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• Post #3203566

  Absolutely. It was an excellent system a hundred years ago. They failed to expand the postal service into telecommunications between 1890 and 1940, leading to AT&T’s monopoly on the phone system until 1982. They failed to expand their money transfer system into consumer-oriented electronic banking services in the 1990s, leaving Visa and Mastercard with a stranglehold on payment processing. We’ll have to break them apart soon.

• Post #869004

  This only applies to routers. It’s not widely known outside the ham radio community, but part of the 2.4GHz wifi band overlaps the 13cm amateur radio band. If you turn off 5GHz wifi and lock the 2.4GHz AP to Channel 1, it qualifies as a ham radio, and can be sold as a ham radio instead of an AP/Router. You do need a ham radio license to operate it as a Ham AP, but you do not need a license to buy a Ham AP. If the end user wants to turn on 5GHz after the fact, there is not a damn thing the F...

• Post #695451

  That’s an occultist. An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.

• Post #695346

  Comment refers to the girl’s eyeglass prescription, not a ranking of her attractiveness. Based on the distortion visible in her glasses, her prescription is approximately -1.00 to -1.50 diopters. Severely nearsighted prescriptions would cause the wearer to appear to have much smaller eyes; farsighted prescription would cause the eyes to appear larger.

• Post #494523

  This bill makes the operating system provider the responsible party. They have to implement this, and ensure compliance. Failure is a $2000 fine every time a child launches an application. Under this law, Microsoft and Google are charged with implementing this feature and ensuring compliance. They are, obviously, “OS Providers”. They control their respective operating systems. With FOSS OSes, Ubuntu isn’t the OS provider. Arch isn’t the OS provider. Debian, Redhat, Gentoo aren’t the OS Pr...