Whoa, the government is going to pay for me to have sex? SIGN ME UP!

FTFY

This is where they just don't get it. Music has never been in danger. Nothing in the industry has or will stop people from making and performing great music. They aren't concerned with saving music, just their cut of music.

What exactly are you smoking? What part of this story is shitty journalism or "tearing down a company". The founder and former CEO of an important tech company dumps all of his stock at once, which is a pretty unusual event. It's definitely reportable, as is the impact it had on the company. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and the other players in the industry weren't even mentioned.

So clearly this isn't shitty journalism. In fact, someone *not* reporting on this would be really shitty journalism. So what, exactly, is your problem with the new story?

I see where you are coming from, and we shouldn't need government interference here. But if government doesn't create laws like this, then the alternative is that big business sets defacto policies for us, because they hold all the cards. Your only choice as a consumer is to just turn off TVs.

I liken this to the CAN SPAM act. Technically it's a limitation on free speech, but if the government doesn't step up to create policies that benefit consumers, who will? Trust me here, the media companies don't have our backs here. Never will.

Do you have an actual example of the government punishing free speech in this case? What happened is that a few politicians said stupid things they could never back up. It was a major political blunder by those mayors, who actually added fuel to the fire of the the pro-chick-fil-a crowd.

Still, it was *only* comments. Unless you have an example of the government actually punishing free speech in this case, what exactly is your point?

So I go to the download page on the Zorin site, and get this notice:

So they are stating that Safari, IE, and Chrome are incapable of downloading an ISO without corrupting the file? What a ridiculous spew of FUD. Not impressed. Not at all.

Still, looks like a nice way to transition someone to Linux easily, if that's what you want to do.

Well, to go back to Formula 1, there hasn't been a death in F1 since Ayrton Senna in 1994. After his death, the sport made significant improvements in the safety and crash-worthiness of the cars. There have been some spectacular crashes, but no deaths. Still, F1 is growing in popularity all the time. I don't think you need deaths to make it more interesting.

Except, of course for NASCAR. I'm not sure you could do anything to make watching people drive in circles interesting. Open wheel road or street course racing is where the good stuff is.

I think that's a horrible idea. The thrill in watching F1 is not just watching cars go fast. It's about watching real humans test their skills, stamina, and guts in very demanding situations. It's interesting because something is at stake: the lives and well-being of the drivers. Just watching robot cars go fast around a track would quickly bore me.

What you're talking about has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. The FBI arrested the suspects, downed the DNS servers that were serving bad data, and replaced them with DNS servers that act like any other normal DNS server. Not sure how this equates with letting the bad guys getting away with anything.

Really? REALLY? We have a disagreement about this subject, and this is what you come up with? This complete lack of any basic civility while sitting behind the relatively anonymous curtain of the internet is what makes me really sad about humanity. At least have the decency to argue the points instead of resorting to childish insults.

Who said anything about a private corporation. Do you know what ISC IS?

They are a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to support the infrastructure of the Internet. They build open-source software (like BIND and implementations of DHCP). Sorry, but you really should research before you spout off.

We can debate whether just dropping the servers should have happened or not. Personally I think that was correct, as just dropping internet connectivity for a large group of infected people (most of whom wouldn't have a clue about what's going on and how to fix it) would have been far more disruptive than the campaign that attempted to notify people they had a problem and how to fix it (with clickable links that worked while they were on the computer.)

That said, my original comment about them "handling it right" had more to do with the way they handled replacing the DNS servers once that decision had been made. They used a private organization with a good reputation that wasn't beholden to any governmental organization. This pretty much nullifies the paranoid delusions of people like GP

Totally agree. This is a completely useless article that brings nothing new. Best quote is the last line from the article.

...which I read as: There's a big problem. I have no solutions, but dammit, this is a problem.

Care to show a source, even a single one, for that? The FBI handled this right, asking ISC to install and run the DNS servers. I really doubt the ISC would play ball with any extra-legal requests for data.

Amazing how much pure paranoia is modded up around here

If someone came out with a browser out of the box that could only display HTML text with no pictures, sound, etc, do you really think it would get enough use to become traction? Images, sound and video are part of the modern day web browsing experience for the vast majority of users. It's time to get over the origins of the web as a text-only system

Also, most browsers do have the capability for plug-ins, which meets some of your needs. Ultimately, though, plug-ins present their own privacy and security concerns (think Flash). I'd rather have my basic services provided by a trusted vendor with the resources to properly test their software and with a reputation I can trust.