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  1. Re:SEC block? on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 1

    There are only two signals you can send to your cable company: giving them money or not giving them money. When you keep giving them money, you are telling them that you approve of their behavior and wish them to continue.

    Continuing to pay them for a service you don't think is worth the money is utter stupidity.

  2. Re:The Safe Bet Here on Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed · · Score: 1

    That is silliness. You could use the same logic to say that the public shouldn't have the right to bear arms, because in 50 years, some future Hitler could confiscate all those guns. Not to mention that all dictator-types can circumvent any law they want, simply by disregarding it, or getting the people to happily demand the old law's repeal.

  3. Re: The Safe Bet Here on Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The paranoid reasoning for this is that: turn off all the proletariat's phones, leaving the network intact for the privileged civil service to perform this functions.

  4. Re:Untested? on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    I though Under Armor was just t-shirts and whatnot that people wear so they can feel "tactical".

  5. Re:Antitrust lawsuit? on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 1

    My stupid little village can't even keep the streetlights running. I'll be goddamned if I want them playing with fiber optics.

  6. Re:SEC block? on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 1

    Then cancel your service.

  7. Re:ogahdno on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 1

    How is it in jeopardy? Each consumer will still have the same amount of choice they started with. Cable, FIOS or ADSL, or satellite. If Comcast sucks, they will chose the other options. It doesn't make a shit-sack of difference whether my cable choice is Comcast or Time Warner, nor does it matter whether I have the same cable choice as someone in Portland.

  8. Re: Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    Right, but the poster said it costs nothing to make.

  9. If your hardware still has bugs that need to be fixed after the three years of warranty coverage, they can't be all that important.

  10. Or you could invest a couple hundred bucks and become an HP certified professional. It's 2014 for christ's sake, there is no excuse to be selling your services without something as basic as that.

  11. Re:Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep.. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to bet that this will really only effect small shops with a few machines. I'd also be willing to bet that those clients cost HP a lot more in support (per dollar of sales) than your giant enterprise customers. Perhaps this is a conscious effort to unload that sector of the market.

  12. Re: Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    That's what I loved about the HP/Compaq lines of machines. Everything was available, free and easy. Going all the way back to when you could dial into their BBS and download service packs for BIOS setup disks.

  13. Re: Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    It costs Netgear something to create the patches.

  14. Re:Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep.. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    How would the switch know what is inside the ethernet frames?

  15. Re:Well if HP didn't already have a terrible rep.. on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    An 8 bit wav is all you need for telephones. The telephone network is very low bandwidth.

  16. Re:Hate it on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    That happens when there is some kind of hack in the middle of the connection. Like digital to POTS converters or shit switching and routing configurations. The same thing happened at my company, and then they finished the deployment and everything was much better.

  17. Re:What about surveillence? on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    Relying on difficulty to combat government abuses is not an effective method. Hold them to high standards and it won't matter how easy or hard it is.

  18. Re:It's Like The Last Piece Of Technology That Wor on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    It sounds great when it is VOIP from end to end, and if all the packets manage to make it through.

  19. Re:Huh? on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    You still need to power something at either end of the fiber.

  20. Re:Huh? on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    I understand the reluctance, but it doesn't have to be dangerous. We can just switch to some kind of wireless beacon device like they use on the water. Three buttons, fire, police and ems. Hit the button, people show up at your house.

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

    Maybe the unions could guarantee job security by giving the school districts the best possible teachers? If a teacher doesn't meet standards, pull them out of the classroom and send them back to school. They keep their jobs, and children aren't victimized by the unions' desire to keep their people employed.

  22. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    Have you ever even seen a modern wind turbine farm? If you had, you'd be able to see that wind generation is not highly variable.

  23. Re:Oh, Frack on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: -1

    Sure, that makes perfect sense. Some juice from the back of a tanker truck can bend a tectonic plate?

  24. Re:Wait so now on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. My parents and all their cousins grew up in houses with about 100 sq feet per person. Three bedrooms, 7 kids, etc. Sure, they were able to live on dad's salary, but mom's entire day was spent toiling so they could make it work. If you want to live like they did in the 70s (and 60s and 50s), you certainly can on one income. But it won't be pretty, because it wasn't pretty then either. We have two income households because we have greater expectations for standards of living.

  25. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    I think the rebuild time depends on the sustained write ability of the controller and drive more than the size of the drive. It is always going to take X amount of time to fill up a hard drive, whether the source of the data is one other drive or 7 other drives.

    Yes, RAID is not a backup. But it definitely can reduce the number of times you need to use your backups.

    I would also suggest that if doing a resync affects client performance all that much, your machine is misconfigured or under-specced.