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  1. Re:Does it have Cold resistance level 2 on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going to read this, but in human medical history the only virus to have been eradicated is Smallpox. Polio is almost there.

  2. Re:Why the "incentives"? on SpaceX Chooses Texas Site For Private Spaceport · · Score: 1

    A spaceport is a long-term big business that will attract all sorts of revenue and jobs. Probably for 50 years or more. They are also not the sort of thing you can fold up overnight and move to Mexico. Texas will get their investment back.

  3. Re:Mozilla - an organization time has passed by on Satya Nadella At Six Months: Grading Microsoft's New CEO · · Score: 1

    Mozilla was from Netscape. Its provenance predates IE.

  4. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1

    Let's extend that "5% is toy" concept to mobile, where Windows Phone is not even that and declining.

  5. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1

    Android Linux moved a quarter billion units in Q2. A billion units last year, probably 1.4 billion units this year. Chrome Linux is making huge inroads with logarithmic growth in the thin and light notebook category. Desktops are so last century.

  6. Microsoft and Computer Science on How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft thinks computer science education is teaching students how to use Office.

  7. Re:1 or 1 million on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 1

    Oh, no. That would be great. And I would only be using 5% of the 300mbps LTE link. I would like that a lot. Maybe I can buy one of those plans on EBay or Craigslist. Will have to look into that.

  8. Re:1 or 1 million on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 1

    In terms of market cap Netflix is not that much s!aller than TWC. They could probably handle it.

  9. Re:1 or 1 million on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 1

    Netflix in HD is 2.3 GB/hr. If I had one of these grandfathered plans I might be racking up to 12GB/hr and 50 GB/day just for this.

  10. Re:1 or 1 million on Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE · · Score: 2

    In the US about half of Internet traffic in prime time is Netflix. It would behoove a company that sells Internet service to provision sufficient bandwidth to the part of the Internet their customers are paying so much to access. Maybe Netflix should just get into the fiber business and start collecting that $100/month instead of a measly $12 since they are already providing half the service anyway.

  11. Re: Alternative explanation on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    The Netflix boxes are adapted from Backblaze 4U 45 drive storage pods. It is called the Open Connect Hardware Appliance. They are not insignificant and I hear each one is designed to support up to 50,000 end users.

    If you have 50,000 people paying you $80 a month and 50% of what they use it for is Netflix, you can afford the power and rack space for one 4U box.

  12. Re:Alternative explanation on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    I wonder why Level 3 doesn't just route most of the Netflix data though another backbone peer. Might as well saturate all of Verizon's peers.

  13. Re:Could be a different route involved for the VPN on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    The bandwidth is already 10x what it needs to be. Netflix gives free CDN boxes to ISPs that virtually eliminate this backbone traffic. That is the right way to solve this problem technically. It is cheap and eliminates redundant backbone traffic. Google Fiber takes the boxes even though they have ample backbone transit because that is the best solution for their customer, providing higher resolutions and lower latency to the video fan.

  14. Bing who? on Bing Implements Right To Be Forgotten · · Score: 1

    What ever Bing is, they should be working on solving the "ability to be known" problem. Solving "right to be forgotten" is fixing a problem they don't have.

  15. Paging Babs on 'Hidden From Google' Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced To Forget · · Score: 1

    Barbara Streisand to the white courtesy phone.

  16. Cloud on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    This should do wonders for the emerging cloud economy.

  17. Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    If he has a smartphone he can probably use Square.

  18. Re:Holy grey area! on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Just take the GMO yeast to Montana and let it go in a barley field. THC will be in all the nation's beer shortly thereafter and impossible to remove.

  19. Re:Bad programming on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 0

    So you admit you are ignorant of the art of the day. BASIC was never intended for working code. This is given in the first word of the acronym: "Beginners"

  20. Re:Big Dust? - Rocks 101 on Cosmic Mystery Solved By Super-sized Supernova Dust · · Score: 1

    "Rocks for Jocks"

  21. Re:Bad programming on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 1, Insightful

    90's? Nope. Their software has always been utter crap.

  22. Re:So they're gonna crack down on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 1, Informative
  23. Re:No-ip isn't shady on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 1, Troll

    You might as well call DNS itself shady. 98% of malware networks use it to hide their tracks an keep their networks up.

  24. Re:Microsoft have been abusing their position on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 0

    They are always attacking the problem from the wrong end. They must. Once upon a time they did the right thing and tried to migrate to trusted repositories, but then they lost their nerve at the last moment and saved legacy app compatibility. Not that we trust them to fairly run the trusted repository either. They have not solved the problem because to them it is an intractable problem. The only effective solutions lead to Microsoft's demise.

  25. Re:Americans don't care on New Snowden Leak: of 160000 Intercepted Messages, Only 10% From Official Targets · · Score: 1

    So wait. You're saying China's most secure spy bureau does not subcontract their sysadmin duties to Dell, to be filled by an unvetted and frankly suspicious temporary worker? Not Iran, nor Syria either?