I'd wager to guess the "low-hanging fruit" are actually the overwhelming majority, not "professional" trolls.

There isn't. This bill is an amendment to the current law.

It's also shenanigans, because the very first defense listed in the bill is truthful statements:

You should probably respond less to the headline and more to the article - this isn't a bill "to identify trolls", it's a bill about harassment and defamation. The very first thing in the bill, which is an amendment to existing defamation law, is that the statement has to have cause or be able to likely cause serious harm. And that's followed by exceptions for just what you're concerned about - matters of public interest, honest opinions, truthful statements. Even those of us who strongly advocate the freedom of speech don't deny that it can be abused, and that things like threats and slander should be legally actionable.

This. A thousand times, this.

A well-rounded IT staff would be better off with more money for staying up-to-date with training and new technology than having someone dedicated to hacking together ductape solutions and bandaid fixes because the business doesn't want to spend the money/time on the right tools to doing things the right way.

Hackjobs are a nightmare to maintain, inherit or scale up, and they're usually a bit shortsighted when it comes to conditions the hacker didn't expect or think about. You should think outside the box, but you need to need to make sure what you're making will fit back inside it. The approach and the knowledge you gain from it can be really useful, but I don't want to have to do something like find a way to force an insufficient PBX to meet a company's needs any more than I want to hold my car's bumper on with bungee cords.

The difference is that Hulu's model is like television advertising, a company pays for their ad to be shown to a target audience (like during a specific show), whereas Facebook is just showing contextual web ads (and sells on things like "have your ad come up for everyone who lists cars in their likes, or lists themselves as single"). Facebook is (like other websites are) selling the users/visitors as content to whoever wants a piece, Hulu gets the media content you want to watch by having it sponsored by advertisers - for a made-up example, Old Spice gets to show you ads during Burn Notice because they paid to make it available to you.

Why would that be surprising? It's long-term marketing feedback, no one is going to look at that until the ad campaign is over or up for renewal. It's for the benefit of Hulu/the advertisers, so they can correlate future ad campaigns to demographics and usage, not for you to opt out of or vote away an existing ad. Hulu has sold to Company A that Ad B to be played during Term C for Target Audience D, so Ad B will continue to be played under those conditions until Term C is over. That vote against the ad isn't going to count until they're planning their next ad campaign.

Oversimplifying a bit, the FBI handles the investigation and prosecution of federal criminal offenses, the marshal service provides security for the federal court system (personnel, buildings, endangered witnesses) and hunts down fugitives. They're more or less national-level court officers.

And that's with ignoring the facts that you can safely presume all of these people have running water at home, most of the places they're going to go in the day will have sinks and/or water fountains, water's usually free at restaurants, and per bottle size it's at most the same price as soda at convenience stores (usually cheaper).

Now that's just assinine to the point of being fallacious. They cite their sources.

No, they were downloading a copy of Windows XP when the jerk stopped seeding at 99%.

Oh, I know the prior method for turning it off is gone. But it's hard to say there won't be a way to do it until we see group policy templates.

There's a dedicated Enterprise version for volume licensing. It and Pro, like usual, take the "normal" version and give it the abilities to join a domain, process group policy, use EFS, host RDP, etc.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to turn it off. Metro really wouldn't fly for businesses or kiosks. It'd likely end up being buried somewhere, like how you can disable the Windows 7 startup sound via group/local policy.

The whole point of DHS was to make and maintain a clean division of roles. The TSA's only part of that, things like FEMA and the secret service have been moved under that umbrella as well. The FBI is supposed to be the national-level police force, they shouldn't be getting involved in industry regulation and policy.

It's an Anonymous Coward on *Slashdot*, you can pretty safely guess what his looks are.