Did you drop a zero? I haven't read the article, but $190/mo for 100/20 is super-cheap and not at all what I would expect for a commercial service. 'Round these parts, that kind of service would run you over $2,000/mo.

I think you missed an important point. It was not the owner who broke the rules, but a delegated operator (for lack of a better term). Your example would be more precise in saying your friend drove your car at 127 MPH through a school zone, therefore YOU are no longer allowed to operate your car (while your friend merrily goes on continuing to operate his own car).

It's more complicated than that, even, since the nephew in question was [probably?] operating under the uncle's username; if so, that does swing the Finger of Blame(TM) back toward the uncle somewhat for permitting someone else to use his account.

Still, my opinion is that it would be quite reasonable for Valve to block online multiplayer play for some period of time, but to prevent local gameplay is a major overstepping of reasonable bounds.

That said, I will undoubtedly continue to purchase Steam-powered games. Baaaaaaah.

I give you SDRAM, wherein the read operation does indeed damage the stored data, so that the memory controller has to immediately rewrite any row it reads (not to mention the constant general refreshes).

A cable which can stretch. My parents have a Chrysler Grand Caravan which has an utterly useless parking brake; despite repeated tightenings, it's back to useless in short order (in this case I think it's the tensioning mechanism itself but still...cables stretch).

Anonymous Coward for president! I can't agree more with this statement. The subjectivity of defining harassment, etc., is untenable.

I'm already a bit lost in the jargon, but I think the key difference is whether extraction of knowledge is involved. To "let someone in your house," all you have to do is stand aside. To give up a password means revealing something that you know rather than possess.

I also think (my opinion now) that giving up of passwords under warrant is arguably reasonable. A warrant would be required, which puts the control in the hands of the court and not in those of the investigating officers.

It took me about three tries before I figured out that it wasn't "Unborne."

This. Also I believe there is a law about "duly erected sign," at least in my state. In other words, where signs would generally be expected (stop, speed limit, etc), road markings alone have no enforceable meaning. Even if the line is painted with the word "STOP" beside it, if there's no sign, you don't have to stop.

Also this again. Police departments want to generate ticket revenue? Forget speed traps. Station an officer at intersections with a digital camera and a ticket book purely for people failing to stop behind the line.

That only proves you can see posts by timothy when using lynx. Doesn't prove timothy could actually post using lynx.

I'm sure I'm not the first to say this on this article...why the fudge isn't Hillary in jail? Average Joe Citizen does anything even remotely like this and he'd be disappeared in a hurry...

Yes, this is how push notifications work and is openly documented here: https://developer.apple.com/li... Relevant section:

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What do you have against the mellowtron? It was a fantastic invention in its day!

Do you disagree?

Your banana-hammock might get you a pro boner attorney!

*rimshot*

That's not really a very relevant indicator, though. For you, the "electronics package" seemed to consist of only things you found helpful. In, I suspect, a great many cases, the "electronics package" contains a few tremendously useful things, and a handful of fluff things. There's no indication of which particular features purchasers of the "electronics package" actually care about.