It's how they make sure the kids are presentable for their class pictures.

Granted, I could have elaborated more. But I assumed any reader would know what I meant.

And how much of that was actually her? Or how much of it was her job as Solicitor General? It's a far cry from arguing the position of one's employer to actually holding one's own position on such matters.

That's a refreshing bit for me right there. I'll admit that I don't follow politics much and don't really know anything about this person. But if neither dominant party thinks she's toeing the line enough then that's _exactly_ the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court.

Agreed. Just deliver the product you sold me, that's all.

My main concern whenever I hear of these caps is, what about bandwidth I can't control? Does it count against me if someone DDOSes me? (A site I was hosting for development purposes was once DDOSed by Google's crawler for a few days, that burns through a few gigs no problem.) Does it count against me when the next big worm hits and I'm getting hit with useless requests? (Remember Nimda? I was on an early cable connection with AT&T and my Apache logs were showing about 10-20 Nimda requests per second for nearly a week, some of which were from AT&T's own servers.) Will software updates (Windows Update, virus scanner updates, and any number of patches and new versions of various software packages) count against me? After all, keeping software up to date is a vital step in preventing malicious software from running amok on the network and consuming bandwidth.

If they want to keep me as a customer, they best be prepared to answer these questions. The DSL in my area is actually pretty competative with Time Warner, and competition from the likes of Verizon are looming in the distance.