A partner of mine suffered from agoraphobia terribly, sometimes suffering anxiety and tachycardia with HR over 220 for extended periods. Counseling, medication, nothing seemed to be effective, and she was a highly-skilled RN, just adding to her frustration. It ruined our relationship long before it became so debilitating she was considering changing her career.
One attack landed her in the ER and in front of the new-in-town cardiologist fresh from residency in a well-known hospital. According to the ER nurse he took a two minute look at the EKG, ordered tests stat, another two minute read, and was on the phone back to his residency hospital, booking air evac, and sending her to his mentor.
She had a conduction defect. Not merely undetected for her entire life, but actually ruled out by more than one cardiologist previously, certain she was just having panic attacks. Yes, this caused a few uncomfortable discussions, and this fresh new cardiologist left the area and joined a big-city practice, for he had stumbled into a nice, quiet city that loved its doctors, and did not appreciate having them called out as having missed one diagnosis.
Why? Well, first, women were once considered 'hysterical' beings, prone to problems that were psychological and not physical. This is hard to overcome, even generations later. And much heart disease is, even today, considered a male problem, as if women all eat well, suffer less stress, and are not physically active.
I am part of a group that just moved into a new space, one with flooring over concrete that is assumed to be asbestos-bearing. We did not remove it, nor expose it. We are installing sealer and flooring to entirely encapsulate it.
This happens a LOT. Not many buildings have asbestos fireproofing in walls that can be exposed by hammering a nail in, for those get inspected, or already have been, and that's going to be a forced removal. I've been through one.
This isn't that big a deal, really, but it will be made to be.
Freedom of speech and association is the First Amendment to our Constitution for good reason. To go where you wish, with whoever you wish, is to ensure you can say what you wish to those you wish to, though they may ignore you, as is their right.
From this all other rights can be ensured. And ti s no mistake that there is a movement in American to silence some speech, for free speech is the springboard of liberty.
Real fines. In this case, $ Billions. Only a couple would work. Oh, and either ban from spectrum auctions or, even better, surcharge their winning bid by 50%.
Of course all this Lifeline and Universal Service stuff ought to go, but rural service is a fundamentally less lucrative market. this will lead incumbents to fight off competition with the available tools, fraudulent claims being an easy one. I'm almost surprised this was caught.
Agile defines a 'big room' planning process. While this is intended to get buy-in for stakeholders in advance and an agreed scope for everyone to revert to when the SHTF, it also is when security is either built in or added on, and the results of either decision should be fairly obvious.
And sadly many coders don't even think about how users will 'screw with your system'. And your users are supposed to behave...
True, but not many of them are designed to share information about me with most anyone, and fewer have a history of being unable to secure that information, even in the ways THEY SAY THEY WILL.
In the US this requirement to carry at wholesale cost gave birth to the CLECs. Go look that up, and then look up ILECS, which is what Telekom was in Germany.
And in the US this was caused not by data, but by competitive long distance services, more than a decade earlier in some cases.
Copper is cheaper than fiber? Since most all DSL is digital from the CO to the SLIC, it's the literal last mile/hundreds of feet, but that copper is the most expensive connection by foot. Sure, it was installed by Bell himself, but it's either on a pole or most likely down to the ground-level SLIC, up to a pole, down to a cross connect which is rotting off at the base, thence to the house where it's painted over, bumped into, and insulted regularly. Copper is the worst. FTTH is expensive to install, but usually tougher in every way. I don't accept that copper is cheaper in overall cost. And no copper run is faster than fiber, quality varies much more than on fiber connects, and the craft out there has really gone to hell. I know too many telco techs that quit because they cared too much about their work, and walked away rather than slap it together with twisties and Scotch tape to meet 'management expectations'.
' as long as the utility owning the poles will be cooperative'.
They may. For a fee. And that was one of my points...
FTTH is still expensive to actually pull and connect. This shows up in your bill. Since the Cable Co already went past your home, they have paid that. Municipalities can perhaps, sometimes, avoid pole fees, but competitive ISPs won't.
And taking the satellite TV business as an analog, in Arizona the LOS issues are virtually nonexistent. In New York, they are a significant impediment in 30-40% of installs. Topology defeats most wireless services unless you have one of the few bands that avoid it. T-MOBILE has band 71. That's about the best right now.
I agree. If municipalities etc had the 'permission' to build ISPs as utilities, this would change the market immediately. Google Fiber was really just a threat that caused real changes in some markets. It just didn't turn out to be manageable for Google.
Tesla, with it's direct sales model, is making a mess of many states' car sales laws. It is time for this idea, municipal networks, to make a mess of the ISP market.
then we can watch as municipalities consider if they want to carry all content- even pr0n, dissenting political opinion, and such stuff that is distasteful to someone. It shouldn't be a problem, since cable cos carry all sort of stuff many would question, but it's possible...
