Uhhh...the article was discussing what we consider "modern" Ethernet, your classic Ethernet jack (RJ45 I think? Its too damned early for me to be technical) running a star topography, so I didn't think I needed to spell out what I was talking about since TFA was talking about the same thing. I have heard of grammar nazis but who would have thought there were networking nazis? Not talking about you, the 40 ACs that all rushed to "correct" me without even bothering to look at TFS much less TFA.

And I never got to set up an ARCNET so I can't speak to that but I set up waaay too many of the token ring thinnet and I personally was damned glad when it died. Now if we can only get 1Gbps routers that do IPV6 as cheaply as we get the old 100Mbps IPV4 routers I'll be a happy camper.

Good, so its NOT just me then? Because I thought I was missing something, because it sure as hell looked from the numerous articles that they are getting instant change no matter what the distance which kinda does crap all over relativity. And does anybody have even the slightest inkling as to HOW the information is being transmitted? Is it energy, does space and distance no longer matter when you get to the quantum level?

Because while I've seen a lot of articles on entanglement I don't think I've even seen a guess as to HOW its happening, they merely state that it does.

Don't feel bad pal, I'm just a humble bass player and PC fixit guy and a lot of this stuff flew past at Mach 5. I can see though why Einstein didn't want to believe in QM though, as frankly the rules as we know them seem to go Alice In Wonderland when it gets into the quantum realm. I mean its YOU and not the photon that is entangled? Its not instant yet every article we've seen says it is? Hell I still can't wrap my head around this stuff, what we need is a "Quantum Mechanics for dummies" video course.

Because frankly even when they try for "layman's terms" I feel like the guy in Event Horizon "Fuck layman's terms, do you speak English?"

Dude you might not like them living outside. I don't know about the German ones but here we have what is locally called the "VC cockroach" named because it is as tough as the Viet Cong and those things are happy to live outside in the sewers...until the storm drains flood and then they'll try to climb up through the pipes and get into your house. Since they can live without worrying about poisons they get fricking HUGE, we are talking bigger than a grown man's thumb and tough as hell to kill, you can't use an ordinary fly-swat as it won't even stun 'em, you better have a shoe ready and be putting some arm behind your swing, TOUGH bastards.

My Black and Decker drill has never exploded, which is what the NSW police are warning people about.

As you'd expect from today's Slashdot, the title and summary of TFA are deceptive.

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Petitions

Android outsells iPhone globally by about 4 to 1. Given that their search hits are ballpark similar to those of iOS, a sensible person must conclude that Android is around 4 times safer.

Or that you've chosen a pointless metric to measure by.

Yep, it's another AV vendor beat-up.

"The Australian Communications and Media Authority has published detailed statistics of malware infections identified by their online security team (AISI). The team scans and identifies and compromised computers on Australian IP addresses and reports daily to around 130 participating ISPs.

Their breakdown shows about infected 16,500 devices are online at any one time. The malware type for all infections is available on the site."

http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD..PC/pc=PC_600121

If you look at the breakdown of malware infected IPs, there are around 16,500 active infections at any one time. Around 20 Windows viruses make up more than 99% of all infections. In the "Other" section, there are around 100 active IPs with rarer Windows viruses, and Mac, iOS, Linux and Android infections.

In other words, the total of all Android malware is competing with space in the fraction of 1% of malware instances that aren't on Windows.

ORLY? Didn't you type this like an hour ago?

BTW, I love how you made up some stats and utterly failed to explain where they came from. Nice work!

This is what happens when you don't use bull fertilizer.
Have you ever seen a more pathetic harvest?

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Perhaps they exhausted the E supply.
The great E famine of 1939 decimated entire novels.

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I find a few things about your post kinda funny:

• You doubled down on your argument about prior times being better (without detailing any specifics) by simply asserting "it's based on actual truth." I expect an equivalent response from me would sound like "No it's not, and THAT is the actual truth!"
• You refer to my accounting when I haven't provided any accounting of my own but rather have linked articles by fairly competent news organizations -- certainly more reputable than you or I.
• You try to pick and choose what counts as a subsidy and what does not, which is awful convenient but fails completely to address the question of what energy, exactly, gets subsidized -- however indirectly.
• You assert that "[my] premise is only remotely true if [I] blatantly lie with the statistics" when in fact my premise is that you provided some unsupported statements that contradict each other and present them as truth.
• Perhaps most irritatingly, you have pulled some stats out of your ass without providing any sources for them. I won't bother doing this myself and I'm sure you'll try to justify them with some heavily political diatribe.
• The impression one gets from your post is that you are either a troll or have no integrity at all because you have this nostalgia for ostensibly better people in better times who weren't corrupted by government money but at the same time you are sucking the gov't teat by profiteering from these supposed ludicrous subsidies.

I'm not sure whether to congratulate you on some good trolling or feel sorry for you.

Yeah anybody who had used the old thinnet could have told you why Ethernet was gonna win, everything else was a bigger PITA, not to mention how one bad spot or flaky terminator could take out an entire LAN whereas with Ethernet if one went down it didn't break everything else.

So lets hear it for Ethernet, something that won NOT because some corporation rammed it through,or slipped enough money to the right hands, but because it was better than the alternatives.

I think that was his point. In the US Dems and Repubs are just two sides of the same coin. Doesn't matter which side it lands on, the US people are going to get screwed.

You are partially correct, where is the personally liability the student should have shown? She broke the rules, and instead of being punished, she is being rewarded.

I agree that charging her with a crime was a gross overreaction, but you have to take into account incidents that happened just shortly prior to this. Had this happened 6 months ago, I don't feel like she would have been charged.