Ah, my bad. You meant "companies should have privacy policies that prevent the company from releasing the data without a warrant". Not quite how I read what you said. Carry on :)

From AT&T's page:

Some examples of who we share your Personal Information with:
With other companies and entities, to:
Comply with court orders and other legal process

Some examples of who we share your Personal Information with:
From AT&T's page:

Some examples of who we share your Personal Information with:
With other companies and entities, to:
Comply with court orders and other legal process

Yep, and the cellular carrier (unless your business arrangement says otherwise) is allowed to divulge that information to a court on request - aka a court order. (Even if your arrangement does say otherwise, it seems unlikely a court would enforce a provision that requires the company to refuse court orders that are not warrants...)

The court never needs a warrant to _ask_ for information. They need a warrant to have the request backed by force. If the cellphone company chooses to comply with the court order, no warrant is needed. If they choose not to comply, then a warrant may get issued and the data will be taken forcibly.

shut down, go to bathroom, come back. If you're using this, you have decided that unattended uptime is not acceptable.

I'm looking at switching from Comcast to Sonic; they say they're available at my address with 45Mbit/s for $60/mo which beats Comcast's non-promo prices by a bit. I'm going to have to discuss with my wife whether the internet options for the shows she likes is good enough to drop cable TV, though.

How's Sonic's service been for you? Comcast has been pricey, in my opinion, but I have not had one of the customer horror story experiences yet...

We had that, when the major access method was to dial up someone's modem. But when 57.6kbit/s stopped being 'zippy' and we had to move from phone lines to something else to keep up with the size of web pages, we lost that shared access effect. Bummer.

When read as "1% is not important", you are right. But when read as "spending time optimizing small stuff will get you less benefit than spending the same time optimizing big stuff", I have to disagree with you.

I'm not familiar with wireless, outside of wifi. How much spectrum is there and how fast will it get saturated in an apartment complex?

Nope. Sulu did all the work, after all (of course, he still made it look easy :)

O19.0Neon

But no way in hell I'd have an automatic pattern generator rigged to try that.

because they didn't want to bundle a password manager when you can add one as a plugin?

It's from a while ago but here's the first one I found (less than 5 seconds, too): bounty hunters kill couple in case of mistaken identity

That was his point; that title 2 is being opposed because it makes it harder to control use of the medium.