It's not like big companies like google and MSN would be the ones to "pay their fair share" in the case of loss of neutrality. If Some company decides to chop off access to one of the 'big' sites, then wayyyyyy to many of their customers are going to freak.
It's the smaller companies that are going to have to shoulder an uneven burden of "their fair share". Not only are they going to have to pay, where the larger and more populist sites are unlikely to, but they're going to pay more per byte because both the carrier and the site owner are going to have to recover administrative costs associated with the payments -- and that money is not going to come out of the big companies that will be paying either nothing, or a discounted fee.
... I expect some ISPs to stay away from packet discrimination. People who care about it will simply flock there.
It's not ISPs that are going to be charging an extra toll... It's the bigger carriers who deign to allow all those ISPs to exist. Those bigger carriers will be implementing net tolls whether the smaller ISPs want it or not. The smaller ISPs can implement their own tolls as well, if they want, but it'll be on top of the tolls already being implemented by the larger tiers.
There will be no "there" to go to, unless people gather together and find a way to build their own neutral backbone.
As Floey said:
Nope. Completely redesigning something like a shuttle fuel tank takes an incredibly long time, not to mention building new ones.
Or, to give you a better idea of just how much work would go into a full redesign, it took them almost a year to OK taking some foam off of the current design. Now, granted, if you were to do a full redesign, a lot of that work could be done in parallel for each modified/new section, but you're still talking lots and lots of engineer months here.
I think this problam s rather overhyped, especially by people on DSL. I don't personally subsribe to the 10Mb/s service, I only use the normal 3Mb/s service, and the last time I checked, I was getting around 2.8Mbps.
I can say that I've actually experienced it.. and I've had friends (early in the cable delivery game) who had cable links shared among so many subscribers that the only advantage vs dialup was that their phone line was free. (they were downtown). On the other hand, a friend on a suburban loop with only handfull of shared users got pretty good results most of the time.
The nature of the beast is that the bandwidth suggested by cable PR is the maximum that you can get, but is shared by however many people are on your cable loop -- If you're the only person on your loop using significant bandwidth (e.g. downloading) at the time then you can get good bandwidth.
If, on the other hand, you have a really large number of people on your loop, or a small number who do a lot of downloading, [ or both ], then you'll get much less than the advertised speed. The only way to increase speed is for the cable company to split your local loop into two or more pieces to increase the speed.
As soon as anybody on your loop is doing a download, you're sharing that 10Mbps (or 4, or whatever) with them.
Also: your modem is able to see data being sent by others on your loop (although I think that current modems now filter the data before delivery to your computer/router).
ADSL/Fiber, on the other hand is limited by the supporting connection to your Central Office -- this could be less than the bandwidth to your door, or it could a few gigabits... In most cases it's probably somewhere in between (e.g. 100 megabits).
Since the bandwidth base is almost always more than the bandwidth that is delivered (and advertised) to you, it's far less likely that you'll suffer bandwidth degradation from other people doing downloads.
On the other hand, as I aluded to in my original post, it required a properly provisioned CO... In theory, an ISP could have a 1Megabit backbone feeding 100 ADSL lines advertising (and actually having) a 4megabit connection -- but only as far as the Central Office. In the real world, however, the situation is far more likely to be the like the one that I mentioned above. I know that Telus ADSL as I've experienced it (in 3 different locaions) is well provisioned... I can't really speak for other ISPs.
Fortunately, games cannot be owned, under current US IP law.
As far as I can tell, you can get a use patent (this is rather like the patent for using a laser as a cat toy)...
ie:
Method of using RPS as a dispute resolution mechanism for frivolous legal disagreements.
To ensure a successful application, you should probably also include language like:
surprisingly, use of this method seems to also result in a reduction in the number of childish disputes submitted to the court by lawyers who have recently been subjected to this process.
What would happen were the school to somehow get their hands on a student's diary?
If they were to take the diary and use it to punish the student, I would hope that someone like the aclu would support the abused student in a lawsuit.
I would note that a school punishing a child over something might also trigger the 'double jeopardy' clause and prevent a criminal charge (IANAL).
I haven't read the law, but I'm hoping that it doesn't just apply to music. It should also (obviously) apply to video -- but even less obviously (and more important) manufacturers should be forced to describe the format that the users' own data is stored in so that you can't have vendor lock in for things like databases, text documents, vertical applications, etc.
