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US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online 578

Monoman writes "The Washington Post reports, 'The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics start tonight. But if you're among the 9 percent of U.S. households who have broadband but don't subscribe to paid television, it will be nearly impossible to (legally) watch the games online this year. ... That's because while NBC is streaming all of the events live online, full access to the livestream will only be available to paying cable subscribers. And thanks to a $4.38 billion exclusive deal NBC struck with the International Olympics Committee (IOC) in 2011 for the privilege of broadcasting the Olympic games in the U.S. through 2020, cord-cutters don't have a lot of options.' Is this a money play by Comcast/NBC to get some subscribers back? Should the FCC step in and require NBC to at least provide a stream of their OTA content?"

Comment Re:Gah-bage! (Score 1) 396

Pacman is boring and repetative. I was tired of it 20 years ago, and even the nostalgia of playing it on a full-sized console wears off after feeding it quarters. It's boring. Ladybug was cool though. And at least Donkey Kong and Frogger took skill. I'd take the old Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat over any GTA, any day.

Comment Gah-bage! (Score 0) 396

GTA has to be one of the most boring games I've ever played. Boring!!!! I'd rather play the card game 'war' - sure the outcome is already decided from the moment you stop shufflng the deck, but at least you don't know what's going to happen next. GTA? Cops and robbers - pacman with a car and guns.

I want them to continue developing Half Life ! And I miss the simulation games of yore - Age of Empires, Civilization, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc. They don't make many sim games any more :-( Sim City 4 is nice, but they are going to be selling "upgrades" so that we can... have the same features we had in the last version like 10 years ago. Want to build a bigger city? Pay us and we'll make your border bigger! Subways?! Gotta pay extra for that too I'm gonna guess.

It is also crap that most games these days *need* to be played online because of DRM. I like the Steam/Origin model because I don't have to worry about losing the media, but if I ain't online I can't play Sim City (without a workaround - which would probably screw up my cities online anyways),

Game developers complain about how expensive it is to create a new game - I'd much prefer something challenging and stimulating than a boring game cloned from 15 years ago because they haven't bothered to come up with anything new and just want to jazz it up with eye-candy, give it a new name, and sell if for $60 when the original was like, $20 (I'm looking at you, Microsoft)

I guess I'll just be stuck with Age of Empires 2 and Civ 4 and Roller Coaster Tycoon - but at least they're still fun and challenging after all these years!

GTA is for 'brogrammers' and frat boys.

Comment Re:One person (Score 1) 86

My point stands: the majority of information is unjustifiably secret and should be released without issue, and a lot of what remains makes people look bad. Also, the government intentionally drags its feet, "loses" documents (yeah... but they can find an original income tax receipt from 40 years ago), and redacts entire pages of everything except the "the"s and the "is"s There is a reason that the government fights so hard against releasing this information, and it definitely isn't for our own good.

Comment Re:One person (Score 2) 86

A Congressional audit has found extreme waste in the document security system... classified documents are very burdensome to track and secure. I believe it was something like 30% of all documents contain no sensitive information whatsoever. The government opposes releasing information because it can make them look bad by exposing wasteful spending, secret investigations where prosecution was declined, or the government intentionally poisoning its soldiers to test chemical weapons and "cures". A very small percentage of documents are secret because they stand to damage national security. Most are secret to cover up bad behavior because the contents would make some important people look bad.

Comment 9th amendment (Score 2) 86

The SCOTUS loves to ignore the 9th amendment. They seem to find all these restrictions on civil liberties all over the place, because things aren't explicitly enumerated. Oh wait. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

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