I had never heard the story that Bobby McFerrin committed suicide and had to google to figure out wtf he was talking about :) so yes, woosh indeed.

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OK, I wasn't going to say it but now I'm going to say it. Black people are good at sports. Better than me. By the numbers, anyway.

I think the judges are applying a little-known standard called "do you have any wires"

The legislation that causes cable companies to need to pay broadcasters to re-distribute their broadcasts should apply equally to businesses that "don't have any wires" connecting them directly to their customers.

Just because you don't have any wires that belong to you and connect you directly with some customers ("the last mile"),

even if you can't pull a Comcast and charge Netflix for the privilege of reaching your customers who pay to receive "The Internet" which Netflix is a part of,

doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for bearing some of the cost of funding broadcast activities that you derive your business from. Sure they are broadcast signals, and "anyone" can get them for free, but if you take them away, you don't have a business... then the court says you have to pay for them.

You think the same people are both buying and selling spaces? I envision a person driving around looking for spaces all day and pulling into them, bringing up the app on their way back from the newsstand to re-sell the space as soon as they have secured one for free/with some delay so as to promote some appearance of not being a plain old squatter abusing the commons and rent-seeking with free public resources. A second person with more money than time enables him by installing the app and buying the space from him, because it's easier than driving around looking for their own space during prime-time parking hours. Especially now that we have this app!

At no point did I imagine anyone buying a space who has enough time to wait around for someone else to buy it back from them later.

I am pretty sure you can get away with inspecting your car only once, when you buy it, even still in New Hampshire. They are probably not the only state. Don't know about liability insurance, but I don't know if I'd want to drive (or walk, or even be near a road) in a place where individuals were allowed to wing around a half ton of metal at 50+MPH without carrying some automotive liability insurance.

Then I would wager that you are not a member of the affected class of workers. I promise you they didn't collude to keep our salaries low because they just don't care about profits and their shareholders told them not to worry because they already had enough money in the bank for dividends.

I actually recognized this as Trading Places :D a movie that came out before I was born

Wow, who knew, the best way to get people to read your comment was to be wrong!

The last time I had this many replies to a comment was ... probably never!

Hey editors, when Fall in a sentence refers to the season, it's capitalized.

Yes, agreed, we are TW Telecom customers and my boss, who has been around long enough to know, reminds me every time I say "Time Warner" that "It's Not Time Warner". The name of the company is TW Telecom or TWTC. It has nothing to do with Time Warner or Time Warner Cable these days. Submitter.Insert(foot,mouth), Editor.Shame()

OK, so Portland Oregon is almost 10x larger than Portland Maine. The more you know...

He's talking about re-crypting the data on disk, not taking a backup copy of the (encrypted or decrypted) master key.

In other words, if any of the more important bits are lifted by someone (presumably someone who knows your passphrase to decrypt them, or they wouldn't be much use at all) you can't just re-key the store. You change your passphrase, they can still access the data with that master key. Need to create a whole new store now.

Am I the only one who thought this might be an announcement about Portland, ME? Or any one of the 25 places called Portland in the US alone? I guess they must have already fixed the headline, they've started fixing these things as they get reported (apparently they actually do care about looking like buffoons).