I can only speak to my tiny little microcosm of the world, but if I plug my Win 7 machine into my Comcast router, and IPv6 works just fine. Not so for Fedora.

Chances are the software is old Windows 3.11 or OS/2 shit that they hacked to get working on 95, and then further hacked to get working on XP. They probably are legitimately at the end of the line.

I'm not a MS hater, but it does seem silly to use an OS that everyone knows will have a limited lifetime. It seems like something like an ATM would be the EXACT place where one of the UNIXes or Linux would be perfect. Support as long as you want it and in the case of linux, support as long as you want to solve your own problems.

My other question would be, what support do they still need for XP? Haven't all the problems been solved?

What is amazing to me is that people routinely kill themselves with all manner of drugs. Why can't they just load the poor fuckers up with a shitload of morphine and off they go? How hard does it have to be? We put cats and dogs down all the time; just do that.

No.

Prescriptive grammar is what makes a language. Otherwise, they are just random words.

And now you're on The List.

It can't break unless you break it.

You can get remote USB boxes that run over cat 5. You can probably even get USB to IP doodads.

What is wrong with you??

Which is exactly the problem. It amplifies the effects of economic expansions and contractions, which makes things worse.

And then the people with recessive genes die out and don't pass themselves on. That's the point, if there is such a thing, of DNA. In the long term, good genes win out over bad ones. If the available mating population is small, everyone has to mate a lot and throw away a few 'tards. That's that happens in pretty much all the species- young that don't keep up with their peers are either expelled from the nest or eaten by tigers. Look at the classic example of modern inbreeding- the European royals and their hemophilia. It popped up because of a random mutation, the weak ones died off, and the defect has now been bred out.

It is the same thing that happens with faulty dominant genes, just on a different time scale. If a dominant gene expresses itself in an environment where it isn't good, only 1/4 of the population survives (assuming it goes classical Mendellian [DD] [Dr] [rD] [rr])

And everyone else's point is that you'll get more light for your $2.50 if you buy a more efficient, longer lasting light. A 25 cent light bulb was never a bargain.

That is not how anything works. It is not the owner's job (legally) to prevent people from taking their stuff. Theft is theft.

The breaker protects the wires. It is meant to trip before the wires connected to it get damaged. If it is installed up to code, anyway.