When I pay for those things (schools, safety) a private organization is not profiting. That was the point.

I thought you were going to say "12 hour shifts are not so bad if you only work three or four of the 12 hours". Nine to eight hours on Slashdot is a little extreme though.

By "more content for its Internet streaming service this just means more content from the WB library. For all we know this is movies from the 1960s or 1970s, I love old movies but why they were not on there already is just artificial scarcity.

The beauty is Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 without that nasty Vista name attached. So if you already had Vista you had to pay a second time for 7. **KA-CHING

It's cute that you think there are two choices.

One other word: Blackwater

The parent's point was that you should never ever expect privacy on a company device. A Supervisor may say its ok to browse donkey porn but that does not mean that you should expect privacy.

They are still allowed to see what you did with their equipment. Is it then ok for them to change policy and make all new policy changes retroactive? Entirely up to the employer.

Originally the TB3 teams said they would include or merge Lightning in to TB3 then backed out. It's a shame. This is the only real missing feature. We really didn't need tabs and some of the other gimmicks.

I do pay for a pass monthly to millions of sites. It's called internet access. Unfortunately the people that provide access don't provide content. So independent publishers need to find some kind of alternate way to make money. I am not paying twice.

I am so tired of it phrased this way as it makes it sound. You make it sound like Obama brought in this secret treaty with him to screw everyone for the media interests benefit. The treaty was started long before the current president was in office. So yes its same boss but same agenda.

Being constantly raped by MS and their non portable formats maybe?

There is still plenty of news besides the BBC. If Murdoch does this then it will not only kill his papers but the BBC as well. I say good riddance to Murdoch and his newstainment but I do like the BBC and hope they stay around.

terrorism has just become the catch all for people we don't like. It used to be communist but luckily people woke up and realized that communist just meant people just like us that live in a different country under a different form of government. Unfortunately terrorist is such a vague bad guy word that it can apply to anyone different or hostile to you. I wish I did but I don't have an answer as to how to not have it be as agressive. Hopefully the next or future generation will find a way to ignore it like we did with communist.

Your entire statement is garbage. Mostly based on the fact that Mininova is not and never was a tracker. TBH I stopped reading when you even mentioned a tracker.

World ending interdimensional portal aside, I doubt he ever even got paid for saving the world twice!