You mean like go back to the TWENTIETH CENTURY MODEL where airports or airlines ran the security lines?
We are *NOT* talking about the TSA, we are talking about the FAA. Different.
In *principle* this could work, but more likly, Trump will hand it off to some corporation that sends a lobbiest with a large bag of cash to suck his cock.
I suppose the next thing that Trump will privatize is the ARMY
...watching MSNBC & Al Jazeera and splitting the difference.
That's half facetious, but the reality is that if you get all your news from a single source, you're guaranteed to get a biased view of reality, no matter what the source. The best thing you can do is to get information from as many different sources as possible, and when there are differences, do a little digging through meta-analysis sites to try to figure out where the truth lies.
If you don't have time to do that, your only choice is to accept that you will always be at least to some degree uninformed, hope that it doesn't matter, and don't worry about it.
I live in Canada. Long ago I stopped trusting American news outlets, as each was providing biased reporting. Biased reporting is favouring one point of view over another, without presenting the other's point of view.
I rely on CBC to report American News and I rely on the BBC to do likewise. Neither of these two (news) agencies has a vested interest in the outcomes. Just the facts please... From both sides please... If Al-Jazeera was locally available, I might look at their news reports. I have enough with the two that I mentioned.
How much money is Google putting into AI research? Amazon? Apple? IBM? Others? How successful are they compared to the Chinese government's efforts?
How many products or services do people use which rely on U.S. company's AI efforts and how many which rely on Chinese created efforts?
The idea that the only comparison is between Chinese government funding and U.S. government funding is ridiculous. The private companies in the U.S. working on AI are the ones actually accomplishing things nowadays and announcing another government 5-year plan for China to win some sort of AI race isn't going to change that.
With all governments, there is usually an arrangement to create a government need and hence to fund research. Its been this way for the past 75 years.
But foreign countries take the view that 3% or 4% of gdp is for funding innovation. Innovation is the key to progress.
The USA under your POTUS had redirected that 3-4% towards a tax reduction for the wealthiest. When that healthcare and research money goes to drop corporate tax rates by 15 %, you will see some humongous transfers of wealth from parents to children. You will see transactions dealing with tens of billions of dollars, where wealth transfer will be subject to reduced taxation. And then the bail-out. Trump will have done his thing for his fortune, Jared likewise and the Republicans will be footing the bill, along with Mr Average.
So, US research into AI is not going to suddenly explode. Oh yes, there might be some extra AI research if military spending is not used for tanks, but for technology to create cyber warfare, eg, cyber attacks and cyber defences. But Trump is only happy with rockets. He likes to see the flaming tail as these rockets shoot upwards.
The USA spends more on military than the next three largest countries combined. Does the military need that increase? Is the USA planning to invade the world? That extra spending that Trump wants should go to education (AI research, medical research, etc.). I just feel so sad that the Trump priorities are wrong.
Instead of getting fat sitting and munching popcorn and watching a make believe sci-fi movie, do some outdoor activity, like walking, jogging or going to a park where there is a sports field (baseball, football, soccer, etc). This "out of the house" activity will do more to prolong your healthy life than watching a dumming down Netflicks movie or some other piece of unimagination.
HELL, in Silicon Valley a realtor could manage that with a single home sale.
Now home sales are a pretty trivial thing. But there are far more interesting (life saving) activities you would discourage with your communist nonsense.
You're probably sabotaging your own cubicle dweller corporate job with that kind of nonsense.
Do you know the difference between socialist and communist? When the wealthy install robots to do your job, you will be the one that is unemployed. And when your savings run out, paying for your College/university and healthcare, I wish you the best of luck. My advice to you is to look at the cost of your toys and ask if they are worth having.
One's a P, the other is two P's. Likelihood of confusion?
I think PayPal's pissed that they suck and Pandora doesn't.
If the two companies are not in the same business, then there is no chance of loss of business for either side. I would just have the Single P logo have a line beneath the P to indicated incorproated or "since 19xx"
Discussing Trump with a Trump supporter is like discussing a Nigerian prince with someone who just started using email and is convinced they're about become a multimillionaire.
