My answer is to reply "thank you". I so enjoy
hearing "Thank you, your coffee is ready".

But here on /. some other negative or Enders Game name would play better.

Note that if you answer a phone the only approved answer in
many TLA sites is the extension. Just the number... 69951 or
whatever is marked on the phone.

As a visitor locked in a closet I always answered "Wei" or "Mushi Mushi"

Someone could freeze to death this winter.
Infants could bake in the sun....
Head out stop to put snow chains on try and restart the car...

The liability of this is murky. The local police just arrested a mailbox thief.
One payment missed by three days clearly lacks due diligence in communicating
with the driver.

Not all cars are driven by the person making the payments so this sort
of action does present some serious risk.... to people not in the loop
as it were.

But a lot was learned about internet education....

A good MOOC is harder to do than authoring a common textbook
and there are thousands directly involved being critical.

The most difficult part is the teaching assistants that make things work.
A MOOC quickly exhausts the ranks of teaching assistant talent and
taxes the normal teaching assistant pool with different tools and forces
them to interact in low leverage ways. The professor high leverage
but the middleware as it were is under provisioned for the extreme
fan out of a MOOC.

They will be back... changed but ultimately the extreme leverage potential
will be realized.

Now where is my source for BSD learn?

One caution is that Windows is not as secure an OS perhaps because
there is a rich set of stuff that is darn hard to replace or eliminate.

A FreeBSD or Linux based firewall+VPN system can be pruned to an astoundingly
short list of services and binaries. I say this but most Linux system owners
do not do this.... but it is better facilitated if you want to do it.

You open up a good context to make the point that a user should use what
they know best. If the poster knows how to manage one system and not
the other then the best answer for that user is obvious.

Opinionated discussions like this are really homework check lists
for others. At some point consensus identifies a winner to learn first.
Along the way issues, tools and options surface as alternatives worthy
or research and may cause the consensus answer to change.

I am not a fan of consensus science but it does have its place.

So far FB has kept its head count lower than any might expect.
They are concentrated and very centrally located unlike other Internet
companies and Silicon Valley companies.

Any elected officials tilting at the H-1B visa program has to look
hard at the school system in their districts and review their
placement success factors. They also need to look at wages
paid at all levels.... If this gentleman does not push hard for
minimum wage improvements across the nation he or she is missing
the boat.

The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.

I was going to reply to the original poster that if he had to ask
he could not get there from here. The above system has the
critical two Gig-E network ports. He would have to install
and learn how to administer a linux system or install a pile of odd
things on top of an IMO fragile WindowZ OS. Full blown Win-Server
software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.

The best bet is to run the router that the ISP gives you and
then use that as the basic firewall and allow one port
access inside to a machine that runs VPN software.
That machine could be the above or it could be anything
else.

The obvious other place to start is to Google for "gig-e router vpn".
When shopping VPN solutions make sure all three bits are
working.... Client, server, firewall...

VPNs are interesting... they punch a hole in a firewall that
once inside other security must be in place. Badly structured
VPN solutions increase the footprint and enable many
worms, viruses and other cruft to run free.

Well structured good things happen.

Copyright law has been polluted by Micky Mouse.
As a result software should NOT fall under copyright law.

It is "Goofy" as heck that each time the Copyright of the old
mouse comes up the bar moves is insane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Copyright might cover the text of code as code tells a story of what
is happening but to patent all stories about "Boy meets girl, boy and
girl fall in love, something happens under the covers and they live
happily ever after" is not worthy of a patent or copyright.

Sadly many method and process patents are little more than outlines
of a screenplay level abstractions of an idea. Further some of the
Copyright laws cover characters and plot formats. To this end characters
and plot formats are kin of an API. We have seen the nasty bits
that can happen when API freedom is murky (Java: Oracle-Google).
When the API is found to have value in and of itself the "owner" wants
to pull in the reign and put a context on permissions. Hardback books
might be OK but not paperback and not eBook stories.

Authors of Sherlock Holmes and other serialized character based stories
protected their intellectual property with Copyright. Today I am prohibited
from crafting stories and screenplays about a character "Sheldon Cooper"
that ..... Well you get the idea.

Copyright is the wrong choice. We need a better answer, a much better answer.

It is good to note that code is authored. Good code like a good story has structure,
consistency, organization and purpose. Side effects are possible. It can be asynchronous
perhaps in a Kurt Vonnegut way. The choice of language, punctuation and typography
might reflect on e.e. cummings.. It can be vapid and return the empty set or return
vastly more to the point that some spend a lifetime building on it.

The part about "don't feed the trolls" is the important part.
If this shifts the balance of power such that patent trolls see less and less
value in flexing legal muscle things are a win.

True innovation still has merit but if the same obvious to try permutations criteria
that drug inventions are being held to apply we will be better off.

i.e. if a data link is used and a patent for RS-232 is issued it makes no
sense that an RS-485 is novel enough to justify a new patent. Same for
WiFi, Cell data, BlueTooth....

Design patents like rounded corners do need to be addressed.

OK, "there is about three times less lithium in stars than expected."

Unless....

Unless the start of it all was coordinated by a gazilion elves
all co-ordinating things with cell phones (Li batteries).

And events that might naturally sequester CO2 are considered evil in the same context.

A large region of an ocean that flips into an anoxic state and starts to rain organics
on the ocean floor would be seen as a global disaster. Yet such disasters may
be necessary to reverse the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere.

I have not seen any credible science that shows good analysis for any reversal
strategy. Without reversal strategies those with vast coal reserves might do
well to level mountain tops, mine the coal and terraform the mountain top into
agriculture or homes. Reclamation and terraforming is ill understood... and needs
to be understood.

And Mt Pinatubo was most famous for SO2 not CO2 emissions.

The inability to absorb CO2 may have flipped and acidification may be
generating CO2 from oolitic sands and coral.

If acidification has flipped the oceans from a net sink for CO2 to a source
of CO2 we have issues with acceleration and underlying models in the
science.

Sadly the global warming side may prove to be right for many wrong reasons
and the nonbelievers may be wrong for other reasons.

This is a case where two wrongs does not make a right----.

I find myself at odds in this because I see bad science that puts
me on one side of the issues and then I see observations that make
it clear that as bad as the science is they are getting essentially
the right answer. In this case it may only be necessary to get the
sign correct.

Any that study statistics and the camel will understand.

Well the folk at Transmeta Corporation made it obvious that the external
ISA was no longer a necessary constraint on the way a modern processor
works. The explosion of the fast transistor count made it possible to craft
an instruction issue logic chain that was very rich in the clock times of modern
days.

Strictly modern processors are more VLIW than RISC and trigger arrays
of resources selected by the expanded long instruction words.

Most interesting are the first five min...
It is not a debate....

Positions in writing... have already been submitted.

Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City sits where
in the chain.

Email is not covered... but there are parallel email issues.
Grand jury issues too. Bulk collection...

Back in a couple of hours.

So my phone has FB installed by default and they know exactly what
data plan I have.

There seems to be no reason to pay data overages because of
vendor installed applications. There seems to be a fundamental
conflict of interest, evidence of fraud or bait and switch.

I am not talking about an auto with a speedometer that goes to 120 mph
sold in states with maximum speed limits well below but a clear misrepresentation
of purpose in marketing.

Speaking about strange numbers. Phones are marketed with standby
times and talk times that are impossible given the default software,
default settings and most likely distance to cell tower service.

I am most likely moving my number to my old old old Nokia flip phone.
It has standby time in days not hours. I see nothing smart in the battery
support for most smart phones.