Dish and DirectTV don't only compete with each other. There are other providers out there - HughesNet & ViaSat are two of them.
And you don't have to be 20 miles up river in the mountains to need it. Until recently we lived in San Diego County 1.5 miles off the interstate with grid electric and water service, and AT&T landline service, but no cable. And too many hills to get TV from an antenna. So satellite was the only source for TV & internet until a new company came in with microwave service. They completely blew Dish & ViaSat out of the water. But that was only after they got an antenna to serve our valley. It took at least a year after they had signs out saying they could serve us.
By the summer, people's focus will turn to the midterms
When our reps biggest concern is getting re-elected or moving up the ladder is changed to doing the job they were elected to do then we might be able to get this changed. Kind of hard when a big chunk of the population and media focus is on the next election mere days after the previous one.
The AI will be biased. There hasn't been one created that isn't. All facial recognition tech tends to do better accurately identifying white male faces.
This is a serious question, I'm not trolling anybody. I'm not tech savvy enough to know how these programs work, other than what I read that they really don't. So are you saying that an unbiased AI is objectively impossible to create? Or that it just hasn't been done yet?
I bought a NordicTrack crosscountry ski machine. It arrived with a couple of special bolts missing. I tried to get them, sent pictures, all kinds of documentation. They sent brackets and other stuff, never got what I really needed. I told them I wanted to return it for a refund. They said sure, pretty quickly and no hassle, gave me the refund and said just keep it. They didn't have an agent nearby to come and get it/wasn't worth it to them to pay for shipping to have it returned. I still have it. Got some hardware on my own to make it work.
So now I have a $700 piece of equipment for free. And I just have to make myself use it more regularly.
The DA 'declined' to get involved in the practice, but that's all? No reporting, prosecution, etc, etc, etc? And that's supposed to be good enough? That is a really low bar.
This culture is characterized by a libertarian, American, masculine approach that values individualism. It is exactly these qualities that perpetuate the idea that regulation will “break the Internet” and that individual choice and responsibility is the only way forward for the Internet infrastructure.
This attitude is deeply ironic because for the first half of its existence the Internet was heavily funded by states, and the second half has been characterized by oligopolies. However, this sense of individual engineering pride keeps the status quo intact, which means a continuous exclusion of those who do not want to succumb to this culture, mostly women, people of color, and those from outside of Europe and the United States.
Yes, the early development of the Internet was government funded but it was also an open protocol with little government regulation. I'm certainly no expert, with a not-great memory, but didn't the 'founder' of the internet Tim Berners-Lee talk about an ability for anybody to talk to anybody? It would seem that the regulation that is discussed here would harm that.
As a world wide enterprise regulation would certainly have the ability to 'break the internet'. At least as we have come to know to this point. Agreed that there are a lot of problems with at times the lowest common denominator seeming to control the discourse. But having different countries impose their own rules would definitely be worse and fragment the 'world wide web'.
I bet that some organization with plenty of backing will post a story advising on how to get an abortion hoping to get sued and then take the case to court. I give until the end of the week.
Sorry but that barn had the door left open, all the horses ran away, and burnt down a long time ago.
My social security card, the actual card (it's around here somewhere) says "Not to be used for identification purposes" or words that that effect. But they never enforced it and millions of businesses did use your SSN as an ID in their system. Then the SSA said 'oh, well no big deal'. So your SSN got spread all over the place and made it easy to link all of the data about you in various data bases together. Just made snooping and identity theft much easier and harder to fight against.
Because of the rampant Gerrymandering many congressional districts will be very hard to flip away from Republican representatives and make any substantive change in congress.
It's not just the right, democrats have some blame in this as well. To some extent the gerrymandering has been done by both sides with bad results, but the republicans seem to be better at getting there way with it.
I have lived in California the majority of my 64 years and I think our constitution is a big problem. I admit it - The wife and I (mostly her) are spoiled by the weather. Every where else is too hot/cold/rainy/snowy/etc.
Every election there is a long list of 'propositions' to vote on. Many of them are written in a way that makes it hard to tell what they are meant to do. Some would even do the opposite of what the title claims. Makes me think that the legislature doesn't do a whole lot. And that it's too easy for people with money to write the law.
So plenty of 'lawmakers' saying 'unintended consequences', but none of them seem to be doing about those consequences.
Seems like anything sex related is kind of a 3rd rail for pols if it means people having freedom to do what they want without the guvmint getting involved. To many people with the attitude of "I don't like that so YOU can't do it."
Is this a hit piece? I don't know but it would help to know who Brian Albrecht is. This seems to be his only contribution to TechDirt and I'm to tired right now to do a deeper search. Does he have an ax to grind here or an informed opinion?
It would be helpful if TechDirt included something about who the author is when it isn't one of the regular staff. I've seen it sometimes, I think it should be normal inclusion.
context-sensitive
"context-sensitive"
That right there is the problem. Context means nothing to these bozos.
Satellite is not so 'Niche' as you might think
Dish and DirectTV don't only compete with each other. There are other providers out there - HughesNet & ViaSat are two of them.
And you don't have to be 20 miles up river in the mountains to need it. Until recently we lived in San Diego County 1.5 miles off the interstate with grid electric and water service, and AT&T landline service, but no cable. And too many hills to get TV from an antenna. So satellite was the only source for TV & internet until a new company came in with microwave service. They completely blew Dish & ViaSat out of the water. But that was only after they got an antenna to serve our valley. It took at least a year after they had signs out saying they could serve us.
