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Comment guess I'm changing ISPs next year (Score 1) 28

I've been a CL fiber customer (Quantum Fiber) since I moved into my house two years ago, and it's been rock solid and inexpensive (~$40/mo for 200Mbps symmetric, which is plenty for my needs).

I don't know who I'm going to switch to, but I am morally opposed to giving either AT&T or Comcast money.

Comment Ideally (Score 1) 85

in my mind, at least, the best response would be for google to contract with whatever the largest corporate law firm is in Ukraine, and draft an official letter to the russian authorities.

"from [suitably important people at google]
to: [relevant russian ministries]
re: $20 decillion dollar fine
that's nice.
signed: google"

Comment no, SpaceX just has an idiot for a CEO. (Score 2, Insightful) 234

Government Agencies never move quickly. I feel like it's fairly common for actions to be taken a year or more after the inciting incident.

SpaceX notified the FAA on May 2nd, and launched on June 18th. that is a long window for a response, but in that time SpaceX perfomed twelve other launches, six of which were even from the same pad as they would use on the 18th (LC-40). presumably they used their old procedures and facilities for those launches, the last being six days before the incident. I can only guess that SpaceX did something incredibly stupid like decommission and start dismantling their old launch control center immediately after their June 12th launch, because the FAA would 'obviously' approve their new control center before the next launch on the 18th. and when the FAA found out that they were planning to use the new control center, they rushed the notice to SpaceX saying, in effect, "uh, we haven't approved that change yet, so stick with the existing plan."

I'm assuming that the launch poll is a "go/no-go" from launch control staff, and I don't understand why anyone would feel the need to drop that during launch prep, apart from ego.

also, while it isn't included in the notice PDF, the FAA has given SpaceX a list of options for responding to the Notice. It is telling that SpaceX's response is "We're going to sue the FAA because we violated our launch plan!"

and that's just the June launch. the July one is obviously an absurd timeline for changes to launch procedures.

it seems to me your issue is more with the FAA taking a year to settle on this course of action. I expect they've spent the last year trying to talk to SpaceX about resolutions and next steps, only to have every option shot down by the CEO, and now all that's left is to take it to court.

Comment pardon my incredulity... (Score 1) 117

it says something about Microsoft (and my mild, but deep-seated paranoia), that my first thought regarding the changeover is "they probably want everything in settings because they've undoubtedly packed it with telemetry feeds that nobody thought to put into control panel. it has nothing to do with usability or user experience, and everything to do with harvesting more marketable data."

Comment Re:needs to have renewal fees to stop Abandonware (Score 1) 406

I've thought for a long time that this is how Copyright should be adjusted:

when you publish a work, it gets 20 years of protection. after 15 years, you can file for a ten year extension, but there's a fee attached. the fee is 2% of gross income from the work. you pay the fee, your copyright term gets extended ten years from it's initial expiry date. five years from that date, you can file for another extension. this time the fee is 4%, minus the previous fee. next extension, 8%, then 16%. you can file for extensions as long as you like, but there's no cap to the fee percentage, and it doubles every time, so at your 7th extension the fee is 128% of gross income from the work. for works that are older, you'd have to extrapolate the fees and timing, or come up with a one-time exemption as the new law comes into effect.

Comment the only time I like Raspberries (Score 1) 328

I have two, both 3Bs

one is a Pihole, a network-level adblocker.
the other is running Octoprint, managing my 3d printer. it used to be my HTPC, but it was struggling with my Kodi library, so I built a full computer to take it's place.

the new pi intrigues me, but I don't have a use case for it... yet.

Comment anyone care to wager? (Score 3, Funny) 493

what do we think the odds are that the audit will come back saying "the USPS has a massive pension they are required to fund, fixed infrastructure and payroll costs, and declining revenue due to the prevalence of digital technology supplanting many of their services." versus coming back "Jeff Bezos is actually a secret Chinese agent working for the deep state to import Mexican rapists and their families into the country illegally to spread fake news."?

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