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  1. Re:Astrolink. on SpaceX Applies To Test Internet Service Satellites · · Score: 1

    And one of the reasons why Astrolink failed was due to the deployment of land based internet, mainly DSL that did pull the plug on it.

  2. Astrolink. on SpaceX Applies To Test Internet Service Satellites · · Score: 1

    It's Astrolink all over again - something that failed 15 years ago.

  3. Re:Keep it simple but useful. on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    3-phase 400V (230 to ground) is standard here. Spreading the load over three phases means that the neutral current is kept low. Kitchen stoves are also working better on 400V.

    1-phase can really suck since a high neutral current can result in a ground current as well and that can play games with stuff like TV antennas and a lot of other things.

  4. Keep it simple but useful. on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    1. No central thermostat, each room shall have an individual thermostat. This because the amount of equipment and sunlight impacting each room differs.
    2. Some areas can have movement sensors for support light, helpful when you need to visit the facility in the middle of the night or have your hands full with stuff coming home from shopping.
    3. Timer outlets for stuff like coffee maker. No need to have it going for hours making tar.
    4. Outlets with CAT7 - you can POTS on them if you want, and fixed networking is still more reliable than wireless.
    5. 3-phase electrical system.
    6. The heating system shall be water carried, a lot less noise when having proportional valves.
    7. A good basement and garage with a car lift.

  5. Re:Fuck Sourceforge on nmap Maintainer Warns He Doesn't Control nmap SourceForge Mirror · · Score: 1

    The best way to crack down on this is to use the "Report inappropriate content" on every page that Sourceforge has that provides contaminated content.

  6. No, it became bloated long before Microsoft. It was good some time around 2004 to 2006, then it got fat.

  7. And once it was actually pretty sleek and good, then it became bloated.

  8. Add to it that in Microsoft world you don't have to declare the exceptions that can be thrown so if a new library version throws a new exception you won't know it until you test a failure instead of seeing it at compile time.

  9. Re:How do you fix this? on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 1

    No, moot has left 4chan.

  10. At least one thing that makes sense. on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too many things these days that don't make sense. If you have a hole in a system it will be abused by malicious people.

  11. What about the cost for enrichment waste? on Cool Tool: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator · · Score: 2

    What about the cost for taking care of the waste from the enrichment process?

  12. Re:Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 2

    Best re-alignment of reality check: 2001: A Space Odyssey

  13. Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exodus from Earth. We need space ships to spread out in the galaxy!

  14. Re:Lol on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    And it's nothing new that a "text" message can crash a phone. It can happen on many phones, and you can send OTA messages for configuration to really screw up the phone for someone.

  15. Re:Surprised those edits weren't reverted on British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election · · Score: 1

    Add to it that there's a history of edits, and it may be valuable to actually analyze the history on the pages that can contain controversial information.

  16. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 2

    Don't underestimate the mental impact it will have. When Greece crashes then investors will look into other investments and see how viable they are and get scared and pull the plug to save what they have - and we may experience a '29 avalanche.

    Meanwhile populist parties are growing in strength and fanatics like IS are brewing - starts to look like there's a lot of fuel that only needs a spark.

  17. Re:Eurofututre on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a bit surprised that the Euro hasn't cracked yet.

    Europe is too diverse to be able to sustain a single currency without tensions that can lead to disaster.

    It's more a question of when than if Greece is forced to leave the Euro. But when that happens there are going to be other countries that follows.

  18. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    Would that make any difference considering how beat up Greece is right now.

    Those in Greece with money have already placed that in hard assets in foreign countries.

  19. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    You can add Poland as well, they aren't too bad. They actually work!

  20. Re:Yes to Brexit on Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian · · Score: 1

    Start with kicking out Greece. It's a money pit.

    The Brits do was they please, it won't change much if they are in or out.

    The EU itself has grown to a colossus of well-paid politicians striving for more power than they can get in their home countries.

  21. Re:Codec? on YouTube Live Streams Now Support HTML5 Playback and 60fps Video · · Score: 2

    Much about the video, but what about sound? Still just stereo sound on most YouTube videos.

  22. Re:Password updating on Survey: 2/3 of Public Sector Workers Wouldn't Report a Security Breach · · Score: 2

    I agree to some extent - frequent changes hurts more than it helps. Changing password shall be when it's considered necessary, and it's only you that uses the password that can decide that.

    But to increase security a 2-factor authentication shall be used, so that you need to combine with a keycard or similar in order to gain access. That will make it harder for anyone that wants to gain access to the net.

    But if you want higher security you should also build your net within a company on segments so that there are several separate segments of the network within the company. E.g. Human Resources should run their segment, Management another etc. That way a security compromise would not be as serious as if it was on a non-segmented network. This will of course require separate servers for the different segments and internal firewalls.

  23. Re:No self driving trains? on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    I think it's more interesting that ATC hasn't been applied already to ensure that trains are driven within the limits. It won't stop every accident, but it will at least lower the risks introduced by the human factor.

  24. Re:Fuck you. on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    Enforce too much ads and people will go elsewhere, but now we have the adblockers so people will go wherever they like. That's the reason why people no longer watch TV - they can't avoid the ads that spams them with perceived higher audio volume, stroboscopic effects causing epilepsy and doubling the time a show goes on.

    Ever considered why some sports are more available on TV than others? Baseball and American Football - you can inject ads often. The long full course yellows on motorsports are great for ads - and they are a lot longer and more frequent today than a few years ago.

    Also look at magazines that have died over time. A magazine that was once popular and thin grew fatter and fatter with ads while a lot of the content became watered down and suddenly people stopped buying that magazine.

    That said - I can live with ads if they aren't impacting on the stuff I want to access. Often a text ad of around 10 words is enough to catch the attention of anyone that's interested. Throwing up a full page ad covering the content alienates the visitor completely and will result in people looking for a belt-fed shotgun to clean out the company behind the ad.

  25. Re:Greedy Corporation on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 2

    And it's still not showing it's age - the question of having a stable situation is important, a lot of changes and failed software from an OS upgrade costs huge amounts of money.