My DSL is from Windstream, and 1.5mb down and 384k up. No blocked ports or anything.

Unfortunately, I'm *just* on the edge of service, so if I upgrade to the 3mb offering my S:N ratio screws up and I can't stay connected for more than a few minutes at a time.

Of course, they did just run a new fiber line right past my house a few weeks ago - unfortunately, I think it is on a different exchange for a different city (I have a city A phone prefix and city B physical address, my neighbors have city B phone prefix and city A physical address) so I'm not sure if it will improve my possible service.

Tried bribing the trenching supervisor to run it on my side of the road, maybe with a Big Grey Box on the corner, but he said it couldn't be done...

Yup, when I want, where I want

If public transportation gave me that, or at least got very close to it (a block or two walk and a 10 minute wait), with the same reliability and consistency (I've missed two half days of work due to car troubles) then why not?

That said, my nearest neighbors are cows, goats, deer, turkey, quail, and other assorted critters. Nearest house is a half mile away, and my drive to work is 18 miles and takes me 25 minutes or so following speed limits, during the school year I add 4 miles and 10 minutes and drop a child or two off at school (they ride the bus home or get picked up on the way to after school activities). Don't think public transport will be an option for me any time soon.

Even more importantly... what kind of speed can you expect once you reach the router in the local office?

That is, are they hooking folks up to fiber, adn then feeding that fiber with a few T1s or are they going to have enough bandwidth for a few hundred people (never mind a few thousand) to get what they are paying for when the content isn't coming from the local comcast office/POP ?

Instead of a truck (servers don't typically go walking around or for a drive in the country) perhaps AWS needs a Simian Factor ? http://whatis.techtarget.com/d...

Nope, sorry. The GNAA super long troll posts got me to surf at 2+, and with a (for me) -1 on Funny, that pretty much keeps me from seeing the trash and drivel...

And I'd mod you up just so the whole thread could appear for those of us who surf at 2 and up...

So tell me *why* you hate the hosts file? For a laptop, what other method exists of making sure a connection to a particular hostname is never made? What about when said hostname has many IPs associated wtih it? Or for a home network, what makes it easier to go to "http://printer" instead of having to remember the darn things IP address?

I can take the negative part, but don't just tell me it is bad, tell me how I can get the same functionality without the bad ...

Which is why I block known ad servers by their hostnames instead of messign with browser settings. So many things I do for work and school depend on javascript and such working, it is much easier to play with your hosts files (home, single user) or block them at the router.

Many credit unions will give you a report for free.... and it doesn't count against your annual free ones the FTC mandates be given to you

And for an single tasking appliance, that is fine. Remember the i-opener from Circuit City? Ran a very compact and relatively fast (for the time) QNX with just a crappy browser like application on top of it. Of course, it got hacked around, spawning the "i opened it" small computer/display setups. Quite a few /. articles/postings on this.

I used a similar buzzer to add a "hey id10t you left your lights on" for my '65 Porsche 356. Really not much of a hack, more just figuring it out where to attach it on the fuse block - you want it buzzing if the headlights have power (and each side was on a different fuse) and the ignition switch does not have power thru it.

I'm still not sure why netflix or the content IP owners would care who is paying the $10/mo for the subscription, where they live, etc. as long as... they get their $10/mo. It doesn't cost 'em any more money than a US based customer, they get the same pay, etc. Of course, I'm thinking logically and not like a lawyer, mba, or sociopathic executive...

They didn't salt and then hash their copy of the passwords - they are still stored plain text. They just stopped including it in your email.

Depends on how the streamer works. Just watching text appear in an editor with the sound of cheetos being munched? Not very helpful.

But, if there is a running commentary about how they are thinking of solving a particular (sub?) problem, deciding what arguments a function needs, what it needs to return back to the calling location, etc. can certainly help with the "How do I solve a problem" type stuff.

After setting up the new device adn being prompted "Do you want to share your connection" how many users are gonna think to themselves "Well, yeah, I want to share this with my iDevice and tablet and the $housemate and ... " and click "Yes" ?

Of the 7 linux boxes I keep up and running and actually use for something on a very regular basis, 4 of them do not have any flavor of X installed. One of those 4 has a few X libraries installed (for me to one run app over a SSH tunnel on a local X server), but the other 3 are pure command line only.

So how exactly is Linux reliant on X windows?

Granted, a lot of things that a majority of people use a computer for need a windowing environment (a blinking cursor *is* graphical!) but very serviceable Linux machines with no X exist in lots of places.