This could mean good internet service at any point on the earth's surface. From the middle of the ocean to the most rustic remote unabomber cabin.
On the highest mountain. In Antarctica. Even the most inhospitable places like New Jersey.
Or, more seriously, unfiltered Internet in North Korea, China, etc. (although it does involve radio transmission, so would be vulnerable to easy detection by authorities)
Really what is sounds like to me is that Comcast wants all the advantages of their government granted monopoly and none of the requirements.
Yeah... the PUC should say "Fine, we won't require YOU to provide any public access, so we'll just modify the license to forbid you from taking any action against municipalities that provide their own municipal broadband networks."
Good luck digging that deeply, unless you remove the moon, move our entire planet away from the sun a few AUs, and wait billions of years for the radioactive material inside to fully decay so that the core won't be so hot.:-)
Eh... you're over complicating it. Just drill a hole and stick in a straw. If it works for coconuts, it should work for this, right?
US is not a "private only" system. Emergency care is still universal. Child healthcare is still universal. Elderly care is still universal.
"Universal" in that you still have to pay for it... I ended up in the hospital via ambulance for two days once. If I hadn't had insurance, it would have been $700 for the ride, and over $50,000 for two days/one night in the hospital. Sure, they'll still "universally" pick you up and take you, but then most people would have to declare bankruptcy.
The UK's system is widely recognised as the most efficient, so the basic model - of single payer contracting with controlled hospitals - has a lot of efficiencies to offer in the American context.
Plus, the last numbers I saw had NHS covering the UK's entire population for the same (or less) per capita cost that we in the US pay for Medicare and Medicaid, which only covers, what, about 1/3 of the population? It would seem that simply copying NHS verbatim would get everyone covered, AND save the money that I'm currently paying for private insurance (which I could then use for more limited private insurance if I wanted to - like paying for a private hospital room instead of shared, etc.).
The best part about all this is that each device can render its own version of these things. Some variations are enough to totally change the meaning, too. (Apple replacing "gun" with "squirtgun", Skype replacing "sarcasm":P with something that looks more like "nyah nyah, I'm mocking you" type:P, etc.)
These days, I see it VERY often with pulling up to the line at a stop light.
Rather than pull all the way up to line, more and more of these Bozos are at least almost one car length away from the line.....like they stop when they see the nose of their large truck at the line, which is NOT near the line.
I'm one of those "bozos" that doesn't pull all the way up to the stop line at intersections (although I'm also driving a tiny sports car, not a huge truck). Why? Because it's *safer*. If there's an accident in the intersection, and someone goes caroming off at an angle, it's the people up at the stop line that will get hit, and most likely shield me. I've had to take advanced defensive driving classes in order to be allowed to drive some fleet vehicles, and they actually teach you to stop while you can still see the line over the hood.
What will wealthy criminals, cults, faiths, political groups, competitors, spies do when they work out the US gov has the keys to most consumer communications?
They will ask their dual citizens, faith members, criminals, corrupt military/police/gov for the federal backdoor keys.
Interesting people/cults/criminals will use the junk crypto to run real time counter surveillance on US police/federal/state/city task forces and mil.
If that fails they will watch for nations the US trusts and get a copy for that nations mil/police/gov.
It won't even last that long. Most likely someone involved in building said back doors will release the info before it's even live just to kill the whole thing before it starts.
Except all of the proposed state initiatives I've seen have been the "You must comply with X, Y, and Z in order to do business with the state" type of thing.
I would assume they'd be within their rights to keep doing that no matter what the Federal rules were, so long as they weren't requiring something that was made illegal.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
It goes a lot deeper than that. For example, now that I know this is so easy to do, if I'm ever on a jury, I can't really consider any video evidence as enough for a criminal conviction, unless it has a documented chain of custody.
Likewise, any video that would normally cause public scandal can be dismissed as, "oh, it's fake!" even if it isn't, which might actually be a net benefit for public figures and those in power.
Frankly I fail to see the intelligence of anyone who commits themselves to one party or the other. They are directly claiming that party allegiance is more important than critical thinking during elections.
You know, that would be a really interesting experiment, if you could store someone's voting history without revealing it.
The more often a voter votes for the same party, the less their vote counts. The people that don't always vote the same way are going to be the ones paying attention and actually making a decision.
I bet even if people only thought this was happening, it would make people stop and think before just ticking the straight ticket box.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
Well, not supporting NEW Intel CPUs that don't properly fix the issue is different. It doesn't affect current users any worse than they already are, but end users are much more tied to Linux than they are to a specific brand of x86_64 CPU that runs Linux. That might force Intel to do things properly to keep AMD from eating their lunch.
