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Yep.

Honestly, it's not so much that stories like this get posted, it's that nerd shit I only sort of care about but that made this site News for Nerds DOESN'T get posted.

I'm sure there's some crazy project out there someone is doing with Linux that's mostly useless but kinda cool that we're not hearing about. There's some weird anime that I'm never going to watch but that's right up CmdrTaco's alley that we could be hearing about. Someone doing something cool but useless like 3D printing a new case to "fix" a Neo Geo Mini. Stuff that's pointless and silly but is nerdy stuff worth discussing.

E3 comes and goes, and Slashdot posts nothing. SDCC comes and goes - nothing. Granted these are giant commercial events pandering to nerds, but Apple does a keynote and we get a day of junk over every single announcement so clearly that's not the bar.

You want to know why Slashdot is dead? It's because we get political bullshit stories like these that are clearly biased, but never get pointless stories about actual nerdy crap. I suppose there's probably some random reddit out there that's like the old Slashdot, full of random open source passion projects and nerdy asides about anime and comic books and science fiction. But it's clearly not today's Slashdot. (And hasn't been well over a decade at this point, so yeah. I know. I must be new here. I still miss the old News for Nerds Slashdot.)

And give it all to SpaceX.

Which is funded by NASA.

Slashdot commenters seem to forget that the entire reason SpaceX didn't go bankrupt after the third failure of the Falcon-1 is that NASA believed in them and stepped in to fund them to design and build the Falcon-9, at a time when nobody else in the world saw anything in them other than a fringe company that tried to make a rocket and failed.

If you're asking what NASA has accomplished since the 60s: well, this is one thing.

Without NASA there would be no SpaceX.

He's been doing this for nearly 20 years, invariably getting himself banned from any board that requires a login. Here's one example from the good old days.

(He used to send very interesting emails to people, too, until somebody's lawyer had a nice little chat with him.)

I suggest retards like you and musk consult people that actually work in the industry before you spout your bullshit.

So as a civil engineer with experience working in tunnel construction I've been following Elon's Boring Co. for a while now but honestly I keep getting frustrated when I read these media releases of his because it really shows how little he seems to understand about tunneling or what some of the big challenges are.

TBMs can already do continuous casing. Never every tunnel uses it because you cannot in every soil geology.

As for tunneling while installing a liner simultaneously, both double shield, and main beam TBMs can already do this. The issue is that the TBM needs something it can grip against to propel itself forward. Those two types of machines grip against the ground to push themselves forward. A single shield machine like the one Musk has been using is most often used where the ground is too soft to push against so it pushes off the liner instead. Musk also hasn't released any details on how he might continuously cast a lining that is both water tight and strong enough to resist the TBM thrust without any setup or cure time and such a substance would be a massive breakthrough in material science.

A few things I've noticed from the Boring Co. press to date: Elon has stated repeatedly that tunnel boring machines must stop and build a tunnel ring segment before beginning their next drive, but that is only the case for single shield machines in very soft ground. Double Shield machines can dig and erect tunnel segments simultaneously, and Gripper TBMs can bore and place tunnel support such as rock bolts, ring beams, or shot-crete simultaneously; which allows a second crew to come in a place the permanent tunnel lining later at their leisure.

Single shield TBM systems like the Boring Co.'s Godot (which is a refurbished Lovat EPBM) are most often used in soft ground applications where the only thing for the TBM to push off against is the already constructed tunnel behind it. However a major problem with digging to fast with one of these machines in soft ground is that you can open up voids in the soil or send pressure waves through the ground and cause all sorts of problems with subsidence and sink holes at the surface. When digging in dense urban areas tunnelers have to deploy at considerable amount of monitoring equipment on the surface to make sure they aren't upsetting the foundations of any buildings. In particularly tight areas its not unusual to stop the machine after each advance and wait to make sure there aren't any vibration or settling issues before you resume tunneling. In soft or mixed ground tunneling you are constantly trying to keep pressure at the face of the TBM at equilibrium with the surrounding ground, your pushing through a medium with constantly varying mechanical properties and you have to make sure you're extracting material at a rate exactly matching the rate you are displacing it with your TBM and that the material is being extracted evenly across the whole face of the TBM. The whole move fast and break things maxim of Silicon Valley doesn't hold that well when the things you are breaking are occupied building falling into sinkholes.

