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  1. Re:not complicated...monopology on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 1

    Cool, prove me wrong. Go deliver 100/100 service to the continental US. The only way you're going to deliver bidirectional 100Mb service is by running fiber to every house in the country. You don't have to be a LEC or an MSO to run fiber. Call your municipality, get the easement agreements and the pole attach agreements and run the fiber yourself. Let me know how it turns out. If you deliver 100/100 service to my doorstep for $40/mo I'll be the first one to sign up.

    About 0.1% of the world has access to those speeds. I don't know what you're smoking that you think that constitutes "basic internet service".

  2. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    Now try the top 10%, per my previous post. Let's play both extremes.

  3. Uh on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    If your job depends on Internet access, buy a MiFi? Unfortunately you don't have any right to stop someone else from using a public hotspot however they like.

  4. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    It's actually only 120k. Definitely not reserved for only the 1%. More like top 10-20%.

  5. Re:FreeBSD on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    Good? Considering I can't seem to avoid systemd these days.

  6. Since when is running a few Cat5e/Cat6 drops "substantial structural or wiring modifications" ? You could have a drop in every room in the house for a couple hundred bucks. Or do it yourself on a Saturday. This is really, REALLY easy.

  7. Re:not complicated...monopology on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 1

    If you can deliver $40 100/100 service, go for it. Anyone can put fiber in the ground and on poles. I'll pay for it. Everyone would. The reality is you cannot without massive government subsidies. In the US it would be hundreds of billions of dollars. Google's already trying. So unless you think Google also has a monopoly and is trying to screw you out of more money, then your argument kind of falls apart.

  8. Re:it solves some unicode issues on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    because systemd is already too large of a single dependency with too many centralized features/code/power

  9. Bullshit. on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blaming corporate culture is bullshit because most women from birth are told to not go into tech. The problem isn't graduating millions of female computer scientists and then they all get their first jobs and quit because of misogyny. They never studied tech to begin with. The problem isn't a office policy one, it's a cultural and societal problem that discourages women from pursuing careers in tech from about the age of three when they're given their first barbie doll.

  10. Re:Businessese Bingo on Linux Foundation Announces Major Network Functions Virtualization Project · · Score: 1
  11. You don't want a Wiki, you want a Content Management System (CMS). I'd suggest Joomla. There are lots of extensions for delivering video.

  12. Re:Apple's new streaming service? on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 1

    Still not good enough, eventually the sound goes to a speaker and to my ears. I can still capture it.

  13. Re:This thread is only for ignorant argument on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    If you're another lemming who doesn't understand why there was nothing wrong with init and the problems systemd is trying to "solve" are non-existent and you are informed enough about systemd to actually understand its problems, post below.

  14. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 2

    Plus, take the images and invert the colors. You can clearly see editing work. Basic Photoshop detection 101. Even more fun when you have a shitty TFT screen that makes every glaring error even more obvious.

    Not only is there nothing there when you invert the colors (see here, inverted and zoomed for your viewing pleasure), it's very likely it was a computer generated image and not even a photograph to begin with.

  15. Re:power consumption? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's why I never understand comparing Android and iOS benchmarks. We run benchmark software on them, compare the two, then run completely different operating systems and applications on top of them. Android benchmarks routinely show better performance than IOS. But everytime I use an Apple iPhone it "feels faster" and is completely stutter free.

  16. Re:At $281, a bit expensive for a tablet CPU on First Intel 14nm Broadwell Core M Benchmarks Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It's also much faster than most tablets.

  17. Re:Oooh Shiny on Intel Launches Xeon E5 V3 Series Server CPUs With Up To 18 Cores · · Score: 1

    And how many $ (and watts) per MIPS/GFLOPS/whatever-metric.

  18. Re:in the meantime : on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 2

    Define decent price? You can get WQHD (2560x1440) 27" IPS A- panels for $400. For example, here's the Monoprice one.

  19. Re:Really hope the spirit lives on on Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From AnandTech · · Score: 1

    Absolutely agree and I assume he wouldn't have left unless he felt comfortable that they would continue that tradition. It really comes down to one word, trust. I genuinely trust everything I read on Anandtech.

  20. Re:bass akwards on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Employers don't want employees who LOOK lazy. on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Depends on the employer. Maybe if you have a bunch of $11/hour monkeys working for you all they care about are butts in seats. My upper management wants to see project deadlines hit. They don't care what or how we get it done.

  22. Re:A photograph? on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Have you made any attempt to find one? http://www.nato.int/cps/en/nat...

  23. Re:What are you downloading? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    One Netflix stream = 5Mb/s = 0.625MB/s * 60 seconds/min * 60 min/hour = 2.19GB/hour

    150GB / 2.19GB = 68.5 hours of HD Netflix per month. That's a single user, assuming it's not a family of four, five, etc.

    That comes to 1.3 hours per day of Netflix. That doesn't include any web browsing, gaming, nothing else just a SINGLE Netflix user.

  24. Re:Refreshingly 'normal' interview on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 1

    I gotta agree. He seems relatively well informed and not full of bs. I enjoyed this.

  25. Ugh on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 1

    Pet Peeve. Moore's Law doesn't say "2X the performance". Doubling the number of transistors doesn't equate to 2X the performance.