The exam is only for non-"western world" immigrants. That includes Japan but excludes Mexico and our former colony Indonesia. Basically, "western world" is defined based on wealth.

Live is good here, but immigration laws are highly discriminatory.

Not for lack of trying, but with the vast majority of the people, even the tech-aware ones, the typical reaction to anything "IPv6" is: "Wha..?", leading to lack of interest at first mention.

Which 24 hours sine Y2K were more anticipated? The launch of the iDevices? Is that really the tech industry? I work in networking (at a large web-based content-provider), and in "the field", this is a very, very important day (which we all hope shall pass relatively silently).

Should be around 1.2*10^12 libraries of congress per fortnight.

Modulating broad-spectrum light at 1GHz is still way better than modulating an electrical signal at 1GHz. So for on-chip silicon circuits there would still be a huge gain at current "clockspeeds".

It's nice to think about this tech on a large (optic-fiber networks) scale, but the applications on a small (silicon wafer) scale are, IMHO, more interesting.

Please, as a Christian to a Christian, please read this: http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian

There are a few other scriptures that I want to throw at you right now, but I leave it at Matthew 7:1 and Matthew 22:39.

I completely, totally and utterly agree. Also, as a Christian, I'd like to note that many Christians agree with this. Groups as in TFA are increasingly rare to find, especially in the educated parts of western society. They won't be missed when they're gone, I'll tell you...

Parent's last two sentences sum it all up nicely. Thanks for those!

The main idea is convergence: when you already have a 10GbE network, why built a second infrastructure for FC? Usually it is cheaper (and easier to get the budget) to just expand your current setup to facilitate either FCoE or iSCSI.

How is FC1 more reliable than Ethernet? Both are (in this case) supposed to run on fibre and reliability mostly depends on how the network layer is implemented. In this case, everything from layer three up is identical. In the case of FCoE, the main advantage besides convergence is speed.

I'd still go for iSCSI, by the way. Even cheaper, and routable if need be. For truly mission-critical stuff: use DAS.

Set up a quick static mirror: click.

Where are the other six?

If you're willing to change the system so that the jury-trial disappears, change it so that the judges are decently competent.

Here in the Netherlands we have no juries and my gut-feeling is that the system here is not perfect, but most certainly not worse than any country with juries.

This is one of the reasons why, sometimes, I'm glad to get to go to the data-centre and *build* stuff. It's enormously satisfying to spend a few days to rack up a few cabinets full of shiny new kit in between weeks of working behind a monitor fixing configurations and stuff.

Besides, it's a good feeling to know that the common bias of us geeks being afraid of physical work is wrong. Yes, your back hurts after racking a few blade chassis, but at least you feel like you did something. Certainly did a lot more tangible work than those guys over at marketing...

I count at least 106 Soyuz missions. Where did you get that data?