They issued the DMCA notice to their ISP - not DigitRev. The ISP folded immediately.

Phil.

What makes you think that businesses buy PCs with an OS loaded. A large enterprise would just load their volume-key enabled image of their current Windows build for that hardware. If the current standard is XP - that's what users get.

Phil.

I seem to remember that the object in the film was a comet (which was starting to fall apart) and possibly a little bit more fragile than a rocky asteroid. Probably still require a hefty bomb though.

Phil.

Iain M. Banks ??

Phil

Similar to that was "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner. Oh, and most of the stuff by Ursula La Guin.

Phil.

>> If you can honestly declare that you don't use anything with those capabilities, then you do not have to pay.

You can but Crapita will still keep sending you letters accusing you of being a thief and threatening to send thugs round to try and get entry to your house (they have no such right). This is why we Brits love the bloody TV licence and the BBC exec's expenses that it funds.

Phil.

Play it as a FemShep and the women on the Normandy are practically queuing at you cabin door! The men OTOH don't seem all that interested.

Phil.

"Given their financial situation, I'm actually very impressed that they're putting money into technical innovation."

The BBC don't have a financial problem. They just tax everyone with a TV in the UK - even if you never watch their stuff. Other TV companies have to earn their money.

Phil.

The Sci-Fi you're thinking of is probably Flash Crowd by Larry Niven. When a news event came up on the TV, people would teleport in to see it live. With it would come thieves and pickpockets who would prey on the crowd. The story focused on the method of dealing with the thieves - route all the outgoing booths through a Police clearing centre.

Phil.

dl:tl

It worked for Obama.

That would sound good with Keith Flint singing it.

Phil.

That's because you're not British - Green Park!

Phil.

>> Bosses will also see that you are at work to work

The only useful advice in this post. The rest is garbage. It's called professional.

Phil.

Yep, Compuserve probably knew more about DECsystem-10s than DEC did. At one point
they even designed their own power supply to replace the DEC one as it was much
more efficient. They designed and built their own disk controllers to use cheaper
(IBM) disks. They had a LOT of them!

Phil.