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  1. Re:What the fuck is the point of the ISP middleman on Google Ready To Unleash Thousands of Balloons In Project Loon · · Score: 1

    Google consumes little to no bandwidth on the ISP end of things, that's all consumed by you and me. All Googles bandwidth consumption is on the backbone side of things, which they pay dearly for.

  2. A reputation is not proof. There are more than a few "great" men who've gotten by on their reputation for past deeds while they talk impressionable young devotees into doing the bulk of the actual work for them, which they then take credit for.

    Isn't that pretty much what management does? A good manager will take the credit for the work his team does then hand out credit within the team in for form of evaluations. If said manager is taking personal credit for the work of the team, or any member, or said "manager" isn't the manager and just taking credit for the work of others on his team, then, yeah, that dude needs to be booted out the door.

  3. Great on Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is actually a good thing. There are millions of homes in the rural U.S. that have copper phone lines to them that will NEVER get fiber. Anything to get even old timey DSL out to them will be a good thing. I myself would love to move a couple of miles outside of town on a couple of acres.

  4. Re:Remote access?! on DHS: Drug Infusion Pumps Vulnerable To Trivial Hacks · · Score: 1

    IOT. IOT! Every fucking thing including each led segment in my ovens digital display HAS TO FUCKING HAVE it's own IP address and access to the internet.

    Christ, dude. You want the world to end or something? Without every cell in our body connected to every other cell on the planet via the internet, we're all doomed!

  5. Re:It's that damn cancer! on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    It took MS how long to catch up in that regard? 40 years or so isn't that far behind.

  6. TIOT is going to be the end of us all... on Google Nest Rumored To Be Moving Into Audio · · Score: 2

    I'll say this again... Fuck The Internet of Things. Thermostats, smoke detectors, ovens, refrigerators, LED light bulbs and now audio? How much of our privacy and control are we going to give away? Networked devices are fine - if I retain full control and keep usage stats inhouse, but I'll be damed if I'll give control and monitoring over to any corporation in the name of "convenience". Why in hell does my temperature adjustment or light turning on or off or dimming need to go into the cloud, frigging before it even happens? There's enough processing power in a Raspbery Pi to handle the needs of the majority of homes, fuck your cloud spy devices.

    Todays iCrap outage should be a wake up call, but I fear it won't. They'll patch (not fix, patch) whatever caused that, blame the problem on some terrorist group, and say it's all good. It'll happen again, and it'll be the same same again.

    I'm glad I'm a do it yourselfer who can hack my house to do what I want it to do, because believe me, I will never give that much control and info of my life over to anyone. The rest of you... Well, if you handen't've (yes, that's a word) been such dicks to the nerds in high school/college, maybe you'd have someone to help you out.

  7. Re:And so... on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the reading world. You must have just learned to read, or been on an African safari for the past few years if you think this has just started. MS makes a significant portion of their bottom line on Android licensing, and if it weren't for the Chinese government, we still wouldn't know what the hell they claim to control.

    I just hope Kyocera has the balls to fight this shit and win.

  8. Re:Looks like Windows 3 on Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you care about eye candy rather than technical features of software.

    No, but I do care about ascetics, and I don't want my desktop to look like a 90's reject.

    People like you are the reason GUI have become bloated pieces of shit

    Nope. Lazy programmers are the reason for this.

  9. Re:Looks like Windows 3 on Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser · · Score: 1

    You're right. This looks even worse. I want my tabs to be distinguishable from each other by more than just a barely visible line and have rounded corners. I want my windows to have borders so I can tell where one ends and another begins.

  10. Looks like Windows 3 on Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why in hell are we going back to 2D windows? Hell, we just go to the point where they were looking decent, and now everyone's going back to that ugly flat-ass look of the 90's?

  11. Re:Well done FCC on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we can get the content providers and ISPs separated, like it should be, maybe we'll see competition like we had in the days of dial-in. Oh to have the option to choose my ISP based on MY needs and desires, rather than either DSL or Cable, or only one of them and no other choice.

    That should be our next goal. Split the content providers and ISPs into two separate entities.

  12. No desire to port on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    If the developers were really concerned with ease of porting, they'd use an engine that's available on all platforms. With the right engine, all that should be needed to port a game is to compile it for the desired platform. Isn't this all they do for the Win/Mac games?

  13. Re: Note that this is a little different from sof on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 2

    Mickey Mouse is 85 and that little shit is still under copyright. Most likely will be for the rest of time, too.

    I do get the point though. I see nothing wrong with making a copy of a physical object and selling it, if he value of the object is it's originality. Making copies of physical consumer items and selling them is, and should remain, illegal.

