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  1. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've posted this twice now.
    1) is Clear. 20mbps if no one else is using the tower. Reliably, closer to 3-4mbps. I know, I used to compete directly with them in the market, running a WISP north of Austin.
    2)This is actually a VOIP company. They don't sell internet.
    3) U-Verse: only available in some areas
    4) Grande: Only available in some areas, usually do not overlap with Time Warner
    5) VOIP company, no internet service
    6)Western Broadband. This is the company I used to work for. Outside Austin, north of the city, in the rural area, it's the best choice for net. You can get a few megabits to your home when the cable company isn't there. Inside the city, they don't compete.
    7) This is Clear again, see #1.
    8) OnRamp is a Colo / Datacenter. Not home internet.
    9) Business only, pretty much downtown only, where they have prewired. Extremely limited service area.
    10) Clear again. See #1.

    So, while you can go on yelp and pull up a list, you clearly didn't even click any of the links it's provided. Are you shilling, or just clueless?

  2. Re:Monopolies? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    Much of what drives up the cost is not laying conduit under the streets and giving fair access to the conduit. This means that companies have to get a permit (months or years, if it's not rejected) and then actually go dig up everything and lay cable. While that's expensive, it's still quite doable, but not if you have to line the pockets of the local council more than the cable company can to get your permit approved.

  3. Re:Competition on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 2

    Where I am, you have 2 choices for internet. Comcast and AT&T. Until a few months ago, AT&T was DSL only. And 6 mbps just wouldn't cut it for my needs, since I work from home, so Comcast was a functional monopoly, and they acted like it. Until AT&T stepped in with the UVerse service and gave me more than I was getting from Comcast for about $50/mo less. Now, I'm with AT&T and Comcast has dropped price and increased service to compete. Funny enough, if they'd decided to price competitively when they had the monopoly, I'd probably be with them, since overall their net service was better, but I'm with AT&T to reward them for actually coming into the area to compete.

  4. Re:Competition on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, they had billions of government dollars to do it a decade ago, and didn't. Just took the money and pocketed it.

  5. Re: Buggy whips on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 1

    I don't know, having rapists caught after the first time seems pretty efficient. Since Uber validates identity, shows the customer a picture of the person picking them up, and logs the time and location of the driver, it would be really easy to prove that they raped/murdered. So, it would be a really efficient means of ending a crime spree. Do your homework before you spread FUD.

  6. Re: Buggy whips on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 1

    Driving a cab and neurosurgery are two completely different ballparks.

  7. Re: Buggy whips on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 2

    And gets caught within the first couple, because it logs each ride, with their name, picture, and your name and picture so you can't use someone else's information. Since you were the last person to see them alive, the police will question you. If you don't crack after the first round of questioning, the police will certainly start watching you after the second or third person you were the last person they saw alive.

    You could, like, research things before spouting out. Or you could sound like a dumbshit. Your choice.

  8. Re:perhaps on Ask Slashdot: System Administrator Vs Change Advisory Board · · Score: 1

    Several of them. Expect each one to be able to write up a change per hour, so you need a junior admins for every 40 changes per week. That means you'll need probably 2 for windows patches, plus quite a few for linux patches, another couple for your other software packages you maintain, and a couple more for any software you have in house. Welcome to management, sir.

  9. Re:Bill specifically about Glass is a bad idea... on Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws · · Score: 1

    Imagine if it was smart enough to work with you while driving. Highlight things coming out, or the road you're supposed to turn on when using GPS, keep a feeder of speed limits, and hold a clip of video for use in analyzing fault during accidents. Indicators around pedestrians, red lights, traffic control signs. Basically things to make you more aware of the road, instead of distract you from it. And the coup de grace: if you're in the driver's seat it blocks out the screen of your phone or tablet.

  10. Re:Did Google do this right? on Gmail's 'Unsubscribe' Tool Comes Out of the Weeds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Presumably, if a company gets blacklisted, they will contact Google. Then Google will provide evidence that the unsubscribe requests were being ignored, in violation of federal law (CAN-SPAM Act). Then the company finds the customer that was ignoring it and removes them. And the internet gets a little cleaner.

