If your business is "open to the public", then you have to serve the public. Period.

No Shirt No Shoes No Service.

Exclamation Mark.

Thanks for the apology.

I didn't remember any stories at the time saying any airlines had diverted from the Ukraine before MH17 - but all of them set new routes to avoid it after.

That was a lot of airlines that changed courses...

Glad their marketing works on you, the infrastructure is identical between their Cable and Business divisions.

Don't recall him saying much about the infrastructure, it was more about the service - the simple fact is that the service is very different between the two tiers, which is really more important - I don't care if the network is amazingly fast, if it's fast enough that's fine. But I do care VERY VERY MUCH if it's out during the day and need a rapid, informed response on the other end of the support line to figure out why there is an outage.

Also not sure why a 'Developer' would be qualified to judge the quality of an ISP.

That's because a develop who works a lot at home is also a sysadmin. They probably have a few systems, they probably know a lot more about networking than some guy just trying to get cable.

That loss is ENTIRELY on the airliner who chose that course.

That's a bullshit excuse since there were MANY airlines and flights flying that route, and it's not like pilots are "deciding" where to fly - they have routes already planned. There were probably thousands of flights over the Ukraine that week alone before the one plane was shot down...

There is no excuse for shooting down a passenger jet, period. It's on people conducting war to not harm civilians if at all possible, and it's VERY POSSIBLE to identify civilian aircraft in many ways (transponders being just one).

If GenCon moves because of this bill, I will make it a point not to attend GenCon.

I'm not religious, and I value gay rights. But I also value to the right of people to do as they please, and not be forced to serve anyone they disagree with.

If you respect the right of gay people to choose who to marry, why not respect the rights of others to choose who the associate with also.

A nuke of any size going off *anywhere* as an act of war would immediately send up the balloon

Western nations have no stomach to use nuclear arms any more - so if Russia or Iran (well, really that should be when instead of if) uses nuclear arms against someone, very likely NATO will do nothing except sanctions. Really.

If you think that sounds absurd, wouldn't shooting down a civilian airliner with zero repercussions sounds absurd? That has happened. So why is it so unlikely that a tactical nuclear weapon that kills 100k or so people in some minor country would bring no further action, at least not nuclear action...

Even IF none of that is true, it doesn't matter if that is there perception of what our reaction would be (Putin certain thinks that is true). Or in the case of Iran, they WANT war in the middle east, so they will absolutely use a nuclear weapon - I figure they stockpile at least five, send some to Israel and some to the U.S. then retreat to comfy bunkers to enjoy the war unfolding.

Not sure why all the fuss about this book, when instead of building a thermonuclear device you can just order one ready made... I hear Iran will be shipping them to countries around the globe any day now. Pretty sure I'm in the test market area!

Seriously, what kind of a /.er uses unbalanced parentheses for lists?

Atonement for years of unfinished LISP programs.

A dial on the side of the server ranging from:

1) Allow Single thread only
2) Allow Multiple Threads
3) Allow Multiple Cores
4) Enable GPU Access
5) Start Java processes
6) Disable port blocking
7) Run NortonAV
8) Run Chrome
9) Compile complex C++ Template-base Project
10) Enable Adobe Updater

I don't think he used it often, but I did manage to find a shot of McCoy with a tricorder.

I am rather grateful every time I go to fetch something that has slipped down into the drain that my garbage disposal is not evaluating the probability my fingers should constitute moving to the Destroy All Matter mode on its internal state diagram.

See the image on this page.

I can't remember if there was a wand in every version of the tricorder, but I could have sworn I saw McCoy using the wand also.

Not that we want to get TOO bound up in limiting a really useful medical device to the exact form factor of a TV show prop...

And this device will be able to test for these conditions in a few seconds? That would be really cool, since current tests for some of these take a day or more.

How did you think Spock learned to stand so still?

They've been dead in a lot of our worlds for years.

I guess you must be the modern equivalent to the Amish, shunning useful technology because it is the work of something you designate arbitrarily to be the Devil.

How sad for you and your kind, though I look forward to buying whatever the equivalent is of fine wooden furniture from your group of castaways at some point in the future.

Yes, very true. I'm just not sure the 15" will be updated very soon; I was thinking fall...