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AT&T to shut down it's 2g network by 2017

I agree. legacy stuff needs to be phased or people will never progress. It is kind of like IE6, MS continues to let people cling to it by still supporting it.
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Some alarm radios will be rendered useless as some don't have 3G capability.

My alarm uses a good old phone line to connect to the alarm company. I am too cheap to pay the cost of installation and additional monitoring of a cellular dialer (since I can never wean myself of having a home telephone, that I don't use that often but I like having E911 capability in this high crime area).

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Love it or hate it, IE6 was the most advanced version of Microsoft's then vision of the future. That vision was ActiveX controls, DHTML and lots of JScript and VBScript. It was proprietary and designed to keep folks tied to the platform. It succeeded because there were millions of Microsoft desktop developers who believed it was a way to escape the hassles of fat-client app installation woes and feel like they were part of the web revolution. Self-installing ActiveX controls sounded great until it was too late to realize that it did nothing to solve DLL hell and it was a PITA to sign code and keep certificates updated. Thus was born the biggest security hole in history as many shops relaxed security restrictions to allow installation of unsigned ActiveX, with prompting, in an attempt to reduce installation problems and support calls from angry customers.

Although IE6 has many flaws, the security issues might have been reduced if Microsoft only allowed signed controls from a single site (i.e. App Store) or at least servers that sporting an MS-approved certificate. Of course this still doesn't solve the problem that almost all desktop users were local admins and there was no sandbox to contain the controls. Once installed, an ActiveX control had complete control of the system. If it had a buffer-overflow bug, it was easy to compromise the entire system and possibly all the desktops on the local area network. At that time it was common to put all users in a domain group that was then granted local admin on all the desktops.

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That's not the same comparison. Going from 2G -> 3-G -> LTE is a progression of technologies. Going from DSL to LTE is going from a fixed, wireline technology to a much more constricted wireless technology. The correct comparison would be going from DSL to Fiber.

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