That's a cool idea, if you never have to meet anyone online.
Imagine trying to schedule a meeting with people where their start and end times for their meetings vary by 7 minutes, 13 minutes, 23 minutes, etc.
Perhaps you say "Well, schedule all meetings in UTC".
I'm down with that, but then, why would many people use solar time? Most people just want to know when the sun rises and sets, and that is also easily-provided information.
What problem are you solving by forcing password changes to uncompromised accounts?
I can tell you a problem you're creating, and no technical policy can fix: Passwords written on a notepad in the drawer or taped to the friggin monitor.
I work 100% remote and have a pin+rsa VPN login, but my AD password changes every 90 days. How on earth is my password being compromised? It isn't. Quit treating it like it is.
Why not put automatic tolling during commute hours, at a fairly high rate, that is exempted when you enter the area but spend at least 30 minutes there before leaving?
It would capture funds from the people just cutting through during rush hour, or deter them from using the street.
If you decide to stop from breakfast or other forms of business within the area, you're not tolled as you spent more than X minutes in the area.
These workers will be canned, blacklisted, and replaced by younger people willing to work for vastly less - all in under a week. The official message from our dear government after that (disseminated by the "terrible media" that the same government claims to hate so much) will be that it is all the fault of the workers and their union.
These are the people that work on the POTS network. Perhaps if AT&T had thought ahead and moved to fiber end-to-end years ago, this wouldn't be an issue. However, they still have tons of copper in the ground, and you're not going to find someone at a job fair that knows how to deal with that.
I was planning on getting an gen 4 Apple TV anyhow. With the promo they were running, I was able to get one cheaper than I would have anyhow, and then get 3 months of shitty TV with unskipable ads included. Since I was already paying for Sling, I switched to this. Honestly, I think I may switch back to Dish or DirecTV after my 3 months are up in March. I'll pay a premium to be able to record my shows again and skip commercials.
Why? It's not like there is a shortage of space in, erm, space, is there?
There is plenty of room in the ocean, too.
The point is that the more wasted space you have, the harder it is to make something tough and maneuverable. Hence the reason the USS Defiant was so small.
It makes sense that a floating cruise ship like the Enterprise-D had such huge hallways. It even had daycare, which was part of the plot.
However, military/scientific vessels in the years before where everyone on board was working, and not a spouse or child, should have been focused on the mission and designed as such. Hallways should only be as wide as needed.
Now, in defense of ST:TNG, even the Enterprise-D frequently highlighted the purely functional and cramped nature of the Jefferies Tubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wonder what 3rd parties think of a device that yet again probably has little chance of platform parity with its competitors.
Why have a 3rd flavor of chocolate?
The Nintendo trend has been to do something different from PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
I'm not a Nintendo person, or plan on getting this, but I see that they sell quite well. I assume this is because they're not the same. As for the 3rd parties, I don't think they're trying to fit CoD on these. The games for Nintendo have never been bleeding edge, they focus more on fun at a lower rez.
Net Neutrality can be summed up in 5 words: A packet is a packet.
No, that is packet or service neutrality.
Some people will say stuff like: you have to prioritize VOIP for 911, or real time emergency alerts, or whatever.
You don't HAVE to, but if done NETWORK NEUTRAL, then yes, you can prioritize VoIP over SMTP if you want, as long as you do it for VoIP on every network, and you've still accomplished Network Neutrality.
I've not had a DVR for a couple of years now, but when I did, I would take a rough guess to start anywhere from 30-90 minutes late on the broadcast of whatever sportsball or racing I was watching.
The goal was to skip every commercial, yet still end up live for the last 30-10 minutes.
No spoiled results, and very few commercials in the last bit. Worked great.
I also did with with shows with big reveals and lots of live views, like The Walking Dead. Those are a predictable 10 minute delay to catch up to live by the last commercial break.
What advertising? I'm running an adblocker - and so do most people with sense these days.
