I'm in Huntsville, our leaders are watching very closely the politics of Chattanooga's rollout as they figure out a good fiber solution for the city. Our existing industries would very much benefit from fiber, but our leaders have been very hesitant to roll it out through Huntsville Utilities. I suspect this is due to the political problems that Chattanooga has experienced.

I live a couple hours from Chattanooga, TN. I know that this specifically deals with a problem they are having. As I understand it, the utility company rolled out fiber as part of their smart meter transition and they offer fiber internet through those means for the metro area. It has been so successful that state legislators have been in a frenzy to write laws to keep them from expanding service to their customers that aren't in the city.

Some of my coworkers have kids who are have specialties like programming, robotics, cybersecurity, or pre-engineering. When I was in high school, I would have jumped at the opportunity for that but looking back I think it would have been too young to start down a path. I knew several people who long before that made it to senior year of college or beyond and said I don't really love this thing I've been specializing in. I can't imagine where I would be if I'd made that decision at 14.

I'm with GP. Through my exposure to my coworkers' children, I'm seeing career specialization being encouraged during early high school. At that point in my education, I had zero formal introduction to what my career would become. To me and I think to GP, the phrase "cradle-to-career" doesn't mean that my daughter will pursue a career, but based on some "tests" my daughter might come out of the cradle with a specific career path to pursue.

And apparently your social media profile...

If Canada hadn't been in the article title then I would have sworn from this comment you were from the US and possibly my home state.

I'm wanting to build my automation system over time. I've been wondering what is the best hub to take advantage of discounts in hardware. Does anybody's hub do everything, and if it does is it a piece of crap because it is trying to do too much? Am I just better off waiting and rewiring everything (from manual control) in a unified standard when I've saved a pot of money for automation?

Laying aside for the moment that mass casualty events are rare, this very article is about MI-5 saying that even with super-strict gun laws and super invasive surveillance, they cannot prevent every mass casualty event. The schools and cinema shootings are just hyper-emotional events used by gun-control advocates to drive change. Controlling for the real problem (that we treat our poor like animals) by discounting cities whose numbers are driven by poverty and criminal gangs that thrive in poverty, the US has a very low homicide rate even lower than some European countries. Further, comparing the numbers worldwide, gun ownership does not correlate to homicide unless you choose to specifically look at firearm homicide. Guess what vehicle homicide rates correlate to vehicle ownership too.

It also mentions that higher costs will destroy the economy, completely ignoring the fact that my ISP having a huge influence on where my money goes isn't exactly the ideal free market economy or healthy for any economy.

What happens when the target image changes significantly? Like a suspect with cover? Holding waiting to shoot and you get to the right pixel and the suspect has moved out of view.

Just because it is legal through other methods doesn't mean someone won't try to make it illegal because it is digital related. These guys are pressing the laws in ways that give a better pressure release than having actual harm occur.

So you'd rather just wait till some idiot does something actually harmful with them before we hash out the legal issues? Imagine what happens if the first legal restriction comes after someone makes a gun or other weapon and actually kills a child.

A coworker of mine bought a new Charger a couple of months ago. He wanted fog lights but couldn't get the deal he wanted for one that did. He bought some OEM fog lights and the final step of installation was having a dealership register them with the manufacturer and then the manufacturer confirmed with the car's local computer that there were fog lights installed. He had to drive 50 miles to find a dealership who wouldn't charge more than the installation fee to register the things.

If voice mail is gone then people might expect me to answer my phone. I'd much rather deal with voice mail than having to talk to people on the phone when it isn't necessary.

Come on now: The appropriate followup for that is "Open mailbox." It is far too bright to be eaten by a grue.