Had it for a bit under a week, so far no glitches and I'm really loving it!

ATM cells in your DSL line have ~10% overhead
each TCP/IP packet has ~2.5% overhead in best case
TCP/IP handhakes(and resets) might add another 2-3%

So 20% overhead in data transfered vs useful data is actually realistic over DSL line

This makes sense.. really...
If I'm a true fan, I have liked the page and am liking a lot of updates from the page... therefore FB sees that I am interested in the content provided by the page and i get 100% of hes updates
If i have liked the page by accident (or just don't really care about what it has to say), then i don't "like" the updates of the page and soon enough i will stop getting them... (except for really popular ones)
So if I'm not getting the updates, i DON'T CARE about them and its perfectly fair for FB to charge him for spamming my news-feed.
I understand that he has invested in advertising but hes got the return from that... a lot of users who liked the page and got temporary exposure to he brand.. expecting this to go on forever is like expecting that if you publish a TV ad, then every person who has seen one of your ad's is committed to see all your other adds (multiple a day) for the rest of eternity....
Also he forgets to mention that by doing a sponsored post, he will get exposure to users who have not yet liked hes page...

This actually is due to regulators, classifying the 13th work hour as overtime would entitle the employee to certain benefits and might be even illegal (i.e. emergency workers are allowed overtime only in case of large scale emergency in order to avoid mistakes from fatigue)

In some cases schedules of many organizations have to be coordinated (i.e. all ER crews/fire crews/etc. in a city cant have a shift change at the same time) so changing them is complicated and since in most cases people have worked out their schedule based on personal preferences, a lot would oppose the standard time based schedule (i.e. "sorry you cant pick up your kid from school in winter since you will be finishing at 4PM instead of 3PM").

What fun would be programming schedules / calendars / payrolls if we didn't have one 25h and one 23h day in a year.

On one specific day, we have to pay a worker for 13 hours while hes on a 12 hour shift and not count the extra hour as overtime
and on another specific day, we need to pay for 11 hours and still count the 12 hour shift fully filled.
If there were no DST then we could replace huge modules of business logic with just one or two lines of code... and thats bad for (our) business

Lets build a petrol power plant, direct its exhausts to this new CO2 -> petrol power plant and feed the created petrol back in the petrol power plant...
If we are efficient enough, we might have discovered a way to burn petrol without any pollution or energy created

In some cases, data-URI might be still faster (though less bw-effective), i.e if you take the original example and account for 54ms latency (3way handshake+initial response packet) then reloading the page (with all images cached) would take 0,054*20=1,08s since a query to the server for each image is still required

When using high-latency - high-throughput connection (i.e. mobile, satellite) then data-URI will be a lot faster than caching.

Take a website with 100 small images, with average image size 10kb, latency (3-way handshake+data) = 25ms, and your bandwidth = 10Mbit/s

Using 5 paralel connections (max allowed by http) the site will download in 10/1280*100 + 0,025*20 = 1,28 seconds

Embeding all images in original document using data URI's (~1.37x overhead to data size but no latency impact), the site will download in 10*100*1,37/1280 = 1,07 seconds

HTTP2.0 / SPDY will solve this, but it will take many years till they are widely adopted.

http://xkcd.com/1085//

Most of time noone cares what you have to say

When someone cares they will have the means to listen in

http://xkcd.com/538//

It doesn't include Stockholm (Sweden) for example, thanks to public infrastructure basic TV+phone+100/100 subscription costs 14$

I live in Tallinn (Estonia) and i get cable (~100 channels) + phone (unlimited) + 250/50 net for ~35$

If there were protests in California (with 1 policeman and 8 rioters dead) and Russia would send tens of thousands of troops and tanks to California, to which US responded by attacking invading Russians... would that be considered an unprovoked attack on "international peace-keepers" as well?

All war activities (including bombing) started after Russian invasion in Georgia, what country in its right state of mind wouldn't defend itself?

South Ossetia is still under Russian military occupation...

I live in EU and i fly to Egypt twice a year to update my drug supply (in addition to a nice vacation).
I have chronic migraine (serious pain every 3-5 days, I've seen all the best doctors nearby and no one can help me)
There is one drug that can take the pain away in ~2 hours... the problem... it costs 80$ (after subsidies) a pill thanks to patents.
On average i need 2 pills per seizure (my worst has been 4 pills).
Buying the medications from EU will mean around 15k / year

In Egypt they sell a generic version of the same drug, only they don't pay patent fees... it costs 2$ for a box of 20 pills.
So going to Egypt twice a year and bringing back the maximum legal amount of the medicine costs me around 1k / year and i get 2 weeks of vacation as a bonus

So yes, I would buy it on-line if i could, but it's illegal thanks to the same companies who are making 8000%+ margin on the pills...

In hindsight, wouldn't answers:

• None
• 1
• 2
• 3-5
• 6-10
• 10+
• Cowboy Neal

make more sense? Since most of us carry 1 to 2 photo ID's it would have been insightful to find out whether majority carries 1 or 2

Summarizing them is like asking:
"How many fingers most sawmill employees have on one hand"

• 1-3
• 4-5

Patents are OK as long as you actually invent and market/license something.
If you take some exiting idea, patent it and expect other companies to pay you for it... then you must be living in the US...

This is virtually the same thing as laptop docs... not to mention existing mobile docs (Motorla Lapdock)
Anyone claiming license fees or royalties from this "invention" is actually hindering innovation and it's widespread adoption

That is security, in as much as you have to know the names on the list to get in.

MAC filtering is at least as effective as WEP

Nope. In order to beat MAC filtering you have to capture 1 packet, in order to beat WEP you have to capture and analyze ~200k packets

On low usage AP the time difference to beat the security can be in days