PapaSurf - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Who exactly is surprised by this? (Score 1) 167

by PapaSurf on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:42PM (#54308809) Attached to: AT&T Brings Fiber To Rich Areas While the Rest Are Stuck On DSL, Study Finds

Those are not necessities.

Neither is Internet.

FTFY

Comment Since when... (Score 1) 173

by PapaSurf on Sunday July 03, 2016 @02:26PM (#52439357) Attached to: Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband

Did you ever have a choice of CATV providers like comcast, for your broadband, except in rare circumstances? If the building has telephone service then you'd have same choice as nearly everyone else; DOCSIS or DSL

Comment Re:Not very useful. (Score 1) 145

by PapaSurf on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:11PM (#51535911) Attached to: Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center

Yes! Very unlikely that people will use hard drives to store data! Brilliant.

Submission + - Pwn2Own 2016 Won't Attack Firefox (cause it's too easy!) (eweek.com) 1

Submitted by darthcamaro on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:15PM

darthcamaro writes: For the last decade, the Pwn2own hacking competition has pitted the world's best hackers against web browsers to try and find zero-day vulnerabilities in a live event. The contest, which is sponsored by HPE and TrendMicro this year is offering over half a million dollars in prize money, but for the first time, not a penny of that will directed to Mozilla Firefox. While Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Apple Safari are targets, Firefox isn't because it's apparently too easy and not keeping up with modern security.
"We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year," Brian Gorenc, manager of Vulnerability Research at HPE said.

Comment Re: Meanwhile... (Score 1) 302

by PapaSurf on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:34PM (#51330931) Attached to: Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes

I believe the cable provider could only charge netflix, legally, if netflix uses them as their ISP. There was a post from a cox cable employee on /. a little while back about them capping bandwidth and charging overages as the means to recover revenue lost to cord cutters like myself to the tune of 30-50$ a month. There is a pilot program doing this somewhere in the midwest to gauge consumer feedback. I've looked at my cox account and see the coding in place to start capping and believe it's going to happen inevitably. They've got shareholders to answer to and shareholders don't like losing money. The only problem I have with that is their service is superior to the only real competition, DSL.

Comment Re: Why use ISP email? (Score 1) 269

by PapaSurf on Sunday June 28, 2015 @01:27PM (#50007105) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter?

Google has been an ISP since FebruaryÂ10, 2010; 5 years ago

Comment Before IPMI... (Score 1) 107

by PapaSurf on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:10PM (#49963661) Attached to: 1 In 3 Data Center Servers Is a Zombie

It cost $50 to get the data chimp to power a server on.

Comment Error (Score 1) 277

by PapaSurf on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:38PM (#49883909) Attached to: First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame

My first video game was Pong and I owned pretty much every console until I got a PC. According to the criteria WoW definitely shouldn't be in there and, IMO, Super Mario Bros too. WTF did WoW inspire? Orcs vs. Humans inspired Warcraft, Starcraft, WoW. We wouldn't even know Mario, Luigi, and crew if not for Donkey Kong. No Sim City? Hello...anyone remember The Sims? I get it that with so many titles to choose from the choices are difficult. This first round of inductees fails. I won't be making any plans to visit this place any time soon.

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