I'm confused as to why they actually needed to ask. Don't they have the ability to peek into the direction, ports/protocols and external addresses being used during transfers? I mean, if they can see a bunch of traffic on ports 568 or 119 from "newshosting.com", they can safely assume the user is leeching from a Usenet server, for example. I have to think there's at least one person who works for the ISP capable of running WireShark on a mirrored port and able to make sense of the data. Is it a privacy thing?

I completely agree and would mod you up if I had any points; Humans have accomplished these mile-stones (or baby steps?) and it shouldn't matter, over all, who has the biggest dick. Competition is a fantastic motivator, but shouldn't be the main purpose for advancing our species.

No one runs from you Petey, they just walk away from the ridiculous bullshit you spew. It is kind of nice to see that you're still using phrases like "ad hominem", "sockpuppet" and "P.S.=>", however.

And yes, I am attacking you on a personal level. I don't need to say anything about your completely ignorant statements regarding hosts file usage or the one program you wrote 10 years ago...plenty of people on the interwebs do that for me. I'd rather point out what a loser you must be to troll every forum (the ones you haven't been banned from, anyway) looking for anyone who might have the audacity to dare speak negatively of you so you can then reference multiple 3-year old posts and the names of anyone who have done you wrong (you act like a pissed off girl mad at her cheating ex-boyfriend the way you do that, BTW).

Oh well, at least you've provided me with some entertainment. :-)

Oh. My. God. I just laughed so hard I farted. It does my heart good to know that even after many years here on /. that douche bag is still the butt of jokes.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/AccuWeathercom-Astronomy/178186248887910 The Bz isn't going negative. It still could, but it hasn't as of yet.

It isn't moving south nearly as far as originally predicted/hoped.

You are right. You don't see it. Good job!

He decided that it was a waste of time. You wouldn't comprehend anyway.

The description of every office visit CPT code (which is what I was talking about) ends "Typically, X minutes are spent face-to-face with the patient and/or family."

If you billed a code that should "typically" take 40 minutes, and you didn't speak to me for more than 5, you are almost certainly billing the wrong code.

Not only see what the price is, see what they told your insurance company they did. It is rampant to bill a longer office visit (the time that the Dr is actually speaking to/examining you) than what actually happened. I will generally give them the benefit of the doubt, but if they rush in/rush out and then bill my insurance a code saying they spent about 25 minutes with me....I have to call and complain. I have high deductible insurance...I have to pay it.

Why would rock band be capitalized for the generic meaning?

FTFY. Most of the rest is just general tax money, from everyone...no matter how they get around.

I am curious to conduct an experiment on this. What does someone have to do at a light/stop sign to get a negative response from someone in a car watching?

Example, if you ride thru in a car....yes that is very dangerous to all and everyone would disapprove. If you walk thru...would not get a response from most (I suppose) because that is only dangerous to that person...and since nobody wants to be hit by a car you assume that they can see there is no car coming (even though this is still against the rules). On a bike....the same rules apply that do to the person walking, you might scratch someone's paint but you are really only putting yourself at risk. However, I suspect that the bicyclist would make more people angry.

Since I don't think that we are naturally wired to dislike people on bicycles, there has to be another reason why. Probably that there is a small percentage of cyclists who act like complete douchebags when they get on the road? I wonder how close that number is to the number of people in cars who do the exact same thing?

Full disclosure. I commute by bike. If I can see that nobody is coming...I am riding thru. I live in a medium/small city with a very small downtown area...if I lived in a larger city I would certainly take another look at that strategy.

I commute by bike every day. It has to be pretty windy from the right (wrong) direction for me to breathe much harder than I would be if I were walking. Some people want to show everyone how into cycling they are and what great shape they are in (in which case, they probably aren't breathing that hard either).....but some of us are just "pedal pedal coast, pedal pedal coast"ing to work.

You probably use FF because you just like it more in general. But in case anyone wants to know.

Type chrome:plugins in the address bar to open the Plug-ins page.
On the Plug-ins page that appears, find the "Flash" listing.
To enable Adobe Flash Player, click the Enable link under its name.
To disable Adobe Flash Player completely, click the Disable link under its name.