First, I don't know where you get off calling me racist, ignorant, or a troll. From the same wikipedia article YOU linked: "The Steelers, however, had already interviewed Ron Rivera who is a Hispanic minority to fulfill the requirement before interviewing Tomlin, and Rooney himself contends that Tomlin's hiring did not result from the Rule".

My only point of contention has been about the factual representation. Tomlin was interviewed and hired because they thought he'd be a good coach, and wasn't because of his race. He was also hired by the Steelers, where the rule originated, which implies that as a whole they are more accepting of minorities. I'm not knocking the rule, only that you're falsely propping up Tomlin as an example of it working.

Thats just it. Tomlin wasn't the Rooney interviewee. They had already interviewed Ron Rivera, and it even said so in the links you provided. They chose to interview Tomlin because they wanted to. No other reason.

The Rooney Rule had nothing directly to do with the hiring of Tomlin. They had already met the requirements of the rule and could of hired anyone. Being that the rule started with Rooney and the Steelers, it would only make sense that race is less likely to play into their choices. They chose to interview, and subsequently hire, Tomlin because they wanted to.

Considering the Amish (obviously a generalization based on a segment of the group) are in fact willing to use the internet for work related purposes... It does in fact seem to be fairly neccesary.

Except, the games were developed with Gamespy for online play. Gamespy isn't their service, so they don't control the fact that it's going away. So yes, there is work required to re-implement online play. I don't like the choice to end support, but I don't fault them for making it.

ABC(and others) offer content effectively for free via local broadcast. Their profit comes from commercials. All Aereo is doing is providing the antenna and DVR capabilities over the internet, thus allowing you to view from alternative locations and devices. The users are paying a small premium to have the hardware, storage and upload bandwidth managed offsite. There is nothing about this setup that an individual couldn't do with their own equipment. Aereo isn't taking any more money from the content providers than any other DVR/VCR would.

Don't forget all the men you'd be punishing!

Just because some people use the newer naming convention doesn't make either one wrong/right(better/worse). They should of codified kilobytes(etc) earlier on, before it actually became an issue. The standards from the IEC didn't come into place until after the non-codified standard was entrenched. There was no reason to change it, aside from sticking their nose in things. It was a well understood naming convention for the number of bytes. To prevent the people(marketing departments) from abusing the situation, they could of used the defacto standard as the official standard.

Because it's a truthful lie to make the drives look bigger, as was pointed out in the link you provided. The sole cause of confusion, was marketing people wanting to pad their products stats. This could all of been solve quickly in the beginning by firmly defining kilobytes(etc) and forcing manufacturers to uphold truth in advertising.

Not sure if arguing that they didn't specifically mention newer ones were salted, but bcrypt itself salts the passwords.

Being capable, and being allowed... two separate things.

They put a lot of money into making sure that most fail in the 1 to 3 month window after the warranty expires. They wouldn't want to ruin that by having too many fail under warranty.

1, 5, 10, 100 difference services. It actually makes it worse if they're intentionally throttling MORE individual services. Each service affected under "cloud" is affected individually.

To be fair, there is a significant difference between expressing your opinion/belief on a topic, during discussion of said topic, and expressing it to random people.

But, the insurance is paid for ultimately by the customers. Usually, premiums are derived from risk. So, the customers are still paying for it.