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Comment is it actually wrong to remove them? (Score 1) 490

If someone is considering offing themselves, it might be simpler to take their gun and blow their head off instead of trying to hang themselves, jump off a building/bridge, slice their wrists, etc.

To the person doing the act, shooting themselves in the head is probably going to seem less painful and more convenient then most other options.

If that's the case, then removing the gun might reduce the chances of actually carrying through on a suicide attempt.

Comment who decides who is responsible enough? (Score 1) 490

Thus you have your choice: bad guys armed and good guys disarmed, or everybody armed. I'll take the latter, thank you. Statistics show that ordinary citizens are not likely to misuse firearms, and do in fact use them to stop crime (often without anyone being hurt; bad guys would rather surrender and have the police take them away, than be shot).

How would you propose to decide who is responsible enough to own a firearm? Can crazy people own them? What about clinically depressed people? What about people under psychological treatment generally? At what age should someone be able to carry a firearm? Should they be allowed in all buildings? Should businesses be allowed to deny entrance to people carrying weapons? What about on a plane/train/bus/etc.?

Comment fullscreen? (Score 1) 207

The only advantage I can see would be that you could "fullscreen" the app within the virtual monitor area.

Some apps (media players, for example) behave differently when run fullscreen vs within a window. The "virtual monitor" window manager would let you trick the app into thinking it was running fullscreen.

Comment allow downloading virtual DVDs (Score 1) 147

The problem is that the physical DVD netflix service has a selection that is different from the streaming netflix service. If you want the increased selection, you have to forego the ability to download it.

There is no technical barrier preventing netflix from allowing you to download a DRM'd exact copy of a DVD. You could then play it, or transfer it to another device, or maybe even transcode it for smaller screens and transfer it to another device, all within their app. The only barrier is copyright. And by allowing in-advance downloads you could preload devices for use where there is no data connection.

The OP is suggesting that this copyright barrier doesn't make sense.

Comment I support metering, with caveats (Score 2) 238

I would support a model that actually reflects the real costs involved...that is a fixed monthly cost for the physical connection, and a variable per-GB charge.

The reason why most people don't like bandwidth metering is that the ISPs charge way too much per GB at the retail level. And if you lump the connection costs in with the bandwidth costs then the high-usage people end up subsidizing the low-usage people. It's much more fair to break out the fees separately (the way my gas/electrical/etc bills do it).

I think if end-users were charged a per-GB rate that was more in line with the wholesale rate plus a reasonable amount of profit then there would be minimal complaints.

Comment traffic direction argument makes no sense (Score 1) 238

If it was only about equal traffic in both directions netflix could just have all their clients send random data back to their servers and then just drop all the data. That would increase the overall network load, but it would be "balanced".

Seriously, it makes no sense that increasing the overall network load would reduce the fees being paid. That's ridiculous.

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