I think the problem that you're failing to recognize which the OP stated was that yes, I pointed my browser at a website. What I did not point my browser at is the 14 IFRAME ads and analytics hosted by 15 other 3rd party providers. If a site wants to serve ads, then they should do like I did when I was running a largish (over 1M unique users a day) website. Sell your own ad space. Ad networks who host obtrusive ads need to go away. Unobtrusive stuff like text ads or static stuff I don't really have a problem with.

Really slashdot? 3 minutes between comments, even on different threads?

Hey APK, what's your IP address so I can block all the spam you've been posting? I want to add it to my hosts file.

Anyone else remember when electronics came with circuit diagrams on the inside of the [easily] removable cover? Things didn't require special tools to work on and repair yourself. Oh, and you could actually BUY replacement parts instead of tossing the whole thing in the bin and getting a new one?

This is also why acoustic couplers were invented. Since anything plugged directly into the phone line was "against the law", hackers worked around it. You plugged your phone into the line, and the acoustic coupler into your computer/device, and you placed the telephone handset on the acoustic coupler. You were not actually plugging your device into the phone line, thereby bypassing the "law".

I've found that you can safely replace the L or R sound when speaking Japanese, with a D sound and you'll be close enough.

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5 seconds on google.

I actually prefer the way it happens in Japan.

Basically, a single company (NTT) has laid down the infrastructure to every neighborhood. Then, they basically open it up and make it available to anyone who wants to start an ISP. NTT, of course, offers their own ISP, but their ISP portion still has to lease the line from the parent company. Essentially, the ISP pays a set amount per customer that is signed up with the service for the rights to use the backbone. Then, the individual ISPs compete based on services offered. They also compete on price, but most of the prices are within a couple hundred yen of each other (couple dollars).

Each ISP hosts their own authentication servers, email, website, etc... The customer plugs in their username and password to the modem (user@ispname.ext). NTT runs the PPPoE server, but each ISP has their own RADIUS server. So NTT receives a login request from bob@fiber.marley.jp. NTT looks up fiber.marley.jp and makes sure it's a registered ISP. If it's ok, then NTT forwards the radius request to the fiber.marley.jp auth server hosted by the ISP which then authenticates the account and allows or disallows the connection. If the auth goes through, the user is allowed access to the network, ip address is assigned, routing is set to pass them their dns, gateway, etc...

Then you're on the backbone and you can do what you like.

Cool thing is, there's only one network to maintain/upgrade so when NTT upgrades from say, 100Mb/sec fiber to 1Gb/sec fiber, all the ISP has to do is set up a new service and subdomain for auth and the user can use the new service in the method described above..

You can also subscribe to regular phone service, tv service, and they also have a VOD service available.

Anyways, it's a good system and it works great. There's tons of competition and the backbone owner still gets a cut of every connection based on subscriber rates per ISP.

Which is also wrong. The "morning after" pill doesn't abort anything. It tells the body to stop ovulating "immediately" in order to avoid getting pregnant. If she's already ovulated before she takes the pill, it won't work, so it's no more an abortion pill than is aspirin.

And instead of an AC I was expecting a 4 digit UID :)

Funny thing. In Japan they tax cars based on engine sizes. You have the minimally taxed "Kei" class cars (660cc and less), then you got the 500 plated cars (2000cc and less), then the cars with over 2000cc. They all pay a "road tax" every year based on that engine size. The bigger the car, the larger the tax. Makes sense to me.

You didn't see the movie "Brainstorm" did you?

Chrome Remote Desktop. Full password protected access from anywhere in the world, even if she's NAT'd behind her router. Chrome Web Store

Just checked. AT&T does this as well with an x-acr header

Protip: Any time you want to pronounce something with either an L or an R sound, substitute with a D sound. (not perfect, but close enough)

I think the reason the specs aren't increasing much is because the pace of hardware improvements isn't moving as fast as it used to. Nowadays, you pick up an i7 and 16Gb of RAM, your favorite video card, toss an SSD in there and you've basically hit the limit.

All we're getting these days is more cores as the whole gigahertz wars ended 10 years ago.