According to the law, corporations are people. I don't agree with that stance, but it's what we live with.

As a general rule, people in this "church" are forbid to use the internet (because they might read the truth about their little cult). I doubt they'll be down-modding anything he ever writes since these people, for the most part, never use this series of tubes.

Oh yeah? Last mile customer here. ~60 USD/month for 1.5/256k. CenturyLink can suck my balls.

uh... do you mean "lynx"? i've never heard of a browser called "links" before. man, that takes me back to some good ol' vax/vms days.

Hack the Gibson!

Mod parent up. Too many people in this forum think that the post is only talking about journalists.

Read the article. It states that the administration believes these same rights also extend to those not in the press.

Yeah, and out of everyone I know who played the game (dozens, including me) there are maybe 1 or 2 that continue to play the game (I don't, though I'll pop in from time to time to see if anything has changed). The initial success was great and it sold like hotcakes. The continued success? Not so great because the game is so damn boring. I don't believe I'll be playing D3 in a decade from its release, like I was with D2- partly because the game sucks and mostly because I doubt Blizzard will keep its servers going that long.

I know that, as a community, most of us do not RTFA before posting, but the amount of stupidity on display for this particular article is just amazing.
1) it's BRAKE, not break.
2) it's STEEL, not steal (as in a cable)
3) modern cars do NOT have keys, so you can not simply just turn it to the ACC or OFF position because there is no such thing
4) computers, which most of us love, control almost every function of a modern car, including what gear you are in, whether the engine is running or not, so on and so forth. if the computers are crashed/bugged out/in a loop/one of a million bugs came to the surface, the driver loses control over what the car can and can not do.

I've come to the conclusion that no one on this site can spell correctly AND no one here drives or has even heard of a modern car's features. I have no solution to the spelling part, but for the love of Jebus, watch a car show once in awhile. I suggest Top Gear (the original UK version, not the crappy US version). You will learn a lot about cars from that show, technology-wise. This is a tech site, right? Keep up on current (car) technology, you noobs.

You don't understand what a "monopoly" is, do you? Look it up, you might be surprised!

You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.

Say you're a carpenter. You go home after work, go to your garage, and make a cabinet. You made this cabinet with your tools and your time. Say you sell that cabinet. Are you required to give your employer the money you made on that cabinet? Hell no.

This is why I never understood the whole tech sector employer thing of "anything YOU make is OURS."

I don't know what it was like when you went to school, but in the high school I went to the teachers didn't have much scheduled time to work on such things. You got a half day every couple of months. You got one "free" period most days, but not every day, which was pretty much your lunch break. What scheduled time do you speak of? Both of my parents were teachers. You know what those half days consisted of? Mostly meetings. Again, not much scheduled time to work on lesson plans and the such. Teachers worked on all that stuff at home. Scheduled time my pink behind...

So they made a USB 3.0 flash drive that has a decent amount of space on it, priced it at a multiple more than the competition, and that's it? It doesn't even come with Windows 8, which is the purpose of buying this product. Great story brought to you by /., now advertising products that many will never, ever need (or want)!

I'll agree that swimming in a pool is one of the safer sports you can be in. For the sake of argument, change that pool to the ocean, and all bets are off. People do swim for sport in oceans, so it's a valid argument.

Anyway, taking in a lungful of water and getting pneumonia as a result isn't fun. Missing the wall that you're supposed to turn on and instead going into it head-first isn't fun either. Competitive swimming is hard stuff. You use your entire body to go as fast as you can, sometimes for as long as you can. Anyone who has done sports can tell you that when your body gets really, really run down from the competition you're in, strange things can happen. Misjudgments happen ("where's that wall? shit!" *headcrack*). Tiredness can cause you to not get your head out of the water fully and take in a big old lung of water instead of air. Even a small bit of water in the lungs can lead to sickness.

But I make these points just for the argument. People say swimming is one of the safest things in the world to do, and I have to come up with something that says, no, it's not. But to argue with myself, I had a number of swim team friends in high school and I can't remember anything really bad ever happening to any of them because of swimming. Every other sport had its broken bones, sprains, concussions (back then those didn't matter so much), and the rare ligament tear. Believe me, once you see someone go down with a ACL tear 15 feet away from you, you never want that to happen to yourself.