"but I only liked will & grace, one time, one day. Wish I hadn't, cause Facebook now thinks I'm gay"

I really have to wonder how they're determining who's gay and who's not. We already tell it out relationship stats, and sometimes, who. If you're not telling Facebook any of that....then I'm worried about how much data they're collecting and how many assumptions they're making. I already know that since I interact Facebook in a totally different way than I normally would. So...what are they assuming about me?

Watching this video just made me more confused. There was nothing but drawings....random mumbling...and the bluish outline of people which interfered with what they were trying to show. Maybe they're trying to prove you can prove existence of aliens by utterly confusing your audience in to believing it. The backwards/repeating voices do nothing to convince me of anything than the author is on something. I wish they'd tell me where they got it, at least I'd of learned something from this video. When seven-foot bluish cat-looking creatures come landing...then I'll believe you.

but the stereo gear is going with me!

Apple doesn't need Carrier IQ to keep up with you....the first time you picked one up it injected tiny nanobots that multiplied inside your body...connecting to and learning to interpret the synapses in your brain....although they likely don't do anything except turn you in to another Apple-loving drone.

Hey...... 384VDC is handy if you wanna power tube amps directly. Just sayin'

This is different than the current test procedures. those are generated locally to make sure the stations equipment works. this going to be a live test. they are actually activating the new AES system as if there was an actual emergency.

the big difference over this new system is that it has better penetration. rather than relying on broasdcast stations alone, cable/satellite operators now have AES equipnent. when an alert is sent, it will interrupt whatever youre watching and throw your box over to a channel. so, unlike before if youre watching dvr or on demand and would miss these alerts, your viewing is interrupted. Verizon ran a test test the other morning at about 3am....dvr viewing was stopped...the box flashed AES on its display and i was shown a computer generated text screen. theyre even talking about being able to activate the system on things like hulu, netflix, xbox, but those are in the works (and may be implemented now).

As someone who's opened what turned out to be malicious files from some alt.* newsgroup.....I've only gotten partial infections on 7. Apparently whatever tried to infect me DID actually infect the system...but it was never able to download it's payload or do anything other than try to auto-execute becuase UAC kept popping up saying "winupdater.exe" wanted access. Wait...what? That's not a valid file. I did have to wind up using MAB to get rid of the partial infection....but since I switched to Chrome I don't get drive-by malware infections and the few times I have, MAB has actually stopped them, hell, Microsoft's Security Essentials has actually stopped some things from happening. The only time I had to reformat was when I screwed up the MBR trying to do a hybrid partition so I could attempt to run OSX on this thing. *smh*

The problem with anything interlaced is the fact we're no longer using interlaced displays anymore. So any non CRT based display has to do some processing...and even then the quality of that varies from TV to TV. I for one notice a HUGE difference in quality of HD content on my CRT-based rear projection vs. a 42" edge-lit LED LCD...artifact wise I see more on the LCD...but the LCD just has that real extra crisp picture....not that the RPTV is all that bad (no HDMI)...it's still my preferred way to watch a movie for genuine theater-like experience. Of course there's also the slight advantage of that even running 480i over s-video from a dvd-player looks pretty good thanks to it's ability to change scan-rate.....although the upconversion in my blu-ray player has fooled me a couple times when someone else has had a movie in.

Netflix however has been an interesting tale. My old connection was sub-megabit...so the low-bitrate video was a turnoff for a while. After getting Fios, I tried streaming with the Wii on both a CRT SDTV and the rear-projection HD, it looked as good as any DVD I'd get. Even after getting the LCD and using 480p output on the Wii, the quality wasn't too horrible. My blu-ray player has netflix in it...as well as wifi...and while the HD movies don't look quite as good as what I get over the movie channels or vod, it's not too terrible either...and it does seem to apply some of the upconversion processing to standard def netflix content as well. I don't own many blu-rays yet....but there is a USB hard drive connected to it....for some reason ;)

I, however, have never seen clean unmolested NTSC 480i...except for Betamax.

I have Verizon FiOS. What are these data caps you people keep talking about?

Likely, what will happen is we'll see a new broadband war take place. This one won't be over who will give you the fastest connection, but rather, who's going to give you the most data for the least amount of money.

Right now, seriously, most of the complaints I see about data caps are coming from the big cable providers. I know Veizon will pump me 400gigs, or more, a month without even as much as complaining. Will Comcast, Cox or Time Warner do that?

I think the larger thing behind the data caps is to keep the pirates off the network. They know if they limit someone to say 100 gigs, and you've got a fast connection, you'll likely be spending most of your time waiting for that cap to roll over, meanwhile doingg EXACTLY what they and the big entertainment want...making sure you shell out for your stuff.

I know Verizon is "evil" and people call them an overpriced network....but when they're willing to send all the data I want at upwards of 40mbps...I kind of have to give in and go "ok, you got me"

So, again, what the hell are these data caps you people quit complaining about. It''s like texting, if you're paying too much, you're either too stupid to get the unlimited texting option or need to shop elsewhere for your IP connectivity. I did. I'm happy.

I tried that argument.

I was told "well, if you can't pay your bills then obviously you're not responsible enough to work here"....ok, yeah, the fact I held the same job for over 8 years and there's a report of being an identity theft victim tells you I'm an irresponsible person.

They say unemployment is down, yet every employer these days wants to run credit-checks to disqualify everyone. It's a downward spiral that doesn't seem to want to fix itself, because the employers are still making money hand over fist.
It's been tried in the past, I'm pretty sure. My lawyer told me "it's not worth the hassle...we're not going to win and we'll go bankrupt trying to win".