It would have been a valid point that the graph doesn't go back far enough to rule out effects from seasonal variations - if you had made that point. But your claim that US tourism was falling at the same rate prior to the election is total BS. Yes, there was a significant drop from September to October. But the month before that it was level. And the month before that it was increasing.
I know you want to believe in your Nigerian prince. But the data does strongly suggest that Trump's policy toward foreign visitors is hurting the US tourism industry.
I'm a white guy, as is my wife (and we no longer feel comfortable to cross the Canadian border to visit the USA). We used to take one or two day shopping trips, and no more. The mood that we see on CNN, NBC, ABC, and BBC (yes, BBC) is very negative, showing mainly 50%negative political views and 50% crime. Who wants to visit a politically biased crime laden country?
What I don't get is... why the fuck they think somehow I'd listen to such a voicemail.
"Huh. I have a voicemail... that's odd, I don't have any missed calls..."
"You have THREE new messages. First message. Hi, this is Ted Cruz, and I'm runni BEEEEP... message deleted. Next message." (moody, scary, minor-key music) "The President is taking Amer BEEEP... message deleted. Next message." (Soaring, upbeat music begi) "BEEEEP. message deleted. You have no more messages."
Politicians... you're wasting your fucking time.
who is going to pay for the message storage? Can you send a bill to the Republican party asking for compensation for the time you took and the storage they inappropriately consumed. Is your time worth $100/hr? and the storage $3.00/megabyte day?
When you are an experienced cross-country driver, with a 53 foot (25m) trailer or two, I have my doubts that automation can replace the human brain. I do accept that on a clear road, it could supplement the human brain. Because, while the cameras and computers are looking forward, it is also scanning the motor sensors.
The automated system would have to know that truck A travelling at 105km/hr, is able to pass a truck in the right lane, travelling at 104 km/hr. Or should it. as the highway will be blocked for minutes during the passing exercise.
Do no harm. If your C program from 1980 is recompiled, the liklihood is that it will compile cleanly, and run correctly. Similarly, for C++ programs written in the 90's. Thats more than 25years of compiler upgrades and language extensions. And I would like to see Java or Python or VM language process 3-5 million bank transactions in a 4 hour overnight window.
Cobol and Fortran too are great stable high performance languages that are easy to learn and maintain.
Yes, the government's biggest job is to ensure a free environment. E.g. there are laws that forbid people to rob or kill others. This allows you to freely roam the country without fear of being robbed or killed. Of course, you could say such rules are just government intervention, and require private armies to be set up, or gated communities, etc. But generally, gated communities are not a good solution to the problem, as a) it is only a solution for people who can afford it and b) it impairs freedom.
The net neutrality rules are similar here: they ensure that the companies don't fuck with their customers, and ensure that you can enjoy any service you want. Yes, its limiting the ISP's but it creates a big free environment in turn for competition, companies and business to thrive.
When neutrality is taken away, the Internet providers, who by the way, earn their money from your connection, are going to be in the position to refuse a small business (or you ) to provide the small business's website access (your contacting his site), unless the business pays a fee to allow him to use the web. You already pay the ISPs a fee through your monthly bill, and they, the ISPs want more. You will be paying for sending your emails, perhaps a 1/10th cent or so, and yes, its a money grab.
Right. Hillary totally said "Let's attack Russia."
Which it totally part and parcel of vowing to enforce a no-fly zone in an area patrolled by Russian jets. If it was Putin promising to enforce a no-carrier-fleet policy in the region, threatening to sink American aircraft carriers and other vessels in the process, would you argue with people who said Putin said "let's attack the US"?
then you might accidentally hit Russian planes, and then everything will spiral out of control
Uh, yeah. The first world war was started over less. President Hillary starts enforcing her no-fly zone and some Russian jets are shot down. Then Russia starts enforcing Syrian sovereignty and starts shooting down U.S. jets - and navy ships firing missiles. You really need a picture painted for how this "spirals out of control" in a few very short, easy steps?
the US at present actually maintains de facto no-fly zones over Kurdish and Daesh territory (including threatening Assad with shooting down his aircraft if they took off during a Kurdish uprising in al-Hasakah), and Turkey maintains their own no-fly zone in northern Syria... forgetting about all of that.
