"digital divide isn't something private industry can do alone: "
Ummmm.
REALLY?
For all the complaints about the Gov. doing to much and wanting everything Privatized?
Even tho, looking back that the Gov has pushed every USA advancement ever done? And that means 'WE the People', were the ones that PAID for most of them.
Iv even suggested that the Gov. do the installs/upgrade/improve/ Make things Modular. And if the corps want in to it, they would have to PAY. Or buy out the Gov service.
You didnt go read the Whole article did you.
It wasnt the gov. that changed the Headline.
There are groups that Love to IMPRESS others and add a few things, that make the articles Fantastic. Even if they Include the Original article, a Basic read tells you the headline was STUPID.
Might as well be Trump and his followers declaring he has DONE everything, including spreading open the red sea.
"many users perceive the platforms to be packaging up third party, user generated content and making conscious choices of how to present it to us -- choices that our limited downstream controls are insufficient to manage."
A bit deep to follow, and seems to wonder on the definition of Some things.
3rd party,
This is fun to explain. 3rd party is the Consumer posting, the Advertiser, and Anyone that can Add/manipulate the site by some Input.
Compare the Search engines Google and Bing, and look at the top on each for the adverts.
These can be influenced Many ways, and Google has been fighting that ALLOT. If you dont pay Google, you Shouldnt be on the top. And Bing has a ton of them.
As to Forums, Chats, SHARING privately. There seems to be A sort of control problem on all sides. Who and what to restrict, then Who is complaining about the posts, and if you dont allow Some things to happen, Some things will never be seen or found (trafficking, Prostitution, other illegal things).
Then lets look at Politics, and the idea of Placing a Face on every channel that you want to reinforce Who to elect. Or adverts that want to Point at a product, that they want to sell, and you see Tons of adverts for a New/Old product.
With all of this, the net would LOVE balance, and for that balance to Show the most/best popular things. Sites that get the most comments, Sites that have the best prices, sites that have the best news, opinions, this and that.. But its not easy, as Some have learned how to Fudge the system.(as has alwasy been done)
Now we get the Gov. involved about who/what/when, and its feeling like they are trying to force something they dont quite understand. How HUGE is the interference, and the amounts of data trying to balance things. What makes alibaba and Banggood worth shopping with??
Free market,
Is a random word meaning nothing.
Nothing is free, and nothing in the market is free, from anywhere, if you are adding the middlemen.
Fair market, COULD have a meaning. But not from the USA. Our corps would rather But CHEAP, and sell HIGH, then to make any balance between the 2. China dont mind, selling millions of a product at Penny profit, its PROFIT(old capitalist). It creates work. The Middlemen love it, and markup, and the next middleman markup, and then RETAIL.
So a corp of 4-5 persons, buys up 1million products to our borders, then it get to a Distribution system, that has a list of locations and STAMPS AND SHIPS to them, which then ship to stores. And the diff in price tends to be anything from 5-100 times.
The really interesting part. IS the food we create in the USA, like frozen veggies, has a 50x markup. Farmers are getting around $0.03 per pound. And at McD, you are paying a 200x markup, and they buy diorect from the farmers.
But, but..
I call it an easy solution.
Take your pick.
PAINTBALL GUN..
Frequency scrambler, for any network, 2.5/5g on your wifi is pretty simple to block. But you would also block 1/2 the neighbors..
Or just disconnect his CABLE/Digital lines. Unless someone was REALLY paranoid and setup the modem to use the wireless system/Cellphone, IT wont be going anywhere.
This is getting strange, where are the basic thinkers in any of this. It was an old way to Climb a nearby pole or call the Phone corp, and get it disconnected for a few minutes. Easy/peasy.
To have China and the Asian countries RUN threw the USA and upgrade everything, then nationalize everything, kick them out, then sell everything to the corps??
Corps would love the anti competition idea.
You have a few mixed parts in here...
But lets do things this way.
CORPS DONT WANT TO COMPETE.
Amazon, even hates competing with DIRECT FROM CHINA.
NEWEGG, the same as above.
Think about Walmart, who Started this idea.
BUT, what are they doing? They are letting others sell on their sites. And taking pennies for each sale. EVEN WALMART.
What does that do?
Direct sales, less employee's.
No handling, because UPS/DHL/.. do the work.
Distribution is on the coast, Sorted and sent.
no more employees.
