More vocal seems likely. Or maybe we're just more irked by it than we used to be.

Agreed. They already track everything I do, anyway. A little DNS monitoring from our less-evil corporate overlord is no problem in my book.

Just leave me to my nostalgia, damnit!

Six of one...

In 2009 Slashdot turned into an internet libertarian website targeted to IT personnel. Didn't you get that memo?

I've found that I play better the drunker I get. After ten beers the zero-G heart transplant was a breeze.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I encode my wallet file using touch tones and pressed a recording of it onto vinyl. The smoothness on the waveform of the 3/6/9 keys adds a certain warmth to my financial transactions.

I'm always on the lookout for people who think that is a good argument; I've got to sell this rock that keeps tigers away.

You should have picked a different quote to reply to, then, because that's exactly what your comment is saying we should be "standing up and acting like free men" in the face of.

*someone who can change the policy Words are hard.

It's ridiculous that it's gotten to the point where you should act non-threatening and nice to people? While there is a degree of absurdity in the fact that a dude with a paper badge has authority over you, if all you have to do to avoid the wrath of that authority is not be a dick I'd say it's not a big deal. Why not save your protest for someone who can the policy you disagree with, rather than manifesting your civil disobedience as sarcastic remarks to the guy who is power tripping on his menial job?

I've yet to have a problem connecting and I'm enjoying the game. I don't know if I'd rate it five stars, but I don't think it's unreasonable that some people would.

USWest 1. I did have a bug where I was forced to enter the tutorial on my second time logging in, after having already completed it the first time I logged in, but once it starts you can back out of it to effectively skip it. I'm going to be annoyed if I have to do that again.

Nope. I assumed the reader would be smart enough to figure that out.