I was hoping more for Insightful instead of Funny.

Van Halen made the best 1984 album.

It varies and depends what you consider "rural USA".
My parents live in a town with a population under 2000 and no bigger town within 20 miles which is considered rural according to wikipedia. In their town they have access to fiber optic, cable, dsl, and 4G LTE internet. The fiber moved in 5 years ago. 10 years ago there was Cable and a bunch of DSL providers and the cable speeds were a blazing 10 Mbps.
But I have also heard of 2500 population towns where the fastest internet you can get is still a crappy 1.5 Mbps dsl.

No need to gloat when you've conquered the world.

Since the original BSD license is a year (1988) older than the GPL v1, it's not possible for BSD to have been released under the GPL.

Anyone else worried about AMD developing the drivers? AMD has never had good drivers. Most of them have been terrible. It has been the only reason I've been using NVIDIA cards for the past 10 years.

Don't forget Russia, PRC and Iran.

Naturally that implies that UKUSA/Echelon is morally equivalent to those nasty totalitarians, but it wouldn't surprise me if EVERY/b> country with enough money is slurping at the fiber optic fire hose.

Since the NSA has been around for 60 years, and Google for 14, what exactly do you mean by "Post NSA"?

What if you're in the USA and not behind an ISP NAT?

BTW, WTH does ISP NATting have to do with this?

Then why isn't the FBI rounding up scads of drug buyers and paedophiles on a daily basis?

Tin-foil Hat Boy says, "because they *are* drug pushers and paedophiles", but that's a stretch.

You get the "leaders" you deserve.

There are no universal rights; there are only those which have been bought with blood in violent struggle.

Foreigners in this country (whether legal or illegal) *do* deserve extra scrutiny from our security services, and they *don't* deserve the same quantity or quality of protections as do US citizens.

(The questions then become those of degree and scale, and the answers aren't simple.)

You're a citizen of the world, aren't you?

Have you forgotten that "spying on foreigners" is what countries *do*, and have done since civilizations got big enough to bump into one another?

Collected until demonstrated boring.