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Comment Re:Double Dipping? (Score 1) 315

by funaho (#34435792) Attached to: Time Warner Defends Comcast In Level 3 Dispute
Netflix traffic, in theory, is already paid for. L3 is being paid by Netflix to send the traffic, and Comcast customers are paying Comcast to receive it. What Time-Warner described sounds more like a transit peering arrangement, in which L3 is passing at least some traffic to Comcast that is not terminating on Comcast but on networks to which Comcast is connected. Maybe L3 and Comcast do in fact have a transit peering agreement in place, but it seems rather unlikely. Comcast isn't really in the long haul network business and I can't imagine anyone wanting to use them for transit, except maybe as an absolute last resort, such as during a mass outage caused by a backhoe apocalypse.
Patents

8-Year-Old Receives Patent 142

Posted by samzenpus from the young-inventor-society dept.
Knile writes "While not the youngest patent recipient ever (that would be a four year old in Texas), Bryce Gunderman has received a patent at age 8 for a space-saver that combines an outlet cover plate with a shelf. From the article: '"I thought how I was going to make a lot of money," Bryce said about what raced through his brain when he received the patent.'"

Comment Re:Article was ridiculously bad (Score 1) 384

by funaho (#34164048) Attached to: Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years

Your history is off too. The VMS roots are even on their face only very lightly there (no code, they just hired a kernel team composed significantly of ex-VMS kernelfolk and some aspects of the VMS design went in), the BSD roots are hardly there at all, and the OS/2 roots were predominant.

Also, if you shift each letter in VMS one letter forward in the alphabet you get....WNT :)

Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 287

by funaho (#30784880) Attached to: "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight
You are aware of nuclear fallout, right? Radioactive fallout, coupled with the massive dust from all the explosions and fires, is a serious threat to food and water supplies even thousands of miles away from the actual explosions. Some of it could even be subtle, like rises in cancers and mutation rates that take years to fully manifest.

Comment Re:First thought... (Score 1) 287

by funaho (#30784832) Attached to: "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight
I suspect what the parent was referring to is the relatively short half-life of the tritium used in the fusion stages. Normally it has to be replaced every few years to keep the bomb fully operational, but as you said that still wouldn't prevent someone from getting an old Soviet warhead and turning into one or more single-stage fission devices and/or dirty bombs.

Comment Re:Or parents... (Score 1) 355

by funaho (#30394990) Attached to: FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors

So.... we want the government to watch parents with teenagers but we dont want them to help single or married people with no kids in the area of... oh I dunno Medical assistance? I call BS.

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. "Government hands off my health care! Oh, but can you watch my kids for a few hours?"

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