starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: Comcast will treat Rokus like CableCARDs, not set-top boxes
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starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: Open Sourcing the Microsoft JDBC Driver and Maven Support
The jTDS project is dying, there has not been a new release in over 3 years despite some pretty significant bugs.
https://sourceforge.net/p/jtds/discussion/129584/thread/050f...
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
A pet peeve of mine is when an article displays data to bolster an argument but then cites the source to something extraordinarily large and generic (e.g. "SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION") which makes actually finding the primary data nearly impossible.
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: Comcast says it’s “not feasible” to comply with FCC cable box rules
Dump the boxes and pick up a cable card. Comcast rebates you $2.50 for having a cable card on your account[0].
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving
These guys are doing just that: http://www.remotehamradio.com/
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be there and thriving
Check out The No-Nonsense Study Guides[1]. They are stripped down to just the essential knowledge for the exams. They won't help you master the material, but will give you more than enough information to pass the exams.
I used them with great success to pass all three tests on my first attempt.
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: HAMNET — A large scale high speed radio network [pdf]
Here's what the ARRL has to say about it:
"...snip... Calls to place an order for a commercial product may be made such as the proverbial call to the pizza restaurant to order food, but not calls to one's office to receive or to leave business messages since communications on behalf of ones employer are not permitted..." http://www.arrl.org/phone-patch-guidelines
starnixgod | 9 years ago | on: HAMNET — A large scale high speed radio network [pdf]
Part 97 prohibits communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest.
As long as the control operator, or her employer are not making money on the advertisement displayed it would likely be A-OK.
It's perfectly legal or order pizza via autopatch over amateur radio, although impractical now that everyone owns a cell phone.
starnixgod | 10 years ago | on: Comcast gets big tax break that was designed for Google Fiber
The government birthed the Ma Bell monopoly with the Willis Graham Act.
starnixgod | 10 years ago | on: T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fuck Are You, EFF?'
Yes, and at the same cost per gig as domestic data.
See Fi's rate card here: https://fi.google.com/about/rates/
starnixgod | 10 years ago | on: T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fuck Are You, EFF?'
I've had the opposite problem, Fi will drop and black list public AP's on me if they are moderately slow or have high latencies.
starnixgod | 10 years ago | on: The netscape dorm
This is now redirecting to a rather NSFW link...
starnixgod | 10 years ago | on: An explosion in Tianjin, China [video]
Different angle with sound: http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:dc65aafd8a97629626a8b7c...
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: The Causes and Consequences of Distinctly Black Names (2004) [pdf]
Reading this study reminded me about the lady named Marijuana Pepsi Jackson.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: A stupid hack to crash tab and/or browser
No crash here. After a couple seconds of grinding Firefox prompts to kill the script.
Linux Mint 17.1 Firefox 36.0
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: Google Confirms Plan to Offer Wireless Service
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: Texas Hold'em Hand Strength, Visualized
There's a piece of software out there called PokerTracker that allows a user to gather hand data for real-time statistical analysis. There are users out there who have very large databases (Billions of hands) and some users who will buy/sell/exchange these databases.
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
Yes
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published
popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2].
1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095...
2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
starnixgod | 11 years ago | on: Java Memory Model Pragmatics
Was the English version of this talk recorded? I found the talk in Russian[1], but with my understanding of the Russian language, it's impossible to watch.
page 1
1. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-prime/