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• On the post: Verizon Responds To Freedom Of Information Request With Hundred Of Fully Redacted Pages

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2013 @ 04:03pm

  Re: Monopoly

  There are no more legal monopolies. However, there?s so little profit in laying a second set of lines just to get half of a town?s customers that nobody bothers anyway.
  
  The FCC tried requiring ISPs to lease their lines at reasonable rates, but gave up when they realized how difficult it was to enforce.
  
  Personally, I think the solution may be to divest all the major ISPs of their lines (possibly allowing them to retain ownership of the spinoff via non-voting preferred stock or an equivalent structure).

• On the post: DailyDirt: Space Telescopes Shutting Down…

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 08:25pm

  Re: And yet....

  Spy satellites can actually lower defense spending, by showing that there?s nothing to worry about from potential adversaries.
  
  Definitely true that NASA?s budget needs a huge increase, though. One survey suggested that people think NASA gets 20% of the federal budget, when it actually gets around 0.5% ? down from a peak of over 4% during the Apollo program? Doubling it doesn?t seem unreasonable with that perspective.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2013 @ 06:34pm

  Re: That book DRM isn't new, BTW.

  From my understanding, while fake towns do exist, fake dead-end streets are more common so that nobody will be inconvenienced.
  
  Apparently there?s a Wikipedia article (or several): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

• On the post: USTR Nominee Froman Called 'One Of The Most Egregious Examples Of The Way The Revolving Door Works Between Gov't And Business'

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 07:06pm

  Confirmation hearing June 6

  Looks like a confirmation hearing?s being held June 6 at 10:00 AM:
  

  
  
  • http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/302639-senate-sets-hearing-for-obama-trade-pick
  
  
  • http://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=a0c1c7fe-5056-a032-52d8-95de8eecf054
  
  

• On the post: George Lucas Finally Relinquishes His Tight Control Of Star Wars… To Mickey Mouse

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2012 @ 06:59pm

  Now please release the complete Nelvana Ewoks and Droids cartoons on DVD or Blu-ray.

• On the post: Sprint Changes 'Unlimited' Broadband To 5 Gigs… While Still Advertising Unlimited Broadband

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2012 @ 02:24pm

  Re:

  I?ve never quite understood why everybody seems to think gaming takes a lot of bandwidth. Your average online game doesn?t saturate ISDN.
  
  What will use 5GB, fast, is watching HD video at ~1GB/hour.

• On the post: Sprint Changes 'Unlimited' Broadband To 5 Gigs… While Still Advertising Unlimited Broadband

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 12:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Slightly inaccurate

  AFAIK, they?re just seeing that you?re using the separate default tethering APN. So you can use an app that implements tethering on its own, rather than through the default API (PdaNet is apparently popular).

• On the post: Indie Film Maker Is Creating A DRM-Free Open HD Video Format

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 07:31pm

  Isn?t AVCHD essentially Blu-ray with simpler (non-Java) menus and no DRM?
  
  It would have the advantage of being compatible with many (most?) Blu-ray players from the start.

• On the post: How Can You Be Register Of Copyrights If You Don't Even Understand Copyright's Most Basic Purpose?

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 02:19pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Well, for starters, you?ve got 99 year leases (at least traditionally). Then there are rules against perpetuities (21 years in the UK, usually 90 in the US).

• On the post: DailyDirt: To The Moon, Alice!

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2012 @ 07:54pm

  If anybody?s interested in more about our return to beyond low earth orbit, I highly recommend this site: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/news/constellation/

• On the post: If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With Ads, Would People Download Them?

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2011 @ 12:57pm

  Re:

  Hey, don?t perpetuate the stereotype that all remakes are bad. The first film that comes to mind was the 2008 version of The Andromeda Strain from A&E, which was quite good (although if it was based more on the book rather than the first film, it might not count). For the sake of brevity, I?ll restrict myself to a particular genre for the rest of my examples: The remakes of The Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean?s 11 and The Italian Job were all, if anything, better than the originals in my opinion.
  
  To be sure, some films (I?m thinking of you, WarGames: The Dead Code) can just never live up to the originals. But some most certainly do.

• On the post: Amazon Connects The Cloud To The Postal Service

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 21 May, 2009 @ 10:00pm

  Re: Bandwidth

  heh, beaten to the post :P

• On the post: Amazon Connects The Cloud To The Postal Service

  

  WulfTheSaxon ( profile ), 21 May, 2009 @ 09:59pm

  station wagon full of tapes

  “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”