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Comment This is a trivial number (Score 5, Insightful) 193

In 2009, there were 32 million DSL modems in the United States. http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm

Even if there has been no growth in DSL usage, 100,000 modems represents 0.3% of all DSL users.

BUT, this 100,000 number is world wide modems that have been compromised. That makes the actual percentage of modems affected so small that it hardly seems worth the time to calculate it.

Turn the "bad" DNS off, and most tech support lines will not even notice the increase in support calls.
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Submission + - US may be forced to drop Copy Righ Protections (nytimes.com)

Skleed writes: "As part of a dispute over offshore gambling sites, entities in Antigua may be allowed to copy any intellectual property they want. The US has lost an intitial hearing, and two appeals on its policies regarding off shore gambling sites, and now the lawyer pressing the case for those companies has asked for this unusual, but apparently codified, recourse under WTO rules. Details available from the NY Times."

From the article:
"But not complying with the decision presents big problems of its own for Washington. That's because Mr. Mendel, who is claiming $3.4 billion in damages on behalf of Antigua, has asked the trade organization to grant a rare form of compensation if the American government refuses to accept the ruling: permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."

Comment Re:Here we go again... (Score 1) 3451

Why not take up the debate head on? It seems many people want to dismiss it out of hand rather than answer the call to discuss it thoroughly.

For instance, what makes the design so intelligent anyway? What kind of God designs a system where Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin can massacre millions of people?

Free will has its price you say. Granted. But what kind of diety causes the human misery of last year's tsunami (pick your natural disaster)?

The Intelligent Design theory is not arguing for a proof of God based on creation per se, but if we grant the theory for the sake of argument, the God behind it is not nice.

Full Disclosure: Practicing Catholic.

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