Yet in canada most ISP have quota which will render this kind of offer non possible here. Just look at Videotron. They're offering a 7.5Mbit/40gigs, 15mbits/60gig, 30/100gig, 50mbits/125gig, 120mbits/170gig. All quotas except the first have unlimited overcharge, at 1.50$ by gigabyte. At full throttle the later will only last 3.3h. Full throttle for a day and you'll get a near 2000$ fee for busting your quota. Ok, this isn't really possible, as their network surely can't handle giving all that bandwidth. But it still show off how abusing quotas are here in Canada.

2: would this be a router's worst nightmare? In tree structure that ISPs has put us in, yes. But if this structure ever fails and we get back to the original net design, which is a mesh network, than it would not be such a problem. DNS change would be propagated to next nodes, wave like. IMO the problems come from the centralization and tree structure the net has become. We've seen fiber optic cable cutting net access to a whole part of the world. What would happen in a global war? Or a megalomaniac terrorist decided to cut net links all around the world? Worst economical crash ever? We're too dependent on big telcos and governments infrastructures. The net should be open, free for anyone. Simply by airwaves, like a big shout going unstopped around the world. Alright, enough dreaming here, I'm out :)

Then go flat namespace. Why do we really need hierarchical namespace? I mean, people don't bother if its .com, .net or .org. Its a convention. Anyway, most people now protect their domain name by buying other domain suffix. Or like my mom that has google as her start page, and enter the url she wants to go directly into the google search textbox then press search. IMO domain suffix are overrated and provide more bloat to the net than it does good. Just look at the mess the .co domain is doing. A lot of domain scammers have already taken well known domains to make moneys from people entering things like hotmail.co. If there was no domain suffix, you would simply enter gmail and then get to gmail. Who cares about country anyway on the net.

I'd be happy to go too. I'll bring wife and kids too. If we can simply ensure that nobody is sick before doing the trip, the idea of never catching a flu again is pretty sweet. In fact, I'd be happy mining, planting plants, doing some science... well, living for science. The life on that planet would be one of survival and science. For the better of mankind and the community. That would be refreshing of the selfishness this society has become obessed.

ROFL!

Yeah, I'd be more than appy to buy a new World of Goo 2! This game made open the eyes on indie games. I've bought lot of them lately and enjoyed much more than most tripple A games I found somewhere on my hard drive ***cough***.

Yeah, sound much like wave to me!

Ho yeah, Cookie on cookie action!

Seriously, its the main idea being the movie plot of Accepted. If you haven't seen that comedy yet go and grab it, its hilarious. But I like the idea! (And it got the Mac Guy!)

I was going to say this myself. This is the kind of stuff that could be done in CUDA easily. If it can be highly parallelized than its meant for the the GPU!

Yeah great, there's 1.5 billion people living in industrial world. What your're talking about is applying to them. The rest of the planet is still reproducing like mad rabbits. Having 300 millions of people living on the size of the USA is sustainable. Having more than 1 billion living in India or China IS unsustainable. They will eventually end up with some huge problem. History has shown that when you reach a certain point, nature has regulation mechanisms that will bring the population back to a more normal size. Imagine the damage a virus like the spanish flu would do in Asia or Africa? In Industrialized countries scientist has estimated that the survival rate would be in the upper 80%. But for the poorer place in the whole, it could be the other way around. The world population should be around 1.5 billion anyway.

Wall of Tokamak-style reactor become radioactive after a while and need to be properly disposed. If there was to be an explosion than there could be a radioactive leak. But much less than fission reactor would. The main problem that can happen btw with a fusion reactor is not the reaction going uncontrolled or the power admission going down, but a failure of the cooling system. This would cause melting of the torus and part of the facility. But this is unlikely to happen, it would require power level to stay high while the cooling fail and require security check to fail.

Actually, sexual orientation is not by itself a genetic feature. It's mostly a mix of personal development AND of chemical functionality. It's been shown that effeminate men does have a smaller amygdala just like woman. But, being effeminate by itself is not the cause of being gay. So, having someone cured for being effeminate will only have him act with more virility but he could still prefer men. Keep in mind that the concept of sexual orientation by itself is man made. On the animal side, there's a difference between reproducing and getting pleasure. One can only be accomplished with the opposite sex while the other can be accomplished with whatever you see fit. It's only a cultural and moral matter, which are overrated IMHO.

We're working hard toward getting rid of our dependence over the USA and China is now becoming one of our biggest trade partner. Canada is not US 51th state nor will it be the next european country. Our economy is strong, we've got plentiful of natural resources and we've got space. If we can ever get somebody wise at the head of the country, Canada could be the next big thing in the world.