Info is wrong, this does travel over the distribution lines.

By bad, sorry

...but no x86_64.

Boy as Americans be prepaired to pay. Pay more now for your own TV streaming services as of tomorrow will be voted off by the appeal of net neutrality. SInce L3 owns the backbone for hte internet tmobile can now blackmail comcast to for tripple dipping which comcast will then charge you again for both ends and now the backbone for mega profits. Can't wait for my $200 a month internet bill and lacarte with VPN being firewalled out. VPN will come as an additional charge to unblock of course etc.

This has got to be intentional as these companies are salivating at the thought of making our internet like cell phones before 2007 where you had to pay a monthly fee for each service such as adding a ringtone or a map program. Net Neutrality now is the only force holding them back.

And that makes Nazis a force for good?

"$.97? Eh, here's five more bucks. Go do it and bring back popcorn."

Yeah, yeah, typical right wing view. Compatible with the concept exhibited here of go way and be someone else's problem/ out of sight, out of mind. If you have been on state benefits yourself you would find that it is not a bed of roses.

Funny, IMHO it looks more like this one.

So far the vast majority of identified Russian fake accounts have been leave supporters. It makes sense, Russia's goal is to weaken and destabilize it's enemies and that's exactly what has happened. Remaining would have been much less beneficial to them.

PIC32 and MIPS!

It's like a PIC32 isn't actually a MIPS based MCU.... oh wait, it is.

...are animals too! But then an awful lot of dedicated 'animal lovers' have strong misanthropic tendencies.

IIRC what I read on other sources, this time around, AT&T is using the three TRANSMISION lines (115KiloVolts to 500KiloVolts) as a waveguide.

This is not your BPL stuff to the home. This is not going in the 110/220/480volts powerlines.

And If they intend to transmit 1Gbps, they better operate at VERY high frequencies. Higher than HAM.

Probably intended to feed data to basestations in rural areas.

The credit card charge is a bullshit argument. Patreon bills you monthly so they only get hit with the fee once. They were going to add a fee to EVERY pledge. So if someone makes 10 videos in a month Patreon would have taken the fee 10 times. Had that been $1 pledges they would have pocketed $3.70 on top of the $10 they charged you.

1.3W to stream a video is pretty good.

In terms of the power used for me to watch it at home, 1.3W wouldn't even power the fibre terminator bringing the internet connection to my house.
Then there's the router, the network switch, the wireless AP, my laptop... It's probably at least 50W

My phone uses more than that watching a video, let alone streaming it over wifi.

Of course that 1.3W isn't going to include any of the electrical cost to send the data all over the world though. I assume it's only the cost of powering their data centres divided by the number of concurrent streams.

Those are valid points; I just dislike the prison / white house examples because someone intent on doing that would not place the number on their device. So in other words, requiring registration will make it easier to enforce against nuisance and ignorant flight but have little effect on intentionally bad flight.

It seems to me that the best option would be to provide more options.

As a creator, let me pick who's covering the processing fees. If I'm aiming for wide appeal, it might be beneficial to pay my own fees, just to keep the apparent prices low. If I have a small appeal to some highly-contributing individuals, a few cents in processing fees won't change our relationship that much.

As a patron, let me pick when and how I'll be charged. Let me pick a schedule, and just show me the fees associated with it. If I'm picking something that causes costs to rise, I'm fine paying for it, but give me the option up front. I might be fine shifting my payment schedule a few days if it cuts down the fees, but let me make that choice. To compromise with the creator, a middle-ground option might be that the creator picks a plan for which he's willing to pay the minimized fees, and the cost of any deviations from that schedule would be paid by the patron choosing to be different.

As a business, Patreon can do a few other things to mitigate the apparently-high risks involved. Rather than passing chargebacks directly through to the creators, Patreon could hold a one-month buffer of donations, collecting the individual charges (and chargebacks), then releasing them to the creators 30-60 days after the charge deadline. Essentially, Patreon itself takes the role of a clearinghouse, maintaining account balances and payouts for each creator. Having floating balances would also open the door to allow creators to support other creators directly from their accounts (preferably with reduced fees), promoting collaboration under the Patreon banner.

Now, implementing these choices would be a significant development and logistics effort, but certainly possible.

The ads were only a small part of the problem, the main one was fake accounts. Russians pretending to be ordinary British people.

It's a very powerful technique, more so than obvious ads. That's why it's banned, companies aren't allowed to do it.

Quick! Hide behind the discarded sofa!

The deal 100% existed, no one disputes that. Obviously you didn't click the link to see the Fox News video explaining what went down.

