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  1. Re:Shame Australia on UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You have synchronous dsl?
    $45/mo gets me 12 Mbps down 1 Mbps up

    It takes me a very long time to maintain a 1.0 ratio let alone a 2.0 considering it takes me 12 times longer to upload the same amount of data than it does for me to download it.

  2. Re:Humans are animals, too! on Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Peta tends to forget that. However so do most people.

    I think the ACLU and OSHA are the main ones but you would think someone would start PETP people for the ethical treatment of people. Or I suppose you could name it PETH if you wanted to be specific.

  3. Re:Shame Australia on UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of dsl do you have? The highest upload speed I can get is 1mbps on att uverse dsl. Assuming each iso is 1GB in size on average it would take roughly 3 hours for each one.

    Although if I could saturate my upload 24/7 I could use 300GB a month but bittorrent does not seem to do a good job at maxing out the uplink unless there are a lot of peers and very few seeds.

  4. Re: Damned Lies And Politics on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    /. had this a few days ago
    Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

    But yeah they were even pushing it during the democratic debates on the 14th.

  5. Re:Inch by inch tyranny on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    What like If you buy too much sudafed? http://lawstreetmedia.com/blog...

    Or Hydroponics gear?
    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

  6. Re:Common pattern on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on they have had warnings on them not to tilt or shake them for years. Are they just trying for a darwin?

  7. Re:Inch by inch tyranny on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather odd them trying to stake a claim of the number 1984.

  8. Re:Where's the article on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. O RLY?

  10. Re:30 million lines of code on How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I also call bs. http://www.informationisbeauti...

    Although windows 10 probably does have around 30 million lines.

  11. last time I was at O'Hare the wifi at the airport was a lot better than gogo in flight wifi.

    Although that was a few years back.

  12. Re:Modding in an off switch on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    You must have better speaker on your phone than mine does that or some of your family's phones have really good mics.

    The volume on the voice and the volume on the ringer have stayed maxed out since I got it.

  13. Re:Modding in an off switch on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    If its important to you and that seems too much trouble get a phone that you can still do a battery pull.

    Also good because then you can swap battery's and not worry about charging your phone.

    Someday people will be able to 3d print their own custom cases. And a new battery door for the tv remote.... Till then I suppose a dremel will have to do.

    If you wanted to do this at any scale you could get custom made ribbon cables put a switch on the side of the phone. If it were me id rip off the volume buttons and put the on off switch down in the hole so it was protected like a dip switch.

    But then again I only use my phone as a phone so I don't need the volume buttons.

  14. Re:Attend a 2600 meeting or go to HOPE? on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 2

    Ill just leave this here.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:Just ask on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't think it would take a lot of effort to mod in a physical on off switch from the battery. Assuming you can get the case open.

  16. Re:Look up on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    Do helicopters count as drones?

  17. Re:Mozilla on Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes · · Score: 1

    No they found someone to steer. Unfortunately it was Captain Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Seriously though why would anyone think this was a good idea?
    On that note why does google not allow me the option to use the desktop site on mobile and sometimes not even on desktop?!

  18. Re:Cue the stupid comments on New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pretty much anything on this list:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Every one I have run across has wanted a CC not bitcoin. Although its been about a year since i've seen one.

    They didn't encrypt files but they often prevented you from running any other programs until you paid up so I still consider that ransomware even if not on the same scale.

  19. Re:Dear networks.... on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What brand and model and can it record broadcast tv?

  20. Re:Little animated bits at the bottom of shows on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep they know it too.
    A few years ago there was a episode of Phineas and Ferb where they were poking fun at that.
    http://phineasandferb.wikia.co...

  21. Re:I like the longer ads... on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As best I was able to tell from the summary they were talking about cable tv networks.

    As such if you had to pay for cable service to watch it then yes you got to pay to see the ad even if you didn't watch it.

    If you are talking about broadcast tv then yes you are correct.

    Unless you watch broadcast tv on cable because the cable company is required by law to carry broadcast stations and also required by law to pay a carriage fee for those channels.

    Also assuming you are in the US.

  22. Re:A couple comments... on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No commericals are not there for your benefit. You shall not be paid.

    Hulu says ad's allow them to provide their service at a lower price. Yet still refuses to offer ad free service at a premium. Even their ad free service is just mostly ad free.

  23. Shows may vary. on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If only the scifi err syfy channel still had shows after the ads end.

    Viacom may need to work on their negotiation skills it's pretty hard to get dropped and replaced by a cable company.

    Suddenlink (one of the two cable companies here in town) dropped viacom's network after some rather ridiculous rate hikes.

    http://www.tvonmyside.com/

  24. Re:I like the longer ads... on TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just as long as you understand you paid for a part of that break.

  25. Re:How can there be? on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets see..
    The newest addition is yourkarma's neverstop
    $50/mo for 5/5mbps unmetered cellular data limited speed but no caps.

    Verizon xlte unlimited data grandfathered plan $65/mo no caps no speed limits.

    Verizon 3g unlimited data grandfathered plan
    $60/mo no caps 3g only so 3g speeds dynamic public ip.

    I can personally vouch that Verizon's 3g and xlte unlimited plans really aren't capped.

    Although I have not used yourkarma's neverstop service so I confirm it yet.