You know, Slashdot could've gone the way of Wikipedia, which has a bunch of crazy entries on the front page which are actually truthful in some way (albeit usually misleading in a humorous way). Instead we get the usual "HUR HUR MICROSOFT RELEASES CP/M 9.2" bullshit.

Oh, wait, what? This one is serious? Nah, can't be. I mean, you've cried wolf how often?

So, given AT&T and Comcast colluding with the RIAA now, it sounds like now would be a great time for somebody in the UK to set up an encrypted VPN connection, available to folks for a nominal monthly fee.

I swear, I'm starting to consider subscribing to one and routing all of my traffic through it permanently. I am sick of these fuckers pawing through my traffic looking for evidence of wrongdoing.

There are no other broadband ISPs in many places, including where I live. Hell, I don't even get to choose DSL -- cable is the only option.

AT&T and Comcast know this. They don't give a shit about their customers, because they're usually the only game in town. So the only option is to abandon broadband entirely and stick with a dial-up, spend ridiculous amounts on a leased line, or spend even more ridiculous amounts on satellite Internet (which has lag times that are way too high for VoIP or online gaming). If there were another option I'd be jumping on it in an instant.

I'd like your permission to quote that, if you wouldn't mind.

Huh, yeah, how about that... he took a look at the situation around him and altered his plans accordingly! Who would've thought a President might do that sort of thing?

I'll second this. That album was really incredible. I have friends who refuse to listen to it simply because it is Shatner, and that disappoints me.

Yeah. I mean, it's not like any of those old mainframes running COBOL applications with two-digit year fields were still in use when the year 2000 came around.

I kid, I kid... I know you were talking about consumer software, but even that's not entirely safe. Bits of code, especially in operating systems, architecture support layers, board support layers, and drivers, have a weird way of sticking around...