I'm not an EE type, but I can't help but wonder how this works with any reliability behind it.

Power is inherently noisy. Especially at my house if I'm to believe what the UPS tells me.
It's unshielded, thus will pick up everything and its brother and cause problems with the HF bands.
I'm sure you've heard the effect when turning on a light-switch with an active speaker running. ( pop )
How the hell do you get the signal across the transformers along the path ?

Maybe it comes with some goofy ( of course it's going to be proprietary, but they'll rent you one ) router or
switch that just plugs into an unfiltered receptacle ?

( Still doesn't explain how that signal is going to get past the transformer )

I've seen an internal Comcast memo that says that as soon as the FCC rescinds their regulations they're going to start hiring customer service reps who speak only Portuguese so they can better replicate the kind of service the national ISP of Portugal offers.

Huh? If cable is tacking on $60 a month for Netflix and Amazon, then it would seem to be a lot cheaper to go with T-Mobile and a $20/month internet service from them.

What the hell is an "l3 background"? And how does a small cable company that is available in only a few cities blackmail anyone?

Why wouldn't Tmobile use their own capacity?

I assume that's the goal, to offer you TV service that is 100% independent from Comcast, AT&T etc.

Perhaps if you built a fingerprint based on the structure of calls across functions, you could map it back to source code from github. Not that malware is generally posted to github, but I'd be surprised if they didn't use a TON of third_party libraries, and factoring all of those out would make what's left easier to understand and also let you focus better.

Pretty sure you're nothing like a libertarian

There seems to be a tendency among animal lovers to be anti-social. Whether it's fear of people or insecurity or introversion is unclear. I know of no science that confirms this, but many people do- even pet owners.

Perhaps to a lesser extent, it seems that gregarious party animals aren't particularly interested in four-legged animals. What do you think?

How much does it cost to repair a robot smashed with a baseball bat?

If they all of the coke?

Homeless people aren't as cute as animals so they yield a harder-to-sell virtue signalling product. You seem to be starting on the assumption that these organizations exist to actually do good. Actually they exist to sublimate the middle-to-upper class's sense of personal social responsibility to keep them in a state of brainless consumerism with no actual hand in their own governance.

Hey man, not funny. They come here from Oakland and other city's even beyond the bay and in other states for real opportunities.

Come ye masses, unto San Francisco, where we will take care of you like a real people instead of dumping you on the side of the road like a dead cat.

I think a lot of people are totally ignorant of the role the US economy plays in the world. It is a gigantic dumping ground for the world's products. Without it to pay out like a slot machine, much of the world would collapse. Witness Trump's idea to buy American and hire American - resisted with shrieking terror. They need our economy, where else are they going to sell their stuff?

Assuming you're European, good luck with the Chinese. They don't give a shit and don't just say China First, they say China First, Last, and In Between. At any rate, I'm glad to be rid of useless Europeans and their steadfast refusal to defend themselves. Can't even do the minimum 2%. Freeloaders.

will you own the Layer3 TV boxes now? or be forced to rent them like it is now?

They don't force you to rent phones!

Are you deliberately confusing "Layer 3" with "Level 3" just so you can spread FUD and make stuff up?

I've never paid to add a ringtone or a "map program".

It would have been the early nineties or so. He also might have obscured certain details; it may not have happened in US airspace.

Do you really expect us to believe you have ever left your momâ(TM)s basement?

Since when were any of you ever proud of being American? To be embarrassed you have to have, at one point, been proud which is absolutely not true. American pride is a noxious view associated with middle America in your view, so WTF? You've always been embarrassed to be American.

What's the actual statistic on black on white crime and vice versa?

going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a Faraday cage is not part of most homeless peoples' daily carry.

Back in the late 70's I loaded TRS-80 games into my debugger, it also let me dump the results into a text file. Finding things like "jump to label_foo" helped, but was not the be-all end-all.

The killer was when I debugged my TRS-80 BASIC interpreter in ROM. You'd have some 3 byte instruction, "jump here", then somewhere else you'd have a 3 byte instruction "jump into the middle of this 3 byte instruction to do something completely different". My understanding is Bill did those, but for all the evil he did I have major respect for his coding abilities.

I beat a lot of games running my debugger on them. 90% sure it was called TRS-MON, but wouldn't bet my retirement on it.

