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  1. Re:Lockout on Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? · · Score: 1

    Often requiring certified techs to do the work wich the only people capable of certifying are the incumbents. You might get a guy that can do the work for a little while after quitting an incumbent but he can not renew his certs. It thus sounds open but isn't.

    Municipal fiber to the home with at least one dedicated strand per home. Something people don't get about ipv6 is multiple addresses is easy. You could get a muni ipv6 that via address localization would go to their gear for say school, library, government, and emergency services all while having one of dozens of ISP's that only need to connect to a muni network, backhaul or put in their own network.

  2. Re:Make DRM work with my CableCard.... on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried going back. one of those if you bundle it's cheaper than just internet deals. HDHomeRun outside some tests never used it. Sure it could DVR a show but then I needed to spend CPU/GPU time and associated electricity to remove commercials and reencode it. Before a decently beefy system could do all that I had a nice copy from usenet.

  3. Re:Make DRM work with my CableCard.... on The Kodi Development Team Wants To Be Legitimate and Bring DRM To the Platform. (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop supporting people that refuse to let you do what you could legally do back in the days of VCR's.

  4. Re:this is really getting tiring on More Than Ever, Employees Want a Say in How Their Companies Are Run (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But making false numbers games are how SJW's survive.

    As a business owner I would have a huge pushback on the force change bit if stuff this simple requires a petition your management is probably already dysfunctional.

  5. Re:Austin 16 minute commute? on The Best and Worst Cities To Live in For Tech Workers, Based on Rent and Commute (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't get a hotel in 15 minutes from a downtown office in Austin

  6. Re:Totally worth it on Americans' Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the further along in your career the more work at home is an option.

  7. Re:Situational Ethics on Patents Are A Big Part Of Why We Can't Own Nice Things (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    HOA's are an evil blight on society and it can be extremely hard to avoid getting a house with one.

  8. Because a burglar would never use a cheap RF jammer they can get for 50 bucks. If your security relies on wireless continuing to function it's broken by design.

  9. Re:What exactly has he accomplished? on Stephen Hawking Will Travel To Space (skynews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Hawking radiation for one and he did the mathematical proofs for others that's about as close as you get in astrophysics.

  10. This is very hardware dependent. Plenty of systems out there that require a passkey to unlock but nuke themselves with a few bad tries. They are not clonable (unless you're the NSA and even then some go to lengths to prevent chip lapping and other methods from working). In essence it's a small computer that you can not practically copy with a hardened interface that stores the actual decryption keys.

    Even the TPM chips tied to hard drives should support that.

  11. Re:Who has switches with a public IP? on Hundreds of Cisco Switches Vulnerable To Flaw Found in WikiLeaks Files (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Any sane configuration limits traffic to the routing gear. We have been able to programmatically generate configs forever it's not like it used to be with hand everything.

  12. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Chicken is a lot cheaper than beef general the cheapest per pound around me.

    In general more meat consumption is part of coming up as far as standard of living.

  13. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    When talking about a non-optional commodity like food it does not matter. Raise the price and people die that's a really simple thing. So a solution has to be at the store cheaper preferably without any government subsidies.

    Sure todays chicken farming gets this or that tax break all the advantages of being the current market leaders in chicken flesh. Want to succeed against them in a fair way they need to be more attractive and need the government to ensure they don't leverage that dominance in an unfair way. External bits do not matter, stop whining about the playing field not being even it's not pull up your boot straps and get to winning anyways. If this tech is unable to do that it's not going to succeed.

  14. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    IDK 50+ years where they are literally looking to increases prices to help people conserve. Lowering our standard of living is not an option and we have 6 or so billion people who want to get to our existing standard of living.

    Make vat grown chicken cheaper than real chicken is today and you have a good product with less environmental impact. This is little different than mass transit when it's faster than driving people use it, when it's not it's a massive waste. You have to make the better thing more attractive than the current thing when talking about a must buy commodity that means cheaper.

  15. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And it does not matter we're talking about food not the latest iphone garbage. It's not an optional purchase. Raise the real prices and people starve. Any solution has to be at the grocery store cheaper than the real thing otherwise it's like a hybrid car just something to be smug about while paying far to much and/or having the government pick up the bill.

  16. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Lookup starving, 45m Americans (2015 number) at or below the poverty line, they would like to eat.

    You guys are all about externalities until it's something you want like solar because the mess is in china. Water and CO2 are not some magic thing, water recycles and the same for co2. The issue is pumping out co2 from sequestered sources. The issue is global population something you refuse to control.

  17. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Climate change is an issue, the fix does not involve making things cost more especially food and energy those pretty much not optional spending. Much like fixing spam if the solution costs more it's not a solution. If this stuff is so much less taxing on the environment it should be much cheaper to produce.

  18. Re:Obviously this requires new legislation on Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can seize fund help by the Ethiopian government in US banks or ones in countries we have treaties with that allow such judgments. Or more realistically you take it out of the pile of cash we send them in aid.

  19. Re:That's not a technical explanation on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently people forget CALEA pretty much gave the government the ability to tap whatever and whenever they wanted with little to no tracking. I say this having implemented it and seeing just how open to abuse it is.

  20. Re:Had a DVR since directivo on For the First Time, More US Households Have Netflix Than a DVR (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, I cut the cord years ago and see no advantage of going back. Plex gets me everything I care to watch about 30 minutes after it airs. Well in advance of US airtimes if it's a British TV wich I watch a lot of.

  21. Had a DVR since directivo on For the First Time, More US Households Have Netflix Than a DVR (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    They have gone downhill the content flagging bs, all the issues with cable cards, 30 second skip hacks, and generally the runaround. Plex, Netflix, and prime get me all the media I would care to consume and without commercials. Why would people want a DVR today when they are so broken.

  22. Re:Time To Invest In Infrastructure on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The politics tends to actively make it worse, left off ramps to save building a flyover bridge can cause traffic nightmares. It's not the DOT that's putting them in it's politicians to cut costs.

  23. Re:Time To Invest In Infrastructure on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure because there are an unlimited number of cars? This shows that people prefer cars over mass transit. Built more lanes stop doing stupid bits like left exits. People prefer the fastest way to get from point a to b get high-speed rail so people can live 150 miles out and have a similar length commute. Fastest is all things combined getting to the station waiting for the train etc.

  24. Snapraid on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 2

    ZFS is nice I use it it makes assumptions about sane gear that are not safe on desktop grade hardware. BTRFS I also use works great. But for your specific use case snapraid is the thing to use. By that use case things that never change a big pile of files you keep adding to. Mind you your going to have to replace drives over time.

  25. Re: And any other CLI masking, please! on FCC Chair Wants Carriers To Block Robocalls From Spoofed Numbers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have real sip transit this is normal. An outbound call from my PBX goes through a number of options to get the best method and shoves whatever CID info I want. Hells a PRI will do that same thing (the pre VOIP method anything bigger than a small office used).