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  1. Iron Dome? on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Oh. Regarding "The fireworks display vs. strafe bomber war" thing in the middle east.

  2. There is plenty of room for water in Lake Lavon on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Lakes in the Dallas Fort Worth area have more trees growing in them than all the parks combined. Do like they do with White Rock or Bachman lakes.

  3. Re:Rural Washington needs internet access. on FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks · · Score: 1

    +5 w00sh!

  4. Re:Why - why $1 billion a year? on FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks · · Score: 1

    Google does that for them for free. No, I am not a Google hater. Google collects data. The shitheads tell them to give it up or enjoy being fucked over.

  5. Re:Why - why $1 billion a year? on FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Content filtering is mandatory in K12 schools and can be fairly expensive. Hardware in schools take a beating and need more frequent replacements. If you think network equipment is bulletproof do some work for a school. You can grill food on some of their routers. If it were my decision, there would be 10G network to all public schools and companies would be allowed to bid to be providers using bandwidth branching from those hops. It would push down costs, create an open business model, increase bandwidth to all areas of cities, and move schools closer to were they need to be technologically.

  6. Re:We're all Terrorists on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    So not true. If you are part of the USA "Prison Industrial Complex" you are exempt.

  7. It is all about taking EP to another level.

  8. Re:ISIS Caliphate on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    Oh look. There is a nut-job named Bakr on that side of the world too.

  9. Certify it on Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL · · Score: 1

    On the flip side of that, anything with BoringSSL will not be restricted from exporting outside of the U.S. /snark

  10. It needs to go the "XWindows path" on Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL · · Score: 1

    I think OpenSSL should be broken up into pieces that work together so different parts can be worked on separately. Needless to say I think the OpenBSD group has the better, more achievable for open source, path for the future of the library. I'm not a hater of all things Google; but, I don't think "in-house" code is a good choice for the GNU parts of Linux/BSDs

  11. You mean... on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    College is about banks making money on government backed loans? Who'da thunk.

  12. Re:the internet is growing up on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 1

    I was told a house without wheels was a step up. Are you suggesting there is something wrong with living in a UPS cardboard box?

  13. Re:Too bad they might no't be able to use them on LAPD Gets Some Hand-Me-Down Drones From Seattle, Promises Discretion · · Score: 2

    Why do I think "narrow and prescribed uses" does not mean "find a lost hiker". It has been my experience that plenty of aircraft are in the sky when there is a wildfire. I don't see why the police department would need to add more.

  14. Re:Shannon on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    Having multiple connection points for things like MPTCP, to "complicate your traffic", is a good thing though.

  15. Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We understood that the Commerce Clause authorized Congress to construct interstate highways. The web is the interstate highway of the 21st century and the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to invest in a functioning web for all U.S citizens just as much as it did for highways. The FCC doesn't have a vote.

    It is of the most fundamental importance that the United States should think in big pieces, should think together, should think ultimately as a whole.

  16. mmmm data! nom nom nom on Microsoft Office Mix: No-Teacher-Left-Behind Course Authoring · · Score: 2

    I guess if you want to know absolutely everything you possibly can about the consumer you funnel there classwork to your data collectors too. "You want a piece of candy", is much more effective if you know what type of candy the kids like.

  17. Re:Printer Ink on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 2

    Ironically all of those companies moved plants over seas. Now the owners of the plants have displaced them with copies of the products that made the original companies big. Who needs high priced suits in New York or San Josey? That is why there is so much crying about patent infringement. Once the patents are up, the people you used to bypass giving someone a living wage take over and kick you out.

  18. Re:How about cutting severance packages first? on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    They needed to give each other the money they made selling off DEC IP to each others future patent troll companies before the left.

    1) Direct the company to buy IP from another company.
    2) Sell the IP off to patent trolls.
    3) Leave with a golden parachute to run the patent troll company.
    4) Watch the people left behind loose their jobs.

  19. Re:Working Games on In the New Age of Game Development, Gamers Have More Power Than Ever · · Score: 1

    What patches are you talking about? Outside of adding rocket arena to the quakes, I never made changes to any of them. I re-installed Morrowind and Oblivion just to make sure I hadn't gone senile. Both are playing fine. What patches were released for CK, the wolfs, the Dooms, and the Quakes that were necessary to be able to play them? I don't download much in the way of additional content. Are you saying "for bugs from modders" that the modders released patches so additional content worked? If not, tell me one place in any of those games that can not be completed or enjoyed without a patch.

  20. Re:Working Games on In the New Age of Game Development, Gamers Have More Power Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Haven't purchased more than a couple games since Quake 4 but anything produced by Id up to 2005-6, so Commander Keen to Quake 4. I purchased Mechwarrior series up to mercenaries which didn't need patches. I don't remember having to patch Morrowind, Oblivion or Fallout 3. I didn't buy the next in the series because I heard it was DRM'd to all hell and was a pita to play on a PC. Turned out to be true. If I could name the number of sims from Micropose I bought, Pacific Air, B17, the Civs.

  21. Re:I need more info on iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments · · Score: 1

    Not in CPU cycles but power. Granted, I should have pointed that out. This is /. after all.

  22. really? i mean really?!? on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    Is it really too much to ask to be able to toss the cable and telco suits into a pit of fire, vat of acid, or both?

  23. Re:Phishing? on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    ssssssshhh damn you!

  24. Re:Pretty chilling honestly on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Congress makes laws, what congress says, is legal That is correct. Except the Supreme Court determines if the laws are within the parameters of the constitution based on how they decide on cases brought before them. If a suit by one, or more, of the people abused by these actions makes it to the supreme court and wins this action is no longer legal.

  25. Re:Interesting on Washington Files First Consumer Protection Lawsuit Over Kickstarter Fraud · · Score: 0

    Oh no you didn't!