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Comment WTF? (Score 2) 88

Individual end users have never received settlement free peering, only major networks. The big guys occasionally kicked L3 and Cogent because they tended to have more providers than consumers on their network since they weren't part of the last mile club, but otherwise things work fairly well. Demanding that every end network be able to perform settlement free peering is insane and will lead to nothing but trouble. The biggest problem is that this kind of thing fuels an appearance that the big telcos were right and that the FCC rules are overbearing, which is unfortunate since they're just trying to rein in the worst excesses and abuses of the companies that hold hostage the future of our information based economy.

Comment Re:Amazon Banning Kodi.TV the future will be worse (Score 1) 122

HDHomeRun just did a kickstarter for a new DVR/live app platform that will work with the Prime (though it won't allow restricted content to be recorded). It's my understanding that other than technical glitches almost all providers just leave things on copy freely unless it's a premium channel like HBO.

Comment Re:Piracy claims just a ruse to remove competition (Score 1) 122

At least as an Amazon Prime member I want a FireTV stick with Kodi on it as I want access to all the Prime Instant content (the Kodi addon for this sucks completely) but also access to my local DVR content through Kodi since the FireTV doesn't do DLNA. Plex is the only other alternative and I find the interface sucks and it's really big about pushing their pay channels instead of getting me to my own content.

Comment Re: Store the hardware (Score 1) 257

Many motherboards have gone to all solid state caps for reliability and performance reasons, those will have little problem with aging. Tin whiskers with RoHS solder is probably a bigger concern, though my understanding is that industry has managed to mostly stop their formation with newer solder and flux formulations (the problem of course would be to make sure that your components were made with a modern solder, and not the cheapest thing available to the outsourced manufacturing firm)

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