that was my first thought -- these things, if they could be manufactured to be affordable, would be great for relative positioning -- although I was thinking seismometers, not GPS. If you had a network of them, you could instantly (well,at the speed of light) map out any changes in their positioning.

Which reminds me; as my head is moving faster than my feet relative to the centre of the earth, they age at different rates. Same principle at work here. But it means I should spend more time standing on my head :)

Just remember that every elected official gets a nice severance package when they leave... ensure that nobody has more than one term (they don't have the "right" to any terms), and you're going to be paying out a LOT of retirement packages over the years....

What I find amazing about people's short memories on this topic is that Obama attempted to push through health care reform, and it got away from him. He ended up becoming the figurehead for a system designed by his political opponents, big pharma, and the insurance companies. Compare this to what he was aiming to achieve: something like a federated version of the Canadian system. No telling that that would be any better, but the current system just changes who gets the money and ensures that a few minorities are forced to get coverage where before it was optional, all in his name.

Look at it that way, and it's not as surprising that it was mostly people from Republican ridings that benefited from Obamacare.

...queue the contrary bit ;)

I agree. I just yearn for a world where the majority of the police hold the opinion that "there doesn't need to be a strong super-majority of flawless citizens to appreciate that most are just people doing their best."

Most police I know are great citizens, but do their job through the lens of viewing everyone as a potential perp. I suppose it helps them recognize the actual perps, but it does hinder their relationship with everyone else while on-duty.

Oh, he knows it affects Macs; he just said you don't read about things like this on a Mac -- the reality distortion field and all that, living on in the actual products :)

Exactly :) Contempt of Court isn't going to net 6 years; I was just setting the bar lower.

What you're stating is the situation for transit peering. This issue has nothing to do with transit peering, as the packets all terminate inside the receiving network.

See, this is why it's a problem that we've got the same people providing Tier 1 trunk lines that are providing endpoint connects. It creates another class of peer where they're being paid by end users for transit to the interconnect, and then they turn around and want to charge peers for transit to the end users. That's called double dipping, and that's why there's an issue here. The entire point of peering with these Tier 1-to-endpoint providers is to unload traffic; there's no other way to actually route traffic to the destination!

And that won't really work because an even larger check from the cable companies will always follow. Hell they most likely just give them a credit card with an unlimited balance that draws right from the cable companies' customers' bank accounts.

FTFY

There's also the pesky "contempt of court" that many countries have. I'd say he more than stepped over that line.

Um, this article is about a guy who broke into state systems and stole police and citizen data. Or at least they allege he did, and as he indicates that he knows who actually did it but refuses to name them, and it was done on his hardware, that makes him pretty much indictable of contempt of court at a minimum.

As for your last remark, there are thousands of people around the world who have come and taken my work product for free (as the license on my work allows), and I also donate to the local food bank, and feed multiple people directly off my table.

So yeah, I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make, other than to state that you don't like this guy's lifestyle, and think they got him Al Capone style (which they didn't).

Which means that people who plan ahead and alot time to prepare food in the evening/morning for the day will have much healthier diets than those who pick up something from the corner convenience store/fast food store between shifts.

This is what all the studies and numbers already indicate. They also indicate that people would rather someone else do that work for them and pay the extra money/pay the price in health.

Actually, car companies will probably add these to their test beds; safety ratings aren't based off of manufacturer's internal testing results, they're based off of the national testing facility results.

Which means the only time the 5-star rating is going to go to a 3-star rating is if the national testing facilities start using these dummies. And if they do that... the auto manufacturers had better start using them too, or they're going to lose a LOT of money as their cars' ratings go down the drain compared to those who DO test with them.