When I did the Intro to AI course on the predecessor to Udacity the students did the captioning / translation as a sort of community project (not sure if they got anything like extra credit in return).

Even Youtube allows you to submit a translation / caption for a video (assuming the creator allows it), I would be interested in how this lawsuit went down as I would expect that some sort of negligence would need to be proved to win this case? Even then if the university said they would start a program to let students caption it as a on-campus job or something should get them off the hook.

However the lawsuit just put a very big chilling effect on this University from publishing any more courses.

A good chunk of the Caribbean still charges for SMS by usage, heard similarly for a good chunk of South America.

SMS is also quite unreliable here, we used it for provisioning of STB (send one message with the box details and we reply with success once it goes through), ended up with a failure to deliver within 10 minutes of about 5-10% (had a SMS come in 10 hours after it was sent once, luckily our provider timestamped when the message was sent so we just ignored messages that were deemed too old).

What version of DOCSIS are you dealing with? Any what number of customers on a CMTS port? Coax might last longer (citation needed, I don't see coax undersea), but how long to the nodes that are needed every couple hundred feet? The only parts that need electrical power in a PON are the ends.

10GPON easily beats the highest tiers of DOCSIS specs (giving the benefit of the doubt by using the theoretical numbers) and even that can't provide a gig per customer once it gets reasonably provisioned with customers.

The biggest problem with fiber's scalability is that the light can only be split so many times before it can't be accurately decoded on the downstream (upstream isn't as big of an issue as it isn't being split). On a cable network you just keep adding nodes to boost the signal and a single CMTS port can now serve more customers (but splitting the bandwidth available even more).

From a customer perspective that difference means that fiber will always outperform coax as network load increases as it can't be overprovisioned to such an extent, the highest split ratio I've seen is 1:128 which means split evenly everyone gets just under 20Mbit for normal GPON assuming you can get everyone proper signal at such an extreme split ratio.

What does this have to do with H1B1s? If they get laid off they go back home and get hired there, the people this hurts are US workers.

Even if you kick out every H1B1 do you really believe these companies will hire in the US or will they outsource to another country? You can only raise tariffs so far before they hurt the US more than the intended recipient.

Uh, no.

Spoofing filters are best setup at the last mile to customers. It can possibly be setup on the interconnections between / to small ISPs where there is no BGP transit going on (hence your BGP filters say what networks are expected, screw anything else).

For the last mile there are the smallest number of variations at that point and limited number of variations for routes. By the time you hit the tier 1/2s who are backhauling hundreds of teras / petas of traffic you will hit not only the limitations of attempting to firewall that much traffic but lots of legitimate reasons for asynchronous traffic flows (most commonly traffic management).

The problem is Oracle will probably drag out the process, causing untold damage to the Java ecosystem in the process.

One problem with that theory, they know who he is now anyway.

In this scenario said syndicate might actually be pissed that the flaw is now fixed. He isn't in the police's good books so what do you expect will be the police reaction if he gets approached from such a syndicate now and tries to report it. Sadly my money is on "Oh he was in with the criminals all along".

#1 can be argued under the guise of penetration testing / security research, #3 is a side effect of that (I don't know how much he recorded but he would have needed some proof that he managed to tap into the system).

#2 makes me cautious about this person's character and I agree is a prosecutable offence but if 1 & 3 are charges he got hit with and they stuck the message that got sent is don't alert the authorities sell the hack as a zero day.

Doesn't really sound like it, "Hey bob we are either going to loose this money anyway so we will let you have it", does that sound like they really value your work and want to pay you what you are worth?

Its exactly what they are doing with taxes, the added benefit here is they get to look good to their employees in the process. This doesn't sound like honor, its sounds like choosing the lesser of 2 evils.

Mod parent up, this is exactly what Valve said.

GP couldn't care to read the summary above:

How do you get to the latter without at least making contact with the former?

Something of the OP's scale isn't exactly the normal thing that your average IT professional has any experience with so the normal channels probably won't work.

I wouldn't bother with the technology side of things, oil prices and the matching economics will deal with resistance to renewables if you are looking at the long term.

This sounds exactly like an exception.

The question is why?

If the answer is that the small subset of men who enter the teaching field teach better then cool (maybe thats the trend that these institutions have seen). However if it is just to make up diversity numbers and they are worse teachers then that is a very bad practice. I don't have kids but I would want the best teacher for them regardless of gender.