In France, a service called CanalPlay allows you to do just that for 6.99€/month. Once you're subscribed, you can watch TV shows and movies on your Set-Top Box, tablet/phone, Xbox, AppleTV or computer. I'm hoping for more openness to allow external applications (like XBMC) but for now it seems pretty satisfactory (I'm not using the service, myself, as I don't really watch movies, but I'm aware of it). The catalogue is not 100% complete though, and some movies (usually the best sellers) are not part of the subscription and are available only through VOD.

I thought any company in China has to be owned at 51% by the government?

Don't the that American ass. Poor you, Europeans are meanies and you totally don't deserve anything they say about you :(

According to the World Bank (who's not known to be particularly anti-American), the per-capita oil consumption in the US in 2010 was 1,108 kilograms (clearly they are, in fact, anti-american for not using gallons). France sits at a whopping 113. UK 241. Germany 223. So yes, please, tell me more about the poor Americans who are not sucking up all the oil.

GitHub's CEO has posted something on this:

This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to comment on what GitHub is doing to address them.

We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer. The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.

GitHub has grown incredibly fast over the past two years, bringing a new set of challenges. Nearly a year ago we began a search for an experienced HR Lead and that person came on board in January 2014. We still have work to do. We know that. However, making sure GitHub employees are getting the right feedback and have a safe way to voice their concerns is a primary focus of the company.

As painful as this experience has been, I am super thankful to Julie for her contributions to GitHub. Her hard work building Passion Projects has made a huge positive impact on both GitHub and the tech community at large, and she's done a lot to help us become a more diverse company. I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It’s certain that there were things we could have done differently. We wish Julie well in her future endeavors.

Chris Wanstrath
CEO & Co-Founder

There's something I don't understand. If they 'stole' the coins, they can't really trade them can they? Anyone I mean. As I understand every single transaction is tracked, so you can't really spend them without people knowing so right? Ok so you can hide your identity and whatnot, but wouldn't people know the instant these BTC are back on the market?

Yeah, no. I think if a developer said "to play our game online, you must disable the Windows firewall", they wouldn't be very well received.

You can't deny that this helped and made Windows the platform of choice for PC video gaming. So by that standard, they did a great job. Now of course I would prefer that they opened the spec so people could make a Linux version, and maybe they will do that if they decide that Xbox makes more money than people buying Windows licenses to play games minus the development costs of DirectX. That's a different topic.

How's that an IE vulnerability if it uses Flash as a vector? Are they adding the iFrame in a non-standard way that only IE is susceptible to?

I was already pissed off at people with Xenon headlights, now they get friggin' LASERS ?

Windows 8 is a great OS, regardless of what the grognards here will say. You don't have to use Metro except as a glorified Start Menu if you don't want to, and the rest of the OS is basically Windows 7 only better. If that's not a problem for you, go for that. I was in the same situation as you, tried to install Guitar Pro on Linux, and that more of a pain in the ass than I wanted, so I just switched back to Windows. Plus, there's no driver for my Asus DAC on Linux (which is Asus' fault, sure, but in the end I want to use my 400€ DAC).

When was the last time you heard Microsoft bash OSS? I'm genuinely curious. I've only seen them pushing code to Git or opening their own specs or frameworks lately (MVC, for instance). I think your point is correct, but I don't think Microsoft is the right example anymore.

And I heard stories of the Dassault Rafale shooting down F-22 with their canon. There'll always be stories of "plane X shot plane Y so plane X is better than plane Y" but that overlooks individual skills (dog fighting), tactical conditions (can't shoot from beyond visual range if the target is flying low in a mountain range) or even strategic considerations (can you afford, both money and time wise, to replace your planes when they go down or need maintenance). The whole problem of military design is to find the right balance between high-technology and affordability. And it seems that lately the US have been shifting a lot more towards the former. Keep in mind that you can live using credits only for so long, and during war times it becomes even more critical.

How can you start a website in 2014 with only iOS apps? What the hell?

Majors should be careful. Pretty soon they won't be able to argue that what they care about is art and the artists. In any case, pretty soon there won't be a need for majors. Most people will self-produce, and if they make enough money by selling direct to the customers/fans (which should be easier than going through a major which takes WAY more than a fair share), then they can go to producers and record in a studio. Then all you need is a proper agent to setup tours and stuff. I genuinely believe that in a modern world major companies are really not that needed. Only the really motivated and good musicians will get ahead of the pack, and that's for the better. Too much shit music these days.

Or over XBMC, really.