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  1. Re:Reminds me of Comcasts DNS Hijacking on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I've lived in Rochester for the past two years (plus a couple months) and it's definitely here the entire time. Before that, I had TWC in various other cities across central NY and they've been doing it there since at least 2004, probably earlier but that's the last date I can definitely account for.

  2. Re:Reminds me of Comcasts DNS Hijacking on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Time Warner has been doing this here forever. It's a pain in the ass because it takes much longer than a simple "not found" message to load and offers no useful results.

  3. Re:Comcast's memo in reaction on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I believe the idea behind it has nothing to do with the delivery mechanisms beyond the fact that both go over the Internet connection. However, Xfinity traffic is given priority at the expense of potentially competing services. If you have 2GB/month cap and Xfinity doesn't count towards it, then Xfinity practically has a monopoly for the rest of the month once that 2GB is used up.

    Comcast's defense is that the app turns the Xbox, etc into another cable box (since it's only available with their cable plan), so it shouldn't count towards your data usage anyway.

  4. Psychic on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe Comcast created some kind of psychic link for Xfinity so it doesn't have to go over the tubes connected to your house? Thus why it doesn't count towards your bandwidth!

    My theory is that it's probably such a huge bandwidth hog that they don't want anyone to realize that it would kill their cap in 10 minutes.

  5. Re:difficulties? on VA Court To Review "Official" Email Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can legislate anything you damn well please. You can even enforce a good majority of it. Whether or not it will work as intended is another matter.

  6. Re:Monetizing... what would Hollywood know? on Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Movies that Hollywood has claimed a loss for:
    - Forrest Gump (as a result, the author refused to sell the studio the rights to the sequel)
    - Spiderman (Stan Lee successfully sued over this one)
    - My Big Fat Greek Wedding (most of the cast then sued the studio for a share of the profits)
    - Babylon 5 ("Basically", says Straczynski, "by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits.")
    - Lord of the Rings (resulted in Peter Jackson not directing The Hobbit, also - 15 actors suing the studio for not receiving their cut of the profits)
    - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (reported a $167 million loss... which is roughly equal to the film's budget.)

  7. Re:airwaves on Dutch Pirate Party Dragging BREIN To Court · · Score: 1

    The only difference I see is licensing. The over-the-airwaves content is licensed for that - stuff from torrents generally is not.
    That said, I believe some European countries have a tax on TVs or the likes to cover over-the-airwaves media (not sure on this, as I live in the US)

  8. Re:Plenty of suckers in the sea on The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you think it's bad for the victims, think of the poor princes in Africa who can't find anyone to believe them when they want to traffic large sums of money into an offshore account?

  9. Over-Phishing on The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's continue using the phishing analogy

    Fly-phishing: Phishing involving air travel
    Saltwater Phishing - Phishing from overseas
    Weekend Phishing - A leisure time activity that's used more as an excuse to drink beer than to scam people
    Phishing Boat - A scammer's base of operations located on a vessel in international waters
    Phishing Rod - Viagra scams
    Phishing Line - Like a pick-up line, but for money instead of sex.

  10. Theory on Fomalhaut's Exoplanets Have Orbits That Defy Theory · · Score: 1

    So... what is the theory that its defying? Don't see that part in the summary or in a skimming of the article. All I see is them saying we don't know enough about this yet to even have a theory.

  11. Re:Derivative work of C/C++ on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    The whitespace* of course!

    *I don't know enough Java to know whether it even gives a damn about whitespace

  12. Re:Derivative work of C/C++ on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether the syntax is the creative part. If you copyright a textbook, the facts and figures are not protected, only any creative elements are.

  13. Re:Gabe Newell is ex-microsoft employee on Valve Hiring Hardware Developers · · Score: 1

    I suspect that whatever you're smoking hasn't been approved for human consumption...

  14. Re:Used a technique called "rubbing it with a penc on Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not to mention how many times she could have revised it in the 5 months it took to recover. A 26 page paper was a lazy week (or mildly stressful weekend) in college.

  15. Re:Warning: on Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages · · Score: 4, Funny

    He meant Mao, but his keyboard ran out of ink before it finished the top of the "o"

  16. What I take on Baboons Learn To Identify Words · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "The study's lead scientist, Jonathan Grainger, explains that a simple change in the study's methodology — allowing the subjects to work the training machine at times of their own choosing, rather than on a schedule determined by the researchers, made all the difference."

    What I take from this is that when I was in high school, I should have been able to get up at noon and go to school then if I wanted to. Guarantee I would have learned more in calculus than having it at 7:30am.

  17. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Like RIT's recent gun tip. Turned out to be an umbrella with a samurai sword handle. Which can totally be mistaken for a gun stock.

  18. Re:Yeah, good luck with that. on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    "Well yes, officer, I beat my wife. But she was egging me on!"

    I would like to see them prove that he wouldn't have killed himself in the absence of those posts. If that wasn't the final straw, something else would have been.

  19. Re:Shouldn't be a crime on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So... if you break up with your girlfriend and she jumps off a bridge because of it, then you're an accessory?

  20. Re:erm... what? on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Considering all of the prior news stories on Thunderbolt, I don't see why they should have to explain it on every article any more than they have to explain what a browser is on every article about Chrome.

  21. Re:erm... what? on Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt separates those who know how to use Google from the users.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  22. Re:Missing from article on How Windows FreeCell Gave Rise To Online Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    I would assume there's only a finite number of possible moves. I don't know how far they've gotten into it before getting stuck, but I would assume it's well before there's any open cells (other than the four up top), so I would imagine there's only a few hundred - or thousand at most - possibilities.

  23. Re:Entanglement Confusion on The First Universal Quantum Network · · Score: 2

    But without latency, what will the losing team blame it on?

  24. Re:Depends on pay on Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. In the US we call it being salaried.

  25. Re:Because Hybrids Don't Pay For Themselves on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    No, but most of the parts that need to be replaced in the non-hybrid will need to be replaced in the hybrid as well - the battery is something extra (and often very expensive) to replace that should be factored in if you plan to own the car past it's warranty period.