Now that we've discovered our soon to be lizard overlord's base entrance, what are they going to do about it? I for one welcome our new overlords.

All this talk about bandwidth, I'm more interested in the amount of storage space needed back here on earth to store all that data being transferred. 461GB of data per day is around 3.2TB of data per week or a little less than 1.7 Petabytes of data per year (I think.. if my math is correct). Once you add in all of their other storage needs that's one hell of a SAN.

That's because if an American gets laid off they don't receive social security as a "benefit", they receive unemployment compensation which is completely different.

That thing looks pretty cool. I'm definitely gonna check it out. Thanks!

Didn't you hear? Illinois Law is the end all be all over the internet.

I'm still waiting on the 9" or 10" netbook tablet type to be put on the market. That way I can spend the $300 for it and be able to use it as an ebook reader as well as a laptop instead of spending the same amount on just the ebook reader from Sony or Amazon or any of the others out there.

"subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human condition of greed, fear, and exploitation."

Considering no one has ever met an alien from another world before, I don't see how these "conditions" can be attributed to humans alone. As far as any of us know greed, fear and exploitation could be the three most common things in the universe.

A swing and a miss!

WOW, talk about negative karma. Good luck with that.

We gave Europe the internet??? When did this happen?!

You mean like the fucktards that can't even sign up for an account and have post their troll like whining as an anonymous coward? Yea, I'm with ya on that.

A few decades? 50Mb is coming out now, don't think it will be a few decades before 100Mb will be out and common place. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14481 Of course, if Bittorrent crashes who needs a 50Mb line anyway? ;)

Uhhh... 98SE came out BEFORE WinME... seems to me they got it right and then misstepped and fell flat on their face. Bad example. Or are you saying that.. LOL.. you liked WinME?

Offtopic: Is there a reason why when I was reading this story in my igoogle page that an ad for Al Jazeera showed up in the reader window? Since when has slashdot starting accepting ads from terrorist supporting organizations.

Who said anything about wanting to run OS X? I don't, never said I did. My whole argument was that I don't HAVE to run OS X and can CHOOSE not to because it is within my right to do so and run something else for cheaper. That is precisely HOW capitalism works. I can go buy a Psystar computer tomorrow and put windows or linux on it no problem. I may choose to do that, just to stick it to Apple. By NOT putting OS X on it I stick it to them even further by not buying their OS at all and still fund the company they are suing. Just as its within my rights to demand fair pricing for the products I buy, its within apple's rights to charge whatever they want. In so doing all they do is hurt themselves because people who demand a fair price will not buy their product and go elsewhere. Anyone can run their own business how they want, it just so happens that Apple has decided to do it stupidly. Good for them.