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  1. Re:Good on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    I don't see a problem with caching as long as that caching is available to all. Of course, that upstream doesn't cost the ISPs all that much. In the quantities they need, it's less than $1 per Mbps 95th percentile. So to support a customer paying over $50/month, that's under $2 for them to watch all the Netflix they want.

    Of course, in the case of Netflix, Comcast could have just accepted the mutually beneficial offer of a caching server and not even needed to pay that, but they chose to squeeze them for money instead even though their customers were already paying to receive Netflix.

  2. Re:It's the same old lies from these H1B advocates on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    Only true if the interests of the company are served by big money today and ignoble flameout tomorrow.

    What is true is that lack of any sort of enforcement (including enforcing the requirement that a corporate charter be in the public interest) or clarification allows the most short sighted to prevail in mis-interpreting the law.

    In the longer view, the best interests of a company and it's shareholders include future viability and sufficient public good will to assure a continuing customer base.

  3. Re:It's the same old lies from these H1B advocates on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    So you advocate for dissolution of corporate charter? I ask because that's a pure exercise of government power. Outside of government intervention, corporate charter doesn't exist at all.

  4. Re:It's the same old lies from these H1B advocates on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    It looks like GP did. The answer to your question appears to be option C, scamper away and begin the memory purge operation.

  5. Re:Systemd detractors are like climate change deni on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it seems quite the opposite. We have the systemd crowd claiming that it's simpler even when there is a whole new level of complexity in systemd they don't even know about (hint, look for the systemd craziness in /lib). Like the climate change deniers, they believe that since they haven't personally seen a problem in their simple and vanilla system that there isn't a problem at all.

  6. Re:It's the same old lies from these H1B advocates on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    I find the objection to government intervention especially funny considering that corporations only exist because of government intervention in the form of granting charters.

    So yeah, let the individual stockholders be legally on the hook and see how fast and loud they start screaming for government intervention, even if there are strings attached.

  7. Re:if I am dead on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you didn't put food up your butt?

  8. Re:Interest in computers on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    I learned a lot hacking games to not demand I type in the 43rd word in the 5th paragraph on page 100 of the otherwise useless manual. There's nothing like disassembling and binary patching compiled code.

    I think they get a much more limited opportunity to learn since the OS not only takes care of a lot of the low level stuff, it actually prevents them from accessing it at all. If that wasn't enough, now modern firmware is getting into the act. You actually can't look at the code in the SMM area at all without hacking the BIOS.

    Interestingly, I've been hacking around on an Arduino lately and find it much closer to the old experience than programming a modern PC is.

  9. Re:News at 11 on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are plenty of good European CEOs who are used to much lower compensation that I'm sure could do the job. Perhaps it's time to onshore the CEO position and save a few million in one shot.

  10. Re:They trained their replacements on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We know because the outgoing workers were required to train their replacements. That can only happen if the outgoing workers knew what the H1-Bs would need to know.

  11. Re:They trained their replacements on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep, the nerve of them, unwilling top live in the closet and eat the table scraps the CEO tossed them. All they had to do is pant and go "WOOF" occasionally.

    Note that there is actually a law against what Edison did, it's just not enforced. I guess you side with the criminals.

  12. Re:Kansas isn't even remotely flat on Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Little known fact, the first part of The Wizard of Oz was also in color, it's just that Kansas is actually sepia tone.

  13. Re:LabMD and the FTC on Cybersecurity Company Extorted Its Clients, Says Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    Looking again, it seems TFA claims both. Perhaps a reporter who needs to slow down a bit, drink more coffee.

  14. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I think we already have our answer then. Not so sure a smiley would be appropriate here.

  15. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I'm going to let him do that, he's the one who has the crazy demands. I'll be off to the side with a cold drink supervising.

  16. Re:LabMD and the FTC on Cybersecurity Company Extorted Its Clients, Says Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    The whistle blower's allegation is that LabMD was NOT actually breached. Do you have an independent report that says otherwise?

  17. Re:Bullshit on Cybersecurity Company Extorted Its Clients, Says Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    Of course not. It was based on Bush wanting to be a war president like his daddy. From there, they just had to get a few shady people to tell a few convenient lies and it's off to the races.

  18. Re:Tiversa breached systems? on Cybersecurity Company Extorted Its Clients, Says Whistleblower · · Score: 2

    You seem confused. Wallace is the whistle blower. If his claim that the "evidence" was fake is true then the FTC aggressively prosecuted a company based on bogus evidence.

    Does that help?

  19. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    We already did that, but Mr. D. Nial up there insists on an experiment with the real thing on bare metal :-).

  20. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the best we can do is build mathematical models, measure temperatures and then refine the models. We will have to accept that an actual experiment on a scratch Earth cannot happen. It's not the only case in science where we can only make more observation rather than test. For example, nobody has yet come up with tabletop black hole to experiment on.

    It makes more sense than holding your breath until someone produces a scratch Earth.

  21. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 2

    Go fetch me a scratch Earth and we'll test it together.

  22. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    Had they actually used knowledge gained from their unamerican surveillance tactics, some LEO would have shadowed him at the event and knocked him flat as soon as he drew a gun (an actual crime in such a crowd). But they didn't. Then never do, it seems. So all that internal spying is not justifiable because it never leads to preventing anything, so it has no ROI.

  23. Re:Plan to "license more outside brands"? on Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would say if they haven't started shipping units with the DRM disabled at the factory, they haven't yet gotten the message.

    Really they should do that and provide existing customers with a freedom clip if they want to salvage their sales (and stock value) for the year.

  24. Re:That's partly how it should be on No Justice For Victims of Identity Theft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly this.Further, the various lenders and credit reporting agencies shoul;d be forced to compensate you for the time you spend fixing their screw-up for them.

  25. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 2

    Because none of that warrantless spying contributed in any way to stopping him.