There are a whole host of ways to shape traffic: strict priority, class of service, weighted fair queuing, WRED. When they sell a 322Tbit/sec 90,000 dollar router, the customer has a say in what he is purchasing. Where I work (in the industry), we pretty much hand the customer a tool box full of traffic shaping utilities and say 'have at it'. Don't think for one sec there isn't a way to shape that 322Tbit/sec pipe into 56k drops.

Pork? When people read this article or when they heard about Richard Shelby putting a hold on seventy Obama appointees, they call it pork. Take a moment and think. Whom is a congressman or senator appointed to serve? Their constituents, their people back home, the jobs in their districts. I smiled and laughed hard the other day when I heard about Shelby putting the hold on Obama's appointees. If you think when the people of Alabama heard that they were appalled, you're wrong. They heard that and said, 'Hell yea, give me my pork.' Like it or not, this is the way our founding fathers set up the legislative body. Representative are supposed to represent their districts. Political parties aren't mentioned anywhere in the constitution, not once. Alabama's representatives are doing exactly what they should be doing, fighting for their piece of the pie.

I'm a video game enthusiast, and have been for some time(28 years old). There are now loads of games that I played a young kid that are now 'abandonware'. So, these games can be downloaded and enjoyed for free. When I hear in the news and read online about Google and 'orphaned' work, I'm reminded of all the abandoware games I've enjoyed playing. Let Google scan the books, maybe they'll archive abandoned games next.