A few years ago I was hit for several thousand dollars because I was supposedly overpaid during my tenure working as a DOD civilian overseas. (less than 10 years ago at the time) The explanation for the overpayment was and remains cryptic and would change depending on which agency I spoke to, one agency said they overpaid health insurance, another said it was a housing benefit. After a year of phone calls and emails I could never get a straight, specific answer and so I could never prove them wrong. let alone find anyone willing accept any kind of responsibility for resolving the issue. After setting a collection agency on us (who we ignored because it seemed so obviously a scam), The IRS took my entire tax refund one year, and then half again the following year.

I signed up and never posted simply to use twitter credentials on other web sites.

Because all that matters is the Dropbox stock price?

Some of us will never forgive her and so some of us will cease using Dropbox.
This is legit.

Yep 2012 mostly works as well as 2008R2 but the Metro interface is highly inappropriate and the new GUI tools waste a huge amount of screen real estate. Also I'd avoid storage spaces. I lost a bunch of data from a single drive failure in what was supposedly a highly redundant configuration. It should not have happened....

In-game chat can be useful but I wouldn't be opposed to a racist asshole filter within chat. I'm really not very concerned about 1st amendment rights while playing BF4 so I'l take that risk. At the very least this could be an optional feature on the client side. I'd be happy with an "auto-mute on keywords which I specify" feature. Auto-kick/mute/ban on common spellings of offensive epithets should be a standard, if optional, server feature. It's not perfect but let's at least force the assholes to be creative.

I feel like the game industry has had their head in the sand on this issue for a long time now. They just gave up... or maybe it's the 'a racist's money is as good as yours', attitude....

But are they actually 13? or 30? That's the scary part.

In my experience SMS is broken with Google Voice... no group texts, no attachments, randomly misses texts completely. Highly unreliable.

But I kind of like this about it. Nobody texts me anymore.

Probably not much of a selling point though.

Since when has Newsweek been known for journalism? As with most tabloid pieces, this one is 95% speculation and hearsay.
I found the article distasteful and inconclusive.

...and as far as I'm concerned, it is.

No you don't have the right to make money indefinitely from work you, or in most cases others, did once.
No you don't have the right to hold our culture hostage.

I don't even think IP should be transferable, or if necessary, only very temporarily.

...but only if they can release OS updates for 1-2 years after a phone's release.

My experience with Samsung, (my first 3 android phones were Samsung), is that they tend to ship and forget. They showed no loyalty to me and so I never developed any loyalty to them. I think they got where they are by market saturation rather than any real, inherent superiority of their products.

'It is the intention of the government to ultimately convert the bitcoins to U.S. currency,'

Good luck with that. I've been waiting 3 months now for my U.S. currency.

... I'd like to add that I don't use the TV Server functionality of Media Portal at all. Just the client. My video is stored on a windows server which is simply sharing video folders via SMB, My MPC box is just a PC running Windows 7 and Mediaportal, pointed at the server's SMB shares. You could just as easily keep your video on the MPC box. Takes about 20 minutes to setup and configure from scratch, assuming you have Windows already installed. It's much easier these days as they now include a very complete (or at least complete enough for the vast majority of releases these days) codec package in the install.

I mostly play downloaded video and while MediaPortal is aimed at the DVR crowd, I've found that it's been able to play most everything I download far more consistently than the competition. Also it doesn't try to index every media file you own (though the option is available) which in my experience causes many problems if you have a lot of files with inconsistent naming conventions. MediaPortal lets you simply browse your file system with a MCE Remote, select a file, and play it. It's 100% free and I've been using it for 10 years. Support is continuous and ongoing. I check out the competition every year or so but always return to MediaPortal, so far. In the extremely rare cases when a file doesn't play correctly, it's simple enough to flip over to VLC.... but I probably do this only a few times a year.

OMFG. Who is going to pay those people? Please elaborate. No doubt there's plenty of work to do but how much of that will be paid for and by whom?

Even, assuming that everyone has equal abilities which they obviously don't, under our current capitalist system we compete with each other and some people are STILL GOING TO LOSE. It's unavoidable. Who's going to take care of them?

To hear some people on the right talk, it's as if they believe we could all be in the 1% if we weren't so lazy. This is so absurd. If everyone were a Bill Gates clone, some of them are still going to end up poor because of how our system works. They can't all be the founders of Microsofts.