Took me a minute to decide to comment, or mod up.

I will NOT pay $20+ for a DVD full of DRM/malware. If I purchase something, it is mine. I will not subject myself to corporate restrictions on what I can do with my own property. I have gladly paid for DRM-free songs and movies, and will continue to do so as long as my rights to my own property are not encroached upon.

I have even donated more than asked to independent artists, simply because I feel that they deserved to be compensated for producing something I enjoyed.

The typical pirate's attitude is not "yay, everything's free!".

Should $CORPORATION decide to release their movies for a reasonable price and allow me to download it immediately via BitTorrent, here's my Visa.

+1 Insightful anyone?

Shit, I forgot to log in. If you're gonna mod, mod this one, not my AC post.

Call me pessimistic, but documentaries do tend to be biased.

Yeah, that's why media sites like IT World, The Guardian, LA Times, and NY Times all picked up the story.

I was going to mod up, but then finished reading your post....

I am so tired of this argument, let me make it a little easier for your obviously-limited intellect...

This 'private property' is required to be open to the PUBLIC, 24/7. An agreement between the developer and the City lays these terms out - the developer was permitted to exceed the maximum height of a structure as defined in CITY ORDINANCES by creating and maintaining A PUBLIC PARK.

So, you'd firehose everyone away? If that happens, does that mean it is OK to blow the top floors off their building? I mean, if the park is no longer public, they shouldn't be permitted to maintain a building THAT IS TALLER THAN THE VOTERS LAID OUT IN CITY ORDINANCES, should they?

They (the building owners/developers) are already a special case, and are now trying to infringe on the rights of American citizens. They should have done more research into what opening a 'public place' means before signing on the dotted-line. They were happy to build up taller, funny how unhappy they become when forced to abide by the terms of the agreement that ALLOWED them to build taller.

Breaking the law by restricting public access doesn't seem so fucking smart now, does it?

I would be interested in the answer to this as well.

I would start in the order they were made. As you said, showing him Episodes I-III first would just ruin it.

I really hope that you are joking/trolling...

Anyone who still holds the belief that marijuana is either a) dangerous or b) a gateway drug needs to seriously read up on the FACTS...

And before the flaming begins, smoking is not the only way to ingest marijuana, so don't start spouting off crap about lung cancer - show me a scientific link between ingesting marijuana through mastication and any kind of cancer or illness. Oh, no luck? I can show you plenty of first hand reports of the BENEFITS. I will concede that science is lacking on both ends of the argument, but my point is still valid.

As for being a gateway drug, tell me...how many drug users actually started with cigarettes or alcohol, or caffeine? THOSE are the gateway drugs.

Pluggable Authentication Modules?

However, as technology increases, the amount of time necessary to break today's encryption schemes will be reduced, thus making the need for stronger encryption schemes.

Same boat here.

AS Degree in Electronics and Computer Technology.
8 Years IT Experience.

I applied for a job for which I exceeded EVERY requirement, with the exception of 'Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Experience'.

Funny thing is, I know the person that they DID hire. He lasted 3 or 4 months, and the same job posting was back in the paper shortly thereafter. I was going to try again, until I realized that they now wanted to pay $10k/year LESS than their previous job posting.

So far I have managed to keep real servers. We have a couple of VPS's but for the most part, we have real-life hardware. Actually, we just dropped about $100k USD on some new hardware.

This cloud thing really isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I'll bite, however, depending on where you live, the choice isn't up to her dad....

If you're talking about a pre-arranged marriage, posting links to Slashdot as AC doesn't help your chances of generating traffic....

Good luck!