Oh no, it's much better than that. If you pour crude oil into the ocean etc etc, you will wind up going to jail, because you are just one man. But if you operate a corporation such that such an outcome is inevitable, then you will get a fat bonus and the corporation will get a small fine.

And this is why "common carrier" status is a useful concept.

Give me the line, untampered? Then what I do on it is my responsibility.

Give me the line, supposedly filtered? Then what I do on it is your responsibility, since it's your job to save me from myself.

Well, double-reply fail. But here is my report. On Phenom II X6 1045T and 240GT with 8GB, Netflix desktop plays like shit. The audio is OK but the video is stuttery. It's butter-smooth in an XP VM. Netflix Desktop is shit.

So far I've got an error about not being able to find a mono package, then a checksum failure downloading it. That's the first thing it did. Not looking good.

Mutually assured destruction only assures destruction. Microsoft fired the first shot. Until they demonstrate a willingness to stop shooting, I'd be returning fire as well.

Sure. People stupid enough to support harsh prison sentences when it's been proven that they don't make people better people are also stupid enough to fail to understand that violence begets violence and that when you are employing violence because you are out of other options, you are a failure.

All nervous tissue performs processing. Perhaps there is another kind of learning we haven't yet quantitated.

Bridged network, vmware player 5.0.2, amd64 host, nVidia graphics.

At that point we do it via thunderdome.... two men enter one man leaves, and is a Congresscritter for 2 years.

and you know that they are doing quiet assassinations as well.

Your fault for Voting Republican/Democrat.

Honestly, Being in Congress should be by lottery and forced servitude. You cant get elected, it's a lottery and compulsory.. Dave Fox of 3124 Main Street, Chester,OH... YOU are the new congressional representative of your district for the next 2 years. An armed caravan will be there momentarily to pick you up.

It is the only way to keep it honest. Because voting for rich assholes is turning out to be a complete failure.

My god, it's so simple! Why would anyone ever use Linux, which is all hard and stuff?

Maybe people who are treated worse than other people on account of the color of their skin are more likely to end up in depressed neighborhoods. This doesn't have to be a racist thing.

Vogels also noted that Amazon eats its own dog food. As of Nov. 10, 2010, all of the web traffic for Amazon.com is being served by Amazon Web Services, he said.[1]

[1] Miller, Rich. Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects. Data Center Knowledge, June 22nd, 2011.

You might also like: to try using google before asking questions thus easily answered on slashdot.

This was bound to happen eventually. It's not just Netflix, it's also Amazon, which has consistently refused to bring AIS to anything but a handful of Google TV devices. And it will be coming to Apple devices sooner or later. Enjoy your Ubuntu phone, I guess.