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  1. Re:Mathematical Certainty on Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion · · Score: 2

    We should not even have to regulate this, the FTC needs to sue for not providing access to the internet as advertised.

  2. Re:Why is the soldier inside? on Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    Because reliable coms on a ground vehicle are hard in a war setting. Planes pretty much always have an unobstructed view of the sky for sat coms. Sat coms are nice and directional. Sat com lag would be a killer in a fast past ground environment.

  3. Re:What ....wait....you mean... on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's not even that hard. Government fiber and administrative control of a all passive (all encrypted) cwdm network. Everybody gets a pair and they interconnect all comers at a given rate. Cities are already seeing what happens when you make bandwidth cheap and available. IPv6 pretty much makes this work well. A city network that could act as lifeline internet along with library, school and government access, hell it could make one great p2p network and let businesses interconnect. Multiple ISP's to connect to along with phone and cable overlay services, a single gige can carry about 20 blue ray movies simultaneously (and we have 10ge that fits in the same format for 200 or roughly 50 4k movies).

  4. Re:Fun fun fun... on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Would it be somehow better if they used a meat cleaver? People swing cats by there tails and paralyze them leading to a painful death. Idiots will still be idiots irregardless of the tools they have available to them.

    In neither case is anybody forcing you to have a firearm. It's a falsehood to think that outlawing them makes you any safer hint criminals do not follow the rules that is why they are criminals.

  5. Re:"Gun Jammers" are the problem on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    First off it's not that hard to jam NFC at a distance, it's very low power.

    Second the worry is this is a closed system that can be subverted. What happens when that subverted safety the gun code gets out? We have seen that the NSA can not be trusted and will use all the dirty tricks they can to do this legally or not. They are looking into similar tech for cars.

  6. Re:Fun fun fun... on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 2

    I'm 60 miles from NYC and we have wild moose, great cats, coyotes, and other critters that can be a danger to me and mine. You have never lived on a farm or hunted for part of your food. Guns are dangerous tools, same as a cutting torch, a backhoe or a pile of other things that are basic parts of life outside urban area's and the nanny state they spawn.

    Sure there are piles of scary people on either side, were a highly polarized nation. If you do not want a gun nobody is forcing one on you and were all hoping that not a decision you will ever have cause to regret.

  7. Re:No source-based bandwidth modifications. on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    We stop DOS attacks via filtering and black hole routing. Paying a provider to filter your traffic has nothing to do with neutrality nor does asking them to route all traffic to a specific destination to null.

    If were going to make regulations how about regulating that BCP38 be mandatory.

  8. Re:Anybody know the plate# for each scotus? on Supreme Court OKs Stop and Search Based On Anonymous 911 Tips · · Score: 5, Informative

    Out congress critters gave themselves legislative plates it's the don't even think about it to a cop.

    The Justices are pretty much immune to anything but impeachment by congress so they do not care either. They also have a permanent protection detail that reports only to them and the ability to cite for contempt.

  9. Re:weird axe on Reinventing the Axe · · Score: 1

    Been a long while since I split a lot of wood by hand. A decent log splitter is faster and safer.

  10. Re:Large corporations beware on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    Your looking at a couple different machines to do something like the first (the second would not come up for me). I'm not sure how much savings you would see, those local lumber mills are at the far end of a supply chain there cost of raw materials is far higher (and those lumber mills that have survived home depot and Loews far and few in-between) than using that same machine in asia and sending the completed part for less.

  11. Re:Large corporations beware on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of 2D laser cutters pumping out wood bits mostly out of plywood. Making quality furniture out of wood is a lot more then just cutting out an assembling things like book matching, inlays, etc become an art and it's rather specific to the individual piece being used. The hard part is local very very little wood is, the US is pretty much regulated itself out of the furnature grade wood market. OSB and MDF can easily be made locally along with veneers getting imported that is a big chunk of the market.

  12. Re:Large corporations beware on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    3D printing right now tends to scratch an itch for somebody. Recently the GF had a part break on a brand new lamp. Nothing fancy just a utility light for her crafting room. 30 seconds of searching on thingverse to find that multiple people have come up with a better replacement. Mind you I'm a wood guy a few minutes with a scrap of hardwood and a shop full of tools would be my normal response but had a new toy to try out.

  13. Re:Is it far enough away ? on Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Server Farm In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Lat and/or longitudinal difference. So a DC in NYC might have a DR site in FL but the preference would be LA all other things being equal.

