No it doesn't, because that number is nearly $0. Aside from minor subsidies on special costs associated with serving the disabled and overseas voters, it is $0. There is no tax money going towards the majority of USPS operations.

60GB per month? Wow, that is really bad. I did 45GB yesterday. Consumer plans on my ISP are capped between 150 and 400 GB/mo depending on speed tier, and business plans are uncapped. I think those are pretty reasonable, I'm a heavy downloader and rarely even approached the 400GB mark on a 50/5 connection. I upgraded to a business plan last week not for the lack of a cap but because 75/8 and 100/10 (which I got) are currently business-only.

I can confirm this. I have a Steam cache running on my network so anything anyone's previously installed comes right off the local server at gigabit speeds. The server is perfectly capable of pushing a full gigabit of traffic, but no single client has ever been able to install games with a consistent speed exceeding 65MB/sec. Some games are better than others thanks to more efficient methods of storing data (Payday 2 is horrible and even the SSD users see "Disk Busy" during patching) but even Valve's own titles can't be installed fast enough to max it out.

"under God". Added by Congress in 1954 and a clear violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state.

Just because it's longstanding doesn't mean it's constitutional or right. See the Pledge for example. Unconstitutional since 1954, but it remains because various courts keep finding ways to drop the cases on technicalities rather than actually making a decision on the issue.

I have no idea how they found it, but two possible ideas:

1. They found something that was more obviously Ethernet elsewhere and just traced it to this port.

2. They stuck a scope on it and saw something that looked like a link pulse, then assumed it was Ethernet from there.

Anything worth having has been updated to later kernels long ago. And yes that is meant to apply the logic backwards, if your shit hasn't been updated to work beyond 2.6 by 2014 then whoever's supporting it is fucking useless. If it's not supported anymore, then you need to be looking for a replacement.

Software is a moving target, anything designed without that in mind has failed from the start.

Well it sort of does. RHEL is intentionally outdated because that's what their market wants. It's stupid, I know, but there are a lot of people out there who still really want a world where software never updates so the hacked together shit that runs their business can keep running rather than doing it right.

Are the inevitable people bitching about another player watching their screen.

Guess what? We can all see each other's screens. No one has an advantage here. Learn to use the information at your disposal, and learn to minimize what the other players can get from you.

Beyond that, today we have both the screen size and the resolution to allow each player to have more size and pixels than they'd have had with an entire screen to themselves just a few generations back. As long as your friends aren't the aforementioned whiny douches it's so much more fun to be in the same room.

BGAN is a high speed satellite internet network run by Inmarsat. If you have line-of-sight to geostationary orbit it'll work.

Bad choice of example. Core 1 machines are pretty much garbage thanks to one stupid choice by Intel, the return to 32 bit. 64 bit was already standard at that point. We could have had Windows 7 as a 64 bit exclusive if it weren't for the fucking Core 1 and similar timeframe Atoms meaning there were 32 bit only systems still under warranty.

Fuck Intel for releasing those things.

DNS has absolutely nothing to do with NAT. Certain protocols, such as HTTP and SIP, allow the *same* IP to host multiple domains which are differentiated by a field in the request. A reverse proxy can send traffic that hits this same IP to go to multiple servers, including different ones based on domain, but NAT's involvement is over with by the time anything cares about the hostname on the request.

As opposed to it not being trivial to modify your DNS cache?

Anything that's checking standard local resources will be trivial to edit for someone who cares to. Sending a list of flagged hashes would be the more privacy-safe way to do this. Whether they do or not I have no idea, but nothing about the information I've seen posted so far including any of the decompiled code seems to indicate one way or another.

Correct. I'm no fan of Canonical when they try to impose their will (Unity of course being the biggest example), but for fuck's sake people this is making a big deal out of literally nothing.

Quoting directly from the Canonical Intellectual Property Rights Policy (emphasis mine):

Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu.

Just like Mozilla, just like Red Hat, and just like many other major open source projects Ubuntu uses trademarks to protect their brand. Don't use their brand and you're just forking an open source project as normal. See also Iceweasel, CentOS, etc.

There are two things a Kindle does with its WiFi connection: Downloading content from Amazon and running a barely functional web browser. If you aren't going to use the Amazon store there's basically nothing worth using the WiFi for.