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  1. Re:Kick backs? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can incorporate as a firewall. You can purchase your audio (which seems like the majority of these lawsuits) from some large group that will indemnify you, and use their lawyers and/or monies to settle the suit.

    In reality, unless you get huge, it's not going to happen. And even then, it's pretty unlikely.

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

    The barrier to entry prevents a lot of crap, but also a lot of innovation. There's a finite resource, and no one ever got fired buying IBM. Similar to why Hollywood is unable to innovate.

  3. Why are they still in business? on LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Their whole business is a scam. Having to pay a percentage of the profits in fines still means they retain a percentage.

    It's the whole "the fine is less than the gains" crap. Why isn't there a minimum of 120% the realized/expected gains on the fines to corporations.

  4. Re:Edge is IE on Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance (unity3d.com) · · Score: 2

    Except Chrome was not number one in any benchmark. In fact, it was between IE 11 and FireFox 46 in every single benchmark.

    Reading, it's neato!

  5. Re:Ha ha on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    Motorola was born and bred American. Bell Labs invented some of the other technology

  6. Re:Kick backs? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    You cannot tell whether it is the case til you've been sued.

    But the line for T-Mobile is probably whether you consider yourself as a streaming entity responsible for the content, or if you are DCMA Safe Harbor streamer.

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

    Yes, and those video game gatekeepers also spelled out their criteria as well in detail. And they also contributed money/resources/staff to ensuring you understood them. Both of those made it more possibly for an indie. But not easy.

    Not that I begrudge them their standards. They had a brand to protect, and the surest way to shit on it would be to relax their criteria. But it definitely also cut down on competition, and other bad results.

  8. Re:Kick backs? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can probably get your subsonic server through their process. They have five requirements, all reasonable:

    1. Identifiable signatures as streaming video. This may preclude https.
    2. Adaptive bitrate, so they can throttle/not the viewer transparently.
    3. Advance warning of modifications to your system (that impact how the video streams) so they can ensure that it still meets criteria when it goes live.
    4. Ability to ID non-video content
    5. You having a lawful right to stream the video.

    All in all, reasonable rules.

    . Full rules

  9. Re:Bennett Haselton is so SMRT on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 2

    Is it too much to ask that a video service go through some kind of certification process with T-Mobile before that happens?

    Maybe.

    Speaking obliquely to avoid NDA issues, at one point it was not unusual that the certification fees for certain gatekeepers in the video game space to outstrip an entire indie game's budget. And that was not counting the cost of actually complying with the certification requirements, just the fees to have that third party verify that you had.

    Of course, it's like many things, fine in theory, and oft-times in practice. Hence the "keep an eye on it" warning.

  10. Re:Other uses of block chain on IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The blockchain sucks for signing. We already have public-key encryption. Same for analysis for verification.

    What it does do is provide a decentralized solution to resolved double-spending digital monies. So, mostly it seems limited to areas of ownership of bits.

  11. Re:Ha ha on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    Major mobile providers are/were not handed geographic monopolies, although there are some de facto ones cause huge country, etc. etc.

    Well, you know, we invented the internet (and mobile phones, and mobile data), so our 4G is first gen. First gen sucks.

    You're welcome for shaking the bugs out.

  12. Re:Do not call was pretty fail on 'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    One call a day is it working pretty well. It used to happen a lot more frequently, and the cost is lower. But companies now also try pretty hard to get you to do some business with them, which grants them the rights to call you. Enter a sweepstakes? Call for a free trinket. Two years of calls. Which at least is a sweepstakes entry.

  13. Steve Jobs was special. He got people to pay a premium with an explicit promise to get locked in by him.

  14. Except I don't think guys only mentor guys and girls only mentor girls. (NB, I'm willing to use men and women, or guys and girls, but you should be consistent in your forms). I think the number of misogynists who have a problem with a female superior are really, really small. And with every company and incubator having events like this, how is the industry hostile to women?

  15. Re:Will somebody think of the children! on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then you would go to jail for accessing an anonymous encrypted network

  16. Re:Democrats are authoritarians on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to know the whole legal code. There may be a ton of laws regarding, for instance, airplance building and operation.

  17. Re:Will somebody think of the children! on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The government opts not to, but could, require headlights on private roads, with or without the owner's blessing.

  18. Nothing wrong with that, it merely implies a requirement for non-Euclidean geometry.

    Whcih, since Euclidean geometry is really only present in theory described by textbooks, is fine. The world is a non-Euclidean space.

  19. Re:It will be an improvement on Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I see aqll the time that math articles have errors. Not "oh, this obscure theorum is wrong" but "the math they used in their example doesn't check"wrrong. You don't need a source for "your example problem doesn't do sums right". But they insist it does...

  20. Re:i know i wasn't supposed to read TFA, but... on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean, the portion of the cost to the school as far as money. The TCO is much higher, since the student doesn't get any privacy.

  21. Re:Achievement: 7th CPU core unlocked! on Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Because then they could have the OS hooks/hypervisor/etc. written to anticipate an entire core for it's own use. This pattern was also there in XBox 360 and PS3.

  22. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 1

    It's a good justification for programmers testing their changes at 1am

  23. Re:IT workers shouldn't freelance on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 0

    and they had admin access to the networking gear because the CIO was ex-programmer and programmers are the best IT workers.

    Well, they should have admin access to the test networking gear, right? I think it's pretty obvious that programmers need admin for their machines and test environs.

  24. Re:60% tax on The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You automatically rank in the highest tax category as a freelancer. Of every buck you make, 60 cents go to the state.

    If that happened to you, without you suddenly making the income that would justify it, for the love of heaven seek out a tax professional. You do have to pay both your half and the employer half of FICA. But, almost certainly your tax bracket should go down*. Or you FUBARed your taxes.

  25. Re:Another auction linked at the Marshall's site on US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, she got almost the maximum (19 years, 7 months instead of an even 20) in return for pleading guilty and making it easier to take all her stuff to make some restitution. They thought about prosecuting her more, but decided that it wasn't worth the cost to the taxpayers to keep an 77 year old in jail (how old she will be when she gets out)