Main Entry: decimate
Function:transitive verb

3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number (cholera decimated the population)
b: to cause great destruction or harm to (firebombs decimated the city) (an industry decimated by recession)

So you would consider allowing someone to sue a telecom for allowing the government listen in on his or her phone conversations to grandma more important than the new protections put into the bill, namely requiring warrants for any American that happens to be wiretapped and putting the court back in the loop for said warrants?

Obama's surveillance vote spurs blogging backlash:Sen. Barack Obama's vote for a federal surveillance law that he had previously opposed has sparked a backlash from his online advocates, who had energized his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Senate voted Wednesday on the bill updating FISA -- which had a provision to shield telecommunications companies that had cooperated in the surveillance. Obama joined the 68 other senators who voted to send the bill to the president's desk.

What's even more frightening is that they modded you informative when it's public record that he voted to strip the immunity provisions out although the amendment failed.

Or Fermilab's results may not be accurate.

I can't believe no on Slashdot has pointed out that .015 cents != a penny and a half .015 dollars = a penny and a half.

We can't create stuff that goes faster than the speed of light, but we can create stuff that goes faster than the speed of sound. And just as you can't go fast enough to come back through an event horizon, information can't propagate fast enough in the experiment to go back across the subsonic/supersonic boundary. This shows us what it looks like to be in a situation like that of a black hole.

I appreciate your concern for me, and you both have given me hope because as opposed to pointless name calling, the discussion ended amicably! Good job!

but because I have a little voice in the back of my head saying its not ethical. If hulu, adult swim, or any other content provider doesn't want me to have content... fine. I won't support them.

That's a definite plus because I imagine the number of people who want something like this greatly dwarfs the number of folks who are technically oriented.

Most open source tools I know about are intended for *nix only and are distributed (at least by upstream) as source code.

Otherwise, I should say that while I was thoroughly unimpressed with that Web site, I didn't intend to sound that harsh or to make you feel so much like my criticism was aimed at you and I'm sorry about that. Sometimes I post something and immediately feel like I could have done a much better job of it, and this is one of those times.

The above link is nothing but spam. Maybe you didn't intend it as such, and I respect that, but that's all it is to me. If it does serve a useful purpose, it's none that can't be accomplished using open source tools, or on Windows, tools that clearly state what they do and how they do it before you download and install them.