It's my data. I should be able to access it any way that I want.
If you call taking the opposite oppinion of most respected historians on a hoax from the 1950s "considered research", maybe.
for me, the most shocking thing about The Da Vinci Code is that people would take a book out of the fiction section and treat it as if it was published in a peer-reviewed journal.
For those who don't get the clue-bat, fiction means It's Not true (or at least various random parts of it aren't) but some publisher figured that it would amuse you to read it.
Perhaps every kid in the school should be issued a copy of '1984', and the Declaration of Independence at the start of the next year.
I'm sure that the school has the right to read students' public blogs, but I doubt that they have the legal authority to punnish them for saying silly things on them (unless they're talking about how to cheat on exams -- and even then...).
Remember the game where a bunch of people would gather in a circle and then one person would whisper a phrase in the ear of the person next them, and then they'd repeat the phrase to then next person until it got all the way around the circle -- but, more often than not, completely changed from the original?
Especially if the source is attributed, I have no problem with block quoting the predecessor source.
It's got nothing to do with driver installation... Both windows and Linux can (and do) load custom drivers -- in fact the big vendors (dell, compaq, etc.) will sometimes spend many man-months of time making sure that the right drivers for their hardware are loaded with the various model-specific install/recover CDs.
The base problem is three fold:
Microsoft didn't really care about security -- even now, the only reason why they care is that it's started to cost them sales.
The base design of MS-Windows is really poor (including security -- see above). The multi-user aspects are mostly after-thought bolt-ons which can make life hell for a designer.
There are so many Windows boxes (and office, IE, etc) that it makes such a juicy target -- that along with the fact of 1 and 2 above means that, with a little bit of work, you can take over thousands' of machine soooo easily.... so why even pay attention to Linux or mac?
While Levono insists that their computers pose no security risk, we need to remember that they do run the Windows OS which is a significant hole:-)
This is probably closer to the truth than you think (but for different reasons).
Microsoft is having all of these companies build in 'trusted->treacherous computing' hooks into machines.. The thing about trusted computing is that it's designed so that someone else will trust your computer to do what they want it to do. If lenovo controls the central core of these boxes, then they can add their own 'trusted' computing hooks, and now you have a machine that is seriously hooped (but only when someone who has the secred key is nearby.
Yes, fur would fly if they were caught doing this, but that doesn't really matter to the big honchos in China... When the fur flys, it's gonna be the fur of some American-born patsy who probably didn't even know what was don to the design of those boxes way back in China, while the people who really did the nasty work sit back in china and watch the whole mess with a big smile on their faces.
Now, you could fine the company into oblivion, if they did something wrong, but by then the damage is areaady done.
Now, as for the executive denial -- You're gonna get the same answer whether or not they're doing something nasty. If they're innocent, they'll tel you the truth ("no"). if guilty, they'll lie through their teeth ('no').
2) what? Your're shocked that some of these guys would have been using ID that they scammed off of someone else? ID theft is real, and it's happening. I'm not so shocked that these terrorists would have used it -- especially given that they'd be impersonating someone in another country.
3) When you've just had a massive explosion, people start to freak about anything that they see. Not completely shocked at the shifting stories.. People were just being cautious.
7) I'd actually be surprised if the firemen running through the building hadn't seen (and reported) signs that that structural failure was immanent in the last few minutes before the building collapsed.
8) 67 scrambles in 9 months that's just over 7 scrambles a month -- 2 a week over the entire united states and canada -- or to put it more boldly... Just barely 1 scramble per state/province in almost a year... That sounds like 'rare' to me.
Botched intercepts? yeah... that's not a shock, given that there's been no REAL need for an intercept of a commercial airliner in a couple of decades.
I've watched 911: Loose change. It's interesting, but needs to be taken with much salt.
I see no reason to believe that it wasn't muslim extremists that took over those planes.
If you remember the Oklahoma bombing, the FBI was definitively claiming within hours that it was not caused by arab terrorists. This implies that they already knew where the 'terrorists' were.
