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  1. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    In Kansas the cable industry tried to get legislation passed to prevent ANY real broadband access, even where they did not want to go.

  2. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    Time Warner had a cable monopoly in KC. It did not keep Google's network from being profitable. By one report Google got 75% of homes in some areas.

  3. Re:Margins on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    Nobody moves bits cheaper than Google.

  4. Re:Not Getting the Strategy Here on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was why Oracle bought Sun.

  5. Re:lesson to be learnt on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 2

    The test suite is under a different and nonfree license.

  6. Re:Food for thought on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Oracle Linux? on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1

    So you have heard of Oracle Linux.

  8. Re:Our Sacred Duty on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    Meteors have already done this work for us.

  9. International space hug on SpaceX Wins Injunction Against Russian Rocket Purchases · · Score: 1

    It was great in theory. The difference between theory and practice being...

  10. Re:Politics on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 2

    integral fast reactors reprocess the fuel onsite cheaply. And they can use spent fuel as input. And they can reprocess spent fuel into new fuel for use in boiling water reactors, so no more Uranium need be mined.

  11. Re:Amazing discovery in this article on The Fall and Rise of Larry Page · · Score: 2

    Eric Schmidt is known as the most expensive babysitter in the history of the world. But he let his charges do enough right things to be worth the money.

  12. Re:Let me be the first on Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes · · Score: 1

    Linux is not Unix. Unix was very expensive too, back in the day. You might as well have writ that they wrote OS/2 also, and for the same reason: to kill it.

  13. Let me be the first on Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me be the first to welcome Microsoft to the ranks of Linux PC OEMs. Amazing times we live in, eh?

  14. Re:testing the waters on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    We cut out our cable TV subscription years ago and went straight Netflix, Redbox and streaming. We have saved thousands of dollars. More importantly, my youngest children can't stand TV. The very notion that the commercials ruin the show and they can't watch what they want when they want is utterly incomprehensible to them. When I hooked up OTA digital to watch the NFL playoffs they made fun of me for watching so many ads.

  15. Re:Repeat July 2011 on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    We use Redbox. They have a lot of blockbuster movies. I don't see it as a replacement for Netflix, but an enhancement. There is no way Hollywood is going to let Netflix show Gravity any time soon, but I rented the Bluray at Redbox for $1.50. There are a lot of Redbox kiosks in our area and their website knows what is in each one at any given moment, so we have a good selection.

  16. Re:you think? on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    I am already paying $12 for the Netflix 4 stream plan. It would be cheap at twice the price, as much as we use it.

  17. Re:Wise choice. Low-end tablets are not adequate on AMD Not Trying To Get Its Chips Into Low-Cost Tablets · · Score: 1

    Intel and Asus are launching a quad core Atom Android tablet at 7" for $150 this week.

  18. I was there when TOR was young on New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy · · Score: 1

    True forward anonymity is a useful thing and it served the myriad dissidents escaping opression which is good. Being involved in it also meant facilitating the use of others involved in slavery, abuse of minors, and so on. On balance I decided that I could not justify facilitating the downside, no matter how important the upside was. There has to be a better way than dancing with the devil. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee.

  19. Re:So - who's in love with the government again? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    If you care about good beer you should be making your own. Thanks to Jimmy Carter you can do that since 1978.

  20. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    OK I will give you that. Still a damn fine keyboard though.

  21. Re:Nobody cares on How Nest and FitBit Might Spy On You For Cash · · Score: 0

    You and I have both been here on /. since before Google was a publicly traded company.

  22. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    This is the same factory, molds, parts and people making this keyboard since Lexmark did the original one for IBM. There is good reason to call it the same keyboard.

  23. Nobody cares on How Nest and FitBit Might Spy On You For Cash · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google gives us great products and services, and minds the privacy that we actually care about. With the data they aggregate they provide services that would be possible in no other way. Google is just not creepy. You know what is creepy? The marketing company trying at great expense to sell us the idea that Google is creepy. That is creepy. Who are they?

  24. Re:So ... on Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment · · Score: 1

    It is never a bad idea to have contingency plans for likely scenarios. Things change.

  25. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    The perfect keyboard. They still make 'em, too, but sadly not in a Bluetooth version.