Given that AT&T hasn't expanded speeds or quality for about three years, investing only in highly competitive gigabit areas, I agree with you. AT&T has absolutely zero interest in investing in a generally better network.
Out of curiosity, how would the students actually go about making their grades private. Free github accounts don't actually get any private repo's, so aren't you effectively requiring a student who wants to maintain some secrecy to pay extra?
When I was a kid, I bought a box of thumb tacks at the dollar store. When I got home and was using them, I suddenly got very sad: I started thinking about the people who assembled the tacks and put them in the boxes. Being naïve at that age I assumed everything was done manually, and I just felt awful about people who spent all day doing this just to sell them at the dollar store - they must be paid pennies!
I read it as a mixed call to boycott (and shaming) together with an appeal to CertSimple's expertise; "I don't see you actually having any startups, and thus your opinion is meaningless. If you do have a startup you certainly are a bad startup."
I lived in the Collier Hills area for 6 years and violent crime never impacted my life. Having only ever ridden the Red/Gold lines of MARTA and mostly during day, I only ever felt unsafe when people with obvious mental issues were yelling on the train - although I never saw violence. Parts of Atlanta are perfectly safe, and parts of Atlanta are a sad depressed economic wasteland.
Lean manufacturing works right up to the point where one of your vendors gives you a bad part. Your choice is to either shut down a line or have excess backup supplies at which point there's no need to have been lean.
Would we be better had we never harnessed electricity, built a computer, or designed a camera? If the social conscience of technology depends on whether or not something can be used for bad intentions, why pursue anything? Farming advances raise armies, should we blight the land? Your response is erudite, elitist, and short-sighted. The poster is not "of course, correct" -- fire fell into the wrong hands as well and yet the world has continued to be an awe-inspiringly amazing place.
For certain (acceptable) values of perfect. I'm in California but for just a year, so I'm not a citizen or anything. I see 2-3 unskippable 30 second political ads each night and while ads have never driven me away from online streaming before, these are actually pushing me away from youtube.
It should be a DSLAM (by now) as it was a regular junction that was replaced and added to with one of the larger white DSLAM boxes. I could be mistaken though, so that's a fair thing to point out.
>it describes how the system must allow some non hereditary class movement. If the class system is too rigid, pressure builds up as talented individual press against the ceiling. If some are allowed to progress and there are prominent examples the class system becomes less explicit and more stable.
My parents have been capped at 1.5 mbps (in practice closer to 768 mbps) since around 2003, and they're about 1/3 to 1/2 a mile away from the closest box. Over the years I've made multiple requests that resulted in improved line quality (change in PoP wiring, removed some home outlets with corroded contacts, remove bridge taps on the lines) but Ameritech-SBC-AT&T have never offered a better speed. They abandoned DSL in favor of U-Verse which, for rural locations, is of absolutely no use since they're never going to run fiber out to those semi-remote and remote DSLAMs. I wish something like G.fast would be useful in the US but the locations for which the distance isn't an issue are generally locations which have already been better served for a decade or longer by another technology than copper (cable, FTTH, FTTN, even Wireless in some cases).
In a time when mobile phones were scarce, putting them on a local area code ensures that a large portion of their usage (calling to and from landlines within a geographic space that actually IS limited) doesn't require additional long distance charges for everyone. These days it may seem like a quirk, but really what 20-year-old technology decision doesn't?
The first successful MVNO in the US came only 3 years after the first successful MVNO in the UK and mobile number portability was put into law in 2003 for both the US and the UK. The additional benefit is that because mobile numbers and wired numbers share the same area code base in the US, US number portability is basically universal. I don't see the basis based upon your listed criteria for saying that the FCC cares any less or that Ofcom cares any more about promoting competition.
I suspect that the spacing is meant to be there, but the TeX badness was huge no matter what, so it tried to do the "least bad" thing. I've run into this so many times when trying to make visually appealing layouts in TeX.
Although I doubt this story is particularly true, if the reduction in pay is roughly equivalent to the cost of food otherwise, employer-provided food is likely still a net-benefit (if you often bring food from home this decreases for married couples, strongly decreases with children). If the food is provided to you at no cost but offsetting some salary, then you're at least preventing the government from double-dipping your taxes for those meals; you wont pay the sales tax on the food.
When I was a kid someone slashed the tires and cut the brakes of all the school buses. Even if it was to get out of school, that's a very fine line between "just for a giggles" so while the probability may be small it's certainly nonzero. I would put the probability of your two identified events at closer to each other than you'd both expect and hope.
In an ideal world, the same way the person you responded to did (hopefully via Nest themselves). "Nest is not aware of any customers affected by this flaw though they stress/admit that this is potentially due to the relative rarity of home fires."