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  1. Re:Expect a devastating tweet on Gizmodo Went Phishing With the Trump Team -- Will They Catch a Charge? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was also pretty juvenile and myopic if they think that Comey and Gingrich are part of 'Trump's team'. Comey was investigating his Russian ties and Gingrich is calling for Comey to testify publicly about his firing. I think this is another example of people conflating everyone they don't like as being somehow magically the same person.

  2. Re:NASA to Buzz Aldrin on Buzz Aldrin To NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP To Reach Mars (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Those cues aren't necessary if the joke is funny.

  3. Re:What's a draft horse? on Draft Horses Are Helping Upgrade Cell Towers In Wisconsin (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I have to be pedantic. In correct English (En-USA), it's spelled etymology. Also beer is not dispensed with electricity. It's dispensed with pressurized CO2, with the exception of Beer Engines which are pumps and getting rare even in the UK from my understanding.

  4. Re:maybe he needs to look in a mirror? on John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying you're not in favor of seat belts because we need more guardrails.

  5. Re:maybe he needs to look in a mirror? on John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    56 Marietta is in Atlanta. 1950 Stemmons is in Dallas. On my first pot of coffee.

  6. Re:maybe he needs to look in a mirror? on John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure you understand how the Internet works. I'll explain it to you, in case you want to learn. I'm an optimist.

    Caches are a symbiotic relationship between the content provider and the ISP. By streaming high-demand content more locally the load on the ISPs Internet Drains and Peering Links is dramatically reduced. Drains are typical billed per byte, so having 10s of thousands of customers each streaming the latest GoT episode can get expensive. Peering is not billed, but it still requires a serious investment in transport from the ISPs residential users back to the nearest IXP like 350 Cermak in Chicago or 56 Marietta in Dallas. Caching moves that high demand content out to the local offices so the episode only has to be downloaded once across the transport. Google does it, Netflix does it, and any ISP that isn't trying to push their own video offering embraces these caches because it reduces the load on their network without them having to invest in more transport. Anyone can do this, even the little guy by going through a 3rd party such as Akamai which sells this functionality as a service. The content isn't prioritized across the actual access network. It's not given higher CoS or dedicated infrastructure. It's just moved closer to save money and improve customer experience.

    Youtube doesn't own dark fiber. Google does own dark fiber, although it's not dark because they're actually using it. This is because Google's volume of traffic is so high that it's cost effective for them to build their own transport network. This doesn't link to every ISP in the planet, it only links to major IXPs and NAPs. ISPs also come to these locations to peer and buy transit.
    I can also put content up on Youtube. I'm not sure what you think this has to do with anything.

  7. Re:Should be opt-in and not opt-out... on Virgin Media Starts Turning Customer Routers Into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This has nothing to do with credentials. It will be a separate SSID, a separate routing and NAT instance, and a separate WAN interface on a different VLAN than the one used for the subscriber traffic. With the correct QoS configuration, it might as well be a different device.

  8. Re: Or rather... on AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The grammar mistake is like a checksum on the intelligence of the rest of the comment.

  9. A politician's constituents are the people who donated the most to their campaign.

  10. Re:How is this not fraud? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same reason it's not arson. It doesn't fit the definition. https://definitions.uslegal.co...

  11. Re:Why do airlines overbook? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So if you pre-order a device and don't come pick it up, do you expect them to burn it?

  12. Re: More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The majority of the bombs dropped on Dresden were dropped by the British.

  13. Re:Hell, it's about time. on Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    They did nothing in 1914 that wasn't being done by other European nations. The fine was not for entering the war, but for losing it. That's why after WW2 we took the opposite approach with the Marshall plan.

  14. Re:It is in the nature of the business! on NASA Spends 72 Cents of Every SLS Dollar On Overhead Costs, Says Report (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheaper? The NASA budget during the space race was almost 10 times what it is now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:Just needs a little nudge. on No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it would have to be quite slow. I'm sure each individual module is designed to handle acceleration, but the whole assembled station surely is not. Still, I think this is probably a better plan that burning it up in the atmosphere.

  16. Re:So, the gist of it is... on Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the entire point of going to the protest is to put selfies of it up on social media to impress your friends and piss off that one uncle.

  17. Re: Hmm on Boy, 4, Uses Siri To Help Save Mum's Life (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Be aware, your 4-year old may be Marlon Wayans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re: Hmm on Boy, 4, Uses Siri To Help Save Mum's Life (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who? Wisnoskij?

  19. It's not powering it. The backup battery only provides power when the machine is off, which seems to be the opposite of powering it.

  20. Re:Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proo on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    The company I work for owns patents that are licensed in every mobile device you own. Without the patent system we would either immediately stop investing billions in R&D, or have to manufacture everything in house and instead of licensing technology we would sell black box tamper proof chips to cell phone manufacturers. Phones would suck and cost more.

  21. Re:Solving the problem through random numbers on Court Orders ISP To Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses To Copyright Trolls (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Subpoena would more likely be for online threats, locating fugitives, charlie papa, DEA stuff.
    DMCA violations are different requests that follow the same technical process but are taken more or less seriously depending on the ISP. If a subpoena is received saying "Email provider X says that a bomb threat was sent from IP A.B.C.D at 4:32 on the 13th of December", more or less. They typically already have subpoena'd some information from Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or somebody. Then the ISP goes back through DHCP/Router logs and reports back which subscriber that was. If CG-NAT is in use, the ISP will also require a TCP port or they can't respond to the request. I don't know anyone who would respond with a list of multiple subscribers. That would be useless for prosecution and real bad for the ISP.

  22. Re:Solving the problem through random numbers on Court Orders ISP To Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses To Copyright Trolls (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that due to subpoena requirements logging is mandatory for ISPs in many (most?) countries. I know I've had to implement that on service routers as a requirement. It becomes a pain in the ass with Carrier Grade NAT because multiple customers share a single public IP. Then you also have to log port and time-stamp and those have to be provided as part of the subpoena.

  23. Or, it could very likely have been metro fiber connecting to a DSLAM cabinet, a cell tower, or a large business. All telcos are building fiber in all markets, but that doesn't mean they're deploying GPON. VZB doesn't lay much fiber. They mostly buy access circuits/services and provide L3+ services over it.

  24. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it absolutely did. They got to keep selling cars for years before someone external found out about it. If they had been smart they could have used that time to get fixes in place and be ready to control the damage, but either way they had nothing to gain from turning themselves in.

  25. Re:One negative discovery after another on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "Don't talk to cops" applies to software and companies you don't like, just as well as to you and I.