Google and Facebook Cash In while burning News orgs bandwidth?
The problem is sending traffic in most other contexts is called a denial of service attack.
Imagine if a billion people clicked on TechDirt in the next hour! Wouldn't that be great!
So Facebook profits by running ads. Google profits by running ads. Clicking through sends traffic to the news site which might or might not have ads, and might or might not have to pay Google or Facebook through their ad syndacator.
Google and Facebook are parasites monetizing content that is generally freely available and the Authors, be it individuals or news organizations get NOTHING.
You are the product and paying in privacy and tracking when you use Google or Facebook. The small sites don't have enough traffic to create a comprehensive behavioral dossier on you.
And no one is yet asking how the Ad revenues are doing now that everything is closed due to Covid. Google and Facebook are only profitable by selling targeted ads.
If I park in a Handicap parking spot, I will get a ticket.
I can't "self-identify" as being disabled, I need a doctor's note.
Many states already grant absentee ballots for the elderly without asking further.
If someone is in the co-morbidity or otherwise vulnerable, they can get a note.
Let me make a proposal that the Democrats will hate, but will fix both problems.
We have several months before the election. Lets have everyone provide proof of voter elegibility and be assigned a voter's card FOR FREE which will note the name, address they are voting at, and a few ID things like date of birth, and even provide assistance in obtaining one, maybe combining it with the Census. So we know who is eligible to vote or not. We can bend over backwards to register everyone WHO IS ELIGIBLE to vote, but we can't force someone who is eligible to register.
AFTER cleaning the voting roles, you can send everyone who asks for it a Postage Paid mail in ballot (which still must be postmarked by election day), but they have to have previously obtained the ID and it will be sent to the address on record. But if they don't mail it in, they have to bring it to the polling place and use it as their paper ballot or shred it.
We certify "people helping people fill out their ballots" and have two volunteers both signing that there is no pushing or fraud and they will keep the results secret. They will take the ballot to the nearest mailbox and put it in to avoid "harvesting" or simply collecting stacks of ballots and setting them all on fire.
We can have both secure and verified voting and only THEN let anyone who wishes to vote absentee (by mail). Instead there are objections to requiring ANY measure to verify who is voting - at the polling place is a problem, but mail-in gives no security - so because we are unwilling to clean the voter's rolls and eliminate fraud at that level, we can't make it easier to vote since the fraud will be 100x easier.
A dead person can't show up at the polling place, but can mail in a ballot.
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/15/buyer-beware-this-led-bulb-sold-as-germicidal-doesnt-emit-uv-c/
T hey are selling defective Chinese products.
This is bad enough when it is a fake but won't kill you when it fails.
These bulbs won't disinfect anything. But what about the "hand sanitizer" - does it contain any or enough disinfectant? And the masks, are the N95 or did someone just write that on the T-shirt material?
Remember the melamine laced pet food that killed many pets? The lead paint toys for Mattel?
But you can get a lot of stuff cheap on Amazon, but they don't give a lot of details about where it comes from.
They should ban any or all products from China unless the company posts a large bond insuring safety and quality.
The problem is the state and local governments that pass monopoly grants so only one company can use the existing utility infrastructure (or maybe two if the bribe is sufficient).
The Federal government can't fix the economics of rural areas (I'm in Wyoming, but our city has its own fiber - which never seems slow but my town has fewer people than most city blocks in large cities).
I'd love to live 50 miles away from the grid and only have to pay $25/mo for gigabit. It was hard enough to get electricity going during the Great Depression (Rural Electrification Authority?). Or non-party line phone service.
There is an infrastructure bill coming. Perhaps along each road, power-line, and rail line we can insist on the latest tech fiber being installed alongside, even if temporarily dark. But I suppose they would rather tilt at Windmills and solar farms.
But to return to the main topic, Enron made lots of filthy lucre by co-opting Texas and California and having the laws changed to strand the existing producers.
One of the problems here is the City Greenies. They don't want even a new 4G cell tower built where there isn't existing coverage, or add lots of unrelated requirements (build a hiking trail), or just kill it with lawsuits.
I always check where such things come from.
C9 is the friend of violent criminal gangs. Including those dressed in blue..
And for some reason with a Democrat supermajority in Sacremento, and nearly every city, the police abuses in Cali are still disproportionate though the legislature and governor could do something today, as could the counties and cities.
Interesting how the thin blue linority manages to avoid any responsibility and accountability at the city, county, and state level.
Well, the police are part of the "justice" system which includes prosecutors and judges. The Kalifornia Kourt Klan isn't going to hold one of their own accountable.
So everyone goes to the polls and does the D or maybe R thing, then complains that the cronies get a monopoly.
Meanwhile I'm here in Wyoming in a small town that installed gigabit internet fiber so everyone has access (the only problem is the CDNs aren't up to it). Even if everyone decided to do 4k streams, I wouldn't notice a drop in bandwidth as the entire town has fewer residents than an average subdivision in a larger state.
Politicians just point to DC and screech "orange man bad" or the equivalent for Pelosi and Schumer, while giving away the store to the first business that will give them a bribe, oh, I mean campaign contribution.
Maybe the number of guns per capita in WY makes our pols more responsive. Or maybe they are just really better...
They won't allow any Covid-Deniers?
From the time I was a teenager, I learned that the person wishing to squelch speech and debate was most often wrong and didn't have any rational argument or good evidence.
