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  1. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    Funny how the exact same complaints were said about PulseAudio when it came out 10 years ago.. my god the complaints, and flame wars.. and bitching about how Every Single DIstro was fooling, and not smart, and ruining linux.. Funny thing is, pulse audio works pretty darn well, and has many nice features ALSA didn't have. Even solaris rus it now.....

    Same Lead developer too...

    I find it hilarious that some people seem think that every single diistro has not even thought about same problems they came up with in 3 minutes.. I'm sure they just latched on, because of the slick glossy sales brochures...

  2. Re:I can't see this happening on Verizon Working On a La Carte Internet TV Service · · Score: 1

    Some argue the opposite. For example, the majority of people in my area do not speak spanish. Spanish language stations essentially make nothing per subscriber (pennies). If, I was instead able to extract a few dollars a month from each person that wants to view my show.. (ie, spanish speakers in the midwest) that might (depending on the number of people) be much, much more income.

  3. Re:Its Fine. - not on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 2

    I setup all our Oracle databases.. (Many, many of them). Only port 1521 is open in iptables. (actually, for some, I have secondary listeners).. The Junipers also ONLY allow access on port 1521, (and a secondary, if specified)
    I have never had issues connecting to the database.

  4. Re:And there there is Charter Com6munications on Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    That is possible, and has been for a while, but I don't want all of my traffic going to Missouri first

  5. And there there is Charter Com6munications on Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    Charter's Ipv6 website hasn been saying its coming "soon" since about 2011. Last time I called the NOC, and our regional sales people (I'm a fiber customer of theirs) nobody could give me any time frame, area, or any other information about when they plan to start testing it for customers.

  6. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Without looking, what is the IP address of slashdot? Oh, you don't care because there is DNS?

  7. Re:Wasn't allocation always the problem? on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    We are relatively small, and trying to get our own /24. You need a /24 to do multihoming, most BGP routers won't propogate anything smaller than a /24.

  8. Re:And yet Akamai deserves a /10 on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Windows XP works fine with SNI, as long as your using firefox (not sure about chrome and other browsers) IE on XP has the problem.

  9. Re:Netflix fucked up when they paid on AT&T Plans To Launch Internet Video Service · · Score: 1

    When cable providers and stations have a spat, its common to see a runner of "this station might be affected by X.. call them at ###-###-#### and tell them you want to keep this channel

    They really annoy me, but it might be very, very effective for netflix to give users notice that its their ISP's uplink that is not sufficient.

  10. Prove its about talent on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the claim is that there is a shortage of talent, then simply add a fee to the process, that is roughly equivalent to a years worth of college education in the state where the job is located, for every year the H1B worker works, into a scholarship program for that industry/disipline. Facebook should jump at the chance to make college more affordable for CS majors, since they seem to need so many of them. And hey, if the student can graduate without "mortgage level" loans, they can actually afford to work for less money.

  11. Re:So, that means that Carmack... on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to see the next 3D Engine farmville uses.. :)

  12. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Please feel free to prove Evolution then.. We'll wait..

  13. Damn, the movies have been right all along on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 4, Funny

    So all those shows we have mocked, like 24, csi, etc, because their tech "hacks the firewall" in 15 seconds were actually accurate? Crap. That changes some things..

  14. Re:Upate to the most current on New Windows XP Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have some expensive pitney bowes mailing systems. We inquired about a newer computer, NOT running xp. Turns out they changed the entire print assembly for the version that runs Windows 7. Its a $20k upgrade. (also need a new controller box, old one doesn't work with WIndows 7 software (mainly the hardware dongle, apparently)..

    Our brand new pitney bowes mailing system has a windows 7 computer. The techs that installed it told our senior management to never run windows update, or install antivirus on it, or it would cause problems and make the machine not work. Boy did they get pissy when I put it on its own vlan, with only access to one server, and one port on that server, to get its updated files.

