It would have been more of a mistake if there was any hope his opponent would have been better on these issues. Frankly, the only reason any Republicans are speaking out against the NSA is because it's Obama's NSA. They were just as complicit as the rest of us when they rammed the Patriot Act through.

Summary is correct. The only way to stay off of Facebook is to not have any friends.

You're absolutely right! Sex education has been virtually outlawed in the USA by the religious right, witness the result.

I saturate my gigabit link all the time transferring videos from one SATA3 SSD to another. 10GBE would be cool, but not entirely necessary.

I hope they don't do this regularly. If I pay for a box seat at the ballet, I sure don't want to be sitting on somebody's lap!

They claim to have already designed and built the thing (and have some pictures of a plausible-looking prototype). They just need your hard-earned cash to actually put it into space and build the web portal, [sarcasm]because they forgot about that part in their original budget[/sarcasm]. I feel like the kickstarter page is a publicity stunt instead of a necessary fundraising tool. It's also terribly disingenuous of them to post Hubble images and say "you can take pictures of these" (which most people read as "like these"), implying that their 15cm "main optic" flying at the lowest possible orbit will get anywhere near that amount of pointing stability or resolution.

That said, anything that makes people think about space science, or even make them feel they have a financial stake in it is probably a good thing.

He meant Naked Supermodel Watching Day, which is in fact every day. A bunch of naked dudes in their basements watching supermodel videos on the internet.

The whole point of the TOS is to make everyone violate it so they can terminate anyone for any reason at any time.

This. You can enjoy FIOS and run a personal server without being a f**king data center. I have 150/65, bit torrent, netflix, ssh, ftp, minecraft, three techie roommates, but we rarely go over 2TB/month. Once I left a bunch of things seeding and my brother downloaded a ton of anime and we hit 4TB. Mostly I just love downloading the 300GB/month we use at 10 mega BYTES per second.

The only reason franchised dealers were created in the first place was so manufacturers could "shift the responsibility for providing the land, buildings and inventory to dealers". The whole point of the franchise model is so manufacturers can screw their dealers whenever they like.

From the link, this hilarious quote: "Even a small dealership requires an investment of between $12 million and $16 million. ... No successful auto manufacturer could or would want to assume the financial burden of taking over those operational." (He then goes on to claim that dealerships magically produce tax money and jobs that somehow wouldn't exist in a company store or end up back in the consumers' pockets.)

So when a manufacturer comes along with a product that actually makes it cost-effective to properly invest in their customer experience, they get cut out simply because previous companies were too cheap to do it themselves.

Good news! Your theory is being tested in practice as we speak. Hope you are pleased with the results.

Does Comcast need to rebuild all their infrastructure too? There may not be any landline game in town for some time.

The engineers at Verizon aren't complete idiots, you know. I'm sure they've calculated the cost of adding some cells to handle the demand and found it cheaper than running new copper. And if the business drones are worth the suits on their backs they'll be worried about Comcast poaching customers, so they wouldn't balk at *some* investment to recover from a disaster with some of their reputation intact.

This is not necessarily true anymore. Several times our neighbors' phones went out with the power, but our FIOS phone and cell phones still worked (and continued to work when I plugged our terminal into a bigger UPS). I chalk it up to a bad/insufficient UPS on the copper-to-fiber switches somewhere upstream. We don't get copper back to the switch board anymore.

Also, what Verizon didn't say was how many customers in the town were actually subscribed to copper landlines before the storm. It's possibly most of them had cut the cord already.

Because if you take the "super" off of "supersonic" you get "sonic", not "subsonic". If you fly AT the speed of sound, wouldn't end up producing a steady stream of sonic booms? That really would suck.

That is a good point about the treaties. Thus the law is only applicable in the hilarious circumstance where they can say to a judge, "We know the owner is a U.K. citizen, but we don't know who."