How is it in jeopardy? Each consumer will still have the same amount of choice they started with. Cable, FIOS or ADSL, or satellite. If Comcast sucks, they will chose the other options. It doesn't make a shit-sack of difference whether my cable choice is Comcast or Time Warner, nor does it matter whether I have the same cable choice as someone in Portland.

Right, but the poster said it costs nothing to make.

If your hardware still has bugs that need to be fixed after the three years of warranty coverage, they can't be all that important.

Or you could invest a couple hundred bucks and become an HP certified professional. It's 2014 for christ's sake, there is no excuse to be selling your services without something as basic as that.

I'd be willing to bet that this will really only effect small shops with a few machines. I'd also be willing to bet that those clients cost HP a lot more in support (per dollar of sales) than your giant enterprise customers. Perhaps this is a conscious effort to unload that sector of the market.

That's what I loved about the HP/Compaq lines of machines. Everything was available, free and easy. Going all the way back to when you could dial into their BBS and download service packs for BIOS setup disks.

It costs Netgear something to create the patches.

How would the switch know what is inside the ethernet frames?

An 8 bit wav is all you need for telephones. The telephone network is very low bandwidth.

That happens when there is some kind of hack in the middle of the connection. Like digital to POTS converters or shit switching and routing configurations. The same thing happened at my company, and then they finished the deployment and everything was much better.

Relying on difficulty to combat government abuses is not an effective method. Hold them to high standards and it won't matter how easy or hard it is.

It sounds great when it is VOIP from end to end, and if all the packets manage to make it through.

You still need to power something at either end of the fiber.

I understand the reluctance, but it doesn't have to be dangerous. We can just switch to some kind of wireless beacon device like they use on the water. Three buttons, fire, police and ems. Hit the button, people show up at your house.

Maybe the unions could guarantee job security by giving the school districts the best possible teachers? If a teacher doesn't meet standards, pull them out of the classroom and send them back to school. They keep their jobs, and children aren't victimized by the unions' desire to keep their people employed.