Gagh! Who the fuck cares what those militant sociopaths think? Let them stew in their own juices. They're as fundamentally psychotic as the Scientologists ... both groups should be put into a room under lock and key, and then somebody should throw away the room.

All it would take for PETA to start attacking anyone that tries to mass-produce vat-grown meat is for some researcher somewhere to "prove" that said lumps of flesh have feelings (unlike the leaders of PETA, who for all intents and purposes are conscienceless.)

Yes, that is how unions start out. Most unions *used* to be that way in the US as well. People have good reason to moan about US unions now though, and it's *you* who has no knowledge of how US unions work.

That's why contracts with big, faceless, corporations are full of clauses that ultimately allow the corp. to do what they want. They do things like say that the agreement can be changed at any time by VM, and that you agree to be bound by documents other than just the contract, like terms and conditions, acceptable usage policies, etc..

I think VM will have made sure they covered their arses this time, after the Phorm bullshit.

Once Apple gets to OS X v.10.9.9, they'll be going hexadecimal with the next version: OS X v.B.0.

I have 25/25 FiOS with the actiontec router. The Actiontec would often lock up after heavy BitTorrent sessions. (something about memory leaks in the routing tables i heard) Anyway I had the internet connetion switched from Moca (cable output) to ethernet and I run it through an old pentium 200 with 3 nics running ipcop 1.4.21 a 24 port switch and hung the router on after for wireless and Moca for the stbs. It has yet to crash, been up for over 2 years and I get full bandwith on nat on the clients . and over 10/10 on the wireless.

BOOM?

Say what you will about Hollywood,But other than the Military or NASA (I wonder what resolution they're running at ?) They apparently drive the market for this stuff. And they're an Entertainment organization! That has GOT to be a damn good argument against Government run health care.

cyberterror? someone posted something about 'What If They Turned Off the Internet?'. now that's a threat!
let me share somethin' special with you, which i call perry's perspective..

I don't care if you're left or right health care 'reform' was one of Obama's main election platforms so I think ObamaCare is a fitting term.

This is Exactly the problem. I'm sort of interested in a kindle type product, now when i read a book, i either buy it or borrow it from the library. When I buy the book I have it forever (in theory). Also it looks good on the shelf, I can lend it give it sell it etc. no power required to read it either! But I'm pretty damn sure that the bookstore can't take it back or lock it out from my current or future use.. I think the fact that this happened so soon, and the sheer irony & stupidity of the work being 1984 is huge. and for now has killed any interest i have for now (even the open source one) I'm sure ill have such a device someday but i won't be an early adopter and when I finally go get one the Amazon product will be on the bottom of the list.

not exactly on topic but the fios ride may be over in favor of 4g, trials are getting underway, results of which will determine if fios will be expanded much further. there is a rumor of a 4g wireless set top box that will be a self install similar to what they do with dsl and fios stb adds

See, they were right when they said video games were bad !