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  1. Re:Why Sprint with T-Mobile? on Sprint 'Betting Big On Trump,' Could Merge With T-Mobile Or Comcast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That matters less and less. With VoLTE those existing networks could be made compatible with all new handsets. As 5G rolls out in the next few years, that's going to happen regardless. GSM and CDMA will not be used for the Voice traffic.

  2. You're assuming the missiles would have flown a normal path if left alone. I think it's more likely that the missiles are not perfect, and they would have failed anyway, but the sabotage keeps NK from encountering and correcting the real issues.

  3. Keep Calm and McNugget on.

  4. "Privacy Badger detected 25 potential trackers on this page." No kidding. Slashdot is one of the worst sites I visit when it comes to tying me into all sorts of ad networks and tracking BS.

  5. The definition of fraud requires deception. If you tell them up front, it's not fraud, it's just shitty. However, not any more shitty than unpaid internships.
    https://www.merriam-webster.co...

  6. Re:A thought experiment on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I just point to the custom T-Shirt with my pay stub printed on it.

  7. Re: Rockets are too expensive on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    The Falcon has small thrusters as well, which is what it uses to make final adjustments at low velocity.

  8. Re:Cats have othe ways to make you crazy on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They control vermin populations. I don't think we could have reached 7b+ people on the planet without them.

  9. Re:This will come back to bite them on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Agreed, as popular/populist as it is to say CEOs don't do anything, that's not true. It may be true of bad CEOs, but that is also true of bad engineers, bad bus boys, bad anything. A good CEO is always on duty and earns his pay if he guides his company to long term success. There have been a few examples of these types over the years, and they are worth every penny.
    I would guess that this company will reinvent the CEO because they don't understand it. They'll have some personality on the board or in their management that emerges to keep the rest of them rowing in the same direction, or they'll just row in circles.

  10. Re:Expensive on Google Fiber Sheds Workers As It Looks to a Wireless Future (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of companies that can do it and make a profit. It turns out you can't 'disrupt' your way out of hard work, though.

  11. Re:What got Elon moving was employee safety on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they're in some kind of operational role that has to be staffed 24/7? Maybe you're in some kind of basement role that is less critical?

  12. Re:Read the article on Atlassian Acquires Trello For $425M (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Fortunately their ticketing (Jira) and documentation (Confluence) products are good for actual work as well. I've used them in the past in a network engineering role, and I use confluence now in an equipment support role. Confluence is what Sharepoint would be like if the Sharepoint developers had ever used Wikipedia and Sharepoint also wasn't garbage.

  13. Re:Good Riddance on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Google uses Hangouts for their own internal communication, to the point of avoiding using actual phone calls or email which makes them a pain in the ass to deal with if you're not a googler. Maybe they're deprecating the API but not the product itself?

  14. Re:5G? on AT&T Plans 5G Network Trial for DirecTV Customers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with phones. AT&T and VZ are planning to roll out 5G to fixed wireless customers before mobile customers, as an alternative to building fiber to the home.

  15. Re:Austin? on AT&T Plans 5G Network Trial for DirecTV Customers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Partly because AT&T has a major broadband engineering center and lab in Austin.

  16. Re:Almost seems destiny on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you understand how government bonds work, among other things. I recommend reading this.
    http://www.investopedia.com/ar...

  17. Re:Almost seems destiny on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That would be better as a Haiku.

    That's what winners do
    They grab whatever they want
    Grab by the pussy

  18. Re:Except they didn't. on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they do. I know I wouldn't do that job for less than 90 and they'd have to bring back the rockstar freeze.

  19. Like, from a newspaper or a webcite?

  20. Re:TR-069 targeted on Deutsche Telekom Says 900,000 Fixed-Line Customers Suffer Outages (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    As someone who has worked with TR-069 from the carrier/vendor side, that doesn't surprise me at all. There are some provisions for security in the TR-069 protocol, but they're not taken as seriously or implemented as rigorously as they should be. I think this is inevitable when it's done over a public interface. A better solution is to give the router two WAN interfaces on two different VLANs, one public for Internet service and one private for SNMP, TR-069, et cetera.

  21. Maybe, but an incompetent buffoon vs. a competent corrupt politician is still an easy choice. On one hand we can watch Trump fail to build a wall on the Mexican border, or we can watch Clinton succeed in selling influence and political favor for the better part of a decade. For the record I voted for neither. Voting is too important not to vote for someone you actually want.

  22. Re:Popcorn time! on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given that Clinton raised twice the money that Trump did, the highest bidder theory is out the window.

  23. If you did that in 5 years Texas would be dominating the rest of Mexico. In 15 years Mexico would be marching across the Red River. In 25 years the Canadians would be building a wall to keep Mexico out.

  24. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If one party hadn't nominated the most offensive person they could find, and the other party not nominated the most corrupt person they could find, policies would have been more of a deciding factor.

  25. Re:Ugh, time to start shopping for a new ISP on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If you don't request a map, the specific diversity details might not actually get into the hands of the people engineering the circuit/service. It's very common for the order to be entered into some system and the actual service order document to only be looked at by people who don't even really understand the language around diversity requirements.

    However, if you request a map and (if needed) raise a stink, someone on the sales/order management side has to get in touch with someone in Engineering. When I was in network engineering I would always go to great lengths to wring actual signed service orders out of order management. Usually I'd be told that I didn't need it a few times before I got it. Pretty often I'd find something that wasn't put into the order database, like a diversity requirement or some technical requirement like supporting 9000+ byte frames or transparent to double-tagged traffic. Sometimes I'd find out that the OC192 was actually 10GigE or vice versa.
    Ask for maps, trigger that Engineering involvement.