...then they started getting entries like this:

"this is your gun dont point hat ur face lol"
"ponies shoot the poniesll!LL!Lol"
"oh gawd they took my liver"
"dis is f'd up yo no one reads da stoopid books"
"tak ur POGEY BAIT and ASRAAM it up ur HOOCH! lol"

After they added the ID requirement they realized the person making all the edits was Dick Cheney.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123896664697090681.html

How did IBM go from seeing enough value in Sun to buy it, to claiming that Sun isn't worth it? IBM thinks that Sun is worth at least 7 billion dollars, that's a fact. It sounds like some IBM executive leadership got their panties in a bunch when they were rejected by the McNealy faction, and want bloody revenge. I would to if you turned around and found out Oracle swiped the deal right from under you. And it only cost Oracle song and a dance more than IBM was offering. Larry wins, Sam looses. Larry was always better at this game. Maybe Sam should go back to playing sax.

What if I bring my pet elephant to the pasta bar? He's a big fan of lasagna. He can down the entire bar in one trip. Mind the back end, it can get a little messy.

Your analogy would work if certain people were consuming 100 times the average person in pasta, but I doubt any restaurant is going to allow such a customer to stay. The problems many of these ISPs face is complex. They don't have the right people, technical culture, or budget. They simply do what they can with a typical mass-consumer grade service, aging infrastructure, and low budgets. What we want is someone to sell us a carrier grade connection to our homes. That'd be great, but at a few thousand dollars a month it is probably out of most peoples' reach.

Subsidizing the network with municipal investments seems like the right route. Around here though the 'good ole boys' lock up those lines nice and tight. They don't want anyone fiddling around with 'new services.' That's politics, and you might get somewhere by going the political route. In other words - what are you doing today to ensure that tomorrow you're one of those 'good ole boys?' Hardly any of my geek friends get this. They think there will be some kind of magical social awakening some day. It is almost like a religion. If we want to change, we have to get educated. I'm too lazy to care though, so let me know when you get on that. I need to go hide in my cave from the Swine Flu pandemic.

Mute button - 80% of the noise is from the crying when they get hurt.
GPS locator - They find their way home well enough around dinner time.
Sleep mode - It would probably act random, just like it does today.
Internal fusion reactor - Already installed.
Laser defense system - "Give me a cookie or I will melt your face!"
Bionic muscles - How would you catch them if they started running away? It is already too hard.
The cylons were created by man...- Isn't your kid already a robot?

Kevlar exoskeleton - Peace of mind my children will not be killed by my neighbor's Excursion when he backs out of his driveway at 40 mph.

Why does NASA have to spend money on new untested methods? If the old baloon method worked well for two previous rovers, why not use it again? It is hard to beat a 100% success rate. Does anyone know why they want to use this over other methods?

The sysadmin in me says: The more moving parts, the greater the chance something will break.