Yep. Running servers is against Verizon's residential ToS. Regardless of how much BW the guy is using, he's breaking the rules.

"running a server" at one point was taken to mean, by Comcast, to have something listening on port 25, and would result in your connection being shut off. It's one thing to say someone is using too much bandwidth. It's another to say they're not allowed to do certain completely normal things with it.

It wasn't about bandwidth. Cloud backup software uses far more bandwidth than my piddly little web server ever did, but guess which one threw Comcast into a tizzy?

This is about controlling who produces versus who consumes, and Comcast wants you to consume.

Please tell me that GOES-R will be sporting some sort of ghostbusters reference...

My MOM knows what BitTorrent is. It's available on nearly every platform in existence; there's even a javascript client, I think? Some browsers now have clients built-in or available via extensions. With DHT supported by most every client, you don't even need a tracker. Web seeding means you don't have to guarantee seeded peers if you've got some HTTP mirror available somewhere.

So, can FOSS projects please grow up and start using bittorrent more? Can we make torrents a little more transparent to users, as well? As in, you click a link and you don't need to do anything else, no external programs, etc? Some big projects like Libreoffice have been using BitTorrent for a while; distributions have been as well even longer.

PS:For the love of god, please pick a sensible chunk size *glares at people who create 300MB torrents with 4MB chunk sizes*

The raid was based on a complaint from the publisher (Google Translate to English), which has a near-monopoly on educational materials in Latvia, often linked with shady connections in the Ministry of Education

Here's a free protip. Live in a former soviet bloc?

Are you lacking the skills to be anonymous?

Is there a monopoly on something?

Don't challenge it.

Finis.

For instance, I suspect we waste more energy moving tap water in plastic bottles between cities.

"Well, people get shot all the time, so what's the big deal if I shoot someone?"

Doesn't work that way, does it? It sounds a bit like you're arguing a nirvana fallacy, namely that because this trend of saving energy in datacenters doesn't save energy everywhere, it's useless.

But then you have companies such as Google and Microsoft building data centers next to rivers for cheap hydroelectric power in remote parts of the Pacific Northwest and reporting insanely low PUEs (below 1.1 in some cases).

Power Usage Efficiency has nothing to do with the source of the power you're using.

It's not even a measure of efficiency of equipment.

What people invariably want is a state which has rules enforcing human rights, and little else.

Sort of. What people invariably want is a state where the rules benefit them, or at least not stopping them from doing what they want to do.

It would be the strong doing whatever they wanted to the weak.

Given Brin and company are arguably the most powerful people in the world, it's not terribly surprising he wants a land where there are no rules, is it? See above.

First off, way to be homophobic! And bravo to everyone who voted the AC up for it! Second: there are a large number of star trek fanfics that have homosexual themes. They're coming from somewhere, folks.

One advantage that the Pebble has over rumored watches from big names like Google and Apple is existing.

Apple has rarely entered a market first. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Air, etc. Hasn't stopped them from being successful, and in some cases reshaping or redefining the market.

Do you want to be the first to jump into the water, or see what happens to the other person when they jump in the water?

This is incompatible with an infrastructure that is so hostile towards public transportation (outside of some lucky big cities). I live in some backwater suburb in FL and I can't get to a pub to have a couple of drink with a buddy without incurring an extra 20$ in cab fare?

So you knew that "going out drinking" was something you like to do, and you chose to live in an area that is incompatible with that? The problem isn't that you live in the wrong area. The problem is that you ignored that you were living in the wrong area and felt entitled to engage in dangerous and/or illegal behavior as "compensation" for a decision you made.

Step one: find some drinking buddies.

Step two: rotate designated driver duty.

Or, alternatively: get off your ass and WALK. Watch out for the drunk drivers.

Look this is not ideal for folks who want to go out and have a large drink with dinner.

Look, being maimed or killed by a drunk driver is not ideal for the tens of thousands of people it happens to.

Your right to consume an "ideal" quantity of alcohol in a restaurant and then drive home....does not supersede my right to travel without being injured, maimed, or killed.

Have someone else drive. Get a taxi. Have the alcohol at home. Drink less alcohol at dinner. Stay at the restaurant longer. Go for a walk after dinner.

The murder rate has also dropped along with Internet Explorer's market share

Correlation is not causation, son. Also, the US stands in stark contrast. Increase in gun restrictions, and rape has been the fastest declining category of violent crime. Violent crime overall has fallen something like 80% in the last 20-30 years.

There were bomb-sniffing dogs working the marathon - they were pulled once the elite runners had gone through and the dignitaries had left.

'There is no quick fix. Patching one hole in a boat that leaks everywhere is not going to keep it from sinking.'"

Hello, nirvana fallacy.

For those who aren't familiar, the basic explanation of the nirvana fallacy is rejecting a solution because it isn't perfect/ideal. In this case: rejecting a ban on the pesticide because there are other additional causes of colony collapse disorder that wouldn't be affected by such a ban.

Idiotic, and amazing that a scientist could utter it.

Thirty years ago, my high school chemistry teacher taught our (A.P.) class how to make some explosives. What better way to effectively demonstrate exothermic reactions?

And my teacher demonstrated lithium+water reactions, nitrogen triiodine crystals, hydrogen vs. hydrogen+oxygen mixture ignition, etc. With an abundance of safety talk and equipment so that we understood how dangerous some of the demos were.

If I'd dropped a chunk of lithium in a bucket of water on school property, I would fully have expected to be hauled before the principal. She had no business conducting unsupervised chemistry on school property - I refuse to use the term "experiment", because I think that's absolute bullshit. She was constructing a draino bomb as a prank, pure and simple, and was caught.