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  1. Re:What an amazing surprise! on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    When you tax something it's negative. It's stupid easy to find examples of regulations increasing consumption. Why, food is a great example. The government says you can't sell poisoned food, so people are more willing to eat anything from anywhere.

  2. Re:Anecdote on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    You're saying that if you queue up a bunch of torrents and download for 2 hour strait, from 8pm-10pm, you'll never see your one minute average drop below 55Mb/s? I was reading an ISP bandwidth research paper and even FiOS showed on average about a max of 120% of advertised, a min of about 80% of advertised, and an overall average of about 105% of advertised. Yes they deliver their advertised bandwidth on average, but with violent fluctuations. +-20% is quite bad, but still better than what many other incumbents provide.

  3. Re: Not first on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    My mom lives in a town of 200 and has 45/45 fiber for $50.

  4. Re:The problem is that landfills are too cheap on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    The prices for most plastic is so low that its often cheaper to just chuck it in the garbage.

    Many places around here are starting to tax plastic bags in an effort to curb their usage.

  5. Re:TNSTAAFL on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    If you decoupled the last mile sunk costs from being an ISP, then contracts would be pointless. Do month to month. It designed correctly, it is no cost to activate or deactivate a customer. Just a click of a button.

  6. Re:TNSTAAFL on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    ISPs and last mile are two separate issues. I think we should leave ISPs as they are, but socialize the last mile. A Google fiber type approach. Every user gets 100% of their speed to the core network. Let the ISPs plug into the core network. I wouldn't mind having several ISPs being serviced over the same fiber.

  7. Re:TNSTAAFL on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked Verizon alone had paid seventeen billion to the government just for spectrum.

    Spectrum is a national resource. Are you saying we should give it away to whomever wants to use it? Maybe I want to use the GPS spectrum to run my 1kilowatt wifi base.

  8. Re:proceed with caution on 5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union · · Score: 1

    Lightbulbs are still more dangerous. Much higher frequency with much higher wattage. The main danger of a cell phone is localized heating, more so from heat given off from the battery than the RF.

  9. Re:So here in the USA on 5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union · · Score: 1

    Your cellphone would go dead is no time at full rate. The main benefit is your phone can do quick bursts of wifi and conserve battery life by going back into a low power state quickly.

  10. Re:Maybe, but you won't make it past HR on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1
    DBAs should not be working with clients.

    troubleshooting the basic database connectivity and usage profiles

    Again, get decent programmers.

    80% of a DBA's job should be administrating the DB servers. The other 20% should only be working with other people who know what they're doing, but need to coordinate with the DBAs. DBAs helping clients and "the rest of the organization" is like your building architect helping people paint the walls. Unless you're talking about a small company where each person has multiple roles.

  11. Re:Encourage autodidactism on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 1

    I'm finally getting to sit in on interviews and post interview discussions with my superiors focus on communication and thought process and nearly nothing about what tech they've used.

  12. Re:The irony on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 2

    Man is still alive and doing better than ever before.

    Famous last words. I'm feeling great! I'm poking this lion with a stick. Obviously poking a lion with a stick is not bad for my health.

  13. Re:You are Doomed on Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? · · Score: 1

    If you've already turned a profit, then your left over crap could be destroyed and you'd still be fine. At this point you're not trying to be profitable, you're being greedy. It's normal for my company to announce discontinuance of a product and eat the "loss", nearly give away the old stuff just to make room and not waste old product. We always just release the latest greatest asap. We nearly have our market cornered and we're more profitable than the competition.

    We focus on quality and our competitors can't figure that out. Pretty much the only people that go to our competitors is because of price(literally could not afford us), but eventually they come to us and we get told about how horrible the experience was with the other people. We've even been complimented by our competitors during the few times we've had to collaborate for very special reasons.

    It's hard to get a company started when you focus on quality, but once you're there, you rake in the money. As soon as your get greedy, it's a race to the bottom and you're not longer special. At some point you will be the same as all of your competition and all you can do is compete on price. Enjoy your slim margins.

  14. Re:You are Doomed on Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? · · Score: 1

    in many cases removing/delaying to release features is good *business* tactic

    Artificial limits is just a sign of poor management.

  15. Re:We need a long-term solution on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Once we start colonizing other plants, time will never be in sync with the Sun for all places. Lets just agree on a rate and an epoch. The rate at which time de-synchs with the visible day is so slow, it'll spread over generations and at some point in the future, 12am local time will be "noon", but who cares. What's way off in the future and it will be normal for those people.

  16. Re:Frivolous on First Net Neutrality Lawsuit Will Target Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    You're conflating Verizon Business and Verizon Residential. But you are correct that those two entities work together to abuse power.

  17. Re:Frivolous on First Net Neutrality Lawsuit Will Target Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    At any connection with the source network, you advertise the destinations you're willing to accept traffic for. Nothing requires you to accept packets for your entire global network at every location where you interconnect; that's something you choose (or choose not) to do.

    Nothing requires you to, but it is best practice to do so. Hard for a route to fail over if you don't preemptively advertise your network everywhere.

  18. Re:I get both sides of the argument. on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    Having consecutive children while on welfare should be considered child negligence. I don't mind welfare, I just hate those who clearly abuse it.

  19. Re:I'm poor and I'm against this on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    Many people around here use the State Universities public labs. You still have to prove you're a local tax payer, but it's not that hard. Bonus is the public labs have no filters and explicitly state you can browse porn as long as it doesn't offend anyone. They recommend taking a computer in a corner and turning the monitor away.

  20. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 2

    Pay $100 co-pay for a 1am Er visit to take a quick look at something or use video chat and instantly connect with a doctor for free 24/7. Of course the insurance paid the other $900 of the visit.

    An example would be a multi-day fever. I had a 99f fever for server days and spiked to 103f. When I looked on the internet and called a nurse's hotline, everything said to see a doctor. Not because I'm in danger, but because you need to "ask" a doctor. I got to the ER and the doctor just said "Take some ibuprofen, you're fine". Of course the damage had already been done for the bill. Now my insurance allows for 24/7 "free" webcam chats with a real doctor. Saves me money, saves them money, my premium is going down.

    I could see this service being a great money saver for low income families.

  21. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe you should move instead of complaining.

  22. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    Cannot get a job without internet and an email around here. Even Walmart or McDonalds require you to apply online and will communicate with you via email. If you ask for a "normal" job application, they tell you they only accept online applications. Nearly every job around withing a few hours of driving is that way.

  23. I wonder if an FPGA platform could be used. Make your own CPU and stuff.

  24. Re:Solar Cell efficiency on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    Since the reflection is being done by the pattern, if you make these nano mirror a really thin layer, it may possibly be transparent to the other frequencies. If you can make a given layer transparent and a perfect mirror for a specific, just make these in layers. I made a huge assumption.

    If they are not perfectly transparent, then the absorption is probably multiplicative. You can probably put some layers for the primary frequencies you want to reflect, then have a catch-all regular mirror underneath.

  25. Re:We need more regulations like this? on ISP Breaking Net Neutrality? The FCC's Got a Complaint Form For That · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be so bad other than the extra money you pay just lines their pockets instead of increasing build out. Essentially people with less money get lower priority because they can't afford as much as those with more money. Just make everyone the same priority and stop with the artificial scarcity.