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> The planned order hasn't even been released!

Be that time it'll probably be too late.

> On the one hand, I can see why monopolistic powers in the hands of ISPs would be bad, but I like that the order would restore "police" powers to the FTC instead of the FCC,

The FTC is not the correct body to "police" broadband.

> and I can't blame ISPs for wanting a piece of the $ pie.

I can. They are already getting paid. They should not be able to go back for seconds.

> And it's not like the internet was a horrible wasteland until 2015.

That's because network neutrality was the default state before. It's only now that is becoming feasible both from a technical and business perspective to violate network neutrality.

> But then again, Pai plan proponents keep saying this will spawn more innovation and improve utilities. That sounds pretty dubious and I haven't seen much proof. I don't recall any big innovation suddenly being stifled in 2015

Yeah, that's just a load of bullshit. CEOs have gone on record that NN will not affect business or investments.

> In my perfect world, the regulatory power would go back to the FTC but it would at the same time release a plan for opening up internet utility access so small players can compete with the big ones.

Too bad we already had that, minus the FTC part. Fat chance of getting it back.
You might find being vegetarian easier than you think. It's a little more effort while you learn new recipes, and depending on where you live you'll have less choice when you dine out, but I have been (mostly) vegetarian for the last two years and found it surprisingly easy. :)
I dunnoh... even when The Machine was announced, it seemed like vaporware. If she was betting on that thing shipping, she's a bit crazy... and Ms. Whitman isn't crazy.
> Wal-Mart has more employees, is it more powerful?

I doubt wal-mart has as many highly educated employees as the NSA. Numbers don't mean anything by themselves, but if you hire thousands of mathematicians they are bound to deliver more than Wal-Mart in the datascience and cryptography department.

> Including facilities and supercomputer costs, this rapidly dwindles.

Well, considering the overall surveillance budget of all secret agencies constantly increases, it does not seem that they will ever lack funding.

> That leaves maybe $5B for bribes, according to your accounting. Is that enough to subvert everybody?

Why would you need bribes when you have the Law and the full might of government power behind you? If you can convict of high treason anybody who speaks publicly about what the NSA does, why would anyone at Google, Microsoft or other companies working with the NSA have any incentive to say anything?

> The topic is ostensible unlimited NSA resources to corrupt every proprietary technology.

Resources is not only money. When you work for the government (and furthermore of the military establishment), as I said earlier, you can bring down a whole new level of pressure that money itself cannot buy. If that were not the case, then a bunch of secrets (take for example everything related to nuclear testing in the US) that were only revealed way, way after the facts, would have emerged much earlier in all likelihood.
"Google/Amazon/Microsoft have the muscle to actually do something about this, but no motivation. I'm surprised that they even trust Intel - it would take one high-profile security breach to turn their respective Cloud Computing businesses upside down - people are already jittery."

We know that Google don't have unlimited trust in Intel: they replace the firmware, are talking about how they are trying to defang IME, and continue to maintain investments in the POWER architecture, even though AFAIK they have no public products that use it.
This is simply not true. They do not send the user browser history. Most data is processed on the client side https://gist.github.com/solso/423a1104a9e3c1e3b8d7c9ca14e885...
Here's an interesting thought: you need a certain amount of liquidity to overcome the liquidity premium (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquiditypremium.asp). However, if the velocity of your asset is too high (nobody has incentive to HODL), then your asset becomes a medium of exchange because nobody wants to hold it due to price risk relative to fiat.

So the best digital currency is one that is valuable to be _held_ but still has high transaction counts.

The article that stimulated my thoughts on the matter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ix9BDmGie8tPAwrfRKqe9CN...
This is all very confusing for me. Obviously I understand the NN arguments and I accept the Ajit Pai arguments though I think it's very naive to think that investments in infrastructure would be made without other significant incentives, all which seem unlikely to occur.

My question is about 2015. Did we have NN before 2015? What changed then and how would it differ from before? I was always under the assumption we had NN.
Trust: the company fighting for privacy due to among other things economic incentives.

Don't trust: the company fucking privacy because of economic incentives.

Quite simple.
What do you think is not super clear cut?

Charlie Rose dry humped people and Weinstein and Louie CK masturbated in front of others.
But i want the tearing, or at least i prefer it to the latency that compositors impose! This is why compositors must not be forced and instead be a user option. I do not see why i have to suffer a subpar computing experience because of some clueless users.

I even force vsync off system-wide where possible (that is in Windows, in Linux i haven't seen such an option and even in Windows DWM ignores the setting).
Read Jack Welch's autobiography, very informative on the subject of internal car and successions
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> If we want something for the public good, it should be publically funded.