The "USA Patriot Act" was pre-written and ready to go when the planes hit -- not because someone in congress knew when this would happen, but because there's been a version of that act trying to get thru congress for years (every once in a while it would be allowed to die and be re-introduced under another name). When the planes hit, it was just renamed to something spectacular and punched the rest of the way through the house (this is why it was able to pass so fast).
The reason why the "Patriot Act" wasn't passed in response to the Oklahoma bombing was that the perpetrators were blonde-haired blue-eyed christian ex-USA-military. It would have been too obvious that it was meant to be used against average Americans.
Do you even remember tower 7? [.....]This building housed secret service, DOD, immigration, SEC, mayors emergency buker (not used on 9/11..why?)...
Duh! -- for the same reason why division HQ isn't placed right at the front!!! (yes, it would make C&C faster, but only until the position got overrun)
The collapse of the buildings did catch authorities by surprise, (mostly in terms of the speed of the colapse), but it's well known that these sorts of things occur during a disaster, and you don't want your C&C too close to ground zero.
"Mom? This is Mark Brigham.(when was the last time you heard anyone use theeir full name to talk to their mom??)
When you're in the middle of an emergency (especially a possible combat-type situation), it's not entirely surprising that military training would kick in. -- not unlike the story of the guy who, after boot camp, stopped at the front door to his mom's house and knocked.
but for an example see Payne Stewart's plane, which was intercepter very quickly, despite "only" not responding to radar, without turning off transponders or altering course, 2-21-02 Correction of 1-31-02: Payne Stewart's Lear Jet was actually intercepted by an F-16 1 hour and 14 minutes after the last known transmission.
The way that the World Trade towers collapsed was a function of their design -- Unlike most skyscrapers that are make like a human skeleton (with most of the weight being borne on a central core), the trade towers are built more like an insect (with most of the stress being borne by a rigid exoskeleton). this means that, in the case of a central collapse, the debries are going to tend to be held in by the rigid exoskeleton rather than being pushed off by the central load-bearing 'spike'.
The trade towerers were the first skyscarapers to be built like this (and one of a very few).
In short: I agree that there was a consipiracy of sorts -- but not the kind that you're claiming.
Gotta go do something more useful... otherwise I could debunk a good bit more.
I wonder if, as a receiver of the goods (easy, download firmware upgrades for the older linksys routers), if I can sue for compliance with the only license that allows for distribution of the kernel.
Unless you can come up with some weird cause of action, the only way I know of to enforce the GPL would be to contribute a reasonably nontrivial piece of code to the Kernel (and a piece that would be used in their binary version). At that point they would be violating your copyright and you could go after them.
No, I'm quite sure that that is (at least technially) a violation of the GPL. Problem here is that it would be beholden on someone with Copyright rights in the kernel to go after them for the violation.
The kernel is under the GPL, so you should be able to ask them for the source code to the entire kernel, as they distribute it.
The GPL definitely allows you to distribute GPL code on the same CD as (unrelated) non-GPL code. Distributing binary modules gets into that gray area where it could, at least, be argued that the kernel and the related modules make one single product for which you would need to distribute the whole source code..
That having been said, two commercial cases where it appears that binary modules are being distributed with GNU/Linux as part of a hardware product would be the Tivo, and some versions of the Linksys cable/DSL/wireless routers.
The GPL requires that, for any given product, you provide all of the source code needed to rebuild it. Now, if the Nvidia drivers are actually built into the (GPL) kernel, then you need to provide the sources to the entire kernel, and not having the sources to distribute would leave you in violation.
If, on the other hand, you're just including the Nvidia drivers as modules on the CD, then you're getting into more of a border situation.
My understanding is that Linksys (after cleaning things up with the FSF) still distributes their modems with GPL code (and make the sources available), but also include binary drivers/modules for some of their hardware. IF that is the case, then I'd say that there's a reasonable precedent for distributing Linux with GPL2 kernels and binary drivers (much as I'd prefer to have open source drivers).
One thing to note here is that NVidia does not have to make a full source code, GPL driver. All that the X people really need is the full specs on how to talk to the chipset. Once that's done, they could clean up their Open Source drivers to make them work much better -- possibly even better than what NVidia currently makes.
Personally, I'd say that, more important than talking to a lawyer, he'd be far better off to talk to the FSF and Linus about at what point they wouldn't be worried about getting into a legal pissing match with him, since the FSF is the entity most likely to sick lawyers on someone violating the GPL, and Linus is the gatekeeper of the code most closely bound to the binary drivers he's distributing (and second most likely to get into a legal pissing match).
