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Comment Re:New military branch needed (Score 2, Interesting) 131

You are right. A group of people trained properly is about the only way to do this. Thing is to really be effective they would have to operate with little to no oversight. Essentially a black-ops for a cyber war.

That idea makes me squirm. Bad enough so many groups try this already with current laws, I wouldn't want to give that much power to a unmanaged group of people. If you want effective though, that's the way. A Czar is a waste of time really.

Comment Re:I don't think ads were the sticky issue with Bo (Score 1) 166

Sorry, I don't think something like that is necessary in this case.

If you go to Boxee's site, then click download, you are given VERY clear instructions on what needs to be done.

The poster's "I've been trying to find it for ages" translates as "I'm too lazy to even bother going to the site". Seriously.

If someone is interested in an application (particularly an app that's still in alpha), the first thing they should do is visit their website.

Microsoft has catered to the lazy user. Hell they take pride in it. If Linux is to get a meaningful share of desktop/netbook computers we must cater to lazy.

Comment Re:First post!! (Score 1) 194

With the press talking about people who want to harm the U.S. using Facebook, Twitter, various IM systems etc, it almost makes sense to turn off one such avenue of abuse. It may be a "lead by example" thing... or a software bug.

Its Microsoft. If it turns out to be a good thing, "feature". "Bad" its a software bug. "Really bad" and its a "zero day exploit" they knew about for "6 months."

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