I thought there were laws protecting content distributers from being prosecuted, like why Google can't be held responsible if you email a confidential document, or if their webcrawler links to child porn; or why the phone company can't be held liable if you discuss a terrorist attack over the phone.

Megaupload isn't required to filter the content they share unless a takedown request is made; in fact, they *can't*, since a lot of it was zip-file password-encrypted.

What did megaupload actually do wrong here?

^ this. DD-WRT claims to have QoS, but it doesn't actually work, and never has - multiple independent tests have proved this. Tomato's QoS actually *does* something.

The real problem is that the managers don't understand what they have. Like Amazon, the real power of Netflix is its extensive user-reviews and recommendation engine - which Netflix has let go completely to shit.

Could you imagine seeing only reviews from users who agree with your taste? Being able to make movie recommendations to your friends and followers through Netflix? Being able to search for a movie by actor, writer, director, year, category, etc? Going over to a friend's house, and having Netflix recommend a movie it thinks you'll *both* like? How about having separate ratings/recommendations for every member of the family, so that Netflix stops recommending "Dora the Explorer" for you?

Yet, in 5+ years, they've done nothing to move towards any of that. They had a friends feature (which was *completely* inaccessible from their website - you had to google for the link) which they removed because "no one was using it." They took away user profiles, so you have no way to know which user-reviews to trust (the "top three reviews" are usually also the first three written, because of their poor review-sorting). The closest thing they had to a decent search was the "sortable list," which they also took away, without reason.

With the million-dollar Netflix recommendation contests, it was clear that Netflix *used* to know that the user experience is almost as important as what random TV shows they offer - it's not just about offering the right content, it's also about letting users who would enjoy that content *know* about it. Yet, somewhere along the way they lost that, replacing managers who understood with managers who think "removing useful features" is the same as "streamlining the website" (PROTIP: Make friends and user-profiles easier to find/more accessible, and people will use them!).

If Netflix doesn't shift gears and start listening to its customers, they're GOING to get replaced by someone who will listen.

I would guess any activity in which people zone out - such as playing Bejeweled, or cooking or driving a car - would reduce the PTSD

What Microsoft said was they are "confident that every unit of Kinect sold to gamers will generate profit." That doesn't mean they are making a profit on each unit.

Of course if this happened, sales of Kinect sensors would go up without sales of Kinect video games going up... and since MS is actually *losing* money on these sensors, suddenly the price of Kinect sensors would go up...

Clever is a taboo word in programming. Anyone who's spent hours debugging a bash script, or hours searching google trying to figure out how to do something in SQL that would take 3 minutes to program in a programming language, would know this.

One step closer to biotics and mass relays

If you have to ask, you clearly should not be doing this. I would say the same thing to a chemistry teacher asking what explosives to show her students.

Please don't call it encryption - it was (*extremely* poor) obfuscation. I bought one of these at Goodwill for a quarter a few years ago - played around with it for a bit, learned Python by writing a program that took :CueCat input and looked up the corresponding ISBN code on Amazon... good times.