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Submission + - The Death of Google (vortex.com) 2

Lauren Weinstein writes: A company named Google and its parent Alphabet will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, but for all practical purposes the Google that we all know appears to be in a kind of terminal decline, even as the money continues rolling in for now.

How can this be?

Today’s announcements of a Google+ security breach and the upcoming shutdown of consumer Google+ are but immediate symptoms of a malignancy that has been creeping through Google for years.

Comment As long as CVS/GIT and the data-hoarders exist (Score 1) 985

We can always go back to a place where it was stable, and thankfully, unless GIT is gutted, we can find blame for those who polluted the code-base. I always go pale when annotate shows my name next to a line of code that is broken ;)

Submission + - Kavanaugh hearing - Senator Tells the Truth

Cutting_Crew writes: During the Kavanaugh hearing and after all the smearing and yelling Senator Ben Sasse unloads on Congress as to why we are where we are. Nine Supreme Court Justices (or any judge) shouldn't be making new law, finding loopholes to insert new law into existing law or using their personal feelings or preferences to rule. It should rule on what the legislature has passed.

As Ben Sasse explains this is why there is no much vitriol with supreme court nominees because the people have no other recourse, no other avenue to fight back because the legislature has been passing on responsibilities to other branches.

Comment All they did was change the name of the road (Score 1) 116

From 295 to 95. Literally. Now 295 runs back towards Philly a bit but it is combined with 95. I always thought it was part of replacing the Scudders Falls bridge. 95 Disappeared above Trenton right at the river and reappeared down past 195. They literally '"Fixed" the problem' Office space style.

Comment This is why I want to slap(figuratively) any mealy (Score 1) 142

mouthed know it alls who's only response to workplace complaints is "well if you don't like your employer's rules, then start your own company". If it was truly a free market, companies like Facebook and Microsoft would have a hard time staying so large because they wouldn't have access to rent seeking through lobbying local, state, and federal government.

Comment Sorry St IGNUtius, but I couldn't afford XENIX (Score 1) 521

And the only thing that I could walk with two 20" long 3.5" floppy cases worth of floppies from the computer lab at school down to my apartment computer was Slackware. Therefore, for me, at least, it was Linux, then GNU. Yes I use EMACS, and for that I will be forever in your debt, but prior to that, the last time I used UNIX was on my daddy's lap in the 70s on a Bell Telephone central office computer somewhere on the east coast of america, and Dad didn't even know VI...

Comment Re:Enough Already (Score 2, Insightful) 259

Buddy, I've been on slashdot since I stumbled upon Chips and Dips looking for hints on how to use gimp. Rob had some cool ideas and I stayed for the tech news. The fact that this site has an obvious political bias makes me sick when I remember it was all about tech and not 15 pages of: "well this is tech because well reasons and global warming" or "you better believe this needs to be talked about because 'tenuous reasons' and Trump said mean things" which somehow peripherally affects tech--it doesn't. At this point, i'd be happy sitting in a global warming induced desert on my russian government controlled non-net neutral, non general purpose, NSA, FSA, and Chinese intelligence backdoored approved propaganda device praising trump's 32nd landslide election and knowing that my starving children are starving to make america great again.

Submission + - How can I prove my ISP is slowing certain traffic? 1

GerryGilmore writes: I live in North Georgia where we have a monopoly ISP provider — Windstream — whose service overall could charitably be described as iffy.
Sometimes, I have noticed that certain services like Netflix and/or HBONow will be ridiculously slow but — when I run an internet speed test from my Linux laptop — the basic throughput is what it's supposed to be for my DSL service. That is, about 3Mbps due to my distance from the nearest CO. Other basic web browsing seems to be fine.
I know that this is laughably slow to most /. readers, but it should still be consistent at least.
So, to my question: as a basically pretty knowledgeable Linux guy totally comfortable with the command line (I've written some pretty nice shell scripts and C fragments, plus a SCO UNIX device driver), but I don't know enough about network tracing to be able to identify where/why such severe slowdowns in certain circumstances are occurring.
PS — my goal in gathering this info is to try to pressure my local reps to put pressure (Hah!) on Windstream.
Any other suggestions, etc. are greatly appreciated. (Aside from moving! I live on a riverside lot that is to die for and I'd sacrifice the internet before I'd ever leave.)

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