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EFF: The FCC Is Siding With Landlords and Comcast Over Tenants Who Want Broadband Choices

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The FCC Is Siding With Landlords and Comcast Over Tenants Who Want Broadband Choices In December of 2016, the city of San Francisco boldly enacted the “Occupant’s Right to Choose Communications Services Provider” ordinance (also known as Article 52) that hinders a payola scheme cooked up between big cable companies like Comcast and landlords . In just a few short years since its enactment, a great number of apartments in San Francisco have at least four options for broadband service, including affordable gigabit fiber service. Fearing that other cities would follow suit, a whole range of associations and corporations that represent landlords and the cable industry pushed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hard to block these local efforts. For a federal agency tasked with promoting competition, it shouldn’t be a close call to simply ignore these groups. But that is not what the FCC plans to do next month. How San Francisco Stopped Landlords and Cable Companies From Ma...

Everything you need to know about hmi software

Human-machine interface (HMI) software acts as a bridge between machine operators and the system to manage and control operations. Some of the versions of HMI software helps in translating data from industrial control systems into the human-readable visual representations of the systems. While talking about HMI , many tools and other aids are under the control of a human operator. For instance, the physical aspect of HMI could be a machine that has a touch display, push buttons or a computer that has a keypad. At the same time, its primary focus is on problem-solving in a more naturalistic setting. When seeing things from an industrial point of view, HMI will help you closely understand and monitor production and respond to the changing production demands, which will lead to better efficiency and increase in output. Another thing to keep in mind is that HMI s, they are usually deployed on Windows-based machines, which communicates with programmable logic controllers and other indust...