That use much more power and materials to manufacture than incandescent bulbs.

I just love corporations using global stewardship to cover up apparent profit motives.
/sarcasm

Question: What is it producing? I am sincerely asking. My understanding is, yes we create products here, but aren't they comprised of imported components?
I went to a furniture store claiming all their sources are USA companies. Come to find out, there were US based companies, but they were only shell companies making a profit on Chinese manufactured furniture (American Furniture Warehouse).

I was speaking to manufacturing -- 'making' tangible goods. Agreed, we have a relatively huge entertainment industry, but it is very specific in nature and minuscule in size (number of people employed) compared to what we had in manufacturing and is primarily in California.
Manufacturing was once the backbone of the nation and employed the true blue-collar worker.

And yes, the good old US of A should be very proud of "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" and "Jersey Shore."

IMHO, Reaganomics works only in a country where manufacturing is a strong industry (where the workers of the nation are actually needed); sadly, the USA no longer significantly 'makes' anything.

The difference between the implementation of X and WP7 is the Microsoft version has hard points in which the 'desktop' is viewed, whereas X was free floating. IMO, MS should move horizontally OR vertically (not both) since it would be easy to get lost.
If done properly, I don't see an issue. However, as you stated -- the chances of it being a nuisance are very high if not done properly.

MiFi accepts 3G connections from handsets. The same as a cell site. There are implications from having another device accept connections from subscriber handsets, again for stats and performance measurements.
Smartphone does not accept 3G connections from other handsets.
They are NOT the same.

You are apparently just disagreeing with me for the point of disagreeing. Think what you want about how they operate and don't buy a MiFi. If you don't like the "privacy" risk, speak with letters to your representatives, your votes and your dollars; don't whine on /.

Good day, sir.

There is a big difference between a device that in effect acts as a cell site (broadcasting) versus a subscriber handset.

This has nothing to do with your argument. I am speaking from an engineering point of view. However, if/when instances of this occur, people need to sue the Fed (under violation of the Constitution) and the carrier (secondary).

If your main worry is what a large corporation will provide the Fed (warrentless or not), stop using their services (i.e. a mobile) immediately. at&t is one of the largest, if not the largest lobbyist in the Washington. The others are not far behind. Stop screaming bloody murder about privacy, and actually DO something about it. Maybe go HAM. Personally, I don't care. I have close friends who are Afghan and Iranian, and I talk with them on my mobile all the time; I assume my shit is being tracked.

Yes. You are in effect using the carriers licensed spectrum. They have a right to know what devices are using it and where. Just because they know where a MiFi is, doesn't mean they have YOUR MiFi location. RF engineers don't deal with customer data (unless they need to meet with a customer), nor do they have access to it.

There are different configurations of sites; varying from three, two or even one sector. Some cell sites will have a remote sector mounted in a physically different location (cost savings). It all depends on where the coverage is needed.

Regarding the reason for GPS functionality: the RF engineers need to know where your MiFi is. It's all about statistics and measurements with those guys.

Point being is there are no regulations that mandate cable providers (as ISP's or not) provide any level of protection against power outages. On the other hand, land-line providers are required to maintain battery AND generator backup. Cell towers are also exempt. Most have battery systems that will last for up to 60 minutes (most will not last that long due to battery age) and almost none have permanent generators.

Your only safe bet is POTS in a large scale power outage.

I appreciate the follow up, and good job on the server uptime.
Got to love having:

Stable OS
Stable Hardware
And most importantly, Stable Power

I agree with you for the most part; I administered a large number of Solaris servers that had 800+ days uptime. However, does your non-privileged user not have access to the load average?

High uptime numbers are impressive, but not so much on an idle machine.

replying to my own crap reply.

Didn't dawn on me, the relationship between Novel and Mono project. My previous comment is null/void

I don't think this would affect the major, commercially supported distros, such as RHEL -- their adoption to the latest/greatest in packages lags quite a bit (with good reason). Mono would have to become way more relevant in every aspect of the server and desktop. I just don't see that happening (and if it does, Novel and RedHat will have none of it).

Regarding the Linux users and enthusiasts, they will cut Mono off in a heartbeat. It's a very dynamic group and I suspect the developers will find a workaround or rebuild with other tools.

According to the second link in the summary, WCF and LINQ to SQL have been addressed in Mono 2.6.