If you ever had a situation where your ISP connection was faster than local routing/networking gear, then you either have some kind of fantastic high bandwidth fiber ISP connection and you've cheaped-out on the quality of your infrastructure gear (very slow equipment) or you have a normal ISP connection and you got REALLY cheap about the quality of your infrastructure gear. (which is almost impossible unless you're using ~10MB stuff from the last century) You internal network wireless/wired should always be much faster than your ISP.

...or monitored mode (where all traffic is spoofed to a Chinese gov't collection site)?
 

Boy, and I'd always heard it was a lot harder than that to get an unlocked phone

Simple solution: Any serious University with applicants into any science-based degree program should no longer accept Wyoming high school certificates as meaningful and should require applicants from that state to test out to verify that they have a proper background to enter the program. When the climate deniers who run the Wyoming establishment start having their offspring turned away and stigmatized by Ivy League and other prominent schools, watch that curriculum change back to accurate science rather quickly.

.. but I assume questions were given before it occurred. I would have like to have asked RMS, what happened to his assertion hat source code transparency will protect us from very bad code, because many people's eyes are on it. But everybody could look at OpenSSL source for years and see the potential for Heartbleed and it never got caught until it was too late.

... in any dense urban environment, then.

In a big storage server, that could amount to few kilos, perhaps

One person's adware / malware is another's vital revenue stream.

The network owner can and should be able to set the terms of service for access to their network and if you don't like a root CA being placed on your system, don't use that network get their own network -that is, a mobile WAN hotspot or adapter assuming these are independently owned devices. Ones owned by the school should be subject to the school's requirements.

If the patent examiner clerks that process the applications have ANY actual subject background at all.
If I tried to patent breathing as a way to facilitate oxygen intake, how far would that get before somebody said "you're kidding"?

...is support for old Windows apps esp VB6.0 apps that run really poorly on Win 7 let alone Win 8.x. I've found several that run fine on Wine on Linux that no longer run on MSFT Windows and Microsoft is not interested in fixing this at all.
Some LoB (line of business) applications created by non-IT groups in companies depend on old app binaries that "work" and have no interest in updating the code or the operating environments they run in and in fact, dread the continual change in MSFT OSes over the years, because these apps get broken when driver support stops for that OS and can't always be run in ritualized VMs with legacy operating systems.
MSFT thinks everybody loves programming and always wants to rewrite their apps in the latest language ( C# right now) for the latest OS API and GUI ( WinRT formerly modern, formerly metro) but the parts of a business that are NOT Information Technology don't like development - they have product to make, sell, ship and bill for.
So Wine on volume Android devices may be the answer for those LoBs.

I think
a) I like the beta, please do it asap
b) It's not there yet but keep working on it, but don't turn it on now.
c) It's an abomination. Do not use it ever.
d) I don't read Slashdot you insensitive clod.

If c) greatly exceeds the sum of a) and b) responses don't do it. All d) votes, for obvious reasons, don't count.

It's no coincidence they're going to rename it the Chrometer