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  1. In California they have been recently, but more generally it's been backhoes as the biggest risk followed by scrappers mistaking them for metal cables and then homeless peoples fires that get out of control (mostly under bridges over choke points like rivers or canyons).

  2. Re: FireTV Stick + Kodi on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the information!

  3. FireTV Stick + Kodi on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    I'm currently using a FireTV Stick with sideloaded Kodi, once the folks at Silicone Dust finish their client I plan to add one of the new HDHomeRun boxes and a NAS for OTA and use Kodi to front end that and finally cut the cord since I find myself mostly watching streaming content these days but it would be good to have some way to get the locals.

  4. Re:Living arrangements on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    will consider him the way of the future

    Snort, I remember hearing of a guy living in his oversized cube in SJ at Cisco back in 2001, he had bought a door at Home Depot and installed in for his cube and had a cot to sleep on. He was apparently remitting his salary back home to India support an extended family of 18. He apparently got away with it for about 9 months before a fire marshal inspection shut him down. That was the tale that led me to decline a job at HQ, even at twice the pay I would have had a worse standard of living than what they were paying me in the midwest.

  5. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Were you in Detroit or in Dearborn/Sterling Heights/Van Buren Township? Because outside of Detroit proper there are plenty of nice areas in greater Detroit but IN Detroit the nice areas are very small IME and you want to get to them via highway access and you do NOT want to turn the wrong way (Greektown to Downtown is particularly fun as a couple blocks the wrong way and you quickly get into trouble).

  6. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes because the plight of Googlers making 6-10x the median national wage is exactly the same as that of subsistence coal miners locked into a company town. /s

  7. Re:alternately: on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    You paid the tax rather than buying rental properties somewhere fairly recession-proof like NOVA?

  8. Re: Walmart pioneered digital supply chain in 1970 on Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup, for many years the Walmart data warehouse was the largest in the world. They were the first to hit 1TB (in 1992!), 10TB, 100TB, and 1PB.

  9. Re:Sometimes companies deserve it on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pretty much, from the Oracle VM UELA:

    Section C.2.
    ...

    We may audit your use of the Programs

  10. Re:Paging Governor Walker on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Money is fungible which is why the whole "the lottery pays for school" schtick only works on people who would play the lottery (non critical thinkers), if additional monies are going to the schools through the lottery account the legislature can and inevitably will reduce their own contributions to the schools to the level that achieves the overall funding level that they want to target. Additional money coming in to pay for research through the WARF will just be offset by lower contributions from the state or school which will leave them more money in their general funds to assign as they wish.

  11. Peak rates for commercial users in Southern California Edison territory are $3.641/kwhr (!) at 5PM on days where the downtown LA peak temp is >=95F. Even 85-90F days are a ridiculous $0.6205/kwhr, midnight rates on those same days are $.0481 so it's not hard to see how shifting a few thousand killowatt hours per month during the summer could add up to a million over their properties.

  12. Re:I found another unicorn! on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    That brings up a good point, I bet if they perfect their recipe it will make WAY more money as an additive to make tasteless low fat factory farmed meat taste like meat did before the industrialization of farming and the low fat craze.

  13. Re:And this matters *why*? on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess your cable company hasn't upgraded to DOCSIS 3 yet? Because even first generation head ends running in 4x4 mode support 152/108, the new DOCSIS 3.1 spec supports speeds in the ten gigabit per second range.

  14. I guess your cable company hasn't upgraded to DOCSIS 3 yet? Because even first generation head ends running in 4x4 mode support 152/108, the new DOCSIS 3.1 spec supports speeds in the ten gigabit per second range. The few markets served by FTTH can also get 10Gbps speeds through 10G-PON, it's just sad that it's not available nationwide since we paid AT&T 10's of billions to build that next generation network.

  15. It won't help in situations one MU-MIMO client transferring files to another MU-MIMO client connected to the same radio on a AC.

    Actually MU-MIMO requires beam forming which means it does help as long as the clients are separated by enough angular space for the beam forming to happen.

  16. Actually they've been making some of the best SOHO routers since the original Airport Extreme. I'm not sure where they bought their wlan talent but Apple can take the same merchant chips and make a superior device out of it and they tend to support them longer than pure networking companies. The one downside is they tend to be on the expensive side vs other solutions unless you buy them right after a refresh where they are generally competitive.

  17. Re:Live by the sword, die by the sword. on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The iPod had large "misfeatures" for most at the time it was released: It was firewire and Mac-only.

    Uh, the ipod gained PC support pretty damn early on. The first generation was released October 23, 2001 and the second generation was released Jul 17, 2002, the second generation supported PC's so the ipod was Mac exclusive for considerably less than a year (and it was really less than that as they added FAT32 support in a firmware update to the first generation between those two dates, though there was no official support).

  18. Re:This is going to cost them on Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike (heraldsun.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Or you just use MDM and push the new package before the old one has expired, if you don't change the icon nobody knows unless they happen to catch it when it's updating.

  19. Re:Hipsters fight over limited supplies of juice on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 1

    The batteries will not in fact last as long as the gas engine will in a normal car.

    Pure BS, the battery packs in the first generation Prius were good to hundreds of thousands of miles, far beyond the average ICE, and battery tech has only advanced since then.

    As far as the greenness, that depends on where you are, a Prius plugin run in San Fran produces .06g/mi of NOx, well below the CARB limit for ICE vehicles and the CO2 per mile is also lower than almost every ICE vehicle. If you throw up some solar panels then the NOx per mile is nearly zero as is the CO2 (there is most likely some embedded pollution in the panels but with an eROI of months and a panel life of decades it's going to be negligible). The batteries can be almost 100% recycled, Toyota has a significant bounty on the old packs and still turns a profit on their recycling program.

  20. Good luck with that on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll be competing with the successor to the Xiaomi mi 4i at that price, somehow I'm thinking they'll lose.

  21. Re: Credulity on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    40Gb is ~4GBps which is a fraction of what any bus can handle on a modern x64 processor. It's 1/10th the bandwidth of dual channel DDR3-1600 memory which is the slowest a Skylake processor goes. It's 4 lanes of PCIe 3.

  22. Re: Waaaahhhhh!! on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    You must have missed the fact that Android is based on Linux and has over 1 billion active users, many of which have no other computer.

  23. Re:Sincerely, good luck on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    Lol, what can a Harvard MBA teach Linus about management? He already leads one of the largest, most difficult, and most successful multinational efforts in human history.

  24. Re: Waaaahhhhh!! on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linus has been acting that way since the beginning, in fact since Matthew Garrett is 22 Linus has been acting that way since before he was born. Linus's behavior is not an existential threat to the project since it's one of the most successful projects in human history despite the fact that he has always acted like that.

  25. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 4, Informative