Bullshit. Stop making shit up and stop hating on men. Oh, and go get some rape statistics from a reliable source instead of those that proclaim we live in a "rape culture" and support it by claiming that if a woman gets drunk, INITIATES sex, then wakes up with regrets she was raped.

Because it is a lie perpetuated by people with an agenda.

Yeah, he looks great if you have your head up your ass and only pay attention to SEC filings.

However, since the time that he took over, he sold the future to pay for the 10Q filings of today. Microsoft is now a barely-player in the mobile space that they were in before Apple (sans Newton), Google, or RIM; their operating system that ran the world is now diminishing in importance, and Office isn't even the vehicle for vendor lock-in it used to be. They have a family of game consoles that may have turned a few bucks in profit somewhere after a decade, but I doubt it because of the massive hardware failures and ill-will caused by the RROD fiasco, and their amazingly short-sighted ideas for the current generation. They've tried the connected TV thing about half a dozen times and failed every time. They had the "tablet computer" for 10 years before Apple showed them what they should have been selling, and why they weren't selling.

At the end of Ballmer's tenure, Microsoft is basically the same company it was when he took over - a company that makes all it's money from Windows and Office. He did nothing to change that, and Windows and Office aren't nearly the must-haves they used to be. The Internet now runs on *nix, front to back - Apache serving the pages, Android / iOS consuming them. Not a line of Microsoft code to be found.

Oh, but yeah, he was a great CEO.

You're forgetting that Slashdot now has corporate overlords, and corporate overlords like click-bait. Any time they can entice people to post comments about sweaty monkey-dancing, off-putting chants of "developers developers developers", or chair throwing they are going to.

I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE!!! YEAAAAAAHHHHH!

And this explains Microsoft's "lost decade" perfectly.

And in no way was he making a joke that charged right past your defense.

Don't I wish.

A cynic might argue that the key difference in this case was that, for a change, the ISP's, and not merely defendants, were challenging the subpoenas; but of course we all know that justice is 'blind'.

An ingrate might bemoan the Court's failure to address the key underlying fallacy in the "John Doe" cases, that because someone pays the bill for an internet account that automatically makes them a copyright infringer; but who's complaining over that slight omission?

A malcontent like myself might be a little unhappy that it took the courts ten (10) years to finally come to grips with the personal jurisdiction issue, which would have been obvious to 9 out of 10 second year law students from the get go, and I personally have been pointing it out and writing about it since 2005; but at least they finally did get there.

And a philosopher might wonder how much suffering might have been spared had the courts followed the law back in 2004 when the John Doe madness started; but of course I'm a lawyer, not a philosopher. :)

Bottom line, though: this is a good thing, a very good thing. Ten (10) years late in coming, but good nonetheless. - R.B. )

I don't give a shit what you think is acceptable so you can go fuck yourself, asshole, and then die in a fire.

It is interesting that you think 2+% of the population of men are rapist.Tell me, asshole, why do you think 3,500,000+ of your fellow men are rapists? So, we should be seeing millions of rapes a year, but we don't. Why is that? Oh, I know, most of them are in prison, right? But, then they wouldn't be at a conference. But, most of them couldn't be in prison because then they would make up then entire prison population.

And, yes, I do give a second thought to being attacked. I give it as much thought as women should, which is a lot less than they apparently do. It is called situational awareness and it is because I am statistically much more likely to be punched in the face or stabbed at a conference than a woman is to be raped or killed at one. I am more likely to be attacked in a bar, in a park, or on the street than a woman is to be because a woman isn't seen to be as big a threat to a criminal as a man is. Most criminals aren't going to rape and/or kill a woman, just like most criminals aren't going to rape and/or kill a man. They want your wallet, watch, cellphone, and jewelry, not your life, and they want to get away as fast as possible. Do you know who is most-likely to rape a woman: a man she knows and has probably dated. Do you know where that rape is most-likely to occur? It is in his home, then her home, then a shared home. And, if it is in her home, the rapist is almost always invited inside by the woman.