For a nation that Prides itself on being the best of everything. I tend to see correlations from China. SOME things in China seem to work better. As the STATE knows its the supreme Leader, and if the corps mess up, CHINA has a solution.(as the queen of hearts said)
For some strange reason we are paying our Politicians.(not long ago, we didnt). And it seems that they are getting more money from Elsewhere. But we dont see this on the books for all the lobbyists payoffs. Who has their hands in the cookie jar, WHERE IS that cookie jar, Because I WANT A COOKIE.
When you dont Pay wages to a group, its much easier to see where the money is coming from.
For all our banking laws, its strange that WE CANT find what our Politicians have collected.
I really wonder, if there are laws against investigative journalism, as THERE USED TO BE lots of info on our politics, esp when they were messing up.
We keep seeing BIG things happening, but there is allot more that seems to be missing the front page.
and why I have more then a few programs to discover the problems. And if needed, go manually.
But I also tell people that there are TIMES where it is easier to just reinstall the Current version of Windows. Its CLEAN(supposedly).
That no matter how we do things,
We call it cheating if they dont do it, "the way we want them to".
Isnt it smart to find other ways?
The thing about this is Being smarter then the kids.
How many of us would have killed to have access to a library/Dictionary/and the very world, in an instant. Like the internet.
NO.
I repair other persons machines, and 10+ years ago, it was a horrendous job Going threw windows and finding all the crap that was installed int he background.
Do understand, that I have Seen the virus, that can delete you BIOS chip.
When you take over 10 minutes for your system to start, When MS installed them from 3rd party adverts, on a First connection to the internet, was MSN. 8 virus and 15 bots, then re installing windows.
I do use software to do allot of the work, and then evaluate HOW windows is working. Then reconfig and go threw all the CRAP running in the background, using other programs to REALLY see all of it.
Im more hardware then software tho, and have had to search a Manufacturer site threw about 300 drivers to find the correct ones.
Stopping programs from starting at STARTUP, doing something and then disappearing After they reloaded themselves to another location to monitor your system. is so much fun. And I do, look up those with more expertise. But at 60 years old, Im tired of MOSt of the BS I have seen recently. Loved my Amiga, my 64, My 64/128 and even the Osborne I used. CPM was a mess. Want to learn RPG? Cobol 1? fortran 1? I was there when the Computers went to the public, and dint require a IBM360-30 to take up a WHOLE room in your house. I worked on 1 of those also.
So go out and find a Cucumber and use it explicitly.
"The formal registration requirement was ended, first requiring only that published works contain a copyright notice and then eventually expanding federal copyright protection to all works, published and unpublished, once they are fixed in a tangible form."
And now anyone can SHOW a piece of paper and declare a CR, even unregistered?
How easy could it be?
"Unfortunately, it has been a long time since the Register was not previously an attorney for traditional rights holders, and they often go back to work for traditional rightsholders after they leave government service. The last two heads are now the General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association and the head of the American Association of Publishers."
How deep can this go? Dont look, you will never find the bottom. How many dept heads and representatives??
When your job depends on OTHERS(boss/congress/president/anyone above your position), do you have to agree with their IDEALS, as a threat to your position?
I would love to see.
Google, Run into an area, and Finish up the systems, and Charge the corps for the access they they have installed. Like the Old cell towers, when you went from 1 system to another and ended up in ROAMING areas.
Or Charge it to the gov./state. Even make a DEAL with the gov. or state to finish these areas. Then demand that the Corps rent/buy out the sections and NOT raise prices, as they have been PAID TO DO IT, 2-3 times.
To protect a system from Hacking and being used in away that they dont want?
I think the idea from FB is abit severe, in telling everyone ALL our data on 1 location. And they have been hacked more then 1 time. 90% of security problems tend to come from Human interaction, rather then Hacking the systems. Another part is placing MAIN system with direct access to the internet.(which is really stupid) If you want to do that you need a Front system that allows Full security and monitoring.
As to Amazon and google. They are the 2 largest Corps supplying system on the internet. cool. so whats the problem here? Where are the competitors? Do these folks understand the MINIMUM setup to connect to direct access to the internet? #1 call up ATT and ask them if they can run a full speed fiber line to your site. you will be paying about $2000 per Foot from the main line.(wherever that is.)(how many miles away?) And they wont tell you that you are "this far" from another fiber line, for some strange reason.(and yes, In my town of 2600ppl, there are 3 fiber lines running around it).
Being NICE as a corp has gone away. Helping people or smaller companies has gone away. Taking advantage of others to forward your OWN corp, has gone away. Sorry to say, this is not Capitalism anymore.
I hope they understand what they are doing, in the advert portion.
How many Bots on your machine that track you do you want?
REALLY, thats how Google does it. And every time you remove it, it gets replaced.
