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  1. Re:Speed isn't Everything on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1
    This was also in the summary:

    While they don't expect many homeowners to have a use for the $400/month 10 Gbps plan, they expect to have some business customers.

    This service has been opened up for all residents, and by "residents", they mean residential as well as commercial. Please read the whole summary carefully before engaging in pedantic arguments. Hell, I'd even suggest reading the actual article; you never know what gems you'll find there.

  2. Re:Speed isn't Everything on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1

    Good points. However, I didn't say most businesses would care. I was careful not to, in fact, in order to avoid this kind of diversion. A lot of good that did me!

  3. Re:$400/mo for 10,000Mbps, $45/mo for 50 on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1

    I went to ASU back in the late 90's - early 00's, before they expanded and bought up apts. No one lived in the dorms after their freshman year then either. They just moved into the apartments that the university later bought. The experience was essentially the same, just much cheaper.

  4. Re:Speed isn't Everything on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1
    From your post (the post on which I commented):

    I've never missed having static addressing on my home connection.

    I was simply commenting on the fact that many businesses likely would want static addressing. Not all, but many. I don't doubt that you don't miss it on your residential connection. Most people wouldn't.

  5. Re:Speed isn't Everything on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 1

    There are many differences between a home and a business. This is one of them.

  6. Re:Marketplace Justice on Despite Reports of Hacking, Baby Monitors Remain Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    I was so busy laughing that I forgot to consider the reality.
    Is that show getting a second season?

  7. Re:Centurylink Service on CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    You're not supposed to mess with 'em...

  8. Refreshing. on The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 · · Score: 0

    I was expecting a listicle.

  9. Re:Tip # 1 on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading? · · Score: 1

    Courtney Cox is well past 30; she's 51.

  10. Re:Control the living room on Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    OP never mentioned Microsoft succeeding at their attempt, only that they made one.

  11. Re: Meet the new guy on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    I have a better suggestion.
    Next time you go to vote, do this. Then rinse and repeat, ten times within the hour, and see if it works. You're the one making the claim that it would, after all.
    My bet is that it wouldn't work; you'd be recognized and fail at making much of a difference at all.
    Which is why all this hype about voter fraud is such nonsense - it just doesn't happen enough to warrant the disenfranchising measures that so many (historically racist) states are instituting (many doing so the instant that the Fed. Govt. removed restrictions on them because of their racist actions in the past).
    Good luck with your experiment, and let us all know how it goes!

  12. Re: Meet the new guy on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    No, they ask who I am. The names are kept in a binder or on a clipboard, which they don't just hand to you.
    Sounds like an issue with your polling place.

  13. Re:Meet the new guy on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do, DO NOT read anything explaining the subject that you're arguing about on the internet.

  14. Re: Meet the new guy on Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' · · Score: 1

    We don't allow "everyone who walks into the polling place" to vote. If you've ever voted in the U.S., you would be aware of that. Either you've never voted before, which throws a wet blanket over your whole opinion about voting in general, or you have, and are therefore simply repeating falsehoods. I prefer to call it what it is: lying.
    Registering to vote, at least in the state of NC, requires either a driver's license (or state ID) or a SSN. You don't just wander into a voting booth.

    Insightful? Really, guys?

  15. Re:and yet on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    And where might I have so easily found this information?

  16. Re:and yet on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    The quote above is from Mozilla's support page (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections#w_speculative-pre-connections). So it would appear that it indeed does happen.

    Do you have any deeper explanation for your assertion that this "speculative pre-connection" behavior "simply doesn't happen", narcc? That it truly is a "figment of Slashdot's collective imaginations"? Because it seems to me that you may have reached that point where a shitty, condescending attitude is no longer sufficient to supply weight to your argument.
    So let's hear it.

  17. Re:and yet on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    That very well may be true. I'm just going by how the article mentioned above explained the problem.

  18. Re:and yet on Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox · · Score: 1

    I believe it was just moused-over links, but yeah.

  19. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Obama is the antichrist. Is that better?

  20. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Mmmmhmmmm...

  21. Re:False comparison on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    Seems like a bad idea to shoehorn features into a product whose users lack the technology to utilize said features.

  22. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1
    Finish reading the entire post before chastising me for nothing. The previous poster clearly stated that Obama set the precedent.

    The next president (R or D), why would they not do the same? You can thank Obama for the precedent.

  23. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    My guess as to why no one is covering this "angle":
    Any youtube video with a text-to-speech voiceover is instantly recognized as bullshit, and promptly ignored. Been my personal experience, anyway.

  24. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 2

    She has refused to allow access to the server until just recently. From what I understand, two emails have alrady been determined, in fact, to be classified. It's seems to me that her innocence is a foregone conclusion with you, yet you are attacking other commenters for jumping to conclusions.

  25. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 2

    Obama didn't set the precedent of executive orders. Did you get that from Hannity, Rush, or Fox News?