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Comment Re:No (Score 0) 109

These names are reserved for use as example domains in documentation.

In my opinion, the words that should have been bold are "in documentation"... :-)

Piracy

Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5

Torrentfreak reports that after calculating download frequency for pirated copies of popular video games, Call of Duty: Black Ops has won the dubious honor of being the most pirated game of 2010. The PC version of the game was torrented roughly 4,270,000 times, and the Xbox 360 version was downloaded an additional 930,000 times. (The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dante's Inferno somehow managed to accrue the most downloads of Xbox 360 games.) Fortunately for Activision, the game has still made over $1 billion in sales, and its 20,000,000+ players have racked up over 600,000,000 man-hours of play time since the game's launch in early November.

Comment Re:Hogs? (Score 1) 276

You're right - it *should* be metered, but the real issue here is that many ISPs advertise that they offer 'XXmbit per second' & do *not* mention a cap or any kind of actual tiered pricing or metering. Then, when you "over consume" (meaning use more than they think you should, more than some magic [invisible] number that they have come up with), they get upset.

I'm all for metered pricing - but only if it's actually what I'm buying. If I'm buying based on a XXmbit per second price structure & no metered structure (or cap) is advertised then I expect that I can use as much total bandwidth as I would like. The problem is that, as of late, no matter how a plan is advertised (and *very* few are advertised as metered, at least at a consumer level) they're usually imposing some sort of cap or metering system, even if that is *not* the way the product was originally marketed.

Comment Re:Depressing, but not uncommon (Score 2, Informative) 1251

That's actually incorrect...

Although I'm sure that their sample size is never big enough to trust their numbers (I've got to believe it's +/- 2% or so personally), but according to this FAQ the numbers you see in the news are based off of a 'monthly sample survey'.

"Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment insurance benefits?

No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey."

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm

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