That's just a silly argument.

If we are going there, let's first have the ISPs vacate all public rights of way and return all government subsidies.
Even when it wasn't the law, Net Neutrality existed in practice, and there was little interest shown by then ISPs to break that. Now there is a lot of interest by current ISPs to not be neutral, which makes it necessary for Net Neutrality to be the law.
I've been wondering if there would ever be a killer feature that would make ARM-based servers really compelling, and now I'm starting to think that we have one. Intel are handing ARM a massive opportunity with the IME issues.
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Why is making someone uncomfortable at work somehow a newsworthy topic?

Why are people supporting this? It's clearly a farce.
What makes you think you're taking sides between two industries?

The way I see it, and probably why Google et al don't seem to be throwing up a recent fuss anymore, is that the big tech companies and industry giants can cut deals with the major ISP's to avoid throttling or provide services/expertise to the ISP's. So the end result is turning Google et al into their OWN monopolies. (e.g. Comcast partners with Youtube to deliver streaming video!)

Now you get telecom monopolies AND service/content monopolies.

Truly the best of both worlds.
Have you read how Phil Knight and Steve Jobs met their wives?
They don't have to vacate anything, public should buy them outright. Yes after deducting the subsidy amount.
Progress Report: We managed to stack the patients three levels high per room today. Automated transport is coming along nicely. The lower level constantly suffers bruises, which makes it necessary to ship it with a reduced price..

On a personal note, most of them seem to be former warehouse workers like myself, i can tell by the cursing...
While it's perhaps true that Ajit Pai is no worse than FED chairmen (and the current chairwoman, Janet Yellen), that should be seen as a damning indictment of the Federal Reserve system rather than and endorsement of the current FCC leadership.

What's next ? Supreme court judges "sponsored" by Monsanto ? Wouldn't really be any worse than this, really.

> This is something that can be resolved as it has been with contract law and consumer choice -- same as with Google, Apple, etc. --

> there's no need for the government to be involved at the federal level

You're talking about monopolists. If anybody could open a telco (which isn't possible for physical reasons) then perhaps this would be an argument.

But you cannot let monopolists "offer" contracts and expect a fair and balanced result.
We're using Keepass / MacPass password protected vault shared with the team using Dropbox. It's really good and essentially free to use if you use a free Dropbox account.
Do you mean something other than velocity? It doesn’t make sense I’m hat context. (I’m not opening a google doc for security reasons).
GDPR affects any company that has european customers. So a lot of non-EU companies will be affected.

Guess it will be harder to enforce when a company does not have an EU sub though.
It seems you misunderstand both derivatives as well as the Libor rigging. The price of a future absolutely can affect the price of its underlying, and the Libor rigging has nothing to do with any of this - the problem was that the value was not determined by the market, it was basically just a “vote.”
So this is like Django? Or is it like Heroku? Or more like AWS Lambda? Or .NET? Could even be a hip development methodology.

I know it is hard to write a good about blurb, but why oh why do so many projects end up with something this vague?
> Other entities should not be allowed to keep or trade information about individuals without paying them directly.

To be the devils advocate for a moment, what about the other side of that? Should businesses not be able to keep and share records saying "This person owes us money but refuses to pay"?
I've heard far worse stories from finance, legal, and consulting than tech. And I know many more tech workers than the other industries.
I think the twisting of the body may also cause problems for the tether.
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Someone I know used to have to get a blood test every week. One of the regular testers used to hurt him, the other didn't. I'm sure it affected to the stress of the visits which operator was waiting for him. With a small sample of people doing the injecting it's hard to eliminate the effect of operator technique.
The ICC deal with matters under the following conditions:

1) The state is a party to the Rome Statute; or
2) Referral by the UN security counsel; and
3) The internal judicial processes of the state cannot deal with the apparent crimes

The US is not a party to the Rome statute (see "Invasion of the Hague Act" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...), and with veto power on the security counsel it seems unlikely to be referred to the Court by that body.

Therefore any suggestion that any US citizen/president is tried by the ICC is ridiculous. The threat is toothless. The ICC has no enforcers.
> Net neutrality will allow ISP to bill users not only on bandwidth, but also based on what you do on the net

That is the opposite of Net Neutrality.
As far as I'm aware, net neutrality was assumed to apply up until a court ruling that went in Verizon's favor.

So it's not a case of "It only came into law 3 years ago!" but rather "We put it back into law after being considered law for 30 years because of a court case that demanded clarification".
The only fix is to issue globally unique identifiers. Then we can encrypt demographic data at rest. Greatly mitigating the damage of breeches.

