No evidence is needed to provide a counter-notice.

The only reason there's a hold-down time after the counter-notice is to give the (supposed) copyright holder time to file a court case before it's back up.

It's innocent until proven guilty. The person is presumed innocent. The content is blocked until any disputes are settled, as making it available would cause an irrecoverable loss if the copyright holder is right. It's actually pretty sensible, though wasn't intended to have millions of automated take downs issued by non-holders of copyright who claim a 90% miss rate is "good faith". Change the way that's applied against the take-down issuers, and the problems mostly go away.

In theory, yes. In practice, no. At least not without piles and piles of official warnings.

I'm just listing what my insurance does. Prior to this change, they covered your children until a hard cut off of 27. Once the Obama change came out, they changed it to 26, but will continue to cover as long as they stay in college or active duty. I assumed it was part of Obama Care to continuously cover your children, but I guess not?

Yeah, like the vegetables designed to generate their own insecticides, effectively turning the vegetables into poison. Even the "light" versions are generally so that more poisons can be used on them than "normal". Both are scientifically demonstrably to be "bad" for the consumer. The "good" GMO was mostly done with selective breeding. Maybe a few colors or shapes are "good" GMO, but mostly it's about getting the maximum chemicals in/on the food, and that's why GMO is globally hated. That and a fear of terminator genes.

Read http://science.slashdot.org/co... and tell me if you think he's said anything to indicate he's anti-abortion.

He sounds like someone who is anti-abortion, but deliberately saying things to be able to deny it, while strongly suggesting it.

Then present the scientific basis for your position, rather than solely attacking others while not stating your position.

The Law of Gravity is the fact that it exists. The Theory of Gravity isn't a fact, but is the best description we have for how to model it.

Climate change is a "fact" in that we know that there has *always* been climate change, so it would take something extraordinary to prevent climate change. That something extraordinary hasn't happened. Which direction, how fast, and causes are separate questions.

Nope. The more we abolish hydrocarbons, the better I will be. We should have solar on every building, and in every road. At which time we'd have about 4x the amount of power we use. And being locally generated, will have lower cost and better availability. We just have some minor issues about storage, that'll be easy to solve in the time frame of installing the distributed power solution.

Yes, it is. They had a few problems because it was designed as a private network, then expanded to a network of private networks. I was on the Internet before DHCP was "invented". The Internet was very static, and any logs did a good job of identifying a specific person. There was the perception of anonymity, but there was no actual anonymity, and that was known at the time.

Fast forward to today. Security is such an issue because there was no security built into the network. That isn't an "error", that's by design. It was just considered easier to use bad security than design it for private access from mostly dynamic clients.

That and the people building it on 9600 LAN speeds never considered 10 Gbps WAN links, so many of the speed and QoS options are not optimized for today's networks.

There are a lot of things I'd have done differently, if we were building it new today, but what "errors" do you see in the Internet, besides the lack of a crystal ball by those building it?

Anyone getting to the airport with a phone that's dead should be able to toss it in their checked bag, where it won't be any less useful than in their pocket. Then it's just fine.

If it's so dead and useless, why can't you toss it in your checked bags?

For the same price of one of those boxes that can supply "dozens" of houses with 1gb DSL, you could get a fiber box that supports thousands of houses with 1gb/1gb fiber, uses less power, and is all located in the CO, instead of out in the field.

My ISP went from 7 racks of DSL equipment in the CO plus cabinets in the field to 1/2 rack of fiber equipment with NOTHING in the field.

Because you don't want to be sending someone to the same apartment every month, each time someone wants to upgrade. Why would I want to buy 1lb of peanuts for $3 when I can purchase 2oz for $1? It's not like I'm going to eat a pound of peanuts right now.

You need to think further out than the immediate if you want to make good long term decisions.

So all they need to do is park a $30k box within 100m-200m of the customer, and they have to power, cool, and maintain batteries in this box. Sounds like a great idea. Why would anyone want to use a $100 fiber port with a 40km-80km range and is back in a central datacenter, when they could spend $500+/port for a 100m-200m range and installed out in the field?!

20ms? That's pretty good. My mom had a 80ms ping to her first hop, during off hours. At peak hours, it was near 100ms.