Yes, for forgetting all those violations of Syria's sovereignty, all those acts of war.
Trump outright bombed a Syrian base to bits.
Syrian. Not Russian. But the goalposts do look quite lovely in the new location you've chosen for them.
but meanwhile in our universe, they gave Trump high poll ratings for his actions. Because of course, consistency isn't their strong suit.
As if consistency is the strong suit of Democrats? They switched so fast from hating Comey to singing his praises, it's a wonder they aren't all in traction from herniated disks. Besides, there's a gap between your premise and your conclusion - Republicans have loved imperialism and bombing other countries for several decades now - you think this is a change for them?
Between Hillary and Trump, there is no doubt that Hillary is the smarter and more knowledgeable of the two. It takes knowledge to lead a country, not like the bungling baffoon that is Trump with the grade 7 vocabulary. Regarding war mongering, Hillary may not have done what Trump did -- drop a mother Sucker of a bomb to obliterate the caves. Trump is a proud racist, and one definitely would not be able to say that of Hillary.
How do we know that older patients don't just like going to older doctors?
In many localities, there is a shortage of family doctors. Ergo, the seniors who found their doctor some 20 years ago, are still with the same doctor. I am with my family doctor for the past 20 years. In a few years he will retire. And when I arrive for the semi-annual checkup (bp, pulse, urine, and complaints), his waiting room is filled with seniors, 60+
A quick Google search turned up this article from 2015 stating that the internet at the time was 6 percent of the us economy. I don't know if that number's right, and even if so, the percentage is probably higher now. But my point is that, without Net Neutrality, it would be nowhere near as big. In fact, it might not have beaten out the likes of Compuserve and MSN, which had pretty much zero effect on the overall economy.
So to the extent that the Internet is a major engine of the growth Republicans always seem to point to as their magic bullet to justify any and all of their policies - they have just blindly asserted that "we've had all the innovation we need, thank you - it's time for the toll collectors to cash in".
As I see it, Walmart is going to pay to have it's internet website given preference over Amazon's or over Alibaba. That is what net neutrality is going to mean. It means that ISPs can refuse to carry some traffic that is not paid for by the sender.
Where road ownership will be privatized and each owner will get to set its own rules regarding who gets to drive on the roads, what brand of cars are allowed on the road, which destination you are allowed to go to when using said road, and where both the person driving the car and the owner of the destination where he is driving to will have to pay for the privilege of using the road.
How true, so then you pay two tolls and can drive at 120 mph, while the guy who pays one toll is only allowed to drive at 90 mph. But that is besides the connection fee, the toll to get onto the highway.
If your highway is rated at 90mph, then if you get onto that highway, you want to be able to do 90mph. You do not want to discover that you are second class, unless you fork up an additional amount of money. Bring back the good old days where you had a 20gig/month allotment and then you paid a penalty fee if you went over.
It's amazing that the Republicans are focusing rolling back old policy rather than making new policy with all the issues going on in the government right now!
Please identify one act of government that was For the people, by the people. The roll back of the ACA without a replacement was Anti-people and for BIG BUSINESS. The anti-net neutrality is for BIG INTERNET PROVIDERS, and not for the people. Already you are having to pay extra for internet speeds that are standard in all other major countries. Ten years ago, in Latvia, where my son lived, we had fibre to the apartment and could download a movie in a few minutes.
You fools elected a nightmare scenario government. Decades of progress in human rights, science, and technology getting wiped out. Congratulations.
At some point, fibre will allow a competitive and the wish will be for a competitor that will be net neutral.
Without exception other countries have insisted on Net-Neutrality. This is a anti-net neutrality is a oligopoly by Verizon and the other Behemoths exercising control over the government.
Yeah...I'll believe it when I SEE as far as China and India going full in to get rid of fossil fuels and start being the "clean" countries in the world.
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
China and India each have more wind and solar generation of electricity than does the USA. Coal is dead, replaced by natural gas. And natural gas will be dead, replaced by solar and wind.
