Well, not really... Ma Bell was split into multiple companies, it wasn't dissolved/bankrupted and closed. Now, yes, some of those sub-companies that it was split into have since been bought up, but the liabilities went with them when they were purchased. So AT&T Bell Systems was made into the "Baby Bells":
Ameritech
AT&T
Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
NYNEX
PacificTelesis
Southwest Bell (later renamed SBC Communications)
US West

I know this because that is how I ended up with stock in all those companies as my Grandfather bought me original stock into AT&T Bell Systems when I was born, which was pre-breakup. Over the years, SBC essentially bought up most of those (Ameritech, AT&T, BellSouth, and Pacific Telesis), and renamed themselves AT&T (since that was the original company name that had a lot more perceived marketing history and general public awareness of the brand). Bell Atlantic bought up NYNEX, and another company (not part of the original "Baby Bells") and renamed to "Verizon". And "US West", was bought by "QWEST", which was bought by "Century Link", which renamed themselves to "Lumen Technologies".

I only have stock in AT&T and Verizon, I believe when Century Link bought up QWEST, they paid out the stock holders instead issuing new shares of Century Link stock to QWEST stock holders.

You are aware that Facebook and prior Twitter took orders from the standing administration, correct?

Probably has more to do with 4 basic concepts/requirements:
2) infrastructure
3) natural resources
4) trade

If you look at the countries with high GDP and GDP per capita, you will see that those countries have implemented those 4 above concepts/requirements. And, really, it needs almost all of those to really work on a GDP per capita basis. Education falls under the "natural resources" piece, as having highly educated workforce/labor force can help bring higher paying jobs, but only if the infrastructure exists such as roads/transportation/shipping/electricity/warehouses/office spaces/manufacturing lines/etc., are available to support those jobs, and that capitalism exists to give the worker the upward mobility and drive for rewarding their work and talent with higher pay, and that there is a market that exists that can both afford to pay for the goods produced by the higher paying jobs and support the higher wages of the skilled workers....

This has nothing to do with Section 230 protection, and not only that 230 protection is no different than protection you get in the physical world. If you own a billboard and someone goes up to it and slaps a picture of a dick on it, the person who slapped the picture of a dick on it is the one liable, not the owner of the billboard.

Also, if you don't like what the private company is doing with the service they are offering up to the public to use, well, simply don't use that service or build your own. Reddit is basically saying, "my ball, my court", and yes, they are correct. If they want to self destruct, they are perfectly in their rights to do so.

But that isn't what Reddit wants. They want to own/control the apps that are in use so that they get all the marketing/customer data, not the third party app developers. The pricing was specifically to lock it all down to force it to be too expensive for anyone to use it, and make Reddit's official app and site the only viable solution.

Terms and usage could easily be setup to prevent the "scraping" of data for ingestion into various automation systems, but that isn't the ultimate goal (just the excuse being used). They want the user data that can be collected by an app on their user's devices so it can be made a commodity and monetized. They need to show large % growth potential at this key moment before IPO so that when the IPO happens there is a reason for people to invest as there will be a growth return for the investment as opposed to just operational costs with minimal or stagnant profit growth.

Running your own diesel generators only works when it costs less for the fuel and maintenance of the generator than it does for the electricity. In this case, the cost of a kWh for a commercial user would go from approx $0.105 to $0.126. Even the most efficient diesel generators in the world can not generate electricity for $0.126 per kWh, for fuel alone the most efficient diesel generator will cost over $0.20 per kWh, and you still have to account for fuel delivery costs and maintenance.

Where in California are you?

When you turn shoplifters over to the cops and press charges, how often are the cases taken to trial?

How many repeat offenders do you turn over to the cops?

I stopped going to conference (post-pandemic) in San Fran due to crime and filth.

I go to MORE conferences than ever now, but non in San Fran, and 100% of that reason is crime and filth.

It's not a WSJ thing, it's a filthy street and high crime problem in SFO problem, period.

