RKearney

Looks like all their laptops use Intel processors? Do they let you control and disable Intel's management engine on that CPU? If not then I don't see how one really "owns" the hardware.

I seriously doubt that would ever happen. Devices do not have a "always DST" mode, but they do in fact have a "never DST" mode.

In order to stay in DST, the region would have to completely change which timezone they observe. Pacific Time would observe Mountain Time, Mountain -> Central, Central -> Eastern, and Eastern would have to observe whatever GMT-4 is.

4.2.2.2 is only for Level 3 customers (now Lumen). You will get mixed results and I believe they have hijacked NXDOMAIN responses for non-customers in the past.

You can accomplish this for free by simply switching your search engine to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.

As someone with both Verizon and T-Mobile on the same phone using dual-SIM, I can confirm that T-Mobile's coverage is worse than Verizon.

That must be why 99% of the SMS spam I receive comes back to Bandwidth as the carrier. On the bright side, I haven't gotten any spam in the last hour or so.

They don't, and I never suggested they did. Netflix had their own ISPs. Netflix wanted the Customer's ISP to give them free bandwidth so they could offload the traffic from their other ISPs.

No ISP can guarantee speeds outside of their network. Once it leaves their network it's considered best effort. Comcast has about 30 million subscribers. If they were to guarantee bandwidth out of their network, and if every subscriber had a laughably slow 10Mbps connection, Comcast would need 300Tbps of connectivity to every single company and network. For this reason, every ISP in the world "throttles" in one way or another.

Netflix did not have to pay Comcast either. One of their ISPs Level 3 already had peering arrangements with Comcast to deliver the content. Instead of paying their own ISP, Netflix wanted to get free bandwidth from Comcast. There's a difference.

You're paying them for access to the ISPs network. For an internet connection, this also comes with access to other networks through your ISPs peering and transit connections.

If you know of any ISP that would give me 100+ Gbps connectivity for my business, please let me know as I'd love to eliminate my bandwidth costs.

So no business should ever have to pay for bandwidth because customers of said business are already paying? Or should I get free internet because businesses are already paying ISPs for their network access?

Extortion fees? Netflix wanted Comcast to provide them with free bandwidth. While some ISPs may appreciate that arrangement as it offloads the traffic from their transit links, Comcast is under no obligation to do so.

You could argue then that Comcast wasn't upgrading their saturated transit links, which they weren't with Level 3, but to assume that every single ISP should provide free pipes to companies is absurd.

One could argue that ending a human life is fact bad.

And people back in the day were allowed to own slaves, yet we don’t look back on that an argue that we’ve regressed. Perhaps some day society will look back on abortions with the same disgust as we see slavery today.

> Why is everyone so confused that smart TVs are popular?

Because almost all of them use internet connectivity to show you ads on home screens.

Was the arrangement of the numbers backwards from the US rotary phone? Because in the US 1 was the shortest. That’s why large cities like New York got 212 and Los Angeles got 213 which were the fastest to dial on a rotary phone.

> One consideration could be that you can't directly control data ingress. Charging for ingress opens an avenue for attackers to attempt to bankrupt you by sending unrequested packets to your network. At the very least, this could cause a customer service headache. Perhaps AWS decided they'd rather not deal with that?

An equally likely reason is by making ingress free it helps balance out ingress and egress traffic flows which are usually desirable for settlement-free peering agreements.

Not a disappointment at all. I see now that it is indeed Switzerland. The mention of the Germany based IX upgrading to 25Gbps towards the end of the article threw me off.

But Switzerland has a 504% larger population density and 99.56% smaller land area as compared to the United States so my point still stands.

I'm sure the fact that Germany has a 566% larger population density and is 96.19% smaller than the United States has a lot to do with a countries ability to bring 25Gbps internet to its citizens.

A memo went out last year about all federal networks supporting IPv6 only in the coming years. Since Google's cloud doesn't really support IPv6 at all, I don't think they were going to win the contract anyway.

> we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc

Why "of course"? Cloudflare is able to provide domains transfers and renewals at wholesale rates.

No ISP on the planet can guarantee speeds across the internet. They can only guarantee speeds on their own network. I suspect most people that use speedtest.net understand this as it quite literally shows that your ISP is hosting the test (assuming your ISP has one).

I disagree. The article is about Uber’s API. My comment is about how Uber’s API clearly doesn’t have robust support for requests that did not fully execute. Based on my experience it appeared as though one system had processed my request to schedule the trip, but the rest of the system did not. This caused my account to essentially be soft locked by a trip that was not visible through the app (and by extension their API). I then added my antidotal experience with their lackluster support.

I wish the software engineering community would stop with the click-bait headlines.

Write a game in 2 lines of Python:

    import MonolithicGameSDK
    MonolithicGameSDK.run()

GCP doesn't really support IPv6 at all. Sure you can terminate IPv6 on a load balancer and then proxy the connections over IPv4 back to your instances, but you can't get native IPv6 on an instance.

It's that type of shortcoming that leads me to believe Google does not see a future in this product.

It appears to be an idiom for a party in the wrong (Daily Mail for clickbait article) from being allowed to report that they were wronged (manipulated search results by Google) since the parent poster seemed to suggest that Daily Mail somehow deserved that treatment and two wrongs make a right.

I don't believe this is the only reason. If it were, they would be blocking logins through mobile web browsers since there's no JavaScript API that dumps the list of installed apps. All those same attack vectors could exist on top of the users web browser as far as I know.

> Instead just sure in small claims court (limited to $5,000)

Depends on your state. Here, small claims is limited to $25,000 with no limit for eviction suits.

DO charges $0.10/GB per month for block storage, the same as AWS Lightsail charges for block storage. AWS also has Lightsail Containers which are far cheaper than EKS and is their DO/Linode/etc equivalent.

Lightsail also offers load balancers for $18/mo compared to DO's $10, $30, or $60 per month.

DO $15/mo managed DB 1G 1vCPU 10G SSD

AWS $15/mo managed DB 1G 1vCPU 40G SSD

I'm really not seeing how "pretty much everything else isn't" with respect to their offerings.

How do you figure?

$10 DO Dropplet gets you 1 CPU, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD, and 2TB of bandwidth.

$10 AWS Lifghtsail instance gets you 1 CPU, 2GB RAM, 60GB SSD, and 3 TB of transfer.