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  1. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    the websites you go to on your phone do not serve ads?

  2. Re:Nonsense on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err, you realize that for the most part, these are changeable via registry settings...?

  3. Re:Deadmau5's logo does resemble Mickey on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: 1

    Oh seriously. Popular culture being what it is, that 3 circles is Mickey's head. To argue otherwise is to deny reality.

  4. Re:Battery life seems to be a killer on Moto 360 Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    This is useful information. Thanks.

  5. Re:Why do so many have a boner for Plan 9? on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    He said fun for programmers. He didn't say useful for users.

  6. Re:"Stuff that matters" on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, how I wish I have mod points right now. The article itself and this article are both worthless.

  7. Re:Android is a defensive play on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 1

    Not debating the point. Only debating OP's original contention that one of Google's cash cows is Android.

  8. Re:I seem to remember... on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 1

    Selling under your manufacturing cost and someone else selling their shit cheaper because their manufacturing cost is lower than yours are two completely different situations.

    Why are you confusing the two?

  9. Re:I seem to remember... on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 1

    I thought Android was a loss leader (and really, only making a pittance, compared to their web/non-mobile search)?

  10. Re:I'd love to be in his class on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 2

    Isn't it the point that he single handedly pissed away Microsoft's lead in tablets, phones, office, windows and Xbox? Making lots of money is easy when you have an illegal monopoly you can leverage.

  11. Brick your phone? on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    They can already brick your phone today.

    Mr. Phone, meet Mr. Brick. *smash*

  12. Re:Just make it fully standards compliant... on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 3, Informative
  13. Re:Just make it fully standards compliant... on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why did mods mark it troll? He is perfectly accurate. Microsoft is *STILL* doing it these days. Right now, my favorite is the one where when your client sends a SYN, and the server responds with a RST, the client sends a couple more SYNs, you know, just in case the app wasn't really sure if it wanted to talk or not... There's even a kb article on it, and a registry setting. Which has a minimum setting of two - so no matter what you do, it will send out two extra spurious SYNs.

    We really need a TCP/MS for all the crap they pull.

  14. Re:How? Blackberry Q10 and Silent Circle Blackphon on F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data · · Score: 1

    Uh, you have been following the news right, the ones where Blackberry voluntarily agrees to give whole sale all the information they have to governments like India, Saudi Arabia, etc?

    You know, the phone where *ALL* your data have to pass through their data centers?

  15. Re:So a non-denial denial on F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data · · Score: 1

    A very good point most people missed.

  16. Re: Why is /. spreading false rumor ? on F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data · · Score: 1

    Right. And all those people who showed information being uploaded are just paranoid people.

  17. Re:WebRTC, Asterisk/FreeSwitch and a JS SIP client on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Lync, setting up AD, and all the services to support it? :)

  18. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    Have you looked into how OpenBSD got started?

  19. Re:Much ado about nothing on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    If you didn't update iOS, how did it actually become slower? Did you perform any measurements? Because, as studies of eyewitnesses have shown, your perception of reality may not match actual reality.

    If you *DID* update iOS, it falls into that new functionality bucket.

  20. Re:Much ado about nothing on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    To quote the professor:

    Yet that’s all it shows: People suddenly feel that their phone is slowing down. It doesn’t show that our iPhones actually became slower.

    And really, if you want new functionality - which requires new code, are you telling me it doesn't make sense that it will take up more memory and CPU cycles, and therefore "slower" ?

    Unless someone finds a "if old phone, wait() and wait more()", even the "optimizing for new phone" argument is bullshit, because Apple pushes out an image specific to your phone (i.e., iOS 6 for iPhone 4 is different from iOS 6 for iPhone 4S is different from iOS 6 for iPhone 5).

    Why is everything a conspiracy theory with you?

  21. Re: Much ado about nothing on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    According to wc, 1202 words. Certainly crosses the 4 digit threshold for me.

  22. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 1

    If you write shit code, you shouldn't be called out for writing shit code?

  23. Much ado about nothing on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the end, the professor, after writing thousands of words, comes to no conclusion. In other words, what a waste of time. Additional new code will take more cycles to run. Gee, what a simple explanation.

  24. Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    Are you that stupid, or do you just play one on the Internet? This issue has been debated endlessly and there are lots of nice graphs and diagrams, even here on /.

    No, it is not the assertion - what Level3 has pointed out is that in the peering hostel, there is sufficient capacity but Verizon refuses to use it. That is the place where Netflix's ISP and Your ISP (Verizon) meets, to pass traffic to each other.

    http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

  25. Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    the point is netflix is trying to increase costs on their business partners who will then have to increase prices of their customers. customers will hate the ISP but like netflix.

    No. The traffic goes like this:

    Business/Service Their ISP Your ISP You

    It doesn't matter who the business is. The issue is the interconnect between their ISP and your ISP.

    Your ISP shouldn't be able to blackmail a Business into paying them, like Comcast did. In that case, Comcast blackmailed NetFlix into peering with them. This turns the above diagram into:

    NetFlix Netflix's ISP/Your ISP You