It is one of the reasons I'm skeptical about whatever "Climate Change" is supposed to be. I'll be heading to Glacier National Park to see the sites now that since it is 2020, they all have melted away.
Tim Pool notes this is backfiring on the SJW left, as their crazies are still on Twitter, but even the most polite and rational rightwing people have been banned.
The thing about liberty and subsidiarity (e.g. Federalism where Salt Lake City and San Francisco can have very different cultures and people can vote with their feet) is it allows everyone to coexist, perhaps at opposite sides of mountain ranges. And every time the "ring of power" is used, it ends up backfiring. You want an imperial judiciary and activist court? Well, Trump might end up appointing most of the Judges.
Never give authority that you don't assume that tomorrow will be wielded by someone who is your worst enemy, hates you, and wants to destroy you.
Maybe if Hillary was in the slammer, for endangering national security and worse by putting classified info there,
Kushner, the other swamocrats, and the GOP would care about playing by the rules.
Everyone saw what Hillary did and got completely away with - go find and replay Comey's "no prosecuter would bring charges" speech as well as the other irregularities.
Whine all you want, but if Hillary got away with it although she was caught red handed not only violating law but destroying evidence and obstructing justice, why do you expect anyone else to play by the rules, especially during a crisis where corners need to be cut?
Just remember, all you tech types looked the other way and even cried when Hillary Criminal (unindicted) lost to Trump. You can read the reaction in Silly Valley.
Either there are rules and laws and they will be enforced uniformly, or there will not be. Maybe Barr can find a Comey that will make excuses for Jared.
I don't think the statute of limitations has expired on Hillary. Shall we have a special prosecutor look into EVERYONE? Including Hillary, Holder, Lynch, Comey, Strok, Page, and the rest as hard as Mueller looked at Trump? And look into the Kushner empire (his dad was convicted of a federal crime) and the rest as well?
Count me in to drain the red part of the swamp if you are willing to drain the blue part first or at the same time.
See, among others:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to-shoot-first-and-he-will-answer-q uestions-later.html
Police get paranoia training so they think they are in a Stephen King movie where everyone is going to try to kill them and will if they ever hesitate for a mircosecond.
25 feet is the usual cited distance in which a knife wielding urban ninja can kill a cop before he has his gun out.
Joke: A cop walks into a steak house and shoots everyone. He explained, they all had knives and were within 25 feet.
I moved my cell phone to Callcentric VOIP. It can even do SMS and forward calls, receive faxes, or other things in the call treatments. My new phone has a number that has not gotten a robocall (obscure area code or something?).
Callcentric has a telemarketer block where the caller has to press a number, either fixed or random to be connected. Robots can't do this. So, no robocalls.
The only problem is it apparently is now listed as VOIP (why can't the carriers add this to caller ID?) so some "send the code" validation services refuse to call it.
But it is so much better. And cheaper - they have multiple different plans, and works fine as a main phone, or via a SIP app.
A similar T shirt but F-the Judge.
The cited decision was a government worker, not someone at a hearing. You don't have the right to do anything at the hearing, especially if you are testifying.
I don't think there would be a similar question outside a hearing, but inside during a hearing the rules are more narrow.
The same thing happens to DUIs where people aren't visibly or even reliably drunk. Their lives are also torn apart and financially ruined.
All because of closed source Breathalyzers, but the magic voodoo box shows a number, and is judge and jury. And when they have been exposed they have found bugs. And the "drug test kits" that think krispy kreme glaze is an illegal drug. Or flour. Or dust. Or anything.
Citizens are second class. ILLEGAL (you forgot the adjective) immigrants are privileged and are "catch and release". They don't need Auto Insurance. They don't even need driver's licenses. Or engage in ID theft. But Citizens have to play by the rules.
We should fix the Police State against Citizens before worrying about those who chose to come here outside of the legal procedures.
NextDNS (.io) is also a provider, and if you get an account (free for beta and the first 300k queries) you can add custom block, white, and black lists.
(Not to mention logs and analytics down to device if you add a few things, I found my webcams were hitting timeservers they shouldn't, so I enabled my own and pointed them at it; they were also pinging their p2p sites which I didn't want or need; when I find something chattering I can't block, I add it to my hosts file as a 0.0.0.0).
That is what I'm using and I have several ad, tracking, and malware lists enabled.
So "safety" is an excuse. I'm probably safer as I block more things.
As to speed, I think some implementations of DoH use persistent connections, so the TCP and TLS overhead only happens once. Also it depends on which server is doing the caching - the "big iron" servers are likely to have most things already cached and a large enough capacity.
One problem is bounce pages from wifi portals that want you to click "I agree" or provide a password. Generally using 1.1.1.1 as the site will bounce because IP addresses don't have https or certs.
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Google and Facebook Cash In while burning News orgs bandwidth?
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Handicap Spaces
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Well, Amazon is going to kill people
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Re: Swamp
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Ah, the 9th Circus and Kalifornia Keystone Kops.
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Elected corrupt feckless governments...
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Don't mess with him
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What's good for the goose...
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But he had a knife!
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States have sovereign immunity from copyright suits
https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-supreme-court-just-decided-that-states-cannot-be-sued-for-copyr ight-infringement/
So if teachers are employed by the states...
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Or use Callcentric
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Try it when you go to court...
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