A big limiting factor of most TBMs is cutting tool life. In extreme hardrock conditions cutting discs often last less than 24 hours before needing replacement. The Follo line in Oslo required 24,000 cutter changes over 22KM of tunnels with rock strengths up to 300 MPa or 43,500psi. A single standard 19in disc cutter has a tungsten carbide blade and the whole assembly weighs about 425 pounds. Musk has mentioned he wants to find a way to automate the replacement process but has not yet released any details I'm aware of on how to do this. Its also worth noting that when a TBM is going through soft ground the space behind th

The list is copied to the comments on the first Ars link in the article. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

The source is said to be a pdf on the Netlab 360 site which is currently very slow to respond.

A copy of the list will not post here because it is too few characters per line to get past the spam checker.

You don't fire people because they lost money in the past, you fire them because you think they are going to lose money in the future.

"Oculus is liable for $300 million in the verdict ($50 million for trademark infringement, $50 million for copyright infringement, and $200 million for breaking the NDA), while Luckey owes $50 million and former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe owes $150 million (both for false designation). Oculus CTO John Carmack, who previously worked for ZeniMax and was accused of stealing code and destroying evidence, is not personally liable for any damages. ZeniMax had sought damages of $6 billion in the case." --Oculus Exec Liable for 500 million in ZeniMax VR Trial. I don't think I'd be inclined to trust a person to not lose more money after that. Carmack, meanwhile, has a long history of being a huge driver in making a company money and was not found personally liable. Seriously, though, how often do you hear of Execs of any large-ish companies being held *personally* liable?

My experience is that the most common reason people are fired is incompetence. The 2nd most common is being on the losing end of internal office politics. As you move up the hierarchy from janitor to CEO the first reason diminishes and the 2nd increases.

Presumably the trial exposed how incompetent this Luckey was in actual VR stuff (or at least management of it). Besides, they purchased Oculus for Carmack, not Luckey. Internal office politics I'd tend to argue probably fell more on getting rid of "dead weight" from a purchase made, not external political affiliation. Anything and everything was probably much more of a useful excuse than "we fire all the executives because we already have our own management", as that's the sort of thing to cause executives of companies to be very hesitant of being bought up by Facebook. Having to pay some trivial duty to whatever political party, charity, whatever to keep your high level Facebook executive job and cut off that excuse? Yea, that I imagine happening more in the future as ass covering, not as actual need or effectiveness.

Mozilla is working on potentially useful stuff, not world domination.

Nobody suggested "world domination". Why the need for a straw man?

What we *are* concerned about is yet another attempt to monetize Firefox by trading user privacy for dollars. You know, like the sponsored tiles which people hated and were removed, but have just recently been replaced with the totally-not-the-same-thing-trust-us sponsored content.

That, and Mozilla has a bad habit of turning extensions into forced bundled features, like they did with Pocket.

the point of the GIS is you need to leave your media bubble. Here's another more specific place to start.

You're being had. Right wing politics and anti-SJW bullshit is just a trick to get you to side with the Mega corps. They let you hate on feminists and you let them have all the money and land. Doesn't seem like a fair trade to me.

Step out of your media bubble.

A Google search result without telling people which link or links to look at specifically isn't a citation. It's again, much like a tactic Trump (or many other politicians) use: say vague things so the listener can fill in the blanks with whatever they want to hear.

But I'll humor you and went through one of the the top links I saw, from ars technica... ...and it tells me it wasn't just about mandatory arbitration. Mandatory arbitration is only one demand out of several, the only one Google as agreed to so far.

But why did those demands come about? What are those demands supposed to do? What problem/issue are they trying to address? What is the cause?

Following the links in the article, you get this which describes the protests...

