Exactly! Net Neutrality is nonsense! If those rules are again re-imposed, than certain bundles like your cell phone provider giving you free Hulu or free Netflix disappears overnight.

The fear here is that the small blog will get speed throttled and won't be able to compete with larger entities like the N.Y. Times. That, again, is bunk! The Free Market (i.e. all "netizens") would revolt if that happened! The same with your ISP throttling your speed. The outcry would be so great that the ISP would have to un-throttle their service. Again, this is why we don't need Net Neutrality: The Free Market is *MUCH* better at policing ISPs, and the 'net in general than the Federal Government could ever be!

I look at Net Neutrality as I do with most regulations: Control! And the Democrats (read: Commucrats!) LOVE to control everything!

First of all, Nazi (translated to English) meant "National Socialists Party". How you make the jump from "Nazi" to "Republican", who by definition are NOT socialists, is beyond me!

Second, Nazis were ruthless...they killed people because they belonged to a certain religion (Jews) as well as political prisoners and the infirmed. I have yet to see a Republican kill anyone who belongs to ANY group, especially these groups.

So, by definition, your comparison is not only flawed, it's completely unreasonable. I get that you don't like Republicans (why, I don't know), but to compare them to Nazis is extreme in itself!

Hate Speech" is not really a thing. It's speech that someone does not like or agree with. That happens everyday.

I served in the U.S. Army 30+ years ago and part of the reason that I served was so that EVERYONE would have the clear unadulterated right to say what they think, even if it is reprehensible. That's liberty, folks! That's real freedom!

I say free speech for all, even if it hurts someone's feelings (they'll get over it!). To do anything less is to deny free speech, and that is a slippery slope that we should ALL be afraid of!

I say NO to signing a contract to use the web.

Hats off to you, Ken! I am so tired of the constant U.S. bashing by people in Europe who've had to be rescued by the U.S. from their own TWICE last century!

PLEASE! Capitalism is the economic engine that pays for Democracy! If you don't like the company you work for or you want to make more money, start your own company and quit bitching about what someone else has. Could it *possibly* be that your "economic envy" is nothing more than coveting what someone else has?! I tire of continutally hearing socialists, communists and anarchists bitching about the state of things, yet enjoying the highest standard of living in the world! Evne the poor in the U.S. are richer than 98% of the rest of the world!

So instead of complaining about what someone has or doesn't have, why don't you do something novel, like EMULATE them so that you can add to the productivity of the country and at the same time, increase your own take. Business people should be emulated, not demonized!

Physically, yes. Verbally? No! For verbal abuse, the person being abused has the right to walk away...

I'm saying that the manufacturers and the marketers have taken advantage of a bad situation...that a drive of any size isn't really the size that's advertised on it. Yet they are permitted to let this go on. It's the equivalent of gasoline pricing (just try and get that 1/10 of a cent in change!), and CRT/LCD screen sizing (measuring diagonally). These sorts of things are misleading but people are so lazy and apathetic that these manufacturers and marketers continue to do this.

Personally as a trained computer professional, I don't expect people to calculate or think in base 2. However, consumer protection laws should have done away with this sort of nonsense a long time ago. If the package says 4 Gigabytes, it darn well should be reported by the machine as 4 Gigabytes when it's used in the machine!

As far as a byte not being 8 bits, well, it's been that way for the last 30 years...as long as personal computers have been on the market! It would seem to me that the 8-bit standard IS inherently base 2 precisely because 8 is 2^3.

Oh, and by the way, Wikipedia, though convenient, isn't a credible source of information because it can be modified by anyone...just ask any college student doing an assignment for their professor.

I respectfully disagree with you and here's why:

We're talking about BYTES here and that is inherently base 2...8 bits = 1 byte. It isn't 10 bits = 1 byte. So when you're talking larger size units, we should be using base 2 not base 10. It's simply a way for manufacturers and marketing people (definitely not the smartest people in the world!) to "get by" instead of doing the right thing.
A great example of this is when you buy a new SD Card for your machine. The machine will report the TRUE amount of space you have on that SD Card, whereas the manufacturing and marketing people inflate it because "well, we're using base 10 instead of what the computer uses". Seems stupid to me...where are you going to use that SD Card, in a human? NO! You're going to use it in a computer, therefore, you should be adhering to the computer's definition of a Gigabyte instead of the manufacturer/marketer's.

I would say that the "secret" to our marriage is having Christ at the center of it. During year seven, we almost split up and got a divorce. It was that year that we decided to get right with God and go to church. It is my firm belief that saved our marriage. Why? Because the teachings of Christ very much apply to marriage but one in particular: Selfless service.

If you want your marriage to work, you have to think of it not as a dominating man vs a submissive woman. No no no! It's more like a partnership where the both of you are back-to-back, each looking out for the other's back. You don't worry about your needs...she does that for you. She doesn't worry about her needs...you do that for her. You find ways to serve her and she finds ways to serve you! THIS is what a long-lasting and fulfilling marriage is all about!

To do this, you have to completely trust each other and communicate what you like. As the years go by, you'll KNOW what she likes and she will of you as well. The minute you start worrying about your own needs, you're on the path to divorce!

I would also counsel you to wipe the thought of other women out of your mind! You can't serve her and mess around on her at the same time! It's simply not possible. If you see a sexy woman, just don't say anything. Why? Because it's not of service to her...you'll only make her feel insecure and unloved. That's not serving her needs.

I don't know if you're a church-going person or even a Christian. However, this principle will definitely help you keep your marriage strong throughout the years. I would also advise you to consider reading some Christian literature on marriage so you get a better idea of the principles that make marriage work, even if you're not a Christian. Wisdom is wisdom, regardless of where it comes from!

I wish you and your new bride a long and prosperous life together!

I think that your Boss is referring to a copper patch cable that is able to carry 10Gbps data. I worked at Dell in their networking department two years ago and we had some of these cables. They ARE virtually impossible to make on your own. The eight wires inside the connector are so tightly cut, you'd almost never be able to cut the wires that short insert them into the connector, crimp it and have the cable carry 10Gbps. As for regular patch cables that carry 1Gbps and lower, that's not an issue. We used regular patch cables that I personally made and they worked fine. How do I know? We were testing prototype NICs and we had to measure the performance of those cards. The patch cables were tested with an ordinary tester to insure that they worked and those cables were used with the prototype NICs.

I'm sorry. You mean, there's a difference between the two? How do you tell?