Highway neutrality
And that's exactly the greatest danger to this. Non-autonomous vehicles may be forced off the road, or relegated to secondary roads only. In other words we could lose Highway Neutrality.
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And that is the failure on online, paperless billing. If you become ill and someone needs to pick up the pieces for you, well, good luck. They're probably not going to even know what bills are coming in, let alone being able to get them paid for you. I had to do this for an unrelated friend. If her billing had been electronic rather than on paper she would have been confronted with all manner of late fees, collection threats and service terminations after her hospitialization.
Yes, the spam blocking can be a little over-eager. It is trainable however, but it does take some effort, that is you have to log on to your account and flag the items as not spam. I think that whitelisting is supported, but I seldom log on directly, so I'm not sure. (I mostly use a desktop client or a Blackberry.) And occasionally it is so eager that unexpected mail is vaporized without a trace (although I may have noticed it on the BB before it went poof). On the whole though I find it gives me a good balance of delivering the mail I want while blocking the annoyances, while sometimes forcing me to retrieve desired mail from the spam folder.
I'm a regular user of the service. Why? Because the spam blocking is much better than I've found elsewhere. I had been an AOL customer in the mid-90s but got turned off by their failure to block spam. I went to Yahoo and found them to be even worse. I tried Brightmail for a time but found it cumbersome. After that I latched onto Mailblocks which had the right amount of control. In time the company was bought by AOL, so I ended up where I started, but with much better spam blocking. (This is often confirmed by what shows up on my Blackberry but not in my AOL inbox.)
The thing I find odd though is that nobody is having this conversation about spam from Yahoo or Hotmail accounts, which occurs routinely. One friend had her Yahoo account hacked twice in two weeks. Generally I can expect to receive spam like the item displayed in the related article, from at least one Yahoo user on a monthly basis. Does this not get discussed about the other providers because it happens so routinely?
"Democratic oversight can only work if the sovereign (The People) is informed."
That is why we need a press that is not an extension of the views or Rupert Murdoc, Sam Zell or other self interested moguls. We need more Arthur Sulzbergers and Katharine Grahams at the helm.
"We have something unique in culture and history to show off - a visit should be on the national curriculum."
I agree. Really, is there anything else in the world like it? I can't think of anyplace else so significant to computing that remains so completely intact. Keeping it whole celebrates its significance. Dividing it does not.