Seriously, there's no magic in this. The IP address registry is quite literally as old as public IP addressing!

I'm sure these are competent IT people, but doling out praise for basic reading/typing skills devalues IT skills as a whole.

It's pretty common. I bought a joystick replacement kit on Amazon for ~$15.

You get 'em, European consumer protection laws!

That's my first thought too. Unnecessary complexity in the processor just sounds like another attack vector.

Have you pitched this to Warner Bros/DC yet? There's 300 million in it for you!

First rule of Gen-X club, man.

That would be PAM: "paradigm amplitude modulation". It increases the broadcast distance of your synergistic linguistics by 30%

Telcos tried this for a while. Problem is the PVC will inevitably get crushed and then you're trenching again. Better option would be to run a multi-strand cable and let competitors lease dark fibre. This pays for the infrastructure and upkeep, plus gives competitive access to services over separate lines.

Unfortunately most towns don't want to be in the ISP business, they just want high speed so people come live there. For that reason most will hand the whole thing off to a provider so they can sell themselves as a high-speed community. A few with a techy on council will go full-bore into ISP world, but that poses an additional problem of what happens when that person retires? Is there a business case to create a business (nonprofit?) around this? Tough questions.

tldr; love the idea, and trenched fibre (or 5G?) will present a real opportunity. Just a matter of getting councils on board.

Too late, he clicked a friend's link to discover what kind of potato he was :(

It's not just IP. I've come across situations where "People you may know" were folks I was at the same event with that I don't know, work in the same industry with, or live nearby. Same has happened traveling to resorts in Mexico where I take my phone for emergency calls.

Facebook's app asks for permission to GPS and cellular location info. If you're logged-in with that phone it probably syncs a location history. Just keeping your personal profile on a device means exposing that info.

Came here to say someone will take this as a challenge. You made it by post #2

Sadly no mod points, but you win the internet for today.

Maybe if you're not taking labs. I graduated from there a long time ago and had science semesters over that amount.

This number is deceivingly low. Add a couple chem or bio labs that most science programs require and you'll easily hit 10k. Engineering or any professional degree is significantly more.

The coal phase-out is on course to happen a lot sooner in Alberta. Our provincial government has made climate change a major part of its platform, which also includes leading the charge towards a "carbon tax" designed to cap carbon-emitters by placing an economic penalty on going over the limit.

Mixed feelings about this. It's impossible to deny man made climate change exists, on the other hand we seem to be moving at a faster pace than our ability to replace our energy needs with cleaner/renewable sources. Ontario's facing a self-made energy crisis right now where power prices are driving people to pick between paying their hydro bills or buying food, and that says nothing about driving business out of the province.

Fortunately this is a technology problem. My hope is Elon Musk's battery tech improves in the next 3-5 years so that Alberta can benefit from harvesting and storing energy affordably in winter.

...not sure if whoosh?

I like the logic though. If I replaced 4 in that character set with the word God it would necessarily make some people believe that 2 + 2 proved the existence of a creator.

This is just repackaging Anselm's Ontological argument for the existence of God: postulating "a being of which no greater can be conceived" would necessarily mean God exists. Just like living in a computer simulation: imagine "a computer simulation where no greater simulation can be conceived".

But it doesn't make things real. Just because you'd have to imagine a real God doesn't necessarily make it exist outside your head. Same with the simulation.

Neat thought experiment, not a proof.

40hrs/wk x 50 weeks/yr = 2000 hours.

Not disagreeing with you. The cost of automation is steadily decreasing, and what it can do is increasing. Automating McDonald's is inevitable, $15/hr wages are just speeding things up a little.