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  1. Re:Rape Apologetics Go Here on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    Think about how much dirt the CIA has or can easily get on people. Would you rather have one story or years of them?

  2. Re:cost/price per kW hour comparison is nonsense on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    That is the problem your getting free "storage" from the grid. Traditional generation can not spool up and down as fast as wind/solar output changes. So in effect grid tied solar is getting a free ride as everybody else pays for that excess peeking capacity required. Better long distance transmission can help be balancing the system but it still requires a good amount of overbuilding to meet instant demands.

    Now there is a good option for this. EV's have big batteries and plenty of computing and connectivity, making them a great fit to soak up baseline plant generation in the middle of the night and pump that back as needed. Go far enough down the line and hydro could be used to fill the gap since it's a fast responding clean base load generator.

  3. Re:Apparently "backers" don't understand the term on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    Absolutely nothing and that leads to the desired effect of deliver as promised or go under.

  4. Re:Apparently "backers" don't understand the term on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    And the solution is to do a chargeback for item not delivered. Suddenly kickstarter will feel the pain of the chargebacks and stop trying to foist the responsibility onto it's customers.

    This is exactly the reason why micro investments are not legal in the US, VC capitol needs to be two things able to be lost and able to afford to sue. Yea it sucks to need a pile of cash in a bank to make what are very lucrative investments. People forget that VC is also adding contacts and business acumen besides cash.

  5. Re:Private Links != Paid Priority on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Not throttling is part of the point of net neutrality. Requiring ISP's to build the capacity that's required to deliver what they paid for and requested by there users, not what they want them to offer. Sure sell 1mbps internet 1gbps comcast junk service but you better deliver that 1mbps of whatever your customers want and true in advertising better mean the 1mbps number is the big shiny one not the all you can eat comcast stuff.

    Good ISP's are proactive and increase capacity using forward trending, it's not cheap but it's really not that expansive either. Most correct the issue quickly under 90 days. The bad leave connections saturated daily hoping it will go away and refusing to put anything into their product. Need to make the bad practices illegal for monopoly holders and the various corp constructs to separate monopoly and long haul carriers.

  6. Re:Private Links != Paid Priority on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    More of Cogent potentially having issues with the other tier 1's if this pushed them to be to asymmetric.

  7. Re:Bullshit. on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Cogent is a tier one Comcast is not. Cogent could drop the link forcing Comcast to pay for the traffic elsewhere vs getting it for the cost of peering (nearly free).

  8. Re:240km/hr? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 3, Informative

    Having worked at a DOT the primary stumbling block to high speed rail is the NIMBLY's that have a house that backs up the the rail lines. The secondary issue is wanting to keep stations every town aka every few miles making the effective speed hard to get above 30mph with all the stops.

  9. Re:Private Links != Paid Priority on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If Network A and B were of the same tier you have a point. Comcast thus be definition needs to increase the capacity of there peering or move the traffic to paid transit. They took option 3 use monopoly status to force netflix to pay, this is the broken part that needs to be stopped.

  10. Re:Bullshit. on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You forget Comcast is not a tier one they have paid transit. Cogent a teir one was nice enough to give comcast free peering, comcast failed to increase the capacity of that peering or get the traffic from paid transit. Thus they failed to acquire the bits there customers wanted.

    The long and short comcast leveraged it's monopoly status to make netflix pay them.

  11. Re:Private Links != Paid Priority on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Comcast not being a tier 1 is free to drop peering and then pay for the transit. They failed to upgrade the peering and failed to pick the traffic up via paid transit. So yes they are at fault they stopped delivering the traffic to the people that pay them to do so. And yes I am a network engineer in the public internet space. Hell they could have split the difference and threw some netflix vod servers into there network, this was a pure play to reach our customers eyeballs we do not care that they want your content.

    This guy drank the koolaid.

  12. Re:Energy Efficiency? on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 2

    If you come out with a new gen that makes less heat it means it can be more dense so the overall heat per racks stays at least similar (and often goes up). You would need something where the next gen produces less heat but is more sensitive to it to produce an optimal next gen that puts out less heat.