Too bad the USA under Trump wants to shit where he eats.
In Canada's north we have the subject mentioned temperatures. Batteries freeze at around -20C.
No, the author is too too optimistic. However, as a second car, he may be right. The second car is used as one should use a bicycle. (short trips to grocers, etc)
Trump, and even the whole Republican party, is hardly the only source of anti-intellectualism in the US, it's been ongoing for quite a while.
You've got colleges and universities that can't handle debate, and appear to value the contributions of their sports teams far above any science produced. Ideological interests have been shaping your school books for decades, and the problem's getting worse. The right disbelieves global warming, the left disbelieves GMO and nuclear safety - two of the most important tools to actually solve some of the problems caused by said global warming. Federal science funding has been stagnant / dropping in real value since the 80s. Your corporates are raiding the most successful university labs - turning them from basic to applied science, and locking that science up to the point where they're blocked from even discussing in general terms what they're working on with their peers.
This is just off of the top of my head, I'm sure the slashdot community can come up with more examples.
And, of course, if Trump gets his budget through thousands of US scientists will be unable to get funding and be forced to look for employment elsewhere.
That the US is going to see significantly more brain drain in the years to come does not seem to me like a very controversial prediction.
Here's to hoping things change or that I'm just wrong.
You don't need brain drain, you need affordable education. Why is it that all (each) G7 country has more than 65% of student population complete university. In the USA it is under 55%. Yes, the innovation centers of the world are outside of the United States.
...more Government Paradise. Now every transaction can be tracked. Those who buy the Super Emperor get that fact dished up next time they goof up at work. I do agree that hackers will love this, one flaw in the app and plenty can be compromised. I wonder what is needed to create an account? An address? A bank account? Scan of a photo ID? Asking otherwise, how easy will it be to get a cheap prepaid, hook it up to a bogus or stolen account, and then clean out shelves at stores without ever having to pay? Currently, if someone walks out of a store without paying good security will notice that. If walking out of the store without physically paying is the norm, how easy would it be to fake a successful QR scan and walk out? Also, how easy is it to tamper with the QR codes? Move a few blocks to a different spot and put a sticker over the original sign...sure, still paying the store money, but instead of 299 it is now 2.99.
Stealing? I bet the losses with paperless money yields a ten times lower rate of loss due to shoplifting than otherwise. You may need your cellphone to release an item from the display case. The analogy, look at how you purchase gasoline. The vendor trades electronic payment to armed robbery or guards the business from the clerk giving himself 2o gallons of gasoline without the dispensing being financially recorded.
Aside from the obvious pedestrian issues (which can be addressed by the Buddhist street crossing technique: just walk at a constant speed through the intersection), this is a pretty obvious solution.
Its not going to happen. Cities need revenue from traffic tickets. Insurance companies need to keep rates high as their fees are based on losses and profits are based on losses +fees. And what about the manufacturers of traffic light systems and stop signs?
You know that Intel processors without AMT still have the capability but it is disabled in software...
Every processor has to accept microcode updates. Pentiums, Skylakes, AMD's. During the life of the cpu, bugs or buglets are detected. The cpu vendor provides a microcode update that the motherboard bios sends to the processor. The microcode update corrects instructions, or even activates or can add a limited amount of new instructions. This will be the entry point for future hackers where the CPU is installed in non-uefi managed systems.
Putting Internet accessible code running over the operating system was a terrible idea and this is the predictable outcome.The implementation was totally brain dead and wasn't even tested beyond "works in correct usage cases." This is the reason projects like Libreboot exist.
What are the chances that the NSA knew about this loophole and profited from it? Is it 100% ?
Everybody writes about child pornography. I have not yet in my lifetime seen any, or wait, I was 5 or 6 when a friend brought a deck of cards with porn. We kids oogled and wondered who would do such things. (puberty did not yet arrive). We saw wonders -- male organs transposed over female genitals, etc.
Did it make me a pedophile? I don't know. Is it any worse than consuming alcohol? Some alcohol consumers become addicts, other do not. I fall into the do not category.
