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  1. Re:Let me get this straight on Netflix Blinks, Will Pay Comcast For Network Access · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Troll? This is completely accurate and has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. Netflix wants to be closer to Comcast because Comcast and Cogent have a shitty connection, so Netflix is paying Comcast to add specific connections for them. It's like paying for a Tier 1 colo instead of a Tier 3 colo. Come on people, this is Slashdot

  2. Re:They're finally going to do something. on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, that's the thing. Kim killed the family member that had the tightest ties with China, so the only reason this letter got out is probably because China said they would go along with it

  3. Re:Really?!?! on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 2

    Server core won't work for many applications that require GUI access for configuration or management on the server itself.

  4. not exactly on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    I'd say that is applicable to medium and large business, but in small business where the engineer is also the proprietor or partner, it's a different story.

  5. Re:The Surprised Dutch Prosecutor on Utopia, Silk Road's Latest Replacement, Only Lasted Nine Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like Tor itself is compromised

  6. Re:use dropbox or google drive or icloud on Ask Slashdot: Local Sync Options For Android Mobile To PC? · · Score: 1

    Yep. Private Dropbox has autosync features. Also SkyDrive.

  7. Re:UK invented HTTP. on ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says EU · · Score: 1

    That's a term that hasn't been in use since the Cold War. Obama certainly has never called himself that, nor Bush

  8. Re:UK invented HTTP. on ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says EU · · Score: 1

    What does it have to do with exceptionalism? This is like when people biatch at a developer to make a change for them because they don't like the developers decisions. I'm sorry, but it's the developer's software.

  9. Re:I'm confused on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 2

    Up until about 5 years ago, it was common to see phones on certain long haul planes in the backs of seats. Hell, a subplot of Die Hard 2 revolves around the fact that this existed. Why is this a problem now and not then?

  10. Re:Open Source Intelligence on How Online Clues Located North Korea's Missile-Launcher Factories · · Score: 1

    Well, they turned up in the 80s when the Kurds were gassed. Consider yourself reminded

  11. Because on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    Because Dreamweaver and Frontpage were awful and no one dares revisit it

  12. Re:Exactly what I was thinking on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Not just that, but the most common thing overlooked in complaining about specific defense projects is that the science and lessons learned are applied to many more things in the future, military and civilian

  13. Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it still isn't illegal. Verizon has been in a battle with Cogent in LA over peering because of streaming services and games chewing up all the bandwidth and both of them wanting more money from each other. They aren't touching the data going through their peered connections on an individual level, instead all the data suffers. This doesn't violate net neutrality. They are neutrally fucking everyone that happens to get routed through Cogent by Verizon.

  14. Re:Suing won't help on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    And Kennedy told African-American civil rights leaders in person to quiet down and not stir up shit because he didn't want distractions while he was working on more important foreign policy issues. When the Freedom Riders came about, he let them get their heads kicked in through a few states before he finally sent a staffer down South to address it(not that he would take care of it himself).

    So, yea, presidents make shitty decisions sometimes that result in people getting hurt. It doesn't change that completely unrelated topics had their own outcomes.

  15. Re:Suing won't help on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    They aren't, but consider the political pull of a school board that oversees 10000 children and a dozen schools to a union local that is part of a state union that spends tens of millions a year in political donations and finagling and with political pull in the governors office and state congress

  16. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 1

    And in the end, the unions serve each other, as they allow themselves to carve out 2 of the 3 highest portions of the budget in the state without stepping on each others toes.

  17. Re:Suing won't help on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And that was an unprecedented show of government authority when it happened. It is highly highly unusual, and generally requires intervention from the highest level, such as when Reagan told the aircontrollers' union to fuck off

  18. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 4, Informative

    California teachers are unionized under the California Teachers Association, which is the first or second most powerful union in the state. The other most powerful union is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (prison guards).

  19. Suing won't help on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The union negotiated contracts are designed this way to protect the union members that have paid the most dues. This is common across the board with union contracts. The unions care about the union members first, then the job itself, even though the individual union members may have different priorities. I'm not saying this is bad or wrong, as looking out for your own is generally a noble thing, but it's something that the courts have supported for forever and it's unlikely to change anytime soon.

  20. Re:the androidness of it all on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 1

    I didn't have an N900, but I know them. My primary concern was always a hardware keyboard. I've moved through my share of hardware keyboard phones, mostly the very solid line of HTC WinMo phones(Kaiser, Mogul, etc). The closest thing I could find nowadays that at least gives me something close to a hardware keyboard while being an actually solid phone is the Galaxy Note series. The Note 2 is cheap now that the Note 3 is out and is still a very solid device. It's Android, which OP doesn't want, but oh well, it does the job.

  21. Re:Forgetting OpenOffice.org on James Gosling Grades Oracle's Handling of Sun's Tech · · Score: 1

    More like there wasn't that much to do. There is a point where a product is done and enters maintenance mode. OpenOffice didn't get the MS Office treatment of redesigning it for the sake of redesigning it, and there is something to be said for that

  22. Re:Forgetting OpenOffice.org on James Gosling Grades Oracle's Handling of Sun's Tech · · Score: 1

    And what changed? Not much.

  23. Re:Forgetting OpenOffice.org on James Gosling Grades Oracle's Handling of Sun's Tech · · Score: 2

    Which is what exactly? I never had any problems with their handling of OO.o. It was free, it wrote files in formats that were easily accessible, it didn't have ugly ribbons, it was intuitive to reformed Office users, it loaded faster than Office, and it handled everything school, home, and most of what work threw at me without issue. For a freeware product, what more could you ask for? Sounds like a good grade to me.

  24. Re:The only plausible solution... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    I guess I don't know how lucky I am to be one of two people in the US with my first initial and my last name. The other being my brother. I guess it's nice having a family name only a few dozen people have

  25. Re:Inevitable... on Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze · · Score: 1

    Think of it from a macro point of view. You might save a few bucks, but it's remarkably difficult to get public transportation funding all across the US and ever dollar lost is just one more thing that those against public transportation will use against new and existing public transport projects in the future