You must stand and wait while it pops.

This is Slashdot where the majority of people are OCD and can't stand still for 2 minutes because they are so busy with everything else. They would literally explode before the popcorn does if they couldn't run away and chimp their phone or play a game or pretend their life was so important and announce it to the world.

You might as well ask a baby not to poop while you're holding it.

keeps falling further and further behind the rest of the industrialized world.

Pretty soon we'll be behind countries like Latvia and Romania.

Oh wait. . .!

This same article was written elsewhere which was much more direct in what was happening: we are all now beta testers.

The adage that the company will roll out improvements is typical double-speak. They're not improvements, they're what should have been in the game when it was released (levels, abilities, etc) and the obvious bugs and faults that should not have been in the game when released.

Game companies are doing exactly what I keep harping on: releasing bad software.

We shouldn't have to put up with this nonsense considering the cost involved, but like good Pavlovian dogs, we'll keep shelling out our money because we think, "This time it will be better."

I meant four total providers. For the entire country. Your experience is exactly what I have, and what most people have.

In my case the two ISPs offer the same slow speeds at the exact same high price.

Coincidence?

Consumers would face less choice,

How would that even be possible? We only have 4 main providers in the U.S. Are these folks saying that if they were reclassified they would start merging with one another?

One can only hope they go through with this threat because the government would be able to step in and regulate them as a monopoly, forcing them apart like they did with AT&T and for a few years we'd once again have multiple ISPs to choose from.

Unless you can find a written policy forbidding it, just do it.

This is why you never give people admin rights. They'll randomly install shit and when something breaks, go to someone else and let them spend (potentially) hours of their time trying to figure out what went wrong.

If you think randomly installing shit is fine, I think it's fine to just reimage your machine without bothering to see if your stuff is backed up.

When you're at work, it's not your equipment. It's the company's and yes, almost every company out there has a policy explicitly stating the installation, or attempted installation, of unapproved software can get you fired.

Try this one:

Jane felt there were too many cables under her desk so she took her scissors to several of them and cut them back to the floor opening.

Our team successfully ran new cables and got the network up and running in the space of half an hour as well proactively took steps to prevent such an occurrence in the future by tossing Jane out the window.

I work with people across the entire working-age spectrum who are blithering idiots so I don't think it's just age which reduces ones mental acuity.

Maybe this process can help them as well. Let's start with programmers followed by the executive staff for starters.

Regardless of the legality, it was ethically wrong.

But it's ethically okay for you (not necessarily you personally, but the big You) to take what you want from TPB, not paying the person who created the work for their efforts, right?

It's not real like a car, it's digital. Everyone should have access to it for free.

McAfee did nothing different than what millions of people do every day via TPB.

work performed by people relying on these folks to do their jobs falls dramatically. IT support staff frazzled at having to constantly find solutions to problems created by people who are supposedly wizards at what they do.

IT management oblivious to problems so long as products get shoved at door and they can make their bonuses.

You do realize stopping the flow of gas to Europe would hurt Europe more than it would Russia, don't you? That is why there are only economic sanctions going on and not the stopping of gas purchases because Europe needs that gas. And Russia knows this.

The supply lines run from Russia to the west, not vice versa.

They have a vested interest in keeping Ukraine stable.

So why are Russian troops and Russian-trained operatives fomenting the unrest we're seeing? Don't you think Russia would want Ukraine to avoid what's going on? Why lie about ethnic Russians supposedly being targeted when they could provide not a single shred of evidence to show this was happening?

Russia started this because the people of Ukraine got fed up being used as a pawn by Russia and all the corruption their former leader was doing. That is why they opened up his former residence to show where the Ukrainian people's money was really going instead of for roads, electricity, etc.

Russia is the one who is causing the problem and the lies of the Crimean vote show the reality of the situation. Putin has become a modern day Stalin, though without the gulags. From dictatorial control of the media, the false imprisonment of political rivals and those who oppose his authoritarian rule, manipulating vote counts and election qualifications, goon squads to rough up and kill opponents, he has taken Stalin's playbook and updated it for the modern era.

Is there no comparable funding in the US, and if not, what is the political obstacle?

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the U.S. government gave out billions of dollars to companies to lay fiber all over the country for the expected increase in internet usage. They were trying to give a boost to the thousands of ISPs we had at that time by taking over some of the cost of the upgrade.

Tens of thousands of miles of fiber were laid and then nothing. It was at this same time The Great Consolidation started to take place and over the next decade we went from thousands of providers to a literal handful. All that taxpayer money that was given to companies to lay fiber went wasted because after it was laid, the money that was left over was used by companies to buy up competitors rather than upgrading backend services to provide higher speeds.

The result is what you see today. 3 or 4 providers covering the country with the vast majority of people having only 1 or 2 providers to choose from, both offering the same high prices for the same slow speeds.

The difference between your country and ours is that private industry is supposed to react to consumer demand by providing better products/services at lower prices than their competitor. In reality, millions of dollars each year are spent bribing elected officials and those involved with decision-making of rules and regulations to prevent real free market principles from taking hold.

To be perfectly blunt, the way things are now in this country, with businesses holding sway and able to get elected officials to do their bidding, is not too far off from the way things were done in your country, and most of Eastern Europe under Soviet rule, in the past. What the people want is becoming less and less relevant with those who have the power and influence dictating how things will be.

The interpretation comes from the ancient Hebrew writings which (supposedly) outline what the big guy said. As there have been a few years since the writings were created, and not many people still understand that form of language, they've misinterpreted what those writings said.

This was compounded by the Christians not understanding what the original words were and changing the meaning.

I'm not making this up. Go read the history of how this particular commandment has been misinterpreted for ages.

Here is a good explanation of why people get it wrong and this onecomes from the Jewish perspective (ignore the vegetarianism portion).