And, of course, Intel is always welcome to modify Linux themselves to make it work.
Exactly this. I ordered in because I don't want to go out. Its cold. Id have to get layered up, put on boots to trudge through the snow around the building to the parking lot. Whereas you will be parked in front of the wrong building.
I will order from someone else.
Note to all, I do tip well especially if the weather is crappy.
Exactly... the rare occasions when I order pizza are usually when the weather is crappy, and I don't want to go out myself. If people have to go outside in pouring rain, etc. to get their pizza, orders will probably plummet during bad weather.
In fact, I'd rather get in my car (in the attached garage), drive the one block to the pizza place, and sprint inside to do my business if it's pouring rain, not stand outside fiddling with a machine and getting soaked.
A recall of every CPU since 2006 would decimate (if the recall isn't heavily utilized) or likely even bankrupt Intel.
So? If I as an individual mess up, I can easily be sued into bankruptcy having to pay for it, so why should a company be any different.
The numbers are in, and the company I work for will have to spend at least $5 million on new servers to make up the performance shortfall from the patches. Since the additional servers won't fit in the current data center space, that means potentially even more money to move. I wouldn't be surprised if the legal dept is winding up for a sueball already.
Not only is the electronic stuff obsolete quickly, it's also overpriced to the point of absurdity.
The last time a salesdroid tried to get me to pay $3k for a navigation system, I pointed out that I could buy a brand new, top-of-the-line standalone GPS with the latest features and maps every year for the next decade for that money. He didn't have an answer for that.:)
Ya, I'm aware there's more to the expense than the co-pay - I forgot to include that, and the part paid by insurance obviously varies - but the total price paid is negotiated by the drug maker and insurance company and is less than the raw list price -- though our co-pays are often based on that list price.
The thing is, the "list price" is often set to game the discount system. My mom needs a hearing aid. She was told that one she was considering was $12,000 list, something like $1,000 with insurance, or they would "discount" it to $4,000 if you had to pay yourself because you didn't have insurance. So who actually pays list? No one (except maybe Medicare, if they can't actually negotiate discounts), apparently. They jack up the "list" price so that they can give their negotiated discount percent and still rake in money. If they're "discounting" it to $4k for everyone, they're obviously still making money at that price.
Seems like most people are overthinking this a bit... Once you're ready to retire, the exact date you stop working isn't very relevant.
My plan would be: - Wait till the day I'm totally ready to walk out the door - Walk into my bosses office and say, "Hey boss, I'm ready to retire. How long do you want me to stick around?"
Then it doesn't really matter what their reaction is.
I'm surprised nobody in China (or even the US, since we're STILL pretty competitive for low-volume manufacturing) has started cranking out laser printers with copies of the 1990s-era LaserJet print engine.
Yeah... those things never actually die, as far as I can tell. I used to work for a school that had some HP LJ 6MPs in the lab. By the time I got there, they'd already done 17 squillion pages, but were perfectly fine - just slow. The slowness led to them getting replaced (in about 2004), at which time I offered to buy one to take home. They said "just take it." I still have it, and it works perfectly, with the same toner cartridge that was in there when it was retired from the lab at school. It will still be printing come doomsday.
Only problems I've ever had with it are that it only has a parallel port, which is getting really damn inconvenient to deal with, and it's short on memory, which leads to the occasional inability to print something.
An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a civil engineer were arguing over what sort of engineer God is.
The electrical engineer said, "Just look at human nervous system! Only an electrical engineer could design that!"
The mechanical engineer said, "But what about the human skeleton and musculature? Obviously He was a mechanical engineer!"
The civil engineer said, "You're both wrong. God HAS to be a civil engineer, because only a civil engineer would put a sewage pipeline right down the middle of prime recreational real estate!"
Actually, it will probably leak before any device with the system even hits the market. It only takes one annoyed employee of a device manufacturer to dump the specs and keys on Wikileaks.
In fact, it would be hilarious if this inevitable person released a file right now that simply said "if this law passes, this fill will contain the specs and keys. see if you can find out where it came from."
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This could mean good internet service at any point on the earth's surface. From the middle of the ocean to the most rustic remote unabomber cabin.
On the highest mountain. In Antarctica. Even the most inhospitable places like New Jersey.
Or, more seriously, unfiltered Internet in North Korea, China, etc. (although it does involve radio transmission, so would be vulnerable to easy detection by authorities)
In a place like England too. I am certainly happy to live this way and I even advocte for people of my income level paying more tax.
