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Comment Thats why I always laugh at CSI (Score 1) 105

The neighbor has a camera, hack into his internet and lets see it.

First, you need his IP address, then is his router even port mapped to his camera to allow internet viewing and what port, what brand is his brand and model is the camera so you can get the right viewing software and what about the username and password he likely has to access the cameras ? Or does a CSI team have universal backdoor access to all devices.

Give me 5 seconds....Ok Im in, Im pulling up lastnight's video now....

Comment Re: One (Score 1) 301

yes, I agree. Even though some desktops have wifi, I disable it and just plug it in. Even connected at 300N I never file copies over about 15 to 20MB per second. A run of the mill GB ethernet connection will gets me 80 to 100MB per second or more. No dropouts from neigbhors using old non wifi friendly 2.4 cordless phones and baby monitors. Also, i freguently use the ethernet connection on laptops for setting up new routers or installing firmware updates.

Comment Seems fair (Score 1) 218

For years broadcasters have been trying to kill alternative radio(streaming, satellite) by saying they must pay fees much higher than they do. Now it's their turn. If radio stations are making a profit of playing music, then a percentage of the profit is due back. If the station is small or makes little to no income then their money paid would be much lower or zero. They need to base it on each stations income and make the same rules apply to all (broadcast, streaming, satellite, podcasts). They can't charge a small online radio station something like $500, but a major market radio station would be different.

Comment Re:Wireless service (Score 1) 536

Because it's super expensive and you don't get much data.
Someone working from home, especially if they vpn, will go though a 15gb plan in a few days. Sure you can buy a 80GB+ plan from verizon for $600 per month. We are stuck using verizon lte for internet and its sucks. You have to bring all your laptops into work to download updates, bring everything else home on usb drives. Block youtube, itunes, netflix, windows update and all those sites on your router to keep kids from burning though your monthly plan in 4 days.

Comment Same story here (Score 1) 536

Comcast stops a few miles down the road, Centurylink dosent offer dsl. Brodband.gov says we are served by 6 providers, we are not. Satellite and 4G internet from a hotspot should not count as broadband. One good windows update or 20 minutes of youtube will use up a entire day's of data on satellite, 4g data is no better unless you want a bill from verizon for 800$.

Comment Just don't see the point (Score 1) 230

Takes 5 seconds to swipe a card in put in a pin #, sending payments on my phone is likely not a time saver. I'm more likely to leave home with out my phone than wallet and just don't see a need to use it. Mainly the only people who will use it are people who just want it so they can tell people they use it.

Comment There is no 3 or 4th place 'winners' (Score 1) 166

Just like with their phones, tablets and bing, they should have learned there isn't much demand for a 3rd or 4th place product. People who like Chrome will stick with it, people who like Firefox will stick with it. They may get a few people who switch from IE to this, but many of them will just keep using the newest version of IE. In the end, I won't use it or put it on any of our workplace computers. Any browser by microsoft will be tied to closely to the operating system, keeping the doorway unlocked for viruses.

Comment Why bother with tiny data limits (Score 1) 71

Companies like verizon think bandwidth is scarce and charge crazy overage fees if you even think of going over. I can't even math that well, but seems with 100% saturation, you would use up a 4gb data plan, use another 121gb in overages in 1 second. At their current rate of 15$ per gb, that first 1 second would costs you little over $1800.

Comment No thanks (Score 1) 138

I want a basic car, with user replaceable parts. Not an all in one system that will not be supported after 2 years. Thats why so many people have little 80$ gps units stuck on their dash even though their car has gps. Either it doesn't work and to repair it would cost 800$, it needs a map update and the dealer wants $250 for a 3 year old map set or its useability is so bad the owners do not want to mess with it. European cars are terrible at useability, they say some bmw's and audi's take 7 steps to go from changing the heater setting to get back to the radio menu to change the preset to another station. I want separate heater controls, with knobs and buttons and not goto 2 menus and a submenu on a touchscreen. I also want a radio unit, standard din sizing, easily replaceable.

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