  13. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Oh I would be very happy to see fiber from a government run/sponsored co (completely passive no power needed) to every address.

  14. Re:Nice and all on Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign · · Score: 1

    And of those 3 IO pins were trivial. It's Linux so your not going to bit bang an interface like an arduino the OS overhead is to touchy. You can add many i2c gpio with dirt cheap chips that still come in pdip format. You can not add more ram or cpu speed in a meaningful manner. If you need faster gpio SPI gpio chips are also plentiful and cheap.

  15. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 2

    The airline industry is not a natural monopoly, your not forced to go with one of the one or two (cell/sat broadband is so worthless to not count as a viable option) airlines in any major area.

    The ability to regulate broadband as a utility is potentially great, it's how it's regulated that matters so do not hold your breath with the current fcc leadership.

  16. Re:If Obama were serious about protecting the net on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 0

    He is in his last 2 years this is legacy time not fundraising he is effectively set for life.

  17. Re:The last statement sums it up on The Other Side of Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    It really has nothing to do with gender or ethnicity, I've seen white males unable to fit in and black females do just fine along with everything in-between. This is team building soft skills making coworkers feel safe around you etc etc. If you come off as having a chip on your shoulder and an ax to grind you will fail at this irregardless of gender or ethnicity. Were not talking about playing golf etc but hey lets get lunch. Making people feel at ease around you is an important valuable work skill that the author seems to lack.

  18. Re:The last statement sums it up on The Other Side of Diversity In Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their failure to integrate is a perfectly fine reason to be passed over. I've managed women and people of color in the IT workplace and some fit in just fine it's no different than a white male who is a school snob or otherwise fails to gel with the rest of the team, they have to be outstanding to make up for the failures in their soft skills. In general if you have a prissy attitude or otherwise a chip on your shoulder you wont fit in because you choose not to that is a failure solely on them. People are free to make that choice but do not complain when it adversely affects you.

  19. Re:Did they have a warrant? on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 1

    The documents indicate the FBI in Seattle obtained a search warrant to “deploy” the CIPAV software after the task force, which is run by the FBI, received a public tip about a suspect. Special Agent Norman Sanders, in seeking the warrant, said the bureau would send a “communication” to the suspect’s computer that would make the computer identify itself for the agent.

    The case was taken up by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which helped draft and approve the warrant. The warrant does not say that “communication” would be a bogus news story that appeared to be published online by The Seattle Times.

    Still idiotic to have the fed have anything to do with a teenager and a bomb threat. At the point they got the tip they knew it was a teen and had little creditable threat.

  20. Re:Did they have a warrant? on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 2

    The linked article.

    Yea a random no-name high school that is were the terrorists will strike. Terrorism by definition requires a political aspect and violence, it's doubtful the 15 year old have a political motive or any particular ability for violence. Since when do terrorists make bomb threats anyways they blow stuff up and claim responsibility not tell you specifically we put a bomb here get the people to safety before it blows. The FBI overreacted and was intentionally circumspect in their warrant.

  21. Re:What malware? on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 1

    Seems like a simple warrant for the newspapers logs would have sufficed except they probably would not have gotten the warrant and/or the times would have fought it as the fishing expedition it was.

  22. Re:Did they have a warrant? on Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? · · Score: 1

    They got said warrant without mentioning to the judge that they were going to impersonate a major news organization.

    They got a 15 year old calling in bomb threats, what idiot made this a FBI case.

  23. Re:Wanna put an end to it? on US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail · · Score: 1

    Na I vote for who matches my stance on things, that generally means not electable.

  24. Re:Wanna put an end to it? on US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because you get a choice of the a or b side of bad? The two party system is broken by design to give the illusion of choice.

  25. Re:All it takes is one data breach. on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    But that is their upside they don't want to be paying out for the data breaches. Target and HD got hit hard. It's a nonstarter as Apple and Google can pull the curentc app and it's dead.