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This is all because even though there was a deep recession NASA's budget was never reformed. Over the decades more and more non-core programs accreted. Obama didn't help by axing Project Contsellation, or declaring the central role of NASA one of muslim outreach. So here we are, with our center piece program dependent on Vladimir Putin! Way to go America! Is this where you really want to be?

Covenient that an ethnic Korean made that judgement against a US company. Why wouldn't Apple object? When will we get rid of the foreigners?

What's broken? "Everything is a file" and other traditions are ignored. Log files are no longer text files. I'll stop right there.

They know. The dem commies are about to lose big. A GOP Senate can't wait to try these no filibuster rules.

It still raises the question of exactly what you plan to do data-wise that will require 40Gbit Ethernet. While I admit nobody knows what the future holds, we can make reasonable extrapolations. Word and Excel documents aren't going to magically ballon in size. It's highly unlikely you run a 100TB database on your home server. MP3's and even FLAC audio files aren't magically growing in size, and even some new fangled HD audio format an order of magnitude bigger wouldn't stress GigE. Your Internet connection isn't going to be 40Gbit anytime soon (and even if it was, your ISP is unlikely to provide an upstream link that isn't woefully oversubscribed). Netflix 4K streaming already works fine over typical 20Mbit Internet service. And as I stated in earlier posts, even Blu-ray's, which are the higest definition standard media currently available for sale (with no real successor in sight) peak at 40Mbit/sec with average bitrates well below that.

The only conceivable thing that's even remotely close to logical would be uncompressed 4k video editing. And most people do that off high-speed local storage array or, if you're a big boy, a Fibre Channel array. If you've got the need for a FC array at home...well, my hat's off to you. You're unique.

Seriously, unless you plan on having the need to stream uncompressed 4K video to every corner of your house, Cat6A is ridiculous overkill. The average Blu-ray video stream is well under 40Mbit/sec, and that's decent HD for almost anyone. 4K could maybe quadruple that (depends on codec) but you STILL have plenty of bandwidth for something like that in plain Gigabit Ethernet. Hell, you could put perhaps 6-8 4K streams on GigE and still be fine.

And there's really no logic in trying to future-proof your home network for something that's not going to be remotely affordable until maybe 10 years from now (have you priced 10Gbit gear lately???). In that time frame, lots of things can and will change and the likelihood of you still wanting AND being able to use that Cat6A for its original purpose is dubious.

10BaseT? Bah! if you really want them off your lawn you'll put in 4Mbit Token Ring!

...somebody forgot to mail their bribe check to the appropriate official. Or perhaps a competitor mailed a bigger check.

There's more to come in the exciting adventures of Bennett Haselton!

This! A good example is slashdot - I don't check the box that offers me the chance to view it ad-free. It's not like the early days of the internet when we were stuck with 56k dialup modems and ads made the page take way longer to load.

Similarly, I like reading BOfH, and I'm not going to complain about seeing a few ads that help pay for it. In my mind, it's a fair trade-off.

As for those sites (like one of my local newspapers) that keep popping up demands that I subscribe to their digital content service or I can't read the article, fine. I'll just go elsewhere.

I use OTA (over-the-air) for my HD TV. After all, even the cable and satellite services are running ads, even though you're already paying to see the content. And if there's nothing on the 20-some-odd channels I get, I can always go walk the dog, call family and friends, invite a neighbour to come visit, etc. Perhaps that explains why I rarely watch TV - there's just SO much else to do that's much more interesting.

Even worse, how is the money distributed? Who determines the "worth" of a web site or other online resource, and then allocates them their cut?

The current free-market system with sites supported by ads isn't perfect, but it's like democracy - Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Class action lawsuits don't subvert the court system - they allow for people who otherwise wouldn't have the means to seek redress, or where businesses take unfair advantage, to have their day in court, and they send a message to other would-be predators to think twice.

Well, why NOT have violators pay? You speed, you get caught, you pay. You steal, you get caught, you pay. You kill someone, you get caught, you pay. In all these examples, there are exceptions for mitigating circumstances. If you're speeding because you have a passenger who needs to get to the hospital ASAP or they die ... If you steal because someone's holding a relative hostage ... If you kill someone in self-defense ...

The current situation requires everyone to pay for illegal downloaders via levies on storage media and devices that incorporate storage media. I don't illegally download, why should I be penalized by those levies? And why shouldn't illegal downloaders, when caught, not be held accountable for their actions, barring any mitigating circumstances?

There have always been, and always will be, those who are falsely accused, whether it's speeding, theft, or murder. We don't deal with this by refusing to bring charges against anybody, ever, but by allowing everyone to have their day in court. To do otherwise would be to subvert the justice system, and the public of their rights to recourse. How would you like it if there were no laws against theft? Or doing 150 in a school zone? Or bumping someone off, 'just cuz'?

And I want a week long orgy with the Victoria's Secret supermodels, but I'm intelligent to know the likelihood of that happening is pretty damned small. Linus should be exhorbitantly happy Linux has made the inroads it has in the server and mobile markets. Desktop, if it ever does follow, will probably not resemble "desktop" as we now know it.