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Comment Re:Isn't this contradictory? (Score 2, Insightful) 317

Hows that wireline paper insulated monopoly network been under the years of NN rules?
With rule changes some of the better funded states, cities, towns might just have a chance to build a network, community broadband if they so want.
No more NN rules to keep giving the protected monopoly court wins to block any new networks.
Some parts of the USA might just get better networks. Gated communities can find a new, better quality ISP.
Resorts, hotels, small business that employ local people might just attract more business and offer better internet to their guests with NN rule changes as they can expand their own new networks.
Some areas will stay the same due to local politics, tax rates, funding, taxes been spent on welfare. Not much can be done in such areas and they will stay on their paper insulated wireline.
Other sates, cities will see the new freedoms that have and invite in innovative and new telco, ISP products and services. Now they have they freedom to build their networks without federal NN monopoly rules blocking new network investment and growth.
The better, smarter, more imaginative, more industrious parts of the USA have just got the ability to plan new networks. They with do great with the new network building freedoms. Cities, states, towns, communities, business and the private sector with the ability, skills and people to build networks can now invest and grow without federal rules blocking them.

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Submission + - On social media manipulation, its discovery and mitigation

UnixUnix writes: A longread about Facebook and other social media having been abused in the now familiar way, and ideas what to do about it (some more feasible than others)

...what should be an obvious point: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other platforms were manipulated by the Russians to shift outcomes in Brexit and the U.S. presidential election, and unless major changes are made, they will be manipulated again. Next time, there is no telling who the manipulators will be.

Submission + - Information About Rightful Compensation to Consumers in California Through Lemon (ezinearticles.com)

Lemon Law Attorneys writes: When you purchase a vehicle, how sure are you that it will conform to the warranty norms, and perform well? You trust the manufacturer to deliver.

At times, they do not live up to their promises, and we land up with a defective vehicle. Even with repeated repairs, the vehicle simply does not perform up to the mark. Lemon laws are made to protect the consumers, and California has in place a very strong lemon law, known as the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act.

How to Classify a Vehicle as Lemon under California Lemon Law

If a vehicle, which is under warranty, goes for repair repeatedly, and if the dealer is unable to get it repaired properly, then it is considered to be a lemon vehicle. The number of times it is repaired can be more than once, and it depends on the gravity of the problem.

This law covers new as well as used vehicles in California. It is not so in many other states, where only new vehicles are covered.

You need to meet certain criteria to qualify for this.

* The vehicle should be purchased from an authorized dealer in California
* It can be used for personal and family needs
* It can be used for business needs
* It can be used by a corporation or a legal firm

California lemon law covers different types of vehicles, and the requirements vary in each case. You will need a legal expert or Lemon Law Attorney in LA to deal with the case. When you seek help from an experienced lawyer to file your claim, he will handle all the case procedures, and negotiate with the manufacturer for the best settlement amount.

When you handle the claim yourself, it is likely that the manufacturer may simply try and delay the process, or even try to settle your claim for a smaller amount. Worse still, you may end up losing MONEY and time. Under this law, lawyer's fee is payable by the manufacturer, and so you need not worry about the extra expenses.

In most of the cases, settlement is made within a month or two with the help of an attorney. In rare cases, the negotiation fails, and the court settlement takes longer time. Buyback is applicable under lemon law, which means the manufacturer is made to refund your down payment, monthly installments, loan payment, and other procedural charges.

Law for all consumer goods

Other than vehicles, this law covers most of the consumer goods like, television, video camera, computer, monitor, refrigerator, which are used for personal and household purposes.

California lemon law is very strong, and is aimed at protecting the rights of the consumers.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Major hurricanes and wildfires fueled a record year for costs related to natural disasters in the United States, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That report also said 2017 was the third-warmest year in 123 years of record keeping, behind only 2014 and 2012. Natural disasters in the United States cost more than $300 million last year, far surpassing the previous record of $214.8 billion set in 2005, NOAA said Monday. NOAA counted 1 drought event, 2 flooding events, 1 freeze event, 8 severe storm events, 3 tropical cyclone events, and 1 wildfire event during the year that bore losses exceeding $1 billion each. There were also 362 deaths. That would tie with 2011 for the largest number of such billion-dollar disasters, the agency said.

