Sprint is writing a book: how to kill your business. You have an underutilized network, and are shedding customers so what do you do -- you don't allow yourself to have a huge competitive advantage.

Here's an idea: allow tethering. Limit it to 50 megs a day. Charge a $1 more is you want to get unlimited tethering that day. Simple. Your casual user isn't going to get a card. Your business user isn't going to tether all the time when corp headquarters can get a laptop wwan built in. Plus aren't you supposed to be pushing XOHM wimax sometime soon?

It is. Man I need to borrow their marketing speak.

What happens when the kids performance becomes an important contribution to family income? Then the kid actually can't score well on a subject and ? What happens when a kid hits the news for being beaten by a parent for not scoring well? What happens when kids cheat to score higher? What happens when its easier to mug the kid who did well then to be the kid that did well? Its a piss poor solution to complex problem.

They probably just ran out of baguettes & wine.

1) Use math. Store only X number of connections. Distribute enough copies that statistically speaking all parts (with parity data) are always available. Distribute it on Adeona installs, where the storage requirements would be # of copies * size of entries * redunancy. If you only keep say the last 30 entries, that shouldn't be much of a table. The data should just be encrypted to a pgp key. users can either keep a copy of the key or pay to have adeona create a key pair and store it for them.

2) Use the cloud, or a personal server. Dump into an amazon s3 account or a user specified server. The user pays for any s3 storage (pennies), if it goes to s3, nothing for their own.

So in a nutshell, its like raid-1 (mirroring) for your box? Interesting. Anyone know if an operation crashes the system, will it bsod both systems? or is it only physical/network faults that are tolerated?

You do know Google is the biggest sponsor of the Mozilla foundation?

So instead of all going to one place (ala red light district / hamsterdam) its going to go all over and create a hassle for regular users. That sounds like a brilliant solution!

I don't have a problem with TFA other than its sensationalist title. Really? Do desktop users want to run AD & LDAP on their machines? I didn't know grandma would be compiling from source with different compiler flags. I know grandpa wants nothing less than to be able to set his mixer settings for digital line in. Most users don't need these features, nor will they encounter the issues. It's not a bad "To Fix" list and I agree with most of the list -- but its a far cry from its title.

Moral of the story: to get your post on slashdot, make sure your title fans the fanboy flamewars.

I agree. Thats a real credibility buster for second mention. Ubuntu a disappointment because it hasn't unseated Windows in a few years -- C'mon! Anyone using Ubuntu would not call it a dissappointment. Its a great product. The main reason more people don't use it is because (1) it hasn't reached critical mass (yes I know thats a bit "chicken and egg") (2) Geeks who support relatives/companies/schools with bootlegs. If people stop reinstalling windows for people who can't find the cds, the lost product stickers, or don't have licenses to productivity and other software, I think many people would be using ubuntu and other linux distros.

Don't men pee sitting down in Germany? Not sure if a society where fellow men don't pee standing up can be considered cool.

Since when does quantum physics make something impossible? Probably never.

Seriously! Thats all he needs! Why the big hubub? Mostly he'll need ram!

I used to use Joomla 1.5 for my company site. Then tried doing it over in Drupal and Wordpress. If you have a single maintainer, Wordpress wins hands down on both the easy and extensible ends. If you know any php you can do a lot with Wordpress and the functions are well documented. Its was much easier to customize templates in WP than an Joomla or Drupal. If you just want a site or blog out the box, and cant code to save your life, templates and plugins are easy to use.