To an extent, I agree. What is really needed is a cheap firing, computer aimed system, like a next gen CWIS used on ships, but instead on a mobile or fixed platform on land. Use the same tracking radar as used in the patriot platform, but instead of launching missiles at every air threat, have it fire the CWIS or similar AA gun systems at the much slower moving drone systems. A couple thousand for the ammo vs a couple million.

Good luck proving that the fact that it could be done is why it had anything there. This kind of defense always turns into a you need to prove it happened as opposed to that it could have happened as in the eyes of anyone but a computer system admin and security researcher, the most likely scenario is the most plausable and the most likely scenario is that your computer was not used by someone to store something you had no knowledge of, and that in fact you are the one who did it.

So unless you have a log of all the network connections to your computer along with the payloads showing it was placed there through a program that was accessed via this backdoor, have fun explaining in court. Even more so, have fun explaining how you knew of this backdoor as a possibility and yet did not do anything to protect yourself.

Looks like I have new entries to add to my router blacklists. According to the article, block the following:
http://mb.download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Swhttp/LiveUpdate4
https://mb.download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Swhttp/LiveUpdate4
https://software-nas/Swhttp/LiveUpdate4

I would also block them by both the DNS name as (like in a pihole) and via IP address (such as in an IP tables outgoing destination and incoming source drop). This only works if you are not connecting directly to the internet with that hardware and are going through some kind of router and/or DNS that you have control over.

Say goodbye to producing any competent materials engineers, materials scientists, chemical engineers, biochemical engineers, pharmacists, nurses, doctors, anesthesiologists, and many other disciplines/jobs if they don't know the periodic table of elements.

By not teaching that at the primary school level you just added a massive hurdle to anyone who was thinking of going into these fields and set them back probably 2 years of studying to catch up to fundamental knowledge they need to have before they can even begin learning the more advanced topics. A fundamental knowledge that is so important that it dictates the types and kinds of chemical reactions that can and will occur and components that are possible to build, make, and the by-products of those reactions.

It will also tell you the ratios needed for the reactions, the mass and weights of the products that should be produced when the reaction occurs correctly (so you can check and verify that it is complete), and will tell you if it will produce energy or require energy added for the reaction to occur. And on top of that, it will also tell you how strongly the new compounds are held together as well as if the byproducts themselves are volatile in nature or a more stable end compound.

In other words, the periodic table (especially one that also lists the valence electrons) will tell just about everything you will need to know for how chemicals can react with other chemicals, which is fundamental for the disciplines I noted above.

Really?... I mean REALLY? Did someone forget to tell these people about a thing called temperature, in particular freezing and below zero, at which point all "humidity" is stripped from the air as the water vapor freezes into ice crystals? I think someone forgot to tell them about that part.

Don't get me wrong, this is a great step forward if it does indeed work, and possibly helps directly combat the effects of global warming by using both the higher temperatures of global warming that also produce higher humidity as warmer air can hold higher water content. Having generators that strip that water vapor and use it to produce electricity is a good thing as it will help lower the overall amount of water vapor in the air and cutting back the weather from being able to make use of that water vapor for larger and more severe storms (no water vapor, no hail, no sleet, and less powerful wind gradients that can turn into funnel clouds, as the warmer air can't take advantage of the water vapor for additional mass to offset colder air as easily).

I entirely believe that Montana or any state has the write to make a law that would ban TikTok and not run afoul of the 1st Amendment.... This law isn't it. What Montana should have done was create a consumer privacy protection law. The problem with that is there are way too many lobbyists that would prevent such a thing from happening.

One way is that since an IP address can not tie back to a person (only a device, typically a NAT router that services multiple devices behind it), that data is useless for identifying an actual person who is breaching the copyright law in the first place, and as such, the collection of such data is futile.

The other way of looking at it is that since the IP address can not be tied to a particular person who is using it, the data is not personal data in the first place, and thus not subject the the privacy laws.