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The Actuator – October 24th

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Back from Austin and the best THWACKcamp ever! Thanks to everyone that helped make this year's THWACKcamp so full of awesome. Each year we get a little bigger, a little better, and a little more bacon.

As always, here are some links from the Intertubz that I hope will hold your interest. Enjoy!

Ticketmaster buys a blockchain company to guard against ticket fraud

I'm willing to bet money that this is not going to solve the issue of fraudulent tickets. Nor, will it help people hate Ticketmaster any less.

Comcast complains it will make less money under Calif. net neutrality law

Interesting how Comcast is complaining about lost revenues, as opposed to complaining about end-user experience.

Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were made with stolen identities

Even if true, this won’t be enough for the FCC to reverse course on net neutrality. It will be up to the states, like California, to enact their own laws.

Microsoft sports director allegedly tried to embezzle $1.5 million and stole employees’ Super Bowl tickets

Nice reminder that the biggest corporate threats are often from within.

Major Facebook Shareholders Join Call to Boot Mark Zuckerberg as Chairman

This would be a good first step for Facebook to win back some trust. It would also be the good first step for Facebook to remove Zuckerberg as CEO, too. These items might be related.

Crypto is the Mother of All Scams and (Now Busted) Bubbles While Blockchain Is The Most Over-Hyped Technology Ever, No Better than a Spreadsheet/Database

Grab some popcorn and enjoy.

Fishcoin

Fishcoin, proving that blockchain hasn’t hit the lowest level of stupidity yet.

For those that were wondering, here's the Bacon Pie given to me during the close of THWACKcamp this year. Thanks to thegreateebzies and DanielleH ​for making this happen:

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  • There are just some odd things within the cryptocoin-ecosystem

  • And in the meantime most of us feel like the person born without wrists.

  • I feel it sets a pretty slippery slope set of events if one ISP starts charging someone like Netflix because a lot of the traffic on their network is from a company. If comcast decides to charge netflix, who is already paying for their internet connections, to deliver content to their customers, how does that work in rural areas where last mile providers are usually not the big guys? Would the last mile provider then also be allowed and justified to charge netflix as well because comcast did? Where do you draw the line?

    Internet is rapidly turning into a music concert event. You buy your wristband to get in, good for you. Want into the VIP area? Oh thats another wrist band that costs more. Want to drink? That is yet another wristband you have to pay for. Want to get up front right by the stage? Oh you need to buy the wristband for that.

  • I'd prefer to see highway use fees generated by some formula that accounts for miles traveled and weight of vehicle.  Something that actually places the cost of repairing, building, or replacing a highway squarely on those who wear it away quickest.

    If we postulate that cross country trucking and moving heavy construction materials and vehicles could do the most damage to roads, while the fees for that would be paid for by the firms doing the trucking and the moving, their costs should be fairly recovered from those who contract for the work to be done. 

    Ultimately it goes back to the consumer, who must pay for the company that builds a new office that requires heavy materials and big equipment to do the building.

    Or, am I missing some philosophy here?

    Taking the fees from gasoline taxes doesn't seem to be the greatest universal solution.  If I must (or choose to) drive a fuel-inefficient vehicle, or if I drive a battery-powered or gasoline/hybrid or other alternative fuel vehicle, I put varying amounts of wear on the road and pollution into the air.  Charging extra fees to owners of electric or hybrid vehicles seems inappropriate if those vehicles do less damage to the road, and also when they put less pollution into the air.

    I don't know the right answer, the answer that fits all circumstances best.  Maybe I should just live closer to work, and walk or ride my bike or take mass transit.  Especially if the mass transit is electric.

  • Crypto is the Mother of All Scams and (Now Busted) Bubbles While Blockchain Is The Most Over-Hyped Technology Ever, No Better than a Spreadsheet/Database - too much to consume and digest

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