Again, assuming she even considered the copyright. A normal person? How naive. A lot of people don't know about DMCA, how it works, or what it's for.

At your leisure, go find a post about big business with a takedown notice. You'll see comment after comment basically stating "fuck big business and da police!" Then ask yourself if you feel any different reading this article and, if you do, go fuck yourself. I know Schwager is embarrassingly manic, but look past that. See how easy it was for Jo Schmo to get a takedown granted without going through the courts? He shared it on the internet and, assuming she had even considered its copyright, Schwager had no idea who it belonged to or the license behind it.

I'm sure there was a great margin of get-rich-quick hype around this.

My father works in Europe, old Yugoslavia, where they've had one of the harshest winters he's ever experienced there. So how about you look on the other side of the world and ask them how it's going? Wait, that'd be un-American.

Smart move to sell off the company to cable companies, or is it a trap by cable companies? Subscribscriptions will certainly drop once this gets rolling and devalue their service. That would be to the cable companies advantage. Only reason I have cable tv now I because my wife watches programming Hulu simply doesn't carry (or didn't). I'd dump my channels and pay for the less expensive Hulu in a heartbeat if I could.

Perhaps we should stop feeding the troll (yeah I'm guilty there). At least he takes his aggression out on us here rather than on the family at home. :)

I pulled all my cat5 myself in an existing structure into my garage and tied it all into a little switch on a small shelf. The cable modem and wireless router is by the tv and attached to said router. In my mancave is a repurposed desktop tower with WHS2011. I thought about doing the whole rack mount thing but I really had more flexibility with the tower setup (drive bays, upgrade room, and such) and there are many many home server storage solutions on the Internet. I put mine in a glass cabinet on an old entertainment center and installed a couple of USB powered fans on the back. If I need to do anything local on the server, the tv in there has a VGA input. Works beautifully. In fact, considering the space you need for a rack, I don't think I'd have it any other way.

Hahaha Wow. No. Thats a bad kitty. Who let you in here? For any serious data transfers in the home, wifi is a bad idea. Even Ethernet over power lines is bad (802.11n is more cost-to-performance effective). It is really worth the effort to pull the line. It would take me 8 hours to ghost my laptop with about 60 gigs vs about 2 over gigabit LAN. I don't always keep the laptop on the wire, only if i have a large transfer and it is too big for portable storage. If you have television coax, you should be able to pull the Cat-5 or whatever twisted pairs through the same hole in the wall cap from the attic. I did this and replaced the wall plates with a coax and cat-5 combo. Was an easy weekend project done in the winter. Fishtape and electrical tape helps.

If he was known to be suicidal, I'd think his family needs to be filed against for failing to get him evaluated (voluntary or not).

I'm not so clear on exactly how they get to vote for their own salary adjustments. I wish I could do that at work! But go up to your congressman and say: hey, I want to pass a bill to allow the people to vote for your salaries. It won't work. "Yeah, constituent, let me get right on that after we fix the economy, healthcare, and this little energy situation."