Undoing bad mod.

"Rolling Stone retorts that privacy can be an issue: 'We want safety, but we also want privacy,' says the journalist. Bill Gates tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: 'Let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys."

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
-Benjamin Franklin

I wish I could just beat that into the head of the majority of people. We as a people should be firmly on the side of privacy over safety, it should not even be a question. Many do not see the big picture, but rather focused on a phantom enemy and see Snowden as betraying us against that enemy. Snowden is a true patriot, and indeed a hero, simply in the sense that he EXPOSED OUR PRIVACY BEING USURPED BY OUR OWN GOV'T. I'm pretty young (30 this year) but I'd imagine there was a time when the end of the last sentence would've incensed the MAJORITY of Americans, not just the one's paying attention. We must not sacrifice our freedom (in the form of privacy in this case) for safety. We cannot. And that is more important than some false sense of them doing this for our own good to "catch the bad guys". Secret courts, indefinite detention, etc. should NOT be happening in the land of the free. People wake the fuck up. /rant

As for Gates, obviously he would not be a fan of Snowden...it's people like him who pull the strings of our gov't anyways. I wish I could say I was surprised.

"TIN FOILLL!!!!!"!!!!!!""

In all seriousness...you hit the nail on the head. But what do you expect from those who would perpetuate such an egregious lawsuit in the first place? That our rights are being tested and eliminated so flagrantly is in and of itself absurd.

Agreed. I've been using Linux on the desktop since 2008-ish, drivers have been solid since right around 2010 in my case, though I can only speak for NVIDIA since that's been all that I've run in that span.

This is the correct solution. Been on FF since Opera abandoned the Linux community last year (saw the writing on the wall with the yet-to-be-released Linux version of their Blink browser -- not that it even matters since all functionality that I loved Opera for died (or will die) with 12.x). Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it's become vs. the last time I used it [on linux], which was around 2009/2010. Still not as fast as Chromium or Opera, but fast enough to do the job without wondering if I'm missing out on speed, and with all the add-ons, I'm able to mimic most of the behavior Opera gave me.

tl;dr +1 for "use FF"

It's fucking sad to putting this all in perspective and hear/read it all together. What a fucking sad state of affairs we're in. I had no intentions of plugging anything when I began this post, but I'm going to do it now since I know some AC will ask "what do you do to stop it?" This is what I do, and you should too.

There's actually ample evidence that a man named Jesus Christ existed. That he had supernatural powers and produced many miracles, etc. is what atheists are usually disagree about. Just saying...

Yeah, throttling is my main concern. I had comcast before when I lived a short stint in Houston...no real problems personally but I always had the throttling and deep packet inspection in the back of my mind.

I hope Bright House is unaffected by this (as I understand it, they're a separate company from TWC at this point in my area, I think).

If I had mod points, you'd have been the first AC to have earned one from me.

Hear, hear. I donated to this cause a couple weeks ago, glad to see it progressing.

The build-up was awesome, but I was ultimately disappointed. Good watch for a night when you have nothing better to do.

I'm a relative young buck when it comes to these things, but I remember my first computer (received when I was 8) was a 386 running Windows 3.1 with a 32MB HDD and IIRC 8MB of RAM...back then PC's that weren't Macs were called "IBM-compatible." Just reflecting out loud on how old I feel these days, lol.

Huh?

I was somewhat surprised when the wind direction changed in my case. Not 5 years ago, I was scrambling, applying for jobs that paid peanuts, etc. These days, I get 3-5 emails/calls/etc. from recruiters per week, offering a lot more than I'd ever thought of making 5 years ago -- and I'm "happily" employed at the moment. I'm 29 now, so I guess I beat your assertion by a year :p The real question is, where would I be if I had my head on straight right out of HS, instead of bumbling around for 5 years or so until I was 23 and realized what adulthood is about.