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Comment Re:Australian Post Office (Score 1) 178

The trend of US government has been away from Government-run services. Our last Republican government nearly bankrupted the Postal Service through some arcane and capricious laws (e.g. prefunding retirement 75 years in advance). In general, the US promotes private sector business and makes efforts to minimize Government interference - with varying level of regulation depending on which party is in charge. There are certain markets where this isn't possible, like rail travel, but there are also whole sectors where the government outsources significantly (military contractors, private prisons, etc.). In general, most see this as effective as the private sector can usually do a better job at less cost than the government, but only when there is competitive pressure - which isn't always there, and the absence of lobbyists, which are always there..

Comment Subpoena Withdrawn (Score 3, Informative) 257

The FBI has dropped an effort to force the publisher of USA Today to turn over information that could disclose who read one of the newspaper's online stories about a February shooting incident in Florida that left a suspect and two FBI agents dead, as well as three other agents wounded. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Comment AT&T (Score 1) 96

AT&T Fiber just recently started to charge a $10/mo fee for their residential gateway which is "required" for service (they use 802.1x but it isn't specific to an account). You can buy a used gateway device online for $20 (and also extract the 802.1x certs and use your own router).

I wonder if I returned their gateway to get rid of the credit? What would stop them from deactivating my service and telling me it was required?

Comment Why not? (Score 3, Insightful) 439

When one of the top public universities already switched?

Email at UVa: Account Choices

Account choices:

- Students: Microsoft Live and/or Gmail

- Alumni: Gmail

- Faculty/Staff/Special cases: Exchange and/or CMS (former mail system)

It's probably cheaper to outsource e-mail providers, but UVA still maintains control of the @virginia.edu domain and forwards e-mail to Live or G-mail.

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Submission + - Shredded secret police files being reassembled

An anonymous reader writes: German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders.

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