So you would rather lie than be responsible for your actions. Sounds typical for us these days. 'merica!

The short-sighted stock holders (and market) like to see money spent on increasing revenue and profits rather than it being spent on making the product/service better.

You probably think you want an Apple Genius bar and that isn't cheap. It isn't appropriate in a large organization either.

IT will never get the funding they need in order to staff their department to operate as you wish but they will get funds to buy tools like SCCM. SCCM is sold as a enterprise management tool to improve customer service with minimal staff.

Tools like SCCM come with great power and can do great things. Unfortunately, mistakes can and do happen. Sometimes the mistakes go unnoticed. Sometimes the mistakes are painful to everyone.

I don't work with SCCM directly but I'm told something like this happens to everyone eventually. Hopefully you just send something like Adobe Reader to everyone but sometimes it turns out very very bad. I can't believe there isn't a way to make it really really really hard to do something like this.

If it was an honest mistake then hopefully the person learns and moves forward. If it was part of a pattern of bad behavior then hopefully they can get rid of the person.

Privacy/Security != Anonymity

There are subtle differences depending on the interpretations.

I have no problem if Netflix wants to pay for direct connections to ISPs. I do have a problem if they are forced to do it because the ISPs are tweaking their networks in such a way that Netflix is forced into the agreement.

I"m not saying that is what happened.

Yes the electric company bills by usage.

My suggestion to the ISPs is don't false advertise unattainable speeds and "unlimited" service. Advertise/promise what you can deliver without the BS fine print.

If they can't provide the bandwidth they advertise then they need to upgrade or change their business/billing model.

The electric company doesn't charge me more for having inefficient appliances or for using them too much.

We pay for our bandwidth and now the greedy ISPs are wanting to get paid by the content providers (Netflix, Hulu, etc). Do you really think they are going to absorb the additional costs if this continues? Of course not, they will raise their prices.

ISPs rarely deliver what you pay for so them crying that its the content providers fault is BS. The problem is lack of real competition in the ISP market. Most folks have a choice between cable and DSL. Two isn't enough to be very competitive.

This!

Nobody has been able to demonstrate how Aereo is harming the broadcasters. Why? Because they are actually helping them.

Mini golf?

Speed chess? ;-)

I consider games like golf and chess skills rather than sports. To me, sports rely more on athletic factors like speed and strength. Sports competitions are more likely to be divided by sexes (chess shouldn't be) and/or weight classes. Skills competitions shouldn't require divisions by sex or size.

It's a blurry line I have drawn for myself but, right or wrong, that is how I feel about it. I should probably duck now.

Now is a great chance for the competition to "listen to their customers" and increase Netflix performance on their networks without charging Netflix or their customers (directly).

You know, do what they are supposed to do but spin it to make Comcast look like worse than they already do.

Oops I meant Hanlon's.