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  1. Re:No. on The Mobile Internet Is the Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well different things for different uses. For prowsing slasdor and reddit in bed or on the bus, my Ipad, for watching a long documsntary on whatever seems interresting that day, my tv wins as the big screen ks mor confertablle for long time viewing, for experementing with an nle/compositing, my desktop, gaming, laptop again. Conclusion there us no right or wrong device, it sll depends on what you want, and what is convinient.

  2. Re: Comcast 1 Gbps for $499/month here. on Comcast Tries To Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Yst one quesrion does comcasr have cheaper plans on fiber like 100Mbps/100Mbps, I would imagine thar would be a lor cheaper as 1Gbps probsbly is the rop tear (read letks guage people a bit extra because these custumers ar not that prize senitive), and unless you have a lot of heavy users in your home the returns deminush rapidly above 100mbps. Unless of corese comcast does iptv and n cable boxes reserve banwith from the same downlink (ikve seen exsamles of this with telias iptv in sveeden)

  3. Re: Longmont on Comcast Tries To Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you mske a typo or was rhe connection realy 1GigaByte per second, i suspect you cabitalized the B by missrake thus making you connection look 8x broader thsm it was Bytres vs bits, sorry to nit pick but that distiction is kind if important

  4. In orther news on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hong kong becomes the first produser of Soylent Green, line up now for you weekly rashon

  5. Re:Says a guy doesn't understand the technology on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The stock marjet it self or most of the people that opperated in it?

  6. Controll systems om publicly accessable networks on US Government Warns Of 'Ongoing' Hacks Targeting Nuclear and Power Industries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I might be naive bot would not a big paty of theese concerns be mittigated if we removed the controll systems from publikly accessable networks (yes this includes pstn/isdn, Isolated network on dedicated fiber. correct me if Im wrong but if a system cannot be accessewd from the outside you atacjk surface is gratly reduced

  7. Hmm what about the old timers stil writing fortran for banks, or the mainframe peoiplewith2 decades+ experience in IBM systemZ etc. While not the majority they still prove that tech is more than X86 (64bit). Sadly I don't have numbers but since mainframes ar still being used fin these applications and not everyone have moved to more modern languages yet they exist.

  8. Re:Don't care. Where's my full sized tower? on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it uses all the wolts anyhow, but how many amps do you think it will need?

  9. What I've found annouimng with dmx is tha lack of replps from the fixtures (underastandablle ass you apparently only can have a reply from a singel fixutre on a bus). Or are we talking about a diffrenet DMX here, I'm reffering to the one used to controll stage lighting and the like at least that is the application I've seen it used for I for one would love it if a moveing head cold report back somting lie rotation complete etc so the software culd advance the queue list to the next item without having to calculate delays manualy

  10. Well the fist sentence is correct, but I can't understand the authors objections to adding the additional info, unless her intention ofr adding to wikipedia was not spreading information, but rathetr beeing able to say "I wrote sothiing on wikipedia and it's still exactly the way I wrote it, I'm smart". I I ever start an article on wikipedia an other add aditional innformation (assumimh it is at least somewhat correct) I'll be happy, The more knowlage is collected in wikipedia the better, like it or not, that is the plase where an engreesing number of peiple begin and end their seerch for information Note: Pardon the typos, sadly I have a tendency to miss them

  11. Re: It's tough to make predictions on Does Online Crowdfunding Actually Reward Innovation? (strategy-business.com) · · Score: 1

    And what about transporters, replicstors And warp drive ( in a wider sence ftl travel)hmm? Replicstors snd transporters are fundamentaly imposdible due to the Hisenberg uncertanty principle (the trek writers skerted this problem withh the hisenberg compansator, sadly I doubt we are much closer to this device now then when it was first mentioned in a script idea. As for warp drive, correct me If I’m wrong but does that not kind of violate general relativity? So what are we left with - communicators well to some extent mobile phones tho we have a bit left when it comes to range (iirc TNG hinted at a range of about a solar system, not there yet is putting it mildly, Tri corders. - well I’ve seen kickstarter projects but no test models so undecided. AI and androids(Ie cmdr Data) - are we even close yet? “Give trek a break we ar not at stardate x yet” - hmm what star date are we at and are there rughly 365 srardays in an earth year, if not rughly how many are ther? My pont whit that question is, ar we lightly to get there by the time the equvivalent date rolls around irl. Pesonaly I love trek and cudos to the writers fir geting some rhings right, but they miss a few things esp when it comes to the way we interact with tech and how it changec procedutes - case in point the number of times we se peple handing over reports by handing over a physival pad instead of doing the eqvivalent of E-maling them or some souch,why, is it only a plot device, a convinient way to start, conckude a scene? Ikt sems that one second pad= paper and the next it is a cumouting device, so which is it?

