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  1. Re:isn't this by design? on 90% of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure Or Outdated Encryption · · Score: 1

    a lot of those towers cost a lot of money to operate, even when not in use. rent, power, etc. lots of expenses not related to bandwidth. so you are paying for a lot of infrastructure that may be used maybe 40 hours a week at most

  2. Re:isn't this by design? on 90% of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure Or Outdated Encryption · · Score: 1

    yeah, but hardware costs money along with paying people to run the business. 10,000 customers may give you $100,000 of revenue a month at most but there will be a lot of bills to pay

  3. isn't this by design? on 90% of All SSL VPNs Use Insecure Or Outdated Encryption · · Score: 2

    I mean how else are no name companies supposed to sell you bandwidth for $5 or $10 a month unless they are mining your data?

  4. Re:This reminds me of something from the Cold War on Large-ish Meteor Hits Earth... But No One Notices (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    wasn't that israel secretly testing their atomic bomb?

  5. and you aren't getting the full original experience unless it looks like you're streaming it through Comcast

  6. Re:kids are like pets on Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    this is why the bank and state requires you buy insurance and why older people are statistically less likely to drive like idiots and wreck a car

  7. Re:Teen driver checkup? yes please on Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    the kids who shoot up schools are the loners who never get the car and don't have friends. the kids in cars will be the ones having all the sex

  8. kids are like pets on Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    you don't trust them and always monitor them. if you want to borrow my $30,000 a year toy with legal implications if you hurt someone, then i have a right to monitor how you use it

  9. cities don't hate people on Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    start ups need people of different backgrounds to work together. in a lot of places people hate anyone of a different color, name, nationality, who they have sex with, etc. only a small number of people are "normal". so all the mutants left to the cities to make money

  10. how is someone supposed to turn their life around? on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i'm older than dirt but over the last 30 years there is a background check for everything and if you screwed up in youth it's virtually impossible to get a good job later in life. even lower end jobs for someone coming out of jail to earn a living WTF is someone supposed to do other than go back to jail?

  11. why not charge your phone? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    like plug it in your car when you drive? or keep it plugged in all day at work? or do you have some OCD issues like my wife against charging devices as you work and waiting for them to die?

  12. back in 1988 or so we had a lab full of Mac's in school and the teacher's computer was the only one with a hard drive. it was 80MB. i had a commodore 64 at the time and thought how awesome it would be to have that much and how it would last me my entire life I'm still alive

  13. Re:Good for consumers? on New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    phones already use cell towers and wifi networks which are a lot more accurate and faster than GPS

  14. Re:Accuracy for WHOM? on New Air Force Satellites Launched To Improve GPS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    42cm until they scramble it in times of war

  15. Re:Meh. Not cross-platform enough. on Amazon Launches Free Game Engine Lumberyard · · Score: 1

    you have to use AWS and pay for amazon's services for the backend of your game. since MS went to Azure for xbox one games, Amazon doesn't want to lose business

  16. Some schools are very good now on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    in the 80's in elementary school we spent years doing the basic operations and the daily homework was dozens of easy and mind numbing problems. didn't start algebra until 7th grade honors math. my oldest kid is in third grade and they are already doing fractions with different denominators. the basic operations start in kindergarten now. the homework is a sheet of a few problems but word problems every day. less time but a lot more effective. i saw a sixth grade math text and they are doing algebra with multiple variables

  17. isn't this only a free weekend? on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    in the FAQ's it says the app is free but you will use data unless on wifi and the free data is only this weekend

  18. Re:And who trusts Financial "Advisors"? on Financial Advisers Disrupted By AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    because these people made money starting companies, not from investment returns. it's been proven many times that a lot of FA's are a fraud who take your money and invest it in indexed funds or buy the indexes. and there are so many hedge funds out there now that most of them don't beat their own averages either

  19. Re:New York Taxi Workers' Alliance on How Uber Profits Even When Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    NYC a lot of the cabs are decades old, dirty, worn out and the drivers drive like murderous assholes cutting everyone off and hitting pedestrians when they are looking for a fare. most of them don't want to take you outside of manhattan or even to far away parts of manhattan

  20. Re:Archimedes had calculus on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    there is strong evidence that the ancients had figured out Precession of the Equinoxes maybe even as far back as 10000-12000 years ago so it's not impossible that Archimedes knew the implications

  21. hope they are labeled on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    otherwise someone is in for a long night

  22. Re:Forces 2 phone workaround on Uber's Smartphone-Based Gyrometer Monitoring Seems To Be the Future of Driving (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    if you are so stupid as to spend more money to call and text while you're driving and increase your risk of an accident, you deserve all that will happen to you

  23. if history is any indication of the future, people will drive the 5hit out of these cars and wreck them without a second thought knowing that they are insured and it won't cost them a dime out of pocket. just like every other rental car i've driven

  24. if my own private car costs me like $400 - $500 a month why would i spend more money on a rental where i can't even be guaranteed i'll be able to drive it anytime i want?

  25. i'm in NYC. if i rent a zip car to go to the beach in the summertime it's like $100. sure i can take the train to a NYC beach, but i like beaches outside of NYC a lot better. that's $400 a month for 4 days of the beach per month. more money if i rent it to go buy groceries i can't buy close to home. might as well buy my own car