(the main reason I never started using Hulu et al - too many stories of episodes disappearing

In fairness, that's because Hulu is trying to feel like TV. Episodes only live for like 5 weeks after being published and get published every week. Which makes sense because its owned by the major TV networks. Can you imagne what would happen if they

From underneath my tinfoil hat.

it's a rounding error
5.967 million kWh is about 6GWh
Bitcoin uses 29,000GWh according to PowerCompare.co.uk, other estimates are higher.
That's about 0.02%

Keep in mind Lord Islay's maxim about the purpose of NATO: "Keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."

What a fantastic universe you live in, where Comcast can reach out to the local T-Mobile tower and throttle the LTE data it sends, or would even bother trying. Is the sky blue on your planet, like it is on Earth here?

The children that evangelical christians doomed to a sock, due to the lack of a 14 y/o receptacle. Or the 14 y/o receptacle being male.

The principal threat to children at school is in a handful of specific urban areas where local drug gangs and imported organized crime organizations (like MS-13) fight it out for turf in the area, and recruit from those schools using violence to intimidate kids into joining (or dying). The groups in question consider things like your idea of a gun confiscation from those on record as having purchased them to be absolutely hilarious. Because they don't care to give theirs up, and are thrilled when the households the prey on are known to be easier victims. The overwhelming majority of such crime takes place in liberal-run cities that, in practice, have already made the possession of guns essentially impossible ... for law abiding citizens. The notion of causality you're putting forth, as you surely know, is complete BS. The solution is the control of crime and criminals, not inanimate objects.

Sling isn't a "cable company". Hulu isn't a "cable company". T-Mobile is not becoming a cable company. Cable companies deliver video using a specific medium. Can you guess what that might be? No, maybe not, because I think you fail to understand what differentiates a cable company from a wireless company.

Here's a hint. T-Mobile is one of those ISPs who aren't limited by the municipal franchise requirements for access to the poles and conduits. That's because they don't use __________

I actually think the lottery is a classic case of lawmarker's lack of imagination. It's probably hard for them to imagine a few dollars being something someone cannot afford to lose, or that people would do more than buy the occasional scratcher.

Also, lotteries and casinos are clearly bad investments. A lot of the investments that require an accredited investor are much harder to value the risk on.

Now, that said, I imagine the reason the law passed was a coalition of those points of view and other people who wanted to just screw have-nots. Which is why it passed. Those two coalitions are each like 45% of the government.

I'm guessing that's why he included the qualifier "only" in what he wrote.

As near as I can tell the bar in this industry is set so low...well, let's just say that T-Mobile should easily exceed whatever laughably passes for customer service in the Cable industry. Cable providers are routinely ranked at the very bottom - right down there with airlines and government. Yeah, it's that bad.

All they really have to do is:

1) NOT treat their customers like shit
2) Be price competitive with other streaming services
3) And....don't treat your customers like shit

The cables companies don't seem to be able to do any of these things...especially #1 & #3. For T-Mobile this should be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Comcast and Spectrum citing the revocation of network neutrality, throttle Tmobile video services to 2.1Kb/s

Most under 20 are getting their entertainment from Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. -- and I'd bet many kids under 10 are growing up without the classic TV experience that most adults remember. Hell, I know a kid who'd rather watch Youtube or Twitch than any TV show... and he tells me most of his class is the same way.

There's definitely room for a new internet provider, but I think cable is firmly and deservedly dying.

They dedicate 40mbps*50 channels for 2gbps, that's what, 2-10% of a tower (I'm seeing LTE towers are built for 20-100gbps), assuming they can make devices that pick up broadcastlike.

So for a 2-10% reduction in mobile data speed for customers, they can offer 50 high quality (4k HDR) channels using H.265 (I assume, I don't actually know how efficient it is, I'm basically taking blue ray * 4 (pixels) / 2 (efficiency)).

If they can sell/rent a receiver for a reasonable price that can take their broadcast they can have super high quality live TV for minimal bandwidth reduction for their regular market. They can then lean on people having home Internet or much reduced resolution for on demand content (maybe 5 mbps as Netflix recommends for HD), this is in the realm of what I typically get at a minimum when checking my LTE speed (5-50 in my home city). They could maybe limit on demand content to SD speeds (1.5mbps), but allow you to subscribe to shows and have access the day after aired at 4k, downloading in off times (including allowing the downloading of Netflix downloadable shows).

This seems like a very doable and smart thing in an era of people hating cable.

Exactly! That's why I refuse to use any of the systems (highways, legal frameworks, education, social security, etc. ) that others have created. It's just me and my strong back, that's how I made my millions!

Nobody in this world operates alone. Supporting the system that allows us to succeed is a necessary condition for future success.