Mostly all it does it give you a Number, and at each site it looks at it as you sign in, and says.."Oh! its you. You bought this last time, do you want another?"
Does HE understand what its like to remove >100 bots all doing the same thing off your computer? Every site you would goto, would have these "Identifiers" on your machine to tell the Advertiser, you were THERE.
This (IMO) ranks up there with the 'tracker' that was install in Windows Music program. It was for testing, but would send data back to MS about what music you played, and HAD on your machine, I think removed in 2007.. That NO AV/Anti bot program ever Looked for.
There is a solution that Every Online site can do, and Iv suggested it to many. Create their OWN advert section, to contact companies and make deals and Make the Adverts 1st party, NOT 3rd. Most people allow 1st party adverts. ANd by the time a 3rd party ad setup is done, it Costs allot of money. As a 1st party, you get to undercut all that. And probably get as much as you would anyway.
A thing I tell People when they complain about the protestors.
"How do you get people to Look and see what you want them to know?".
the News dont care unless its Huge, explosive, and something Is happening. Not the protest, most times.
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"digital divide isn't something private industry can do alone: "
Ummmm.
REALLY?
For all the complaints about the Gov. doing to much and wanting everything Privatized?
Even tho, looking back that the Gov has pushed every USA advancement ever done? And that means 'WE the People', were the ones that PAID for most of them.
Iv even suggested that the Gov. do the installs/upgrade/improve/ Make things Modular. And if the corps want in to it, they would have to PAY. Or buy out the Gov service.
On the post: PayPal Blocks Purchases Of Tardigrade Merchandise For Potentially Violating US Sanctions Laws
Re: wow,
And what would happen if the company had a 2nd company name?
On the post: PayPal Blocks Purchases Of Tardigrade Merchandise For Potentially Violating US Sanctions Laws
wow,
Seems like the USA/Swiss/Israel/Russia dont like the competition.
(weapon sales)
On the post: Actual Facts Undercut Media's Narrative That Law Enforcement Task Force Broke Up A Multi-State Sex Trafficking Operation
Re:
You didnt go read the Whole article did you.
It wasnt the gov. that changed the Headline.
There are groups that Love to IMPRESS others and add a few things, that make the articles Fantastic. Even if they Include the Original article, a Basic read tells you the headline was STUPID.
Might as well be Trump and his followers declaring he has DONE everything, including spreading open the red sea.
On the post: Could A Narrow Reform Of Section 230 Enable Platform Interoperability?
"many users perceive the platforms to be packaging up third party, user generated content and making conscious choices of how to present it to us -- choices that our limited downstream controls are insufficient to manage."
A bit deep to follow, and seems to wonder on the definition of Some things.
3rd party,
This is fun to explain. 3rd party is the Consumer posting, the Advertiser, and Anyone that can Add/manipulate the site by some Input.
Compare the Search engines Google and Bing, and look at the top on each for the adverts.
These can be influenced Many ways, and Google has been fighting that ALLOT. If you dont pay Google, you Shouldnt be on the top. And Bing has a ton of them.
As to Forums, Chats, SHARING privately. There seems to be A sort of control problem on all sides. Who and what to restrict, then Who is complaining about the posts, and if you dont allow Some things to happen, Some things will never be seen or found (trafficking, Prostitution, other illegal things).
Then lets look at Politics, and the idea of Placing a Face on every channel that you want to reinforce Who to elect. Or adverts that want to Point at a product, that they want to sell, and you see Tons of adverts for a New/Old product.
With all of this, the net would LOVE balance, and for that balance to Show the most/best popular things. Sites that get the most comments, Sites that have the best prices, sites that have the best news, opinions, this and that.. But its not easy, as Some have learned how to Fudge the system.(as has alwasy been done)
Now we get the Gov. involved about who/what/when, and its feeling like they are trying to force something they dont quite understand. How HUGE is the interference, and the amounts of data trying to balance things. What makes alibaba and Banggood worth shopping with??
On the post: GOP Senators Release Latest Truly Stupid Section 230 Reform Bill; Would Remove 'Otherwise Objectionable'; Enable Spamming
Re: Do tell.,
Lets see, how does spam work.
Can we pass around links to Any Chat, FB, YT, Games these folks use?
I think we can SHOW/EXPLAIN what spam is, very easily.
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Do tell.,
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re:
Free market,
Is a random word meaning nothing.
Nothing is free, and nothing in the market is free, from anywhere, if you are adding the middlemen.
