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Agreed. Honestly, they also need to get rid of the DRM. It only punishes their actual paying customers. If I had the choice between paying $14.99 for a video on Amazon that is going to be downgraded to 720p or 480p because I am not running it on an "approved" HD device, or paying nothing for...

Personally, I see possibilities here, both good and bad. First off, I want to say that I am sick of Windows 10. Windows 10 has been a horrific experience as Microsoft attempts to force me to use my computer the way that they want, all in the name of protecting me. Windows 10 S is another step...

It feels like you two are talking past each other. Is it taking 5 hours for the KB fix to apply from WSUS, or is it taking 5 hours to install the msu manually from a download?

I'm merely trying to explain their position. They sell things regionally at the best prices they think the individual markets can bear. Since the "product" they sell is entirely digital, removing geolocation allows people to buy from the cheapest possible location. You'll note I used the term...

Here's what he's talking about, in a nutshell. Imagine you want to sell your latest movie in America. The agreements they make in America guarantee them a fixed amount of money. Let's say they charge $5.99, making $5 per watch. Now imagine you want to sell your movie in someplace like the...

I'm not sure if it matters, but the AMD results were run two weeks ago on an older version of the game. 19388 vs 19212.

Disappointing. The whole point of the First Amendment was to prevent government censorship of the press. If you look at the history of the Espionage Act of 1917, which was one of the first laws to codify "classified information", the original draft included the censorship of the press...

Clearly this isn't going far enough. We should also shut down their power; because it was used to run the devices pirating their stuff. We should also cut them off from medical access; because keeping them healthy allows them to continue stealing. We should cut them off from supermarkets...

This isn't that big of a deal, he's just changing the display name that he sends from. You can change this setting just by going into your account and changing the "Your Name" setting under your email account. He's not spoofing anything. You can see in the video he provides that when the...

This is absolutely the important thing to look at. $140/mo with a 300gb cap is what they WANT to charge (I use 300gb/mo with 100mb service). The 3 year contract and low prices have a specific goal in mind. My opinion is that they are trying to limit Google's potential customer base by locking...

The red flag, in my mind, is where they quote Lieu saying, "It is unworkable for states to mandate different encryption standards." He's not saying that uncrackable encryption is good for people, he's saying that he doesn't want competing standards. You're absolutely correct that this bill is...

I think it stems from the statement someone else made earlier: "horses are expensive to own." The owner is probably feeling the weight of paying for a horse and is looking for anything they can get their hands on to offset that cost. Someone who was financially comfortable would never have...

He brought up "Fair Use" because he knows that's why Google is resistant to simply blocking the content. Child pornography is illegal; there is no situation where it is legal, so it's fair to simply block it all. We can't trust the content owners to identify Fair Use, because to them...

That's exactly what the MPAA says about ISPs currently. They argue that the ISPs know their customers are doing illegal things, and by not acting to monitor and filter the traffic, they are implicitly supporting piracy. While Dotcom may have known that his service was being used for piracy...

I'm not so sure. Amazon won't lose any face by bringing this to the courts and having this discussion out in the open, which is one of the usual motivations for a settlement, Furthermore, winning this case would go far in preventing future lawsuits against Amazon's AWS service, where a...

Just to clarify, from the blog post: I'm not trying to quibble, but according to the man himself, they are buying the unlimited LTE plan, not one of the 1gb or 2gb plans. What they are doing is obscuring the fact that they are tethering to get around the caps and making it look like the...

One of the coolest things about this is that we're actually looking at the so-called "dark side of the moon" in this video. The side we never see because the moon is tidally locked.

Yeah, I can see both sides of this, too. I understand why a comedian would want the credit to their joke: imagine if they tested everything on Twitter, first, then put it in a book. By the time the book was published, most people would think the person was just ripping jokes off the internet...

I'm actually less worried about them tailoring the ads for my tastes than I am putting childish designs that might attract someone for whom the box was not intended. A brown box isn't likely to catch the eye of anyone but a thief, but a box with colorful advertising could have people gawking or...

