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  1. File with the FCC on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    Not really much of an important step, get some fiber back to the nearest colo/carrier hotel/etc, one or more 10ge, a bgp ASN and some IPv6 addresses along with some IPv4 for legacy stuff and 6 to 4 NAT.

  2. Re:Answer needed on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    Netflix has never "flooded" any lines, Comcast refused to upgrade their circuits with L3 meaning they did not provided the advertised speeds to the Internet through there own negligence. L3 was very clear they were happy to increase port count/speed Comcast refused to do so. L3 is a tier 1 Comcast is not yet L3 was providing them with free peering in the interest of making the internet work.

  3. Re:Answer needed on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    The government should threaten them because they are not providing the service their customers have paid for and they advertised. The Internet works because tier 1's all connect to each other and upgrade ports as they get saturated (good ISP's are proactive, ok ones last minute and crappy ones only after the link is saturated). While this is related to net neutrality it's primarily a false advertising issue, if they change their wording to correct that it's a DPUC (or similar) issue as they are no longer providing internet access per their monopoly contract.

  4. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    As we have seen with the last few years of hurricane season, putting the fiber huts etc while cheaper is a logistics nightmare in an emergency. The move to put everything on a pole is simply about getting things cheaper. In a rural setting sure but not within 20 or so cable miles of the CO.

  5. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    I would love to see a passive fiber network that is run by the muni that allows cdwm from central meet me rooms (aka the old telco CO). BX optics are nice, but would rather have optics with different send and receive wavelengths without the built in cdwm splitter/combiner so you can have multiple providers reusing the same fiber.

  6. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Your 10 story office building would be out of reach of this, 3.9m is your average commercial building floor to floor distance and I've yet to see one with the primary dmarc in the middle floor :)

    In the case of only 1 or 2 clients pulling only one or two pairs might be the correct thing.

  7. Re:30m on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 3, Informative

    30m is pretty short run, 10ge will do 100m over 6a or 7. For office buildings it's normally pretty easy to get new cable in place not so much with apartment complexes.

  8. That is going to barely make it from the pole to the house. Tack on how much the gear will cost and this is cheaper than pulling fiber? Pull the fiber and be done with it 2 strands of single mode from the 70's would still get me any speed available today, sure it might need C/DWDM to do it but it's doable with standard gear.

  9. Look for one that does not take email DMCA notices on Ask Slashdot: Hosting Services That Don't Overreact To DMCA Requests? · · Score: 2

    That filters out 99% of the garbage right there. Just look at their web site.

    If you don't want personal info it as a business with a business address (po box works) and possibly a lawyer to write up the one copy paste counter notice you will ever need and pay them to deal with the inbound complaints.

    If your just hosting remember your paying what a few bucks a month? DMCA notices are a cost they get shuffled in and out as quickly as possible. If you want them to look at them you need to be a bigger fish or worth there while so at least dedicated server if not a rack or more.

  10. I've yet to see an embedded device implement privacy extensions. Human facing computers sure.

  11. To bad it's in New Zealand and hinges on the fact that they drives were never supposed to be given to the FBI in the first place.

  12. An autoconfig ipv6 address is the mac with some static bits shoved on.

    128 bit mac's are fairly useless nothing should else have a broadcast domain that large. 64 Bit would seem to be the next step as that allows full use of the ipv6 default subnet of 64 bits

  13. Re:Why do we have screen savers? on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    DPMS or whatever the HDMI equivalent would seem to make far more sense.

  14. Re:issue is FB post on Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him · · Score: 1

    You mean the private property that was probably taken with eminent domain and built with huge tax breaks? Few malls are what any fair definition of private property should be.

    A court should not be allowed to force you to make a public declaration either.

  15. Re:Agreement?? on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 1

    It's a freaking clandestine service, yea it's their job to spy on other nations. How else do you insure that Iran is not making icbm's? ask them nicly?

  16. Re:how long before on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    You do realize that most phones use them to for simple communication of how many ma the charger can provide. Sure newer designs do not require that but I don't see apple changing anytime soon. Several companies make "condoms" that allow and even adapt those signals yet stay safe.

  17. Re:What Security? on Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car · · Score: 1

    As apposed to a keyfob like you get today?

  18. Re:What Security? on Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car · · Score: 1

    Is ti really that hard to just use bluetooth prox and pairing. Not that is better than a key but it's just one less thing you need to keep with you. Seems just as secure as the keyfob. Sure nfc and all that but BT is nearly ubiquitous today.

  19. Re:Some Good, Some Bad on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Well I was figuring them on a benevolent day.

  20. Re:Some Good, Some Bad on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    The problem is you wont remember those rights when you wake up from the coma in jail with a TBI and associated memory/function loss. To be then railroaded for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and anything else they can think of.

  21. Re:Feel good legislation vs. cost on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Lets compromise we can ban HFCS and also get rid off all laws pushing kids/young adults to be couch potato's. Things like all the no skateboarding/biking/roller blading bans all the curfews. The school systems requiring piles of paperwork and waivers to let a kid walk or bike to school.

    Much like the bike helmets studies that show while safer if it means they turn into fatties more kids are having worse outcomes in the long run if they do not bike because of it or pick up another active activity.

  22. Re:The Sugary Slope on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    Go to a really poor neighborhood's bodega and you will see them selling individual cigarettes often at 2-3 times the price if they bought a pack. They will also break up packages of butter etc. The poor tend to buy small quantities yet much more often and often pay a premium for the privilege. These practices are often against manufactures/distributers contracts and/or the law.

  23. So whats the case law on keys on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Has anybody else been compelled to give up a physical key or did they just get a warrant and use a locksmith? Seems this is the digital equivalent but the state is bitching that since the locksmith is to expensive and takes to much time so they need different rules.

  24. Re:Inefficient much on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    In that people are shifting away from electric hot water, cooking, heating, etc with a net effect of moving from potentially clean electric power to co2 etc generating burning stuff.

  25. Re:Numbers don't look right on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    CT, 6 contractors out of the 30 or so and nobody will even talk to you about home owner installs/labor. You need the manufactures certificate for the tax credit and all that I've contacted will not give it unless it's professionally installed by somebody they have licensed.

    The site you cited [nrel.gov] gives the same numbers as I have about 26kw of panels gets me 29kwh annually and would cover my entire south facing roof. 2kwh a month current usage or 24kwh a year and some wiggle room to charge a EV later. Sure if you lived in a smaller home in a better area for sun the numbers change quickly.

    We differ greatly on panel cost I show complete ready to mount panels at around 150 a pop out of china.