Finally some good is being done. This will put the kibosh on the issue for good and silence federal law enforcement. No good comes from weakening encryption or building in back doors; quite the opposite. It's not a matter of if but when the backdoors get discovered and become used for nefarious purposes. I am glad this has bipartisan support, and since it does, the likelihood of it getting passed is that much stronger. We don't need to live in any more of a surveillance state than we already do. It's one thing if the FBI or whatever other LEO agency discovers a vulnerability and exploits it. Hey this does happen. It's a whole other thing to have secret back doors built in. No! Just no!
I'm saddened to see them go; I love my ZTE Blade Spark. It's a _huge_ phone for under $100. The usable area of the display is bigger than the iPhone 6/7/8 plus and the battery lasts all day.;(
I have a ZTE ZMAX Pro and it is a good phone for the price, but there is nothing unfortunate about ZTE getting punished for supporting bad behavior of 2-bit despots in other countries.
Trade wars can definitely can make things rocky, and are not necessarily easy to win...
All China has to do in retaliation is ban manufacturing Apple/Google products in its country, and it would severely harm those companies in the US...
No, not really. There is a ready and willing talent pool here in the United States to manufacture electronics. There may be some short term pain but I don't really care if Apple only makes 7 billion instead of 8 billion or whatever the figure really is. If you call that severe harm, you're smoking what the corporate shills are selling you.
No, it won't. The Chinese play by their own set of economic rules. They're being cut off for some legitimate reasons, like not abiding by embargo terms. It won't effect foreign corporations' willingness to do business.
The environmental cost of producing solar cells virtually negates the green benefits for many years. Solar cell production is an energy intensive process that requires tight climate controls and clean rooms. This is actually a gift to the solar energy companies and a direct result of their aggressive lobbying efforts. If you follow the money, you'll see that Big Solar is going to make a killing. Now is the time to buy stocks in those companies.
your federal paper insulated wireline monopoly...
How is going back to a NN protected monopoly going to move community broadband forward?
Consider the federal rules that protected monopoly paper insulated wireline for years.
That did not to result in competition, new network, faster networks.
With federal NN rules the existing monopoly networks got protection.
Time to start allowing some completion and new innovate services.
Using new federal rules to protect networks using NN will not result in innovate new services.
Open networking up to the free market and some real competition.
That's just not true. The purpose behind Net Neutrality is not some sinister, monopolistic protection. It simply outlaws preferential treatment of data. All data must be treated with equal weight, priority, and bandwidth. The reason for the lack of competition is that ISPs have local monopolies or duopolies and they collude to keep things this way. Companies like Verizon, Charter, Comcast, etc. are given virtual monopolies at the city, township, or municipal levels. The monopoly can be easily subverted by pooling resources together and building out a community-based wireless network. There is nothing in the terms of service that explicitly states that a broadband connection cannot be shared. So your argument is founded on entirely what you've heard the anti-Net Neutrality politicians scream and yell. Sadly, you are supporting a group of individuals that seek to undermine your internet experience.
I think that our life spans are meant to be finite and I think if we embrace this understanding, we will lose our fear of death. IMHO, people concerned about living forever are not enjoying their lives presently. I would rather enjoy the life that I have then try to spend life looking for the fountain of youth. As someone who has seen people in various states of death and decline, I would sooner die than experience that pain and suffering. The world is also pretty inhospitable so I am not terribly attached to this life. The world is overpopulated now. Imagine if people started living vastly longer lives. The world's problems would only get worse.
That system is based on trust between parties. This leads to large inefficiencies, long clearing times, and expensive transfers. Crypto solves many of the problems of banking and remittance in a better way than the existing system.
But it creates as many problems as it solves. For example, if your Bitcoin is stolen, you have little or no recourse. You have to trust that your Bitcoin wallet is secure and software these days is generally riddled with exploits and vulnerabilities.
Whoever thought it up will in the end destroy millions of lives.
This is the law of unintended consequences. The people that came up with the idea of cryptocurrency never intended for it to be used like this. It was intended to be an end run around the banking system and governments hell bent on control and surveillance.
I have always used only 1 space. The two spaces after a period rule came from a pre-computer, typewriter era. Today's font kerning makes the two spaces after a period rule obsolete.
Uber's entire business model is based on cutting corners (not paying employees as employees, not following local taxi laws/regulations, etc.). I wasn't at all surprised to hear that one of their self-driving test cars killed somebody. I immediately assumed that it was the result of yet another corner that they cut.
