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Comment Re:Interest declining? Sounds good to me. (Score 1) 114

The NCAA officially claims football players are student athletes and not employees, thus they don't get paid. They can't organize to negotiate working conditions or sell endorsements to the local car dealership or their own jersey. They also get no bonus $$$ for playoff games like civilized sports leagues that bring in billions in revenue provide.

Comment Re:Windows means jobs for everyone (Score 3, Informative) 169

Windows updates once a month on a predictable schedule. Ubuntu updates all the damn time, at least once a week, and always seems to ask to reboot after (most people ignore that, but it does ask).

Is this a joke? I have an Ubuntu box with an uptime today of 696 days. Try going more than 2 weeks with a Windows 10 box before it decided for you to reboot killing all the VMs it supports.

Comment Re:What are the security implications? (Score 1) 123

These days any site that deals with sensitive data (banking, webmail, etc) is going to use https.

I've been running an open wifi in my neighborhood since 2012 and see about 30 unique visitors per day. In 2012 when I started there was a lot of unencrypted traffic including people sending email passwords in plain text. Nowadays everything is encrypted end to end.

I get a lot of IPhones connecting without the user's knowledge sometimes even downloading updates. So it's 100% of Apple users who agree to connect to free wifis.

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