its called ssh, it was written in 1990.

All the idiots who think that "Terms of Service" "agreements" -- which for the most part have been proven to be unenforceable in a court of law, trump state or federal law are wrong. An illegal contract is still illegal. For example, craigslist.org has some pretty nefarious nonsense all over thier terms of use web page, and about 90% of it is unenforceable illegal contract nonsense that and they would get, and have gotten laughed out of every court they every attempted to show it to. TOS agreements are no more than a scare tactic used by corporations to make people think its illegal to do something. If your feeble minded enough to believe it, thats you're low IQ that you need to examine. I personally hope that Skype and Microsoft get sued into oblivion for their misdeeds against the millions of people who have paid to use that Skype program over the years and now after Micro$oft bought it, have since become bamboozled into various levels of fraud by Micor$oft.

For over 50 years the propaganda war machine has been putting out highly inflamed offensive speech declaring war on various entities, so really at this point until they actually fire that first missile, I wouldn't worry about it. And when they do actually fire that missile, they will be wiped off the map.

The only reason Time Warner Cable does not see many customers requesting gigabit ethernet connections is because it is too cost prohibitive. If you called BrightHouse (Time Warner Cable) and asked them for pricing on 1000 megabit internet connections, it is on the order of thousands of dollars per month. No normal residential customer is going to be able to afford such ridiculous pricing schemes. If they offered gigabit speeds at an affordable (less than 1000 dollars per month), I'm *sure* a large portion of their customer base would be ordering it. The reality is that they can't do it because the infrastructure isn't there to do it. It has nothing to do with the argument of their customers don't want it.

The policy makes no distinction between outside the US versus inside the US. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before we see drone strikes inside US borders against US citizens becoming commonplace.

When I tried XBMC about a year ago, there were numerous problems. There was problems with the packages not working with the most recent version of Ubuntu. After the install, there was random seg faults throughout the UI, involving everything from playing video to navigating the UI to indexing video files. There was also the huge issue of it not recognizing more than 75% of my library, and then the 25% of the library that it did "recognize", it mislabeled about 75% of that as well. So then there is the issue of the content that it did correctly identify (about 10% of my library) alot of that content would not render using their playing tool. After about a day of playing with it, I uninstalled it. I tried another solution called "Boxee" and found the same class of problems exist with it too.

I will say that in the span of two days I wrote an indexer to scan my 20TB library, put the files into a mysql database, and then wrote a front end for it (all in PHP), which then I can use to one-click pop mplayer fullscreen (in -slave mode), and it also does the same with Youtube videos (using Chrome with fullscreen options, and youtube-dl to queue / download the video files and add them to my library). It has a lot of other features, but I will say that is a lot faster to find my actual content, and does not attempt to mislabel anything, and in the end I have a pretty scalable solution.

They all will claim that paying millions of dollars on Microsoft royalties and licensing fees is always better than paying zero dollars for a Linux deployment. They will always state that Microsoft products somehow have a lower TCO than Linux. The claim they make is that it costs more to hire Linux engineers than Windows engineers, which is a bunch of nonsense.

You pay for a pipe. What you do with that pipe is up to you. No one should be able to prevent you from using your pipe. I don't see file downloads as causing the kind of public safety concern that might require the provider to disconnect someone's service. It's a stretch. If the provider disconnects the pipe, they are liable for damages, especially if you were using it to conduct business. They do so at their own peril.

Remote controlled Predator drones have been used to kill thousands of people since the mid 1990's, does that qualify?

It isn't the ISP's job to do deep packet inspection on their customers, nor is it their job to restrict or remove their customers access to their pipe. I would say in the case of public safety it might be reasonable, but not because a third party doesn't like what the customer is downloading? Be real.

Obviously cloud providers like GMail, Yahoo, etc are effected by this. People running mail servers out of their house or their own private property are going to still be protected by fourth amendment protections. Although, email still flows unecrypted into collection points setup in 2002 (carnivore), so this might be one way they will still be able to view email even if you run the mail server outside of a cloud provider. If this bill passes, the only thing I'd do different is probably shut down my Gmail account and go back to using my business domain (hosted at my house in a rack)

they just need to make a 5 inch quad-core android phone and it will take them back to where they need to be

Not sure why they give this guy a voice, but whose code got broken? Xlib has been around for decades. GTK has been around for decades. KDE has been around for decades. QT has been around for decades.

if she really wanted it, she'd keep it, otherwise she'd abort it... thats a nice backwoods theory. its nice that we have the people making the laws in this country coming up with this half-baked theories. Maybe they will use these half-baked theories to further take away women's rights? Lets take one step forward, and five steps back. :(

Craigslist could only wish that people who use their site use it because they want Craig Newmark to exclusively own the rights to their postings... People don't use craigslist because they want craigslist to own the content, they do it to sell something. If it isn't craigslist, it is one of the other 500 sites that do the same thing. I think most people who stop using that site if they thought for one second that what they are submitting is not under their control.