I really wish more people understood exactly what Atheism means. Atheism is not a lack of belief like most think, but rather a belief that there is no god.

So for everyone that doesn't believe in the bible or Christian God (or any other), this is not enough to claim being Atheist. Atheism is just as much a leap of faith as any religion, as you actually BELIEVE something to be true that is unprovable. That there is no and can be no divine entity of any sort.

Now, I don't know about you, but I find this statement almost as arrogant as claiming that the earth is only a couple thousand years old. Knowing that I am but a speck of dust in the infinity of space and time, to claim as fact that there could never have been any entity with any hand in the creation of what we know to exist would be astoundingly naive and arrogant. (whether direct or indirect). Of course I hold very little credence to the idea that anything created ME specifically, that's pretty in-plausible. But the idea that something may have been responsible for assembling the building blocks for life as we know it? Who knows.

What I do know is that I am not an Atheist. I am a believer of the Scientific Method, and by claiming such know it would be hypocritical to claim Atheism.

Wow, really? Better tell that to James Cameron! He'll be pissed to hear that I'm sure, but he's a good, guy, he'll have no problem telling everyone that Titanic 3D actually doesn't work and they can have their money back!

What makes you think networks are all about hardware?

Nope. The class's name was geography. Once upon a time, they also taught some geology under those classes. That I remember.

Not a heat issue, it's a pressure issue. The fluid rock in the mantle squezes up into magma cavities underneath under the volcanos.

Now, it's possible to have a solid rock cap on top of such a cavity, but that results in massive explosions of smoke and ash (see pictures of cone-type volcanos) rather than long flows of very fluid magma (see pictures of shield-type volcanos).

Granted, it's been a couple decades since I covered any of this in a geography class, so I could be wrong.

I rather hope that as passionate software engineers grow out of their enterprise value range, they'll pursue open source projects.

And if they can't get into management, the world can always use network engineers.

Not that I want to disagree with you on this subject, but there's a difference between a cataloging of unrelated information and information which relates to each other.

A language is not "nothing but a listing of words an how they're used", a language is an idea which is described in a specification and/or implementation. That idea satisfies that "minimum amount of creativity" you need in order to copyright something.

Otherwise, a novel would just be a "narration of fictitious characters and things they did to each other as they resided in the author's mind", and would thus be similarly uncopyrightable.

Where there's a hotel capable with 500 rooms, there's likely to be a cable ISP within easy reach. The larger the hotel, the more cheap bandwidth is geographically handy.

There were too many active radios, and the spectrum was too crowded. They even switched to a four-channel layout instead of the three-channel. (We informally use a five-channel model in my apartment building, what with all the various tennants' APs and routers finding the least crowded piece of spectrum in their immediate area.