And I think your assumption is pretty valid. I believe there will be some attorneys that agree with me as well. That wrongful death suit is going to be very expensive and damaging to Uber.
If it wasn't an effective way to con people out of money, it would not have been around for as long as it has and it's been around since the advent of the fax machine. I remember my dad getting these random faxes at work with the same old song and dance, Nigerian up front fee scams.
Actually, the last election suggested that more Americans are fed up with income inequality and poor or no access to healthcare. Teachers in deeply red states are moving to the left politically because they see what the conservative politician is doing to their income. They're finally seeing that the right is the wolf in sheep's clothing. Most Americans confuse socialism with communism because they've been indoctrinated by the right. In reality, more socialist policies are good for the middle and lower classes. They're not so good for the wealthy. If you want to fix America, start really manufacturing here and stop the tide towards a service economy. Third world countries are largely service economies.
The Chinese go after anything with an open SSH port. On my server, I have no less than 500 Chinese IP addresses sitting on a ban list. My server is nothing exciting either. It just hosts my email and a blog - they have absolutely no information to gain whatsoever. They may even be trying to bruteforce my server in an attempt to assimilate it into a bot net. Well good luck, commies. I run OpenBSD. You'll have better luck moving on...
This move is not about making California a greener, more eco-friendly state. It is about making the solar energy companies wealthier and further driving the cost of homes up, thus helping realtors earn larger commissions. Just about every law passed can be traced to a certain population that stands to benefit from it.
I think outreach is a good thing. I don't see how actively encouraging diversity is a bad thing. I do believe that prolonged preferential treatment given to one population over another is not good. There are good reasons for short term preferential treatment in order to build a diversity, but after a while, preferential treatment versus evaluating someone based on their merits, causes problems.
Once upon a time Seagate was the premiere hard drive to have. Those days are long gone as Western Digital has been the ranking king of at least 10 years now.
I still believe that the best hard drives are Western Digital Black and Gold models. I have some that are well past their prime and should have failed but keep on reliably clicking away. I just re-formatted one and still no bad sectors.
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Finally some good is being done. This will put the kibosh on the issue for good and silence federal law enforcement. No good comes from weakening encryption or building in back doors; quite the opposite. It's not a matter of if but when the backdoors get discovered and become used for nefarious purposes. I am glad this has bipartisan support, and since it does, the likelihood of it getting passed is that much stronger. We don't need to live in any more of a surveillance state than we already do. It's one thing if the FBI or whatever other LEO agency discovers a vulnerability and exploits it. Hey this does happen. It's a whole other thing to have secret back doors built in. No! Just no!
If you were a man, you wouldn't hide behind the Anonymous Coward monicker.
I'm saddened to see them go; I love my ZTE Blade Spark. It's a _huge_ phone for under $100. The usable area of the display is bigger than the iPhone 6/7/8 plus and the battery lasts all day. ;(
I have a ZTE ZMAX Pro and it is a good phone for the price, but there is nothing unfortunate about ZTE getting punished for supporting bad behavior of 2-bit despots in other countries.
Trade wars can definitely can make things rocky, and are not necessarily easy to win...
All China has to do in retaliation is ban manufacturing Apple/Google products in its country, and it would severely harm those companies in the US...
No, not really. There is a ready and willing talent pool here in the United States to manufacture electronics. There may be some short term pain but I don't really care if Apple only makes 7 billion instead of 8 billion or whatever the figure really is. If you call that severe harm, you're smoking what the corporate shills are selling you.
No, it won't. The Chinese play by their own set of economic rules. They're being cut off for some legitimate reasons, like not abiding by embargo terms. It won't effect foreign corporations' willingness to do business.
The environmental cost of producing solar cells virtually negates the green benefits for many years. Solar cell production is an energy intensive process that requires tight climate controls and clean rooms. This is actually a gift to the solar energy companies and a direct result of their aggressive lobbying efforts. If you follow the money, you'll see that Big Solar is going to make a killing. Now is the time to buy stocks in those companies.
your federal paper insulated wireline monopoly ...
How is going back to a NN protected monopoly going to move community broadband forward?
Consider the federal rules that protected monopoly paper insulated wireline for years.
That did not to result in competition, new network, faster networks.
With federal NN rules the existing monopoly networks got protection.
Time to start allowing some completion and new innovate services.
Using new federal rules to protect networks using NN will not result in innovate new services.
Open networking up to the free market and some real competition.
