There's a difference between posting public truth and posting sensationalism.

Gawker's Hamilton Nolan moral compass is way off, but greed has a tendency to do that. It was not ethical to repost the suicide just a cheap very sad grab to profit from it. They could of edited the video and posted a great article with class, dignity etc. but when your moral compass is pointing towards greed well there's the results. I'll stop ranting now :)

Because it's not really doing anything with performance, it's just taking spaghetti code and god knows what else and using more resources to deal with it. To me performance is to have efficient code that uses as little resources as needed. What I find scary is that software is being rushed, or written by folks who should never touch a computer so the programs require more and more resources with no end in sight. This is bad, it should not take 10% cpu/gpu and 200mb to run Tetris, or pacman :) Fixing performance for me is fixing the spaghetti code, fine tuning that code to the point that you have done the best that you can, then if you need more resources it makes sense. Not write crap code and who cares about the resources, after hardware is cheap. I think that's the wrong attitude to have.

Doesn't sound like Microsoft will be fixing the performance, but instead just taking the problem and using other resources to help deal with it. I'd would say something like cleaning the code, fixing memory leaks etc. would be a far better way to go, but I suspect Microsoft isn't able to accomplish such a goal with any of their products. I have (like I'm sure many here) a nice display on my desktop that shows the percentage of cpu load at any time, but with software companies like Microsoft now making use of the power of graphics cards it's time to update those cpu load programs to included the load on graphics card so I can still see the damage being done but various programs live. And I also agree with a lot of the posts so far, it's not the speed to load/display webpages it's the memory leaks etc. that's the real problem, shifting some of that to graphics cards really won't help much.

Clearly you haven't been paying attention to how the DMCA has been used in the U.S., rarely has it been used to stop actual theft, more used to control. You know those science fiction books and how they paint the future as being very dim, well that future is already happening and this would give it a real big push. Personally as a Canadian if the PC government signs this in anyway then good luck on them ever being re-elected again.

Go a step further, find someone with a laptop/netbook, smash them over the head with the book and take their laptop/netbook to watch your movie.

I would love for The Smoking Gun or maybe someone who lives in the area to find the unsecured wi-fi connections and help those folks secure it. I get the impression that without those connections the loser would have no internet.

So the moral of the story is if you are looking to educate yourself on security and common sense then Cornell is not where you want to go among other places. It always amazes me it seems to take a few hundred breaches before common sense sings in and simply things like encryption and basic security measures are used.

RIAA, ASCAP and one nuke problem solved :)

Do nothing let him be, sometimes one has to hit rock bottom before they realize they have a problem and need help. As long as he resists any help, then you can't help him, so wait until he is ready.

Yeah that's one way of looking at it, of course if it wasn't for douchebags we wouldn't need hardened systems etc. we would all live in peace lol I prefer the other hand, make the penalties harsh, put a few on death row and let's see how many douchebags will thing cutting fiber optic lines or anything else for that matter a good idea :) But that's just me :)

And then tomorrow we'll all be told it's an April fools joke.

I would imagine all dealerships that sell competing luxury cars are just dancing with joy when you will hear about this. Lexus is committing suicide. Does Toyota have any moronic thoughts of doing this to any other of their lines of cars, trucks etc. ? Just want to know if I need to be treating Toyota like it was the plaque or just Lexus ?