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Comment I might buy real bloodwine, but not this (Score 1) 20

Bloodwine was specified to be "twice as strong as whiskey." Assuming they were talking about a 70-proof American whiskey, that would make it 140 proof.
A wine-based distilled beverage like brandy gets up to 120 proof, so this is not out of the realm of possibility.
Although the part where they make it with or out of blood might still be hard to work out.

Comment Re:Limiting providers fine - kickbacks no (Score 1) 173

No reason why you couldn't have different cable ISPs on different frequencies on the one cable.

Actually, there is. Modern cable companies use the entire usable frequency range of a coaxial cable. From 5-900 mhz, there's either upstream or downstream communication between the devices in a home and the cable distribution node for the neighborhood.

Two cable companies could not feasibly share the same wiring unless you only wanted half as much internet speed and half as many TV channels.

Comment Re:Is /. considered social media? (Score 1) 87

I have been here long enough to know /. is closer to anti-social media.

Badoom psh!

In all seriousness though, its actually not. You just expressed your opinion, did you not? I'd say /. is very much considered social media. You could market some stock tips to me all ya like. I mean we all see the Editors marketting Apple with their Slashvertisements.

Comment Thanks For All The Fish (Score 1) 87

One of the heavy hitters that drove the implementation of the net made the comment that social networks and commercial Internet activity made possible the use of the net by researchers and academics at next to little cost. Web 2 and social networking drove me off the net for over three years. It also motivated me to unplug myself from commercial TV. I've never been to Facebook and have only dropped in on Youtube once or twice, but by way of my mp3 player and smart phone backed up by my netbook I've lecture series on every, IMHO, worthwhile discipline given by world leaders in their field. I can drop in and update almost any topic. So although social networking now owns the Internet and I still abhor web 2 and it's hell spawn, I'd like to say "thanks for all the fish".

Comment Re:Power and Frequency != INTERNET (Score 1) 140

“under the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC is charged with allocating spectrum space to maximize the public interest, convenience, or necessityThe Communications Act and its revisions mandate promotion of the public interest, and thus the encouragement of a diversity of voices so as to promote a vibrant democracy.”

SORRY SHOULD HAVE POSTED THIS SOONER!

Comment Re:Excellent. (Score 1) 369

You can post this as often as you want, the comparison is still full of errors as a result of an ffmpeg bug (it was previously believed to be intentional). It uses x264, which is an opensource h264 encoder. The x264 developers responded to this comparison on reddit, highlighting the many errors in it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8iphn/theora_encoder_improvments_comparable_to_h264/

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