They however are against The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and Arab Charter on Human Rights, with Egypt being signers on the first two but not the third yet.

You keep saying Obama administration. It's not one president's or even one person's doing. It's a collective effort of many people across many administrations and congresses.

Which monopoly does Amazon have again?

Evil, vile company.

As oppose to book publishers that want you to pay the same for an ebook as a hard copy?

It's easier to just go through life when you realize that ALL companies are evil, vile companies and they are all out to maximize THEIR profits at the expense of others.

If publishers and distributors don't want to deal with Amazon, don't do business with them. Amazon's not the only ecommerce site on the internet. Yes you may lose sales from people who want to buy it on Amazon but can't. But Amazon also loses the sale. And if people want your product, if you make it easy for them to get it elsewhere they'll still get it. If I REALLY wanted to go buy The Lego Movie and Wal-Mart didn't have it, I'd go to Best Buy. Or Target. Or some other store. This is no different.

Because it wouldn't give a chance for the author to plug his wife's company in a Slashvertisement.

Do health monitoring devices get priority access to electricity?

Most electric companies allow individuals that require power for medical conditions to call and note such requirements to their account. Then, in the case of emergency or power outage, those customers can receive a priority with repairs. It's never guaranteed, but they can get a priority over others.

But for general home health monitoring, I don't understand why it would need to receive a priority for bandwidth. If your medical well-being requires near real-time data then you probably shouldn't be at home, you should be at a hospital. The same for public safety apps...or maybe have a dedicated line for network traffic.

I absolutely want my traffic optimised. Your Bittorrent traffic can wait, whereas my VOIP call cannot.

Says you. While maybe bittorrent or some other bulk file transfer can be degraded, what about video streaming. Why should your VOIP conversation take priority over my video streaming? Or my financial trading data? Or anything else that's important to me but that you don't care about?

That's easy to fix. You just define malicious as anything detrimental to the network (the way most TOS/AUP already define it). That way, when say the Netflix agreement coming to an end you just deem their traffic as detrimental to the network since it DOES impact network performance and you lower it's priority. Problem solved.

Most people complaining about internet usage not being accurate don't have a clue how to track it themselves.

Go over to DSLReports.com and search for usage monitors. There are countless threads from all sorts of ISPs where the ISP's total is drastically different. People who have downloaded hundreds of GB of data but the ISP says only a few GB. And vice versa, the homeowner has been on vacation or otherwise has no reason to have a extreme amount of usage but the ISP says they have.

If it indeed is not that difficult, why have so many ISPs, even major ones that have the budgets and experience to do it properly, had issues?

Why? The cable modem will be able to figure out what traffic is coming from the home vs. coming via the public wifi, and can count those separately. (And can do different speed shaping and prioritization).

As proven time and time again, cable companies seem to have a very difficult time accurately computing actual data usage. I wouldn't have a lot of faith that they can accurately keep track of data usage of two networks from the same cable modem.

1. you don't know if he actually wasted anything (the computers could have been idle otherwise)

An idle computer consumes less resources to operate then one processing some task. Not only electricity to run the computer, but the considerable amount of heat that is generated that has to be conditioned. The article and the report don't go into details so we're just left presuming the cost to operate the supercomputers during the mining was $150,000.

I would imagine that there isn't too much idle time on a supercomputer. It's not like this was some student computing center tech installing SETI@home to run as a screen saver.

though nowadays routers come with individualized passwords, but they didn't used to

When Verizon FiOS first came to my area, the autogenerated WEP password was based on a 5 character SSID. There were online tools that you could use to lookup what the default password would be and almost no one, relatively speaking, bothered to change it from the default. Came in handy on more than a few occasions to get free wifi as just about anywhere you go you were in range of someone that had FiOS.

Another brand used the wireless MAC as the WEP key. shm

Then, SWAT would move into their house and take everything that plugs into a wall and has Ethernet capabilities. Think I'm joking?

Of course you are. Why would they leave things that don't plug into a wall and/or have Ethernet capabilities? Take everything. Toaster, tooth brush, pet rock...it's all evidence of the crime and/or hacking tools. They'd probably search the houses of your friends, family, and the guy you looked at walking down the street a week ago too.

Until someone starts offering a flat fee for payment processing somewhere close to cost of the transaction, which is microscopic

So you'd want a company to float you the money during the transaction for up to thousands of dollars, cover all the real costs of the transactions, and handle any fraud prevention and losses all by charging a few pennies? That sounds like a sweet investment deal to be had!

I think he was meaning that a launch being seen as a potential missile attack on Cuba. Launching a rocket from the east coast of Florida wouldn't take the flight path in the same general vicinity over Havana. Remember that when Kennedy Space Center was built, it was only a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Then again, I guess Texas could also launch an attack on Florida. Hopefully Florida would retaliate in time to destroy Texas before itself was destroyed. The country would just sit back, watch, and enjoy the show. No matter the result, the nation would be better of in the end.