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  1. Re:But.. that's exactly what they SAID it does. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    , and implied it only applied to a set of participating providers.

    They explicitly said if you turned it on it applied the throttling to all video streams, whether free or not. They bill it as a feature (protect your data). Not bug-free cause, you know, technology is produced a certain way. The FAQ says if you want non-throttled video, turn off the feature, watch your full video, and turn it back on.

    And throttling YouTube seems like the huge winner. Google automatically scales back the video if the connection is poor, so I get to watch more YouTube videos than I otherwise would. But then again, I never watched a youtube video and thoguht "man, I really wish this was in higher-def".

  2. Re:But.. that's exactly what they SAID it does. on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Right, T-mobile specifically says it will decrease the bandwidth used for all video while Binge On is on. They claim the advantage to the consumer (less data means less going over limits.)

    The service is per device and toggleable on the web. So you can disable it for other HTML5 content, then re-enable for Netflix. It also doesn't change things when going over WiFi.

    I suppose it's not to the benefit of an unlimited customer, but they spell out on the page what's going to happen. They also pay the unlimited customer to turn on the feature, so nothing wrong there.

  3. Re:Why is this even allowed? on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    . In fact, it's what Apple EXPECTS.

    I think the point GP is making is that everyone expected to use Flash across all platforms. Apple said fuck off. Everyone expected to use floppys in 1998. Apple said to fuck off. Everyone wanted optical media. Steve Jobs said "THINNER", and Apple said to fuck off.

    Apple kills things for a better user experience all the time. Apple already censors what goes in the app store for a minimum amount of quality. They could kill IAP for F2P games that were crap by insisting. And, at least when Jobs was CEO, they got away with stuff like that all the time.

  4. Vigilantees not the best justicae system? on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am shocked, shocked that vigilantism has problems.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter. on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if her condition also allows her to drive normally with a BAC of 0.2, why should the fact that other people would be intoxicated prevent her from driving? What if she had a disorder that caused false positives all the time, without the alcohol?

  6. Re:All the time on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you have a shitty editor that doesn't indent code as you go?

  7. Do you (intentionally) write a program where, after deleting the Braces, it wasn't Python-style indentation? That's the part that throws me. I mean, the {}'s are redundant in my code.

    Python still "looks wrong" without them (and should probably just ignore those characters), but I'm not sure how it breaks. That said, I mostly write in C-style languages, so maybe if I used more Python it would make more sense.

  8. Re:People actually *like* Python whitespace? on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know. This, along with returning -tuples, are the two features of Python I like. Intellectually, it's the exact same as how I otherwise write code, just without the extra keystrokes. It still looks strange to me, but... I get the efficiency.

  9. If by that you mean I turn bytes into dollars, I suppose. I don't get why you think developing proprietary software is that different from OSS, except for the guarantees to the customers, deadlines, QA process, support to do it right.

    I don't use GitHub because I don't contribute to OSS.

  10. They have a duty to the shareholders, sure. But a duty is not the same thing as only a duty

    Cannot spend the companies money on blow, sure. But the board exists to try to balance the myriad of duties that corporations used to have to balance, including to their customers, workforce and even government.

  11. And it would boost sales for the next "official" star trek movie.. its Win, win ,win.

    The official star trek movies are currently and going forward crowd-pleasing space opera with Star Trek IP. The assume the fans will come see it anyway. All the decisions are made to drive the people who don't give a shit about Trek to see it.

  12. corporations are mandated to maximize profits

    That's just not true. That theory was first floated by GE's CEO in 1978 to justify what he wanted to do.

  13. Alternatively, I'm a professional.

  14. I was thinking of the park and rides. Isn't that the better than what you're suggesting? After all, it's more important to find someone going to the same location intown than close to your home, and a high density of travellers should make it easier to find someone.

  15. First, you didn't actually provide a link.

    Second, the first site I visited (http://hitchwiki.org/en/United_States_of_America) backs up my memory. Your source?

  16. You cannot hitchhike on the side of an interstate. You certainly can truck stop to truck stop or something.

    Heck, many cities have special hitch-hiker centers so people can carpool to downtown and use the High-Occupancy lane.

  17. Re:Only when new versions stop breaking their UX on Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree with you. I understrnad why maintaining to UXs sucks though. I don't think I can think of a single UX improvements from updates after Windows95 (except when oither people included it in a competing app and the other one just stole it, therefore using their market power to keep the upstart out and reducing the value of innoveative UX, but that's a different rant.

  18. ber offers point-to-point route service without having to wait 30 minutes. The city could fix this problem by licensing more taxi cab drivers, but that was block by the incumbents.

    Actually, the number of medallions in NYC grew by like, 25% from 2008-2013. And those restrictions were put in place because the traffic jams caused by unlimited taxis made it so that while you could hail a cab very quickly, max speed was like 2MPH.

  19. Re:I guess this doesn't bar product placement thou on FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet (blockadblock.com) · · Score: 1

    Every show or movie I've seen in the past many years has such a list at the end The law probably already exists. Almost always the last item in the credits (shocker). And listed as "promotional consideration"

    Keep in mind, the FTC isn't saying "you cannot." It's saying "you cannot do it and not tell people"

  20. Re:Government schools in the USA are shit. on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How would competition in schools work? Are midyear transfers a frequent thing? Is there no priority to remain where you are, so that children in a good school have to recompete with people fleeing a bad school every year? And if so, how. If not, how does the good school get transfers in at any real rate? Or is a lottery at Kindergarden the determinate factor. If you move to a new place, are you guaranteed everywhere with a spot is a bad school?

  21. Re:"The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" on The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe it's the official journal behind the "Doomsday Clock". It used to be only about nuclear war. Now, it's all ELEs

  22. What are the other ways? I want to upgrade a few forms,. but I don't know what to.

  23. Re:Javasript is the Next Flash. on JavaScript User Prohibitions Are Like Content DRM, But Even Less Effective (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is Flash is 100% silo'd. Javascript is like a metasizied cancer.

    Also, Flash's AS3 is an object-oriented language with a well defined implementation. JS is neither.

  24. Re:That's Not Pre-Crime on Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its creepy as hell and needs to be made illegal yesterday.

    In principle, how is it any different from sharing photos on Facebook?

    I second your call to make it illegal to share photos on Facebook.

  25. Re:Bennett Haselton is so SMRT on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    Have people been fired for buying PCs with Superfish adware from the company that bought IBM's PC business?

    I doubt it. Because "anyone" would have made that mistake. See also why people who shorted the market in 2007 got fired by Wall Street and why people who were disasterously wrong and long on the market in 2008 kept their jobs.