This isn't politics. This is the basic level of professionalism and human decency that shouldn't have to be spelled out, but here we are.

Nice arguing to absurdity. :/

It's really quite creepy how many people this is triggering. As if acting like a decent human being is a bad thing? As if asking developers to not be creepy assholes is "virtue signaling"?

Guess what guys, welcome to the real world. People expect a little bit of professionalism.

And no, none of this is "virtue signaling". I don't need to signal my virtue to a bunch of strangers on the damn internet who don't affect my life in the slightest little bit. Further, NOT acting rapey isn't a virtue, it's the basic level of common decency and professionalism that should be expected without having to spell it out.

If this is bothering you, frankly, you're a bad human being.

What's it like to defend acting like an asshole? Why would you do that? How is "Hey, don't act all rapey" hypocritical or "white knight bullshit"? More importantly, what's wrong with you as a human being that this would cause such a reaction in you?

1. Duh, we all knew that. Big Whoop.

2. Hi. My name is Tony and I'm an Atheist. Santa isn't real. God isn't real. Jesus isn't real. And I still don't care about "Merry Christmas" in the slightest. Hell, I say it to people!

3. Christmas is awesome. I just spent several days eating good food, hanging out with friends and family, giving out gifts, taking it easy, and watching my Grandfather play with my daughter for hours. Christmas is a good thing.

4. The "War on Christmas" is fought only in the heads of Christians, and they're fighting the wrong people. Go talk to the stores putting up Santa displays instead of Jesus displays and leave the rest of us alone. Besides, who cares if your neighbor believes in Buddha or Krishna or whomever? Get over it, and stop being such pansy sensitive crybabies! Other people live here too.

"it's not just the end of Moore's Law, but a rolling back of the progress it made over the last fifty years."

How about if it's giving the consumer what they want? I don't need more powerful chips. I need more battery life! (and less wasteful software, but that's a different issue)

"The real spoiled children are the ones crying for big government to protect them from scary imaginary boogiemen."

You mean conservatives afraid of terrorists? :D

So, I'm reading this story, and reading the comments. Everyone's piling on the "Gubmint bad! They steal from us!" bandwagon... Uhm. Guys? This story is the Gubmint STOPPING a horrible practice. Why aren't there more cheers?

The DOJ was right to stop this. They did. Hooray!

No... This was a chain of stupidity, and the Police could have broken that chain. There are multiple stupid people here. The police are stupid on this one too. I'm also pretty sure we have more choices than A. Blaming police for obvious stupidity and letting lowlifes ransack our homes and B. Letting police off the hook and them doing their jobs when some lowlife threatens my home. Black and White fallacy!

All the ISPs lobbied HARD to get themselves reclassified away from Common Carrier status. They WERE common carrier, and that made them immune to this... I hope this is the tip of an AWESOME iceberg in suing the ISPs. Don't be merciful, they ASKED for this.

If this takes off, and why wouldn't it, it's basically free money for Rights Holders, the carriers will be begging to be reclassified as common carriers... As they SHOULD be.

Sue on! Hey, I've put my copyrighted works on the internet. I bet some of you has looked at my works without permission. I bet Comcast enabled that! They owe me money too! :D

None of this would have been possible if they hadn't lobbied themselves out of common carrier. They've been arguing against common carrier for over a decade now. Time to reap what you have sown....

No. This is a GREAT precedent to set!

All of these ISP jerks lobbied HARD to reclassify themselves away from being Common Carriers so they could pull net neutrality shenanigans. This is just them getting their just desserts. Don't want to be a common carrier? Fine. You're now liable for what goes over your lines!

I hope this is the tip of an awesome iceberg. If this takes off, and it will, the carriers will be CRYING for common carrier status in short order.

This is THEIR OWN FAULT.

I want to work. I DON'T want to work at drudgery! Who does? No one... but I'll gladly do interesting work. Volunteering is up in the US. I think you're just a curmudgeonly boss. If you have employees that don't want to work for you, maybe your workplace sucks and you're a terrible boss who can't motivate people.

With a basic income, and basic healthcare, I would quit my $70k/year job and the benefits, and work on my side business of building musical instruments.... Work I already do, because I love it.

I think you're just a curmudgeon, and like most people, you think everyone is like you. They're not.

I hate watching youtube and seeing the Same. Damn. Ad. Over. And. Over. After the fifth viewing, even the cutest ad is !@#$ing annoying.

1) What are you talking about?

2)My business doesn't work without the CNC machine, because that makes my product. But the guy in charge of the business (which is my business partner, I'm a small business) doesn't know anything about CNC machines. He doesn't need to. He needs to make relationships with stores and move that product.

I'm not going to say it's not valuable for the suits to know the tech. I will say that we all have our jobs. Technology enables the business, it ISN'T the business, especially when considering banks.

Speaking as a Democrat, I'm happy to see that the R's gave in on abortion, funded women's health care, stopped oil subsidies, went along with a single payer health care system, cut back on war funding, funded basic infrastructure, etc etc etc. Oh wait, that never happened.

What did the Democrats get that they wanted? I'm dying to know. That's a big statement. Let's see it backed up.

There is no "in their quest to bring the best technology to their business", because that's not their mission. They're there to make money. Even tech companies are there to make money. The technology rarely has anything to do with it. The coolest gizmo in the world won't make money without marketing and sales.

I use CNC machines in my side business of making guitars. My quest is to make money selling guitars. The CNC machine enables that, but it's not my quest to bring CNC machines to the masses. It's not even my quest to bring the latest guitar technology. Quite the opposite.

You're talking about BANKS, fer crying out loud....