Well, if you would actually take the time to look at the sectional chart, you'd see what I mean. It clearly says "plant" and pilots are requested> not to overfly it at a low altitude.

The guy who was arrested a couple of years ago should not have let his case get dismissed on the condition that he would not sue the local Buford T. Justice. If it was me, I'd challenge them in court. They had no business talking that glider down or arresting the pilot.

And any system under which someone is kept in prison without any criminal charges for 14 years is a Judge Dredd system, indicative of an abusive government.

I have a hard time believing someone would volunteer to be in prison for 2.3 million dollars. That equals ~$450 a day, which any decent laywer will make in an hour.

You are proving my exact point.

If someone is suspected of committing fraud, he should be tried for fraud according to criminal law. That means he should be given a proper trial where a jury decides, and when found guilty, a sentence with an end. What happened in the above case, is a single judge on a non-criminal trial suffering from the Judge Dredd syndrom: judge, jury and executioner.

I agree, but they're not as shameless as I thought. My first reaction was: they are not going to have a pilot's license much longer. But when I took a look at the aeronautical charts for that area, I was surprised to find out that it's not a prohibited area to fly over.

In my humble opinion, this means that apparently the Government doesn't think this datacenter is such a big deal, otherwise it would have been a no-fly zone (like the plant a couple of miles to the left of the lake).

This. Exactly this. This is what makes the Government evil. We have all these rules saying that you can't be put in jail without law enforcement providing evidence that you committed a crime. Yet, fact of the matter is, even on the Soviet States of America, you are at the mercy of a single Government employee.

That is irrelevant. The question at hand is whether or not the Government can force you to provide evidence against yourself in a criminal case. Now I'm just a stupid immigrant, but my understanding from the 5th Amendment is that nobody "hall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". I don't care how much the police think they know. If they need his harddrive, their case is not solid and the suspect should not be required to provide incriminating evidence.

Being forced to provide evidence against yourself pretty makes it the Soviet Republic of Massachusetts.

You, are exactly right. You hit it on the spot. You could not have aimed better.

The real problem with Net Neutrality is not that the restaurant hasn't paid the taxi, but that you are not able to choose a taxi which gives you what you pay for.

Lawmakers should not prohibit restaurants from paying the taxi company, lawmakers should not make it so difficult for new players to enter the market (Uber, anyone?).

Likewise, small ISPs should have an easier time entering the market so we could have a more competitive ISP market, rather than lawmakers creating monopolies everywhere and have consumers whining about them (ab)using their positions.

An apple is fruit, but fruit is not an apple.

An Airbus is a jetliner, a Cessna 150 is not.

Hammer, nail.

Their next argument will probably use child pornography or terrorism as well.

Why? Juniper knows this might to happen. So why not make sure that Cisco pays top price rather than getting it from Ebay?

QFX has been with customers for a long time now so I don't see a problem with that either. If a VAR can resell it to Cisco, it has been with early adopter customers for a while

And what I don't understand is the part about reverse engineering. Yes, that may take place. But there is a very good other reason why every large vendor of routing equipment has competitive products in their engineering lab: interoperability. I have worked for two large vendors and have been in the labs of a few others and I have seen many interoperability labs. In fact, at one point in my career I was assigned to literally drag some equipment across the street to our direct competitor, install it in their lab and help them get some interoperability working (this was obviously to satisfy some issues we had with a large mutual customer). And for those interested, I crossed Holger Way and didn't stay in the parking lot :)

Not to mention the fact that vendors ship a shitload of beta products every six months to the EANTC interoperability tests and other marketing events.

And this is why the Vulcans haven't contacted us yet. It's not about warp drive, it's about a society being civil and evolved beyond internal disputes.

You know that, and I know that. But I'll bet you that my mother in law won't. And if you have one as well, chances are that your's won't know that either.

And the only reason we know that is because we happen to know a bit about networking. The average Joe has no clue. All he sees is a "20 megabit connection" to the internet.

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Thank you, random internet person! I stand corrected. JWW was right.

Well, to be fair, that's not really the case. I did a quick check on their website to see whether or not they were making any solid promises on bandwidth, but they're not. You're paying for a traffic allowance per month. Their highest plan is 50GB per month, which translates to ~150kbps... Barely enough for a decent Pandora stream.

BUT, I do agree that this is scumbag marketing. I could not find any promises of speed other than their general terms "Best LTE, Best coverage". Kind of deceptive. Legal perhaps, but deceptive.

Exactly that.

No, when.

Somewhere 5-10 years downstream, some politician/NYPD-chief will use the next Sandy Hook event to say "We had the troubling information in the school's database, but we couldn't use it. Let's change the law".

And we all know it's going to happen at some point.