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voidwtf

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    Comment #43749502

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    Comment #43622817

    Replace “politicians” with “billionaires” and it’d be more accurate. Legislation has long stopped correlating highly with average citizen sentiment and has started correlating high…

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    Comment #43622741

    I agree with you somewhat, but still applaud them for looking for promising future developers and paying them an amount that will attract them. However, there are many promising ju…

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    Comment #43489145

    what’s scary is how ready i was to buy one

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    Comment #42340723

    This is the correct answer for now, but when currently available options are functionally equivalent to what dial-up is now I think this opinion will not have aged well.

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    Comment #42340702

    The rural electorate has voted overwhelmingly for candidates who oppose these regulations. This is apparently what they want.

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    Comment #42095397

    The MDM does not give your employer a way to retroactively unlock the phone. Depending on the MDM solution and capabilities they allowed they may be able to install an application …

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    Comment #41883482

    Is the problem the tenets of communism? or is the problem the dictators and strongmen who inevitably rise to the top? or the corruption that grows from unchecked power?

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    Comment #41795097

    These type of solutions don’t scale to large ISPs, and gets costly to deploy at the edge. It’s also not just about throughput in Gbps, but Mpps. Also, this doesn’t take into accoun…

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    Comment #41772542

    The answer in this scenario is to exempt that application and/or folder. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. In my environment we have to add exceptions for Developers gi…

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    Comment #41612970

    lol, that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works… you cannot demand more than someone is willing to or able to pay, either a researcher out there will spend some ti…

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    Comment #41612205

    some of these licensing changes have led to larger players forking and/or implementing their own version. personally i appreciate Amazon for sticking it to Oracle with Corretto aft…

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    Comment #41612194

    When an open source project achieves success it does so on the backs of not only those who use it, but those who contribute. Sometimes these contributions are not just code but als…

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    Comment #41610961

    Bug bounties are always in relation to severity, number of users potentially at risk, and market cap. A browser operating at a deficit from a small company with a small market shar…

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    Comment #41507666

    I think we need a structure to allow LEOs to request and enforce a legal hold on data without having access to the data. Something that would allow a lower bar for the request, pre…

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    Comment #41507558

    The first example in the original SF Chronicle report it seems like they did very little to get in contact with the owner, someone staying in the very hotel the vehicle was parked …

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    Comment #41507446

    My camera is not your camera. Just because I recorded something doesn't make you entitled to just take it. No LEA should be able to requisition my recordings as part of a fishing e…

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    Comment #41460763

    We're in the same boat. We have two /24 (/23) that we advertise through our ISP(s) and we've been hesitant to sign an LSA/RSA because it seems to put us in a position where we may …

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    Comment #41439944

    I am conflicted. I love Valve, but 30% seems like a lot. On the other hand, I doubt the developers are being charged for the bandwidth or for Steam platform integration. Which mean…

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    Comment #41241011

    Does OpenSignal have details explaining how they collected this data? Could there be differences in the way these networks manage cellular connections, such as not utilizing 5G whe…

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    Comment #41240914

    Same, except from Verizon except and I get ~300mbps down and ~20mbps up. I'm in Tampa and I get 5G in most places I frequent on my phone. Though, I have noticed, that sometimes I'l…

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    Comment #41200984

    having worked in this industry previously, i can confidently say that hardware has a lifecycle. towards the end of that lifecycle the hardware is no longer affordable to even have …

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    Comment #41184088

    Real estate. There is a constant battle to increase performance per watt and increase density. Think of it like performance per watt per sqft. Once the hardware improves significan…

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    Comment #41183122

    So now they have to add individual energy usage monitoring so a minority of individuals mine/trade bitcoin? The environmental ethics behind proof-of-work crypto is dubious at best.…

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    Comment #41093081

    both my cousins have a similar condition, one of my cousins cannot live without these drugs/transfusions. his prior insurer cut him off once he hit 1m lifetime care, he had a rough…