No, that's not correct, but it may depend on the card - I'm not sure.

I use alternate addresses for NewEgg. I have my home address which I never use because it's an apartment and nobody is home during the day, I have a friends house which UPS will just leave packages out at (it's pretty remote) and I've used various work addresses throughout the years.

Never seems to be a problem. Maybe the credit cards I use don't have a special instruction to the vendor, or maybe NewEgg has never "audited" me when I ship to the non-billing address.

The only time you'll always have a problem is if you don't provide the correct billing address when asked. NewEgg does not require billing and shipping addresses to match.

I agree, but with some exception.

I never learned to type properly as I was already typing for years before I took typing classes in High School. The teacher tried to get me to type the right way but she eventually gave up as I could usually type accurately and just as any quick typist.

I have gotten a little faster since then, and I rarely look at the keyboard unless I'm searching for a symbol key or something, but I have a completely haphazard typing style and I believe I would benefit from learning the proper technique.

I do use all my fingers but my left hand key presses are dominated by my index finger hovering around the left side of the keyboard. I often don't use the same finger to hit the same key - sometimes even in the same sentence. I use mostly my right thumb for space but sometimes I use my left.

So, I suppose he COULD type that fast because I have been known to type REALLY quick at times. Other times I just mess up every other word.

I'm not sure how claiming that someone shouldn't go to prison, but pay in other ways, somehow constitutes "blaming the victim."

And again, you say "should be set free?" No. Try being a part of the discussion. I didn't say set them free. I said that I don't believe non-violent offenders need be sent to prison to rot. I think it's a waste of resource, time, and in the end rarely ever works to correct the behavior of a criminal.

Monitoring them on the outide, forcing them to work and pay restitution, join "AA"-style groups, and actually try to get these people to change their ways is a lot more beneficial to society than locking them up for a few years and then letting them out with no support, no money, no place to live..

And yet another person claiming prison is a deterant. It's NOT. No criminal thinks they are going to get caught. It doesn't deter anything. People still get murdered, people still sell drugs, people still steal cars - even with the MASSIVE sentances given to drug dealers and car thieves.

It. Doesn't. Work.

You are simplifying my argument to hold up yours and that's weak, real weak.

So, since when does "Violent Crime" only equal murder?

Prison isn't just used for serial criminals, although usually you don't get prison time for non-violent offenses on the first offense. But you will if you cause enough money in damage. To put it briefly, it's all about money..

I believe there's other ways of punishing people besides continuously filling up the prison system. Ways to punish people and have their punishments benefit the community. Prison often has the opposite effect of behavioral "correction."

I'm really not sure where you could get off saying I'm blaming a victim? I haven't even talked about that. And if you think the only reason to put people in prison is to make someone else (the victim) FEEL BETTER, then perhaps you need to re-evaluate your position and look at what's better for society as a whole instead of temporary feelings.

And you're posting as an anonymous coward. So what's that make you?

It's been proven - OVER AND OVER AND OVER - that prison is NOT a deterrant. It's not. "Period."

Because what does every single criminal think when they perform their crimes? "I won't get caught."

If prison and death penalties was an effective deterrant - why are there SO MANY PEOPLE in our prisons, and SO MANY PEOPLE getting murdered every year?

You actually think the criminal justice system has been "pussified"? I guess you haven't gotten in trouble for anything, like, ever. Because they hand out sentences like they were peices of candy in a doctor's office.

You, sir, are the moron - get your head our of your ass and use your god given brain for once.

You assume, incorrectly, that I mean there should just be a small fine and set them free.

There's lots of options for punishing people without dropping them in a prison cell. You can strap tracking devices to them, you can restrict their movements, you can force them to do community service, you can enforce fines to be taken from their paychecks, etc, etc.

Seems 15,000 people dying from poison gas is pretty violent to me. No? I mean, people died.

Yea, so there's the Car thing. I think car thieves suck, but again, it's just property. Locking someone up for decades doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

You seem to think that people should be locked up for behaving in a certain way - because that behavior is a "gateway" to other crimes? Such a tired argument..

Yes, these people should be punished. But I agree with Spain's prison/court system when they say that prison is for violent crime.

There's other ways to punish people and have them be productive to society, instead of rotting in prison. Sure, there may be special cases, but for the most part if you're not a physical danger to people then there's no need to keep you separated from the population.

Eh, wireless. Good for surfing, not good for pulling down any serious megabytes.

Those transceivers are only $60 on ebay. By the time you get a wireless N router and wireless N cards to go with it (the routers are cheap but the cards aren't) you'll have spent just as much just to hook up two of those things - one at the internet hookup and one in the remote room you want to connect at. Then just use a cheap switch.

It all depends on the particular situation. For me, neither the coax nor Wireless-N are fast enough. It really has to be GigE.

I have a 35/35 FIOS connection, so unless you're right next to the wireless router, then G won't be fast enough (and you might as well just plug in to it) and with N I'd need to purchase cards. Almost everything has GigE ports now, and it makes a big difference for anything but general web surfing or playing MP3's from your media server.

Even cheapo Gig switches now are good enough to push 90MB/s if you're talking about just yourself or maybe a family's traffic. I have an 8-port D-Link GigE switch that does LAN and iSCSI traffic without breaking a sweat between my three servers. I run several VM's on these machines including Exchange, DFS-R, etc.

Well one thing I plan to do at some point is to ditch the Verizon router (which actually isn't too bad, but eh) and have the Ethernet port on my box downstairs enabled so I can use a real firewall. Then, I'll get one of these NIM100's to bridge that for the cable boxes.

For me, I'll run Cat5E or 6 to everywhere I have an Ethernet enabled device.

Yea, well they were all talking about yards, and I did the switcharoo over to feet.

Yea that's the one. There's an auction for them for $60 each on ebay right now.

You wouldn't need to buy a lot of them; the guy could plug one in where the Internet comes in, and another one in the remote location. He could then plug it in to a Wireless router that could service the area are reasonable speeds - rather than try to pick up the signal from the other side of the house.

Personally, I've had no problems running 10BASE-2 using 50 ohm terminators on Cable TV wire (usually RG-6 but I've used plenty of RG-59 with good results.) Sure, I haven't tried to make a 500 foot run or anything, but from the basement to the second floor I've had good results.

When I used to live at home, this is how I got Internet up to my mother's room on the second floor from the internet hookup in the basement.

YMMV, but if you just want to provide internet, dusting off an old 10BASE-2 hub with some RJ-45 ports at each end is a good way to do it. You'll never get better than 10Mbit, so maybe not good for streaming high bit-rate movies, though.

Yes, in fact you can use the Verizon FIOS wireless router for bridging Coax to Ethernet. My cable boxes get IP addresses from my Windows DHCP server and download the On-Demand through my Linux-based router, all through the FIOS bridge router.

Before FIOS used the full routers standard, they use a Coax transciever and you can pick them up for about $100, sometimes cheaper, for 100Mbit over existing Coax.