It would still be acceptable for a large number of folks who do primarily browsing/downloading, but for Netflix et al (which is quickly becoming the primary means of entertainment for a lot of people), it's not worth it. I'd say 10Gbp peering or it's not worth it.
Extremely difficult. There is plenty of technical expertise in networking, laying fiber, trenching, construction, equipment etc... around. Even with the local terrain. The problem is with the legal landscape.
Take Google for instance. The biggest hurdles they had to deployment are the protective hurdles put in place by ISP friendly politicians. Some states have regulation in place that new deployments must reach last mile to virtually every resident, which is cost and time prohibitive when there's no profit initially. You have to bite the bullet and do the deployment as necessary, bend to the legal winds and bear the full cost (which, even for Google may be a bit high) with no guarantee of profit until years after deployment.
4G is a bit tricky as well since there are areas where you'll have little choice but to rent existing towers or build your own. In some places, the terrain gets in the way, so towers are fairly limited in what they can do. Then there are the issues with maintenance and safety for crews working on these towers, which cell providers don't seem to care much about http://www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities
Speaking as a former radio engineer, I was surprised ProPublica focused specifically on mobile phone providers there (I watched that Frontline special with interest, given my former line of work; I've been to many towers and have seen many memorials at their bases). Tower climbing even in traditional broadcast has long been known to be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Most climbers freeclimb a significant majority of the tower and, honestly, I can understand why: safely climbing a tall tower without an elevator takes hours.
Jay Guilford is also a really bad example. To its credit, though, the documentary at least went into why, but oddly pushed blame back on the providers for his mistakes due to pressure. His was a weird citation when the message, which you clearly received and act upon, was cellular providers' negligence and attempts at liability minimization.
In an ideal world, any traffic entering and leaving a private network would be encrypted, but the issue is with near-realtime services like VoIP and remote presence where latency isn't acceptable. When you add the large number of users that use these networks, the amount of hardware for both redundancy and performance load balancing becomes a problem.
I don't see how this is a problem? You just saved a ton of money by not building a cable.
The WACS cable (a fairly minor project) cost well over half a billion USD. I'm pretty sure that with half a billion I can do quite a bit of realtime encryption....
Bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics. Experience in engineering, consultancy and management while working at Tesla and Space X (particularly their engine design). Has a history of literally thinking outside the box.
Because the foundations upon which AI shall be built aren't exotic. They're still programs. They still need an architecture to run on and they need electricity.
Even if new architectures that are specifically designed to leverage neural nets[1] or some other variety of processing are developed, the fundamental realities of computing, programs, physics and economics are not immune from being sufficiently underwhelming as far as AI is concerned.
Of course, this is precluding cloning technology where actual biological brains and therefore legitimate "life" and therefore intelligence can emerge.
That's awful! You should never even insinuate physical threats like that. You're putting yourself and others at risk by doing so and permanently harming your own reputation.
Look, I'm not hopelessly naïve (most of the time) and understand very well about standing up to what's right, but there's a way to do that without acting like this. Even if the person you're dealing with is a sociopath, even if they're terrible human beings, there are ways around them that don't rely to threats, real or implied.
Negotiation takes a lot of nuances, verbal and physical, but you can achieve a lot diplomatically without being intimidating physically.
I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree completely.
Edit: Also, I didn't downvote you because what you brought up was still interesting and allowed me to voice my opinion.
The last time I hit anyone without provocation I was 9 years old, I got such a thrashing from my dad that my grandchildren will remember the lesson, trust me.
That said, some people can only think in terms of who can kick who's ass - for them might IS right. The stupid ones become muggers and extortionists, the smart ones get a system (legal, corporate, etc) to fight their battles for them.
I see no moral problem with presenting them with a simplified model of their worldview, it's their choice, I am just showing that I am willing to make it manifest.
I had a discussion with a friend about The Thing[1], an invention by Léon Theremin and how ingenious it was that it required no external power source and can be turned on/off at will by transmitting at a certain frequency. The trouble with this is that it's still possible to identify the retransmission. In fact, this was how it was discovered.
What if the room had a length of surgical or other type of long tubing embedded into the wall so that the detector was a fair distance away? Essentially, a very crude stethoscope originating in a wall outlet or other place in the room that already has an orifice(s) and terminating at another location with a passive resonator.
By decoupling the transmitter from the audio source by using a non-electronic medium, it's possible to still eavesdrop on keystrokes even in an em-shielded room.
It's a nightmare sometimes to cancel credit cards, especially if you're travelling.
There are some banks that simply won't cancel the card until you visit your local branch. A tricky maneuver when it's 2000 miles away (I don't know if they've changed this now). Likewise, there are things that are hard to find if you use your cards a lot and don't keep detailed receipts on everything you buy. This happened to me when I discovered someone's been deducting a small sum from my card for several months without me noticing as I was overseas. Of course they could only take care of the last charge before cancelling my card.
I have never heard of a credit card that couldn't be cancelled immediately by calling the number on the back of it. That's the whole point -- when a card is stolen, it has to be deactivated on the spot.
What bank would ever require a visit in person to deactivate your current card? That would be insane, since the bank would simply be opening itself up to more losses, since it (and not you) are responsible for fraudulent expenses.
It was actually a credit union. And yes it is crazy, but then so are a lot of their other practices. Also, I was calling them internationally so even though the private questions they asked me verified my identity, it was still an arduous process. The number of times I called to finally get the card cancelled actually made my long distance charges greater than the stolen value ($25).
It will look like every other book... intended to hold private information so they'll never suspect anything! ;)
I once had the bright idea to put passwords written on a small piece of paper and place it inside a 3.5" floppy. If it's in a pack of other unlabeled disks, that's going to be a nice fishing trip.
