> Telcos have always been prime candidates for socialization
There's no way in hell I want the U.S. government directly involved in delivering my Internet access. As soon as that happens, do you have any idea what content will suddenly be unavailable "for the sake of the children?" Then "for the sake of national security?" And then "for the sake of the copyright holders?"
> The last thing they want is Google to fire up all the dark fiber and use it to connect the entire US for free.
There's no way Google would offer that service for free, unless "free" included intrusive advertising, which doesn't seem Google's style. Plus, "all the dark fiber" they own doesn't come CLOSE to covering everyone in the U.S.
If you never "supported" any evil companies, you'd starve to death and not own anything. Unless, of course, you grew your own food naturally, without fertilizer (besides animal poo you find laying around), from natural spring water or rain, and got the seeds from wild-grown plants. You wouldn't be able to buy anything because the people selling things have supported evil companies, or those companies have dealt with evil companies, therefore you are indirectly (or directly) supporting evil.
> Google connects directly onto the backbone and doesn't pay for bandwidth
So if there's an "Internet backbone connection" that happens to run nearby my house, and I can afford the equiment to splice into it, I can get free Internet access!?!?!? I didn't realize that such access was free! Thanks, I'll have to look for that.
> Do non-Verizon customers who access Google's content pay for their network connections through Verizon networks?
Each link (company) in the chain of connection has paid someone else to carry their traffic to the next spot, so yes those customers HAVE paid, indirectly, for those connections.
Eh.. I meant 0 or 1, although the actual values don't really matter... could be "7 or G" as long as one of them is "yes" and the other "no" in some consistent fashion.
> For the simple fact that opening 200 connections with SEXWAREZ.DE is not likely like someone doing their online banking.
Except that your ISP only sees the IP address, and luckily the IP that SEXWAREZ.DE uses regularly resolves to something like happyfuntime.net. After all, there are a thousand sexwarez domains hosted at happyfuntime.net... What's happier or funner? Or timier?
> To get around that you'd need to do something drastic
Or when there is any idle bandwidth, start sending junk data to random IP addresses. Of course, that might look like a worm and get you shut off completely...
Which explains why you can speak with such authority regarding its content and viewers...? Don't think that just because some of the people in your family are stupid, everyone is.
I love Foobar, except for its randomization, which seems to suck. It just flipped back & forth from the first 1/4 of the list and the last 1/4 of the list, picking up one from the middle every 5th or 6th selection. Now, it may be bad luck, since even with truly random selections, it could play in the listed order, but I've seen it happen a few times.
Very interesting question. Perhaps the camera used to capture the image had a light source that was strong enough to be caught on the extremely reflective material on the lander, but not strong enough to bounce enough light off of the particles on the ground to produce a visible image on the film/CCD.
You'll notice that there are parts of the lander that look pitch black like the shadows, such as inside the folds of the reflective material and the underside.
> This theory can neither been proven wrong nor right, therefore it is called BELIEF
The problem with your simplification is that the theories of Evolution and Big Bang have facts to support them. ID, OTOH, does not. That is a large part of why theory belief.
You are simply retarded or willfully ignorant to think we can't detect cancer better today than 100 years ago. Obviously, YOU don't know what YOU are talking about. I work in a hospital, you jackass. I know FIRST HAND how much better our detection mechanisms are. How about YOU do some research before spouting your own bullshit, you fucking worthless troll.
> college is mostly still a scam
Wow, you must be in the debate club at your high school. The initial assertion was plainly false, I corrected it, so you come back with an entirely different assertion. Simply brilliant.
> this world is what people make it to be. if you are not interested in making things better, then keep it to yourself.
Which translates into "if you don't share my own political beliefs and personal opinion on what makes the world "better", you are trying to ruin the world and should die." Hate to break it to ya, bub, but different people have different opinions, and just attacking them -- without giving any reasoning why they are wrong -- is even less helpful.
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> evolution was used [...] by two different teachers/professors as a basis to declare "there is no god".
Then your problem should be with the school you went to and the people they chose to teach.
> You cannot zap some organic coumpounds and have them start forming cells
Not yet, but they are close.
> The ACLU was founded by and continues to be funded by athiests and marxists to promote their beliefs.
If that were true the ACLU would never argue on behalf of any religious people when, in fact, they have.
So you can't make an HTTPS connection to an IP address; only to a FQDN? That sounds like a bad idea.
I bet it's ground-up Go'auld and everyone who takes it will be addicted for life! Still would be better than wasting away from AIDS...
> Telcos have always been prime candidates for socialization
There's no way in hell I want the U.S. government directly involved in delivering my Internet access. As soon as that happens, do you have any idea what content will suddenly be unavailable "for the sake of the children?" Then "for the sake of national security?" And then "for the sake of the copyright holders?"
> The last thing they want is Google to fire up all the dark fiber and use it to connect the entire US for free.