  14. Re:While the idea it good. Impractical on Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room · · Score: 1

    I'm positive about it. I had to cut into a wall to reroute my toilet fill line (old one filled from the top of the reservoir, new ones fill from the bottom). Definitely drywall and tongue and groove boards. There's still tatters of the original fabric wall coverings nailed to the boards.

    Butifull wood, too. Very tight growth rings and zero knots in the couple of square foot section I opened up.

  15. Re:While the idea it good. Impractical on Li-Fi-like System Pushes 100Gbps Within a Small Room · · Score: 1

    ...Tell that to anyone with a house that is more than 400 sqft.... Wifi has a range of about 100 ft indoors

    Which means the range covers over 30,000 sqft. Now of course your house is not perfectly round, and your access point won't be in the exact center. But there's still plenty of margin to cover a decent-sized house.

    Yeah, right. My house was build in the 1940's. My router is about 40 feet straight line to my bedroom. We're talking three walls between it and me, and I get piss-poor wifi in the bedroom.

    Now granted those three walls do have quite a bit of lumber in them, being 1/2" tongue and grove boards covered in drywall. I'd be willing to bet you could get close to completing two of todays "normal sized" 2400 sq. ft. homes with what's in my 1800 sq. ft. home.

  16. EMI and computers.... on Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot · · Score: 1
    Maybe this will bring some sanity back into the computer world and put an end to all these windowed cases and caseless computers spewing radiation all over the place. People really have no idea that radiation is detectable and can be deciphered.

    Wondering how your neighbor got your banking info? Well, you transmitted it to him...

  17. Re:Okay, so? on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 2

    ... So... why is this here?

    Because /. isn't dedicated to you or any specific individual. Perhaps you should publish your own blog, dedicated solely to your needs, desires and interests and be the only subscriber. That way, you'll be on a site that is.

  18. Re:They do it for us! on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 2

    US Jobs Policy:

    Step 1: Export tech jobs overseas to increase corporate profit
    Step 2: Throw all low-skill immigrants back across the border
    Step 3: Now US tech workers can get jobs doing lawn work, picking crops, and nannying.

    Step 2 needs to happen so we can put our own uneducated unemployed to work. And before you start saying the current illegal immigrants in the country pay taxes I'll counter that with the fact that the current uneducated unemployed will not only pay those same taxes, but will also not be sending money to family out of country. This will both lessen their burden on the system (more/some income means less/no government aid) and increase the tax revenues for state, federal and sales.

  19. Re:No thru traffic on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    In that case, there should no objections to prohibiting through traffic, however not by increasing the local police presence. Their salary does not come from property taxes.

    One thing to keep in mind here though, is that by limiting usage they may be making things harder on themselves. Having to drive around through another's neighborhood would be doing the same to another they are trying to prevent in their own. Making one ways and dead ends where they weren't planed for from the beginning can cause more trouble.

  20. Re:No thru traffic on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 0

    You need to make it a privately funded road for that to work. I feel for the residents, and am all for limiting the convenience of using it as a short cut, but If my tax dollars (sales, state and fuel taxes) pay for that road, I'm damn well allowed to drive on it.

  21. Re:What a great idea! on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 2

    Did you read past the first sentence in the summery? They're talking about relaxing the physical requirements. High school education and criminal histories will still considered as they are now. Hell, that was made clear in the second sentence.

  22. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 1

    Current uptime on my desktop: 23 days 4 minutes and 42 seconds

    I do not understand - that wouldn't even be a boast on Windows95 let alone something designed for stability.

    If I were boasting I would've fudged the uptime. I don't like lugging my UPS around, so it also gets powered down for relocation, the occasional hardware upgrade/replacement, and every now and then for a thorough clean out.

  23. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 2

    Hit the button, grab coffee, work.

    More like hit the button, go to get coffee and get new mail notification before I get two steps away. My system gets put to sleep, not powered down at night, and it's up and ready for me within five seconds. The only time I reboot is for a kernel update.

    Current uptime on my desktop: 23 days 4 minutes and 42 seconds.

  24. Disney doesn't own the airspace. on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 1

    Sorry Disney, you don't own the airspace. If you want to be outdoors in private, you build a fence. If there's a building or hill with a view of your property, oh well. Someone wants to fly over the property? Oh well. If you want privacy of that nature, film indoors or use a tarp of some kind. You have no right to stop people from exercising their rights, and you have no right to privacy if you can be seen from a public location.

    This is one of the main reasons for the push to limit drone operation in the U.S. It has nothing to do with public safety, it has everything to do with corporate secrecy.

  25. Re:Pro Tip: on Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use · · Score: 1

    Holy shit! It's now racist to hate one black person, not for being black, but for any reason at all? Or is Condoleeza Rice the member of the Condoleeza Rice race?