So definitely not an "airwave," got it.

As I understand it, before, let's say $10 is charged once and split across 10 $1 pledges to different creators. That's the single fee. The new way, would be 10 $1 payments. Though, not sure how that changes fraud and chargebacks, unless it's just to make it more hassle to chargeback.

There will always be a place for live TV, if they got a good enough deal on the purchase they may be able to make money.

If the tech really does more efficiently stream live TV over IP, they could be the ideal choice for things like HBO (GoT finale was hard to watch on HBO go), Sports, Special events, idle background with no need to make a decision (I'm pretty sure this is HGTVs entire market).

Sure, the live TV market isn't going to be as big as all of cable, but that doesn't mean they are overpaying for the tech to be better at it.

They aren't buying a big established business for its customers, they're buying a small one for the tech, which may or may not be worth it, but isn't completely braindead either.

Doesn't matter cause it's Little Caesar's anyway. Pass.

AT&T's real answer, also signed by Verizon: We don't give a fuck what you think or how you label us or our actions, and we'll do what we want.

Aggregation is pretty much their core value proposition.
How could they "underestimate" this?

Because it turns out that aggregation isn't much of a business. If Patreon decides to maintain their current business model (and that is their main value to me), I don't know whether they'll actually go bust, or just be economically moribund, but either way, it turns out that there's not money in being the sort of business I need.

It's much like KickStarter started out as an Arts funding model, but eventually realized that their real value to people was as a pre-order house. Allowing people like me to support artistic creators might sound wonderful, but it's pretty much a loser's game. The customers of any real worth have enough money for real subscription services.

(It's sort of like when I finally realized that my small donations to charities were financially worthless to the charity - they literally spent more raising than I was willing to give. The worth of my donation was solely its help in providing the appearance of widespread support, which was necessary for the charity to get the real donations they were looking needed to do anything useful - those in the $100K+ range. My job was simply to help them establish credibility to the real donors.)

So, yes, we helped Patreon establish the credibility it needs to become a subscription business. But we have to face the fact that most of us are financially worthless to the businesses we'd like to serve us.

I watch companies with security requirements get themselves into very interesting "cloud" situations on a regular basis. Would hope the government of the USA wasn't as stupid.

BPL was used as an experiment a few years ago in a community nearby. The interference to HF ham radio and the CB frequencies extended about a block or so in each direction. The problem works both ways though. If you keyed up a transmitter on CB or Ham at the 50-100 watt level, the BPL would overload, quit, be silent for a few seconds, then recommence.

unfortunately it de-compiles the machine code to perl.

In the UK 2Mb/sec for everyone is the current, unmet goal. So this would actually qualify.

"Super fast" is only 24Mb. Fibre is extremely rare.

Too late.
Perhaps you've noticed how many things are served by AWS, or cloudflare
They're already on your lawn.
And, you've probably let them on.

Sar-chasm. The gap between you and the joke.

Fuck you for wasting my time checking that link. Most poems are boring as shit.

They have been doing something like this with kids for years in the UK. Instead of robots they have speakers outside the building that play classical music all day. The cool kids don't want to hang around asking people to buy them booze any more.

Of course, all it does is displace the problem.

US government procurement is a NIGHTMARE!
It literally takes an act of congress to buy almost anything.
By moving it to cloud service. It's a service contract.
What Amazon, or whoever else gets certified, does to maintain the service is their problem (expense).
Congress has painted the US government into a corner. Since the government can't buy anything, service contracts are the only way.
Regardless of my other opinions of trump, this is a reasonable business decision.

why is that half assed? yes they are clearly scumbags, but you are under no obligation to tell journalists anything and they can happily lie their asses off to them.

Actually, many of the homeless have varying degrees of mental illness. People on welfare often get stuck on it because they lose the benefits faster than earned income fills the gap.

Why?

For some govt data I agree that there needs to be geographically diverse, hot redundant systems with RPO measured in seconds. But only for a small amount of it.

There really is no reason why the phone directory for the department of guinea pig racing needs to be this over engineered.

He clearly meant, when they OD, stop wasting money treating them with Naloxone.

No. It got a LOT harder.

On one hand you have a cloud supplier, Amazon / Google / MS, that have people that's sole job is look after racks and racks of identical hardware running their own tuned OS. They do 1 thing and they do it very well. Encrypt at rest, encrypted backups, and serious physical access security.

Then on the other hand you have the IT team that does dev, infrastrucure, helpdesk, support, architecture all the while explaining to a non techie why they can't do X without Y$. Which of those builds the better option?

MS is opening an Azure Tenancy in a datacentre in Canberra in April next year. It will be inside the CDC datacentre complex which is overseen but the Australian Signals Directorate and audited for secret classified data. That Azure tenancy will be infinitely more secure than anything some random govt dept develops.

This doesn't solve anything. At best, all it does is force the homeless people to move to some other section of sidewalk in front of somebody else's business.

I'd imagine that'd be an issue for the rental company, not the one doing the renting.

MetroPCS was a real cell company before Tmobile purchased them.

Now they're basically Tmobile with a different price structure ($30 less/month, prepaid (I think), no international, and always throttled like a tmobile unlimited user that broke 35GB (Tmobile customers get priority over metroPCS)

Was expecting this to be the top comment, and then you didn't even link to the original.

The Internet is for Porn

Really AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Sprint are on their own standard.

Any congressman that knows being a hero to the small part of your constituency that even knows what NN isnt good if it pisses off the ones giving them money?

What good jobs are there for someone with severe schizophrenia?

AI, of any complexity, is purely functional. Ergo, it is a machine. It is sentient if and only if your toaster is sentient.

You're claiming to define the limits of a prospective technology you've never laid hands upon, because it does not yet exist.

This is precisely like a caveman trying to explain the nature of the telephone.