... while it was written as pure crackpot nonsense. If it were to be interpreted at it's most literal wording, it would be the most radical anti-climate change legislation in the world. Banning burning coal, hydrocarbons, biomass, etc.
Step 1: Slash funding for journalists from all other sources by >100% of the amount of free money coming in.
Step 2: Increase founding for journalists by 70% of the new money coming in.
Step 3: Layoffs and job cuts.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Increase profits, share buybacks, and executive compensation.
The FCC should just stop pretending that a single value will remain valid long term.
If they adopt the 100/20 standard this year, instead of just calling it "Broadband" they should call it "Broadband 2023". That way in a few years when the industry is whining about how unfair a faster standard would be, trying to claim that the "Broadband 2023" standard is still fast enough in 2028 would help make them look ridiculous even to the tech illiterate.
What unhappy Fitbit users need to understand is that after their preferred platform was bought by Google they have 2 choices:
1) Pay a combined billion/year in subscription fees to become a big enough revenue source that Google will actually care about keeping it alive.
2) Switch to the competition.
If they don't want option 1, they should plan to do 2 quickly before Google decides to kill them on no notice.
So how long until Elon decides to just "bypass" the issue by firing everyone at Twitter with a security clearance and dismantling all the closed areas/scifs/etc in his buildings so that the company has no one who can legally take receipt of or any place to store the next NSL the feds try to send it.
We're not banning breathing. We're just outlawing systems that function by using expansion and contraction to cycle the volume of air exposed to an air/blood interface used to transfer oxygen and carbon dioxide between the two.
Has anyone checked in with Vegas bookies lately? I'm curious what the odds are of Twitter overtaking Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in EU fines is before they go bankrupt, are liquidated, and shut down.
This reminds me of the person who tried to cover his tracks by making a bomb threat using Tor; but who was then busted because he IDed himself connecting to the school network and was the only person using Tor on it at the time.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-tracked-harvard-bomb-threats-across-tor
Those numbers don't appear to make any differentiation between people buying both services and people buying only 1. Meaning it's being pulled down by all the cord cutters paying less than $120/mo for just internet. Without some sort of breakout, it appears unusable for the current discussion.
That the USPS as a Federal Agency would act by any means possible to prevent a private party from stealing property they believed belonged to the Bureau of Land Management.
Even limited to California the settlement amount is far too small to give all the ripped off customers a $15-29 refund. Assuming ATT has the same market share in CA as they do nation wide, they've got nearly 10M post paid customers in the state.
My guess is that this settlement is going to be binding on anyone who doesn't opt out, but require an explicit opt in to get a share of the payout. Then when almost everyone ends up filing a claim, ATT and the Lawyers who filed the suite will go back to the court and convince it to let them do something with the money because printing and mailing checks would consume the entire value of the settlement before putting a penny of value on the check itself.
Back in the late 90s internet we'd talk about pron to avoid early filters, or luaP noR (to avoid getting deluged by his fanbois).
Although it's been a long time since I've seen anyone including a modern equivalent to the Carnivore Bait (a string of words intended to trigger an FBI surveillance program of the same name and flood it with false positives) that used to be popular among some groups email or usenet signatures.
Another possibility would be that if they hired a 3rd party to make the music instead of doing it entirely in house; it could be the musicians or some 3rd party they've hired engaging in legal thuggery.
I'm baffled at them still having 3g phones in stock. The FCC's mandatory replacement device for voice service customer requirement (why the new 4g phone showed up in the mail) means that selling now would only guarantee having to give a new phone away in the near future
If there are major companies still transitioning from 3g to 4g that had reasonable migration plans in place that were significantly delayed by pandemic related issues and a short delay would allow them to complete their transition I'd be willing to let them have it.
Companies who were either willfully blind, or chose not to do anything in the mistaken assumption that the carriers would continue to delay their legacy network shutdowns indefinitely OTOH are probably screwed unless they can beg a multi-year delay out of regulators. They can go bankrupt and have their customers switch to competent competitors.
The best part of this is that...
... while it was written as pure crackpot nonsense. If it were to be interpreted at it's most literal wording, it would be the most radical anti-climate change legislation in the world. Banning burning coal, hydrocarbons, biomass, etc.
