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And I believe all were built by Lockheed Martin?

That thread says: "BerryLan works great on the Model 3 but not the ZeroW" Anyone know if that is still the case?

Oh yeah. I ran gopher. But once I Installed Mosaic I never looked back. I knew the http web would be big but I vastly underestimated how big. Hindsight and all that...

> Linux can be made to run — just barely — in as little as 4MB of RAM

Back in the day, I remember running SLS Linux[1] on a 4MB PC and that included X11. Of course, a 4MB swap partition on my 40MB drive was a requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System

I tried both the built-in wifi and a Realtek dongle

Just tried with a Raspberry Pi 0 - No luck.

"SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported"

On the roadmap, or is this just a driver issue?

The New York times did a fascinating article about Potter's Field on Hart Island[1]. One story from the article I recall is of a woman who died in her multi-million dollar apartment in the Dakota building in Manhattan and how she ended up in a mass grave full of strangers in Potter's field. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-...

High Security? I suppose it depends on context. But for real high security facilities, a visitor is not getting past the first guard desk without an ID check with the visitor's name being on a list that is maintained via secure communication channels - facility to facility. And there are often multiple levels of guard stations to pass through where this is repeated.

I see a lot in Colorado and have been seeing them for a couple of years

Back in the day, I seem to recall having to binary patch LILO every time I installed a new kernel to tell it what partition to boot. I suppose that dates me...

I'm in Centennial CO. We also voted in municipal fiber broadband a while back. My neighborhood is slated to get 1GB symmetric from Ting for $89

https://ting.com/internet/town/centennial

I also read that a lot of native American tribe names came about when early European explorers asked one tribe, "What is the name of the tribe that lives over there?". The local tribe would respond, "We call them the other people" So the Europeans would translate the tribe's vocalization of "Other People" into the name for that tribe.

My father, now nearly 87, was born in the deep south 70 years after the end of slavery. If you think about it, as he walked down the streets of his little town at age 10, every single black person he saw over the age of 80, would have been a former slave. Every one.

The wording on many of these ads is odd. In hindsight they are clearly written by a non-native english writer, but perhaps the Facebook audience is used to awkward writing by their peers?

Google finance is bad now. Very bad. Anyone have a good replacement? I went back to Yahoo for a while, but it's pretty awful as well. Slightly better than Google finance, but it's not a high bar to reach...

My father ran a newspaper and he said that the state school for the deaf trained linotype operators. It was a good job for them because the high noise-level wouldn't be an issue.

My father ran a small-town newspaper and tells me that the printers unions were very strong. When he finally did away with the linotype machines, the operators were guaranteed lifetime employment. When my father finally retired decades later, he still had some of the original linotype operators doing what he called make-work jobs. Many of these operators were never able to pick up the new required skills, but he had to find something for them to do because of the union contract. Not a good situation for anyone.

> It’s borderline unusable internationally.

The T-Mobile plan has worked fine for me in both Australia and the UK, even for navigation.

There's something about Hopper's paintings. I can usually immediately identify one before I see any caption. I don't know what it is.

But these... Another side altogether. Thanks for the post!

I'll tell you what I'd do if a car dealer pulled this on me. After all the normal haggling was done: "$80 a year? Fine. I plan to hang on to this car for 10 years. If you don't take an additional $800 off the price, no deal. Period"

Just tonight, my Wemo [1] light switch wanted to update its firmware and I noticed the firmware had openwrt in its name

[1] http://www.wemo.com/

And strangely enough, my Wemos are also having trouble today, and Belkin (wemo) is blaming the issue[2] on security patches regarding the Intel meltdown bug. Everything is interconnected these days...

[2] http://community.wemo.com/t5/News-and-Announcements/Intermit...

Here's my odd story. Years ago, my wife and I were sleeping over at my parents house and we were awoken by garbled conversation from the clock radio. I sleepily checked it out and saw that the radio was turned off. Thinking that the on/off switch was broken, I just unplugged it. The garbled conversation continued. At this point I wondered if my parents house was built on top of an ancient burial ground...

Talking to my father in the morning, he indicated that his neighbor had taken up Ham radio and he was having to put filters on various devices to reduce interference. To this day, I wonder if his spotty wifi in the house is related to his neighbor turning his system...

The can and will come at it from the other side. They will charge Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, etc. money to get access to "their" network. And of course, those charges will be passed on to you resulting in higher bills.

I suspect there are a few of us on here that started out with a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem...

All things in moderation...

In 1984 I recall ordering a phone line in Denver and being asked if I wanted a party line or a single line. My apartment was in Denver-proper and having a party line was still an option in 1984.

I lost a lot of respect for Hickenlooper after he waffled on a death penalty decision pushing it off for the next governor. I could have accepted a decision in either direction, but he chose to not make a decision at all. When you are elected the top official in the State, you're expected to make hard decisions. He failed.

http://www.denverpost.com/2013/05/22/nathan-dunlap-granted-t...

They aren't counted because basically they're forced savings. Typically everything you put into SS you'll get back. Lower income folks end up getting more back than they put in. And the same for Medicare. It's a forced insurance payment of sorts.

The New York Times had a fascinating article trying to track down the people who ended up being buried in "Potter's Field". One story that stuck with me was of a wealthy, accomplished woman who donated her body to science. Once the New York University School of Medicine was done with her, her remains "now lies with 144 strangers in Trench 359."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-...

>> Is the slow down part a real thing?

They don't necessarily have to slow down competitors. They can just leave them at today's available bandwidth and speed. So ten years from now only companies who pay the toll, or ISP's own content, will stream over multi-gigabit connections. All others will be stuck at 2017 rates.