Back to distribution of child porn. It could be a good business for the government. Next question that needs an answer. Is it a crime if someone uses the viewing of child-porn to protect himself/herself from going after real children?
The producers of porn should be imprisoned, I wonder about the distributors. Should they be indentified as accessories?
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You mean like go back to the TWENTIETH CENTURY MODEL where airports or airlines ran the security lines?
We are *NOT* talking about the TSA, we are talking about the FAA. Different.
In *principle* this could work, but more likly, Trump will hand it off to some corporation that sends a lobbiest with a large bag of cash to suck his cock.
I suppose the next thing that Trump will privatize is the ARMY
...watching MSNBC & Al Jazeera and splitting the difference.
That's half facetious, but the reality is that if you get all your news from a single source, you're guaranteed to get a biased view of reality, no matter what the source. The best thing you can do is to get information from as many different sources as possible, and when there are differences, do a little digging through meta-analysis sites to try to figure out where the truth lies.
If you don't have time to do that, your only choice is to accept that you will always be at least to some degree uninformed, hope that it doesn't matter, and don't worry about it.
I live in Canada. Long ago I stopped trusting American news outlets, as each was providing biased reporting. Biased reporting is favouring one point of view over another, without presenting the other's point of view.
I rely on CBC to report American News and I rely on the BBC to do likewise. Neither of these two (news) agencies has a vested interest in the outcomes. Just the facts please... From both sides please... If Al-Jazeera was locally available, I might look at their news reports. I have enough with the two that I mentioned.
How much money is Google putting into AI research? Amazon? Apple? IBM? Others? How successful are they compared to the Chinese government's efforts?
How many products or services do people use which rely on U.S. company's AI efforts and how many which rely on Chinese created efforts?
The idea that the only comparison is between Chinese government funding and U.S. government funding is ridiculous. The private companies in the U.S. working on AI are the ones actually accomplishing things nowadays and announcing another government 5-year plan for China to win some sort of AI race isn't going to change that.
With all governments, there is usually an arrangement to create a government need and hence to fund research. Its been this way for the past 75 years.
But foreign countries take the view that 3% or 4% of gdp is for funding innovation. Innovation is the key to progress.
The USA under your POTUS had redirected that 3-4% towards a tax reduction for the wealthiest. When that healthcare and research money goes to drop corporate tax rates by 15 %, you will see some humongous transfers of wealth from parents to children. You will see transactions dealing with tens of billions of dollars, where wealth transfer will be subject to reduced taxation. And then the bail-out. Trump will have done his thing for his fortune, Jared likewise and the Republicans will be footing the bill, along with Mr Average.
So, US research into AI is not going to suddenly explode. Oh yes, there might be some extra AI research if military spending is not used for tanks, but for technology to create cyber warfare, eg, cyber attacks and cyber defences. But Trump is only happy with rockets. He likes to see the flaming tail as these rockets shoot upwards.
The USA spends more on military than the next three largest countries combined. Does the military need that increase? Is the USA planning to invade the world? That extra spending that Trump wants should go to education (AI research, medical research, etc.). I just feel so sad that the Trump priorities are wrong.
Instead of getting fat sitting and munching popcorn and watching a make believe sci-fi movie, do some outdoor activity, like walking, jogging or going to a park where there is a sports field (baseball, football, soccer, etc). This "out of the house" activity will do more to prolong your healthy life than watching a dumming down Netflicks movie or some other piece of unimagination.
A medicore realtor could manage that.
HELL, in Silicon Valley a realtor could manage that with a single home sale.
Now home sales are a pretty trivial thing. But there are far more interesting (life saving) activities you would discourage with your communist nonsense.
You're probably sabotaging your own cubicle dweller corporate job with that kind of nonsense.
Do you know the difference between socialist and communist? When the wealthy install robots to do your job, you will be the one that is unemployed. And when your savings run out, paying for your College/university and healthcare, I wish you the best of luck. My advice to you is to look at the cost of your toys and ask if they are worth having.
One's a P, the other is two P's. Likelihood of confusion?
I think PayPal's pissed that they suck and Pandora doesn't.
