Did you just poorly explain your analogy or have you never actually worked with BGP? You can announce your ips over one uplink, switch it to another uplink, then move them to a third all in a few minutes if you feel like it. You could tunnel your traffic across the internet and announce them from japan if you're bored enough. DNSSEC and BGP have nothing to do with each other and should never be compared to one another. BGP is proof positive that anarchistic systems DO work and trying to make it fall in line with some sort of structure is worse than the occasional screw up that can happen by some fat fingers.

There have been many multi touch implementations, just because someone was the first to file doesn't mean they were first to think up the general concept. Hell any kindergartner that's given some finger paint is prior art for 'multi touch' as far as I'm concerned.

Such changes occur routinely. You'd be amazing how many small providers sell their companies after only a few months/weeks. Many times they just log in and change the information themselves without any human interaction. I'm actually a bit surprised any human interaction was needed for that sort of change. We don't know the specifics of how the information was changed but if they use a secret phrase and the person who put the change in was able to find it what was the ISP supposed to do? Call the person at home for every single account change no matter where they are located globally? Treat national clients as special because they don't involve international charges for the $4.99/mo account? We don't have enough information to truly judge whether or not the ISP is to blame. The submitter provided nothing but rage in his post. He acts as if it was 100% the ISP's responsibility to catch this and there was nothing within his power to prevent it from occurring. I find that doubtful as someone in a related business.

Safe doesn't mean invincible. It just means every known and theorized situation has a counter measure. If something from left field occurs then its a new test in the "known" category. Stuff breaks, bad things happen, we move forward and adapt, its what makes us spiffy creatures.

You doubt I have 32gb of memory? Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 with 8x 4gb amd chips (makes me giggle to use amd memory on an intel board) and a 3820. I downgraded from 64gb and a 3960k. I'm not in high school anymore where I can't afford a decent machine but the 3960 was just silly and they were out of 3930's. I do use a bunch of addons, but even disabling them the pages I keep open are heavy on ajax (zimbra for one) or are constantly updating in one manner or another so they bloat pretty bad in FF. Chrome on the other hand doesn't seem to care and keeps chugging along for days without issue. So far I haven't seen chrome choke where FF does, I just really wish the WIPmania guy would make a chrome extension. As for firebug, I'm not a web developer so I don't have it installed.

Just curious, but if your email account is hacked how is an ISP supposed to know if its really you or not? "Obviously wrong information" can mean almost nothing. How many people have English as their 4-5th languages online? Why should the burden of proof be on the ISP to prove you're you beyond the username and password you were given? I've caught these sort of errors and have prevented a multitude of hacked email accounts to avoid also compromising the servers within our control, but damn the government or anyone else who thinks that I *have* to do this or else be sued out of existence. ISP's don't need special rules but we shouldn't be required to have experienced human level pattern recognition as the minimal requirement to protect users from themselves. We're not in the identify protection business after all. The legal burden should be on whatever an automated script could accomplish, so if you lose control of your username/password, ain't our fault.

As I responded to people above. I have 32gb of ram on my workstation, that enough? When 64bit FF uses 6gb of ram performance nose dives into the ground at that point ... but that's about double the ram of 32bit before its useless. So no, ram isn't the issue, the memory bloat is a side affect of whatever the hell kills performance, it isn't the direct cause. I've still got 20 gigs of memory free.

Well even with 32gb of ram waterfox (64bit firefox) chokes when it hits ~6gb of usage, 32bit use to choke at around 3gb. I guess having a hundred+ static tabs open for days on end isn't something it was designed for. Chrome on the other hand has tabs open that are constantly updating without issue. It's not that firefox is noticeably slower than chrome 30 seconds after startup ... its that 30 hours later with, apparently, the peculiar way that I use my browsers it chokes and performance nose dives. I'm using win7 so I can't speak for linux ff which may not suffer this issue. I still use FF for most things, I consider it a better general browser, but Chrome is where I put everything that's important for work/getting things done since I need to restart FF every few days, as I type this FF is using 3.7gb of memory, 2.7gb of which is in "heap-unclassified".

Sounds like spire3661 would rather have gotten the books for free than allowed her to donate her money to charities.

If your one work makes you a 10-100 lifetimes worth of income I think you can safely say that giving it up isn't a "hardship". Specially since the law could be written where you remain the original owner so no one but you or your heirs could write official sequels. So you can still milk the cow its just if the cow rewards you with a hundred lifetimes of fortune you give up that specific work to society. As for those who paid to give you that thousand lifetimes? They purchased a good, no one said the item they received was now worthless, only the information is no longer part of a government supported monopoly. The paper isn't suddenly free, the author isn't required to give it away, its just they can't stop people from making their own copes so it'll drive them to perhaps create additional work that they can retain ownership of and bundle it with their now public domain work. A threshold is a grand idea in my opinion, far better than the an immortal copyright "system [that] works well enough".

10mbps to gig isn't that hard actually. You're limited to 80MB/sec due to PCI bus limitations but it *can* be done... and unless they're torrenting that isn't an issue. If it ever gets to the point that someones machine does require a total refit, then you refit that one machine *as they die*. Replacing everything 'just because' is silly.

No, unlimited character passwords. "I like cheese with a side of hot sauce please." Tell me your 6 digit alphanumeric special character password is realistically better than that or easier to remember.

I believe we have different definitions of social mobility. Yours if I understand it correctly is based on how often people move between economic levels while mine is based that anyone *can* do it regardless of where they start. As I believe we're arguing with different definitions of the words used I don't think its possible for us to ever come to agreement upon them.

It's ingrained because we American's that support it keep seeing it through out our lives. My grandfather was a farmer born in the 1800's in southern europe, my father born in the1930's was meant to be a farmer as well. He disagreed with socialism's precepts as he believed the harder you work the more you deserve. So he left and bounced around other countries. Within 20 years of being here in the states he had paid off both a primary home and a summer home while the neighbor who had been here his entire life had a mortgage until the day he died. If you define "social mobility" as being too poor to afford food and then becoming ultra rich were you burn $100 bills to warm the room, then yeah its pretty damn rare. But if you see it as someone able to live the life they want, in the way they want to live it, then we have oodles of it. My dad was carpenter, we're not talking high end education, just the ability to look at a problem and find a solution that worked. Even though he knows jackall about computers the critical thinking skills he imparted to me about plumbing and electrical work were the foundation for everything I know today. My father is today at best right in the middle of middle class for a retired 80 something, maybe you consider that a failure of 'social mobility', he doesn't considering where he started.

Yeah, quit your job, start a business, work 100+ hours a week...