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This last weekend I had a chance to participate in the Mercedes Advanced Driver class at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey California. This was a powerful course that included obstacle training, a gymkhana track (timed competition), drift training on an oval (which I sucked at sadly), and a ton of track time in a variety of cars driving at speed on the race track. At just short of $4K per person, this course isn't cheap. But if you've ever calculated what two days of heavy driving on a track costs in a high-end car with coaching, this is actually a bargain. As we enter the last week here in the U.S. before what is likely to be an election where the majority of voters will think the outcome is rigged regardless of who wins. This is the first election where one of the candidates didn't just use social media, but appeared to live on it and where it was truly a bad thing for his campaign. Given social media played a huge role in getting the sitting U.S. President elected it would seem someone missed a meeting (and that isn't a good thing). Russia has repeatedly made headlines in the upcoming U.S. election, with government-sponsored hackers allegedly responsible for accessing Democratic Party emails and then publishing them through WikiLeaks and other sources. Now Microsoft has given the hacking sources additional validity, claiming a group previously linked to the Russian government and U.S. political hacks is responsible for recent attacks that exploited a newly discovered Windows security flaw. Mostly, when people think Apple these days, they think of the mobile devices like the iPhone and the iPad. That's with good reason, too; Apple has effectively built an empire around these systems. Apple's more than that, though, and it's bringing some of that mobile sensibility to its MacBook Pro line, offering up a thinner, lighter laptop with a lot of extra firepower. Putting together semiconductor companies is the fad of the season, but success may be fleeting. Multi-billion dollar mergers rarely yield the sorts of success promised to investors, especially in a market where tech is treading water and new innovations - I'm looking at you Internet of Things (IoT) - are as much hype as substance. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted 3-2 in favor of legislation that privacy advocacy groups are hailing as a win for consumers. The writing on the wall for Google Fiber taking a pause, had been hinted out for months, with the movement of the broadband access division broken out into the Alphabet section of (i.e. non-search and no-ad revenue cash cow) companies. Everyone is falling over themselves to praise Google in jump starting gigabit fiber deployments by traditional Tier 1 and Tier 2 service providers and I'm sure it helped, but the cable guys were going gigabit anyway. We're going to have to wait another five years before Google figures out if it can make money in fixed wireless or if we see the bits and pieces of Google Fiber sold off to others down the road. Easily one of the biggest developments in the merger and acquisition space this month, news recently emerged about CenturyLink, who agreed to purchase Level 3 Communications. The deal represented both cash and stock for a combined total of nearly $34 billion all told, and leaves CenturyLink as one of the biggest names around in handling Internet traffic.
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