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Submission + - Bellmore Group Management Services on Make Your Investing Resolution in 2018 (fortalent.com)

kell3ckard31 writes: These six New Year's resolutions will give your investment portfolio a boost in 2018, deliver long-lasting rewards and require neither spandex nor excessive amounts of kale.

It’ll be nearly impossible to find an open treadmill at your local gym come January. By March? Everything’s back to normal again.

Welcome to the season of good intentions. Many people will start 2018 with a New Year’s resolution like exercising more or losing weight, only to abandon it within weeks.

Sound familiar? Even if you haven’t succeeded in the past, 2018 can be different. (No, really!) If you’re unsure where to begin and would like to start with some quick wins, how about your investment portfolio?

Investing resolutions can reap long-lasting rewards and require neither spandex nor excessive amounts of kale. Pick and choose from the following investing resolutions, or go ahead and tackle the entire list.

Save more (and invest it)

Spending less and saving more is a noble resolution, but here’s some bad news: Saving money won’t adequately prepare you for retirement unless you invest it.

First, some ground rules. Don’t invest in the market unless you’ve established a rainy-day fund with enough money to cover three to six months of expenses. Generally speaking, you shouldn’t invest money you’ll need within the next three years.

Once you have some short-term savings accumulated, work toward contributing 15% of your income to your retirement accounts. Everyone can make (and keep) this resolution, whether your nest egg has cracked the six-figure mark or it looks more like, well, an egg. Even an extra $20 each week will add up to nearly $40,000 in 30 years, thanks to compounding interest.

Exercise more (than just your 401(k))

Think of saving for retirement like exercising. A routine workout may get the job done, but your body (or nest egg) won’t radically transform until you switch things up.

If you’ve been contributing to your 401(k) — congratulations, by the way, as it’s an important first step — resolve to open an IRA in 2018. These accounts carry a maximum contribution of $5,500 for people under age 50 ($6,500 for those 50 and up) and offer a broader array of assets that often have lower fees than employer-sponsored plans.

First, decide whether you prefer the Roth or traditional variety. (The difference comes down to when you’ll be taxed, now with a Roth or later with a traditional when you take distributions.) Once that’s settled, you can open an IRA in a matter of minutes. You may not burn a lot of calories in the process, but you’ll appreciate this move someday — maybe even as soon as tax season if you open a traditional IRA.

Lose weight (from excess fees)

The U.S. stock market has had a tremendous year, but if your portfolio’s performance is a bit sluggish, it’s time to take action. Costly fees may be weighing down your portfolio and hampering its future potential. A NerdWallet study found that a millennial paying 1% more in investment fees than his peers will sacrifice nearly $600,000 in returns over 40 years.

Don’t be that person. Here’s how to trim the fat: Take note of the expense ratios for each investment in your portfolio and then research whether less costly alternatives will let you achieve the same goal. Have an account with an online broker or robo-advisor? Many of these providers offer access to financial advisors who can assist with this process. Or you can consult with one directly.

Eat healthier (in your portfolio)

This time of year, it’s easy to overindulge on sweets, whether at the dessert table or within your portfolio.

With U.S. stocks up about 20% in 2017, your once-healthy portfolio probably has gotten out of whack. It’s time to restore your intended allocations to stocks and bonds. Experts recommend at least 5% to 10% of your portfolio be allocated to bonds, but your strategy may vary depending on your risk tolerance or age.

In 2018, resolve to rebalance your portfolio and set up automatic rebalancing, a feature offered by many providers or inherent to target-date funds you may have in your 401(k). Sometimes that’s as simple as a click of a button.

Get (your accounts) organized

So you’ve packed up old clothes and donated them to charity. But that 401(k) from your first job? Somehow it’s still hanging around.

