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Comment Re:Linear TV is Dead (Score 1) 67

DiSH Network staff reverse-engineered the TiVo software and thus infringed on TiVo's "Time Warp" patent when they developed their in-house DVR. They then repeatedly failed to disable the infringing DVR feature and kept getting contempt of court and new lawsuits brought against them.

Charlie Ergen is a gambler and he lost this one big time.

Comment Their windfall from the DiSH Network suit ran out (Score 1) 67

Looks like their financial windfall from the DiSH Network patent suit has finally ran out.

I loved TiVo and used them for 25+ years but they really should have innovated better than they did. After the DiSH Network settlement they just kinda coasted along. Their exclusion of both DiSH and DirecTV satellite services from their programming was a stupid move, too.

Comment How do to install to air gapped machines (Score 1) 215

OK, then how do to install to air gapped machines like in secure environments or in a rural location?

Also, I dislike the name my directory becomes in C:\Users when installing with a Microsoft account.

I like using C:\Users\Kriston, not C:\Users\Kriston~whatever

Comment This why I use AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) (Score 1) 131

This why I use AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) for my workloads.

It's powered mostly by hydroelectricity and some solar.

There's a Facebook data center there (I visited it a few times), along with Apple's "Pillar" data center across the street which nobody can visit.
To the north is AWS us-west-2, Google, and Microsoft Azure, which are much closer to the hydroelectric dams.

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