Since charging you money would be a breach of contract. I would let them charge you money and then call Verizon et al. and tell them that they are free to provided cable service to your town. I see it as a win win for everyone.

And if we outlaw guns, people will stop being killed by guns...

Here is the best that I have found. As the story goes nothing is 100% secure as long as it exists. https://www.ironkey.com/

Now all someone has to do is figure out how make all the water on earth have a concentration 1ppb bubbles.

Because some middle manager decided that the agreement was somehow proprietary and release of such an agreement by a third party would hurt Apple's business.

building better rat trips leads to smarter rats/ building something that is idiot proof leads to better idiots.... No matter what we do in an attempt to keep the idiots or rats from terrorizing us, they will always find a work around. In the mean time life for 99.998% gets exponentially more complicated for the rest of us.

Because they have cosine waves too :-)

well you do not have to use the service they offer. The great thing about America baring taxes and death, is that you have a choice. However, if you wish to use their service you must agree to a contract, usually in the form of a TOS. Once you agree to it then well yeah.... the terms are the terms. I am sure that if you want to use the maximum bandwidth offered 100% of the time there is a plan that you can purchase. However, I doubt that price increase will just be 43% compared to the 100% bandwidth 70% of the time plan.

I am a scientist, because it is what I am. The pay or the lack thereof provides me a means of being who I am instead of having to force myself to be something else. Really, as long as I have a roof over my head and food on my table then the rest is just gravy as long as I can do science. The assumption/ theory that money equals happiness has already been disproved. Now if you want me to be something that I am not, then you will have to pull out your checkbook so that I can compensate my lack of happiness with something that will bring momentary gratification.

Never hearing the term before, it very succinctly communicates the situation. I must say the mental image is also quite pleasant. Well done!
~the chemical engineering student who uses numerical methods to solve large problems

no really get an amateur radio license and set up a manned relay station that is connected to the net. No it will not be blazing fast but coverage will be great.

No really this stuff would not even fly in SC.

And what is a car's reasonable life time? Imagine if there was a sedan built in 1982 that still gets 25-28mpg and still passes all the smog tests. Are you saying that it is more environmentally responsible to crush that car and buy a new sedan that gets 28-30 mpg?

You can monitor people, you can teach them to drive, you can raise the driving age to 40 however, none of that will stop the newest drivers from being the most accident prone. So yes there probably is another motivation for these devices. Humans tend to learn things from experience. When was the last time a new programmer generated completely bug free code on the first try, or the las time that a new engineer did not make a mistake in the calculations? Mistakes happen and mistakes most frequently happen with in hte group that is the least experienced.

and they calibrated the detector how? No seriously, did they have a sample set of gravitational waves to calibrate the detector? There are only two outcomes of an experiment, either the results support your hypotheses or they do not. The results of this experiment failed to support the hypothesis. The conclusion would be that the detector failed to detect gravitational waves. To answer "Why?" would be speculation. I hate reading the page long conclusions of journal articles that speculate as to why the results are what they are. Save the speculation for conferences and the lab, publish the results, summarize the results in the conclusions. If you want to include speculation in the paper include it in the discussion.