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Comment Re:Another Kink (Score 1) 345

Really? Seriously?

Yes, seriously... and without ever alluding to Facebook. Why ever you even brought that one up.

Communication, news, research and education, shopping, job searches and applications, etc. People denied internet access are being held back in a huge way and it'll only get worse as time goes on and society becomes more dependent upon it. Time Warner refusing to run cable two or three miles down a road because there are only a dozen houses on it is downright criminal when they've received kickbacks to do just that on every bill ever since being granted an exclusive monopoly in the area.

Comment Re:Another Kink (Score 3) 345

It's really not. Selling out areas to cable and telecoms hurts your population in the long run, as evidenced. Not having decent internet nowadays is more socially and economically crippling than not having telephone service. The government itself should be laying that cable for anyone to use. Cthulhu knows the cable/telecoms aren't doing it, despite having tons of subsidies literally thrown at them for decades. Infrastructure in general would be a great use of tax dollars. A lot better than any number of unwinnable, unethical wars for example. Then once you have this open platform for ISPs to work off of, private competition would [i]most[/i] likely take care of everything else. It seems to work throughout Europe, and it even worked here in the States for dial-up prices and service.

Comment Re:Boo Friggin Hoo (Score 1) 337

Wouldn't bloodsports be more appropriate? Americans already love the violence of football and hockey. Why not force prisons to battle each other to the death. The winner is granted a full pardon. You could even have corporate sponsorship and spectator ticket sales to replace any kind of tax-dollar funding.

Comment The Solution! (Score 4, Informative) 519

It’s worth noting that when you “turn off” IE 10 in the Windows 8 Developer Preview, you also turn off the Metro interface. No IE 10, no Metro apps.

That sounds like a very simple and elegant solution to both the problem of having Metro and Internet Explorer on a machine. Windows 8 might be worth using after all. :)

Comment Re:Needs new leadership (Score 1) 325

Forget that streaming crap. It's tied up too tight by companies that own it and want it to fail (studios, cable companies, etc). Discs have a far wider availability and selection, visually look better, and don't eat into the bandwidth which will surely start to be limited by (once again) vengeful cable companies.

Sadly, it's pretty obvious that Netflix wants to dump the discs altogether, as shown by the initial idea of Qwikster. It was an obvious plan to eventually kill the whole thing off. I'm sure they get more customer from streaming (go figure) but the licensing costs and contract negotiations make for a very pitiful service that's at the mercy of its own competition.

No thanks.
(Besides, it's harder to rip the streaming stuff to my hard drive.)

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