Let 2018 be the year you finally roll over your old 401(k) into an IRA. Why? You’ll most likely pay lower fees than with that old employer’s plan, plus you’ll gain access to a broader selection of investments and possibly more guidance from your new broker.

A rollover will require you to fill out some paperwork and funnel money into new investments, but it’s time well-spent. Lower fees, greater flexibility and more money at retirement? You can probably spare a couple of afternoons for that.

Learn a new (investing) skill

While your friends learn French, Parlez-vous investing? If you answered no, your burgeoning interest is calling. (We know it’s there; you’re reading this list.)

It’s easy, and often wise, to take the set-it-and-forget-it approach to investing. But that may not be enough to satisfy a curious mind. Becoming “invested” will make you more engaged in the lifelong pursuit of managing your finances. Gravitate to what interests you, be it reading an investing book, researching how options work (hint: they’re not as difficult as they seem) or trying your hand at trading stocks.

Just be sure to keep your newfound hobby in check. Reading a few books does not the next Warren Buffett make, nor should you overhaul your portfolio to chase the latest investment du jour.

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Comment Re:Donald Trump - White Affirmative Action (Score 1) 1175

He won congress because his competitors were disqualified. While in Congress he sponsored a few bills that were looking for people.

So what you're saying is he's been a member of congress, which puts him ahead of Trump.

Outside of government what has he produced?

Less debt than Trump. Another win for Obama.

He is a great speaker, people just cannot list anything else.

He's a constitutional scholar, while Trump barely even knows what the constitution is. That's another major qualification over his orangeness.

Comment Re:"I want repaired processors for free" (Score 1) 366

The problem with most precompiled binary distributions is that a lot of them have been dropping 32-bit support. A P4 laptop is almost certainly a 32-bit machine, as there were never any mobile 64-bit P4's (as laptops had switched to the Pentium M by then). However, any distribution that still supports 32-bit should run just fine on a Pentium 4 - I've run recent Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware distros on P4's.

Potential tricky areas might include if the machine has some funky propriety hardware, or if it's still stuck with the original 256-512 MB ram it likely shipped with.

Submission + - What Your Customers Really Think About Your Elegant Wedding Invitations? (medium.com)

angeliica writes: One of the aspects that play a major part in the process of wedding invitation is the wedding card and it sets the tone and mood of the wedding greatly. You may hire a professional for designing the best card but think about the style you want and state your expectations clearly to the experts. You can choose a genre or a rustic style wedding for which lace and laser cut invitations are the best. If you are keen to have a strong focus on the invitation, you must harbor a few ideas in mind instead of depending fully on the experts. Fortunately, the mixed bag of choices can lead you to the right choice.

Comment Re:Isn't this contradictory? (Score 1) 317

Exactly.

I work for a small company that is trying to provide rural internet to places the ISPs won't touch for exactly the reasons you state. And nothing about NN has any effect on what we are trying to do. Period. In fact, we are going to make guarantees that we will respect NN anyway, because it has no effect on our ability to deploy, operate, or maintain our network.

I had broadband nearly a full 20 years before the 2015 rule change. Where was all the rural broadband in that time?

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Comment Re:The cure is worse than the disease (Score 1) 299

no, haven't noticed any difference on several machines at home and work I've patched.

so world isn't ending.

Problem AMD's won't be "bricked', you can go into windows repair and uninstall.patch

check windows drive is mapped in repair mode, drive should map to windows directory like c:\windows\system32

dir d:

dism /image:d:\ /remove-package /packagename:Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7601.24002.1.4 /norestart

should output processing 1 of 1 with progress bar

see, world not ended at all

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 1175

Forcing a halal butcher, or a vegetarian butcher (yes, they exist), to sell pork is _entirely_ different than forcing a cake maker to...make a cake...and sell it to gay people just as they would to straight people, or black people, etc. We've been through this before.

He would have happily supplied a gay person a cake themed for a heterosexual wedding, and even offered appropriate cakes to the gay man seeking to buy a cake. Exactly the service he provided to heterosexual customers. He was a baker who baked standard cakes, and also made custom cakes suitable for a hetero wedding. Like all bakers, there's a range of goods he didn't bake for a range of reasons.

