> Like the one that allows Oracle to turn off access to accounts in the event of a dispute or account violation

So... exactly what every other company out there does but they're telling you this right up front. BURN THE WITCHES!

> The UK has excellent freedom of expression. As the Clash wrote, "As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it," a revelation which might pop your little two-volt cork. A little insight into what "incite" means (since you don't even know the difference between the two words): To incite someone isn't to simply make them angry or feel violent, it means to provoke them to taking violent and illegal action, such as rioting or killing. Making someone mad isn't "incitement" you buffoon. Likewise, the US Constitution explicitly makes the freedom of speech/thought/expression "inalienable".

It's downright scary that same people who so bitterly complain about the saccharine superficiality world of the US are the same people who now defend a law which so stifles and criminalises speech that as it stands, even the conflict in an episode of Teletubbies or Zingzillas could have you arrested, defending yourself in court while facing years of imprisonment. All you have to do to find yourself in that position now is simply refuse to accept Islam when pressed (that's "grossly offensive" to a Muslim) or tell a dumb joke.

It's such stupidity and grievous censorship of thoughts and ideas that tipped the balance in favour of staying in Germany rather than moving back to the UK.

Pissing me off after forcing an update onto me that WILL NOT install but which retries that install EVERY FUCKING TIME I start each and every Mozilla program; an "update" which can't be removed without a full uninstall and which requires a confirmation in the focus-stealing pop-up after each time it fails.

Then there's Chrome constantly bugging me to log in and give other details so I can be tracked as if I was the star of The Running Man.

Why hello, Opera. How've you been?

The Appeals Court turned down the preliminary because the full case is still active in District. The German case will almost certainly influence the finding but the case is still on-going. Appeals Courts are for after a decision has been reached by the lower court.

And I did it within a system that:

10) automatically treated direct messages as private; and
20) had no mechanism to mark direct messages as private because;
30 GOTO 10

> > no evidence the messages in question had been private

ahem.

As a parent of a young one I also hear this 500×/day. But what's the cost of "Terabit now and you're safe for a decade" versus "400Gb now, then rewire & replace all your gear in 3-5 years for 750Gb (if there isn't a standards war you have to gamble on), and then do that all over again in another 3-5 years for 1.1Gb"? Because that's the kind of creep we've seen since the early days of token ring and then 10BaseT. Manufacturers certainly want the step-by-step option but the admins and engineers? Not so much so.

I expect it to be made in a foreign country with an abysmal record on human rights by forced student labour paid 9/day.

Will it be very angular like Max Headroom or will the wax museum get a licensing deal for the rounded edges?

HEAVILY CENSORED:

These sorts of speeds are something to be ashamed of.

All the anti-MS fanatics can suck a fart out of my ass. You'd be fucking howling if you were forced to use a different kernel or even different desktop skin on a system which you had spent a lot of time optimising so that it ran a particular app or set of apps as best as possible given the known limitations.

I'm stuck with XP on a lot of machines because of the apps that need to run. I have it tuned a hell of a lot faster than WINE or any other emulator could ever hope to accomplish. But your sorry know-it-all ass really believes you know best what my system needs?

A user provides sketchy details and a link to a content-less press release, and that gets posted, while Taco et al. sit around & scratch their asses. Par for the course, really. At least there won't be another 10,000-word navel-gazing post from Malda about temporarily becoming a "millionaire". At least, not until FB buys out this deal when it all rolls over.

woof.

On one hand, efficacy and direct, immediate action.

On the other hand, the complete usurping of the very principles of enumerated and separated branches of gubmint in order to prevent abuse and provide for accountability.

How about Apple, Samsung, Google and the rest of them SHUT THE FUCK UP and just compete on features & abilities? I'm sick of this soap opera and even sicker of the technology stifling they're ALL trying to do while complaining that the rest of them are doing it.

"Text On A Picture", and b3ta has been bitching about it and LARTing n00bs over it for years.