Fair market, COULD have a meaning. But not from the USA. Our corps would rather But CHEAP, and sell HIGH, then to make any balance between the 2. China dont mind, selling millions of a product at Penny profit, its PROFIT(old capitalist). It creates work. The Middlemen love it, and markup, and the next middleman markup, and then RETAIL.
So a corp of 4-5 persons, buys up 1million products to our borders, then it get to a Distribution system, that has a list of locations and STAMPS AND SHIPS to them, which then ship to stores. And the diff in price tends to be anything from 5-100 times.
The really interesting part. IS the food we create in the USA, like frozen veggies, has a 50x markup. Farmers are getting around $0.03 per pound. And at McD, you are paying a 200x markup, and they buy diorect from the farmers.
On the post: FBI Horrified To Discover Ring Doorbells Can Tip Off Citizens To The Presence Of Federal Officers At Their Door
Re:
But, but..
I call it an easy solution.
Take your pick.
PAINTBALL GUN..
Frequency scrambler, for any network, 2.5/5g on your wifi is pretty simple to block. But you would also block 1/2 the neighbors..
Or just disconnect his CABLE/Digital lines. Unless someone was REALLY paranoid and setup the modem to use the wireless system/Cellphone, IT wont be going anywhere.
This is getting strange, where are the basic thinkers in any of this. It was an old way to Climb a nearby pole or call the Phone corp, and get it disconnected for a few minutes. Easy/peasy.
On the post: White House Supposedly Blocked Walmart From Buying Tiktok Because It Would Prove Its Rationale For Forcing A Deal Was Bullshit
Would it be interesting.
To have China and the Asian countries RUN threw the USA and upgrade everything, then nationalize everything, kick them out, then sell everything to the corps??
Corps would love the anti competition idea.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re:
You have a few mixed parts in here...
But lets do things this way.
CORPS DONT WANT TO COMPETE.
Amazon, even hates competing with DIRECT FROM CHINA.
NEWEGG, the same as above.
Think about Walmart, who Started this idea.
BUT, what are they doing? They are letting others sell on their sites. And taking pennies for each sale. EVEN WALMART.
What does that do?
Direct sales, less employee's.
No handling, because UPS/DHL/.. do the work.
Distribution is on the coast, Sorted and sent.
no more employees.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
For all the theater.
For a nation that Prides itself on being the best of everything. I tend to see correlations from China. SOME things in China seem to work better. As the STATE knows its the supreme Leader, and if the corps mess up, CHINA has a solution.(as the queen of hearts said)
For some strange reason we are paying our Politicians.(not long ago, we didnt). And it seems that they are getting more money from Elsewhere. But we dont see this on the books for all the lobbyists payoffs. Who has their hands in the cookie jar, WHERE IS that cookie jar, Because I WANT A COOKIE.
When you dont Pay wages to a group, its much easier to see where the money is coming from.
For all our banking laws, its strange that WE CANT find what our Politicians have collected.
I really wonder, if there are laws against investigative journalism, as THERE USED TO BE lots of info on our politics, esp when they were messing up.
We keep seeing BIG things happening, but there is allot more that seems to be missing the front page.
On the post: Bill Barr's 'Antitrust Crackdown' Of Google Is Going To Be A Weaponized Farce
Re: Re: Re: Re: Thanks for the reminder
and why I have more then a few programs to discover the problems. And if needed, go manually.
But I also tell people that there are TIMES where it is easier to just reinstall the Current version of Windows. Its CLEAN(supposedly).
On the post: Students, Parents Figure Out School Is Using AI To Grade Exams And Immediately Game The System
Isnt it smart.
That no matter how we do things,
We call it cheating if they dont do it, "the way we want them to".
Isnt it smart to find other ways?
The thing about this is Being smarter then the kids.
How many of us would have killed to have access to a library/Dictionary/and the very world, in an instant. Like the internet.
On the post: Bill Barr's 'Antitrust Crackdown' Of Google Is Going To Be A Weaponized Farce
Re: Re: Re: Thanks for the reminder
NO.
I repair other persons machines, and 10+ years ago, it was a horrendous job Going threw windows and finding all the crap that was installed int he background.
Do understand, that I have Seen the virus, that can delete you BIOS chip.
When you take over 10 minutes for your system to start, When MS installed them from 3rd party adverts, on a First connection to the internet, was MSN. 8 virus and 15 bots, then re installing windows.
I do use software to do allot of the work, and then evaluate HOW windows is working. Then reconfig and go threw all the CRAP running in the background, using other programs to REALLY see all of it.
Im more hardware then software tho, and have had to search a Manufacturer site threw about 300 drivers to find the correct ones.