This is the root of the 'problem' - local governments negotiate exclusive agreements for various physical plants; cable cos get pole space which they usually actually have to rent from some entity, be it the ILEC, power utility, or the government. Telcos (ILECs usually, though CLECs are not different in this) either owned the pole space and so have the physical plant via incumbency and so offer DSL, or rented from the 'owner' and have virtually perpetual agreements, given that POTS was once critical, and now telephone is just a must-carry issue...
If the local government won't permit competitive cable TV-style franchises, this will not change soon. Wireless solutions are inadequate, even 5G will not really work in urban areas, though 600MHz could revolutionize rural delivery. Ethernet/MPLS-type delivery would work, but pole rentals are the problem, and that is the equivalent of competitive Cable TV-style delivery, with the competitive issue still in play.
New York seems to actually intend to kick out Charter Spectrum, for failing to deliver. This is actually NY invalidating the TWC/Bright House mergers, essentially making Charter unwind these and go away. No good can come of this, but perhaps it goes to appeal, and then NY says the era of exclusive agreements is over, and competitors come in to fight for share.
I truly doubt this is fixable in my lifetime. Geography and population cause problems in the US that just don't exist in Europe and Asia, where density solves the cost equation so much easily. Britain has a very different governmental structure, good and bad, and other nations for better or worse are just not the US. Several wireless technologies were promised, none delivered. But we hope and hope. And pay and pay.
"In this new 20-state initiative, the Washington attorney general argued that the State Department settlement violated the Administrative Procedure Act and also infringed upon states’ Tenth Amendment right to regulate firearms within their own states. Ferguson pointed out, for example, people convicted of domestic abuse are flagged when they attempt to legally buy a gun. Allowing anyone to download and manufacture their own gun circumvents that process, he said."
Oh dear. Imagine the problems dealing with 'people convicted of domestic abuse' or merely accused of this, if they already have a gun and hide it from the authorities. No, dear, you cannot be sure of preventing that, and you'll also take their cars, knives, and hand tools. Or not, and be shocked.
This is not a Tenth Amendment issue. That reserves to the States or the People powers not otherwise delegated. And the Second Amendment recognized the People as having the right to own guns. This suit should be spanked and sent off without dessert.
And the law, for now, recognizes that you can manufacture your own gun, and the state cannot stop you nor prevent you from possessing it. If you give it away, you are in violation of federal law regarding manufacture for either profit or to distribute, and likewise selling it requires a license as well.
If you are prohibited from *making* one, you are thereby at risk of being prohibited from *possessing* one. whatever it is. The Second Amendment recognizes the right to have guns in our possession, and states that limit the handling still do not prohibit having *any* gun.
the First Amendment issue here is, somewhat simplistically, that these files should not have been classed as 'munitions', and so prohibited from distribution overseas to entities the US government declared ought not receive them. The decision by Justice essentially accepted that they were not properly classified as such, and so could not be denied. And so they are back out there. Justice paid some money for legal bills to the plaintiffs. That's pretty interesting in itself, that usually happens when Justice realizes it has no case.
If you want to have a gun the government doesn't actually know you have this is one way. Finishing partial components (80% lower receivers, for instance) or making one out of plumbing supplies and scrap metal (DIY Sten gun for instance) are other ways.
This was the latest in a growing list of things the government 'permitted' until they became practical for everyday people, like accessing electronic court records...
It was once assumed that any news outlet that could afford to publish was trustworthy - proof that not only does money talk, it demands to be heard.
And we know that news outlets that predated the Internet are no more or less trustworthy now than they were back then. Discerning truth or at least objectivity isn't any easier than ever, though it seems harder because there are more to consider. This is false. Those legacy outlets had a history that confirmed trust without any real foundation.
Avatar, on the NovaNET system. moved from the MAINEI system to the USM system to now Cyber1. It's been played since the early 80s, or before, on the UICU PLATO systems.
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A partner of mine suffered from agoraphobia terribly, sometimes suffering anxiety and tachycardia with HR over 220 for extended periods. Counseling, medication, nothing seemed to be effective, and she was a highly-skilled RN, just adding to her frustration. It ruined our relationship long before it became so debilitating she was considering changing her career.
One attack landed her in the ER and in front of the new-in-town cardiologist fresh from residency in a well-known hospital. According to the ER nurse he took a two minute look at the EKG, ordered tests stat, another two minute read, and was on the phone back to his residency hospital, booking air evac, and sending her to his mentor.
She had a conduction defect. Not merely undetected for her entire life, but actually ruled out by more than one cardiologist previously, certain she was just having panic attacks. Yes, this caused a few uncomfortable discussions, and this fresh new cardiologist left the area and joined a big-city practice, for he had stumbled into a nice, quiet city that loved its doctors, and did not appreciate having them called out as having missed one diagnosis.