Civilisation is paid for with taxes.
You have a somewhat sane healthcare system, so you don't have to spend yet another 10-20% on healthcare for your family.
Really what is sounds like to me is that Comcast wants all the advantages of their government granted monopoly and none of the requirements.
Yeah... the PUC should say "Fine, we won't require YOU to provide any public access, so we'll just modify the license to forbid you from taking any action against municipalities that provide their own municipal broadband networks."
Good luck digging that deeply, unless you remove the moon, move our entire planet away from the sun a few AUs, and wait billions of years for the radioactive material inside to fully decay so that the core won't be so hot. :-)
Eh... you're over complicating it. Just drill a hole and stick in a straw. If it works for coconuts, it should work for this, right?
US is not a "private only" system. Emergency care is still universal. Child healthcare is still universal. Elderly care is still universal.
"Universal" in that you still have to pay for it... I ended up in the hospital via ambulance for two days once. If I hadn't had insurance, it would have been $700 for the ride, and over $50,000 for two days/one night in the hospital. Sure, they'll still "universally" pick you up and take you, but then most people would have to declare bankruptcy.
The UK's system is widely recognised as the most efficient, so the basic model - of single payer contracting with controlled hospitals - has a lot of efficiencies to offer in the American context.
Plus, the last numbers I saw had NHS covering the UK's entire population for the same (or less) per capita cost that we in the US pay for Medicare and Medicaid, which only covers, what, about 1/3 of the population? It would seem that simply copying NHS verbatim would get everyone covered, AND save the money that I'm currently paying for private insurance (which I could then use for more limited private insurance if I wanted to - like paying for a private hospital room instead of shared, etc.).
The best part about all this is that each device can render its own version of these things. Some variations are enough to totally change the meaning, too. (Apple replacing "gun" with "squirtgun", Skype replacing "sarcasm" :P with something that looks more like "nyah nyah, I'm mocking you" type :P, etc.)
These days, I see it VERY often with pulling up to the line at a stop light.
Rather than pull all the way up to line, more and more of these Bozos are at least almost one car length away from the line.....like they stop when they see the nose of their large truck at the line, which is NOT near the line.
I'm one of those "bozos" that doesn't pull all the way up to the stop line at intersections (although I'm also driving a tiny sports car, not a huge truck). Why? Because it's *safer*. If there's an accident in the intersection, and someone goes caroming off at an angle, it's the people up at the stop line that will get hit, and most likely shield me. I've had to take advanced defensive driving classes in order to be allowed to drive some fleet vehicles, and they actually teach you to stop while you can still see the line over the hood.
What will wealthy criminals, cults, faiths, political groups, competitors, spies do when they work out the US gov has the keys to most consumer communications?
They will ask their dual citizens, faith members, criminals, corrupt military/police/gov for the federal backdoor keys.
Interesting people/cults/criminals will use the junk crypto to run real time counter surveillance on US police/federal/state/city task forces and mil.
If that fails they will watch for nations the US trusts and get a copy for that nations mil/police/gov.
It won't even last that long. Most likely someone involved in building said back doors will release the info before it's even live just to kill the whole thing before it starts.
Except all of the proposed state initiatives I've seen have been the "You must comply with X, Y, and Z in order to do business with the state" type of thing.
I would assume they'd be within their rights to keep doing that no matter what the Federal rules were, so long as they weren't requiring something that was made illegal.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
It goes a lot deeper than that. For example, now that I know this is so easy to do, if I'm ever on a jury, I can't really consider any video evidence as enough for a criminal conviction, unless it has a documented chain of custody.
Likewise, any video that would normally cause public scandal can be dismissed as, "oh, it's fake!" even if it isn't, which might actually be a net benefit for public figures and those in power.
Frankly I fail to see the intelligence of anyone who commits themselves to one party or the other. They are directly claiming that party allegiance is more important than critical thinking during elections.
You know, that would be a really interesting experiment, if you could store someone's voting history without revealing it.
The more often a voter votes for the same party, the less their vote counts. The people that don't always vote the same way are going to be the ones paying attention and actually making a decision.
I bet even if people only thought this was happening, it would make people stop and think before just ticking the straight ticket box.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
Well, not supporting NEW Intel CPUs that don't properly fix the issue is different. It doesn't affect current users any worse than they already are, but end users are much more tied to Linux than they are to a specific brand of x86_64 CPU that runs Linux. That might force Intel to do things properly to keep AMD from eating their lunch.
And, of course, Intel is always welcome to modify Linux themselves to make it work.
