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  1. Can I record it on AT&T CEO: DirecTV Now Streaming Service Will Cost $35 a Month (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if not it's worthless

  2. Re:If being the biggest company wasn't right on AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    FCC as directly related to frequency allocations.

  3. Re:If being the biggest company wasn't right on AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    A free market does not have the FCC or last mile monopolies.

  4. Re:Outbound Firewalls? on Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? (oceanpark.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of these can be fixed by turning off upnp, thing should never be opening up ports to the world because the asked for it.

  5. Re:Even IPv6 completely fails to address this on Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? (oceanpark.com) · · Score: 1

    Ipv6 is a lot cleaner administratively routing wise, big allocations and nobody is letting you advertise smaller for TE etc. So filtering becomes pretty trivial.

  6. Adding the manufacturing cost to generate a random password and put it on a label on the bottom is not significant. Seems to be the method that the cable company's are going with.

  7. Re:This sounds like IT / System administration on HackerOne CEO: Every Computer System is Subject To Vulnerabilities (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Using common scanning tools from external and internal sources is pretty basic sys admin task. Then deciding what the best path to remediation is.

  8. Re:already been reinvented on Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think reinvent means ditch blackout rules for starters.

  9. Re:Somebody involved please... on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You apparently didn't watch the same video I did. It's one thing to bear witness it's another to actively encourage them like a docudrama producer. The line is well established and she crossed it.

  10. Re:Journalists who particpated in illegal activity on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    International law matters when you can enforce it. Thus there is no international law for superpowers. It's settled by war in which the nation that wins is right regardless of facts or whats written down on paper somewhere.

  11. Re:Somebody involved please... on Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why she filed and released the evidence there is little question she was a participant in illegal activity. She crossed the line you do not get to be a participant in a crime just because your a journalist.

  12. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a few who are. You get specialized enough and you see this that also means you looking at a few calls a month maybe and a lot of logistics to take a vacation.

  13. I realy dont care how the pedestrians got their they are in a roadway in front of a moving car. Regardless of legality this is not a place they should be generally. You dont step into a crosswalk till a car is stopping etc. In every singe case any reasonable person will optimize for their own life and that off loved ones. That all said your looking at it as to much of a binary will I take light to moderate injury risks to avoid a fatality sure. I'll take a ton of property damage over an injury. I do not expect a computer to be able to make marginal decisions like hit the driver or hit the kids in the second row when a minivans pulls out in a snowstorm like an idiot (hit the parent hopefully the other parent is smarter).

    Frankly optimizing the survive ability of the occupants is the only reasonable thing the car can do. Inputs are imperfect etc etc so the only reasonable thing to do is keep the occupants safe.

    To the sued out of existence for doing so? Ya think the Mercedes owners wont do the same if the car intentionally injured/killed the occupant rather than hit a pedestrian like say a deer. Statistically that the most common thing your going to hit, roughly 1 million vs 65k in the US or do you expect some magical sensors to reliably determine the difference? Similar weight warm blooded etc etc.

  14. Re:What part of this is hard to understand? on Dutch Net Neutrality Law Goes Too Far Say Critics (telegeography.com) · · Score: 2

    Yea I do build networks as part of my living. If your ISP network has congestion save for dedicated last mile connections it's built and maintained poorly. A point of NN is to prevent them from ignoring connections the classic Comcast L3 were just going to let these saturate and not do anything about it. It's critically important that the comcast pay us for access to our eyeballs is not allowed to become the way things work. Not when comcast gets an artificial government enfoced monopoly.

    QOS only solves things when bandwidth constrained. Last I knew tier 1's are not running qos on their transit links but been a few years since I would know that for sure. So your still going to get packet loss. If you make it realy work watch all the DDOS's all start looking like VoIP traffic and making it useless soon enough.

    Mind you I would love to be able to program my transit providers QoS but I dont want them doing it for me defiantly not on monopoly last mile links.

  15. Re:What part of this is hard to understand? on Dutch Net Neutrality Law Goes Too Far Say Critics (telegeography.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Basic prioritization is get more bandwidth. NN laws need to be coupled with a requirement to grow the network to support peek demand, preferably with forecasting. QOS is great for constrained systems. Bandwidth is cheap at this point stop acting like it's a massive expense. There are also plenty of programs to make it cheaper netflix coloing cache servers at head ends for example. But for it to be truly neutral their internet connections and most importantly transit links must not be saturated.

  16. Re:government interventions on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of IoT design is broken. My thermostat's are all part of my home automation. They do not have an IP address nor should they. I have a HA controller that has an IP address. Right now every IoT piles of IoT vendors are trying to make one off we can sell you a service at a few bucks a month. Making devices they should last for decades. The model is broken HA/IoT needs standard controllers not some cloud thing. My old HA control is perfectly capable of also being a wifi ap and firewall and realy most HA functions could easily be done on a modern wifi ap. It's a question of having the right radio's to talk to everything.

  17. Re:government interventions on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Break what exactly? upnp is not assumed to work it's not some ancient protocol it was a hack to get home users to let devices do whatever they want.

  18. government interventions on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    or just turn of upnp on your firewall?

    IoT to the cloud is a problem security wise. The bigger issue IoT devices should not be throw away stuff. That means designing them to function as part of a home for 20+ years, the smarts need to be a IoT controller not some cloud service that might still be around.

  19. Children under 13 have to get on the internet to do their homework.

  20. Re:About Time on Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny I wrote a lot of bad reviews for stuff I got at a discount and frankly they didn't see to care.

  21. Adrenaclick, the big problem is epipen has become a generic like keenex but pharmacists have to go through hoops to replace it with a competitor.

  22. Problematic filtering on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont want all the canned please rate use etc emails. I do want to get hey it came broken can you send the part or do I have to replace the whole thing etc. Those all come from the same domain.

  23. Re:Unused ports are a wasteful problem on New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They make cases for that as well.

  24. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    5-10 sure what about 20 50 100? Wait till you see their crews actively sabotaging each other, hell I see it with AT&T phone vs fios since one in union and views the others as scabs. I assume you have never been to someplace where there are many last mile networks in competition it's pretty ugly but aesthetically and functionally.

    A last mile monopoly, no different than water or sewer. I'm only talking about last mile not transit, ISP's simply colo some gear in the CO or pop a bundle of fiber to their own location. Were talking about literally only glass and channel allocation nothing that needs power etc etc etc. The ITU defines 18 channels for CDWM though 8 or 16 are normally used. Security wise mandating macsec is pretty trivial. That is about 25gbs per channel with today's tech. At the end of the day muni's do monopolies well in a cost effective manner.

  25. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed:

    Many concurrent last mile networks is a bad thing for the commons and should be discouraged (I've seen asia) but we need not be limited to a few ISP's in doing so.

    Lots of last mile networks is not a good thing to allow on the commons. We only need a single well built physical plant for last mile data and we have had the technology for awhile to allow many providers to easily share a single plant. Between regulatory capture etc we lack the will to build them.