I have been filing free but in the last couple of years because of my puny business made me drop into a category where the online services want to charge me over $100 for my measly taxes I can mostly do myself with much effort. This would be yet another shot across the bow of those who don't really earn much.
Sad that the Pols think they should stick it to the little guy again.
OS is not the problem. Developers with apps to make the device functional is the problem. Rock and a hard place really...... so seems like fluff and nonsense from Huawei really.
I had a credit card get punched back in the late 1980's. Someone was trying to buy airline tickets in London and it got blocked.
After that I never had a problem with the card which was re-issued. Was using the same card up until 2014 when I was forced to get a "New" more protected chip card. Shortly after the very first use of the chip card I got a all that someone was trying to buy a computer. Now 4 years later the same thing happened again.
27 years of no problems without the chip... now 2 problems in 4 years with the chip. Have gone to using apple pay with my new phone. Hope that helps a bit, but too many vendors don't use apple pay still.
I agree. I am not certain why people get so emotional about phone choices. It is fine if you love android phones. It is fine if you love apple phones. Heck... it is ok to love old school flip phones.
Doesn't the fact that age is going up in countries have more to do with infectious disease and food supply?
I don't think the health benefits or detractions of plastics have much to do with the arc of increasing lifespans as much as better sanitation and medical care.
However, perhaps dumping lots of plastics into the food chain could have increasing and longer term effects now and in the future on not just humans but all life on our planet.
Is government the one doing the blocking of competition or is it the monopoly via political crony-ism keeping the monopoly?
Seems that our local government wanted to introduce more competition by putting in fiber and leasing it to any ISP, but the political winds of the monopolies blew into the state house and stamped out our local governments pro-competitive push.
I didn't say anything about calling a highway a highway. Highways and Broadband are entirely different entities on scalability.
It is more about how the cable companies providing the service qualify things. They can say you have a 30mbps connection if you get that at some point during the day. However, once everyone is home and streaming from your node, then things get bogged down on the node you are on and it is unlikely you will be getting anywhere close to 30mbps say at 8-11 at night.
This has always been the case.
I was the first one on my node in Ann Arbor when I had a lovely 3mpbs way back in the day, but after a year I had several hundred people on my same node. I rarely could achieve the speed I started with.
So by saying we should have 1gbps speed, I am talking about on aggregate. I am fairly certain that much like today... when the ISP says you have 1gbps broadband.... it merely means that ideally you have such a speed. However, when everyone in your area is streaming 4k, in the evening, one is highly unlikely to be achieving this.
Right now with 60mbps I often get choked off on my connection and the lone movie or football game I am watching bogs down or chokes off because the streaming happening on my node is much more than my node can handle.
It is more of an ISP problem.
With a 1gbps connection such a thing would be unlikely to happen.
For right now it would improve overall feel and experience of the web. Less waiting, less page load time. Higher quality uncompressed video so there would be zero artifacting from lame compressed formats. Multiple High quality streams Better video conferencing experience. Better video gaming. Faster downloads of all files. Less lag during peak times on ones node.
The feel of the web would be much more flawless. Then there is the evolution of the web and what that will be. 25mbps was fine 10 years ago, but right now even with my 60mbps service things get laggy during peak times.
I no more want us to settle for 10 year old tech now than I would have said we should be satisfied with 56kbps back in 2008. Let us push for being more advanced than settle for being mediocre.
I have way more than 400 unique passwords. I am not smart enough to memorize them all. Plus my cognitive abilities are declining now so I am becoming less able to remember even passwords I do have memorized. One good whack on the head might lock me out of much of my digital life. I would rather rely on a secure password app.
The "Peopel's" money is insignificant when compared with corporate wealth. That is why multinational oligarchies control big governmental entities in our world. No amount of throwing it back to states will help that because oligarchies control them as well.
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Job of the IRS is to collect taxes and making it easier for those who make a pittance ensures more revenue for the Fed most likely.
I have been filing free but in the last couple of years because of my puny business made me drop into a category where the online services want to charge me over $100 for my measly taxes I can mostly do myself with much effort. This would be yet another shot across the bow of those who don't really earn much.
Sad that the Pols think they should stick it to the little guy again.
OS is not the problem.
Developers with apps to make the device functional is the problem.
Rock and a hard place really...... so seems like fluff and nonsense from Huawei really.
So people get some sort of say in how things are.
Elections have consequences.
Don't vote
Don't bitch about how things are.
There must always be a paper trail.
