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  1. Re:Getting around the court decision on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot that does not understand why Ma Bell was not innovative or what the court actually told the FCC when it over-turned the rules...you certainly do not understand the crap political game the ISPs have been playing with the FCC regarding when they do and do not want to be considered a common carrier.

  2. Re:Use that pen Mr. President! on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    EOs are completely legal and have been used since the creation of the union. Reagan used then, Bush I used them, Clinton used them, Bush II used them....name a president that did not use an Executive Order please.

    Idiots.

  3. Re:I still think Pluto is a planet on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    It has not cleared it's orbit of debris and Eris is in the same boat yet LARGER than Pluto.... how is Pluto a planet then?

  4. US Department of Information Technology on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just an agency under the supervision of a department....but both would require an act of congress. It is the only way to get authority under a CIO position that can affect the entire government through policy...Frankly it should be done from a security aspect alone.

  5. Re: One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 1

    The fact that consumer ISPs are access providers means they will never meet the definition for free peering agreements. They are all consumption services. Asshats can't seem to get it that these companies are just trying to set up a two-sided market and that is the only reason any of this is an issue.

  6. Re: One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 2

    No...Neither wanted a free peering agreement. BOTH were willing to PAY for the install of the hardware and the maintinance of that hardware in the Comcast Colo. Comcast said no. That is the fact.

  7. Re:One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 1

    I think your comprehension of the issue is the problem. Not my reading comprehension.

  8. Re:What rules prevent them from doing this already on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 1

    Comcast has their cable monopoly that allows them to use the poles as part of the contact with the cities they are in. They use this as a means to prevent competition through graft and exclusive contracts...Title II would prevent cities from blocking right of way access to competition like Google.

  9. Re: One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 1

    umm... No they aren't. Comcast and Verizon sent all the Netflix traffic through a single switch to their networks and held Netflix hostage for the deal that Verizon and Comcast wanted to make rather than allowing Netflix to just buy the equipment and pay for maintenance....Level 3 has had the same problems with Verizon and Comcast.

  10. Re:One fiber to rule them... on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 0

    Netflix already pays for access to the internet....The internet has never been a two-sided market where services have to pay for access to people that want to use them. Comcast et al is attempting to do that and that is what people are complaining about.

  11. Two options on Ask Slashdot: Best Options For a Standalone Offline Printing Station? · · Score: 1

    1) get a cloud print capable printer
    2) set up a standard windows/Linux machine to run the cloud print service and publish a standard printer to that service....then you just share the printer to him (this is what I did)

  12. Re:Speeding not always an issue on Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras · · Score: -1

    Not that I agree with the person you are replying to but...try citing your claims asshole.

  13. Re:Speeding not always an issue on Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras · · Score: 1

    you are assuming cities use science to set speed limits.

  14. Re:Speeding not always an issue on Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras · · Score: 1

    like those 6 lane boulevards that have a sped limit of 35.....WTF!

  15. Re:Are they good? No. on Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras · · Score: 1

    you mean like on freeways where most people go over the limit and accidents are caused more by jackasses that drive erratically rather than people going with the flow of the traffic speed.

  16. Re:The bigger question IMHO on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 1

    The compiler could easily create a search engine friendly file that presents the page information for indexing and browsers are being presented with standard HTML so accessibility is not an issue.

    Gains in productivity from development teams, middleware that will compile and publish all released code, the obvious benefits from compile time checking of variables, arrays, etc. will probably offset the loss of flexibility of the development channel.

  17. Re:So, it is hard and flexible? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    Great...and in materials hard and rigid go together like peanut butter and jelly.

  18. Re:It is too bad that we did not learn from doctor on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    yeah.....not.

    The current state has the idiots coming over because there is no accreditation board involved in vetting and licensing the people who do highly sensitive work.

  19. Re:It is too bad that we did not learn from doctor on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    My wife has been an RN for 15 years. When she went, she got an Associates degree. She is working on her BSN completion because of career limitations but she still got licenses as an RN and passed the NCLEX 15 years ago.

  20. Re:It is too bad that we did not learn from doctor on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    Which is why I said a professional board. You think passing the bar exam or getting your license to practice medicine is a scam? That is the level of licensing I am talking about.

  21. Re:Number of interviews... on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    you realize that testing someone's ability to think about sorting algorithms using a spatial test will result is a lot of programmers performing poorly. Spatial reasoning is being used in conjunction with algorithmic thinking. This is something that is not practiced in school so if you asked the same people to write a quick sort in psudo-code on one of those pieces of paper, I bet you would get higher performance from the candidates.

  22. It is too bad that we did not learn from doctors on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is too bad that we did not learn from doctors, lawyers, nurses, etc. back when there was ridiculous demand for tech professionals in the 90's. We should have set up a professional governance board and lobbied for licensing requirements (licensing that the professional board controls) to do certain jobs (programming, server admin, networking, IT security, etc.). That would have stopped the race to the bottom in salaries and quality (lower pay gives you lower quality).

  23. T-Mobile better get their hands on some of this on Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem with the FCC is that they are not following their guideline to promote competition. If you sell a small amount of bandwidth at auction and Verizon and AT&T buy it all up for a crazy amount of money then all the FCC has done is allowed the duopoly to limit competition.

    They should put a price tag on the spectrum, provision it out and offer it in turn like a draft. Then the companies can buy positions from one another for other terms that are agreed upon before the draft begins. Much better for competition.

  24. So, it is hard and flexible? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 2

    Please tell us how they achieved this feat or materials engineering.

  25. Re:Split Comcast in two on Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? · · Score: 1

    better yet... split comcast, TW and any cable based ISP into two. One is the ISP, the other is the infrastructure company. The infrastructure company sells access tot he ISP and now we have a company that has an incentive to sell access to multiple ISPs and upgrade/properly maintain interconnects.