Agreed. Fuck you, Microsoft. I had already trained my 9yo son to press the X to close the upgrade window whenever he might see it (he uses my computer more than I). Saturday morning, Windows 10 was installed. Goddamn it.

Exactly. This is libertarianism in its purest form, but using your privately gained power/money to do whatever the fuck you want within the law. Even better, don't let the fucking government legislators create laws that stifle your private tyranny.

My favorite Bushnell quote from TFA:

Yeah, honestly I don't know what he decided to do. But, either Dark Sun or Hollow World are good choices if he went that route.

Going through a black hole will destroy you, much like a sphere of annihilation. This article reminds me of one of my favorite D&D stories. As relayed by another DM of a group of relatively inexperienced (new) players, they had encountered a sphere of annihilation. One player touched it and promptly vaporized into nothingness. One of the remaining party members said, "Oh, it must be a portal! Quick, everyone, jump in!" Four more pops later and the DM had to decide between a TPK or a new adventure in some otherworldly plane.

It is true it is relative, and a "power user" so to speak will always use more. The average in Q1 2015 was 2.5GB/month but as we all know, streaming will cause that value to sky rocket. In that same link, Cisco estimates it'll be 11GB/month in 2019. My plan is 15GB/month (with rollover) for 6 people. However, as I'm sure everyone is aware, these values are somewhat bogus because these cell phone data users mostly also use wired/wifi (non-phone network data plans). If they have no wifi, what is the usage? My contention would be that those people who can only afford one service (not two), as my original post suggests, would find a way to reduce data usage over the phone network to stay within the cap. They would go to cafes, or hang out near free service hotels, or Denny's, crap like that. Moreover, regarding speed, they will choose based on price, not necessarily service. And, I have found that at least in our area, phone data service is sufficient for all normal uses (e.g., games, streaming). However, I don't have an HD device connected to phone data service, so I would defer to someone with more experience in that. However, I will also point out that people with less money to spend are far more forgiving to bad service. So, comments like "they won't stand for buffering issues" are false, I think they will suffer through a lot if it means they pay less, because they really have no choice. (sorry for the long-winded reply)

Yes, but unless the usage is very large, it's generally cheaper to just buy the mobile data plan and not also have a home ISP. And, most people will never give up their mobile data access.

100% agreement.

Zoos that collect animals from the wild for display are terrible places. Zoos that "buy" animals from people that abuse them or collect (illegally or not) are generally terrible, because they basically encourage continued behavior. Zoos that run like wildlife refuges that give animals a home that otherwise would be unable to exist in the wild (either the animal is disabled to some extent, too dependent on humans, or has no habitat to return to) are not horrible places if they are well maintained (which requires funding). I think zoos in general are tending towards this latter aspect and I there are zoos that have "lost" exhibits willingly because they were able to return the animals to the wild. The problem is that there are not enough philanthropic people to adequately fund what you would want to see.

In many cases, yes, though I'm not sure of the number of cases in each. For example, most code developed by the DoD is by default Distribution D, which doesn't allow distribution to other (non-DoD) government agencies.

Amen. Fuck you, Forbes.

I didn't miss it at all. I fully appreciate that people who have been exposed to public attention, right or wrong, desire and even should expect a right to rebuild their life. Barbara Streisand similarly should expect privacy and not have her address (home) posted for all the world to see. However, what her predicament showed us is that suing to keep something private backfires. It's exactly analogous to this alleged sex offender's plight.

I had no idea who this guy was. Now I do. May I introduce you to the Streisand Effect?

It is not an oxymoron. Someone with absolute power need not be a coward, but the administrators (in these examples) are proven cowards because they choose to stifle free speech rather than argue for it, however distasteful the free speech may be.

It's a combination of a horrible summary and horrible article. Maybe we can take the horrible article from IBT with a grain of salt because they don't purport to sell themselves as technical experts, but NeonBible and timothy should have done a better job. The real problem is that too many summaries on /. just copy some text from the article without actually summarizing it to (a) point out the technical relevance, (b) highlight the salient technical details, or (c) provide a decent initial (unbiased) comment.