"Protestors were galvanized by a recent New York Times report that chronicled three top company executives who have received massive payouts over the past decade despite being credibly accused of sexual misconduct."

So right there ars technica (the same site that had the article about mandatory arbitration) is saying the protestors were coming out because of the incident(s). The incident was the cause. Ending mandatory arbitration (and I assume the other demands) is just what the people think would help address issues highlighted by the incident, again bringing us back to the incident being the cause.

Maybe in some pedantic sense you're right that they weren't complaining about those specific cases related to former execs/employees, but I doubt the other poster meant it that way (and it's not like there's anything to be done about those specific cases anymore, those guys took the money and ran)

So I'm not seeing this so called right wing bias you're railing about. The media is reporting, correctly, that people came out in protest because of "the incident".

I'm not saying excessive Political Correctness and over eager SJWs and hucksters like Anita Sarkeesian aren't a problem (they're fanning flames to make quick cash).

Well, it looks to me there isn't any hucksters here when reporting the story as being because of "the incidents" as opposed to your insistence that it's about mandatory arbitration.

But I _am_ saying

You *are* saying that now, but before, your post look more like rail against right wing media.

But that doesn't mean we don't need protections in place. You put locks on your doors, right?

That's kinda irrelevant to what ShanghaiBill was asking. ShanghaiBill pointed out that whatever sexual relationship happened off hours, and possibly outside the work space.

How would putting locks on my doors help when the people - full grown adults competent enough to be hired by Google - are doing things off my property and not working for me at that moment?

Look, I do think ending mandatory arbitration is a good thing, but I'm not seeing this right wing media bias on your part. Maybe, just maybe, reality DOESN'T have a liberal bias (as often joked by liberals when conservatives whine), and the media is just reporting the non-liberal reality as it is?

Step out of your media bubble.

A Google search result without telling people which link or links to look at specifically isn't a citation. It's again, much like a tactic Trump (or many other politicians) use: say vague things so the listener can fill in the blanks with whatever they want to hear.

But I'll humor you and went through one of the the top links I saw, from ars technica... ...and it tells me it wasn't just about mandatory arbitration. Mandatory arbitration is only one demand out of several, the only one Google as agreed to so far.

But why did those demands come about? What are those demands supposed to do? What problem/issue are they trying to address? What is the cause?

Following the links in the article, you get this which describes the protests...

"Protestors were galvanized by a recent New York Times report that chronicled three top company executives who have received massive payouts over the past decade despite being credibly accused of sexual misconduct."

So right there ars technica (the same site that had the article about mandatory arbitration) is saying the protestors were coming out because of the incident(s). The incident was the cause. Ending mandatory arbitration (and I assume the other demands) is just what the people think would help address issues highlighted by the incident, again bringing us back to the incident being the cause.

Maybe in some pedantic sense you're right that they weren't complaining about those specific cases related to former execs/employees, but I doubt the other poster meant it that way (and it's not like there's anything to be done about those specific cases anymore, those guys took the money and ran)

So I'm not seeing this so called right wing bias you're railing about. The media is reporting, correctly, that people came out in protest because of "the incident".

I'm not saying excessive Political Correctness and over eager SJWs and hucksters like Anita Sarkeesian aren't a problem (they're fanning flames to make quick cash).

Well, it looks to me there isn't any hucksters here when reporting the story as being because of "the incidents" as opposed to your insistence that it's about mandatory arbitration.

But I _am_ saying

You *are* saying that now, but before, your post look more like rail against right wing media.

But that doesn't mean we don't need protections in place. You put locks on your doors, right?

That's kinda irrelevant to what ShanghaiBill was asking. ShanghaiBill pointed out that whatever sexual relationship happened off hours, and possibly outside the work space.

How would putting locks on my doors help when the people - full grown adults competent enough to be hired by Google - are doing things off my property and not working for me at that moment?

Look, I do think ending mandatory arbitration is a good thing, but I'm not seeing this right wing media bias on your part. Maybe, just maybe, reality DOESN'T have a liberal bias (as often joked by liberals when conservatives whine), and the media is just reporting the non-liberal reality as it is?

