That's like the old joke about foreign aid bills - 57% of those polled disagree with foreign aid, and 45% think it should be cut... ... leaving 12% that disagree with foreign aid, but are just fine with the budget for it.

I could see this being an Ask Slashdot 15 years ago when IPSec was a new idea, but c'mon - there are devices you can buy for $100 that have a fucking web wizard to set up IPSec tunnels between them.

No amount of college coursework will fix someone being too lazy to use Google. Or Amazon.

You know that Lithium-6 (the stuff used in bombs) is only 7.5% of natural Lithium, right?

I'm pretty sure that any government looking to create Lithium-6 Deuteride isn't going to source the Lithium from cell phone batteries. And besides, without the fission bomb going off right next to it in order to heat and compress it, your Lithium-6 is just a lump of silvery-white metal.

Now only if we were talking about a type and intensity of radiation where it would actually matter. This is about EM-band radiation, and under a watt of power.

No important difference will be noted.

Exactly.

Nobody gave a shit about the health risks of smoking until we eradicated all the other diseases that took people out first.

Why would you be looking for the causation of something that didn't happen?

... most people?

You do know that everyone doesn't buy 6.5" behemoth phones, right?

Unless the isolation is what brought them to the table to begin with...

Ahh so we should live with this blight on computing forever because it was successful in a time where there weren't any alternatives for doing what it does?

There are alternatives now. Much better, much more efficient, standardized alternatives that aren't owned by a single [abusive] company. The time of Flash is over - adapt or die.

Yeah, it may have had it's first test flight a scant two months before Concorde, but didn't enter service until two years after Concorde, according to the article you linked.

Guess they had some kinks to work out after the crash in Paris?

Ahh, so the already cash-strapped schools that can't afford to pay teachers and buy textbooks should go without modern equipment and have students learning token ring and arcnet passive hubs, because some "evil corporations" might actually be taking a gander past the latest quarterly filing and are looking to get some value out of discounting their products and services in an effort to help out a failing education system.

Besides, if the student is any good at doing this stuff, they'll learn the concepts and not just the syntax. Routers, switches, and VPN concentrators are all based on standards - they all do the same things. If they find themselves working with HP / Juniper / etc. after learning on Cisco, they can Google the syntax if they know what they are trying to set up. You know, kind of like if you learn to program in one language, and then find yourself needing to use another. Because nobody has ever switched from C to Java to Python.

And it's not like Cisco IOS holds your hand through setup like some other products do, where you really would be screwed if you started on them and didn't learn how the system works underneath.

So it's cheating for schools to get the equipment that they need in order to teach technology, and the businesses to get something for the steep discounts they are offering the equipment at?

Sounds like a win for all sides to me.

That logic might work with "But Moooommmm! Joey and Robbie are going to to the mall!"

Not so much with "Oh hey, these guys are out to take what we spent hundreds of millions developing and sell it to our potential customers. Oh well, turn the other cheek, right boys?"

You're delusional if you think that any company on the planet, regardless of who you like or dislike, isn't going to fight with every weapon in the bunker if they need to.

Yeah, I was a beta tester for that thing back in the day. There were some very awesome things that they had the potential to do with that game, but just flat out refused to do at the mere suggestion. Basically every beta tester begged them not to launch when they did, and it turned into a whopping disaster because they refused to listen.

I didn't even buy the final game because I already knew it was buggy garbage that had many serious flaws of design, and I recommended my friends to take a pass because it was a vast waste of money.

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