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Comment Peering? (Score 5, Informative) 142

by jeffclay (#55745083) Attached to: Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network
In all of the blogs, ./ stories and articles that I've read regarding Net Neutrality, I have yet to hear anyone speak about network peering. Here's a scenario: Your ISP is BigCo-A, and the server you want to access is using BigCo-C. BigCo-A and BigCo-C are not directly connected but use BigCo-B as a common peer (to bridge the network gaps). If BigCo-A and BigCo-C decide not to throttle anything, but BigCo-B does, then all that traffic will be throttled regardless of who your ISP is or the ISP of the server host.

Comment Re: Oh boy, another infection vector (Score 1) 230

by jeffclay (#48260691) Attached to: Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line
It's not a problem on linux because the community manages the software repository. If it is found that a package owner (someone who creates the .deb or .rpm packages from the source of the original project) is adding malicious code, the package will be removed rather quickly, package owner probably banned and who knows what else. I doubt Microsoft would allow that level of scrutiny in whatever repo system they setup for this.
Anybody else is welcome to chime in if I'm incorrect on this.

Comment Re:Definitely A Copyright Violation (Score 2) 201

by jeffclay (#44756303) Attached to: Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists
Yes, when the original composers and artists of the songs themselves release an album your logic applies. If somebody else were to mix a bunch of 3rd party songs and try to sell them on a CD the "artistic decision" of the original artists and composers is absent.

Just to be the devils advocate here; would it be right for Spotify or its users to claim copyright over all their playlists? They're released publicly and required "artistic decision" to create.

Comment Re:What are we paying them for? (Score 1) 221

by jeffclay (#44749465) Attached to: Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail

if you took a trillion dollars/yr out of the US economy tommorrow, life would suck.

It really depends on which funds you cut. If we cut out all the free food we're giving away to other countries, all the bail-out money to other countries, the weapons we're giving to other countries, etc. life in the US would probably be much nicer. If we (the US) stopped trying to rule/fix the world and focus on ourselves we could become more stable and eventually be in a position where we could graciously assist other countries if/when they asked for it.

Comment Re:You do realize that you're talking in fallacies (Score 1) 217

by jeffclay (#44584017) Attached to: New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers
Prove what? Prove that they genetically modify seeds? Look at their website. Prove that they also produce pesticides and poisons? Look at their website. Prove that there are side effects? I haven't seen nor heard of any proof that there aren't. You do realize that using big words doesn't actually make you smart right?

Submission + - Datacenter Gives Internet to 70 Percent of Navajo Nation (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: The Navajo Nation cut the ribbon August 13 on an $8 million data center that has been under debate and development since 2000, when then-President Bill Clinton expressed shock that a 13-year-old Navajo girl who just won a new laptop couldn’t connect to the Internet. At the time that girl won the laptop in a school contest, the Navajo Nation--a 27,425 square-mile region that covers portions of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico--had barely any IT infrastructure. The incident helped drive debate among leaders of the Navajo Nation, many of whom said they believed adding telecommunications and computing facilities were secondary to other concerns for the chronically poverty stricken region. The 50,000-square-foot facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico includes 25,000-sq.-ft. of datacenter and an equal space for computer training and business incubation, according to Nova Corp., an IT services company owned by Navajo Nation and formed in 2004 to execute an IT plan to create the “Digital Navajo Nation” (PDF). The drive to get it built also helped push development of a $46 million broadband project designed to cover about half of Navajo territory with 550 miles of fiber, 32 new cell towers and upgrades to another 27. It will eventually connect more than 30,000 households and 1,000 businesses.

Submission + - Changes in Earth's orbit were key to Antarctic warming that ended last ice age (washington.edu)

Submitted by vinces99
vinces99 writes: For more than a century scientists have known that Earth’s ice ages are caused by the wobbling of the planet’s orbit, which changes its orientation to the sun and affects the amount of sunlight reaching higher latitudes, particularly the polar regions. The Northern Hemisphere’s last ice age ended about 20,000 years ago, and most evidence has indicated that the ice age in the Southern Hemisphere ended about 2,000 years later, suggesting that the south was responding to warming in the north. But new research published online Aug. 14 in Nature shows that Antarctic warming began at least 2,000, and perhaps 4,000, years earlier than previously thought.

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