It costs little to nothing to send a payment with something like Dash, Bitcoin Cash, Zen Cash, ZCash, or numerous other crypto currencies.

Since when? It costs money to buy or sell cryptocurrency with majority-familiar currency or a different cryptocurrency, and it costs a transaction fee in cryptocurrency to transfer cryptocurrency to a seller's wallet. With Bitcoin, the transaction fee briefly hit the equivalent of 34 USD a year ago.

/. fell for it too. I think Ars has a good write up of the click-bait news cycle on this one. The paper is pages long and goes into great detail. Then on the last line "could be aliens too" and that's all people read.

Bloggers vs Science Writers.

"Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists"
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

>do they represent the majority?

Overwhelmingly.

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

But do you honestly think they did it without doing any market research?

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/oneplus-ignores-its-own-user-polling-removes-headphone-jack-on-oneplus-6t/
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

>>small demographic

88% opposed

That's exactly what I've found too. Between a >5.5" phone and a laptop, there are very few scenarios where a tablet would do the job better. And even when it would, it's hardly worth it overall.

I wouldn't even agree with your "movie in bed" scenario - a laptop is way better since it has a built-in stand. Just put it on your belly and there's no need to hold it in your hands or screw around with flimsy tablet stands.

I won't deny that there are use cases for tablets of course. Like reading comics maybe (which I don't do because I'm not 10) - sure it's better than either a phone or a laptop, but would you buy and carry it around in addition to your phone, which you always carry, and a laptop, which you bring to work? A few people would, but not that many, hence the sales numbers.

What I'm narrowing down as an additional device to fill the gap between the phone and a productivity laptop is a convertible 2-in-1 device. The Surface IMO fails due to the floppy keyboard thing, an the Cube Mix Plus I bought last year isn't quite there either - it's a bit heavier and bulkier than it needs to be due to its cheapness (under $300 on sale) and detachable keyboard design. Still, I love travelling with it. With the keyboard and decent performance I can process my photos in Lightroom, VPN to work in case of emergencies, play some real games (yes it runs Crysis) or ditch the keyboard and read the travel guide or something.

What I think would be perfect is something in the form factor of the Yoga Book but with a real keyboard, even at a cost of an extra mm of thickness. If you haven't seen it in person, the size is pretty mindblowing, it's the same thickness and weight as the MixPlus but including the "keyboard" part, which I use 90% of the time anyway. Then you have a real, if tiny, laptop most of the time, and a slightly heavier than normal tablet for the rare occasion when it's useful.

Looks like this Yahoo-only news story is being picked up by the right-wing echo chamber. Since the news media isn't picking up on this story, I'm going to call it fake news.

Not yahoo-only, in fact, it was reported here before Yahoo picked it up: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
and here: https://www.thisisinsider.com/...
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22952/chinas-dismantling-of-cia-spy-ring-highlights-growing-dystopian-like-surveillance-state
https://www.foxnews.com/us/officials-fear-china-compromised-us-covert-communications-report-says

and it's been picked up elsewhere: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

The Mac is only barely more immune from hacking and malware than Windoze.

That is demonstrably untrue.

But in which direction? [...]

Actually, I'd be willing to stipulate that Macs are far more impervious to malware than a Windows box, REGARDLESS of the above stipulations (all that would make it too easy, right?), with the notable exception that the User cannot have been tricked by Social Engineering into ignoring all warnings and instead, installed a Trojan.

I think we can all agree that NO reasonable OS can guard against a User with sufficient permissions and insufficient smarts. And I will stipulate that macOS is, of course, no exception.

I was talking about the rando "Open this email, get pwned" type of stuff. That STILL happens all too often in the Windows world. I work in that environment every day, and can also read.

Not to be argumentative, and I almost hate to ask it, but do you remember when Apple shipped a production version of macOS where you could gain root by trying to login as root and just provided no password?

I think the argument could be made that macOS is USUALLY more secure, when someone at Apple has not royally cocked up (as they occasionally do,) and left the keys metaphorically hanging from the lock in the highly secure door.

