Sure. But you need a Facebook account to send Netflix any feedback _after_ you've logged into your Netflix account.

Yes, I remember. That was a looong time ago. And ever since they stopped being an underdog and hopped onto the corporate "A" list things have been going steadily downhill. The menu is utter shit! It mixes in movies I watched, it mixes in TV series with movies, it doesn't show anything (like star rating) but big dumb pictures, it fakes the star rating to feed me some crap I they just bought, etc.. It's as if they're trying to make it difficult to find something on purpose. Just tried to find something to watch yesterday. Wasted 20 minutes, walked away with a headache. And it didn't used to be this way - the interface was informative, you could sort by ratings, you could see what your friends rated and watched. I also think there were movies. That went out of the window, though now there's an annoying bar inviting me to share info with friends. Of course I need to sign in with a facebook account to do so.

Which brings me to my final point. What kind of a half-assed company requires a third party sign in to provide customer feedback?! I don't have a facebook account, and so I can't even send Netflix a message explaining how much they're messing up. The only way I can send a message is leave.

But it's not like they'd read it anyway - evidently they're too busy enjoying their "A"-list corporate circlejerk.

That's because you have a populace that gives a shit.

Agree. In fact, I really wish Snowden has limited his revelations to domestic programs. The foreign intelligence is the direct mission of the NSA, and while they might've done too much in some cases you can hardly blame them for being successful at it.

She's 80, and her current term doesn't run out until 2016. So she probably couldn't care less as to how the public opinion swings by these types of coverup attempts.

Why exactly do they get to have a say in this? Why are we even listening to them?
Feinstein and Rogers are the two key figures responsible for most of these violations in the first place. They are the ones who tacitly sanctioned wholesale violation of the constitutional right against unreasonable searches. Yet their opinion on Snowden's guilt is somehow all over the news. It's amazing that the press is quoting Rogers' preaches on how Snowden has broken the law and needs to be persecuted, when both of these bozos voted to grant retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretaps they've sanctioned under earlier administration. As far as I am concerned, asking for their opinion is like asking a robber on what to do with a good Samaritan who stopped the robbery.

Sure, but my point is that they had a chance to add two top-level domains in cyrillic and they chose to transliterate two english words.

Actually, the second one is "site", not "sale". The ludicrous thing is that neither word is actually russian - they are simply transliterations of the english "online" and "site" words in cyrillic.

You're missing the aim here - it's not to pick one, two or three "best" comments, it's to discount things that are not worth reading. In a article, you end up with hundreds of posts that are moderated as high as they can be (+5). As long as you have that minimal number of moderators who appreciated that comment, it will rise. That's as much input from the moderators as one should want - reduce noise, but don't shape the conversation.

Speaking of that, can it run Netflix and Skype (through Android or otherwise) ?

Thanks for making me RTFA, at least partially!

The fraction of government-employed workers is not that high in US, relative to other countries. And it has been dropping consistently, currently down to the lowest levels in the past few decades. So you're barking up the wrong tree.

Why would you want to strike any kind of a deal with this dirtbag!? The guy has done a terrible deed, admitted so to multiple witnesses, wrote a confession note. Plus they have a boatload of forensic evidence.

Actually, China's doing pretty well right now, with a shitload of cheap labour coming from the rural communities ... ah just pulling you leg man - I know it sucks. Immediate infrastructure needs are clearly different for some freewheeling artist seeking 'inspiration' in an East Village studio in NYC and a rural farmer who needs to move a boatload of product in and out every day.

But on a more serious note. One thing I've encountered is a resistance on a part of telcos to go into built-up old cities in US. They would circle all the suburbs with fiber, but wouldn't go into the inner areas that had large apartment blocks. The excuse was that it was much easier to run fiber to a house than wire a large building itself. To this day I don't know if this is true. It sort of makes sense, but on the other hand I've been to some very old cities in Europe where you have a choice of several fiber optic providers per each building.

I'd go further and say that this type of bellicose nonsense is really detrimental. We don't have a tyrannical government that's oppressing its own populace - we have a rotten political system where that very populace continuously re-elects ineffective and corrupt politicians. If, as you say, most of us were on the same page, the problem would have already been solved. And none of your firearms will be necessary.