If both of them give his actions and intentions a clean bill of health, then I'd say he's in the clear -- no matter what the lawyers say. As long as this never goes to court, then it doesn't matter what a judge would have ruled.
Now that the US is bringing in a nationwide, (with biometrics) ID system, the SSID is actually soon to become obsolete.... effectively mandating that the business community start using the national ID (like, what other ID number are they going to use?) will simply cement the new system as being necessary for your existence.
I'm, of course, betting that the new law will not place any restrictions on uses of the incomming national ID system.
The whole reason why Windows is supposed to be a good buy is that it's compatible with all of your software.
and doesn't require retraining.
Now, if Vista breaks so much of your software and is going to require retraining all of your staff anyways, then why not just switch over to Linux and drop a boatload of security problems and design errors as well?
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Back around 1991, I was working at a biochemistry lab (protein crystallography). A physics grad student went to see my boss about working in the lab. He had this idea about doing quantum simulations of protein dynamics on computers. My boss said that it was a neat idea and theoretically doable, but that computers would need to improve by a few orders of magnitude before it was feasible.
15 years later, I think that that's what they're now doing with folding-at-home.
Remember -- that was the prevailing fashion of the time -- but just because they dressed up conservatively (by today's standards) doesn't mean that they couldn't dance up a storm when you got them in the mood.
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Then, 5 years ago, I realized that my floppies were slower than my (adsl) web link.
Now, I just punt stuff to my web site, and leave it there to pick up when I get to my destination.
I figure that they chould have also shown a 1980 300bps modem vs a 2006 3Mbps modem.
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If a better rating translates to better sales then, in time, they'll fight for better ratings.
It's not like big companies like google and MSN would be the ones to "pay their fair share" in the case of loss of neutrality. If Some company decides to chop off access to one of the 'big' sites, then wayyyyyy to many of their customers are going to freak.
It's the smaller companies that are going to have to shoulder an uneven burden of "their fair share". Not only are they going to have to pay, where the larger and more populist sites are unlikely to, but they're going to pay more per byte because both the carrier and the site owner are going to have to recover administrative costs associated with the payments -- and that money is not going to come out of the big companies that will be paying either nothing, or a discounted fee.
It's not ISPs that are going to be charging an extra toll... It's the bigger carriers who deign to allow all those ISPs to exist. Those bigger carriers will be implementing net tolls whether the smaller ISPs want it or not. The smaller ISPs can implement their own tolls as well, if they want, but it'll be on top of the tolls already being implemented by the larger tiers.
There will be no "there" to go to, unless people gather together and find a way to build their own neutral backbone.
Good luck. Seriously
Nope. Completely redesigning something like a shuttle fuel tank takes an incredibly long time, not to mention building new ones.
Or, to give you a better idea of just how much work would go into a full redesign, it took them almost a year to OK taking some foam off of the current design. Now, granted, if you were to do a full redesign, a lot of that work could be done in parallel for each modified/new section, but you're still talking lots and lots of engineer months here.
I can say that I've actually experienced it.. and I've had friends (early in the cable delivery game) who had cable links shared among so many subscribers that the only advantage vs dialup was that their phone line was free. (they were downtown). On the other hand, a friend on a suburban loop with only handfull of shared users got pretty good results most of the time.
The nature of the beast is that the bandwidth suggested by cable PR is the maximum that you can get, but is shared by however many people are on your cable loop -- If you're the only person on your loop using significant bandwidth (e.g. downloading) at the time then you can get good bandwidth.
If, on the other hand, you have a really large number of people on your loop, or a small number who do a lot of downloading, [ or both ], then you'll get much less than the advertised speed. The only way to increase speed is for the cable company to split your local loop into two or more pieces to increase the speed.
As soon as anybody on your loop is doing a download, you're sharing that 10Mbps (or 4, or whatever) with them.
Also: your modem is able to see data being sent by others on your loop (although I think that current modems now filter the data before delivery to your computer/router).
ADSL/Fiber, on the other hand is limited by the supporting connection to your Central Office -- this could be less than the bandwidth to your door, or it could a few gigabits... In most cases it's probably somewhere in between (e.g. 100 megabits).