Why? Well, first, women were once considered 'hysterical' beings, prone to problems that were psychological and not physical. This is hard to overcome, even generations later. And much heart disease is, even today, considered a male problem, as if women all eat well, suffer less stress, and are not physically active.
How many have died needlessly?
So Obama was a better President because he kept so many things to himself...
I am part of a group that just moved into a new space, one with flooring over concrete that is assumed to be asbestos-bearing. We did not remove it, nor expose it. We are installing sealer and flooring to entirely encapsulate it.
This happens a LOT. Not many buildings have asbestos fireproofing in walls that can be exposed by hammering a nail in, for those get inspected, or already have been, and that's going to be a forced removal. I've been through one.
This isn't that big a deal, really, but it will be made to be.
You've forgotten one:
The Moving Box.
Freedom of speech and association is the First Amendment to our Constitution for good reason. To go where you wish, with whoever you wish, is to ensure you can say what you wish to those you wish to, though they may ignore you, as is their right.
From this all other rights can be ensured. And ti s no mistake that there is a movement in American to silence some speech, for free speech is the springboard of liberty.
Ah, but profitable rural service will depend on the Band 71 and near spectrum. That's been bought in the first round, but there will be more.
Real fines. In this case, $ Billions. Only a couple would work. Oh, and either ban from spectrum auctions or, even better, surcharge their winning bid by 50%.
Of course all this Lifeline and Universal Service stuff ought to go, but rural service is a fundamentally less lucrative market. this will lead incumbents to fight off competition with the available tools, fraudulent claims being an easy one. I'm almost surprised this was caught.
Sure they all use version control. Until something happens and they are in a hurry.
Agile defines a 'big room' planning process. While this is intended to get buy-in for stakeholders in advance and an agreed scope for everyone to revert to when the SHTF, it also is when security is either built in or added on, and the results of either decision should be fairly obvious.
And sadly many coders don't even think about how users will 'screw with your system'. And your users are supposed to behave...
Not a choice, a requirement.
Coders will tell you documentation 'slows them down'. They will tell you version control 'isn;t worth the trouble', and 'slows them down'.
And they will tell you security 'slows them down'.
Nothing slows you down as much as total pwnage by whatever malware you've missed due to inadequate security.
And nothing will strip value form your project as fast nor as completely as your treasured code going off to enrich your competitors.
Security for DevOps needs be internal and external. No one can be trusted, and data loss is just as expensive as an infestation.
This would be funny if it weren't so obviously trolling.
Oh, wait, damit...
True, but not many of them are designed to share information about me with most anyone, and fewer have a history of being unable to secure that information, even in the ways THEY SAY THEY WILL.
for worst headline ever.
"Republitards don't have to live in the boonies. I"
Wow. Just wow.
Let's see if Band 71 solves any of this.
In the US this requirement to carry at wholesale cost gave birth to the CLECs. Go look that up, and then look up ILECS, which is what Telekom was in Germany.
And in the US this was caused not by data, but by competitive long distance services, more than a decade earlier in some cases.
Copper is cheaper than fiber? Since most all DSL is digital from the CO to the SLIC, it's the literal last mile/hundreds of feet, but that copper is the most expensive connection by foot. Sure, it was installed by Bell himself, but it's either on a pole or most likely down to the ground-level SLIC, up to a pole, down to a cross connect which is rotting off at the base, thence to the house where it's painted over, bumped into, and insulted regularly. Copper is the worst. FTTH is expensive to install, but usually tougher in every way. I don't accept that copper is cheaper in overall cost. And no copper run is faster than fiber, quality varies much more than on fiber connects, and the craft out there has really gone to hell. I know too many telco techs that quit because they cared too much about their work, and walked away rather than slap it together with twisties and Scotch tape to meet 'management expectations'.
This is indistinguishable from believing that socialism works to the benefit of the worker class.
ps -- Alex Jones is entertaining for short periods of time, just like CNN, for the same reasons, though the content varies.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Or a Billion Dollars.
Or gets called out for doing something they believe and would rather no one knew.
Or gets called out for doing something they would never ever accept if it were done to them.
Mark, welcome to the real real world, where you can indeed lose everything, and have no one else to blame but yourself. You are not too big to fail.
And here we go...
' as long as the utility owning the poles will be cooperative'.
They may. For a fee. And that was one of my points...
FTTH is still expensive to actually pull and connect. This shows up in your bill. Since the Cable Co already went past your home, they have paid that. Municipalities can perhaps, sometimes, avoid pole fees, but competitive ISPs won't.
