Which provider do you use for your email? I use gmail, and among the hundreds of spams my oldest account receives, it's exceptionally rare for any to make it past the filter, perhaps 2-3 a year. For a while, a couple years ago, I would get 2-3 a week on that account, then google sprinkled some googledust on the servers and it's now practically non-existent.

MSE is currently at 3MB and 0% CPU on my Windows 7 64bit install.

Then the process itself what? Doesn't seem like the author of this statement made it through the second half of third grade where the difference between "then" and "than" is taught...

People misusing "pet peeves" is one of my peeves. Notice I didn't say "one of my pet peeves" since pet in this sense means "one above all others", thus is not something you can have more than one of.

Google provides many products and services that I use and like. I've never once had a Google ad which had something like "buy these window drapes, they go great with that new couch you bought last week". In fact, I've clicked on a few Google ads over the years (and ZERO other ads) simply because the product in the ad actually moderately interested me. As for the information "chrome passes to Google", well, that's no more information than they get from simply from tracking the links someone clicks in a Google search. I've never once been wronged by Google, or had them deleteriously affect my life. I don't see any harm in them knowing I frequent slashdot, xkcd, wikipedia, and click on many science and tech news articles throughout the day. I don't see any harm in them knowing I use their search engine to troubleshoot computer issues all day at work. If they use that information to serve me small, unobtrusive ads based on that information, and use said revenue to pay for stuff like Docs and Gmail, that's fine with me. I'd rather have them track my browsing habits, and have targeted ads than pay money for those services. It's not like some person is sitting around at google actively watching your every click, laughing, and choosing what ads to send you, it's all machines, and with hundreds of millions a day, they literally don't have time to put a human in front of that data, and never will.

Infant mortality rate is honestly not that important. Sure, to the parents, when little timmy dies it's a horrible loss, but to be blunt, infants are nothing more than screaming poop factories. Given the choice between living in a country with a life expectancy of 50 and nearly no infant deaths or one with a life expectancy of 500 and a 50% infant death rate, I'll choose the latter.

A game controller was originally designed to control games that consisted of moving left/right or up/down and possibly doing a single action, such as jump/shoot. Stuff like Pong, pacman, etc. 25 years or so of progression and the controllers keep adding more buttons, analog sticks. If I'm trying to click on a control, select an inventory item, pan my screen around, or any other number of things, I'd MUCH rather have the speed AND accuracy a mouse provides. Analog sticks are far slower or far less accurate for manipulating a cursor, and they are far less suited to panning a screen around, such as in first person shooters. As for the keyboard, I'd much rather hit the J key to bring up my in game journal than Right-shoulder 1 + 2 + X or some shit, since you only have a few buttons and are forced to memorize button combinations for every non-common tasks that can't have a single button dedicated to it.

Perhaps the fact that he posted a link to a total shit webcomic?

I have a Droid and let me tell you, trying to click on links on a touch interface is a pain. I very much do not ever want to attempt to do my main web browsing on a touch interface, ever.

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.