A pretty good swath of the population of the U.S. is essentially as dumb as a box of rocks.

So it's pretty easy to see how they could be manipulated into supporting something that was not in their best interest.

Back in the mid 2000's I managed to snag a C Class block of IP's for a government agency. They still hold it now. The reality though even though we had the full 8 bits at the end to play with, we only used about 15 addresses.

But here's the thing about the industry in general. The outrageous taxi scheme goes away one autonomous vehicles are predominant. Just whistle up a car and it takes you where you need to go. No more human to have to pay, no more of that.

You make an extremely important point about infringement. In essence proof goes out the window when any Tom, Dick and Harry can use your access point.

And this is sort of a bad move on the part of Comcast. If my provider, Cox were to do that I'd promptly get toss their router and put my own in with full up protection.

I tend to use a business debit card. Has essentially the same liability limits a credit card does. Better yet - my bank is proactive. All I have to do is call and dispute charges and I'm sent a new card a couple days later. Works great.

I'm the Data Analyst/Advisor. Lately more the latter than the former. I'm working on democrat Todd Giroux's campaign for Governor.

He and I have had discussions about two things - recreational cannabis and autonomous vehicles and the impact it would have on law enforcement and corrections. Plus the tax advantages were RI to legalize recreationa cannabis before our neighbors. I also gave him a simple formula to ensure RI's sales tax remains competitive - take MA and CT rates, sum and average - then subtract 1 from the result. We'll ALWAYS be lower than either of the two states. And even in a race to the bottom - we still win.

The copper plant is still usable. Taking the bridge taps off means you can sling data pretty fast and far over a copper twisted pair.

I say if they want to walk away let groups use it for their purposes. For example, it'd be a good backhaul for a little data project I want to do in my district.

That the MIT IT people must have been frazzled about this. I've been in similar situations and my answer pretty much echoes theirs in that I too told them so.

But the case against the kid did i fact have several exploitable holes in it. That whole guest access thing. I've been in places where we've had to have public access. I made sure that the screws were torqued tight regarding security on those public machines. You could get on the web but you were blocked off from things the content manager didn't like, and you could print. That's it.

Is that Google is the one exposin the flaws in Microsoft office. I've recently ditched all things Microsoft. Went over to the dark side, Ubuntu. Why not? It has all the applications and functionality I had on my ancient XP laptop plus a whole lot more. Plus it comes bundled with Firefox and Thunderbird which I was using on my XP box to begin with. All I had to do was copy over my documents, music and profiles for both and I got everything back. And Libre office has come a very long way. Plus I have my NNTP reader, my astronomy program, it's all pretty sweet.

If we chose to have kids I'd certainly help them. Why? Because during my education I received what I consider a quality education. More in the math and sciences though I do enough editing of manuscripts and such that I could probably get them used to the right way of doing it and have many aruments with teachers.

But on the math side, I'm all over the common standards movement. To the point where I read the standards for math and agree with most of it and also added that we should start in 2nd or 3rd grade teaching kid alternative numbering systems like binary, octal, and hexadecimal. Once you learn the symbols for them it's easy.

They can get the rover to the Moon but they can't get it to work. Meanwhile the United States has successfully put four rovers down on Mars without much issue. Sojourner, Opportunity, Spirit, and Curiosity. All of them deployed successfully and in the cases of Opportunity and Spirit both performed WELL beyond expectations.

And Curiosity is doing a bang up job too. I guess it sucks that the Chinese spies couldn't infiltrate the groups that developed those rovers.

I thought the very purchase of Motorola Mobility was the patent trove. It would protect Android from attacks by Apple and the like.

So I wonder why they're selling to Lenovo now. It's kind of odd when you come right down to it.

When I'm in agreement with a Republican but it's pretty clear that Clapper did nothing but lie. And I find it amusing that congressmen in general are getting their underwear in a bunch because they found out the NSA is spying on them too. Oh well.

Was about the time the #5 Xbar system came about. It was the very first Common Control switching system. The way it works is fascinating. The crossbar elements too - a single crossbar frame could switch multiple calls due to holding magnets activated by the system.

Of course the era spans to about 1970 when the first electronic switches were put into place.

It's called the 4th Amendment! You know, Secure in your person, papers, things and places. That smart phone counts as thing that is PROTECTED from unwarranted search and seizure.

That it actually got all the way up to the USSC is appalling. It should have been vigorously quashed at the district level and affirmed by the appellate and that be the end of it.