Ubuntu is geared more toward people who don't care much about managing the boot details. So I think it might make sense for them. I chose my distro based on how much control it gave me. And luckily, they still seem committed to OpenRC. When it comes to booting, keep it simple!

And replace the greyish void fog with the true blue void of death.

We're not other countries. Our government is the most corrupt institution on the planet.

Why would you think a government, that couldn't roll out a website, after spending over $2 billion, could effectively manage something far more complex?

Will he just start over again, with a new kernel?

Save the major version bumps for large refactorings.

Yeah, it looks like they didn't exactly allow the netflix's servers in their data centers, but they are establishing a direct connection to those data centers as part of a paid deal.

Since they can't do that with everybody, I'm assuming they'll have to stop doing this for Netflix and we go back to lower quality/slower buffering times.

Interesting, given that he used to lobby for Verizon and Verizon just pulled the plug on FiOS expansion. Not sure what to make of that.

If paid prioritization isn't permitted, does this mean Netflix has to pull their servers and routers from Comcasts' data centers? And how does that benefit me again?

Wall Street aside, we never left the last one.

Or the ability to screencast more than two youtube videos from their android app, without crashing? Or the ability to automatically retry after a buffering error? Or how about getting the setting to always play HD videos working?

There is so much they need to work on over there, but since it's google, I don't expect to ever see anything fixed. They're good at rolling out new stuff, but it's always left to rot.

I'm guessing they know something about the new net neutrality rules being drafted and that wireless is either being excluded or will have loopholes. Especially given that the head of the FCC used to be a lobbyist for them.

What's needed is for a popular news client to have the option of automatically adding a random .sig to every e-mail like:

53dd73cb10a1540c9d3adb36fd8cd0d8f5b2ef736a4a23a07d6d2a80c88e907f

Could be random, could be encrypted. The police state types would be overwhelmed in no time.

I think PC gaming went first. So many of the genres I used to play disappeared or got dumbed down. And it was always the latest games that drove my upgrade cycle. Something simple like Minecraft doesn't require this.

If I were in the PC hardware biz, I'd look into owning a game company on the side that focuses on the most beautiful, resource intensive games I could muster.

I just realized that my OEM license won't transfer to my new computer and I couldn't easily find a copy of Windows 7, so for the first time I just decided to go without. I have Windows 8 on a laptop and there's no way I'd ever buy a copy of that, if it didn't come preloaded. It's just awful.

This marks the end of the dual-boot era for me. It's Linux all the way now. Great job Microsoft!

Traffic shaping, prioritization and throttling was happening on the internet long before last January.

Right and that cable company has little incentive to expand those pipes if service is good enough (which it is). Netflix was paying more, in order to deliver slightly faster buffering times to their customers. If Netflix isn't paying for the massive amount of bandwidth they're using, then it's the cable company customers who pick up the cost. Why should cable company customers, who don't even have netflix, be forced to subsidize the rest?

And just because the pipes are laid into my house, doesn't mean that the providers aren't constantly upgrading their switches and routers to handle all of this. If what they have is fine enough for non-netflix traffic, then let netflix pay more for what they hog.