If the two companies are not in the same business, then there is no chance of loss of business for either side. I would just have the Single P logo have a line beneath the P to indicated incorproated or "since 19xx"
Discussing Trump with a Trump supporter is like discussing a Nigerian prince with someone who just started using email and is convinced they're about become a multimillionaire.
It would have been a valid point that the graph doesn't go back far enough to rule out effects from seasonal variations - if you had made that point. But your claim that US tourism was falling at the same rate prior to the election is total BS. Yes, there was a significant drop from September to October. But the month before that it was level. And the month before that it was increasing.
I know you want to believe in your Nigerian prince. But the data does strongly suggest that Trump's policy toward foreign visitors is hurting the US tourism industry.
I'm a white guy, as is my wife (and we no longer feel comfortable to cross the Canadian border to visit the USA). We used to take one or two day shopping trips, and no more. The mood that we see on CNN, NBC, ABC, and BBC (yes, BBC) is very negative, showing mainly 50%negative political views and 50% crime. Who wants to visit a politically biased crime laden country?
What I don't get is... why the fuck they think somehow I'd listen to such a voicemail.
"Huh. I have a voicemail... that's odd, I don't have any missed calls..."
"You have THREE new messages. First message. Hi, this is Ted Cruz, and I'm runni BEEEEP... message deleted. Next message." (moody, scary, minor-key music) "The President is taking Amer BEEEP... message deleted. Next message." (Soaring, upbeat music begi) "BEEEEP. message deleted. You have no more messages."
Politicians... you're wasting your fucking time.
who is going to pay for the message storage? Can you send a bill to the Republican party asking for compensation for the time you took and the storage they inappropriately consumed. Is your time worth $100/hr? and the storage $3.00/megabyte day?
When you are an experienced cross-country driver, with a 53 foot (25m) trailer or two, I have my doubts that automation can replace the human brain. I do accept that on a clear road, it could supplement the human brain. Because, while the cameras and computers are looking forward, it is also scanning the motor sensors.
The automated system would have to know that truck A travelling at 105km/hr, is able to pass a truck in the right lane, travelling at 104 km/hr. Or should it. as the highway will be blocked for minutes during the passing exercise.
Do no harm. If your C program from 1980 is recompiled, the liklihood is that it will compile cleanly, and run correctly. Similarly, for C++ programs written in the 90's. Thats more than 25years of compiler upgrades and language extensions. And I would like to see Java or Python or VM language process 3-5 million bank transactions in a 4 hour overnight window.
Cobol and Fortran too are great stable high performance languages that are easy to learn and maintain.
Yes, the government's biggest job is to ensure a free environment. E.g. there are laws that forbid people to rob or kill others. This allows you to freely roam the country without fear of being robbed or killed. Of course, you could say such rules are just government intervention, and require private armies to be set up, or gated communities, etc. But generally, gated communities are not a good solution to the problem, as a) it is only a solution for people who can afford it and b) it impairs freedom.
The net neutrality rules are similar here: they ensure that the companies don't fuck with their customers, and ensure that you can enjoy any service you want. Yes, its limiting the ISP's but it creates a big free environment in turn for competition, companies and business to thrive.
When neutrality is taken away, the Internet providers, who by the way, earn their money from your connection, are going to be in the position to refuse a small business (or you ) to provide the small business's website access (your contacting his site), unless the business pays a fee to allow him to use the web. You already pay the ISPs a fee through your monthly bill, and they, the ISPs want more. You will be paying for sending your emails, perhaps a 1/10th cent or so, and yes, its a money grab.
Shame Shame Shame.
Which it totally part and parcel of vowing to enforce a no-fly zone in an area patrolled by Russian jets. If it was Putin promising to enforce a no-carrier-fleet policy in the region, threatening to sink American aircraft carriers and other vessels in the process, would you argue with people who said Putin said "let's attack the US"?
Uh, yeah. The first world war was started over less. President Hillary starts enforcing her no-fly zone and some Russian jets are shot down. Then Russia starts enforcing Syrian sovereignty and starts shooting down U.S. jets - and navy ships firing missiles. You really need a picture painted for how this "spirals out of control" in a few very short, easy steps?
