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• On the post: France Tells Apple To Pay Giant 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax On iPads

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yeah...I think beta missed the quotation marks I used....

• On the post: Irony Alert: John Steele Denies Uploading Anything Ever Despite Growing IP Evidence

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 02:47pm

  Why does my gut tell me that Allen Cooper has something to do with this recent spat of uploading....I mean he was caretaker of John Steele's estate...maybe he swiped a mobile broadband receiver....

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 07:24am

  Re: Re:

  Don't forget the installation fees are $300 plus the fees for local construction and zoning permits if applicable...that can reach as high as $1500 to $3000 in my area.

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 07:20am

  Re: Re: Re: Conflict of Interest

  Comcast is the one who throttles Netflix in favor of their own services...not TimeWarner....I have Time Warner and have had not any issues what so ever with Netflix....are you happy that I completed the obvious?

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 07:17am

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  While you can have gigabit equipment in your house, the topology Google is using stunts it to 100 Megabits once the total wired connection in your network exceeds 100 meters in length. Say you have 10 devices 10 meters away from your router, it is a one gigabit router that can handle each device at the same throughput of 0ne gigabit....the MSAU box Google deploys to your house can determine the total non-fiberoptic length of wire and for safety reasons...the standard makes the boxes lower the bandwidth of your network in general so photons of light do not end up frying your wires and router.

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 07:06am

  Re: Conflict of Interest

  "Comcast as well as Time Warner Cable have an interest in keeping residential Internet Service Slow."
  
  At least Time Warner isn't doing Six Strikes on their customers....Oh and I hate to burst your theory on growth..but the actual physical limitation of the coaxial cable for an ADSL connection through an RG6 or RG59 cables is limited to about 54 megabits per second every 100 meters....in my neighborhood, there is a cable box every 50 meters to keep the demand up. Each user has their own connection like cable tv so there is no interference. The maximum speed for a home connection is 50 megabits because you have to balance the upstream out so it doesn't create a traffic problem through your line.

• On the post: Irony Alert: John Steele Denies Uploading Anything Ever Despite Growing IP Evidence

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 02:05pm

  The location of that IP adress

  The location of that IP address is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.......given the location of that...he might have been using one of those mobile broadband cards that cellphone companies provide you with and likely uploaded the porn while sitting on a bench in the middle of a public park.
  
  https://ipdb.at/ip/75.72.88.156

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:55am

  Re: Re: I don't get it..

  I still don't see how Nintendo and Sony hould suffer. They won't be doing this to their fan bases and third parties. We cannot let Microsoft ruin it for the rest of them. If you only knew how hackable the PS3 is and how little Sony has done to stop you from upgrading the hard disk in your console on your own..or how Nintendo has sacrificed it's sales of the WiiU so their users would not have to worry about borrowing a friend's game.

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:52am

  Re: Re: Worked for PCs

  Some of the best physical DOS games are found at Goodwill and other thrift stores :-)

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Worked for PCs

  Some tiotles availible are set up by GOG.com to use DOSBox..Descent and Descent II are on my computer as a result...

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:49am

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  Haven't they already tried nd failed competing with steam on that realm? XBOX Live yo!

• On the post: France Tells Apple To Pay Giant 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax On iPads

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:46am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Not one bit related to the situation at hand. The tax is being imposed to prevent "piracy" of iOS office apps. That is EXACTLY why Apple should fight this tax asked of them.

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:43am

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  If their network is so awesome and cool, why would they up their speeds in areas where Google Fiber is in a failing attempt to keep consumers from switching?
  
  I think it is that they have a vast misunderstanding of the logical ring topology Google is using to distribute their bandwidth...and what is funny is that none of the consumers of the project even realize how a fiber optic ring network really works.

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:40am

  Re: Re: I sure don't need gigabit. Have15Mb, but just one would do fine.

  Here is the problem....through actual research, it has been found that people tend to download a whole hell of a lot more information than they upload to the internet. Synchronous DSL is much slower because the signal is sent through one lane and being sent and received simultaneously...it is basically a traffic jam by comparison.
  Asynchronous DSL on the other hand intermittently sends and receives data on a turn basis. This allows for faster download speeds because the stream of data flow is not required to go both ways all the time.
  
  The more upload speed you have relative to the download speed, the lower your download speed gets because more traffic is being sent through the wire in the opposite direction. If we increase the downstream speed we can then increase the upload speed.

• On the post: France Tells Apple To Pay Giant 'You Must Be A Pirate' Tax On iPads

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:20am

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  ": a tax break of say, 10 million will be required to entice us to return.' "
  
  The one and only problem I have with this is that Copyright France asked this of Google too. Apple just has the sense to fight back against it. It is not unreasonable to protest unnecessary taxes and in my humble legal opinion, It is the duty of all American entities and citizens to fight back against taxes that are as arbitrary as the one France wishes to impose against Apple. They not only want to impose a tax APPLE and GOOGLE for things YOU download onto YOUR iPad...they also want to tax Apple and Google because you can rip your own music to Apple and Google devices...

• On the post: IRS Audited Over Inappropriate Spending, Claims It Can't Find Its Receipts

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 10:31am

  It is quite funny how this never happened during the Bush Jr administration......

• On the post: Comcast's Top Lobbyist Pens Editorial To Remind Americans That US Broadband Service Is Awesome

  

  Wally ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 06:30am

  One thing to note about Google Fiber Optics..

  Got a bit of a problem here because Google's infrastructure is based on a LOGICAL RING TOPOLOGY. While it is a solid hybrid of the Star and Ring Topologies, the problem lays in where the MASU units bring you your connection. If you have a wired network in your house...the moment your copper wiring reaches 100 meters in total combined length on your home network...that Gigbit internet turns to 100 Megabit....still faster than normal US broadband services, but a ton of that really has a lot to do with the type of cabling you use.
  
  Standard RG59 and RG6 coaxial connections have a top speed of 54 Megabits per second. The good things is that you can get more bandwidth with two modems on two separate lines...but that is still quite expensive on the consumer side of things. It should never be about cost and it should only be about what the current infrastructure is capable of.

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 11:56am

  Re: Worked for PCs

  You've never heard of DOSBox or Amazon.com have you..,

• On the post: Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry

  

  Wally ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 12:00pm

  I don't get it..

  I don't see why an entire industry has to be griped about when one company is pulling the shit that Microsoft currently is pulling. Sony's CEO's vowed to keep used games in their market as is...and Nintendo no longer takes shit from third party publishers because a large majority of the publishers are wanting to quell the used game market. So if Sony and Nintendo are completely open towards used games, why should they catch the consumer based flack for things they are not planning to ever do?

• On the post: Microsoft's Great Patent Application: Xbox Achievements For Watching Advertising

  

  Wally ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 10:18am

  Re: Gaming the system

  Subtle eye movements are trackable on the Kinect 2.0....if it doesn't see your fleshy eyes....it won't work one bit.

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