That's completely unrelated to the Telco white pages. That's a data mining site like all the other people finders, aggregating public records with equally poor accuracy.
A quick search shows 90% of the info they have on me in their "teaser" is wrong, and they claim to have my phone number, which they definitely do not. There's a hundred other sites just like that.
My God! It's almost as if they had taken the names, phone numbers and addresses of millions of people and bound them into some sort of large book before distributing said book to everyone's home free of charge! Can you imagine the chaos such a thing might cause???
White pages tended to be limited to your town, or a small part of your town. Not, you know, 500 million people.
Actually given that AT&T is in an oligopoly with
That's a different ATT. This is talking about mobile data caps. They're sibling subsidiaries, but not the same company. If you don't like what ATT is doing, you can switch to Verizon or T-Mobile. They cover almost all the same areas.
They have received much in the way of Federal subsidies to upgrade their infrastructure. If they are not going ot do that, then they should be paying it back with high interest.
If that's the terms the government wants, they can set those terms.
This company sucks big time. And I thought I remembered reading a few months ago that they supported net neutrality. Total BS. Even Verizon does better
They may suck, but seriously -- don't act like a mouth breathing twelve year old with the slurs.
Ironically filesharing isn't even discussed when they talk about this stuff.
Could be wrong, but I doubt many people are doing large scale filesharing on their mobile devices.
In theory it's possible to provide more bandwith if there's more revene coming in topay for the infrastructure.
In theory AT&T should be using some of their $3+ Billion per quarter profits to pay for infrastructure upgrades rather than claiming they don't have enough money so they can justify throttling services, applying ridiculous caps and ensuring consumer prices remain high.
Why? They're a for-profit business and they have a legal responsibility to maximize shareholder return. They don't claim they don't have enough money -- they're under no obligation to offer unlimited services. They're under one and only one obligation -- maximize profit. You, as a consumer, can choose to buy their service or not. If enough people end up in "not" then maximizing their profits will mean doing something different.
That's the way business works.
Genuinely curious why you think this? It's been my understanding that there are strong ties between the government and the defense contractors, and the defense industry there is fairly shrouded in secrecy, making corruption easy to pull off. Do you think the Chinese government is more capable of taking an 'agile' approach to a space program than the US?
Corruption in China tends to be far and away an issue with regional and local programs, and lately there's been a serious crackdown on it. But mostly, they lack an entity like Congress that sets budgets and buys/sells votes to get projects broken up and put into lots of different districts. A big part of why SpaceX is so efficient is that everything is made in the same factory... not 50 different companies in 300 locations. Something needs to get done, it gets done. I'm not passing judgment on that, good or bad, but if there's one thing China is good at doing, its getting things done.
Wake me up when one of these budding super powers no longer has people shitting in the streets. China and India are third world shit holes who waste money like this, when they should really be working to help their people.
It may not be obvious to people who haven't spent any time traveling the world
This is typical authoritarian bravado. China invests heavily in a field that generates PR for nationalistic pride (with a dual military purpose.) Meanwhile, they don't even have a postal address system. Don't be fooled by the hype. Yes, their economy will be the largest, simply due to their numbers. (If the Chinese simply earned per capita one third of the US average income, they'd be a larger economy than the US.)
I'm not sure if that's just racism or lack of knowledge... but China has more people living in a US-level middle class than the US has people.
And, strangely, I've never had an issue mailing something to China. You don't just scribble a name on it, and someone walks along an asks 1.2 billion people if that happens to be them, after all.
And pass both the US and Russia quickly.
Why? Technology is 40 years newer. Materials science has changed, automation, manufacturing techniques and a slew of other core technologies important for space flight have changed as much in the last 40 years as computing technology has. They're going to be able to do more with less the same as other up-starts like SpaceX can do -- but they're going to invest national levels of resources into it, with SpaceX levels of innovation and dramatically less of a "defense contractor welfare" bloat that drags down NASA.
And good for them. For the sake of every living thing that's fought entropy for the last three billion years on Earth, it doesn't matter who is working towards getting life off this rock, it just matters that someone is.
and Slashdot Editors.. if there are any of them left....
If it doesn't reduce ad impressions, why would the editors care?
The criticisms people are leveling against this Ravi Mandali guy are for doing the same crap that DICE has ensured Slashdot does every day.
Freedom is now, has always been and always will be, an illusion given to the masses to keep them pacified.
Why do you think you've lost something?
You mightn't call being in the top 9% of households incomes "exceptionally affluent", but the other 91% of people probably do.
For a school that costs $60k a year?
Are kids today really that stupid? If you don't have an income that high, even with a LOT of grants, you're taking on a crushing debt.
The first lesson people need to learn is to live responsibly. Someone who isn't from a family making that much dropping a quarter million dollars on an education is, in fact, a perfect example of not.
Yes. Or perhaps only one (in the relevant time frame).
In terms of a deterrent, I'm not sure 5 years of jail is going to sound any more scary than just expulsion; the penalties here seem out of line.
IMO, not even remotely out of line. Ignoring the impact to students at Harvard (and the cost to the school), it impacted local police, and the area around Harvard.
And more importantly, and the whole point of punishments, is to put the deterrent high enough to prevent others from doing it. If the perception of a moron like this kid is "I'm going to flunk out" vs "I'm going to be expelled", unless there's a 100% chance of being caught making the threat, you're better off making the threat if the only ramification is being expelled.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
