If your description was accurate, I (and every one else would agree with you But unfortunately you are LYING about what Verizon etc. are doing.

Verizon is not demanding the right to charge you more for faster speed.

They are demanding the right to IGNORE the contract they made with you to provide X speed whenever the people you ask content for refuse to pay them for X speed.

Which is total Bullshit. They can't charge me for X speed and then turn around and say "Sorry, but that speed only applies to other people who pay us as well."

NO. That is fraud on their part. They are trying to use hidden clauses in the contract with their customers to do a bait and switch - advertising (and charging) for 60 megabits a second , then go around and give you only 30 megabits/second.

We all win with at least a single computer maker stopping the insane practice of selling their customers instead of selling TO their customers.

Trying to rehash a game that right for a particular technological level that we now exceed is not a good idea.

Make something new and better.

Is writing code to properly format improperly formatted data.

Take idiots that put "GMT" or "MST" at the end of a time when our system (and most others) can't handle that crap.

The data was created by someone else. They most likely had the ability to export it in the correct way, but were too .... inexperienced .... to do it the right way.

Instead of trying to teach/convince them to do it right, I simply write a script to fix whatever bit of stupidity they created.

Mod this guy up.

People love to talk about the free market as if it were a genie.

The law of capitalism means that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a regulation to raise the price of anything - all it can do is reduce the profit a corporation takes.

No the 28k does not include agency overhead. It only include drone overhead. There is a difference. Drone overhead means only charges related to the drone - repairs, service, etc. Agency overhead, includes things like the janitor,

You are correct that they need to reference things, but a simple bit of googling reveals enough reference to show that 28k per arrest is a ridiculously expensive number. The agency averages $12k/ per person DEPORTED. That means to arrest, hold them in prison, charge, convict and fly/bus them back across the border costs less than HALF the cost of just arresting them using a drone.

It's the design that matters, not the work of building the creation.

God designed humans, but humans designed the robots.

It doesn't matter who builds the creation - human, robot, etc.

Any AI should worship US as their creator, not God, who created us.

Trying to convince a robot to worship god would be like a man trying to convince his son that he should ask grandpa to play ball with him, rather than asking him to do it.

Yes, they presented it in a poor way. But no it is not meaningless, if the article had been written well. You are correct they need to give comparison, but not just that one.

Specifically, it could have said:

Drone cost to apprehend: $28,000

Piloted aircraft cost to apprehend: $15,000

Piloted Boat cost to apprehend: $10,000

Land Vehicle cost to apprehend: $1,000

Foot agent cost to apprehend: $1,500

If the article had done this then we could have easily said no drones, piloted aircraft only AND limit the # of pilots to the bare minimum, while increasing the land vehicles.

Whoops, in my other reply I left out the other stuff. The Border Patrol does not merely apprehend. It builds and maintains the fences. It supports custom agents. It runs undercover operations. It pays people to investigate claims. It also holds people prisoner, pays agents to testify, has lawyers to try prisoners, as well as a bunch of other fixed costs.

In fact, the cost is NOT simple, you are simply too ignorant to realize how complex the calculation is. Your math is way way off.

The drones are ridiculously expensive for the very little they do.

Your math is comparing apples to oranges.

Specifically you are comparing the cost to apprehend PLUS all the fixed costs of the agency vs the cost to apprehend with a drone.

IN reality, the cost per deportation is estimated at LESS than 15,000 per deportation - including apprehension costs. Clearly the fixed costs of the agency are far greater than you realize. Effectively, the drone program more than doubles the cost to apprehend.

You are correct that they SHOULD have listed that information.

But the actual cost per arrest to deport is about less than $1,000, from what I understand.

The average cost to arrest, try and deport an illegal immigrant is only $12,000 (source = http://blog.chron.com/immigrat... )

So the cost of $28k is ridiculous.

Humans play chess as a strategy game. Computers play chess as a math problem to solve by looking ahead x turns.

"Go" on the other-hand must still be played as a strategy game by computers because looking ahead is not that helpful.

No, merely reaction time.

In other words, this is an example of good image recognition software, that's it.

Show me a game that beat a human on a strategy based game, then you have something.