My Chase MC and Visa required this to be setup and crazy passwords too, which I can't recall. I rarely use my Chase cards anymore as a result.

Had he the money to run that wire, perhaps he should have bought up the land near it first. If I buy a house because of the view, I know that the view could change quickly if I do not know the property. Even if I do, imminent domain can still change it.

Also, doesn't DirecPC, Hughesnet, and others cover like 99.9% of the entire USA with Internet? The exception being where you can't get line of site with the satellites?

So does this go beyond repair? Can the nerves be enhanced? For example, not everyone is built the same...down...there... Not everyone is as sensitive as the other. So could this technology be used to create new nerves?

Just image a new wave of spam!

So it is winter where I live. Normally the heat from all my incandescent lights heat up my place a bit. This is where a lot of the waste is of the incandescent lights.

Most of the lights I have are now CFL. So while it is true the CFL is using less power, am I not compensating by using more power at my electric furnace?

Does the net power difference (savings) take into consideration that fact?

Many notebooks had failures related to faulty nVidia chips, including Mac's. I wonder if that is inflating these stats?

Doesn't it seem that one should place the bandwidth controls at the central office, and not at the customers site?

You have less control of the uplink (from someones home to the Internet) by placing bandwidth restrictions it at the central office, however you would also have tighter control of the bandwidth from the Internet to the customer. You also remove the issue where the customer an circumvent your controls because the hardware is in their hands.

Seems this would also help assist in the problem previously mentioned here about allowing Torrents to use more local bandwidth by allowing more bandwidth between an ISP's customers.

Doesn't Echelon already index all SMTP traffic anyway? I understand that this is yet another government agency trying to get at e-mail. Wasn't the DHS to allow the sharing of such information though?

A girl I knew over 10 years a go had a 3D set of these hooked to her computer. I walked around her house during a party with them on, playing Doom in 3D. You turned your head to control your movement.

It was pretty cool seeing Doom in 3D projected in the room in front of me.

So how is this new technology? What's new about it? That this version is not 3D? That the resolution is 800 wide and not 320 pixels wide?

For that matter, the guys video taping the room to sell you and your wife's activities to that voyeur site aims the camera at your laptop, watches your keystrokes, and boom - he has all you passwords you type in. Banking? PayPal? E-Mail.

You really need to use both a password and a physical device. Such as RSA tokens. My bank offers this for online banking. I have several for different things.

This would pave the way to mesh networking. No ISPs. Right now, mesh is in it's infancy. 10 years from now, people will be rolling their own mesh inter-network to get to these resources.