Correction: "Where there's a wallet, there's a way..."
We all know what the "plan" for how to use the extorted money will be
Step 1: Slash funding for journalists from all other sources by >100% of the amount of free money coming in. Step 2: Increase founding for journalists by 70% of the new money coming in. Step 3: Layoffs and job cuts. Step 4: ???? Step 5: Increase profits, share buybacks, and executive compensation.
The FCC should just stop pretending that a single value will remain valid long term. If they adopt the 100/20 standard this year, instead of just calling it "Broadband" they should call it "Broadband 2023". That way in a few years when the industry is whining about how unfair a faster standard would be, trying to claim that the "Broadband 2023" standard is still fast enough in 2028 would help make them look ridiculous even to the tech illiterate.
What unhappy Fitbit users need to understand is that after their preferred platform was bought by Google they have 2 choices: 1) Pay a combined billion/year in subscription fees to become a big enough revenue source that Google will actually care about keeping it alive. 2) Switch to the competition. If they don't want option 1, they should plan to do 2 quickly before Google decides to kill them on no notice.
So how long until Elon decides to just "bypass" the issue by firing everyone at Twitter with a security clearance and dismantling all the closed areas/scifs/etc in his buildings so that the company has no one who can legally take receipt of or any place to store the next NSL the feds try to send it.
So the rubber stamp CNIL will be using on all the proposals it gets...
... will just be NON in red ink?
We're not banning breathing. We're just outlawing systems that function by using expansion and contraction to cycle the volume of air exposed to an air/blood interface used to transfer oxygen and carbon dioxide between the two.
Has anyone checked in with Vegas bookies lately? I'm curious what the odds are of Twitter overtaking Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in EU fines is before they go bankrupt, are liquidated, and shut down.
The 'S' in IOT also stands for support and sustainability.
This reminds me of the person who tried to cover his tracks by making a bomb threat using Tor; but who was then busted because he IDed himself connecting to the school network and was the only person using Tor on it at the time. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-tracked-harvard-bomb-threats-across-tor
Those numbers don't appear to make any differentiation between people buying both services and people buying only 1. Meaning it's being pulled down by all the cord cutters paying less than $120/mo for just internet. Without some sort of breakout, it appears unusable for the current discussion.
Well it only makes sense
That the USPS as a Federal Agency would act by any means possible to prevent a private party from stealing property they believed belonged to the Bureau of Land Management.
Even limited to California the settlement amount is far too small to give all the ripped off customers a $15-29 refund. Assuming ATT has the same market share in CA as they do nation wide, they've got nearly 10M post paid customers in the state. My guess is that this settlement is going to be binding on anyone who doesn't opt out, but require an explicit opt in to get a share of the payout. Then when almost everyone ends up filing a claim, ATT and the Lawyers who filed the suite will go back to the court and convince it to let them do something with the money because printing and mailing checks would consume the entire value of the settlement before putting a penny of value on the check itself.
Nothing new under the sun
Back in the late 90s internet we'd talk about pron to avoid early filters, or luaP noR (to avoid getting deluged by his fanbois). Although it's been a long time since I've seen anyone including a modern equivalent to the Carnivore Bait (a string of words intended to trigger an FBI surveillance program of the same name and flood it with false positives) that used to be popular among some groups email or usenet signatures.
Another possibility would be that if they hired a 3rd party to make the music instead of doing it entirely in house; it could be the musicians or some 3rd party they've hired engaging in legal thuggery.
The light at the end of the tunnel...
... is a freight train coming their way.
Re:
I'm baffled at them still having 3g phones in stock. The FCC's mandatory replacement device for voice service customer requirement (why the new 4g phone showed up in the mail) means that selling now would only guarantee having to give a new phone away in the near future
If there are major companies still transitioning from 3g to 4g that had reasonable migration plans in place that were significantly delayed by pandemic related issues and a short delay would allow them to complete their transition I'd be willing to let them have it.
Companies who were either willfully blind, or chose not to do anything in the mistaken assumption that the carriers would continue to delay their legacy network shutdowns indefinitely OTOH are probably screwed unless they can beg a multi-year delay out of regulators. They can go bankrupt and have their customers switch to competent competitors.