Yes, for forgetting all those violations of Syria's sovereignty, all those acts of war.
Syrian. Not Russian. But the goalposts do look quite lovely in the new location you've chosen for them.
As if consistency is the strong suit of Democrats? They switched so fast from hating Comey to singing his praises, it's a wonder they aren't all in traction from herniated disks. Besides, there's a gap between your premise and your conclusion - Republicans have loved imperialism and bombing other countries for several decades now - you think this is a change for them?
Between Hillary and Trump, there is no doubt that Hillary is the smarter and more knowledgeable of the two. It takes knowledge to lead a country, not like the bungling baffoon that is Trump with the grade 7 vocabulary. Regarding war mongering, Hillary may not have done what Trump did -- drop a mother Sucker of a bomb to obliterate the caves. Trump is a proud racist, and one definitely would not be able to say that of Hillary.
How do we know that older patients don't just like going to older doctors?
In many localities, there is a shortage of family doctors. Ergo, the seniors who found their doctor some 20 years ago, are still with the same doctor. I am with my family doctor for the past 20 years. In a few years he will retire. And when I arrive for the semi-annual checkup (bp, pulse, urine, and complaints), his waiting room is filled with seniors, 60+
A quick Google search turned up this article from 2015 stating that the internet at the time was 6 percent of the us economy. I don't know if that number's right, and even if so, the percentage is probably higher now. But my point is that, without Net Neutrality, it would be nowhere near as big. In fact, it might not have beaten out the likes of Compuserve and MSN, which had pretty much zero effect on the overall economy.
So to the extent that the Internet is a major engine of the growth Republicans always seem to point to as their magic bullet to justify any and all of their policies - they have just blindly asserted that "we've had all the innovation we need, thank you - it's time for the toll collectors to cash in".
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As I see it, Walmart is going to pay to have it's internet website given preference over Amazon's or over Alibaba. That is what net neutrality is going to mean. It means that ISPs can refuse to carry some traffic that is not paid for by the sender.
Where road ownership will be privatized and each owner will get to set its own rules regarding who gets to drive on the roads, what brand of cars are allowed on the road, which destination you are allowed to go to when using said road, and where both the person driving the car and the owner of the destination where he is driving to will have to pay for the privilege of using the road.
How true, so then you pay two tolls and can drive at 120 mph, while the guy who pays one toll is only allowed to drive at 90 mph. But that is besides the connection fee, the toll to get onto the highway.
If your highway is rated at 90mph, then if you get onto that highway, you want to be able to do 90mph. You do not want to discover that you are second class, unless you fork up an additional amount of money. Bring back the good old days where you had a 20gig/month allotment and then you paid a penalty fee if you went over.
It's amazing that the Republicans are focusing rolling back old policy rather than making new policy with all the issues going on in the government right now!
Please identify one act of government that was For the people, by the people. The roll back of the ACA without a replacement was Anti-people and for BIG BUSINESS.
The anti-net neutrality is for BIG INTERNET PROVIDERS, and not for the people.
Already you are having to pay extra for internet speeds that are standard in all other major countries. Ten years ago, in Latvia, where my son lived, we had fibre to the apartment and could download a movie in a few minutes.
You fools elected a nightmare scenario government. Decades of progress in human rights, science, and technology getting wiped out. Congratulations.
At some point, fibre will allow a competitive and the wish will be for a competitor that will be net neutral.
Without exception other countries have insisted on Net-Neutrality. This is a anti-net neutrality is a oligopoly by Verizon and the other Behemoths exercising control over the government.
Yeah...I'll believe it when I SEE as far as China and India going full in to get rid of fossil fuels and start being the "clean" countries in the world.
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
China and India each have more wind and solar generation of electricity than does the USA. Coal is dead, replaced by natural gas. And natural gas will be dead, replaced by solar and wind.
Too bad the USA under Trump wants to shit where he eats.
In Canada's north we have the subject mentioned temperatures. Batteries freeze at around -20C.