Exactly this. I ordered in because I don't want to go out. Its cold. Id have to get layered up, put on boots to trudge through the snow around the building to the parking lot. Whereas you will be parked in front of the wrong building.
I will order from someone else.
Note to all, I do tip well especially if the weather is crappy.
Exactly... the rare occasions when I order pizza are usually when the weather is crappy, and I don't want to go out myself. If people have to go outside in pouring rain, etc. to get their pizza, orders will probably plummet during bad weather.
In fact, I'd rather get in my car (in the attached garage), drive the one block to the pizza place, and sprint inside to do my business if it's pouring rain, not stand outside fiddling with a machine and getting soaked.
A recall of every CPU since 2006 would decimate (if the recall isn't heavily utilized) or likely even bankrupt Intel.
So? If I as an individual mess up, I can easily be sued into bankruptcy having to pay for it, so why should a company be any different.
The numbers are in, and the company I work for will have to spend at least $5 million on new servers to make up the performance shortfall from the patches. Since the additional servers won't fit in the current data center space, that means potentially even more money to move. I wouldn't be surprised if the legal dept is winding up for a sueball already.
Not only is the electronic stuff obsolete quickly, it's also overpriced to the point of absurdity.
The last time a salesdroid tried to get me to pay $3k for a navigation system, I pointed out that I could buy a brand new, top-of-the-line standalone GPS with the latest features and maps every year for the next decade for that money. He didn't have an answer for that. :)
Those symptoms sound an awful lot like Asperger's... Have to wonder if the gaming is actually the effect rather than the cause in some cases.
Ya, I'm aware there's more to the expense than the co-pay - I forgot to include that, and the part paid by insurance obviously varies - but the total price paid is negotiated by the drug maker and insurance company and is less than the raw list price -- though our co-pays are often based on that list price.
The thing is, the "list price" is often set to game the discount system. My mom needs a hearing aid. She was told that one she was considering was $12,000 list, something like $1,000 with insurance, or they would "discount" it to $4,000 if you had to pay yourself because you didn't have insurance. So who actually pays list? No one (except maybe Medicare, if they can't actually negotiate discounts), apparently. They jack up the "list" price so that they can give their negotiated discount percent and still rake in money. If they're "discounting" it to $4k for everyone, they're obviously still making money at that price.
Seems like most people are overthinking this a bit... Once you're ready to retire, the exact date you stop working isn't very relevant.
My plan would be:
- Wait till the day I'm totally ready to walk out the door
- Walk into my bosses office and say, "Hey boss, I'm ready to retire. How long do you want me to stick around?"
Then it doesn't really matter what their reaction is.
I'm surprised nobody in China (or even the US, since we're STILL pretty competitive for low-volume manufacturing) has started cranking out laser printers with copies of the 1990s-era LaserJet print engine.
Yeah... those things never actually die, as far as I can tell. I used to work for a school that had some HP LJ 6MPs in the lab. By the time I got there, they'd already done 17 squillion pages, but were perfectly fine - just slow. The slowness led to them getting replaced (in about 2004), at which time I offered to buy one to take home. They said "just take it." I still have it, and it works perfectly, with the same toner cartridge that was in there when it was retired from the lab at school. It will still be printing come doomsday.
Only problems I've ever had with it are that it only has a parallel port, which is getting really damn inconvenient to deal with, and it's short on memory, which leads to the occasional inability to print something.
An electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a civil engineer were arguing over what sort of engineer God is.
The electrical engineer said, "Just look at human nervous system! Only an electrical engineer could design that!"
The mechanical engineer said, "But what about the human skeleton and musculature? Obviously He was a mechanical engineer!"
The civil engineer said, "You're both wrong. God HAS to be a civil engineer, because only a civil engineer would put a sewage pipeline right down the middle of prime recreational real estate!"
Who is General Fault and why is he on my hard drive?
Looking for Colonel Panic, of course... :P
Any bets on this being a dry run for a BGP attack used to steal bitcoin?
It's one thing to create edited video that fools a casual observer, and another that stands up to forensic analysis.
Unless it's an oppressive state that's fabricating the videos to get rid of "inconvenient" people.
The way the court of public opinion works, they don't need to stand up to that kind of rigor, anyway.
Actually, it will probably leak before any device with the system even hits the market. It only takes one annoyed employee of a device manufacturer to dump the specs and keys on Wikileaks.
In fact, it would be hilarious if this inevitable person released a file right now that simply said "if this law passes, this fill will contain the specs and keys. see if you can find out where it came from."