Stopping programs from starting at STARTUP, doing something and then disappearing After they reloaded themselves to another location to monitor your system. is so much fun. And I do, look up those with more expertise. But at 60 years old, Im tired of MOSt of the BS I have seen recently. Loved my Amiga, my 64, My 64/128 and even the Osborne I used. CPM was a mess. Want to learn RPG? Cobol 1? fortran 1? I was there when the Computers went to the public, and dint require a IBM360-30 to take up a WHOLE room in your house. I worked on 1 of those also.
So go out and find a Cucumber and use it explicitly.
On the post: The Next Register Of Copyrights Must Realize That Copyright Serves The Public
how much of a pain?
"The formal registration requirement was ended, first requiring only that published works contain a copyright notice and then eventually expanding federal copyright protection to all works, published and unpublished, once they are fixed in a tangible form."
And now anyone can SHOW a piece of paper and declare a CR, even unregistered?
How easy could it be?
"Unfortunately, it has been a long time since the Register was not previously an attorney for traditional rights holders, and they often go back to work for traditional rightsholders after they leave government service. The last two heads are now the General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association and the head of the American Association of Publishers."
How deep can this go? Dont look, you will never find the bottom. How many dept heads and representatives??
When your job depends on OTHERS(boss/congress/president/anyone above your position), do you have to agree with their IDEALS, as a threat to your position?
On the post: America Needs To Stop Pretending The Broadband 'Digital Divide' Isn't The Direct Result Of Corruption
Re: Public Option
I would love to see.
Google, Run into an area, and Finish up the systems, and Charge the corps for the access they they have installed. Like the Old cell towers, when you went from 1 system to another and ended up in ROAMING areas.
Or Charge it to the gov./state. Even make a DEAL with the gov. or state to finish these areas. Then demand that the Corps rent/buy out the sections and NOT raise prices, as they have been PAID TO DO IT, 2-3 times.
On the post: E-Voting App Maker Voatz Asks The Supreme Court To Let It Punish Security Researchers For Exposing Its Flaws
HOw hard is it.
To protect a system from Hacking and being used in away that they dont want?
I think the idea from FB is abit severe, in telling everyone ALL our data on 1 location. And they have been hacked more then 1 time. 90% of security problems tend to come from Human interaction, rather then Hacking the systems. Another part is placing MAIN system with direct access to the internet.(which is really stupid) If you want to do that you need a Front system that allows Full security and monitoring.
As to Amazon and google. They are the 2 largest Corps supplying system on the internet. cool. so whats the problem here? Where are the competitors? Do these folks understand the MINIMUM setup to connect to direct access to the internet? #1 call up ATT and ask them if they can run a full speed fiber line to your site. you will be paying about $2000 per Foot from the main line.(wherever that is.)(how many miles away?) And they wont tell you that you are "this far" from another fiber line, for some strange reason.(and yes, In my town of 2600ppl, there are 3 fiber lines running around it).
Being NICE as a corp has gone away. Helping people or smaller companies has gone away. Taking advantage of others to forward your OWN corp, has gone away. Sorry to say, this is not Capitalism anymore.
On the post: Bill Barr's 'Antitrust Crackdown' Of Google Is Going To Be A Weaponized Farce
Re: Thanks for the reminder
I hope they understand what they are doing, in the advert portion.
How many Bots on your machine that track you do you want?
REALLY, thats how Google does it. And every time you remove it, it gets replaced.
Mostly all it does it give you a Number, and at each site it looks at it as you sign in, and says.."Oh! its you. You bought this last time, do you want another?"
Does HE understand what its like to remove >100 bots all doing the same thing off your computer? Every site you would goto, would have these "Identifiers" on your machine to tell the Advertiser, you were THERE.
This (IMO) ranks up there with the 'tracker' that was install in Windows Music program. It was for testing, but would send data back to MS about what music you played, and HAD on your machine, I think removed in 2007.. That NO AV/Anti bot program ever Looked for.
There is a solution that Every Online site can do, and Iv suggested it to many. Create their OWN advert section, to contact companies and make deals and Make the Adverts 1st party, NOT 3rd. Most people allow 1st party adverts. ANd by the time a 3rd party ad setup is done, it Costs allot of money. As a 1st party, you get to undercut all that. And probably get as much as you would anyway.
On the post: Appeals Court Says Address Mistakes On Warrants Are Mostly Harmless, Not Worth Getting Excited About
Re: "Little" Horror Story?
A thing I tell People when they complain about the protestors.
"How do you get people to Look and see what you want them to know?".
the News dont care unless its Huge, explosive, and something Is happening. Not the protest, most times.
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