The WiFi industry is working on a new "cell->wifi" standard called OpenRoaming. Pixel phones turned on OpenRoaming support with Android 11.
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It also looks like there are $6 clip-on mirrors (2) that would also do an admirable job, perhaps with more stability and control than the pencil-balancing trick.
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Nobody thinks it’s right to NOT test every potential case. It just wasn’t possible.
Good news: Just today, they released new rules that should increase testing capacity by 400x.
Google is a company, not a collective. Companies typically have various controlled ways of disseminating information, both internally and externally.
Internal transparency (at a company of Google’s size) effectively means public transparency... ie all of the inner workings are known to everyone. I’m not aware of any for-profit organization that can function effectively that way.
"Traffic shaping" to manage the network is a reasonable goal (whether or not you agree with it). "Monetizing consumer data" is slightly less reasonable, but still arguably reasonable. It is, however, NOT OK to do this without clear Notice, Transparency, and Choice to the consumer.
Today, these large ISPs do the opposite: hiding their behavior, offering no choice, and now enlisting lawmakers to eliminate alternatives.
The cable and wireless providers should ask their customers: are you OK with unencrypted DNS (a less-safe protocol) in return for lower prices (because we can throttle certain streams and monetize with advertising data)?
Or, if they suspect (rightly) that most customers would say "hell no"... these ISPs should offer a competitive encrypted DNS solution of their own. You're Internet service providers, for heaven's sake -- provide a modern Internet service, instead of regulating that your customers use your inferior legacy DNS!
Why should we be worried? Peat shouldn't be available to burn. It only burns when it has been disturbed by some significant environmental change (e.g. drainage/drought). Siberian peatlands should be moist/frozen through summer, but this year's heatwave has dried them out.
Peat fires in the Arctic are part of a number of positive feedback mechanisms in the climate system. They release old carbon in the form of CO2 & methane emissions, exacerbating global heating, and they leave behind a dark charred surface leading to localised heating.
Some tentative conclusions:
- at least some of these fires were ignited by lightning
- ignition made far more likely by heatwave
- fires are burning peat soils
- this is the symptom of a sick Arctic
If the employer of a “sweatshop job” is not coercing or lying to its employees, then I have a hard time faulting the employer directly. We may still want systemic change to create more options and more equity for employees, but the “sweatshop” (that pays more than alternatives and which employees freely choose) is not the villain in this story.
As the author puts it:
“I don’t object to journalists writing about the trials and tribulations of Amazon employees. I only wish they would do so fairly.
Just because a journalist has found an Amazon employee somewhere who got sprayed with bear repellant, that doesn’t mean Amazon employees spend their days in mortal fear of a chemical attack.
...we need fair-minded and accurate reporting about the companies we patronize, not scaremongering polemics preaching a black-and-white gospel of tyranny and exploitation. ”
A couple years ago I wandered past their store in Boulder and was floored that there was a real, physical incarnation of that magical catalog. I took my little kids there this winter and it was like passing a spark between generations.
“In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same sort of change has taken place with the meaning of trillion. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). Nowadays, it's generally held to be equivalent to a million million (1,000,000,000,000), as it is in American English.”
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...
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