You guys are the ones not grasping the subject at all. Note your own comments on the subject. You will be *sued* for breach of contract where an impartial judge and jury will decide if you are, indeed, guilty and decide an appropriate enforcement of the breach. In this case, Microsoft is...

Concrete-core chokes and hardened MOSFETs. This is a problem; even if I win, I'm going to have to buy another one to replace my SLI setup... I feel so trapped!

The abuse wasn't the one phrase. The abuse was pretending to be a cute guy for weeks in order to manipulate her.

I'm curious. What if you replaced these with a pair of shooting glasses for a week/month, would the results be the same?

Wow, and to think, we've been wasting all this metal on lightning rods when all we really needed was some 24 gauge copper wire to redirect it all. Seriously, the headphone wire probably went through all of the states of matter before even 1/1000th of the current finished going to ground. 24...

It's not a "policy", it's a law. Specifically, the HIPAA law, Title IV. It covers privacy of medical information, which includes the identity of a resident of a nursing home. Even with permission, it's a gray area that most employees are warned not to cross, because giving permission to take...

Also, at around 0:29, if you look at the cord running down from the spot-lamp, you can see it runs in the corner to the floor, then plugs in. In the "reflection", it runs straight down from the lamp and coils right in front of the outlet.

Damn media... now I'm confused. Am I supposed to play this game so I know what my kids are doing, or am I supposed to not play this game because doing so makes me a pedophile? Either I'm a bad, yet normal parent, or I'm an attentive parent who is also a molester. If I play the game but...

No kidding. At least have the decency to slap me when I buy the ticket, that way I know what to expect. The MPAA is like a psycho ex-girlfriend who claims to love you, then dumps you, then stalks you afterward.

Wow... this gives a whole new meaning to "a jury of your peers"...

Is it just me, or is this entire plan based off of some twisted sense of entitlement? There are other industries who are "harmed" just as much by resale as they claim to be, but none of those companies are allowed to booby-trap their products in order to guarantee first sales, so why should...

$70/hr is about industry standard, and is purely an accounting thing. In order to prove cost savings for reducing time spent on something, or to prove why someone shouldn't do something due to cost, you need to set a value on an employee's time. That figure is essentially the average of what...

You could play on Linux machines just fine, and, I've heard, Macs, too, but I've heard conflicting information on that. In a classic display of Sony stupidity, they assumed that everyone was running Windows, or were too stupid to write a rootkit for Linux.

This is Universal doing this, and they've been experimenting with DRM-free solutions a lot lately. I think the idea is sound, but they need to move away from the album model. We're becoming more and more picky about what we listen to, and the filler crap just to make a CD 40 minutes long...

The funny thing is, the court sided with the spammer on the basis that he has a right to anonymous speech, yet he wasn't doing this anonymously, he was doing this through millions of fake IDs. He didn't send the email as "Publius", he sent them as "[email protected]" at one time, and...

I agree. I wonder if they went even further and asked questions if answered a certain way could be interpreted as theft. Things like: 1.) Do you have company property at your home? (such as training materials, manuals, storage devices containing company data, etc.)... followed by: 2.) If...

http://www.physorg.com/news138179858.html This development has the potential to create a closed environment which uses solar power to split water. The hydrogen can then be burned with the waste water being returned to the reservoir only to be split into hydrogen again. Effectively, it would...

Do you know for a fact that they've inserted such an LSP, though? I was suggesting that the only way for it to block all traffic would be as an LSP, which is unlikely. To make sure, I'd suggest using a tool like LSPFix to look, or, running "netsh winsock show catalog" from a command prompt and...

Sounds to me like you should be looking at your firewall, not Stardock. What you're talking about would be an LSP installed by Stardock, and I can't think of any of their games that would require that level of access to your network traffic. LSPs are usually installed by VPN software, data...

Irony: Viacom Claims Ownership of indie filmmakers' YouTube clips. Apparently it's not Copyright infringement if they do it to other people.

Engadget seems to be the original source of this: http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/hidden-tap-faucet-flows-from-left-to-right-as-you-go-from-dirty/