It would take 30 seconds to dial-out a request for water to shower with. Then you have to wait for the heat to download. Once you finally have hot water, it will randomly shut off and there you stand, shivering. So you decide to give up and get out but when you reach for the towel, its only partially there and corrupted. So you make a request for the rest of the towel, wait 30 seconds for the connection again, and realize that you have to start the download over so you try to make the partial towel work for your needs only to realize that its just not going to work. So you go ahead and restart the towel download but it instantly shows complete, but yet there is no towel. Now you have to wait on AOL to clear your cache, start the download again, and get disconnected once more. You would jump out the window but a request to open it would just be futile.

Exactly my point! Yet I still get comments stating the backups are deleted. These must be the people who are running these servers.

I may be wrong, but is it not a standard procedure to rsync files to one backup location that is not directly accessible from the original data and then have a backup of the backup in an offsite location? The backup-backup should contain a pool of data that is no longer on the original drive but is kept for such purposes as this. I may be missing some piece of the puzzle here, but in the scenarios I have been involved in this was the setup and has greatly restricted the ability to lose ANY data. Of course we dealt with small businesses and may not have been subjected to such a large attack.

How are situations like this still happening?

Finally! I can make my Artificial Intelligence algorithms into a living thing!

"remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post"

So if an ANONYMOUS poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post, its okay. So all we have to do is contact an ANONYMOUS poster, correct? That should be easy! So I suppose they aren't really anonymous then, are they?

I'm not suggesting he should actually be convicted as the cause of Tyler's death. I am more-so referring to the list of 15 or so charges brought against him, although my bad joke made it impossible to see. Throw the 'cause-of-death' charge out the door and he still should have served more. Of course, try as you may, it won't make him more tolerant, but may make him a bit more careful about the actions he takes. My sarcasm can derail and provide you with the post I made above. I was making a point through a bad joke.

As for your question at the end, I'm not sure I see the difference. Maybe the world is much more intolerant than I have been willing to admit, but I just don't see a difference between whether the boy was homosexual or not.

I agree with you mostly because I have been witness to the example I presented and have seen it go both ways dependent on the cooperation of the defendant and the amount of prior convictions. I am also not asking he be charged with anything directly related to the suicide but there were 15 charges brought against him I believe, and if you can turn that into only 30 days, then I find something to be wrong. The way I see it, this will teach him nothing of tolerance and care. This cannot be mended through fines and jail time. I also do not have a CLUE as to what would be a proper punishment, so I suppose I should have never typed out this comment. Oh well.

:D

"Mr. Ravi was not charged with causing Mr. Clementi’s death, but the suicide hung heavily over the trial" So that means he still gets away with invasion of privacy. I suppose he should go work for Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.Hell, make that ANY company that has access to personal information!

I used to drink 2-4 pots daily (more on a few occasions) and it messed my digestion system up badly as well as my urinary system. So I stopped, completely. When withdrawals came into play (and they were pretty strong effects), I started drinking again but went down to one pot a day and it has been that way since. So yes, hard to ingest that much, but still not unlikely to happen.

As far as any actual major problems, I was obviously joking about the seeing a doctor thing.