@coliver said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@scottalanmiller said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@coliver said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@TeleFox said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

Vote this guy out...

Incumbents generally don't lose in the US.

One of the reasons that some agencies rank certain US regions are non-democracy. There are guidelines for "opportunity to replace an incumbent" or something like that and if incumbents can't be replaced, the system is considered to be less free.

Yep don't doubt that. One of the reasons North Carolina and Upstate NY are less then democracies.

NC is ranked the least. Upstate is ranked one of the best. Upstate is misleading because it is a small region in a big pool. NC as an entire state can't replace people. Upstate as a REGION doesn't get to override the general population. Not comparable issues.

Yeah, looked it up. No bands. It's just the most advanced 3G signaling method.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/13/microsoft_kills_support_old_windows_on_new_chips/

@momurda said in Windows Vista Has Reached End of Life:

2 more GB of RAM and an SSD that thing would run Win7/8/10 no problem.

Yep, no more miserable computer.

A committee that advises the Federal Communications Commission on consumer-related matters now includes a representative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which lobbies against municipal broadband, net neutrality, and other consumer protection measures.

@JaredBusch said in Apple and Qualcomm Take Each Other to Court:

@nadnerB said in Apple and Qualcomm Take Each Other to Court:

Wow, Blackberry is alive again.

Depends where you are, some places it's still very actively used. We just made a deal for a new web development project called one of the big caveats was that we had to make it work well on Blackberry because all the sea levels only use blackberries. It also happens to be a Canadian client.

A rising tide lifts all ships?

The sea level is keeping Blackberry afloat?

LMAO

@dafyre said in Nintendo Switch Too Weak for Many Modern Titles Already:

@IRJ said in Nintendo Switch Too Weak for Many Modern Titles Already:

@scottalanmiller said in Nintendo Switch Too Weak for Many Modern Titles Already:

No surprise there. It's just the NVidia Shield in a different box. Nice for what it is, but really underpowered.

It's rather odd that we have such a low standard on consoles vs other hardware. Tablets are obsolete at 6 months old, but console are still relevant at 6 years old.

From the impressions I got, the Switch is mostly tablet anyhow...

It's built from the guts of one, literally.

@mlnews What I read of that article seemed like "We have no news, we need to talk more about this thing from last week."

@scottalanmiller said in ShadowBroker Releases EquationGroup Files:

We will find that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

ftfy...
/tinfoilhattime

This was predicted to be a while off, amazing that we are even at a point where it is likely to happen.

Someone in the CIA is busy explaining to some congressional sponsors how their "no one will ever know it was us" isn't going as planned.

@travisdh1 No, yeah that's a good point.

Just didn't think about it like that.

@scottalanmiller i'm not saying that this is going to fix all the problems of the service line because that's not gonna happen but still it doesn't have to be revolutionary it just needs to be affixed device

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/john-oliver-tackles-net-neutrality-again-crashes-fcc-comments-site-again

@momurda said in BrickerBots Targeting Poorly Secured Internet Connected Consumer Devices:

But the people affected will just go buy new devices, connect them back up without changing default access pw

At some point it just becomes funny

@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities:

@wirestyle22 said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities:

@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities:

@momurda said in YouTube TV Goes Live Today in Five US Cities:

More than the cost of Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix combined per month. And you have to watch youtube commercials in addition to the broadcasters commercials.

It's to compete with Sling, which costs about the same.

The reason to pay for Sling too is for Sports. The only thing keeping cable packages alive right now

I think that YouTube TV is handling that, isn't it?

Not all