This is the same company that has established the following:

1 - Bandwidth is finite. It must be controlled and limited. Users must endure caps and pay overage fees if they abuse the system.

2 - Bandwidth is so precious, in fact, that we need to charge for it twice: both the consumer and producer must pay. This is why we don't support Net Neutrality.

I'm fine with this model as long as it cuts both ways. After all Comcast is getting a free ride: they're using my electricity, their router is taking up space in my home, their users are consuming capacity both on my wireless network and my cable connection that I might otherwise consume. Therefore I must be compensated.

If comcast refuses to compensate me for my resources consumed in the pursuit of their commercial goals I have no choice but to snip the antenna wire in their router, or more realistically return it and purchase my own. In short: they can suck it.

So true! That REA was a complete waste of money (for instance).

And yet when I applied for my US passport I had to supply my birth certificate. *shrug* I'm sure the passport office does thorough checks, but getting the birth certificate also required I prove my identity so perhaps they're relying on the idea that you shouldn't have a particular American birth certificate without going through a check of some kind.

So you need to bring a climbing harness and rig yourself into the structure to prevent falling out. I kid. That's ridiculously dangerous. I assume instead it will become a base jumping stunt. LOL.

I'm a fan of Elon and Tesla, but it sounds like they need to invest heavily in fixing sleep mode.

Google Voice offers call screening. Anyone in your contact list is allowed through - everyone else has to announce their name which is played to you. You then have the option to take the call or send them to voicemail.

$1/mo? Is that with 911 service? Who is the provider? Callcentric is $2.95/mo but you tack on another $3/mo for a 911 fee.

That was one of the greatest Grandcentral features that Google eventually adopted. GC users could report a number and other GC users could subscribe to those reports, automatically blocking reported numbers. It was great.

What do you mean bad old days? Verizon still does this.

Even my venerable Nexus One had to be rooted to remove the twitter and facebook apks and that was a stock phone straight from google play. No crapware that I noticed on the Nexus 4, so at least that's alright. But it's nearly impossible to exit the Google ecosystem entirely and use an android phone.

Well you can find out for yourself at the OpenBSD home page, which explains their approach to security: http://www.openbsd.org/security.html OpenBSD is definitely an educate yourself then ask questions sort of OS. I'm not slagging on you, just saying it makes more sense for me to post a link than try to recreate the contents of the webpage it goes to. Check it out. Decide for yourself.

Really? You've never heard of a transparent bridge? It is possible to work entirely in passthrough mode and quietly learn all MACs on the network whilst never doing anything yourself but packet passing. If there's no new MAC on the network, there's nothing to trigger IDS.

First this is just a marketing fluff piece by some recruiter wherein he shares his fantasy that for some reason companies will lay off or let retire great swathes of workforce, and then for no discernible reason hire them back through modis so they can take a 33% passthrough cut.

Second , I hear you about contracting vs full-time. It took the .com bust combined with a down-swing in energy to force me out of a contracting for the first time since 1900. But, where I work now also doesn't keep contractors on more than a year and doesn't do business with any but a short list of large shops, all of whom want entirely too much dosh for a 1099 passthrough. So again, this guy is talking out his backside if he thinks there's suddenly going to be a sea of contracting jobs. We don't hire contractors unless we have to just because of the one year limitation. It's not enough time to teach people complex systems, get them productive and reap the benefits.

None of them are perfect, but if I had the NSA's budget, I could probably roll a few together into one useful tool. If they're hiring I ain't cheap, but it sounds like fun.

Oh yeah they *really* loved it when Citibike went in.