Since the bandwidth base is almost always more than the bandwidth that is delivered (and advertised) to you, it's far less likely that you'll suffer bandwidth degradation from other people doing downloads.
On the other hand, as I aluded to in my original post, it required a properly provisioned CO... In theory, an ISP could have a 1Megabit backbone feeding 100 ADSL lines advertising (and actually having) a 4megabit connection -- but only as far as the Central Office. In the real world, however, the situation is far more likely to be the like the one that I mentioned above. I know that Telus ADSL as I've experienced it (in 3 different locaions) is well provisioned... I can't really speak for other ISPs.
As far as I can tell, you can get a use patent (this is rather like the patent for using a laser as a cat toy)...
To ensure a successful application, you should probably also include language like:ie:
If they were to take the diary and use it to punish the student, I would hope that someone like the aclu would support the abused student in a lawsuit.
I would note that a school punishing a child over something might also trigger the 'double jeopardy' clause and prevent a criminal charge (IANAL).
It's my data. I should be able to access it any way that I want.
for me, the most shocking thing about The Da Vinci Code is that people would take a book out of the fiction section and treat it as if it was published in a peer-reviewed journal.
For those who don't get the clue-bat, fiction means It's Not true (or at least various random parts of it aren't) but some publisher figured that it would amuse you to read it.
I'm sure that the school has the right to read students' public blogs, but I doubt that they have the legal authority to punnish them for saying silly things on them (unless they're talking about how to cheat on exams -- and even then...).
Especially if the source is attributed, I have no problem with block quoting the predecessor source.
The base problem is three fold:
This is probably closer to the truth than you think (but for different reasons).
Microsoft is having all of these companies build in 'trusted->treacherous computing' hooks into machines.. The thing about trusted computing is that it's designed so that someone else will trust your computer to do what they want it to do. If lenovo controls the central core of these boxes, then they can add their own 'trusted' computing hooks, and now you have a machine that is seriously hooped (but only when someone who has the secred key is nearby.
Yes, fur would fly if they were caught doing this, but that doesn't really matter to the big honchos in China... When the fur flys, it's gonna be the fur of some American-born patsy who probably didn't even know what was don to the design of those boxes way back in China, while the people who really did the nasty work sit back in china and watch the whole mess with a big smile on their faces.
Now, you could fine the company into oblivion, if they did something wrong, but by then the damage is areaady done.
Now, as for the executive denial -- You're gonna get the same answer whether or not they're doing something nasty. If they're innocent, they'll tel you the truth ("no"). if guilty, they'll lie through their teeth ('no').
3) When you've just had a massive explosion, people start to freak about anything that they see. Not completely shocked at the shifting stories.. People were just being cautious.
7) I'd actually be surprised if the firemen running through the building hadn't seen (and reported) signs that that structural failure was immanent in the last few minutes before the building collapsed.
8) 67 scrambles in 9 months that's just over 7 scrambles a month -- 2 a week over the entire united states and canada -- or to put it more boldly... Just barely 1 scramble per state/province in almost a year... That sounds like 'rare' to me. Botched intercepts? yeah... that's not a shock, given that there's been no REAL need for an intercept of a commercial airliner in a couple of decades.
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- I've watched 911: Loose change. It's interesting, but needs to be taken with much salt.
- I see no reason to believe that it wasn't muslim extremists that took over those planes.
- If you remember the Oklahoma bombing, the FBI was definitively claiming within hours that it was not caused by arab terrorists. This implies that they already knew where the 'terrorists' were.
- The "USA Patriot Act" was pre-written and ready to go when the planes hit -- not because someone in congress knew when this would happen, but because there's been a version of that act trying to get thru congress for years (every once in a while it would be allowed to die and be re-introduced under another name). When the planes hit, it was just renamed to something spectacular and punched the rest of the way through the house (this is why it was able to pass so fast).
- The reason why the "Patriot Act" wasn't passed in response to the Oklahoma bombing was that the perpetrators were blonde-haired blue-eyed christian ex-USA-military. It would have been too obvious that it was meant to be used against average Americans.
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Do you even remember tower 7? [.....]This building housed secret service, DOD, immigration, SEC, mayors emergency buker (not used on 9/11..why?)...
