He is trying to make the tired argument that residential connections aren't supposed to run servers. Technically you can get disconnected by your ISP for it, but FiOS actually seems to encourage it. Why else would they have symmetric for all their network?

I run my own Teamspeak server, PPTP VPN, multiple game servers for my friends and I, a Plex server and probably numerous other things that will break. Please show me how I can trade that in for AWS that will run out of IPs as well some time soon.

As far as underpowered hardware, I have a dual quad Xeon with 64 GB ram. Uncontrolled, well you got me there, I don't have redundant air conditioning. Asymmetrical, nope, FiOS went Symmetric already. But, running all of this is much cheaper than paying someone else to run all these services for me.

http://www.verizon.com/support...

FiOS is working on it. Some of their routers don't support it yet, and as they use funky routers, it isn't exactly like you can go to Best Buy and get a new one.

The feds have decided that going after white hats for trying to improve airplane security is ok too.

It is the Q continuum.

Perhaps it was the typo that is causing you to not be able to find the original quote. ;)

As a father of two boys in their early/pre teens, I call bullshit. I have never heard of any movements to direct my kids into any fields that they don't naturally gravitate to. In fact at a recent high school meeting, I was encouraged to send my child to vo-tech since he doesn't seem to be interested in high school (he is doing poorly in English and Spanish, practically straight As in Algebra and Chemistry), but he's a boy, so he should go fix cars and do plumbing, not STEM, never STEM.

Perhaps you don't see the sexism because you don't have boys at that age, but as someone who does, and lives in a liberal state, I can see for sure that it happens against boys as much as for girls.

At that rate of smoking, it would be a miracle if you did get cancer. You have to be up in the three packs a day range (60 ciggs) to even have a chance.

I don't know about you, but when I camp, I have a tent, sleeping bag, even a hammock if I want to go really simple.

The ice crystals shredding organs is why they only froze the head. It has been solved for the brain, but not other organs (except the skin) yet.

Or in 20 years, someone will raid all the bank accounts and run away with the money. Or in 100 years, the government will seize the bank accounts and order the bodies dumped.

A comment above points out that the negotiated price was $79 above retail, and they paid an additional $200 for the educational software.

http://apple.slashdot.org/comm...

So, not only did they buy the most expensive product on the market, they also overpaid for it.

Except that that covers three protected classes. Sex, age and race.

Is that Kerbal Per Second?

Your first sentence agrees with your last sentence. Labor unions don't work that way, which you would know if you were forced to join them like anyone else in a union shop.