just because people dislike his playstyle doesn't mean he won't draw in more viewers. Some people enjoy hating on a guy, and they might watch him in hope of another contestant taking him down.

thinking god isn't real and being an atheist isn't the same thing. Someone might follow a faith for the moral story and community, while not believing that the deity actually exists. They could also be agnostic/non-religious, which isn't the same thing as atheism.

I believe this is a relevant quote from Jayne Cobb/Firefly
"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here."

User error can happen regardless of user interface really.

Did some searching today, and it seems Google has actually defined some extensions to add IMAP commands to support labels so clients could use them. This is the same thing I'm looking for in any replacement, because the concept of labels is the one of the biggest draws to Gmail for me, along with it's message filtering capabilities and spam filtering.

You realize it's not that easy to actually catch them texting in motion. If an enforcement officer sees it and pulls you over, how does he retrieve evidence? Taking your phone without a warrant seems like an easy to abuse stretch, and warrant-less retrieval of phone records isn't great either? What if you use Google Voice, they won't know the difference and when your records come up clean they will be stumped. These are issues I know have come up from officers here in Iowa when the issue of enforcing texting while driving laws were brought up. Simply put the law can be on the books, but officers hands are tied attempting to enforce it.

Actually Netflix is trying to get past transit ISPs as much as possible via peering. Provide free peering and caching appliances to ISPs, they get their content closer to the customer, and cut down their transit costs.

Sure, until the circuits are all tied up, or the lines get cut by a backhoe. Even land lines have limited capacity to emergency services dispatch centers.

I don't know if any advertiser would ever do this, and if they did those ads wouldn't make the site jack squat for money because they are almost worthless to the advertisers. The data the advertisers collect is probably the most valuable part of the advertising.

The alternative is to try and get every motherboard manufacturer to accept a singing key from them. Having Microsoft sign it means they don't have to deal with that headache.

I wonder if any of the auto manufacturers have considered working with Google and using Android?

I think the point is not that these entities shouldn't have connectivity to the Internet, but the network they use to monitor and operate the critical infrastructure components should be segregated from any network accessible from the Internet. How they are segregated is up for discussion.

We are using a couple Soekris boxes for some basic monitoring. They are lightweight atom processors with no active cooling and it's designed with networking in min. 4 Gig-E ports on the 6501, and you can get up to 8 more thanks to 2 PCI-E slots available in the rackmount version. Since we are using an mSATA SSD on the board we have no moving parts, so nothing mechanic to fail.

That's already a requirement from CALEA, so they already have lawful intercept requirements on the books.

Actually any broadband provider already has to provide wiretap capabilities from the CALEA changes years ago.