ether_a_gogo

I really like using TOR, but I sometime feel bad doing so. I like my anonymity on the web, but don't really need it. Given the bandwidth squeeze, I feel like that could be better used by someone else. Do you guys discourage people from using TOR for general web surfing? What's the general feeling on this?

Generally, the way it works is if your agency/department is funded solely by user fees, rather than a direct appropriation, you don't shut down. For instance, I'm at NIH, which means that I'm funded by a direct appropriation to HHS from the federal budget. We're shut down. The same is true for the national park service, via the department of the interior.

However, I have friends who work in inspections for the FDA. They're still working, because they're funded by user-fees from the drug companies that they inspect. They have the money to keep going, because their funding source isn't the federal budget.