Comcast's main problem is that they can't find trustworthy installers, who intentionally cause reasons to be called back. That doubles their truck rolls, and therefore doubles their pay. They really should move to a circuit/appeals model where somebody else gets to fix their mistakes.

VB6/VS6 came with a snapshot of the MSDN Library for Visual Studio.. do they have a similar product for .NET yet?

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are trying to merge!

FCC meetings are planned in advance to give people time to comment. It looks like they'll have this next year because it's too early to make the call this year. Come on, we're a month and a half away from 2015.

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a series of servers placed at or near ISPs in order to get content closer to the user connections. What Net Neutrality means is you can't block or limit any CDN and favor another.

The early days of online surfing had solid walls called Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe. The WWW was the end of that, but now we've got HTTP sites that don't serve the whole world the same content.

This amounts to "Don't run Office" on XP. If XP can't run IE or Office, better switch to the open source Firefox and OpenOffice... but if you're going to do that, why not bring in Linux?

Score that zero-day mention as worth zero!

Good catch... the summary has wrong use of the term "zero-day"... please count the number of days this has been out!

Answer calls in the style of a call center.. Postal rates are complicated right now, so to get an exact price for a big shipment the average user needs to speak with somebody.

Red headlines indicate the story's not ready yet for comments, but cued up ready to run next. Subscribers see it, an occasionally they open it up to everybody to promote subscriptions, and prove there's a breaking story worth extra attention coming. In this case, if you just checked slashdot expecting a slow news day story, you got this must-upgrade-or-else Patch Tuesday release.

Yep, you pay for Microsoft becomes it comes with the promise they're paying people to set mistakes right... you can't get that with Linux unless you pay somebody like Red Hat/

This is the knockout blow to XP... an announced unpatched flaw!

"Zero day" means the first exploit hasn't been spotted... Microsoft announced the patch and the problem at the same time, and did so on its designated day of the month (2nd Tuesday) so it looks like they had it right.

It's Patch Tuesday falling on Veteran's Day this year... so this may catch some IT staff sleeping. Everybody checking Slashdot at home who maintains one of these things... log in an apply the update!

I'm not sure what the word "Evicted" is doing in the headline... looks like the city council ordered the move.