Realistically there's a lot of money behind closed source, not just the company producing it but the countless lawyers and political institutions that maintain and write patents. What about the big box stores that sell it and promote it, advertisers won't be left out in the cold either! Free and open source will continue to fight this uphill battle, not that it necessarily can't or shouldn't, but a company that could commercialize this and genuinely play nice with the community and markets would do quite well.

Seriously we cant even get over the mental issues that soldiers face, and it's horribly underfunded to accommodate the vast number of people who "shrug it off" because there's already a strain on the system. This is probably a better thing to solve with technology than possibly pertinently destroying our own gene pool.

TV's have a bit of an interface problem when it comes to that, not many average consumers really want a keyboard sitting around in their living room and a lot of the apps that just require the remote tend to suck a lot in days past, such as the youtube search that was woefully underwhelming. I know my grandfather bought a web enabled TV, they just switched from dial-up to get on it, but he didn't use the web before...

Well it's a good thing they just finished laying off a slew of engineers now they can afford to absorb the bad press from this one.

But what about the slashdot poll isn't it important to know how many books I read? Har

if you actually read his blog then it might become rather obvious that this comes off as more of an academic exercise rather than "oh my god look how bad windows 8 is!". But Microsoft should be happy about this, now they have proof, to point to that the reason applications in Windows 8 aren't selling so hot is not because the operating system is starting out as unpopular but because everyone know's how easy it is to pirate their apps! Don't forget he used free open source software too! har

Sure because the people who drank more than 4 cups a day died of other "natural" causes like a tac a cardia, its a blip but it could have been caused by a few other behavioral coincidences. It feels a little more like someone trying to get value out of 26 years of possibly unfruitful research. there's another study that show's no determinable link! http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/49/4/1049.short

but certainly you can't disprove something by showing no determinable results on it.

Jared: "I lost weight because I got aids, and I want to give everyone Aids too!"

But seriously its extremely cool to see the sci-fi like ideas that you watch and just think "yea right" come to life. One could almost argue that the vision of art helps drive the dream of science. Maybe what the US Government needs to invest in rather than a huge boondoggle bill is a new Star Trek trilogy!

Please, if your going to manufacture news get someone who's proficient in Linux to write so the source sounds somewhat credible,

FTA
"Unusually for Ubuntu, the server does have a root account, and the VPS provides you with root access, so no sudo command is needed."
thank god they went through the trouble of "sudo passwd nubjob"

No no don't stop testing our product before we start charging for it!
"Now that it’s set up, you can’t just ignore it. If you do, your website or worse your VPS may eventually fall over. Plesk auto-upgrades itself, and on the Windows VPS, that used to break a website. I was using PostgreSQL, and with every new update of Plesk, the PostgreSQL drivers were unhooked."

I can't wait to get my auto-breaking I mean updating server! And this is better than a free VirtualBox VM how?

Although I have to give them cu-do's for reminding me to look up the chroot jail equivalent for Linux! http://wiki.linux-vserver.org/Overview

GameSpy was fairly crappy and slow back in the day, it wasn't very well integrated in many of the games that depended on it and personally I'd usually try to avoid games that used it. Credibility and presentation counts a lot, it always seemed to be the painful piece of crap ware you had to put up with to get to were you wanted to go.

So it burns down in 4 hours not the expected 5, because you have no power to run a pump and cant get a fire truck to save your life? Surely all employees that go above and beyond the call of duty should be fired because they and a large lot of volunteers worked to keep your business running!

From the story it looks like it could be tied to bad management, failing to do the due diligence and ensuring that the product was correct before you sold and shipped millions then trying to keep it under wraps? Seriously stand up and admit your wrong so you can fix them and survive to live another day.

Maybe they finally wizened up to the fact that you don't have to spy on people, companies do that for you, so therefore you just have to stimulate business, I mean pay for that data.

How much more do you have to pay to get a lobster that has only eaten lobster!

They can just ask you if you want to enable the feature nothing intrusive, say every time you change the channel or whatever, or just offer you a discount on your bill by enabling it. Maybe they call it something catchy like "Content relativity sensors", or hell just make it enabled by default and bury it in the list of crap you have to sign when you get service. Most people would probably go for it not taking the time to read the enormously long disclaimer that says "we own the content you produce and you have no right to it unless you or anyone who asks pays us ellevendy billion dollars!"