No, I'm not in America.

You practically have to be a pirate to navigate through this many comments.

That is the beginning of a much better solution.

But do WOW, Hulu or Netflix shut down instantly and remove your progress even for a small blip in service?

Yes, I agree with you apart from 2), which is probably a bit tenuous. I regard it as important that I am able to pirate things if I need to, just in case (i.e. 1 or Ubisoft goes bust and shuts down its must-be-connected-to-at-all-times DRM servers)

Whether she was innocently infringing or not isn't really the point because it's fairly obvious that no teenager on the planet who pirates music doesn't know that it's illegal.

The problem is that she's in court for downloading 16 songs. Randomly attacking people who will find it difficult to defend themselves legally isn't the right way to go about reducing piracy.

Especially seeing as what you're doing by providing wifi is essentially wobbling stuff on a very small scale.

(Yes, I know, don't tell me how wrong this is as an explanation of EM radiation.)

My pessimism has been proven wrong!

Yes, sorry, I can't think of anything intelligent or witty to say. I'm too happy.

considering that this is a wee bit of a non-story, we can rest assured that any sections on manipulating social marketing will be good.

Seeing as Bill Gates no longer works at Microsoft, I doubt they see eye-to-eye at all. Nor do they need to, or we to know whether or nether they are.

Now explained for the first time!

In fact, this could be seen as even worse for the environment than the current process. Seeing as we /are/ going to run out of oil/gas at some point, having a more efficient way of using them just increases the time before this occurs. The idea that these devices are more environmentally friendly is a false one, as they will have the same eventual net impact (having used the same amount of methane as would have been anyway). However, I'm sure that this incorrect idea is the impression the public will get, both from marketing and wishful thinking. This could lead to delayed development of genuinely green power sources as the public are fooled into thinking that they are no longer necessary, causing more damage in the long term.

Are excellent, though I have no idea how big they'll scale.

Their support is literally incredible: they replied to my question (before joining) within 7 minutes.

Also, see the article 'Finding The Best Web Site Hosts The Googalistic Way'---'s awesome.

A few days ago, most of us were still waiting to see if this story was in fact exaggerated and/or untrue: what about the school's side of the story?

But it appears that the initial impressions were correct: the school is in fact just scrabbling around for excuses ("It was a security feature, promise!"). This suggests that there was in fact no good reason or alternate story.

Which is good, because I can go and get properly angry now.

Slashdot swallowed my <table> tag.