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"Mom? This is Mark Brigham.(when was the last time you heard anyone use theeir full name to talk to their mom??)
- but for an example see Payne Stewart's plane, which was intercepter very quickly, despite "only" not responding to radar, without turning off transponders or altering course,
- The way that the World Trade towers collapsed was a function of their design -- Unlike most skyscrapers that are make like a human skeleton (with most of the weight being borne on a central core), the trade towers are built more like an insect (with most of the stress being borne by a rigid exoskeleton). this means that, in the case of a central collapse, the debries are going to tend to be held in by the rigid exoskeleton rather than being pushed off by the central load-bearing 'spike'.
In short: I agree that there was a consipiracy of sorts -- but not the kind that you're claiming.Duh! -- for the same reason why division HQ isn't placed right at the front!!! (yes, it would make C&C faster, but only until the position got overrun)
The collapse of the buildings did catch authorities by surprise, (mostly in terms of the speed of the colapse), but it's well known that these sorts of things occur during a disaster, and you don't want your C&C too close to ground zero.
When you're in the middle of an emergency (especially a possible combat-type situation), it's not entirely surprising that military training would kick in. -- not unlike the story of the guy who, after boot camp, stopped at the front door to his mom's house and knocked.
2-21-02 Correction of 1-31-02: Payne Stewart's Lear Jet was actually intercepted by an F-16 1 hour and 14 minutes after the last known transmission.
The trade towerers were the first skyscarapers to be built like this (and one of a very few).
Gotta go do something more useful... otherwise I could debunk a good bit more.
The first test of that proposition would be if one brand of virus software was curiosly not targeted (or targeted in a clearly ineffectual manner).
Unless you can come up with some weird cause of action, the only way I know of to enforce the GPL would be to contribute a reasonably nontrivial piece of code to the Kernel (and a piece that would be used in their binary version). At that point they would be violating your copyright and you could go after them.
The kernel is under the GPL, so you should be able to ask them for the source code to the entire kernel, as they distribute it.
That having been said, two commercial cases where it appears that binary modules are being distributed with GNU/Linux as part of a hardware product would be the Tivo, and some versions of the Linksys cable/DSL/wireless routers.
If, on the other hand, you're just including the Nvidia drivers as modules on the CD, then you're getting into more of a border situation.
My understanding is that Linksys (after cleaning things up with the FSF) still distributes their modems with GPL code (and make the sources available), but also include binary drivers/modules for some of their hardware. IF that is the case, then I'd say that there's a reasonable precedent for distributing Linux with GPL2 kernels and binary drivers (much as I'd prefer to have open source drivers).
One thing to note here is that NVidia does not have to make a full source code, GPL driver. All that the X people really need is the full specs on how to talk to the chipset. Once that's done, they could clean up their Open Source drivers to make them work much better -- possibly even better than what NVidia currently makes.
Personally, I'd say that, more important than talking to a lawyer, he'd be far better off to talk to the FSF and Linus about at what point they wouldn't be worried about getting into a legal pissing match with him, since the FSF is the entity most likely to sick lawyers on someone violating the GPL, and Linus is the gatekeeper of the code most closely bound to the binary drivers he's distributing (and second most likely to get into a legal pissing match).
If both of them give his actions and intentions a clean bill of health, then I'd say he's in the clear -- no matter what the lawyers say. As long as this never goes to court, then it doesn't matter what a judge would have ruled.
I'm, of course, betting that the new law will not place any restrictions on uses of the incomming national ID system.
Resistance is futile!
Now, if Vista breaks so much of your software and is going to require retraining all of your staff anyways, then why not just switch over to Linux and drop a boatload of security problems and design errors as well?
15 years later, I think that that's what they're now doing with folding-at-home.
Remember -- that was the prevailing fashion of the time -- but just because they dressed up conservatively (by today's standards) doesn't mean that they couldn't dance up a storm when you got them in the mood.
(( suggestion: wait 30 seconds before giving up on the video ))
Then, 5 years ago, I realized that my floppies were slower than my (adsl) web link.
Now, I just punt stuff to my web site, and leave it there to pick up when I get to my destination.
I figure that they chould have also shown a 1980 300bps modem vs a 2006 3Mbps modem. `