Vertical transmission means you close off the borders to transmission and only transmit from parent to child.

If you are really concerned about latency then a private cloud would be the best solution.,

Ah, but you see... It's not about private clouds... it's not me alone that is concerned about latency... it would be my customers that would be considering using a cloud service for their internal servers, because there are no big datacenters nearby, but my datacenter is nearby...

The big cloud providers' datacenters are far-away net-wise, so I ought to be able to service some latency-sensitive workloads with good performance at a level of service that Linode/Rackspace could not possibly hope to provide... naturally, I would expect to be paid a premium for doing this, but if there is sufficien demand, it still ought to be reasonable for me to build..

Accepting them is a "no-brainer" as a donation, there is no loss. But for any other serious financial transaction, well, unless you are a mobster or a dope dealer or otherwise involved in something illegal, the real question is WHY DEAL WITH IT.

Stick a bunch of fluorescent lights in the ground nearby and get free light (and suck power from the lines, thank you induction).

And if Linode/Rackspace's nearest datacenters are so far from your geography, that the latency is too high for internal business apps?

Other than SMS, people still use IM? Is the Internet populated solely by 14 year old basement dwellers and 50 year old ASL pervs?

It's nice to be "outraged", but connection to reality generally drives the actions that people who have something to spend and something to lose do.

A lawyer sending a uppity letter alleging this and that is not illegal. Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

But by all means, become "outraged", it's what the Internet is about these days, not rational clear thinking, apparently.

The guy with the iPhone was particularly pissed. *LOL*

According to what I've read, you can't shut the camera OFF with Glass, so yes, I know they're filming.

And yes, I have grabbed cell phones that flash a picture and thrown them to the floor.

You DO NOT have the right to film and photograph the general public without their permission.

My phone told me a good friend of mine discovered the great Penis Pills. So I ordered a case.

First of all, both these comapnies web sites are identical. Second of all, they look like some 14 year old put them together.

Look, this is just some sweatshop lawyer who wrote q $200 threatening letter. The threat has no value, and should be ignored.

You are realizing how bad things really are in your life, and it depresses you, so you're engaging in a little misogyny in order to feel better about yourself.

Somehow it was necessary to mention that the budget was affected by sequestration?

With population exploding, shouldn't we return to an era where the weak were culled out? With chronic unemployment as the new norm, maybe there's just too many people. It's like managing these "lifestyle" diseases - back in the day old people had the grace to die of diabetes or a heart attack, now they live until 90, but don't work the last 30 years of their lives, effectively eating the seed corn of the new generation. We're soon going to be victims of our own successes.