I think people are confusing arbitrary throttling with priority queues. What Rogers and Bell are doing is arbitrarily limiting the rate of p2p traffic to 25KB/s. This is just rate limiting. If, on the other hand, they would treat VOIP traffic as higher priority and process those packets first, possibly dropping the lower p2p traffic if the link is congested, that would be perfectly fine. Just don't rate limit p2p to 5% of advertised bandwidth for no good reason.

Not to be pedantic, but there are some carriers for which this is true. For example, in Canada, if you're with Bell Canada or Telus, if you turn off 3G you do lose the ability to make phone calls. This is because their network is CDMA and not GSM, and they only support LTE (so no Edge or even standard non-data GSM). I think there is now a CDMA version of the iPhone, but I have a 3GS phone with Telus that can't receive or place calls if I turn off 3G.

I've worked with an organization providing care to the homeless a few years ago, and while being HIV+ is not a short-term death sentence anymore, it is nowhere near as easy to treat as you make it. Most patients can expect to spend about 3 to 7 years using drugs with only moderate side-effects, but after that, most start needing to use some stronger drugs. These can have very serious side effects, including vomiting several times a day, constant headaches, extreme dizziness, lack of appetite so bad that they have to force themselves to eat every meal, sexual dysfunction, etc.

I'm not a medical professional but from what I understand there are also strains of HIV that need the "strong" treatment right away, and people can even get multiple strains (I saw a few of those). Even with the medication being free in Canada, where I live, I spoke with people in their late 30s who stopped taking the meds because they'd rather have a few more years of relatively good life than living with the drugs' side effects.

We've made a lot of progress, but HIV is still a death sentence, just longer term. And you'll feel miserable for the better part of your remaining life. Not something to take lightly.

This doesn't give root, it just allows you to run a command within the context of the installed app. The app launches the web browser to pass data to and from a middleware server. So if the app itself doesn't have any specific access (including network access) it can still transfer data through launching a browser session.

It's more of a conscious decision by the android team. If you allow an application to launch an URL, then of course it can transfer data through the http session. However not allowing apps to launch a simple URL link would be very limiting, so they chose not to do that. I'm not sure there's a fix really, as this is a classic security / convenience problem.

Maybe once a year, I see a post like this. It makes me wonder how someone can be literate enough to compose it and, at the same time, unable to grasp its sheer insanity.

Hum, I think people are confusing letters here. The K in 4K refers to the Kilo prefix, as in 4 thousands. The P in 1080p refers to "Progressive" (full scan) compare to say, 1080i "Interleaved", which is really just 540 pixels resolution.

Like a previous poster said, they used the horizontal number because it's higher, but please don't start bringing in P or other things to muddle up the issue even more.

Not sure what you're talking about, but there is no time limit on "offline mode" for steam. Or at least, if there is one, it is several years long.

I think that's a very big assumption to make. So far, we've been constrained by our physical bodies, and our intelligence evolved with it. We're getting to the point where we can design new "bodies", biological or not, to support new "brains" (once again, biological or not). I don't see why it would be impossible for us to create an organism or machine that can provide much more energy to its brain than what our bodies are able to do now. Once we figure out how to accurately simulate neuron interaction, we should be able to create a brain much more intelligent than ours.

I'm thinking it's inevitable that, in the long run, we'll create an intelligence much beyond ours.

The point you're missing with this is that, without copyright, anyone could get the source from an employee or just decompile it and re-create the source files and they could be used. Without copyright, a single Microsoft employee could leak the Windows source code and anyone could just compile it and make their own version. Without copyright, you just don't need the GPL (well not entirely true, it still leaves patents and trademarks...)

What can change the nature of a computer?

Not to nitpick, but you can configure the prompt option to fall back to the simple "Access denied" with a simple GPO change. Most workplaces find it useful though because you can have a tech go and just type the credentials if needed (useful for some shell functions where you can't use runas...)

As a network admin, I have violent fantasies of driving hot nails through the privates of the "Let's block all ICMP by default" admins whenever I come up at a new client's site to troubleshoot some complex networking issues. If you block ICMP echo, you better have an extremely good reason for it. If it's from a public WAN link facing the internet, then *maybe* you might have a case (but most often not). If it's on a web server or other public-facing services, you PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A VALID REASON. If you block traceroutes from anywhere except edge firewalls, you are a clueless idiot. And even then, requests coming from inside interfaces should be let through. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OVER MPLS AND Site-to-Site VPN LINKS!

Whew, that felt good. Seriously, blocking icmp doesn't do *anything* for security. If you are getting flooded by icmp packets, just configure a flood threshold. These days, any icmp DoS flood that is bad enough to actually interrupt services very likely doesn't need the extra "reply" traffic to work. And if your clever "security" of not replying to pings on anything that has ports open is stupid, as a simple port scan will reveal the host.

Please, for the sake of every network admin's sanity, leave ICMP alone. Thank you.

I know some of our older RSA cards on our IBM servers don't work with anything over (IIRC) Java 6.3. So we have to keep machines around with older Java version to get the remote-control feature working.

I've also seen some doc sharing sites one of our client is using (pharmacology related) that are sensitive to which Java version you run.

I know I've seen other instances which I can't recall right now. Java's portable and compatible with everything, except when it isn't :P .

That's remarkably ignorant. The possibility of reclaiming those class A addresses has been studied and put aside, as it would be too costly and, assuming we get every single class A back, would only give us about 1.5 more years. This is too much cost for too little gain, so the efforts were focused on migrating to IPv6 instead.

You might want to read the wikipedia article about it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion