The one that doesn't conform to the group-think stereotypes of online forums.

Whoosh.

Too many question marks. 3/5 stars.

I think you're confusing franchise agreements, paid-for monopoly, with regulation. Once a cable company has a franchise in a town, they can do whatever they want with their services. POTS and T1/T3 access is heavily regulated, that's just about it. The 1996 Telecom act hasn't updated to include products that didn't exist in 1996 like cable internet, DSL, FTTH, et cetera.

Maybe they were smart enough to realize BP isn't the problem? As long as we're dependent on fossil fuels we're going to extract them from the ground. Really what's the difference between a few million barrels spilled in the ocean or burned in the air? Other than pictures of greasy ducks on the nightly news.

We will never finish the star trek reboots. 1000 years from now they will still be making them and people will be believe that Captain Kirk was a real historical figure.

It's not for free. The ISP gets a serious reduction in network congestion as a result. I'm a network planner for a national ISP in the US and deploying these caches has seriously cut down on our network load. For the cost of space and power for this cache I regained capacity on the network which would have cost 100s of thousands of dollars to build. You've fundamentally misunderstood the benefit to the ISP of deploying these. The only ISPs that don't deploy these are the ones that also get a lot of revenue from video such as Cable and FTTH providers. They don't WANT to reduce the congestion because it boosts their IPTV revenue.

Smart drivers do this in the US, but it's not the law or the norm. There are still plenty of people driving slow in the overtaking lane, or weaving through traffic and overtaking on the outside lane. I think a big part of the problem is that everyone assumes they have a right to a license, and the barrier to entry is very very low.

If it didn't matter, he wouldn't be safe in an embassy either.

I agree with the sentiment in this case, but not the concept. Every country in the world has some fucked up rules better off ignored.

Maybe what it tells you is that the world isn't as simple as your biases lead you to believe? Hitler loved dogs, Ford hated jews. People are capable of good things and bad things.

Probably, but anyone who cares, such as google, should be assuming that is happening and using wire-speed encryption hardware on both ends. Even without collusion, it's not that hard to sneak a 90/10 tap into an optical signal at a NAP and take a peek.

No, because those submarine cables also include the amplifiers/regenerators spaced out across the ocean floor which aren't compatible with the slick new coherent optics. Most of the old ones are hardwired to regenerate Sonet framed signals.

The limitation is in the amplifier equipment in the festoons on the ocean floor. In terrestrial cables we don't have that limitation and you'll frequently see 288 count cables on long-haul routes and 48 count cables going through neighborhoods and subdivisions.

A) No it doesn't beg the question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
B) Electricity in the Republic of Georgia is almost all Hydroelectric.