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  1. Re:Net Neutrality is a red herring on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Netflix wanted free rackspace at the ISPs.

    The ISPs said, No, you pay like everybody else. That or you stream HTML5 video and we can cache for you.

    Netflix hired publicists instead. How you heard about it.

    Also note how Netflix has changed their backbone provider several times. Netflix having so much traffic it breaks the peering agreements for their ISP. They've burned all the low bidders and will soon be paying for their traffic by spreading it around. That's not anybodies problem but Netflix and their ISP. But as you say, 'dominant positions'. Netflix traffic would break peering limits for any single backbone. The whole thing isn't simple. Beware those who claim it is. They are full of shit.

  2. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Now we know: You don't know what QoS is.

    Define it (or give an example). Hint game packet vs. torrent packet.

  3. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to bet the legalize is better?

    At least we can discuss NN using a workable definition. /. should be better than this.

  4. They are growing their _prime_ domestic industry: Government worker graft.

    Seriously, I bet (if measured) more money in India is spent on bribes than their next biggest single industry. Likely 20+% of GDP.

  5. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Read it, it's incorrect on its face.

    Right there in the summary. Tell me that's workable.

  6. NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you give all 'users equal and open access to all websites and services.', you've just banned QoS and broken the net.

    That's the problem with all NN proposals, they put the definition into the hands of clueless fucking government lawyers.

  7. Re:Add electric cars to the list on Electronics Are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Upgrade to something older, with a real transmission and a big old V8. Duh.

    Spend a car payment/month on the old car and in a year or less, you will have nothing left to fix. Bonus, if you selected wisely, your car is now an _appreciating_ asset.

    The best 'investment' I've ever made is my 1960. Ballpark is 1900% ROI in 20 years, thats close to Madoff's fictional ROI. Of course classics are back in 'insane valuation mode', but they have been in that mode for about half of the last 20 years.

  8. The NRA sold us out a long time before that. You should be a GOA member, keeping the NRA membership is optional.

    Your never going to get through the next six years, unless you reconnect to reality.

  9. Re:Even more job losses on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 2

    Wait a goddamn second...You pay...For movies?

    I'm skeptical, next thing you'll try and tell me you pay for music.

  10. Re: Digital Darwinism on Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    1k android VMs 'poisoning the well'? Sounds like a 'win/win' to me.

    Anybody know how they select accounts? I smell profit.

  11. Re:Bullshit on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Never had any luck with machining something that small. Cutting force for minimal chip being greater than the force to bend the stock or push it out of the chuck.

  12. Re:Makes sense to me on JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Including Oracle.

    Ellison stole SQL from IBM, his former employer.

  13. Re:Don't forget with embedded ARM on JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    All but the very latest/greatest anti-lock brakes degrade gracefully to regular brakes.

  14. That explains it, I'm not a console ghetto gamer.

  15. Re:Drones teaching drones how to drone on Amazon To Fund CS Classes in Over 130 NYC High Schools (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If your planning on majoring in CS/EE/CompE in college, you better learn to program in high school. Or you'll be so far behind, you will never catch up.

    Related: English majors should learn to spell before college. Music majors should already play instruments. Business majors should know how to fap. Pre Law should already be accomplished liars. Etc etc etc.

  16. How quaint.

    I don't think I've ever held software distributed on bluray. Anybody?

  17. 'Full employment' means people are working. Not that all positions are filled.

  18. All VPs since Quayle have been assassination insurance (worse than the president).

    Which is why Hillary was never VP, that would have been assassination assurance, despite being worse.

  19. You called post 2000 dotcom1.0 the Clinton recession? No? I'm shocked.

  20. Re:dot Net, or Java? on JavaScript Overtakes Java As Most Popular Programming Language (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    You lay down with Oracle, you wake up with software audits (and fleas).

  21. The world needs report column adjusters too.

  22. Thank dog!

    You can go cry in the corner now, accept the 2nd amendment will be healthy on your dying day, then go cry some more.

  23. Re:So the contractor does that on The Robot Revolution Will Be Worse For Men · · Score: 1

    8 weeks? Has Hobby King's China wearhouse gotten better?

  24. Vote Pony Party! Vote Hippocracy! Vote Vermin Supreme 2020!

  25. Likely four, Thomas isn't going to repeat Ginsburg's mistake. He will resign a be replaced by a younger conservate.