  11. Re:Could we be so lucky? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It's because you're going around the choke point. You're doing 2 connections to go around the limited area. One to the endpoint of your VPN, and then through your VPN provider's connection to Netflix. It's like taking a different route to work than the shortest because the interstate is at a standstill. You might be smart enough to do it, but the automated routing protocol is not.

  12. Re:Could we be so lucky? on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Multiple peers and shortest path routing. There's a path that is available to Netflix. Even if it's at 100%, it's the shortest path, so that's the one taken. Routing protocols generally don't take active load into account to redirect traffic around choke points through other, more expensive peers.

  13. Re:If that was true. on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yes, using a proxy would yield a faster connection, much like taking a feeder road to a different interstate may yield in shorter overall commute time based on traffic during your commute. Routing takes the shortest functional path, it largely doesn't take into account the percentage used and go to find a different path, it'll just try to continue using the shortest one. RIP, OSPF, IGRP all work that way. Using a proxy sets you up on two paths to follow: to get to the proxy and then from the proxy to the service. Unless the proxy is also on your provider, in which case, you're not helping.

  14. Re:How compatible is it? on LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Office wouldn't even run on my main work desktop. It runs linux. As do most of my co-workers. Instead, some of us use LibreOffice or OpenOffice, some use Microsoft Office on Windows. I have yet to open a document and have it come out all messed up. Maybe I've just gotten lucky, but it's probably more likely the case that the vast majority of commonly used functions work just fine, and if there's the occasional almost-never-used function that doesn't work right, people avoid using it.

  15. Re:It only appears to move to Linux advocates on LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure linux was meant for servers.

  16. Re:Bullet meet foot on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 2

    http://www.spacex.com/missions shows ORBCOMM sending up with spacex in a bit. That's private money. Loral is another one of their customers. Iridium has quite a few flights over the next few years. So, while a lot of their payloads are governmental now, not all are. And as they get their processes down, and their costs come with it, even more private companies will be launching with them. They're getting to a point where they plan to do weekly launches, and that's an economy of scale that will make it truly affordable.

  17. Re:Chrome Remote Desktop on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Put SSH on port 443. Tunnel through for VNC.

  18. Re:See what happens when leftists are in Charge? on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it took legislation to stop Tesla from selling in Texas. They were doing fine before that.

  19. Re:WTF? on New Home Automation? · · Score: 2

    I think he's saying that if you're using up as much as you can afford, it's probably hypocritical to condemn someone else for living to their max. After all, you could also live at the level of many people who make it with much less.

  20. Re:39" display for workstations? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    I use 3 monitors on a daily basis for work. I haven't had an issue with it. Have you checked if PEBKAC?

  21. Re:Offline side-by-side Python on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    If you allow developers to manage system security, you deserve the compromises you're going to get. You should have people trained in maintaining security maintaining your security. Especially in bigger organizations.

  22. Re:39" display for workstations? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Or $55. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121836 You know. Whichever. It's fanless, and doesn't pull much power, so no special PSU either.

  23. Re:Offline side-by-side Python on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    That'll do wonders for security.

  24. Re:Great.... on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 1

    I didn't switch, I use both. But I like the fact that I can add people do different circles and *easily* manage which people see which updates. So my coworkers can see when I'm heading to the bar (to join me), but not "friends" that I don't care for. Or I can easily share an invitation with family and close friends to a child's birthday party without having to craft the lists by hand each time. On the other hand, I like the groups on Facebook. I like that I can reconnect easily with people from my past there, since it has a large following. But there are things I hate about each as well. I hate that G+ looks like it was branded by Playskool, and I hate that Facebook refuses to acknowledge that I'd like to see most recent instead of most active. Among other things.

  25. Re:$10199.99 on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's a single socket 12-core Xeon at top end.