"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It's worse than that, they reconsolidated but BellLabs was shut down in the process. So, they got the same control they previously had except they weren't spending on research. IMO, they should have been prevented from reconsolidating.
They absolutely do (source, I know there's a sim card in there, they never take it out, it phones home, etc). You get the onstar reports, and can activate it any time using the active sim card.
You can I think get into the box if you have tools, and pull out the sim though. I really want to hack that thing, so I can control the display! I'd love to be able to put linux on my car. And I deserve to. It's mine! I bought it! As long as it's still safe, why does it matter?
I’m adjusting my tinfoil hat as I type this, but can you even buy a recent non-commercial passenger vehicle without some data connection in hardware? Shoot, some even have WiFi hotspots now.
And for those that don’t, there’s probably one or more cell phones in the cab. Probably some open airdrops even. So many e-flys down.
The mandatory subscription doesn’t seem that shocking - that’s just a different flavor of hiding the total price. Wouldn’t be buying a car without that. (Should be.)
The hardware though, this mandatory subscription just puts it in bold. Plenty of makes and models have the (sort of) hardware by default, you can take or leave the subscription and associated benefits. Please take it of course, but that hardware connection is installed either way. In case you change your mind!
BMW is already trying to charge for warm butts. Gotta make that easy to toggle. Taking it to a shop for that “upgrade” is silly compared to OTA.
If I ran a fleet of work trucks I think that I'd want this if I could locate where my vehicles were. If it was a personal vehicle, I would not want it at all.
The tracking is independent of the subscription, though. GM could always track vehicles with OnStar, whether or not the owner was paying for a subscription. And you can rip the OnStar module out of your vehicle and it will still work, even with the new mandatory subscription.
You can also NOT host whatever you don't want. Epik and Digital Ocean picked up the baton, but I don't know if Digital Ocean has had a chance to act on this yet - it's a long weekend. We already know that Epik is not bothered by moral choices.
Well, then your post is obviously nonsense to you, just as it was to several other people.
You buy a server, find a coloc facility, pay the price to colocate, plug your server in, host whatever you want, free of essentially all terms of service. That's "hosting whatever you want".
When you can't find another one that allows colocation with a ToS that will let you do whatever you want, you rent a T1 line or better to your own home.
Have you ever heard of a ISP kicking someone off a rented dedicated cable? Maybe it has happened. I have no memory of ever hearing about this in any case where there wasn't prima facie illegal acitivit occuring over the line.
GoDaddy (at least in this instance) is acting as a hosting provider, not an ISP. As a result, they are providing more than just an IP connection, and their ToS are more restrictive.
If you use just an IP connection, you're likely to find that the ToS cover only actual illegal activity.
https://business.comcast.com/customer-notifications/acceptab... says you may not "distribute tools or devices designed or used for compromising security or whose use is otherwise unauthorized, such as password guessing programs, decoders, password gatherers, keystroke loggers, analyzers, cracking tools, packet sniffers, encryption circumvention devices, or Trojan Horse programs". This means Comcast can ban you for mirroring a Kali ISO.
And for this website in particular, I can totally see Comcast citing "participate in the collection of large numbers of email addresses, screen names, or other identifiers of others (without their prior consent)" to ban it. Isn't that basically the exact same argument GoDaddy made?
But to return to the Comcast AuP for a moment. Their stated goals are:
"In general, the Policy prohibits uses and activities involving the Service that are illegal, infringe the rights of others, or interfere with or diminish the use and enjoyment of the Service by others."
Do you see believe that someone ought to be allowed to do what the texas site was doing? Do you believe that Comcast's policy is actually wrong? Do you feel a need to support an organization that tries to collect information in that way (regardless of the intended purpose) ?
Because to me, there are two ways of looking at this question:
1. Should anyone be able to use an internet connection and/or a hosting service to be able to collect information supposedly about other people?
