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  1. Re:Nothing to do with net neutrality on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're throttled across the board it is still neutral.

    But if the throttling for a particular customer is removed subject to additional payments, it isn't.

    From TFA:

    Santa Clara Fire paid Verizon for "unlimited" data but suffered from heavy throttling until the department paid Verizon more

  2. Re:Business or consumer? on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    If they are anything like the power company I used to work for, they are flagged as a public service, emergency service customer. Priority given to service restoration and special consideration in the event of billing problems rather than just a disconnection.

  3. It's nice to know ... on Russian Hackers Targeted US Conservative Think-Tanks, Says Microsoft (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Microsoft is watching over our every keystroke so intently.

    The day will come when you screw up a web site password and a little voice will come over your PC speaker, "That's your luggage combination."

  4. Cross the mark on Chinese Internet Users Cross 800 Million Mark (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Going which way?

  5. Re:PBS made a big mistake on Antenna Sales Are Rising, In Another Sign of Churn In TV Watching (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    Or selling investment advice packages, oldies music CD collections, yoga for geezers or Deepak Chopra selling his crap.

    A year or two ago, our PBS station had a Spanish language kids sub-channel. It appeared to have lots of science and technology programming. The English language kids channel features a purple dinosaur. I guess we know where our future STEM employees are coming from.

  6. Re:Munch on Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    some bacterium learned to digest it

    Not really. Dead wood that fell (and falls today) in peat bogs and similar environments aren't consumed by bacteria. That is where coal comes from.

  7. Re:Training on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are those jobs this time?

    Bank of England Chief Economists.

  8. ... uses a Mac.

  9. The pictures weren't even vertical.

  10. ... are what pay utilities bills. Fixed and predictable, they bring in revenue and utilize the transmission/distribution systems needed to feed them most efficiently. It's what makes it possible for power companies to provide you power when you fire up the Jacuzzi or stand in front of an open freezer, trying to make up your mind about ice cream flavors.

  11. Re:Your mission, if you choose to accept it... on Gmail Now Lets You Send Self-Destructing 'Confidential Mode' Emails From Your Phone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just wish my phone wouldn't burst into flames along with it.

  12. Training on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    people were given the training to take advantage of the new jobs that would become available

    Which jobs are these?

  13. Hundreds of Echo Dots in a broom closet with am MP3 player looping Nickelback.

  14. "Dude! Lets get high. Where can I plug in my vaper?"

    "Just unplug the Dot and use that outle...."

    Campus security shows up in 5 minutes.

  15. Re:if student loans had bankruptcy then the banks on Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    But do they have money-back guarantees for grammar?

  16. Re:BAN THEM ON ALL AIRCRAFT!!1 on Apple's Amsterdam Store Evacuated After iPad Battery Explodes (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Electronic flight bags are what flight crews use to replace carrying all the required maps and manuals. Often implemented on iPads and similar tablets.

  17. Re:BAN THEM ON ALL AIRCRAFT!!1 on Apple's Amsterdam Store Evacuated After iPad Battery Explodes (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    There go all the electronic flight bags.

  18. Re:Bucket of sand on Apple's Amsterdam Store Evacuated After iPad Battery Explodes (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearing bucket.

  19. You kids ... on 'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ... stay off my bank's lawn!

  20. Isn't that just a big penal colony?

    If the guards want to toss your cell, what's to stop them?

  21. ... Poohgle

  22. Re:And by all means, if you are going to .... on Putting Stickers On Your Laptop is Probably a Bad Security Idea (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    but I hate oppression even more

    Stamp out oppression now!

  23. Re:So what can you do to help? on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Your guns aren't going to do much good when climate change has created food and water scarcity affecting billions of people.

    Look up 'Roof Koreans'.

  24. Re:So what can you do to help? on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you're too self-centered

    No. There's the agenda that the left wing uses to get itself re-elected. And then there's the one that they really pursue once they get into office. They are nowhere near the same.

    If you want wind power, you'd better not try to put some up in the view of wealthy Democrats. Wealthy and heavily armed. Because when society collapses, you aren't going to camp on their view property either.

  25. Re:So what can you do to help? on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Politically, the primary thing you can do is either donate to or vote for candidates who support dealing with climate change.

    I would. But they are all preoccupied with taking my guns.