Not a big deal? I beg to differ sir. I live on the emerald coast not far from Pensacola, and it is a VERY big deal. Even if none of it makes it his far, which thus far very little has, just the threat alone is started to adversely affect businesses here as people [tourists, etc] decide not to come because of the "threat" of oil. Fishermen and shrimp boat captains all over the coast are suffering because they have been banned from going out into the waters to make their catch, and it is probably better than the alternative.

You mean it is not a big deal to YOU, but it is certainly a big deal.

So far we have been lucky that the winds have kept it mostly off shore [ though the wetlands in Louisiana are not quite as lucky] but dead sea animals are washing up on shore every day as the oil leak, oil off-gassing, and God knows what chemicals BP is dumping into the Gulf, changes the PH of the surrounding water.

I hope no one likes shrimp, for I see a good spike in shrimp prices in the near future, and that is only one of many things I see coming down the pipe from all of this.

Wait, they are just now realizing this? And here I had thought this was common knowledge, and that they were actually doing something to fight it.

No wonder I couldn't see anything being done about it.

Isn't it already?

Maybe this will finally rid Florida of the lightning capital of the world title.

Ben Franklin, eat your heart out. :-P

Just coming from an ISP perspective, I imagine it would be only their customers. Most ISPs only suspend accounts for a violation of their own AUP or ToS. However, most ISPs have a ToS against P2P file sharing, so if the other company can prove such activity, I imagine suspension could occur.

Nice. Ghost Busters references FTW.

But, yeah, probably so. =/

It just seems to me, to be a bad idea about network sensitive intelligence information like that. I mean, yes, it is all contained behind a very [hopefully] secure network, but there have been far too many cases of [mostly] Chinese hackers breaking into military computer networks from halfway around the world.

I don't suppose it could stand up to a billion boxen botnet?

I would like to know more about this supposed warp bubble, and what were to happen if the said warp bubble were to collapse in mid flight?

Their sales droid must have graduated. :P

Indeed, sir! Indeed.

I know jack all about geology and vulcanology. Thanks for the info though. ^_^

You know, this is true. I had not considered the status of the pilots. But, it was not the attention to the airship that I was referring to, but what was contained within.

My whole point is that "intelligence" programs are generally more effective when no one knows about them.

Yes, the blimps have been there for a long time, but little suspicion has been drawn about them until now. They were just camera platforms for the game. Now they are full surveillance packages. Had they just inserted them quietly, I think it would have been more effective. Oh, but here I am assuming you know anything about intelligence gathering and tactics. Silly me. Though, the tricky part them becomes determining which ones have the package, and which ones do not. Anyways, I think you should understand the point of the reply before being stupid. :P

Yay, they found more Lava.

... umm. Now what?