Wow check out the low UID on that guy!

Bump on that bro. Thanks, didn't even occur to me to disable js. Nice uid btw. You must remember the old days with low five digits.

I looked up the statues of the NC PE licensing board. Unfortunately, they support the complainant in this. However, they also basically set up guild law, where anyone who does anything kind of engineering-y, with a broad definition thereof, is in violation. "It shall be unlawful for any person to practice or to offer to practice engineering or land surveying in this State...unless the person has been duly licensed" (http://www.ncbels.org/GeneralStatues/Chapter89c/02.htm) "A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice engineering...who does perform any engineering service or work not exempted by this Chapter" (http://www.ncbels.org/GeneralStatues/Chapter89c/03.htm) So you don't actually have to call yourself an Engineer to be in violation. The exemptions don't list any that seem to apply. (http://www.ncbels.org/GeneralStatues/Chapter89c/25.htm) The rules are positively draconian and guild-like. You can't do "Any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires engineering education, training, and experience, in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences to such services " unless you're licensed or one of the few exceptions. (http://www.ncbels.org/GeneralStatues/Chapter89c/03.htm) And I, as my resume says I'm a Software Engineer, but have no PE, am also in violation. (http://www.ncbels.org/GeneralStatues/Chapter89c/02.htm)

Did my own piece on this this morning, got some links of interest in it. http://mobilitydigest.com/preventing-protester-communication-not-so-easy/

Thank you for that.

grub with the rimshot. nice.

This is actually part of the benefit. Goats are pretty much the only way to get rid of kudzu: they'll eat it all the way down to the roots, and it doesn't come back. I wanted to hire a goat to get rid of the ivy in my yard, but couldn't find a local service.

For those of you who wish to keep track of how much bandwidth you're using, FreeMeter's an open source meter for XP that lets you both monitor your speed, chart that shit out and you can set it to alert you when you hit whatever limit you set it to. A must if you're in Texas, are a TW customer anywhere else or like to tether. Sourceforge, yo, it's legit.

Download!

I've been a little tuned out, last time I checked in only hearing about Time Warner testing this capping out in other markets (I'm in NYC), thinking it would never happen to me. So I take it this means a cap is already imposed for me, presumably with prohibitive surcharges after I break it?

The one thing I like about Time Warner is that they tend to look the other way (you know what I'm talking about) unlike OptimumOnline for example with their silly letters. I also like having a somewhat static IP without ports blocked and a general laisez faire attitude about running any kind of daemon, at least off-paper.

Question to Verizon FiOS users in NYC: Is it really badass in general? Same kind of throughput regardless of the nature of your packets? Duplex? Any scary letters show up in the mail? Any downside for me, other than the schlep, to switch from TW to Verizon FiOS for both Internet and television? Because I'm this close to making the two phone calls. Sad because I live close to the Time Warner building and I like the building. It's a nice building. But I spend more time on the Internet than I do walking by their building so I'm not going to let that sway me entirely. But Verizon is such an ugly name. I mean.. Verizon. ugh :(. They paid someone to come up with that?

I could have just googled this, Time Warner NYC's TOS and pricing, but I want my post to serve as an example of what happens to a Time Warner customer once he reads this New York Times article. God bless free market competition.

step "away" from the excessive quotation "mark" usage buddy.