Comment Re:Does it matter... (Score 1) 628
The excuse I hide behind isn't that they don't feel it, but I just don't give a f**k if they feel anything or not. Food is food is food.
Comment Does it matter... (Score 4, Insightful) 628
if they feel pain? Cattle defiantly do, we still eat them.. As, I'm sure, a wide variety of other food stuffs feels pain as well..
Submission + - Morality of throttling a Local ISP? 3
An anonymous reader writes: I work for a small (400 customers) local cable ISP. For the company the ISP is only a smaller side business, so my whole line of expertise lies in other areas, but since I know the most about Linux and networking I've been stuck into the role of part time sysadmin.
In examining our backbone and customer base I've found out that we are oversubscribed around 70:1 between our customer's bandwidth and our pipe. I've gone to the boss and showed him the bandwidth graphs of us sitting against the limit for the better part of the day, and instead of purchasing more bandwidth, he has asked me to start implementing traffic shaping and packet inspection against P2P users and other types of large downloading. Because this is in a certain limited market, the customers really have the choice between my work, and dial-up.
Being a person on the other side of that coin with my local ISP I'm struggling with the desire to give the customers I'm administering the best experience and the desire to do what my boss wants.
In my situation, what would you do ?
In examining our backbone and customer base I've found out that we are oversubscribed around 70:1 between our customer's bandwidth and our pipe. I've gone to the boss and showed him the bandwidth graphs of us sitting against the limit for the better part of the day, and instead of purchasing more bandwidth, he has asked me to start implementing traffic shaping and packet inspection against P2P users and other types of large downloading. Because this is in a certain limited market, the customers really have the choice between my work, and dial-up.
Being a person on the other side of that coin with my local ISP I'm struggling with the desire to give the customers I'm administering the best experience and the desire to do what my boss wants.
In my situation, what would you do ?
Submission + - Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming (breakitdownblog.com) 1
rsk writes: "For the last few weeks I've been experiencing terrible streaming video performance from Netflix on both my Xbox 360 and PC. While my Xbox 360 would at least stream at a lower resolution, my PC cannot seem to avoid 2hr buffering times before playback even started. I smelled shenanigans and started digging. With some help finding the debug menu for the streaming video player, I set out to figure out why playback was so slow. It seems that Netflix is significantly throttling Watch Instantly users (on the PC) down to an unusable cap on a per-connection basis."
Submission + - Pirate Bay malware site or is it? 1
An anonymous reader writes: All piratebay torrent user links (eg uploaded by http://thepiratebay.org/user/nadim1/) seem to bring up "Reported Attack Site!" messages or to search for them through google gives "This site may harm your computer." warnings on the search page. Is someone being sneaky?
Crocodiles With Frickin' Magnets Attached to Their Heads
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Brickwall writes "Florida, faced with a problem of crocodiles returning to residential neighborhoods after being relocated elsewhere, is trying to solve it by affixing magnets to the crocs' heads. The theory is the crocodiles use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation, and the magnets may interfere with that. What I'd like to know is, whose job is it to put the magnets on?" So far the magnet program appears to be working, unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork.
Comment Re:And Yet... You Only Have Yourself to Blame (Score 0, Troll) 452
And now we learn the truth of arivanov's mis-truths. He's a bitter ex-google applicant that is envious of those that work on the luxurious Google campus.
I pitty him, he doesn't know what he's missing out on.
I pitty him, he doesn't know what he's missing out on.