Separate-but-equal "you are free to take your business elsewhere" is not going to fly here.

Mmm. How will you react when it happens to you?

For example, if a proprietor in a predominantly gay district who specializes in erotic and gay themed cakes for gay weddings is approached by a Christian couple who want a verse of the bible inscribed on their cake, and he refuses, will the same fine be leveraged?

Comment Re:However little I trust Apple, AT&T, and NSA (Score 1) 63

China has a few limited areas of direct internet interest.
People using a VPN the Communist party in China has not been given a backdoor to in China.
If the VPN works well all over China, some deal to report users is in place.
CIA, MI6 funded and supported protesters in China.
Wealthy people who have escaped China and who are now supporting protesters in China.
The creation of new network to try and support protesters in China.
To probe dual use mil/gov/comsumer telco networks that collect to on mil. air force, navy, army, special forces bases globally.
Was a nation foolish and trusted another nations consumer telco products expect them to probe your secret mil infrastructure thats on the wide open "internet".
Connect your most sensitive sites to the open "web" and other nations will take a look.
The rest of the spying is done by humans loyal to the Communist party all over the world in academia, business, civil society. No internet is risked as the FBI, MI5, GCHA, NSA can discover entire spy networks who chat too much on the "net"

vs. the NSA and GCHQ 5 hops of global collect it all efforts.
The West collects it all online. Other nations use their own trusted humans to spy globally for generations. The West has Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China has human spies. From the average US consumer, the junk NSA encryption sold in tame US OS, hardware, software is a real problem.
That has reduced the protection of working encryption and replaced it with backdoors, trapdoors, no encryption.

Comment Re: Yep...you also forgot bash. (Score 1) 243

The problem with a de facto standard is that the implementers can break or change it on a whim. A standard like POSIX sh is implemented and supported in bash, zsh, and several other shells. Don't come crying to me if you write a bunch of scripts for your customer's site only to have them break in an upgrade 2 years from now.

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Comment Re:Broadband? (Score 0) 317

The Obama administration changed it to 25Mbps. There was a lot of complaints from ISPs when they did, complaining that anything over the previous broadband figure (10Mbps, IIRC) wasn't really needed by anyone. Of course, people playing online games or watching videos online might disagree, but the ISPs don't care about that. They just care about needing to spend more money on their network instead of just using their monopolies to give us the bare minimum while charging us an arm and a leg.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Intel will have Meltdown and Spectre fixes for 90 percent of recent products within a week - The Verge (google.com)


The Verge

Intel will have Meltdown and Spectre fixes for 90 percent of recent products within a week
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Speaking today at Intel's big CES keynote, CEO Brian Krzanich addressed the biggest issue Intel faces today: the security and speed issues surrounding Meltdown and Spectre. “Want to thank the industry for coming together ... to address the recent ...
Intel partners with car makers from Ferrari to Nissan for autonomous driving gearVentureBeat
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich opens CES keynote on security issuesCNET
Intel reorganizes amid tumult over computer chip flawOregonLive.com
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Feed Google News Sci Tech: VR Takes the Next Step Forward with the Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor - Gizmodo (google.com)


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VR Takes the Next Step Forward with the Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor
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Back in the 90s, companies tried making virtual reality a thing, most notably Nintendo, whose Virtual Boy was so distasteful that it caused people to abandon the entire category for the next 20 years. But then in 2016, headsets from Oculus and HTC/Vive ...
HTC Vive Pro hands-on reviewDigital Trends
Take a good look at the HTC Vive Pro and VR wireless adapterEngadget
The HTC Vive Pro's upgrades make the Vive finally feel completePCWorld
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Comment Re:Finally (Score 0) 1175

How do you explain republicans trying to criminalise abortion, and when that fails shutting down clinics? That doesn't sound like supporting civil liberties.

I'm any case, the reality is that both major parties in the US are on the right of the political spectrum. The fringe of the Democratic Party maybe just touches the centre ground.

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