You could map the entire IPv4 internet on IPv6 addresses forever and not care. There's so many IPv6 addresses, even if Earth had 10x the current population and each man, woman and child had 100,000 addresses each, there'd still be tons left over.

Procariot is the Romanian spelling for prokaryote, so my guess is the GP is Romanian and slipped on the translation.

No actual result? For crying out loud, Tang alone is worth every penny spent on our space program!

Or maybe they realized with spelling as bad as yours, you likely didn't make it past 3rd grade.

You can't tell me they'd rather send you ads they THINK you'll like based on age, sex, income versus sending you ads they KNOW you'll like. They use general stuff like age, sex, etc because they don't know what else to do, YET. And I'm sure they are trying.

That won't help. The reason for the charge due to the imbalance is (presumably) to offset the cost is infrastructure. Lets make up numbers here. If Level 3 is sending 1000 units and receiving 1100, they need infrastructure to carry 1100. Comcast receives 1000 and sends 100 and also needs infrastructure for 1100. Now if Netflix needlessly makes client pcs send as much as they receive, both Comcast and Level 3 will now transmit and receive 1000, and need infrastructure to carry 2000 units.

So instead of Comcast charging Level 3 for the extra 1000 units of infrastructure Level 3 is causing them to need, both Level 3 AND Comcast would need to have capacity for 2000. That is an increase in capacity between the two of them of 1800 (again, entirely arbitrary numbers), instead of just Comcast adding 1000. 1800 > 1000, so in the end, it would cost the customers 80% to make the imbalance into a "zero" difference. Either one side "loses" or BOTH lose, but it cannot ever be that neither do, and end the end, that "loss" is paid for by the customer.

DSL isn't able to compete, either. At my apartment, I can get either ATT DSL at 3 (possibly 6 depending on signal strength) megs down and 512k up or, for about 2x the price of the 3 meg services I can get 22 mbit down, 2 mbit up service from the cable company. I've had DSL a few different times before at various places and they always seem to connect you at the maximum limits of your service, so if the line is just barely short enough to do 3 mbit under ideal conditions on a magically perfect day, they'll connect that to charge you as much as possible even tho you NEVER see more than half of that. Cable usually seems to pretty much always run at advertised speeds.

So, $15-20 a month for 1.5-3 mbit down or $35 a month for 22 mbit? Yeah, there's technically competition, but not really as you'd either be VERY cash-strapped to get dsl, not care about speed at all or just plain dumb.

Mostly due to the country being full of fat, lazy, ignorant sheep who don't care what goes on so long as they can watch their 'merkin idol while eating a tub of lard. Consequently greedy jackasses get elected because they had the most commercials during primetime reality shows, and take hand-outs from all the big-business to pass laws and regulations that prevent competition and benefit no one other than big business.

On that note, I really REALLY need to get around to buying a copy of Rosetta Stone for Swedish before things get absolutely intolerably bad here.

I've never seen regional ISPs INSIDE large metro areas. In rural areas I've lots and LOTS of regional ISPs offering various wireless internet plans.

So that's why the sky is blue and water falls from it? Because there's an ocean up there? Genesis sure knows how to convince me it's not completely made up shit, that's for sure! I guess NASA has been launching submarines on their rockets this whole time and SCUBA divers? Neat!

How is this even a problem? I have not read of a SINGLE incident of a LEGAL owner of a minigun using it to kill people. Not to mention it is a FACT that someone who's willing to kill doesn't really give a crap if having the gun they are about to use is legal or not.

Gotta download child porn asap? Really?...

Chances are that those numbers are extremely skewed based on Amazon shoppers being far more likely to purchase Amazon's offering. I applaud Amazon for making both available, however. It's most likely people ALREADY having decided to get a Kindle, clicking on a link to compare them before they purchase, to make sure they will be satisfied with their purchase before buying.

So you think they think of themselves as terrorists and their goal is terror? I hardly think they sit around hatching up new plans to "make us afraid"...

Very carefully? Also, this will make for a hell of a "surprise", especially if she's allergic to bees!