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asn0
12y ago
> the carriers really want competition so they will encourage other phones when they can. I've yet to meet any carrier who wants competition, for anything. Their ideal world would be that they would decide which phone the customer c
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12y ago
It's not just Netflix, it's also YouTube ( http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ ), and Level3 ( http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte... ) and you can be
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12y ago
Or, he's brilliant – by playing along with the cableco's game, he's making the fight public, which also puts the heat on the cableco's, and gives the FCC the political capital to push back on the cableco's.
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12y ago
http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlanti... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#Patent_dispute "the patent in question was registered in 1991, three years before the
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12y ago
Maybe Glacier stores in the unused parts of S3 disk sectors, the empty part of the last sector of files that don't completely fill 512k. Takes 4-5 hours to retrieve because it has to pull without impacting dozens or hundreds of S3 driv
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Rise of the Stupid Network
(isen.com)
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13y ago
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13y ago
I think "Rise of the Stupid Network" is still as applicable to AT&T as when it was written in 1997. http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
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13y ago
The biggest threat of this lawsuit will be to the meanings of arcane technical terms such as "acquire", "playback" and "her".
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13y ago
In theory, having every bit of data would be useful. In practice (a decade or more of NSA collecting phone records), this doesn't seem to be the case. Multiple terrorist events have happened, but apparently NSA was not able to use all
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13y ago
> (2) Policy should look at what the post-redistribution (in the form of taxes, credits, subsidies, etc) income and wealth disparities are. It seems as though that is lost in the conversation. It's pretty hard to have a conversatio
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13y ago
Surely the NSA will protect us from these too.
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13y ago
I can't get past the irony of Alexander's moral indignation.
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13y ago
... or all the other people who have taken data from the NSA, that we don't know about (yet).
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13y ago
What about the costs of market distortions and mis-allocation of resources when a fiat currency can be inflated with almost no cost? How much energy (and other resources) were expended in the dot-com boom, and the housing boom? Think of all
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13y ago
How do I contribute using Paypal or a CC#, without having to give rally.org all my personal info?
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13y ago
FAA handles aircraft regulation, and if there were issues with UAV's in the area, FAA would be responsible for enforcing those regulations. FAA regulations on UAV's http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/ua
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13y ago
What legal authority does FEMA have to control UAV's flying over public and/or private property? EDIT: FEMA's own documentation on their legal authority. http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nr
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13y ago
DEAT&T would have dominated the FTC RoboCall Challenge http://robocall.challenge.gov/ if they would have entered. $50K to boot. When a phone spammer uses fake Caller IDs, the FTC would subpoena the records through DEAT&
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13y ago
Dictionary says "Inflation: a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money." A lot of other tangible assets were dramatically cheaper in 1969.
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Bradley Manning verdict to be announced Tuesday
(sltrib.com)
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13y ago
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iPhone survives 2000 foot fall
(ksl.com)
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14y ago
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