I use HawkHost.com for my sites. Been using them for a few years, never had any issues. Slowly switching my domains over to my own box at softlayer, but that's just because I want the control.

Bell Canada used to use this password and no one would ever change it. It was kind of funny being able to tell people what their password was. They've recently made slightly better passwords, but it was a good couple of years of abc123.

What about someone who doesn't have constant internet access. Or those who want to play when the servers go down all day every Tuesday? How about trying to play a single player game with a ping over 1000ms, not because your connection is bad, but because their servers can't handle the traffic?

Still think it's not that big of a deal?

Not to mention seed boxes that can be purchased for cheap. Why waste your home upstream, when you can use a 100mbit connection to download and easily transfer it to your home computer with ssh/scp/sftp.

Those companies must love seeing news like this. There's always another way..

COERCED.

The article used the wrong word. She's 16, what the hell do you expect?

Also, what do your over paranoid habits have to do with anything?

not that I don't agree with you, but part of the problem is the customers. people are idiots, which would be fine but they are also self entitled assholes about it. i've never worked in a call center but i have worked in a retail environment in the past and hated dealing with the phones for that very reason.

reading scripts for support type things is the devil though...

Exactly. Not that I would switch because I PREFER to do all of the administration myself, but there is a lot left to be desired from what they are offering and considering the price ranges, it's definitely not at a point where it would be worth it for your average users. Interesting take on things though.

This, not that I really use either service but I haven't seen much of a difference between the two.
It matter more where and how you use your e-mail than what spam filter you use. That and everyones definition of spam is different.

My first computer had that button. I never could actually figure out what it did. Of course that never stopped me from randomly pressing it hoping something awesome would happen.

You are right, your analogy makes perfect sense.

Since the ISP is not selling internet access but just access to usernet which allows their end users can pirate content. They should absolutely be held liable for something they have no control over.

I'm using it with Opera and haven't noticed anything not work, but I don't really use it much.

Facebook is terrible for being compatible with Opera though.

I'm surprised they haven't already honestly.
I'm also surprised that none of the big manufacturers did.

Patent wars are getting ridiculous.

I disagree.
This is the first I've seen =/= and I've always used !=.

I vote for this or Apptorium.

From what I've read the Xbox Live outage didn't happen for everyone.

It doesn't matter though, this is a completely different issue because of the security concerns. There no point in comparing the 2 services...