And, that isn't drivel. I have seen way too many women start dating men who the women KNOW are at best untrustworthy and at worst abusive. And, it is actually good life advice. Don't want fleas, don't lay down with dogs. Don't want to be treated like criminal, don't hang out with known criminals. If a woman wants to be safe and treated well, she needs to, wait for it, actually be around people who want to keep her safe and treat her well. If a woman wants to be safe outdoors, she will do just what many men do almost unconsciously, practice situational awareness.

All the nice girls? I've met many of them and watched as they muddled through life pining for one hot bad boy after another, getting used, and crying about how horrible all men are or crying about how horrible men are because the hot bad boys don't want to date them because they spent a few too many nights eating ice cream while pining away.

YOU are part of the problem. You feed into women's fear and paranoia, their hate of men, and their double-standards. Women want to be free to do anything and be treated like equals as long as every man everywhere watches their backs and makes sure nothing bad happens to them and no one says anything they don't like because they are helpless women who need protecting.

You know, everyone talks about mysogyny and how women are always in danger from men. Not a man, not a few men, not some men, ALL men. YOU ARE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE. Happen to walk into a parking garage just after a womanyou are a possible rapist because "every man is a rapist" and you will be treated like a rapist when all you want is to get into your car, Explain how treating all men like that are rapists is not misandrist, and as it is taught to women, it is institutionalized misandry.

I am betting you have heard about 1 in 4 college aged women being raped, right? Maybe you should learn more about that statistic:

This is what I get out of these articles:

So, women, do us all a favor, and just stop. Stop interacting with men. Stop talking to men, stop dating men, stop having sex with men, stop marrying men. Just stop, because if you hate and fear men so much that is exactly what any sane person would do.

I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing how there is something intrinsically wrong with me and that I should be feared because I have a Y chromosome. Fuck you too. I haven't hit, let alone raped, any woman, ever. I have been hit three times by a woman and not once did I retaliate as I could have. I took it. But, if I had hit her back, I would have been the bad guy.

If women wouldn't reward the behavior of bad men, then there wouldn't be so many bad men, but, as we know, women love bad boys right up until that bad boy is bad to them. When that happens to a woman, she thinks back to all the bad men she has dated and concludes all men are bad because the problem couldn't possibly her and her choices.

Don't want to be abused or get raped? Don't be friends with or date immature, over-entitled, sociopathic bad boys with a history of hurting other people including women. Start looking at character instead of abs, or clothes, or height or cars. Stop going to clubs, getting wasted, and giving your number to that hot guy in the sick shirt, let alone banging him in a one night stand. Find a better place to meet guys or shut the fuck up about how horrible the men you fuck are because that is you having shallow and/or bad taste.

Oh, and when you get drunk and then go home and fuck a guy, you weren't raped. You were irresponsible. If you can't keep your panties on and legs closed when you get drunk, don't get drunk.

This.

People are often mean, nasty, vicious animals when they are anonymous and without societal pressures. On the internet, people are mostly anonymous and are surrounded by a lack of societal control. They don't even think of the internet as "real" and that the characters on the screen come from another person and not a computer.

And, it isn't just men, women do it too. Or, has everyone forgotten Megan Meier and Rebecca Ann Sedwick

But, women will treat you like you are that man unless you are Henry Rollins and, in some cases, even if you are.

Yes, because every mean outburst against a woman ends with her dead. Oh, wait, no it doesn't. Now, stop being an asshole.

Dude, no one gets out alive. Ever.

Seriously, this shouldn't be a surprise. Mental illness can include and/or lead to anorexia, compulsive overeating, apathy and depression leading to sedentary lifestyle, suicide, dangerous risk taking behavior, homelessness, poor nutrition, drug abuse including excessive smoking and drinking, and taking lots of prescribed medications.