Seems like companies overcharging this much for cables are doing the world a favor. This money needs to be extracted from these people before it could be spent where it might do real harm.

My ISP too, I seem to get a different class-a network each day. They must have a ton of IP addresses.

One of the sites at a company I worked for provides fake data back when people attempt sql injection, sort of a honeypot to keep hackers interested long enough to track them down.

Always start by making sure the backups are working properly.

What I'd like to see is a municipal fiber line to a central office in every neighborhood. Then it would be possible to have dozens of of ISPs, telcos and cable companies competing for your business. Municipalities just made responsible for keeping the line from your house to a central building up and running. I think that would see the most choice and lowest cost in the long run. Having two companies (phone, cable) run data lines to your house doesn't allow much competition or innovation.

We can't wait that long, city revenues are down again!

That is actually a good thing, then legally it would have to come back to the actual contract, not what might have been inferred through an email.

Groupon could also have a way to stagger the date that you can redeem the certificates for example for every 10 they sell, the first date it can be used on goes forward one day. Probably by the time it got to a month people would stop ordering, but at least they would have the option to still buy and wait a month for their cheap cupcakes...

This is why I refuse to ever buy ANYTHING with drm, music, software or ebooks.

To start with, if they sent their DNA off to China, not very smart.