I definitely commend MS for attempting to get back in market, but this was wrong way to do it. Reality is, more people may buy hardware manufacturers hardware made for MS if it can be made Linux bootable otherwise MS will just continue to loose market share. As we have already seen with MS tablets, no one wants a slimmed down windows 8 OS, they want the full OS so they can use what they been use to using for years. I believe MS does have a big chance at market share here in tablets, but only if it runs windows 8 fully(users can do what they want like hey been use to, not limited by the surface tablets). MS has biggest advantage here I believe if they go this route, since all gamers and office users are use to windows to begin with. The thing MS does need to give up to get back into this century is to make windows 8 free as an OS. That will allow them to compete fully in tablet industry, allowing people dual boot Linux and windows 8 for an example, or even as a virtual Image. As it stands we have moved from industrial age to computer age for awhile now, only open source has survived because of active development. We have seen time and time again how people who do not move their program/OS to opensource, have eventually been outdated within a few years with something new, vs an opensource release where programmers can voluntarily help improve it, thus making it exist even to do this. IE: Linux, apache, bind ... just to name a few. MS needs to make something of value, not try to prevent people doing things, there are far to many programmers in this world today to undo anything restrictive, it makes sense to go the former route. A bigger question is how would MS like it if Linux manufacturers went on to secure the boot loader to prevent MS from ever running, would they like that? Would it affect their revenue? Would it be anti-competitive? Of course. I think they big picture here is "Do unto others and you would have done unto you".

USA prevented Antigua from selling gambling, so they are going to sell movies/music online in effort to recoup their costs. Again, using VPN prob best way to go for downloading, RIAA and movie industry cannot fight every citizen on planet doing it and every other government. Its always been and always will be if people do not want to pay for something, they won't, concentrate on people that will pay. Been like this since software piracy days. For someone to issue a legal lawsuit against someone for downloading movie out of their house , someone invaded that person's privacy rights in order to do that in first place, the real lawsuit should be file against ISP that released that customer's information to a third party, a complete breach of trust.

I wouldn't suggest anyone advocate a program where it contacts the internet period. While might be a great service, if that company is determined to steal your passwords, they most likely would find a way. If joe blow disgruntled employee decides he wants your bank passwords before he leaves the company, I'm sure your not going to be very happy. Program needs to be opensource, encryptable, and be able to hide it somewhere in filesystem nowhere would think of looking(everyone should pick their own place). Paying someone $1 dollar a month, you've already made it public you have something to hide, not a good start...

I love fact my g/f makes more money, I am proud of her. I think need to stop the stereo types, they bare children, work hard, and if you ever loose your job she can help with that to, seems like a win win for everyone.

We should also be careful on this, because if raise costs on them, its more than possible imported products may raise in price, if a point ever happens where food is to expensive for common person to buy, could crash the economy.

They should charge commercial entities , not consumer market, those semi-trailers cause the most wear and tear( and damage to these roads) are not taking enough of the cost, why should consumers have to pay for them. Considering cost of a hybrid car nearly 35k, which no consumer will pay regardless till they come down to 20k range, the consumer market is being hurt the most, added costs of vehicle monthly cost and being taxed on it as well hardly seems the right thing to do.

I assume your about 36 to make such a comment. 1) oil: welcome to george bush presidency, with the war and such, there was more demand than supply, not that supply wasn't there, but raising costs to meet the demand was an added benefit for bush's 60% oil stock portfolio, to think some people go to jail for insider trading unless your a president! 2) music: that is uncalled for. I listen to music from every different genre, country, era, language on daily basis, I think your just narrow minded here. 3) love and greed: so your underpaid high school teachers preached to you out of love but because they accepted a paycheck they are greedy? 4) documentaries: compared to all the youtube videos of how cool the X generation is? Boomers and X generation are old now, the next generation also hates both of those generations music tastes, after all we are suppose to hate our parents music so to separate us independently from them and be "cool" amongst our friends. Not one is better than another, its all a lesson in life experience.

