Absolutely. Why don't they just start WhoHasTheBestShitToSteal.gov for Christ's sake. With guns there's an even bigger concern given the attractiveness of guns to criminals. I don't think you need to be any sort of anti-gun-control fanatic to see the insanity in this one.

I have a Linksys E1200 router and can verify first hand that it's a POS. Every few weeks it flakes out and some, but not all machines connected to it loose access to the network. It's on the newest firmware, and I even factory reset it and reconfigured everything as a last ditch attempt to address it. I had a bad feeling when when I went to upgrade the firmware and it prompted for which "hardware version" I had...1 or 2. Mine didn't indicate which, and it took a little doing to find it was "version 1". My take on that is that version 1 was the "defective hardware we should have replaced for free". Compete and utter junk. I made the mistake of confusing them with the Linksys of yesteryear...never again.

I was going to ask the same thing. How can it possibly be legal for an ISP tamper with the content like this? I'll bet this would even trick NoScript into assuming the javascript came from the same site as the page. If this is legel, I'm a bit stunned. It certainly shouldn't be.

The whole premise of the article seems to assume that unions are exclusively about 1950s-like factory jobs. How about all those low paying service jobs out there? I don't see too many robots stocking shelves at Walmart. In decades gone by, in a large part due to unions, a guy who was willing to get up every day and go sweep floors at a factory could actually survive. Today's equivalent, those low paying service jobs, pay so little you're almost better off not working at all.

That's why unions are under attach these days...because a large chunk of corporate America is still dependent on a few jobs that they can't automate or outsource and, if unionized, might actually pay a fair wage...and we can't have that now can we??

Amen to that.

A software company I used to work for had a customer in the aviation business...mostly airplane repair. When they did repairs for someone they had to charge all applicable taxes based on where the owner lived. They had a dedicated system to handle it which required regular updates. All in, it apparently handled thousands of special cases.

...and lets not forget...collecting the taxes is the easy part. Properly submitting them to the states etc for which you're collecting them with all the proper documentation makes that look easy.

Let's be clear: forcing businesses to collect all applicable taxes would effectively end Internet commerce for the little guy...at least for any who want to operate within the law.

Oh to have mod points!...If people keep working around this crap rather than voting with their wallets they're saying it's OK. Everyone who gives a shit about this MUST refuse to buy any computer with secure boot...period.

OMFG!!...Some of the quotes etc in the essay from the GNOME folks are utterly beyond belief. I'm serious...I had no idea their attitudes had reached that state...and all the talk about "our brand"...WFT?? They've essentially become Microsoft FFS. After reading that I don't see how anyone who cares about Linux or open source would want anything other than to totally abandon, even boycott those folks...simply amazing.

I didn't notice this when you originally replied. I'd say there's very little chance of that. You're probably not aware of the history of all that, but originally zap2it.com (owned by Tribune Media Services) had a free interface for their listings, but eventually announced that they could not continue to support it. As a result, Schedules Direct came about via a collaboration of MythTV and similar open source projects who worked out a deal with TMS. They pay Tribune Media Services for listing data, which is why they charge a small amount ($20 a year) for subscriptions. All in all, this is probably a decent revenue source for TMS. I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be a problem with it some day, but I think it's very unlikely.

I had one of those HDD500 DVRs for recording HD OTA for quite some time and finally sold it (for almost as much as I paid for it) about 4-5 years ago after building my MythTV system.

While it generally was a pretty good recorder, and pretty much the only retail unit of it's kind, I grew to HATE that TV Guide OnScreen. That TV Guide system had essentially it's own firmware within the recorders firmware that was self updating...that is it would automatically update itself totally beyond your control from the OTA signal...and this didn't always go well. When the guide didn't work, the unit was essentially a paper weight for the very reason described in TFA...the assholes decided to give you NO way at all to manually set the fucking clock....a feature available in every fucking VCR made since the 80s, in a unit that retailed for over $1000...seriously??

Good riddance...gotta love MythTV and Schedules Direct!!

I'll probably get some troll points for this, but after watching the recent Frontline titled Climate of Doubt, I wonder if there aren't some pretty powerful forces out there that just plain don't want weather/climate data all that much. The interviews in that show seem to indicate that the big money behind that effort (which over the last four years has somehow convinced half of the U.S. population that man made climate change is a myth, while science has gone in the opposite direction), is way more about Ayn Randian ideology than science.

All pretty scary if you ask me...like we're getting closer and closer to witch burning every day...

These so-called "HDTV" antennas were sold for years with the incorrect assumption that digital TV would stay on UHF and it most assuredly did not!

In the New York area for example, several of the UHF digital networks moved their digital signal to their original VHF frequency when the switch over occurred.

Don't buy one of those unless you're sure that all the digital networks in your area are on UHF. If any are, you'll need a combination UHF/VHF antenna.

I know it's not an option for some, but I live where I can get New York OTA channels, and even Philly stations if I want, with my roof antenna and rotor. I record everything we watch on a MythTV system with a TB of disk space. I haven't had pay TV in 25 years.

I have cable for internet only. Every time the cable company calls me trying to sell me a TV package, I tell them exactly what I'm currently using, and exactly why I want no part of their any-consumer bull shit. I wish more people would do the same thing.

What sucks of course is that, because all the available internet providers are TV providers, you pay a premium for internet when it's not part of some fucking package. The whole situation just blows to put it mildly...and the fucking FCC, whose supposed to be working for us, can go straight to fucking hell too.

You're fucking kidding right?? Like code being pulled from packages I chose to install on MY computer is the same as a website I'm visiting choosing to make ME run code from sites I never even heard of?? What exactly is your point, aside from proving your astonishing ignorance??

Yea, like maybe coming up with a Linux version that at least sucks balls a little less...

The thing that pisses me off the most about most (even supposedly reputable) web sites these days, is the eye opener you get if you run NoScript. The fact that the home pages of supposedly reputable sites are trying to pull in javascript from like a dozen or more unrelated sites is just fucking inexcusable, and it seems to get worse every day.

Worse yet is that some of those simply don't work at all unless you resort to "Temporarily allow all from this page", in which case I tend to just bail and never go back. I mean seriously...WTF??? I can't tell you how that burns my ass.