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If you are in North Carolina you can call or email your Senators and encourage them to vote against the bill. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?...

I think that he means that he is putting everything on the private IP range: 192.168.* .* .

This is sounding a lot like a profession making it illegal for others to do anything that could decrease their own income.

From my understanding, one of the main reasons that internet is so slow in China is because everything has to pass through the Great Fire Wall.

I found it interesting that this biography is so different than the ones that have been written in Western news recently. Can anyone here speak to how accurate it might be?

Possibly. Or somebody could be using servers in China in a "man-in-the-middle" attack to get information while it is en-route.

What did you mean that Chinese to say? because it came out along the lines of "at China's stuff."

I may be completely off-base, but after reading the article and poking around a bit I got the impression that most in the DP group are youngish (under 21) and just wanting to be pa…

Or let me play Dwarf Fortress in the cloud so that I will actually be able to play the new version at a reasonable speed.

I do not believe that the committee has proper authority to approve posting here, we should refer all comments to PG and let him decide whether or not to approve each post.

If Microsoft ever does 'Go Google' I'll eat my hat: That would be like Bluto deciding to eat spinach to gain Popeye's strength, it just won't happen.

They say that the seats in the back are more safe, presumably because fewer people die in them, but are not the seats in the back usually only filled if the plane is full? The plan…

Even most private schools in America charge less per pupil than the government pays to educate a student in a public school. Governments are rarely efficient because they do not ha…

> It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?" Generally there is no good answer for this other than being indoctrinated at a young age. But that does not explain …

I think that you mean it is virtually impossible to buy non-pirated games. The same goes for movies here: There are lots of them everywhere, but they are all pirated.

I'm sorry, but I do not see how that is a copy of a MacBook. I have seen a lot of laptops that look more similar to that than that looks to a MacBook.

Traditionally China has been the same way: Whenever somebody gives you a glass of water it is always warm so that the receiver knows that it has been boiled, and is safe to drink. …

Knowing a little about how the process works, you usually do not get to speak to that actual congressman, but instead one of their staff workers who does their best to sound sympat…

You should really try Arch. I was initially hesitant, because of the whole 'Build you own Linux!' thing, but after doing it once I learned LOTS and realized that it was not near as…