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No dependencies, fast, highly customizable, responsive. I use it for everything.

Coming soon, company-owned archologies[0] so you never have to leave your dot-com bubble.

[0] http://simcity.wikia.com/wiki/Arcology

iOS only? Not even a web-based version? Priorities people, jeez.

Pai's dissent touched on a point no one I've talked to has considered: the hundreds of tiny carriers--mostly WISPs--across the US who might/will be affected by this. They can barely compete against big telco and cable as is.

Just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.

Fixed terrestrial wireless is indeed a substitute to cable and DSL (especially DSL)

Comedians say much worse on a daily basis and rarely catch any flack. Are regular people not allowed to make jokes?

So you're allowed to bad-mouth AT&T, Comcast, etc. here but if you bad-mouth Google you get downvoted. Got it.

Great for competition now, sure, but once copper and coax become obsolete Google becomes the new incumbent monopoly. How is that good for anyone?

Not with a properly designed link budget.

Jacob Appelbaum is known for overstating his abilities and trying to pass himself off as someone who knows what he's doing. Glad to see others are realizing this.

Point-to-point microwave latency should be the same as fiber latency at the same distance.

Multipoint systems used by most WISPs are TDMA-based and should have a fixed latency well below 10ms depending on how many active users are on a cell.

HOAs aren't allowed to prohibit antennas under 1 meter in diameter per OTARD [ http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule] You should educate your board and contact the FCC if they balk.

Ironically in countries unfriendly to privacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures...

What problems?

Because not all cities want to sell their souls to Google: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/11/the-real-cost-of-goog...

Edit: Google-washed version of what they demand from cities: https://fiber.storage.googleapis.com/legal/googlefibercitych...

Flash? No thank you.

Merchants are already de facto liable for fraudulent charges.

I expect muggings for jewelery to be making a comeback.

Welcome to San Francisco

I'm curious what Verizon's story is here.

Smashes battery life too I bet.

Also, why XFCE? Wouldn't Unity be closer to Aqua in terms of resource (ab)use?

Why isn't a large ISP like Verizon directly peered with Netflix? Why waste money and bandwidth on transit?

Ugh, Solarwinds. The most inflexible, Windows-only software I've ever used. Goodbye Pingdom.

KDE has always been--and always will be, apparently--an aesthetic nightmare.

They mention this in the fine print:

These ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix streams on each ISPs network from Nov. 2012 through Jun. 2014 and average performance during prime time starting in Oct. 2013. The average is well below the peak performance due to many factors including the variety of encodes we use to deliver the TV shows and movies we carry as well as home Wi-Fi and the variety of devices our members use. Those factors cancel out when comparing across ISPs, so these relative rankings are a good indicator of the consistent performance typically experienced across all users on an ISP network.

If an ISP is averaging higher than 3 Mbps, then their users are either watching more Super HD streams than the rest, or are able to watch Super HD more often than the rest. Of course, they don't include that data.

And 2.4 GHz continues to go to shit with 5 GHz close behind. It's bad enough I can't turn off the WiFi on my own (rented) modem without having to call someone and go through the rigmarole, now there's a second network to deal with.

http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ worked for me, thank you.

All I get is "Results from your location are not yet available."

Typical ESL Java programmer