You Canucky types seem to get the short end of the stick far too often :( you poured out your hearts for Operation Yellow Ribbon back in the day and you have two crappy ISPs (Rogers is famed even down here), a lot of snow and second tier billing (Netflix, Wal-Mart, etc).

Just a cheery nod to our friends North of the border, a thanks for being good neighbors, and sorry we suck as neighbors. Not all Yanks are raving morons, and this one appreciates having you guys next door to us.

PS - Girls from Nova Scotia are hawt. Hawt I say! Thank you, that is all :)

The way amazon does it in 7-11 is they will mail you a code. Go to 7-11 (if Wawa did this I'd move back to Philly and would never leave their stores), punch it in, and grab yer l3wtz. Just like a bus locker. The dimensions aren't great...10x10x10 or some such.

Good for me since I get small electronics a lot and really don't want it sitting on my stoop all day in downtown DC...

Besides politics yikes I opened myself up there. I meant more like if we globally threw X into SATCOM and Y into receivers, how much dinero do we realistically, technologically, need to give fair (5MBPS up/down) globally? Doesn't mean the question is any easier to answer hehe but whatever.

I must simply ask the question....is there any reason save money that we aren't already truly globally connected, at fair speeds for all?

I remember a History teacher once mentioning that if the US enjoyed the same amount of time in power as the Roman Empire, we would see the end of said power around the year 2600 (and yes, I am keenly aware of the double entendre there).

Anyone wanna lay a bet that we won't make it nearly that long? Africa has a lot going for it - were there to be a confederation formed there, it would be interesting to see the balance of power shift. They have a population, raw resources, and are increasingly tech savvy.

I was of the understanding that the reason Firefox hasn't been ported to iOS because it is open source. Same reason that VLC got yoinked from the App Store. Since there is no method to distribute the source from the same location as the finished product, it violates the F/OSS nature of the product.

Not saying I agree or disagree with it, just reporting what facts I know. Anyone who has different, factual information, please correct me.

Which is why I transpose everything into ROT-13, then do it once more, for good measure! Try and catch me coppers muahahahahaha

PS - I pay for 50 down and 10 up. Given that I live in DC and we have great pipes, I actually get about 55 down and 14 up. Easy to get to insane numbers when you have insane bandwidth for home use.

Hehe - I have been out of town for a couple of weeks. I consoled into my home box yesterday to check something out. Turns out I left my freenet node running before I left town. Whoops - there is 688 GB I'll never see again. Thank goodness my ISP is not yet employing limits on usage (though the day is sure coming)

Are you sure about Mr. Handy? 0:16-0:17 tells me that Mr. Handy has a bit of murder-death-kill in his chips. He's soooooooooooooooo handy indeed... /em looks suspiciously at floating robot

I hate to repost a statement, but I made this a couple of days ago in regards to java in another /. story.

Who do we trust? We gotta trust someone/something at some point. I use VPN, proxies, Tor, Freenet, and some other things frequently. Still though, I gotta trust Google with some of my mail. I gotta trust Comcast with some of my pipes. Heck, I gotta trust the Devs of Tor/Freenet for that matter. I gotta trust Apple/Samsung/HTC/et al with the hardware.

I could crawl though every line of precompiled code for the services mentioned above. Still doesn't help me with the pipes. Even RTS/Torvalds/the EFF has to trust some part of the process in the modern world.

I wish there was more of a vetting process for those who want to check everything out. Sadly, there isn't at the present time, and likely there will never be a 100% vetting process. Maybe a different question to ponder is how do we increase the trust in those where we HAVE to lay some trust?

Aye, the place with the Rocky steps. Main entrance (facing the Parkway), up the main steps once you are inside, then it hits you in the face. It's a big place though...easy to miss entire areas.

and before anyone beats me to it, even Simon Phoenix would like this place.