"The company has temporarily installed the biometrics machines this month inside a Showfields Inc. interactive mall and at a Rimowa Distribution Inc. luggage store in New York City as well as a Rimowa in San Francisco."
Three places I will never consider visiting...EVER.
Oh, and an interactive mall sounds like wall to wall advertising punching you in the face as you stagger through.
The IP blocks have been publicly listed with ARIN since at last 1985.
If you didn't care for the last 35 years, why on earth would you start to care today?
Or put another way, why did you willingly *allow* connections to these IP blocks for 35 years?
Why did you choose to let that happen?
People care now because a private entity is announcing these blocks instead of the U.S. Government. Who knows what this private entity is doing with these blocks. What data are they collecting? What will they do with said data? Are they subject to the same privacy laws as the U.S. Government? Can I FOIA this private entity to find out? Probably not.
While I'd love to see SteamDB fight back on this, lawyers cost money. Cases cost money. Kind of hard to justify a lawsuit when the chance of recovery is slim and could take years. I mean, the FTC fought a 4 year anti-trust battle against Qualcomm before giving up. And that was the federal government!
I do wish the DMCA has some kind of punitive measure for these shady and broke-ass DMCA notices.
I'd bet my Gig/E connect that these goofy speeds will come with some cap or bandwidth throttling mechanism ala Comcast or these mobile networks.
I still can't believe we're talking about some 15-20yr old copper tech in 2021. That's just shameful.
This AT&T nonsense is just their management trying to skimp on delivering respectable internet speeds.
And for those people saying 10Mbps is "good enough" - take out all that "extra" RAM in your PCs. Clearly, 640k is good enough for you.
JFC, I was just gonna mention Starlink too. Sure it might have some high latency (maybe) but they could easily steal these rural customers that AT&T will NEVER get back.
Aha! That's a great point. I completely forgot about the Cingular taint. Thank you.
Tell that to the astroturf posters above who are apparently happy with crappy xDSL tech from like 15yrs ago. Reminds me of that old Bill Gates quote about 640K RAM being good enough. Just absurd.
AT&T can push 400Gbps and higher speeds on inter-city links but God forbid they should deliver reasonable speeds to their customers.
Are they refusing the obvious because they are so badly managed and carry so much debt? This company used to be the gold standard of network-service providers - like a UUnet. Now? They're a laughing stock that has to be shamed into delivering minimal fiber speeds.
It's a sad day.
While you make a great point about FB being an enabler, from what I've seen people like Bannon can turn on a dime and go after companies or people with whom they might disagree at some point. Case in point - Fox News and Trump. While Fox News hasn't completely turned on Trump, they are leaning in that direction.
Another case in point - Trump wanting to make a digital media channel to try and screw over Fox News - the very same org that enabled him over the last 4 years.
Bannon calls for a beheading yet FB continues to let him spew. What happens when he calls for Zuck's head?
Facebook never fails to amaze me. They collect, mine, and profit off collecting a metric ton of data about each user but when someone shines the light on them, they rush to court. To hell with them and their blatant hypocrisy.
It can be the best damned VR gear in the world but it still requires a Facebook login which makes it a non-starter for a LOT of people.
They are putting sendmail to bed. Finally. Long live Postfix.
Nonsense. RH offers RHEL Desktop and RHEL Workstation for desktop use.
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