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  1. Re: Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you disagree take it up with the Fed. I think theyâ(TM)re pretty clear about it.

  2. Re: Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    From the Fed site, Iâ(TM)d say no, it would fall under goods and services.

  3. Re:This Note is Legal Tender? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't any legal requirement to accept cash for payments.

    https://www.federalreserve.gov...

  5. Re:Pre-paid cards? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    The key word in that notice is "debts". It doesn't apply to payments for goods or services.

    https://www.federalreserve.gov...

  6. Re:Why are there two? on Wi-Fi Alliance Launches WPA3 Security Standard (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    With luck this time devices will need to support both personal and enterprise to be considered WPA3 compliant. Lack of enterprise support is one of the big pain points in supporting consumer-grade devices on a campus network.

  7. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh, trying to keep my sense of entitlement in check.

  8. Re:One of the best parts of Byte on SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died (jerrypournelle.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, as a writer the keyboard was by far the most important part of the computer for him.

  9. Well, for starters you don't have you live around dumb people.

  10. Re: Old school reflective lcd on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We're talking access points, not switches, so they can't go in wiring closets. And the usual design these days is to put them in rooms, not hallways, so the LEDs do show in living areas.

  11. I would have liked a lot less Joker in the movie myself, aside from the Harley intro his character was pretty irrelevant to the story, and not a particularly good Joker.

  12. Re:Problem is antiquated remote controls on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A problem I've heard from people about touchscreen remotes (and did experience with my old Pronto remote) is the lack of tactile feedback. You don't know what you're hitting without looking down at the remote as you can't do it by feel.

  13. Re:Yippie!! on Chromecast Gets a Hardwired Ethernet Adapter · · Score: 1

    If that's a typical home network, the 2 different radios and the ethernet are all one collision domain, so yeah, Chromecast and similar devices will work just fine. If you have separate network segments (think separate IP subnets) then you have issues and need to do gatewaying and other assorted hacks.

  14. Re:so what about all my old devices? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 1

    You're confusing aggregate bandwidth of the access point with the protocols supported. 802.11ac is a 5Ghz protocol only, and an 802.11ac client will only be connecting at 5Ghz.

  15. Re:so what about all my old devices? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 1

    802.11ac is 5Ghz only.

  16. Re:DHCP Server? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? · · Score: 2

    Generally you'd want to use some other device for DHCP, probably your router in a SOHO setup.

  17. Re:I Disagree on Level 3 Shaken Down By Comcast Over Video Streaming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of course, it's perfectly valid to say that Comcast customers are requesting 5 times more content from Level 3 customers than they are sending Level 3 customers. So seems to hardly be a Level 3 issue.

  18. Re:New Technology? on How Apple Had a Spectacular Year · · Score: 1

    No, Apple is a hardware company that develops software to ensure hardware brand loyalty. The main reason they sell hardware is because that's the only way they could become a $100 billion company.

    Name some Apple hardware that works with third-party software. Now name some Apple software that works with third-party hardware.

    I don't dispute that the hardware isn't so special, and that the software inside is what makes it better. But don't jump to the conclusion that they are thus a software company. Be amazed at how they can use custom software to drive sales of expensive, profitable hardware.

    >Name some Apple hardware that works with third-party software.

    Macintoshes. iPhones. iPads.

    >Now name some Apple software that works with third-party hardware.

    MacOS. iPhoto. iMovie. Apature. Final Cut Pro. Probably some others...

  19. Re:Why? WHY??? on FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having played around with various wardriving tools, it seems to me it would be really hard to accidentally capture packet payloads.

  20. Re:A good idea on Top Authors Make eBook Deal, Bypassing Publishers · · Score: 1

    No, Apple's never used a proprietary format, they use AAC.

  21. Re:It's the freeloaders time on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    So your time, effort, and brain are worthless?

  22. Re:your router is yelling and you dont even know i on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 1

    About a 3rd of our wireless clients at any given time are 5Ghz devices, at about 2 to 1 .11n vs, .11a.

  23. Re:This will just make tivo look bad on TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld · · Score: 2, Informative

    DirecTV used to, but that's irrelevant as this is about Dish Network.

  24. Re:Myriad options exist on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 1

    None of which are schedule providers. Try again.

  25. Re:distributed computing on Apple Delays Leopard to October · · Score: 2, Informative

    Xgrid. Next question?