Comment Re:Please don't make generalisations (Score 1) 890
What about moral and aesthetic thought, don't folks at Slashdot support that?
Comment LANStar (Score 1) 77
I recommend a Star topology.
Comment Thatâ(TM)s just mental! (Score 1) 581
The best personality test would be the Milgram Experiment, where you come in sit down at the controls of someone hooked up to an electric shock machine and then someone in authority, say the perspective employer, tells to you shock the guy sitting down at progressively higher levels until the guy is just screaming in pain. However, the guy is not really hooked up, he is just acting. What would be really interesting is for people that know the guy is acting if they would play along and back off to show he is not cruel or go try to impress the employer and make the actor scream.
Comment Re:wtf? (Score 1) 292
I bet fire would fascinate these people.
Comment No data? (Score 2, Interesting) 154
What data are they looking for? Most of the broadband data can be found easily on the annual reports of the publicly traded ISPs. The actual customer counts have always been something ISPs have publicly bragged about. It seems like there are several sources for the data if they want to look for it. Internet usage is prone to fashion and trends so any spending should just be based on dumb fast reliable pipes to as many people as possible.
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
Wired is running an article raising the question of how a US economic stimulus plan could best help broadband adoption and the internet in general. We discussed President-elect Obama's statements about his plan, which would include investments in such areas, but Wired asks how we can avoid the equivalent of the New Deal's "ditches to nowhere" without more data about where the money would actually make a difference. Quoting:
"... the problem is that no one knows the best way to make the internet more resilient, accessible and secure, since there's no just no public data. The ISP and backbone internet providers don't tell anyone anything. For instance, the government doesn't know how many people actually have broadband or what they pay for it. ... In September, the FCC found that its data collection on internet broadband was incomplete and thus ruled that AT&T, Qwest and Verizon could stop filing some reports — because the requirements did not extend to cable companies, too."
Comment Re:TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1 by W. Richard Stevens (Score 1) 517
And from the "mother of the internet":
Perlman, Radia (1999). Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2e ed.). Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series.
