I think we are seeing a glimpse of the future. Here in the USA we've spent a century building infrastructure that nobody appears to want to maintain. A levee breaks, a bridge collapses. The real folks to blame are ourselves for not kicking up a stink the poor state of our country's infrastructure. We should also blame a political system that is only interested in buying votes and getting paid rather than doing what is best for our country. If our politicians understand that infrastructure = votes, then things may change if corruption doesn't get in the way.

Nobel Prizes are for basic science research (at least the science ones are). No way Linus is worthy of a Peace Prize. There is already a prize that would fit him though - the Millennium Technology Prize. Although it seems everyone forgot it already, Tim Berners-Lee won this two years ago.

They'll give a Nobel Peace Prize to ANYBODY these days...just look at the last guy who got it... Don't flame, I like Obama a lot, but I'll be damned as to why he won a peace prize for stuff he is 'going' to do

Thats Stallman actually ..

At least in the post-WW2 era, I think this is true. Even in the pre-WW2 era, you could argue that too much emphasis was placed on the negotiators of peace treaties (many of which were more like terms of surrender) than the other part of the definition. I do think that, in retrospect, Gorbachev did deserve it (or at least led a group of people who did so) "for the abolition or reduction of standing armies" by pushing the Soviet Union towards a peaceful end to the cold war. But... awarding it to him in 1990, when the relatively peaceful transition of Russia out of the cold war was far from a certain outcome, meant it was really just luck that they actually got one right. Not to mention that the credit really belonged jointly to Gorbachev and Reagan, but it seems like the Nobel committee has a distinct dislike for those on the political right.

If he actually did win the prize, wouldn't there be strife if they mis-pronounced his name?

Negative, if the ISP allows the business or school to setup their own PTR records it will certainly tell you what business or school uses that IP. Most ISPs will even update the WHOIS information as well. Also, most school systems lease their own IP blocks right from ARIN, not the ISP. So they could have used reverse DNS and/or a WHOIS lookup

Search ARIN WHOIS for: 199.119.29.51
OrgName: Gwinnett County Public Schools
OrgID: GWINN-3
Address: 437 Old Peachtree Road NW
City: Suwanee
StateProv: GA
PostalCode: 30024-2978
Country: US
NetRange: 199.119.28.0 - 199.119.31.255
CIDR: 199.119.28.0/22
NetName: GCPS-NETBLK-ARIN-1
NetHandle: NET-199-119-28-0-1
Parent: NET-199-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.GWINNETT.K12.GA.US
NameServer: NS2.GWINNETT.K12.GA.US
NameServer: NS4.GWINNETT.K12.GA.US
Comment:
RegDate: 2009-03-27
Updated: 2009-03-27

Not real hard. By the way, nslookup is deprecated. You should stop using it.

Reverse DNS

The phone worked really well which isn't really a suprise when you consider their reputation for well made hardware (mice, keyboard, etc) until the Xbox 360 came out years later. The voice recognition was amazing and it used the addressbook on my computer, supported multiple mailboxes, synced with the computer clock, etc. How was I to know that they would kill it by not supporting it with Windows 2k?

You mean by offering VoIP and IPTV services over their wired-phone based internet connection? They are with their Lightspeed/Uverse service which I am really happy with.

Microsoft had a 900 MHz phone a little over 10 years ago that did this and it worked really well for me until it was no longer supported when Windows 2000 came out. You can read about it here here.

I used to work as an email admin for a large ISP (over 5 million users) and SORBS was very receptive about removing false positive IPs from their list...if we paid them. We finally had to tell customers and outside users that complained to stop using SORBS and use other well run RBLs like Spamhaus.

I thought that a few years back there were computers along the quality lines of eMachines were almost "free", but you had to agree to watch pop up adds on the desktop. Wouldn't this count as prior art?

Right, but this is about the last mile to the homes.

Don't worry, I wan't naive enough to think that there would be a lot of sympathy, especially here. While a price war benefits the consumer that already has broadband in the short term, it can have a negative effect in the long run on the already slow pace of providing broadband access to more people outside of the major metropolitan areas. That was the primary point I was trying to get across.