I think it all boils down to how you deploy your stuff. If you think Cloud is so massive that it is never a SPOF, you'll likely not meet your availability aspirations in some time in future.
Cloud to me is also shared risk. I read - "Google cloud outage" as "multiple companies that rely on a shared infrastructure is not available ATM".
The mindset should be to run your services on a distributed infrastructure with no SPOF. Leverage cloud, fog, racks, PCs, whatever resources you can, but diversify your content/service and be risk averse from failure of one kind.
I agree that with better modulation techniques on DOCSIS protocols, you could achieve higher throughput on the downstream.
However, IMO - what should have been the focus for Google Fiber is to come up with applications that consume more upstream traffic. That is where DOCSIS lacks in terms of throughput and a fundamental problem docsis nodes face called "noise funneling". To avoid that - cable companies push fiber nodes closer to last mile.
If Google would have been successful in creating a FTTH marketplace, it wouldn't be that difficult for cable companies to start investing on ONU/ONT and GPON solutions to compete. With competition, Google wouldn't really get the ROI they were expecting unless they really bring about change in applications that utilize the upstream bandwidth heavy.
You are assuming that TCP with current congestion avoidance algorithm is the only transport medium. When you have bigger pipes allowing you more bits to pack/unpack, you might find the era of newer transport protocols that do specific tasks more efficiently while increasing your overall throughput for specific use-cases. I can think of video streaming, gaming, file storage, etc that might add up to consuming the pipe to the ceiling.
1. Customer Service - Provide enterprise solutions for customer service and charge $$$ per transaction. The live nature of this would prove a lot of value for feedback mechanisms for enterprise when they go through their change management.
2. Live Interaction with Events, Games, Television, Radio etc. e.g. Polls, QnA, Sentiment etc.
3. Open Access to Developers to build Apps on real-time content.
4. Enable fact-check score methodologies on every tweets. Don't completely wipe out the trolls. As weird as it may sound - trolls make twitter interesting.
5. The Ultimate messaging platform that replaces SMS/Texts with an identity that is not numbers.
"Even if you file an 83b election, you are still liable for paper gains between the value of your options when you were granted them and the value when you exercised."
Wouldn't this be taxed as capital gains though - when exercised?
Him sending an email to the .np cctld has nothing to do with the hack he's talking about. More likely, his plain text email was intercepted 'on the wire' and would have been the same to whichever cctld he would have sent to.
I saw this coming. Nepal has such good natural resources to generate enough electricity for itself and export to its neighbors, yet political deadlocks and bureaucratic hurdles are ruining the potential. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/755108/energy-starved-nepal-los...
I think Industry Research is mostly driven by some constraints that applies to their architecture, their business use-cases and how much the company is willing to spend $$$ on research that adds value to their products or services. Academics on the other hand thinks beyond the box and researches and gives clues to upcoming industries on where the problem might be and how it could be solved, therefore eventually helping Industry grow with validation from the researches and allowing them to put them into "products" and "services".
Therefore, I don't think Academics should stop doing what they do (i.e. wander around) and have a laser focus on Industry's product-based researches.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190617.104121.1475407136257...