Voted then realized it said "my". Who uses their own when all your neighbors provide it for you?

They can build the plant in the desert where there aren't any tree... Oh wait. Nevermind.

I think they believe that "Internet" is a gathering tool for gleaning information about the customer. The changes people see them making to ISP and TV access is strictly so usage data is added directly into data correlation processes.

Nah. AT&T will have customers so over billed and locked down, until the pay for U-Verse too, they'll never a full speed connection.

lol! and how the hell is this flamebait?

They argue that capping most ebooks at $9.99 would be better for everyone, with the money split out 35% to the author, 35% to the publisher, and 30% to Amazon.

That couldn't possibly be true. Authors never get a 50:50 split with a publisher.

Use an algorithm to determine if they stick to the 3 major food groups, caffeine, nicotine, and ibuprofen. Parse through their social media interactions to make sure they never get angry because they have killed all of their enemies. And, bot through their pr0n accounts to make sure they have sex regularly.

Leave it to /. to give us the article so we can be ahead of the... 8/8?!? I can't even get a land line installed by then.

Creator: Build a robocall honeypot by Friday, 8/8, at noon PDT :P

Math is mandatory for engineers. In the early years people getting a degree in any way related to computers, hardware, software, programming, playing games while smoking weeds... were all engineers. Now that there is mass separation in the field the importance of math on any particular field is not as obvious. Us that design network gear and program network interfaces need math. Lots and Lots of it.

a biotech startup working in Ireland... bla bla bla... so that new medicinal (and, perhaps recreational) "marijuana" can be grown in a lab—no plants necessary.

If they are working with yeast in Ireland their goal is to make beer that has alcohol THC and CBD.

Oh. Regarding "The fireworks display vs. strafe bomber war" thing in the middle east.

Lakes in the Dallas Fort Worth area have more trees growing in them than all the parks combined. Do like they do with White Rock or Bachman lakes.

+5 w00sh!

Google does that for them for free. No, I am not a Google hater. Google collects data. The shitheads tell them to give it up or enjoy being fucked over.

Content filtering is mandatory in K12 schools and can be fairly expensive. Hardware in schools take a beating and need more frequent replacements. If you think network equipment is bulletproof do some work for a school. You can grill food on some of their routers. If it were my decision, there would be 10G network to all public schools and companies would be allowed to bid to be providers using bandwidth branching from those hops. It would push down costs, create an open business model, increase bandwidth to all areas of cities, and move schools closer to were they need to be technologically.