Huh? Lieberman does not even like Obama. He did not support him for president and was very key in destroying his banking regulation reform. They are definitely not the same person.

You mean "dear leader Lieberman."

The fact that person A leaked something does not mean that person B did not leak it as well. You have no proof that Armitage leaked it. But even if you did have proof that Armitage leaked it that would not prove that Cheney and Libby did not leak it.

Also why do you think Armitage opposed the Iraq war? He was in the department of state which was not as gung ho about the war as the vice president and department of defense, but still supported the war.

The only thing that is known for certain in this whole affair is that Libby lied to a grand jury about it and obstructed justice.

I hoped the prosecutor did his job better and found out more about this affair, but he did not, so here we are.

When has president Obama suggested an Internet kill switch? This is the idea of a Republican senator and has not been endorsed or supported by Obama, afaik. This should have never made it to the front page, it is an obvious troll.

It's actually a BSD box, but don't tell anyone.

Huh? We should have been what years ago already? I am sure you are aware that the US did build a couple of experimental thorium reactors many years ago.

You can remove critical systems from access by unplugging their Ethernet cables.

By the way, if anyone in Slashdot tries to fix it, you should note that people that have this problem tend to have long usernames. It is pretty obvious the username extends the box into the text space.

And I have exactly the same problem on Chrome.

Version: 8.0.552.237 (70801) Ubuntu 10.10

The menu on the top left side cuts off half an inch of text of articles and comments. I am on Ubuntu and Firefox, the latest released versions of both. I am shocked that Slashdot of all websites did not test Ubuntu and Firefox.

Otherwise, it looks pretty good, I have to admit.

I am supposed to be one of the lucky ones with a broadband connection. When I do Internet tests it says my download connection is over 20 Mb/s. Nevertheless I have never had a download that goes faster than 2 Mbit/s. In fact I have very rarely had one that goes faster than 1 MB/s. Usually I am happy to get 500 Kb/s. The only downloads that go over 1 mb/s are various ubuntu downloads from canonical.

It is amazing to me that someone could get around 5 Mb/s download.

It seems they might not have gotten the full 900 mil. See

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/myspace-in-trouble-on-900-million-google-deal/19224196/

Also one has to wonder how much it cost to run myspace all these years. I don't think we will ever know for sure whether Murdoch made or lost money with Myspace. The myspace finances were not separated out in the statements. In the 2010 statement the group in which myspace belonged (named appropriately as "other") suffered around a $500 million loss. However that group included other businesses.

So is entering an url in a web browser.

Nobody is preventing carriers from charging for bandwidth. If net neutrality was enacted into law tomorrow carriers could still charge per MB downloaded or something like that.

The problem is that they want to charge depending on what is in the data. They want to charge you more for getting 100 MB worth of movies or voice than 100 MB worth of random webpages. Now that is fucked up, because (a) the carriers have no business looking at the stuff i download and (b) if they are allowed to do that they will just tax the popular websites and web services ensuring that any innovation or success on the web is quickly punished.

The correct term should have been pro-telecom. And the republicans are acting on behalf of corporations, just not all corporation, only telecoms. Telecoms have the most to gain from destroying net neutrality and they can bring the most pressure on the senate, as they already have more ingrained lobbyists than the various internet companies.