Why would you need to turn on the spy software unless you were told the machine was stolen? They're using it to preemptively find out if the student looks like s/he might steal it? The thing is obviously a trojan horse, and it's obviously time for a special emergency school board election.

One of the best choices, and definitely worth a close look. Great control center, small but helpful community, "just works" approach to software. I've installed it for 3 total computerphobes and have been almost disappointed by the lack of "support" calls once the initial settling in was over. PCLOS is maybe a couple weeks away from its new release with KDE4.4, which will require a rare reinstall, so if you can wait for that, all the better. There are also community versions with LXDE and other lightweight desktop alternatives if you want it even simpler. It's not built on Debian, though. It uses RPMs with an apt/synaptic interface. The one possible disadvantage is that the repos have "only" around 12,000 apps available. Since the distro is designed as an integrated whole, installing outside packages is discouraged, which could be an advantage for the folks the OP describes -- everything they're remotely likely to want is there and they don't have to worry about incompatibilities, dependencies, and all the rest.

But this is different. They had so much to be proud of that they had to start pretending they were somebody else. Only Xfinity was big enough to bear the volume of all the goodness they were so proud of.

standard? Can somebody explain how the hell that could happen? What does H.264 have to do with HTML5, exactly?

Amazing. Could it possibly be that a whole bunch of former customers will just forget they were ever interested? Are they going to move back the window for showing on on-demand and premium cable, too? When 95 percent of the product you produce is utter crap, each mostly indistinguishable from all the other pieces of crap, it sure makes sense to make yours harder to get. Of course when the obvious an inevitable effects are felt it will all be the pirates' fault, or some woman videoing a theater party.

to making an ass print with a copy machine.

is not a crime. Singing during said crap movie should be. Let's get our priorities straight.

GE already had more than that. They are selling enough shares to bring them down to that figure. Either way, this is a terrible idea for our information access system. Mixing content with information distribution infrastructure is exactly the wrong way to go if we want broad-based content and interactivity. Regulators need to be pushing for a return to the Ma Bell model -- the common carrier that has nothing to do with the conversations on its lines. Even if Comcast were a trustworthy company, there's no way it will overcome the temptation to make its own content a little easier and cheaper to access. The owners of the cables need to choose whether to be common carriers or content providers, but not both.

I used to go there all the time. Assumed there was still a paywall or equivalent. The psychological thing is interesting -- even if it's perfectly open now I'd have to overcome some kind of habitual negative association to start again. The other thing, of course, is that everybody that didn't want to pay found good-enough alternatives in the meantime and don't necessarily want to put another name on their dance card. Rosenberg has the psychology exactly right.

children cannot be abused by the internet. My question is, how is it that the "defenders of children" never have a clue about children? How many law enforcement resources does Australia plan to throw at answering calls from kids who just wonder what the pretty button does, who think the police should arrest Bobby for calling him a troll, who get scared of the "2012" preview they stumbled onto, who just want to stir things up? If we really want to "protect" kids we'd be better off banning idiocy like this and restricting parenthood to those with the capacity to do the job.

This guy is "sure" they screwed, but presents nothing but his surety. There's apparently not the slightest evidence that this is more than a fantasy, however cool a brain-vid it might paint. So the story is that he's going to look some more for evidence that they not only screwed but bred. Maybe after he figures that out there will actually be a story. A pixel is a terrible thing to waste.

but keeping the perp anonymous neither guides the reader to stay away from them nor teaches the vendor a salutary lesson. The antidote to scamming retailers cooking the reviews is using your own free speech to nail them in public. In posting reviews, a retailer takes on the role of neutral umpire. When they violate that implied responsibility, they become scammers. It may be hard to sic the cops on them, but they deserve no mercy from the public. So, for starters, who was the retailer and what was the product?

Windows has pretty much a lock on the desktop, so the new chip won't have much market there. The desktop is also the declining market, so the new chip won't be missing that much. The big growth will remain in servers, where windows is optional at best, and netbooks/mobile devices where windows is a minority player. ARM may have made a rather astute decision to concede the dying segment to Wintel and make a big footprint in the markets that will continue to grow, and which also happen to do just fine without Windows. If they make sure to brilliantly showcase the not-windows OSs, ARM could come roaring back as a force to be reckoned with in consumer-level computing.

or we burnt the wrong animal at the sacrifice. But let us take this setback as a call to redouble our faith: Soon the saucer will land.