I'd rather have that than the BS backroom deals than we have now. People won't stand for ISPs that nickle and dime them for watching video streaming services. On the other hand, people will put up with having to pay 2 bucks extra per month to Netflix and Hulu.
I'd rather see the government seize the last-mile infrastructure under public domain rules. Let the local municipalities and counties operate and maintain the physical plant and let others sell Internet service to the populace.
AT&T pausing their gigabit rollout when the President announces that he wants to make broadband a utility is completely reasonable. They have no idea what is going to happen, so it is hard to justify continuing to spend $$$ with the network upgrades.
Really? It's not like The Feds are going to swoop in and seize AT&T's network infrastructure. The only effective difference regulations will make is is whether AT&T will make significant returns on their investment or obscene returns. The President can't force the FCC to act or to act quickly, and he can't dictate the shape of regulations. It will take regulators months to finalize any changes, assuming they do it at all, and will likely not going to go into effect for a long while after that. So AT&T is really putting a large portion of their business on pause for the next many months to a year because of something a President said in a press release that literally changes nothing? I don't buy it.
According to TFA, the workers were brought in to "help install the company's computer network and systems in connection with the move of the company's headquarters from Foster City to Fremont." That sounds more like IT technician work, which is not exempted from overtime in California.
Most wilderness areas are restricted to day trips only, i.e. no camping, without a permit.
Clearly you have not been paying attention.
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"Highly" trained?
There is an easier way to sum up the "Double Irish".
Ireland taxes companies based on where they are managed, but the US taxes companies based on where they realize profits and loses (as do most countries). A US company will set up an Irish subsidiary but manage it from the US, or anywhere else outside of Ireland, then transfer it's intellectual property to the subsidiary, who licenses use of said IP back to the parent company. The parent company realizes no profits in the US after paying licensing fees to the Irish subsidiary, so the US collects no taxes. The subsidiary is managed from a foreign company, so Ireland collects no taxes. That's it in a nutshell.
There are further complications where a second Irish subsidiary will be formed plus a Bermuda based shell company, but those are just for dotting the i's and crossing the t's. A further trick can be used with a Dutch company, aka. a "Dutch Sandwich", to minimize taxes even more.
Oh, peace... SHUT UP!
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
That sounds great and all, but it sill makes no difference when the major ISPs won't pay for enough upstream bandwidth to support their customers. I'd like to see the FCC enforce a consumer SLA that guarantees USABLE bandwidth.
You can't legislate good customer service. Besides, the inventory overhead would be unreasonable.
But, this is T-Mobile he's talking about. They use SIM cards. The store could just program a SIM card, slip it in a random unit someone traded in last month, and let him walk out of the store at least being able to make phone calls. Heck, they might not even care about getting the loaner unit back, depending on its resale value. It's the sort of courtesy that encourages repeat patronage.
I disagree with this faith in SMART to provide aqueduct warning. So does Google.
Out of all failed drives, over 56% of them have no count in any of the four strong SMART signals, namely scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation, and probational count.
We conclude that it is unlikely that SMART data alone can be effectively used to build models that predict failures of individual drives.
http://static.googleuserconten...
Google's analysis was of spinning hard disks, but I can not believe that SMART is somehow better at monitoring SSDs than spinning hard disks. I have personally had drives that pass every smart test and hard drive scan, but click and buzz in unnatural ways. Likewise, I have had SSDs suddenly fail that were, by all external tests before and after the failure, operating within expected parameters. It doesn't help that many SSDs have a habit of rendering the stored data inaccessible with no chance of recovery when they loose power. Spinning HD manufacturers solved that problem decades ago with self-parking read-write heads. Then again, there is no SMART test that's going to predict when an electrical component is going to suddenly burst into flames. (I've seen it happen!) With a spinning HD I could replace the logic board or send the disk out for recovery and get that data back, probably unscathed. With an SSD the odds would be in no-one's favor.
When it comes to SSDs, the PC vendors need to step up their game on data redundancy. SSD Raid 1 arrays or integrated backup to cheaper storage should be standard configurations.
You are clearly unfamiliar with the Mantis Shrimp
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Some of the largest species can break aquarium glass by striking it.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Cloud is. You have to see it for yourself.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
