The letters were hand-selected by editors; that makes a big difference. Also, the process of finding an envelope, buying a stamp, and taking a trip to the post office gives you a built-in cooldown period.

...visit my parents (satellite subscribers that pay like $150/month for every channel they can get). Am I considered a pirate if I turn on their TV...

found Tom Rutledge!!! 

Still, it’s easy to understand why these companies would want to put an end to illicit password-sharing. As ESPN’s Connolly described it, password-sharing is akin to “piracy,” and he said that the public’s indifference bolsters acceptance of the practice.

Agreed. And Netflix has different packages that allow for more concurrent streams. The cheaper packages only allow for 2. And I find the comment that a single user had 30,000 concurrent streams preposterous. Beyond preposterous. More like an outright lie.

I don’t disagree with the Charter CEO, sharing of passwords probably is a problem for their business. However I also might suggest a bigger problem is Charter’s service sucks. Overpriced, outdated DVRs, problems with cablecards and TIVOs, and frequent outages for both cable and internet was my reasons for dropping…

Afaik my Netflix account can onlyhave 2 simultaneous streams going at once... It seems idiotic that whatever streaming service he’s referring to in the article had 30,000 streams going at once...

Umm, excuse me, it’s actually from five to 1o, not 5 to 10.

It’s called date of birth, not date of conception champ.

Every engineer will tell you, position some idea or product for defense purposes, and the money will come pouring in. Convince Republicans that global warming is a threat to national security, and they’ll believe it

Desktop PCs are exciting only to PC gamers. No one else cares.

Phones will be exciting again as soon as desk top PC’s become exciting again.

It seems with every major OS update, my system gets slower. I wonder if they write their software to make their 3 year old gadgets obsolete.

This is very important, always wait to see if there aren’t major bugs with the newest updates.

Counterpoint:

That question is not just annoying, but incredibly insulting. The person asking it either wants to humilate me for no good reason or it tells me they think I’m a compulsive liar.

I used to teach graphics programming, and you deal with a lot of colors, and color blind students are a given, so I laid out a bunch of rules about the colors to be used for lights and blending and what not, as well as testing all class material through filters and with color blind people before it was used.

However,…

Ishihara color test plate. People with normal color perception can see the number 74. People with red/green colorblindness see a 21. Image Credit: Wikimedia

The reasons for visiting the Moon and potentially, other planets and bodies in our solar system, are numerous: they could be the greatest scientific endeavors of our existence, allowing us to further understand the creation of our planet and solar system and the greater world around us. More importantly though,…

Every New Year my eye resolves to see clearly all that surrounds it while allowing a permanent blind spot for all things Kardashians