From the Summary:
"The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years." WRONG.

From the Article:
"The terms and conditions Karoo enforce are not new - the BBC has spoken to customers whose accounts were suspended over two years ago." In actuality, this only means that the enforcement of this policy has been in use for over two years, not that actual customers have been without internet access for that time duration.

Agreed. I'm optimistic that there will be a day when there are no wars, but unfortunately I think that will be right after the meteor wipes us humans off the face of the earth.

Sometimes keeping people employed on large projects is a good enough reason for a government job, stimulating the economy and trying to keep unemployment numbers down.

I'm sorry, but all of these are irrelevant arguments. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, so he already had his money. Mozart was in debt for most of his life, but he was likewise paid in advance for most of his pieces. Leonardo da Vinci also was commissioned to create most of his art. Don't compare the artist to the people who paid for the art. If the Sistine Chapel wanted to charge an admittance fee to see the art they purchased, that would be absolutely fine.

Your examples can be generalized, did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.

Look, I hate Sony just as much as the next guy and cannot remember the last time I actually purchased a Sony product accidentally or planned. Even if the PS3 becomes the only console out there, I wouldn't buy it. I would make my own console out of cardboard and imagine the game being projected on the wall. Every time Sony puts a product in the marketplace it is an investment on their part. The only option that I have to protest their idiocy is by not giving them a ROI (money). If enough consumers actually care about Sony's practices and likewise refuse to purchase their investments, then Sony will have to adapt. Anyway, I have no idea how your comments were marked as "Insightful" as they lack insight and are blindingly fallacious.

We had a contractor wire our office and had no problems until we started using roaming profiles. A few of the connection terminators were bad and only allowed a 1mb/s connection. The computers that had these problems normally only transfered a text files from the server, or surfed the internet and weren't really using more than that bandwidth anyway. So, with large file copies associated with roaming profiles, we finally found the problem. At that point, I distrusted the contractors work and had every connection redone (40 total) and retested to the full 1000mbs our network actually supported.

So my suggestion is this. Unless someone kicks the cable every day, there isn't much to go wrong. Monitor for abnormally high number of collisions on one port, and yearly perform throughput tests.

I too was down to 20 minutes or so, but then I bought a new one off eBay for $27 shipped. I debated getting a new laptop since mine is over 5 years old, but ya know what, it runs Linux just perfectly. My laptop has a really nice video card and screen resolution and I wouldn't be able to replace that for under $800. So, my new battery purchase was a no-brainer.

You forgot to correct the AC on his/her ellipse usage. Although ellipses are accepted in less formal settings, a semi-colon is often preferred. For a more pedantic view of the English language, you should read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." It's amazing how many nationalized differences there are with punctuation usage and spelling.

And now for something on-topic that doesn't feed the trolls. Although the "horse already left the barn", that won't stop the MPAA from getting the FBI to nail someone to the barn door. Given enough publicity, even a pathetic attempt at stopping the spread of an already leaked movie will probably deter some people from future movie pirating. This makes me think of older criminal punishments with a high "public spectacle" quotient like the stockades or the fictional "Scarlet Letter." Anyway, through their eyes, disrupting 50 business and possibly 911 services is a minor inconvenient means to an end.

The vote happened at 22:45 (10:45pm). So, let's hypothetically walk through the events of the night leading up to this point. 41 hours and 40 minutes earlier (TFA doesn't actually give a start time), so they started discussions Wednesday morning at 3:05am. This seems amazing for Frenchmen. Anyway, after about 40 hours and 55 minutes, around 10:00pm the next day, everyone thinks it's late and this is getting a little over the top. So, everyone starts mingling around and leaving. By 10:40pm just about everyone is gone, so the decision to take the vote happens. The four who voted "no" were actually supposed to vote "yes", but were so tired at this point that they raised their hands at the wrong time. With marathon sessions like this, no wonder silly laws get passed. By the end they don't even know what they are voting for.

Right now, I live in a house with 8 other guys. No one has a TV, so most of the guys use legal sites like Hulu to watch shows they like. We have a house rule of only legit movie/music/app torrents unless your name is on the bill. Since, he's the one to potentially get in trouble if the RIAA comes knocking so let him take the risk if he really wants to. Anyway, even with that rule in place, we would cruise through a 40Gb/month plan in a little more than a day, and a 40GB/month plan in just over a week. If everyone was torrenting, I don't even want to know how quickly we would hit the limit at 20Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up.

I was cramming to finish a children's book for my literature class in high school. I worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday (without sleep); printed it out at Kinko's Monday morning and was at school by 7:30am. I finally fell asleep during my last class of the day, missed the bus and had to wonder around the building until I found someone to drive me home.

There I fixed it for you.

I'm not arguing against your attitude of anger. What I'm suggesting is their goal it to develop a culture change. Condoms break, promiscuous sexual attitudes breeds complacency toward precautions. I would venture to say that no group sending aid to Africa is doing it 100% correctly. Although, together I hope that the disease can be treated AND a culture of change can occur.

If you are trying to teach managers a lesson about what happens when admins are not around, why do you need to shut down all the servers in the server room before going home? The only need for the admin is to administer the computers: make changes as needed to keep the systems running smoothly and as per spec. Your list follows that except #3.

My guess is that most servers would be fine for one day (otherwise the admin is doing a horrible job), but the thing that management couldn't handle is that there would be no one to hold their hand while figuring out how to make a horrid looking template for Outlook.

If Fort Wayne, IN, if you don't live just outside the fence of the FOX station, you cannot receive an HD OTA signal. They are broadcasting in HD only to fulfill the letter of the law, but not the spirit. (statement accurate as of about 3 months ago, but may still be)

And the inferential fallacy in your argument would be the fallacy of composition. Composition is when we reason that what is true of parts of a whole is necessarily true of the whole itself.

Unfortunately, since I am not going to review all of the code either, I have to subscribe to the same argument. I'm fine with the peer review of the individual parts, and believe that when put together it is also still true.

No, I'm not a troll. Yes, I'm reviewing for an exam which includes inference and inferential fallacies.