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Comment Re:We had a distributed social network (Score 1) 269

by Sir_Eptishous (#48216617) Attached to: We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello
Over the years I've had four registered domains. My current one live on one of the big corporate hosters, and it runs on WordPress, which is actually quite fun to manage. I put new content about once a month, sometimes more. It really is a lot of fun and I have complete control. That is one of the things about FB that I could never accept, combined with the fact that FB is 99% fluff/krap, and, the interface is absolutely abhorrent. At least Google+ has a half decent ui.

But yes, things like FB make it easy for most people to do what we who run our own sites do, without the cost and management.

Comment Re:Third World America (Score 1) 291

by Sir_Eptishous (#48214563) Attached to: Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide?
The real point his comment makes is about the backsliding of American infrastructure , and to that you can't argue against.

Sure, if your standard is to compare the roads. bridges and broadband of the US against, oh say, Bolivia, then sure, we are in a much better place. But to compare the US against other "First World" countries it is a much different story.

Also, your comment about the economic output makes no difference to the average American whose wages and benefits have been stagnant or backsliding since the 1980's. For someone who lives off of capital gains in the stock market or other investments, sure, things like economic output have some meaning. Yes, the "US economy" is very strong, and the capital it generates is incredible.

How much of the benefits of that economy are actually being "trickled down" onto the American middle class?

Comment Re:Third World America (Score 1) 291

by Sir_Eptishous (#48214283) Attached to: Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide?
I find it interesting that your comment is being modded down, though I'm not surprised.
You are correct in your condemnation of the US regarding infrastructure, and yes, that is what the whole broadband issue is. We have let ourselves(via greedy politicians, lobbyists and corporate managers) become the slaves of a no competition broadband scenario, where we have two choices, the phone company or the cable company for broadband.

Comment Re:Only for root users (Score 1) 114

by Sir_Eptishous (#48204999) Attached to: Windows 0-Day Exploited In Ongoing Attacks
It's not just in house VB jockeys doing this. All sorts of "enterprise" grade software will only run as admin.
If you can find the registry keys to tweak and files and folders to manually change perms on than sometimes that problem can be mitigated.
Really, the problem is that software development gives little priority to security.

Comment Across Devices? (Score 1) 126

by Sir_Eptishous (#48196559) Attached to: Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices

for example if you begin watching a show on Netflix on your laptop, then switch to a Roku set-top box to finish it

I don't get this.
When I'm watching something I enjoy, either via OTA HD or Netflix, the last thing I'm going to do is "quick! switch to another device!"

Watching a film, documentary or "episode" is much more enjoyable watched in one sitting. If I have to switch to another device I will watch at a later time when my attention isn't split.

This splitting of attention ruins the experience.

Comment Re:'Regardless of... income and education level' ? (Score 1) 422

by Sir_Eptishous (#48186339) Attached to: Soda Pop Damages Your Cells' Telomeres

I suspect that income and education level could be relevant here as a proxy for other dietary trends. People with higher incomes tend to eat better quality food overall than poor people. People with higher education levels also tend to make different dietary choices (and are probably more likely to seek out more "natural" foods or whatever the current research is pointing toward).

You can always tell a dingbat by how much Mountain Dew they drink.

I've been telling my friends that drink it(in large quantities) that they are better off drinking coffee for their stim fix(caffeine) than that disgustingly over-sugared green goo. It's common knowledge that sugar in large quantities(and sugar is pretty much every processed food in the US) is really the reason for most First World health problems.

Sugar, in all it's forms(HFCS. et al) is the post Tobacco Tobacco...

The real question is whether the health community will be able to unseat Big Sugar from it's control over the American Diet.

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 187

by Sir_Eptishous (#48163927) Attached to: Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies

However, the authors you refer to (Niven, Asimov, Bradbury) appeal mainly to a crowd of Poindexters. It's no surprise that people on a News for Nerds site would clamor for film adaptations, but please try to remember that everything isn't you, and this kind of literature scares a lot of your fellow Americans away, both because of its obtuse themes and because of the Aspie readership is associated with.

I think you're on the wrong website... How did you end up here?

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