There is no reason in my mind for a "national" firewall. Maybe one to shelter the entire government's systems, but there is no reason to extend this to civilians, except for the fact that a local botnet will be able to DDoS more effectively than a distant one.
About as many that care about other people who are suffering around the word. Anyways, if we didn't care about the civilians, we would have just seized the oil-producing regions and nuked the rest of the country into oblivion (assuming that we did not care about the international communities response).
If that were the case, I imagine that opposition to the war would be like environmentalism: more in the realm of an abstract ideal that most people won't care about when it comes to the bottom line. I am seeing 3 major objections to the war:
1) Lives are being lost. Never a good thing, but our casualty rates are a joke compared to past wars. At the battle of Gettysburg, the Union alone suffered 23,000 casualties in three days. Iraq war? 3,879 (US) or 4,185 (total coalition) since March 2003.
2) Expensive. Meh, $14.4 million for a tank ain't gonna change that, considering a normal M1A2 Abrams is $4.35 million.
3) There is no reason for us to be there in the first place. I'm not informed enough to make a well thought-out comment on this, but I do know that Iraq would collapse if we simply left tomorrow. Probably was a bad idea to make that region all one country after WW2, with all the racial tension.
Exhibit A:
Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank Exhibit B:
Carnegie Melon is now hard at work on a tank set to join its brother... Can anybody else the problem?
Children might actually be willing to listen and learn. Some people can be quite dense and unyielding in subjects they are unfamiliar with. I'm fine with helping n00bs, but sometimes it is a long, uphill battle
I personally would like to see a completely stripped-down browser with only one feature built in: Plugin handler. Take spell check, tabs, RSS, etc. and make them into FF plugins.
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You'd be amazed what goes into the Firehose. The fact that it actually made it through is a bit mind-boggling though.
I don't even know how too code and I was thinking "library". And to preempt those that like to pun: I mean the "DLL" kind. Not the "lots-o-books" kind.
A server can only push out so many bits to so many people at a time. Assuming that you are capable of downloading faster than the server can upload to you, you are wasting your excess bandwidth.
it still doesn't make it OK to use a server application on a residential plan You should be able to use your bandwidth for whatever you want. If you want to act as a server streaming at 20KB/s, there is no reason you shouldn't be able too. Paying for commercial hosting is for if you want your uptime to be guaranteed, you don't want to maintain the box, and you want to have better upload bandwidth.
they'd foot the bandwidth bill instead of demanding that their customers do Most FOSS sites that offer torrents do have HTTP and FTP transfers. I had to actively search for Ubuntu's torrents. Also, if your bittorrent download gets corrupted in transit, you don't have to download it all over again. Just the offending chunks.
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Now why can't all First Post AC's be this creative?
The problem there is that the losers, whoever they are, will pull out of the deal when they see that they have lost.
On a much smaller scale.
There is no reason in my mind for a "national" firewall. Maybe one to shelter the entire government's systems, but there is no reason to extend this to civilians, except for the fact that a local botnet will be able to DDoS more effectively than a distant one.
Here is a pretty interesting idea about how to go about using that energy for transportation.
Yellowstone is a big producer of geothermal energy, so naturally that site is out of the question.
Now clicking his name does redirects to his blog.
I personally found this less of a leap in logic.
About as many that care about other people who are suffering around the word. Anyways, if we didn't care about the civilians, we would have just seized the oil-producing regions and nuked the rest of the country into oblivion (assuming that we did not care about the international communities response).
If that were the case, I imagine that opposition to the war would be like environmentalism: more in the realm of an abstract ideal that most people won't care about when it comes to the bottom line. I am seeing 3 major objections to the war:
1) Lives are being lost.
Never a good thing, but our casualty rates are a joke compared to past wars. At the battle of Gettysburg, the Union alone suffered 23,000 casualties in three days. Iraq war? 3,879 (US) or 4,185 (total coalition) since March 2003.
2) Expensive.
Meh, $14.4 million for a tank ain't gonna change that, considering a normal M1A2 Abrams is $4.35 million.
3) There is no reason for us to be there in the first place.
I'm not informed enough to make a well thought-out comment on this, but I do know that Iraq would collapse if we simply left tomorrow. Probably was a bad idea to make that region all one country after WW2, with all the racial tension.
Children might actually be willing to listen and learn. Some people can be quite dense and unyielding in subjects they are unfamiliar with. I'm fine with helping n00bs, but sometimes it is a long, uphill battle
Shut up or I will DDoS your city.
Touché
Great. Once again we geeks are being called to defend the n00bs from their own stupidity pro-bono.
Maybe. I know we missed one of them.
IIRC, we never even saw 2.0.0.8
I personally would like to see a completely stripped-down browser with only one feature built in: Plugin handler. Take spell check, tabs, RSS, etc. and make them into FF plugins.
You'd be amazed what goes into the Firehose. The fact that it actually made it through is a bit mind-boggling though.
I don't even know how too code and I was thinking "library".
And to preempt those that like to pun: I mean the "DLL" kind. Not the "lots-o-books" kind.
FAIL
Have said college students paid for their connection? If so, it is Comcast's fault for overselling in your area.
It's a karma bonus. People are more likely to read the parent post than if I post at the regular +1 level.