...let the rational, even-handed and emotionally detached debate begin!

I still don't understand why this wasn't more broadly reported, but CO2's role may not be the cause... http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html

Hmm, you seem to have a preconception of Republicans there, and an imbecilic one at that.

This is the first resolution that I feel is a good idea. LET THE MARKET DECIDE, not politicians and not CEOs. If a company signs up for Traffic Management Transparency, and is subsequently throttles their bandwidth based on data content, the lawsuits will make the cost savings of their throttling irrelevant. If another company publicly refuses to adhere to the TMT guidelines while remaining economically viable then the market has spoken. PLUS, since it's a voluntary code of practice it can be implemented IMMEDIATELY ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Also, net neutrality is a little more complex than "Big Corporation wants to charge me MORE for access to [political website]!!!!". While I personally find that possibility to be remote, I think that the possibility of 911-type emergency VOIP calls to be dependent upon a reliable connection to be in the very near future. Ask yourself if you want to be in a situation wherein you cannot connect to a 911 operator because the 13 year old fapper next door is downloading pr0n! Just sayin, it isn't necessarily as black and white as many seem to make it out to be.

Random thought...in the recesses of my mind, I believe I recall a "priority bit" in the TCP/IP spec...

From TFA:

"They say that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)"


So...the Hubble volume is roughly 1/250th the size of infinity?

Nothing illustrates the connection between being "anti-human" and being "green" more than this story. No matter what thoughtful precautions you can take to preserve Nature, the better alternative is that you never existed at all. In other words, kill yourself so that the world may remain a pleasant place for the animals. :)

It seems there is no fraud if the gift's intended recipient acknowledges "receipt", ownership and transfer of the bad gift back to Amazon in exchange for a gift certificate, right? Except in this case the "receipt" part is just kind of skipped over...

Of course! More evidence I'm but the snot-nosed kid that needs to get the hell off of billstewart's lawn...

I was going to mention that it was John Lithgow that did the shooting, but then it occurred to me that your dementia has progressed further than mine, thereby validating your point even further.

Too lazy to RTFA, but spigot algorithms (specifically the BBP algorithm for calculating pi) ALL have the capability of extracting arbitrary digits from irrational numbers without calculating previous ones first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot_algorithm

It wasn't unnamed, just classified. Here's a video of the voting procedure on the bill in question.

Viable alternative, please? You aren't lamenting Capitalism, you are lamenting REALITY.

Actually you make some good points. I'm just overly sensitive to proposed solutions of anthropogenic global warming; they always seem to reek of a thinly-veiled global socialist agenda.

If politics could be completely stripped from the debate I think people would find that many of us "deniers" are not as closed-minded as it appears. It's just that I would rather live in a hot free society than socialist one.

No dude you're just falling for the AGW propaganda. Do you really believe we're sitting in some "magical temperature sweet spot"? Does it strike you as odd that the only apparent consequences of a warming trend seem to be bad, if not fatal?

Options...

1) Lookup on the IP and call the ISP. If they're a smaller company they may be willing to give an address "to the police". With an address (and potentially even a heads-up as to when the criminal is home) you've done most of the hard work for the local law enforcement.

2) Expand use of the honeypot. Send yourself some nude pics that are apparently from some girl. Then use your imagination to get the guy to meet you somewhere. "Hey stud, I was thinking of you the other day and snapped a couple of pics for ya. I can't wait to see you at the orgy conveniently located in the state to the East of your current location! See you there!!"