The thing is, that might actually be interesting.

Since in networking, fair billing is generally considered to be 95th percentile of the data rate (not volume), that would amount to a fixed billing (since the connection only goes so fast).

The power company fairly charges for amount rather than rate because they have to burn fuel based on amount. ISPs have to deploy capacity based on rate but it costs the same when it is idle most of the time as when it is fully utilized.

Not necessarily. In many cases, double encrypting it will not make it at all harder to crack, it will just effectively encrypt it with a composite key no more complex than either of the keys you used.

Perfect time for a car analogy

if you buy a PC in the stores, it will have fans and heatsinks. They will do the job MOST people want from it. but if one wants to take said car to the track, (push the CPU) they might make some upgrades. such as a cold air intake, picture an upgraded cooler on a PC as a cold air intake on a car, it doesnt add a whole lot to the deal ,but it does make a difference.

Yeah, because what's interpreted one way today could be interpreted another tomorrow. So... good sig.

You seem unaware that the law is mostly a protest.

There were only two sentences in my paragraph, was it really too hard to read BOTH of them? But, in general, it seems like the sort of thing the news would be all over reporting considering the hysteria over laser pointers and such.

Add a tiny little town in Co. to the list and you're golden!

Please go look up 'typically' in the dictionary and consider how it might apply to statistics.

Isn't management supposed to be in charge of figuring out dollar amounts? Aren't they the ones who are supposed to have the mad communication skills?

Seems to me all they'd need to do is match up address books to make a reasonable guess as to which old and new accounts are whom. Not much different from what Facebook and LinkedIn already do, albeit for "who knows whom". Same principle, tho.

I believe this study came out of Florida after concealed carry became legal there; you can probably find it easily enough -- the gist was that tho lawful carrying of weapons had greatly increased, there were NO resulting cases of either escalations or shootings.

There have been at least a few cases of SWAT operations against people who've committed the 'crime' of owning too many animals.

I think that's an insighful interpretation, yep. Going into my Useful Quotes file. :)

I agree (tho Philip is right about the definition of "well-regulated"). And it occurs to me that were the 2nd Amendment allowed full scope and force, a great deal of what the ACLU decries and has moved to defend against would never have happened in the first place.

Which to my mind throws their ACLU's entire premise into a suspect light; how can you have civil liberties if you're prohibited from defending those liberties, and must rely on others to do so for you? (Not can, but must.)

The MS campus is littered with the bones of it's former partners.

The problem is they waited too long to take some useful action until the cash infusion was their only hope.

An earlier move to Android could have worked, after all they were known for producing really good hardware and they had the software abilities to make an actually good modified Android. Then as long as they had the drivers and kernel for their hardware, they could have also continued with other flavors of Linux on their hardware which would have given them a small but dedicated fanbase to help sustain them for very little extra development cost.