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Comment "Cable" a Failure to Innovate (Score 2) 108

The invisible hand of the market in action. No reason cable companies could not have upgraded to fiber networks and/or had IPTV plus screaming fast internet. If cable has reasonable prices, decent equipment and invented in their future. It might have been a different outcome. Oh well, c'est la vie... ...

Comment Re:I can't remember (Score 1) 52

They still sell mainframes to large banks and other dinosaur financial institutions that haven't figured out how to migrate their operations to modern metal. Google IBM Z series mainframes. And they monetized open source software by buying redhat. IBM would probably be out of business decades ago if its wasn't for mainframes and redhat.

Comment Re:private equity firm (Score 1) 49

The enshitification started before this buyout. Marshall started selling Bluetooth speakers at Best Buy. Guessing they started selling a bunch of branded junk to pump the books to dump in on some unsuspecting VC firm at its peak. We will probably see a line of Marshall clothing at Target or Walmart to round it all out.The Brits and apparently the swedes would sell their grandmothers soul if they could net some cold hard cash.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 4, Informative) 31

I deal weekly with this even on xbox games.

https://security.stackexchange...

"There is an attack that some people have dubbed "lag hacking", and its gaining popularity in multiplayer games. There are at-least two ways of creating artificial latency. One method of introducing artificial latency is using a lag switch, where the user intentionally disconnects their network cable. Another method is using a flood of syn or udp packets to cause controlled and predictable disruption in the game so that a player can gain an unfair advantage. Artificial latency attacks affect a large number of multiplayer games. "

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