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Comment Re:Unregulated speech, must stop at all costs! (Score 1) 298

But did he perform there? He was half way across the country at the time of the performance. You don't perform a movie, you show it. I'd say a hologram is just as much a movie that you show then it is a physical presence of a concert that your perform.

Laws and ordinances are all about very specific wording, just look at the recent Obamacare Supreme Court decision where they argued about a single word and what it really meant.

Comment Re:Many will say that this is bad advice but (Score 1) 54

It is amazing how much cash you have when you are not loosing 12%, 15%, or 25%, to interest on loan payments

And the only people that are paying 12%, 15%, or 25% on a loan or credit card payment are the people that have previously driven their credit into the ground and kept it there because they don't know how to maintain their finances.

If indeed you paid off all your debts 15 years ago after driving your credit into the ground and are still paying for your house, you likely have average credit. You may not have as good of a rating as you could, but you also don't have a bad unless you continued to drive it into the ground.

Comment Re:No foul play? (Score 2) 173

That's usually what an autopsy is for. It's already been announced that there wasn't any signs of foul play, obvious drug use, or known suicidal thoughts. Toxicology results usually take some time so unless the examiner finds something really quick and really obvious, they probably can't tell you yet how he died.

Comment Re:Uh huh. (Score 1) 154

No. If you read the actual article, it's million, with an m. The actual article quote (emphasis added):

The most recent data available show that the military paid more than $1 billion for satellite capacity in 2011, according to GAO. That year, about $280 million worth of satellite capability was bought outside the DISA process. If the GAO is correct, then the military could have gotten that same service for about $45 million less.

News at 11: Government paid $45m more then it had to. Citizens shocked that it was only $45m.

Comment Re:Go ahead (Score 4, Insightful) 446

Once in a relationship, learn to not let your eyes wander.

Or perhaps learn to be in a relationship that is built on trust and not on preventing eyes from wandering. I've been married for 15 years and my wife has no problems with me letting my eyes wander because she knows at the end of the day, I still always wander home to her in our bed, and no one else's.

Comment Re:nothing new under the sun (Score 4, Insightful) 446

I would actually be interested to know what the logic is here: the hacker clearly doesn't like AM, or they wouldn't be spoiling their rumored-IPO quite this enthusiastically, they also don't like the users they are threatening to expose; but they also appear to be really bent out of shape about AM's allegedly-dishonest-and-exploitative 'pay to purge the embarrassing traces' feature.

I'd be really surprised if the actual hacker(s) really had any moral stance one way or another. My money would be be on just pure financial greed. They see AM and it's customers as a paycheck. They see AM as a source of money and are applying pressure directly on them to pay up and/or shut down. They also pressure subscribers to pressure AM from the other side to pay up to not reveal their information.

In the end I think it will be a loss for the hackers and customers. The hackers aren't going to get their money. AM takes a PR hit but doesn't really care because they already run a website for people with questionable ethics/morality. Customers info might get released, but for the 3 people that are actually real, married, and their partner doesn't already know, the shit might hit the fan. For everyone else, no one cares. And if you're a paying subscriber to a cheating website with your own real information, you're already a fucking idiot and get what you deserve for being a dumbass.

Comment Re:For an alternative (Score 1) 581

If you're interested in a Reddit-like site that won't arbitrarily close your subreddit and shadowban you because they don't like what you're talking about...

...for now. However once it gains enough mass and becomes a sufficiently large enough target, then things might change. As they have with Reddit.

Comment Re:locations.... (Score 1) 57

What I do not get is why the heck is anyone building one in "silicon valley". The costs of power, land, and cooling would seem to be very high.

Equinix is a colo. They don't care what the energy costs are as it's just passed on to the customers that want local access more than they want lower price.

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