Did anyone hear if Apple fired anyone over that debacle? Im curious.

According to the Google Machine, it was about a year ago, on macOS High Sierra. The bug existed for all of about 24 hours after it was uncovered before being Patched. Obviously, an error in QA; but no sign that it was ever exploited (Thank $Deity)...

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

And as the article pointed out, it wasn't just that you could login with any random username and just skip the password, there was a particular "procedure" (that, BTW, didn't ALWAYS work!), to trigger the bug. That is also a good possibility why it slipped past testing.

Honestly don't know it anyone got the axe over that; Apple (and likely anyone else in that situation) wouldn't typically say, unless it was something that needed a showing of "a severed head to hold up". But I would imagine that, if not fired outright, that person got called on the carpet pretty severely (as one would hope!), although the fact that it didn't ALWAYS happen may have been a mitigating factor in any punishment that was, or was not, meted-out.

And the fact that it was newsworthy just shows how rare a serious gaffe like that really is.

LOL - peer review? Really? You really have no clue how that works, do you? It's pretty much worthless; even journals say its flawed and when you have hundreds of "peer reviewed" papers yanked because of fraud, and even fake papers being published even though they are "peer reviewed", you really are out there on faith. Let me ask you - would you expect a paper to be peer reviewed and published even if the data was not provided - just the summary? Because that's happened plenty in the whole AGW debate - hundreds of papers published with ZERO data provided, just summaries and conclusions.

If you put your trust in peer review without data, then you might as well put your faith in the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man coming down to give you a rainbow-farting unicorn!

In the mean time Tesla’s shit auto pilot system crashed again.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10...

http://fortune.com/2018/10/28/...

There are four stories from four separate outlets about that Nazi shithole being "banned" from the Internet.

[...] but the US wonâ(TM)t even lift a finger for people getting scammed out of thousands with telephone scams via spoofed numbers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

Let's not be shrill and disingenuous here. The FCC _is_ doing something about it, but we are still beset with the problem.

Well, it'd be money well-spent if it had the same marketing impact.

Nobody wanted space in the Falcon Heavy test launch mission, but after demonstrating the ability to launch heavy payloads to escape velocity SpaceX has established credibility for launching large, geostationary payloads.

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

While the authors note that this work could find a home in "sports equipment, ballistic armour, aeronautics, astronautics and even space elevators," we're still a long way from any of that. Ideally, rather than synthesizing the nanotubes in centimeter-long chunks, we'd like to have some sort of continual production process. Still, the work is important in that it hints that there is a world beyond micrometer-scale nanotube fragments.

Nice to have my instinct confirmed that there would of been much more noise over this if Ultralong meant kilometers or or at least 10s of meters.

Feb 2017
https://appleinsider.com/artic...
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
https://arstechnica.com/civis/...

Their claims that they knew nothing of this security issue from Supermicro has all the appererances of a PR cover up

Never believe Alexander Peter Kowalski's overstatements.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence and admits as much.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Never believe Alexander Peter Kowalski's overstatements.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence and admits as much.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Can't see getting Microsoft's locked down, underpowered, feature limited product over a Chromebook. The latter actually having some traction.

What it actually ended up being was the creation of a HUGE regulatory organization at the FCC that was going to required a lot of money, people and resources it didn't have budget to acquire.

A huge regulatory organization... other than the FCC? How many people did the FCC hire for this? How many resources did it budget for enforcing network neutrality? I mean, heaven forbid the FCC does the job it's supposed to do.

But of course in 2016 the GOP slashed their budget by $69 million, about 20%. If you're complaining that they didn't have the budget for it, the GOP is to blame.

Nice spin there.. Slam the other party for cutting costs for programs you like and slam them for running up the debt because they spend too much.. You do get how overtly partisan all that is right? Maybe not. Oh, and this was the budget PROPOSAL which was 20% less than REQUESTED by the FCC, and knowing NN wasn't going to be continued, this makes sense. :) In actual fact the FCC's budget only got hit by a few % of an actual cut, but you are going to quote me a number that includes the baseline increase too.. Forget it...