No, the author is too too optimistic. However, as a second car, he may be right. The second car is used as one should use a bicycle. (short trips to grocers, etc)
Trump, and even the whole Republican party, is hardly the only source of anti-intellectualism in the US, it's been ongoing for quite a while.
You've got colleges and universities that can't handle debate, and appear to value the contributions of their sports teams far above any science produced.
Ideological interests have been shaping your school books for decades, and the problem's getting worse.
The right disbelieves global warming, the left disbelieves GMO and nuclear safety - two of the most important tools to actually solve some of the problems caused by said global warming.
Federal science funding has been stagnant / dropping in real value since the 80s.
Your corporates are raiding the most successful university labs - turning them from basic to applied science, and locking that science up to the point where they're blocked from even discussing in general terms what they're working on with their peers.
This is just off of the top of my head, I'm sure the slashdot community can come up with more examples.
And, of course, if Trump gets his budget through thousands of US scientists will be unable to get funding and be forced to look for employment elsewhere.
That the US is going to see significantly more brain drain in the years to come does not seem to me like a very controversial prediction.
Here's to hoping things change or that I'm just wrong.
You don't need brain drain, you need affordable education. Why is it that all (each) G7 country has more than 65% of student population complete university. In the USA it is under 55%.
Yes, the innovation centers of the world are outside of the United States.
...more Government Paradise. Now every transaction can be tracked. Those who buy the Super Emperor get that fact dished up next time they goof up at work.
I do agree that hackers will love this, one flaw in the app and plenty can be compromised. I wonder what is needed to create an account? An address? A bank account? Scan of a photo ID? Asking otherwise, how easy will it be to get a cheap prepaid, hook it up to a bogus or stolen account, and then clean out shelves at stores without ever having to pay? Currently, if someone walks out of a store without paying good security will notice that. If walking out of the store without physically paying is the norm, how easy would it be to fake a successful QR scan and walk out? Also, how easy is it to tamper with the QR codes? Move a few blocks to a different spot and put a sticker over the original sign...sure, still paying the store money, but instead of 299 it is now 2.99.
Stealing? I bet the losses with paperless money yields a ten times lower rate of loss due to shoplifting than otherwise. You may need your cellphone to release an item from the display case. The analogy, look at how you purchase gasoline. The vendor trades electronic payment to armed robbery or guards the business from the clerk giving himself 2o gallons of gasoline without the dispensing being financially recorded.
Aside from the obvious pedestrian issues (which can be addressed by the Buddhist street crossing technique: just walk at a constant speed through the intersection), this is a pretty obvious solution.
Its not going to happen. Cities need revenue from traffic tickets. Insurance companies need to keep rates high as their fees are based on losses and profits are based on losses +fees. And what about the manufacturers of traffic light systems and stop signs?
You know that Intel processors without AMT still have the capability but it is disabled in software...
Every processor has to accept microcode updates. Pentiums, Skylakes, AMD's.
During the life of the cpu, bugs or buglets are detected. The cpu vendor provides a microcode update that the motherboard bios sends to the processor. The microcode update corrects instructions, or even activates or can add a limited amount of new instructions.
This will be the entry point for future hackers where the CPU is installed in non-uefi managed systems.
Putting Internet accessible code running over the operating system was a terrible idea and this is the predictable outcome.The implementation was totally brain dead and wasn't even tested beyond "works in correct usage cases." This is the reason projects like Libreboot exist.
What are the chances that the NSA knew about this loophole and profited from it? Is it 100% ?
Everybody writes about child pornography. I have not yet in my lifetime seen any, or wait, I was 5 or 6 when a friend brought a deck of cards with porn. We kids oogled and wondered who would do such things. (puberty did not yet arrive).
We saw wonders -- male organs transposed over female genitals, etc.
Did it make me a pedophile? I don't know. Is it any worse than consuming alcohol?
Some alcohol consumers become addicts, other do not. I fall into the do not category.
Back to distribution of child porn. It could be a good business for the government.
Next question that needs an answer. Is it a crime if someone uses the viewing of child-porn to protect himself/herself from going after real children?
The producers of porn should be imprisoned, I wonder about the distributors. Should they be indentified as accessories?