2. Should anyone be allowed to make available any data they want to via an internet connection and/or a hosting service?
My answer to (2) is essentially an firm yes, with exceptions for illegal material and some wobbliness on copyright.
My answer to (1) is a firm no, and even though it would require "hosting" something, the denial of service is based on the data collection rather than data being made available.
It is possible that no ISP will offer you even a dedicated T1 and allow you to engage in (1). My take on that is that you can still host whatever you want, despite being prohibited from engaging in certain kinds of data collection.
I think the key word in your post is "support". Providing infrastructure services to someone and supporting them are different things. Society already acknowledges that it's not okay to cut off a building's water, electricity, or natural gas just because you don't like some activity that takes place in said building. Shouldn't Internet access be considered an infrastructure service too? And if not, then aren't you making an argument against net neutrality?
There are still things that I think warrant disconnecting someone's IP connectivity in the same way that you can do things that will justify cutting off water, electricity or gas.
There's a larger set of things that I think can justify a hosting service saying "sorry, we just don't want to provide this service to you anymore". I don't consider hosting to be a public utility, unlike IP connectivity.
Who gets to decide which groups "should be ignored". The pig farmers certainly don't agree. The whole point of competitive districts is that the groups who should be ignored will be eliminated by competition. Your whole premise seems to set up all districts with functional lifetime appointments rather than elections.
In competitive districts, politicians are far more dependent on campaign funding. Competitive elections are extremely expensive. So the group that gets ignored is just the group that has the least money to throw at candidates. It's the average person that always loses in that case. That's not fair either.
I would certainly prefer term limits, but if a population thinks their representative does a good job representing their needs - why shouldn't they get re-elected? Nobody is stopping them from having a competitive primary. Remember, AOC only got elected because her district was so non-competitive for republicans, that the establishment didn't bother channeling massive money into the primary for the incumbent. So this setup would actually make it easier for non-establishment candidates to sneak in, and even incentivize the other party to run a non-traditional candidate to compete (ie, like how dems used to win with blue dog democrats in rural areas).
> In competitive districts, politicians are far more dependent on campaign funding.
If we're dreaming big here, how about we try fixing campaign funding too? To give a concrete suggestion, the US should pass a constitutional amendment which allows Congress to limit expenditure on political advertising (but not other forms of political speech). Here is one such approach:
No, it's a book, 'loosely based' on research dating to the 70's.
There's clear evidence that processed meats, too much meat etc (aka not enough greens?) is bad for you.
There's also very clear evidence that a vegan diet without supplements is bad for you, and who knows what supplements and micronutrients are really required over the long term, especially for child development?
From my memory is wasn't just animal products. The cultures that ate very low protein diets showed the same or better health stats as the ones that ate no animal products. My thought on this was that eating way less protein forces the body to conserve what it's got and turn of the cellular less at a lower frequency, thereby reducing the chances of mutation into cancer.
I think it's a good example of "correlation does not equal causation". The specific problem I remember reading about is that diet correlates with geography, and geography correlates with mortality through some parasites being more prevalent in certain areas and maybe other factors. So you can't draw a causative link between diet and mortality through a simple observational study.
I figured out that I've implemented a real-time wavelet transform while I was doing this... :) I tried and couldn't find any good apps that would use it to display real-time analysis of sound, so I made one. Actually, I was working on the AI to generate music, but I haven't got to the AI bit yet, and decided to release this quickly, just for fun, see what people think. I think much better visualisations can be made from the output of this algo...
I guess you're missing the detail of how it's actually implemented in practice. The short description would be just "wavelet transform" I guess. The details is in how to implement it efficiently so that it can run on the phone in real-time, and draw the visualisation at the same time, without drowning the CPU (plus the additional feature of high-precision detection, which is not solved by wavelet transform itself). I will describe it in more details when I'll be open sourcing the algorithm (after I've implemented something on top of it that I could potentially start selling).
That would be hard to target different phones... I am just using SSE/AVX (via Apple's Accelerate framework) for now for some parallelisation, helps to speed up the detection x10.
