You sound just like someone who got a DWI and is whining about how unfair it is. You got "Busted" - deal with it.

I think Verizon did you a favor and I am 99.999% sure that their conduct is allowed under their Terms of Service.

That said, I would have done things differently. I would have redirected you to a page telling you exactly what you need to do to regain access. I don't like doing things like changing the user's router settings or passwords. I figure if you have to do the work maybe you will remember it a bit better.

Verizon did you a favor; STFU and get over it.

Try your county sheriff. The cops are appointed and their boss is the mayor or in the case of the college the dean. The sheriff is elected and reports to the people. Go there and tell them that you are not getting decent help from the campus cops.

It is also true that you can go to the courts yourself and get the court to subpoena the ISP's records. They will cooperate.

I'm not the brightest bulb on the block and that manifests it self as fear when I don't understand something. I am petrified of cancer and of some sort of sudden brain injury (my dad suffered many strokes before his death and my mom died of cancer). The author of the article probably has a couple of fears too. Couple that with his 'marching orders" which was probably something like "Write a doom and gloom article about the cyber-security risks to America's infrastructure for July 4th" and you get a superficial fluffy article that is intended to scare people who read The Economist.

The author probably read a lot of background matterial and understood about 20% of it (like when I tried to read about cancer in medical jounals). He was left concernd and still not understanding most of what he needed to know. Bear in mind he writes for a magazine called "The Economist" and not one called "Slashdot". On top of that there do seem to be a lot of authorities that sound terribly concerned about security (and sell products to protect you).

Anyway the editors got what they wanted and he got published.

At first blush it appears to be hype but I am trying to keep an open mind because of something that happened to me when I saw my first HD TV picture. I was of the opinion that HD couldn't be that much better than SD. Shortly after I saw my first HD images I was ready to admit that I was wrong. From the moment I laid eyes on HD I knew there was a whole new world out there! I am now a certifiable HD snob. I don't know what I did before but I do know I watched less TV.

I haven't seen one of the new TVs yet to day I think it makes a difference or not. I will know, and probably rather quickly when I see it if I believe it or not. The first place I will look is at white/black interfaces. That should tell me a lot.

I really do hope it is hype. I think the 47" TV is a little too big to be moved into the bedroom.

But are you really paranoid if they are out to get you?

I don't buy into the fact that all of the changes since 9/11 have made us safer. They have caused us untold inconvenience and hassle. There is little doubt that the entire TSA is a waste of time, effort, and money. The billions of dollars that have been spent on upgrading the civil defense structures (police, fire, EMS and so on) have maybe helped communities out by having some additional equipment but they really aren't doing much to deter terrorism. All in all what 9/11 did was made a bunch of government providers very rich (example a 24' boat costing almost $250,000 was recently ordered by the Ramsey County MN Sheriff's Department. It was approved by the County Commissioners because it would be paid for out of Homeland Security and Stimulus funds. The boat is justified because it can be used to fight terrorism on the Mississippi River!

But there are some very nasty people out there who are out to get us. Good old fashioned vigilance goes a lot further than all these high tech toys and making us take our shoes off at the airport.

Maybe some of that stimulus money should go to hot dog cart vendors?

Bravo! There are many forms of prejudice and I suspect that Ms Thomas has felt more than her share. Thank you for so skillfully pointing out that people are making assumptions.

Also for what it is worth, Brainerd is not really in the iron range.

You can get a pretty decent place near Brainerd for $54 grand (as long as it doesn't have shoreline footage).

The Mille Lacs Band is not known for paying high wages...

What you read here should be taken with a grain of salt (except for my post of course).

Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one and most of them stink.

Over the years I have owned and camped in numerous conversion vans. I've never lived in one though but I wouldn't think that it would be too uncomfortable as long as you lived a minimalist lifestyle. The big problem would be the facilities but my boat has an answer for that. It is a very small chemical toilet. It sits underneath a box that looks like it is a built-in footstool.

Living in a climate where the temp drops to -20 below there are times where you would need some sort of heating. A small catalytic heater could help but would be dangerous unless you also have a CO detector. Perhaps a small furnace from a travel trailer would be a better solution (keep the CO detector to be safe).

What besides space would you be missing? Today you have cell phones, LCD televisions, wireless internet. Almost anything that plugs in can be had for 12V and inverters are available for those things that can't be.

I went to school and emerged debit free. I lived in my parent's old house that hadn't sold yet and only paid utilities (that was a big help) and relied on a part time job for income. I got the GI bill and was lucky enough to win a grants for my text books and other school related expenses and even got some money for tuition. While many of my fellow students emerged with huge bills for student loans, I graduated with zero debit!

Was it worth it? Hell yeah. I only had to concentrate on the future and was not haunted by the ghosts of the past; all those ghosts named "Bill".

I can say if I had to do it again and if I had to live in a van to emerge debit free; I would not think twice.

Excuse me? I am not a 'Microsoft Hater' as many people are here on Slashdot but that does not mean that I will take their word as gosple either! If Microsoft felt so strongly that this processor bug was terrible they should have never yeilded to Intel after all it is their reputation on the line too.

While the bug does sound serious it has been dealt with in a hot fix; a fix that may not be perfect but it works. I'm not a server engineer but if you disable power mgmt and lock the hypervisor into turbo does it hurt the performance much? I seriously don't know the implications but have always thought that most servers are tweaked for performance and not really for power saving.

I am willing to bet that there have been many, many give and take sessions between Microsoft and Intel and probably other entities where issues like this are sorted out for the benifit of the industry (or at least for all parties involved in the discussions).

I don't know what you want to put in the report but I do know I would call it a TPS Report.

Free Time? I'm sorry but that is not a term I am familiar with. What is it and what do you do with it?