My house in London gets fibre from a telephone pole. It's very common, you see their test boxes everywhere while they are provisioning the system.

By the time Slashdot started using id's, I thought it had already become too crowded to have a useful conversation, so I didn't bother to register. I don't even remember why I eventually broke down and registered one.

I remember my first post was to a discussion of whether it was better for Linux distros to conform to a set of committee defined standards, or simply to allow the market to define de facto standards. Of course, that was posted under my real name, as was usually the custom at the time. I remember thinking that Anonymous Coward guy sure posted a lot of comments.

These days, I don't think I'd post anything anywhere under my real name. I don't think there's even an archive of those original Slashdot articles and comments.

If you read the article, this only affects the National Laboratories. The government already owns those. Private institutions are free to carry on as usual.

One thing that seems to get forgotten about TOS - it bombed, and got canceled after only 3 ratings challenged seasons. It only redeemed itself in syndication.

Economics. Sadly, plastic straws and cups are cheaper to manufacture than their wax paper equivalents.

Maybe the mental health warnings should be for New York itself.

Mention middle management and right away IBM comes up. Some things never change.

So? Your point?

Considering that a geneticist can look at a DNA sample and determine the race of the person it came from, I'd call that a rather glaring deficiency in modern genetics. This has all the credibility of a physicist telling us gravity is a social construct.

Sciences that consistently "disprove" the crashingly obvious should be regarded with the utmost suspicion.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I see Ofcom has a form for submitting complaints.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/make-...

You know what to do and how to do it!

Apparently Ofcom has a form for registering complaints. Feel free to express yours.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/make-...

You can buy (pretty terrible) Kodak branded batteries in pound stores in the UK. They just milking the Kodak name.

Apple and Microsoft already got Unix on the desktop the only way it'll ever get there. First, write a desktop OS, then hide the Unixish OS in a VM deep in the bowels of it where the 95% of users who aren't interested won't have to look at it.

The super heavy (ie. the 1st stage) have proved pretty reliable so far. They've caught more than one and even relaunched one a 2nd time. And even the V1 2nd stages were able to successfully make soft water landings. Its the V2 2nd stage that keeps 'splodin.

Hell, I've used RDP over 33K dial-up. Surprisingly fast unless a program displays a splash-screen.