Then there is less likelihood that a breach won't be detected and an actual manual vote count is possible.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
A pertinent topic. Would be nice to have an actual scientific article with methodology and the other trappings of science attached.
I had a credit card get punched back in the late 1980's. Someone was trying to buy airline tickets in London and it got blocked.
After that I never had a problem with the card which was re-issued. Was using the same card up until 2014 when I was forced to get a "New" more protected chip card. Shortly after the very first use of the chip card I got a all that someone was trying to buy a computer.
Now 4 years later the same thing happened again.
27 years of no problems without the chip... now 2 problems in 4 years with the chip.
Have gone to using apple pay with my new phone. Hope that helps a bit, but too many vendors don't use apple pay still.
until they get fearful and ignorant again and will once more fall for dumb tricks and blingy things.
I agree. I am not certain why people get so emotional about phone choices.
It is fine if you love android phones. It is fine if you love apple phones.
Heck... it is ok to love old school flip phones.
Just don't understand all of the rancor.
So much moaning and complaining about the notch to begin with....
Then a bunch of wanna-be notch copycats.
Strange.
Lots of "If's"
Purchase is still there even if you remove an app from the device.
Should be a refund and then the app should be deleted from previous purchases.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03...
Ex-Navy sniper, another military vet killed at Texas gun range
maybe memories are short.
Not really rigging.
Worse president ever? Perhaps... he is working hard at it.
Doesn't the fact that age is going up in countries have more to do with infectious disease and food supply?
I don't think the health benefits or detractions of plastics have much to do with the arc of increasing lifespans as much as better sanitation and medical care.
However, perhaps dumping lots of plastics into the food chain could have increasing and longer term effects now and in the future on not just humans but all life on our planet.
Situation Normal.
Seems like this is what Beta Software is for.
To work out the kinks.
Is government the one doing the blocking of competition or is it the monopoly via political crony-ism keeping the monopoly?
Seems that our local government wanted to introduce more competition by putting in fiber and leasing it to any ISP, but the political winds of the monopolies blew into the state house and stamped out our local governments pro-competitive push.
I didn't say anything about calling a highway a highway. Highways and Broadband are entirely different entities on scalability.
It is more about how the cable companies providing the service qualify things. They can say you have a 30mbps connection if you get that at some point during the day. However, once everyone is home and streaming from your node, then things get bogged down on the node you are on and it is unlikely you will be getting anywhere close to 30mbps say at 8-11 at night.
This has always been the case.
I was the first one on my node in Ann Arbor when I had a lovely 3mpbs way back in the day, but after a year I had several hundred people on my same node. I rarely could achieve the speed I started with.
So by saying we should have 1gbps speed, I am talking about on aggregate. I am fairly certain that much like today... when the ISP says you have 1gbps broadband.... it merely means that ideally you have such a speed. However, when everyone in your area is streaming 4k, in the evening, one is highly unlikely to be achieving this.
Right now with 60mbps I often get choked off on my connection and the lone movie or football game I am watching bogs down or chokes off because the streaming happening on my node is much more than my node can handle.
It is more of an ISP problem.
With a 1gbps connection such a thing would be unlikely to happen.
The future... & Quality of experience
For right now it would improve overall feel and experience of the web.
Less waiting, less page load time.
Higher quality uncompressed video so there would be zero artifacting from lame compressed formats.
Multiple High quality streams
Better video conferencing experience.
Better video gaming.
Faster downloads of all files.
Less lag during peak times on ones node.
The feel of the web would be much more flawless.
Then there is the evolution of the web and what that will be.
25mbps was fine 10 years ago, but right now even with my 60mbps service things get laggy during peak times.
I no more want us to settle for 10 year old tech now than I would have said we should be satisfied with 56kbps back in 2008.
Let us push for being more advanced than settle for being mediocre.
We should have 1gbps now.
Settling on speeds from a decade ago is not useful any more that saying the 56kbps from '98 would be functional for 2008.
I have way more than 400 unique passwords. I am not smart enough to memorize them all. Plus my cognitive abilities are declining now so I am becoming less able to remember even passwords I do have memorized. One good whack on the head might lock me out of much of my digital life. I would rather rely on a secure password app.
Still no Scottish.... then Siri iOS crap.
Siri and Scottish is a thing to behold.
I think they are plastic, but they are allegedly compostable. We toss the spoons and forks in with the composts.
Not sure all plastics need to be banned from cutlery. But I am not an expert
The "Peopel's" money is insignificant when compared with corporate wealth.
That is why multinational oligarchies control big governmental entities in our world. No amount of throwing it back to states will help that because oligarchies control them as well.