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  1. Re: Not everyone lives alone on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it's designed to get people cutting the cord.

    People using that much data are very likely downloading lots of video. This way they can charge the $30 that they lost when the cable sub was cancelled, but still be network neutral.

  2. Re: Actually, the common saying... on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    The issue I had was with DOS 7 (the one that shipped as the loader for windows 9x). I couldn't remove enough to make it work, well I probably could spend five minutes skimming about DOS memory management now, and do it, but back then I couldn't figure it out.

    If memory serves, I couldn't bump the mouse into higher memory and it was too large of a driver.

  3. Re:15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 remains my favorite multi-window UI.

    The way it never takes over the whole screen when I hit "start", and the multi window hover from taskbar, with window snapping.

    I haven't tried Windows 10, but it looks, at a glance, the same, but with an improved start menu.

  4. Re: 15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    Similar to with Netware?

  5. Re:Actually, the common saying... on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    I never managed to get Elder Scrolls: Arena to work with Win 9x for that reason. It didnt' leave enough conventional memory (maybe it was 98 specifically when I hit the issue). It required a really significant portion of conventional memory.

  6. Re:00000-00000-00000-00000-00000 heh on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    which means it should have been quite quick (1 in seven numbers working).

    I vaguely remember it being something with the sum of digits, but still, similarly frequent to get a match (sum of digits divide by seven is what sticks in my head).

  7. Re:Slow is why it's expensive. on Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive · · Score: 1

    I agree, on flights where it's cost me $10 (which I think is more than fair), my access has been MUCH better than on flights where it's cost $5.

  8. Re:Linux File Systems on MIT's New File System Won't Lose Data During Crashes · · Score: 1

    That's how I read it, wishing that v4 had done that already.

  9. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 0

    Also, if someone lets you know a brick can go through your window, better replace is with bullet proof glass.

    Though I think companies holding massive amounts of data should be held to a higher standard than people protecting their own stuff, I do agree with your general point.

  10. Re: Suckers on Tesla Partners With Airbnb, Subsidizes Chargers · · Score: 1

    I assume one rental of a whole house in California covers it. I'm about to go to a place that's five day minimum at hundreds a day (we're a large group renting, no Teslas, but if they get one family extra in because ofbit, they're golden).

    If one tesla owner goes to your place because they can charge, it is a very positive ROI.

  11. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Is your argument we call them Indians because that's what they called them self?

    That implication is very confusing to me and derailed my comprehenaion, could you please further elaborate on this confusing point for using a far more ambiguous term there?

  12. Re: Can we quit pretending that it's car "sharing" on Uber Drivers Arrested By Undercover Cops In Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    The only time I used uber was in San Fransisco, yes, I could use uber x, and save a little money, but what I actually did was use Uber to hail a cab. It wasn't about saving money, it was about finding an empty Cab three blocks away to come get me. There was also black car service. I'd actually be surprised if the majority of their business in areas with a semi decent taxi system is the private drivers ( not shocked, but a little surprised). The people I know that use them primarily use the black car and cab services in DC and San Fransisco.

    Now, where I live, I've used UberX, but there isn't really an alternative to getting picked up and delivered locally in general.

  13. Re: They could have branded it differently on Inside the Failure of Google+ · · Score: 1

    That was kind of like Buzz

    Picassa was (prior to getting eaten by G+) a great cross platform photo orginizer, with online storage ability.

    Buzz integrated with it very well to post photos out of my collections.

    Buzz displayed as a folder in gmail, and integrated with Google Chat.

    It was fantastic, then G+ came around and there was no picassa, photos were an add on service to G+, except the vast majority of photos I take and orginize are not for social media. Then chat and email and messaging became all confused, which chats go to which sites is ambiguous, and I can't connect with third party services or apps.

    It's a shame they finally realize G+ sucks after making so many other services worse when trying to integrate. Even though those services were already nicely integrated into a social network.

  14. Re: Niggers on Hitchhiking Robot's Cross-Country Trip Ends In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    Where are you getting your facts? Philadelphia is not more white than black.

    Or sounds like a bored kid crime race neutral to me though.

  15. Re: Music? on Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call · · Score: 1

    The study seems to say music I don't know is a distraction, which matches my experience.

    Also, I'm curious how it plays out to music free work for hours straight vs the study length.

  16. Re:My Cell Data Usage "Current Period 12.4 GB" on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 1

    Do they add up to close? the cellular network could include protocol overhead.

  17. Re:It depends on your theory of value on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 2

    The advertiser could stop showing ads that don't generate revenue.

    The advertiser wants to get revenue per ad shown, but they could offer businesses different ways to pay.

    Pay per a click (sites that exist on advertising themselves may prefer this model), pay per a view (brands such as coke or pepsi may prefer this), pay per revenue (sites that actually sell things may prefer this). The ad network only cares about pay per view, but if one ad has a huge click through percentage, they could list that ad, and everybody wins (ad network gets more money, the site profiting on the click throughs does too). Similarly a site that has a decent sell through rate of expensive purchases may be the most profitable ad to show.

    There's no reason to only have on pricing model, and by diversifying the purchase amount the buyers can optimize their budgeting (perhaps at an overall expense to themselves), and the sellers can maximize their per view payment,

    This is how google used to so it when you bid price per a click for keywords, ads that weren't clicked on simply were no longer shown.

  18. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    Where in California?

    I was in northern California (not even that far, south of Redding by a bit anyway), and there was a lot of gun love. Maybe not as much as the Texans who visited Alaska had, but a lot more than most places I've been to with gun love.

  19. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    Yes, I phrased poorly, what I meant was that there are 3 things that I can think of that would make this illegal:
    1) discharge laws, and I would hope anybody shooting a gun looks into that
    2) concealed weapon, this is definitely not that
    3) injuring someone when it's not self-defense, did not happen

    I didn't mean to make a statement on what the laws should be (where I suspect we differ, but really wasn't my point).

    I am curious though, you think it's OK if I eat a bunch of shrooms, drive down the highway at 20mph, but there's no accidents?

    Minimum highway speed, and intoxicated driving laws shouldn't exist? I assume you feel the same way about trespassing? If your door is unlocked, or your window open, I can go take a nap on your couch? What if I pick the lock in a non damaging way?

    I think that extremely risky behavior should be banned, because many damages can't be fully compensated for.

  20. Re: Redirecting 127.0.0.1 on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 1

    It's full of infringing content.

    And some of it is quite filthy.

  21. Re: this is outrageous. on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    You realize the 3/5ths law was a compromise meant to reduce the power of slave owners (or increase depending on your side of th bcomprimise)?

    The law was that slaves were not even people, they were chattle, owned by their owner, with no rights. They would have been far better off treated as 0 wrt to their owners representation in government.

  22. Re: Investigating if laws were broken on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    Many areas have discharge laws, that make firing a gun illegal except for defense, or at a range. Areas where that's not the case still have rules wrt proximity to a house or playground.

    Probably the minority of land area, but the majority of the population within those areas at any given moment.

  23. Re: They're not going to arrest him! on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More importantly, unless discharge laws were violated, why should this be illegal?

    It's not concealed, nobody was hurt.

  24. Re: It should be "an" not "a" on A Month With a Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's ewww-boon-too

  25. Re: Works for me - whatever that is worth on Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had this problem with small websites I run. A lot of contact forms default to using the submitter as from still, I have to edit the code that sends the mail in the module to be from the site's domain and use the reply-to.

    I started having to do this year's ago, yet very few modules let you take advantage of reply-to still. Very annoying.