Comment: Re:, but I've learned to adapt. (Score 1) 863
Yup, having a menu fill the screen instead of just a portion of the screen is definitely as horrible and complicated as all that shit you just spouted off.
Swedish Pirate Party Threatened for Hosting the Pirate Bay 164
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from the protected-political-speech dept.
from the protected-political-speech dept.
New submitter BetterThanCaesar writes "The Swedish Pirate Party and their ISP Serious Tubes have received a letter from 'The Rights Alliance' (formerly Antipiratbyrån, The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau), demanding they cease supplying Internet access to The Pirate Bay. Referring to the final sentence on the four Pirate Bay profiles, they threaten with legal action if access is not removed by February 26. On her blog, party leader Anna Troberg calls the letter 'extortion,' pointing out that (translated from Swedish) '[i]t is not illegal to provide The Pirate Bay with Internet access. There is no list of illegal sites that ISPs cannot provide access to.' (google translation to English)."
The letter sent (in Swedish). Update: 02/20 14:58 GMT by U L : richie2000 notes that hosting isn't quite right; they're just routing traffic to TPB: "We're not hosting TPB, we're just routing traffic to them. Just like an ISP. Serious Tubes routes traffic to the Pirate Party, so they're even more removed. But, last night, Portlane, one of the ISPs that routes traffic to Serious Tubes, was pressured into cutting their transit to ST, even if they were just a provider to a provider to a provider to TPB."
Comment: Re:Of course Apple are going to take it to court. (Score 3, Informative) 129
You don't seem to understand. You're right, Apple shouldn't have the ability to set prices for other stores, but what they did was get the publishers to agree that they wouldn't allow other stores (aka: Amazon) to sell for prices less than Apple.
That's why there is such a "to do" about this. It's not the way things normally work and that's why the DOJ has brought the lawsuit about.
That's why there is such a "to do" about this. It's not the way things normally work and that's why the DOJ has brought the lawsuit about.
Comment: Re:Huh? (Score 1) 514
HAHA! Love TMBG... makes me feel old though.
Comment: Re:How to treat a loyal customer (Score 1) 571
Oracle is definitely a cheaper more open option to float out there...
Comment: Re:Little boxes (Score 5, Informative) 320
You do realize that everyone who watched weeds will be humming along right?
Comment: Re:As much as I like Jared, I differ here (Score 1) 303
Apple keeps suing everyone around Google. I'm sure that really encourages Google to want to do anything for Apple for free.
Comment: Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 1) 49
I regularly feel like the power of almighty Oracle is slightly overstated. SQL Server has a bad rap from around SQL Server 2000 and under but today it's pretty powerful right out of the box. With that said, I don't have any hard data to back it up, but my guess is its a lot of misconceptions and design flaws. Throw a giant team of people and a boatload of hardware at each solution and I bet you could get similar results, its just that people expect to spend a stupid amount of money on Oracle, not so much on SQL Server.
Comment: Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 2) 49
Scope is important, however there is a common misconception that SQL Server can't handle anything bigger than a few Gigabytes. The largest single SQL Server database I've ever heard of is about 70TB. I'm sure 200TB would find it cramped but it also depends on how you're defining a database.
Comment: Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 1) 49
Microsoft SQL Server definitely isn't designed for smaller databases... maybe you're thinking of Access?
Comment: Re:The real downside. (Score 1) 362
Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah.
Comment: Re:Paid for (Score 1) 398
>>>you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted
Typing??? What is this? The time before mouse inputs? You shouldn't need to ever use the keyboard just to open programs.
Don't worry, you can still do your click navigation.
Comment: Re:Paid for (Score 5, Interesting) 398
Everybody keeps complaining about the interface. Really it's like it just opens the start menu on bootup. From there you can hang around the desktop all you want. I didn't like it at first but then once I realized that you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted, similar to the current start menu, who cares? PLEASE keep bitching about the same thing thinking it'll change. Thanks for your valuable input.
Comment: Re:Cloud services are for idiots. (Score 2) 157
Actually, when I logged on last night, I had a checkbox to have my uploaded files modified or not.... Granted it was all or none but still, an option is an option.
Comment: Re:Best way to watch TV (Score 2) 479
I've found the Tivo Slide works pretty well for controlling it since it supports Bluetooth. The only downside is to get it to work well in Windows, you really need to buy Intelliremote by Melloware to map the keys to functions.