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Comment: Re:Curious... (Score 1) 260

by jon3k (#39033121) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application?
What they want is to have the hospital sit these in their waiting room which is full of a captive audience all day, which is essentially having the tablet promoted by the hospital (by virtue of the hospital seemingly buying them, even though they're free). Then it's sold to the hospital as a 'favor" when really they're just turning the patient waiting room into a tablet showroom floor.

Comment: Yikes (Score 1) 445

by jon3k (#38926519) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive?
Seeing some the posts here are really kind of sad. We have a daily standup meeting, it usually lasts 15-30 minutes with 8 people. It's basically "what am i up to today" kind of meeting and letting anyone know about any problems we're seeing. But more importantly, it's a time to build relationships and it can be very cathartic. It's the safe place to complain about that annoying user, and to have someone remind you that they're just human and they don't work in IT and we're here to help them. It's really sad to see so many people dismiss standup meetings, maybe I'm just lucky to have a group of people who get along relatively well?

Comment: Whew (Score 3, Insightful) 675

by jon3k (#38697610) Attached to: Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM
Well it's good to know I don't have to every consider buying a Microsoft device. If I hate it or want to get more life out of it later, I can't install anything else on it, so it's not even a remote possibility. That's nice of them, it makes my purchasing decisions that much easier, I can just write them off entirely.

Comment: Re:DNSSEC (Score 1) 165

by jon3k (#38669612) Attached to: Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/New-Comcast-Throttling-System-100-Online-100015

According to Comcast's filings (pdf) with the FCC, they've deployed new hardware and software close to the company's Regional Network Routers (RNRs). This hardware will flip a user from the standard "Priority Best-Effort" traffic (PBE) to lower quality of service (QoS) "Best-Effort" traffic (BE) for fifteen minutes if they're a major reason congestion exists.

Comment: Re:DNSSEC (Score 2) 165

by jon3k (#38657914) Attached to: Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live
They can't outright block DNS traffic. They attempted to throttle traffic, not even block, and got their hand slapped. And when you start monkeying with traffic it gets a lot harder to fall back on Safe Harbor provisions of the DMCA, which can put them in a very precarious position.

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