Comment Organized boycott of the theater? (Score 1) 705
I know that if I lived in Chicago, I would never go to that movie theater again.
Comment Re:People in the U.S. culture can be very misleadi (Score 1) 362
Good for you (and us), Sam!
Please don't pay any mind to the skeptics and nay-sayers. We need more people like you and your team at Microsoft to build bridges between these technologies. The work you're doing is important and benefits everyone. Keep up the good work!
Comment Re:Retail sector? (Score 2, Informative) 84
I stumble across Piece Of Shit software all the time, both open and closed source.
Comment Re:Here is another good one (Score 1) 456
The suggestion that Judge Sotomayor does not understand the law of diminishing returns is both ridiculous and insulting.
Comment Re:without any humans ever having been involved (Score 1) 898
In the US (New York City, at least), when a traffic camera snaps a shot of your license plate, the owner of the car is fined, regardless of who was driving it. They don't treat it as a "moving violation," because they don't know who was driving the car, so the owner's insurance does not go up. The only exception that I know of is when the car's owner reports their car as being stolen and then is not held liable for running the red light.
Comment Re:Great idea, and all.. (Score 1) 250
I'm a PC gamer and I still have not forgiven Microsoft or Bungie for what they did with Halo. It was going to be the first FPS with vehicles on the PC platform. In the end, many of those gamers clamoring for vehicles in their FPSes ended up buying Tribes 2 at that time (GREAT GAME!).
"Judicial Scandal" In Pirate Bay Case 250
dr_d_19 writes "Swedish media are reporting that Jim Keyzer, one of the police officers involved in investigating the Pirate Bay case, began working for Warner Bros. a few months after the investigation was finished. Peter Sunde, one of the men behind TPB, calls this a 'Judicial Scandal.' Quoting from TheLocal article: 'If the police officer is found to have entered into discussions with Warner Brothers before the end of the investigation, which took a year and a half to complete, it is possible that the prosecution will have to scrap its findings and start again.'"
Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi 469
alphadogg writes "Despite the fact that it's often considered an illegal act, a sizeable percentage of the UK/US internet-using population 'borrows' unsecured Wi-Fi access. This is according to a study conducted by the group Accenture. 'The Accenture study found that computer users are still engaging in some unsafe computing practices. Nearly half of all respondents said that they used the same password for all of their online accounts, and only a quarter of them have ever encrypted files on their computers.'" My guess is the actual figure is higher than that.