I notice you don't argue that this created a brand new large bureaucracy at the FCC to manage all the countries ISPs and the complaints they would receive. Unless you don't drive and never got a driver's license, maybe you don't understand how inefficient government bureaucracies can be, but I have worked for the DOD and dealt extensively with the FCC so I can assure you, it's an absolutely great way to throw good taxed money after bad if you are so inclined.

Your argument about making ISP's into common carriers isn't as clear cut as you imagine. The ramifications of ISP's being common carriers are far reaching and raise some really complicated issues that I don't think NN proponents have fully thought through. It's a mess if you do this. Also, I've heard well versed people on both sides of that issue debate the legal basis for that idea and it sure doesn't seem likely to be legal with the current wording of the applicable laws. Of course the courts would have to make this call, but what kind of mess will we have if they say nope to common carrier status? It's a dammed if you do and dammed if you don't kind of situation. Net Neutrality would be a HUGE mess in either case using your common carrier argument.

But hey, if you want this, go get enough seats in congress to get it passed into law. Keep those political campaigns running on the issue if you like. I'm not supporting it. I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it is helpful, and all it would really accomplish is to spend money we don't have for no benefits. But hey, politics trumps all I guess.

Utter fucking bullshit.

Network Neutrality: The principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, user's location, content, website, protocol, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.

What it actually ended up being was the creation of a HUGE regulatory organization at the FCC that was going to required a lot of money, people and resources it didn't have budget to acquire.

A huge regulatory organization... other than the FCC? How many people did the FCC hire for this? How many resources did it budget for enforcing network neutrality? I mean, heaven forbid the FCC does the job it's supposed to do.

But of course in 2016 the GOP slashed their budget by $69 million, about 20%. If you're complaining that they didn't have the budget for it, the GOP is to blame.

The whole system was set up to be rife with corrupting influences between the FCC and the big ISP's they where regulating, and really looked for all the world as a way to get payoffs and bribes more easily hidden

As opposed to the big ISP's oligarchy haveing ZERO regulation and no competitors able to make the free market work? If they can successfully undercut Mr. Moneybags Google into stopping their entry into markets, then there is no competition, no free market, no capitalism, and this will not work.

And I don't know, their boy Ajit (the agitator) Pai seems to be working for them pretty well. How much money you want to bet that he's not going to be in financial troubles once he gets done?

requiring equal priority and treatment of packets regardless of the payload.

Yes, because that's what I bloody well pay them for.

The FCC's classification of ISPs as title II common carriers used old existing tried and true laws. This was a good method of enforcing network neutrality, in the USA. It required no additional effort. It simply laid the ground-work for "don't fuck with the pipes or we will sue you". Do you want to know how ISPs traditionally dealt with network performance back before the markets consolidated and the customers could demand a neutral network? THEY BUILD MORE NETWORK. Investing into infrastructure is STILL an important aspect of the nation. That they would rather use artificial scarcity as an excuse to increase prices and give themselves the role of gate-keeper to the Internet so that they have the power to pick the winners and losers is PREPOSTEROUS.

Alexander Peter Kowalski just can't stop lying.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Alexander Peter Kowalski just can't stop lying.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

We already knew the public wanted to keep net neutrality, but it was the con artist and his cabal who went out of their way to use dead people to prove otherwise.

The FCC, headed by Ajit Pai, lied about having a meltdown because of "being under attack", lied about the number of people who were for repeal, and lied about the need to protect the people from the "scourge" of net neutrality.

And yet, their supporters will simply shrug their shoulders and yell, "BUT HILLARY!!!!", because lying is all they have.

Never trust antisemite Alexander Peter Kowalski's lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now start repeating his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Never trust antisemite Alexander Peter Kowalski's lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now start repeating his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

I'm not sure you could land humans on Mars for $320 billion. The Apollo program cost about 124 billion in current dollars, but leap from the Moon to Mars is likely much tougher than the leap from Earth orbit to the Moon. There are complexity discontinuities you cross given the greater mission duration, and then there's landing a man-rated vehicle of sufficient size to support astronauts for extended periods on Mars, something that is greatly complicated by Mars' atmosphere.