A big part of the problem
By the summer, people's focus will turn to the midterms
When our reps biggest concern is getting re-elected or moving up the ladder is changed to doing the job they were elected to do then we might be able to get this changed. Kind of hard when a big chunk of the population and media focus is on the next election mere days after the previous one.
Re:
it appears that it does not even really work
And where did you get this from? Details please.
(untitled comment)
If the first ones to see any of this new money are Comcast/AT&T/Verizon/Charter/Frontier/etc. then we'll know this program is a failure.
Can you explain like I'm 5?
The AI will be biased. There hasn't been one created that isn't. All facial recognition tech tends to do better accurately identifying white male faces.
This is a serious question, I'm not trolling anybody. I'm not tech savvy enough to know how these programs work, other than what I read that they really don't. So are you saying that an unbiased AI is objectively impossible to create? Or that it just hasn't been done yet?
(untitled comment)
Somebody should do this to a few CEOs and some pols.
That might get some action going. Not saying it would be the action we want.
Re: Elon is right about everything
As you can see, Elons software as is everyone else's, is not finished and making it into a finished product is not yet being worked on.
I was looking for the /s but you appear to be serious. If the car is not a finished product what are those that I see driving around?
What you are saying, whether you intended to or not, is the buyers are no more than beta testers. And paying handsomely for the privilege.
Same but different
I bought a NordicTrack crosscountry ski machine. It arrived with a couple of special bolts missing. I tried to get them, sent pictures, all kinds of documentation. They sent brackets and other stuff, never got what I really needed. I told them I wanted to return it for a refund. They said sure, pretty quickly and no hassle, gave me the refund and said just keep it. They didn't have an agent nearby to come and get it/wasn't worth it to them to pay for shipping to have it returned. I still have it. Got some hardware on my own to make it work.
So now I have a $700 piece of equipment for free. And I just have to make myself use it more regularly.
"we declined"
The DA 'declined' to get involved in the practice, but that's all? No reporting, prosecution, etc, etc, etc? And that's supposed to be good enough? That is a really low bar.
(untitled comment)
This culture is characterized by a libertarian, American, masculine approach that values individualism. It is exactly these qualities that perpetuate the idea that regulation will “break the Internet” and that individual choice and responsibility is the only way forward for the Internet infrastructure.
This attitude is deeply ironic because for the first half of its existence the Internet was heavily funded by states, and the second half has been characterized by oligopolies. However, this sense of individual engineering pride keeps the status quo intact, which means a continuous exclusion of those who do not want to succumb to this culture, mostly women, people of color, and those from outside of Europe and the United States.
Yes, the early development of the Internet was government funded but it was also an open protocol with little government regulation. I'm certainly no expert, with a not-great memory, but didn't the 'founder' of the internet Tim Berners-Lee talk about an ability for anybody to talk to anybody? It would seem that the regulation that is discussed here would harm that.
As a world wide enterprise regulation would certainly have the ability to 'break the internet'. At least as we have come to know to this point. Agreed that there are a lot of problems with at times the lowest common denominator seeming to control the discourse. But having different countries impose their own rules would definitely be worse and fragment the 'world wide web'.
Re: Companies that do lobbying don't want to take sides....
Except that in this case the Senior Exec. VP - External & Legislative Affairs (quite a title) has been quoted taking a 'moral' stance.
I'll leave it up to others to decide if this stance is moral or immoral.
Somebody is going to test this
I bet that some organization with plenty of backing will post a story advising on how to get an abortion hoping to get sued and then take the case to court. I give until the end of the week.
Re: Freedom is inconsistant
Your information is private
Sorry but that barn had the door left open, all the horses ran away, and burnt down a long time ago.
My social security card, the actual card (it's around here somewhere) says "Not to be used for identification purposes" or words that that effect. But they never enforced it and millions of businesses did use your SSN as an ID in their system. Then the SSA said 'oh, well no big deal'. So your SSN got spread all over the place and made it easy to link all of the data about you in various data bases together. Just made snooping and identity theft much easier and harder to fight against.
Re: Re:
Because of the rampant Gerrymandering many congressional districts will be very hard to flip away from Republican representatives and make any substantive change in congress.
It's not just the right, democrats have some blame in this as well. To some extent the gerrymandering has been done by both sides with bad results, but the republicans seem to be better at getting there way with it.
Re: Am I the only one with a migraine?
I have lived in California the majority of my 64 years and I think our constitution is a big problem. I admit it - The wife and I (mostly her) are spoiled by the weather. Every where else is too hot/cold/rainy/snowy/etc.
Every election there is a long list of 'propositions' to vote on. Many of them are written in a way that makes it hard to tell what they are meant to do. Some would even do the opposite of what the title claims. Makes me think that the legislature doesn't do a whole lot. And that it's too easy for people with money to write the law.
I didn't know it was going to do that!
So plenty of 'lawmakers' saying 'unintended consequences', but none of them seem to be doing about those consequences.
Seems like anything sex related is kind of a 3rd rail for pols if it means people having freedom to do what they want without the guvmint getting involved. To many people with the attitude of "I don't like that so YOU can't do it."
Re: Re: Is this a hit piece?
Oops, my bad. I looked for that. I guess in my end of the day work fog I missed it.
Is this a hit piece?
Is this a hit piece? I don't know but it would help to know who Brian Albrecht is. This seems to be his only contribution to TechDirt and I'm to tired right now to do a deeper search. Does he have an ax to grind here or an informed opinion?
It would be helpful if TechDirt included something about who the author is when it isn't one of the regular staff. I've seen it sometimes, I think it should be normal inclusion.
Re: Re: Re:
Don't be an idiot.
I don't think he can help it. He is an idiot.
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