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Comment Why would anyone report to the FBI? (Score 1) 87

It's not like they are particularly trusted or trustworthy. And I've never even heard of the "Internet Crime Complaint Center" and that likely goes for most people. The average person would only contact the FBI if they expected that the FBI would have some chance of doing something about the bad guys, and I just don't see that happening.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 429

No, year-over-year means that we compare November of last year to November of this year. Even if November has a seasonal variation of -50%, that won't show up in the year-over-year data. Assume that the traffic 9 months out of the year gets a score of 100, but that in October through December, it's 50. Comparing two years that are exactly the same shows a perfectly flat graph when presented as year-over-year, the seasonal variation is gone.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 429

It should be noted there's also seasonal variation, the drop from Sept-Oct and flat-line through November is consistent with Summer ending and school starting.

The subsequent post-November drop doesn't seem to be what you'd expect based on seasonal variation, though we'd need to see a comparison to prior years to really be sure.

This is year-over-year data, so seasonal variations are already factored out.

Comment Re:Then maybe Democrats should change policies (Score 3, Insightful) 341

Let it go already. There is no popular vote in the US for president, and never has been. The republicans won by the rules that were in place. If the rules had been different, the campaigns would have also been different, but they weren't.

Comment Re:Sigh. How many major standards wars is this? (Score 3, Interesting) 72

Why do tech companies even do this?

Tech companies do this because standards organizations move too slow. Manufacturers want to ship something this (week, month, quarter, year...) and the standards people will still be arguing over the name of the new group. I work in 802.11 and we see this happen way too often.

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