There's no way Google would offer that service for free, unless "free" included intrusive advertising, which doesn't seem Google's style. Plus, "all the dark fiber" they own doesn't come CLOSE to covering everyone in the U.S.
Yeah, the first "fuck you" was +3 insightful, but a second one? That's just going too far: -1 flamebait!
> I wouldn't support such an evil company ...
If you never "supported" any evil companies, you'd starve to death and not own anything.
Unless, of course, you grew your own food naturally, without fertilizer (besides animal poo you find laying around), from natural spring water or rain, and got the seeds from wild-grown plants. You wouldn't be able to buy anything because the people selling things have supported evil companies, or those companies have dealt with evil companies, therefore you are indirectly (or directly) supporting evil.
> Google connects directly onto the backbone and doesn't pay for bandwidth
So if there's an "Internet backbone connection" that happens to run nearby my house, and I can afford the equiment to splice into it, I can get free Internet access!?!?!? I didn't realize that such access was free! Thanks, I'll have to look for that.
> Do non-Verizon customers who access Google's content pay for their network connections through Verizon networks?
Each link (company) in the chain of connection has paid someone else to carry their traffic to the next spot, so yes those customers HAVE paid, indirectly, for those connections.
> 1 or 2
Eh.. I meant 0 or 1, although the actual values don't really matter... could be "7 or G" as long as one of them is "yes" and the other "no" in some consistent fashion.
> No that's right, except there are 10 octal bits in a byte.
Octal bits? Is that where the values can be only 1 or 2 out of a possible 8 instead of just 1 or 2 out of a possible 10?
> For the simple fact that opening 200 connections with SEXWAREZ.DE is not likely like someone doing their online banking.
Except that your ISP only sees the IP address, and luckily the IP that SEXWAREZ.DE uses regularly resolves to something like happyfuntime.net. After all, there are a thousand sexwarez domains hosted at happyfuntime.net... What's happier or funner? Or timier?
> To get around that you'd need to do something drastic
Or when there is any idle bandwidth, start sending junk data to random IP addresses. Of course, that might look like a worm and get you shut off completely...
> Stop making no point.
Stop making no sense.
Seriously post you Slashdot unenglish understandably hard!
> I do not watch broadcast or cable TV.
Which explains why you can speak with such authority regarding its content and viewers...? Don't think that just because some of the people in your family are stupid, everyone is.
> Anyways, if you're far to the left, the media is biased to the right. If you're far to the right, the media is biased to the left.
I'm a Libertarian, and the media's got me so pissed off. They are SO biased down the middle that it makes me sick!
> until i found foobar2000
I love Foobar, except for its randomization, which seems to suck. It just flipped back & forth from the first 1/4 of the list and the last 1/4 of the list, picking up one from the middle every 5th or 6th selection. Now, it may be bad luck, since even with truly random selections, it could play in the listed order, but I've seen it happen a few times.
Very interesting question. Perhaps the camera used to capture the image had a light source that was strong enough to be caught on the extremely reflective material on the lander, but not strong enough to bounce enough light off of the particles on the ground to produce a visible image on the film/CCD.
You'll notice that there are parts of the lander that look pitch black like the shadows, such as inside the folds of the reflective material and the underside.
> The 'too many variable problem'? Not sure I know that one. Weather cannot be predicted because of chaos.
Isn't our concept of "chaos" just a matter of "too many variables" anyway? Or at least "too many variables to be easily comprehended?"
> This theory can neither been proven wrong nor right, therefore it is called BELIEF
The problem with your simplification is that the theories of Evolution and Big Bang have facts to support them. ID, OTOH, does not. That is a large part of why theory belief.
> it is even worse than that in Windows as of Win2K.
People have used the terms Folder and Document since long before Windows 2000. Something isn't new just because you hadn't heard of it.
> you dont know what your talking about.
You are simply retarded or willfully ignorant to think we can't detect cancer better today than 100 years ago. Obviously, YOU don't know what YOU are talking about. I work in a hospital, you jackass. I know FIRST HAND how much better our detection mechanisms are. How about YOU do some research before spouting your own bullshit, you fucking worthless troll.
> college is mostly still a scam
Wow, you must be in the debate club at your high school. The initial assertion was plainly false, I corrected it, so you come back with an entirely different assertion. Simply brilliant.
> this world is what people make it to be. if you are not interested in making things better, then keep it to yourself.
Which translates into "if you don't share my own political beliefs and personal opinion on what makes the world "better", you are trying to ruin the world and should die." Hate to break it to ya, bub, but different people have different opinions, and just attacking them -- without giving any reasoning why they are wrong -- is even less helpful.
> no you would not.the will to survive is genetic also.
You can't truthfully say what I would or would not do. Anyway, if that were true, suicide would be nonexistant.
> This only affects senders of bulk emails (mailing lists and spammers)
THANK YOU!!! I can't believe I had to go halfway through the comments to find someone who actually read and understood the article!
If you can see the future, you can change it.
If I see that I'll die in a car accident in two years, I can still shoot myself in the head now.