Comment: Day Late and Dollar Short or...My $0.02(purchase) (Score 1) 159
This isn't actually news and it's also about 15 hours late.
Windows 7 SP1 is a "total non-event"-> 1
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Barence writes "The release of Service Pack 1 is traditionally the time that both companies and consumers decide to migrate to a new operating system. But Microsoft claims the release of Windows 7 SP1 is a "total non-event" in an interview with PC Pro. "Nobody's waiting for Service Pack 1," said Rich Reynolds, Microsoft general manager. "Usually there's this big deal about SP1, but this time it's a total non-event." Reynolds also talks about the lessons learnt from Windows Vista, the difficulty of burying IE6 and (albeit very briefly) Microsoft's plans for Windows 8."
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Comment: This Is Why Privately-Owned Registrars Are Bad (Score 1, Interesting) 191
Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.
Comment: Staff Leaving Can Only Mean One of Two Things (Score 1) 161
1: The buyout was so huge that they all decided to "go out on top" with a huge retirement package.
2: The team was so unhappy with the terms of Viacom's selling of the company that they are all leaving in lock-step.
I'm, unfortunately, leaning towards the second option as it seems more realistic. I always knew the Viacom buyout would end in tears, I just didn't know it would take this long.
Comment: In a later update... (Score 4, Funny) 119
4chan's existence completely invalidates this study.
Comment: Wait, you mean the government ISN'T incorruptable? (Score 0, Troll) 253
Well
Comment: Re:This is just the beginning. (Score 0, Flamebait) 536
"The People"
Look ladies and gentlemen, a libertarian.
Comment: Re:This is just the beginning. (Score 1) 536
There is a big difference. A fencing operation being held from a pawn shop is wholeheartedly illegal as it implies full cooperation of the shop owner with the actual criminals while in this case the site admins always responded to law enforcement in a timely fashion in order to shut down illegal blogs.
Comment: Re:get by with stuff like this without angering a (Score 2) 536
You seem to not understand that we're the ants and the powers that be are the wasps.
Comment: This is just the beginning. (Score 5, Interesting) 536
Mark my words. This is only the beginning of high-profile shutdowns.
The nest has been stirred and the wasps are now out in full force.
There is, however, a light at the end of the tunnel.
You cannot get by with stuff like this without angering a lot of people.
Enough angry constituents and things will start to change.
Lets just hope for the best as that's all we can really do.