How does that follow? I work in a country with such identifiers, and I don't see the connection.

By the way, just because such identifiers exist, doesn't mean people are keen on giving them out to every company, and in fact, asking and storing it is frowned upon by our national data protection commission, unless you have a good reason to do so (just like any other personal data).
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Yes, we had NN before 2015. It was the default state and how the Internet was originally built.

We used to have competition for Internet services (dialup and DSL), now we don't (most people access the Internet through cable which is a monopoly).

The reason why we are losing NN now is because it's become feasible from a technical and business perspective to violate NN.

Pai's arguments are pure unadulterated bullshit. Abolishing NN will not increase investments or create competition. CEOs are on record that NN will not impact business or investments.
I would suggest to be very visual.

Bring a few things:

1. A box with a lock and key
2. A cardboard box+tape
3. An adult education device + a clear plastic bag.

Put the adult education device (texas terms) inside the clear plastic bag. Put that bag in the cardboard box and seal it with tape. Put the box in the lock box. (Kind of like a Russian doll situation).

(If you're allowed to do this at all.. do it after security)

Once you're up and presenting mention:

This is the best analogy that I have: This lock box illustrates an honest attempt at protecting data. What you have in this box is your data and is potentially embarrassing. It's yours but should the public know about it?

Tell them how you and only very specialized individuals know how to open the box. Open it.

Then explain that the next layer illustrates a company that doesn't know or doesn't want to invest much on protecting the data: anyone can tear open that box.

Once you have the box torn open and the bag+item is out on display. Ask congress: This is how well Equifax protected your data. Are you going to make them pay for the FCC fine that CSPAN is going to be hit with?
I get that a bit late at night, I think from the noise of the fridge compressor motor that reverberates against the wall. If I put in an earplug it stops.
China does not have net neutrality. Almost everything coming into the country from outside is utterly filtered to hell and back. They do have a vibrant tech economy though. So they have their own Google (Baidu). They have their own Twitter (Weibo), WhatsApp(WeChat), Amazon(Tao Bao). So in the future of no net-neutrality, we'll see ISPs being value-added resellers of their own regionally partitioned versions of these services, probably developed by various ISVs. It will be a bit like the BBS days I imagine. It goes along with the Trump political theme of anti-globalization.
cf: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-link-cat-parasite-to-common-n...
With what money and what political capital?
The "NN regulations" that the FCC adopted specifically classified Internet services as Title II "telecommunication services", subject to 1930s-style telecom regulations. Yes, these are "Ma Bell" style regulations.

I presume you don't believe in the existence of selective enforcement in industries where the government holds massive regulatory power? Why does it seem somehow that the most powerful incumbents are never punished, but smaller upstarts are crushed (or not even started) due to the regulatory burden? NN makes this worse.

Pai merely proposes to move things back to the way they were since the beginning of Internet Time to 2015, way back when the Internet was a Title I "information service", subject to much less formal regulation by the FCC. This is met with furious uproar.
Yes! Why do we keeping on calling assault "misconduct" or "inappropriate behavior"?
Keepass and keybase team repo to sync.
This speed management is actually handled by an autopilot (i.e. computer) in U2s, using 'mach hold' mode.
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Well, at least they are starting to admit it. But their "zero-rank" answer at the top of the search page has been a completely contradiction of that. But they seem to be getting rid of it (can't find the link right now, but I read about the story on a SEO site yesterday), which I think is a net positive decision.

Now, I wonder how they'll fix this for Google Assistant, which will likely continue to give people the One And Only Truth™, when asked something.
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And people are 'cutting the cord' because TV content is boring trash, and the media/news channels completely controlled by a few megacorps. You can't get independent or personal views, you can't get personalized shows, you can't get streams from completely random nobodies.

TV is monopolized to hell and back and full of advertising people can't stand. The internet provides everything you could want, without the cancer that has infected television. People wouldn't cut TV out of their lives if TV actually provided what they want at a fair price.
There is also GNU zile and zemacs[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
That sounds reasonably secure and quite common for a big tech company.
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It's not quite that simple. I sold 5 BTC at the $32 peak and felt smart. It crashed right after, and I paid a phone bill.

The temptation to sell was far stronger in the early days, mostly because people were unprepared for the sheer volatility of BTC. It's been the most lucrative tulip farm in history, and unlike tulips BTC is useful. It's hard to know where it will top out.
Google tried a similar thing to Free Basics with the Google Free Zone [0][1]. It launched in 2012 and disappeared from most places by 2013.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Free_Zone

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130704133456/http://www.google....
I used Spacemacs for a while, but switched to a custom configuration with evil, general.el, and which-key. Spacemacs was excessively slow and I also often ran into strange bugs.
Or just bribe people in the government and have them appoint one of your lawyers to the governing body meant to regulate you.