  14. Re:Is it far enough away ? on Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Server Farm In Iowa · · Score: 2

    Would it not be simpler to consider both facility's as one as far as DR planning goes? Assuming they do not do anything that requires sync replicated SAN's (distance limited due to max latency) you want a DR facility in another time zone.and or growing zone.

  15. Re:could be blueray on How Amazon Keeps Cutting AWS Prices: Cheapskate Culture · · Score: 1

    LTO6 drives at 2500 bucks the cards that connect them about 200. Break even is about 55 tapes worth aka 55 3tb drives worth or 110 50 packs of disks.

  16. Re:So Netflix wants to change how it connects on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    Their contract with comcast specifically precludes this.

  17. Re:could be blueray on How Amazon Keeps Cutting AWS Prices: Cheapskate Culture · · Score: 2

    Nor is it ever cheaper and it's rarely faster. A LTO 6 tape is 2.5 TB uncompressed at about 60 bucks A 50 pack of 25GB BD-R's is also about 60 bucks and writes at what 30MBs? You need 5 running in parallel to get nearly as fast as a single LTO drive. DB-R's are about the same price as a sata drive per GB your better off plugging them in as needed though neither is as reliable as tape in the long term.

  18. Re:Over 18 on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    Seems rather odd, The whole point of putting an estate through the courts is to find all debts and invalidate anything that does not show up. It's specifically meant to stop this sort of years later oh they owned me money and nobody can realistically dispute it.

  19. Re:Medical doctor on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    There are lots of ways to generate electricity, hell there are how many millions of solar powered walkway lights each with a small rechargeable battery and solar sell.

  20. Re:Medical doctor on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No electricity means your failing at basic engineering. A coil and a moving magnet is not that hard to come by.

  21. Re:Aiming and targeting? on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    They have much much bigger ballistic weapons to shore bombardment, they throw several ton's a pretty good distance. On the other hand trowing something where you expect something to be when it gets there is doable. If it can make slight course corrections even better. They do not talk about cyclic rates but they do say as a replacement for missiles. So you talking about other navel vessels so under 60 mph without any warning.

  22. Re:Well SURE! on DOJ Pushes to Expand Hacking Abilities Against Cyber-Criminals · · Score: 1

    If they do not know where it is how can they know they have jurisdiction?? How can the judge? There are reasons why some places elect judges so they can be held responsible. This is an end run around any local authority.

    For your analogy should the DOJ be allowed to search a car in Mexico? Nope they could ask Mexico to do it. Other countries have different standards.

  23. Re:At the very least, make it read-only on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Sane limits and limits outside of software are important. Take the same oven, if it's gas it should have some sort of interlock that turns off the gas if burner did not light. That is not something that should ever be controlled by software or remotely. So sure software could turn on the gas and not set off the spark but the gas would shut off in short order. I probably need a few more cases to take care off like repeatedly trying to light it etc etc. But you get the point the safety bit has to respond in a sane and safe manner, be as simple as possible, and be immune from software control/tampering.

    It's actually fairly hard to setup protocols that are consumer friendly and secure. Look at WPS it's supposed to do this generally works sorta. Bluetooth pairing should need a button to activate and a code. Code turned into 0000 or 1234 because making something unique is problematic on cheap consumer bits. Sure maybe this stuff will all have a touchscreen but I doubt it as that is still a major expense.

    Look at a boiler, your thermostats never actually turn it on. It maintains an internal temp and the thermostats start a circulation pump to push hot water through radiators, cooling it down and thus cooling down the boiler so it kicks on. So you smart thermostat can call for all the heat it wants, it will never exceed that internal temp. Great but it's inefficient it needs more data like it's 70f outside, the alarm is set to away, all the family cell phones are out of range, the car is out of range, whats the expected forecast etc etc. That little controller needs to last decades without replacement or upgrades. So making it a lot smarter is futile. It needs to be just smart enough to say talk an external well defined will work for decades protocol, that's secure and not require rewiring everything. A shim controller just enough to get to the cloud or a local one for the DIY set can get the logic integrate various sensors. It can also gather historical data to make better decisions.

  24. Re:At the very least, make it read-only on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because you might want to have an oven that doubles as a fridge. Put dinner in keep cold all day and start when you leave work.

  25. Re:not really sales, just the first sale on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    The simple explanation is they can not stop netflix from buying the DVD's at retail and renting them. Congress tried multiple times to force renters to have to negotiate to do this and each time it failed.