The average consumer doesnt know how their internet connection is measured. All most people know is that entertainment is moving to ala carte/on-demand in HD. For example, the majority of people I know are Internet-illiterates but they all subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, and HBONow and own several streaming devices. Most of my childrens friends have never seen traditional live tv. These people dont know or care about the bandwidth required for these services, and wouldnt know how to size a circuit if they did. ALL of the major ISPs know this because they want to be common carriers AND content providers. Consolodation and local monopolies/duoplolies make caps possible. Data caps are rent extraction plain and simple. Pure greed under the guise of curbing abuse.

I adopted three from Ukraine. I can tell some stories about raising the products of East European orphanages.

Chapeau to you sir. You and your wife are kind people. Good luck on your adventure.

Its no wonder you posted AC - you very obviously have no children, no experience with any education system as a parent, an ax to grind, and a horrible agenda.

And do us all a favor and turn off Dr. Oz.

You're all close.

Along time ago, all of a company's DNS belonged to the admins, and Network handled the bill - which was lumped in with the one for the Internet connection.

These days, external DNS aka "The Brand" is usually managed by either Legal or Marketing. In those organizations, the common 'dnsadmin@company.com' email is redirected to someone who neither knows nor cares what DNS is. Even internally, no one knows whos responsible for external domains. And when the bill comes, it just sits on the department secretary's desk.

Every. Single. Time.

Find a crossfit gym:
http://www.crossfit.com/

Learn how to move properly:
http://www.mobilitywod.com/

swim/bike/run:
http://www.crossfitendurance.com/

change your diet:
http://whole9life.com/start/

measure your fitness by competing against the entire world:
http://games.crossfit.com/

This is my 3rd year crossfitting. I'm 50. My resting heart rate is 46bpm. I'm down to 8% body fat from 26%. After physicals/blood work my insurance premiums were reduced by 1/3. I recently won the St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships. I can ride a bicycle 100 miles in 5 hours. I can run 5 miles in 40 minutes. I can lift a shit-load of weight with form, power, and speed. Yeah, Crossfit is the real deal.

Yes, but Download.com still assures users that they will never bundle that "extra stuff". Their Adware & Spyware Notice says:

Also, they make it look like a download link for the real installer (which it used to be), and then the user gets this CNET crap. But they still used our name liberally in the trojan installer as if we were somehow responsible for or involved in this abomination. I've got screen shots on my Download.com fiasco page.

Also, this "apology" rings hollow because they aren't fixing the problem along with it. In particular:

1) He claims that bundling malware with Nmap was a “mistake on our part” and “we reviewed all open source files in our catalog to ensure none are being bundled.” Either that is a lie, or they are totally incompetent, because tons of open source software is still being bundled. You can read the comments below his post for many examples.

2) Even if they had removed the malware bundling from open source software, what about all of the other free (but not open source) Windows software out there? They shouldn't infect any 3rd party software with sketchy toolbars, search engine redirectors, etc.

3) At the same time that Sean sent the “apology” to users, he sent this very different note to developers. He says they are working on a new expanded version of the rogue installer and “initial feedback from developers on our new model has been very positive and we are excited to bring this to the broader community as soon as possible”. He tries to mollify developers by promising to give them a cut (“revenue share”) of the proceeds from infecting their users.

4) You no longer need to register and log in to get the small (non-trojan) “direct download” link, but the giant green download button still exposes users to malware.

5) The Download.Com Adware & Spyware Notice still says “every time you download software from Download.com, you can trust that we've tested it and found it to be adware-free.” How can they say that while they are still adding their own adware? At least they removed the statement from their trojan installer that it is “SAFE, TRUSTED, AND SPYWARE FREE”.

Thank you, sir!

I spent '82-'89 as a radioman on an SSN. Hight of the Cold War stuff. The training was one thing. Getting qualified at sea and surviving was another.

When I got out I went straight to work as an RF tech for a major wireless carrier. The skills I learned (technical and otherwise) marketed well, but it took a long time to readjust to civilian life. Sometimes I still feel that long steel tube.

No wonder people called you names. Which pre-twentieth century turnip truck did you fall from? Are you serious? You mean indentured servitude for medical bills? Or maybe wage garnishment? How about debtors prison? Or should I take the hospital a few of the chickens from my yard? You obviously have no family to provide for.

You obviously have no real-world experience either. A modern ambulance isn't just a shiny car, you know. Its a highly specialized machine that's expensive to manufacture. It has to be stocked with very specialized supplies. It has to be manned 24/7 by very specialized staff (who have to train, eat, provide, etc). The ambulance has to be maintained. It has to be insured. And it probably gets horrible mileage; so yeah, it probably costs about $1k or better per ride.

As opposed to the monopoly they already have? The new health care law guarantees at least some coverage for everyone - including you. And expands a very successful care-delivery system thats been around since the '60's. It might even help control some costs. Overall I thought the whole package was a poor compromise slanted towards insurance companies, but they are so invested in the current system its not hard to understand. At least its a step in the right direction, and I'm willing to pony-up a little for it. Health care is a right, not a privledge or a product. Maybe later we can work out something better if we're not all trampled by the completly ignorant.

Good luck to you. You won't be singing that tune for long.

This exactly - specifically the first point. We've tested two DLP solutions including Checkpoints. They are not hard to use, especially if there's little encryption in your environment. Point it to your file servers and away it goes. It identifies everything - and similar to an IDS, you have to tell it what's valuable and what's not, and where those things should be. There's mountains of data that need to be sorted and cleared out, and getting anyone in upper management to decide what's "valuable" is a real trick.

Oh please.

Every ISP on the planet counts bytes, and packets - especially if they meter. The methods are no secret and age-old: they either pull Flows from the user tiers with something like Peakflow or NetScout, or they pull I/O right off the CPE modem. Smaller ISP's probably still SNMP poll the byte count per interface and dump it into a database for the accountants and RRDTool for the ops folks.

And yes, the stats from your edge device should always be within a few kb of your providers (fudge factors for things like uptime, maintenance, billing date range, etc..).

If you have access to your CPE (you should), you can usually pull the stats directly without having to reinvent the wheel. Either poll it, or log on and find the diagnostic screen.