That's funny because Tyson is one of those people that spews this "Science equals Truth" nonsense. I want to throw things whenever I see someone on Facebook repost his nonsense.

Science is today's best guess.

"Truth" is for people that like to spend all day in church.

If streaming video is a problem for ANY one then it should be a problem for EVERY one. That's the basic idea of equality being fought about here. A natural monopoly should not be able to abuse it's position to sabotage competitors in different markets. This is also basic anti-trust.

The entire issue only exists because we tolerate (if not actively encourage) monopolies.

>> Funny you should say that. Also how is that any different from registered mail or any other method where it's guaranteed that a message was sent.

> There's no proof that they were communicated with by merely posting to f.b.

With registered mail, there is proof. That proof is physical and is mailed back to you and is suitable for 3rd party verification. You can actually verify that the person that signed for it is the individual in question.

NONE of that exists for Facebook.

Posting something on Facebook is only vaguely like publishing it in the local newspaper (also bogus).

SystemD and Upstart are both more complex and easier to screw up. That right there is enough good reason to stay well enough away.

if you want to redo the plumbing under the foundation, you first need to give good reason why the foundation needs ripped up. You don't get to do random nonsense and then explain yourself later.

This is just pretty basic change control.

No. It means that the spirit of Teddy Rosevelt needs to come along and whack them with a really big stick so that they can't abuse everyone and distort the market.

Bragging that your pet brand can act like an abusive monopoly is nothing to be proud of. It's blatantly anti-social.

> While iTunes could stand improvement, of course, it is still oly about a million times better than anything else. At least a million.

You're so funny.

Quit swimming in the kool-aid.

> I suspect they just want to know how many customers they have, not specifically who they are.

Nonsense.

I am sure that Netflix is more than willing to BRAG about how many Canadian customers it has, or how many customers it has in ANY country.

Way different kettle of fish than actual subscriber info.

...and both of those look like they need to be broken out into a number of distinct questions. Every comma and "or" muddles the resulting data.

Although I've been part of the phone survey racket. So I know all about how these things can be distorted to suit the agenda of the company paying for the study.

No. It's a recurring problem in these discussions because radical feminists will redefine terms. So it's hard to know at any one time whose definition you are dealing with. Are you dealing with something sane or are you dealing with something that's been "trumped up" in order to push an agenda?

You can't trust any random study to be free from such biases.

Then you end up with the basic magnitude problems that occur when dire claims fail to meet basic sanity with respect to numeracy.

If you're actually numerate, some of these claims are just incredible on their face.

I don't think most of the people pushing them fully understand the implications.

Yes. That was Dawkins that rightfully noted that you lot are complaining about 1st world non-problems.

You will take a situation that's not the least bit sinister and distort it until seems to be something entirely else.

That's why no one can trust any stories like these.

Radical feminists have hijacked the debate and the language.

Women are more likely to be the subject of a sexual advance because men are expected to initiate courtship. Differing social expectations and indoctrination will dictate that women find any advances more objectionable then would men regardless of the level of genuine menace the represent.

There was some feminazi that went on a tear because some guy had the audacity to hit on her. Then she whined when the corresponding community luminaries pointed out that she was being a hysterical idiot. The whole situation was portrayed as proof that "X community is mysoginistic".

It was all a load of mindless victimology.

There can be a wide gap between how a bunch of extremist crusaders define a term and how the rest of us define it.

These DRM laden video formats aren't any less crapulent on Windows. Unfortunately they aren't just used for video but also for basic site navigation. So you get a pervasive level of crapulence even with Windows.

It's not just a Linux problem.

Windows users perhaps just suffer from a certain level of "muggle numbness".

You only have to rip something once. You don't even have to do the ripping yourself. Someone else can do it for you.

DRM on a BluRay is only slightly more of a nuissance than the DRM on a DVD. Both are well cracked formats with lots of suitable tools that are readily available.

That particular battle was lost a long time ago.

Now this new format will remain intact only so long as no one cares about it. As soon as it becomes relevant, it will get cracked. Admittedly, obscurity is one thing Apple may have going for them here.

Yes. SSH has it's difficulties in this use case but it's the best of a bad lot. ALL of the other options simply require FAR too many resources. SSH is the only feasible remote support option here.