Easier untill you need to replace, repair or otherwise offline the box at the end of the IP address whilst maintaining 99.999 of uptime.

UBB is great when you do not have artificial limits imposed by the people that control the internet backbone and the last mile; that only have that monopoly as it was subsidized by the tax payers in return for ongoing service. While I agree that companies should be able to make a profit but what appears to have happened is some bean counter got a bright idea that people should pay more now per byte than they did even five years ago. I blame the mobile market for jacking up the rates bell figured we can charge $100/Gig for Mobile internet why the hell can we not make more on the broadband connections. If your bill for 20 Gigabytes of data transfer was $200 instead of $20 Would you care? What about $2000 for 200Gigabytes?

In Canada (Ontario specifically) your allowed to spank your child on the bum with an open hand you are not allowed to leave any visible marks ie bruises or welts or it would be considered extreme. I believe your only allowed to spank your child in public up to age 8 perhaps it is 10 years old. After that it better be done in private else not at all.

Yes it would be quite a seen wouldn't it. A local gas station lost close to a weeks sales last year due to a few hives falling off just a pick up truck. No one could get near the gas pumps for some time. Management solution call the fire department (duh!) Try explaining that one to the insurance adjusters.

Well often that truck driver is diverting loads (a not a load of sperm either) or he is transporting drugs/contraband from point a-b. So I can see why the management of these companies are so anal about tracking their equipment and there staff. Just think for a moment about how much profit a company stands to loose if they loose one major bonded delivery run because an employee decided that he would do what he pleased on the companies dime. Park the dam truck at a card lock and take a taxi. It's not like an 18 wheeler is easy to hide, or find a nice big metal dry shed / rock cavern / bridge to drive the truck under and make damn sure the transponder isn't able to reach a satellite or cell tower.

As long as someone finds value in the item and is will to either pay for it or labor for it then it has an intrinsic value so it is a real entity. Be it one you can not yet physically hold.

LOL, funny I just tossed 50 or 60 of those machines a couple of years ago. I was keeping them until I figured out that realistically they were end of life and better off being recycled. I could by a new low powered system that would use less wattage then the of that old system. All my 30pin SIMM's were turned into key chains. they were worth 99cents that way... LOL... Sure glad the day of $100 x 1MB for ram is gone.

Bush dug a giant hole. Not surprised Obama is still digging out of it. Too bad McCain didn't win so at least the responsibly would have landed on the right political party.

So the terrorists have won it seems. I'm am effectivly tormented by my government and all The Luddites whom think the sky is falling. Gets self sufficient! Educate your self. Help a neighbor, help a stranger stop the terror! Stop the complaining and do something! >> Vote Palin 2012 Sure I enjoy the farcically parody of mature decision making governments! How about taking your head out of your backside long enough to realize that it's people like her and the tea party that make the USA look so damn bad. You just about flushed the entire country due to the Palin Tea Party radical's.

Well it did manage to provide an upgrade path for the many millions of developers of small business / custom application development. (It kept the money train moving and lots of people employed during a time period when there wasn't much reason to continue development.) PHB: Hey look at the cool elite new things I can do without having to invest large amounts of time or money and the customer will be glad that were using leading edge software. M$ Has always coddled the developer's as it locks end uses into an upgrade path. Reminds me when VB 4 or 5 came out and all of sudden.... Vendors were like Opps sorry your going to need to upgrade to IE 4 if you want to install the help files...

Computers are tools. The best tools for the job should always be used. If some one can prove the risk:reward ratio is in my favour I'm going to gamble on the quick and dirty solution as well. People do this all the time, people risk their lives to save both time and money. It occurs in every industry; it's called cutting corners. I know of many government agency's in Canada that use Skype, Hotmail, Google Email etc for both business and personal transactions. Little do this people understand is that have the time that information is either routed through or stored in the USA where they should not expect any level of privacy. It's unfortunate but it is often the person in power who lack the basic understanding to make sure things are done properly it's really not there fault, and consider many of them are ultimately earning more financially for being the decision maker they really don't want to share too much if it diminishes either their perceived or true value. That said I have worked with a few great teams that had leaders that knew best to delegate the decisions to the experts they hired.

CRT Displays contain high amounts of Beryllium by weight. Beryllium is not good for you. Not sure about leaching into ground water but it is corrosive and reactive.