Its not really advanced DPI filtering injecting code on a packet per packet basis, most likely what they doing is using firewall to redirect all port 80 outgoing traffic through a proxy like squid, nginx etc and those programs have a simple config type file you can edit to insert what you want. Its really an evasion of privacy to do this, even more so because hollywood and music industries latest way to make money is say, make a crappy cd of music, post it on a torrent, then go sue any IPs downloading it, asking ISP's to invade users privacy to snoop their traffic to obtain this information, yes, what a joke. What is really going to happen if ISP's continue down this road of not protecting users privacy, users will start using third parties to bypass their ISP's filtering and inspection, opening up a whole new problem of possible malware etc. I mean look at problem with not offering windows7 or windows8 free to begin with, people download and install it and take the malware just to get it free, at least OS's like linux have it right here. In my opinion if ISP's are doing any kind of packet inspection at all, yes its almost like having to pay a cable company to watch their ads, then their service should be sold at a reduced cost, and it should be made public their terms of service for handing you over to joe and pop music store law firm for downloading anything as well so you can take appropriate measures to bypass their inspection to protect their own privacy through encrypted VPN's or whatever they can.

Well said that's how all the people feel on issue, real question is how we can go about opposing these corporations, just because a group of 50-500 with alot of money think they are self-riteous, how long can they stand against the whole world. I remember RIAA tried to stop peer file sharing in vancouver, canada one time, and smartly we told them to go to hell, why are USA judges so scared to stand for the people.

You make no case how a consumer grade SSD would not last at least 10 years before normal replacement and upgrades compared to enterprise SSD. Sounds like your advertising for the enterprise guys to take money out of people's pockets. I have not had any issues running raided consumer SSD's.

What they did snooping traffic is a clear violation of privacy, what someone does in their own house is their business. If this "scandinavia" has any self-respect, lawyers should step up to the plate, sue them hard, prevent this from happening to anyone else. Harrassing a 9 year old girl, stealing personal property(laptops etc), anyone else find this wrong?

We use whatever works better its not just a games issue. We use Linux for development, FreeBSD for ease of system administration and ZFS for our movie collections, Windows for games, and for love of god stay away from Apple and Solaris for having nerve of non-opensource unix.

Sounds good then we can start VPN companies to protect their customers to do what they want like internet should be and make money off them.

I have had priviledge of coding with best in the world, talking near perfect IQ tests, been to MIT etc. What they all had in common was their brain thinks faster than normal people, when they smoke pot they can actually focus and concentrate on code like a normal person. I remember one time one of these guys flunked a math test because he ran out, he rewrote it next day stoned and got a perfect 100%. For fun he'd sit up late at night stoned all the time hacking at the linux kernel trying to make it better. For normal people, there are 2 types, ones that shouldn't be programmers and ones that really do want to be there. The type that do want to be there come up with more creative ideas stoned, then implement them the next day, a coding block on an algorithm easily solved with having a joint, then tackling it the next day. Then there are the types that aren't creative that shouldn't be programmers to begin with that it doesn't help them at all. In overall society legalizing is probably a better thing, criminal minds that would go off committing crimes, instead smoke a joint, and say , screw it, lets just play xbox for rest of night, or just hang and chill, creating less work load on society. In general my opinion is do it in balance, don't smoke pot for 6 months straight or it will take you a full month to gain your longterm memory back, just do it here and there for a breather from life, as a sleeping pill or to overcome a coding block. Having a joint means you become effectively 2 people analyzing same problem, 2 minds are better than 1, and generally reason it is easier to solve problems thinking outside the box at times. I am definately not advocating smoking a joint everyday, unless you have no job or income(then go for it), but just in balance, it never hurts to approach things from a different philosophical perspective.

I have never met one that couldn't program, I have actually found the opposite, the sys admins I have worked with could program better in more languages, and the coders could only code better at maybe 1 or 2. Sys admins need to know C, unix tools, windows tools, perl, php, shell, and a multitude of operating systems and different packaging systems that go along with that, they are generally more intelligent than the most intelligent programmer, and generally on spare time kernel hackers, so not sure what types you hang out with, but please don't insult the real admins :)