Absolutely, if you go the torrent route. I think a more Netflix, or appropriately, HBO Go approach would make a lot more sense.

Though as HBO has said themselves, they're uncomfortable jeopardizing the arrangement they have right now by getting aggressive in online delivery. Today the TV companies sell everyone on HBO, handle the customer support, all the billing, etc. HBO doesn't necessarily want to have to do a lot of dealing with customers directly.

You win all the cookies for today.

I think of it like an Adobe and Microsoft approach. Don't make anything too hard to pirate, because you want kids and emerging markets using your products. Hook 'em so you'll be the standard.

Maybe later you bitch that nobody pays for anything and release the hounds. But mindshare comes in at priority #1.

Exactly this. Science doesn't make you ethical, and being ethically minded doesn't make you enjoy science. That said...

You're thoughtful. You're curious. You're interested in how things work, probably even at a young age. You also take the time to think problems through, because you care about the right answer. Right and wrong apply to math problems, and you like to think they apply in ethical problems. Sometimes you don't know the answer, or you question your result, but you're far more likely to try to work it out. You're suspicious of simple answers and you're smart enought to know when simple answers are totally insufficient. These are diciplines you learn and apply to problems.

So thoughtful, perpetually curious people care about answers to hard questions. Caring makes you study, if only in your own noggin.

You should read the article, because it doesn't resemble how the US political system works at all. If it did, these feckless board members would be removed all the time.

The difference here is most of this shit is supposed to be public.

This whole article is goddamn idiotic. One of the primary uses of S3 is as an asset hosting service for websites. That doesn't mean there are a trillion public files that aren't supposed to be. It means people are using the service. So great, you found a trillion public files. You know what else does that already? Google.

It sounds to me like this "security researcher" is just some asshat that wasted time writing a script, and news outlets have zero technical standards.

Absolutely this. Those guys told a tame (even boring) joke in the wrong place, she immediately went nutso-nuclear. One of the guys lost his job and so did she.

Case closed.

Aside from those two, there's no good reason anyone should avoid PyCon, and we all know it. If you can act like a normal adult, it's unlikely you'll have any problems with anyone.

A Funny force multiplier... that post just used more offensive language to a much larger audience than what cost this guy his job, and possibly a big hit to his career.

And often cheaper. And certainly fewer maintenance headaches. And no barrier to entry for people that wouldn't know how to maintain their own server, like... almost everyone.

I don't remember aggressive hang-ups being audibly distrubing. Maybe it's because you had hammered the switch down before the crashing noise.

The real problem is that mobile phone calls disconnect all the time, and for a number of reasons. So terminating a call prematurely isn't always a definitive, "fuck you, you've been hung up on."

Stop it. We are not going to invade Iran.

I don't disagree, though I imagine language has always been this way.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I guess the appropriated form of "begs the question" does make a kind of literal sense, don't you think?

That's pretty funny.

I guess it's one of those situations where the new use is far more common than the old one, so we might as well acknowledge it.