  12. Re:Speculation not activity on Goldman Sachs Explores a New World: Trading Bitcoin (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well anyone you have offered crypto to has accepted it ( have you offered it to the IRS or equvuvslent) or to your bank to pay a mortage or other debt, and if you did, did they accept it? Here is the thing legal tender Ie currency is by law reqiered to be accepted by evryonee ( ok there are som limitations iirc you csnt pay 2million with prnnies as this eould create undue cost for ther recipient ( imegine running sll thst thru a coib counter to veryfy it is correct)

  13. Re: Breached, just like RUSSIANS getting plugged on Equifax CEO: All Companies Get Breached (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    It eas way worse than that, (altho that password shuld NEVER be used) IIRC that sdmin sccount eas used by no it staff as well on a daily basis, how hard csn in it dipstment fail? Sorry I donâ(TM)t have a linke my source is a recent eddition of the backetpushers cofie break podcast

  14. Re: No thanks!! on Microsoft Releases 'Next Generation' Preview of Skype For Linux (skype.com) · · Score: 0

    TS used to be king (still is for some) but ar least if I judge bybtwirch a lot of priple are mobving tonduscord, well no wonder it’s free (as in beer) sopports bothf voice and persistsnt sydio chat, no server to set up. Sone people mey not like it, but the netwotk effect is big andt with the recent ”stallar” reliability of skypr people mey start lokking elsewhere. Is discord ideal, probably not but it is good enugh an tehere is litetely nothing to set up beond downloadinf the app (a few clicks snd any group of people heve their own privat space) never forget the atracttivness of easy

  15. Re:Is the world ready for flying cars? on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but the trevel thru time is usualy ignored as you are not able to imfluence it in any meaningdfull way certanly not reverse it as you can do (not recomended in traffic tho unless it is on an intersection/rounabout) with the direction in the other 2 dimentions.

  16. Only if on Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    1: the flying is done by an automated system (subject to faa/relevent authioerety approval) or 2: A pilots licence (including nite/ifr flying) is reqiered

  17. Re:Progressive features, like blocking public wifi on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I’must be lucky then, I’ve never had those wifi isues, then sgain I tend to awoid overloafe publc wifi runing on god knows what hardware with possibly out of date firmware on it. At home on my cisco 877w ( soon to be replaced by ubiquity gear due to it beeing eold by ciisco) and at uni allso running cisco gear there has not been a singel problem. si wonder what equipmet us used on those networks that has given people truble. I have noticed btw that Apple devices seem to be a bit picky when it comes to connectong to aps with low signal strenght ( as seen by the device) I kind of suspect a few of those public wifi networks tp be suffering from this problem but I might be way off on this

  18. Re:iPad 2 on iOS 11 Released (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yes that can be an issue, so here is an idea, if you want 6-7 yeats off sw updayes, buy your iOS device at releade ore during the firce year on sale, for the rest of the cycle it’s a trade off, lover price vs shorter sw support, the choice us yours. Btw imho the iphone X has a rediculess price imho,I will not pe geting it, as due to several eyesight issues even the somewhat larger screen is still to smsll to replace my ipad for longer oeriods of time

  19. Hmm I though that case was named University of Wisconsin VS apple and not the state vs apple, but hey if it was a criminal and not a civil case I can exept your use of the word theft.

  20. Re:Big talk for a little man on Ethereum Will Match Visa In Scale In a 'Couple of Years,' Says Founder (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    We beed to retire that prase as it is based on afalecy, Napoleon was actually above avaragr hight, but since the english and the french used different deffinitions of feet ( the french where longer) Napoleons recorded hight was smaller, his souted the english and most of eutope fineas he was not that popular thar siilly little emperor etc so just oød propsgsnda. No Ikm not french, nor english for thst matter but things that ar plain wrrong annoy me

  21. Is this a US thing? I though a phone thas was approved by ragulators (fcc and mayby others) did not need any more aproval, just pop in a sim from yout provider of choice and away you go, or is thst a european thing. I’m still surprised that roming fot a us subscriber is stil a thing while in the us, but it seesm that roling out a narion wide cellphone network is a rask beond the us cariers oh well.

  22. Re:There's closed and then there's prison on Linux Foundation President Used MacOS For Presentation at Open Source Summit (itsfoss.com) · · Score: 1

    Well OSX defaults Re lookced down, but with a bit of googeling snd a few terminsl commands most if not all restrictions can be turned of if you want to, is this a hatd barier for 90% of people, probably, but then again thsy are not the once complaining. Do you have aåany citations for thr gatbage products you reffer to. I’ll be the first to admitthst theit coputers are not lightly to win any spec war but how often is thst relevant?If you are right and spples produckts are garbsge, why do apple consistsntly score high on costumer satisgaction servays, it can’t sll le fanboy love can it?

  23. Yes what is up with that? I never understood the exitor war, unlese you ar stuck in a situasion where your editor of choice is nor svslable, and you are noy able to install the editor what is the big deal, people use what works best for them. If the question is which of the 2 is best for beginners (well probably none of them, but that is a different debate)

  24. Re:The same Reason Many of us Greybeards use MACs on Linux Foundation President Used MacOS For Presentation at Open Source Summit (itsfoss.com) · · Score: 1

    Was LS ment to be in capitals or did you mean ls. Because ls -a displays hidden files just fine. Unless of cause a well documented parsmeter is considered a cracy hack.

  25. Re:and instead of adapting.. on There Will Be 22 Million Cord Cutters By 2018, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    That slowesr and cheapest internett is that the same bandwithas as a decade ago or significsnly more? I know banwith is cheaper but it still has a cost esp in yhe amounts your Isp needs to get