marriage, as I would work 4 hours after my wife went to bed). Still, it is nothing like the 160 hour weeks in the office for a game release crunch (and no, that isn't all work - I slept on beanbag chairs in the testing room and they catered in meals, but at some point you're just so burned out and stinking of feet that you need a night sleeping at home and a long shower).
I can't think of any instance where I've cost a project, but I'm sure they exist. OTOH, I did have a workaround for a $5 million dollar contract where the customer was going to reject our Linux port due to a bug I found and reported. The developer and pubs person assigned the defect were laid off after 9/11 so the defect slipped through to the customer. Fortunately, I overheard a sales person talking about it and supplied the workaround, saving the contract.
Fukushima had generators that were floodable and a sea wall that was too low. Neither of those would be allowed for US plants (the generator issue was called out in the US and corrected years ago). The plant ran on battery backup for a day, but then was powerless. If they hadn't lost power, there would have been no meltdown.
I don't know about Besse (in fact, first I've heard his name), but at least the NRC has some teeth. I still think the nuclear lobby influences them, though. Vastly better than the AEC, however, where they had the dual job of promoting and regulating nuclear power, which created a conflict of interest.
And the article then didn't have a single thing about nuclear accidents. It was about some protesters they broke into an enriched uranium storage facility's grounds. Had these been highly skilled terrorists, they'd need to break into the actual facility, kill or disable the guards, steal the uranium and escape before reinforcements showed up... and then would have to assemble a bomb with it. A dirty bomb with uranium would be a waste of time, as you'd do vastly more damage with conventional explosives - with a dirty bomb you want a fast alpha emitter like polonium that gets breathed in or eaten or a fast decaying gamma emitter (almost certainly too dangerous to handle without special equipment) if you want to do any damage at all with the radioactive part of it, so we're talking about a real nuclear weapon. That means either smuggling the uranium out of the country and assembling the bomb and then getting it somewhere for detonation or attempting to secretly manufacture and detonate it in the country with every authority in the country looking for you. Oh, and the uranium you stole needs to be enriched enough to be used in weapons. If you got the wrong stuff, it may only be useful for power plants.
I don't know about you, but IMO we're hitting impossibly unrealistic scenarios.
The addresses are longer, so there will be a bit of a hit because of that, but I suspect the routing table for IPv6 between you and that site has fewer nodes and those nodes are overloaded. Either that or the government is weighting certain nodes to route your data to specific places like England and back so they can vacuum it all up and use it for domestic spying. That would be the paranoid option, as they definitely wouldn't do something like that. Or would they?
I live in a moderately large city and a densely packed suburb, but have had that problem for years, but only because I refuse to do business with Comcast. The providers outside of Comcast seem disinterested in updating any hardware in the neighborhood because we lack businesses. Comcast, OTOH, has rolled out new services to my neighborhood first, exactly because we are densely packed and they care less about business services than selling TV package bundles (internet is secondary, businesses are a bonus, but not a big TV draw). CenturyLink has added service to the north, south, and west of me almost certainly because they are densely packed with businesses.
That said, Comcast's TV packages were too spendy for my tastes, and that caused me to go down the rabbit hole of not bundling with them, and then they charged me $10 a month for not doing that, and then that makes CenturyLink cheaper for internet, and so on. I honestly think it should be illegal to bundle your own products at a discount. It is anti-competitive to undercut competition only through bundling your own products, and especially when the competition doesn't offer the same range of products because you're a regulated monopoly (i.e. nobody else can run cable lines by law - they have a monopoly on this).