Why care how egregious your actions are when the government listens to you and your bags of money, and not the people you're fucking over?
The reason why I and some other HN commenters (and L3 Communications) find this argument bizarre is because of the concept of transit traffic charges being applied to the last mile, which previously was not an industry practice.

Comcast's customers are requesting the data; if Comcast were a second tier backbone, or an AS between two others, then it would make sense to charge for traffic, as it doesn't benefit. But the traffic going to Comcast is there to benefit its subscribers, without which, Comcast doesn't make enough money. The most bizarre thing is that if the customers were to upload the same amount of data back to the sites, then they wouldn't be charged, as the data was symmetrical!

Why would an ISP be able to charge other AS's for sending traffic to its own customers? If there were even a single competitor in that region, this dynamic would change completely.
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The Bell System (America's telecom monopoly until it's breakup in the 80s) pretty much avoided Phillips, etc. screws. Everything was slot (or pin-hex tamperproof). I do see mention of a Phillips driver in this 1961 BSP: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/bsp-bel...

The slotted terminal screws worked well because they were cheese head, or cylindrical, allowing the driver to apply torque at the very edge of the slot. Outside the Bell System, terminal screws are usually binding head, which has a fillet around the top edge, removing material where it's most needed.
>We used to have competition for Internet services (dialup and DSL), now we don't (most people access the Internet through cable which is a monopoly).

Calling Dial-Up and DSL "competition" is downplaying how shitty things were even in 2015. They are technically competition, but effectively and practically they aren't because the modern web doesn't even work with dial-up and in the many places stuck with the low-end of DSL it is next to worthless too.
You are better off not paying attention at all.
This is what happens in a country without net neutrality – Indosat, Indonesia
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Manure is widely used as a fertiliser for non-organic food as well. And there's no need for the scare quotes, because using manure is perfectly congruent with organic farming.

The manure is also applied before seeding, months before harvest. Together with rinsing, and sometimes peeling or boiling, there's really no need for the scaremongering.

If you want to be afraid of faeces, manure is the least of your problems. Foxes and other wild animals shit on every field, and they often carry parasites.
Crippled? Sorry, I don’t get what you’re trying to say. Tree style tabs work fine in FF57. Only annoyance is that the top tab line cannot be removed. That’s supposedly coming soon though.
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It sounds like you are suggesting we make forum moderation illegal.

That's like the difference between saying who's allowed on the sidewalk vs. saying who's allowed in the bar.

EDIT: In case it's not clear, this comment is pro-net neutrality. I am pointing out the absurdity of disallowing site owners from curating their own content.
As mentioned by another poster, try watching Primitive Technology[1] on Youtube. Very similar feel.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
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So after a certain point, the bigger the company the lower the fine? 20 million is 0.01% of Apple's turnover.
> What do the new laws say about VPNs?

What new laws?

The FCC is getting rid of a law, without providing a replacement.
We need to make the penalty for leaking data, high enough that it will deter companies from ever collecting it in the first place. Something like HIPAA needs to apply to all user data collection.
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They have their own services in China, but it's not only about foreign traffic. Put up a site and you'l find that it doesn't work too well in other regions of the nation, with ISPs throttling each other's traffic.
Apart from "packing donuts" type jobs, most jobs require some degree of knowledge and skill. Some jobs have higher knowledge half-life than others. While IT has notoriously short knowledge half-lifes, construction has rather long half lifes.

Suppose that we train x+y construction workers a year, x work in the industry until retirement, y - retrain to different profession. This means that there are y*years dormant specialists that can be brought back to industry.
You seem to have something to share, could you elaborate?

From my point of view, the sandboxing and authorization model of iOS is way better than what is available on Android right now.

You could argue that newer versions of Android provide a way to ask for permissions, but suffices to target API level 22 on your app and you're off of it.
And fon't get me started on full disk encryption and buggy TPM implementations on Android.

So.. what do you know that we don't?
In order to install my work Gmail account on my phone, I had to install a program on my personal phone that let admins wipe it remotely. This is not something that bothers me, because I expect to lose the phone almost anytime, so the contents on it are backed up continously on a system I control.
I hate this. I always thought that if I had some ailment I would research everything about it and try fix it. I still do that with tinnitus, but when I do I'll hear it.
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