With the breakup of AT&T in the early 1980's, customers were allowed to own their phonesets and could purchase phones from any supplier they wanted, not forced to purchase/lease/rent from the phone company. Why does that not apply to call phone carriers?
Does Verizon want to end BYOD? I've been buying unlocked devices for my family directly from Moto, Google, and Apple for the last like 12+ years and putting Verizon SIMs in them...and my advice to people is, if you can afford it, buy unlocked, "stock" devices direct from manufacturer outlets, and avoid buying from carriers and cell phone stores.
CBS incident is no different than what Fox, Newsmax, OAN do on a daily basis...
If the media stopped sanewashing Trump, he would really look like a babbling idiot, they better be careful of what they ask for
Will Fox "News", Newsmax, and OAN be bound to the same proposed "opening up" of libel/slander rules also? They have already admitted to being deceptive in the Dominion Voting Machines case.
Can Democrats sue FNC, Newsmax, OAN, Et al. for creatively editing stuff that airs on their networks?
Also remember that the Earth Stations the satellites talk to are connected using the trillion dollars worth of cables...Pure wireless backhauls would be overwhelmed very quickly. My metro area network outside plant fiber cables have 72 strands in them that are about 1/4" in diameter. I can easily put a 100Gbps "off the shelf" BiDi optic on each of them and have 7.2 Tbps capacity on the cable (400Gbps optics are starting to become common now also). Need more capacity, simply pull another cable in the conduit...so our 2" conduits can have capacity in the Pbps range. 2" of airspace would struggle getting 100Gbps throughput using wireless technologies.
I know when we were building out the fiber infrastructure as a municipal government in the mid 2000s, there were some department heads scoffing at it saying "everything is going to be wireless", not understanding the difference between access and backhaul.
Instead of doing caps and throttling and shit like that, maybe internet should metered like electricity, water, gas, etc.. Like a $5-$50 connection fee depending on max bitrate desired (similar to service size for electricity, or pipe size for water) and then whatever fraction of a penny per GB used (similar to Watthour or gallons on the other utility example). It really would be the fairest way to make the heavy users pay their share and sparse users not subsidizing the larger users that the "all you can eat buffet" model produces.
How many billions in public funds has big telecom wasted in the last 100 years?
I mean there were grants given out to bring FTTH going back to the 1990s that were never done. THe entire Long Lines network was funded for cold war preparedness...
Do we expect them to be different now?
A good portion of the country doesn't care about fact checking anymore. How many times have MAGA people, Fox News, etal been fact checked and they just keep spewing out more lies and people keep blindly following them. I hope we get to a point where facts matter again, but to win the "reality show" culture we're now in, the "vibe" approach is likely the right move. It's worked on the MAGA side, you ask any redhat what's wrong with Biden, they will say "his failed policies have hurt this country", but you ask what specifically those policies are and demonstrate how they've had a negative impact, they can't answer...So the left basically has to resort to the same tactics.
Anything paid for by the taxpayers, whether it's data about broadband availability, or pharmaceutical research, should be public domain and openly available.
The 1996 telecommunications act killed broadcasting.
Pushed out the small, engaged players and brought in the corporate behemoths that were too top heavy with layers of VPs and MBAs at corporate HQ to be sustainable (see Audacy in the last week's news), but don't worry, they cut all the local station staffs (you know, the people actually involved in broadcasting) as a failed attempt to save the company. Meanwhile the listeners have all moved to streaming platforms because their local radio stations no longer engage with their listeners, under the direction of a MBA 1000s of miles away.
But when your front door is knocked down by drug enforcement and all your belongings get searched and you are handcuffed and placed in holding for 72 hours because your household bought two boxes of Sudefed in a month that your whole family was sick, or you had a different doctor call in a narcotic script, or there a mistake in CVS' records, or the cops read the records wrong...you'll see it much differently..
Remember, the cops don't pickup the costs of the damage they do when they knock down doors or break windows (they are given immunity)...And you'll spend weeks putting everything away from your drawers and closets that the cops threw all over the floor
If he were born in the USA, he'd be the republican front runner at this point. The reds have shown they prefer people with huge egos and ability to ramble on about things they know nothing about.
The exact topic isn't point. Replacing first hand reporting in AI's current (and foreseeable near future) state is dangerous. Once news outlets start replacing their City Hall, State Capitol, and Nation reporters with AI, the "fourth" branch of government (US focused here) can become worthless.
AI based tools can help reporters by suggesting highlights from recordings/transcripts of meetings and such, but not quite the there yet for detailed firsthand reporting.
Firsthand reporting is one of the few things that AI shouldn't be replacing...
Now editing is something AI should excel at..like correcting grammar, spelling, revising, deciding what can be cut to fit the space.
I wonder about where people are trying to apply AI. I was listening to a webinar a little bit ago where the person was relieved "researcher" was not on the list of careers that AI will replace...Huh? An application that involves ingesting a large amount of data, analyzing it for a given focus, and give a summary report at the end sounds like the perfect place to apply AI.
Except if Google cut them off now, Elon and his followers will just start complaining about how Google has gone "woke" and they are trying to suppress Twitter users.
How many times has AT&T and its predecessors been given federal, state, and local grants to provide fiber to the premises, and they keep failing to deliver? I seem to remember that being he goal back in the 1990s, and in the 1980s ISDN service was suppose to replace the POTS dialtone.
Does't that defeat the purpose...
Isn't the ultimate check on the media is to have lots of competition independently reporting?
Didn't we settle this in 1984?
With the breakup of AT&T in the early 1980's, customers were allowed to own their phonesets and could purchase phones from any supplier they wanted, not forced to purchase/lease/rent from the phone company. Why does that not apply to call phone carriers?
Do they want to end BYOD?
