Party registration is uninteresting at scale as it just determines whether someone is the left or right half of the bell curve. It doesn't tell you if they're in the fat part or the long tail or what issues they care deeply about.
The feds are very interested in cataloging who does and doesn't have extremist views (the long tail). Militant commies, 3%ers, stuff like that. And once some bit of iconography is identified they can run a historical search to see who had it before it went mainstream enough for the feds to pick up on it.
While it's fashionable to denigrate extremists pretty much every useful and/or positive political movement starts out there at some point.
It's also something you do once, and don't have to repeat every year. You could have registered as a Democrat when you were 18, and never bothered to change your affiliation.
Putting a sign outside of your house is something you have to actively do.
Some states also let you not-vote in a primary based on that information so you can register independent to vote in your choice of primaries.
It's also not the greatest piece of information as evidenced in 2016 where Trump under-performed compared to other Republican positions (pg 6 vs pg 10 [1]). Like a party registration of Republican may likely mean you voted for their candidates but that's all it means, "likely". Empirically, people do not always vote their party registration (nevermind even vote).
But I do find it annoying how trivially the state seems to give away all of your information that people are ok with using as authentication ... Or just to send you a ton of text messages.
I’d bet significant money that Qualcomm would invest heavily to make riscV successful if they get hosed by Arm. Its take a few years, but they will succeed.
People have been able to buy unlocked phones and use them without a service contract for over a decade in the US. In recent years, you can even change mobile networks from your couch with a few taps via eSIM.
The US has 3 mobile networks, and it’s a massive country with massive infrastructure needs. I imagine costs must be at least a little bit higher to offset the need for more infrastructure per customer.
Yes, but not everyone knows how this all works, and the barriers that are still in place do still effectively limit many from shopping around. Many people shopping for phones in the US will visit a wireless retailer and will be funneled to locked phones on contract.
They really aren't expensive anymore in the US if you shop around. You can get unlimited data, talk, text for $18/mo per month from US mobile, and you can even choose which network to use Verizon, tmobile, or ATT. US mobile has a new feature that lets you switch the carrier network for $2 per switch.
I wonder how much those cheap MVNO prices are subsidized by everyone who has a contract directly with the carrier though. Going directly with Verizon or AT&T is super expensive compared to Europe. At the end of the day, someone needs to build & maintain the physical infrastructure. I don't know if the carriers could keep operating if everyone switched to MVNOs, they might not have enough revenue to maintain the infrastructure. North America is pretty large and not densely populated.
That being said, the major carriers here absolutely suck and utilize very scummy business practices that aren't that far off of a payday loan place. Financing an iPhone with Verizon really isn't that far off of payday loan rates, it's a horrible deal.
MVNOs do not guarantee the same level of service as the main flagship carriers who actually own and build the infra. I'm a customer of a MVNO that uses Verizon network. If I go into a crowded area, I can definitely see some traffic deprioritization happening to my traffic but I'm willing to make that tradeoff for saving a ton of money (majority of the time I use my phone on Wifi anyway).
But since I switched, I have convinced several other family members to also switch to a MVNO to save money. It will be interesting to see what happens if a lot more people make the same tradeoff. I wonder will they just intentionally make the MVNO experience so horrible by throttling to get everyone to upgrade, or they will just increase the rates on the MVNO plans so there is not a substantial difference anymore?
You're saying that if you modify the tor software, other clients will be able to tell before connecting to you? And you can't trick them into sending to a bad node?
It is not the node that chooses the next one, but the client. A bad node cannot "fake" a good node, because it cannot cryptographically authenticate to be the new node the client selected (the client knows the public key of the newly selected node).
If you run a node that forwards traffic to any node other than the one requested by the client then that node won't be able to decrypt the traffic.
The client encrypts traffic to each node on its selected path in turn. If the traffic doesn't reach every desired node in order the traffic can't be decrypted.
I was looking this up as well. When these batteries enter thermal runaway, the chemistry of the battery is basically self propagating heat which allows it to continue to heat up and ignite. It doesn't need oxygen to continue this process.
Burying it insulates it, which will increase the runaway, but isolate the issue. It's good for small batteries like cellphones and laptops because it allows you to move the battery somewhere else and contain the fire, but doesn't do anything to retard the runaway.
Water can cool it off and slow down/potentially halt the runaway. Someone smarter than me would need to comment on what to do after it's halted, because I assume it's still a problem waiting to reignite at that point.
Edit: This actually is a potentially interesting idea, a tomb vehicle that basically encases the burning vehicle in a heavily insulated trailer for relocation.
a cool tip is that you can name your timers... hey siri set a timer named pasta for 10 minutes. or hey siri set a timer for pasta... "how long?"... 10 minutes
Of course, that would be week security.
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