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Comment Tunnel directly (Score 2) 164

Don't bother with any 3rd parties like most suggestions are advising. OpenVPN supports tunneling IPv4 and IPv6 over either of them. You can use a laptop or anything else that supports IPv6 to connect to your server at home over IPv6 via a bridged tap tunnel interface and then anything you connect to the laptop via layer 2 will be able to communicate with your home over IPv4.

Comment Cautionary tale (Score 1) 199

And this is why software homogenization is bad. Webkit is becoming the new IE6 but has far greater consequences because every smartphone is using a webkit based browser by default. Yes it also affected IE and Opera but Opera cut their core developers and are moving to Webkit so soon there will only be 3 major engines with one of them having a complete monopoly on smartphones.

Comment Sensationalist Journalism? (Score 1) 210

"Power company Entergy New Orleans says the Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages."

Isn't the point of the protective relay to CAUSE power outages when the load is too high in order to prevent damage to equipment and fires from the line carrying more load than it should.

Comment Bad summary (Score 2) 224

The summary is restating the obvious but the actual article is about how the school district and state are moving to use ebooks and online testing so this school needs a lot of additional networking gear to keep everything wired only. They also mention how 802.11ad would work since it's signal range is too high to get through the atmosphere so the observatory doesn't care about it, but 802.11ad isn't readily available yet.

Comment No evidence, only assumptions (Score 1) 474

This Harvard professor is assuming that people are being racist purposefully through adsense when she no real evidence to prove it.

I don't see any numbers to prove whether her percentages are even statistically significant or not.

Even if her results are correct, anyone even remotely familiar with google adsense would come to the more likely conclusion that the content of web pages reflect that people with those names are more likely to have been arrested. Almost all of the keyword combinations people use in adsense are ones recommended by adsense based on a few seeded keywords and adsense generates those recommendations automatically based on the content of the internet.

Comment Re:42 cents per play is bad? (Score 1) 665

There's many articles easily found that discuss the figures which vary wildly but $1/cd seems to be a typical estimate for the artist cut which then get broken down between all the artists that contributed... Some more stingy deals that this type of artist is likely to get can put it much much lower though. Even at $1/cd that breaks down to ~10c per song which is about as much as they get from 25 plays on these streaming services. Couple that with the fact that one person listening to an online radio stream is going to hear the same songs multiple times which could easily add up to over 25 plays in their lifetime and then 0.42c per play doesn't seem all that unreasonable when put into perspective.

If artists want more of the cut then they need to find ways to cut out the middlemen. Promotion and distribution aren't free and the more you can do yourself, the more you get to keep.

Comment Hypocritical (Score 4, Interesting) 88

While Java applets are very rare and not of much use to me personally (I mostly see it used for irc clients and bad web games), it seems a bit of an overstep to disable it completely for everyone due to a 0-day vulnerability. How is anyone supposed to ever use it if web browsers start disabling it for every 0-day vulnerability that pops up. It's not like Firefox and Safari don't also have 0-day vulnerabilities but you don't see them completely shutting themselves down nor do they roll out fixes the same day, so it seems a bit hypocritical. IMO there should be a small grace period of 1-2 weeks where the browser warns people of the known unpatched vulnerability but allows users to choose to load it anyways if they trust the site (yes, most people will just say yes to get past it) to at least give the plugin authors a chance to fix it before it gets completely disabled.

Comment Re:I'd settle for a jump drive with a micro-USB ja (Score 2) 453

Then you would need a dongle to plug it into most everything that isn't a portable device and it would be easier to damage to the port. Micro usb is okay for charging but I really don't want to plug anything into it a portable device's micro usb port because it's likely to get snagged accidentally thus putting pressure on the port. Full sized ports are more rugged.

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