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  1. Re:The life cycle of the Internet on Net Neutrality Goes Down in Flames as FCC Votes To Kill Title II Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, I'm not big on class warfare

    An analysis of class warfare may find that it exists... that the upper classes are pushing on the lower ones, but using all the communication tools at their disposal to hide the fact that the battles exist, therefore making what actually is a counterpunch look like the initial punch. Witness the current fight over the ACA/AHCA. A billionaire pushing health care cost reform with the help of other millionaires to remove health care from some poor folks. Why? The rich folks think the poor folks are too pampered, and also they need some math saying they "saved" a billion dollars, to help tax cuts for the rich folks. That's one view of that anyway....

  2. I welcome our ArsSlashdotica overlords on Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Slashdot articles that I care to read i've already read where they linked from - ArsTechnica. Is Slashdot now just an aggregator of other sites now?

  3. I've got Comcast. Just that, Comcast.

    Price increases? Got em. Got serious price increases, seriously.

  4. Re:But Why? on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 4, Informative

    14.0.0.0/8 and 15.0.0.0/8 could be combined to 14.0.0.0/7 (or 15.0.0.0/7 if you prefer). 15 and 16 can't be combined. Do it in binary and it will be more obvious.

  5. Re:But Why? on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Technically, just the MIT LCS lab, not even the whole school, had the A block.

    DEC also had a class A address block for a while. HP got this, plus their own, when they bought DEC. At one point, HP had twice as many IP addresses than China.

    The Internet grew way more than any of the founders thought. 4 billion addresses seemed huge back then. Look at the List of assigned A blocks and how A blocks were thrown around in the early days.

  6. Hard to Drain the Swamp if the swamp comes in and lobbies every day with a suitcase full of cash. Trump was elected on the idea that he was above being bought and manipulated, yet here he is making it easier to be manipulated. At best, very very bad optics for his "clean the politics as usual" at wors, an invitation to graft.

    So, Day 88, not even first hundred days, he has no big successes, a few major failures, and probably not one campaign promise that hasn't been crushed. arguably getting his supreme court nominee in, when he controlled the senate, is his best success, and that's mostly procedural.

  7. "Real job", hmmm, biased much?

  8. Re:Reminder: "Hacking" was mere illumination on Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    By your metaphor, i can take your wallet and take your credit card, since you're just going to hand it over to a store anyway. I mean, it's the same thing right? Information wants to be free and all that.

    Hillary lost for a bunch of reasons, including Comey, including hacks, including the fact that she had the wrong message, including after having to listen to a black man for 8 years white males didn't want to listen to a woman. And ignore all the times where the US interferes in other elections. Anyone remember the "don't elect Lula or we'll make things hard for you" we said to Brazil?

    But ignore all that. They hacked the mail servers, current law is that is a crime, they should be punished.

  9. I run it... Bulletproof

    In the niche you need it for, an embedded, Hands off XMBC/Kodi install that you set once and pretty much forget (meaning you can set it up for your folks and not worry about support calls) it's very popular. Much like Microsoft Windows would be popular with a bunch of PC makers but not so much with cell phone makers. Yeah, it's a niche, but it dominates its niche.

    Or were you being snarky?

  10. On a small computer you knew everything on Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    I had the "Mapping the C64" book. Said every address on the computer. Now, good luck knowing 5% of what's happening on your box.

    Also, cassettes sucked. Slow, and head alignment issues meant you weren't always able to share tapes.

  11. one sixth of a wall

  12. By the way, Batman VS Superman is surely not the worst of all.

    Suicide Squad was particularly bad. There was a suit, interesting idea, that the trailers showed so much Joker but he was barely in the film. False advertising was the claim

    For me:

    *) was too much of him.

    *) seems an obvious conclusion that much of his performance was left in the cutting room. Seems they thought there was too much Leto as well.

  13. Can you skip The Matrix and just redo 2 and 3? on 'The Matrix' Reboot: It's Finally Happened. Hollywood Has Run Out of All the Ideas (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I think this was Richard Jeni. I don't remember the exact skit, but it was something like:

    Why do people make classic Movies. They're already good. Why don't you remake bad movies and make them good. Why don't you make Jaws 3d good. Why don't you make Biodome at least watchable.

  14. I always say --

    I really do hope there's an evil Phase 2 to Google, possibly enslaving us and forcing us to use Google Wave, Buzz, and Knol. Because if they're tracking me across every web page, every place I go, listen to everything I say, just to sell me socks, I'd be disappointed.

  15. Re: Stone tablet and chisel on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    It's good to be the King

  16. How cross compatible is this? on Google Renames Messenger To Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    From a couple news articles that i saw, certain Cell Providers are islands to themselves. e.g. RCS on T-Mobile doesn't necessarily work with RCS on Verizon and vice versa,.

    In other news, yet another yet another messaging protocol from google. I guess im the one who needs to add the XKCD: Standards Image

  17. Re:Devils advocate, isn't this protected by the DM on Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    People who ask for this are above the law, either cops who don't care if what they do is illegal, or criminals who don't care.

  18. There kind of was, in a weird way.

    In the way back 70s and 80s even, if i was being spied upon on a public street, it was pretty certain there was something specific about me. Maybe I was a crook, maybe I was a cheating spouse, or (very unlikely) maybe i just had a stalker. It was expensive to spy on someone. So only certain people could ever be targets.

    Now, everyone can be targeted cheaply. That's a different world. that's a different world than the Founding Fathers could see. Maybe they'd specifically say "you should be able to disappear in public unless there was a warrant".

  19. those tend to be thermal printing, so not sure about the supplies issue. special paper.

  20. For some reason, Kernel Sanders made me think of Dr Fun: Kernel Panic

    For those that don't know, Dr Fun was the first webcomic 520 weeks, or 10 years worth

  21. Re:Pascal-based? on Japan Unveils Next-Generation, Pascal-Based AI Supercomputer (nextplatform.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking "Mr Wirth would be very happy..."

  22. Re:But the question... on Skype Gets A New Competitor: Amazon Announces Chime (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0

    Android, and therefore FireOS, both have the Linux kernel at their core. So they can say "yeah, we do Linux"

  23. Hmm, marketing dept confusion on the value add? on Microsoft Launches Outlook.com Premium Email Service, Costs $20 Per Year (thurrott.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, when you hear the Ad people talk it's "we add value by presenting opportunities for consumers" and the deep data mining is justified with "we use data to target unique ads that will delight our users"... ... and now we have a payment plan to not have ads. Admitting "yeah, ads suck so much people will pay us not to show them" Not that MS still won't datamine the crap out of you in other contexts though.

  24. Re:This is news for nerds or stuff that matters? on Human Resources Startup Zenefits Is Laying Off Almost Half Its Employees (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    WhatsApp had 55 employees when it sold for billions. Sizing a company by headcount is so last Century.

    I say that last part with a bit of irony. I actually liked it when people actually, you know, made things, instead of piggybacking on free content from others.

  25. Re:Bad Name or Fraud?? on Human Resources Startup Zenefits Is Laying Off Almost Half Its Employees (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Zen + Benefits. didn't you hear that anything Zen is cool? What is the sound of one pink slip dropping?

    Also, the googles means alphabetical order is less important than a single name that's unique. So we get zenefits.