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  1. Good and bad for Aereo on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 1

    Good for them for not giving up. Now they don't really have to stick with just local channels either. It will be interesting to see what the cable companies do to compete if Aereo starts doing well.

  2. Re:why? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    It makes sense if the email hasn't been retrieved yet. GS wants SMTP to have a Recall Unread Message feature which it doesn't. So in the meantime, they expect Google (or the postman) to do the retrieval for them. Should this be possible? Sure, for a fee until SMTP (or another protocol) will let users recall their own messages.

    FWIW - You can recall internal messages with Outlook/Exchange. I'm sure others do it too.

  3. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    What happens if somebody decides to fill it with water?

    No more drought. Duh.

  4. Re:One disturbing bit: on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Exactly because his property gets better reception.

  5. Re:Awesome! on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is a PUBLIC list of PUBLICLY TRIED AND CONVICTED sexual offenders the same as a SECRET list of people who MAY OR MAY not have done anything wrong the same? Isn't one is a list of public facts while the other is a secret list of accusations.

  6. Re:In that case on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    QoS is a standard and there seem to be some industry best practices to handle things like VoIP and video. Net Neutrality is not based on any standards and merely appears to be a legal way to extort money.

  7. Re:Somewhere in my mind... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cisco also knows where their income comes from.

  8. Re:Can't just turn it off on Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack · · Score: 1

    Correct in my case and probably for most /. readers.

    We all know that no manufacturer in their right minds would turn WiFi on by default and auto join any network possible. No consumer would ever have a WLAN configured to be wide open without a password. Nah, never happen. ;-)

  9. Can't just turn it off on Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack · · Score: 2

    I prefer my Roku 2/3 to the smart features on my TVs but it is difficult to buy a nicer TV these days without the "Smart" features included. It would be nice is if you could disable the "Smart" part of these TVs. I don't think I have seen that as an option but I guess you could just disable the networking.

  10. Re:Duh... on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    ... He should have argued that he was incompetent...

    So you would rather lie than be responsible for your actions. Sounds typical for us these days. 'merica!

  11. Re:Well. on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 0

    The short-sighted stock holders (and market) like to see money spent on increasing revenue and profits rather than it being spent on making the product/service better.

  12. Re:Sounds like IT incompetence on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 1

    You probably think you want an Apple Genius bar and that isn't cheap. It isn't appropriate in a large organization either.

    IT will never get the funding they need in order to staff their department to operate as you wish but they will get funds to buy tools like SCCM. SCCM is sold as a enterprise management tool to improve customer service with minimal staff.

    Tools like SCCM come with great power and can do great things. Unfortunately, mistakes can and do happen. Sometimes the mistakes go unnoticed. Sometimes the mistakes are painful to everyone.

  13. Re:Sounds like IT incompetence on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 1

    I don't work with SCCM directly but I'm told something like this happens to everyone eventually. Hopefully you just send something like Adobe Reader to everyone but sometimes it turns out very very bad. I can't believe there isn't a way to make it really really really hard to do something like this.

    If it was an honest mistake then hopefully the person learns and moves forward. If it was part of a pattern of bad behavior then hopefully they can get rid of the person.

  14. Re:Yahoo, kill yourself! on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Privacy/Security != Anonymity

    There are subtle differences depending on the interpretations.

  15. Re:Not news. Netflix bought net connection like us on Netflix Confirms Deal For Access To Verizon's Network · · Score: 1

    I have no problem if Netflix wants to pay for direct connections to ISPs. I do have a problem if they are forced to do it because the ISPs are tweaking their networks in such a way that Netflix is forced into the agreement.

    I"m not saying that is what happened.

  16. Re:The customer always pays on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yes the electric company bills by usage.

    My suggestion to the ISPs is don't false advertise unattainable speeds and "unlimited" service. Advertise/promise what you can deliver without the BS fine print.

  17. Re:The customer always pays on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    If they can't provide the bandwidth they advertise then they need to upgrade or change their business/billing model.

    The electric company doesn't charge me more for having inefficient appliances or for using them too much.

  18. The customer always pays on New White House Petition For Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We pay for our bandwidth and now the greedy ISPs are wanting to get paid by the content providers (Netflix, Hulu, etc). Do you really think they are going to absorb the additional costs if this continues? Of course not, they will raise their prices.

    ISPs rarely deliver what you pay for so them crying that its the content providers fault is BS. The problem is lack of real competition in the ISP market. Most folks have a choice between cable and DSL. Two isn't enough to be very competitive.

  19. Re:Over the air on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    This!

    Nobody has been able to demonstrate how Aereo is harming the broadcasters. Why? Because they are actually helping them.

  20. Re:Skill vs sport on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    Mini golf?

  21. Re:Skill vs sport on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    Speed chess? ;-)

  22. Skill vs sport on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 2

    I consider games like golf and chess skills rather than sports. To me, sports rely more on athletic factors like speed and strength. Sports competitions are more likely to be divided by sexes (chess shouldn't be) and/or weight classes. Skills competitions shouldn't require divisions by sex or size.

    It's a blurry line I have drawn for myself but, right or wrong, that is how I feel about it. I should probably duck now.

  23. A great chance for the competition on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    Now is a great chance for the competition to "listen to their customers" and increase Netflix performance on their networks without charging Netflix or their customers (directly).

    You know, do what they are supposed to do but spin it to make Comcast look like worse than they already do.

  24. Re:Whatever you may think ... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Oops I meant Hanlon's.

  25. Re:Transcription on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Courts operated without cell phones and Internet connectivity too. They can always check FB and upload their work later.