A truely great and humorous take on this topic is at https://idlewords.com/talks/we...

I believe it (true calling number) is visible to owners of 800 type numbers, but not to regular customers of the phone system.

About 10% of tax returns itemize.

Unless you tell it, the IRS doesn't know your marital status or number and ages of your dependents, all of which is important to calculate your tax liability. That said, the IRS could do the calculations for you if you submit the data. Years ago they would do that for returns with the earned income credit.

It appears they use "asked" price to value the NFTs. If they used the "bid" price, the numbers would be different.

The dollar and the Euro do have a commitment from the respective governments to maintain their value. This is far from ironclad, but it a lot more than bitcoin has.

I have been distributing static binaries for an application for many years now - it always works fine. I don't understand why it is discouraged.

Here in Cambridge Massachusetts we have had electric busses powered by overhead lines since the 1920s. There aren't really any problems. Buses can pass double parked cars since the power polls swivel and are about 25 feet long. The busses are standard busses with electric traction and come from General Motors. For some reason there has never been a big fuss about them.

I just checked amazon.com for "smr drive" and found several drives labeled SMR but for much higher prices than regular or unlabeled SMR drives. Very odd marketing.

Several people have suggested that the results are due to hospitals with poor security also having slow response times. However the design of the study takes this into account using the difference-in-differences method. It looks at the change in response time before and after the intrusion and compares it to the change in response time for other hospitals. A poorly run hospital may be slow, but the study shows that it gets slower after an intrusion compared to other hospitals.

I think most compilers will move the bounds check out of the loop, at least if some level of optimization is requested. However the main problem for C-style languages isn't arrays but pointers. It seems to be harder for the compiler to check pointer references.

The Wehe web page is not clear on how significant the throttling is. For example, it seems the 22% of Sprint Skype calls are throttled at .5mbs, but it isn't clear that the unthrottled calls are much faster - they don't say anything about the unthrottled speed.

The response from the industry association is a little bit odd. They claim both that no throttling is going on, and that it is a good thing. I suppose it isn't supposed to be read carefully, so they provide all possible arguments, even at the risk of self-contradiction.

Also, I don't understand why only mobile is considered. We can no longer watch Netflix in the evening, because Comcast/Xfinity no longer provides enough bandwidth for Netflix to function. Why no test for wired connections?

Just Google "openbsd httpd".

Is there a man page for the Linux program that sets things in NVRAM? I don't recall seeing that anywhere.

This is really a fight over advertising revenue. Google, Facebook get it now, the content providers and ISPs get nothing. The FCC has listened to the ISPs, and ignored the content providers. Very soon each consumer ISP will have a favored search engine, and will split the advertising revenue with that engine. Other engines won't be available. The preferred engine won't necessarily be the largest. Google is likely to assume it is too good to share, and the ISPs will turn to specialized firms that are willing to share. As for Facebook, it is probably to entrenched to diss, and probably won't have to share revenue.

There is also the matter of streaming revenue. Video streaming competes with cable TV, so Netflix et al will need to compensate the cable ISPs for lost cable revenue in order to be carried.

As for online shopping, the ISPs would like a share of that revenue, but granting one service a monopoly probably wouldn't be practical. They might settle for demanding a small share of all sales from any significant vendor.

Because there is competition among wireless services, none of this may happen on wireless. Actually, if the cable ISPs are sufficiently greedy, competition may develope for wired access.