You're probably right, there are some hazards, but there don't seem to be as frequent as California earthquakes, eastern flooding/tornadoes or gulf hurricanes.

The point I was trying to make is that I don't recall any major disasters (in a few decades of living there), not that there have never been any. Certainly nothing as persistent as the problems above.

The Willamette Valley in Oregon is nice. River running down it so no droughts, mountains to the west so no tsunamis, mountains to the east so it's protected from the winds/weather from the east, there's places that are pretty safe from flooding (up on hills) and there hasn't seemed to be very many earthquakes. We do have rain and a few storms but nothing that major that happens often (unlike say a place called "Tornado Alley").

Only real problem seems to be pollen. Can you guess where on the map the Willamette Valley is? Seriously,

Seriously? I'm just.... speechless. That's pretty low. How can it not cover the flooding that's happening? It's a flood and it's not your fault, you even took the precaution of flood insurance.

What they need is actual working QoS like what that flag they have in the IP headers is for. I would gladly set my torrent traffic and bulk traffic to low priority QoS if I could figure out how. DPI shouldn't be necessary. Allow me to tell the ISP what's important some how and I will, and I'll try to be honest about it. Figuring out some way to do that for bulk transfers, and having routers accept that could help somewhat.

Seriously, that sounds like the most reasonable thing to do.
Why go through the mess of transplantation of that magnitude?
Random question: Would a mother who used a surrogate be referred to as the biological mother or is genetic mother a better term? Isn't the surrogate biologically the mother (though not genetically)?

That would make sense if DHS actually owned the video afterwards, as in a work for hire. It was made by NBC for NYC as a PSA, then ICE (part of DHS) went and used it after taking out all the NYC references. The video is actually still owned by NBC, not NYC or ICE. If you ask someone to make something for you, you would likely be involved in it and get ownership of it afterward. This is just NBC getting a message they like out. I find it kind of hard to blame DHS for the content when they didn't make it, they just took an already made one. They should have at least credited NYC and NBC when they started putting it up on seized sites however.

It does have a nice claim of "Piracy doesn't work" at the end.

How is making it so you can't use certain apps on your smartphone, which has LTE, not restricting a LTE device?

By tracking cookies I think they mean uniquely identifiable, like an ID number for a specific user that they can then tie advertising preferences to. Tracking stuff like site settings seems like an actual valid use of cookies.

I do agree with you though on the "necessary for the functioning of the website" loophole, as they could just include advertising tracking as "necessary" (for financial reasons of course).

The fact that nobody can effectively freeze your account/restrict who you send money to is, IMO, one of the main strengths of Bitcoin. Think of stuff like Wikileaks losing paypal.

There's also the fact that transfers are one way (no withdrawals). People can't take bitcoins from you, only you decide what to do with it.

It also might be due to copyright. PressDisplay would need a license from the newspaper to distribute it online wouldn't they? And the newspaper presumably couldn't license and distribute something that's been barred by a court order, could they?

Still bad though.

Same thing happened for me. I wanted something that read ePub books well and the PRS-350 fits that. It works quite well with calibre.

It's funny about the DRM though. I haven't put a DRM'd book on it ever, but I've purchased more books for it than I have for the last few years of physical books. You don't need piracy when it's easy. You just have to make sure you crack the encryption so you can always read it in the future (or at least until ePub files stop working, instead of when the authentication servers go down if it was still encrypted).

Note: The purchase was before Sony got even more evil with their PSN stuff.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet:

Personally I think my DSL 1.2Mbps is "broadband", just slow broadband. I don't quite agree with arbitrary raising of the bar but I see it useful for driving progress in speeds. Funny thing about the 150GB cap you mentioned for DSL users, even a slow connection like mine can double that in a month.

By "hosts" do you mean trackers or peers? Not much you can do about peers blocking your IP, but any torrent that isn't marked as private should work over DHT. You might not be able to find all peers though, only ones with the same DHT implementation unless peer exchange has kept the other clients alive.

DHT stands for Distributed hash table by the way.

"deliberately infected machines with malware"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

"They have a record of producing shitty stuff (like exploding batteries)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#Laptop_batteries_dysfunction

Uh.. AT&T is using DSL, which doesn't affect your neighbor's last mile like cable. Unless you're talking about the bandwidth at AT&T's end which should be more than enough if they haven't screwed things up.

I can kind of understand the caps on cable but some kind of protocol neutral throttling, not heavy like they currently do to bittorrent, just minor amounts like dropping from 10Mbps to 5 when the entire network is loaded would be less bad in my opinion. You're right that using bandwidth when no one else has need for it shouldn't cost extra.