I would mod you up if I could. I always thought the same thing. A requirement for common carrier protections should be neutrality.

There is not reason you can't have a ipv6 gateways/routers that filter incoming traffic. It would defeat a significant benefit of IPv6 but you can do it.

True. But the first encourages the second.

If the government wanted to control over-population, they would consider programs that reward those the have no or less than two biological children. Right now, we do the opposite. We give tax breaks to those that have children. A more politcal suicide approach would to also require those that are on any form of government aid to engage in some form of birth control. Instead of the government forcing everyone one to do something, they are making a trade: resources for your ability to reproduce.

I don't know what database technology they are using but if they are using SQL, they are probably using an ENUM: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E179... https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refm... http://www.postgresql.org/docs...

He was talking about the fact that only the unveristy educated pay the tax. Those able will simply avoid traditional universities for another form of education that is not taxed.

This was the first thing I thought. It would be exactly like social security. It works when the population is stable or increases but breaks down the population decreases. Actually, it would be even worse than social security seeing how the more educated tend to have less kids.

Another problem that is shared with the current easy student loan access is that universities would probably try to overcharge since they known the people using their services are not going to discriminate on price.

According to the article, they use positioning information to generate additional bits of information. My question is how do they determine position at large distances when both bodies are obviously not standing still. The only thing I can think of is having one constant laser being used as a position reference for all communication lasers. Of course, they still have to be able to hold the laser on the detector array.

Would sunglasses be enough?

Perhaps we should start using sensor data as a primary means of navigation and windows (which are normally covered) as an emergency backup. There would be redundant sensors so that even if a couple sensors were temporarily blinded the data visuallization could still happen unimpeded. Of course, at that point, maybe we should just automate the planes completely.

Is there evidence that we gave everything that he collected?

The relatively high quality comments/discussion are definitely the reason why I visit Slashdot. I actually find myself irritated when I go to a news site and either find crappy comments or worse, no commenting system at all.

I don't understand why anyone likes the ambiguous time on any website on any feed, I could understand "about 4 minutes ago (Thursday February 06, 2014 @10:09AM)" but I like having exact time on posts.

Unless it is being constantly handled, I doubt it disintegrates faster than you. Also, you have the right to attempt to recoup some of your costs by reselling it when you are done with it. You also have the option of giving it to someone else.

Plex already supports Chromecast in their premium version. They claim that the feature will eventually released to everyone.