This is extremely untrue, showcasing your lack of knowledge. Signal is very strongly end-to-end encrypted, it is absolutely impossible for any of it's "administrators" to access data.

Who gets to define what is acceptable?
And at what time? Bandwith demand is always increasing. I have been online through 28.8k modem, 64k ISDN, and onwards. Anything potentially deemed "acceptable" at one point is very obsolete five years later. Good luck going up and upgrading the tech on those thousands of satelites in 2030. Or replacing them.

I have heard this stuff for 25 years. Even as elected official. "Wimax will be good enough for the remote areas!" "3G will be good enough!" "4G!" "You will never need anything better than 5G!" And 640K ought to be enough for anyone. Sigh.

I actually agree. But who gets to define "last mile"? Is it the small town? The farm miles and miles from anything? Of course there are places which could never get a fiber connection, but we cannot have fixed opinions on this. Esp over time. This must be a debate and constantly changing.

And I think Elon Musk is just about to dismantle one of those "government programs". Or change it to his own benefit. Defining this should not be up to an oligarchy enriching itself, but up to a vibrant, working democracy.

Me, I live in a remote place in rural Norway. Many local power grid companies have built fiber networks. They are almost all owned by local or regional governments, they are autonomous companies, and they have had remnants of a strong dedication to "building infrastructure" for the people. As sane investments, but with a looong horizon regarding ROI. Into the 2000s government programs to support the really, really remote places, came along too.

So I live in a house my great-great-grandmother built in 1895, with the fields of the small farm surrounding me, in a tiny town of 700 people. I got some pseudo-broadband wireless from a hilltop in 2000, with varying bandwith up to 2 Mbit, but less when many (of the very few) subscribers were online though the probably 2Mbit link. Then the power grid company booted their thing, and I got fiber to this house in 2003. At the time I had 2/2 Mbit solid, which was awsome. I still have the same fiber, where the endpoint equipment in my home has been replaced once. I now have 500/500 and can get 2000/2000 if I so like, ever increasing.

Imagine one had, along the way, listened to the likes of this post. In early 2000s, "oh, these folks don't need fiber, this hilltop wireless thing is good enough. It's 2MBit too". "Wimax will be good enough!" etc. This house, this town, wouldn't be worth a lot. Instead, I work as a senior IT consultant, I have neighbors working for AWS or Microsoft.

This is the same in many rural and remote areas in Norway, with local or regional grid companies building the infrastructure.

Yes, Starlink can be a good thing for a few years in some extremely remote places. I don't know the tech inside but I assume it can't scale bandwith like fiber and will have a relatively short lifespan, like, a decade? Before being obsolete. But my grandkids, or some other kids, will be pushing photons and gigabits through the glass tread to my house when I'm dead and buried.

It's not hard to understand. Simplified: If you do wireless, based on radio waves, you have a space where you can push waves, or photons, around, however you like to see it. This is your medium. For e.g. wifi this space is your home, basically. For 4G/5G it's some kilometers around a tower, a "cell". For a Starlink, it is the more-or-less line-of-sight from the satelite to an area on earth. In this medium the technology can use a spectrum of frequencies. Either way: All users of the said medium and spectrum shares the capacity. And there are stuff in the way, like walls, interference, clouds. Wireless data transfer is ever improving by managing to push more and more data in a particular medium/spectrum. And those who invest in this are clawing to use more of the available spectrum when old tech, like TV, is shut down. All well.

Compare: With a fiber, you have your own private space from point to point, where you can push photons all you want, here in the form of light. Nothing blocking, just your traffic. The capacity in the future is way, way beyond what we have to day.

If you take an actual community of homes, businesses, etc. and say, "We are commiting you to THIS particular wireless technology", it's a kiss of death.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/1...

That was not related to tax on high incomes, wealth or companies It started with the "oil crisis". Which was mainly triggered by supply not meeting demand, mainly because of OPEC cutting supply in protest of US/western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Subsequently the Iranian revolution and Iran-Iraq war hurt supplies. Prices came down due to increased supply from non-OPEC countries like UK, Norway. And as OPEC cooperation to keep prices up was not working well, OPEC countries sold more than their quota and eventually the Saudis, frustrated by OPEC no longer working for them, also broke ranks and from 1986 ramped up production significantly. Later, from ~2000 Russian exports came back up (after a deep slump from the late 80s).

Also demand saw, not a decrease, but moderated growth because of increased energy efficiency due to the higher prices of mid-70s to mid-80s. Cars got leaner, and oil use in heating, electricity production and esp. industry saw better efficiency or replacement by other sources, incl. nuclear and natural gas.

Also you need to consider the inflation (and stagflation) of the late 70s which mean nominal prices spiked (see graph), but also interacted with the actual underlying price increase.

I am no historian or economist. And: It's complicated. But for sure, it wasn't because of higher tax on higher income or tax.

