SomeoneSomewhere

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SomeoneSomewhere,

I didn’t realise it was possible to hate every side of an argument this strongly.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Kinda yes, kinda no. There have certainly been times, particularly after 9/11 and various crises, when demand dropped significantly.

There’s also airliners that just haven’t sold well. A340NG, A380, 747-8, 767-400, the MD-11, until recently the Cseries/A220. The A330neo has also not sold particularly well and you could probably get a slot within a year easily.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Waze is of course owned by Google…

SomeoneSomewhere,

Turning that instinct off when going through security screening, customs, or biosecurity is usually a good idea.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Starlink plugs the rural coverage gaps, but in urban areas it’s still more expensive than either conventional fixed-line connections or wireless (4G/5G) broadband. Even in rural areas, while it’s the best option, it’s rarely the cheapest, at least in the NZ market I’m familiar with.

It also doesn’t have the bandwidth per square kilometre/mile to serve urban areas well, and it’s probably never going to work in apartment buildings.

This is a funding/subsidisation issue, not so much a technical one. I imagine Starlink connections are eligible for the current subsidy, but in most cases it’s probably going to conventional DSL/cable/fibre/4G connections.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Indeed, the US has a major lack of fixed-line competition and lack of regulation. Starlink doesn’t really help with that, at least in urban areas.

I’m not familiar with the wireless situation. You’re saying that there are significant coverage discrepancies to the point where many if not most consumers are choosing a carrier based on coverage, not pricing/plans? There’s always areas with unequal coverage but I didn’t think they were that common.

Here in NZ, the state funding for very rural 4G broadband (Rural Broadband Initiative 2 / RBI-2) went to the Rural Connectivity Group, setting up sites used and owned equally by all three providers, to reduce costs where capacity isn’t the constraint.

SomeoneSomewhere,

I expect they are talking about the ‘irrevocably’ part, as one of the core tenets of GDPR is that consent can be withdrawn.

I couldn’t say whether or not that applies here.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Aggregate bandwidth now rivals or slightly exceeds gigabit wired connections.

Where that aggregate bandwidth is shared amongst large numbers of users, bandwidth per user can suffer dramatically.

Low density areas may be fine, but cube farms are an issue especially when staff are doing data intensive or latency sensitive tasks.

If you’re giving employees docking stations for their laptops, running ethernet to those docking stations is a no-brainer.

Moving most of the traffic to wired connections frees up spectrum/bandwidth for situations that do need to be wireless.

New Zealand begins sentencing of those involved in White Island volcanic eruption (www.reuters.com)

WELLINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Sentencing for the tour booking agents and managers of an island in New Zealand where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019 began on Monday, with the prosecutor warning those sentenced may not be able to pay a fine....

SomeoneSomewhere,

The actual eruption happened in 2019. It was big news locally when it happened, and there has been a slow trickle of further reports like this one.

It wasn’t a particularly big eruption; the fact that people were on the rather small volcanic island when it erupted is what led to the deaths.

The efforts towards a prosecution have been long and slow because it’s probably going to be a real mess:

  • Adventure tourism including visiting active volcanoes is inherently dangerous.
  • Did the scientists get the volcano risk levels wrong?
  • Which entities should get criminal blame? Island owner, tour providers, tour transport providers (boats), and/or the various regulators?

It sounds like that’s all sorted and they’re into sentencing on those that were found guilty.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Yeah, but there’s a substantial number of people arguing that patents are over-issued, over-broad, and protection probably lasts too long - especially for software patents.

See the Apple/Samsung “scroll bounce” litigation.

SomeoneSomewhere,

You’re also potentially blocking a seat that could be used by a paying passenger, and the operator will statistically run more/longer trains at higher cost to cope with increased demand.

SomeoneSomewhere,

I think some of the USB ports come directly from the CPU, others come from the chipset. This allows the dirt-cheap A300 boards to operate with no chipset at all but still have a couple of USB ports, and likewise with laptops.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Yup. They use ceiling-mounted IR transmitters that are a bit like a big multi-directional TV remote control.

SomeoneSomewhere,

Hmm. They’re very common in NZ now, however it appears that document is talking about modulating the actual normal shop lighting, not just an independent transmitter.

I redid the electrical in a supermarket already fitted out with Pricer gear, and we went from dumb electronic-ballasted fluoros to dumb-driver LEDs, no DALI and certainly no comms uplink or modulation smart enough for that. I’m aware that the document suggests power-line communication to the drivers, but these were off the shelf dumb drivers/ballasts.

The ceiling mounted Pricer transceivers would have been doing all the transmitting, and as I never saw any visible light coming out of them, and the HF ripple and instability from the shop lighting would have been significant, I think it’s pretty safe to say they were using some form of IR.

SomeoneSomewhere,

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