Does Verizon want to end BYOD? I've been buying unlocked devices for my family directly from Moto, Google, and Apple for the last like 12+ years and putting Verizon SIMs in them...and my advice to people is, if you can afford it, buy unlocked, "stock" devices direct from manufacturer outlets, and avoid buying from carriers and cell phone stores.
Have you watched the competition?
CBS incident is no different than what Fox, Newsmax, OAN do on a daily basis... If the media stopped sanewashing Trump, he would really look like a babbling idiot, they better be careful of what they ask for
Fox "News", Newsmax, OAN included also
Will Fox "News", Newsmax, and OAN be bound to the same proposed "opening up" of libel/slander rules also? They have already admitted to being deceptive in the Dominion Voting Machines case. Can Democrats sue FNC, Newsmax, OAN, Et al. for creatively editing stuff that airs on their networks?
Backhaul
Also remember that the Earth Stations the satellites talk to are connected using the trillion dollars worth of cables...Pure wireless backhauls would be overwhelmed very quickly. My metro area network outside plant fiber cables have 72 strands in them that are about 1/4" in diameter. I can easily put a 100Gbps "off the shelf" BiDi optic on each of them and have 7.2 Tbps capacity on the cable (400Gbps optics are starting to become common now also). Need more capacity, simply pull another cable in the conduit...so our 2" conduits can have capacity in the Pbps range. 2" of airspace would struggle getting 100Gbps throughput using wireless technologies. I know when we were building out the fiber infrastructure as a municipal government in the mid 2000s, there were some department heads scoffing at it saying "everything is going to be wireless", not understanding the difference between access and backhaul.
It's not magic
It's essentially a WISP with POPs a few miles above our heads.
unpopular opinion here...
Instead of doing caps and throttling and shit like that, maybe internet should metered like electricity, water, gas, etc.. Like a $5-$50 connection fee depending on max bitrate desired (similar to service size for electricity, or pipe size for water) and then whatever fraction of a penny per GB used (similar to Watthour or gallons on the other utility example). It really would be the fairest way to make the heavy users pay their share and sparse users not subsidizing the larger users that the "all you can eat buffet" model produces.
Let's look at history!
How many billions in public funds has big telecom wasted in the last 100 years? I mean there were grants given out to bring FTTH going back to the 1990s that were never done. THe entire Long Lines network was funded for cold war preparedness... Do we expect them to be different now?
About right
A good portion of the country doesn't care about fact checking anymore. How many times have MAGA people, Fox News, etal been fact checked and they just keep spewing out more lies and people keep blindly following them. I hope we get to a point where facts matter again, but to win the "reality show" culture we're now in, the "vibe" approach is likely the right move. It's worked on the MAGA side, you ask any redhat what's wrong with Biden, they will say "his failed policies have hurt this country", but you ask what specifically those policies are and demonstrate how they've had a negative impact, they can't answer...So the left basically has to resort to the same tactics.
Still Illegal
It is still illegal at the federal level, so even in states where state law allows it, they can still bust you using federal law.
Public funded should == Public Data
Anything paid for by the taxpayers, whether it's data about broadband availability, or pharmaceutical research, should be public domain and openly available.
1996 Telecommunications act destroyed broadcasting
The 1996 telecommunications act killed broadcasting. Pushed out the small, engaged players and brought in the corporate behemoths that were too top heavy with layers of VPs and MBAs at corporate HQ to be sustainable (see Audacy in the last week's news), but don't worry, they cut all the local station staffs (you know, the people actually involved in broadcasting) as a failed attempt to save the company. Meanwhile the listeners have all moved to streaming platforms because their local radio stations no longer engage with their listeners, under the direction of a MBA 1000s of miles away.
You say that now...
But when your front door is knocked down by drug enforcement and all your belongings get searched and you are handcuffed and placed in holding for 72 hours because your household bought two boxes of Sudefed in a month that your whole family was sick, or you had a different doctor call in a narcotic script, or there a mistake in CVS' records, or the cops read the records wrong...you'll see it much differently.. Remember, the cops don't pickup the costs of the damage they do when they knock down doors or break windows (they are given immunity)...And you'll spend weeks putting everything away from your drawers and closets that the cops threw all over the floor
Media should quit covering him
If he were born in the USA, he'd be the republican front runner at this point. The reds have shown they prefer people with huge egos and ability to ramble on about things they know nothing about.
It's not sports, but reporting in general
The exact topic isn't point. Replacing first hand reporting in AI's current (and foreseeable near future) state is dangerous. Once news outlets start replacing their City Hall, State Capitol, and Nation reporters with AI, the "fourth" branch of government (US focused here) can become worthless. AI based tools can help reporters by suggesting highlights from recordings/transcripts of meetings and such, but not quite the there yet for detailed firsthand reporting.
Firsthand reporting
Firsthand reporting is one of the few things that AI shouldn't be replacing... Now editing is something AI should excel at..like correcting grammar, spelling, revising, deciding what can be cut to fit the space. I wonder about where people are trying to apply AI. I was listening to a webinar a little bit ago where the person was relieved "researcher" was not on the list of careers that AI will replace...Huh? An application that involves ingesting a large amount of data, analyzing it for a given focus, and give a summary report at the end sounds like the perfect place to apply AI.
Except if Google cut them off now, Elon and his followers will just start complaining about how Google has gone "woke" and they are trying to suppress Twitter users.
Rich people don't pay bills
Elon is just a typical "billionaires club" member, who refuses to pay their bills and screws over everyone else, just like Trump, et al.
How many times...
How many times has AT&T and its predecessors been given federal, state, and local grants to provide fiber to the premises, and they keep failing to deliver? I seem to remember that being he goal back in the 1990s, and in the 1980s ISDN service was suppose to replace the POTS dialtone.