#1: This is the "best" photos? Jeeze. I inherited a fix-focus plain 35mm camera from my grandpa in 1983, and it took much, much better pictures than this. It is blurry and bland. The "good" part is that there is very little context/background/surroundings making it harder to judge it to be fake, so we are left with the POSSIBILITY that is is not doctored, misunderstood etc. Typical for many "UFO" pictures. #2: There are endless possibilities for plain explanation, discussed ad nauseam in various forums over years. E.g. kite, reflections, and especially fake. Being a chef in Scotland is mighty boring, I heard. I will not go into or argue for or against any of the endless possibilities. #3: The fact that intelligence people in MoD possibly overreact by shutting down the issue is really not impressive. They may not have expertise to debunk. There are multiple mundane possible explanations: Either they thought it COULD be military/classified. Or they were anxious about it causing hysteria. Or most possible: There were (and are) people in air force or MoD who are superstitious, easy to jump to conclusions, I-want-to-believe-types, just as in the general population. "UFO. debunking" is NOT what they are hired for or trained in or experienced in. It is extremely unlikely that they have some UFO-spotter-team that actually studied this photo and investigated and concluded solidly that there is high probability of alien involvement or impossible tech. #4: Indeed, KEEPING THINGS SECRET is their very trade, in their DNA, and it will we their impulse initially. Then, once the idea of "gotta keep a lid on this", the believers, and the people who understand how stupid they would look, and those that go along with other's behavior, mean that it is kept secret. Indeed, imagine you work such a place, it's archives brimming with (actual) secrets. Now why would he organization initiate a process to declassify something just because one emperor-has-no-clothes-on staffer says: These shady photos in Scotland, can't we just publish? I hope that with all the important stuff such an agency actually holds and knows, there must be red tape and bureaucracy if you want to de-classify something. Why bother? #3 and #4 apply to basically all military and intelligence organizations holding such secrets.a Point is: I don't know what happened, I don't know what this picture is, I just now there are plenty possible trivial explanations for the picture and the MoD's behaviour. So I see no reason to assume aliens or other weird stuff. Occam's razor FTW.

Or is this regarding specifically regarding medicine delivered this way? And you had such self-service locked cabinets already?

If I even understand this correctly, it is something that has been available in Norway for a few years? Both Norwegian Mail (Posten) and other delivery companies. https://www.posten.no/en/recei...

I am absolutely no electrical engineer, but EV owner in Scandinavia. Is there anyone here who understands how this compares to our rules? I don't understand it, but the wording makes me think we already have similar demands as you are getting. We here in Norway: From older transformers/in older neighborhoods, like mine, we are supplied by something called IT, 230 V 3-phase, and I get 230 V in my sockets - and from my wall charger, topping out at 5,7 kW from my 25A fuse. Neighborhoods supplied by "newer" local systems, those lucky bastards, get TN networks, 400 V 3-phase, with 230 V 1-phase in their sockets, but charge using 400 V 3-phase, quite easily up to 22 kW. https://www.electrical-install...

Copilot is totally internal to company. That is one of Microsoft's claims to fame.

Truth. Nuance. Understanding. Against a lot of straw men and absolutists here.

Hmmm... Forgetting the privacy issues for a while, look for the money - costs and gains.

It is supposedly "activated by an erratic vehicle movement - extreme braking, cornering, and acceleration or if there is a collision". Detected by accelerometer, I guess. And then transmits -10/+10 secs of video for analysis by an "expert coach", resulting in a weekly "report" for parents.

I suppose the hourly rate for "expert coaches" are not far from what computer professionals are paid, and the time spent viewing, "analyzing" and commenting on countless clips would be prohibitive. Which leads me to believe that random footage would be captured, parents would be able to log in and see their loved ones brake and accelerate ad nauseam, which would be boring at best - and the program would mostly be used in processing (avoiding?) claims, as well as maybe play a slightly disciplinary role. For a while, at least.

I presume you've got it by now, but here's a quick summary: - If you don't have the "Directory Services Restore" password, it's really the local administrator account (stored in SAM), which means any bootable CD tool to reset local Windows passwords will do it for you.
- In DS restore, AD is not running so you cannot reset domain administrator's password.
- But go to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop, set SCRNSAVE.EXE to dsa.msc (or cmd.exe...), enable it (ScreenSaveActive) and set a really low ScreenSaveTimeOut.
- Reboot and wait for "screensaver" to activate. dsa.msc or whatever will run with localsystem privileges, which will be sufficient to set domain admin's password.

Hm, late post, but I'm sure this trend was predicted by (in)famous 'open source' figurehead Eric S. Raymond way back in 2002.

No wait, make that 2000.

Don't jump to your guns and proclaim ESR's clairvoyant genius, though. In 2000, he said to LWN "I believe that will happen probably within five to six month from now." I hope for his sake he didn't sit and wait it out...