That's just not true. The purpose behind Net Neutrality is not some sinister, monopolistic protection. It simply outlaws preferential treatment of data. All data must be treated with equal weight, priority, and bandwidth. The reason for the lack of competition is that ISPs have local monopolies or duopolies and they collude to keep things this way. Companies like Verizon, Charter, Comcast, etc. are given virtual monopolies at the city, township, or municipal levels. The monopoly can be easily subverted by pooling resources together and building out a community-based wireless network. There is nothing in the terms of service that explicitly states that a broadband connection cannot be shared. So your argument is founded on entirely what you've heard the anti-Net Neutrality politicians scream and yell. Sadly, you are supporting a group of individuals that seek to undermine your internet experience.
I think that our life spans are meant to be finite and I think if we embrace this understanding, we will lose our fear of death. IMHO, people concerned about living forever are not enjoying their lives presently. I would rather enjoy the life that I have then try to spend life looking for the fountain of youth. As someone who has seen people in various states of death and decline, I would sooner die than experience that pain and suffering. The world is also pretty inhospitable so I am not terribly attached to this life. The world is overpopulated now. Imagine if people started living vastly longer lives. The world's problems would only get worse.
That system is based on trust between parties. This leads to large inefficiencies, long clearing times, and expensive transfers. Crypto solves many of the problems of banking and remittance in a better way than the existing system.
But it creates as many problems as it solves. For example, if your Bitcoin is stolen, you have little or no recourse. You have to trust that your Bitcoin wallet is secure and software these days is generally riddled with exploits and vulnerabilities.
Cryptocurrency trading.
Whoever thought it up will in the end destroy millions of lives.
This is the law of unintended consequences. The people that came up with the idea of cryptocurrency never intended for it to be used like this. It was intended to be an end run around the banking system and governments hell bent on control and surveillance.
As the subject reads ... what could possibly go wrong here? Sarcasm should be heavily inferred.
I have always used only 1 space. The two spaces after a period rule came from a pre-computer, typewriter era. Today's font kerning makes the two spaces after a period rule obsolete.
Uber's entire business model is based on cutting corners (not paying employees as employees, not following local taxi laws/regulations, etc.). I wasn't at all surprised to hear that one of their self-driving test cars killed somebody. I immediately assumed that it was the result of yet another corner that they cut.
And I think your assumption is pretty valid. I believe there will be some attorneys that agree with me as well. That wrongful death suit is going to be very expensive and damaging to Uber.
If it wasn't an effective way to con people out of money, it would not have been around for as long as it has and it's been around since the advent of the fax machine. I remember my dad getting these random faxes at work with the same old song and dance, Nigerian up front fee scams.
At least I had the courage to not hide behind the Anonymous Coward monicker.
Actually, the last election suggested that more Americans are fed up with income inequality and poor or no access to healthcare. Teachers in deeply red states are moving to the left politically because they see what the conservative politician is doing to their income. They're finally seeing that the right is the wolf in sheep's clothing. Most Americans confuse socialism with communism because they've been indoctrinated by the right. In reality, more socialist policies are good for the middle and lower classes. They're not so good for the wealthy. If you want to fix America, start really manufacturing here and stop the tide towards a service economy. Third world countries are largely service economies.
In America, anyone who is not wealthy is deemed an economic drag on society.
The Chinese go after anything with an open SSH port. On my server, I have no less than 500 Chinese IP addresses sitting on a ban list. My server is nothing exciting either. It just hosts my email and a blog - they have absolutely no information to gain whatsoever. They may even be trying to bruteforce my server in an attempt to assimilate it into a bot net. Well good luck, commies. I run OpenBSD. You'll have better luck moving on ...
I know this doesn't really mean shit but quite a few people I know got rid of Facebook. I've been free from Facebook for 6 months now!
This move is not about making California a greener, more eco-friendly state. It is about making the solar energy companies wealthier and further driving the cost of homes up, thus helping realtors earn larger commissions. Just about every law passed can be traced to a certain population that stands to benefit from it.
I think outreach is a good thing. I don't see how actively encouraging diversity is a bad thing. I do believe that prolonged preferential treatment given to one population over another is not good. There are good reasons for short term preferential treatment in order to build a diversity, but after a while, preferential treatment versus evaluating someone based on their merits, causes problems.
Once upon a time Seagate was the premiere hard drive to have. Those days are long gone as Western Digital has been the ranking king of at least 10 years now.
I still believe that the best hard drives are Western Digital Black and Gold models. I have some that are well past their prime and should have failed but keep on reliably clicking away. I just re-formatted one and still no bad sectors.
History is about to repeat itself in a big way!
This is really going to end well. How about Great Recession II, Even Worse?