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  1. So you think a government granted monopoly to a MSO (read: Cable Company) is a "free market" ? You're not a sharp one, are you?

  2. We are never going to run fiber to ever single random household in the boonies. Ever. It's never going to happen. The cost of the labor alone makes it unfeasible. What we need to do is focus on deploying fiber in high density areas TODAY so we can start deploying the services of tomorrow. Then, overtime, continue to expand the availability of fiber. We cannot hold ourselves ransom to an unattainable dream of fiber to ever home and stop building towards the future. You create this false dichotomy that seems to imply we can't move forward with fiber in dense metropolitan areas because not every outhouse in Oklahoma has fiber. It doesn't work that way.

  3. Re:Speed tiers don't exist on Comcast Brings Fiber To City That It Sued 7 Years Ago To Stop Fiber Rollout · · Score: 1

    You can do 10Gb/s over "RJ45 cable". More accurately you're referring to 8P8C (8 position, 8 ccontact) modular connector that goes on the end of the cable. The cable itself has another rating (i.e. CAT5, CAT5e, etc). Category 6 cable is rated to carry 10GBASE-T, or 10Gb/S.

  4. 25Mb/s for a single 4K stream, which will be the defacto in a couple years. The price of 4K TV's has already dropped to the floor (just look at Vizio's new models you can pickup at Walmart). Now consider the standard family of four. Two to three simultaneous video streams, someone downloading something, add in some online gaming and you've got a normal American household every evening of the year and you're EASILY pushing 100Mb/s.

  5. I guess it depends on your opinion of slow. I think really it's just expensive. At my company we buy a lot of broadband backup for satellite offices (many, many dozens) and work with every cable provider in the southeast, and we can get 100-150mb/s in pretty much any area that isn't the total "sticks". Unfortunately it costs $250-$300/mo (this is for commercial service, residential is typically about one third that price). So yeah, pretty fast in my opinion, just pretty pricey. This includes Comcast, Mediacom, Brighthouse, Cox, you name it. Almost all of them offer 150Mb/s service I think Mediacom is the only one that stops at 100Mb/s, at least in the areas we run into them.

  6. Too expensive (cost per home passed). Money is better spent battling it out in high density areas with high demand for internet service. It's simple economics.

  7. Re:So? on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Sure, that's not abnormal at all. You can saturate 10GbE with a handful of off the shelf consumer SSDs in RAID. A single SATA 6G drive is capable of ~4.5Gb/s (550-575MB/s) of throughput.

  8. Re:Yeah good luck with that... on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    And what percentage of women vote on Sci Fi? Exactly.

  9. Re:GoDaddy. on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 2

    Except that's existed for the last 20 years and the demand for web developers is growing, not shrinking.

  10. Re:Come on people, on Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Um, you seem confused. There's a very good reason you specify terminal (which is the default btw, all you have to do is type conf and hit enter twice)

    Router#conf ?
    confirm Confirm replacement of running-config with a new config file
    memory Configure from NV memory
    network Configure from a TFTP network host
    overwrite-network Overwrite NV memory from TFTP network host
    replace Replace the running-config with a new config file
    revert Parameters for reverting the configuration
    terminal Configure from the terminal
    <cr>

  11. Re:Come on people, on Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    That's interesting because I've found Cisco documentation to be pretty damn good, compared to the rest of the industry. Especially considering the breadth of their product line up.

  12. Re:Every 30 days. on Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords? · · Score: 1

    or just use keepass. its free and you only have to remember one password. use dropbox to sync your keepass database to all your devices. i even have keepass on my phone. i actually use owncloud but have used dropbox previously and it works fine.

  13. Re:Linux Support is Rarely Worth The Money on Ask Slashdot: Paying For Linux Support vs. Rolling Your Own? · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that you think taking a couple days to solve a problem is acceptable.

  14. Re:Who is going to get the pink slip on Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack · · Score: 1

    Try reading a little more carefully next time. No one blamed an iPad.

  15. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    It's also just about the only device to come out of Redmond. Microsoft hasn't historically been in the hardware business. What are we comparing it to the Zune?

  16. Re:Gibson got it right... on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because they have a paid advertising agreement with microsoft and microsoft is pissed and they're now in damage control mode

  17. Re:nope on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Came here to post this. Video doesn't need low latency at all.

  18. Re:The reverse is also true. on Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms · · Score: 2

    The difference is it's state sponsored. The US Government doesn't use our tax money to hack into Chinese businesses and then give all the trade secrets to Microsoft or General Electric or whatever.

  19. Re:News For Nerds? on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    Because increasingly government is involved in legislation that affects technology (eg software patents, network neutrality, etc).

  20. Re:how many small businesses has Obama killed? on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Automatic watches on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    Watch batteries were supposed to bring "winding" to a decisive end, except for that subset of people who insist on carrying around a mechanical timepiece.

    YOU DUN REED GUD.

  22. Re:Inevitable outcome on FTC Sues AT&T For Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plan Customers Up To 90% · · Score: 1

    Absolutely agree, but it will stop the behavior and stop anyone else who might be doing something similar. Their legal, accounting and processing costs alone will be in the millions.

  23. Re:Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    I will, I'll just get a second checking account and link it with CurrenC. Then I'll keep a small amount of cash in it, however much I think I need. Then if I need to add more I take out my smartphone, open my banking app and move money instantly between accounts. No big deal.

  24. Re:I think they way you tune it can be bigger on Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? · · Score: 1

    Note 3 lasting 3-4 days on a charge. How?

    Oh Oh let me guess! By having a phone the size of a tablet so the battery is huge?

  25. Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    ...except for all the parts where he illustrates that it's wrong.