3D has jumped the shark...

Secure Boot or Hibernation.

No, driving farther has nothing to do with the wear on the roads. It's already been said many times here that the weight of the vehicle is the direct cause (and mother nature). Putting all of that aside, are we going to ignore that a mileage tax is a form of DOUBLE TAXATION?! I already pay the tax on the extra gasoline I have to buy for my commute. When do people say enough is enough?! We need taxes, sure, but who is accountable for where the money is going and what constitutes a double tax? I can guarantee you that the money won't go to where you think it should (DOT in this case), and _that_ is the reason they are running a shortfall here, not because people aren't buying enough gasoline.

Milage tax isn't fair to the people with long commutes. I don't expect people who live in the big cities and walk/take a bus to work to care about how a milage tax hurts the commuters who generally live in the suburbs, but thanks for suggesting it. How about we do something crazy... Instead of using gas tax and tolls for subsidizing various social programs, we actually use it to maintain the f-ing roads and have _all_ of it go to DOT where there should be more than enough to go around. Since this will hurt Joe Politician's "revenue stream" for his pet projects he was lobbied for, I'm sure that will never happen. Nope, lets increase the taxes because we need more revenue to pay for the shit that we say you want!

I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, but everybody getting the warm fuzzies for the dark ages are conveniently only remembering the good things about them. There were plenty of crappy things that we've moved on from too... You wanna talk walled gardens? How about AOL's version of the Internet anyone? It's great to remember the good ole' days, but let's be thankful for where we are now, regardless of how we got here. Sure _some_ things are worse now, but the vast majority of the online experience is better. This is progress, and progress is good.

Can't stop this train called climate change now... Join the party or hide in the corner worrying about the end of all things. We all know that human kind will be on this planet for but a short while. There is no use worrying about things beyond our control. Life is too short. Now go outside and enjoy your +5 degrees centigrade above average Christmas!

...and nothing of value was lost.

Bitcoin is a legitimate currency.

- no one ever

As long as Disney lets Han shoot first, it was worth the $4 billion!

slackware -> redhat -> fedora -> ubuntu -> arch Pretty close to my path there (around the same timeframe too, didn't start until 1996)

Obviously that version will be .5 better then this one!

Good Lord we're screwed...

I applaud the steps Massachusetts is taking to protect people's personal data, but at some point the fines and fees incurred by businesses here in Massachusetts will be enough to convince them to pack up and move to neighboring states where they can be more profitable. Our governor Deval will claim to have been "blindsided" by this Mass Exodus (pun intended).

Well duh! He's thanking God that _he_ is fortunate. These other people should be cursing God for letting them down. What's wrong with that?

TFA is pretty clear that the big cable companies made sure CableCARD died a long time ago. Do you know of any HDTVs out now that have CableCARD built in? Me neither, but there were _a lot_ of them back in 2006. Manufacturers gave up on it a while ago, because nobody was using it. When your cable company decides to charge more for the card then they do for a damn box, they're telling you that they don't want you to use it. What needs to happen is that they bring back the filters from the drop like the analog days. It's still RF, and filters will work. They're just so obsessed with forcing VOD down our throats that filtering is not an option for them. They want to force us into getting a set-top box for every goddamn TV in the house, despite the fact that they all have QAM tuners built into them! The FCC needs to kick these fuckers in the nuts until they come to their senses. I want the channels I pay for in Clear QAM (I'm talking about extended basic channels 2 through 70 or so. I don't care about premium HBO and whatnot, or VOD. Those people have _always_ had to have set-top boxes for that content. Although there must also be a better way for that as well. Same filter concept could apply just fine to HBO or Showtime. The only thing people will lose out on is VOD. Make people get the damn boxes for VOD only. That's all they should have to need them for.