I felt significantly better after ditching Facebook and Twitter. It took me a little while to stop craving the need to use social media but it feels good to be without it. As a sort of funny side effect, my smartphone has better battery life without those apps installed.
At my college, I became friendly with one of the security guards after he saved my life. He found me unconscious and laying on the ground. Turned out I had a life threatening infection and never knew. Well, we were talking one day and I had it out with my dad. I swore I would never make the same mistakes with my child when I have one. I swore that I would be a better father. Officer Joe looked me in the eye and said, "You won't make the same mistakes. You're right about that. You'll make all new ones. Have gratitude, not hate in your heart." 20 years later, after health issues, personal and professional failure, and heart ache, I'm now working as a security guard. I decided to become a security guard after thinking of Officer Joe. It's a hand to mouth existence but I've never felt more wealthy and freer. It took me 20 years of lost time that I won't ever get back, but I learned a lesson most never learn in their life times.
Verizon probably does not have enough money to plug the hole in this dam. They ought to save their sheckles instead of investing them in a hopelessly lost cause.
Internet freedom is one of those few issues that effects everyone and is bi-partisan. As long as an issue effects both the 1% and the 99%, you can almost guarantee that it will be bi-partisan. Some multi-billion dollar companies stand to take a hit from a lack of net neutrality so you can bet your ass this one will be the hot topic of next year's legislation efforts. And, of course, Donald Trump will tout it as some sort of victory - even though he appointed Ajit Pai to overturn net neutrality. Wow, America is supremely fucked!
The best case scenario is this strengthens the argument for the right to repair a device.
Apple will put its horde of lawyers on these cases, and they will be forgotten under a mountain of expense and paperwork.
Get enough people involved and Apple won't be able to bury it. These days social media holds even more power over corporations than the court system. Corporations loathe negative press and this might force Apple's hand to do something about it.
I've been through 3 upgrades on my 1 year old Android device and it is just as fast as it was when I pulled it out of the box. And I am even using a budget ZTE Android phone. Of course, I do very little with it other than make calls, text, and maybe watch Netflix and listen to Spotify. I certainly do not use social media and I have few apps installed.
Tim Cook rails against the privacy-invading business model of other tech companies, then we learn they accept billions in secret payments from Google to enable said business model on their phones.
Apple release a software fix they claims resolves a shutdown issue they previously denied even exists, then we learn the "fix" was a hack that throttles the phone performance to unusable levels, which serves to both save them hundreds of millions in additional recall costs while also surreptitiously motivating users to upgrade to a newer model to get a usable phone again.
These are not the actions of an ethical company.
Companies are generally not in the business of being completely honest and transparent. Some companies are just less dishonest than others. A company exists solely for the purpose of making money at any "legal" means necessary. They do this through a veneer of honesty and integrity. Show me a large company that has behaved 100% honestly and ethically. I am hard pressed to think of any.
Somehow young people have young people jobs and older people have older people jobs. I wonder what might it be that makes the difference?
Sorry AC but that is just crap. There is no such thing as young people jobs and old people jobs. There are just jobs. And in America, where we use money to barter for food, clothing, and shelter, jobs are necessary.
This makes me hate facebook that much more! I am now even more affirmed in my decision to leave facebook. I am over 40 and I now I am glad that I do not give data to facebook for them to sell.
In fact as a cheap bastard I only just recently upgraded from a 10 Mbps to a 30 Mbps connection myself.
And if you lived in the UK, you wouldn't have to do anything anymore because you have the RIGHT to get someone else to buy you internet service. The entire framing of this topic is absurd. "Good for them" might be, say, making it clear that if you pay for 10Mbps, you actually GET that, or the vendor that promised that has to make it right or give you your money back. That's not the same as having a "right" to something. That word has no businesses being used in this context.
How can we be talking about government-mandated "legal" things and the conversation can't even approach getting right the distinction between rights, entitlements, regulations, and the like?
'Entitlements' is a word that is used pejoratively to denigrate those that actually need services. It's used by the wealthy and elite to keep us divided. The working class is indoctrinated to hate each other based on these services.
How can something that costs other people money and time be a legal right? This talk is insane.
Honestly, it really does not cost that much. ISPs love to exaggerate how much providing service actually costs them. They hem, haw, whine, and complain. It's about time someone stuck it to them.
History has proven that time and again, corporations will never do anything altruistically. Therefore is sometimes takes regulation to make things happen. I am glad that the UK went down this bath. 10mbps can do a lot - including streaming at 720p HD. It's also fine for VoIP.
No, you're not going to find evidence of "collusion" between the White House and the FCC, and no, that does not contradict the claim that the Obama administration got the FCC to pass net neutrality. Net neutrality was a huge goal of the Obama administration and a very big political win for them. It IS possible, you know, for like-minded people to work independently towards a common goal. I've heard that happens from time to time.
