dubwubz

It's too late for that. What was once the internet is now basically glorified cable TV. At this point, it's pretty much inevitable that it's going full Disney or bust.

Hopefully bust.

I don't understand what the author is trying to prove here; the need to progress is never-ending. Holding it back is futile.

Flagged.

I think he may have been misusing the term, and simply trying to ask how they could possibly guarantee to provide that "for life", instead of "for however long the company still exists".

That being said, Ooma tends to sound terrible anyway.

Or I could just burn the file to a BD-R

I find your lack of faith in the internet disturbing.

Were you not around for the Samsung smart TV outrage? People certainly weren't embracing it then, but complaining about how hard it was to find non-"smart" TVs.

A good handful of the larger telcos don't bother with least cost routing tables, and will instead just send all their domestic traffic straight through their own networks. The route quality tends to be much higher when they do that.

That depends on the phone system. Asterisk isn't particularly reliable; it actually crashes at 100 concurrent calls.

If you're talking about a good CO switch like a 5ESS or DMS-100, they're extremely reliable, well engineered machines. They consistently meet and exceed five nines reliability.

Unfortunately, it's kind of on par for here. HN's attitude seems to be to turn a blind eye to anything it doesn't like.