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Comment Re:Time to abandon normal phones? (Score -1) 217

I share an apartment with one of the Skype program managers. Microsoft doesn't give a damn that they're being mostly used by scammers. Just look at how long it took them to lock down Exchange from being used as a spam relay. The older generation there wasn't into the Internet so they didn't care. The new guys, as you pointed out, are mostly from the third world so they don't care either. They need a massive culture change. That isn't going to happen since they're run by the former head of Symmantec.

Comment Line of sight? (Score 0) 123

Will it have the same line of site limitations as current satellite Internet? I'm in Seattle, and with providers like HughsNet you need a very good line of sight to the south to get service. IIRC, where I used to work we had the dish pointed only 24 degrees above the horizon. That really limits the locations here in Seattle that have access to satellite Internet. This area desperately needs more options for Internet since Comcast doesn't offer service to much of the city, and Comcast DSL is so slow or doesn't work at all for much of downtown. CondoInternet is making a great effort at offering fast service in a few expensive residential buildings, but that doesn't help the huge problem for the rest of us.

Comment Re:Wasn't there an attempt on this in the 2000s? (Score -1) 123

> Our long term plan is to move

Which is just sad. I know of at least four companies that moved out of Seattle because they couldn't get a decent Internet connection, including my last employer. The state PUC doesn't force CenturyLink to provide faster than dial-up lines everywhere, and the city doesn't force Comcast to provide to their entire monopoly area. Cable isn't available where I work or where I live.

Comment Re:Conflating Issues (Score -1) 480

Bullshit. All you have to do is drop the ballot in the mail. If you have permission from the government to drive then you are almost always registered to vote because the federal government requires the state as an unfunded mandate to also register you to vote. Just take the ballot, fill-out the bubbles, and put it in the mail. The USPS will even then illegally deliver it without a stamp.

Of course that doesn't fix the problem that the Republicans throw away votes that they don't agree with. Here in Seattle, my vote hasn't been counted in over eight years. The Republicans rule here with an iron fist.

Comment Re:Free? (Score -1) 703

> does''t knock off more than a semester

That is a lie. Why would you pick classes that wouldn't transfer? Only a moron would decide to take four semesters of classes that doesn't transfer. You're full of crap.

When I taught at Tri-County Tech, nearly all of my student's credits would transfer to real schools. Our classes were stupid easy and you got credit for some very hard college classes. It was a great scam for the students.

Comment Re:Internet of Hype ... (Score -1) 163

If a hacker wants to pwn my thermostat, that's probably the least of my problems.

That depends on the type of heat. The vast majority of the Pacific Northwest has electric baseboard heat. In fact in over forty-five years of living here, I've never seen a house, condo, or apartment without it. Even the lowest power ones can get hot enough to light wood on fire. The thermostats are the only thing stopping them from starting fires. It's very common around here to see scorch marks on carpets or walls from the electric heater getting too hot. Also, there's typically beds or other furniture not far from the heater that could be lit if someone turned the setting up far above normal.

Comment Re:Any actual examples? (Score -1) 598

> "this device no longer exists or is offline" (WiFi sync)

I used to work for a company that did sounds for games and sometimes for commercials. We copied hundreds of sound files to iDevices for QA, management, and customers every single day, and not once did I see the WiFi sync work. It is a disaster, and Apple should feel bad for deciding to release something that simply doesn't work.

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