I don't, on purpose. I think still I have some sense.
-I like to pay for the services I use. Many companies will provide me service by showing me ads. That is fair to me. -I don't want ads for NFL games and tampons. I have no use for either of those. However, if a new 2m radio is on sale, I actually want to know that. -I mind giving small a small amount of information to advertisers (through cookies and fingerprinting) a LOT less than I mind giving any Ad blocking app FULL web browsing history.
As i recall, still ads were shown from the auditorium opened, usually 20-30 minutes before the movie.
Yes, they still do this.
At 5 minutes before the movie, the lights dimmed, and motion ads started. Anyone arriving then were considered late, and were shown to their seat by an attendant with a torch.
No. They no longer do this. This is why I don't want to go see movies in the theater. At the *start time* of the movie, 15 minutes of ads are shown. These are non-topical ads, mind you. Ads for life insurance or cars. At T+15 minutes, the lights dim, and we're shown the trailers that are actually useful ads, as I'm at a movie and I am shopping for my next movie. At T+30 minutes, the movie starts. Late arrivals get no assistance to a seat, and may be as disruptive as they wish. No usher will escort them or admonish them for their loud behavior. Despite a reminder not to use phones, phone use, either visual with a bright smartphone or audio, as in an actual phone call, is not restricted. No usher will remove someone for breaking the rules.
Google does a lot of things well, but staying around for the long haul on personal-focused stuff isn't one of them. If I'm going to invest in hardware to manage my home, I expect a 10 year lifecycle at least. I'm not saying everything should last for 10 years, but the lights I install in 2016 should still be able to be controlled in 2026. With Google's tendency to cancel stuff with short notice, I'm not feeling like being one of the people burned by that.
They were prohibiting the use of a type of device. I see nothing about bans of Bluetooth or ZigBee using the 2.4 GHz range.
I've also seen no reports of sending de-auth packets, which is exactly what the FCC can enforce.
An institution saying "If you shout during the debate from the audience, we will escort you out" is not a ban on free speech. Likewise, saying "If you bring your own access point, you we will escort you out" isn't licensing the 2.4 GHz spectrum.
Well the reason is that if the US doesn't give up control, countries have been threatening with building their own internet infrastructure to run in parallel.
If these countries (Brazil, Russia, etc) did create a "second internet", then Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, would all be shut off from their customers in those regions.
Great example!
So, as a result, the Internet will need to comply with the whims or regulations of Brazil and Russia. You've surely seen that they really have a poor view of encryption as well.
Granted, the USA isn't rocking freedom of encryption right now, but I like our chances of changing the US government over changing the mind of the world.
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That's a cool idea, if you never have to meet anyone online.
Imagine trying to schedule a meeting with people where their start and end times for their meetings vary by 7 minutes, 13 minutes, 23 minutes, etc.
Perhaps you say "Well, schedule all meetings in UTC".
I'm down with that, but then, why would many people use solar time? Most people just want to know when the sun rises and sets, and that is also easily-provided information.
So, go UTC!
password that changes every six months to a year.
Why? Why not every 2 years, or every week?
What problem are you solving by forcing password changes to uncompromised accounts?
I can tell you a problem you're creating, and no technical policy can fix: Passwords written on a notepad in the drawer or taped to the friggin monitor.
I work 100% remote and have a pin+rsa VPN login, but my AD password changes every 90 days. How on earth is my password being compromised? It isn't. Quit treating it like it is.
Why not put automatic tolling during commute hours, at a fairly high rate, that is exempted when you enter the area but spend at least 30 minutes there before leaving?
It would capture funds from the people just cutting through during rush hour, or deter them from using the street.
If you decide to stop from breakfast or other forms of business within the area, you're not tolled as you spent more than X minutes in the area.
You need to make sure your phone supports a new set of LTE channels to get that extended range with T-Mobile.
That expanded range comes from new frequencies, not new towers.
