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  1. whose acceptable use policy bans even light-traffic servers

    This is called "The Internet." They do not enforce their acceptable use policy unless you're using a ton of bandwidth, because they know it.

    Otherwise, it's just a content consumption service and repealing Net Neutrality is just fine.

  2. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    How can the FAA designate a class of airspace that it has no control over?

    Anyone can name things. I call it Class Frog. Just because I can.

    Airspace is regulated in part to prevent interference with military aircraft. Outside of that and interstate commerce, there's not really anything in the Constitution giving the FAA (or the federal government at all) the authority to regulate airspace that can't conceivably be needed for national defense activity.

  3. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Class G airspace is not regulated except for drones (or at will be soon). Just because something is capable of flying higher shouldn't really be relevant unless you actually intend to fly that high.

  4. Re: Fridges as e-waste? on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    As cold as possible without creating ice crystals in the milk is the best temperature for keeping food fresh for longer.

  5. Re:Fridges as e-waste? on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Cost savings. I buy fresh produce on about a twice-weekly basis, but everything else I will buy in larger bulk on sale. Raw meat gets portioned and frozen if it won't be used in the next day or two. Cooked meals get made in larger batches and leftovers often frozen in single-serving portions. The quality of frozen meat holds a lot longer than you would expect. But even cutting chicken breast off the bone and freezing it myself tastes better than IQF Chicken Breasts from the freezer aisle - I'm not sure what they do to them.

    The cost of meat alone can be double or triple when it's not on "sale." Frozen off-season vegetables the same.

    I also have a chest freezer, because my fridge doesn't contain it all. There's still no way the electrical or appliance cost is outweighing the food price savings.

  6. Re:Fridges as e-waste? on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Regardless, my purchase decision wasn't based on aesthetics or electronics. Just the practical usable storage by having a bottom-drawer freezer and enough cubic footage. Top door freezers are impossible to organize when more than half full.

    However, a numerical digital thermostat is a lot more than a "gadget." It's a reliable indicator of the expected temperature - but I do keep a coil thermometer in the back of the fridge.

  7. or the Universal Service Fund. Which is what it was created for.

  8. Re:Fridges as e-waste? on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because landlords don't pay the electric bill.

  9. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? There are still differences between the powers enumerated to the state and to the federal governments.

  10. Afford fiber? It's cheaper than copper - it really is. And it seems better than losing customers to greater competition from cellular.

  11. Re:We'll see what happens on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The federal government has direct jurisdiction over D.C. I'm not sure that's a good example.

  12. And this is why there is hardly any infrastructure build-out or aggressive replacement of copper with fiber in rural areas. Of course part of that is because they know their (current) competitors won't do it either, so they'll still be on a level playing field for less money.

  13. Re:Doesn't sound like an "open Internet" to me! on No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    And disregarding all of that, non-commercial use of the Internet without servers in data centers is important too. If I want to interconnect with family and friends, I should be able to do so without a trusted commercial server out in the ether.

  14. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    So when the constitution was drafted, they proposed a limited federal government for racism? No. The original vision for our country is more closely modeled by the EU than it is by our own government.

    The federal government was never supposed to have power over hobbies and mundane intrastate day-to-day. Murder isn't even illegal under federal law (except against federal officials) - that's a state power.

  15. Re:Reinstates an 2015 policy on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That remains to be seen. The bill only tells the FAA to do "something" and leaves it pretty vague: https://www.congress.gov/bill/...

  16. Re:We'll see what happens on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    from an inch off the ground on up

    So cars are in regulated airspace. And yet cars are registered with the state.

    The FAA has never tried to regulate that low of an elevation, for intrastate vehicles. Their authority has yet to be challenged.

  17. Re:Roy Moore/brothel subtext on Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you have sex with the overage women if you went for sex?

    I think they would much prefer the "of age" than the overage.

  18. Re:Reinstates an 2015 policy on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    In 2015, the FAA officially announced that all owners of drones heavier than 250 grams (which is about as light as a cup of water) must be registered as "drone operators" in a national database

    I hope they qualified "owner" a bit. Otherwise any manufacturer or retailer with unsold inventory is going to have a lot of paperwork to do.

  19. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you don't have the right to fly drones. That's a privilege.

    You have the right to do anything that isn't illegal. That's how our government is set up. I don't even see how the federal government has the power to regulate this - this is a state's rights issue.

  20. Re:We'll see what happens on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as I fly it legally, they have no need to know of my property.

    Then keep flying and fight the law in court. If you're using it on private property and below 700 feet, I say it's a violation of your fourth amendment rights to even know. Furthermore, this would probably be a state's right, not an enumerated federal power.

  21. Don't launch at Christmas on Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Variety that the Switch could even top first-year sales of the Wii, the company's best-selling console yet

    This is probably almost entirely due to not launching during the holiday season before you had production and distribution fully ramped up. The number of sales lost due to hardware shortages is probably enough to cover the gap.

  22. Re:Bought my first Ethernet switch over 20 years a on Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They're competing against Leviton, you twit.

  23. You can host JavaScript anywhere - even on the same domain as the content.

  24. Re:"Has not respnded..." on In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins (hackread.com) · · Score: 1

    "Journalist": [goes ahead and releases article without allowing messages to be returned]

    You left out where they call it "[insert big company] refused to comment" - almost universally used with that exact phrasing.