  15. Re:Apollo Computer - Domain Operating System on Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux · · Score: 1

    I remember taking out a 21" apollo monitor with some friends for a night of shooting. (We wanted some fun stuff to blow up). That freaking monster took a 9mm at 15 yards... took several other smaller/slower calibers too. The 357 finally pierced the glass. I think they were so expensive because they were made of transparent aluminium. (Originally designed to hold large volumes of water in space ships)

  16. Re:Location, Location, Location on As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time · · Score: 1

    hate to tell you, but the AWS servers In Oregon are right near a very, very large river, (The columbia I think is second to only the mississippi) Right near several volcanoes, In an area that commonly gets lots of freezing rain and high winds. Its also a few miles from a major chemical weapons depot. (I guess the servers wouldn't care, but nobody would go onsite to replace failed equipment) and not very far from Hanford, where there is tons of nuclear waste.

  17. Re:Google bad; other video good. on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    Taser makes a similar device, that is made for police to record everything: http://www.taser.com/products/on-officer-video/axon-flex-on-officer-video

  18. Re:CompuTrace on Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Looked into this once before for a big rollout.. Very hard to get actual info on. All the BIOS chip does, is re-install the software automatically and silently in windows. (they have some sort of special encryption key or something)..

    if you ever feel the need to steal a laptop, install linux, freeBSD, or make it a hackintosh, and the computrace is worthless..

  19. Re:Obligatory comment on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out · · Score: 1

    I liked it as well, until the last update. Little things started killing my productivity. Like when I would get a new chat message in Pidgin. I would go up to the indicator area, click on the envelope, then see a list of several chats I had, many that were quite old, I would click on hte newest one, and it woudl blink, and the indicator would go off.. But that was it. It wouldn't actually load up the pidgin window to the chat. If I went directly to pidgin, it wouldn't turn off the indicator envelope. Thunderbird had some similar bugs, which is even more disappointing than the Pidgin one, since thunderbird is the default mail client. There are actually quite a few other things, but they are all just little things that have added to to being a waste of time.

  20. Re:Cherry picking on Lawrence, KS To Get Gigabit Fiber — But Not From Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hate to tell you, but the incumbent providers can cherry pick too, and have for quite some time. My neighborhood has no cable as an option, but its a mile in any direction. And good luck even trying to figure out who at ATT you can talk to about getting a remote DSLAM in your neighborhood so you can get decent internet speeds.

  21. Re:"Equal Terms" on How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my state, they "supported" a lot of legislators, and franchising of telecom is now handled by the state. Less candidates to "support" that way, I guess.

  22. Re:Washington monument gambit, again. on Sequester Grounds Blue Angels · · Score: 1

    Thats not just a federal thing.. How often do hear about the state police cutting back on managers and desk jockeys? its always patrol officers. (the ones that are most visible, and that respond if you need help). How often do schools lay off the coordinators, directors, etc? Its always the teachers, so that the parents scream to the politicians.

    Its just kind of annoying now.. I guess I'm numb to it.

  23. ldap? on Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released · · Score: 1

    There is some ways to recompile ssh to lookup using ldap, but I really wish that it would be baked in. I would love to just put a list of authorized keys, which host and user they go to, like we can with sudo in ldap.

  24. Re:High Speed for who? on Closing the Gap To Improve the Capacity of Existing Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 1

    Remember that, when your farmers all move. Or lumberjacks, or fisherman. Its kind of easy to live in the city, since everyone out in the country ships stuff to you. Moving is not a choice for many people, especially in rural areas, where you might have to move dozens (or even hundreds) of miles to get somewhere with internet. HUGE swaths of the US have no real internet. Its kind of like electricity and roads before WW1.

    Hell, I live 5 miles from a major city, and have only rural wireless ISP. I was lucky to find them, and their 1Mb/s for $65/month. ATT can't even tell me who to talk to about what it would take to get my 100 house subdivision hooked up with DSL. There are DSLAM's 1 mile in either direction, and their call centers can't tell me anything, because they are all clueless.

  25. Re:No taxation without representation? on US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate · · Score: 1

    In most states, the sales tax is not paid by the company. The state is taxing YOU. It just mandates that companies that want to sell to you have to collect the tax and submit it.

    I'm actually kind of surprised the states haven't started issuing subpoena to the large online retailers, to get names and addresses of people that have ordered over a certain amount. and then go after them. (In pretty much every state with sales tax, you are required by law to include those purchase totals on your taxes, but nobody enforces it)