No can do.

Open sourcing the software would reveal the secrets of the technology behind their "uncopyable" install floppy disk.

That's the attitude that I'm talking about, and it's bankrupting this country.

Except in times of large-scale war or financial panic, the government needs to collect taxes to cover its expenditures. If balancing the budget raises taxes enough to be painful, then people will demand reductions in spending. That's the only way you're going to actually shrink the government.

Instead, people like you demand tax cuts first. Well, cutting taxes is easy; they've done it again and again in the past few decades. Cutting actual government spending is hard, because no matter what you cut, you're taking away someone's entitlement. So what we get is a stalemate that generates endless deficits, with no solution in sight.

Whoa... that's a keen insight, Einstein.

You don't say!

As I pointed out, the problem is that those who believe in a mythical shape that only seems to have a right-hand side have set our tax policy for the last 30 years. With disastrous consequences for our nation.

Not necessary. The system has already been rigged by propagators of the Laffer curve myth so that the government collects only a small fraction of the taxes necessary to pay for its operation. So you're already not paying most of your taxes.

It's easy to be "free" when the companies in question aren't actually IN your country. The government-provided services the freeloading companies depend on are paid for by the non-dodging taxpayers of the countries in which the business actually operate.

ok they are not even filtering they are producing a drop list

clearly they do not understand how a IP network functions and are simply taking whatever huawei can fund...

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

surveillance via huawei marketing dollars... working well...
(just ignore the fact huawei copy cisco kit and install backdoors and your fine...)

have fun

John

This isn't 'photoshop'

Simply put it's selective filtering and editing as typically afforded in modern day photography software such as Nikon Capture NX

In fact both photos are highly edited - one photographer/editor will manipulate the exposure, colour, contrast to suit their eye as opposed to another. But the content of the photo is NOT manipulated.

So effectively you are seeing the results of two different edits, either by the same photographer (unlikely) or two different editors.

It would be similar to the result between two photos shot at the exact same time and darkroom processed , with darkroom manipulation by two different photographers. The difference is the tools offered in the digital age allow much greater variance in the end result.

its 2 Kilometres distance so its a repackaging of WiMAX... and we all know how well that turned out...

now personally I prefer the 1.05 Petabit/s that fibre will provide... though thats in development oh wait thats what this wireless speed is in "development"

cheers

John

please pretty please kill these gateway "hacks" just send mail correctly using a standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME

And I haven't received mine yet. :(

I'm betting part of the delay is to ensure that all early backers get theirs BEFORE it hits retail. That was promised from very early on.

Just because people have stockpiled an item near you doesn't mean it's not scarce.

Go out in the wilderness and see if you can spot any loaves of bread.

And what is of value?

Things that are scarce.

Businesses make money by charging people for scarce resources. IPV6 addresses are in no way scarce, so why would they invest any money in that?

With NAT, they can keep making money the way they always have with minimal additional investment, and they can make even more money by offering dedicated IPV4 addresses to people who pay extra for some kind of "platinum premium plus pro" plan.

That's true. Decades ago, I bought an old Ford pickup truck that had come factory equipped only with an AM radio. Some previous owner had addressed the problem by bolting a combination 8-track player/CB radio transceiver under the dash (I kid you not).

In one step, they had solved both the mobile communications and media storage deficiencies of the original model, while at the same time definitively reaffirming the that vehicle's legacy as a product of the 1970s. And no firmware upgrades were required.

It still can be extreme conditions, based on where you leave the car parked. You're expecting a cheap high capacity big-box-store-grade hard drive to operate correctly after being: Parked in the sun all afternoon in Arizona: that's probably +140F. Or parked overnight in an Alaska winter: that's probably -40F. Or parked for years on the Gulf Coast at near 100% humidity. Then you expect it to keep operating while the car's heating and A/C rapidly change those conditions.

That's a tall order. These drives already barely work in a climate controlled household environment.