I think it's clear they didn't intend to include slaves.
Right. That's why they used the word "people".
Slaves were not people, they were property.*
*Note: I completely disagree with this fucked up historical view, but this was the thoughts at the time.
These workers will be canned, blacklisted, and replaced by younger people willing to work for vastly less - all in under a week. The official message from our dear government after that (disseminated by the "terrible media" that the same government claims to hate so much) will be that it is all the fault of the workers and their union.
These are the people that work on the POTS network.
Perhaps if AT&T had thought ahead and moved to fiber end-to-end years ago, this wouldn't be an issue.
However, they still have tons of copper in the ground, and you're not going to find someone at a job fair that knows how to deal with that.
Isn't this the whole point of the EU? A single economic trading zone?
First, if I have a req for an engineer with a range of $160K-$190K, if you are making $220K I know it's unlikely that you will accept this job.
That's an easy problem to solve. Just say "My range is $160k to $190k, and those are firm. Are you interested in continuing?"
If you don't want to trust the candidate with those numbers, why should they trust you with theirs?
I was planning on getting an gen 4 Apple TV anyhow.
With the promo they were running, I was able to get one cheaper than I would have anyhow, and then get 3 months of shitty TV with unskipable ads included.
Since I was already paying for Sling, I switched to this.
Honestly, I think I may switch back to Dish or DirecTV after my 3 months are up in March. I'll pay a premium to be able to record my shows again and skip commercials.
Why? It's not like there is a shortage of space in, erm, space, is there?
There is plenty of room in the ocean, too.
The point is that the more wasted space you have, the harder it is to make something tough and maneuverable. Hence the reason the USS Defiant was so small.
It makes sense that a floating cruise ship like the Enterprise-D had such huge hallways. It even had daycare, which was part of the plot.
However, military/scientific vessels in the years before where everyone on board was working, and not a spouse or child, should have been focused on the mission and designed as such. Hallways should only be as wide as needed.
Now, in defense of ST:TNG, even the Enterprise-D frequently highlighted the purely functional and cramped nature of the Jefferies Tubes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wonder what 3rd parties think of a device that yet again probably has little chance of platform parity with its competitors.
Why have a 3rd flavor of chocolate?
The Nintendo trend has been to do something different from PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.
I'm not a Nintendo person, or plan on getting this, but I see that they sell quite well. I assume this is because they're not the same.
As for the 3rd parties, I don't think they're trying to fit CoD on these. The games for Nintendo have never been bleeding edge, they focus more on fun at a lower rez.
That is no reason to *force* the cost and security risk of wifi onto everyone who doesn't want it.
I get your cost argument, but I fail to understand the security risk if you don't permit it to connect to your network.
That's "tri-radio", not "tri-band".
Words matter, and they matter even more when using them in technology.
...I do not think that word means what they think it means.
2.45 GHz is one ISM band.
5.8 GHz is another ISM band.
I keep looking for 900 MHz or 24.125 GHz ISM bands on these "tri-band" access points, yet I find none.
Net Neutrality can be summed up in 5 words: A packet is a packet.
No, that is packet or service neutrality.
Some people will say stuff like: you have to prioritize VOIP for 911, or real time emergency alerts, or whatever.
You don't HAVE to, but if done NETWORK NEUTRAL, then yes, you can prioritize VoIP over SMTP if you want, as long as you do it for VoIP on every network, and you've still accomplished Network Neutrality.
I've not had a DVR for a couple of years now, but when I did, I would take a rough guess to start anywhere from 30-90 minutes late on the broadcast of whatever sportsball or racing I was watching.
The goal was to skip every commercial, yet still end up live for the last 30-10 minutes.
No spoiled results, and very few commercials in the last bit. Worked great.
I also did with with shows with big reveals and lots of live views, like The Walking Dead. Those are a predictable 10 minute delay to catch up to live by the last commercial break.
