You bring up a good point. Nobody visits those sites so it is really no big deal for them to be down. I think a more effective method would be to attack their customers. Get their customers to drop them and they lose their money.

I think this will work in the short term, but eventually they will catch on and just work around it. Just like they do with Norton now. With competition in the marketplace and new versions released at different schedules (building new locks) the virus maker hedges on missing or out of date protection (building new keys). With it built in, not only will everyone exploit the holes (since the lock never changes), but will give users a truly false sense of security (everyone has a master key). Then there is the whole "in order to make it secure he had to build it in to the OS and can't be uninstalled..."

You know at least half the people over there had this thought cross their minds, "Shit, I hedged my bets wrong"

A few years ago I would have agreed 100%. Running a SW department with people with all different strengths I'd be fine to pay it. If I needed Android development I would have two choices. Hire someone new (way costly) or have a C# developer pick it up. My guys are sharp and could do it but the learning time needed would be far more than a grand. Assuming it worked well I can see it saving money for a lot of C# dev houses that have increased demand for Android/iOS apps.

That is 5x the cost. .XXX is expected to be around $50/yr. Content producers are pissed because they will have to registered all their brands under .xxx to protect them. They can't really use them because .xxx will be far more likely to be blocked so all they will do is bounce to the existing .com site.

100 times this. Most users don't have a clue about security or why they shouldn't install every stupid widget they see on the internet. It's hard enough keeping this junk from polluting the install base and network with company hardware. It would only be a matter of time before you heard "I'm not doing that, it's my computer and I'll do what I want with it". Heaven forbid some of the corporate software pooched some other program.

The only way I could see this working is if everyone ran a VM. Clients are lightweight, admins can control the environment and in the event of termination it's a simple disconnect from the 'hive'.

Ditto here. Not only was it cheaper, but it was far more intelligent. If that wasn't enough, the human voice mimicking a computers "be do boop beep" sound when it was 'thinking' was frickin' hilarious.

I was just about to post the same thing. I wish I had mod points to give this. I can see myself watching my slow connection get saturated with torrent traffic but unable to block it because my co-workers need it to download.

That said, I think it would be a great idea if it was an alternative option, especially over those stupid proprietary download mangers (looking at you Dell). At the end of the day it will only take off if the end user likes it more which faster download speeds would do.

I would tend to agree. If you're going to do something like this it needs to be a) sustained and b) something that interfere's with the business. MX records come to mind.

I love how everyone uses that case as their poster-child for all things wrong in American courts. I guess everyone is susceptible to media bias as one point or another. Here's the actual facts of the case: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm

Injustice is always newsworthy.

A problem that companies run into from time to time is voicemail hijacking from drug traffickers. They create an account and place outgoing calls from within the company. I can see the same thing happening here. If they want to get really clever they can jump their call through a few voicemail accounts. Even if a call was tapped/traced it would probably take days or weeks (if ever) to trace down the real source. Certainly takes the power of wiretapping a few notches.

I doubt that would work for a few reasons. The USPS doesn't offer guaranteed delivery on Saturday now (for standard mail), so people would only be paying more for the 'chance' of making it on Saturday. They would still need to maintain a Saturday fleet that wouldn't be much smaller than the current one but would carry far less mail. As you said, Fedex and UPS offer these services now, so if price isn't an issue the demand is covered.