But even if it could be feasibly done for $320 billion, the US current military-industrial complex is incapable of succeeding at a task of that scale. The consolidation of defense and aerospace contractors has made them too politically powerful to be held to account for any promise they make.

That's how Lockheed has managed to repeatedly scale back on deliverables and scale up on costs in the F35 program, with no actual political consequences aside from a little griping. A recent inspector general's report has revealed that Boeing has been consistently receiving performance bonuses on the Space Launch System (SLS), despite gross mismanagement, missing project milestones, and runaway costs.

A political system in which contractors are powerful enough to buy politicians and administrators is simply incapable of placing a man on Mars for any fixed amount of money. It's just too big and complicated for a corrupt system to take on successfully.

Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC argued that broadband is not a "telecommunications service" as defined in federal law, and therefore it must be classified as an information service instead. As an information service, broadband cannot be subject to common carrier regulations such as net neutrality rules, Pai's FCC said. The FCC is only allowed to impose common carrier regulations on telecommunications services.

"Given these classification decisions, the Commission determined that the Communications Act does not endow it with legal authority to retain the former conduct rules," the FCC said in a summary of its defense filed yesterday in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

That's exactly what the Duplex-based Call Screening feature does, that they also announced.

Alexander Peter Kowalskijust can't stop with his unmedicated delusions. Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Alexander Peter Kowalskijust can't stop with his unmedicated delusions. Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.

Uhhh just looked at the latest figures and Apple's share is...11.9%, in fact according to Motley Fool they have been losing share worldwide for more than 6 months. Their market cap is so good frankly because they sell last year's tech at next years prices which gives them a hell of a profit margin.

And honestly the USA is a teeny tiny slice of the worldwide pie, with countries like BRIC making the USA look like small potatoes and its in those markets of tomorrow that GOOG is setting up a stranglehold that frankly MSFT of the 90s wishes it had. Its ironic too as they are using the same tactics MSFT did in the 90s with nasty contracts requiring the bundling of GAPPs and hiding more and more behind the Playwall thus making it harder and harder to have a functioning system without connecting it to GOOG.

So I'm not really worried about APPL, they like their profit margins too much to give up their high end niche status to go mainstream globally while GOOG is much more nerfarious in that they don't want your money, YOU are the product they intend to sell. So...yeah maybe about time for a good old antitrust, although frankly we'd have better luck with the EU as the DoJ has been toothless in the USA for the better part of a decade now.

You don't need a permit, at least not if you're in Kentucky and only blast the drones that come onto your property.

Remember when the USA did the same thing?

Never trust Alexander Peter Kowalski's lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By do so he will prove this for all to see.

Never trust Alexander Peter Kowalski's lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By do so he will prove this for all to see.

Which they're already doing. Switch production has already been adjusted to eliminate the flaw using the iPatch system.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

Alexander Peter Kowalski just can't stop with the failure and lies
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he is such a failure expect that he will repeat his previously disproved lies because he wants to show everyone that he is a loser.

Alexander Peter Kowalski just can't stop with the failure and lies
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he is such a failure expect that he will repeat his previously disproved lies because he wants to show everyone that he is a loser.

The only think Alexander Peter Kowalski hates more than the Jews is when people tell the truth about him and his lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. Expect that he will used these tactics to try to deflect from these criticisms. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously.

The only think Alexander Peter Kowalski hates more than the Jews is when people tell the truth about him and his lies.
Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. Expect that he will used these tactics to try to deflect from these criticisms. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.

Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously.

It's completely unenforceable. Even if the State could locate and identify the boots, they can't do anything about it if they aren't in California.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Recall that Richard O'Dwyer was extradited to the US for breaking US law on the internet, even though he was a British citizen who hadn't been to the US since he was a child, and wasn't violating any British laws:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/big-content-unveils-latest-antipiracy-weapon-extradition/