I'm in the same boat. I might purchase a subscription with a VPN service, but I don't know how much of a hassle, or how reliable it might be. Of course, our bandwidth might get a whole lot more expensive and/or limited in the coming weeks, so that would make this possibility even more remote. I'm wanting to ditch satellite TV though, so I'm planning on buying and installing an antenna, as well as an HTPC with a dual-tuner. I should be able to grab most of the major networks in Toronto and Buffalo.

I'll take it as a license to download whatever music I want, since I'm presumed guilty and will be charged the fee in advance, and my conscience will be clear. Thanks, CPCC!

Why make it:

1) easier for the apathetic (and likely uninformed) to vote?

2) easier to hack an election?

No good reason. It's just a stupid idea all around.

As passengers, we should have the right to ask whether we're putting our lives in the hands of a computer rather than the battle-tested pilot sitting up front, and we should have right to deplane if we don't like the answer."

Rights this, rights that... if it's really such a big deal to you, do your homework before you step on the bloody plane. Who told you that you don't have these rights?

It took them this long to come out with a landscape keyboard? Has Microsoft secretly taken over Apple or what?

If the customer doesn't realize it's not a good deal, that's their own responsibility. Where's the deceit in that? If you pay more for a house than it's worth, that's your responsibility, not the seller's, and it doesn't make the seller a bad person. Like I said, I'm not talking about the seller lying; dishonesty is a separate issue. I'm just talking about the apparent disdain for up-selling here.

Why would anybody be appalled and angry at a store for trying to upsell a customer? That's business, and there's nothing inherently wrong about it. A store has no duty, legally or morally, to inform a customer as to whether or not a purchase is a "good deal." If you don't want to buy the extended warranty, then don't. Of course, I'm not talking about dishonesty here. If someone lies to you about what you're buying, that's a different matter completely.

I haven't tried IE8, but I uninstalled Chrome 5 minutes after installing it. It took Firefox about 20 seconds to load 8 sites, while Chrome took over a minute. If it's going to be that slow, nothing else matters.