It will save us. For some reasons someone will find tons of money in rolling out infrastructure to fight those established companies and provide us with competition!

(sarc)W/e we do, we cannot allow the government to create this public infrastructure, its not their place(/sarc)

I was surprised about that too. But maybe their is some geo-political reason for it? Or is the basic US computer user not want/need that sort of service?

Oddly, some folks want to provide more and more power to the state to protect them. Even more oddly, in the USA, it was not until the Federal Government began assuming all this extra authority that ebil corporation started taking every step they could to subvert the powerful governments we created.

There is cause for that surveillance however as it stands to reason that protesters might be tempted to perform industrial sabotage on the pipeline. In fact someone has already sabotaged the pipeline lending even more cause to the reasoning. And as the consequences of it failing with all that Oil are great, they need to take measures to safeguard the integrity of the pipeline to prevent an ecological disaster*.

*The issue of it's inherit danger to the environment not withstanding.

You know. If you can't find anyone, and people you train leave for other employers. You might need a more attractive package for those positions, and it sounds as though you are not practicing basic logic.

I started started using Oprea recently after finding Firefox more and more unresponsive. Its rather nice, and is not far removed from browsers i am used to.

In 2006 my 20Mbps connection cost me 30 bucks a month. I had no TV service. Then they switched each tier's speed, and made my server faster, but bumped the cost up. Now in 2017 its 90Mbs (at the same tier, 2nd from the top, 2nd from the bottom - the middle of 3) for 90 a month. Now, you would THINK that I could just lower my tier down. But the QoS and throughput scale down drastically such that my mid -tier 2006 service is better than my bottom tier 2017 service. So I am stuck paying 90 a month for well more than I needed.

This is how they are subsidizing lower income from CableTV subscriptions.

That is not what it says...

IT professionals are becoming an increasingly common presence outside of the traditional IT departments,

I do not think it is businesses driving this for purposes of somehow making money. As for the purposes of complying with regulation. If UK visitors have some special rule that must be applied to them or otherwise that company cannot do business in the UK. They will have to use some sort of geo lock to show a faithful effort at compliance.

Mostly because it is very easy to start, there are many places to get 'How do you do....X' instruction, and it will translate almost immediately to a skill set you can take with you. JavaScript is not necessarily the best language to learn, but it has many widespread web development uses and has a super low barrier of entry.

If enough people took this approach then those venues would stop offering free wi-fi.

I didn't think 30mil was enough money to entice the expenditures of space exploration. Would have figured it would be too costly to do so.

""What they were testing is not a real life situation, and therefore Consumer Reports tests were invalid for what they were trying to do. I don't know why the decision was made, it was a really stupid one. "

You should read all about that and learn ya something.

Not really, even a little bit. Because, in TFA they state, quite clearly, why they do so. It is for consistency of load across platforms. Please try again.

I get a feeling that while they are including all app devs, the money generated was really only though a small group of devs producing handfull of apps. Would really be interested in what the average 'per development house' take was. As well as the earnings median.