To tack on to this:

SMS requires practically no transmission cost, as it is embedded in an unassigned portion of the frames being sent between the phone and tower - frames which are always being sent anyway for keep-alive, registration, etc. There’s some infrastructure required (SMS gateway, network to other cell companies) so it’s not completely a sunk cost for them.

MMS historically worked the same way, just the media was base-64 encoded, and required an http server to temporarily host the media files for the person you were sending to.

Begin the age of the smart phone and data plans - now MMS are sent via the data connection because it’s much faster and doesn’t consume voice channel time, leaving more voice channels available for voice calls.

Today SMS is still largely sent the old way, but with 4G/5G the connection is completely different (it doesn’t use the same framing), so effectively it’s being sent via the data connection.

Voice is generally no longer via a voice channel, but really VOIP - vendors have pushed for voice-over-data since the beginning of 4G (I think LTE doesn’t even have voice channels anymore, 5G definitely doesn’t - it’s all essentially VOIP).

This is all from memory, so may not be spot on.

Bad Ass

All of it.

What a car!

I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.

It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.

Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.

I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.

Technology Connections did an episode on how these old light meters worked.

Brilliantly simple tech.

Oh, boy, 110 with cube flash!

Bandwidth is akin to number of lanes on an interstate, latency is how long it takes each car to go from point A to B (or X, or wherever you’re measuring to).

Technically, bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of hertz (so how “wide” is the signal) - in ye olden days the signal width corresponded to transmission capacity.

While latency is a measure of how long a specified bit of data took to transit a system, especially when compared against the “ideal” performance of the system.

Antifa has nothing to do with this - it’s a fascist group itself, just watch it’s tactics.

Embarrassing

Some good, some bad.

Ok… And?

But someone getting a well-encrypted database is going to have a helluva time decrypting it.

Which is why we say use good encryption.

I complimented my doctor the other day for an interesting word choice.

He blushed.

Cool dude too

I mean a simple Wikipedia search would’ve corrected that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Except, even from the start it wasn’t defined by wires.

It’s based on an assumption that was never correct.

A simple read of the definition of Internet, or a Wikipedia page would’ve clarified this.

No

Both spellings are correct.

Defence is the original British spelling.

Defense is the Websterized American spelling.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/defence?q=Defence

I do, but nearly all of them are awfully designed, especially on mobile.

On desktop the auto-hide makes scrollbars terrible - it’s one of the worst UI offenses in the last 20 years.

We’ve had wide screens for 20 years, yet now you fucktards decide to auto-hide the scrollbars with no way to turn off?

How about you let me decide the value of my screen real-estate?

That’s an interesting linguistic point - so tax in your language would use “less/more” being uncountable.

Technically, in English, taxes should be fewer/greater (being a countable dollar thing), but we often say “less”. Prescription vs description in action!

Yet another person assuming this perspective.

That may be the case for some people - no one I know thinks that way.

Not sure why you’re assuming that subtext.

The taxes one pays are the obligation one has, therefore “my tax obligation”.

Not yours, not another person’s, mine. You don’t pay my tax obligation, I don’t pay yours.