And, by the way, can we save everyone a huge amount of time and wasted expense and just assume that we won't find any evidence of "collusion" between this White House and the hacking of the DNC email servers or the purchase of Facebook advertisements? And, can we also just admit that like-minded people can be working independently towards a common goal in THIS instance, too?
This. A million times, this. Iâ(TM)ve believed for a long time that mesh nets are the only way forward. Messy, and maybe a little scary, a lot harder for corporations to control, but theyâ(TM)ll be robust and effective.
Okay, but these mesh networks still need access to the internet at large. I am sure users will want to be able to do something useful. A mesh network is nothing more than an interesting curiosity if it cannot reach the internet.
No, both reasons are why we need mesh nets. Moreover, lack of net neutrality will bring about mesh nets, the death of Silicon Valley marketing mega corps (e.g. Silicon Valley corporations,) the end of monopolistic control over the content people share online, etc. The death of net neutrality will be the greatest thing to happen on the internet since before the start of The Eternal Summer, by ending The Eternal Summer.
So by your arguments, the death of net neutrality will spur community-based wireless mesh networks? Okay, I will buy that. However, at some point the users of the mesh network will want to get access to Facebook and Twitter. Thus, there has to be access to the internet at large.
Given the Russian proclivity to cyber spying and penetration of critical infrastructure, I am absolutely fine with the ban of Kaspersky software on US Government systems. I should add that I am also completely fine with the ban on Lenovo products in US Government agencies when it is almost commonly known that the Chinese government engages in cyber warfare as well.
The Republicans need a win and if any of them have their heads screwed on straight, they'll see Net Neutrality as the easy win that they so badly need.
Slashdot Mirror
I felt significantly better after ditching Facebook and Twitter. It took me a little while to stop craving the need to use social media but it feels good to be without it. As a sort of funny side effect, my smartphone has better battery life without those apps installed.
At my college, I became friendly with one of the security guards after he saved my life. He found me unconscious and laying on the ground. Turned out I had a life threatening infection and never knew. Well, we were talking one day and I had it out with my dad. I swore I would never make the same mistakes with my child when I have one. I swore that I would be a better father. Officer Joe looked me in the eye and said, "You won't make the same mistakes. You're right about that. You'll make all new ones. Have gratitude, not hate in your heart." 20 years later, after health issues, personal and professional failure, and heart ache, I'm now working as a security guard. I decided to become a security guard after thinking of Officer Joe. It's a hand to mouth existence but I've never felt more wealthy and freer. It took me 20 years of lost time that I won't ever get back, but I learned a lesson most never learn in their life times.
Thatâ(TM)s the dumbest thing I ever heard.
This got nothing to do with OSI layers. What kind of idiot makes these kind of associations and start spilling bullshit?
Not dumb at all. Content filtering takes place at the Application level.
How much money does Verizon have?
Verizon probably does not have enough money to plug the hole in this dam. They ought to save their sheckles instead of investing them in a hopelessly lost cause.
What!? I guess the comment above is from the lunatic fringe.
Internet freedom is one of those few issues that effects everyone and is bi-partisan. As long as an issue effects both the 1% and the 99%, you can almost guarantee that it will be bi-partisan. Some multi-billion dollar companies stand to take a hit from a lack of net neutrality so you can bet your ass this one will be the hot topic of next year's legislation efforts. And, of course, Donald Trump will tout it as some sort of victory - even though he appointed Ajit Pai to overturn net neutrality. Wow, America is supremely fucked!
The best case scenario is this strengthens the argument for the right to repair a device.
Apple will put its horde of lawyers on these cases, and they will be forgotten under a mountain of expense and paperwork.
Get enough people involved and Apple won't be able to bury it. These days social media holds even more power over corporations than the court system. Corporations loathe negative press and this might force Apple's hand to do something about it.
I've been through 3 upgrades on my 1 year old Android device and it is just as fast as it was when I pulled it out of the box. And I am even using a budget ZTE Android phone. Of course, I do very little with it other than make calls, text, and maybe watch Netflix and listen to Spotify. I certainly do not use social media and I have few apps installed.
Tim Cook rails against the privacy-invading business model of other tech companies, then we learn they accept billions in secret payments from Google to enable said business model on their phones. Apple release a software fix they claims resolves a shutdown issue they previously denied even exists, then we learn the "fix" was a hack that throttles the phone performance to unusable levels, which serves to both save them hundreds of millions in additional recall costs while also surreptitiously motivating users to upgrade to a newer model to get a usable phone again. These are not the actions of an ethical company.
