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Comment Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss (Score 3, Insightful) 196

This is us vs the in-laws. We cut cable years ago and are fine with netflix and hulu (and Plex streaming our massive DVD collection)
When the inlaws come over, they are floored at the concept that we cannot watch sports. We really don't care to, but that does not figure in to their calculations.

Comment Re:Ha ha ha (Score 5, Informative) 129

People used to wait on Microsoft to fix before revealing. As a result, Microsoft didn't bother to fix anything until it became a problem in the wild.
Once people started giving deadlines and sticking to them, Microsoft's patch response time became orders of magnitude faster. Simply put, they will do ONLY what they are forced to do.

Submission + - Swedish Police Raid The Pirate Bay Again. (torrentfreak.com)

o_ferguson writes: TorrentFreak is reporting that police in Sweden carried out a raid in Stockholm today, seizing servers, computers, and other equipment. At the same time The Pirate Bay and several other torrent-related sites disappeared offline. Although no official statement has been made, TF sources confirm action against TPB. This is not the first time that this has happened.

Comment Re:America, land of the free... (Score 1) 720

Not so many as people believe. I think it is 3 that take it away outright. The rest either suspend it until your debt is paid and probation is over, or revoke it for the same period and have a process to regain the right.

Trivia- this is called the KKK law because it was the KKK that lobbied the states to pass the law in an effort to reduce black voters.

Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 398

At least once. I had to defend my separation pay because I stated the factual reason for my dismissal, and the company called to verify employment and reason for dismissal. they sued. It cost me half my separation package to keep the other half.

Reason for termination was the company was taken over in a hostile buyout, and the new owner replaced all upper management with his own people. New owner did not want it to be general knowledge that the buyout was hostile.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... (Score 1) 699

That some would do so does not mean that all, or even a majority, would do so.

For a while, yes- they have lost all trust and have to earn it back. But when it is again non intrusive and well behaved, no one will care. No one cared for a decade that web pages had ads in them- because they were simple banners or footers or link rings. But when they started making noise and asking you to punch the monkey they started the ball rolling to where it is today.

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