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  1. Re:Not an unexpected ruling on Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use, Virginia Federal Court Rules (petapixel.com) · · Score: 0

    It could have been one pixel. It doesn't really matter. You know that musicians have sued each other over sampling mere seconds or even blips of sound. Successfully too.

  2. Re:Sorry, but...cheap advice. on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    They are *the* go-to reference customer for AWS.

    I'd reserve that spot for Amazon themselves, but Netflix is a good third-party reference. Kind of scary to let your direct competitor be the host of your content, though.

  3. Re:Sorry, but... on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    So they should pay protection money? It's not like it was just unplanned downtime. Google actively shut them down. Sounds like a shakedown if you want them to pay in order for that not to happen.

  4. Re:There's a reason to use brass on Making Medical Clothing That Kills Bugs (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Brass doesn't tarnish so easily. Copper does.

  5. Re:Aging is a biological process on Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume what they mean by excessive healing is that more DNA replication leads to more transcription errors and a higher risk of cancer. If they didn't, I guess they're just wrong.

  6. There's a reason to use silver on Making Medical Clothing That Kills Bugs (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of gold or silver, Dr Liu's metal of choice is copper. This exhibits the same bug-killing properties but has the benefit of being an awful lot cheaper than those two precious metals

    But doesn't copper tarnish/oxidize more easily? Sure it would work great while it's pure copper. But wash it a few times and I doubt it will do any good.

  7. Re:Can't be bothered on Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage [Update: Company Confirms] · · Score: 1

    If it goes down for a bit, so what?

    And it's pure profit for service calls. Tech comes out, Internet is working - full service charge for the tech visit on the customer. Try and prove your Internet was down prior. A lot of modems don't even show the customer-facing side logs older than 30 minutes with the cable company provided FW.

  8. Re:Spectrum too? on Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage [Update: Company Confirms] · · Score: 1

    St. Louis area had a major wind/rain/lightning/tornado storm last night (down here for 15 hours). Are you in a Charter region or TWC?

  9. Re:In Chicago. Partially down here. on Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage [Update: Company Confirms] · · Score: 1

    Multihomed IPs that have alternate routes is probably the reason.

  10. Re:No thanks on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has access to the info without signing an NDA, I'm sure. It's speculation on everyone's part - I'm no different.

  11. Re:No thanks on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe that profit is on top of your salary that you pay yourself, but I doubt that.

  12. Re:Don't let companies do this on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The pretence that the drivers are independent contractors is just an end run around labour regulations.

    Probably more like an end run around sales tax nexus. If these delivery businesses are based in states where Amazon doesn't have warehouses directly, then they still wouldn't have to collect and remit sales taxes for those customers.

  13. Re:That's...not really your own business. on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:No obligations on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon also uses FedEx for two-day delivery. All of FedEx's drivers are independent contractors that own/lease their own vehicles. The question is whether Amazon's package load is high enough to cut out the middle man. It probably is.

  15. Re:Somebody finally noticed on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    What really gets me is "Generation of electricity." That is fully covered by the KWh billing. What could this fee possibly cover that shouldn't be part of the per-KWh rate?

  16. Re:How do telecoms/cable companies get away with t on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    If the government left a loophole open so wide you can drive a truck through it, maybe they should change things and include all fees when considering the price. But no, most areas don't regulate the pricing.

  17. Re:So, they've raised a fee by $1.23/month? on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody would be nearly as outraged if they simply raised their base rates. But using weaselly ways of hiding it is far worse - especially when pretending like it's as inevitable as a tax.

  18. Re:They turned me into The Wanderer on AT&T Is Screwing Customers By Almost Tripling a Bogus Fee (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just buy AT&T service indirectly from an MVNO? AT&T gets the bare minimum from them for tower service and you get a decent plan at probably a better price than you're paying. Here's a list of all the MVNO providers that use the AT&T network.

  19. Re:Bank-grade security key? on Home Security Camera Sends Video To Wrong User (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like restaurant-grade salt. Completely meaningless but at least meets the bare minimum.

  20. Re: Robotics on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or drink your water directly from the stream and stop wasting petroleum making reusable water bottles.

  21. Re:Robotics on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get a cold drink, then everything but the straw is recyclable. Just tell everyone to get cold drinks and avoid #6 plastics.

  22. Does your DLNA player get automatic firmware updates? Are you sure? Any one of them can break your network connection. If this was a simple problem, Google would have rolled back the firmware to a known good version by now. It sounds like the devices cannot connect to the Internet - possibly not even the LAN.

    This really seems to have nothing to do with the externalized processing.

  23. When you "cast" from Netflix to Chromecast, your Chromecast streams from Netflix and not the device that initiated it.

    Also, it's possible that the firmware update broke the LAN connection in some way. This may require manually re-flashing every last Google Home and Chromecast device.

  24. If you haven't manually blocked automatic firmware updates, you may not be in a much better position.

  25. Re:It's not unicode - DNS uses punycode on Scammers Abuse Multilingual Domain Names (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Missed two letters. Average end user doesn't even notice when a major site isn't EV, so it makes little difference.