Companies are generally not in the business of being completely honest and transparent. Some companies are just less dishonest than others. A company exists solely for the purpose of making money at any "legal" means necessary. They do this through a veneer of honesty and integrity. Show me a large company that has behaved 100% honestly and ethically. I am hard pressed to think of any.
Those predatory fuckers are getting in the game!
Was to cut the cord and get my entertainment from netflix!
Maybe I'll see no ads after changing my Facebook age to something ridiculous? Why does anybody put their real age/birthday into Facebook?
HAHAHAHA! That's awesome. Do let us know what happens. Although I expect you'll see a lot of medicine ads.
Somehow young people have young people jobs and older people have older people jobs. I wonder what might it be that makes the difference?
Sorry AC but that is just crap. There is no such thing as young people jobs and old people jobs. There are just jobs. And in America, where we use money to barter for food, clothing, and shelter, jobs are necessary.
This makes me hate facebook that much more! I am now even more affirmed in my decision to leave facebook. I am over 40 and I now I am glad that I do not give data to facebook for them to sell.
In fact as a cheap bastard I only just recently upgraded from a 10 Mbps to a 30 Mbps connection myself.
And if you lived in the UK, you wouldn't have to do anything anymore because you have the RIGHT to get someone else to buy you internet service. The entire framing of this topic is absurd. "Good for them" might be, say, making it clear that if you pay for 10Mbps, you actually GET that, or the vendor that promised that has to make it right or give you your money back. That's not the same as having a "right" to something. That word has no businesses being used in this context.
And you just might be a Trump voter.
How can we be talking about government-mandated "legal" things and the conversation can't even approach getting right the distinction between rights, entitlements, regulations, and the like?
'Entitlements' is a word that is used pejoratively to denigrate those that actually need services. It's used by the wealthy and elite to keep us divided. The working class is indoctrinated to hate each other based on these services.
How can something that costs other people money and time be a legal right? This talk is insane.
Honestly, it really does not cost that much. ISPs love to exaggerate how much providing service actually costs them. They hem, haw, whine, and complain. It's about time someone stuck it to them.
History has proven that time and again, corporations will never do anything altruistically. Therefore is sometimes takes regulation to make things happen. I am glad that the UK went down this bath. 10mbps can do a lot - including streaming at 720p HD. It's also fine for VoIP.
No, you're not going to find evidence of "collusion" between the White House and the FCC, and no, that does not contradict the claim that the Obama administration got the FCC to pass net neutrality. Net neutrality was a huge goal of the Obama administration and a very big political win for them. It IS possible, you know, for like-minded people to work independently towards a common goal. I've heard that happens from time to time.
And, by the way, can we save everyone a huge amount of time and wasted expense and just assume that we won't find any evidence of "collusion" between this White House and the hacking of the DNC email servers or the purchase of Facebook advertisements? And, can we also just admit that like-minded people can be working independently towards a common goal in THIS instance, too?
Politics are 90% theatrics and 10% actual work.
This. A million times, this. Iâ(TM)ve believed for a long time that mesh nets are the only way forward. Messy, and maybe a little scary, a lot harder for corporations to control, but theyâ(TM)ll be robust and effective.
Okay, but these mesh networks still need access to the internet at large. I am sure users will want to be able to do something useful. A mesh network is nothing more than an interesting curiosity if it cannot reach the internet.
No, both reasons are why we need mesh nets. Moreover, lack of net neutrality will bring about mesh nets, the death of Silicon Valley marketing mega corps (e.g. Silicon Valley corporations,) the end of monopolistic control over the content people share online, etc. The death of net neutrality will be the greatest thing to happen on the internet since before the start of The Eternal Summer, by ending The Eternal Summer.
So by your arguments, the death of net neutrality will spur community-based wireless mesh networks? Okay, I will buy that. However, at some point the users of the mesh network will want to get access to Facebook and Twitter. Thus, there has to be access to the internet at large.
Frankly, if they banned Microsoft's shoddy products then you wouldn't need to bother with Kaspersky.
It would also be helpful if people were better trained not to follow click-bait and suspicious links.
The training is pretty good. It would be helpful if people employed some critical thinking skills instead of just blind clicking.
Given the Russian proclivity to cyber spying and penetration of critical infrastructure, I am absolutely fine with the ban of Kaspersky software on US Government systems. I should add that I am also completely fine with the ban on Lenovo products in US Government agencies when it is almost commonly known that the Chinese government engages in cyber warfare as well.
I support Net Neutrality but the FCC was the wrong place to enact those rules.
Yes, I wondered why this was placed in the hands of the FCC to begin with.
The Republicans need a win and if any of them have their heads screwed on straight, they'll see Net Neutrality as the easy win that they so badly need.