Well the reason you should be moderated down is that calling people names like 'hater' is not an argument for or against anything.

'just sayin...' is a crutch for people who want to put something out there without vouching for it. In this case, the reason's obvious: today's finder is right up there in shittiness with metro. Like microsoft, apple doesn't want you browsing files, they want you 'searching' for everything.. Yuck.

I'd be happy if they brought back windows 2k GUI with its fast and lean gdi+ acceleration. It's a GUI that doesn't clutter up my desktop with huge window decorations and widgets, nor give me grief and/or performance problems with windowed gpu accelerated applications. Windows 8's is the worst of both worlds: it clutters up the desktop, and, unlike windows 7, the display manager can't be turned off without invasive, system breaking hacks. Even with windows 7 the explorer is broken compared to 2k/xp, but at least I can get 95% of what I want with a few shellstyle.dll hacks and some registry tweaks.

They don't have to. They have CALEA ports.

Strawman.

Just like every linux article is 'infested' with windows apologists..and apple fags too. Welcome to the tech crowd. We're a heterogeneous bunch.

The network was originally developed and used by the dept of defense to connect military bases in case of nuclear war. It later spread to academic as well as corporate presences.

I don't think you understand capitalism or socialism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the generation, purchase, sale, and ownership of property amongst private parties. Socialism is a government model that imposes itself on individual rights and choices for the sake of what the leadership thinks is the common good. They're not a zero sum game. In fact, what we're seeing in the US now is how one can actually boost the other into whole new realms of abuse across the board. Thanks to this interaction, we have a government culture that doesn't give a shit about the rights of the citizens it's supposed to represent, and we have an economy that increasingly does not cater to the consumer. Each washes the other's back.

This is why net neutrality is damned if you do damned if you don't. Either you have the isps play favorites with connectivity, or you have the state mandating standards which will eventually move towards censorship of data that negatively affects the interests of the single issue lobbyists (corporate and social) making up its collective yet fragmented view of the world. Ideally, I'd want the internet of 1990 with today's bandwidth and reliability, but if I had to choose, I'd rather deal with an overmetered network than one whose culture is dictated by corporates wanting to corner markets with legislation, and politically correct, thin skinned, pompous asses, pushing 'social justice' in the form of soviet style censorship policies and methods.

'establishment' or 'established firm' might be better.

Wealth doesn't correlate strongly with intellect. If anything, it might be slightly negative. Besides, if you really earned that much, you would've probably never heard of slashdot in the first place. You'd be off doing more interesting things.

Exactly.

My 'view', is that he was using fallacious reasoning in order to preach.

I could see how the autodownload might put someone out of serious money and/or waste precious bandwidth. Few people have 'unlimited' plans. By all means, offer the music as a free optional download in the itunes store, where, if purchased (for $0), becomes a part of the user's library, and then autodownloads if the user has that turned on. Don't just force the download.

How would you like it if your phone manufacturer or carrier started 'autodownloading' crap you didn't necessarily ask for? Strip the hype and drama away, and there is still a legit complaint here.

Oh right, this is an apple product. You all must be 'stylish' hipster douchebags who think you're smart.

So anyone with a problem not as bad as someone starving in a 3rd world country has no right to complain or discuss it, ever?

Logic is sorely lacking around here. It's called context. If you want to discuss 3rd world problems, there are plenty of forums to do that in. This is a technology site. You are obviously in the wrong place. Take your social justice somewhere else.

but but that would require people to take responsibility. How dare you suggest they shouldn't be coddled and denied their pity parties!

Well if they know how to drive then they wouldn't need the laws in the first place. Either way the laws are useless.