Hold on now - I have been assured many, many times that tariffs do NOT work and a trade war hurts the initiator FAR more than anyone else. Now suddenly tariffs are a good idea and starting a trade war is OK? How does that work?

Also, none of the things I've listed are mutually exclusive.

I think that's true everywhere.

That and drug addiction seem to be the two major causes of homelessness everywhere I've been.

Followed probably by failed to reacclimate veteran. FAS probably isn't even top 10 for cause.

I vote you and yours first.

Maybe, just maybe people are being diagnosed with a mental illness when previously the prevailing attitude was 'suck it up;. Previous veterans had to get on with their lives with their own resources, plenty of WW2 veterans topped themselves. Remember back in WW1 shell shock was initially attributed to LMF (lack of moral fibre). Attitudes have changed since then.

Let's try to cut through the hyperventilating and click-bait headlines a bit, shall we?

First, keep in mind that the SPCA complex takes up an entire city block, and that they were having a real issue with safety and crime on their property. Prior to this, SPCA employees were literally not able to safely use some of the sidewalks due to discarded needles, obstructions, and so on.

Second, the robots are set to detect any illegal trespassing or activity, and simply report it to human security personnel. It's not like the robots have mounted tazers that drive the homeless out, running for their lives. In fact, people have vandalized the robots by tipping it over, covering its sensors with BBQ sauce or feces, etc. These robots are completely harmless, and in fact, are downright defenseless.

City Hall is great at lecturing others to be tolerant and risk their own safety while they can just nudge the police commissioner to quietly push homeless toward someplace where they don't have to look at them. I mean, we can't have homeless tents blocking off City Hall, right?

could be worse... since you'd need a geostationary orbit so the wire doesn't get pulled off, some poor bugger would have to climb all the way up 36,000km of cable if it needed repair at the top.

âoeWe werenâ(TM)t able to use the sidewalks at all when thereâ(TM)s needles and tents and bikes, so from a walking standpoint I find the robot much easier to navigate than an encampment,â Jennifer Scarlett, the S.F. SPCAâ(TM)s president, told the Business Times.

Yeah, but I've read that they're 4k isn't much better than upscaled bluray, and I don't think it's HDR (which is only a 25% increase at worst I think (8->10 bits, probably easier to compress though).

My point was they could offer a significant number of channels better than any video most of us have ever seen (I've personally never seen a 4k HDR video that I'm aware of, maybe most people have and I'm wrong).

Bluray quality, but 4k and HDR would be a pretty killer feature I think, and based on my experience with cable (not giving me HD without spedning significantly more) would be something they have that nobody else does. If they're broadcasting it (rather than streaming it personally), it's probably worth using 10% of a tower's capacity to be the best.

Basically, they could offer 50 channels at better than anything else on offer, better than anything I've seen, and able to max out what can be seen on many TV sets (which are mostly not getting more than Netflix 4k, or bluray 1080p right now). They could be the company that brings 4k HDR to TVs, and use that as their killer feature.

Realistically, they'd probably have 3 classes of channel, high bitrate (I proposed 40mbps), standard 4k (Netflix's 15mbps), and HD (Netflix's 5mbps), this would allow them to have 100+ channels, plus some error correction for the inevitable dropped packets, while still only using 2-10% of a tower's capacity.

it's been thought of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_People_Fell

Or any other 64 bit arch.

If it weren't for women like them, Roy Moore would have won against Doug Jones

Not anymore. Starting tomorrow net neutrality is going to be voted down. Portugal's national ISP as an example forces you to pay for extra things they firewall or throttle down by default forcing to to a tiered la carte system. Want to watch Netflix? That will be $35 extra a month. Amazon video? ANother $25 a month etc.

Of course it will just be cheaper to buy cable you know. Tmobile will use the l3 background to blackmail you and your ISPs so they can quad drip after your ISP triple dips by charging you, cloud provider, and now l3 for each packet courtsey of freedom errr deregulation.

Who cares about that ancient history? Trump supported a PAEDOPHILE! And what about all the women he sexually harassed? Or that terrible Xmas video his wife made?!

See, we can do what-about-ism too.

Isn't 24AWG more common?
That's what they used for the old cat3 phone lines. Sometimes as thin as 28AWG, but I didn't think it went down to 22.