"mistakenly"?

Your way isn't the only way. With virtual teams getting more prevalent, I'm surprised you haven't gained some CQ.

I have a 100Mbps line at home (and I am getting 10MB/s on downloads) but I am certainly not dropping a lot of money.

FTTH plans at 100Mbps cost about USD 45 to 55 here.

I live in Singapore currently. Technically, we are still in the northern hemisphere but the weather here cannot be any more monotonous. It is sunny all-year round (quite a plus) but the humidity is also a pain (minus to that plus) both to the body and photos. Rain is more unpredictable than a menopausal human (more minus) and there's no guaranteed stretch of dry spell so your outdoor events are at the mercy of weather god(s).

So, our fall and spring semesters are just... in name. If you become comatose right now and wake up after a random duration, you won't be able to tell the time of the year from the temperature and atmosphere.

I'm assuming the poll is for consumer-class devices and that networking equipment excludes NAS/SAN stuff. In that case, I don't have any favourite vendor. What I normally do before I shop around for my router/AP is check for external (AND replaceable) antennae and OpenWRT compatibility. These two modifications will give me all the features that I will need (DHCP reservation, bandwidth monitoring, settings changes without requiring a reboot, etc).

When it comes to NAS, though, I lean towards D-Link. I have DNS-323 and DNS-343 running at home and they have been very useful RAID arrays.

Then, who is going to pay for the effort to examine these patent applicatons that will be invalid? The taxpayers? The onus is on the applicant to make sure it is patentable. The current norm of companies submitting as many patent applications (because USPTO is anyhow approving a good majority of them) to inflate their asset values and add more firepower to their legal weapons is such a joke.

A good 91.9566348% (of the remaining) profiles on MySpace will be inaccessible when this patent is implemented!

If I re-run my elementary school education and (presumably) get more favourable results and "better" middle school/high school/college, won't I practically be re-running my entire education? Personally, I messed up my high school-equiv (GCE A-level, that is) but I thoroughly enjoyed my undergrad years. If re-running my high school means that I go to a different school and get a different set of friends, well, thanks but no, thanks. I'd rather take the first run, anytime.

Music and film industries make money out of us to lobby for laws that are only beneficial to them. The government taxes us more to enforce this piece-of-crap legislation. The ISPs will milk us dry again to cover the cost of this extra "regulation". For Pete's sake, we should be born with KY jelly sprayed on our orifices.

Ever heard of LG Prada? Probably not because I bet you hardly look across the ponds surrounding you.

Most Secure? And the security is in the App Store? I don't know why the author's trying so hard to bullshit his way through. Sensationalist headlines just to get a few more ad impressions, eh.

I wondered: did they put the colours wrongly for plausible deniability? "Hey, this isn't the Windoze logo. It is a panel of basic colours!"

I've had an email address for than last 10.5 years of my life and I've just turned 26. But /. isn't giving me a chance to vote. I demand justice, Cowboy Neal.