And taking the satellite TV business as an analog, in Arizona the LOS issues are virtually nonexistent. In New York, they are a significant impediment in 30-40% of installs. Topology defeats most wireless services unless you have one of the few bands that avoid it. T-MOBILE has band 71. That's about the best right now.
The solution isn't technology, it's regulatory.
I agree. If municipalities etc had the 'permission' to build ISPs as utilities, this would change the market immediately. Google Fiber was really just a threat that caused real changes in some markets. It just didn't turn out to be manageable for Google.
Tesla, with it's direct sales model, is making a mess of many states' car sales laws. It is time for this idea, municipal networks, to make a mess of the ISP market.
then we can watch as municipalities consider if they want to carry all content- even pr0n, dissenting political opinion, and such stuff that is distasteful to someone. It shouldn't be a problem, since cable cos carry all sort of stuff many would question, but it's possible...
This is the root of the 'problem' - local governments negotiate exclusive agreements for various physical plants; cable cos get pole space which they usually actually have to rent from some entity, be it the ILEC, power utility, or the government. Telcos (ILECs usually, though CLECs are not different in this) either owned the pole space and so have the physical plant via incumbency and so offer DSL, or rented from the 'owner' and have virtually perpetual agreements, given that POTS was once critical, and now telephone is just a must-carry issue...
If the local government won't permit competitive cable TV-style franchises, this will not change soon. Wireless solutions are inadequate, even 5G will not really work in urban areas, though 600MHz could revolutionize rural delivery. Ethernet/MPLS-type delivery would work, but pole rentals are the problem, and that is the equivalent of competitive Cable TV-style delivery, with the competitive issue still in play.
New York seems to actually intend to kick out Charter Spectrum, for failing to deliver. This is actually NY invalidating the TWC/Bright House mergers, essentially making Charter unwind these and go away. No good can come of this, but perhaps it goes to appeal, and then NY says the era of exclusive agreements is over, and competitors come in to fight for share.
I truly doubt this is fixable in my lifetime. Geography and population cause problems in the US that just don't exist in Europe and Asia, where density solves the cost equation so much easily. Britain has a very different governmental structure, good and bad, and other nations for better or worse are just not the US. Several wireless technologies were promised, none delivered. But we hope and hope. And pay and pay.
"In this new 20-state initiative, the Washington attorney general argued that the State Department settlement violated the Administrative Procedure Act and also infringed upon states’ Tenth Amendment right to regulate firearms within their own states. Ferguson pointed out, for example, people convicted of domestic abuse are flagged when they attempt to legally buy a gun. Allowing anyone to download and manufacture their own gun circumvents that process, he said."
Oh dear. Imagine the problems dealing with 'people convicted of domestic abuse' or merely accused of this, if they already have a gun and hide it from the authorities. No, dear, you cannot be sure of preventing that, and you'll also take their cars, knives, and hand tools. Or not, and be shocked.
This is not a Tenth Amendment issue. That reserves to the States or the People powers not otherwise delegated. And the Second Amendment recognized the People as having the right to own guns. This suit should be spanked and sent off without dessert.
Be a lot easier if YOU were 2D.
And the law, for now, recognizes that you can manufacture your own gun, and the state cannot stop you nor prevent you from possessing it. If you give it away, you are in violation of federal law regarding manufacture for either profit or to distribute, and likewise selling it requires a license as well.
If you are prohibited from *making* one, you are thereby at risk of being prohibited from *possessing* one. whatever it is. The Second Amendment recognizes the right to have guns in our possession, and states that limit the handling still do not prohibit having *any* gun.
the First Amendment issue here is, somewhat simplistically, that these files should not have been classed as 'munitions', and so prohibited from distribution overseas to entities the US government declared ought not receive them. The decision by Justice essentially accepted that they were not properly classified as such, and so could not be denied. And so they are back out there. Justice paid some money for legal bills to the plaintiffs. That's pretty interesting in itself, that usually happens when Justice realizes it has no case.
If you want to have a gun the government doesn't actually know you have this is one way. Finishing partial components (80% lower receivers, for instance) or making one out of plumbing supplies and scrap metal (DIY Sten gun for instance) are other ways.
This was the latest in a growing list of things the government 'permitted' until they became practical for everyday people, like accessing electronic court records...
It was once assumed that any news outlet that could afford to publish was trustworthy - proof that not only does money talk, it demands to be heard.
And we know that news outlets that predated the Internet are no more or less trustworthy now than they were back then. Discerning truth or at least objectivity isn't any easier than ever, though it seems harder because there are more to consider. This is false. Those legacy outlets had a history that confirmed trust without any real foundation.
Avatar, on the NovaNET system. moved from the MAINEI system to the USM system to now Cyber1. It's been played since the early 80s, or before, on the UICU PLATO systems.