And I'm still waiting for renewable to provide *any* power during a cold winter night...
Water storage. It works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Once there is enough excess daytime capacity, we'll be good to go.
That isn't today, though.
What advertising? I'm running an adblocker - and so do most people with sense these days.
I don't, on purpose. I think still I have some sense.
-I like to pay for the services I use. Many companies will provide me service by showing me ads. That is fair to me.
-I don't want ads for NFL games and tampons. I have no use for either of those. However, if a new 2m radio is on sale, I actually want to know that.
-I mind giving small a small amount of information to advertisers (through cookies and fingerprinting) a LOT less than I mind giving any Ad blocking app FULL web browsing history.
How are you paying for the services you use?
Why wouldn't Alphabet spin off a new company that they have a 40% stake in and let it fly?
It wouldn't be part of Alphabet, so the rules wouldn't apply.
If it fails, they can handle a little loss.
If it is a hit, they can make money from it without holding back on good ideas the world might be able to use.
As i recall, still ads were shown from the auditorium opened, usually 20-30 minutes before the movie.
Yes, they still do this.
At 5 minutes before the movie, the lights dimmed, and motion ads started. Anyone arriving then were considered late, and were shown to their seat by an attendant with a torch.
No. They no longer do this. This is why I don't want to go see movies in the theater.
At the *start time* of the movie, 15 minutes of ads are shown. These are non-topical ads, mind you. Ads for life insurance or cars.
At T+15 minutes, the lights dim, and we're shown the trailers that are actually useful ads, as I'm at a movie and I am shopping for my next movie.
At T+30 minutes, the movie starts. Late arrivals get no assistance to a seat, and may be as disruptive as they wish. No usher will escort them or admonish them for their loud behavior.
Despite a reminder not to use phones, phone use, either visual with a bright smartphone or audio, as in an actual phone call, is not restricted. No usher will remove someone for breaking the rules.
Google does a lot of things well, but staying around for the long haul on personal-focused stuff isn't one of them.
If I'm going to invest in hardware to manage my home, I expect a 10 year lifecycle at least.
I'm not saying everything should last for 10 years, but the lights I install in 2016 should still be able to be controlled in 2026.
With Google's tendency to cancel stuff with short notice, I'm not feeling like being one of the people burned by that.
They were prohibiting the use of a type of device. I see nothing about bans of Bluetooth or ZigBee using the 2.4 GHz range.
I've also seen no reports of sending de-auth packets, which is exactly what the FCC can enforce.
An institution saying "If you shout during the debate from the audience, we will escort you out" is not a ban on free speech.
Likewise, saying "If you bring your own access point, you we will escort you out" isn't licensing the 2.4 GHz spectrum.
If they're going to do this, I'd like to see if they can do better than Microsoft (low bar, I know).
Right now, if I happen to be on my Win10 laptop while watching Netflix on the Xbox One, I could say "Hey Cortana, pause!".
The Xbox One pauses the show.
The laptop says "I'm sorry, but I can't do that right now."
It is like they really didn't expect any Xbox One owners to have a Windows 10 laptop.
Well the reason is that if the US doesn't give up control, countries have been threatening with building their own internet infrastructure to run in parallel.
If these countries (Brazil, Russia, etc) did create a "second internet", then Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, would all be shut off from their customers in those regions.
Great example!
So, as a result, the Internet will need to comply with the whims or regulations of Brazil and Russia. You've surely seen that they really have a poor view of encryption as well.
Granted, the USA isn't rocking freedom of encryption right now, but I like our chances of changing the US government over changing the mind of the world.
The MCX, which has Walmart and CVS in their membership, wanted to push their anti-consumer CurrentC app so they could avoid credit card charges.
CVS even had a working mobile wallet payment system working with Android, but disabled it when Apple Pay was launched.
When the world's largest retailer doesn't want to support something, it gets hard to adopt it.
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...