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Comment Re:Both are dangerous (Score 2) 692

Sounds like a free market problem to me. As in, if no one is willing to carry the bullshit you're peddling, perhaps you should modify your message a bit. Because Alex Jones is a bullshit peddler extraordinaire, and the market is rejecting him. Too bad for Alex.

And now Trump is mad because the BS peddlers that support him are dwindling as troll farm, fake news, and political conspiracy theory filters become more effective. Let me grab a box of industrial strength tissues for this sob story.

Ignoring my personal biases, if the federal government feels compelled to push back on misinformation, it should re-enact the Fairness Doctrine.

Comment Crappy XFinity routers (Score 1) 43

Yet another reason to avoid their crappy XFinity wi-fi routing features. Mine are turned off so I can use my own router, which gives me full control and allows me to lock things down. Convincing Comcast to bridge the router was a real pain, but keeping their techs tied up for three days convinced them I wasn't going to give up, and they finally relented.

Comment Even if the boss is me (Score 4, Insightful) 184

I'm self-employed, and after hours, unless I'm expecting a call, if I'm in the middle of something, chances are very good I'll let the call go to voicemail. Part of the reason I'm self-employed was to wrest control of my professional and personal life from employers that would take advantage of me at any opportunity.

I've been that guy on-call, and that's a different story. You know what you're signing on for when you take on that responsibility. I'm talking about situations where I'm expected to answer the call for "all hands on deck" without any additional compensation or consideration. Now, if I spend time on your system, you get billed, as it should be.

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.)

Comment Yes and no (Score 1) 302

Yes, I think craft from other civilizations have visited earth.
But I think the odds that those craft carried living biological entities is diminishingly small.

By the time any civilization obtains the technology capable of successfully crossing cosmological distances, it will also have developed the technology required to leave their biological bodies behind.

Comment Not yet (Score 2) 55

Judging from what I saw at NRF in New York City earlier this week the answer is a definite no. Not only did the systems I saw fail to guess my facial emotion but they also decided that I was female. I'm a 53 your old man with short hair and a goatee. It kind of makes you wonder what kind of faces they used to program in what a female face would look like...

I don't think that we are far off but that conference tends to have some pretty decent cutting-edge systems to show off and we are clearly not there yet.

Comment Re:Why Delphi? (Score 2) 472

I've been using Delphi since its inception, and its predecessors going all the way back to Turbo Pascal 3.01. It's a fantastic environment, the language is easy to use, and I can get a project done in half the time it takes to put the same thing together in C#. The Delphi hate seems to mostly come from .NET programmers that bought into the M$ propaganda.

Comment Re: Common Sense (Score 1) 601

I think what Jhon is trying to say is, "Make a mistake, pay for it for the rest of your scumbag little life, you loser. And your loser little kids, too." Because nothing says America like magnifying the sins of the parents so they affect the kids as much as possible.

Sure, the "stay in school and don't get pregnant" advice is great for kids coming up, but there's no need to assume they deserve abject poverty if they don't follow it perfectly. That's just being a dick.

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