In this day and age of ransoming extortionists, folding companies, and natural disasters, you better have the paranoid amount and never do fewer than 6 backups.

They should have tracked down who was responsible, and had a baseball bat liberally applied to their kneecaps.

They capped total mouse frame movements to the 30 FPS of the console version. This is just lazy porting, again.

If Hulu is still providing their desktop app (and I think they may have a mobile one as well), I would suggest using that instead of their actual site - it runs on Air which funnily enough, runs worlds better than the actual browser Flash modules.

As for sorting - I agree, their current methods leaves much to be desired, as it seems their system only sorts by up to three "tags" applied by their employees, and many (I dare say most) of their movies are mis-tagged, at least for their streaming service. To be fair, Amazon isn't any better with their movie tagging.

Hell, it doesn't even stop government agencies OTHER than the IRS requiring you to use it on all kinds of forms and applications, either.

It's surprising they are even following the bare minimum. Back in the dinosaur era of the 90's, when I worked for them (briefly), they got around most of such laws with impunity simply by changing where they stored customer databases.

If there was anything I ever picked up from my time at AT&T, it was that they are masters of shady law avoidance practices.

I concur, and they used their moderator staff to actually take care of wrongly filed torrents as well. They didn't just take a back-burner approach when it came to keeping everything organized the way it should be.

Most torrent sites out there you'll find shit like lame-assed Pokemon torrents filed under Sci-Fi or other such stupidity.

That is only true based on the local and state laws where you may happen to be. Where I am for instance, it doesn't matter if you're doing a complete rebuild of a property that already has hookups, all permits are treated as "new builds" for the purposes of connecting to sewer, water, electricity &/or natural gas.

Basically anywhere along our southern coastlines - Florida, Louisiana, Texas, etc can and do grow sugar cane.

Interesting to note we have high tariffs in place on all imported sugar because those growers would be prices out of the market otherwise.

They were that way, until telecoms lobbyists had it their way and got telecom providers/ISPs (who are often one and the same) delegated as "information services" with all of the accompanying lack of regulation forthwith.

They do just fine if they are large enough and hit them where it actually hurts - profit margins. Part of the problem is A) the fines are way too low and B) corporations are allowed to not only deduct them from the revenue end, but then profit from being fined by counting it as a loss towards their final tax bill for the year.

This needs to change - the fines need to hurt, and the fines need to come out of the back-end, aka from their declared profits AFTER all taxes are said and done.

XP-64? Egads! WHY?

This braindead attempt at an OS was the fault of a VP who was determined to make her mark at Microsoft.

She did alright, and is now firmly in the disaster zone category of "Carly Fiorina" when it comes to computing history. This is what happens when you promote people with zero technical know-how into these oversight positions where they are allowed to make decisions like this.

Not only that, but it's rather hilarious to hear Verizon and Comcast complain about Level 3, considering Level 3 is how -any- of their customers even contact servers and other infrastructure on the AT&T backbones, Europe, Canada, and South America for that matter. And by customers, I mean also their own various corporate campuses, some of which hilariously enough, lie right in the middle of AT&T territory.

Actually, yes, and with the gun crowd, they've been known to show up on front porches and ringing doorbells (and to do everything they can to run you out of town and out of your job depending on where you live in the US).

While I support the right to bear arms, I also do not think certain types of firearms (I am looking at you, AR-15s, AK-47s, etc) belong in the hands of your average citizen, as our fellow citizens have proven time and again that they can't be trusted to own and operate them responsibly.