You, sir, are mentally deficient.

VDSL technologies do NOT provide a 100Mbps service.

They provide an UP TO 100Mbps service.

As the bandwidth capacity of the service is dependent on copper-length and quality the provider MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEES REGARDING SERVICE QUALITY.

However, with a fibre service, they DO provide guarantees, because fibre in the last mile is a truly digital service, either it works or it doesn't.

And when it works, it works at the full service specification, none of that WEASEL WORDING like "up to" which means they can charge you for 100Mbps service but if all you can get is 2Mbps YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE.

This is ONE of the MAJOR problems with ALL copper-in-the-last-mile services, it's all about THE PROVIDER legally being able to provide a FUCKING AWFUL SERVICE and still charge you premium service pricing.

AAAAND don't get me started on the MASSIVELY HUGE difference in upload speed between copper vs fibre in the last mile.

I have no reference to show for it but I read an article last year where there was DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE (someone did a study somewhere) that "feeding bees corn syrup" was most likely one of the factors contributing to CCD.

Again, this news was shouted down with "well if you can't prove that it absolutely in all cases leads CCD then we're not gonna change our practices".

Here in Australia a recent report showed that Coal Seam Gas exploration in this country was waved past all the usual environmental checks-and-balances by over-eager Government departments promised literally thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue.

And when I say "waved past" for example there was a specific case of an "environmental impact study" which *completely dopped* an entire chapter (er, the only chapter) evaluating contamination of the water table, which (oddly enough) was actually THE PRIMARY ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN.

Time and time again we see The Industry just bypassing ALL concerns in the interest of "but but but we'll make bazillions in profit".

Let me say this clearly: UNBRIDLED GREED AND LACK OF CARE FOR THE FUTURE WILL MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT UNABLE TO SUSTAIN HUMAN LIFE.

Identifying the skin-color of Dinosaurs will only serve to prove that Western Society STILL has fundamental issues with racial discrimination, ever after millions of years.

DRM was NEVER about "for the customers", nor was it EVER about "for the producers" , it's about how the content DISTRIBUTORS screw the paying public.

Unfortunately the reality of the situation is "won't somebody think of THE CHILDREN" (er,I mean The Starving Artists) arguments are all BALONEY.

DRM doesn't help starving anybodies, because it only takes ONE Copyright Violation and The Cat (er I mean The Content) Is Out Of The Bag and it's a free-for all.

The End Result is that DRM is NOTHING more than a major inconvenience to legitimate users.

DRM as a concept is EVIL, just like CENSORSHIP as a concept is EVIL.

Sure you can always think of some argument based on "in a pure and perfect world, this makes good sense", but IN PRACTICE all that happens is that perfectly good and upright citizens GET ROYALLY FUCKED OVER.

EVERY SINGLE TIME, LEGITIMATE USERS GET ROYALLY FUCKED OVER.

Seriously? You HONESTLY believe what you wrote?

I don't often bite back on such OBVIOUS BULLSHIT but you, sir are a complete ASSHAT.

The PRIMARY reason there is blatant and comprehensive copyright violation is because THE INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS (RIAA/MPAA,and friends) have a ridiculous stranglehold on distribution. And by RIDICULOUS I mean literally impossible for some customers (eg outside the USofA) to legally purchase some content.

LITERALLY impossible to purchase. In some cases literally FOR EVER, in most cases "what the hell do you mean I have to wait YEARS before I can legally purchase this content". And NO, for the record, I'm NOT only talking about "purchasing online", some content you CANNOT purchase even on "original media" (DVD or whatever) outside the US; for NO REASON other than "I control the distribution and I could not be bothered distributing THAT".

The Music/Movie distribution industry constantly sends a big FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU ALL to literally millions of customers - but STILL insists they have a right to cry UNFAIR.

Seriously folks, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY.

Let me say this again, there is ABSOLUTELY NO VALID MORAL ARGUMENT IN DEFENSE OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE MUSIC AND MOVIE INDUSTRY.

They have literally gone out of their way, time and time again, to make it actually impossible to purchase content (either at all, or online, or they simply restrict it to some obscure almost unused format, or they excessively compress it so it's ONY worth watching on the postage-stamp that is a 10 yr old phone).

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To be fair (and even handed) lets be clear, the MPAA/RIAA "claim" to be "the industry body" but IN PRACTICE they act in the interests of existing distribution channels (and NOT "the movie/music industry" as a whole).

100Gbps is inadequate today for a core system interconnect.

You can buy 100Gbps NETWORK interfaces (although, obviously not for your desktop PC, because, as per above THE BUS IS TOO SLOW)

I'll say it again, releasing technology to deliver 100Gbps interconnects at the system core is holding back innovation TODAY, not "in the future" - TODAY FOLKS!

ACTUALLY the article is arguing that the health-effects could be all in peoples mind.

Scientists were heard to comment "Is good! ... But is not Russian Standard!"

Although admittedly I'll be more excited when then can give the Three Blind Mice back their sight.

So what you're saying is that after Watson read The Urban Dictionary you had to install A Bullshit Detector?

Highest for the year $4.67 per gallon / 3.78541 litres per gallon = $1.233684065926808 per litre

Seriously, lets call it "somewhat less than one point two five"

The LOWEST price today was $1.28 here in Sydney, highest $1.559

America doesn't know the meaning of "expensive".

And just to be clear, the Sydney numbers mentioned above are:
- not the most expensive fuel has been all year
- not the most expensive fuel has been anywhere else in the country

(eg Melbourne hit $1.60/l for a while in October)

And just for good measure, MY dollar is worth more than yours
them prices I mentioned for Sydney are $DownUndahDollaz$ not $GreenBux$ (ie everything is "in local currency")

Raeally? You , sir, have clearly never heard of "video editing". (nor have you ever watched the movie "Sneakers").

Security! Come here and immediately revoke (with extreme prejudice) his Slashdot login.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Also:
- There are alternatives
- You can thank me later

Lack of sufficent funding to (eg) NASA is a fundamental problem, because it shows that The US of A is losing sight of some things which are really important.

I'm not just talking about "more science is good" but a thriving Space Program through NASA pumps something quite literally vital back into the economy.

Confidence In And Hope For The Future.

Almost NOTHING that NASA does is "for today", everything is long term, future thinking, "some day you will thank me for this" work.

Problems with lack of direction (etc) at NASA are mostly a reflection of uncertainty in funding (both current and future).

You can't blame the Captain of a ship that he's not steering anywhere useful when you won't put fuel in his tanks.