The subject says it all... smartass reply to the wrong post.

Now I'm afraid to take that new intelligence test.

It's what you do to dogpooh on your porch.

I thought patents did not prevent research that uses the patented material.

At any rate, allowing patents on discoveries (vs. inventions) is just stupid.

Jon Stewart had a comment along these lines back when the police raided someone's residence over the loose iPhone prototype (or whatever it was):

"What happened? Bill Gates is curing AIDS in Africa, and Steve Jobs is kicking down people's doors in Palo Alto!"

It used to be so simple to keep track of who was the good guys and who was the bad guys...

What the market will bear.

(IOW, how willing people are to be screwed.)

It's early yet.

Did you expect Slashdotters to brag about penis size and whether it indicates their worth as a person?

Their recruiters tell everyone that nerds always get the hot chicks.

If you're a supermodel, you don't need anything to wear for the occasion.

Well take off and landing is one thing (Not needing an airport infrastructure), but for actual battle in an atmosphere, I would expect wings would give you an advantage. Save power on lift and more power towards forward speed. Otherwise you will need the thrust shooting at an angle to keep the ship in the air. Also banking and and turning would be easier too. In space you wouldn't need wings, but stabilizers... however the wings on an X-Wing would be huge for what is needed.

I am surprised that the lego pieces at the bottom don't get crushed from the weight.

Most software you need to do the following.

Create Date
Read Data
Update Data
Delete Data.

CRUD for short. However in terms of the UI
you need to change the order to RCUD Read, Create, Update, Delete. As those are in the order of damage you can create from low to high.

So Reading data should be the easiest to do on your system, as most people should just be reading data.
Secondly create new data, should be the next step, as if you created something wrong typically it is the easiest to remove.
Updating data can cause more problems as you could change correct data to bad data, and often most systems you will not know what happened after you changed it.
Then Delete data, which is obviously could be bad if it was too easy.

Ah, building a porn site, are you?

It sounds like the objection was that he ran servers, the bandwidth thing was merely the trigger to ask.

I'm baffled ISPs still think "servers" are something that needs banning. Reminds me of when so many clueless ISPs banned NAT (or rather connection sharing between multiple PCs in general.)

If you are a rock climber, do you buy a rope that is rated for your body weight, or do you get one rated for multiple times your body weight?

As a home user, having the throughput is useful for the occasional splurge. Say backup your PC to a friends PC, while watching movies. However that is different then a constant load of data on the network.

The pricing of your internet connection is based on the idea you will not use it all. So you can share with others. If you just go nuts on it you will get a call because you are just being greedy.