I'm not discounting your points, but it seems he hit a nerve. He did mention that it was an ISP that he works for. Why is it OK for an ISP to allow everything through their network when it comes to other questionable traffic both from and thru their infrastructure but when it comes to spam it's off with their heads. Shouldn't it be all or nothing? If you want ISPs to not be filtering/blocking other information/data that we want, spam should be allowed as well right? I mean it's just data.

Not to be a jerk toward the people in Conn., but yeah you pretty much target the same areas with a gun that you would with a knife, Head, neck/torso. If you don't you are likely just going to mame them and not kill. firearms are also known as ranged weapons. They simply let you be farther away from your target.

My HOA has/had a guy that was like that. He turned me in every other week because my Bermuda grass was too tall. I actually sat on the board because of him. I was put in charge of the architectural control and violations committees. I was able to get the rules that allowed him to be that way changed. We have some very good commonsense rules now. Such as no more than two live chickens can be kept on your property for more than 60 days. No parking in your yard for more than a week without giving the HOA a heads up. Mostly so if there is an actual problem we have a legal leg to stand on. Oh yeah "that Guy", he's now known throughout the sub-division as the angry fat man.

No I haven't. I was thinking philosophically.

Link please. I would like to know where that place is so I can stay away from there.

But if the human built device is programmed for and relies on the three laws exclusively and is incapable of rational thought, it is not sentient is it?

They can turn into almost any other cell so why not. All a tumor is is a bunch of otherwise normal cells gone wacko.

You mean like this http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/29/141231/the-secret-to-iranian-drone-technology-just-add-photoshop/ or this http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30597_Irans_Photoshopped_Missile_Launch/?

Just because he works for the FBI doesn't mean he is computer literate. The majority of them are nothing more than federally paid beat cops doing missing persons investigations and helping out when other LE can't do the investigation themselves. I think you and others are giving him too much credit because he works for a three letter government agency.

I think you are the one misunderstanding. They will go back to a centralized computer and the workers will use dumb terminals. Citrix has been doing that for a long time. A wyse terminal isn't too expensive. Besides you can control what the user gets access to way better than with a pc at every desk.

Says the AC posting on /.

Wow that is a gross over dramatization. No provider in their right mind would string one run of fiber when they were doing it, even if it was a backwater town. Having lived in a "back water town" for a few years, the local providers install way more than is needed to allow for the forced sharing of their network.

Since when? When was the last time any politician told the truth, or did our bidding? We have been lied to for many decades. It doesn't matter if you are Dem or Repub. They do and say whatever is in their best interests, not yours or mine. Once people like you accept that fact then we can proceed to remove all the puppets, and attempt to put people who are actually going to do what we, and not the biggest donor tell them.

So vote the guy out of office. That is the way it's supposed to work. He says/does what his constituents wants or they get rid of him. Start petitions, online or IRL, protest at his offices, send letters/email, or make phone calls. Don't just complain about it do something about it. Until then you don't really have much to complain about. Get involved or be quiet.

Off topic I know but I as I was reading that I was hearing Ahmed the dead terrorist's voice in my head.