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Comment: Re:it's really really hard (Score 1) 232

by BasilBrush (#43816467) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked?

And by emitted, we're talking about from the earth.

Of course we are you idiot. Which is not the same as "that hit's it" in the post you replied to. You look really stupid trying to patronise people when you don't understand the posts you are replying to. Is English not your first language?

Comment: Re:That's way too ambiguous. (Score 1) 377

by BasilBrush (#43814657) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good?

Agreed. However, going with the example, I'd just require a flying car test and license for any user that gets one.

I wouldn't allow flying cars until the technology was up to self-driving. People often have accidents whilst driving ordinary cars. With flying cars the possibilities for having them are greater, because of the extra dimension to keep track of. And the consequences of having them are far more serious, for them, the other flying car, and for the people below them on the ground.

Whilst I'm not saying that I have complete trust in a theoretical future self-driving system, I have far more trust than I do in the ability of ordinary people to manage it.

Note for those thinking ordinary people already fly planes: That's true, but only because the volume is low. Anything within 3 nautical miles, at the same altitude is classed as a near miss for current planes. Flying cars would be a whole different kettle of fish.

But all this is irrelevant to the TFS question, which is unanswerable without a better analogy.

Comment: Re:FB (Score 2) 377

by BasilBrush (#43814039) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good?

I've unliked plenty of things. It never occurred to me that it was anything other than obvious.

For post or a comment, the "Like" text turns to "Unlike". A simple toggle for something that doesn't matter.

For a page like, The "Like" button turns to "Liked" with a checkmark. Hover or click that and "Unlike" is on the drop down-menu. Unliking a page is a rarer and bigger significance of event than a comment like, so it's good design to make it so that it can't be done with a single click.

There's lots of things to complain about in the Facebook UI, but I don't see this as one of them.

Comment: Bandwidth is reasonable, server policing is not (Score 2) 546

by SuperBanana (#43813719) Attached to: FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month

Yep. Running servers is against Verizon's residential ToS. Regardless of how much BW the guy is using, he's breaking the rules.

"running a server" at one point was taken to mean, by Comcast, to have something listening on port 25, and would result in your connection being shut off. It's one thing to say someone is using too much bandwidth. It's another to say they're not allowed to do certain completely normal things with it.

It wasn't about bandwidth. Cloud backup software uses far more bandwidth than my piddly little web server ever did, but guess which one threw Comcast into a tizzy?

This is about controlling who produces versus who consumes, and Comcast wants you to consume.

Comment: Re:One of the things I like about Google (Score 1) 40

by BasilBrush (#43813105) Attached to: Google Takes Street View To the Galapagos Islands

I don't like Google. I can't remember the last time they made a move I liked. But this one is good.

I suspect they do have a profit motive though. We just don't know what it is yet.

I suspect the stuff they make has a certain longevity about it.

Tell that to Google Reader users. And Google Code downloaders. And users of all the other projects they scrapped in the last few months.

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