What's truly pathetic is I can't get it from Time Warner Cable on our dedicated fiber (not DOCSIS) connection, despite their claims that it's available to DIA customers. They have been dragging their feet now for eight or nine months, professing that we're the first business in our whole area (~250,000 people) to ask for it, so they don't actually have any experience getting it to us.

That's either complete bullshit (we have one of the largest universities in NYS here, along with major defense contractors and even a Fortune 100) to stonewall my request, or it's actually true and a sad reflection on our complete lack of progress on this issue.

If that's your argument just use the Windows firewall. It's completely free.

The rest of the West doesn't stop it either. It may be unique to the United States (+ South Korea and the Philippines, incidentally) in the non-religious context, but if you want to mutilate your son elsewhere in the West the authorities won't do anything to stop you. There were rumblings about Germany doing something to end the practice, but that's politically tricky to say the least, given their history with a certain frequently prosecuted group that happens to practice circumcision.....

Some states (like Michigan) have addressed this by changing things up, and funding schools on a statewide basis rather than from property taxes.

Rust adoption seems to have been slow. Given that Swift took a lot of ideas from Rust, and is evolving more rapidly to completeness, I have to wonder if Swift will not take over positions Rust holds before Rust gains much of a foothold...

That's all predicated of course on Swift being released as open source, which will probably happen in a year or so.

You're the one that said each moment = life. I did not say that.

Having said that, your car can conceivably can be replaced, and the value of your time could be made up. Those things have prices.

A life, once taken, cannot be replaced or restored in any way. Thus, it is priceless.

Like US car companies, it is very hard to admit when the fat years are over. Give them time; I suspect they will come around a bit.

Er, so?

Yes, on a broad scale to get quality TV, it will still be made by people who make money off of it. It should be a relief that someone can still do that, not a bad thing.

"... may or may not deliver on time depending on whether the deem the rocket maker a priority at any given time"

I bet they haven't been the best client over the past few years either.

I understood his dialog just fine. I enjoyed Fisk as much as any of the characters I think... I thought he was well written and well acted.

Well, somebody needs to play Devil's Advocate here, so I will. What if onboard vehicle computers truthfully are (or soon will become) so complicated - and so integral to the functioning of the vehicle - that an untrained hobbyist screwing with it could cause injury or death? What if some homebrew-loving gearhead hacker decides to roll his own firmware for the car because he thinks he can squeeze some extra MPG out of it, and instead it zeroes out the odometer due to a glitch? Or disables the seatbelt warnings? Or randomly cuts of f the engine in the middle of the highway?

Yes, it can be argued that negligent behavior causing death or injury already has penalties, but those are after the fact. We all understand how easy it is to screw up software. Do we want to be reactive or penalize it in the first place? Might it not be reasonable to say in effect that cars with owner-modified computers are fine but are no longer street legal?

P.S. No, I don't work for a car company, I'm not a shill or a troll. In fact I generally find cars quite boring. But I find Slashdot even more boring when nobody attempts to find merit in a contrary opinion...

Too long. IPV6 Youporn would drop full adoption down to 5 minutes ;)

When Time Warner asked why I was cancelling the video package from my bundle, I replied that the only TV I watch anymore is Netflix and Amazon. Sounded weird at the time but was the absolute truth.

Yeah, he did what he had to do to get the job done in both cases.

What you were describing is what the job of winning the Republican primary has become. The only purpose of which is to insure that a good man cannot possibly become president.

I see all that now in hindsight.

Dang...

So? Does it mean, their children need to breath the noxious exhaust of the cheap cars? Is that somehow acceptable to you, 1-percenter, simply because they would not have to be poisoned quite so much?

Why do you hate poor children? Typical RethugliKKKan Nazi...